The Exeter Advocate, 1897-12-9, Page 7PRACTICAL WISDOM.
DR. TALMAGE CALLS FOR MORE
OF IT IN DOING GOOD.
Wants More Sense in natters of Ite.
ligion--Absurdities of Church Areltitec.
tare and Ilfanagernent-.The Groat Need
of the World.
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tone
Washiegton, Deo. 5.—Dr. Talmage in
this discourse advooates more praotioal
wisdom in efforts at doipg good end
assails some of tlae absurdities in church
arehitecture and management. The text
is Luke xvi, 8, "The children of this
World are in their generatiote wiser than
the children of light."
That is another way of sayieg that
Christians are not so skillful in the
manipulation of spiritual affairs as
woridlings are skillful in the manage-
ment of temporalities. I see all around
me people who are alert, earnest, con-
centrated and skillful in monetary mat-
ters, who in the affairs of the soul are
laggards, inane, inert. The great want
of the world in more common sense in
matters of religion. If one-half of the
skill and forcefulness employed in
financial affairs was employed in dis-
seminating the truth of Cbrist and try-
ing to matte the world better, within
ten years the last juggernaut would fall,
tbe last throne of oppression upset, the
last iniquity tumble, and the anthem
that was ohented over Bethlehem on
Christmas night would be echoed and
re-echoed from all nations and kiedred
and people, "Glory to God in the eighest
and on earth peace, good will to men."
Some years ago, on a train going to-
ward the southwest, as the porter of the
sleeping car was making up the berths
at the evening tide, I saw a man kneel
&Wu to prey. Worldly people looked on
as much as to say, "What does this
mean?" I suppose the most of the peo-
ple in the car thought that the man was
eitber insane or that he was a faze -tie,
but he disturbed no one when he arose.
In after ootiversation with him I found
out that he was a nember of a dearth
in a northern (title •tbat he was a seafar-
ing man anti that he was on his way to
New Orleaes to take oommand of a Yes.
sel, I thought then, as I think now,
that ten snob men—men with such cour-
age for God as thee man had --ten such
men would bring the whole oity to
Christ; 1,000 such men would bring this
whole land to God; 10,000 such mem in
a short time, would bring the whole
earth into the kingdom of Jesus. That
he was successful In worldly affairs I
found out. That he was skillful In
spiritual affairs you are well persuaded.
If men had the courage, the pluck, tbe
alertness, the acumen, the industry, the
common souse in matters of the soul
that they have in =teem of the world,
this would be a very different e kind of
earth in which to live,
Common Sense Daolting in Church Matters
In the first place, any frieeds, we want
more COM/n013 sense in the building and
conduct of churches. The idea of adap-
tiveness is always paramount in any
other kind of structure. If bankers meet
together, and they resolve upon platting
up a bank, the bank is especially
adapted to banking purposes; if a manu-
facturing oonapanr puts up a building,
It is to be adapted to manufacturing
purpoeee, but adaptiveness is not always
the question in the rearing of churches.
In many of our ohurches we want more
light, more room, more ventilation, more
comfort. VIISt SUMS of money are ex-
pended on ecalesiastical struotures, and
men sit down in thane and you ask a
man how ho likes the enure!). He says,
"I like it vary 'well, but I can't hear."
As though a shawl factory were good for
everything but Making shawls! The
voice of the preacher desiaes against the
pillars. Men sit down under the shadows
of the Gotbio arches and shiver and feel
themust be getting religion or some-
thing else, they feel so unoomfortable.
Oh, niy frieeds, we want more com-
mon sense in the rearing of OM:robes.
There is no excuse for laok of light
when the heavens are full of it, no ex-
cuse for lack of fresh air when the world
swims in it: It ought to be an expres-
sion not only of our spiritual happiness,
but of our' physical comfort when •we
say: "How amiabie are thy tabernacles,
0 Lord God of hosts! A day in thy
court is better than a thousand."
Again, I remark we want more com-
mon sense in the obtaining of religious
hope. All men understand that in order
to succeed in 'worldly directions they
must ooncentrate. They think on that
one object, on that one subjeot, until
their mind takes tire with the velocity of
thole own thoughts. All their acumen,
all their strategy, all their wisdom, all
their common sense, they put in that
one direotion, and they succeed. But
how Seldom it is true In the matter of
seeking after God. While no man expects
to accomplish anything for this world
without concentration and enthusiasm,
how many there are expecting after
awhile to get into the kingdom of God
without the use of any such means!
'Wisdom in Soul Saving.
A miller In California many years ago
picked up a sparkle of gold from the bed
of a stream which tented bis mill. He
held UP that sparkle of gold until it
bewitched. nations. Tens of thousands
of people left their homes. They took
their blankets, and their pickaxes, and
their pistols and went to the wilds of
, California. Cities sprang up suddenly
on the Pacific coast. Merchants put aside
their elegant apparel and put on the
miner's garb. All the land was full of
the talk about gold. Gold in the eyes,
gold in the ears, gold in the wake of
ships, gold in the streets—gold, gold,
gold I
Word comes to us that the mountein
of tlod's love is full of gold; that men
have been digging there and have
brought up gold, and amethyst, and car-
buncle, and jasper, and sardonyx, and
ohrysoprasus, and all the precious stones
out of which the walls of heaven were
builded. Word comes of a man who,
digging in that mine for one hour'has
brought up treasures worth more than
all the Oars that keep vigil over our
sick and dying world. ,
Is it a bogus company that is formed?
le it undeveloped territory? Ob, no; the
story is true. There are hundreds and
• thousands of people who would be will-
ing to rise and testify that they have
discovered that gold and have it in their
possession. Notwithstanding all this,
what is the circumstance? One would
suppose that the announcement would
send people in great excitement up and
down our streets, that at midnight men
would knock at your door asking how
they may get those treasures. Instead of
that many of us put our hands behind
our back and walk up and clown in
frout of the mine of eternal elohes'and
say, "Well, if an ta be saved, I will be
saved, and if I am to be lost I will be
lost, and there is nothing to do about it."
Why, mi brother, do you not do that
way in business matters? Why do you
not to -morrow go to your store and sit
down and fold your aties and say: "If
these goods are to be sold, they will be
sold, and if they are not to be sold, they
will not be sold. There is nothing for
me to do about it" No, you dispatch
your agents, you print your advertise -
meets, you adorn your show windows,
you push those goods, you use the in-
strumentality. Oh, that men were as
wise in the matter of the soul as they
are wise in the matter of dollars and
cents I
God's Sovereignty.
• This dootrine of God's savereignity,
bow It is misquoted and, spoken of as
though it were an iron obain whioh
bound us hand and foot for thee and for
eternity, wheel so fax from that, in
every fiber of your body, in every faenhy
of your mind, in every passion of your
soul, you are a free man—a free man—
ned it will no more to -morrow be a matter
of choice whetheryou shall go to business
through Pennsylvania avenue or some
other street, it will be no more a matter
of choice with you to-rnorrow whether
you sball go to Philadelphia or New
York or stay at bome, than it is this
hour a Inatter of free olaoice whether you
will accept Christ or reject him.
De all the army of banners there is
not orte conspript. Men are not to be
dragooned into heaven. Among all the
tens of thousands of the Lord's soldiery
there is not one man but will tell you,
"I chose °heists I wanted him; I de-
sired to be in his service; I am not a
cousoript—I am a volunteer." Oh, that
men had the same comeaon sense in the
matters of religion that they Cave in the
matters Of the world—the same omen-
tration, the same push, the same eethie-
slam I In the one case, a secular enthu-
siasm; in tbe other, a consecrated
enthusiasm.
Again, I remark we want naore com-
mon sense in the building up and en-
larging of our Christian obaraoter. Tbere
are men who have fax 40 years been
running the CbrIstian race, and they
have not run a quarter of a Palle. No
business man would be willing to have
his investments unacouniulative. If you
invest a dollar, you expect that dollar to
come home bringiug another dam on its
back. What would you think of a man
who should invest $10,000 in a monetary
institution, then go off for five years,
make no inquiry in regard to the invests,
ment, then come back, step up to the
cashier of the lestitution and say, "Have
you kept that $10,000 safely that I
lodged with your' but asking no quos.
tion about ipterest or about dividend?
Why, yott say, "That Is not nommen
sense." Neither is it, but that is the
way we act in matters of the soul. We
make a fax more important investment
than $10,000. We invest our soul. Is it
accumulative? Are we growing in grace?
Are we getting better? Are we getting
worse? God declares many dividends, but
we do not collect them. We do riot want
thexn. Oh, that in this matter of accu-
mulation we were as wise in the nuitters
of the soul as we are in the mhtters of
the world!
'Bternity in the Bible.
How little common sense in the read-
ing of the Scriptures. We get any other
book and we open it, and we say "Now
what does this book mean to teach me?
It is a book on astronomy. It will teach
roe astronomy. It is a book on political
economy. It vsill teach me political
economy," Takieg up this Bible, do we
ask ourselves what it ineans to teach? It
means to do just one thing Get the
world converted and get us all to heaven.
That is what it proposes to do. But In-
stead of that we go into the Bible as
botanists to pick flowers, • or we go as
pugilists to got something to fight other
Christians with, or we go as logicians
trying to sharpen our mental faculties
for a better argument, and we de mot like
this about the Bible, and we do not like
that, and we do not like the other thing.
"What would you think of a man lost on
the mountains? Night has come down.
He cannot find his way home, aad he
sees a light in a mountain cabin. He
goes to it; he knocks at the door. The
rnouptaineer 00MOS out and finds the
traveler and says: "Well, bere I have a
lantern. You can take it, and it will
guide you on the way home." .And sup
pose that traveler should say: "I don't
like that lantern. I don't like the handle
of it. There are 10 or 15 things about it
I don't like. If you can't give me a
better lantern than that, I won't have
any?"
Now, God says this Bible is to be a
lamp to our feet and a lantern to our
path, to guide us through the midnight
of this world to the gates of the celestial
city. We stop and say we do not like
this about it, and we do not like that,
and we do not like the other thing. Oh,
how much wiser we would be if by its
holy ligbt we Peeled our way to our ever-
lasting home. Then, we do not read the
Bible as we read other books. We read
"it perhaps four or five minutes just be-
fore we retire at night. We are weary
and sleepy, so somnolent we hardly
know which end of the book is up. We
drop our eye perhaps on the story of
Samson and the foxes or upon some
gepealogioal table, important in its plaoe,
but stirring no more religious emotion
than the announcement • that somebody
begat somebody else and he begat some-
body else, instead of opening the book
and saying, "Now I must read for my
immortal life; my eternity is involved
in this book."
• Gifts From. Heaven.
• BOW little we use common sense in
prayer! We say, "0 Lord, give me this,"
and "0 Lord, give me that," and "0
Lord, give me something else," and we
do not expect to get it, or, getting it.
we do not know we have it. We have no
anxiety about it. We do not watch and
wait for its coining. As a merchant you
telegraph or gou write to some other
city' fax a bill of goods. You say, "Send
me by such express or by snob a steamer
or by suoh a rail train." The day ar-
rives. You send your wagon to the depot
or to the wharf. The goods do not come.
You immediately telegraph: "What la
the matter with those goods? We haven't
received them. Send them right away.
We want them now or we don't want
them at all." And you keep writing and
you keep telegraphing and keep sending
your wagon to the depot or to the express
ofnce or to the wharf lentil you get the
goods. In matters of religion we are not
so wise as that. We ask certain things
to De sent from heaven. We do not
know whether they come or not. We
have not any special anxiety as to
whether they come or not. We may get
them and may not get them. Instead of
at 7 °Week in the morning Bayles,
"Haws I got that blessing?" at 12
o'clock, noonday, asking, 'Have I got
that blessing?" at 7 °Weak in the evening
saying, relieve I received that blessing?"
and not getting it, pleading, pleading—
begging, begging—asking. asking until
you get it. Now, my brethren, is not
tbat common sense? If we ask' a thieg
horn God who has sworn by his eternal
throne that he will do that which we
eels, is it not common mese thet we
should watch and weit uutil we get it?
But I reaurek amen, we want more
common souse in doing good, Oh, how
many people there are who want to do
good and they are dead failures! Why
is it? They do not exeroise the same
tact, the same ingenuity, the same
stratagem, the same common sense in
the work of Christ that they do in
everhily ththgs. Otherwise they would
succeed In this direction as well as they
succeed in the other. There are many
mon who have an arrogant way with
them'although they may not feel arro-
gant in their soul. Or tbey have it pat-
ronizing way. They talk to a man of
the world in a manner which seems ts
say: "Don't you wish you were as good
as I am? Why, I have to look clear down
before I can see you, you are so fax' be-
neath me," Tbat manner always dis-
gusts, always drives men away from the
kingdom of Jesus Christ instead of
bringin them in.
Imitate Qresus Christ.
was a lad, 1 was one day in a
village store and there was a large group
of young men there full of rollioking
and fun, and a Christian men ciente in,
a very good Christian man, aud without
any introduetion of the subject arid
while they were in great hilarity said to
one of them, "George, what is the first
step of wisdom?" George looked up and
said, "vary man to mind his own busi-
ness." Well, it was it very rough answer,
bet it was provoked, Religion had been
hurled In there ne though it were a
bombshell. We nmst be natural in the
presentation of religion to the world. Do
you suppose that Mary in her conversa-
tions with Christ lost her simplicity, or
that Paul, thundering from Mars hill,
took the pulpit tone? Why is it people
cannot tale as naturally in prayer meets
ings and on religious subjects as they do
In worldly circles? For eo one ever suc-
ceeds in any kind of Christian work *un-
less he works eaturelly. We want to Imi-
tate the Lord Jeans Christ, who plucked
a poem erona the grass of the field. We
all want to imitate him who talked with
farmers about the man who went forth
to sow, and talked with the fishermen
about the drawn net that brought in fish
of all sorts, and talked with the elite
dresser about the idler in the 'vineyard,
and talked with those newly affianced
about the marringe supper, and talked
with the man cramped in motley matters
about the two debtors, and talked with
te weintin about the yeast that leavened
the whole lump, and talked with the
suepiterd about the lost sheep.
Oh, wo might gather even tho stars of
the sky and twist them like forgetmeeots
in the garland of Jesus! We must bring
everything to him—the wealth of lung -
page, the tenderness of sentiment, the
delicticy of morning dew, the saffron of
tin, Mg cloud, the %paled surf of the
tossing Sea, the bursting thunder gans
of the storm's bonabaethnent. Yes, every
star must point down to bine every hellos
trope must breathe his praise, every drop
in the stammer shower must flash his
glory, all the tree branohes of the forest
must thrum their /11119i0 in the grand
march wnich shall celebrate it world re-
deemed.
Blasted by sin.
Now, all this being so, what is the
common sense thing for you and for me
to do? What we do I think will depend
upon three facts—three great facts
:—
The first fact, that sin has ruined us.
It has blasted body, mind and soul. We
want 110 Bible to prove that we are sin-
ners. .Any man who is not willing to
acknowledge bimself an imperfect and it
sinful being is slimily a fool and not to
be argued with. We all feel that sin has
disorganized our entire nature. That is
one fact. Another fact is that Christ
came to reconstruct, to restore, to revise,
to correct, to redeem. That is a second
fact. The third fact is that the only time
we are sure Christ will pardon us is the
present. Now, 'wbat is the common sense
thing for us to do in view of these three
facts? You will all agree with me—to
quit sin, take Christ, and take him now.
Suppose some business man in whose
still you had perfect confidence should
tell you that to -morrow, Monday morn-
ing, between 11 and 12 o'clock,you could
by a certain financial transaction make
$5,000, but that on Tuesday perhaps yon
might make it, but there would not be
any positiveness about It, and on Wed-
nesday there would not be so numb, and
Thursday less, Friday less, and so on
less and less—when would you attend to
the matter? Why, your common sense
would dictate: "Immediately I will
attend to that matter, between 11 and 12
o'clock to-naorrow, Monday morning, fax
then I oan surely aoconaplish it, but on
Tuesday I may not, and on Wednesday
there is less prospect and less and less.
I will attend to it toanorrow." Now, let
us bring our common sense in this mat-
ter of religion. Here are the hopes of
the gospel. We may get thein now. To-
morrow we may get them, and we may
not. Next clay we may and we may not,
the prospect less and less and less and
less, the only sure time now—now. I
would not talk to you in this way if I
did not know that Christ was able to
save all the people. I would not ao into
a hospital and tear off the bandages
from the wounds if I had no balm to
apply. I would not have the face to tell
a man he is a sinner unless "I had at the
same time the authority for saying he
may be saved.
A Divine Raphael.
Suppose in Venice there is a Raphael,
a faded picture, great in its tree, bear-
ing some marks of its greatness. History
describes that picture. It is nearly faded
away. You say, "Oh, what a pity that
so wonderful a picture by Rapbael should
be nearly defaced!" After awhile a man
conies up, very unskillfdl in art, and he
proposes to retouch it. You say "Stand
off 1 I would rather have it just as it is.
You will only make it worse." After
awhile there comes an artist who is the
equal of Raphael. He says, "I will re-
touch that picture and bring out all its
original power." You have full confid-
ence in his ability.' He toluthes it here
and there. Feature after feature comes
forth, and when be is done with the
picture it is complete in all its original
power.
Now, God impresses his image on our
race, but that image has been defaced
for hundreds and for thousands of years,
getting fainter and fainter. Here comes
up a divine Raphael. I shall call him it
divine Baphael. He asis, "I ean reetore LATEST eirlArtKET REPORTS.
that pioture." He has all power th hea-
ven and on earth. He is the equal of the
OE
ne wh de o th ua 1 of
0 not e pme, e eq
the one who drew the image of God in .
our soul. He touches this sin, and it is
gone; that transgression, and it is gotte, '
and all the defacement disappears, and
where sin abounded, grace cloth =nob
more abound," Will you have the deface-
ment or will you have the restoration? I
am well persuaded that if I could by a
touch of heavenly pathos in two minutes
put before you what has been done to
save your soul, there would be an enact -
thine' tide overwhelming..
"'gamine," said a little child to her
mother, when she was being put to bed
at night; "mamma, what makes your
hand so scarred and twisted and unlike
other people's heeds?" "Well," said the
mother, dmy child, when you were
younger than you are DOW, years ago,
one night after I had mat you to bed I
heard it cry, a shriek upstairs. I came
np and found the bed was on flre, and
you were on fire, and I took hold of you
and I tore off the burning garments,
and while I was tearing them off and
trying to get you away I burned my
hand, dnd it has been scarred and twist-,
ed ever since, and hardly looks any more
like a band. But I got that, my child,
In trying to save you.'
0 man, woman, I wish to -day I could
show you the burned hand of Christ—
burned in piece:hag you out of the fire,
burned in snatobing you away from the
flame. Aye, also the burped foot, and
the burned brow, and the burned heart
—,burned for you, "ley his stripes ye are
healed."
All Watelies to Agree.
Very antique and original is the scheme
&Warmed by Signor Merconi, it yonag
and illustrious inventor of the system of
wireless telegraphy. There is every like-
lihood that in tbe future an innieldual
walking through the streets of a large
city will realize thee his watele is keep -
leg the best of time—that is, without
any attention from himself, is being
synohronizeil and forced to record the '
proper time with absolute accuracy. At
present a reliatle clock in Washington
automatically synchronizes clocks in'
other olden but tbis will not be neces-
sary in the light of this new in vexation, it
to utilize wires of any deseription or to
depend upon a mechanism which can
only affect it through the medium of it '
metallic conduotor.
The new system of projecting ether i
waves through the air to pointts eigbt
miles distant will really inclose it large.
city within a magio circle. Those mov-
ing within it carrying watches designed
so that the invisible waves naay affect
them need never concern themselves
about the mainspring, hairspring, gear,
wheels or lack of adjustment in any
pert, because the rays proceeding from it
central source will govern their time-
piece and keep it in perfect accord. with
tbe original electric ohronameter. The
office boy plodding to his temple of war -
row menet excuse himself by saying
'Welt the do& was slow. People hurry-
ing to a train =not set their watches
abead, but will have to hurry harder
than ever, and those departments of the
commercial world In which time plays
an importantt part will realize that it
passes for all alike, and the word
"late' iney,under this new and valuable
training, be stricken from the English
language as useless and obsolete. --Phila-
delphia Record.
The Mark of Xntelligenee.
That we live In an age of intone is
.one of the ever-present faets that faces
intelligence. To define the fine line that
separates mere change from reform is
difficult. Some of us go through life with
the feeling that all things of the past
are bad, are not up to the standard of
the knowledge of to -day, so that we are
preptieed to revise and tbrow aside every
opinion. Every new Idea is accepted as
an advance. Change is not always pro-
gress, nor discoveries the tuile-stone, the
trade -marks of knowledge. All that is
valuable in the increase of knowledge
simplifies living. Living becomes an art,
the perfection of which ceases only at
the grave, so that the whole of life is
cumulative. To master the knowledge
that brings God into closer relation, that
makes life not a period of suffering, but
it period of acquisition, of health and
happiness; to make health the normal
condition of every soul born in this
world is to inake visible the divinity in
malt that is his crown of glom This is
possible only as the now builds on the
old. Construction, not destruction, is
the mask of progress. Cumulation not
annihilation, is the secret of spiritual
grewth; whether fax tbe individual or
the nation. The mastery of the past is
possible only when wisdom sits en-
throned. Change is not, then the im-
pulse ot the monaent, but the silent
growth of the paseing days, unheralded,
but known by the fine impulse that
makes fax better things.
To Drive it Needle Th rou ail a Donner Coin.
"An apparent mechanical impossibility
may be acoomplisbed by simple means,
using a copper cent, and a cork, with a
common cambric needle as accessories,"
writes magician Harry Zeller, describing
"How I Do My Tricks" in the Ladies'
Home Journal. "Announce that you will
drive a small needle through a coin, and
fevs will be ready to accept your state -
mann yet it is very simple and any one
can do it. Take a copper coin, place it
upon two small blocks of wood, leaving
a very narrow open space between the
blocks. Now, having selected a good,
sound cork, force the needle through it
until the point just appears at the other
end. Break off the portion of the head
of the needle showing above the top of
the oork, Place the cork upon the coin
and strike it it fair, smart blow with
a hammer. The needle will be driven
entirely through .the penny by a single
Charity of speech.
Charity of speech is as divine a thing
as cearity of action. To judge no one
harshly, to misconceive to man's mo-
tives, to believe things are as they seem
to be until they are proved otherwise,
to temper judgment with mercy—surely
this is quite as good as to build up
churches, establish asylums and found
colleges. Unkind words do as much harm
as unkind deeds. Many a heart bas been
wounded beyond owe, many a reputation
has been stotbbecl to death by a few little
words. Thee is a charity which consists
in 'withholding words, in keeping back
harsh judgments, in abstaining from
speech if to speak is to condemn. Such
charity hears the tale of slander, but
does not repeat it; listens in silence, but
forbears comment; then looks the un-
• pleasant seoret up in the very depths of
the beart. Silence oan still rumor; it is
speech that keeps a story alive and lends
it vigor.
Toronto, Deo. 6.
PRODUCE.
Eggs—Market in fair shapeeeind stooks
here not heavy. Offerings are not as free
as hitherto. Anything strictly new laid
In small lots brings 170, but sales at this
figure are few. Ne. 1 eggs are worth
about 16 to 16e4es; cold storage at 12 to
14c, and limed as 13 to 1334c.
Potatoes—Holding steady, Condition
of the market is improved. Car lots sell
on track at around 60c per bag. Oe the
street dealers quoted from 66 to 70e per
bag,
Poultry—Market well cleaned up.
Prices steady. Turkeys Tanga anywhere
Iran 7 to So per lb.; geese, 5 to 6a per
Ib, . (thickens, 25 to 40c per pair; duoks,
40 to 60e per pair.
Beans—Ilecluteged and not much de-
mand. Dealers quote choice hand-pioked
white beans here at 80 to 90c; and com-
mon at 60 to 70c per hush.
Hops—Little better feeling in the mar-
ket. No. 1 in bales, is quoted at 123en
per lb., No. a et around 10o. East of
here choice is quoted at 13c.
Honey—Round lots of ehoice, delivered
here, will being about 6e. Dealers quote
Iran 6 to 70 for 10 -lb or 00 -lb. tins, and
in comb at around $1.50 to $1.75 per
dezen seeti•ine.
Maple Syrup—Nothing ness4; with
prices
prices as before at (e) in 63e in larstas,
and at 05 to 75u in Sin al tins,
Baled Hay.—Nob much wanted, and
offerings light. ( hones hay is hard to get.
On track here car tote of No. 1 hay is
quoted at $8 to $9. No. 2 stook is not
wanted.
Straw—Sales few. Car lots on trestle
are quoted around 20.50.
BREADS= FFS, ETC.
Wheat—The markets outside were
*weak again to -day. Locally the tone was
easy, and. prices on a sontewbab lower
level, No. 2 red, north end west, sold at
82o, and middle freiglats also at 82o. No.
1 Manitoba hard, trade, Owen Sound or
Midland, offered at 08c. Buying was
poor On the part of millers,
Ieleur—Quiet and easy, in sympathy
with wheas Straight roller, in wood,
middle freights, offers at $3.90.
Oatmeal—Rtither easier. Car lots of
rolled oats, in bags, on track, Toronto,
are quoted at $3.10 to $8.15.
Peas—Demand good, and prices firmer.
ear lots are sold at 45e, west. and 453eo,
middle freights.
Rye—Quiet and steady. Car lots are
eloted at 44o, high freights, and 45c,
east
Buckwheat—Steady. Car lots, west,
are quoted at 81o, and east at 02c.
Barle.y—Steady. No. 3 exths is quoted
at 28 to 29c, outside; No. 2 61 81 to 82o;
and No. 1, at 84o. Feed barley is in de-
mand at 24e, west, and erni, east.
Oats --Deliveries outside are large, and
demand not so keen. No. 2 white, north
and west, sold to -day at 28c, and at 24c
east. Mixed, west, sold at 22o.
DAIRY PRODUCE.
Butter—Market being fairly cleared up
now from day to day, end there are no
surplus stocks. Demand is better and
prices rather firmer. This applies to both
creamery and dairy. Quotations are:
Dairy, tub, poor to medium. 10 to Ile;
choice, 15 to 16o; largo dairy, rolls, 14 to
153.4.o; small dairy, pound prints, ohoice,
16 to 17e; late snakes, 18 to lilleo; and
creamery, pounds, 19 to 200,
Cheese—Market is stove all round,
Dealers are selling at nee to 9o.
LIVE STOCK' MARKETS.
Toronto, Deo. 6.—We bed it small sup-
ply on the Western cattle yards this
morning, as all told only 25 loads were
on offer. Prices were a little firmer in
consequenoe, and good butcher cattle
sold at stronger figures, and were quick-
ly bought up, For choice 3ee to 3eec,
and occasionally up to 4o, was paid fax
superfine; good cattle fetched 3 1-8 to
Sesta per pound; secondary grades gold at
2 7-8 to 80, and common at 2 5-8 to 2eee.
Prices for cattle did not go lower to -day.
All the stuff here sold by noon.
Some export bulls sold at from 84 to
Wm per pound, and it few of the best
kind are wanted.
Milkers are scarce and wanted at from
$80 to $30 each for really ohoioe oows.
Stockers and feeders are about un-
obang,ed and in fair demand.
Sheep and lambs were practically un-
changed; iambs are worth from 4 to
4 1-8e, and for a few choiste kinds 4eec
per pound. Good shipping sheep are in
request.
Calves are scarce, and good calves are
wanted at from $4 to $7 each.
The run of hogs was light this morn-
ing, and prices were firm at 4 8-8o per
pound for the best off -oar hags, and 4 to
4 1-8o for thick fat and light hogs. All
grades will sell.
The receipts to -day inoluded 500 hogs,
800 sheep and lambs, 00 milkers and a
few calves.
Wheat, white naw........82 83
Wheat, red, per busk • 84 85
Wheat, goose, per bush77e 7$
Peas, common, per bush.- 46 47
Oats, per bush. . . 251 25e
Rye per bush. . 45 47
Earley, per bush 28 88
Ducks, spring, per pair45
Chickens, per pair 80
Geese, per lb 05
Butter, in 1-1b. rolls.....- 15
Eggs, new laid.
Potatoes. per bag..
Beans, per bush
Beets,per doz .. . ....
Parsnips, per doe ... . .
75
50
06e
16
16 16e
45 50
75 80
09 10
9 10
Apples, per bbl 00 0 00
Hay, timothy '8 50 9 70
Straw, sheaf.-- ........., 8 50 9 00
Beef, hinds 5 06
Beef, fores 311 5
Lambs, carcase, per lb.— 6 7
Veal, per lb 5 5
Mutton, per lb
Dressed bogs
7
560 600
UNITED STATES MARKETS.
East Buffalo, Deo. 6.--Cattle—Receipts
light, only about a load and it half, and
all of mieed order. The market was re-
garded as about steady. Veals and calves
—The supply was moderate, and the
market was about steady; best veals,
$5.50 to $6.75; with oommon to fair lots
at $6.25 to $6.25. Hogs—Becelpts, 90
cars; the market ruled with an easier
tone, and trading was rather slow; good
to choice yorkers. $3.50 to $3.50; mixed
paokers' grades, $3.50 to $3.52; naediura
weights, $8.50 to $8.52; heavy hogs,
$3.50 to $8.52; roughs, $8 to $3.25;
stags, $2.75 to $8; pigs, $8.25 to $8.55.
Sheep and lambs—The supply was fairly
liberal, all of 50 cars; the market was
about steady for good lots of lambs, with
good handy sheep also fairly Arm to
steady, while common to fair lots of
tbin sheep were only Steady at former
prices,
easeneeeie esesee
DO -DD -S
THE PECULIARITIES OF
THIS WORD.
No Name on Earth So Famous
—No Name More Widely
Imitated.
No name on earth, perhaps, is so well
:mown, naore paculierly constructed cer
more widely imitated than the word,
DODD. Is possesses a peculiarity Vass.
makes It stand out prominently and fast-
ens it iu the memory. It am:stales four
letters, but only two letters of the alpha-
beb. Everyone knows that the first kid-
ney remedy ever patented or sold in pill
Lorin was named DODD'S, Their &scar-
eey startled the mediae' profession the
world over, and revolutionized the treat-
ment of kidney diseases.
No imitator has ever succeeded in
constencting it name possessing the peota-
Rarity of DODD, though they nearly all
adopt names as eimilar as possible in
sound and coestruotion to this. Their
foolishness prevents them realizing that
attempts to imitate increase the fame of
Dodd's Kidney Pine.
Why is the rtame "Dodd's Kidney
Pills" imitated? As well ask why are
diamonds and gold imiteted. Because
diamonds are the most precious gems,
gold the most precious metal. Dodd's
Kidney Pills are imitated because they
are the most valuable rnetlicine the world
has ever known. No medicine ever cured
Bright's disease except Dodd's Kidney
Pills. No other medicine has mired as
many oases of Rheumatism, Diabetes,
Heart Disease, Lumbago, Dropsy, Fe-
male Weakness, and other kidney dis-
eases as Dodd's Kidney Pills bave, It is
ueiversally known that they have never
failed to cure these diseases, berme they
are so widely and shamelessly imitated.
ONE OF THE SMART KIND.
A. Young Bridegroom AVIle Makes an I.
pensive Guy of Himself.
A. lot of travelieg salesmen, spending
Sunday in Washington, were doing what
druramers at rest always do, when one,
who was very fresh and aggressively
knowing, got up and left the hotel °face.
"I never liked that fellow," said one of
the two remaining, "and Idon't like hie
kind. It is that sort that gave traveling
men the reputation they have, and I'd,
like to seethe last one of them fired out of
his position and a decent man put in."
"Which reminds rae," said the other,
"of the very freshest chap of aU I ever
saw. He had it little money of bis own,
and he lived in a country town in Indiana
and traveled around the state for tbe may
wholesale store in the place. He kept his
job because he bad money ise the concern
and because he did have some ability as it.
salesnaan, though he was insafferahly con-
ceited I used to be tbanwn with him co-
casionally, and I never event to a hotel
with him that he didn't always ask for
the best roona in the house. Well, after
awhile be got married, a couple of years
ago that was, and he made his first trip to
New York, accompanied by his bride, who
was nearly as big it foal as he was. The
Waldorf was the only place in New Yor/a
good enough for them, and do you know
what the yap did when they got there?"
"I can guess," smiled the listener
"That's just what he did He lined up
alongside the counter of that elegant placte
as if it were the Hotel de Hose in Sque-
dunk, and with a wave of his band, that
same old weve I remember so well, 'By
Jinks,' he said to the clerk, 'gimme the
best room you got ip the house. And the
clerk did, but after letting the young fel-
low spread himself on it for a minute or
Iwo he told hint the best would cost him
$800 a day, and for once in bis life hashes
had to acknowledge that he had bit off
naore than he could chew."—Washington
Star.
Boring the Bore,
"Come in and see how Iget rid of bores.
You've often asked nay recipe and I'm
about to deal with one of the most viru-
lent of his type " It was an old Minims
speaking, and he showed his guest into
the private office.
"Hello, Orpay P began the bore at
sight. 'Just chopped in to have a talk
about poor isipsey I suppose"—
" Yes, of course, neglected his business,
gambled away enormous sums of money,
fell a eictina to the terrible curseof intem-
perance, dissipated his fortune, and even
lost his home Too bade
"Awfull But did you hear" —
"Certainly Tried to drown his sorrows
In deeper potations than ever, lost his trial
situation in a conamercial house, was
branded it bad egg and left to his own re-
sources. Drifted away into a great city,
family suffered, he braced up, found hon-
est employment, won friends and was do-
ing well, everything considered.'
"Tbat's right but"—
"So I heard. Back with us again. He
has a fine position, looks like his old self
and everybody happy.'
• "Do you think he'll''—
"I know he will. A few old calamityites
think otherwise, but he's all right. We
have him for dinner tomorrownight Goes
to the Uppies nexe night"
"No? I hope"—
" That's all right. So do the rest of us."
"Well, good day Pretty busy these
times."
"There you have " laughed the bank-
er as he closed the door "You persist in
doing the talking and a bore will run ev-
ery time "—Detroit Free Press
Something Wrong.
"This coffee does not seem quite right, ,
dear," said young Mr Hunuirmon to the
best little birdie in the world.
"1 know it doesn't," replied his inex-
perienced little wife, with tears in her
voice, "and I can't imagine what Is the
matter with it either. It is the iirst time
I ever made ooffee, dear, and I'm afraid I
have done something wrong. The seeds
have been boiling quite half an hour, but
they just won't get soft, What do you sup-
pose is the matter?"—Pittsburg Chronicle -
Telegraph.
The blackbird is 10% inches long
from the tip of the bill to the tip of the
tail and the spread of wings is 16 inches.
The female bird is slightly snaallere
The blackbird livesfrom 10 to 12 years.,
A testing machine of wonderful power
has recently been devised fax the Massa-
chusetts Institute of Technology, It is ose
pable of exerting a pressure of 500,000
pounds, It can be applied to testing the
strength of a complete arch of masonry,
and ibis said that similar bests on so large ,
a scale have never before been applied, t
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