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HANNAH WAS SIMPLY AN OLD-
FASHIONED CHRISTIAN
MOTHER.
Tet Dr., Talmage Says Industry, Her Intel
ligence and Her Christian Devotion te
iic ti for for Heaven -A Pica for Our
mothers.
Washington, July 26. -This radical
discourse will lio ,doubt have its praos
Meal result in many homesteads
throughout Christendom. The text was
.I Saniiiel ii, .19. "Moreover his mother
made him a little coat and brought it to
• him from year to, year when she came
up with her husbaud to offer the yearly
sacrifice."
The Stoiies of Deborah anti Abigail are
very apt to discourage a woman's soul.
She says within herself, "It is impossible
that I ever achieve any such grandeur of
charac cc, and I don't mean to try," as
though a child should refuse to play the
eight notes because he cannot execute a
"William Tell." This Hannah of the
text differs from the persons I just
named, She was an ordinary woman,
with ordinary intellectual capacity,
placed in ordinary circumstances, and
get by extraordinare piety standing out
before all the ages to come the model
Christian mother. Hannah Was the wife
of Elkanah, who was a person very
much like herself - unromantic anti
plain, never having fought a battle or
been the subject of a., marvelous escape.
Neither of them Would have been called
a genius. Just what you and I might
be, that was Elkatuili axid Hannah. The
brightest tie in alt the history of that
family was the birth of Samuel. Al-
though no star ran alone the heavens
pointing down to his birilplaue, I think
the augele of God stooped at the coming
of so wonderful a prophet. As Samuel
had been given in answer to prayer,
Elkanab and all his family, save Han -
nab, started up to Shiloh to offer sacrifices
of thanksgiving. The cradle where the
child slept was altar enough for Han-
nab's grateful heart, but when the boy
was old enough she took Mm to Shiloh
and tools three bullocks and an ephah of
flour and a bottle of wine and made
offering of sacrifice unto the Lord, and
there, according to a previous vow, she
left hine for there lie was to stay all the
days of his life and minister in the sanc-
tuary,
Years rolled on, and every year Han-
nah made with her own hand a garment
for Stunuee and took it over to him. The
lad would have gee along well without
that garment, for I suppose he was well
clad by the ministry of the temple, hut
Hannah could not be , contented unless
she was all the time doing something for
her darling boy. "Moreover his mother
made him a little coat and brought it to
Mm from year to year when she came
with her husband to offer the yearly
eacrifice,
Hannah stands before you, then to-
day, in the 'Met place, as an Industrious
mother. There was no need that she
work, Elkanah. her husband, Was far
from poor. He belonged to a disting-
uished family, for the Bible tells us that
he was the son of Jerobam, the son of
Elihu. the son of Taint, the son of Zuph.
"Who were they?" you say. I don't
know, but they were distinguished peo-
ple, no doubt, or their names would not
have been mentioned. Hannah might
have seated herself in her family, and,
with folded arms and disheveled hair,
read novels, from year ft year, if there
had been any to read. But when I see
bar making that garment and taking it
over to Samuel, I know she is industri-
ous from principle as well as from plea-
sure. God would not have a mother be-
come a drudge or a slave; he would have
her employ all the helps possible in this
day in the rearing of her children. But
Hannah ought never to be ashamed to
he found making a coat for Samuel.
• Most mothers need no counsel in this
direction. The wrinkles on their brow,
the pallor on their cheek, the thimble
mark on their finger,attest that they are
faithful in their maternal duties, The
bloom and the brightness and the vivac-
ity ef girlhood have given place'to the
grander dignity and usefulness and in-
dustry of motherhood. But there is a
heathenish idea getting abroad in some
of the families of Americans. There are
mothers who banish themselves from the
home circle. For three-fourths of their
maternal duties they prove themselves
incnnipetent They are ignorant of what
their children wear, and what their chil-
dren eat, and what their children read,
They intrust to irresponsible persons
these young immortals and allow them
to be under influences which may cripple
their bodies, or taint their purity, or
spoil their manners, or destroy their
souls. From the awkward cut of Sam-
uel's coat you know his mother Hannah
did not make it.
Out from under. flaming chandeliers,
and off from imported carpets, and down
the granite stairs there is coming a great
crowd of children in this day untrained,
saucy, incompetent for all the practical
duties of life, ready to be caught in the
first whirl of crime and sensuality. In-
doleet and unfaithfill mothers will
make indolent and • unfaithful children.
You cannot expect neatness and order in
any house where the daughters see noth-
ing but slatternliness and upside downa-
tiveness in their parents. Let Hannah
be idle, and Most certainly Samuel will
grow idle. Who are the industrious men
in all our occupations and professions?
Who are they managing the merchan-
dise of the world, building the walls,
tinning the roofs, weaving the carpets,
• making the laws, governing the nations,
making the earth to quake" anti heave
and roar and rattle with the tread of
gigantic enterprises? Who are they? For
the most part they descended from in-
dustrious mothers, who in the old home-
stead used to spin their 'own yarn and
weave their own carpets and plait their
own doormats and flag their own chairs
and do their own work. The stalwart
men and the influential women of this
day, 99 out of 100 of them, came from
such an • illustrioue ancestry of hard
knuckles and homespun. • And who are
these people in society -alight as froth,
blown every whither of temptation and
fashion -the peddlers of filthy stories,
the dancing jacks of political parties,
the scum of society, the tavern lounging,
store infesting, .the men of low wink and
filthy chuckle and brass •breastpin and
rotten associations? For the most part
• they came from mothers idle and dis-
gusting, the scandal mongers of society,
going from house to house attending to
everybody's business but their own, be-
• lieving in witches ancleghosts, and horse-
shoes to keen the devil out of the churn,
and by a godless life setting their child-
• ren on the very verge of hell. ,The
;mothers of Samuel Johnson, and of
Alfeed the Great, and of Imam Newton,
and of St. Augustine, and of Richard
Cecil, and of President Edwards, for the
most part were industrious, hardworking
mothers, Now, while I congratulate all
Christien mothers upon the wealth and
the modern science which may afford
them all kinds of help, let rue say that
every mother ought to be observant of
her children's walk, her children's be-
havior, her children's food, her children's
books, her children's companionships.
However much help Hannah may have,
think she ought every year at least
Make one garment for Samuel. The Lord
have mercy on the man who is so un-
fortunate as to have a lazy mother!
Again, Hannah stands before you to-
day as an intelligent mother. From the
ray in which she talked in this chapter
and from the way she managed this boy
you know she was intelligent. There are
no persons in a community who need to
be so wise and well infotmed as mothers.
Oh, this work of culturing children for
this world and the next! This child is'
timid, and it must be roused up and
pushed out into activities. This child is
forward, and he must be held back and
tamed down into modesty and politeness.
Rewards for one, punishments for an-
other. That which will make George will
ruin John. The rod is necessary in one
case, while a frown of displeasure is
more than enough in another. Whipping
and a dark closet do not exhaust all the
rounds of domestic discipline. There
have been children who have grown up
and gone to glory without ever having
had their ears boxed. Oh, how much care
and intelligence are necessary in the rear-
ing of children! But in this day, when
there are so many books on this subject,
no parent is excusable in being ignorant
of the best mode of bringing up a child.
If parents knew more of dietetics, there
would not be so many dyspeptics stomaohs
and weak nerves and inactive livers
among children. If parents knew more
of physiology, there would not be AO
many curved spines and cramped chests
and inflamed throats and diseased lungs
as there are among children. If parents
knew more of art, and were in sympatay
with- all that is beautiful, there would
not be so many children coming out in
the world with boorish proclivities. If
parents knew more of Christ and prac-
tised more of his religion, there would
not be so many little feet already starting
on the wrong road, and all around us
voices of riot and blasphemy would not
come up with such ecstasy of Infernal
triumph. The eaglets in the eyrie have
no advantage over the eaglets of 1,000
years ago; the kids have no superior way
of climbing up the rooks than the old
goats taught them hundreds of years ago;
the whelps know no more now than did
the whelps of ages ago--ahey are taught
no more by the lions of the desert, but
it is a shame that in this day, when
there are so many opportunities of im-
proving ourselves in the best manner of
culturing ohildren, that so often there is
no more advancement in this respect
than there has been among the kids and
the eaglets and the whelps.
Again Hannah stands before you to-
day as a Christian mother. From her
prayers,sand from the way she conse-
crated her boy to God, I know she was
good. A mother may have the finest
culture, the most brilliant surroundings,
but she is not St for her, duties unless
• she be a Christian mother. There may
be well read libraries in the house, and
exquisite music in, the parlor, and the
stanvas of the best artist adorning the
walls, and the wardrobe be crowded
with tasteful apparel, and the children
be wonderful for their attainments and
make the house ring with laughter and
innocent mirth, but there is something
woefully lacking in that house if it be
not also the residence of a Christian
mother. I bless God that there are not
many prayerless mothers. The weight of
responsibility is so great that they feel
the need of a divine hand to help, and
divine voice to comfort, and a divine
heart to sympathize. Thousands of
mothers have.been led into the kingdom
of God by the hands of their little child-
ren. There are hundreds of mothers to
day who would not have been Chrstians
had it not been for the prattle of their
little ones. Standing some day in the
nursery, they bethought themselves:
"This child God, has given me to raise
for eternity. What is my influence upon
it? Not being a Christian myself, how
can I ever expect him to become a Chris-
tian. Lord. help me!" Oh, are there sum -
tone mothers who know nothing of the
infinite help of religion? Then I com-
mend to you Hannah, the pious mother
of Samuel. Do not think it is absolutely
impossible that your children come up
iniquitous. Out of just such fair brows
and bright eyes and soft hands and
innocent hearts crime gets its victims -
extirpating purity from the heart, and
rut,bing out the smoethness from the
brow, and quenching the luster of the
eye, and shriveling up and poisoning and
putrefying and scathing and scalding
and blasting and 'burning with shame
and woe.
Every child is a bundle of tremendous
possibilities, and whether that child
ghall come forth in life, its heart attuned
to the eternal harmonies, and after a
life of usefulness on earth go to a life of
joy in heaven, or whether across it shall
jar eternal discords, and after a life of
wrongdoing on earth it shall go to a
home of impenetrable darkness sand an
abyss of immeasurable plunge, is being
decided by nursery song and Sabbath
lesson and evening prayer and walk and
ride and look and frown area smile. Oh,
how many children in glory, crowding
all the battlements and lifting a million
voiced hosanna -brought to God through
Christian parentage! One hundred and
twenty clerygmen were together, and
they were telling their experience and
their anoest•ry, and of the 120 clergymen
how many of them do you suppose as-
signed as the means of their conversion
the influence of a' Christian mother?
One hundred out of the hundred and
twenty! Philip Doddridge was brought
to God by the • Scripture lesson on the
Dutch tile of the chimney fireplace. The
mother thinks she is only rocking a child,
but at the same time she may be rocking
the destiny of empires, rocking the fate
af nations, rocking the glories of heaven.
The same maternal power that may lift
• a child up?may press a child down. A
daughter CAMP to a worldly mother and
SEIM she was anxious about her sins and
she had. been praying all night The
mother said: "Oh, stop praying! I
don't believe in praying. Get • over alt
those religious notions and I'll give you
a dress that will cost $500, and you
may wear It next week to that party."
The daughter took the dress, and she
moved in the gay circle, the gayest of
all the gay that night, and, sure enough,
all religious impressions were gone ana
she stopped praying. A few months after
she came to die, and in her closing
moments said, "Mother, I wish ym,
would bring me that dress that c
$500." The mother thought it was ,
very strange request, but she brought it
to please the dying child, "Now," fatid
the daughter, "mother, hang that dress
on the foot of my bed." And the dress
was hung there on the foot of the bed,
Then the eying girl got up on one elbow
and looked at her mother and then
pointed to the dress and said, "Mother,
that dress is the price of my scull" Oh,
what a momentous thing it is to be a
mother!
Again and lastly, Hannah stands be-
fore you to -day, the rewarded mother.
For all the coats she made for Samuel,
for all the prayers she offered for him,
for the discipline she exerted over him,
she got abundant compensation in the
Piety and the upefulness and the popu-
larity of her son Samuel, and that Is
true in all ages. Every mother gets full
pay for all the prayers ,and tears in
behalf of her children. That man useful
In commercial life, that man prominent
in the profession, that master mechanic
-why, every step he takes in life has'an
echo of gladness in the old heart that
long ago taught him to be Christian and
heroic and earnest. The story* of what
you have dope or what you have written,
of the influence you have exerted, has
gone back to the old homestead, for
there is some one always ready to carry
good tidings and that story makes the
needle ins' the old mother's tremulous
hand fly quicker and the flail in the
father's hand come down upon the barn
floor with a more vieorous thump. Par-
ents love to hear good news from their
children, Do you send them good news
always? Look out for the young man
who speaks of his father as the "gov-
ernor," the "squire" or the "old chap "
Look out for the • young woman who
calls her mother her "maternal ances-
tor" or the "old woman," "The eye
that mooketh at his father and refuseth
to obey his mother the ravens of the
valley shall pick it out, and the young
eagles shall eat it.' God grant that all
these parents may have the great satis-
faction of seeing their children grow up
Christians.
There she sits, the old Christian
mother, ripe for heaven. Her ilyesight
is almost gone, but the splendors of the
celestial city kindle up her vision. The
gray light of heaven's mom has struck
through the gray looks which are folded
back over the wrinkled temples. She
stoops very much now under the burden
of care she used to carry for her children.
She sits at home to -day too old to find
her way to the house of God, but while
she sits there all the past comes back,
arid the • children that 40 years ago
trooped around her arm chair with their
little griefs and joys and sorrows, those
children are all gone now -some caught
up into a better realm, where they shall
never die, and others out in the broad
world attesting the excellency of a Chris-
tian mother's discipline. • Her last days
are full of peace, and calmer and sweet-
er will her spirit become until the gates
of life shall lift and get the worn out
pilgrim into eternal springtide and youth
where the limbs never' ache, and the
eyes never grow dim, and the staff of
the exhausted and decrepit pilgrim shall
become the palm of the immortal
athlete
WERE THEY MARRIED?
A. Young Couple Duly Dissected and Talked
Over.
They were coming away from the
theater and they fell to discussing the
peeing couple who sat in front of them.
"They are evidently married," said the
girl in the Persian waist; "I noticed that
they didn't exchange a word while the
curtain was down.e
"Nonsense; they are merery engaged,"
said the girl in the black gown; "I heard
him tell her that he did not consider the
leading lady even pretty,"
"Perhaps they are merely brother and
sister," suggested the young man of the
party.
"No, they weren't," said the girl in
the Persian waist, "he'd have gone out
between the acts if he was only her
brother, while an engaged man wouldn't
want to leave her, anti-"
"A newly -married man would not
dareao," broke in the girl. in the black
gown
"She took off her hat as soon as she
came in," remarked the young man.
"That looks as if she was married and
in the habit of consulting the feelings of
soragone else."
"Or that they were not really engaged
yet and she wanted to show him how
considerate she could be," said the -girl
In the black gown.
• "Or that she was merely conscious 'of
having pretty hair," said the girl in the
Persian waist. "Will you wager a box of
chocolates that they are not married?"
"I -I'd rather you ladies would settle
it between you," said the young man,
hastily. "You have so much more it -
sight in such matters, you know."
"There they come now," said "the girl
in the Persian waist. "Let us notice
What they do and perhaps we can decide.
If they are merely friends they will stop
for cream, soda and-"
"If they are engaged she will tell him
how hungry she is, and they will stop
for supper," said the young man, bit-
terly.
"While if they are married," went on
the girl in the Persian waist, "he -there,
what did I tell you?"
The couple paused before a cigar shop
and he went in, while she waited at the
door.
"You were right," said the girl in the
black gown, "they are married." -Chi-
cago Times -Herald.
Knew All About It.
"Before beginning my lecture," re-
marked the professor. "I will, in order
to more fully estalbish the influence of
handwriting upon character, ask some
gentleman in the audience to come for-
ward and give me a sample of his pen-
manship." •
A pale young man with short hair
arose and stepped to the platform. Seized
the pin and dashed down a sentence or
two and then returned to his seat.
"Excellent," remarked the professor,
as he surveyed the young man's work:
"This writing shows the advantage of
acquiring a fixed style. I don't suppose
the man who wrote this could vary in
his penmanship if he practised a month
of Sundays. It shoves an adherence to
established principle, unswerving direct-
ness of purpose, a fixed moral code, an
• aspiratioa for orderly methods. I should
classify it as a combination of conscience
and commerce, so to speak. It's the style
of writing Oliver Cromwell might have
affected. And now, young man, may I
Inquire your business?"
Hain't had no business lately," re-
plied the young man hoarsely, "I've just
finished a term in the pen for forging
checks." -Cleveland Leader.
Venezuela has 200,000,000 acres of for-
estall Whiter grow all the varieties of
ebony, as well as rosewood, satin wood
arid mahogany.
FADS IN MONOGRAMS.
Odd Styles That Characterize the Marks
'Upon Recent Bridal Trousseaus.
When a young woman changes her
name she naturally changes her initials,
and it is necessary for her trousseau to
be identified with her new and wifely
character in the matter of a monogram.
Fashion decrees how this monogram
shall be done, Seat as the aribtrary dame
decrees how visiting cards shall be
printed or the shears of the modiste
wielded in cutting decollete dresses. It
is a good thing for the monogram
makers that • Dame Fashion demands
constant changes, for her whims are
expensive and must be obeyed.
It used to be the correct caper in
monograms to start with the initial
letter of the surname as a center piece
and have the initial letters of the first
and second names fantastically inter-
twined around it. Swell society people
no longer have their monograms worked
In this way. The initials are run straight
along in the small letters.
A few of the recent brides ignored
custom and had their'first names worked
on the underclothing, This departure
from the recognized monogram style was
due to a superstitious dread of something
happening if the too confident bride-to-
be caused her future husband's initial to
be embroidered on her clothing.
To give some idea of the expense of a
swell girl's trousseau, apart from the
cost of the linen, the monogram work
done for a coming bride by one of the
swell houses recently can be cited.
It is impossible to marry without a
supply of two dozen of each article of
underwear. It is the correct thing now
to have the full name embroidered across
the left side of the yoke of the night
robes. This embroidery was done for the
bride at a cost of $1.50 for eagh name.
The initials only could have been pro-
cured in dmonogram style for $1 each.
The hosiery was embroidered with one
Initial only, the initial of the first name.
As in all well -regulated trousseaus, there
were four dozen pairs of these initials
necessary, at a cost of eighteen cents
for each initial.
Than came the table linen and the bed
linen. To make a satisfactory supply it
was found necessary to have ten dozen
towels. These the embroiderers were
pleased to adorn with the monogram
of the bride at a cost of $1.75 each.
Thirty sheets can be counted next at a
Cost of $1.50 each, and thirty-eightpillow
cages at a cost of id each.
It must not be supposed, however,
that these were common every -day pillow
cases. They are for additional display
when such display is necessary. The kind
of pillow slips upon which •the dazzled
heads of the poor relations will rest when
aese.
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NEW IDEA' FOR BRIDAL TROUSSEAUX.
visiting the young wife cost only seventy
cents each for their ornamentation,
Table cloths are heavy items in the
bill, for no up-to-date bride would think
of dining on a table cloth that is
not doubly embroidered with her
monogram, one on each side' of the flaps,
The charge for these was $3 for each
monogram, a price that many people
think is enough to pay for a table cloth
with trimmings complete. Napkins were
lettered at a cost of eighty cents each.
In this well ordered trousseau there were
sixteen table cloths and sixteen dozen
napkins. These figures will give the curi-
ous a basis to worh on in calculating the
cost of the swell monogram work neces-
sary for a brtdal trousseau of the present
day. Allowing for the embroidery of the
monogram on various garments that
are not usually referrett 'to in polite
society, a pretty close estimate can be
arrived at.
Some of the monogram designs are
very beautifuL One consists of four stars
formed of lilies of the valley, one in each
• corner running to the center, where
there is a wreath of lilies of the valley
on which is a very small monogram.
Another design is formed of beetles,
represented as marching on the mono-
gram from all sides as though to make
a meal off it. In the »center are the
initials. The design is embroidered on
the finest linen with real lace,the threads
being so nub that the whole looks like
a spieer web. Wings and head and feelers
of the- beetles are traced ins wonderfully
skilful Manner. This beetle design is
generally used on the handkerchiefs,
which, including the monogram, cost $8
each. Another design consists of lovers'
knots in each corner in the loops of which
are worked the initials. With monogram
complete these lovers' knot handker-
chiefs cost $11.50 each. A spider web
design with the monogram worked in
where the spider is usually represented
as making his private quarters can be
done ready for use at a oast of $13 a
handkerchief. A pretty idea that is much
in favor is to have the bride write her
initials, which are then copied by the
embroidery in working the monogram
into the linen.
It must not be supposed for a moment
that the monogram fad is confined to
the brid s The bridegroom's personal
linen is just as resplendently marked.
On the flap of the shirt front the initials
of the bridegroom are worked at a cost
of $1 each. • The pockets of the• night
shirts offer a gorgeous opportunity for
monogram display, and most elaborate
designs are worked on these at a cost of
from $1.25 to $1.75 each. One design
recently worked in the linen of a bride-
groom of artistic tastes consisted of a
painter's palette, on which was worked
the monogram, with brushes piercing it.
Another was an artist's tube box opened
and showing the tubes. The initials
were worked on the lid.
It seems a pity that a night gown
embroidered in this exquisite fashion
rannot be worn where • an appreciative
gmblic would be fascinated by its delicate
Duatity.
THE GOLD FIELDS
THE SEA OF MOUNTAINS HAS BE.
COME A SEA OF GOLD.
Stories of Fabulous Profits Made in British
Columbia Alining Stocks.
Montreal, July 25.-"I am completely
amazed that the people of Canada do not
open their eyes and take more of an in-,
Wrest in their country," was the remark
made by Mr. James Leven McCulloch,
11, E., Vice -President of the Coolgardie
Mining Company of Bossland, B.C., who
is in town on mining business. "I have
been," continned Mr. McCulloch, "on
gold fields all over the world -in Cali-
fornia, West Australia and South Africa
-but nowhere have I come across snob
a wonderful collection of mineral wealth
as in British Columbia. The "sea of
mouutains" has become a sea of gold
and silver. British Columbia la in my
opinion, destined to become the greatest
mining country in the world, and it is
completely in its infancy. Its develop-
ment has not started yet. Dr. Dawson
of the Geological Survey was right in all
his reports, and British Columbia will
yet become the wealthiest province, that
is the greatest wealth producer, in the
Dominion. Rossland, from which I
come, is a wonderful proof of the possi-
bilities of the Trail Creek country. In
one year it grew from a settlement of 25
persons to a town with 3,000 inhabit-
ants, Now its population is over 5,000
and steadily increasing. Over 1,500 new
residents have come in within the past
three months, and still they come. At
Rossland alone we have over forty pro-
ducing mines, while in the Slocan coun-
try there are over a hundred. The Gold
Drop, the Monarch and the Snowshoe
mines in the Boundary Creek country,
which are held by Montrealers, have a
great future before them, and fortunes
are practically assured those who have
pluck enough to go in at the right time.
The War Eagle has already paid in divi-
dends over $130,500, as well as paying
the first cost of the mine and all expenses
of management. The Le Roi,whose shares
wete being peddled around Spokane City
without buyers at 10 and 15 cents a
share, has within eighteen months paid
$100,000 in dividends and is said to have
$7,000,000 In sight. The Silver King,
too, was offered to Canadian, American
and London capitalists. The Canadians
would not risk their money; the Ameri-
cans did not consider it a good enough
thing; but the Londoners are now draws
hag dividends of $50,000 a month.
"The question of railway communicas
tion is a burning one in Rossland. At
present the bulk of their supplies is
taken in by way of Spokane over the
Northern Pacific and Spokane Northern,
The only communication with the Can-
adian Pacific is to tranship at Revel -
Stoke, and thence proceed down the Co-
lumbia." Mr. McCulloch is of opinion
that the Canadian Pacific must, for its
own self-preservation, build the Crow's
Nest Pass line. There is, in his view,
enough tonnage already in sight to make
the investment a paying one from the
start. Take the one item of mining ma-
chinery. Nearly all of it is going from
eastern Canada over an American rail-
way. The Le Rol mine has recently
placed a $60,000 order with an Ontario
firm for mining machinery, and every
ton of it will be shipped to the mine in
bond through the United States. The
Kootenay- gold fields are international in
their character. At present all the ore
that is raised has to be shipped to the
states to be smelted, A large quantity of
it goes to the Tacoma and Everet smelt-
ers in Washington state, the letter of
which is owned by Rockefeller of the
Standard Oil. Company. The Slocan Star
mine hes made a contract with the
Omaha & Grant Company, which has
smelters in Omaha and Denver, to ship
them at least 10,000 tons of ore this
year. With the construction of the Crow's
Nest Railway and the opening up of
the adjacent coal fields all this ore could
be smelted in Canada.
While here Mr. McCulloch will en.,
cleaver to persuade the Canadian Pacific
Railway Company to run a businessmen's
excursion from eastern Canada to Koot-
enay this fall under the auspices of the
Board of Trade. "All your people want
is to see. Then they will believe that the
riches of Kootenay exist in i sality and
not merely upon paper," sale Mr. Mc-
Culloch.
CARDINAL SATOLLI.
Rumored That He Has Been Given Papal
Permission to Remain in America. -De-
nied by Honseignor.
New York, July 24. -The Freeman's
Journal has information from a trust-
worthy source that the Pope has given
Cardinal Satolli Ms choice of returning
to Rome or remaining in America, and
the apostolic delegate has elected to re-
main.
Washington, July 24. -The report that
the Pope has offered Cardinal Satolli the
choice of returning to Rome or remain-
ing at his present post, and that the 'hat-
ter course has been decided, is denied by
Cardinal Satolli. It is officially stated
that no advices as to a ohmage in plans
have been received, and that it is almost
a certainty that Cardinal Satolli will go
back to Rome after the assembling of
the next Consistory, when his successor
will be announced.
Cattle Going Blind.
Fletcher, July 24. -What appears to
be an epidemic of sore eyes has broken
out among the cattle in this neighbor-
hood. It was first noticed about two days
ago, When Mr. P. T. Barry of this vil-
lage noticed one of his cows •acting
strangely. Upon examination she was
found to be completely blind and two
others were affected. Mr. .T. C. Fletcher
has a herd of 83 in one pasture, and al
most the entire herd are affected. One
steer is totally blind. Other herds in the
neighborhood have also been attacked.
The first symptoms noticeable are run-
ning at the eye and swelling and inflam-
mation, the eyeball soon turning a
whitish color'and consequently blindness.
Varions remedies are being tried, such
as burnt &bun, salt and water, etc., and
the first eases noticed seem somewhat
Improved. No person here has ever heard
of anything like this, and would be glad
to hear from any one who can give any
information regarding the disease and
treatment.
Friction in the Whiteway Cabinet.
St, John's, Nfld., July 25.-Serioui
friction exists in the %leeway Ministry.
It is said that Colonial Secretary Bond
wants to seize the leadership, and fermi
Premier Whiteway to accept a seat on
the Supreme Court bench, a vacancy to
be made by pensioning chief Justice
'Carter.
In Colorado there are ruins five bun.
dyed years old on whilst] are rude sculp-
tures of horses.
LA 'FEST MARKET REPORTS.
TORONTO.
Toronto, July 25. -There were received
at the western cattle yards this morning
50 loads of fresh arrivals, and yesterday
29 loads came in, so that the supply was
ample. These receipts included 1,800
lambs and sheep, 700 • hogs, 100 calves,
and a few millwrs, There was a decid-
edly 'better tone to the market for cattle,
both export and butchers', and while
prices cannot well be quoted higher, they
were Armee, and sales were more readily,
effected. Shipping cattle sold at from Bee
to 3•Jec for loads, with a little more for
a few picked lots of extra quality, Re-
ports from the Old Country are not en-
couraging, but sales were quicker, chiefly
because ocean freights from Montreal are
easier to procure. Many loads sold
around 3tec per pound. In butchers' cat-
tle we had had also a much better feel-
ing Sales were more readily effected,
and prices, while not higher, were Amer.
For loads of choice 133.(c was the top
Price though for some selected lots 3 8 -Sc
and 8S4c was paid, though we believe
the latter figure was only obtained once
for a few were choice cattle. The aver-
age for loads of good cattle was 30, ordi-
nary ranged from 2ee to 2 7-8c, and in-
ferior graded down to 2o. By noon, how-
ever, nearly all the -cattle here were dis-
posed of, and afterwards it all sold.
Much of the cattle was mixed shippers
and butchers', and the sales would only
give a misleading notion of actual values,
aud are better omitted. Good lambs,
sheep and calves are wanted; sheep for
export (ewes) sold at from 3 to 3teso per
pound; bucks are worth e 1-8 to 234o pee
pound. Lambs are worth from $0.25 to
$3 each. Calves are enchanged at from
$1.50 to $4 each. Hogs are unchanged,
arid steady at $4 to $4.1234 for "singers."
$8.75 to $4 for light, and fat, $3,85,
while stores are not wanted at any price.
Prices for hogs are not expected to (Armlet'
for the present
PRODUCE,
Eggs -The market continues feature-
less. The quantity of eggs coming for-
ward is much larger than requirements,
and cutting in prices does not seem to
increase consumption. Dealers here say
they are at a loss what to do with sur-
plus stooks. Some holders have now
commenced placing their extra supplies
in cold storage. In the ordinary way
sales are being made at 9e all round.
Potatoes -Weak, and selling lower, at
85 to 45c per bushel for Canadians,
Americans are going out of the mar-
ket;.
Poultry -Turkeys are quoted at 9 to
12e; geese, at 7 to Sc per lb.; chickens,
80 to 00c per pair; and ducks, 60 to 80o
per pair,
Hops -Choice, 1396 growth are quoted
at 8 to 9c, and wind-blown samples at
5 to 6c.
Apples -Limited demand. 4el11ng in
small lots at 1334o for dried, and tic for
evaporated. Country lots are quoted at Sc
far evaporated, and Se for dried, deliv-
ered.
Beans -White band -picked beans are
offered at 70o per bushel, and ordinary
at 60cs.
Maple Syrup -Five -gallon tins sell. at
70 to 750 per Imperial gallon; gallon,
tins, 80e; and belie -gallon tins at 45o,
Honey -Selling at 7cfor 00-1b. tin,,and So for 10 -lb. tins, for new honey.
Baled Hay -Unchanged, with only a
few small lots moving, New hay, No.
quoted, car lots, on track,at $10.50 to
111.50, and small lots around, $12, Old
is held at around $13.
Straw -Very little coming in on track.
Car lots are quoted, as before, at $8.
DAIRY PRODUCE,
Butter -Dealers are buying cautiously,
as prices seem to be going lower. Cons
sninption is light, and outside offerings
are liberal, Present quotations: Dairy,
tub, choice, 11 to 123ic; do, low grades,
to medium, 7 to Pc; large roll, 11 to 1201
pound prints, 12 to 13e; creamery, tubs
15 to 16c; pounds, 16 to 17c.
Chease-No demand for export, Deal-
ers who are buying cheese at the boards
are in most cases cold storing, as the
British market at present is in a very
poor condition, prices there being below
those paid here. New wile in small lots,
for retailing at 7•Ssec, and old around 8c.
• BREADSTUFF'S, ETC.
Wheat -Cables were strong to -day, and
United States markets were higher, but
receded toward the close. Locally the
tone was good, though business was
light. Holders of Manitoba wheat asked
more money, but buyers did not follow
the advance. This afternoon hoidere
asked 60c for No. 1 hard, afloat, Fort
William; 68c, Toronto and west; and
69c, Montreal and west. Sales could prob-
ably be made at lc under these figures.
Ontarios were steady at 620 bid for red
and 68c for white, west. New fall wheat
was wanted at 60c.
Flour -Continues easy. Car lots of
straight roller, track, Halifax, sold to-
day at $8.50. Same offered, middle
freights went, at $3.10.
Milifeed-Rather firmer. A good many
of the mills have closed down for repairs,
and stocks of bran and shorts are light.
Bran is selling west at $9, and shorts at
$9.50.
Peas -Steady, with offerings light
Car lots, north and west freight, are
quoted at 45e, and east at 480. Crop
about all out.
Oats -U. S. markets had a strong
tone to -day, Ontario holders are not
pressing sales. Some holdees were asking
20c for white, outside, to -day.
Barley -Feed is quoted at 270 asked
and 250 bid outside.
Buckwheat -Quoted nominally outside
at 380.
Corn -Nominal.
Rye -Nominal,
Wheat, white, per birth ...,$ 65 $ 67
Wheat, red, per hash 00 65
Wheat, goose, per bush. 48 51
Peas, commou, per bosh . 48 50
Oats, per bush 21 23
Bye, per bush45
Barley, per bush 81 35
Buckwheat •36 40
Ducks, spa:rig, per pair40 90
Chickens, per pair 40 60 •
Geese, per lb 06 •08 .
Butter, in 1-1b. rolls 18
Eggs, new laid • 9 10
Onions, per bush.... 30 30
Turnips, per bag, byload15 20
Potatoes, per hag 15
Potatoes, car lots. .. . .. 18 15
Potatoes, new, per bush60 70
Beans, per bush 90 1 00 .
Beets, per bag • 85
Carrots, per bag, by load20 25
Parsnips, per bag " 40 50
Apples, per bbl 1 00 • 1. 50
Hay, timothy .. 13 00 lo 00
Straw, sheaf....... -....... 9 00 11 00
Beef, hinds •05 07
Beef. fores. .-....• 02 04
Sining lamhs, carcase, .. 3 00 6 00
Veal, per lb .. . . ... 04 6
•Mutton, per lb 04 OE
Dressed hogs.... ........ 5 00 5 6'0
Immense tracts of prairie land in Al-
berta are burning over.