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The Exeter Advocate, 1896-7-23, Page 7;FOR ANOTHER'S SAKE PRESENTATION OF THE THEORIES OF RUIN AND RESTORATION, !ugly, and now Mephibiosheth says to himself: "VI hat does the king want of me? Isn't it enough that I am lame? Is be going to destroy my life? Is he going to wreak on me the vengeance which he holds toward my grandfather Saul? It's too had." But go to the palace Mephibos- heth must, since the king has commanded it. With staff and crutches and helped by his friends, I see Mephibosheth going up the Stairs of the palace. I hear his staff and crutches rattling on the tessellated floor of the throne room. No sooner have these two persons confronted each other, Mephibosheth and David, the king, than Mephibosheth throws himself, fiat on his face before the king and styles himself a dead dog. In the east when a man styles himself a dog he utters the utmokt term of self abnegation. It is not a tertii so strong in this country, where, if a dog has a fair chance, he sometimes shows more nobility of character than some human specimens that we wot of, but the mangy ours of the oriental cities, as I know by my own observation, are utterly detestable. Mephibosheth gives the utmost term of self loathing when he compares himself to a dog, and dead at that. Consider the analogy. When the com- mand is given from the palace of heaven to the human soul to come, the soul be- gins to tremble. It says: "What is God going to do with me now? Is he going to destroy me? Is he going to wreak his vengeance upon' me?" There is more than one Mephibosheth trembling now because God has summoned. him to the palace of divine grace. What are you trembling about? God has no. pleasure in the death of a sinner. He does not send for you to hurt you. He sends for you to do you good. A Scotch preacher had the following circumstances brought un- der his observation: There was a poor woman in the parish who was about to be turned out because she could not pay her rent. One night she heard a loud knocking at the door, and she made no answer and hid herself. The rapping con- tinued louder, louder, louder, but she made no answer and continued to hide herself. She was almost frightened unto death. She said, "That's the ()filter of the law come to throw me out of my home, " A few days after a Christian philan- thropist met her in the street and said: "My poor woman, where were you the other night? I came round to your house to pay your rent. Why didh't you lot me in? Were you at home.?" "Why," she re- plied, "was that you?" "Yes, that was me. I came to pay your rent." "Why," she said, "if I had had any idea that it was you, I would have let you in. I thought it was an officer come to cast me out of my home." 'O soul, that loud knocking at thy gate to -day is not the sheriff come to put you in jail. It is the best friend you ever had come to be your security. You shiver with terror because you think it is wrath. his mercy. Why, then, tremble before the King of heaven and earth calls you to his palace? Stop trembling and start right away. "Oh," you say, "I can't start. I have been so lamed by sin and so lamed by evil habit I can't start. I am lame in both feet." My friend, we come ont with our prayers and sympathies to help you up to the palace. If you want to get to the palace, you may get there. Start now. The Holy Spirit will help you. All you have to do is just to throw yourself on your face at Mephibosheth the feet of the King, as leph bosheth Mephibosheth's caninal comparison seems extravagant to the world, but when a man has seen himself as he really is and seen how he has been treating the Lord, there is no term vehement enough to express is self condemnation. The dead dog of Mephibosheth's compar- ison fails to describe the man's utter loathing of himself. Mephibosheth's pos- turing does not seem too prostrate. When a soul is convicted, first he prays upright. Then the muscles of his neck relax, and he is able to bow his head. After awhile, by an almost superhuman effort, he kneels down to pray. After awhile, when he has seen God and seen himself, he throws himself fiat on his face at the feet bf the King, just like Mephibosheth. The fact is if we could see ourselves as God sees us we would perish at the spectacle You would have no time to overhaul other people. Your cry would be, "God, be merciful to me, a sinner!" And, again, Mephibosheth in my text stands for the sake of another. Mephi- bosheth would never have got into the palace on his own account. Why did David ransack the realm to find that poor man and then bestow upon him great fortune and command a farmer of the name of Ziba to culture the estate and give to this invalid Mephibosheth half the proceeds every year? Why did King David makesuch a mighty stir about a poor fellow who would never be of any use to the throne of Israel? It was for, Jonathan's sake. It was what Robert Burns calls for "mild langsync." David could not forget what Jonathan had done for him in other days. Three times this chapter has it that all this kindness on the part of David to Mephi• bosheth was for his father Jonathan's sake. The ' daughter of Peter Martyr, through the vice of her husband, came down to penury, and the senate of Zur- ich took care of her for her father's sake. Sometimes a person has applied to you for help, and you have refused him, but when you found he was the son or brother of some one who had been your benefactor in former days and by a glance you saw the resemblance of your old friend in the face of the applicant you relented and you said, "Oh, I will do this for your father's sake." You know by your experience what my text means. Now, my friends, it is on that principle that you and I are to get into the King's palace. The most important part of every prayer is the last three or four words of it—"For Christ's sake." Do not rattle off those words as though they were inerely the finishing stroke of the prayer. They are the most important part .of the prayer. When in earnestness you go be- fore God and say "for Christ's sake" it rolls in, as it were, upon God's mind all the memories of Bethlehem and Gen- nesaret and Golgotha. When you say be - fine God "for Christ's sake" you hold before God's mind every groan, every tear, every crimson drop of his only be- gotten Son. If there is anything in all the universe that will move God to an act of royal benefaction, it is to say "For Christ's sake." God is omnipotent, but he is not strong enough to resist that cry, "For Christ's sake." if a little child should kneel behind God's throne and should Say "For Christ's sake," the great Jehovah would turn around on his throne to look at her and listen. No prayer ever gets to heaven hut for Christ's sake. No. soul is ever comforted but for Christ's sake. The world will never be redeemed but for Christ's sake. Our name, how- ever illustrious it may be among men, before God stands only for inconsistency and ala. But there is a name, a potent A Dramatic Bible Scene --The 'Disabled Human Doul Humbled, and Restored -- The Important Part of Every Prayer --- Glories of a Magnificent Gospel. Washington, July 19.—Dr. Talmage's sermon of to -day is a vivid and novel presentation of the theories of ruin and `restoration. The Bible scene described is dramatic. His text was II Samuel ix, 1 land 13: "Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake? * * * * So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem, for he did eat continually at the king's table and was rents on both his feet." Was there ever anything more roman- tic and chivalrous than the love of David and Jonathan? At one time Jonathan was up and David was down. Now David is up and Jonathan's family is down. 'As you have often heard of two soldiers before going into battle making a cove- nant that if one is shot the survivor will ltake charge of the body, the watch, the mementos and perhapst ofe bereft fam- ily 1 ily of the one that dies, so David and Tonathan have made a covenant and now that Jonathan is dead David is in quiring about his family, that he may show kindness unto them for their father Jonathan's sake, Careful search is made, and a son of Jonathan of the dreadfully homely name of Mephibosheth is found. His ,!arse, in his Infancy, had let him fall, and the fall had put both his ankles out of place, and they had never been set. This de- crepit, poor man is brought into the pal- ace of King David. David looks upon him with melting tenderness, no doubt seeing in his face a resemblance to his old friend, the deceased Jonathan. The whole bearing of King David toward him seems to say "How glad I am to see you, Mephibosheth. How you remind me of your father, my old friend and benefactor! I made a bargain withour father a good many years ago, and lam going to keep it with you. What can I do for you, Mephibosheth? I am resolved what to do—I will make you a rich Man. I will restore to you the confiscated property of your grandfather Saul, and you shall be a guest of mine as long as you live, and you shall be seated at my table among the princes. It was too much for Mephibosheth. and he cried out against It, calling himself a dead dog. "Be still," says David. "I don't do this on your own account. I do this for your father Jonathan's sake. I can never forget his kindness. I remember when I was hounded from place to place how he be- friended me. Can I ever forget how he stripped himself of his courtier apparel and gave it to me instead of my shep- herd's coat, and how ho took off his own ,sword and bolt and gave them to me instead of my sling? Oh, I can never for- get him! I feel as if I couldn't do enough Ifor you his son. I don't do it for your sake; I do it for your father. Jonathan's sake." "So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jeru- salemr for he did eat continually at the king's table and was lame on both his feet." There is so much gospel in this quaint incident that I am embarrassed to know where to begin. Whom do Mephibosheth make and David and Jonathan you think of? Mephibosheth, in the first place, stands for the disabled human soul. Lord Byron describes sin as a charming reck- lessness, as a gallantry, as a Don Tnan. George Sand describes sin as triumphant in many intricate plots. Gavarni, with his engraver's knife, always shows sin as a great jocularity, But the Bible pre- sents it as a Mephibosheth, lame on both feet, Sin, like the nurse in the context, attempted to carry us and let us fall, and we have been disabled, and in our whole nature we are decrepit. Sometimes theologians haggle about a technicality. They use the words "total depravity," and some people believe in the doctrine, and some reject it. What do you mean by total depravity? Do you mean that every man is as bad as he can be? Then I do not believe it either. But do you mean that sin has let us fall, that it has sacrificed and disabled and crippled ourentire moral nature until we can not walk straight and are lame in both feet? Then I admit your proposition. There is not so much difference in an African jungle, with barking, howling, ,hissing, fighting quadruped and reptile, and paradise, with its animals coming 'before Adam when he patted them and stroked them and gave them names, so that the panther was as tame as the cow, and the condor as tame as the dove, as there Is between the human soul dis- Iabled and that soul as God originally constructed it. I do not care what the senstimentalists or the poets say in re- gard to sin. In the name of God, I de- 1clare to you to -day that sin is disorgan- !leation, disintegration, ghastly disfigura- tion, hobbling deformity. • Your modern theologian tells you that man is a little out of sorts. He some- times thinks wrong. He sometimes does wrong—indeed, his nature needs a little moral surgery, an outside splint, a slight compress, a little rectification. Religiin is a good thing to have; it might some day come into tise. Man is partially wrong, not all wrong. He is lame in one foot. Bring the salve of divine grace, and the ointment, and the pain extractor, and we will have his one foot cured. Man is only half wrong, not altogether wrong, In what is man's nature right?, In his will, his affections, his judgment? No. There is an old book that says, "The whole land is sick and the whole heart faint," Mephibosheth lame in both feet! Our belief of the fact that sin has sacrificed and deformed our souls in- creases as we go on in years. When you started life, you thought that man was a little marred by sin, and he was about one-tenth wrong. By the time you had gone through the early experience of your trade or occupation or profession you believed that rutin was about half wrong. By the time you came to midlife you believed that man was three-fourths wrong. But within these past few years, since you have been so lied about and swindled and cheated, you have come to the conclusion that man is altogether wrong, and now you can say with the prayer book and.with the Bible, "There isno health in us." Now you believe with the prophet. "The heart is deceitful, above all things and desperately wicked." What ever you may have believed before, now you' believe that Mephibosheth is lame in both feet. Again, Mephibosheth ' in the, text stands for the disabled human soul hum- bled and restored. When this invalid of my text got a command to come to King David's palace, he trembled. The fact was that the grandfather of Mephibos- fheth had treated David most shook - name, a blessed name, a glorious name, an everlasting name, that we mey put upon our lips as a sacrament and upon our forehead as a crown, and that is the name of Jesus, our divine Jonathan, who stripped himself of his robe and put on our rags and gave us his sword and took our broken reed; so that now, whether we are well or sick, whether we are liv- ing or dying, if we speak that name it moves heaven to the center,and God says: "Let the poor soul come in. Carry him up into" the throne room of the palace. Though -he' may have been in exile, though sin may have crippled him on this side, and sorrow may have crippled him on the other side, and he is lame in both his feet, bring him up into the pal- ace, for I want to show him everlasting kindness for Jonathan's sake." 0 my soul, what a magnificent gospel I It takes a man so low down and raises him so high i What a gospel! Come now, who wants to be banquetted and impal- aced? As when Wilberforce was trying to get the emancipation bill through the British parliament and all the British isles were anxious to hear of the passage of that emancipation bill, when a vessel was coming into port and the captain of the vessel knew that the people were so anxious to get the tidings, he stepped and shouted h ships out oh the prow of the to the people long before he got up to the dock, "Free!" and they cried it, and they shouted it, and they sang it all through the land, "Free, free!" So to. day I would like to sound the news of your present and your eternal emancipation until the angels of God hovering in the air and watchman on the battlements and the bellmen in the town cry it, shout it, sing it, ring it "Free free!" I come out now as the messenger of the palace to invite Mephibosheth to come up, I am here to -tray to tell you that God has a wealth of kindness to bestow upon you for his Son's sake. The doors of the palace aro open to receive yens. The cupbearers have already put the chalices on the table and the great lov- ing, tender, sympathetic heart of God bends over you this moment, saying, "Is there any that is yet left of the house of Saul and I may show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?" MYSTERIOUS BUILDINGS. Their Uses Have Puzzled Learned Men for Centuries.. For centuries past the ingenuity of learned men has been exercised on the Noraghe of Sardinia, but to this day they have no more been ablesto discover the origin of these famous buildings than had the Romans before them. They are unable to say whether they were used for tombs or fire temples, for trophies of vic- tory, for observatories, or merely for human dwelling places. More than 3,000 of them have been counted in Sardinia, standing on arti- ficial mounds 30 to 60 feet high, and measuring at the base 100 to 300 feet in circumference. They are usually in the shape of towers, built with immense blocks of stone roughly hewn with ham- mers. No cement ie used in their struc- ture, nor is there any inscription to in- dicate their origin. A low entrance at one side leads into a long and lofty passage, communicating hy• a very low door with the denied cham- ber beyond, On either side of this small cells have been formed in the walls. A spiral staircase,rising steeplyfrom the P� dome, leads to another but somewhat smaller chamber above,and again beyond this to the broken top of the Noraghe. Nothing has been found within these buildings, and to this day their existence is a mystery. In the same vicinity other buildings have been discovered which are no less puzzling to antiquaries. The general opinion is that they were built for the purpose of burying giants. The most interesting archaeological mysteries of this country are the Denes of Essex and Middlesex. They are per- pendicular shafts sunk in the earth with lateral caves at the bottom, but the pur- pose for which they were dug out has never been discovered. It is possible, however, that they might have been used as granaries, or even as places of refuge in time of war. The Bathes or Kerry form an interest- ing study, the only conclusion that has been arrived at, however, being that they were inhabited at some remote age by a race of dwarfs. The district is covered with hundreds of green mounds, beneath which, when the earth has beren removed, it is seen that there are tiny underground buildings. • A small opening, ,through which a man is barely able to crawl on his hands and knees, gives access to the inclosed and walled -in space beyond, which is divided into several smaller chambers. Each one communicates with the''other by a small hole, a similar aperture being made in the outer wall for the purpose of ventilation. A rude fireplace is some- times found in a remote corner, but no outlet beyond the holes for ventilation is provided for the smoke. Very little more than this is known about these mysterious habitations.—London News. Fish That Enjoy a yawn. It° is not generally known that fish yawn. The writer saw a turbot yawn twice, and a cod once—the latter being one of the widest yawns accomplished by any animal of its size. The yawn` of turbot, being something not commonly seen, deserves more par- ticular description. A terhot's mouth is twisted on one side, rather as if it had belonged to a round fish which some one had accidentally trodden on and squashed half fiat. The yawn begins at the lips, which open as if to suck in water. Then the jaws become distended, and it is seen that this is going to be a real genuine submarine fish's yawn. But the yawn goes on, works through the back of its head, distending the plates of the skull, and comes out at the gills, which open, show the red in- side, are inflated for a moment, and then, with a kind of stretching shiver of its back, the fish flattens out again, until, if unusually bored, , it relieves itself by another yawn.—Spectator. HINTS TO CYCLISTS. Things a Woman Should be Careful of When Purchasing a Wheel. It may be said that this summer of '96 will see more women cyclists than any previous year, and as the time has fully arrived when orders for machines will be given, a few hints on the choice of a wheel and other matters pertaining to cycling will be found useful. The question of weight in connection with women's" wheels has recently received more attention at the hands of manufacturers than ever. before, and the consequence is reliable machines may now be purchased, fitted with brake, mud guards, dress guard, and gear case, at just about thirty pounds weight. A woman, unless she be particularly strong, should not have her machine geared to more than 56 inches, or at the most, 60 inches. The hack wheels of women's wheels are usually 28 inches or 20 inches in diameter, and a very simple rule for ascertaining the gear is as follows; Take the diameter of the back wheel and multiply by the number of teeth on the bracket chain wheel, divide the result by the number of teeth on the ring of the back hub—which:is. often seven—and, the result is obtained, Forinstance, the gear of a machine with ten a 28 -inch back wheel and a fourteen - tooth bracket wheel and seven -tooth hub ring would be 56 inches, and if fitted with a fifteen -tooth bracket chain wheel 60 uncle:. In selecting a machine a woman should see that the handle -bars and saddle can be so adjusted as to enable her to sit perfectly upright; nothing looks worse than to see a woman adopting what our male friends know as the "scorcher" attitude, Large makers build machines in more than one size and exceptionally short and exceptionally tall ladies should have machines built lower and higher respectively in the frames than standard patterns. • The pedals should be rubber and not all steel,the latter with their sharp points being more liable to catch in the rider's dress. Pedals to suit the width of foot can of course be selected. A really first-class wheel by a leading firm will cost nearly $100 or perhaps a little more, but, of course, inferior machines can be purchased for about half this amount. There are several little things a rider should be particularly careful about and one of these is the application of the brake The brakes are usually those which act on the tire, and should conse. 'fluently not be too suddenly applied, or they will probably tear the tire. Of course, a gear ease or chain -cover of some kind is indispensable to a woman's wheel. When an old -retaining gear -case is fitted, not more than a tablespoonful of oil should be put into it, for, if more, the oil will be sure to leak out, and the probability is the rider will find traces of it on the lower portion of her dress, and this, to say the least, would be annoying. Although oil -tight gear -cases ate adver- tised, it is almost impossible to make them so in a detachable form. A woman will find it very ,convenient to mount from the curbstone, and wlil thus be enabled to properly arrange her dress. Sometimes this method of mount- ing is impossible, A woman will Ven do well to allow one of the pedals to ascend toits fullestheight and descendend the merest trifle, and then, placing one foot on the pedal in question, spring into the saddle, the weight of her body on the pedal necessarily causing the machine to go forward. When well going, it will. only be necessary to slightly raise herself in the saddle, actually standing on the pedals, and the dress will fall as it should. This will be found to be a per- fectly easy accomplishment with a little practice. A woman should neither sit too low nor too high. Her saddle should be suffi- ciently high to allow the foot to easily touch the under portion of the pedal when flat and at its lowest extremity.— Philadelphia Telegraph. A Great Pull. Hennessey—That pian going there has the greatest pull in this town. Dumleigh-That's so? What is he, a dentist or a politician? Hennessey—Neither. He has invented a stretcher that will, really straighten pants which are bagged at the knees.-- Cleveland nees.-Cleveland Leader. ' In the West. Drawback Dick—I don't see why they're makin' such a fuss about hossless wagons inthe east We've had 'em out west as long as I kin remember Mr Effete—Really! What do they run with? Drawback Dick—Mules.—ban Fran. Disco City Argus High Gear for Bicycles. Advocates of high gear will be deeply interested in the wheel that has been transformed by Mr. Hewitt, says a New York paper. He has taken an ordinary Victor roadster and made a sprocket wheel 14 inches in diameter, with forty- four teeth. The material used was a cir- cular saw, perforated to lighten it, after the fashion of the usual Victor sprockets. The rear sprocket wheel is about the size of the ordinary sprocket, with sixteen teeth. This gives him a gear of seventy- seven, and renders hill climbing, in his experience, a great deal easier. An improvement in pedals is the sub- stitution of wooden end plates in place of the steel, and covering the surface where the foot touches the pedal is ordi- nary rubber matting, making the sue- face urface perfectly plain and fiat. He has in. teniously devised a front hand brake, which, as seen ' by the illustration, at. tadhes to the front hub and is worked the same as the ordinary brake. These changes are not likely to become popu- lar on account of the extra expense, as Mr. Hewitt's outfit would increase the cost of the ordinary bicycle about $100. A WOMAN'S MESSAGE. CONYEYIN(G WORDS OF HOPE TO THE AFFLICTED. Had Suffered From Heart Trouble and Liver Complaint, Which Wrecked Her Nervous System --Is Now As Well As Ever. From the Carleton Place Herald.. Truth, it is said, is sometimes stranger than fiction, and in no way has this phrase been better exemplified than in the plain unvarnished statement of Mrs. v. H. Edwards, of Carleton Place, to a reporter of the Herald a raw weeks ago, Mrs. Edwards is well known in. this town, having lived here for nearly twenty-five years. The story she related we will give in her own words. She said: "In July of 1894 I was taken ill with fever, caused by blood poisoning, and laid hovering 'between life and death for eight weeks. After the doctor succeeded in breakng up the fever, my heart began to trouble me, jaundice and liver com- plaint also set in. I could not sleep and my nerves were terribly unstrung. ng• Dur- ing my illness, after the fever left me, I was attended by no less than three doe - 'ors, but their medicine seemed of no avail, as I lay for months in a terribly emaciated condition and never expected to be around again. This state of affairs lasted until about Christmas, when a friend suggested to me to try Dr. 'Wil- liams' Pink Pills. My husband precured a few boxes and I then began their use, although with but little confidence in them, By the time I had used three boxes I began to feel a little better and began to get an appetite. This encouraged me to persevere in the use of the pills, and I still continued to improve. I began to sleep well, my heart ceased to bother me and my nervous system which had received such a fierce shook was again fully restored, My liver trouble also disappeared, in fact I became almost a new creature, I now feel as well as I ever did in my life. I have used 'in all eight boxes and still continue to take an occasional pill if I feel any way de- pressed. Yes," she said, "I am thankful to think that I tried Dr. Williams' Pink Pills,beeause I believe no other medieiue could have so effectually built me up. I am perfectly willing that *is simple statement of mine should be published, and hope some poor suffering creature may see it and be restored to health as I was." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills make pure, rich blood, thus reaching the root of disease and driving it out of the system, curing when other medicines fail. Most of the ills afflicting mankind are due to an impoverished condition of the blood, or weak or shattered nerves, and for all these Pink Pills are a specific which speedily restore the sufferer to health. These pills are never sold in any form except in the company's boxes, the wrapper round which bears the full name "Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale Peo- ple." All others are counterfeits, and should always be refused. Get the genu- ine and be made well.. Getting Serious. Johnnie's Ma—What are you home for so early? Johnnie—Teacher suspended me. Johnnie's Ma --What for? Johnnie—'Cause I said the Skooter wheel was no good. Johnnie's Ma—But what's that got to do with your suspension? Johnnie—Why, teacher's just bought a Skooter.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. The front wheel encounters the "buffs" and the "bings," The bruises, the bumps and the hol- lows; And the rear wheel encounters the very same things, For it, of course, naturally follows. And don't forget to turn to the right in meeting, and to the left in passing someone going the same way you are. Don't forget that to be a gentleman is even greater than to be a wheelman. "All nests is grass," but with the deaf man it's "hey?" Vote for good roads men. All the Sarno to Him. "How much fur a photograf?" he queried, as he entered the room at the head of the stairs. "My dear sir, you have made a mis- take," replied the occupant of the office. "This is a dental office, while the photo- grapher is next door." "Oh, you pull teeth?" "Yes sir." "How much?" "Fifty cents apiece." "Well go ahead and yank out one or two. It's about the same to me," Another Old Notion Exploded. The old-fashioned notion that to keep warm one had to be loaded with a suc- cession of garments till the weight of them was a serious burden and one felt too bulky to move, has been exploded. The age of common sense and comfort has arrived, when a man can adapt his clothing to suit all weather without swathing himself up like a mummy. Fibre Chamois, the interlining which makes this possible, has gained its great popularity because it is an absolute non- conductor of heat and cold. No breath of cold or frosty wind can penetrate it from without, neither can the natural heat of the body escape through it. And it is so light that clothing may be inter- lined with it all through without its adding any perceptible weight. Out of Sorts.—Symptoms, Headache, loss of appetite, furred tongue, and gen- eral indisposition. These symptoms, if neglected, develop into acute disease. It is a trite saying than an "ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure," and a little attention at this point may save months of sickness and large doctor's bills. For this complaint take from two to three of Parmelee's Vege- table Pills on going to bed, and one or two for three night in succession, and a cure will be effected. Thankful. Perry Patettic—The Lord is purty good to the human race, even you and me, Wayworn Watson—I'd like fer to know how? "Well, for instant, in making us so we kin swaller our beer down. S'pose we had to go to the exertion of swallerin' up, like the horse does water?"—Cin. cinnati Enquirer. - There never was, and never will be, a universal panacea, in one remedy, for LATEST MARKET REPORTS, Toronto, July 18—We had 54 loads, all told, on the market to -day, including, over 2,000 hogs, between 700 and 800 lambs and sheep, some 50 calves, and a few milkers If there was any change in the cattle trade it was for the weirs°. Ex- port cattle are only bought to fill space on steamers already contracted for, ' and prices ranged from 3% to 8%c per pound A load of extra fine cattle, averaging 1,350 pounds, sold at 3 iec, and another good load, averaging 1,2'75 pounds, sold at 3i40; trading was very slow at around these prices,with arc the top figure. In butchers' cattle the same conditions ruled as on Tuesday last; a few choice stallfed cattle sold at 31,c, and occasionally a shade more, but the ordinary stuff, was unchanged (if not little weaker) in price, and slow at sale; still good butchers' cat - tie may be called wanted. A load of heifers, averaging 1,040 pounds, old at 3e per pound, and $10 bank; a load of cattle, averaging 1,030 pounds. sold at 2c; and a load, averaging 1,060 pounds, sold at 2%c and $5 added Sales were very slow, Milkers are in light request at from $20 to $28 each. Bulls are un., changed, and not much enquired for at from 2? to 3 1-8o per pouhd Lambs and sheep were in ample sup- ply; lambs at from $2.25 to $3 each and sheep were quoted at 240 per pound for bucks, and 3 1-8c per pound for ewes Both choice lambs and sheep are wanted Calves are unchanged at from $1.50 to $4 Only prime calves are in demand Hogs sold well this morning at steady prices, as on Tuesday. For prime "sing- ers" $3.30 per 100 pounds was paid; choice hogs sold at $4; thick fat, $8.50; stores, $3.50, sows, $3; and bogs, $2 per 100 pounds. All grades will go at around these prices, all ills to which flesh is heir—the very nature of many curatives being such that were the germs of other and differently seated diseases rooted in the system of the patient—what would relieve one ill, ru turn would aggravate the other. We gave, however, in Quinine Wine, when ,btainable in a sound unadulterated state, a remedy for many and grievous Ms. By its gradual and judicious use, the frailest systems are led into convales- aeuce and strength, by the influence which Quinine exerts on Nature's own restoratives It relieves the drooping spirits of those with whom a chronic Mate of morbid despondency and lack of Interest in life is a disease, and, by tran- quilizing the nerves, disposes to sound and refreshing sleep—imparts vigor to the action .of the blood, which, being stimulated, courses throughout the veins; strengthening the healthy animal functions of the system, thereby making activity a necessary result, strengthening the frame, and giving life to the diges- tive organs, which naturally demand increased substance=result, improved eppetite. Northrop & Lyman of Toronto, have given to the public their superior Quinine Wine at the usual, rate, and, gauged by the, opinion of scientists, this wine approaches nearest perfection • f any in the market. All druggists sell it, PRODUCE. Eggs—Rather easy, but unchanged, at 9e for five -case lots, and 9fo for single cases. Stocks are heavy, and demand rather limited. Potatoes --Market weaker, and receipts very liberal. Canadians are quoted at 30 to 50o per bushel. A great deal of the stock is very small. Americans are quoted at $1.25 per ten -peck barrel. Poultry—Turkeys are quoted at 9 to 12o per lb.; geese at 7 to Sc per lb.; chickens, 30 to 60e per pair; and ducks, 60 to Silo per pair. Hops—Easy. Choice, 1896 growth, are quoted at 8 to 9e, and wind-blown sam- • pies at 5 to 6e. Apples—Country lots are quoted at 5e for evaporated and 3c for dried, delivered here. Dealers sell small lots at 334e for dried and 6c for evaporated. Beans—Hand-picked white offered at 70c per bush and ordinary at 60e. Maple Syrup—Five-gallon tins sell as 70 to 75e per imperial gallon; gallon tins at 80e; and half -gallon tins at 45e. Honey—Dealers sell at '7,3,4o for 60.lb. tins, and 8c for 10 -lb. tins, for new honey. Baled Hay -Quiet, but dealers are holding strictly No. 1 at $13 and above. Straw—Car lots on track are quoted at $8. DAIRY PRODUCE. Butter—Unchanged, with a tendency to easier prices unless the demand in- creases. Round lots of dairy rolls were sold to -day at 12e, but these were good stook. Present quotations are: Dairy, tub, choice, 11 to 120; do. low grades to medium, 7 to 9o; low grades to med- ium, 7 to 9c; large roll, it to 12o; pound prints, 12 to 130; creamery, tubs, 15c; pounds, 12 to 16o. Cheese—Quiet, and in small lots; deal- ers are selling new at 7 to 7e4,c and old at about 8e. The demand is limited. Perth, Ont„ July 18.—To-day 1,520 boxes of cheese were brought into Perth,. all white; mostly all sold; ruling price, 6 11-16c Three Montreal buyers were present BREADSTUFFS, ETC. Wheat—Western markets had an ad- vance to -day of about 1c on crop dam- age reports. In the local market the feeling was firmer, but prices were no higher, owing to limited demand Mani- tobas offered at yesterday's figures, 661,4o Toronto and west, and 6714c, Montreal and west, for No 1 hard Ontarios were about the same Red offered at 63c, with 02c bid outside, and white at 64c, with; 63e bid. Flour—Quiet, and about the same Straight rollers, middle freights west, are quoted at $3 10 to $3.15 and patents at $3.20 to $3.30. Peas—Feeling is steady. Car lots, north and west freights, are quoted at 45c and east at 4Sc. Oats—United States markets were active and about 1c higher to -day on crop damage reports. Locally the feeling is firmer. Mixed sold this morning at 1734c and white at 18e, west, but this. afternoon mixed is held at 18e, and white at 19c. This aferuoon 1834c was bid for white, west, Corn—Crop about all out. United States markets stronger on account of crop damage. Buckwheat—Nominal. I ' Wheat, white, per bush ....$ 00 $ 69 Wheat, red, per bush 00 66 Wheat, goose, per bush,, 48 50 Peas, common, per bush48 50 Oats, per bush... 21 23 Rye, per bush s•. 48 48 Barley, per bush 31 31 Buckwheat 36 40 Ducks, spring, per pair..-. 40 90 Chickens, per pair 40 60 Geese, per lb 06 08 Butter, in 1 -lb. rolls 11 13 Eggs, new laid 9 10 Onions, per bush30 30 Turnips, per bag, by load- 15 20 Potatoes, per bag 20 25 Potatoes, car lots 13 15 Beaus, per bush 90 1 00 Beets, per bag 30 55 Carrots, per bag, by load.- 20 25 Parsnips, per bag 40 50 Apples, per bbl 1 75 2 00 Hay, timothy 13 00 00- Straw, sheaf 9 00 11 0(i Beef, hinds 06 07' Beef. totes 02 03• Spring lambs, carcase, 3 00 6 00. Veal, per lb 04 Mutton, per lb 04 06 Dressed hogs 5 00 5 50 UNITED STATES MARKETS. East Buffalo, July 18.—Cattle—Re- ceipts very light, only two loads; there was no life to trade, and the bulk of cat- tle were unsold Veals were in moderate supply; demand fair; prices firm; good to choice, $4.25 to $5; common to fair, $3.75 to $4; heavy fed and buttermilks, $2 25 to $330 Chicago, July 18—Hogs, 22,000; left over, 3,000; light hogs active and stronger; others weak to 5c lower,; light, $3 30 to $3 60; mixed, $3 10 to $8 40; heavy, $2 85 to $8 30; rough, $2 85 to $8., Cattle—Receipts 5,000 including 2,000 Teans; best natives steady; other cattle weak to 10c lower; beeves $3 40 to $4 45; cows and heifers $1 25 to $4; Texan steers $2 50 to $8 70; stockers and feed- ers $2 25 to $3 60 ' Sheep --Receipts 11, 000; weak to l0c lower.