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The Exeter Advocate, 1897-7-29, Page 3IOUR OTTAWA LETTER,. LIBERAL, NEWSPAPERS ATTACK THE CABINET. 1 Sir wawa., X.aursera Luta° aristake- TroUble Ahead for the 'ren. --M. 1 Whitney's Successful Tour --Naw Leatht of the Opposition in Manitoba. (]3rom Oar Own Correspondent.) Ottawa, July 20.--Troubie pursues the Members of the Government, les men- • toned in last week's letter, two of the leadiug Liberal newspapers of Quebec ' have sharpened their knives for the bone - fit a the -Ministers ana now the Sirocoe : Reformer, edited by Ital. B. leanly, one .of the anost stalwart Liberals in Ca- : median newspaperdont, has made a bitter .attack on the meo in power at Ottawa. The Globe, because its overters have to :pay the price a the concessions white] the Government made to its owners in 'al:wooden with. the Crow's Nest in- iquity, is forced to not as the Adminis , tration's apologist, be it right or wrong. The Men who have but small Liberal newspapers are the ones who are nave telling the truth about the Gavernmeiet, and that truth must be very unpalatable to the gentlemen who are members of the Leurier Cabinet. The Siumoo Re- former tolls its readers plainly that Messrs. Fielding, Blair, Sifton and Do - hell are not fit for the pqsitions they ' hold. In the case of Mr. Fielding the Cornwall Freeholder was the first Liberal :newspaper to discover traces of loom- eietenoy—or worse, Nearly a year ago the ,able editor of The Freeholder dnlabed Fielding "a glorified cross-roads poli- tioiao"—a term that was very fittIng indeed. Now the Simooe Reformer 'en - :clones the opinion of its oompanion - Liberal newspaper and goes it one better. Mr. Donly says that M. Fieldiun is not fit to be Finance Minister, that Hon. A. G. Blair bears all the ear -marks of the "praotioal politician," that Mr. Sefton's *hid aim in life seems to be the proo m- ing of at Government jobs for his rela- tions, and that Mr. Dobell is in the Cab- inet beeause Lady Aberdeen wanted him put there. An interested public owes its • thanks to Mr. Donley for this last piece of information. No man in Canada, be- ing outside a the Liberal Star Chamber, and knowing of Mr. Dobell's tremendous stook of igeorance on all public: ques- tions, could imagine why that gentleman • was advanced to Cabinet rank. In poli- ties he had always been a Mugwump. On the night of the last general election, after he bad been returned as member for Quebec West, Mr. Dobeli declined to Boni converse or to sit in the same 'car- riage vvith Sir Wilfrid Laurier. Mr. Do - bell has large lumbering interests in Quebec, and he wanted to be sure bow the elections went before committing himself. In other words, be was deter- mined to support the win:ling party. In himself Mr. Dobell is unimportant. The paint is that the Government should be -composed of such incompetent naen. As a Quebec Liberal said the other day, The capable men, with two or three exceptions, are looking out for them- selves; the other fellows are inconsequent make -weights, who know nothing of their duties." It must be gelling to Sir Richard to have to associate with suoli men. The old knight, though hot-headed arid unpolitio, is an limiest gentleman. He is senior to every other Minister so • far as length and importanoe of political • ,service goes, Yet be has to take a poet of 'MO importance wbatver; he has no patron - .age, his estimates amount to teething, for his department does no work. 'Under Sir Mackenize Bowell the Deportment of Trade and Cominerce did good work, for Sir Mackenzie was the prime mover in tbe, sobenie for the promotion of inter- .-oolonial trade. But the Liberals have told as, through their leader that the other parts of the British Empire are no niore to them commercially than any foreign country. It would be Impossible, there. :tore. for Sir Richard, even if he had the .desire, to busy himself with any plan of promoting interoolonial trade. The old .gentleman has to sit idly in his six by ten office with nothing to do, while men like Tarte, Sifton and Blair control the three greatest departments of our civil •government. A. sop was thrown to him when he was made leader of the House of Commons during the absence of the Premier, but the Government had not -entirely in mind a desire to do a graceful .act. It le to be doubted whether there was any other member of the Govern- ment who was capable of leading the House against the Opposition so ably . :generalled by Mr. Foster and Sir Charles Tupper. It has been noticed with regret by many independent newspaper corres- gcndents that the moveraent for ousting Sir Richard seems to be sure to be suc- -oessful. Tarte in nowise fears that he will have to leave. Be knows that he has his claws firmly fixed in Laurier's shout - =tiers and that the Premier cannot shake libn off. The man who will go will be Sir Richard, one of the few honest and -capable men in the Government. Sir Wilfrid's Binge Mistake. Now that the people of Canada have •been apprised of Sir Wilfrid's huge 21318. lake in declaring that Canada does not want preferential treatment from Britain, the trouble is beginning. The Pvemier, ;•.it will be remembered, assured the peo- :nate of England that any agreement look- • ing towards the extending of preferential •-treatment to the Colonies would injure, first, the United Kingdom and then -Greater Britabs. Lord Ferrer, one of the ;greatest Free Traders in England, is so , Touch afraid that his pet heresy will be ..extirpated that he has written a long hpamphlet on the subject. He does not 1.deny that the Colonies would be bene- , fitted, for that woOld be a nonsensical 'esontention. What Lord 'Ferrer says he • fears is retaliation from the United •:States. The Dingley bill, he seems to ferget, averages a 60 per cent. (slaty. The I United States could not possibly handl. . • acap British imports more than this with - •l out making it unlawful to bring them 1 In. And then, of course, there would be •I trouble. The United States now Sells I .n98,000,000 worth of goods to Britain .every year. Britain sells only a2s,00k000 -worth to Uncle Sam. The Republic has aill the beanies, of trade, and .he would be loth to think of losing it by imposing Larther duties on British goods. There neal be Do fear of retaliation. Prominent Liberals recograze that Sir Wilfrid Lent - ler has inade s huge mistake. Trouble Ahead for Laurier. When the Premier comes home there will be isitsuesting proceedings in the Privy Council obanaber. Sir Wilfrid 1)111 liave a few words of exp/anation to make to his colleagues. But it is in tbe country, with the people of Canada, that be will have a hard task lu Dialtiog himself "solid," This is a protectionist oountry. That was known in 1878, and in every eleetion since. The Conservative party did not lose power because of its proteo- dye policy. It is stronger in the coutitry Shan re bas been for years ,simply because the people suspeot that the Liberals do not know where they stand. Certairay they cannot expeot to do anything with the United States. Congress has adhered to the $2 duty on lumber, although the Liberals assured no that the Americans would give us a One dollar duty. And Mr. Fielding's "friends, the Americans," have told us by way of Congress that, "if we attempt to defend our own com- merce by imposing an export duty on saw togs we will be fined by having to pay an increased import duty to the United States." What this Government needs to do is to clap that export duty at once. This country does not need to fear the course threatened by the American Congress. The people of the Republio have to have our forest produce, for theirs Is about exhausted or will be in a short time, If the Gavernment here at Ottawa would attend to the couutry's business instead of bioltering within itself it would be a bettor thing for us who pay the bills, The Klondike country in the Brit- ish territory east of the Alaska boundary Is pronounced to be the riobest gold mining land in the world, Why does not our Government compel the Amerions who compose eigbty per mob, of its popu- lation to pay a tax or royalty on every ounce of gold taken out? Tbe wealth of the country is beteg carried into Alaska and theme to the Visited States, Here In Ottawa.the Ministers say nothing, do nothing to prevent it. The ellen labor law whiela Mr. George Taylor, the Con- servative whip in the House of Common, fought for so long and so well, has not yet been put Into force by the Govern- ment. This is not to be wondered at when the Government took the contract for printing the bank bills out of Cana- dian hands and gave it to an American firm. It also gave the contract for the printing of the Jubilee stamps -o a Yan- kee firm, although the Canadian concern that tendered offered to do the work better and cheaper than its AMerican competitors. Why did the Government do this? Because the bead of the Canadian concern was suspected of being a Con- servative. The Postmaster-GeneraI well knows that the Canadian design was much superior in artistic merit to that submitted by the Americans, but be gives us the excuse that the Canadian concern bad not the facilities for carrying it out, When is stated that the com- pany hau for years the work of doing the finest work for some of our Canadian banks it will be seen Just what this ex. mese amounts to. Mr. Whitney's Suceessfni Tour. Mr. J. P. 'Whitney has ceased his stumping tour for a short timo, but will return to the campaign in -the autumn. The leader's success has been phoneme- enal. Everywhtre, almost, he was a stranger. Everywhere he made a pro- nounced success. In Western Ontario his conferences with the leading local Con- servatives made it certain that a very strong list of oandidates will be brought out. More than ever has it been made clear that the people of Ontario want a change. Hardyisru is not to their liking, for they read the newspapers. They know of the iniquitous Engledue deal, whereby enough land to make two or three good !sized counties is handed over to English capitalists and Canadian go-betweens like J. K. Kerr. Mr. Hardy, I am told, is go- ing to tell the people of Ontario that be has had great success in selling their mining lands. He is prepared to amaze them by telling them that he has been paid over a million dollars. What states- manship! First he sells the forests; now he sells the mining lands. What is to be- come of the public domain? The citizens of Ontario will soon have nothing left except a barren waste, from which the trees have been out and the gold grubbed Up. The friends of the Government evill be rich but the people will be poorer than ever. The 'Wicked Premier is desperately Put to it to keep up his alleged surplus. His task will be over after the next elec- tion. The Government will be in the hands of honest and capable men. With Mr. Whitney at its head the new Cabinet wili )ave an efficient leader. The Globe bas made the point against Mr. Whitney that be is poor. So he is. He is a lawyer with a fairly good practice. Premier Hardy is rich. He has not practiced law for anany years. He has drawn a salary of $4,600 from the province. He lives In palatial kyle in Toronto in a $15,000 house. All of wbich gives us cause to ponder. Mr. Hardy's commercial and mining friends are not, it is clear, of the kind that forget Moir benefactors. New Leader of the Opposition in Manitoba • In Manitoba Hon. Etugh John Mao- donald has eoterect with spirit into the duties of his new position of leader of the Oppoition. ir. Macdonald is bound to make a success of his work. Mr. Greenway has had things all his own way so long that he thinks be owns the province. He will find next session that he has a doughty opponent to fight. Mr. Macdonald was slow to take the post; but now that he is in the fight he is not the man to draw back. How to Make a Paris "Marvel." Half a pound of fine sifted flour, 8 whole and very fresh eggs, a pinch of salt, a small pieoe of butter, 134 spoon- fuls of eau de vie. Mix all these to a rather stiff dough, which must be well worked to make it light. Allow it then to rest for ten minutes, being careful to cover it with a slightly damp napkin, that the paste may not dry up. Make this latter op into little balls and then roll these out as thinly as pos- sible. Cut them out with a pastry cuttes into an oval shape, running the latter three times right across the length, with- out, however, cutting it through at eithee end, and lay each as done on.a cloth. Have ready some very hot frying fat and place the marvels" one by ono in this, turning them over all the time with the skimmer, and lift tbem out the moment they are nicely but not too strongly col- ored. They should puff out almost as soon as they are in the fat. Drain them very carefully on paper and dish them on a napkin, dusting them libera•Ily with powdered sugar. To be easten hot or cold. The ordinary blacksnake, or racer* le from 5 to 7 feet in length. • FAVORITE SONGS, Causes Which IItelhe Piro,d'mr.heir -401th°r• to Song writers seldom are conscious of the power evbioh inspires them to write a lyric that shall make their names fa- mous wherever the English Language is spolteD arid, perhaps, be translated into the speech of many foreign nations. Sometinses it is the melody of a song tbat bas struok the popular heart, ete tbe OtISO et "The Last Bose of Summer," which is always weloome as an iesten- mental air, but the words and • tune are usually so welded that oue is lost with- out the other, Song writers have been usually inspired by the moment and often by• sore e untoward olrouius trance. "Home, Sweet Home," would never have been written but for the chance that led 'a homelees poet to glance through the lighted window of a cottage home. "The Sweet By and By" was written by S. Fillmore Bennett in respouse to the de - Pressed eondition of a friend who, being asked what was the matter with him, remarked gloomily: "It will be all right by and by," "Yes," said his friend Bennett, "in the sweet by and by. Why would that not make_ a good song?" The two young men, -Bennett and his triend, J. P. Webster, were partners in the work of writing sacred songs, Web- ster tempest:1g the melody and Bennett the words. The song written under those circumstances was destined to be a coon feet to ell mourning souls in all the lands of the earth, There was a lilting ring to it that lifted those who suog it far above the sorrows of humanity, until thee, saw "the laud that is fairer than day." "John Brown's Body" is better known for its air than for the words, whiele have neither rhyme nor reason, The melody was one of those fetching oegro tunes, which balance between the pathetic and the grotesque. The words were written by Charles S. Hall, of Charlestowo, Mass. Tim adapted air was first played by the band of the Boston Light Infantry 1861. A few yettes later it crossed the ocean and became at once a London favorite. "The Girl I Left Behind Me" is an army favorite. The writer of the words is uuknown, and all that has been learned of the melody is that ie originated in Ire- laed, and was known there a hundred years ago, During that time it has been the parting tune of the British army and Davy, played whenever a regiment is leaving a town where it has been sta. toned, or a man-of-war is weighing anchor to sail from a port, It is also familiar in the American many. alas. Custer, in "Boots and Saddles," says; "When our band, struck -up The Girl I Left Behind Me,' the most despairing hour seemed to have count." Samuel Woodworth, a printer, wrote a song that at once became !amens, "The Old Oaken Bucket." Woodsworth was employed at the time in New York City, and had a fondness for the wine when it was red. A dram shop near the print- ing establishment knew him for a regular and muoh-Iiked visitor, for he was con- vivial and good company, being a man of education, It is tolcisof him that one afternoon he strolled into his favorite resort and called for brandy, holding up the glass when it was given to bins to admire the beverage. "Is there anything like that?" he a'Teahere is something much better," said a brother printer; 'a drink of cool water from the old cahea hocket that bangs in father's well," Woodsworth was thoughtful all the afternoon, in the course of svhich he sa, down at a desk and wrote the song te the tune of "Araby's Daughter," and it was soon a popular song on the lips of the people. Stephen Collins Foster wrote "My Old Kentneky Home, Good Night." He over- heard a slave speak of bis former home In tbe Blue Grass State,-whioh suggested it to him. While it became very popular it was too sad, and the singing of it in the old days always produced a profound sensation. Who wrote "Bonnie .Alanie Laurie?" Somebody of the name of Douglas. Authorities differ on this point, but all agree as to the quaint beauty of the song. Annie Laurie was no myth, says one of her biographers. Nearly- 200 years ago Sir Robert Laurie, of Maxwelton, of Dumfriesshire, Scotland, wrote in bis family register those words "At the pleasure of Almighty God, any daughter, Annie Laurie was born on the 16th clay of December, 168t, about 6 in the morningeand was baptized by Mr. George Hunter, of Glenottirne." Posterity owes to William Douglas, of Fingland, in Kirkcudbrightshire, the song of Annie Laurie. He wooed but did not win the capricious beauty. The air is very popular among musi- cians. The words Jaa-ve been sung on English battlefields on the eve of an en- gagement so often that It has been said that the British soldier looked upon Annie Laurie as his patron saint. Bayard Taylor alluded to the custom in his "Song of the Camp." "They sting of love and. not of fame, Forgot was Britain's glory; Each heart recalled a different name • But all sang 'Anzio Laurie.' " Nautical songs are generally written by landsmen. That dashing lyric, "A Life on the Ocean Wave," was composed by Epes Sargent 'while he was engaged in a walk on the battery, in New York, when a strong wind was blowing, and Henry Russell, his friend, set it to music. 'What Are the Wild Waves Saying,?" a duet that Was once all the rage, svas inspired in the mind of Dr. Joseph Car- penter by reading a conversation in Dom - bey and Son. Mrs. Emma Willard, who kept a fash- looable boarding school -for young ladies in New York forty years ago, wrote, while crossing the ocean, the popular song, "Rocked in the Cradle of the Deep " Her music teacher, Joseph Knight, composed the music for it. Defying' Matrimonial Superstitions. A bride so far defied superstition as to be marriecl on the 13th of last May. She had also thirteen tiny bridesmaids, bad thirteen carriages, and a thirteen -days' honeymoon. Another unsuperetitious maiden be- came engaged on the 13th of a certain month, and bas fixed on the first Friday in next May as her wedding morning. Several May brides have testified to the happiness of their married lives; and one woman declared that although sbe became engaged on a Friday,fixed on the unlucky day as the one set apart in each week for tlae lovers' walk, got married on a Friday, had thirteen guests at the wedding -table, and set up housekeeping in May, she has never had a moment's serious unhappiness in all her eight years of married life. THE SHOE FIT. said Johnson, after a rousing laugh, "and that reminds me of a story rather similar. It was While I was sort of assoctiato editor of the Coonville De- claimer dowo in Kentucky 20 years baok. It happened once while the city editoz 'Was away and. I was called epon to write a paragraph or two to fill out a col:tone that fell shove nay said any old thing would do, it didn't matter much wbat it was—some item of news that 1 could pick up about town. "Well, I started forth fee a walk aroued the place to see what I could bag. I only had an hour before the paper went to press and of all the sleepy, utterly torpid Old places co the face of the globe Coonville came near taking the palm, on that particular evening at least, There wasn't even a dog fight or a mass meet: - big or an unexpected wedding that I could get scent of, I even svent to the police station, where I found nothing going on but a sonorous nap at the ser- geant's desk and a game of °beakers just petering out between the doorman and the dark/ chore boy. "Tile sanctimonious oalra was madden- ing, I rushed out, half deternfined to write a sonnet on a yeller dog—the onlv moving thing in sight—when I was seized by an idea. As a result something ID this wise appeared in the paper next :morning—something to the effect that it .was all very well for engaged couples to bid each other affectionate farewells and all that sort of thing, and nobody had anything to say against than but it cer- taioly did. seem a bit like overdoing mat- ters for them to seleet the front stoop at just about dusk for the scene of their de- monstrations. "Well, by Jove, do you know that be fore the gas was lighted that evening in the office an old duffer stalked in with fire in his eye and a Declaimer in his hand, He wanted to know, by gum, where the editor WAS and was finally usleorecl into Blackford's office, though he'd just gob back and was awful busy. Well, the uld chap was downright mad and talked so loud andso fast and wavea the paper around in sod) a way that poor Bleokford was completely bewildered before he could stop the man long enough to fincl out what all the fuss was about. " 'Why,' he said, 'look a -here at this here paragraph about my darter. Why, I declare, sir, this is shameful. It's dis- graceful, sit, and you ain't got any right, as I can see, to prmt people's private affairs in any each way as that. The poor girl's all broke up over it. Why—' "But he was cut short by tbe entrance of another wrathful subscriber, who wanted to know what in thunder tbe editor was trying to get himself into by publishing such impudent personalities; that if he didn't look out for himself, eta.; that his sister had a perfect right to bid her fiance adieu in any way she chose without the whole town having to talk about it, and, furthermore, kindly have his name removed from the sub. soription list at ono. -"Blackford tried his level best te pacify the irate gentlemen and to point out that there was really nothing per- sonal in it—no names mentioned, or anything that could possibly lead ape one to suppose any particular person or persons were meant—and that he'd be delighted to insert a paragraph iu the next issue saying it was not Miss Nettie Jones or Miss Loretta Brown who was concerned io the little scene. But it was of no use. The gentlemen both ooincided ID the opinion that such a measure would only serve to bring the matter into greater prominence, b.ut were undeoided as to what course it would he advant- ageous to pursue. 'He did at last manage O get rid of them and lead just sent for me, whioh act, though fully expected, caused my knees to vibrate, when in swept a Dower- ing ladv, brimful of wrath and dignity, Who made directly for 131ackford's sanc- tum, brushing me out of her traok as she would have done the office oat. "Through -the glass door I beheld the expression of Blackford's faoe as be cowered down in his chair with a weak attempt to look deeply, terribly absorbed ID a pile of 'copy.' The lady, by the way, Wag, one of the largest property owners In town and a valuable easterner ot ours. No wonder Blackford wilted. Well, she plunged right into him. Blackford tried to tell her he knew nothing about hoer it got into the paper; that it did not relate to any one in particular; that it was only put in to 1111 up; that—oh, well, he was growing mad azed excited and said anyhing and everything he could think of O convinoe her that it was all right, but failed. Everybody knew, she said, that her house was just a stone's throw from The Declaimer office, and that the stoop was constructed with iron balusters of the very sort referred to in the scandalous paragraph, and that her niece was almost prostrated by having a thing of that sort in the town paper, since after all 15 was noth- ing anyhow—she was engaged to him and all that, and it was nobody's busi- ness—and, oh, I don't know what all. I was certain nay jog was gone for good and all, and suddenly remembered I bad an important business engagement at the other end of tho village, which straightway went to meet. "I never dared ask how he managed to smooth things over with the wrathful three, but anyhow I didn't have to girls up my place on The Deolainier's force, for the next morning Blackferd had re- covered from his temporary upset, being the best natured of fellows. He stared me pretty thorougbly and then laughed at the whole thing. But it taught me a jomosalistic lesson about the acivisability of printing certain stylas of matter en papers that are published in sma,11 towns."—Zoe B. Harney in Owl." athinz Weak constitutiouns that cannot stand a great amount of rigorous bathing will find an' excellent usefor the flesh brush ID taking what might be °ailed a dry bath. There are seasons when, from having a oold or some other ailment, ono becom s particularly sensitive, and at such times a brisk brushing with a good flesh brush will do much toward keeping the skin clean and. smooth and the flesh firm, and may with advantage take the place, say, every morning, of the regular daily bath. But the dry bath is only for unusual occasions, the proper use of the flesh bsash being as an ad- ..junot to the bath, not as it substitute for it.—New York Ledger. At the Whitt Club. Mr. Wiggles—Did you go to the whist club bo -clay? Waggles—Yes. Mr. Wiggles—Whet was the subject for discussion this efternoon P.—Somer. ville Journal. LATEST MARKET REPORTS. Toronto, July 20. BREADSTUFFS, ETC, Wheat-eniarkets were all lower to -day. The e;lownntein 4d lijatViveeorPiTairinagnaof 341 lChicagoani was f * tobas, and prices of eante fell about 2c or more. No. 1 Manitoba bard, afloat Part William offered to -day at 780, and No, 2 tit 7534c. No. 1 bard, Goderich, offered au 81340 Millers were poor buyers. As it dealer to -day said, "The millers have laid down op this bulge. Often on a bulge, we have mold 50 care, but on Ibis bulge we have not sold ,five." Ontario wheat was quiet and nominal. Red offer- ed at ele, weet; white at 72e, spriug itt 71e, and goose at (12o. Bids were under these figures so far as to make business light, Flour—Easier again. Straight roller, middle freights west, offered at 83.80. Export bids were around 88.10. Millreed—Quiet and steady; city mills quote all) for bran and *11 for Shorts, ton lots at the mills. Cur lots of bran west, are quoted at 88.50, and shorts at "65aljtuiea1—Car lots of roiled oats, in bags, on track here, are quoted at 88.10, and small lots at $8.30, per bbl. Peate—Higher again. Exporters can pay 5.ic north mad west to -day. That figure was bid, with 46c asked.. Liverpool was considerably firmer. • Rye—Car lots are quoted, west, at 830, and east at 34e. Oats—Eseort enquiry poor. White offered et 24o north and west, and 28o is bid for looal acconnt Exporters bid from 120,17,:oort2122:Quiet. Car lots, Chatham, quoted at 26o bid and 27c asked for yen Buokwheat—Nominal, Barley—la orninal. PRODUCE, Eggs—Demand keeps fair. and prices for choice candled stook steady. Ordin- ary run sell at low figures, and clementl for same is poor. Ten ease lots Of eattened stock sell at WA, and singles at 9%ct to 10.e. Poultry — Nominal. Quotations for bright stock are: Turkeys, 10 to lle; geese, 8 to Pc; chickens, 40 to 50c; and ducks, 50 to 80o. Potatoes—Lower. New stools: sold to- day at 40 to 50e per bushel, out of store, Field Produce—Quotations are: Small lots, out of store, turnips. 20e per bag; parsoips, 400 per bag; and onions, tives, $1.50 to $2, and Egyptians, $3.50 per sack. Beans --Dull. Hand-picked white beans bring 05c, less commission, for shagle bag lots. Round lots sell at 60o, less conimisaion; common beans sell at 85 to 45c. Apples—The same dell level is the feature of the market. A or load of evaporated were bought outside a day or two ago et 8eec, and shipped to the Pa- cific coast at 4o, f.o.b., poine of ship- ment. Dealers quote good stook at 2 to 234o for dried, and 4a for evaporated. Maple Syrup—Dull. Maple syrup is quoted at 60 to 05c in large tins, and 05 to 70o in small tins. Bailed Hay--leasy, Montreal is 500 to $1 lower on larger receipts. Prices here nominal. Demand slow. Car lots of No. 1, on track, are quoted at $10, and No. e itt 88.50. Two -ton lots of No. 1, de- livered, are quoted at $11. Baled Straw—Car lots of oat straw, on track, are quoted at $5 to $5.50. DAIRY PRODUCE. Butter—The market is in healthy shape, Offerings are not heavy, and de- mand keeps up well. The sustaining force is good export enquiry for creamery tub butter. Following are the quotations: Dairy, tubs 11 to 1834c; large dairy, rolls, 12 to 7.4o. small dairy, rolls, 12 to 140; creamerytubs, 17o; and creamery, pelmets, 173e to 18o, Cheese—Small lots of new makes sell at 8% to 90. DRESSED HOGS AND PROVISIONS. Light lean hogs are quoted at $6,75 to 87; light fats at $6.50; and heavy at $6.25. The demand for meats oontinues fair and prices are firm all round. Cash enquiry at Chicago for meats is vete' good. Dry Salted Meats—Long clear bacon, oar lots, nee; tons lots, 7ee.c; case lots, 7ee to 7eno; backs. 80. Smoked Meats—Hams, heavy, lle; medium'11% to 19e; light, 12 to 1234c;; breakfast baoon, 11 to 120; rolls, geeo: backs, 11 to 1230.' picnic hauls, 834 to 90. All meats outof piokle lc less than prices quoted for smoked meats. Lard—Tieroes, 6340; tubs, 65.ece and pails, easso; compound, 534 to 53eo. THE LIVE STOCK MARKET. Toronto July 26.—At the Western cattle yards this morning we had a total of over 100 loads •of stuff on sale, includ- ing Saturday's receipts; this much too large supply included 1,100 bogs, 800 osheesp. and lambs, 100 calves, and 95 milk ow The export businees was bad, and up to noon scarcely anything worth men- tioning had changed hands; depressed markets in the 'United Kingdom bad much to do with the dulness here. About half the export supply was left over. Prices ranged from $4 to $4.40 per 100 pounds. In butchers' cattle, as usual, really choice stuff sold well at from 3% to 3%o per pouhcl; but other grades were off from 10 to 20o per 100 pounds, and trade was very slow; as we bad twice as much stuff offering as there was any possible demand, for. There was a light run of export bulls, and the demand is easy; but good bulls are wanted at from 850 3eec per pound; but they must be good. COnnnOil balls are nominal. Stockers wore in short supply aa -day, and there is a demand for choice stockers of from 900 to 1,000 pounds, at from 3 ID 3i40 per pound. Balk cows are quiet; choice will sell, but for ordinary stuff the enquiry is easy. Prices range from $20 to 885 each. Wheat, waite new-- a 00 73 Wheat, red, per bush 00 72 NS heat, goose, per bush00 62 Peas, common, per bush.- 00 44 Oats, per bush 00 28 Rye, per bush.-- .........00 Barley, per bush 00 27 Chickens, 'ear pair 30 50 Geese, per lb 08 0 09 utter, in ]-lb Docks, spring, per pair...e 415 8 B 106 Eggs, new laid 00 10 Potatoes; per bag00 80 Beans, per bash 'Beets,. per doz. „ Parsnips, per doz Apples, per bbl .. . ... Day, ti othy 75 85 00 10 9 10 40 150 10 50 11 00 Setaw, s Teat. .... ....... 6 50 7 00 Beef, hinds 7 08 Bof, fetes... . ... 8 4 La,rabs, carease, per Ib.. 9e 10 Veal, per In 6 7 Mutton, per lb .. . . . . 5 Dressed hogs—. ... .. 550 700 THE SIINDAY SCII001A. LESSON V, THIRD QUARTER, INTER- NATIONAL SERIES, AUG 1. Text of the Lesson, Acts Irvin, 141—Mem- ory Verses, 8-11-.0o1den Text, I Cor. 811, 11—Commentary by the Ltev. D. Stearns. 1. "After these things Paul departed from Athens and 002n0 to Corinth." fie Is still led and controlled by the Spirit, and If the Spirit had not now wanted bini in Corinth Be would pot have suffered bian to go (ebapter X17,. 6, 7), Time also we may koow His way for as. If we are hon- est)), living note Him wbo ha a bought us to be set apart for Hinisple, then wherever He would have :tie to go the door will be open and the way plain, ond where He does Dot want us He will close the door and binder us from going. 2. "And found a aertaixt .Taw nomed Aquila, born in Poistus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla." Theo, as now, the Jews were made to move on. • They bad chosen Cmsar instead of their • Messiah, and insteod of 'rest, whloh Christ would have given there, they have been to this dee' driven hither and thither and persecuted in many lands It is written, "I will command and I will sift (or muse to roove) the house of Israel among all na- tions," 11 is also written, "He that scat- tered Israel will gather him," and, again, "I will plant thein upon tbeir land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of thole land which I bare given them, seith the Lord thy God" (Amos ix, 9, 15; .Ter. 10). 3, "And becouse be was of the same craft he abode with them and wrought, for by their occupation they were tentmakers." Paul loved, when possible, to earn his own bread, ad he often testified that he • did so that he might not be Lk harden to any of them (I Thess. ii, 9; II Thess. 111, 8), He said to the elders of the church at Ephesus, "Yea, ye yourselves know that these hands have ministered unto any ne- cessities alai to them that were with rue" - (Acts a7.-, 34). 4. "And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sababti. and persuaded the Taws and the Greeks." He would talk on the same lines as at Thessalonica, showing from the Scriptures that Israel's Messiah had. to suffer and die and rise from the dead be- fore He could be the Immortal man an David's throne vvho bad been foretold, and that Jesus of Nazareth had fulfilled every predictiop coneerning the sufferings and &lab and resurrection and would cer- tainly in duo time fulfill every prediction coeceroing the kingdom and the glory . (Acts xvii, 2, 3; iii, 21). The church of today seems to think tbat many so called attractions are necessary to hold and win the people, but it is a fearful mistake. The gospel of God. concerning His Son Jesus Christ our Lord is enough. 5, "And when Silas and Timotheus were come front Macedonia Paul was pressed in the Spirit (R. IT. constrained by the word) and testified to the Jews that Jesus was the Christ." Be had left these two brethren at Berea when he had gone to Athens (chapter xvii, .1.4-15). But now they have joined bine, and ho must have been somewhat comforted by their coming. 0. Paul knew what sorrows wore, and he knew evliat nal comfort Wee, and it is fr0111 the heart that he speaks of God as "the Father of mercies and the God of all com- fort" (II Con i, 8). 6. "Your blood be upon your own heads. I am clean. From henceforth I will go unto the gentiles." TMs he said as they opposed him with blaspnenly, for our Lord Jesus bad taught that if the message of His servants was not received the servants were to wipe the dust off their feet as a testimony against them and pass on to those who would hear. When the gospel Is faithfully preached, the messengers are unto God a sweet savor of Christ in them Shat are saved and in them that perish (II Cor. ii, 15). • 7. "And he departed,thence and entered into a certain man's boosts, named Justus, one that worshiped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue." So wben one door is closed attother opens, and wbether it be just next door, as in this case, or across the street, or in some other city or town, or in some other land, the Spirit of God will. lead His people, and they have only to follow wherelle leadetb, with no desire but to becontrolled by HIM and to please Him. 8. "And Crispus, the chief ruler of the synagogue, believed on the Lord with all his house, and many of the Corinthians, hearneg, believed and were baptized." Cris - pus was one of the very few whom Paul bap- tized with his own band (1 Cor. 1, 14-16), for be said that preacbing the gospel was his commission rather than baptizing, not that he in any way made light of ordi- nances, but be emphasized that salvation depends wbolly -upon believing or receiv- ing Christ and not upon any or all of the ordinances. Neither baptism nor joining the churoh nor taking the communion can save or help to save a soul, but salva- tion is through thelbaished work of Christ alone without any possible addition. 9. "Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace." He said O the Corinthians in his first epistle, "X was with you In weakness and in fear and ID much trembling" (I Con mi, 3), so tbat there was some occasion for this special visit from his blessed Master and for this encouraging "Be not afraid." The eyes of the Lord are ever upon His people, for their good and to show His strength on their behalf (II Chron. xvi, 9). It neces- sary, He will send Gabriel or even a host of angels oa our bebalf. 10. "For I asn with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee, for 1 have much people in this city." It would seem that there were much disturbance, and probably threats of violence to the person of Paul. Of these be 'would not be afraid, for he had already been scourged and lin- prisoned and staued to death, but as the Spirit had recently been leading him on from city to city he might naturally think, ID the light of recent loadings, that he was again to move on; hence the Lord's spe- cial visit and message to hinn As parallel passages for our own strength and encour- agement note Ex. 111, 12; iv, 12; ,Joshua 1, 5; Judg. vi, 16; Isa, xli, 10, 18; :Ter. i, 8, 19; Hag. i, 13; ii, a; Gen, xv, 1; Math. xxviii, 20. The Lord's own "1 ain with you; fear not," is full of mighty comfort. 11. "And be continued there a year and Mx months„ teaching the word of God among them." He had but one theme, Jesus Christ of Nazareth, His life, death, resurrection and coming glory, but one book the Scriptures, and but one power, the Holy Spirit, Compare Acts xaiv, 14; xxvi, 22; xxviii, 81; then see I Cor. ii, 1-5. The Spirit will guide us whento go, and when to stay, and how long to stay. Ha will give us the words to speak, and He will do all the work convincing of sin and righteousness and judgment. It is oura to be fully. under His control for the glory of OW.