HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-8-5, Page 7NEW GOLD FIELDS.
'REMARKABLE DISCOVERIES IN
THE NORTHWEST.
Canada's Treasure Trove—Thousands Go-
ing to the Scene--Ditflettlties That Lie in
Way of Prospectors—Anaerleans Desert.
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Not for years has the poi/neer imagina-
tion on the Nortla 'Amerioan continent
been excited to the exteot that It now is
by the reports that the Klenclyke district
in the Northweet Territories is fabulous-
ly rich in gold. Everywhere people seem
to have been carried away by the gold
fever, and the magical word "Klondyke"
is be everybody's mouth, Short as the
'period is since the reports were first pub-
lished, hundreds of adventurous spirits
are already preparing for a trip to the
new Eldorado, iu order to share ite the
gold whioh is said to strew les rivers and
to be had for the mere picking up. And
in se doing they are unmindful of the
exhausting journey and the difficulties of
transportation, the forbidding climate,
.,and the scarcity a food; nor do they
reckon that perhaps starvation and death
rather than a rioh gold find may be
their lot,
The excite/a/0ot seems to be nore
term in -
1 the United States than in Can-
ada. The gold fever does not appear as
yet to have attaaked Canadians with the
same virulence, although the scene of
ethe discoveries is In Canadian territory.
'Ms is perbaps due to the fact that the
latter have not yet bad brongItt to their
own personal gaze credences of the
wealth of gold that the Kloodyke 'dis-
trict counties. The people of the Ameri-
can towels on theeddacille slope have,how-
ever, bad that expeeletco, with the ,inoet
exoiting results. From Seattle to San
Francisco the whole western coast is
ablaze with excitement. Forethis state of
affairs parties of miners who have just
returned from the Yukon country are re-
aponsible. Tbey have brought with them
wouderfel stories of the wealth to be
found in the oreeks of the Klondyke, and.
have produeed as proof in their state -
meets bags of gold evhich they sag were
gleaned from the sends and soil of that
country. The sums whioh these mines
are reported to possees vary in amount
from k^50,000 or $100,000 up to as high
as half a million. No wonder is it there-
fore that people are nearly mad -with
the desire to math this glittering coun-
try and share in its treasures, and that
the mania for gold is spreading to the
area centers of population. The effect of
the stories, as thus evidenced, has been
-to bring the public, mind to a state of
great exoitement.
"Are the reports concerning the Kion -
.dyke diggings well founded?" Is a quese
tion that may be asked. Undoubtedly
they are, to a very large extent, Mr.
Wm. OgIlvie,of the Dominion Geological
Survey, wbo has been engaged in ex-
ploratory and survey work in the Yukon
region for several years past, was one of
the nrst to draw attention to the fact
that the Canadian territory is rith not
only in gold, but in coal as well. Mr.
Ogilvie is not given to exaggeration, and
in various official reports he has borne
testimony to many startling discoveries.
It is probable that in their eagerness to
reach the Klondyke country many per-
sons will not pay sufficient attention to
the difficulties of making the journey
and of transporting supplies, whith are
enormous and of subsisting vhen once
the goal is reached. Very few, in facia
have any real conception of the trials
and hardships which stand in the way.
They are, however, suoh as to subject
the boldest heart and the most robust
'constitution to a severe test. .
SCENE OF THE ,DISCOVERIES.
Klondyke, or Klondak, as it is termed
by the miners, is the name of a river in
the Northwest Territories which empties
-into the Yukon river. The Iodian nanie
is "Tron-dak," or "cluile," meaning
"plenty of fish," from the fact that the
river is a famous salmon stream. The
Klondyke river joins tbe Yukon from the
-.east about 50 miles from Fort Cudahy.
Rich placer mines of gold have been
discovered on all the tributaries of this
stream. The mines on Bonanza oreer.
J ava made the greatest yield. The first
to locate on this stream was G. W. Car-
e:each, whowas-attracted to the locality
by the ' reports of Indians, and oora-
anenced work about the middle of Au -
g ist, 1896. Carmach IS married to an In-
dian wife, and was assisted in his work
by bis brother-in-law and another In-
nlian. As he was very short of appliances,
he could only put together a rather de-
eective apparatus to wash the gravel
-with. The gravel itself he had to carry
In. a bag. on his bank, from 80 to 100
'feet. Notwithstanding this, the three
men, working very irregularla, washed
out $1,200 in eight days. Had the men
possessed proper facilities, the work
-would have been done in two days, be-
sides
savino several hundred dollars of
gold, win( .1 was lost in the tailings
through defective apparatus. On the same
• -meek two Awn rooked out $75 in about
four hours, wed it is assorted that $4,008
were taken out by two others in two
days with _only two lengths of sluice
boxes. The reports of the rich finds soon
became noised about, They' were not
credited at first, because the Klondyke
had been prospected several trues with
no Oncouraging'resula The doubt did
not last long, however, and soon there
was a rush of prospectors from all the
country adjacent to Forty Mile and Cir-
cle City. These towns were seen alenost
,deserted, The gold disooveries showed no
signs of diminution, but grew as more
claims were taken up. Four or five other,
branches of the Bonanzaincluding. the
Eldorado end Tilly, were prospected
svah nizIgnificeut results, Valuable dis-
coveries mon also made on other
brooches of tillo Klonclylece pruned Bear,
Gold 13olom and Hunter creeks. Besides
theee, the Indians made remote of an
creels, called be' them "Too Much
Gold Creek " on .wlaich the gold was so
plentiful that, as nil/ miners say, in
joke, you would require to "mix gravel
with it to sluice it,"
SOME RICH YIELDS.
On some of these claims prosneeted,
according to etr. Ogilvie's report, the
yield was from ted up to $12 to the pan
of dust, This 'would nieen from $1,000
to $12,0000 per day per sluiciog. " On one
of the °Bonanza claims $14.25 was found
In a single pan or dirt. Tbis was, of
coarse, exceptional, but the average on
that claim was from $5 to $7, with five
feet of pay dirt, and the width undeter-
mined. At.9 to 10 p:ms to the cubic, foot,
and at a length of 500 feet, this would
mean nearly 84,000,000 at e5 per pan.
Enough prospecting has been ' clone to
NhoW that there ere at least 15 miles of
this exraordinary richness, and it is esti-
mated that there is from three to four
times that extent which, it not equal to
the foregoingis at least very eloh.
Placer prospeots on the Eldorado showed
some very extraordinary results. Among
the very earliest yields were three pans
on three different claims wbech turned
out $204, $212, and $216 In addition to
placer gold, quartz showing free gold in
payiug quantities has bee:located.
Inspector Strickland, who' commanded
the detaolmeent of Mounted Pollee which
has been stationed at Fort Cudahy for
the last three or four years, and who is
now on leis way to Ottawa reports that
last winter no less a sum than $1,500,000
was mined in the Inlondjek.e distriet. Be-
tween 0,000 and 5,000 persons are now lo-
cated there, and claims have been staked
which will afford emproyment for 5,000
persons. He anticipates that there will be
that number in tne district before the
close of next month, ,
GOLD IN OTHER SECTIONS.
But the gold discoveries are not con-
fined to the Klondyke 'district. Good pay
gravel has been found along Indian
creek, whioh joins the 'Yukon midway
between the Klondyke and Stewart riv-
ers. Good indications have been found at
the head of several branches of the Stew-
art river, further south. but want of pro-
visions prevented development. Now gold
has been found in several of the streams
joining the Polly river, and also along
the Hootalinqua, and in the same line
Miles, on foot. The lake gives a ride of
five or six miles, and then follows an-
other journey overland to the head netters
of Lake Bennell, whioh Is twenty-eight
miles long. Then comes a land journeY
to the Cariboo river, whieh furnishes
transportation for four miles to Tagish
lake, where another twentyamet miles
boat ride luny be had. This is followed
by a stretch of mountainous eountrY:
and then Marsh lake is reached. Tbere
is another boat ride of twentr-four miles,
and then down the creek for twenty-
seven reales to White Horse rapids. Tbis
Is one of tbe most clangeous places in
the entire route. The stream is full of
sunkeo rocks, and runs with the speed
of a mill race. Passing enhite Horse
rapids the journey Is down the river
thirty miles to Late Labarge, Where
thirty-one miles of navigable water is
fouucl, to Louis river. Then comes a 200 -
mile land journey to Fort Selkirk. At
this poipt the Pelly and Louis revere
come together, forening the Yukon.
From that point on it is practically
smooth sailing.
The miner who cannot start until Sep-
tember would be wise if he deferred his
trip until the following spring, as the
Juneau route in winter is very (Moult
and hazardoas.
PROVISIONS A.ND MONEY.
Whichever mate is ttleen the traveller
nesee to MYR tonple eash and all the
provisiooe he on take The man who
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JUNEAU °
According to the latest reports the
great find on the Klondyke gold fields
was made 1 tet summer, the riohn les of
the find caueina is rush from the nearby
gold fields in American territory, As
owe be seen frone the map, the new golcl
field is in British Amerioa, on the east
bank of the 'Yukon, evhich river crosses
the A,merican line near the mouth of
Forty -Mile creek. Both American and
Canadian surveyors agree as to this part
of the line at Forty -Mile. Running north
and south, the one hundred and forty -
Rest meridian mete through the gold
nelds that line Forty -Mile, Sixty -Mile,
and other near -by oreeks and their tribu-
taries. The great mass of the Yukon
gold fields lie therefore within United
.States territory, and tlae Klondyke find
is the first of any amount in Cnaedian
territory. The IJnited States geologists
are of the opinion that the greatest gold -
hearing ledges lie within the United
States territory, and as the entire por-
tion of the Yukon gold fields leas nardly
been worked at all, the Klonclyke find
may be repeated to the west of the one
hundred and forty-first parallel. Gold is
also fouled in the streams of the Kenai
peninsula, along Cook Inlet, and in 1896
there was a great rush to thief region,
which is wholly within United State
territory. At Kenai coal is found, end it
is believed the recent petroleum discover-
ies are located in the peninsula.
On the map the dotted line frcan
Juneau shows how the new gold ilolds
aro reached by land route, They can
also be reached by a long water journey
around to the mouth of the Yukon, and
up this great but shallow river,
is the Casair gold fled. The presump-
tion, according to Mr. Ogilvie, is that
there is in Canadian territory, along the
easterly watershed of the Yukon, a gold -
bearing belt of indefinite width, and up-
wards of 300 miles long, exclusive of the
British Columbia part di it.
THE ROUTES TO KLONDYKE.
There are two ways of reaching Rion -
dyke. One is by steamer from San
Francisco to the Alaskan coast, and up
the Yukon river; and the other is over-
land by way of Juneau and the Chilicoot
l'ASS. The latter is by far the more diffi-
cult and dangerous. The steamers leav-
ing San Franoisco run only to St. Mich -
eel's, at the mouth of the Yukon river.
There passengers are transferred to river
steamers, and carried a distance of 2,000
miles to,Daevson City. From there the
journey is comparatively easy. Ice begins
to bloole the mouth of the Yukon in" Oc-
tober, and the river route is not clear,
again until .Tune. The steamer Excelsior
leaves on her last trip to Alaska on the
281h July. She has already all the pas-
sengers she can accommodate, and they
will not reach Dawson City until Sep-
terebea 1st. The fare from San Fran-
cisco to Dawson City is $150, bub each
inan has to take his own supplies, which
cost him at least 8500 to transport. The
steamer Portland sails on August 15. No
further sallings have been announced.
Old hands who have been over the route
advise taking the Yukon route if it is
desired to acquire claims and get to
work before winter sets in. Nearly all
the work of thawing the frozen gravel
beds, and piling up dirt for the spring,
is done berms thee winter sets in.
TILE JUNEATJ ROUTE.
As the greater part of the accommoda-
tion on the steamers is already engaged,
most of those who intend, to go into the
Klendyke country this year will have to
follow the Juneau and Chilicoob pass
route. Juneau is some 60 miles from the
diggings, and 'the journey oeortpies 25
days., A great part of tle route lies eve
snowy 3:no/Detain passes. The traveller
needs thd services of Indian guides and
dogs and. sleds to transport his outfit and
provisions, if he goes at wintee time.
Dogs are reported to cost from $800 to
$600 eacb, bub this is probably .exag-
geeated. Mr. Oginne estineates that he
would require a team of eight dogs to
toner) Ids outfit and man, with provisions
for tbe tvvo, as far as Taiya. 'More the
dogs would have to be dispensed with, as
they are SVOTGInOSS OD the coast except to
persons coining in ettrly in the season.
Dogs were scarce when Air. Ogilvie was
there, and he considered them dear ae
from $30 or $40 to $125 opiece.
BY LAND AND WATER,
• During the open season the route to
be takou wooed be as follows: Leaving
Joneau, tile miners will go to Dyer by
way of Lime canal, and trona there to
Lake Lindennann, a distanee of thirty
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expects to go into that country armed
only with a pick and shovel, and dig for
gold. labors under a great delusion,
which will cost him dear if he makes the
experiment. Provisions are very scarce,
and sufficient provisions should be taken
to last eight or twelve months. The
traveller should start out with 400
pounds of flour, 100 pounds of beans, 100
pounds of bacon, 100 pounds of sugar,
10 pounds of tea, 30 pounds of coffee,
150 pounds of mixed bait, salt, pepper
and cooking utensils. The whole outfit
can be purelaased for about $90. The
oost of conveying this stock to the head-
waters of Lake Lindermann will average
about $15 per hundred pounds, but even
that makes it considerably cheaper than
some goods could be purchased for in the
mining camp.
PROMPT ACTION NEEDED.
Prompt action by the Dominion Gov-
ernment is needed to cope with the tre-
mendous influx of miners and pros-
pectors into the Klondyke region. So far
little or no steps for the protection of the
revenue bas been taken, and, in conse-
quence, the hundreds of Americans who
are pouring into the country are bring('
Ing in all their supplies and outfits free
of doby, thus causing a loss of thousands
of dollars to Canada. Unless the Govern-
ment acts immediately the interests of
Canadians will be injured. ,
Additional postal facilities are also
needed. The present arrangements for
transporting' such, if there are any, are
of the most inadequate and unsatisfao-
tory nature.
Some sort of legal machinery Is like-
wise needed for the tial of oases of con-
tract, collection of debts and generally
to administer the nediolal needs of the
country. This matter is urged by Mr.
Ogilvie with considerable force, and he
also recommends that the liquor traffic)
be taken hold of and regulated as other-
wise there will be trouble in the near
future; else, that a court or laced aloe
of reanestate transaction' be opened at
once.
Feathers.
As delicate looking as are 'feathers of
alight shade, they can be fresheueddand
cleaeed if only one knows now. The best
wayeis to dip them in waren water in
which white soap and a small piece of
pearl ash have been dissolved. Repeat
the process several times, squeezing the
feathers gently awl using a weaker solu-
tion of soap, and then rhea° them in cold
water and beat them across the hand to
expel the water. When neaely dry curl
each fiber eeparately with a blune knife.
Ire 11a,14 Violet Perfueite.
A violet pereenene may be made easily
by putting hale an °uncle of arrowroot,
broken into small pieces, in a bottle With
two ounces of deederized alcohol, Cork
tightly and shake well. After It has
been standing 4 or 5 days a few drops
placed on a handkerchief will lean° the
odor of fresh violets.
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GOWN GOSSIP.
Pretty parasols are made of silk, pat-
terned with peacock feathers.
GI1U20 emote of vegetable silk is one
of the on:eel's specietlties employed
largely in willioery.
Irish lace is very popular for Yokes
and epankt effeets oa foulard gowns
and is men in edging aid insertion as
Woll
Serpeut skin is a new trimming for
tailor nettle gamuts, aucl it is employed
for cuter, revers and tiny bands on the
olotb revers,
Fancy little bolero jaeleets are made
iff ern bum with a sailor collar across
the back, and elaborately embroidered
with gold thread.
Belts of plaid silk fastened with a
metal buckle are popular with English
women, and belts of every sort are a
pareicular feature of dress.
Fancy oxford ties with a patent
leather vamp and finish are made of
moire velours in various tints of green,
blue, dull red and brown.
Purses to match or harmonize with
the color of your costume are one of
fashioa's new whims, aud dainty pock-
etbook-, are made of nitinVe, green, blue
and blown leather,
Black china crape is very popular
for sunnner mourning costumes, and
while the real is very expensive the
imitation is reasonable 111 price and
looks almost as well.
Ruffs of obit -Ton lace and ribbon are
very fashionable in Paris, and they are
made bigh at the back, with long ends
in trout and a deep•flounce of chiffon
Amami the shoulders.
Red, v,thich is such a popular color
this season, needs great mire in enaking
a selection, as it is either very becone-
iug or very vulgar as it banuonizes or
is a diseertlant element in its effect on
the womau who wears it.
Every sort of bodice is worn this sea-
son, sut the round waist rather has the
lad. You can have a two inch hasque
effect below the belt or a bolero bodice
ending two inches above, and wide IN
narrow belts as they best suit the figure.
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TROTTERS AND PACERS.
Kate Medium, 2:1034, is 6 years old.
William Penn is reported Sick with
pink eye.
The pacer Chehalis, 2:073, recently
worked a half mile track in :10.
The Nutwood mare Nemetis, dam of
Neraoliue, 2:12, has an Axton foal at
foot,
..lalcolna, Ia., dates are .Aug. 24-27,
and there will be liberal purses for trot-
ters and pacers.
13. I', Kintlig of York, Pa„ has a fast
green mare by ...-1.rrowwoocl, sou of Nut -
Wood, he training.
Georgia H, 2104, is being cam-
paigned in the east by bat' owner, John
Francis, Fairfield, Conn.
John Payne is working Benton M,
2:10, very cavefully and is taking no
cbances with his game leg.
The .Ashland stake for 2:09 paoers to
be decided at the Lexington October
meeting bas no less than 40 entries. •
Splau will start Newcastle in the free
for ails on the 0. H. and D. circuit and
give exhibitions only with Lord Olio -
ton.
Judge Rice, 2:16%, is woileing very
smoothly for Richard Curtis and prom-
ises to be a much improved horse thie
summer.
H. L. Wiggins, Hillsboro, 0., has
been appointed supervisor for the Na-
tional Trotting association by President
Johnston.
MeVera is still in Lexingtou, Ky.,
in care of Gil Curry. He will be given
a fair chance to reduce hiseecord before
exportation.
The Bainbridge (Ind.) Dissociation
will give its annual meeting Aug. 2 to
6, instead of in July, as has been re-
ported in dates claimed heretofore.
Seventy 8 -year-olds are till eligible
to the Kentucky Futurity to be trotted
this fall, and in the 2 -year-old division
of the Futurity of 1898 74 colts and fil-
lies are still eligible.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The first paper mill in Germany was
set up in 1817.
The tnitecl States 13as produoed two-
thirds of the cotton consumed by the
world for the last 67 years.
In England 511 boys to 489 girls is
the normal proportion of bietles a year
to every 1,000 of the population.
Of the 400,000*Chiestian hymns that
have been written it is said that Charles
Wesley alone wrote 6,500 and Isaac
Watts 400.
In England of 1,000 persons 68 are
named Mary, 66 William, 62 John, 61
Eliza, 39 T.honme, 36 George, 36 Sarah,
38 Aune, 81 James and e3 Charles.
A Chinese woman cart 1.10Ver gratify
her vanity by leaving a photograph
taken of herself, ono of the ettenews of
the Celestials being that t 'ritual en -
kind nrost not be photographed.
Brandy, whisky, gin and Tinn made
in ken:many for coeso1nptim1 13 1
British colonies are offered for t..3 UntS
a dozen (mart bottles, delivered on
board at Run Li quart/ of tee same
maimeactuee are offeed au 4,w,35 a&iozeu
quaets.
PITH AND POINT.
The cheapest thime in the woeld is a
comp' in] con.
Evexybody has acquaietattees, but no
has frieucls.
The higher cherries grow on a tint,
the better they look.
Attempt to make reform
busihese and it ceaees to be ,e,l'eren,
Virtrin bag 'ItS Olyn but
travels ma a slow freigli.t tx ettion
there.
LATEST MARTMT XEPORTS.
Toronto, July 81-
BREADSTUFFS, ETC.
eeleen—Heavy buyiog of wheat at the
se:neonz iy feeigners,gave a strong tone
to wnott to -day% In Chiettgo it ran up
quick:1y to Mee for September, but
closeabout le off. The feeling in Mani
cote* le firmer, No. 1 bard is quoted at
env Port William, and 814c asked,
trece to derieh, Ontario wheat is quiet.
Red le gamed nominally at Ile, and
white at 7ec, One lot of ten cars new
wire: 4., wheav sold at 69c. August ship -
mem, meth and west freights.
tee ea—Tone firm Export enquiry
benne. Straight roller, in, wood, undale
freights, west, is. held at 23.30.
ellitreel—City mills quote $10 for bran
and .11 for shorts, ton lets at the mills.
tl.i11:naloafebhrearnta, awt essit,o.6aro. e "quoted Be
Outmeal—Quiet. (,ar lots of rolled
oats, in bags:. 01) betel< here, are quoted
at $3.10, ansmell lots at $3.30 per bbl.
Pet—Thirty ears peas, north and west,
were brought to -day at 43c.
Rye—Car lots are quoted, west, at 33o,
and etst at 34e.
enrol—Quiet White oats are quoted,
north and west, at 23o, and mixed at
2ee.
Corn—Car lots, Chatham, quoted at
etie bid nod e7c asked for yellow,
Bee kwbecet—Nomioal.
13a el en--Nomixial.
PRO DUCE.
Eggs—The market continues steady
shone no clutoge. Demand is fair. Ten
case lots of candled, stock sell at 9e/e,
and singles at 9%. to 10e.
Peu ley—Nominal, Quotations 1 or
brigla steak are: Turkeys, 10 to llo:
geeee, 8 to 9o; chickens, 40 to 600; and
doves, 50 to 80e,
notatoes—Sopplies better to -day. New
sold we 60 to 65o per bushel. Old are
out of the market.
Field Produce—Quotations are: Small
lotrt, t Ut of stere, turnips, 20s per bag;
parsuips, 40e per bag; and onions, na-
tive, $1,50 to $2, and Egyptians. 28.50
per eeek.
lieans—Hancl-pielted white beans bring
85o, 1. ss commission, for siogle bag lots.
Rouna lots sell. at 60c, less commission;
common beans sell at 35 to 45c.
Apples—Rather firm in tone. Dealers
quote emall lets, good stook bere, at 8e
for aried, and 44e for evaporated.
Ronen lots of evaporated, outside, will
bribe nee to 4c.
H'a'y—Slow. Quotations area6nec for
60-16. tiosnand 7 to 7,4c for 10-1e tins;
honey in combs is quoted nominally at
$1.41) to $1.40 per dozen sections; ton
lots of pure, strained, f.o.b., 5% to Oa,
delivered.
111.p1e nyrup—Quieb. Maple syrup is
quote 1 at 60 M 65c in largo tins, and 63
to 741..; in sn.all tins.
Bnl,d Hay—No. 1 new hay, on track,
is quoted at $8, and umnaged, $6 to
26.5>'. Old hay, choice, will bring $10.
Baled Straw—Slow. Car lots of oat
straw, on track, are quoted at 23 to $5.50.
DAIRY PRODUCE.
Butter—Demand for creamery for ex-
port is sbarp, and so much is being taken
far export that local prices have risen.
Pounds are now selling as high as lUe
for finest, and boxes as high as 18e.
Dairies are firm but unchanged. Local
commission house prices are as follows:
Dairy, tubs, 11 to 12340; large ciairy,
rolls, 12 to 14e; dairy, crocks and pails,
le to 130-; small dairy, eons, le to 14c;
dairy, pounds, prints, in ice, 14 to 15c;
creamery, tubs, 173fo; creamery, boxes,
1732 to 180; and creamery, pounds, 18 to
10e.
Choe'ese7Small lots of new makes sell
at9.
DRESSED HOGS AND PROVISIONS.
Light lean hogs are quoted at $6.75 to
$7, light fats at $6.50, and heavy at
$6.25. Meats unchanged but firm, Trade
is fairly good and offerbegs moderate.
Dry Salted Meats—Long, clear bacon,
car lots, 7%o; to lots, 79fo; case lots,
Sc; le/mks, 80.
Smoked Meats—Hams, hears., 11c;
medium 11% to 12e; light, 12 to Lenec:
breakfite bacon, 11 to 12o; rolls, 934c;
backe, 11 to 12e4c; picnic hams, 834 to
9e. All neats out of pickle le less than
prices quoted for smoked meats.
Lard—Tierces, 63o; tubs, ffeee; and
pails, 6ee'e; compound, 53 to -534c.
THE LIVE STOCK MARKET.
Toronto, July 81.—At the Western
cattle yards this morning we had a total
of 60 loads (including the unsold receipts
of yesterday), including 1,200 hogs, 700
houbs and sbeep, 100 Woe's; and 20
milkers. The ram:kat was in much better
shape to -day; prices of good cattle were
firmer, more was doing, e.nel by noon
about everything had sold.
The export trade was more brisk, with
steady prices for the best, Quotations
ranged from 4 to 434c, and occasionally
43.gc was paid for a load of extra choice,
though shippers did not care to give
aver 1e4.40 per 100 pounds, except the
indueement as to quality# was very
strong. However, trade was lively and
an early clearance was effeeted, while
more chuiee cattle would have found a
saIekt%11 the choice butther cattle here sold
early, and sold well, 3nee being about
the .op figure for lots, though 8Nea and
occanonally 40 was paid for selections.
Medium sold pretty well at around 30,
lint poor stuff dragged somewhat at
from 2% to 240 per pound, though it
all ultimately cleared. •
Hogs eenntin unchanged mad.firm. The
very best selections sell at 6c per pound
(Ion they have to be undoubtedly the
best to toneh this figure) Light hogs are
worn/ frem $0.130 to $5.60 per 100
punnets; for heavy hogs the price is $5;
for sows values raege from $8.5o to $8.75
per 100 pouncle; stags fetch 2 to 234e
pee pound. All grades will sell, except
Prot
N11.1 it, white new ............00 75
n mem red, per bush__ 00 74
ne , et. e t.,,o().,e, pet' bush.... 00 64
Pea, euinmon, per bush_ 00 46
Onto ;ler bo 00 27
It, per bus!) 00 33
linney, per bush__ 00 27
Duet sp rinu :r pair40 So
ettieeenh • I;Zt . • .... 30 50
Geese, per -16 OS 09
Butter, in 1-16. rolls 15 10
Eggs, 110W iata 00 10
00 25
85
10
10
1 50
171 00(0)
OS
4
awes, per bag..
Beaus, per
Beets, per duz 09
Parsnips, per doz 9
Apples; per 661..—... . 40
Hay, . . . 10 50
Straw, 50
.13eef, hinds.. ..... 6
8
Lanebs,, carnage, iier 16. '9i-, 10
Veen per lb.. .. . 6 7
Mutton per 16 5 7
Dreend hogs ... 5 50 • 7 00.
Mr. A/3(11,0w Carnegie has offered the
town of' Sterling, Seeteancl, six thousand
eteunds eor 0 Pilbho library building.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON VI, THIRD QUARTnR, INTER-
NATIONAL SERIES, AUG. 8.
Text of the Lesson, 1 ThesS. iv, 9,to v, 2.
memory Verses, 10-18 —Golden Text,
..Tohn XIV, 3-0:alimentary by the itev.
D. N. Stearree.
9. "13u1 es touching brotherly love, ye
need not that I write unto 'you, for ye
yourselves are taught of God to love one
another." The epistle le addressed to the
thumb of the Thessaloolaus in God the
Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, those
who, having heed the gospel, received the
word and turoed from their idols unto
God, to serve the living and true God and
to wait fax His Son from Immo, even
Jesus who delivered them from the weatb
to COMO (chapter 1, 1,e5, 6, 9, 10). He ex-
horts tbezo to wain' worthy of God, who
has called them to His leingdoin and glory,
and to seek. in all things to please Glod and
not man (chapters 11, 4; in 1). ,
10. "And indeed ye do it toward all the
brethren evbiele are in all Macedonia. But
-we beseech you, broth/to, that ye increase
more and more." There is always room
fer increase in love and in all the fruit of
tbe Spirit, for we can never manifest tbe
fruit as fully as Christ did, and yet He is
ear only example. Ine le ever seeking
much epare fruit, for no branch is bearing
all that It might.
11. "And that ye study to be quiet, and
to do your own business, and to work with
your own hands as we commanded you."
In a later epistle he said that if any would
not work neither should they eat (II
These. iii, 30). The word here translated
"study" (philotimeomai) is used only
three times. The other two places are Rom,
xv, 20; II Cor. v, 9. The late Dr. A. J.
Gordon loved 'et) call etention to the truth
that the word signifies "to be ambitious,"
or to use one's utmost endeavor to accom-
plish a thing, and that in these three pas-
sages we have it lawful threefold ambition.'
for every believer—viz, to mind orient own
business, be well pleasing to God, and
preach the nospel wbero Christ bas not yet
beenna,..Thelda.
n. ,
ye may
walk lionestly toward
tleem that are without, and that ye may
have lack of nothing." We are to provide
things honest in the sight of all men
(Boni. xii, 17), but we should take special
pains to be in every sense upright before
unbelievers, They will not read the Bible,
but they will clod do read people, and they
ought to be /Able to read soniethiog of the
Bible in the life of every Christian. One
Inc said that a Cledstiao ougin to be a
large print, clear type Bible that any one
can read easily. Such upright people can-
not lack any good (Ps. lxxxiv, 11).
13. "But I would. not have you to be
ignorant, brethren, coneeroing them which
are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as oth-
ers which have no bope." While teaching
them how to live on the earth as Chris-
tians the fact was ever before them that
some were passing away. Death was do-
ing bis oruel work. And tvbat about those
wbo die in the Lord? While Rev. xiv, 13,
has special reference to those who in the
days of the manifestation of Beards great
est power will rather die tem deny Christ,
yet it is always true, "Blessed arethe dead
who die in tbe Lord." There is the gain,
and the Tay ear better (Phil. i, 21, 23).
14. "For if we believe that Jesus died
and rose again, even so them also which
sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him."
To die is mein, and to be with Christ is
far better. But that is not the wnole of it,
fax after the resurxection of the righteous
all the saints are coming back with Tedre
when He comes to judge the nations, save
Israel and begin His reign on earth.
15. "For this we say unto you by the
word of the Lord that we which are alive
ana remain unto the coming of the Lord
shall not prevent them which are asleep."
Then. V. says in the last clause of this
verso, "Shall in nowise precede them that
are fallen asleep." Rotherham says that
we shall "in nowise get before" them
which are fallen asleep. It would seem.,
that the Christians thought that their
friends who had died bad lost somewhat
by nob being allowed to remain until the
Lord should come, but the assertion here
is very emphatic that those who are alive
on tbe earth evleen Christ shall come shall
have no advantage over those who have
died in Christ, and who have been some
time absent tram the body and present
with tp, eLrotrhde.
16. Lord Himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout, with the voice
of the archangel and with the trump of
God, and the dead in Christ shall rise
first." As at the first coming of Christ,
in humiliation to Boiler and die and rise
from the dead, there were many events
covering many years, at least 88, so at
His second coining to reign thee will be
many everts covering many years. The
coining with Him of verse le and chapter
iii 18, aod Rev. xix, 11-16, is the last
stage of His second coming and must be
preceded by the events of verses 16,17. He
cannot befog us with Hine until He gets
us all with Him.
17. "Then we wince/ are alive and re-
main their be caught up together with
them in the clouds to meet theLord in the
air, and so shall we ever be with the
Lord." I like to fancy this as actually m-
e/ming, and often say to my many con-
gregations, "Lotus now imagine it tak-
ing place." The Lord Himself, not an
angel, nor the Holy Spirit, Inn this same
Jesus (Acts i, 11), shall leave the right
hand of the Father and descend to the air.
Like a iniglity magnet He Neill attract to
Himself all thus/mothers of His body. Thc
dead in Christ shall rise. They who have
been with Him absent from the body shall
roinbabit their bodies risen from the grave
end made Ike unto His glorious body,
18. "Wherefore comfort one another
with these words." I think there is no
other verse jost like this in the Bible. In
Ism xl, 1, 2, the propbet 15 told to bore/fort
Jerusalem and Israel, and it is in comae-
tiOD with the coming of the Lord. In II
Cor. i, 8, 4, the. God of all comfort com-
forts us that we may oomtort others with
elm comfort, whatever it is. But here are
blie oozy words with whicb we two to com-
fort those who are bereaved. We are not
to say, like David, I shall ,Yo to them, but
they callliat come 101110 0% the contrary,
we am to think of the possibility of then,
being with as in thole reserrection bodies
any moment, and We instantly chan,end
and caugbt away with them to meet and
be forever with the Lord ('y 1 2) "But
of the times and the seasons, brethren,
ye bare DO need that I wen° unto you,
for yourselves know perfectly that the
day of the Lord so cometh as a thief
in the night." Be now passes to an
01601 topic, oe rather another phase of
our Leci's second coming. We do not
know of any event ehat must necessardy
intercom between the present 'moment and
the taking away of tile church, But be-
fore the coming of Cbrist with His saints
there must set in more fully the great
apostasy, and be manifested the man of
do referred 10 10 II These. ii, 1-4.