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The Exeter Advocate, 1897-10-7, Page 7IJEJII OTTAYA bTTR. THE ONTARIO GOVERNMENT'S LUMBER POLICY. Sardy Sae Done His Worst-, 11Ir. Whitney's Strong Campaign ---No Credit to Boss -- Tho Bonding Privilege Not to be Inter- fered With. [From Our Own Correspondent,] Ottawa, .Sept, 28.—At long last the people. of Ontario have been favored with an announcement of the intentions of the Hardy Government in respect of its timber policy. A short time ago, a depu- taeion of Ontario lumbermen asked the Government to enact that all timber cut in Ontario be manufactured within the province. John Charlton, who, to use a theological phrase, nets as the "devil's advocate" whenever Canadian interests aro apposed to those of the country of his birth, mado a strenuous speech, in which he implored the Administration to treat the United Statesers with every consid- eration, and to make no change in the laws governing the sale of timber. There were many speakers on the other, or pros Canadian side, and a resolution was passed by a very large majority impress. ing on the Hardy Government the deslr ability of protecting Ontario's interests. It may be remarked that the proceedings were fully reported in the newspapers, for the Canadian lumbermen had noth- ing to conceal from their follow-oitizens. But the American mill owners bad not shot their bolt, A few days afterwards a deputation of lumber barons from Michi- gan sought the ear of the Government. They were introduced by Mr. Charlton and the Ministers heard them in camera, that is to say, no citizen of Ontario was admitted to the Council chamber to hear a discussion concerning the rules govern- ing the sale of an asset which by birth belongs to Him and to all other Ontario- ans. Behind closely tyled doors the Americans conferred with IiIr. Hardy and his colleagues. Not a word concern- ing tbe discussion was mado public. The Michigan visitors emerged from the Council. Chamber with satisfied faces, Two days afterwards one of thorn in a newspaper interview, expressed his con- fidence that the Ontario Government would adopt no restrictive legislation. To tell the truth, the Conservative and Independent press of the province pro- nounced this announcement to be pure bluff. It was nos considered possible that her.. Hardy would commit such a blunder as to permit the taking the bread out of the mouths of hundrees of Canadian workingmen. The newspapers were mis- taken; the eliohigan friend of Mr. Hardy was shown to have been right in bis prognostication. The Provincial Govern- ment announced that no eliange would be made in the regulations save to make it necessary for the Americans to pur- chase their supplies in Ontario and to employ only Canadian workmen. On the face of it, the latter enactment may seem to be a small move in the right direction. As a matter of fact, it means nothing .at all. The men aro at work in the lum- ber woods in tbe depth of winter. They are far from any post-offioe, and they do not carry any evidence with thein to show their nationality. The Canadian looks very muoh like an American, and the Canadian, because he is living in his own land, needs no papers to show -where he was born. Nothings will be .easier for the Yankee workman who is .earning the money of Yankee employers, to pass himself off as a Canadian. By a miserable subterfuge, born of inoompet- enoy to govern, the Hardy Administra- % time has done the people of Ontario an incalculable degree of harm. This letter es not written for Liberals—at least, it is not written from a Liberal view -point, but, now that the mischief is done, I have no hesitation is saying that, had the Hardy Government adopted a pari .olio, pro -Canadian timber policy, they -would have made the campaign of Col. Whitney muoh more difficult. Men who formerly voted Liberal, and who are now :going to vote Conservative, would have said: "Well, Hardy has made many mistakes, but this action of his makes amends. lie has shown himself to be a Canadian first." Mr. Hardy bus lost the opportunity of his life. He does not seem to know, or if he does, he.ismore blame- worthy than ever, . that ninety-nine per ,cent. of the population of Ontario desires to have our timber sawn in this province. Be has denied tho request of the Ontario lumbermen and has given ear to the Tfitlanders from Michigan. The Algoma Pioneer gives us word of the immediate ,consequences of this volte-face of the Eardyites. Only two saw -mills, says the ]?ioneee, aro In operation between Sault ratite. Marie and French River. These are T:yrnent's mill at Thessulon, which has a capacity of 40,000 feet daily, and the .,Spanish Hever mill. The mill at John Island had a contract to cut twelve mil- lion feet of lumber, a job which would have required four months to complete. 'The agreement has been rescinded, and the timber is being rafted across the lake to Tawes, Miob. • With the two ex ceptio'ns which have been mentioned, the ontiro lumber cut of the North Shore is being ratted across the lake and being sawu in Michigan .mills. The abomina- tion of desolation is over the district. It is estimated that 4,000 men will be directly effected by being thrown out of work, while two or three times that atuotber of persons will indirectly be auade to feel the effect of the diminution in toe amount of money earned and spent in the district. Maerdy Has Done His Worst. The Hardy Government bus done its worst, but there is still hope. At the last session of the Dominion Parliament the Laurier Government was given power to impose an export duty on saw -logs and , pulp -wood. It was believed at the time that the Federal Administrationwould not be slow to avail itself of the permis- sion. The American ' Congress, by means of the Dingley bill, had done all in its power to injure Canada. It had gone so far as to insert in its tariff pro- vision for a potential bonus to American lumbermen who'should take American;` bands into Canada to work in Canadian lumber:rnills. The lumber out by these wen goes into the . United States free of f duty. This, of course, is a tacit acknow- leugment that the American forests are being depleted and that the Yankees are being compelled to go abroad for timber. ',Ube plan of Dingley,. Chandler, et. al,, was to have the money earned in Canada taken into the United States. To a an of either nationality, who should be asked to pronounce upon the foots of the case, the apathy of the Clanadian Gov- ernment would seem amazing. He would be told by both parties that Canada need have no hope of surcease of American antagonism to us. The "greet peoplo to the south of us," have done us all the harm in their power. Wo need fear no greater degree of unneighborly treatment from them, for their resources in that direction have been fully eabansted, One would think that the Dominion Minis- ters would be quick to not, The reverse is the case. Wo have heard from but two Members of the .Government on the Uni- ted States policy issue. The Premier bas told the Board of Trade of the City of Montreal that he still hopes to obtain some measure of reciprocity from the Auicrioans. His faith is exceeding. He has before hien the words of Mr. Ding - lay, Who said to a Canadian interviewer last Is'ebreory that the question of patri- otic reciprocity would never be consider- ed by any American Governmennt, Sir Wilfrid also has the Dingley tariff, in all its complete protectionism, before hien. But, though he has already been rebuffed he proposes to go once more to Washing- ton to sus for the favor of the hostile nation. The burgesses of Calais, in the days of the Third Edward, Nbi'o no more abject in their suit. And they represent - a. defeated people, while 'Sir lfillfrld Laurier, Ie, 0.(1.11L, has annoueed that ho is the founder of the Canadian na- tion, free and undivided, The sneaking love of this Government for the band that bus spurner them is inexplicable,' Israel Tarte has told us that he "loves" the Americans. leis attitude is more easily to be understood than is the atti- tude of others of the Government, It is not so long since Mr, Tarte paid a visit. to Charles A. Dana, the world's most violent bitter of all things British. Mr. Dana had to do with the organization of the Commercial Union campaitrn which the then Mr. Laurier engineered in 1891. Mr. Dana had lots of noonoy to spend in tho good work, and Mr. Tarte visited him shortly afterwards. "For, whereso- ever the oaroase is, there will the eagles be gathered." And the Liberal evaugel of love for the Americans is being pre:tubed again by orator and the mob of Liberal gentlemen who write with ease. The Globe, having excommunicated with bell, book and candle, the Liberal newspapers that have shown signs of budding independence, now shouts loud- ly for toleration of American injustice. At the same The Globe omits to state that when it owners were using it as an engine to push their raid on the treasury, it was partieularly denunciatory concern- ing eertein United States railway pro- moters who were suspected of rivalling Messrs. Jaffray and Cox in their attempt to put their Crow's Nest deal through. The shady work has been completed and tlio Mr, Pcoksniff of Canadian journal- ism now puffs out its ohest and says: "Be honest—when it pays—and you will be happy." The greatest event of the paitical year has been the fall from grace of the newspaper that George Brown made apower in the land. It has become a money -making machine, and, of the many ways of making money, its is a manner that many mon would be slow to adopt. 3i r. Whitney's Strong Campaign. The campaign that Lieut. -Col. J. P. Whitney is making, is strong and effec- tive. Never before have the mistakes and the incompetence of the anon who rule in Queen's Park, Toronto, been shown up so successfully. Col. Matheson, the financial oritio of the Opposition, has done exceptionally successful work in showing how the Administration bas been conducting the government of the province on borrowed money, and on money taken out of capital. It is no in- sult to the people of this province to say that for many years they have been ignorant of the manner in which their interests were being subverted by their governors. In the past the Government has been successful in covering up its tracks, but deteotion bas now overtaken it. Since 1872, when the Liberals assumed office, the total receipts of the Ontario Governmennt have been $79,495,807, The expenditures for the same period have totalled $83,0.67,2'75, leaving a de- ficit of $8,571.468. The province owes $4,899,183 for railway subsidies and an- nuities. Nearly twenty-eight million dollars worth of timber bus been sold, in many oases to close friends of the Gov- ernment. The latest plan for recognizing the valuable services of many of its sup- porters upporters is to band over hundreds of thousands of acres of mineral lands. Mr. J. K. Kerr, of Toronto, and his associ- ates in the Engledue "steal," Mr. Whit- ney aptly dubs it, can tell, and they 'will, just bow these deals aro worked. It is evidently not enough for the Govern- ment to mortgage this province's assets forty years ahead. It now hands ever mineral lands which, if properly admin- istered, would produce enough wealth to allow a Government as extravagant oven as the present is to return to the muni- cipalities the enormous sums that have been appropriated from township and county councils. The main reliance of the Hardy Administration is its army of officials. These are to be depended upon to,do the "inside" work of the Govern- ment in the next election. It IA to be their duty to intimidate, to coerce and to cajole the electors. They may be de- pended upon to do their work well, for their positions depend upon their sec cess. Mr. Hardy also looks to Ottawa for aid. He hopes the Dominion Ministers will instruct tne Federal employes in On- tario to make an active campaign on behalf of Mr. Hardy. These gentlemen, Mr. Hardy thinks, should nob be allowed to vote, but he wants their aid jest the same. The Conservative:;, avben in power here in Ottawa, gave every man a iree hand. The bonier and .hardy Govern- ments have signed a treaty whereby their respective employes are to emu as. actiru combatants for either or both of them. No C.cc;a. (0 Ettets.. The hind wheels of the Hardy (Mario; are Hon. G. W. Rose, ex -Minister of ,Education, the man who once said in the Legislature that be would explain 'the workings of his department: when he liked, and only when he liked. Mr. Ross is in the habit of boasting about, the. efficiency of our Public and High school systems. He takee credit to himself for the superior intellectuality and receptiv- ity of 'our. boys aid girls. It is not amaz- ing that Mr. Roes should claim this su- perior mental development, for it is the custom of himself and his colleagues to claim everything in sight. It would he a pretty poor school 'oration which would. all to make good citizens out of the boys and girls of Ontario. What credit there is, is due to the children themselves, who. want to learn. But Mr, Ross tries to make us believe that the success of the young people is the result of his manage- ment of his department. The . school teaohers of the province do not agree with him in this. They know that many of the children pursue education under the greatest difficulties and handicaps. They know that the parents of the ohildren are compelled by licensed mon- opolists to pay double prides for their sohool books. These wealthy men have scoured the monopoly from the Adminis- tration, and are growing wealthier every day at the expense of the public, Mr. Ross has stated that he will consent to no change in the system. It is satisfac- tory to bine, he says, and the peoplo will have to submit to tt so long as he re- mains at the head of the Departinenb of Eduoatiou. When the members of the Op- position demand a vote of . censure, the party whip cracks, and the Liberal vot- ing -machines, most of wbom know right well that the system in iniquitous, enter the chamber and uphold the hands of Czar Ross. The only way to get rid of Mr. Ross is to throw him out. And thrown out ho and his fellow -Ministers will be. so soon as the people have a ohance of going to the polis. The num- bered ballot, by means of which the Gov- ernment can tell how any elector voted, will be of no avail in next election. The men who feared to vote against the Gov - eminent in years gone by know now that after the next election there will be no Government to fear, All that the Whit- ney Administration will desire will be honest criticism. Tbey will do right, and will expect to be supported solely on that account. Hooding Privilege Not to be Interfered With, Certain Liberal newspapers, always the apologists for the American govern- ment, point'with pride to the recent de- liverance of ex -Judge MclKenna, the United States Attorney -General, oonoern- ing the celebrated Clause 23 of the Ding. ley tariff. The Attorney -General has de- cided that goods taken into the United States through Canada under Consular seal are not liable to the extra ten per tout. of duty provided for by the clause.. It will be remembered that this clause was smuggled into the tariff, although several members of the joint committee of the two houses of Congress stated that they were aware of its insertion. It is said that the clause was "smuggled in" by these gentlemen,—who all come from far Western States, at the instigation. of California steamship owners and railway magnates. However, as has been stated, the Attorney -General has said that the Canadian bonding privilege is not to be interfered with, wherefore the aforesaid Liberal editors extol the charity of the United Mates. The truth about the mat- ter is that the feeling of the New Eng, land States concerning the question war so strongly adverse to the interpretation of the clause in the manner at first sug- gested, that the Attroney-General was compelled, as a matter lamely of poli- ties, to take the view which he has taken, The rejoicing on the part of the Liberal press is not justifiable, for the United States will think twice before abrogating the bonding privilege, They gain quite as much from it as we do. And its abrogation would be another stone in the citadel of Canadian nation- ality. How Iceland Was Discovered. According to Pliny, Iceland is an island in the northern ocean disoovered by Prytlieas (884-322 B. C.)." A colony from Britain is said to have settled there in the beginning of the fifth cen- tury. The Venerable Bede gives a pretty accurate description of the island. We must therefore conclude tbat Iceland was known in the seventh century, but tho Ireland chronicles go no further bank than the arrival of the Norwegians. They relate that /sledded; a famous Norwegian pirate, was driven on the ooast of Ice- land in 861. He named the country Snowland. He did not remain long. but on his return so extolled the country that one Garder Snafarfn, a Swede, sailed quite around the island in 864 and gave it the name of Garden's island. In the following spring be returned to Norway, when he described the country as being pleasant and richly wooded. This excited Ploke, another Swede, to undertake an- other voyage thither, and be staid there the whole winter. . He described it as a wretched place, and because be found a great deal of ice on the north side he gave the country the name of Iceland. The island was finally settled by Ingolfr In 874, within 60 years of which date the whole island was inhabited. Lovers in the Western States. "Do the girls here give gold models of their little fingers to 'their fiances?" asked the Western girl of the Gothamite. "Heavens, not" answered the Gotham- ite. "It seems to me that that is a rather gruesome souvenir." "Not at al)," answered the Western girl. "It is decidedly dainty, and I'm a little surprised that New York is so far behind the times The lad started in this way. When the daughters of one of our big Western politicians was six months old he had a model of her little finger oast in gold. Around the little dimpled digit is a ring of turquoise, which is her birth stone, and it makes a lovely charm for her betrothed's watch -chain. He valued it r.o much that it set other men thinking, and the result is that as soon as a girl wraps one of these chaps around her own little finger sufficiently for a proposal to follow, he immediately insists upon a gold fac-simile of the flesh and blood original. It is a pretty conceit, and is being followed by every Westerner who is in subjection to somebody's little finger." Untrained Minds and Unworthy Hooks. A. healthy body undoubtedly conduces to a healthy condition of the mind but it does not produce intellectual activity The only way to accomplish intellectual results lis to work the mind, Hard work of any kind is never easy—it may be satisfying and exhilarating, but not easy. When you really work your brain you know it; even to concentrate your atten- tion to begin a task is a serious effort. Many wise workers say that when you have learned the power of concentration you have solved the problem of effective intellectual work. That is the first stum- bling-blot:lc that the person who does not habbtnalb;- zeal books, even for recrea- tion, encounters. It is so difficult to pin your attention to the printed page, for you think or things nearer at hand with which you are famillar. But, a sensational novel captures the uneasy attention sooner than more thoughtful books; therefore, peoplo of untrained minds are the greatest devourers of un- vvorthy books. — "Drooh" -in Ladies' Home Journal THE LISTENER. Isase F. Bassford of Helene, Mon., le probably the oldest inventor in the world. He is 07 years old. Denman Thompson is . living on his farm in New Hampshire, and be says be has no notion of acting any more. Sir Henry Irving bus a double in the person of Professor Burden Sanderson, the most eminent physiologist in England. Dr: Sandersini is the older man. George C. Boldb of the Waldorf hotel, New York, is an enthusiastic 't'housand Talan:ler. He owns two islands in that region—viz, Heart island, five sores In di- mensions, and fern island, of one acro. George S. Deakins of Rowlosburg, W. Va., a surveyor, has the compass and the instruments which belonged to his grand- father when, with Washington, be sur- veyed the road from Alexandria to the Ohio. When Seth Low was a sohoolboy in the Brooklyn Polyteebnio institute, he ac- quired a local Miro' as an amateur actor of no mediocre ability; his pars do resist- ance being that of the hero in the "Mer- chant of Venice." Representative I3ailoy of Texas when a boy was considered lazy, but he had his ambition awakened by the character of Ishmael Worth in Airs. Southworth's "Ish- mael, or In the Depths," and dates bis career from the reading of that novel. To a reporter who recently asked him to take part in as spannei:nu on "How to Blake .Honey," Phil Armour, the Chicago millionaire, replied; "Young roan, put It dowel that the Armours don't know how to make anything but sausages, and that they never answer fool questions." Edward H. Neff of New Philadelphia, 0., who has a local reputation as au ex- pert worker in wood, recently sent to Pres- ident McKinley a small table of his own make, containing over P3,000 pieces of wood. Tho wood was taken from the bomes or tombs of presideuts and others prominent in national History. Tho Rev, D. Parker Morgan, rector of the Church of the Heavenly Rest in New York, is a practical farmer and is an ex- pert judge of choice cattle. His friend General Thomas L. James says that "Dr. Morgan nut only knows how to raise vege- tables, but he knows the difference be- tween a Jersey cow and a Texas steer." Ex -Senator McConnell,wbo has been ap- pointed Indian inspuotor, has had a varied career in pnlitios, and when he represented the new sotto of Idaho as her first senator his lung speeches are said t0 have driven Seuator George F. Edmunds into private life. He bus been by turns a miner, n stook raiser, a merchant and a banker. He has lived in Nevada, California, Oregon and Idaho. Si Mohammed Ben Mousse, the giant Moor sent as the chief of the Maroocan mission to Queen Viotoria's jubilee, never reached London, having gone road in Paris on bis way there, and then having been sent home. His madness took a very queer form. He thought he was Montjar- ret, the chief outrider wbo precedes the president of the Frcnoh republic on state occasions, and insisted on being dressed in livery, with riding breeches and high boots. A CENTURY AGO. Imprisonment for debt was a common practice. Every gentleman wore a cue and pow- dered his lair. An old copper mine in Oonneotiout was used 00 a prison. Tbere was only ono bat factory, and that made cocked hats. Virginia contained a fifth of the whole population of the country. Two stagecoaches bore all the travel be- tween Now York and Boston. A gentleman bowing to a lady always scraped his foot on the ground. Tho Mississippi valley was not so well known as the heart of Africa now is.. Vaccination bad not become popular, and smallpox was an everyday disease. All tbo population of a village assem- bled at the inn on "post day" to hear the news. . Editors begged their subscribers to pay up; if they bad no money, to send in wood, cheese, corn or pork. The church collection was taken in a bag at the end of a pole with a bell at- tached to arouse sleepy contributors. Quinine was unknown. When a man had ague fits, he took Peruvian bark and whisky.—New Orleans Times -Democrat. OVER THE WATER. Even if it does not topple over, the Spanish throne is likely to be unsteady enough to make the occupant seasick. — Chicago Post. Japan would do well to save up that China nest egg. She may be paying in- demnities herself before many moons,— Cleveland Plain Dealer. Poor Spain! She bas been sowing vari- ous sorts of wind in widely soattered fields for four centuries and now she is reaping many kinds of whirlwinds all at once.— New York Press. The country with wbiob England desires to arbitrate need have no fear. It is the small country which is not in the arbitra- tion olass that will do well to look out when John Bull is in a reaohing out mood.=New York Journal. Russia and Turkey have bad more or less to do with the disturbance in India, and it is altogether possible that the ameer bas surrendered himself to Russian con- trol, but it is doubtful if either of these powers contemplates more than a counter movement against Great Britain at Con- stantinople and along the upper Nile.-- Baltimore ile.-Baltimore American. , GLEANINGS. Icebergs somtimes last for 200 years. Tea is gathered from the plant four times a year. It is estimated that greater quantities of gold and silver have been sunk in the sea than are now in circulation on earth. It is said that if ail the cotton raised in Texas were made into one shirt, the gar- ment would fit a man 20,000 miles tall. Observations to determine the duration of sunshine in Europe showed that Spain bas the most sunshine and Scotland the least. The game of golf is said to have been in- vented in ancient times by a lonely abep• herd who had: nothing bettor to do than to knock round stones into a rabbit bole with his crook. ' The mountain region of Tibet is one of the few places on the earth where poly andry still prevails. A wife is regarded as property, and 'is -so expensive that only a wealthy man oan have one all his own. Ordinarily a woman becomes the wife of several husbands. LATEST MARKET REPORTS,. Toronto, Oot. 4. B.READSTTTFP'S, ETC. Wheat --Outside markets were firm this morning, but eased off towards the close. Prices here were about steady - Rod wheat, north and west, . was quoted 54 70e, and middle freights at 77o, though there was not much buying at these figures. Exporters were inclined to hold off, No. 1 hard, afloat Fort William, was quoted nominally at 92e. Flour --Dull and easier. Holders ask $4.10 for straight rollers, -in barrels, middle freights. Millfeed—Quiet. Ton lots of bran at the mill here, $8,50, and shorts, $10.5e.. Car lots of bran, middle freights west, &7, and shoots, - $0. Peas—Quiet. Odd ears, north and west sold to -day at 411 to 47o. Oats—Quiet. White offered to day at 23c, north and west, and mixed at 22o. There were some few sales at those lig- UM,. Rye—Quiet and unchanged. Car lots, west, sold at 42c to -day, and east were offered .at 44e. Tho ley—Choiee malting, barley- wanted. One lat of 5,uu0 bushels, outside, sold at 37,e; No. !a is quoted at 31 to 32c; and No. 3 extra at 27e. Feed, 24e. Coen—Easy. Holders ask 30e for ear. lots of Canadian corn, Chatham. • PRODUCE. Eger—Still firm, at 113 to 16c for ellen e. No. 0 are quoted at 12e. Some pieletee are now being exported. Potatoes—We.tker, and selling on the street at 40 to 00e, and loads, and 50a, ear lots, on track. Too many in at ]iresen t. Poultry—Dull and easier. Chickens are atoned at 1.15 to 50c; and ducks at 45 to flue. Leans—Choice band -picked white beans are quoted hero at 80 to 85e, and com- mon at 50 to 60e. Apples --Dealers here quote small lots of oltf, dried, at 4 to 5c; evaporated at 5 t0 Oe. Hops—According to newsamples choice are worth about 10 to 12o. Ba.h'd Hay—:lot muoh offering. For No. 1 values bold steady at about $9, curabt.luets7o.n,60 track, to$8. Na, 2 stuff is quoted $ Strew—Quiet. Dealers quote ear lots, on track, at 85 to $5.50. DAIRY PRODUCE. Butter—Choice is scarce and firm, De - mend is good for all dairy stook. Cream- ery kt.eps up well, and consumption is fret. Prices are as follows: Dairy, tub, poor to medium, 10 to 11c; choice, 14 to 15e; ]urge dairy, rolls, 14o; small dairy, rolls, choice, 1.1 to 16c; creamery, tube, 18 to 19c; and creamery, pounds, 19 to 2+1e. Cheese --Steady and unchanged. Deal- ers eon in the ordinary way at 9% to 100. CHEESE MARKETS. Shelburne, Ont„ Oct. 4—The Cheese Board met hero to -day. Twelve factories boarded 2,200 boxes. Buyers present: Cope, Toronto; Brill Guelph;' and Reid, Grand Valley; 9 to 934c was offered for selections; no sales at the board; buyers and sellers apart. The board meats again October 15th, at 2 p.m. Lindsay, Ont., Oct. 4. Viotorla Coun- ty Cheese Board was held here at 11 o'clock to -day. At the board sales held on Friday of last week 20 factories bonrded 1,830 boxes, and refused an offer of Dexo made by Mr. Wm. Flavelle, Cameron, Reahoro, and Red Rock alone accepting. To -day the remaining 1,447 buses wore again boarded, but the best offer obtainable was 9%e, made by three buyers. DRESSED HOGS AND PROVISIONS. Not much doing at present. Street prices for choice dressed boars here, in farmers' loads, bold at $7.35 to $7.50. Market for all pork products remains firm, Dry Salted Meats—Long clear bacon, car lots, 8�c; ton lots, 9c; case lots, We; hacks, 934c. Smoked Meats—Hams, heavy, 12%c; medium, 12%c; light, 1801 breakfast bacon, 123, to 13e; rolls, lle; backs, 12 to 123c; picnic hams, 93{ to 10o. All meats out of pickle is less than prides quoted for smoked meats. Lard—Tieroes, 6% to 63c ; tubs, 6% to 7c; and pails, 7 to 7%c; compound, 5% to Wt. THE LIVE STOCK MARKETS.- Toronto, ARKETS.-Toronto, Oct. 4.—Had nothing been received at the Western live stock mar- kets this morning we should have had ample stuff here for all actual require- ments, and the trade in cattle would have been in a more satisfactory condi- tion. About fifty loads came in to -day, and this—added to what remained unsold from last week --gave us a total of about one hundred loads of offerings this morn- ing, the result being that trade was slow, prices weak, and muoh of the cat- tle (both export and • butcher) remains unsold. The demand for shipping cattle is very dull, and about the top price to -day ap- pears to be $4.20 per 100 pounds; cer- tainly nothing over $4.25 was paid, while the minimum was $4. Some steers, scarcely good enough to ship, ware bought in for grass at close up to 4c; and some export oows sold at irom3/ to 8}to per pound. A good quant'ty of export cattle was unsold at the close of the market. There is a fair, but not an active, enquiry for export bulls at from 3 to 334o per pound. Stockers are selling fairly woll at from 2e4'to8%c. Hogs were steady and unchanged. For the best $5.75 was p.:id; light hogs are worth from $5.130 to ;5,50; thick fat hogs, $8 to $5.25; ,sows, $3.50 to $3.75; and stags, $2 to $3.25 per 100 pounds. The receipts this morning included 1,800 hogs, 1,200 sheep and lambs, 50 calves and abont Due dozen milkers. Wheat, white new ......,. 76 79 Wheat., red, per Meet 77 • 80 Wheat, goose, per hum7b Peas, common, per basil— 43 Oats, per bosh 24 Rye per bush 40 13erloy, per bust 23 Ducks, spring -iv:. pair40 80 Chickens, per pair 30 50 Geese, per ib 08 09 Buster, in 1-13. rolls 15 , 6 Eggs., new laid Potatoes. per nag:. • , 00 25 Beaus, per bush 75 85 Beets;; per doe ........ ....,09: 10 Parsnips, per'doz 9 10 Apples: per bbl 00 0 00 Hay, timotb • 7 50 8 50 Straw, sheaf 7 00 7 leo Beef, binds 6 08 Beef, fores, 4 Lambs, carcase, per lb9e 10. Veal, per lb .. 8 9 Mutton, per lb 6 7 Dressed hogs 7 35 7 50 71 40 3-k THE SUNDAY SOHOOL. LESSON II, FOURTH QUARTER, INTER- NATIONAL SERIES; OCT. 10. Text of the Lesson, Acts xxiI, 3.7-30 Mem-. ery Verses, 22--24—Golden Text, X Ret. iv, 76 — Commex.cary by the Bev. D, M. Stearns.; t7, 18. "Make haste and got thee qulck- ly out of Jerusalem, for they will not re. eeive thy testimony concerning Me." In our last lesson Paul was on his way to Jerusalem in spite of the Spirit's warning that he should riot go (chapter xxi, 4, 11, 12). He had not been many days in Je- rusalem when the Jews of Asia laid hold of him in the temple, drew him out and would have killed him had be not been. rescued by the ohiof captain with a band of soldiers and carried into the caatle, He asked pormissiou of the captain to speak to the people, and having obtained It he addressed them in Hebrew from the castle stairs, He described his former life and the manner of his conversion, and bag now Dome to the Lord's message to him at Je- rusalem. The child of God who is willing to be wholly tbe Lord's. may be sure of the Lord's guidance in all things, and if it should be necessary an angel from heaven or the Lord Himself will see to it. 19, 20. "And I said, Lord, they know that I imprisoned and beat in every syna- gogue them that believed on Thee." It is all right for us to confess to God all our sins, but it is not for us to argue or reason with Hiro when He commands us to do anything or go anywhere. He knows where and how He can make the most use of us. Ile knows who will receive testi- mony through' this one or througb that one, and it is for us to say, "Here am I, send ins where Thou wilt and when Thou wilt." 21. "And He said unto me, Djart, for I will send thee far hence unto the gen- tiles." We cannot expect tbo full blessing of the Lord unless we are ready for that work to which 13e has called us (Acts xiii, 2). May it not be that many ministers who cannot seem to find an open door at home are being called far hence to some of the millions who Have never beard of Christ and eannot hear till some one shall tell them? Let each Christian ask, ".Am I really willing and obedient and does my heart say honestly, `Lord, what wilt thou have me to do?' " 22. "Away with such a follow from the earth, for it is not ilt that he should live." That the same privileges should he set be- fore uncircumcised gentiles as before cir- cumcised Jews was to them intolerable, and it was for this same thing that Peter was called to account (tempter xi, 2, 3). I am not sure but the same spirit in a worse form is seen today when people of one church or denomination look down upon and make little of work not done by them selves. The ambition of churches or boards or societies to excel each other instead of all uniting to honor Christ and complete His church is tainted with the same spirit. 28, 24. "The chief captain commanded that be should be examined by scourging, that he might know wherefore they titled so against him." Paul had been speaking in Rebrew (xxii, 2), of which language probably neither captain, centurions nor soldiers understood a word, and the idea was thata little suffering might bring from him a confession of his wrongdoing. Paul was certainly having a rough time of it, for be bad been beaten by the Jews (xxi, 32) and was now threatened with scourg- ing by the gentiles. 25. "Is it lawful for you to scourge a man that is a Roman and unoondemned?" This be said to the centurion wbo stood by while the soldiers bound him with thongs preparatory to scourging bim. While Paul was willing to suffer all that wasnecessary for Christ's sake, and unjustly, too, here was something wbolly uncalled for, from which his Roman citizenship might deliver him. I am wribing this on the north Pa- cific ocean on my way to Japan as I start on my tour round the world for Him that I serve. I carry with me a passport from the secretary of state of the United States` government asking all nations not only to allow me safely and freely to pass, but in case of need to give me all lawful aid and protection. As a child of God and citizen of heaven I feel free to accept and carry , this and use it as occasion may require, feeling no lack of faith in so doing. 26. "Take heed what thou doest, for this man is a Roman." Thus said the centurion to the captain. Asfar as heaven is above the earth, so far are the privileges of heavenly citizenship above all those of earth. The devil could not touch Job, neither could be have Simon Peter with- out asking permission of God (Job 1, 10; Luke ascii, 31, R. V.), and be that touoh- eth a child of God touohoth the apple of His eye (Zech. ii, 8). Let us rejoice in our heavenly privileges and walk worthy of them. 27. "T.hon the chief captain Dame and said unto him, Toll me, art thou a Roman? Ho said, Tea," So a believer should be ready nlways to give to every one that ask- oth as definite an answer ooncerning his standing in Christ. Paul did not think or hope that he was a Roman citizen, He knew it and said yes. .Any one wbo has truly accepted Christ is accepted in Him and has redemption, even the for- giveness of sins (Eph. 1, 6, 7), and should never hesitate to confess it to the glory of God. It is not honoring to God to think or hope that we are saved. We should know it (I Jt•hn v, 12, 13), and live it and ever gladly acknowledge it. 28. "And the chief captain answered, With a groat sum obtained I this freedom, And Paul said, But I was freeborn." The heavenly citizenship cannot be bought by money, or good works, or any merit wbat- over on our part, "Neither their silvernor their gold shall be able to deliver them." "Not by works of righteousness, which we have dodo" (Zepb. 1, 18; Titus iii, 5). See also Rom. iv, 6; Eph. ii, 8, 9. The only way to btcemo at child of God, an heir of Cod and a citizen of heaven is by a new birth. a birth from above, even as our Lord said .in John lie, 3, 5, 7, and I be- lieve it careful study of Jas. i, 18; I Pet. 1, 213; Tpl. v, 06, with John vi, 63, will make it very-plal.n that the new birth be wronght in us by the word of God and the Spirit of God concerning our 'Lord Jesus Christ. 20, 30. I'aul was saved from scourging at that time, and we Will hi some way be saved Iron., all that it is not best for us to endure (I Cor. x, 13). The captain was still in doubt as to the real cause ofthe uproar, and so-called the chief priests and council together that be might set Paul before them. But Pauls testimony before the council caused such a distnrbanoe that the chief captain had to resoue him again and bring him to the castle. Then fol- lowed the discovery of the plot to kill Paul, through ;Paul's nephew,, and leis be- ing sent under a guard of soldiers to Felix, the governor at Caesarea. Notice how in. the midst of all this and of Paul's seems ing disobedience in ming to Jerusalem at this time the Lord was with him.