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The Exeter Advocate, 1896-6-25, Page 7OBRIGHT BITTERNESS THE DESTINY OF COMMUNITIES VARIOUSLY AFFECTED. The Star of Wormwood Shown to be the Individaal-.Morning and Evening Stars ...Millions of Geniuses. Washington, June 01. -It was appro- priate that this sermon on the destiny of nations should be preached in what has long been called the president's church, because Presidents Jackson and Pierce and Polk and Cleveland have at- tended it. Dr. Talmage chose for, his text Revelations yin, 10, 11: "There fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a -lamp, and it fell upon the third tftpart of the rivers and upon the Lean - tains of waters, and the name ofthe star is called Wormwood." I Many commentators, like Patrick and Lowth, Thoinas Scott. Matthew Henry and Albert Barnes, agree in saying that the star Wormwood, mentioned in Rev- elation, was Attila, king of the Huns. He was so called because he was bril- liant as a star, and, like wormwood, be „ imbittered everything he touched. We IfIP,havO studied the star of Bethlehem, and the morning star .of the Revelation, and. the star of peace, but my present sub- ject calls us to cewe at the star of Worm- wood and my theme might be called "Brilliant Bitterness." A more extraordinary character history does not furnish than this man them re- ferred to -Attila. the Ring of the Huns. One day a wounded heifer came limping along through the fields, and a herdsman followed its bloody track on the grass to I see where the heifer was wounded and went on back farther and farther until he came to a sword fast in the earth, the point downward, as though it had dropped from the heavens, and against the edges of the sword the heifer had been cut. The herdsman pulled up that 'sword and presented it to Attila. Attila said that sword must have dropped from ithe heavens from the grasp of the god :Mars, and its being given to him meant *ithat Attila should conquer and govern the whole meth. • Other mighty men have been delighted at being called liberators, or the merciful, or the good, but Attila called Iiinasel? and demanded that others call him the Scourge of God. At the bead of 700,000 Itroops mounted on Cappadocian horses, rho swept everything from the Adriatic ,to the Black Sea. He put his iron heel !on Macedonia and Greece and Thrace. He made Milan and Pavia and Padua and Verona beg for mercy, which he be- stowed not The,33yzantine castles, to meet his ruinous levy, put up at auetion massive silver tables and vases of solid gold. A city captured by him, the inhab- itants were brought but and put into three classes -the first class, those who could bear arms, who must immediately be enlisted under Attila or be butchered; .the second class, the beautiful women, who were made captives to the Huns; the third class, the aged mon and weal- ' , en who were robbed of everything and 'letgo back to the city to pay heavy tax. It was a common saying that the _Alms never grew again where the hoof Ted Attila's horse had. trod. His armies reddened. the waters of the Seine and the Moselle and the Rhine with carnage and fought on the Catalonian plains the ffereest battle since the world stood - 800,000 dead loft on the field! On and on until all those who could not oppose him with arms lay prostrate on their faces in prayer, and, a cloud of dust seen in the distance, a bishop cried: "It is the aid of God!" and all the peo- ple took up the cry, "It is the aid of God!" As the cloud of dust was blown aside the banners of re -enforcing armies marched in to help against Attila, the • Scourge of God. Tho most unimportant , occurrences he used as a supernatural re- source, and after three nionths'of failure to capture the city of Aquileia and his army had given up the siege, the flight of a stork and her young from the tower of the city was taken by him as a sign ,that he was to capture the city, and his army, inspired by the same occurrence. resumed the siege and took the walls at a point from which the stork had. emerged. So brilliant was the conqueror in attire that his enemies could not look at him, but shaded their eyes or turned their heads. Slain on the evening of his marriage ,by his bride, Wino who was hired for • the assassination, bis followers bewailed !him not with tears, but with blood, ,cutting themselves with knives and -lances. He was put into three coffins - the first of iron, the second of silver and the third of gold. He was buried by !night and into his grave were poured the most valuable coin and precious ;stones, amounting to the wealth of a , kingdom. The gravediggers and all those ; who assisted at the burial were massacred, so that it would never be known where ;so much wealth was entombed. The 'Roman empire conquered the world, but Attila conquered the Roman empire. !He was right in calling himself a !scourge, but instead of being the Scourge lof God he was the scourge of hell. Be- cause of his brilliance and bitterness the ' commentators were right in believing .him to be the star Wormwood. As the regions he devastated were parts most opulent with fountains and streams and rivers, you see how graphic is the refer - ;ace in Revelation, "There fell a star :from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, ; land it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of waters, land the name of the star is called Worm- wood." Have you ever thought how manyeim- ,bittered lives there are all about us - ee, ;misanthropic, morbid, acid, saturnine? The European plant from which worm- wood is extracted. Artesmisia absinth- ium, is a perennial plant, and all the .year round it is ready to exude its oil. :And in many human lives there is a per- ennial distillation of acrid experiences. Yea, there are some whose whole work Is to shad a baleful influence on others. There are Attilas of the home, or Attilas of the social circle, or A ttilas of the church, or Attilas or the state, and one- third of the waters of all the eworld, if :not two-thirds the waters, are poisoned the falling of the star Wormwood. It Is not complimentary to human nature that most men, as soon as they get great power, become overbearing. The more power men have the better if their power • be used for good. The less power men have the better if they use it for evil. , Birds circle round and round and • round before they swoop upon that which they are aiming for. And if my discourse so far has been swinging round and, rounde,this moment it drops straight on yew: heart and asks the question, is your life a benediction to others or an • imbitterment, a blessing or a curse, a • balsam or wormwood.? ' Some of you, I know, are morning stars, and you are 'making the dawning life of your children bright with gracious influences, and. you are beaming upon all the opening enterprises of philan;, thropio and Christian endeavor and you are heralds of that day of gospelizetion which will yet flood all the Mountains and valleys of our sin -cursed earth. Hail, morning star! Keep on shining with en- couragement and Christian hope! Some of you are evening stars, and you are cheering the last days of old people, and though a cloud sometimes comes over you through querulousness or unreasonableness of your old father and mother it is only for a moment, and the star soon comes out clear again and is seen from all the balconies of the neighborhood. The old people will for- give your occasional shorecomings, for they themselves several times lost their patience when you were young and slapped you when you did not deserve it Haile evening star! Hang on the dark- enening sky your diamond coronet! But are any of you the star Worm- wood? Do you scold and growl from the thrones paternal or maternal? Are your children everlastingly pecked at? Are you always crying, "Hush!" to the merry voices and swift feet, and their laughter which occasionally trickles through at wrong times and is sup- pressed by them until they can hold it no longer, and all the barriers burst into unlimited guffaw and cachinnatIon as in high weather, the water has trickled through a slight opening in the milldam, but afterward makes wider and wider breach until It carries all before it with irresistible freshet? Do not be too much offended at the noise your children now make. It will be still enough when one of them is dead. Then you would give your right hand to hear one shout from their silent voices or one step from the still foot. You will not any of you have to wait very long before your house is stiller than you want it, Alas, that there are so many homes not known to the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Chil- dren, where children are put on the lim- its, and whacked and. cuffed and eat - pulled and senselessly called to order and answered sharp and suppressed, until it is a wonder that under such processes they do not all turn to Modocs and Nana Sahibs! What is your influence upon the neigh- borhood,the town or the city of your resi- dence? I will suppose that you area star of wit. What kind of rays do you shoot forth? Do YOU use that splendid faculty to irradiate the world ox -to rankle it? I bless all the apostolic college of hu- morists. The man that makes me laugh is my benefactor. I do not thank any- body to make me cry. I can do that without any assistance. We all cry enough and have enough to cry about. ' God bless all skilful punsters, all repar ! teeists, all propounders of ingenious conundrums, all those who mirthfully surprise us with unusual juxtaposition of words, Thomas Hood. and Charles Lamb and Sydney Smith had a divine mission, and so have their successors in these times. They stir into the acid bev- erage of life the saccharine. They make the cup of earthly existence, which is sometimes stale, effervesce and bubble. They placate animosities. They foster longevity. They slay follies and absurdi- ties which all the sermons of all the pu- pils cannot reach. - They have for example Elijah, who I made fan of the Baalites when they called down fire and it did not come, suggesting that their heathen god bad ' gone hunting, or was off on a journey, ! or was asleep, and nothing but vooifera- ! tion could wake him, saying: "Cry aloud, for ho is a god. Either he is tak- ing or pursuing, or peradventure he sleepeth and must be awaked." They have an example in Christ, who with healthfel sarcasm showed up the lying, ' hypocritical Pharisees by suggesting that such perfeet people like themselves needed no improvements, saying, "The whole need not a physician, but they that are sick." But I will change this and suppose you are a star of worldly prosperity. Then you have large opportunity. You can encourage that artist by buying his picture. You can improve the fields, the stables, the highway, by introducing higher style of fowl and horse and cow and sheep. You can bless the world with pomological achievement in the orchards. You can advance arboriculture and ar- rest this deathful iconoclasm of the American forests. You can put a piece of sculpture into the niche of that public academy. You can endow a college. You can stocking 1,000 bare feet from the winter frost. You can build a church. You can put a missionary of Christ on that foreign shore. You can help ran- som a world. A rich man with his heart right -can you tell me bow much good a James Lenox or a George • Pea- body 017 a Peter Cooper or a William E. Dodge did while living or is doing now that he is dead? There is not a city, town or neighborhood that has not glor- ious specimens of consecrated wealth. But suppose you grind the face of the Poor. Suppose when a man's wages are due you make him wait for them because he cannot help himself. Suppose that, because his family is sick and he has had extra expenses, he should politely ask you to raise his wages for this year, and you roughly tell him if he wants a better place to go and get it. Suppose by your manner you act as though he, were noth- ing and you were everything. Suppose you are selfish and overbearing and arrogant. Your first name ought tie be Attila and your last name Attila, because you are the star' Wormwood; and you have irnbittered one-third if not three -thirds of the waters that roll past your employes and. operatives and dependents and associates, and the long line of carriages which the undertaker orders foe your funeral, in order to make the occasion respectable, will be filled with twice as many dry, tearless eyes as there are persons occupying them. There is an erroneous idea abroad that there are only a few geniuses. There are millions of them, That is, men and women who have especial adaptation and quickness for some one thing. It may ' be great, it may be small. The circle may be like the circumference of the earth or no larger than a thimble. There are thousands of geniuses, and in some one thing you are a star. What • kind of a star are you? You will be in this world but a few minutes. As com- pared with eternity the stay of the longest life on earth is not more than a mix:tate. What are imbittering the domestic or social or political fountains, or are we, like Moses, who, when the Israelites in the wilderness ecimplained that the waters of Lake March were bitter and they could not drink them, cut off the branch of a certain tree and threw that branch into the water, and it became sweeter and slaked the thirst of the suffering host? Are we with a branch' of the tree of life sweetening all the brackish fountains that we can touch? Dear Lord, send us all out on that. Mission. All around vs imbittered lives --imbittered by persecution, imbittered by hypercriticism, irabittered hy poverty, imbittered by pain, ina bittered by Injustice, imblttered by sin.. Why not go forth and sweeten .them by smiles, by inspiring words by benefactions, by hearty counsel, by prayer, by goopelized behavior? Let us remember that if we are wormwood, to ourselves our life will be bitter and our eternity bitterer. The gospel of Jesus Christ is the only sweetening power that is sufficient. It sweetens the disposition. It sweetens the manners. It sweetens life. It sweetens mysterious providences. It sweetens afflictions, It sweetens death. It sweetens everything. I have heard people ask me In sooial company, "If you could have three wishes gratified, what would your three wishes be?" I tell you what they , would be: First, more of the grace of God; second, more of the grace of God;. third, more of the grace of God. .Tyre, the atmosphere of the desert, fragrant with spices, coining in caravans to her fairs; all seas cleft into foam by the keels of her laden merchantmen, liar markets rich with horses and camels from Togarmale her bazars with upholstery from Dedan, with emerald and coral and agate from Syria, with wines from Helbon, with embroidered work from Ashur and Chili:mid-where now the gleam of her towers, where the roar of her chariots, where the masts of her ships? Let the fishermen who dry their nets whereonce she stood; let the sea that rushes upon the barrenness where once she challenged the admiration of all nations; let the barbarians who set their rude tents where once her palaces glittered -answer the question. She was a star, but by her own sin turned to wormwood and has fallen. Hundred -gated Thebes', for all time to be the 'study of the antiquarian and hieroglyphisther stupendous ruins spread over 27 miles; her sculptures presenting in figures of warrior and chariot the victories with which the now forgtten kings of Egypt shook the nations; her obelisks and columns; Canaan and Luxor, the stupendous temples of her pride! Who can imagine the greatness of Thebes in those days when the hip- podrome rang with her sports and foreign royalty bowed at her shrines and her avenues roared with the wheels of processions in the wake of returning conquerors? What dashed down the vision of chariots and temples and thrones? What hands pulled upon the columns of her glory? What ruthlessness defaced her sculptured wall and broke obelisks and left her indescribable temples great skeletons of granite? What spirit of destruction spread the lair of wild. beasts in her royal sepulchers and taught the miserable cottagers of to -day to build huts in the courts of her temples and sent desolation and ruin skulking behind the obelisks and dodging among the sarcophagi and leaning against the columns and stooping under the arches and weeping in the waters which go mournfully by as though they were carrying the tears of all ages? Let the mummies, break their long silence and come up to shiver in the desolation and point to fallen gates and shattered statues and defaced.sculpture responding: "Thebes built not one temple to God. Thebes hated righteousness and. loved sin. Thebes was a star, but she turned to wormwood and has fallen." Babylon, with her e50 to wars and her brazen gates and her embattled walls, the splendor of the earth gathered within her prelacies, her hanging gardens built by Nebuchadnezzar to please his bride, Amytis who had been brought up in a mountainous country and could not endure the fiat country round Babylon - these hanging gardens built, terrace above terrace, till at the height of 400 feet there were woods waving and foun- tains playing, the verdure,the foliage, the glory looking as if a mountain were on the wing. On the tiptop of a king, walk- ing with his queen, among statues snowy , white, looking up at birds brought from 1 distant lands, and drinking out of tankards of solid gold or looking off over 1 rivers and lakes upon nations subdued and tributary crying, "Is not this great ! Babylon which I have built?" 1 I pray that our nation may not copy the crimes of the nations that have ' perished, and our cup of blessing turn to wormwood, and like them we go down. I am by nature and by grace an optimist, and I expect that this country will continue to advance until Christ shall come again. But be not deceived! Our only safety is in righteousness to- ward God and justice toward God and justice toward man. If we forget the goodness of the Lord. to this land, and break his Sabbaths, and improve not by the dire disasters that have again and again come to us as a nation, and we learn saving lesson neither from civil war nor raging epidemic. nor drought nor mildew nor scourge of locust and grasshopper nor cyclone nor earthquake, if the political corruption which has poisoned the fountains of public virtue and beslimed the high places of authority, making free government at times a hissing and a byword in all the earth; if the drunkenness and licentiousness that stagger and blaspheme in the streets of cur great cities as though they were reaching after the fame of a Corinth and a Sodom are not repented of, we will yet see the smoke of our nation's ruin, the pillars of our national and state capitols will fall more disastrously than when Samson pulled down Dagen, and future historians will record upon the page bedewed with generous tears the story that the free nation of the west arose in splendoe which made the world stare. It had magnificient possibilities. It forgot God. It hated justice. It hugged its crime. It halted on its high march. It reeled under the blow of calamity. It fell. And as it was going down all the despotisms of earth from the ton of bloody thrones began to shout, "Aha, so would. we have it," while struggling and oppressed people looked out from dungeon hers with tears and groans and, cries of untold agony, the scorn of those and the woe of these uniting in the exclamation: "Look yonder! There fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers and upon the fountains of waters, and the name of the star is called Worm- wood." • A .Weot Card Effect. pretty effect ca ie be Amide by -sprint- ing a card to represent a clipping pasted until.' it, says the Clipping Collector. That portion of the type which it is de- sired to show can be underlaid by a thick card, and then printed in the ordinary way. After printing, the edges of the impression can be raised with a sharp penknife to make a vety, capital conn- terfeit of a clipping smoothly pasted on a cord. if only the right-hand end, for inetance, be left irregular, the work can he done very quickly. To -add to the (flotts the niergin May be printed with eme tint, a piece of patent leather being' eur, out the right shape and. mounted ike a tint block. 'WKINLEY. THE REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENT. Big Majority in the First Ballot -Hobart for vlee-rresideute-A Protectionist Plat- form Announced. St. Louis, June 18. --William McKin- ley, the champion of high tariff, was nominated at the Republican National Convention this afternoon for President, and Mr. Hobart for Vice -President, The first ballot for president was as fol- lows: - McKinley Reed aaa • 04 • 44 Morton Quay Allison 661X 8314 55 - 6114 853,i; •.When, after various speeches the nomi- nation of McKinley ehad been made unanimous the convention proceeded to ,the noeninetion of a candidate' for Vice - 'President aim limited the speeches of nominators and seconders to five min- uttie each. The result of the ballot for Vice -President was announced by the chair as follows: Hobart, 53314; Evans, 277.1/2; Bulkley, 39; scattering. 65. The chair then formally 'declared Garrett A. Hobart of New .Tersey the nominee of the convention for Vice -President of the United States, and the convention ad- journed sine die at 7 52 P. M. • THE PLATFORM. • Following is the fun text of the re- port of the Committee on Resolutions: The Republicans of the United States, assembled by their representatives in na- tional convention, appealing for the pop- ular justifleation of their claims to the matchless and historical achievements of thirty years of Republican rule, earnestly and confidently address themselves to the awakened intelligence, experience and. conscience of their countrymen in the following declaration of facts and eprinciples ; For the first time since the civil war the American people have wit- nessed the calamitous consequences of full and unrestricted Democratic control of the Complaint. It has been a record of unparalleled incapacity, dishonor and disaster in the administrative manage- ment. It has ruthlessly sacrificed indis- pensable revenue, entailed an unceasing deficit, eked. out ordinary current ex- penses with borrowed money, piled up the public debt by $262,000,000 in a time of peace, forced an adverse balance of trade, kept a perpetual menace hanging over the redemption fund, pawned Amer- ican credit to alien syndicates and. re- versed all the measures and results of successful Republican rule. In the broad effect of its policy it has precipitated panic, blighted industry and trade with prolonged depression, closed factories, reduced working wages, halted enter- prise and crippled American, production, while stimultiting foreign production for the Ameriettu market. Every considera- tion:of public: safety and. individual in- terest demands that the Government shall be rescued from the hands of those who have shown themselves incapable of conducting it without disaster at home mai dishonor abroad, and shall be restored to the party which for thirty years administered it with unequaled success and prosperity. We renew !aenlidlil.:411umFsiFze. our allegi- ance to the policy of protection as the bulwark of Americen industrial inde- pendence end the foundation of Ameri- ennennisv. can development and prosperity. This true American policy taxes foreign pro- ducts and encourages home industry; it puts the burden of revenue on foreign goods; it secures the American market for the American producer; it upholds the American standard of wages for the American workingman; it puts the fac- tory by the side ex the farm, and makes the American farmer , less dependent on foreign demand and price; it diffuses general thrift, and founds the s strength of all in the strength, of each. In its reasonable amilication it is just, fair and impartial, equally opposed. to foreign control and domestic monopoly, to sec • tional discrindnatiou and individual fa- voritism. 'We denounce the present Dem- ocratic tariff as sectional, :injurious to the public credit and destructive to bus- iness enterprise. We denSand such an equitable tariff on foreign imports which come into competition with American products as will not only furnish ade- quate revenue for the necessary expenses of the Government, but will protect American labor from degradation to the wage level of other lands. We are not plenged to any particular schedules. The question of rates is a practical ques- tion, to be governed by the conditions of the time and of production. The ruling and uncompromising principle is tai protection and development of Ameri- can labor and industry. The country demands a right settlement and then it wants rest. RECIPROCITY. We believe the repeal of the reciprocity arrangements negotiated by the last Re- publican Administration was a national calamity, and we demand their renewal and extension on such terms as Will equalize ourtrade with other nations, relieve the restrictions which now ob- struct the sale of American products in the ports of other countries and secure enlarged markets for the products of our farms and factories, Protection and reciprocity are twin measures of Ameri- can policy, 'and go hand in hand. Demo- cratic rule has reel lessly struck down 'both, and both must be re -established - protection for what we produce, free ad- mission for the necessaries of life which we do not produce, reciprocity agree- ments of mutual, interest which gain open markets for us in return for our open market to others. Protection builds up dorneetic industry and trade, and se- cures our own market for ourselves; reciprocity builds up foreign trade and finds an outlet for our surplus. We condemn the present Administrie- tion for not keeping faith with the sugar producers of this country. The Republi- can party favors such proteetion as will lead to the production on American soil of all the sugar which the American peo- ple pee and for what they pay other coun- tries more than d100,000,000 annually. To all our produets, to those of the mine and the fields, as well as those of the shop and factory, to hemp, to wool, the product of the great industry of sheep husbandry, as well as to the finished woolens of the mill, we promise the most ample protection. We favor restoring the early American policy of diserimination duties for the upbuilding of our merchant marine and HOBART. the protection of our shipping in the foreign carrying trade, so that American ships, the product of American labor, employed. in American shipyards, sail- ing under the Stars and Stripes, and maned, officered and owned by Ameri- cans, may regain the carrying of our for- eign commerce. The veterans of the Union armies de- serve and, should receive fair treatment and generous recognition. Whenever practicable they should be given the preference in the matter of employment and they are entitled to the eaactment of such laws as are best calculated to secure the fulfilment of the pledges made to them. in the dark days of the country's peril. We denounce the practice in the Pension Bureau, so recklessly and un- justly carried; on by the present Adminis- tration, of reducing pensions and arbi- trarily dropping names from the rolls as deserving of the severest condemnation of the American people. REGARDING CUBA. The. clause relating to Cuba is now as f elliorsovms :-th hour of achieving their own independence the people of "the United States have regarded with sympathy the struggles of other American peoples to free themselves from European domina- tion, We watch with deep and abiding interest the heroic battle of the Cuban patriots against cruelty and oppression, and our bass hopes go out for the full success of their determined contest for liberty. The Government of Spain, hav- ing lost control of Cuba, and being una- ble to protect the property or lives of American residents or to comply with its treaty obligaiions, we believe that the Government of the United States should actively use its influence and good offi- ces so restore peace and give independence to the island. FOREIGN RELATION'S. The foreign relations and Monroe doc- trine clauses read: - Our foreign policy should be at all times firm, vigorous and dignified, and all our interests in the western hemis- phere carefully watched and guarded; The Hawaiian Islands should be Con- trolled by the United States, and. no for- eign power should be permitted to inter .fere with them; the Nicaragua Canal should be built, owned and operated by the United States, and by the purchase of the Danish islands we should. secure a proper and much-needed naval station in the Weer Indies. We reassert the Monroe doctrine in its full extent, end we reaffirm the right of the United. States to give the doctrine effect; by responding to the appeals of any American state for friendly inter- vention in case of European encroach- ment We have not interfered and shall not interfete with the existing possession of any European power in this hemis- phere, but those possessions must not, on any pretext, be extended. We hope- fully look forward to the eventual with- drawal of the European powers from this hemisphere to the ultimate union of all of the Englleb-speaking pars of the con- tinent by the free consent of its inhabi- tants. SILVER MEN WITHDRAW. Then the chair recognized Senator Tel- ler, who sent to the Secretary's desk and had read the minority report. Mr. Teller, in earnest tones, addressed the conven- tion in explanation of his course. He disclaimed Nutt his advocacy of free sil- ver was in any manner controlled by the fact that ho represented a state which produced silver. Ho contended for -it be- cause he believed that no country could. prosper without it, and because he be- lieved that it was the great weight which was now weighing down the country. , The previous question was ordered on the adoption of the, platform. The vote was first taken on the financial plank. The result was its adoption by a vote of 81214 to 110X. The platform as a whole was then adopted. by viva voce vote. MINOR CABLES. Loudon, Juno 21. -The Queen yester- day entered upon the sixtieth year of her reign. If she lives to complete the year her reign will have been the longeet of any British sovereign. George III. reigned 69 years and 96 days. Beyond the usual ceremonies of accession there wore no celebrations yesterday, these having been postponed until the end of the year, when there will be jubilee fetes similar to those in 1887, on the occasion of the fiftieth year of her Majesty's reign. The Princess of Wales yesterday, had her annual picnic on 'Virginia water. All her family and a few intimate friends Were present. Madrid, June 21. -It has been decided, to despatch 50,000 additional troops to Cuba before September 17. Two more torpedo ()etchers are to be purchesetd, Constantinople, Juno „le 'l. -Advices received here from Danmel*4 say that the Druses have revolted, and have anni- hilated four comp:Antes of Turkish troops. LATEST MARKET REPORTS. Toronto, June 21, 1896. BREADSTTJFFS, ETC, Wheat -Cables were lower to -day, and the news mostly bearish. The Liverpool and Chicago naarkets declined, Near the close in Chicago short covering advanced values. In the local market values were unchanged Red wheat could be bought outside at 65e, and white at 67o; No. 1 Manitoba hard, Midland, sold at 6534c; same, afloat Fort William, offered at 59c. No. 2 hard, afloat, Fort William, offered, at 57o, and No. 3 at 54e. ' Flour -Very dull; only limited local trade doing. Millfeecl-Sales light; ear lots of bran and coarse shorts, to go east, are quoted, at $9 25, high freights west • Peas -Steady; ear lots north and west freights, are in demand at 45c, and east at 48e. Oats -Dull and heavy; oholoe heavy white offer, G.T.R. west, at 20e, and mixed' at 19e. Sales on the street here are made as low as 2334c. Barley -Feed. barley, outside, offers at 26e, and 25e is bid. Malting grades nominal. Corn -Offerings liberal, and. demand quiet. Yellow, Chatham freights, offers at 28e, and mixed at 27c. Buckwheat -Nominal, Rye-Noini»al. DAIRY RPODUCE. Butter -The consumption of butter is not so heavy just now, and dealers are finding trade in this line somewhat dull. Receipts are liberal. and. values easy all round, Prices for packages in good con- dition to -day were as follows: Dairy, tub, choice, 11 to 12e; do., low grades to niedium,7 to 934c; large rol1,11 to 10e; pound prints, 12 to 130; creamery tubs, 160; pounds, 15 to 16o, Cheese -Dealers here buy new cheese at 634e delivered, and resell in small lots at 7 to 7e4e. Old fall cheese is quoted at 834 to 9c. The movement is moderate. To -day 1,820 boxes cheese brought into Perth market; all white; all sold. The ruling price was 7 5-16c. Five buyers were present buying for Montresq firms. PRODUCE. Eggs -Liberal supplies and a moderate demand are causing the market to feel easier. Prices, however, are unchanged at 9%4' to 10efor choice single cases and 934o for five -case lots. Potatoes -New southern are coming in freely, and are selling at $2.75 per 11 - peck beds. Old Canadian stock are quoted at 18 to 20c per bag, car lots, on track. Poultry -Limited receipts and demand. light. Turkeys are quoted at 9 to 12c per pound; geese, - 7 to 8c per pound; and chickens, 80 to 60c per pair; and ducks, (10 to 80e per pair. Hops -Choice, 1896. growth, are quoted at 8 to 0c, and wind- blown samples from 5 to 6c. Apples - Unchanged. Evaporated in small lots are sold by local dealers at 5 to 6c, and dried at 3 to 4c. Baled Hay -On track here car lots of No. 1 Onterio are quoted at a round $12.50. Straw -No enquiry. Oat straw is punted on track at $8. Wheat, white, me: bush „ . ,$ 00 $ 70 Wheat, red, per bush 00 70 Wheat, pose, per brush 48 51. Peas, common, per bush49 49 Oats, per bush 23 Rye, per bueh.... ..... ..... 48 ; 48 Barley, per bush :11 31 )3uckwheae :16 40 Ducks, spring, per pair- 40 90 Chickens, per pair 40 60 Geese, per lb 06 08 Butter, in 1-1b. rolls.... 11 13 Eggs, new laid 9 32 Onions, per bush . 80 80 Turnips, per bag, by load15 20 Potatoes, per bag.... .. . .. 20 22 Potatoes, car lot..., 13 15 Beaus, per bush 90 1 00 Beets, per bag * 30 35 Carrots, per bag, by load.. 20 25 Parsnips, per bag 50 Apples, per bbl 1 75 2 00 Pay, timothy 14 OD 15 50 N raw, sheaf ............10 00 10 50 Beef, hinds 05 07 Beef. fetes 02 03 Spring lambs, carcase, .. 3 00 6 00 Veal, per lb 03 4 Mutton, per lb. 04 - 06 Dressed hogs 5 00 5 50 24 LIVE STOCK MARKETS -TORONTO. The market this morning was over- stocked, as we had quite 125 loads of offerings here, and half of this supply would have been sufficient The bulk of the cattle was shipping cattle, and with a light enquiry prices fell from 10 to 25c per 100 pounds, The kind of eatCe that fetched 21.00 and $3.05 on Tuesday would net bring more than $3.50. Many loads changed hands at $3.60, $3.65 and. $8.7.0; it had to be an uncommonly good. load that fetched $3.80 this morning, and $4 was only a few times paid for small picked lots; one load averaging 150 pounds sold as low as tic per pound and $1 a load over. Much of the stuff wasIs°1Therelil\Cvlas no change actually in butchers' cattle except that owing to the warm weather the public are not requir- ing so much meat and the butchers do not care for much on hand, so that' altogether the local demand was slow. A good price to -day was from 3 to 834e and it, had to he choice to fetch these figures. One Thad. of 27 averaging 800 pounds sold at $2.70 per 100 pounds; 2 averaging 1,020 pounds sold at 3e.c per pound (several shippers were mixed with this lot); 28, averaging 087 pounds sold at 3c; a load averaging nearly 860 pounds sold at ta?eec and $5 back; several loads sold at from $2.50 to $2.65 per 100 pounds; and some common staff went as low as 2e per pound, The market fox - cattle was a very poor one. , Milkers were slow and unchanged at frontitir$y2. 0 to $30 each. Very little enquiry. Shipping bulls are worth from 234 to ne per pound; for the latter figure they have to be prime. There were about 250 lambs on sale and they can be quoted a4 steady at, from $2.75 to $3.50 each; for afew extra choice $4 was paid and. geed lambs are wanted, as they all found a brisk sale to -day. Scarcely any sheep came in and we had no enquiry but yearlings were in ample supply and sold from $2.80 to $8 each. Calves were scarce as there were not more than sixty here; they sold at from $8 to $1 each for good, and occasionally $5 if extra good. UNITED STATES MARKETS. At East Buffalo -Cattle --Receipts, only about two loads on sale; market about steady. Hogs -Receipts, 26 oars; matket fairly active; Yorkers, fair to choice, $3.65 to $3.70; roughs, common to good $3 to $8.20; pigs, common to fair, t!!&60 to $3.65. Sheep and lambs -Receipts, 16 ears; market very doll. Lambs, good toe choice, $4.50 to $1.75; culls and cone - mon, $2.50 to $3; sheep, fair to ()hole°, $3 to $8.25; culls, and common, $1,06 tce $2.5.