The Exeter Advocate, 1897-8-19, Page 3WHITE.RIE3BONED WOMEN
Wroth All Parts of the World to Meet in
Convention at Toronto.
Arrangements for the meeting of the
?representative women of many lands are
pregressing rapidly, and interest and
enthusiasm are deepetting me all hands.
;Miss Slack, secretary of the World's
:Union, has sent out her official call for
the convention, and delegates' names (we
•pouring in from all parts of the globe.
Indications are that from our sister
-colony of Australia a very large delega-
tion will attend. ,Among the Australian
•delegates will be a number .of organizers.
• Mrs, M. E. Kirk, general secretary of
the W. C. T. U, of Victoria, .Australia,
will be a delegate. Mrs. Kirk is now in
.Loudon, where she will attend the an-
nual meeting of the British Weaport's
'Temperance Association, and later will
'visit the United States on her way to,
Cauada. Lady Windeyer, National Super-
intendent of the Department of Franchise
in the Australla,n W. C. T. U., has al -
Toady sailed erona Australia, a large and
zepresentative gathering of the W. C. T.
U. bidding her farewell and presenting
her with a basket of elegant flowers and.
-useful gifts for her journey.
Lady Windeyer's home is in New South
Wales, where she has always been a Lady
Bountiful, nelping many and varied.
enterprises,including the Woman's Col-
lege, Deserted Children's Home, Home
for Consumptives, etc. She will be
.warmly welcomed as a guest of the
World's Coaven Mon.
Mrs. L. M. N. Stevens, vice -president -
•at -large of the National W. C, T. 17,
who is a fraternal delegate to the Brit-
ish Woman's Temperance Assoolation,
-which met in London, Englandan June,
.will be tendered a reception by the Uni-
ted Kingdom Alliance. Sir Wilfrid Law-
son, Mr, James H. Rapier and many
leading members of Parliement ana of
the temperance znovement will partici-
pate in the welcome to Mrs. Stevens.
Mrs. Stevens will return to America in
August, and will attend the World's
:Convention, at Toronto.
On Wednesday. October 20th, the
Dominion Upton will start its business
In the Pavilion, Toronto. On Thursday
.evenieg there will be a meeting in Mas.
•sea Music Hall, under the auspices of
the Dominion Union, when Miss Wil-
liatd nod Lady Henry Somerset will
speak Ou Friday evening a banquet will
be tendered the delegates of the World's
Convention. It will be a unique welcome
to the distinguished guests, when ad:
olresses of welcome will be given by
•prorainent Canadians, and responses will
be made by the notable women, who are
members of the convention, A limited
number of banquet ticket e will be issued,
while gallery tokens may also be pro -
oared. The Chairman of the Entertain-
ment Committee Le Mrs, Hilborn, 74
Brunswiek l'venue. For Saturday, Mon -
•day and Tuesday evenings the programme
7111 be ateanged by , he Wo-ld q officers,
FRANC S E. WILLARD.
'These meetings will be held in the
Massey Musics Haall, and the committee
feel that it 7111 be taxed to the utmost
.to accommodate the throngs who will be
anions to hear these renowned women.
On Sunday afternoon, in Massey Hall,
Lady Henry Somerset will preach the
.convention sermon. Owing to the great In-
terest in the gathering of White Ribboners
from all parts of the globe, a request has
been made for reserved seats, and the
Hall Committee, whose Chairman is Mrs.
Wilson, 5 Lowther avenue, will reserve
:seats for the four evenings—Thursday,
.Saturday, Monday and Tuesday.
The third biennial convention met in
London, England, in 1895,and the Royal
Albert Hall, which seats 10,000, was too
:small to accommodate the crowds. In
ecoming to Toronto, the convention is
bringing many celebrated people, who
have never visited Toronto before, and
'the Queen dity will doubtless bid them
most heartily welcome to Canada.
Miss Agnes Slack, who is Secretary of
:the World's W. C. T U., is not unknown
to Canadians. ltlany have pleasant mem-
ories of the cultured young English wo-
man who lectured in •many places last
Autumn aeal will be glad to welcome
her again. She is a young woman of
Ability and independent means who has
had excellent advantages of education.
tlei For several years she was the close Com-
• panion of her. brother and sharea his
interest in politics, .As she grew up she
became more and more interested in the
great questions of the day, particularly
in all that eoncerned the welfare. of the
poor and • unfortunate. She is a very
.active worker in the Woman's Liberal
Association in England and a member of
• the National Executive of that Society.
When she became convinced of the need
or women's work on Boards of Guar -
'diens, she 'offered herself for election
to a local board, and though it was con-
sidered rather a bold step on her part,
• the electors returned her. For the last
-three years she has been returned agaiii
at the head of the polls. This was the
reward of her close attention to the work
• And her tact in carrying it on.
Miss Slack is also. a meneber of the
• Executive Committee of the Central
•:Suffrage Society in England and Home
Secretary of the British Womans' Tem-
• perance Association. She is best known
As a speaker on temperance and politi-
cal platforms. •Her visits to' prisons and
Workhouses in all parts of England have
helped to make her an out and out tem-
perance reformer. For this reason she
now devotes her time chiefly to forward-
ing the interests of the World's W. C. T.
• Faith Fentoninterviewed Miss Slack
When she was in the city last winter
•and to the question whether she did not
• regret the responsibilities she had
•Assumed and the work these involved,
Miss Slack answered thoughtfully. "A
few years ago, when first entering upon
this werk, I was cynical and self-asser-
tive, dictatorial and disposed to demand
that every one • should walk in my way
and see as I saw. 1 may be thatway
yet," she interpolated with a smile,
"but since I have sounded the depths of
human degredation in my Poor Law and
prisou work, life has opened •oat to a
fulnesait never would bave done other-
wise. Only as wo give OM' sympathies
width do we grow like God."
WHITE RIBBON MOVEMENT.
•
A Statement and an Appeal From the Pre.
sident, Vrances wivara.
Many letters are received at the Head-
quarters (in Chicago) of the White Rib-
bon movement,' asking about its °Men,
history, and methods of work. It has
therefore been thought best to publish a
deolaratiou of principles formulated by
the President, Miss Frances E. Willard,
ooverina, the most feequeut questions.
In part it is as 'follows:—
"We believe that God created both man
and woman in bis own image, and there-
fore we insist upon one standard Of purity
for men and women, and believe in the
equal right of all adult members of fie-
oiety to hold opinions and to express the
LADY Iliceate $0martSaa.
same in the bone, on the platform, in
the pulpit, and at the ballot box.
"We believe in a living wage; in an
eigbt-hour day; in courts of conciliation
and arbitration; in justice as opposed to
greed of gain.
"We solemnly promise to abstain froni
all distilled, fermented, and malt liquors,
including wine, beer, and oldenas bever-
ages, and to employ all proper means to
discourage the use of and braille in the
same."
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union is an orgaolzatiou of Christian
Women banded together for the protec-
tion of the home, the abolition of the
liquor trailie, and the triumph of Christ's
Golden Rua. in Custom and in Law.
It is the lineal taacemiant oi' the great
"Woman's Temperance Crusetie" of
1873-74.
In la eaufeer, 1873, under the inspire,
tion of ci temperance address delivered
by Dr. Die Le,vis, or Boston, the women
of Hillsboro, Washington Courb House,
and other Ohio towns were moved to
e Inverted action against the saloon, They
garaere.i in the streets topray, and
nutrolau two by two into the dramshops.
They besot:mit the men who drank, and
the men who sold, to cease to gratify the
appetite for stimulants and the appetite
for gain, and invited them to move bn
with the procession, as it ended its day's
work at the altars of God, where the
women knelt in consecration and count-
less tempted 11)071 in repent:one and
faith. In fifty days this whirlwind had
swept the liquor traffic out of two hun-
dred and fifty towns and villages.
Mrs. Eliza J. Thompson, a Methodist
lady, wife of Judge Thompson, of Hills-
boro, who has been known for many
years as "Mother Thompson," and who
has recently given to the world an In-
spiring record of those early days, led
the first Crusade Band. "Mother Stew-
art," of Ohio, 'stands besides Mrs.
Thompson and by herelong and devoted
services is the central figure of the Cru-
sade. 'Mother Stewart" introduced the
white ribboa work into Great Britain.
Hillsboro is called the "cradle," and
Washington Court House, where Mrs.
George Carpenter, wife of the Presbyter-
ian pastor, led the way, is called the
"crown of the Crusade, and its chief ex -
pension was from the last-named lo-
cality. The first local union was organ-
ized in Fredonia, N.Y., December 15,
1873. Mrs. Raohel McNeil, of that vil-
lage was the first president of a local
union.
The saloon itself was found to be but
the outcropping of the liquor system;
that system was protected by law, and
embedded In the way heart 'of our gov-
ernmental life. The powers controlling it
soon rallied from the shock of the wo-
men's sudden onslaught and intrenohed
themselves even more strongly behind
their barricades, political and legal. The
argument of defeat and the logio of
events soon forced the women to enlarge
the circle of their work until at should
include not only "mental suasion for the
man who thinks and moral suasion for
the man who drinks. but legal guasion
for the drunkard -maker and prison sua-
sion for the statute -breaker."
At the last National Convention the
paid-up membership was reported as
147,656, but this by no means represents
the full number enrolled. There are
e50,000 white-ribboners in the United
States, with a direct following of as
inany more, besides as many children
and thousands of "Brothers-in-law" and
"Brother }lepers."
The national motto is, "For God and
Home and Native Land." The badge Is
a knot of white ribbon, and was adopted
in the convention of 1877.
The teysting hour -is the noontide hour
of prayer, when each white-ribboner, the
world over, is expected to lift her heart
to God in prayer for his- blessing on the
work and workers, and for the overthrow
of the liquor system and its allies, the
gambling system and the house of
shame.
The Red Letter Days are: January 8,
Mothers' Dar (the birthday of Mrs. Yeo-
mans); March 20, Prohibition Rally Day
(birthday of General Neal Dow) April 3,
Sabbath Observance Day; September 22,
World's W. C. T. U. Day; September 28,
Membership Crusade Day (birthday of
Frances E. Willard); December 28, An-
niversary of the Crusade..
The W. C. T. U. exists Poi: the pur-
pose of educating the young, forming
better public sentiment. reforming the
drinking classes, transforming by the
power ot divine grace those who are en-
slaved by alcohol, and securing the en-
tire abolition of the liquor traffic.
• It has, also, through the clear vision
which has come to its membership of
the basic: unity of all reform forces and
the interrelation of each evil with other
evils. widened its scope until there is no
wrong against which It has not lifted,up
Its voice, nor good, with which it is not
alld,
irlieenare admitted as houorary m
e
m
-
bers, not as full members, because we
believe the need which celled for a sepa-
rate organization still exists. If, in the
good day toward which we are hasten-
ing, woman is to take her pl tce side by
side with man in ell of life's relations,
she rellAt fie herself for that position. '
Under the six chief beads are grotmed
various eel:art:pews, each one in :Marge
of a patioael superintendent. The total
number of depertments is 40; of 4f:fill-
eted interests, .8; standing committees,
7; of 'arenelms, 2'. A bratioh is one dee,
gree higher than a department, its super-
intendent behig, ex-ofedo, a member of
the National Executive Committee.
The World's W. C. T. U. is comPosed
of the unions of the various nations
where the white -ribbon work is known,
and Was founded in November, 1883. It
Is organized in forty nations, with a
total membership of about half a million.
•Chiefly instrumental in its establishment
have been our "Round -the -world mis
sionaries," sent forth by the National W.
C. T. U. of the United States: Mary Clem-
ent Leavitt, of Massachusetts; Jessie A.
Ackerman, of California; Dr. Kate 0.
Bushnell and Elizabeth Wheeler An-
drews, of Illinois; Alice R. Palmer, of
Indiana; Mrs. Jeannette Hauser and
Mrs. Mary Phillips, of India; and Mary
Allen West. of Illinois, who died at her
pose, hi Japan. Miss Clara Parrish, of
Illinois, has started as seventh mission -
area and has begun her work in Japan,
and Mrs. J. K. Barney, of Providence,
R.I., has accepted a similar conamissiou,
beginning her work in Australia this
spring.
Its officers are: Frances E. Willard,
President; Lady Henry Somerset, Vice -
President: Agnes E Slack, Secretary;
Anna A. Gordon, Assietant Secretary;
and Mrs. Mary E, Sanderson, Treasurer.
Three °olive/Woos have been held in
Faneuil Hall, Boston, U.S.A.., in 1891;
at tho World's Fait in Chioago, Ill., in
1898; in Exeter, Queen's and Royal Al-
bert Halls, London, England, in 1895.
The next convention will le held in
Toronto, Canada, October 20-02, 1897.
The Polyglot Petition, with its seven
million names and attestations of great
societies, is addressed to the governments
of the world, askiug them to do away
with the manufaoture of and traffic; in
alcoholia. liquors and opium and the le-
galization of impurity. It has already
been presented to the President of the
United States and to Queen 'Victoria,
and its journey around the world will
probably be undertaken in the near fu
tu.
Perhaps no society has ever done more
"honest, hard work" with less money
than the W. C. T. U. Its object is home
protection: its methods are unseotarlan I
its history is one long record of heroism
in the rank and file; its motto is, "For
God and Hume and Native Land."
Who will help as in those Trying times
to do more mad better work? Who will
remember as by subscriptions and be-
MISS AGNES &atm
quests? We appeal to all Christians,
patriots, and lovers of humanity. The
White Ribbon Movement means organ-
ized mother -love. Will you not help it to
stretch out arms of sympathy and shelter
to the heartbroken, the tempted, and the
forgotten?
Dominion W. C. T. U. Directory.
President—Mrs. Annie 0. Rutherford,
74 Brunswick .Ave.'Toronto.
Vice -President at large—Dr. Amelia
Yeomans, 249 Garry St., 'Winnipeg,
Manitoba.
Cor. Secretary—Mrs. Emma Atkinson,
Moncton, New Brunswick.
Rec. Seeeretary—Mrs. R. W. McLach-
lan, 55 St. Monique St., Montreal.
Treasurer—Mrs. Roberta Tilton, 37
Gloucester St., Ottawa.
Auditor—Mrs. Alison Scott, 26 Albert
St., Ottawa.
VICE-PRESIDENTS (EX -OFFICIO).
Mrs. Thornley, 843 Dundas St., Lon-
don, Ont.
Mrs. Sanderson Danville, Quebec.
Mrs. Chesley, Lienenburg, Nova Scotia.
Dr. Amelia Yeomans, Garry St., Win-
nipeg. •
Mrs. Alex. Lamb, New Westnainister,
British Columbia.
Mrs. D. McLeod, Newcastle, N.B.
Mrs. 0. W. Strong, Summerside,
Prince Edward Island,
Heroic Treatm-nt.
On one occasion Lord Norbury observed
an attorney of doubtful reputation tout-
ing in the dock for business and deter-
mined to make an example of him. Just
as the attorney was climbing over the
rails of the dock ink) the court his lord-
ship called out:—
"Jailer' one of your prisoners is escap-
ing. Puthim back." '
Back the attorney was thrust, and the
following colloquy ensued:-.-
" My lord, there is a mistake here, I
am an attorney."
"I am very sorry, indeed," said Lord
Norbury, "to see one of your profession
in the dock."
"But, my lord, I ani innocent."
"Yes, they all say that," was the
judge's reply. "A jury of your fellow -
countrymen must settle it."
"But, my lord," exclaimed the now
desperate man, "there is no indictment
against me."
"Then " ,said his lordship, "you Will
be put back, and if no •one appears to
prosecute, you will be discharged by
public proclamation, at the and of the
assizes,"—,London Telegraph.
An DI -Timed Call.
The New Pastor—Good morning, my
dear child. Is your mamma at home?
Willie—Yes, sir, she's at home, but
I'm afraid the consolations of religion
will be „thrown away on her to -day, sir
"Dear me, and why so?"
"She's having trouble with her jell-
rINEST WRITING KNOWN. LATEST 'MARKET REPORTS.
ThAlgemarnable rnssibilities writing. ,
on Glass With a Diamond. ,
e I
The wildest dreams of fine postal *aro
writing fails to be of iuterest when ooea-
pared witn what has beeo written on
glass with a diamond point. So marvel -
(lusty fine are the marks that leave been
traced on glass that when, by means of
a powerful microscope. we clearly read
the words covered by a sPecle when Seen
with the naked eyeat is difficult to real-
ize the fulness of tha fact presented, says
the New York Herald.
• Think of legible writing so ilne that
twenty copies of the entire Bible can be
written in the narrow space of one
square loch! Particular attention was
called to this strange foot by Stephen
Helm, a member of the New York Mic-
roscopical Society and a fellow of the
Royal Soolety of Loudon.
"The account of the wonderfully fine
writing produced by Mr. Charles S.
Mounter on a postal oard is very interest- '
ing," said Mr. Helm, as he sat by his
microscope, evitla a bit of glass in his
hand that showea a blaok ring in its
center about the size of a silver three -
cent piece. "His accomplislunent is quite
wonderful, but it is nothing oorapared
With what is on this glass.
"That is the Lord's prayer," said Mr.
Helm. "It contains 227 letters, and is
written within the five hundredth Dart
of a square inch. In other words, the
space it covers is •one -twentieth by one
twenteafifth of an inoh, and. five hundred
Of such spaces are coutaiued within the
bounds of a single square inch, which at
the same rate, would contain 113,500
letters. Look at it and read the words."
The bit of glass was adjusted under
the microscope, and there, in good, plain
writing, was the Lord's prayer. As I
read the lines a single spook of dust that
floated. unobserved before our eyes settled
on the glass and obsoured the entire
prayer,
"This writing is not regarded by
microscopists familiar with minute forms
as anything wonderful," said Mr. Helm,
"but the postal card story makes it of
general public interest. Now, look at
this slide."
The glass slide referred to was similar
to the other, and within the little black
circle marked on it there was no mark
to be seer, with the oaked bye or with
the strongest band magnifying glass.
"You can see nothing there," con-
tinued Mr. Helm, "neither can you
under an ordinary microscope, but the
same prayer is written there as on the
other glass, only, as compared with the ,
other, the space is as a New York city I
lot compared, with a Duehess County
farm. Look at it under the strongest
power my microscope is capable of."
There it was, the Lora's prayer, in the
same handwriting as the other—both
being done by Professor Webb, of the
Royal Microscopical Society—but ever
so :emelt smaller.
"The larger writing, as 1 have told
you," said Mr. Hean'"covers a space
measured by one -twentieth of an inch
one way and one-teventy-fifth the other.
This one covers a space measured 1.13,
ene-five-hundredth part of an inch in one
direction,and one -six -hundred and fifty-
third part, of an inch in the other direc-
tion. In other words, it means that with
writing of that size 74,115,500 letters call
be placed in a single square inch. The
force of this is easier comprehendedwhen
we remember that the Bible contains
3,566,480 letters, which means that the
•entire Christian Scripture can be written
legibly, twenty dines repeated, within
the space of a single square inch and
have considerable vacant space left.
This wonderful minute writing, which
requires a microscope maenifyiug 600
diameters to inake it readable, is pro-
duced by inoving the hand and forming
the letters as in ordinary very fine writ-
ing. Tbe pen that is used is conueeted
with a series of lovers that reach a dis-
tance of six feet, evleare is placed the
glass slide to be written on. These levers
are so adjusted that the amount of mo-
tion is lesseued as it travels along the
successive levers, until, 'when it reaches
the delicate end arined with a minute
diamond that rests on the glass surface,
it is reduced to the required fineness.
Hydrophobia.
Dr. Woods believes hydrophobia to be
a mimetic disease caused by expectant
dread. In Italy peasants used to fear dire
consequences from the bite of the taran-
tula, and fell when bitten to dancing
with "delirious grotesquerie." Now,
when they have ceased to think much of
the tarantula, they are bitten again and
again with impunity.
As for Pasteur's method of cure and
its general effects grave doubts are ex-
pressed, and certainly it is a curious
thing to discover that sinoe it has been
widely discussed hydrophobia has in-
creased. The year after. Pasteur practiced
his preventive, for instance, the deaths
from hydrophobia in Paris leaped at once
from 4 to 24. Fifteen hundred persons
were reported oured by this scientist.
In this number were included in 1893
1,400. Frenchmen—more persona in
other words, than have died of it in a
ceutuey in the United States.
Hydrophobia, a disease contracted from
the rabies of animals, does, however,
exist. That it is rare has been proved,but
the most efficacious remedy for it when
It does appear may be found in frequent
vapor baths—seven will do the work—
the perepiration excited carrying off the
poison in the system.
Those of us who are timid will do.well
to learn to distinguish certain symptoms
of rabies. A mad dog, for instance, does
not, as is properly supposed, dread water.
He is, on the contrary, apt to try and
plunge all his head to his eyes in it. He
does not froth at the mouth. "If a dog's
mouth is covered with evhite froth, that
dog is not mad." A thick, brown, ropy
substance clings to the mad dog's mouth.
The mad dog, again, never runs about
in agitation. If a dog barks, yelps,
whines or growls, he is not mad.
An immense amount of suffering and
of cruelty as well will be saved for those
of us who bear in mind these hints.—
Harper's Bazar.
Torouto, A,ug. 16.
BREADST UFFS, ETC.
Wheat—Outside markets were rather
easier to -day, but the local market was
steady. Twenty pars of red wheat, north
and west, sold. at 76 to 77o, With exporter
bidding 76c, at the close, rather less than
at mid-day. Red wheat, middle freights,
is quoted at 77o, and white at 78c. Man -
Robes are held above an export basis.
No. 1 hard, afloat, Fort William, is quo-
ted at 880 asked, and No. 2 at 86o asked.
No, 1 hard, milling in transit, sold t
day at 99e.
Flour—Very firm. Millers ask 24. Ex-
portere are willing to pay $3.75 for
straight roller,in barrels, middle freights.
MIllfeed—City mills quote $11 for
bran, and 212 for shorts, ton lots, at the
Car lots of bras, west, are quoted
at 29, and shorts at 211 and 211.50,
Oatmeal—Car lots of rolled oats, in
bags on traok here, are quoted at 28 to
$3.10.
Peas—Nominal. Holders ask 45e,
north and west, and exporters bid 43o.
Rye—Car lots new rye are quoted
west at 88o, and east at 40e.
Oats—Quito a feve odd oats pffering
Car lots of white oats, north and west,
were bought to -day at 22a and mixed at
21o,
Corn—Car 'lots, Chatham. quoted 0
27o bid for yellow, and 280 asked; offer-
ings very light.
Buckwheat—Nominal,
Barley—Nominal.
PRODUCE.
Eggs—Unchanged and quiet.. Ten -case
lots of candled stook sell at 93,ac, and
singles at 9ea to 100; new laid, 110.
Poultry — Nominal. Quotations for
breght stook are: Turkeys, 10 to 11o;
geese, 8 TO 9o; thicker:a, 40 to 600; and
ducks, 50 to 80o.
Potatoes—Supplies are only fair and
demand is aotive. New were on sale,
out of store, to -day, at 60 to 650,
,Beans—Dull. Hand-picked white beans
bring 65o, less commission, for single -bag
lots. Round lots sell at 60o, less commis-
sion. Common beans sell at 85 to 45o.
Apples—Exporters are enquiring for
both dried and evaporated. Offerings
light. Dealers quote small lots gm:data&
here at 8o for dried, and 43.10 for evapor-
ated. Round lots of evaporated, choice,
outside, will bring 40.,
Baled Hay—New hay is arriving in
liberal quantities on the street, The On-
tario erop will be large, notwithstanding
the damage by rain. No. 1 new hay, on
track, is quoted at SS to 28.25, and dam-
aged at $5 to $6.50, Old bay, choice, is
emoted at 210,
Baled Straw—Car lots of oat straw, on
track, are quoted at $5 to $5.50
DAIRY PRODUCE.
Butter—The demand here is running
principally on dairy and creamery
pounds, and, extra dairy In crooks also
sell fairly web. Exporters are still pick-
ing up creamery boxes outside, and offer-
ings here are kept light. Local commis-
sion house prices are as follows: Dairy,
tub, poor to medium, 7 to 9a; choice.
1234,e; large dairy rolls, 12 to 14o; dairy,
crooks and pails, 183.a to 13a; small dairy,
roils, 12 to 14o; dairy, pounds, prints, on
ice, loo• creamery, tubs, 17aate; creamery
boxes, 1:73a to 18o; and oreamery,pounds,
18 to 19o.
Cheese—Steady. Small lots of new
makes sell at 90.
CHEESE -MARKETS.
Perth, Aug. 16.—Cheese brought into
Perth cheese market to -day amounted to
340 boxes, all white; ruling price paid,
8.30; three buyers for Montreal firms
were present.
Iroquois, Aug. 16.—At the meeting of
the cheese board to -day 581 boxes colored
and 283 boxes white were offered, and
8 5-80 was bid, but there were no sales.
Brantford, Aug. 16.—At the Brantford
cheese market to -day 0,625 boxes of cheese
were boarded; July and August makes;
sales, 10e boxes, at 83ao; 155 boxes, at
8 5-10o; 950 boxes, at 8 7-160; 270 boxes,
at 8aeo. Next market Friday, August
27th.
THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.
Awfully Bad Wine.
When a firm of wine merohants start-
ed business many years ago they sent the.
then Load Derby a dozen of sherry,which
they represented as being a specific' for
the gout, to which His Lordship was a
martyr. Lord Derby replied: "The Earl
of Derby presents his compliments to
Messrs. —, He has tinted the sherry,
and prefers the gout."
He Won liter.
She—If you have loved me for the last
four years, why did you not propose be-
fore?
He—I thought you were too young to
marry.—Detrolt Free Press.
_
Toranto, Aug. 16.—At the Western
market to -day we received 86 loads, in-
oluding 700 hogs, 1,100 sheep and lambs'
and 20 calves.
There was a good demand for export
cattle, and buying was brisk, prices
ranged from $4 to $1.35 per 100 pounds,
and for choice. as high as $4.50. The
majority of sales were made at prices be-
tween 24.25 and $4.85 per 100 pounds.
Butchers' cattle were in fair demand,
and prices were steady. Quite a few buy-
ers from Montreal and other outside
points were present, prices ranging; from
2eec per pound for inferior stuff to Seale
per pound for choice selections; enedium
stock brougbt from 3 to 31-80. Fat cows
were in fair demand at from 2aa to
3 3 8o, picked from 83e to 3 7-80.
Stockers were scarce, and there would
have been a good market for more than
were offered. Prices ranged, from 3 to
334c per lb.
.Export bulls were slow at 3 to 3c;
and extra choice 34e per pound.
There were very few milkers on the
market, and prices were anohanged at
from $20 to $40 each.
Wheat, white new ........ 00
Wheat, red, per bush • 00
Wheat, goose, per bush00
Peas, common, per bush._ 00
Oats, per bush .... 00
Rye, per bush 00
Haney, per .. . 00
Ducks, spring, per pair 40
i cleans, ;.er 30
Geese. per lb..... . .... 08
Butter, in lab. rchls 15
Eggs, new laid..... .... 00
Potatoes, per bag.. 00
Beans, per bush ..... 75
13eets, per doz • 09
Parsnips, per doz 9
Apple, per bbl 40
Hay, timothy. 10 50
Straw, sheaf. ..... • 8 00
Beef, hinds 6
Beet, fores • 3
Lames, carcase, per lb
Veal; per lb 6
Mutton, per lb 5
Dressed .hogs ..... . 6 50
82
81
70
46
29
33
27
so
50
09
16
10
25
85
10
10
1 50
11 (
45)
08
4
10
7
750
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
East Buffalo, • Aug. 16.--Cattle—Re-
ceipts, 3 cars; there was a fair demand,
and all were sold at about steady former
prices. Hogs—Receipts, 06 cars, which
included 6 cars held over; the market
opened stronger and ruled firm llD to the
close; good to choice Yorkers, 24.20 to
$4.25; light Yorkers, $4.25; mixed pack-
ers' grades, 24.10 to $2.15; medium
weights, 24.10; heavy hogs, $4 to $4.10;
roughs, $3.40 to $3.60. Sheep and lambs
—Receipts were more liberal for the
time of the 'week than for a month past;
trading, however, for lambs was slow,
but sheep also suffered a light decline;
lambs, yearlings, choice to prime, 24.25
to $4.50; fair to good. 24 to $4.28.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL.
LESSON VIII, THIRD QUARTER, INTER
NATIONAL SERIES, AUG. 22,
Text of the Lesson, I Cor. 911, 1-13-1efeme
ory verses, *-7—Golden Text, I Cor.
xill, 13—Commentary by the Rev. D. )L,
Stearns.
I. "Though I speak -with the tengues of
men and of angels, and have not love, I
ion boo= as sounding brass or a tinkling
cymbal." It is said that this is the only
thapter in ail Paul's epistles in whiab he
does not =eaten Jesus in one or other of
His titles. But it is e portrait so wonder-
ful that one menet fail to recognize the
likeness even without the puree. The first
threeverses set forth love versus propheciee,
tongues, lertowleclge, faith, goods, eto. All
are nothing apart from lova but Jesus
combined all in Himself, and He spoke
with more than tongues of man or angels.
See Isa, 1, 4; Math. via 28, 29; xiii, 51;
Luke iv, 22; John vii, 15, 46.
2. "And though I have the gift of proph
eoy and understand all mysteries, and all
knowledge, and though I have all faith,
so that I could remove mountains, and
have not love, I am nothing." Ile foretold.
all things. In Him are hid all the trees -
ares ef wisdom and knowledge, and He is
the author and finisher of our faith (Mark
xi% 23; COI, 11, 3; Ifeb. xii, 2). Apart
from or severed from Him we can do noth-
ing (John xv, 5), but through Him, or He
through us, can do all things,
8. "And though I bestow all my goods
to feed the poor, and though I give my
body to be burned and have not love, it
profiteth me nothing." Be actually gave
everytbing, all the glory of heaven, and
became so poor for us that He often had
not wbere to lay His head, and. He gave
Himself a saorifice for as that we might
by His blood be saved, and then eat Him
and live, and it was from first to last love
to God mid to us (John vil, 52, with yin,
1; Luke ix, 58; 1 Cor. viii, 9); also (Ex.
xi!, 8; John vi, 56, 57; Phil. li, 8; Gal.
il, 201. c.). When this great love of His
constrains as or takes bold of usas a burn-
ing fever, we will reflect Him.
4. "Love suffereth long, and is kind.
Love envieth not; Iove vauntata not itself,
Is not puffed up." His patience, kindness,
eoutentroent and humility. Never was
this love seen perfectly on earth except in
our Lord Jesus. Oh, Jesus, Masten give
me tbis love! Love passive, love active,
love to those in tbe same work, love at
Jesus' feet, willing to be used in any way
or set aside, willing to be used to open
some one's eyes and then to be washed off
into the pool. Delighted with Christ,
wholly occupied with Him, and fully
yielded to Him.
5, "Doth not behave itself 'unseemly,
seeleeth not her own, is not easily pro-
voked, thinketh no evil." The R. V. says,
"Is not provoked, taketh not account of
evil," He never pleased Himself, nor
sought His own will nor glory, but did al-
ways those things that pleased t/ae Father
(Rom. xv, 8; John v, 80; vi, 88; V111, 29).
When oppressed and aillicted, He opened.
not His mouth. When reviled, He reviled
not again. When He suffered, Be threat-
ened not (Isa. lila 7; I Pea 11, 23). There
is no way to live this life, evbich every
Christian ought to live, except by yielding
to Him that He may live it in as. If we
are willing, He will do it.
"Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but re-
joiceth in the truth" has no part in nor
fellowship with that which is evil. Nei-
ther does evil, nor tolerates it in others, but
loves the truth, lives the truth and speaks
the truth. He said, "I am the truth."
The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of truth.
God Is the God of truth (John xiv, 6; xvi,
13; Isa. lxv, 16). He desireth truth in
the inward parts (Ps. lvii, 6), and wben
He who is the truth has full control it
will
7.13"eBeevaernets,
h0all things, believeth all
things, lopeth all things, endureth all
things." In meekness suffers as in the
sight of God, and for Christ's sake puts up
with everything, believing that all things
are from God and for our sakes to accom-
plish His blessed will until Ho come. Un-
complaining, unresisting, ineekly yield-
ing, sineply trusting, having confidence in.
God and seeing Jesus only.
8. "Love never faileth, But whether
there be propbecies, they shall fail; whether
there be tongues, they shall cease; wheth-
er there be knowledge, it shell vanish
away." Whatever else may cease with our
sojourn here love shall not cease. Every
prophecy shall be fulfilled and prediction
be no more needed. There shall be one
language as before Babel, and all our pres-
ent knowledge of the future bt swallowed
up in the sight and enjoyment of the ac-
tual realities, while love shall be known,
manifested and enjoyed as never before.
God is love, and be that dwelleth in love
dwelleth in God and God in him (1 John
iv'16).
9, 10. "For we know in part and we
propbesy in part. But when that which is
perfect is come, the that which is in part
shall be done away." We may know much
now, butwe shall know more bereafter,
for "if any man think that he knoweth
anything, be knoweth nothing yet as he
ought to know" g Cor. yin, 2). The child
of God in this world has not w.hat he will
have, is not what he will be, sees not what "
heli.11,,viseten
I was a child, I spake as a
child, I understood as a child, I thought
as a child. But when I became a man, I
put away childish things." Be refers to
some phases of the talk of little children
in chapter iii, 1-5, which are often met with
today. All talk that savors of church or
denominational pride, or that boasts of
what we do, or of what we are, is niere
childish prattle baby talk. But.with this
difference, wbile the children's talk may
be innocent and ever attractive, the baby
talk of Christians is positively sinful. The
cure for all such tbouglets and words is
found in Isa. lv, 7-9. Let the thou
and words of God take the place of s
And as we are filled with them ours a al
he crowded out.
12. "For now we see through a glass
darkly, but then face to face. Now I know
In part, but then shall I know even as also
ram known." All our knowledge 'here is
but partial, and I believe that when we
shall be at home with the Lord, even the
most familiar words from His book will
• then open to us with a breadth and length
and depth and height of meaning that we
never
drcanill enow doN01.
3abideth faith, boPe, love,
• these three. But the greatest of these is
love." Heb. xi is tho groat faith chapter;
Rom. viii is the great hope ohapter, and
this is bo great love chapter. The love of
God to us is the greatest thing WO ever
heard of, and His love to others manifest
through DS is the greatest service we can
render, But we most also remember that
"without atith it is impossible to please.
Him " (lIeb. xi, 6), and also that the hope,
Is the great porifior of our lives (I John,
iii'3). There are no contradictions here;
but we must take the whole testimony and.
put It before us to see the whole truth,