The Blyth Standard, 1900-02-01, Page 8EDDLERS IN THE
AFFAIRS OF OTHERS
Dr. Talmage Scores the Busy -Body and
Scandal -Monger ---All Have a Mis-
sion of Kindness and Help.
WsahingtOn, Jan. 28, -In this dile ' came to the wharf. An enemy of the
course Dr. Talmage shows how we steamboat company asked one day, "I
should Interest ourselves in 'the at-
faha of others for their benefit, but
never tor their damage; text, 1. Peter,
•iv„ 16: "A busybody In other men's
matters,"
Human nature 1e the same In all
ages. In the second century of the
wood's existence people had the,
lame eharacterlettcs al people In the
atneteenth century, the only differ-
ence being that they had the chaMc-
tarletiea for a longer time. 1t was!
1100 years of goodness or 500 yeara of
meanness Instead of goodnees or
meanness for 40 or 60 yearn. Well,
Simon Peter, who sue a keen obser-
ver of what was going on around
him, one day caught sight of a man
whose characteristics were severe In-
spection and blatant criticism of the i
affairs belonging to people tor whom
he tad no responsibility and with
the hand once browned and hardened
by flashing tackle drew this portrait
for all subsequent ages: "Je. busy-
body in other men's matters,
That kind of person has been a
trouble maker In every country mince
the world stood. Appointing himself
the work of exploration and detec-
he goes forth mlechlet making.
generally begins by reporting the
felicity dls('overed. He is the ad-
vertlatng agent of infirmities and do-
mestic Inhannony and occurrences
that but for him would never have
name to the public eye or ear. He
feels that the secret ought to be haul-
ed out into light and heralded. If he
can get' one line of It into the news-
papers, that he feels to be a noble
achievement to start with. But ht
must not let It stop. He whispers it
to his neighbors, and they, in turn,
Whisper It to their netghbora until
the whole town le a -buss and agog•
Tou- can no more catch 1t or put It
dawn than you can a malaria. it f8
IFtheser and on the wing and afloat.
Aiby !Melt tt "temp of little to-
Mp�' 4000. but atter a hundred peopl:
ae handled 11 and each has given
It an additions' twlst It becomes( a
entry In else and ,hope marvelous.
First, notice that such a mission 11
most undesirable, because we all re-
quire all the time we can Jet to tak,
rare of our own aftalra, To carry
ouselvee through the treacherous
straits of this life demands that we
all the the
wheetoftour own craft, handime keep ur on While,as I
shall show you before I get through,
ive all have a mission of ktndneee to
others eve have no time to waste to
doing that which Is damaging to
utherl.
There is our worldly galling which..
punt be looked after or It will be -
conte a failure. Who succeeds In any-
tktng without concentrating all his
SS uponthat one thing? All
Who
Itry , eitheroas t tthdo eirheal things, gor
tortm,e. They go on until they
cent' on the dollar, or pay
body Into the grave. We tain manage
c'on-
others and
keep eur eowe owehe affalis prosperous.
While we are Inaulrtg how precarl-
ous chantt the businand finding anotherof out homer-
many
notes he has unpaid and how soon he
Will probably be wound up or make
an asligament or hear the sheriffs
hammer smite 'the coenter our own;
affairs are getting mind up and en-
ourgneighborWhile
hieeere pc cropslsloge
are neglecting the fertilisation of our
awn fields or allowing the weeds to
choke our own earn. White we are
trying to extract the mote from our
neighbor's eye we fall tinter the
weight of the beam In our own eye.
If God had given us whole
nothing
wks
and months and days, with
to do but gauge and measure and
re
Umtata the
affairs
excuse for suof chheat
ployment, but I do not know enema
who hu such a'surplus of time one
energy
• mucand h of ltlhetltime totstt can
u a
coroner upon the dead BillUree of
otalero. I can Imagine thee an as-
trondmleal crank ',Quid get so ab-
sorbed in examining the spots on the
n neglect clearing
very he D
ots
ahie owncharacter,sue.
ei*fin man was asked how he had
accumulated such a vast fortune. He
aceumuleted about
.M.halt of myte ppproperty by a tends e
strictly to my tautness and the other
ktylt by lettleg other peop,e'e alone."
iTurthermore, we are incapacitated
ter the supervisal of others because
we cannot see all aides of the affair
reprehended. People are generally
eat se much to blame ea we sup -
It is never right to do wrong,
here may be alleviations. There
�pKK have arleen a conjunction of
si}eUmataneee whl0h would have
Mos any one of us. The world
gives only one side of the transaction
tend that 1s alweys the worst nide.
defaulter at the bank who loan-
• spone he ought not to have
did 1t for the advantage ot
*0 0r, not for his own. That
'11 man who purloined from hie
einplo er did so Immune Ida mother
WAS dying for the lack of medicine,
gnat young woman who went wrong
dad not get enough wages toep
from 'starving to death,
who make moral
Id do right in some exlgenclyr but
have not the courage to say so.
Mr die than do the least wrong,
moderate your thethemamaa ga against
ttt.In f
en
ji84 m yet develop. Ile two..
inlet) of your curses when all the
d@*rttlntlty la houndtng sotto man or
weaan, Watt, consider, pause and
'1t
a witch im charged
f"a base
h
atlnn. iJo not be like a fury
it render a vegdtdt, against the
t without allotting him to pre-
side of the cast,
ur ermore, we make ourselves a
- !Alleviating epecta(•le when we be -
,s. come bueybodiee. What a diabolical
enterrlee those undertake who are
ease looking for the moral lapse or
thio downfall of others! As the hu-
man race Is a meet Impeller. rare,
an such hunters find plenty of game.
"There keve been mewing eoeletlea In
Shoreham which tore to pieces more
rrenatatlone than they made garments
ter the poor. With their Fare•asme
wad sly hints end depreciation of
owe* they punctured more good
holies thea they had needles. Wit'i
glair echoers they cut ehereetery
Ma, and backstitched every ev11 re-
�t they got hold of.h Meetings eof
at directors have sometimes
rut good business men by Mehra.
Wimp against them. The bad work
0111 not hsve been done eo much by
words, for they would be libelous,
but by the twinkle of the eye or a
Wing of the shoulder or a earcaetb_
a.otatiatton of a word, "Yes, he
1s all rept when he to sober.'
have you Inquired Into that man's
Mame" "Do you know what bu-
siness he was in before he enterer
thief' "1Ruove that the app:leatIon
ti�ieC laid 00 the tabic uuui guuie Inver
Rgations now going on are comme-
nded," It is easy enough to start a
intuition
a despicable man man ie the onl never e
wbut
hktwho
etarted it!
Then is not an honest man in
Washington or New York or any
other city who cannot be damage1 by
such fa(*rnattam. Ia a vlllsge where
I Ones lived a steamboat every .lay
wonder It that steamboat le sate?" The
man who heard the question soon Cali
to his neighbor, "There le same sus-
picion about the eatety of that steam-
boat". And the next one who got !told
of It eaW, "There Is an Impression
abroad that there will soon be an ae-
rldenl on that steamer," Noon all
that community began to ma,, "'Chat
steamer Is very Unsafe," and ad n
consequence we all look the stage
rather than risk our Ilvex en the tits.
While I believe enough In human de-
nravity to be orthodox, I tell you that
the most of people slyhom I know are
doing the best they can. Faults? Ole
Yes. All people except you and I have
faults. But they are sorry about It,
rrnentanl on account of It and are try-
ing to do better. About all the mar-
ried people I know of are married to
the one person beet suited. Nearly all
the parents with whom I am acquaint -
1 ed are doing the beat they can for their
• children. All the clerks In stares, so
tar 08 I know, are honest, and all per -
sena In official positions, city, State a'
nation, are fulfilling thelr mission as
' well de they can. The most of those
W110 have failed In business, no far as
I know, have tailed honestly.
All people make mletakee-say things
that afterwards they are sorry for, and
ntiaa opportunity of urians the right
word and doing the right thing. But
when th;y say thelr prayers at night
these defects are euro to be mentioned
somewhere between the name et the
Lord for whore' mercy they plead and
the amen that eloore the seoppllcatlon
"That has not been my observation,"
says aline one. Weil, I am sorry for
you, my brother, my sister. What an
awful (lama you must hate gotten Ir.
to! Or, es le more probable, you are
one of the characters that my text
aketrhes. You have not been hunting
for partrldgee and quail, but for vol
lures. You have been mlcrosropiling
the world'', faults. You have been
down In the marshes when you ought
to have been on the uplands. 1 hay,
,aught you at last. You are "a busY-
budy 1n other menti matters."
110 l0 It that you eralways flu,
lu'0 0w1,201815 about any anne and lhe�
two el intens exactly appo;lte? 1 will
tell you the reason, etf, ls because they,
are two sides to every character-th,
beat aide and the worst aide. A wen
disposed man chiefly seeks the beat
side, the badly disposed seeks chiefly
the worst side. Be ours the desire to
see the beat aide, for it is healthier f n'
UR 10 do and etlrs admiration, which
le an elevated state, while the desire to
Mel the emit side keeps one In a spirit
a dlsquletude and disgust and mean
eueplclon, and that is a pulling down
of our own nature, a disfigurement of
our own character. 1 tem afraid tit
Imperfections of others will kill us yet
If one be cynical about the character
of others and chiefly observant of de-
tects and glad to find something wrong
In character, the fact I, apt to be dem-
onstrated In his Tooke. However regu-
lar his features and though construct-
ed according to the laws of Kasper
Lavater, hie visage 1s moue, He may
smile, but it is a Sour smile. There L
a sneer In the inflation of the notate!
There is a mean curvature to the lip
There is a bad look In the eye. Thr
devil of sarcasm and malevolence and
auaplcion has taken possession of him
and you see it as plainly as though
from the hair line of the forehead to
the lowest point In the round of 1, e
chin It were written: "Mine! Mine! I
the demon of the p11, have soured hlr
vi -age with my curse. Look at Ulm'
He chose a diet of carrion. He gloated
ever the mtedeede of others. It took
all my Infernal enginery to make him
what he ie -'a busybody di other men'e
matters' "
The "tenderer almost always at-
tempts to escape the scandal he le re-
anonetble for. When In 1741 John Wes-
ley was preaching at Bristol and show•
ant what reasgqnn he had to trust in the
Captain SI His Salvation, a hearer
erled out: "Who wax your captain when
you hanged yourself? I know the man
who saw you when you were cut down."
John Wesley asked the audience to
make room and let the slanderer come
to the front, but when the way was
open the slanderer, Instead of coming
forward, fled the room. The author
or distributer of slanders never wants -
to tate his work,
On the day or Pentecost there were
people endowed with whet wax call-
ed the "gift of tongues," and they
many languages. v
MC
-from you, for they take retetnera only
from the more prosperoue clients, but
cheer those young attorneys who have
not had a brief at all lucrative. Those
old merchants have their business so
well established that they feel inde-
pendent of banks, of all changes to
tariffs, of all panics, but cheer those
young merchants who are making their
first mistakes to bargain and sale. That
old farmer who has 208 acres in best
tillage, and hie barns full ot harvested
crops, and the grain merchant, having
bought hie wheat at high prices before
It was reaped, needs no sympathy from
you, but cheer up that young farmer
whose acres are covered with a big
mortgage and the drought strikes them
the first year.
Go forth to be a busybody in other
men's matters, so far as you ran
helping them out, and help them on.
the world le full of Instances of
those who spend their 1110 In Ouch
alleviations, but there Is ono In-
stance that overtop' and eclipses all
others. He had lived In a palace.
Radiant ones waited upon him. He
was charloted along streets yellow
with gold, and stopped at gates glis-
tening with pearls, and hosannaed by
Immortals eoneted and to snowy
white. Centuries gave him not a
pain. The sun that rose on him
never set. Hit dominions could not
be enlarged, for they had no bound-
aries, and uncontested wag his reign.
Upon all that luster and renown and
environment of splendors ne turned
his back and put down Ma crown at
the foot of His throne, and on a bleak
December night trod His way down
to a stone house In Bethlehem of our
world. Wrapped in what plain shawl,
and pursued with what enemies on
mitt camels, sed howled at with
what brigands, and thrust with
what sharp lances, and hidden to
what sepulchral crypt, until the sub-
sequent centuries have tried In vaht
to tell the story by acutptured prose,
and painted canvas, and resounding
doxologies, and domed cathedral, and
redeemed nations.
Ile could not eee a• woman doubled
up with rheumatism but Ile touched
her, and inflamed mueclee relaxed,
and she stood straight up. Ile could
not meet a funeral of a young mall
but He broke up the procession and
gave him back to his widowed mo-
ther. With spittle on the tip of hie
finger he turned the mWnlght of
total blindness into the mldnoon el
perfect sight.
He scolded only Wire that I re-
member, once at the hypocrites wait
el"ngated Osage and the other tine
when a sinful crowd had arraigned
an unfortunate woman, and the Lord,
with the most superb sarcasm that
was ever uttered, gave permieolon to
anyone who felt himeeff entirety
commendable to hurl the first mist
silo. All for others. Ilia birth fee
others. Hill ministry for others. His
death for others. Hle ascension for
others. His enthronement for others,
And now my words are to the in-
visible multitudes I reach week by
week, but yet will never see In this
wield, but 1\ Men I expect t0 meet
at the bar of Dad and hope to see in
the briefest heaven. The last WON]
that Dwight L, Moody, the great
evangellet, said to me at Plainfield,
N.J., and he repeated the message Pot
me to others, was, "Never be tempt-
ed under any etrrumetanees to give
up your weekly publicatloe, of sar-
mone throughout the world." That
solemn charge I will heed as long •,e
I have strength to give them and tic•
newspaper types desire to take them.
Story of a Slat's
To be bound hand and foot for years
by the chains of disease is the worst
term of eleven'. Gelr!1e D. Williams, of
Manchester Mich. tells how such a stave
was made flee, He says: "My wife
tits been So helpless; for ileo y'eere that
Phe could not turn over in bed alone,
After using two bottles of Elm n'ie Hit-
ters, she le nude: fully improved and
able I o do her own wet k. This supremo
.emody for female diseases quickly
enl'ee nervousness, 2'lerpleselledm, melan-
choly, headache, to ch,:che, fainting
and (lazy spells, Tide miracle work•
ing medicine is n 1'»•Ieeud to weak.
yi kle*, run down 10111'. Every bo:tlo
guarnnteed. Sold le .1. M. Hamilton.
IAuggist. Only 50 re nes,
0NCANADIAN E N DIRN Kill
EDr
He Fell in the Fight at
Sunnyside.
CONTINGENT STILL AT BELMONT
It is now known hem for the first
time that a ntemher of the ('nnadiau
contingent was k.l!tee in action in the
light at ko1Ulyslee, o:t January
when a Colonial force, under Lieut.-
('ol. Pitcher defeat xi pe,Ilogr cone
luri}11'1 their
e'The nam
'Waage. of
, he wbt 1, Arte
Iaann0 ae OUllny'Eh(10,
!anger and torte pall,
of the volunto .
victoria, R. er
at in A Company, of the cont n -
gent -the swampy made ter from
Manitoba and RAMA Leekuuh a, A
report of his dieath ' came recently
from Vitrtorin, a o l was published, but
was nutted as a probable error at
tho this, as the Canadians, hail not
Leen in anyurther battle, while the
Inst of easunitlos nt euaitysl•le was
Lot thought to Include aria' Callaid.
Ian.
But there are people In our time who
seem to have the gltt of evil tnguee,
and there le no end to their iniquitous
Wide. revery city, village and
neighborhood of the earth has had
driven through It these scavenger
carts. When anything ie Bald to you
defamatory of the character of others
imitate Joseph John Gurney, of Eng.
land, who, when a bad report was
brought to him coneerning anybody,
naked: "Dopt thou know pay good
thing to tell up coneerning her?
Since there Is no good to relate,
would it not be kinder to be silent
on the evil?? Charity rejotceth not in
iniquity."
But there is a worthy and Christ-
ian way of looking abroad upon
others, not for the purpose of bring-
ing them to dlsgdvantsge or adver-
tising their weakitemee or putting In
"great primer" or "paragon" type
their frelltles, but to offer help, sym-
pathy and rescue, That Is Chrhtltke,
and he who does so wins the ap-
pisuae of the high heavens. Just
look abroad for the people who have
made great mlptekee and put a big
plaster of condolence on their lacere-
teens. Ouch people are never
sYm-
Pathlsed with, although they need anInanity of solace. Domestic mis-
takes. Social mistakes. EccJeelastl-
cal mistake,, Patittcal mistakes, The
wo'i'id hie for such only jocosity end
gesture of deploretton. There is an
unoccupied field for you, lay brother.
No one has been there. Take your
ceso of medicines, and go there and
oak them where they are hurt, and ap-
ply divine medicament;
Hear it: The more you go nutty -
Ing yourselves In other men's mat-
ters the better 10 you have design of
offering relief. Search out the quar-
rels, that you many settle them; the
fallen that you may lift them; the
pangs, that yqu may assuage them.
Arm yourself with two bottles of di-
vine medicine, the one a tonic and
the other an anaesthetic, the latter
et Boothe and quiet, the former to
stimulate, to Inspire to eubllme ac-
tiun. That man's matters need look-
ing peter in this respect. There are
10,000 men and women, who need
your htyn d need It right away.
They do n,(:.11 alt down and cry. They
make no upneal for help, but within
ten yards of where you alt In church
and within ten minutes' walk of your
home there 00. people !n enough
troabte to melte them ebrtek out with
mom, If they had„„, rvsolvr.l up,„t 1
impel, meet
If you are rightly Il eoreeted in other(
men's matters, go to thus„ who are just
starting in their ocCUpatl,„5 or profes-
sion” and give them a bo,,l. Those
old physicians do not Want pour help,
for they are surrounded wlu,
Patients than they can attend ,a more but:
cheer those young doctors Wb,i are
counting out their first drops teepee.,
elms who cannot afford to pay. Thee,
old *110rnere at the taw want no kelp
The mtOtaka 13 cantly- explabted The
ilS? of kiCe-1 at Funnrelle ata cabled
the War Office w•ae am follower "Pri-
vate. MrLertr-j and A. host, Quueus-
1 nt Mq n el Infantry; P 101te,10110'
VI..torte.' It 20210 at 0itce concludo.i
that ' Prlvatto Jq'lra: VtctorliJ' r' -
Mere f to ancither mzmber of the Airs•
tralhtn force,, angel tlutt all the Cnn-
1d1niio were safe, It now turns out
that Private Jgaexs was of Victoria,
R, C., lout ons, as above state), one
of the Canadian foeee engaged in
the attnek, tinder Captain Barker, of
Toronto,
His depth marks the first sacrifice
made by the Canadian voluntena Qat
the field 0!
Remar battlke,
able Redeye,
Mrs 'Michael Curtain, Plainfield, II1.,
makes the statement, that she caught
cold, which settled on her lungs; she
was treated for ai mon1)' her family
hysician, but grew lana s0. He told
par aha was a hopelesths 21011101 of coa-
snmption end that ne melicine could
1i cure her. Her druggist eugge-ted Dr
$hig'e brew Discovery for eemea2n,
I tion; she bought a bottle and to her
delight
do o. lou80elcontinuedn t� so e¢d
after taking sir bottles, found eers0li
sound and well' now does her con
housework, and 1s as well as she cr31
was. Free trial bottles of this Great
Discovery, at J. M. Hamilton's Di ug
Store. Only 50o and 11,00; every battle
guaranteed.
Car Repairer Killed.
Brockv1L, Ont., Jen. 28, -Andrew
Arbuckle, n car repairer, employed at
the 0rani Trunk shop, was accidental-
ly killed while at work. He WOO re-
pairing a drawbar of a freight car,
when a *hunter backed a number et
care clown the track where be was
working. Ile did not hear the r,r, np-
p:,,,,L.ng, ani h., head was crumbed
between two drawbars. He Was 30
years of age, anti marred.
Bismarck's Iron Nelda
Was the recast of Las epleadld heart*, In.
dem ubI will 004 trema5Jou erg se out
ftl ul whet, rtomach, Lisur, w.teYs and
b.weL s,e e t tt irdeh 1f in W.wt Owe
l,rIaalluu s abs .unser dray b aa, ass 01.
Imes Nee Lite fella file develop every
duo itwaa* daily, 01ty to seats as
Market Reports
-OP-
The Week.
bending Y. Lent 1l+ubet n,
Fotlowiag are the closing prices at
Important wheat (repines tu-uay:
('ala1L May.
Chicago... ... $0 68 8.8
Milwaukee... 0 67 1-2 --
New York.., ,,. ,,. .., — 0 74 3-4
14t, Louie.,.......... 0 71 0 71
Toledo... .,. 0 71,s1.2 0 78 1-2
Detroit, red.,..,..,. On 1-4 0 701.2
Detrot, white ... (1711.4 -
Duluth, No, 1 N'rn. 0 65 5-8 0675.8
Duluth, 1o. 1hard 0 07 1-8 --
Minneapolis, No. 1
Northern... ,., ,,, ,,. 0 65 3 8 4) 85 5.8
Minneapolis, No. 1
hard... ... 0 06 7.8 -.-
Oman and Produce. -,
Tormto, Jan. 27.-Flour--Ontarlo
peatelta, in hags, $3.40 to 33.60 ;
strrtight rollers, $3.20 to .33.40 ; Hun-
garian patent”, 13.80; Manatee!
talkers', $3,55, all on track at To
rano.
Wheat -Ontario red and white, 63c
north and welt; geode, 600 north and
west ; No. 1 Manitoba hard, 70e ; Tu -
rout, and No. 1 Northern at 74c.
onto -White cote quoted at 25 1-2c
w'es't.
Barley -Quoted at 38c for No. 2
were.; feed burley, 35e to 880.
Rye --Quoted at 49c north and weal,
and 50,i each,
Raul-Ctty mills sell bran at 315,and
shorts at 4(16 In car lute, f.o.b., To-
ronto,
Buckwheat -Farm ; 411c north and
50c east.
Corn-t'auadinn, 32 to Ole went ;
American, 40c on track hero,
Oatmeal -Quoted at 13,25 by the bag
and 88.35 by the barrel, on truck at
Toronto, In car lots.
Iran -At 57 to 571,-2c north and
wait, for Immediate shipment.
11 Lowren:e taureet.
Toronto, Jen. 27.-ltecclpts of farm
produce, were not large!
Wheat -Ono hundred and flay bnAh-
ele of real wheat sold nt 8111 -lic per
bushel; 50 bnehrie of goose at 09 to
70e.
Barley steady nt 42 to 44o for 500
bushels.
(Jets eteady 800 bushels mold at
301.2 to 1111-2c,
Poultry - 1'ellverles light, with
prism firm as follows: Turkeys 11.: to
13c per Ib.; geese S to On per lit; ducks
75e to el per pair ;chlckens 60 to OOc
per pair.
Rueter -Denverite; light, with prices
ranging from 20 to 25c per Ib., tate
latter price being for oholoe dairy to
hpec(lll chat anwes.
Eggs -frier for strictly new lald
eggs have been realer thie week, owing
to larger deliveries, nt 23 to :10e per
dozen. The latter price Wag pale In n
few Instances only, the bulk going at
23 to 27r.
Toronto Farmers' Market.
Sen. 20.-11ealt 000 108)1020 of
grain were delivered on the street
market hero to -My. Priem; were
sternly to 11101,
15'l,ent-One hundred bushel, of
rel and white fall wheat mull firm
nt 0%r, and 200 bushels of goose
steady to lc firmer at 00 to 70e.
Oat, -Two hundred bushels sold
etendy to firnler nt 811 to 314r.
1l, rIv)'-l°u 1' hundred bushels mold
firmer at 12 to 45c.
Bay nn' Straw -Twenty loads of
hay sold weaker at 310.30 to 311,50
aril 3l) to 3)0 for 1010011 hay land
eIovm'. Two loads of straw so)l un-
chsngcl at $7 to $e,
thence Hogs -Unchanged nt 33.30
to $3.60 per cwt.
Rutter -Small deliveries ami Mod-
erate demand at 21 to 22c for
choice pound rolls.
Egger -Fair demand and supply nt
25v fur etriutly new•latd egg's.
Seedy.
in Chicago on Saturday timothy
clime,l steady nt $2,50 nominal for
January, and 32.55 nominal for Feb-
ruary, and $2 nominal for March.
Closer closed unchanged at $01,25
nominal for January and at 38.40
nominal for March, all per 100 Ib3,
In Toledo old prime clover closed
eteady at let asked, January nt
$5,77)7 and Marrh at $3.82%, all per
babel.
British Markets
Luvorpoa.l-Jan. 17, -)2.36. -Whys t,
No, 1 northern spring, 51. 11 1-24.; No.
1 Cal„ 6s, 34. to 63. 3 1-2d. ; red win-
ter, 5s.-6 1.071.; earn, old, 3s.. 6 1-24.;
new, lie. Od. ; peas, es. 6d. ; pork, prince
western mesa, 56e, 3d.; lard, prime
western, 300, 64.; American ref:n'd,
395, 3d; ; tefion., Australian, 27a. 0d.:
American, good to fine, 27a. Od. ; baron,
long clear, F ht, 34., ; heavy, 338. 111.;
oleo, ole, heavy, 32a. Id.; cheese,
colored, Us.; white, 571.; wheat firm ;
(torn, f.rm,
Liverpool -Close -Spot wheat, firm;
5o. 2 red W rater, 5s, 10d„• No, 1 nor-
thern epr:ng, 00.; No, 1 Cal., 03. 33.;
futures quiet ; Marc,h 5s, 10 1-19.. May
&n, 0 3.41., July 53, 11)4. Spot, maize,
firm; mixed American, 30. 01 nett,
3s, 1i led, old; futures steady ; Jan.
3s, 61., Feb. 30, 6 1-8d., Mu'rh 3s. 6-
3-81„ M,y 30. 6 1-4)„ July 33. 6 1-3d.
Flour, 17s. 01.
Lonlon-Clove-Wheat, off coast,
noth'ng doing; on paeangr, rather
firmer ; cargoes about No. 1 Cal., iron,
Nov„ 380.; Iron, Dae„ 385. 1-21..; La
Pinta, steam, Feb, and March, 28e. 81.,
grain b"ing fine nal heavy, Melee, 011
roast, nalh:ng doing; on passage, firm
but not active; mixed Arne: lean, sail,
steam, loading, lat. 10 1-''d. ; epee
melee, Gal. Fox„ Resp„ 20s. (id.; mixed
American, 17s. 61. Flour, spot Minn„
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IIIDER, SKINS AND TALLOW,
III)es-The reoellts Isere are larger,
rho market Is easier in sympathy
with the weakness t4spleyeci by the
n
c markets, and
Brandi and Amort an m rket
the dentate' le not eo keen. Toronto
d01(101t are telldhe; for greets cows
100 to 10 1.4c here 01)21 fqr eteers
11c, but in the country they enemy-
lag
repaylang 0 1.21 for 1011') 0111 100 for
steers. Cured hales aro quoted at 10c
to 11) 1.4o for cows, add 11 1 -lc for
ateere.
Sheelteklam-The demand le fair
nal the market 10 steady at 31 to
31.20, nocording to quality and the
atoouttt of wool taken.
Celteldne-The market le steady at
ale for Na 1 and 100 for No. 2.
TaI'ow is steady. Loon' 'enters are
Paying Ce to 5 1.4c and asking 5 1.2e.
CHEESE
Cheese -The demand le stow nod
the market is dull at 12e to 12 1.2e
for job lota, Tho public Liverpool Pahl '-
gram to -day was unchange -I at Wes
1"r colored and 57e 6d for white.
LIVERPOOL APPLE MARKET,
it'oodall & Co., Liverpool, under
list« of Jan, 6th, ,say:
„.`-'el hurt was dated the 22nd uh
cmlosol he first part of the Beason
( ores e. the 31st ultimo, the total
llrloR 4Ar(t° Liverpool to that date
0e1 bill.'" la h :zrLs, „g,,,tut iiil,-
n the norrespondtng per-
iod l+at year, showing a decrease on
what was a very short supply, thus
making the th,nd consecutive com-
parative failure et the crops both of
the United States and Canada, ship -
ler the greatest decrease. With the
merits from Boston epi Ma
knowledge of tbie shortage it WAS
naturally anticipated that a high
range of prices would rule. A retros-
paot, however, telt” a awry glory wad
from various dances the season to
date has been one of the moat unsat-
lateotory known.
"The poor condition throughout was
the uppermost cauda of the trouble,
and experience proves that a small'
crop 1s rarely of goof quality, ne the
sho okage la generally unused by at-
mokkpheric conditions, unfavorable to
the fruit keeping, added to which,
scarcity lnduoee operators t pack
inferior and unsuitable fruit”
Wt'OL.
There is ea easier feeling In the
market la ivmpathy with the British
markets and (local dealers are not
bidding as men for fleece. The de-
mand for pulled wools to fair and the
market is firm.
Fleece -The offering{ are not large,
the demand 1* leas itAlfve and the
market is eneter, Local dealers are
only offering 10o now.
Pulled Wool -There les good de-
mand from the )tome trills and the
market is firm. Supers are quoted
et 1110 to 20c anal extras at 22o to 23o.
TIIE YEAR'S I1ESCLTS,
Dradstraeet's eummary of f0tluree
chows it total of 1,300 for tho year,
3s. against 1,470, 1,925 and 2,204 ht
18.'8, 1897 end 18!26 eespectively• Tho
!'abilities wore 311,03%411, ugalnet
310,062,140, $13,249,070 and 4(16,
400,456, In 1808, 1897 and 1806 re-
epoctively. Tho ""sets lust year were
$4,536,058. The eonimout of the cone
oder la :
Lark of cajetnl still remains the
eli1of stumbling-hloek to emcees in
trade, ,fudging from the fact that 74
per rent. 01 the fa'luree and 58 per
tent. of the liabilities' were charge-
able to this cause. While the propor-
t'on o1 failures due to lark of capital
tendo to increase of late years, the
lova molting therefrom, however, 1105
decreased. Unwise credits, which
eatrso,f We than 1 per rent, of all the
Canadian failures', were respontlhle
for over 20 per rent. of the 1'ahilltlee.
Here, as In the United Staten, the
fa•lures doe to tneomp"tenco end the
damage resulting from the same bear
a close reltt:on, the proportion's being
reepectively 0.4 per oent. end 10.4 per
cent„ an Moreau In the proportions
over outer tors being ntoo noted.
Stee'fie rondittone were less hurtful
hl 1819 than In nny previous ,year,
both as reds mum' er n 1 i'nh'ptle•,
Fewer fn! ore, and smaller Ilahllltleo
due to lnexpertenoe are to be noted,
and fewer failures lino to outside
speculntbn, neglect and fnlluree of
others nro II ISO reported, while 1'rnud-
elett d'sno',ltien morsel morn (el'nrent
but smaller liabilities than In 18)8.
Bradetreet•s on Teals.
Humblest at Montreal Is developing
nieng the )ince of spring trade In 0
entisfantory manner. Trntiere In the
country appear to be well supplied
with cash. The country retail trade
has kept up well since the Itolidaye.
Payments 0n accounts aro 'st!ef'tc
tory.
Ilueineee at Hamilton continues of
fair volume and videos are firm for
mod staple goods. Travellers repirt
taking n fair number of orders for
the spring trade which promises to
he a good one tide year. Prices for
nrnrly all lines In a wholesale way
arc firm.
.1t Winnipeg there los been a fair
mount of 1(0011ees done 11115 week.
pr,na•rto Irll to
ne'rhett ity dusring thepolnt nr2to couplerrntopic of
month's, The utovemrnt of grain anti
outer Produce lately hos been light,
but prices have hear little nlfentedby
Min small deliveries. Collections are
not ata good as negalt be willed.
Dueiaeae at London has been he
creasing It anything lately and the
outlook for trade Iw general4, '1,011•
,sldere 1 by traders to be quite up to
the prospects that pre%atiod a year
ago, \'clues continue firm and col-
Ieetone are fair.
Trade at .the court ratios line been
rather Wet since the holiday's. Tbm
progcaots for the spring end summer
are good for a profitable year's bnsl.
orae. The hast Iota of the Batmen
catch are being shipped, and when all
has gone forward there will have
laden twenty-eight cars tient out. The
Umber trade prospects are good and
contrart8 have been placed for sev-
eral million feet each for China and
Jllpnn.
Trade at Toronto thle week has
been a fair volume, Values In all
linea are firmly malntaltled. P,tlip-
mesas of dry goo,le have leen larger
title week, and orders for additlonal
tote have been coming forward freely.
The total dry goo le Import's et thin
port last year amounted to 87,200,•
000, against $6,600 003 for 181)8.
There le a good demand for hardware
and metale with prices firm for nearly
all linea. Other departments of whole-
sale trade are fairly active for this
season. Colleottone are fair,
We are sure you dgaot.
Nobody wants It. But it tiJLea
to many thousands every yelp.
It comes to those who have had
coughs and colds until the
throat Is raw, and tate lining
membranes of the lunge 510
Inflamed. Stop your cough
when it first appears and you
remove the great danger of
future trouble.
gers
bernj
ecioiii
stops coughs of ell kinds. It
does so because it Is a Booth -
Ing and healing remedy of great
power. Thls makes it the great-
est preventive to consumption.
Put one of
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral
Plasters over your lungs
A whale Melba!
Library Fres.
ler tour em,t. (a stamps to pay ppeeso�.
age we will send you slztoen medial
bonier.
Msdleal Addeo Fnsh
wo have the exclusive services of
soma ul the most eminent physicians
in the hatted Staten. U0,(S00 oppnr.
Waiting and long exper(en'e Ruh
[lastly at them for giving you medical
Advice. Write freely all the pert(0
11ere In your 03e0. tan will receive a
prompt reply, 811000t cost
Address, DR, J. C. AYti$llfer.
BANK OF HAMILTON.
Capital, all paid up, $I,Soo,000. Reserve, $1,000,000.
Total Assets, $13,163,057,
BLYTH BRANCH.
A general Banking business transacted, Advanree made on all suitable
securities. Farmers' notes discounted and money advanced to feed cattle. etc.,
and pending the harvesting of the ca'ops. Debentures bought. Colloctiona
made on the most favorable terata. Drafts issued pevablo at all principal pointe
113 Canada and the United States. Drafts on Great Britain and t..: Continent of
Europe bought and sold.
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT. -
Deposits of 1t and upwards received and interest allowed from ,late of
deposit to date of withdrawal, interest. added to principal in May and Novell)'
ber each year. Special deposits also r-eceived at current rates, Deposita may
be withdrawn without formality or delay.
C. Il. BENNET•r, st)B•AmeNT.
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PORT UO1'Nllt 1IO1'h:L ill'RNED.
Questa in the Mend Howse Escape W
Their Night Rube",
: Port Dover, Out., .inn. 28. - The
greats nt the Men(' House were at
3 o'clock this morning rudely Wilk'
mai from their elunlbers by the
Marin of tire. Such hold had the
flames ,got on alta building before
they were discovered that the In-
Ilhatee 11011 only time to escape In
Abell! night clothes. Port Dover has
no fire apparatus, and the locket
brigade were helpless' to save the
ineleiig, whieh inelmlel a hardware
and ac drug store, The flre•flghters,
however, did wonders In confining
the flames to the hotel bulOting,
John Be+wpre, of Mimeos, own0 the
building. The amount of Inmurnnee
has not yet bolsi ascertained,
Volcanic Eruptions
At'e eraud, but Okla Eruptions rcb Itis ofay.
Beekl•o's Arnie., eats ems them; sae Dia,
ltneuing sad fiver bores, mean Bulls, yet a..
corps, Wa,te, Cuts, tlrut'se, berm, aside.Ohappid prude, ('bnb1, ins, b. et 1'120 Core a,
ear b Drives rat f4,1,+ end Aches. Oaly ID
oeuts 8 box. (,,,o guaranteed, had by l bL
Hamilton, D,ua4ut,
Nabbed in Toronto.
Montrea), Jan. 20. -Arthur J. Snow
Itua been arrest"' here by Detective
Kellert, Ore chnngw aga1not him be -
tag endeseslement preferred by U. e.
'ecreteltey 0f State flay. Snow be.
longs'to New York, where he was
employed by the Wells, Fargo Ex.
press Company, which he la alleged to
Wive robbel. Tho pprrf oner extremes'
Me Intention of fighting extradition
proceedings to the bitter end,
BLYTH
ROLLER MILLS
00000000
Having assumed outset of the above
named mine I am prepared to supply
and deliver Flour and Feed to any part
of the town at reasonable prices. Ask
your grocer for FINNEMORE'S
FAMILY FLOUR itis the best on the
market.
GRIIITING and CHOPPING done on
short notice, being a practical mil-
ler aur sure to please you.
GiVE
N1~ A TRIAL
Highest market price paid for ell olns•
eos of wheat,
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BLYTH.
T. J. IIUCKSTEP,
Barber and Tai>accogist
Choke Stock of
Tobaccos, Cigars and Pipes on band.
Aoalr Aron TIM
ZAMBIAN STEAM LAUNDRY
60 YEARS'
EXPI RIENC0
PATENTS
TRADE MARKS
DESIGNS)
&ODE RIDH'e &C.
Anyone goading s .kelrh and dews-ut(nu may
tapWdalll asusrtala est opinion free wleth,r an
rpv. tlon0r(o la probably &1 patentable.
Patents
001311 free.
proda'sotM'n
rat free, Oldest e a� hfor securing palate,
*eeW eons Wren
charge. In the Co. rectify'
Scientific igmerican.
1landeomdy nlenrated weekly. 1,.rgeot 0e
ealanon of 007 sotaptba 1purmi. Terme, ea e
t tone mtatba. eL odd br nal nrwe,tralerR
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M3I11URCKIE & RANOB
BANKERS
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING
BUSINESS,
BLYTII, ONTARIO.
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NOTES DISCOUNTED.
Sale Notes a specialty, Advances
made to farmers on their owe
notes. No additional security re-
quired.
INTEREST ON DEPOSITS at Current Rates.
i We offer every accommodation coa-
1
� sistent with safe and conservative
baakiug princ,ples,
0 LI111TED PRIVATE FUNDS
To. loan on Real Estate at lower
rates of interest.
RE1L ESTATE AGENTS.
Persons wishing to sa11 will do well
1 to place their property on our lilt
for Fale. Rents colla -ted.
CONVEYANCING
Of all kinds promptly attended te,
INSURANCE.
We represent the leading Fire and
file Assurance co,upaniee, and ren
epoctfully solicit your account.
OFFICE HOIJltS: 10 A.Y, TO 3
J. H. OHELLEW
UNDERTAKER & MOM
ru.1 haloes AND Goow.
(Net In theeombleeJ
0..7 Queen Street South, Myth
C. HAMILTON.
Licensed Auctioneer and Valuator.
Land, Loan and Insurance Agent,
Office, on Qnoen street, Blyth. Orders
left at TiN S'ramose° office will receive
prompt attention.
I C. A. COOKE, LA.U., D.D.S.
Doctor of Dental Surgery of the Uni-
versity of Toronto, and graduate of the.
2 Royal College of Dental Surgeons.,
Special attention paid to the preserva-
tion of the natural teeth. °Moe over'
J. W. Bell's harness store, Queen street;.
Blyth. Visits Auburn let and 8rd
Mondays of each month,
W. J. MILNE, M.D.O.M.
Physieinn, Surgeon and kceoueheat
X.D.C.M., University of Trinity Cot.
lege; M. Queen's IIniversity; Fel-
low of Trinity College, and
mombor of College of PhyMicis1ts and
Burgeons of Ontario. Coroner fur the
County of Baron, Office, 0110 door
north of the Commercial hotel, Queen
street, Blyth.
GRAND TItUNK RAILWAY.
w1001(10 AND LONDON BRANDI!
00UTrt Nottr.
AM pm am prang
0 58 8 15 Wingham 11 10 8 019
(f 511 8 18 Winghnm Jo It 07 7 511
7 01 3 :i 1 Behr; aro 10 en 7 2'
7 21 8 el Lon lesans 10 83 111 1O 41 7 la
7 47 4 25 Clinton 10 15 0 Sia
0 50 0 '23 J,,ondon 8 16 4 4t.
BLYTH POST OFFICE.
IroUNO: 010RT A.M. TO 113111110.0.
Mails Arrive. -Frim K.rth-7,20 amt.
and 3.50 p.m.; South -10.45 ant. anti
7.11) pm.
M the Close.-Go'ne North -10,20 a.tn
and '; p.m.; Joatk'-g a.m. an O.Si
1m