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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1897-9-16, Page 301111 ()TTAVA LITIER. HARDY AGAIN TRYING TO H000 - WINK THE ELECTORS. Trouble in the Dominion Cabinet-afardy Wants to bo I.tetttenant-Governor—Cart- Wright and Annexation. [From Our Own Correspondent.] Ottawa, Sept. 7.—One of the assertions made by the leaders of the Hardy -Ross Government is that the oalibre of the Ontario Opposition is light. The men who sit on the treasury beucbes in the Ontario House arrogate to themselves the possession of all the brains under its roof. So far do they go in this belief that their followers are not permitted to think, muoh less to speak, for themselves. The Ministers monopolize three-fourths of the speaking from their side of the chamber, while their supporters sit ready to applaud vigorously when the leader gives the signal. The results of the tour of Mr. J. P. Whitney have shown that the Opposition possesses speakers who are inferior to none in Can- ada. Of course, when a Government is so vulnerable as Hardy's, when it has been guilty of so ]navy errors, both o2 omission and commission, it Is by no means difficult for its opponents to arraign it, but the manner in which the obarges against it are presented may have a strong effect on audiences. Messrs. Whitney, Matheson, Magwood, St. John, Misoarpbell and the other Conservative stalwarts, bave shown us that there is plenty of excellent Cabinet material in the ranks of the Opposition. Mr. Hardy visited Markham last week and here made an impassioned appeal to the yeo- men of East York to stand by his Gov- ernment, Be - told bis hearers once more tbat a surplus existed, and asserted that, though the Government • annually runs behind to the extent of $400,000 a year, the finances of the Province are in a satisfactory epndition, Of course, Mr. Hardy's statements were received with loud applause by Candidate Riobardson, Liberal Organizer Smith and the other camp followers who were on the plat- form. In the body of the hall tbere was an ominous silence. The people of On- tario have taken to looking into Mr. Hardy's assertions, and they have found that there Is not all the evidence that could be desired to bear them out. While at Markham the Premier made a defence of his friend Israel Tarte, who, he said, was an honest man. Mr. Hardy said nothing about the million dollar steal which Tarte tried to railroad through Parliament lest session, and he was silent concerning the purchase of La Patrie out of the funds of the Liberal party. Hardy has been promised Tarte's A aid in the Doming election, and has done bis best to induce the people to believe that this bright and deserving patriot is a maligned man. In the meantizne Mr. Tarte is having a most unpleasant time of it'with bis fellow Liberals in Quebec.. Ald. Beaulsoliel, the Liberal member for Berthier, Quebec, is after a Cabinet job. He knows certain things about Tarte which have not yet been made publio, and he has ;told them to Sir Wil- frid Laurier, The result is that Tarte has been asked for an explanation by his lender and bas been given time to pre- pare his defence. Mr. Tarte is wild with rage. He is running around the streets of 'Montreal buttonholing bis friends and aso ring thein that if be is thrown out of The Liberal craft the whole ship will go down. Tbe anti -Tarte faction contin- ues to regard its enemy as the party's Jonah, and to call for his retirement. Another of Tarte' plans—that of getting rid of Sir Henri Joly, has gone astray. Sir Henri is a mild -tempered old gentle- man who loves honesty and hates Tarte. As soon as he found that the Min ster of Public Works bad booked him for decapi- tation he announced that he would not desert his portfolio. Sir Henri is a man of his word, and Tarte will experience much trouble in getting him out of the Cabinet. The Freeph-Canadian Ministers and Liberal members detest Sir Henri. Their objection is not political, but re- ligions. Sir Henri is a Presbyterian, al- though he is a Frenchman. His Protest- antism is hateful to his fellow French Liberals, and they would be delighted if he were compelled to leave the Govern- ment. Froin a rather close acquaintance with the oid gentleman, I feel quite sate in prohpe,.ying that he will not leave the Government just yet. It ,was intimated to him that be could have the Lieuten- ant -Governorship of Quebec if he so desired, but he declined, Hardy Wants to be Lieutenant -Governor. Talking of Lieutenant -Governorships, one is reminded that Hon. A. S. Hardy is very fearful for the future of his Gov- ernment, so fearful that he has extracted from Sir Oliver Mowat a promise of the reversion of the Governorship of Ontario. It is evident that Mr. Hardy still retains bis aversion to hard work. For .nearly twenty years he bas lived on the people of Ontario. He is a lawyer, but be never practiced for more reasons than one. He has been a professional politician all his life, and now, after having drawn $4,000 a year tor a clet+ade and a half, for work that did not keep him occupied for three months in the year, he desires to be paid $10,000 a year for doing nothing. Hardy is a lazy nzan. In. a lower station in life men Like hini, men who desire to live well without working, are sent to gaol. Hardy wants Government House, Te- rmite. o-roi te. He believes that he bas a prescrip- tive right to live off ,the people. He will find, within a few months, that his fat years have gone, and that he is compelled to "get out and hustle" for himself. Sir Oliver, in order to oblige his old friend, and Wicked Partner, promised him the Ontario Lieutenant -Governorship, but, I bear, Sir.Wtlfrid has declined to con- firm the arrangement. Mr. J. R. Kerr, !who has boon a defeated Liberal oandi-. l•date several times, andwho was a dis- tributor of "inducements" away .back is i1:'78, has put in his application for the. E job. Mr. Kerr was a rich man once upon • a time, but now things are - not,, going so well with him. His claim is muoh stronger than Mr. Hardenie is. The Pre- inlet of Ontario has been drawing a big t. doubtless has done so. Let us hope that he has, for as a barrister he never was a startling success.. I. am told that at one time be oast longing eyes towards a seat in the Ottawa Cabinet, but Sir Oliver Mowat speedily put his foot down on the scheme. As a matter of fact, Hardy would bring no strength to. the Lawler Government. Like Fielding and I3luir, be is a cunning, unscrupulous and small man. His political views are muoh con- tracted. He is muoh inferior to Sir Richard. Cartwright, who is the only statesman, in the Cabinet; he is on a par with the cross-roads politicians. Ho will never be a bigger man than he is now'; on the contrary, he is going to shrink into insignificance. Cartwright and Annexation. Sir Richard Cartwright, aided by Ed- ward Ferrer and The Globe. is doing his best to secure a more important portfolio. Tha old man, as I have said, is able, erudite, eloquent. He is also erratic, poor in judgment and tainted with annexa- tionism. It was Sir Richard who, with Falter, Wiman, Laurier and Dana, of the New York Sun, set the ill-starred Commercial Union boom on its way. These men really believed that the inter- ests of Canada mere in the Hue of annex- ation. Sir Richard still believes in annex- ation. His friends know that he holds that Canada is living artiflcally. His friend Ferrer has been an out-and-out annexationst for years. Sir Wilfrid, Laur- ier recently has become a modified Im- perialist, although in this, as in bis other political views, his opinions are largely influenced by geography. In Britian a few months ago he took off his hat to Greater Britain. In Quebec he told his Frenoh-Canadian hearers that he was the French Premier oe what was pracblo- ally an independent country. His old friend, Honore Meroier, wanted a French-Canadian republic on the banks of the S. Lawrence. Laurier's opinions and hopes tend that way when he ad- dresses a French-Canadian audience. When he is in Ontario, of course, he is super loyal, The Union Jaok is revered; the French tricolor is forgotten; the stars and stripes were never beard of. Aud Ibis is the man who, a few years ago, "Looked to Washington." Laurier, how ever, is smart enough to know that Sir Richard is still a follower of the mam- mon cf annexation, and Laurier will see to it that the old man is kept in a subordinate position. At the present time it is unhealthy to be an annexation- ist in Canada, Even Frank Pedley, who once was the bosom friend of W. D. Gregory, the secretary of the defunct Toronto Continental Union club, has become" loyal—and has been made Com- missioner of Emigration at $1,800 a year. Thus is this patriot rewarded. To even things up, Annexationist Farrer bas been given a Government job, and Alf. Jury, who once announced that Canada was "a country fit for only bears and wolves to live In," has been made an emigration agent. Thus the erring are being brought into the fold, while those who never strayed are sent empty away. No wonder the oid-line Liberals like McMullen, Landerkin, Somerville and Lister are kicking themselves. They spent their time and money for their party and now they find that the Field- ings, the Blairs, the Jurys and the Far, rers get the fat things, while they, to use a vule risco, gat the laugh. Saving From Drowning. A boy or girl never knows. at what moment he may be called upon to save the life of a friend from drowning, espec- ially in thew days of swimming and boating. He should therefore prepare for the emergency by practicing life-saving devices every time he goes in swimming. .A little calmness of mind and a very little skill will, often serve to sustain a sinking swimmer until help may come. One of the methods used by the Eng- lish life-saving service may at first sight Took difficult, but it is one of the sim- plest and easiest of all the methods. It is necessary, of course, that the boy who saves a person in this way be able to swine easily and readily on nis back. Any boy who can swim in the regular way with the deep under stroke can learn in half an hour to turn and swim on his back, and he will find It muoh easier and more restful than the ordinary method. Indeed, he will find that he can keep himself afloat merely by paddling gently with his hands, allowing bis legs to lie entirely still. In effecting a rescue the drowning per- son should turn or be turned on bis back and the swimmer should grasp him lightly at the back of the neck with one hand. Both should lie as deep in the water as possible, and the swimmer can then propel himself with bis feet and one hand. Of course this method would not work where the drowning person was frantic with fright, although if such a person can be sustained until he be- comes unconscious he may then be easily towed to safety. Next time you are in swimming try this method with some other boy acting as the drowning person. You will be astonished to see how easily he may be dragged through the water. Making Celluloid. Though the chemical constitution of celluloid is a matter of doubt, the art of manufacturing this peculiar modern pro- duct is explained in a few words—an article made by the combined action of pressure and heat, or with the aid of solvents, in that case in the cold, says the Trade Journals' Review. The cam- phor is dissolved in alcohol, as little as possible, and the solution sprayed through a rose on to the pyroxyline, the latter perfectly dry, a second layer of pyroxline being then added, moistened again with camphor solution, and so on; the gela- tinous lump is worked between iron rol- lers, to which it adheres, and the layer is slit longitudinally and rolled again. The cakes, 0.4 inch thick., are out into plates, about two feet by ono foot, and pass for twenty-four hours into hydrau- lic Dresses, which aredoubly steam jac- keted, The mass is now sawed into plates, which are dried at about 95 de- grees Fahrenheit for a week or two, and finally out into smaller pieces, from. which the articles are stamped. Further, according to a writer in the Gummi Zei- bung, the method pursued is believed to * onsist in pouring 100 parts of ether on 50 of collodion ' of and 25 of camphor, the covered mase being , then stirred in earthenware vessels with rubber sticks until a homogeneousgelatinous mass is obtained, and then rolled. Apart from dyestuff and other additions, the average celluloid oonsists of two-thirds pyroxyline and one-third camlihor. Proved His Charge. "What's the matter now?" asked the leading actor as the manager tore a let- ter to shreds and stamped Ms feet. "Matter? . That performance of yours. is so infernally bad that this person salary for two decades. He has :had -demands that his name be stricken from plenty of opportunity to save money; and the free list I"—Detroit Free Press. INSPECTOR WALSH. Recently Appointed Administrator of the 7iukon District. Inspector Walsh, who has accepted the post of administrator of the Yukon dis- trict,, served many years in • the North- west Mounted Police, retiring four years ago. Under his management the Eastern division of the Mounted Police did mag- nificent service ',during the troublous times following the Sioux outbreak, and when Sitting Bull,.at the head of 3,000 braves, sought refuge in Canada from the United States troop The Dominion Government detailed Major Walsh to eiA3-0R WALSH. seize Sitting Bull, a duty which was both difficult and dangerous. Accompanied by only two troopers Major Walsh entered the camp, told the chief that he must accompany him, and emerged from the camp with bis prisoner in charge. Sub- sequently the United States Government pardoned Sitting Bull and he accom- panied Buffalo Bill through Europe. Major Walsh was in command of a divi- sion of the N. W. M, P. during the re- bellion of '85 and was specially mention- ed in despatches. His salary at the Yu- kon will be 25,000 per year. en, Dodging There. He had put in three days at the Sum- mer resort when his indignation became so great that be called for his bill and said to the landlord:— "I believed you advertised magnificent scenery up here?" "Yes, sir, I did," was the prompt reply, "With good fishing in the lake?" "And pure air and no mosquitoes?" "That's it, sir. That's the way the advertisement reads." "And flies unknown?" "And flies unknown." "And you guaranteed the location free from malaria?" "Yes, sir, I did." "And, sir," continued the guest, "you advertised that your table was unsur- passed, your rooms large and airy, and that everybody would be made to feel at home." "Exactly, sir. Yes, all that is in my advertisement. Is there anything wrong, sir?" "I should say there was: Where is the scenery?" "There is none in particular." "And the fish?" "Never knew of one being caught here." "And there are thousands of flies and mosquitoes." True, sir—true." "And your table is poor, your rooms stuffy, and there's nothing home -like about the place." "That's true, sir—all true." "Then you admit that you lied about it?" asked the guest. "Ob, is tbat what you are getingat?" replied the landlord. "Why, of corse of course. Fest sir, I lied about it, and I'd have told you so half an hour ago if you'd mentioned it. Yes, sir, I'm a liar, and your bill is $7.50. Shall be glad. to have you stay longer next season." How It Feels to be Blown Up. "I supopse that one of the most excit- ing episodes of my Iife," remarked Gen. Dudley Avery some time since, "was during a thunder -storm a number of years ago on Avery's Island, when 10,- 000 pounds of dynamite exploded. It was a most extraordinary happening, and the most remarkable thing of the affair was that I lived to tell the tale. I was in the vicinity ofthe building in which the dynamite was stored, and when the storm came on I took shelter under a shed which was some distance removed from the explosive and which was used as a blacksmith shop by a man who was employed in this capacity, and who served with me during the War, and at the battle of Shiloh. We were chatting together when I felt a shock, and then, to my surprise, I saw the blacksmith go- ing un in the air. I watched him pass through the roof of the shed, but the man, who, by the way, was an Irishman, did not seem to get any further from me. Then I realized that I was going up, too. I suppose we must have ascended for 30 or 40 feat, and then we came down with a rush, reaching the earth a little disfigured and with lungs in a state of collapse. When we caught our breath the Irishman remarked between Ms gasps that a little thing like that couldn't scare us, as we'd both been in explosions before. He was wounded bad- ly, however, while I escaped with a few scratches. We found upon owning dawn that the lightning bad exploded the 10,- 000 pounds of dynamite. Where the storehouse bad stood there was a hole In the ground about 80 feet deep, and with a diameter of fully 60 feet, shaped like a funnel. Trees in the vicinity were burned black, and an oak tree 2 feet thick that had stood 20 Meet from,the building was blown into shreds so fine that not a vestige could be found. I have been afraid to go near dynamite ever since." Tho Revised Version. "What is your new painting called?" " 'The Gleaner'." "Ah, a young girl with a siokle and a bundle of grain?' "No; an elderly girl with a flat pocket- book and an armful' of bargain dry goods." To the. Disconsolate. If at firstyou don't succeed, try some other plan;` don't' . give up ;and don't do wrong, but try to be a man. If you still,. cannot succeed when you've really tried, then it might be well enough to tackle suicide. RUM DEGENERATES. Nearly A.;1 Drunkards Have Drinking Parents or Grandparents. All authorities agree that from 60 to 80 per cent, of all inebriates have drinking pareuts or grandparents. In very large number of oases the ancestors were excessive users of spirits and poi- soned to the extent of intoxication often. '.While it is difficult to explain exactly what Is transmitted to the next genera. tion and what auditions make the chil- dren of inebriates more pertain to use spirits, there is one general taut over- looked is all these cases—that is, family and race degeneration. Certain families are dying out, and the use of alcohol in the ancestors pre- cipitates death and extinction.. Other families have reached a level from which they cannot asoend and from slight. causes deteriorate. Moderate drinking or intemperance of any form sends them down. The union of two families on the descending scale is certain to be followed by degenerates, both physical and men- tai. Tbe children of inebriates are always of an exhausted raoe, rushing down to extinction. Marriage with a robust race ascending in the scale of evolution and growth may halt this decline, and in the next gener- ation bring them back to a level from which ascent may begin again. Marriage with a race already declining is often followed by great fecundation or barren- ness. In ono case a numerous family follows, as if nature aere making a su- preme effort to keep alive the family ty multiplying the numbers. In the other case the births are few and of low vital- ity, dying out early. These 60 to 80 per Dant. of all inebri- ates are the dying remnants of families and races, They have long ago passed the levels of growth and development and are on the down track to dissolution and extinction. The parents by alcoholic• poisoning have lowered the rape stook in vitality, beyond the power of ascent or possibility to rise above and overcome this downwaztd tendency. Such parents not only destroy themselves, but out off the race from which they sprung. It is a rule to which there are few exceptions, that extinction follows in the third gen- eration from inebriate parents. In the exceptions, fortunate marriages, sur- roundings and conditions of living have checked the dissolution and started the race back to higher levels.—T, D. Cro- thers, M.D., in Union Signal. T'mpe ranee Notes. A jag of whisky costs more than a jag of wood.—Ram's Horn. The deau of the medical department of the Syracuse university disapproves of alcoholics and Is following the lead of the famous Sir Benjamin Ward Richard- son. New cures for alcoholism probably help the victims along for awhile, but after all the only sure cure is the old re- sort, which consists merely of a strong injection of will power.—St. Louis Re- public. A workingman tried to pawn his Bible for . liquor, but was refused. "Well," said be, "If they won't take my word or G.d's, it's time to give up the drink," And he signed the pledge and kept it.— Lever. Politics is the art of finding where people are and getting with them as soon as possible; statesmanship id the art of fleeing where God is and remaining with Him until your minority of one comes to be a majority of many.—Rev. F. W. Guusaulus . Thu editor of the Commercial Journal of Chicago says: "Tbe fortifying of wines in Europe with beet rootand po- tato spirit has ruined the wine trade there and made wine -growing countries,. wind, used to be the most temperate and sober on earth, the most drunken." A thousand smallpox hospitals in every state would not so endanger the health and the lite of the people as does the saloon. A thousand lotteries in every state would not so thoroughly corrupt the morals of the people as does the pres- ence of the saloon.—rational Temperance Advocate. Lady Macdonald, widow of the late Premier of Canada, was asked: "Did you not set out wine when you enter- tained the Marquis of Lorne?" She re- plied: "Never." She was asked if she did not apologize. "Certainly not," was the answer; "wine zs not a natural beverage and should rather come in than go out with apology." The Union Sigual calls attention to the fact that Chicago's city council has seen lit to reduce the license of wholesale liquor dealers, and then signifioantly acids: ";meanwhile the tax on water re- mains the same." Sir William Vernon Harcourt is said to have been converted to total abstin- ence by his wife, a daughter of John Lothrop Motley, the American historian. Giant Ivy. At Ivy House, Linton, near Skipton, England, there is an ivy plant which measures two feet eight Indies in circum- ference, while from the stem or trunk extend two large branches, a girth of each being two feet eight inches. Ivy flourishes in Ayrshire, in Scotland, and at Loudoun Castle there is an ivy plant that has climbed to the top of an ash tree seventy feet in height, and which measures three feet in girth a foot above the ground, In a sheltered nook in a sea -cliff near Maybole is another ivy plant, also three feet in circumference a toot above the soil, and which at a height of four and one-half feet is twenty- six and one-half inches. It has grown to the top of the cliff, fifty-five feet, and its dense foliage ooyers sixty-six feat of the rock fade. Clinging to the ruined wall of Dundonald Castle is an ivy plant wbose stem has a girth of two feet above the root. Pinrapple Sweet Pickles. This requires 2% pounds of sugar, a pint of vinegar and half a cupful of whole spiee to every 4 pounds of shredded fruit. The spines should be stick cinna- mon, cassia buds, allspice and cloves, tied in a bag. Boll all together and. skim before adding the fruit. Cook until teen - t er, skim out and put into stone jars, pouring over the syrup after it has cooked an additional five minutes. Tbe next morning d'ain off the syrup and cook another fire minutes and pour . back boiling hot, Repeat this three mornings, the last time packing the piolelo in aie- tight jars. His View of It. The Cashier -I saw something* O. no paper the, other day that would Jere you. A boarding has been umeteteesi Pompeii, still covered with the e i t a - azunts posted there 1,800 renal The Advertisement' Carreto, no' doubt they advertises; for Me Vp. LATEST MARKET REPORTS. Torgnto, Sept. 18. BREADSTUFFS, ETC. Wheat—Markets across the border were all firm to -day, and locally the tone was strong. For good sound . red wheat, any place west, 90o was bid freely. White is less desirable, owing to. the sprouting. Manitobas were strong. For No. 1 hard,.new, afloat Fort William, $1 was hid, and old was quoted at $1.03.. 010 is pretty well picked up. Flour—Firmer. Millers generally want $4.50 for straight roller, middle freights. west, but there are some offerings at less money. It is quoted nominally at 84.85 Millfeed—Car lots of bran, middle freights west, are quoted at $8 and shorts at $11.50 to $12.50. Oatmeal—Car lots of rolled oats in bags. on track here, are quoted at $3 to $3.10. Peas—Firm and scarce. Car lots, north and west, are worth 48o, and middle freights 490. Oats—Roller firmer. White are quoted at 24c, north and west, and mixed at 23o. Rye—Firm. Car lots west are held at 44c, and east at 46o. Corn ---Steady. Car lots, Chatham, quoted at 80e. Barley—Firmer. Odd oars of feed barley are quoted at 24 to 25c. north and west. PRODUCE, Eggs—Remain steady. Dealers bave been complaining of the quality of the eggs of late, the condition of some of them indicating that they bad been held. The present hot weather may have an injurious effect on stook. Ten -case lots are hard to sell at 12320; single oases are quoted at 18o; No. 2 stook is sold around 9 to lle. Potatoes ---Market in a little better shape, but nothing to bold out any in- ducements. The stook coming in is bad. Dealers quote bags at 85 to 50c, Poultry—Nothing doing. Quotations for bright stock are: Turkeys, 10 to ilo; geese, 8 to 9o; chickens, 40 to 50o; and ducks, 50 to 70c. Beans—Steady. Hand-pioked white beans bring 85 to 90e for single -bag lots. Round lots sell at 75 to 800. Common beans sell at 50 to 600. Apples—Little movement. Dealers quote small lots of good stook here at 4 to 5o for dried, and 5 to 6o for evapor- ated. Honey—Difficult to effect sales, Round lots of ehoice, delivered here, will bring 6o. Prices are as follows: 6 to 7o for 60 -Ib, tins, and 7 to 7%o for 10 -lb. tins; honey in combs is quoted nominally at $1.40 to 21.50 per dozen sections, Maple Syrup—Maple syrup is quoted at 60 to 65c in largo tins, and 65 to 700 in small tins. Baled. Hay—Demand light. Choice oar lots, on track, are quoted at $9; No, 1. at 25.50; No. 2 is slow. Baled Straw—Slow. On track oar lots are quoted at $5 to $5.50. DAIRY PRODUCE. Butter—Has been arriving in ,ppoor condition the last few days, owing to the hot weather. In consequence dealers here are advising shippers to hold for more favorable weather. Prices for best quali- ties remain steady, Local prices are as follows: Dairy, tub, poor to medium, 8 to 10o; do., choice, 11 to 18c; large dairy, rolls, 11 to 120; dairy crooks and pails, 11 to 12o; , small dairy, rolls, choice, 14 to 15e; creamery, tubs, 17 to 18c, and creamery, pounds, 18 to 19e. Cheese—Easier feeling, although no quotable change in the market. Buyers and sellers seem to have been apart at the majority of the board meetings. Dealers locally quote 931 to 10o. DRESSED HOGS AND PROVISIONS. Trade has been active in provisions, especially for the heavy class of meats. Demand is principally for lumbermen's supplies. Dressed bogs hold steady at around $7.50 for small lots on the street. Dry Salted Meats—Long clear baoon, car lots, 8ee,c; ton lots, 9o; case lots, 93/c; backs, 934c. Smoked Meats—Hams, heavy, 11%0; medium, 123to; light, 18c; breakfast bacon, 123 to 18c; rolls, 11c; backs, 12 to 123_c; picnic hams, 931 to 10o. All meats out of pickle lc less than prices quoted for smoked meats. Lard—Tieroes, 631 to 6%0; tubs, 6 a to 7c; and pails, 7 to 7eac; compound, 534 to 5ec. THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS. Toronto, Sept. 13.—At the Westerf Cattle yards to -day we bad all told close on 100 loads of stuff on sale, including 1,250 lambs and sheep, 1,200 hogs, less than 50 calves, and about one dozen milkers. There is a lull in the export trade, and sales were slow this morning, while prices remain nominally unchanged at from +4 to $4.50 per 100 lbs. Though sales bragged, all the stuff was cleared. In butcher cattle trade was brisk, and choice sheep sold at 831 to 8 7-8c per Ib., with a demand for more than we had here. Choice cattle sold at 334o per Ib., medium at from 8 to 8yeo, and inferior stuff around 231 to 2 7-8c Per lb. There was a fairly good clearance by the close of the market. Really good butcher cat- tle was scarce, and we bave a steady enquiry for more butcher cattle of the right sort, and if it comes along good prices may be depended on. The supply of stockers was large, the receipts from the east being unusually heavy. Choice sbookers are wanted at from 8% to 8aec per lb. There is also a demand for bulls. Ex- port bulls fetch from 831 to 834c per Ib., with a demand at 4c for anything really worth the price. All here sold. Dillw cows are soarce, and ohoioe are wanted. Cows sold to -day at from $25 to $45 eaoh. Hogs are quite nnohanged and steady; in feet, the market is firm, and to -day's prices will prevail next Tuesday. Wbeaa, white new 80 85 Wheat, red, per bush 85 90 el 1 eat, goose, per bush78 79 Peas, common, per bush48 a 49 Oats, per bush.... 27 28 Rye per bush.... 4:8 b0 Barley, per bush 27 28 Duoks, spring, per pair40 80 Chickens, ear pair 30 50. Geese, per lb... : 08 09 Butter, in 1-1b. rolls 15 16 Eggs, new laid... .00 10 Potatoes. per bag...... 00 25 aseaus, per 'mesh ........... 'Iii 86 -'3,re re,..per doz 09. 10 Pt, t',nips, per doz 9 10. ti nizles. per bbl 40 1 50. . Lay, timothy 800:' 1000 to a, eneaf 750" 800 ;Inds 6 08 f'jres 3 4 ctrcase, per la... 9t 10 •: lb 6 o::, per 1b. ,.. 5 7 Dee out 'tones 7 85' 7 50 THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. LESSON XiI, THIRD QUARTER, INTER- NATIONAL SEFRIES, SEPT. 19. Text of the Lesson, Acts xx, 22 -35 --Mem- ory Verses, 22 -24 -Golden Text, Acts sr.' 35 —see mentary by the Rev. D. 1111. Stearns.. 22. "And now, behold, I go bound : in the spirit unto Jerusalem, not knowing the things that shall befall me there." After the uproar at Ephesus Paul went to Macedonia and Greece, then returned through Macedonia to Asia, and, aiming, if possible, to be at Jerusalem by Pente- test, be tarried a little at Miletus and sent to Epbesus for the elders of the oburoh to wme and see bim. Our lesson is part of his address to these elders. He reminded. them that, serving the Lord with all hu- mility and in many trials, he bad both. publicly and privately taught both Jews and Greeks repentance toward God and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ. 23. "Save that the Holy Ghost witness- eth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me." The Lord had said to Ananias, "I will sbew him .how great things he must suffer for bay name's sake" (Acts ix, 16), and He said to the apostles, "In the world ye shall bave tribulation" (John xvi, 88), 24, "But none of these things move me," He thought of nothing but of magnifying Christ (Phil. 1, 20), ready to be bound and imprisoned and to die for the name of the Lord Jesus, if thus God would be more glorified (Acts xzi, 12). Be was intrusted with the gospel of the grace of God, and be fearlessly lived it and spoke it day by day under all circum- stances, riot as pleasing men, but God who trieth our hearts (I These. II, 4). 25. "And now, behold, I know that ye all, among whom I have gone preaching the kingdom of God, shall see my face no more. The last we hear of Paul in this book he is in Rome a prisoner, but be is preaobing the kingdom of God, and teaching those things which concern the Lord Jesus Christ (Acts xxviii, 81). Thus. be was one witb Him who had chosen him, for in Acts i, 8, we find that our Lord Jesus during tihe 40.days between His res- urrection and ascension spoke of the things pertaining to the kingdom of God. 26. "Wherefore I take you to record this day that I am pure from the blood of all men." He said in II Cor, vil, 2, "We bave wronged no man, we have corrupted no man, we have defrauded no man." Be had sought to live as an embassador for Cbrist, in Christ's stead, beseeching men to be reconciled to God (II Cor. v, 20), and he bad been, by the grace of God, such a faithful witness that the blood of none to whom be ever testified could be required at bis band (Ezek. xxxiii, 7-9). 27. "For I bave not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God." All that Paul bas on band to pass on to others• is of God. He preaches the gospel of the grace of God, and the kingdom of God, and the counsel of God, to gather out and to build up the church of God, and in it all he alms only to please God. He spoke the word faithfully and diminished not a word (Jer. ascii, 28; xxvi, 2). 28. 'Feed the church of God which He hath purchased with His own blood." There is no redemption but by the blood. of Christ, by which alone we receive the forgiveness of sins (Eph. 1, 6, 7; Rev. 1, 5; v, 9; Heb. ix, 22), and each one who truly receives the Lord Jesus, trusting only in. His finished work, becomes a part of the church of God, whether he ever be- comes part of any cburob on earth or not. Now, being saved, it is the privilege of every saved one to unite with some com- pany of God's people called a church, but they ought to be sure tbat it is a church where their souls will 'be fed with the word of God, for nothing else will truly nourish the soul (I Pet. ii, 2; v, 2; Job xxiii, 12; Jer. xv, 16). 29, 30. "For I know this, that after my departing shall grievous wolves enter in. among you, not sparing the flock." Sines the serpent slandered God in Eden there have always been those who follow bim, seeking the destruction of souls; some- times they seem bent simply upon the ruin of people, and sometimes it is to get fol- lowers for a person or a doctrine or a sect. 3L "Therefore watch and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears." Paul had no fear for the loss of any soul that bad truly received the Lord Jesus; bis words concerning them are al- most as strong as our Lord's own words (Phil. i, 6; I Cor. 7, 8; John x, 27-29),. but be did fear lest they might only have a knowledge of Him without truly receiv- ing HIM (Heb. vi, 4-6; x, 26), and also lest, having truly received Him, they might lose their works and wages (I Cor, iii, 14, 15; ix, 27); hence bis earnest admonition to "take heed" and "watch." 32. "And now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up." When our Lord was about to leave His disciples, He prayed the Father (as He said to Mary, "My Father and your Father, My God and your God" (John xx, 17), that He would keep from the evil those whom He had. given Him, and that He would sanctify them through the truth, His word (John xvii, 11, 15, 17). .And when He said, "1 bave given them Thy word, the words which Thou gayest file (John xvii, 8, 14), he must bave believed that these words were the very best thing that He could give them. In another place He said, "The words that I speak unto you they are spirit, and tbey are life" (John vi, 63). 83. "1 have coveted no man's silver or gold or apparel." The people testified of Samuel, "Thou hast not defrauded us nor oppressed us; neither bast thou taken aught of any maws hand" (I Sam. an, 3). To the Thessalonians Paul wrote, remind- ing them of his labor night and day that he might not be a burden to any one (I Them, 11, 6, 9). 34. "Yea, ye yourselves know that these bands have ministered unto my necessities and to them that were with me." He was very grateful for all gifts from the Lord's people and speaks of such as "an odor of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, well pleasing to God." 85."Remember . the words of the Lord Jesus, bow He. said, It Is more blessed to give than to receive, " perhaps referring to such teaching of our Lord as is found in Luke vi, 30; xiv, 18,14, or possibly refer- ring to souse unrecorded sayings of our Lord. God so loved that He gave His only begotten Son; the Son' of God so loved: that He gave Himself. The grace of our Lord Jeans' Christ was manifest in His becom- ing poor for us that we through His pov- erty might be rich. Tbe love that He manifested in laying down His life for us should make us ready to lay down our • lives for others (II Cor. viii, 9; I John 16), But most of us aro more ready to re- ceive than to giveand so John iii, 16, is much more familiar than I John 111, 16, Ind I Tim. 1, 15, than Titus iii, 8 •