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THE PRISON DARK GELL114c,,'-',Inhi?ZeAhlilitIWINDFALLS FOR GHARITY
feet aria feteriii iiiin ycentatiett
Ir dettet he never spette
_ Tito liteateint V-4-9 tii':7ZZ;0•31.1y etiolate,:
STIE TIERINORS OF SOUTAR'not, .741?1:(8
CONFINE-1411,NT. tau teriry !tett /...4"ril o V t1.0 etatt,
be Yeen tite, ee.se
li Prieoeiers Save 'Their Reasatta
Looking for Pins and
Duttonst ,
-011fiatta aaafttiolitatita, ttaita eatwart
der to: tan wetter ri,'IM1,1Z,?„ iS eseiterant
litinisteneot eviiteh I ettinati ltarta- traticli4
ttatt eve pieced a (brie ,ettli, Car -
crag etiettigh, he' was etteiavatel reprailt-
ed, etat 0.4i1 .a ietite.prit
tien• vtileee I rLidliIiSOSieF04, -the,
aeettel-weteit ezietiaieeteteedeth lattliate.
SOME. QUAINT° ANsivritsMoEs..`
Ittat ta EQ.). ttatititiiieci. nine eases eta ilow Someopetige icefebeet empereaut,
i £ttii tt. in e 41 ti 31tt'* Eventa in Theitetivesa
lortuttate, matt or Avetriate who tette
tenet tiat itoneore et the darli, cell heti A ' rietice-court et a terooge hiaee
•ceines more callous 'and unerianegeehiet witeetan t ,lieep the anniversory of a
tho,n before. A pretence may bee utteret gotden wedditig,, yet it %IS ,chosern
ty titian to an feeting, posseee Aerves< weel: or so eince by .ale elderly 'Melt -
amaze, be utterly indifferent to lite andi et -eaten mined mann, who. 0n, the anrw
death; yet a fornight's solitary confine-. versary of iier fiftieth weddingelay,
Thera will 'reale him all to pieties and eummoned her husband to appear at the
leave its /narkon him for life. For Belfast po1ice-0ml, on a charge of as -
forty odd years I have been aesociated sault, The prisoner, whose fifty years'
with the prisons pi America, and 1 record of mauled life had up till then
cannot recall one.; instance in which it been blameless, was .bound over. -
could be said with truthfulness that the, "It was the anniversary of my losing
dark cell ever influenced a "prisoner, for an eye thirty-six years ego •and when
good. I this comes round I generally get a drop
In the States solitary confinement ia too much," was the explanationvouch-
ti favorite method of puoistunent, and safed by an elderly man when charged
the tiara, cell in Sing Sing is a terror- a few months since, at the Mansian
It is a fairly large room, built of stone, House, aondon, with being drunk and
and contains one obieot only -a gran- incapable. The magistrate's sense of the
it bench he which the occupant, it lie ridieelous was obviously tickled, for 1 6
, • • .
Ineettes, can stretch his limbs. le discharged the prisoner, advising him
siugle door`its a foot thick and closes
t foe the future to celebrate the aamiver.
• with the nicety of a burglar-proof Seie. sitayetta his ocular depriaation in a some.
When once inside and the lock turned ,tahat less paeehie manner.
I. is • - Brought to direst straits. by the col -
IMPOSSIBLE TO HEAR A SOUND lapse of a compantt in Which she had
invested all her money, a poor wernan,
1 don't, believe,if bonib were eXplo0ed
as a last resotiree, 'applied for help to.a
at the door the. prisoner veould hear
emything. There have been many *pris- wealthy relative, from whose house in
oners placed in that cot, and e woad! Lenden she was, without his Itnowledgii
turned away by an unfeeling servant,
wager all I possess that in no single io-
ta tette soon afterwards died, illyfrom
has the punishment failed litera
starvation, and this coming to the ears
morally andphysicallyweaken the un.
of her relation, together veith a anow.
fortunate convict. bave many times.
questioned those Prisoners who 'haveledge of her abortiveappeal-conveyed
erved various terms in the dark ceto tuin a' letter discovered in 'her pr-
e--sll. m.
end with few exceptions they have de:. t ton • rernoree
' -
in ithat until the clay of his death, some four
neared that the most painfal thing years since, he never faiNd, on the
.canneetion.with the punishment is the versary of the poor woman's sad end, to
annk
difficulty that they have in sleeping.The
dress hiinself rags and, from sunrise
bladtness .is so intense, the silence so
unutterable, that the senses are in a
• constant state of agitation and dispel the.
' very $1.1 SttOri of *sleep.
a prieJ er who hue been condemned feet e
irk -Road, Brighton, • England, slipped and
to a comise of solitary eonfinement
the dark eell ' pan .manege' beforehand fell in the .mud. A gentleman who
chanced to be on the spot ran to his as-
• posses himself of a Pin or button, cr
some other trete, •he is comparatively sistance. A hearly exchange of sym-
pathy and thank's led to better acquaint
lw .happy, • for he knows that he will not
tance, which , resulted in the young
entirelY without something to °cell-
ists las mind. 'What does be de with a rnen's ultimately marrying. the other's
pin or button?. Why, when he cannot daughter, since which auspacious event,
bear, the awful silence and .biaohneits an the happy husband, to mark, a sense tof
longer he stands in the middle. of the
cell, casts tbe pin or button from .him,
-and then quickly claps. hist heeds Over
his ears, -lest, he stiould hear the object
drop, for that, would -.give him a clue
, as to where it hadefallen :end -
SPOIL THE "SPBT."
Then be,commerices to qbk for. it, and
• . lbe mere fact ,of doing/this occupies his
entipd, anderno.ny mants. reason has
to sunset, beg his bread. •
Fronk- tragedy to comedy: One wet
morning, twenty years baca, a: young
fellow hurried ' A all h
his good fortune, has always, on the
anniversary of his fortunate, fall, given°
a dinner to a dozen -bachelor 'friends.
who aro only allowed. to table.if habited
clothes bedaubed With mud.
te. Parisian gentlemaneevhen on ,a visit
to Englanttsotneyears back, would havi
beerreirowned while bathing but for tin
prompt action of a young clerk, who
happened to be on. hand and 'effected his
rescue. Gratitude Prompted the French--
,i----tattat-thiahatoeteej ,tea- ebeleneansg" He will go, titan • to take. the -young manilla° his
earan expart with a 4 knees, crawling buelfiess, vhere he rapidly rose until int
ledge of technical p0111 head against is now Ina poeteof trust and importance.
Every yeartthowever, on the anniversary
abrancbes of eclucatiolgela Shins, on the
,
erin ten each of tile cold
of the day and hour of hie nideter'sinar
a/known, as Sup •
e-eneepsterfieentis enteitillytfelt in the seat -oh row escape, he thee to accompany that
!ware pin or.buttOn, and prisoners have .gentlernae to the Seine, where the
. told Me that they dread finding the ob. couple -re-enact the episode of -the -rescue.
ject too goon' for that 'Makes a short after which they adjourn to one oi Una
**Uinta and spoils the exciteinent al the leading restaurants and spend the re•
chase. , One prisoner who had hen sent mainaer of tae day in convivial friend-
tenced to :three weeks' "solitary" told ship. .
,--
inc 'that he had managed .... , -take with • • -
him a pin which he had "tear' '' ad suc-
cessfully that it took him three days to, - • • . ,
find it. TIIE PERSISTENT GIPSIES.
In one prison in America thave-known .
cases in whihh men' have been tentence 'Great Britain Cannot Get Rid of. This
ed to 100 days' impriseement in the dark strange People. •
cell and have taken over two years to
• $erve their term, owing to their reason ° '• "Such as wake on the night and sleep
/laving temporarily left hide. They on the day, and haunt taverns and ale -
would be taken out, Placed in the hos- houses, and no Mari wot from whence
vital -Until -thehehad sufficiently recover- they come- nor whither they go." So
yd. and Ahenathrust beck again into the quaintly describes' an old,Erigliehatatpte
silence and darkness. • egeinstethe Gipsies. Ever since the year
teremembet mice when 1 was attached 1530, saYaia writer in the London Stand -
..lo the famous Doneernota prison . we aid, Great Britain has tried to get rid cf
&ad 4 Man in the condemned cell 'whose ibis strange people without appreciable
-conduct- was fairly - gond until* a few sticeese.Every year or so some count
days before his electrocution was, to take ty is. Op in arms agairtst them, yet they
place. Then,' to use a yuinaeternt persist in ,returning, and apparently
• IIE iaRAN AMUCK; : thrive under persecution.
The Gipsies are popelarly supPosea to
Ilis eell was well lighted and cheerful, come from Egypt, as their name.indi-
1K was provided with quite, a library, cates, ,but their origin is traced farther
While his 'food was of the beet. But one east than the land :of the Nile. ,Wherever
. day he developed the fatal habit of thiolt. they tante from, they are separate people
Jug. The full horror of his position buret, a, tribe quite by 'themselves. •
Upon him with -thee suddenness of. an They appeared in England about 1505,
avalanche. ' He 'shoaled and raved, broke and twenty-six years later Henry Alla,
everything he could lay Iiia hands ore, ordered theta to. leave Ana.- countiat in
rod serearned incessantly through one stateen days, taking all their goods with
entire night. He was threateeed with theta "An Outlandish people," he 'call.
the dark cell, butthe was past reasoning ed them. The act was ineffectual, and
with: and his cries eould be heard all in 1562 Elizabeth framed a still more
ever the prison.. e' stringent lav, and many were hanged.
Then the,. Governor, who was a let- "But what, nurebers, were executed,"
tnatie mane and looked uponthe dark, Says orie old .weiter, "yet notwithstand-
cell' With as great disfavor as myself, ing, all would not prevaile, but duly
determined to trv another remedy, ,which Wandered as before, uppe and down."
lie had before toured very -effective. This Tliey got into Scotland 'and becatne
was called the i'cold-writer curet" which intolerable nuieance. Both in that cotin.
atm may pethafis hatie heard of. Well, try and 111 ,Firitelarid legislation proved
The cell was ,clea,red of everything port. quite ineffeetual. The nets ,gradually fell
able' and the t door and avvindoWs were into desuetude. Under George IV. all
iseeurely barred ,end locked, only , one that was left of the ben against the Gip-
,
small ventilator, about 8 inalies equare SieS' Was the mild la* that any person
and close to the ceilingeremainingt open. "telling fortunes ethall be 'deemed a rogue
A hydrant was fixed to -the-Water-main aid a vagabond." ,
*outside, after which 1 rriouracti a ladder, .."Giptilee are no longer a prescribed
The nozzla of the hose under my left Claes," saye a recent Writer.. "Probably
anTiOand 1 my• head through the venthe moderri Gipsy does little evil beyond
lilator. The prisoner ettat; ratting round begging anti' PettY theft, but WS deter-.
the cell like a Madman, pausing 0,teo robinttion not to evork IP; fit; SlrOari
Piereing Ser014:;, I Called the Poor trial people like ours continuee
eve him exaetly minutee in waleit flow 1a1.1111e1YRIS the hoeile le may IA
,F( -'fl informed, him that erate Weide of professienal idieree"
now arid then to emit the 'met ear. eve!, and It Seelrig C111101.1S that an Indus.
le stop hie hailoaing, after which if he feathered from the fact that the number
etill declined, te le quiet. It ehould pro. who wintered in, Surrey one year was
C('1.1 with eetimated at len thoueand.
:ache octetile.WATeea •fettinitg' • a The leriguage aniwell 'cis the life of the
/L toot: net the, elighteet oolige, but rv;PV 11 lia'a "1°44701 il:'"wn•
Mariy if their (wortle 'have taken firm'
coif aed Spririthiti Cert,affillig tOltil in a halite/anti. 11 I1 riniesibto
Meth the allotted thee eves up- 11 't lap
rave a nettleweal my Iota le the neat, lta.ver _tile ifiletY atord or
toospie, hinit to tom 021, the Ciffia. tftedotria
water fr., ea Hy!: maim tje tethaierete el • it man. Cuttine ei ationv fee 111 1
teaterletttek lane but iet a reolaria
aale oteirtitin ef etretittili 110 D'1'41't! 1Tt;f1
Itimsolf and fain latiea z 44,4 ,
, This went en fee fail!' le,M,'„
all the time lie, kept up lett haat atii laiedittatiettION.
ehonling. until I fitenelit thient
hae.e eraehel, 'Hien eiiiietne fita "I iiieeteit ego heat niet pretty
ilaiwied, threw nii bie awl feta. heaven tin oreat 'nimble"
ard his fere. W4; 1.,;(4.ii !Li fbee "atte, ewe, ed. ' t ,leta
mesa) in e &violating, far there ote, feet' eaea ,
wetietiOV-Olk
rtainei mad ( v 1 made frir "that ftel.
hen," , • ,
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LABBYINTHECOMMONS PETTICOAT IN POLITICS
tilitiNlaSOME GIFTS MOM iNt Ills RECOLLECTIONS F FORT
K'NOWN GIVERS. • WEARS AtilOt
Matta' Illstatieee Occur Every Tear ot
Generous Donations tor Sorest
Charlity.
The Praisie and Foreign Bible Secieth
fate been the recipient tl some handsome
gine Presented by inditidnals, many of
eetiont have•ealled at the 'office in Lon-
don, nieen theit donation,. and eone
tievay without r dieelosing their, identity.
One afternogin, not long Pep, the seere-
tary -eves informed that o. shabbily-tirese-
ett o rnan had called and WIAed. sk.0
Suppoeing, from his ideseeiption,
that it ,eves someone in search of assist-,
awe, the secretary, who WaS very busy
at the time, directed a subordinate to tiee
bine Imagine the eurprise oi the latter
when theeseedy stranger drew from his
poc lie a an t -no e or $5, an p a
eel it upon the desk with the reimest
that it might be credited te the funds ef
e society.
Under no condition would he reveal
his name, and 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, a had
ocourred to him,to drop in and •
'MAKE THEM A PRESENT
struction ,Not Known Then - Old
Ltnwritten lattice New Oita
• tit 11,te.„ "
Henry Labouchere, who recently; re.
.tired front the 'Britisli tiontie of Come
1111:31filar;stgiiihnoeswinitle:res.ling: recolleetire as
ria'ePtnIthefuortly wyaesarf.rsat;tortlittivine ellteos le;afrilit7
litbosIsreect"lorin°;Ecibeudt thaulereplewt liPvieirrtyuntiittileklort
It. .We met at four o'clock, ,Questions
Nseee 'comparatively few, but `if anyone
wished• to make biniself partieularly
disagreeable., he put down a very long
one, and insisted upon reading it out.
If he was'notrsatisfied with the reply Pe!
ceold make a speech and put himself in
order by concluding with a motion f
adjournment. Bat he seldom did. Any-
one might move a motion on "going In -
Committee of Supply," and one mo-
tion did not preclude another. , But al.
though there was no closure, the de.
bates ont these motions rarely lasted
Leyond 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,
ot the amount named, which he hat)* LI anyone got up after the fixed hour,
pened to , have in bis 'pecket, be was howled down impartiatly by
This, isionly one• of many similar in. both sides of the House. Occasionally
cidente within the experience of the a member persevered for long time,
society, .hut they have received manY , but it was a point of honor not to allow
enuch larger sums from time to time...! vvord to be heard and no speaker ever
Poe instance, a gentleman residing in beat the House. if a member on any'
Bengal, who had seen and appreciated
theie work. abroad, sent them onc,. day
• nice little. present of $50,000., Some-
times a donation is received' which is,
accoMpanied by information as to wny,
a is given. •
As long ago' as 1849 a steamer from
e German port bound for America, and
having on board a number Of emigrants,
put into Ramsgate for repairs i or some
iittr reaspn. While there Bibles were
taken on board- and distributed to the
emigrants, Fifty-five years later -that
to eay, during last year -a letter was
received from a mem reealling this*. dtst
tiibution of Bibles. The writet said that
his father . and mother, while in the
backwoods, had found greet corefort in
the possession of the Bible that had -been
given them ort that occasion, and he
made' the society a handsome demation
for thet reason. He also stipfirattect that
a small aunt' should be Presented to the
lady, who had distaibuted the books on
board that ship, if she was still alive.
I .ONE HUNDRED EARTIUNG-.
dabs not sound a very large dirhount,
Vet in certain eircurnstances it may he
as much to one individual as $500 Would
be to another. At- any rate such a sum
was saved•up Land presented to the so-
ciety not long ,ago i by a crippled seam-
stress. • • .
In other parts of, the world many
curious thieigs are givenin piece ,ht
money. In Mongolia silk is a recogniz.
eia medium of exchange,and lengths of
this material are sometimes presented
t, charity. Candles are given in San -
Salvador, elaborate dolls in Shanghai,
and, many more quaint things in other
districts. During a collection for thee
Bible Society's Century Fund $1,000 was
subscribed by thernatives of Basutoland,
and a further sum was contributed by
the layakse, or Head -Hunters, of Bor.
nee. •
, The Society for the Prevention -of Cru-
Occasion greatly exceeded his, welcome,
t
he, too, was hewled down, unless he
ere a man of great importance. But
even The latter were otten shouted down,
ir they abused the license accorded te
them withoot reasontaele cause. In
groat debatesnunless there was eeny dif-
ficulty in reaching •the thne settled for
the division, a humble and obscure mem-
•ber bed' not, the faintest chanee . of
catching the speaker's eye, ' That, digni-
tary .avae given a list of speakere by the
whips of each party; and he hardly
ever traveled out of it. • )
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GROWTH OF 0I3STRUCTION.
Obstruction became an habitual paella.
mentaity weapon so soon as a few Irish,
under Mi. Parnell aeteamined to ignore
these unwritten laws. el by no means
blame them, nor can anybody else, for
when they had set the lead; both Lib-
erels and Conservatives impaitially fol-
lowed it, when- thry were in oposition.
Oi coarse, many grounds were put for-
ward for so doing. 'But the real reason
bee been Heat each party, when in op-
pesitien, has thought that it would bene -
IP by, the Ministry being unable to leg-
islate,*for, at the end f a session the
°position M.P.'s could explain to. their
cons te that it had been a -barren]
one, tthatalgh the fault ot the Ministry.,
By .ettecessive alterations of, the rules
obstraction of the olel-ttype has ,been rent
lacked impossible.'•
taVli ' then,,ess is one dma
ng a seseltiti, and that .very few issues
that are dealt' with arailtifely, discussed?:
rhis-is largely the consequeneeeof thd
change 'het has taken, place ita the com-
position or the House itself. There are
more Meinbers. who artie--1 mean- it in
no invidious sense --professional
eIt t Ay o pi maI shas been t e recipient
of many handsome gifts; $50,000 and,
810,000 are amohg theitems that -ha -eel
teen handed 'over to them, but t,6 "
largest donation they nave ever reeeived.
from an individual was one sof $66,935.
On several occasions , gentlemen batte
called at the office. a,nd presented slime
of money anonymously. In one case,
when bending. over hank -notes to the
Value of $5 0^0, the donor said that he
did, so because he had been disgusted
to witness - •
- A riorlsn BEING ILL-TREATED
eby n cgb-driver. He had gone airaig
O to the offices of, the society there and
t nate make his donation. $2;500 Woe
given on another ocaasion under similar
conditions.'• •
Not infregnently they receive legacies
d ti f
stipulation thatertturi animals of theirs
shall be looked after foe so long as they
live. A gentletwan in Jamaica tecently
left stich' a' legacy, bargaining that all
the animals ,upon his estate over there
should, be kept and looked after until
they ,died; • •
,The,..,Hospitale,'Skindhat, Pan.d.„1,1ils ret
Ceived generous suport frOtit nearly indi-
viduals. One gentleman recently con-
tributed $22.500, while another gives
every year 81.25 for every '$5. that is col -
leafed In any place Of worship for the
or Oa ons rota people who make a
fund. -London, Tit -Bits.
WILL A MAUD.
MOW
II lit aill to flave."11abie Miami for Brains,"
Deteveen Iiniversitiest -
Brittsli thinkers„ rebelling against 111i3
atStQII1 of awarding great prizes to col-
lege athletee and neglecting the think -
ti's, have , propoised and are urging
throughout the ,ltirigdom a "blue ribbon
for brains," an interuniversity conteet
bettereen the thinkere and etudente, for
an award ot 'inane
The neglect of braine and the constant
lauding Of brawn in the press of Britain,
as well in university circles,. has
called forth the protest and the demand
for recognition and reward of tlei! brainy
men of the area sehools.
Just, what, form the &tinting match
for the chotepioneliip ie to ateetillie IS 110t
F3tated. Witte who are urging the con-
test plead thrit nine, men freni (Tett et
the great univereitiee meet in the con-
test. Whether it, will C611Sid Of 1001iiillg
WIC,e, kW ill eivitory, in written exert-tin-
ationa,,in certain •subjents, thee?, do not
;tante. The contest may bac the 'form
of the blending long Vilna, or the runt
ning higli thinla 01' the two minute
handicap er the jiaig diettinee
thriont ieite, the piegiotation le to hialtet
thee event the blue ribbon thitiliiiete
netteli of all Itueland ahd to eliow
thmaere that tate- eee eetiareed hiC65
tat 11,:.,t;t rviJ 1.7t/ will 11;:,
(Iguiltoi,04'&'.,,;',0 3' et lireaf
or .J'.
1
Octane, 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 them they treat the
matter .under....discussion as though they
were delivering a lecture ,to assem-
aly that knew nothing about it.
TALKING AGAINST TIME. .;
• Mr. Itabouchere deplores the increatie
in the power of ihe executive, and 'the
decrease in the oontrol. of Parliament
over it, and expresses no, surprise that
peonle no longer regard the flouse 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 into after half -past
twelve. What was the consequence?
Almost inevitably
before that hour
it to prevent new
1. remember,. one
business was, for
the business on hand
was continued . oeer
business being taken.
night , that the next
some reason or other
obtectadqo by Lord Randolph Churchill
and by me, and about tielf-past ten the
debate 'then on seemed likely to last Inc
two hours. We therefore agreed to talk
for these two hours. Neither of us had
the slightest interest in the bill, theh,ret
ing disetissed, or 'knew .anything about
it We tossed -up whieh should speak
first, and thenboth went to the bill -
office to get the bill. Lord Randolph
lost the toss, and bed to Megan fle‘hon-
estly did his home and then t did mine.
Rut I am• sure that the 11511180 knew eft
little tis to the real merits nn4 dements
of the bill after' re both 1144 spoken as
before., ,
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PREMATURE 11111tIAlt.
Iti Horrors' Painted by Archdeacon
* • Colley. '•
- A, graesorne story was narrated by
Archdeacon Colley at the meeting -of the
London (Englan(1) Assoptation for • the
Prevention of Premature' Burial. •
Ile wits himself, he said, an instance.
Of an eecape from premature burial. in
his childish recollection, he remembered
having leeches applied to: hie clietttf end
as a rewtird for Ma enduatinee.evas
411 WO peals of bellse and playing With
(twee one day he remembered- therri
dropping from his hands and a pain
shooting from the right oar to the left.
Ile was laid in (1 coffin, and for two and
a half deem lie evae regarded as dead,
hia nuree noticed a movement of ids
hated; anal, the doctor being called, he
wag reeloreel to conticiovienetie.
°nisi two yeare ago, the Arclideaeon
coutinued, a grave in his own parish was
opened and proof' was found of a body
Fettling been buried Alive front the pod
-
n of the bonee. It was eeen tbat the
reon had wreriehed up the, lid of the
coffin tend hull over on hie teft• tide.
"1 nut !trete' In ray," retiviratel Me.
Meelitga, "that ii•iy m„1f4! ip, myt, 1,1„,11,it
I4.C411,1 be 08llE;4'1 a quereelitomeeettoninnee
eiiiiitedia "I 114`!vi 1'. tli,,,V hier tgl iiivirr,11
hi my life, nig. merely etalaeteets athet
i I".s.kaliff; 'eld l(cIr: an 111 4d al'A,
1 bee"
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INTEREST WOMEN UAW TAKEN IN
WWI* EMMONS.
Lady Edmund Talbott Forte is Gettanal
Roland the ,Wives auJ
' Mothers. • '
The Britisli general election Of 1,906 -has
broeglit many reveiations .in 'its' train,
titiths the London, Expresa. It hos
brought no revelation more etartling
thant tbe influence of women in hie great
hatthi of the peels, ,al hey avrived•as a
sort of Blucher tet change the•eispect ef
'many a political' Waterloo. "ta hy Nail-
er about votes?" eelted one of, them
whose pereonal °charms were only equ-
aled by her commanding, sett -posses.
sion, "wben we can hommand the men
who have them?" -
"I first took an •interest in polities in
1:101," explained the girl orator, who has
charnied hondreds into: .yoting Lieeral.
And how did this lady lied her way 111-
k the forefront of political fightersh-The
process was slow,.as its ultimate (level -
opulent was triumphant. flere you have
it in her own words. "Imagine a trernb.
ling girl, In the agonies of stage fright,
facing a small audience of her own sex;
try to realize bow the first word linger-
ed 01-1 the parcbed . lips and how the
heart thatched and then .
THROBBED TO SUFFOCATION.,
Sentences tell in spasins, knew my
,subject -at least my side of it -and
hatiltei successfully against the terror
that beset me. ' •
'Then came the charm of it. How
elelightful it must be to sway listening
crowds, to win the -applause of excited
multitudes, Do . you mall this vanity?
Perhape it is, but even so, vanity 'Is a
power that must be reeltoned with. Aral
no power is contemned by the person
of settled ,convictions.
"MY next 'stele?. The business, of. the
heckler. r tackled a Cabinet Minister.
There was excitement in this:
ling,' is a -sort of political hunt. You see
'your quarry and you go for him. , De -
sides it Strengthens one's confidence.
From 'heckling' the trail 3ition °Labe peo-
ple in public. meetings is simplicity ,itt
If
• "Women are born fighters. Make
no mistake. The years of their submis-
sion to .the wills of their lords. are gone
and will never cpme again. There is
some excitement . about, a contest in
which you are meaeuring swords with
a man' of the calibre Of Mr. Balfour. lt
Ptds,You into e warm glow,".
There is. another type of lady election.
per. "I am not a speaker. do not ad-
dress public gatherings," was . the out-
spoken declaration of Lady•Edinund Tal.
boa ,Yet if Lord. Edmund retains his
seatTor 'Calcheeter the' result Will he due
in hot.sretill measure to her unsparing
efforts among the constituents.
-LApY EDMUND TALBOT
e a daughter of ..the Abingdons-taittic
proud Abingdons" they are styled': ,The
blood of sevengenerations of belted
earls courses through her veins. . She
Is tbe sister-in-law of the Duke of Nor..
folk -England's ,premier nobleman -and
her husband Is the heir -presumptive' lo
Tiiq „title and far stretching acres. -
Site is conducting the campaign -Lord
Edmund is prevented from -visiting, ,his
constituents by illeess-on her own quiet
unpbtrusive. Ince These lines are laid
on a 'conviction of 'wbnien's power in
polities. _So day after eday this high
born lady dailies Over miles of long
country roads, pausing at the scattered
villages to talk to small gathering , of -
wives and mothers. , •
Some one else is there to argue'Poli-
tics. Lady Edmund is "your Member's
wiN cheating vvith the wives and mo-
thers of itiaterrten whotee litotes sent him"
lc Ptertiement. Quiefler, thoughtfully,
kindly sile,speaks.. ,
"Lord Edmund saysoin , his address"
--she reads an extract, adds a few words
ef exPltinatione and then passes on to
another paragraph. "Now, I want you
to talk these things over with your hus-
bandse
., fathers and she 'adds.
"You are as "deeply , interested in such
matters as they. A peaceful and ,
PROSPEROUS EMPIRE e
Means a peaceful and prosperous torne.a
The political 'expert follows. But his
eloquent figures and witty sallies pees
almost unheeded. When the women
'hearers pass frorn the building only one
speech lingers in. their recollection -the
speech of Lady Edmund Talbot.
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agents -and they should know -say that
personal' unostentationt appeals work
marvels .such as they never aould-be ac.
edinplished by deluges of 'platform ora.
tory. Still, women erators score. The
nays of chivalry have not passed, and
not .even The. fever of eentest will pre-
vent men from hearing wOut a W01110,11
Whi
ch . of
[hese types of vvorkers. ex -
STRANGE T8II3ES OF THE ANDES.
Baron Erland Nordenskjold, :who last
summer completed an 18 months' jour-
ney through the Andes,thas given some
&tap of hie experience; in the•northern
ferests of' Bolivia and among the fndian
tribes dwelling irk practically unknown
districts along tributaries of the Atria
on. ite found three tribes who, until
•itito years ago, lived like people of the
etone age.. Orie of these fribert, the At.
saputicas, had never before, been visited
bya white man, but they had too ob.
hatted through other tribes. With a
fourth tribe, through whose territorh the
expedition marehed, Baron Nordenek-
loi&Wrie unable to get 1111.0 (MAUL
trineee peeple wateltea the strangere
without molesting them, but would have
nothing to do with tham. "Some of the
people living round Lake Titiegica and
in the fells of the Andes retain, almoet
unaltered, many eustonie ot the time;
of, the Ineaa.
a rr
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tfee_neetie nearly eaters balite you got?
telte-el'etio. Ile ---Are, they Singh!? tithe -
Net `thq`re twins. i
',qtr., 'sweete,-;t," sighed' a, young man
etneeling at thefeet of !a8 deareet own,
i"doet, thou allow what of all thiegs le
theneet, irly heater -"fleetly, I esoet.
;the ew(atly replied; . "but ire that real
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LEADING MARKETS
„ BREADSTEEFS,
Townie, Feb, 13.- Wheat - alittatio-
white 79c to 7itaati, red tatatie to
'tete mixcd Vtze, to 74.4,NC, gOoSi:l and tailing,
tate, to eee, ali at. outside points.
Wheat Manitoita - No. 1 northern
66aate No, nerthem 8 -lo, No, 3 north-
ern aitatac at lake ports; all rail quota*
tons 4te entire than these prices..
•Flottrae Ontario 7- $3.15 is lad for ex. -
port, in buy,ees' . bags, outside; high
paterate at Toronto are quoted at $41
bap included, and 90 per cent, patents
at, .3 O, Manitoba first patents $4.40,
itecood' patents $4:10, bakers' $4.
Mitifetel-Firmer; bran, in bags, out-
side, $16:50; sheets, $17 to-
Oats-35tac to aGeao, outside.
Barley -Firmer, No. 2 ' 49aae;•11e. 31.
44e to 45.tac; No. 3 extra,, 46o to 4iatao
Peas -79e, outside.
!lye- 70c, outside, '
Corn-Canadien 43c, Chatham- freights;
American Berner, No. 3 yellow, 49.tao to
fi0e; mixedi 49c to 49Yac, at Toronto.
Buckwheat -Dull, 5230 to 5e, outside.
•44.4.4•64,4
COUNTRY PRODUCE,
Butter -Creamery 24c tio 25o
do solids .1444 **11414, •••••• 23o to 24c
Dairy lbrolls, good to choice 21c to 22o
do large rolls ItiO to 190
lo medium ibe to 190
do tubs .... 2ito to 21e
do inferior .... 4 al. 440444^ 170 to 180
Cheese-Uechanged, with A then tone
at 13c for ,large anti latac for twins.
Eggs-Quotationse are unchanged et
240 tort new laid, 170 fotestprage, and
15c ,for limed.
Poultry-Cheice dry picked are quotedt
Fat etockens, 100 to lac, then 7c to 8c;
'fat hens 7aac to 8e, thin 60 to 70; ducks
12c to 130, thin 60 to fte; geese, 100 to
11c; turkeys, 14c to lac for choice small
lots.
Dressed -Hogs-The market is quoted
norninelly at $8,50 per cwt for select car
lots on track helv. .
Petatoee-Prices unchanged. Onttuict •
65c to 750 per bag on track here, 75e Tee*
85c out of store; eastern, 100, to 800 on ,
track and Elec to 900 out Of store,
• ' Baled- I -lay -No. 1 $8 per ton,' incar
lots on track bele; No. 2, $6. '
Baled Straw -Car lots on traek here
unchanged at $6 'per ton. • .
. • ...W., 4.4. , . •
'MONTREAL MARKETS. ,
Montreal, Feb. 13. -Inquiry by cable
for Manitoba wheat- was very light.
Oats -No. 2, 41cr No. 3e 4o_c;. No. A,
3,.
.Peas---790 f.o,be per be*.
' Barley -Manitoba No. ,i7Xe; No. e,
45agc to 46c. -
Corn -American mixed, 53c; No. 3
53aec ex -[rack.-,
Flour -Mendota sprig wheat • pat-
ents, $4.60eto $4.70; atrong.latilitersh. $4.,- •
20, winter whealt.patentst 14i25 to $4te - •
50, straight roller, $4 to $4.10; „ do. In
bags; $1.85 to $1.95; , extras, $1.65
8175. -'
*Iiran'in bags, $11;:et t a'
1141 .
50 to $19; shorts, -$20 titer tont' /Ontario
'branin teak, $14.50- to $15e shorts, $20; •
millcd evenalle, 121 to $24; straight grain'
1\tP $27 per ton. .
Rolled Oz t Per bag, $2.1O Co', $2.20*. '
Cortimea1l-'81,30 to $1.40 per bag.
‘Hay -No. 1, •$8.50 to $9; No. a, 87.25. • -
to $7.50; clover mixed. $6 to 80.50, and. •
pure clover,- $4 per ton in car lots. t
Cheese -Asking prices Were unchang-
ed at lac to 13yc . •
'13utter-laricee generally) 'era aboilt t
steady at' 22c tei 23c for cheicd ated 21,j4e
tc 22c for second, quality.
'fat back, $19 to .$20; cainpound lard, feaetc.t
Eggs ---Strictly fresh, are selling at 24e,
can short cut, $20; American cut clear
pork, $2lt' light ,short cut,. $24 Arneri-
selected fali. stock ate 20c to 21c, and '
limed at .16c to 17e... • •
Provisions -Heavy Canadian short cut
to 7aac; Cananitte pure lard, 11%c -to
kettleerendered,e12140 to 13c; hams
12c to lagc, according to size: bacon,
,144e: fresh killed abattoir dressed bogs,'
$10 to $10:25; country dressed, $8.75 to
$9.50i alive, $7.25 to $7.40; selecta- and gat
`mixed lots. '
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BUFFALO MARKET. • .
'
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91%c, carloads store; Wittier n
, Buffalo', Feb. 13. Flour' - ,Steady,, '
Wheatia-Spring dull; ° No. .teNorther-n
hard, 83%e in store. Corn--D'No.uli but
-
firm; No. 2 yellow, • .423c; No. 2 Corn,
Oats -Strong; No. 2e white, 34,31
to 343.4c; Not a mixed, 33W. Bailed -.48c to 56c. Rye -Dull; No. 2 in store,
7
1c to '7
ercises the greater influence? Election
2e.
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• NEW YORK 11413KET.
New York. Feb. '13.-- Wheat Sot
.easy; No. 2 red 90t•ae 'In elevator and
905c f.o.b. afloat; No. a Northern Du-
luth, 95%c 'f.o.b. afloat. *
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'CATTLE MARKET.' • •
The nm of cattle offering ta the Wes-
tern Market vvae again, light, and With
a risk detriand for all lines prices were e -
again firm, everything being soldoaf
early. •
* Export Cattle -Choice are quoted at,
$4.60 to $5; good to medium at $4 -tet
$4.50, others at $3.75 to $4; bulls at $3.50
to, $4, and cows at $2.75 to $3,50,
Butcher, Cattle -Picked lots. R4.40 to
$4.60; good to*choice, $4.10 to $1.40; fair
to good, $3.50 IP *4; common, $2.50 tio
$1; COWS, $2.50 to $3.75, bulls, $1.75 to.
$a.25, and cannere $1.75 to $2.50.
Stockers and Feeders -At. $3.60 to $4;
goon feeders tit $3.40 to $3.65; medium
at $2.50 to $3.50, bulls at $2 to &talk,
good stockers run at $2;80 to $150, rough
to eommon at $tt to :ten°, and belie at,
$1.75 to $2.5„0.
Milch Cows -The market is quote ima
changed at a range of $30 to 860 4?tteli.'
'
lCalvese-Quotatione are 3teac, to -7e pet
, a. ,
Sheep and Lambs, -Sheep were about
Steady at $4.50 to .$5 for export ewentind
$3.75 19 $1.25 for Limits and eaals.,
Lambe 'are firm, at $0,50 to $7.10 PO'
cwt. fox' grain -fed atid $5.50 to $6.50 for
nixtei.ilsee''' U ,
nchanged at $6.50 per cwt. for
selectand $6.25 for Holten and fats.
The elirewit nein eliloth bee eensit
erietigli to laiow that lei cannel lei eittiee
alert Lo long Os 1mis 80111 iS 610.1"Voll.
The man Whoee thoughts eeekti to let
in heaven if; never ee fate frehi Paint
V/Ile4 the offering le litileg 1114711.
new t1fl0 4 Etit,ly beep yi-111 fVf$1it Itif*
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triAllOphS of life, but (011}y T115h110!-' 44
keep eau bout the vietoret of love.
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