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hnJ oda, just t have to and good K, a$ it Scott‘s ren, you at it conâ€" HES Canada. ve bad a ision ng time have an $0 “3 TALMAGIAN ADMONITION j FOR THE MOVING SEASON A Washinzton report : This discourse of Dr. Talmage is pertinent at this time of year, when many people are movâ€" Ing from house to house, and it teachâ€" es lessons of patience and equipoise in very trying circumstances; text, Philâ€" ippians iv., 12: "I know both how to be mbashed. and I know how to abound." Don‘t Get Puffed Up If You Are Moving Into a Large Houseâ€"â€"â€"Need of Paâ€" _ . tience and Equipoise. 3 EMappy Paul! commodate yo stances in life? out pride, and without exaspe lesson to us al We are vast pop changing in a hous clation 0 growth o man racé the beas the cave: in. The still live troglodyt day are ver th of was in t m th wa dr ney had off the of tr in tin ag: the A day this spring the streets will be filled with the furniture carts and the drays and the trucks. It will be a hard day for horses, because they will be overloaded. It will be a hard day for laborers, for they will overlift beâ€" fore they get the family furniture from ane house to another. It wiil be a hard day for housekeepers to see their furniâ€" ture scratched, and their crockery broken, and their carpets misfit, and. their furniture dashed of the sudden showers. It will be a hard day for jandlords. It will be a hard day for tenants. Especial grace is needed for moving day. Many a man‘s religion has suffered a fearful strain between the hour on the morning of the first of May, when he took his immature breakfast, and the hour at night when he rolled into his extemporised couch. The furniture broken sometimes will reâ€" sult in the breaking of the ten comâ€" mandments. There is no more fearful ’pl than the hall of a house where two families meet, one moving out and the other moving in. The salutation is apt to be more vehement than compliâ€" mentary. The grace that will be sumâ€" cient for the first of January and the first of February and the first of March and the first of April will not be suffiâ€" cient for the first of May. Say your Thank God for your homeâ€"not mereâ€" ty the house you live in now, but the mouse you were born in and the many houses you have resided in since you began your earthly residence. When you go home toâ€"day, count over the number of those houses in which you have resided, and you will be surprised. Once in a while you find a man who lives in the house where he was bern and where his father was born, and his dfather was born, and his greatâ€" x:dhther was born. but that is not one out of a thousand cases. I have not been more perambulatory than most people, but I was amazed when I eame to count up the number of resiâ€" dences I had occupied. The fact is, there is in this world no such thing as permanent residence. sb 4 or you M i scason of the year when ons in all our cities are dence. Having been born e do not have full appreâ€" 1at a house is. It is the wusands of vears. The buâ€" u ich to worship God, they h of their time to the nfortable abodes for oulr 1 in clefts of rocks, field moving out of he human race move s and the robbers : of the earth. ‘The race which to this | ns to a house. They re large, they are they are less subâ€" anges of heat and _along down in the e, and we come to as a home built out ranghes. We come a the history of the > to the tent, which with a round hole | uld you really acâ€" f to all circumâ€" ild you go up withâ€" id you come down n? Teach the same : woman spoiled by a fir g enough, but a man so & | Ing. The lavendered f g i 80 dainty and so precis y ed in the roil of his eye 6 his cane or the clickin ~ | handle against his fro q effeminate languor an * | tion so interlarded w I have known people who were kind and amiable and Christian in their smailler houseâ€"no sooner did they go over the doorsill of the new house than they became a glorified nuigsance. They were the terror of dry goods clerks and the amazement of ferry boats into which they swept, and if compelled to stand a moment with condemnatory glance tUurning all the people seated into erimâ€" inals and convicts. They began to hunt up the family coat of arms, and had lion couchant or unicorn rampant on the carriage door; when, if they had the appropriate coat of arms, it would have been a butter firkin, or & shoe last or a plow or a trowel. Instead of being like all the rest of us, made out of dust, they would have you think they were trickled out of heaven on &A lump of loaf sugar. The first thing you know of them, the father will fail in business, and the daughter will run off with a French dancing master. A woman spoiled by a finer house is bad enough,. but a man so upset is sickenâ€" ing. The lavendered fool goes around so dainty and so precise and so affectâ€" ed in the roll of his eyes or the whirl of his cane or the clicking of the ivory handle against his front teeth, or his efeminate languor and his conversaâ€" tion so interlarded with "oh‘s" and "ah‘s" that he is to me a dose of ipecacâ€" wankha â€" Naw my friends if you move But I must have a word with those who in this Mayday time move out of larger residences into smaller. Someâ€" times the pathetic reason is that the family has dwindled in size and so much room is not required, so they move out into smaller apartments. I know there are such cases. Marriage has taken some of the members of the family, death has taken other memâ€" bers of the family, and after awhile father and mother wake up to find their family just the size it was when they started, and they would be loneâ€" some and lost in a large house, hence they move out of it. Moving day is a great sadness to such if they have the law of association dominant. There are the rooms named after the different members of the family. I suppose it is so in all your households. It is so in mine. We name the rooms after the persons who occupy them. And then there is the dining Fall, where the festivities tock place, the holiday festivities; there is the sitting room, where the family met night after night, and there is the reom sacred beâ€" cause there a life started or a life stopped, the Alpha and the Omega of some carthly existence. Scenes of meeting and parting, of congratulation and heartbreak! Every door knob, every fresco, every mantel, every threshold meanizg more to you than it can ever mean to anyone else! When moving out of a house, I have always been in the habit, after everything was gone, of going into each room and bidding it a mute farewell. There will be tears running down many cheeks in the Maytime moving that the carmen will not be able to understand. It is a solemn and a touching and an overâ€" whelming thing to leave places forâ€" everâ€"places where we have struggled and toiled and wept and sung and prayed and anxiously watched and agonised. Oh, life is such a strange mixture of honey and of gall, wedâ€" dings and burials, midnoon and midâ€" night clashing! Every home a lightâ€" house against which the billows of many seas tumble! Thank God that such changes are not always going to continue; otherwise the nerves would give out and the brain would founder on a dementia iike that of King Léar when his daughter Cordelia came to medicine his domestic calamity. But there are others who will move out of large residences into smaller through the reversal of fortune. The property must be sold or the bailiff will sell It, or the income is less and you cannot pay the house rent. First of all, such persons should unâ€" derstand that our happiness is not dependent on the size of the house we live in. I have known people enjoy & small heaven in two rooms and others suffer a pandemonium in 20. There is as much happiness in a small house as in a large house. There is as much satisfaction under the light of a tallow candle as under the glare of a chandeâ€" lier, all the burners at full blaze. Who was the happler, John Bunyan in Bedâ€" ford jail or Belshazzar in the saturnaâ€" lia? Contentment is something you can neither rent nor purchase. It is not extrinsic; it is intringic. Are there fewer rooms in the house to which you move? You will have less to take care of. Is it to be stove instead of furâ€" nace? All the doctors say the modern modes of warming buildings are unâ€" healthy. Is it legs pier .{mmu? Leas temptation to your vanity. is it old fashioned toilet instead of water pipes all through the house? Less to freeze and burst when you cannot get a ghty. God can trust such hat with a large estate. He to abound. He trusted God, usted him. And I could call of 50 merchant princes as God as they are mighty in ccesses. Ah, my friends, do sacrifice m sense reading or wealth e as large and as can afford to have, your humility and _ do not lose your hey are mighty in h, my friends, do any of the seccesâ€" t be spoiled by the achmen that may the sweep of the imported tapestry. ome to your house s. They are not so ou as they are in and your successâ€" i next year to 320 reet and see how lages will halt at by your su« in an | moveâ€" e fetnâ€" | helved ultural | at a # 11 they | touvury plumber, Is it less carrlage? More room for robust exercise. Is it less social position? Fewer people who want to drag you down by their jealâ€" ousies. Is it less fortune to leave in your last will and testament? Less to spoil your children. Is it less money for marketing? Less temptation to ruin the health of your family with pineapples and indigestible salads. Is it a little deaft? Not hearing so many disagreeables. hi us I meet you this springtime at the door of your new home, and while I help you lift the clothes basket over the banisâ€" ters and the carman is getting red in the face in trying to transport that arâ€" ticle of furniture to some new destinaâ€" tion I congratulate you. You are going to have a better time this year, some of you, than you ever had. You take God and the Christian religion in your home. and you will be grandly happy. God in the parlorâ€"that will sanctify vour sociabilities. God in the nursery â€"that will protect yoeur children. God in the dining hallâ€"that will make the plainest meal and imperial banquet. God in the morningâ€"that will launch the day brightly from the arydocks. God in the eveningâ€"that will sail the day sweetly into the harbor. 3 And get joy, one and all of you, wheâ€" ther you move or do not move. Get jov out of the thought that we are soon all going to have a grand moving day. Do you want & picture of the new house into which you will move? Here, it is, wrought with the hand of a masâ€" house of this tabernacle were dissolyvâ€" ter, "We know that, if our earthly ed. we have a building of God, a house not mAde with hands, eternal in the heaverfé." How much rent will we have to pay for it? We are going to own it. How much must ws pay for it? How much cash down, and how much left on mortgage? Our Father is going to give it as a free gift. When are we going to move into it? We are moving now. On moving day heads of families are very apt to stay in the old house until they have seen everything off. They send ahead the children, and they send ahead the treasures and the valuâ€" ables. Then. after awhile, they will and mother‘ w tired, and we toot of the lat them of all th in the new p wasgon unload our neighbors vet. ‘Ther after awh ard we w we will s those who CHOICE SLANG JUST iMPORTED. New York Luxuriating in the Latest London Monstrosities. Kew York fashionables now borrow their slang from London. Americanâ€" isms are considered vulgar. In what is called good society on this side such phrases as "bounder," not quite a cad, but a fellow who is not a gentleman; "crummy," meanâ€" ing the reverse of cranky ; "quid," for roll of money and "a regular toff" for a_â€" wouldâ€"be swell, are common. The company you keep can be told by your slang vocabulary. y _ BC NO CDECH e ® o ie uCns OR 6 cemone 72c Tsd 1 The "400" now dub the weather " beastly ;" an ugly day is called "nasty" and the chappies frequently ejaculate "By Jove!" which is conâ€" sidered very English. "Pon honor" is another favorite. . E4 A dress must be called a gown, clerks are "clarks," and it is correct, though rather extreme, to say TL wager a pound." _ e M Emt o 90 e it "Now we shan‘t be long" is a slang phrase of recent importation and wide usefulness. Many of the words that are now current in the best society were once gutter children. ‘"Drag" was &A thieves‘ term for carriage. There are more slang synonyms for money than any other word in ‘the language, and, almost without exception, Lonâ€" don is their birthplace. It is called the actual, the needful, the whereâ€" withal, tin, brass, plunk, chips, dibs, pieces, _ dust, . chink, _ spots, .shot, sheckles, svondulicks, stamps, feathâ€" ers, palm oil and oof. LLIE utss Iis ctvntiiisntnchedilartatab t Our collofes copy the slang of the English universities. _A student alâ€" ways goes "up" to the "varsity." The final exam. on which degrees are obâ€" tained is called "greats," which is an Oxford term. When a man failed at an exam. he once said that he was "plucked," now "plowed" is the fashâ€" ionable word for the same disaster. To be expelled or suspended is called to be "rusticated." ___ _ C Even the Bowery, which is usually original in everything, unconsciousâ€" fy falls into London slang. Bloke, crib, pinch, for take without leave; gone up the spout, a bit dotty, for cranky or a little off ; hit the pipe, brass, a fence, pal, kid himâ€"all of these have come from the London slums.â€"New York World. s ; One Artemus Ward used to tell of a letture experience which he had in a little place in the far west. There was a blizzard on the night when he held forth and consequently the audience was small. "After my lecâ€" ture," said Artemus, "I ventured to sulggest to the chairman of the committee that the elements having been against mo that evening, 1 might repeat my talk _l‘uor on Ll.n Aeeeieny s eE enent o Pn ui s en is the season. Afteir conferring with his fellow committeemen the chairman came back and said to me: _‘ We haven‘t any objection at all to your repeating your lecture, A!:ut the the heav eeling Is that you had better eat it in some other town.‘" $3 of Arté{nus Ward‘s Stories e mrcage ma ns! s on a th o Â¥ SUNDAY SCHOOL Parable of the Sower.â€"Matt. 13: 1â€"8; 18â€"23. INTERNATIONAL LESSON NO.VILL MAY 20, 1900. SBupt,â€"What is the Golden Text? Schoolâ€"The seed is the Word of God. Luke vill. 11. s Dule P todton What is the Central Truth® Fruitâ€" bearing depends upon the condition of the heart. What is the Topic ? Hearing and doâ€" ing 1. The same dayâ€"The day the serâ€" mon was preached that is recorded in the preceding chapter. The houseâ€" Peter‘s house, where He was accus tomed to dwell in Capernaum. Sat by the seasideâ€"By the sea of Galilee. Jesus sat in the boat with the multiâ€" tude standing on the shore. 2. Great multitudes were gathered togetharâ€"The Pharisees had _ been laboring by base calumnles to drive the people away from Jesus, but they still flocked after Him as much . as ever. Christ will be gloriflied in spite of all opposition ; He will be followed. â€"Henry. ue ELi 8. In parablesâ€"This was the first of Christ‘s parabolic utterances. &A parable is an allegorical relation or representation of something real in life or nature, from which a moral is d@rawn â€" for instruction." A â€" sower went forth to sow â€"Whoever soweth the word of God in the hearts of the people is represented by the sower in the parable. (1) Jesus Christ, who came to sow the good seed in this evil world (2) The apostles who scatâ€" tered it over the world. (3) All who go forth, in public or in private, to teach or to preach the truths of the word of God. (4) All whose holy exâ€" ample illustrates and impresses those truths. ! . Cns en a 4. When he sowedâ€"A sower wouid sow in the proper season. Fell by the waysideâ€"There . are four â€"kinds of ground mentioned. The first is the wayside where no plough had brokâ€" en it up. 5. Upon stoney placesâ€"Luke sa ys, . "upon & rock." "The rocks of Palesâ€". tine and Syria are mostly limestones, with many . flat stretches, covered with an inch or so of soil." Hall. This is the second kind of ground. Forthwith they sprung upâ€""A thin surface of soil above a shelf of rock is like a hotbed ; the stone keeps the heat and stimulates the growth." 6. They withered awayâ€"Luke says "it lacked moisture." The hot sun soon dried up the little moisture and scorched the grain. 7. Among thornsâ€"The third kind of soil was good, and there was hope of a barvest, but the ground was filled with pernicious seeds. 8. Good ground. The fourth kind of soil was rich and well prepared. "Noâ€" tice the gradation in respect to these four kinds of soil. In the first, the seed perishes without even spring ing up; in the second, it springs up, but withers away ; in the third, it springs up and bears fruit, but not to perfection ; in the fourth, it ylelds a harvact of nerfect grain." Some an What is the Topic a harvest of perfect grain hundredfoldâ€"This _ represo highest degree of fruitfuh hundredfoldâ€"This _ represents the highest degree of fruitfuiness. 18. Hear yo thereforeâ€"This form of discourse seemed so strangs _ to the disciples that they asked Him why He spoke in parables. (ome® Tt Ed l EC 19. Heareth the word of the kingâ€" domâ€"The truth of the gospel. _ All hear; God speaks to every person. The four kinds of soil represent four classes of individuals. ‘The wayside hearers are those who do not underâ€" stand because they do not pay proâ€" per attention. The wicked oneâ€"Mark says "Satan."" and Luke, " the deâ€" vil." He is always around watching his chance to destroy any influences for good that may exist. Catcheth awayâ€"careless, trifling hearers Aare an easy prey to Satan. As the birds pick up the seed by the wayside so the devil will rob us of the world, unless we take care to keep it.â€" Henry. ~tg 20. With joy receiveth it. The stonyâ€"ground hearers go farther than the firstâ€"class; they not only hear, but believe, and receive _ the truth, and the seed springs up. They take upon themselves a profession of EW NE CCC 21. Not root in himselfâ€"He _ did not count the cost. Luke xiv. 25â€"38. "His soul is not deeply convinced of its guilt and depravity." His emoâ€" tions are touched, but the truth has not entered into his inner life. Durâ€" eth for a whileâ€"While everything goes smoothly and he is surrounded by influences that hold him up. When tribulation or persecation Arisethâ€" Luke says, "In the time of temptaâ€" tion fall away." They have no power to resist any opposing influences. 22. The care of this world â€" The thorny ground bearers E0 farther than either of those mentioned in the former instances. They had root in themselves and were able to enâ€" dure the tribulations, persecutions and temptations that came _ npon them ; but still they allowed _ other things to cause them to become un> fruitful. Deceitfulness of richesâ€"This is the second weed that chokes the word. Riches claim to be able to beâ€" stow blessings, and honor, and hapâ€" piness. but they cannot give one of these things. "They harden the heart ; steal away all the life of God ; fill the soul with pride, anger and love of the world, and make men enemies to selfâ€"denial and the cross of Chriet. . â€".. _ «. religion 28. Into the good ground â€" ‘This was ground thoroughly yrepared. Heareth the wordâ€"Who are they who brought forth fruit to perfecâ€" tion. They heard the word. They dilâ€" igently attended to the, ministry of the word. They understood it. Thoughtsâ€"‘‘Truth may be very easâ€" lly missed. The careless hearers have only to continue their carelessness and their wretched object will be gained." We have only to close our eyes and ojr ears and all is lost. All true believers are not equally fruitful. PRACTICAL SURVEY. .. . This parable lllustrates the effect of tys ney placesâ€"Luke says, " ‘"‘The rocks of Palesâ€" . are mostly limestones, flat stretches, covered or so of soil." Hall. second kind of ground. â€"A sower would n the gospel upon different hearts. The hearers of the Word can generally be ranged under the four classes here enumerated. . While the Lord of the harvest has ordained certain ones especially for the work ‘of the minisâ€" try, that does not exclude anyone from sowing the seed of the Gospe!. The Lord desires that they that bear the vesseols of the Lord be clean, and the rule is that the husbandmen; are to be first partakers of the fruit ; yet sometimes an unworthy sower has seen success, and bad men have seen the seed blessed and prospered under their labors. The seed is good ; l': will germinate under proper condiâ€" ons. The soils. This has been called by someons the parable of the solls. Speaking literaily, we cannot condemn the unfavorable, or commend the good soil. It could not help being just as it was ; â€" it Cannot change itself or be anything else than it is. But when our Lord makes the application He takes us from the inanimate to the animate â€"the frresponsible to the responsible. ‘The stoneyâ€"ground hearer has done nothing to clear the ground or deepen the shallow soil of his heart, He does not think deeply, is easily affected either for good or bad. He rushes into the profession and confession of reâ€" ligion without counting the cost. He mistakes physical sensation for the moving of God‘s spirit in his soalâ€" sentimentality for spirituality. His religion leaves him with his subsiding emotions, and, like Ephraim‘s "mornâ€" ing cloud" or "early dew" experience, is very soon dissipated. The wayside hearer has brought himself to that state by exposing his heart to evil influences and permitâ€" ting 1t to be the playground of doubt and unconcern. He does not care to think upon his obligation to God, and drives serious reflection from him unâ€" til he is as hard as adamant. The thorn_v-fround hearers are perâ€" sons who, while they may receive the sexl into their hearts, and mean to let it come to full fruition, foolishly, if not wickedly, allow â€" domestic or business cares to crowd out religiouns duties. They reglect prayer, scripâ€" ture reading and other means of grace tfmd soon become barren and anfruitâ€" ul. ‘The goodâ€"ground hearer is found in the right condition of fitness. . He gives deep attention to the word, and "understandeth it." He has permitted the gospel plough to break up his fallow ground. He has gathered the stones out of the way. He now guards against danger from thorns by watchfulness and prayer. To revert to the thought of perâ€" sonal â€" responsibility. _ The wayside heart can yield itsel{ to the mellowâ€" lnf influences of ‘God‘s spirit. Its efforts, supplemented by the help of God, can bring it to the point of atâ€" tention and thoughtfal action. . The birds of evil thoughts, or of trifling incidents, will not be permitted any longer to steal the good seed. The wayside can become good soil. ‘The same can be said of the stoney and thorny ground " D05E VIODER YOMANS! " One Charged With Designs on Another‘s Husband,. New York report: â€" Mrs. Caroline Antz, a widow, who is 64 years old and lives at 410 Sixth street, was arâ€" rested on a warrant which charged her with endeavoring to entice away the husband of Barbara Deschner, who has been living at 216 East Fourth street. The case came up in the Yorkville Court. It seems that Mrs. Deschner had worried the Magâ€" \istrate . into issuing a sumâ€" mons . for Mrs. Antz to appear to answer some charge, and that the w n had treated the matter with ctz::émpt. The woman said she did not know what the paper was about. the : othe h id to « husb tage knov gook Chu« nd g arou nveir to g her vas hous wride . him â€" ledders _ already in Cherfuan. T‘d gif you the ledders to read «o0 dot you proof id, only L was burnÂ¥em. M’&Zn husbandt gif me the ledders und tole mis everything she say mit him." "Well, well ; did this old woman do all that ?" interrupted the Magis~ trate. . "Shure, she do id. She ist a vidder voman," answered the com?hinant. The Magistrate then called â€"Jacob Deschner to the witness stand and asked him if the woman had really tried to alienate his affections. | _"I doan‘d vos know dot _ fellow, Chudge; maype she vas mage lofe mit him doo," the man answered. . Wl 2 Icuuant uind duk o dudaiPiadtines s aiied 6. P driot °C "Yah, yah; she ist in lofe mit me. I gan‘t helb id un% I pe glad ov you stob her." "Did she try to coax you from your wife ?" continued the Magistrate. ‘Nein ; she doan‘d ‘vas do dot ; mein vife ist a loonatig." _ & â€""I mean did she make love to you?" Magistrate Pool repeated. _ _"She doeen‘t look like an insane person," remarked the Maglstrate as he glanced at the complainant,. . _. "She is as mzy as could be Chudge, and I dot she is for de dip academy by de island. | She is nutty, once alretty." "Let me understand this. Is not this your wife?" inquired the Magisâ€" tutto as he pointed to the complainâ€" ant. " Yon ov dem. Mein first vife life " Yon ov dem. Mein first vile life mit the grazy asylum." "Und I vas your vife by the comâ€" mon law, ‘wind‘t it?"" asserted the complainant. "Yah, I utick mit dot. I doan‘d vant no vidder voman und such an old von, doo," remarked thr» man 'l‘helln‘ftuuhutdlu.nulf she would promise not to annoy the man or woman in the future. On her promise he discharged her. |. POLICE JUDGE PUZZLED. Â¥R4 Following are the closing prices a% important wheat centres toâ€"day : Cash. _ â€" July. CHICAKO .. 1....s «i. Y $0 67 3â€"8 New Yotk ... .. ... .. â€"«â€" 073 14 Milwaukee ... ... .. O87 12 â€"â€" ‘Toledo ... ... ... ... O737â€"B 0 73 38 nutwit ut . _ © MITEHLA OT8 38 Chicago .. ... New York .. . â€"» Milwaukee .. . Detroit, red .. . Detroit, white ... Duluth, â€" No. 1 Northern .. . Duluth, No. 1 ha Minneapolis, No. 1 Northern Minneapolis, hard ... . SHAIC ... .‘ >« w UOOZ PB .~â€"<â€"â€"o 41 ron Live Cattle Mark et. Milch cows, each... .......... $30 00 to $15 00 in eaidnnns isb 18 x t, per owt... Butchers‘ cattle, choice ........ 410 to 4 35 Butchers‘ cattle, good.......... 370 to 400 Butchers‘ common, per cwt.... 3 2% to 3 0 Bulls, export, heavy, per cwt.. 3 6 to 4 00 Bull«, export. light, per owt.... 33 to 0 00 Steers, shortâ€"keep, 1,100 to _ _____ ; _ Feeders, 900 to 1,100 Ibe. owt . .. Stock steers, 400 to 900 Ibs. per Butchers‘ bulls, per owt..... Light stock bulls, per cwt.. . Sheep, export ewes, per cw! 40, DHCK®, . . 22222222 > Shee&buwhem.e-ch........ Lan.bs, yearlings, per CWL.... Lambs, picked ewes, wothers Spring lambs, each..........» Calves, per head.............. Hogs, choice, per CWt......... Hogs, light, per owt.......... Hogs, heavy, fat, per owt.... There is not a very encouraging outlook for wool growers ~ Prices which dealers are now quoting for wool are rather lower than they were a week ago. One reason for this is the absence of demand for Canadian wool from United States buyers. There are only two lots of last season‘s clip of any extent still held in this Proâ€" vince by Canadian buyers. These could probably be bought now . for 21ec. ‘The highest price touched by, the last season‘s clip was 2ic. Very, little wool, if any, sold higher than that price. The opening prices of wash, ed fleece wool during the last week in May, and the prices in the last week in November for the past three or four years in this market have been as follows : P 1900 1899 1898 1897 $7.50 a bushel. Timothy is steady at $1.50 to 82 a bushel of 48 ibs. Hunâ€" garian and common millet are quot« ed at 75¢ to 90: a bushel at 48 Ibs.. and German and gold millet is 8115 to $1.25. In Chicago timothy seed closed steady at $2.50 nominal for May and clover unchanged at $7. In Toledo old prime slover closed steady at $41.80 and October 2%0 lower at $5.12% per bushel. Bradstreet‘s on Trade. Trade at Montreal is showing signs reasged activity. The prospects ~» that a large expansion wilt wrienced this month. Trade at ton continues quite brisk. Hot Te mmat repeim figpermnads or general lines mmer wear. More ac{lvlw J ed when the temperature gets Seeds. Demand now is mostly for Hungar« ian and millet grass seeds. Prices are steady. Red clover is quoted at at has made business someâ€" J"ow. There has been a moderâ€" ate. amount of activity among the wholegale hoases at Winnipeg since first of the month. Trade at Toronto has been fair this week. There is no special feature to note. bus The British System. The clauge in the election bill now before Parliament at Ottawa whick disfranchises officers and men be« longing to the permanent militia is al« most precisely the same as a simi« lar enactment by the British Parlia« ment with regard to the army and navy. It cannot be regarded, as the Opposition press is endeavoring to make out, as a slur upon the service nor as placing officers and men in the same category with persons dis« franchised for corrupt practiccs On the contrary it is intended to in« clude them with judfie of the courts of law and other high functionaries whose exclusion from party politics is considered in the best inter sts of the commonwealth. As regards the military sgervice, experience in Cans« ada has proved the wisdom cf the British law for uoplw soldiers out of politics.â€"Montreal Witness. 4 Isn‘t it Strangeâ€" That women make such a fuss over a baby ? en m x That women aro not at easo unless they do carry a pocketbook ? That women can tell the emaillest detail of other women‘s dress? That women learn a foreign lanâ€" guage so much more readily than @a constant in their affections tham ~That women can em‘le so when knocking ten years fr man ? fitting the shoe instead of the shom nu:: the foot ?â€"New York World, esP porss Leading Wheat Markets. to #o E+ ,Shipments of goods continue Values are firm for nearly all Country remittances aAre fair. ects are looking up fairly, British Columbis. Mining operâ€" are showing more activity. ndon trade continues fair with ospect of considerable improve» The Wool Markets. is soon as the weather gets r. Farmers have been busy; , and have not been able to the country markets lately, 1 hnard No. 1 No. 1 May. £.18e to 17 rn xC to 0 67 12 0 78 Tâ€"8 073 3â€"4 073 34 0 67 1â€"2 0 69 1â€"4 ils 16 rer is quoted at ike at $41.80 to thy is steady at | of 48 ibs. Hunâ€" millet are quot« 0 68 3â€"8 U 65 T8 to 20¢ Nov 21¢c i3 9 0