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With cold, meâ€" Further, every god must have not enly its tempie, but its altar of sacâ€" rifice, and this golden calf of the tex: is no exception. Its altar <is not made out of stone as other altars, but out of counting room desks and fireâ€" proof safes, and it is a broad, a long, s high altar. The victims sacrificed en it are the Swartouts and the Ketâ€" world‘s worship. But every god must have its tem.â€" ple, and this golden calft of the text is no exception. Its temple is vaster than St. Paul‘s cathedral in England, and St. Peter‘s in Ftaly, and the Alâ€" hambra of the Spaniards, and the Parthenon of the (ireeks, and the Taj Mahal of the Hindoos and all the eathedrals put together. Its pillars are grooved and fluted with gold, and its ribbed arches are hovering gold. and its chandeliers are descending gold, and its floors are tessellated gold, and its vaults are crowded heaps of gold, and its spires and d@omes are soaring gold, and its orâ€" gan pipes are resounding gold, and Its pedais are tramping gold, and !ts stops pulled out are flashing gold. while gstanding at the head of the temple, as the presiding deity, are . the bhoofs and shoulders and eyes and ears and nostrils of the calf of gold. _ whole continent shivered. The golden ealf of the text has, as far as Ameriâ€" ca is concerned, its right front foot n New York, its left front foot in Phicago, its right back foot in Fharleston, its left back foot in New Orleans, and when it shakes itself it swhakes the world. Oh, this is a mighty godâ€"the golden calf of the world‘s worshin. Michigan wheat and the insect in the Maryland peach orchard and â€" the trampled grain under the hoof of the Russian war charger. It is so mighty that it swings any way it will the world‘s shipping. It has its foot on all the merchantmen and the steamâ€" ers. It started the American civil war, and, under God, stopped it, and it decided the Turkoâ€"Russian contest. One broker in September, 18%69, in New York, shouted, "One hundred and sixty for a million‘" and the ‘erming stuff thrown on the surface. Home of it flows on down the surface of the brook to the river, and then flows on down the river to the sea, and the sea takes it up and bears it to the mouth of all rivers, and when the tides set back the remains of this golden calf are carried up into the Potomac and the Hudson and the Thames and the Clyde and the Tiber, and men go out, and they skim the glittering surface, and they bring it ashore, and they make another goliden calf, _ and California and Australia break off their golden earrings â€" to augment the piles, and in the fires of fingencial excitement and struggle all these things are melted together, and while we stand looking and wonderâ€" ing what will come of it, lo! we find that the golden calf of Israelitish worship has become the golden calf of European and American worship. tering stuff t Home of it flo of the brook flows on dow: and the sea ta to the mouth the tides set t golden calf a: Moses has been six weeks on Mount Binai, and he comes back and hears the howling and sees the dancing of these golden calf fanatics, and he loses his patience and he takes the two plates of stone on which were written the Ten Commandments and fings them so hard against a rock that they split all to pieces. When £ man gets angry he is apt to break awll the Ten Commandments. Moses rushes in, and he takes this calf god and throws it into a hot fire until it is melted all out of shape and then pulverises it, not by the modern appliance of nitroâ€"muriatic acid, but by the ancient appliance of niter or by the oldâ€"fashioned file. He stirs for the people a most nauseating draught. He takes this pulverised golden calf and throws it in the only 4 brook which is accessible, and the peoâ€" | ple are compellied to drink _ of that‘ brook or not drink at all I earrings are melted and poured into & mold, not of an eagle or a war charger, but of a silly calf. The gold eools down, the mold is taken away, and the idol is set up on its four legs. An altar is built in front of tke shining calf. Then the people throw up their arms and gyrate and whrieck and dance vigorously and worship. People will have a god of some kind, and they prefer one of their own making. Here come the Israelites breaking off their golden earrings, the men as well as the women, for in those days there was masculine as well as feminine decoration. Where did they get these beautiful gold earâ€" rings, coming up as they did from the desert? Oh, they borrowed them of the Egyptians when they left Egypt. These earrings are piled up into a pyramid of glitering beauty. ‘"Any more earrings to bring?" says Aaron. _ None. Fire is kindled, the earrings are melted and poured into « mold, not of an eagle or a war‘ charger, but of a silly calf. The gold Bu A Washington report: In his disâ€" course Dr. Talmage shows how the spirit of greed destroys when it takes possession of a man and that money got in wrong ways is a curse. Text: Exodus, xxxii.. 20: "And he took the calf which they had made and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powâ€" der, and strewed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it." The Popular God Is Unsatisfying and Cruel and Will Fail Its Worshipers in the Death Hour. THE GOLDEN CALE AND ITS DEVOTEES UPBRAIDED on, its left back foot in New and when it shakes itself it the _ world. Oh, this is a godâ€"the golden calf of the not drink at all. y did not drink a iff thrown on the all the +; ° and ‘there is hi« | his four feet o thel there is the s the fice, new â€" vieti d § it, and there ar ine ! and the doxolo; K it 3 on, while death ten i skeleton arm } hk 1 chorusâ€"*More, m’ Some people of prised at the a alt { stock exchange, n it is a scene le;; | lyses descriptio it , it will be a very hot blaze. All the | ‘ government securities of the United f | States and Great Britain will curl | up in the first blaze. All the money ’ safes and deposit vaults . will melt; under the first touch. The sea will | burn like tinder, and the shipping | will be abandoned forever. The; melting gold in the broker‘s window | will burst through the melted win-: dow glass in the street, but the, fAying < population will not stop to | scoop it up. The cry of "Fire!" from | the mountain . will be answered by; the cry of "Fire‘" in the plain. The“ conflagration will burn out from the continent toward the sea and then burn in from the sea toward . the land, New York and London with one cut of the red scythe of destrucâ€" tion will> go _ down. Twentyâ€"five thousand miles of conflagration! ‘The |â€" earth will wrap itself round ani | round in shroud of flame and lie |, down to perish. What then will beâ€" | 1 } tw on, while death stands with moldy and | You may, perhaps, take $500 wi'th i ;:fil& ‘{;::m:l.\e':: “t]- skeleton arm beating time for the ‘you two or three miles in the sham" tain official ('}!rtil chorusâ€"*More, more, more!" of funeral trappings to the cemetery, | priests to think of Some people are very much surâ€" | but you will have to leave them here. | voice glorified Gi prised at the actions of people in the | It would not .be safe for you to lie | wonderful cure stock exchange, New York. Indeed,. |down there with a gold watch or a| wrought in him. it is a scene sometimes that paraâ€" | diamord ring. It would be a temptation | in prayer and n« Iyses description and is beyond the | to the pillagers. If we have made this | praise." Saved 80¢ imagination of any one who has | worli our god, we shall see our ido! | license granted th never looked in. _ What snapping of | when we die ground to pieces by our ,I_‘,"'d' See Luke xix finger and thumb and wild gesticulaâ€" | pillow, and we shall have to driak it | "Seven times a dn,'y tion, and ravin@ like hyenas and | in bitter regrets for the wasted oppo_r- I â€"Pra. exix. 164. ‘I stamping like buffailos and swaying | tunities of a lifetime. Soon we will | we do not praise I they have lost. This temple of I speak stands open day and and there is the glittering go his four feet on broken hearts Still the degrading worship goes on, and the devotees kneel and kiss the dust and count their golden heads and cross themselves with the blood of their own sacrifice. The music rolls on under the arches. It is made of clinking silver and clinkâ€" ing gold and the rattling specie of the banks and brokers‘ shops and the voices of all the exchanges. The soprano of the worshin is carried by sopran the tin just b U lies. If a man by determined to go pose you will havy he puts his wife equipage that is the avenues and horses into ¢two : spokes flash in th en headgear of t! until black calar of the horses an shouts to the iux the equipage, "G out. They get do and father flung th hey ne1 mark on ‘"Blessed are the dead who die in the Lorda!" Mistake. They did not "die in the Lord." The golden calf kicked them. tallic eye it looks on and yet lets them suffer. What an altarl What a sacrifice of mind, body and soul‘! The physical health of a great multiâ€" tude is flung on to this sacrificial alâ€" tar. They cannot sleep, and they take chloral and morphine and inâ€" toxicants. Some of them struggle in a nightmare of stocks, and at i o‘elock in the morning suddenly rise up, shouting, "A thousand shares of New York Centralâ€"108!&â€"take it!" until the whole family is affrighted, and the speculators fall back on their pillow and sieep until they are awakened again by a "corner‘ in Paâ€" ciflic Mail or a sudden "rise" of Rock Island. Their nerves gone, their diâ€" gestion gone, their brain gone, they die. The gowned ecclesiastic comes in and reads the funeral service, 1Ss et down, That husband lung his family so hard ot up. There was the m for lifeâ€"the mark of a 1e deathâ€"dealing hoof of ices wailing over what . This temple of which ; open day and night, the glittering god with on broken hearts, and imoking altar of sacriâ€" ims every moment on e the knocking devotees, )gy of the worship rolis i stands with moldy and beating time for the out hav e been steeped in Chorus of voices they have made; ailing over what m ip is carried by men who have ulate, while the from those who | we must all appear when the worlc | has turned to ashes, | When shriveling like a parched scroll, , The flaming heavens together roll, ; When louder yet and yet more dread f\Swells the high trump that wakes the dead. By the accidental discharge of~ a revolver Monday Clarence Burckly Beardsley, a man of wealth and well known in Chicago‘s business circles, shot and killed his wife, Madge Bowâ€" ker Beardsley. at the gates of eternal welcome, Oh, what a (God he is! He will allow you to come so close that you can put your arms around his neck, while he in response will put his arms around your neck, and all the wirdows of heaven will be hoisted to let the redeemed look out and see the spectacle of a reâ€" joicing father and a returned prodiga locked in that glorious embrace. Quit worshiping the golden calf and bow this day before him in whose presence When your parents have breathed their last and the old wrinkled and trembling hands can no more be put upon your head for a blessing, he will be to you a father and mother botif giving you the defense of one and the comfort of the other. For have we not Paul‘s blessed hope that as Jesus died and rose again, "even so them also which sleep in Jesus shall God bring with them." And when your children go away from you, the sweet darlings, you will not kiss them and say goodâ€" bye forever. He only wants to hold them for you a little while. He will give them back to you again, and he will have them all waiting for you "When thou passest through the waâ€" ters, I will be with thee, and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee; when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle upon thee." But, if we have made this world our god, when we come to die we shall see our idol demolished. How much of this world are you going to take with you into the next? Will you have two pocketsâ€"one in each side of your shroud? Will you cushion your casket with bonds and mortâ€" gages and certificates of stock? Ah, no! The ferryboat that crosses this Jordan takes no baggageâ€"nothing heavier than an immaterial spirit. C C000 Oop Cue HTat The modern golden calf, like the one of the text, is very apt to be made out of borrowed gold. These Israelites of the text borrowed â€"the earrings of the Egyptians and then melted them into a god. That is | the way the <gzoiden calf is made nowadays. A great many housekeepâ€" ers not paying for the articles they get borrow of the grocer and the baker and the butcher and the dry goods seller, ‘Then the retailer borâ€" rows of the wholesale dealer. Then the wholesale dealer borrows of the capitalist, and we borrow and borâ€" row and borrow until the communiâ€" ty is divided into two classes, those who borrow and those who are borâ€" rowed of, and after awhile the capiâ€" talist wants his money, and he rushesi upon the ~wholesale dealer, and the wholesale dealer wants his money, and | he rushes upon the retailer, and the reâ€" | tailer wants his money, and he rushes upon the customer, and we all go down together. There is many â€" a man in this day who rides in a carriage l and owes the blacksmith for the tire | and the wheelwright for the wheel and f the trimmer.for the curtain and the | driver for unpaid wages and the harâ€" nessâ€"maker for the bridle and the rurâ€", rier for the robe, while from the tip of the carriage tongue clear back to the tip of the camel‘s hair shawl flutâ€" tering out of the back of the vehicle everything is paid for by rotes thatl have been three times renewed. a never before that forgeries will not pay, that the watering of â€"stock will not pay, that the spending of $50,000 on country seats and a palatial city residence when there are only $30,000 income will not pay, that the approâ€" priation of trust funds to our own priâ€" vate speculation will not pay. m C e millstone of falling mountains ground to powder. Dagon down. â€" Moloch down, Juggernaut down, golden calf down! But every day is a day of judgment, and God is all the time grinding to pieces the golden calf. Some years ago in a time of panic we learned as so poor as to worship it? Melted or between the upper and the nether millstone of falling mountains ground to pnowdar. TYR Giive * Wrcwsses aEA%221 come of your golden calf? â€" Who then modern goldenhc;lâ€"f:'llke the the text, is very apt to be Thoughts.â€"The same Christ who met the ten lepers confronts the leprosy of the whole world. Every person covered with the leprosy of sin, who cries for mercy as did these poor men, will find that Jesus is abundantly able to save unto the utâ€" termost. _ While we should approach Christ in humility, and with a deep sense of our unworthiness and helpâ€" lessness, yet we should come to him with great boldness. Let us put aside our fears and remember that he has bidden us come. 4 The cry of the Ioprous ten came HMlustration.â€"Many people are inâ€" sensible of their disease. They know they are not as good as they ought to be, but they console themselves with the thought that they are not as bad as many others.. If we are not true Christians we are sinners and on the road to certain destrucâ€" tion. 19. Thy faithâ€""His confidence in Christ was the means, and the power of Christ the cause, of his cure." ‘"The trus nature of faith is here very clearâ€" ly displayed as consisting principally in moral qualities of obedience and love."â€"Willcock. Hath made thee wholeâ€""Hath saved thee." (R. V. margin) is much better. There was more done for him than the mere healâ€" ing of his body. His faith hag led him as a humble penitent to the Christ, and his soni is saved. Ing, but forgot the Healer." 18. To give glory +o Godâ€"They had shown their ingratitude to God. When we Tail to honor Chriet we dishonor God. It is the duty of all people to give glory to God. Jer. xiii. 16. Save this strangorâ€"Or "alien." The Samâ€" aritans were (Gentiles. Their religion was n mixture of Judaism and ido}â€" atry ; they worshipped they knew not what. "In this transaction the Lord saw foreshadowed the bringing in of the Gentiles to His Church." ni ) 14. When he saw themâ€"It was a | sight that might have touched any heart, for they were smitten with a living death. The pity of Jesus was | axcited and He called to them immeâ€" ,dlat.ely. Show yourselves unto the pricstsâ€"To obtain the testimony of lt.he pricsts that they were _ really | cured and might be released â€"from | their enforced seclusion, and be again Iadmitml into society. As they went they were cleansedâ€"Jesus did _ not | touch them as in Matt. vili. 3, but | cnused their faith in Him to be testâ€" | ed. They were commanded to go to | the priest and they actually started _ on the journey before they were healâ€" i(‘d. It was a strong tost, but their ’perfect confidence in Christ â€" was equal to it. lqueflt was unanimous. ‘The ten cried as with oge yoice, They had evidentâ€" ly heard of the fame of Jesus and how Me cured the leprosy. Jesus, Master â€"Their farith in Him is sincere. "Alâ€" | though they do not yet know the | Saviour‘s dignity as the Messiah, yet | they account Him a prophet, mighty , in deed and word."â€"Lange. _ Have mercy on us.â€"They knew they were lepers and that no human _ power could save them, they _ anecordingly, yery properiv, plead for merey. V NCE Pnb nCemn Vd) on | mingle together. The Jaw pronounced ! the leper unclean, and he was _ obâ€" liged to warn passersâ€"by with â€" the fm'y of "unclean, unclean." Leprosy is | a type of sin. The leper was (1) deâ€" !flled. and he defiled everything _ he touched, (2) extremely loathsome, and | (8) swhut out of society. This all ap | plies with equal force to the sinner. | The surroundings of the leper were | also unclean, _ Ley. Xill; 47â€"19 ; xiv. i 33â€"47, We must see to it that our surroundings are not clothes we wenr, the the company we keep, frequent, the seenes leprous will cause our stood afar off. They mitted to come near health. Lev. xill. 13, 13. Lilfted up their + _ Commentary.â€"11. As he went to Jerusalemâ€"From _ Ephraim _ where Jesus and His discipies had been in seclugion, _ ‘Through the midstâ€"This contusing. beimg ‘Uhe Gppooite" direw using, bei the recâ€" tion to a Juurl:ey to gzru-nlem. I‘roâ€" bably "through the midst" is to be understood â€" as meaning "along the frontiers of."â€"BRom. Comm. 12. Ten men that were lepersâ€""The leprosy was a disease which the Jews supposed to be inflicted for the punâ€" ishment of some particular sin, and to be, more than other diseases, a mark of God‘s displeasure; _ thereâ€" fore Christ took particular _ paing to cleanse the lepers." There were ten in this company, for though they were shut out from the societ y l\f‘ others, they were at liberty _ to {l:lng!«* together. The Jaw prnnounwdl The Ten Lepers Cleansed.â€"Luke 17 :11â€"418, INTERNATIONAL LEKESSUON NO. V1I1 NOVEMBER 18, 1900. SUNDAY SCHOOL rance from a disease than death. But the too much taken up in their desire to obâ€" tificates from the of this. With a lond odâ€"Because of the + infected. " The > books we read, , the places _ we we visit," if t death. . Which were not perâ€" _to personus _ in 46 ; Numsa v. Lc voicesâ€"Their reâ€" Ay ‘The Duchoss of Portland is the taillâ€" est woman in England. Sh> married th» duke in 1889. She was then Miss Dallas Yorke. The duke is the lord of £300,000 a year and owns half a dozen castles, among them being the incomâ€" parable Welbeck, where Lady Pegy Primrose spent her honeymoon. e duchsss devotes most of her time to the furtherance of temperance work. Vice sometimes appears to me as the shadow of idleness. I do not feel horror wheh I see sin and misery, but shame for the zake of God.â€" The entire capital stock of the company, it is said by thoso interâ€" ested, has been subscribed. Wm. L. Elkins, and Thomas Dolan, of this city.; R. A. C. Smith, Presiâ€" dent of the Cuba Mail _ Steamship Company, and Percival Farquhar, of New York, and Dr. T.. W. sheppard and Mr. M. L. Evans, of Montreal, The departure of the two men was the result of the permanent organiâ€" zation at last night‘s meeting _ of the Cuba Company, with a capital of $20,000,000. Sir William presidâ€" ed at the meeting, and the others present besides his son were Messre. Rir Wiwmn,. Vanforne Representing Large Intere ts. Philadelphia Report.â€"Followinzg a meeting of _ New York, Philadelphia and Canadian capitalists in this city last night, Sir William C. Yan Horne, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Canadian â€" Pacific â€" Railroad and his son, Mr. R. B. Yan Horne, of Montreal, sailed from here toâ€"Jay on the steamer Admiral Sampson â€"for Santiago, where they will> make an effort to secure options on _ all horse and trolley lines in Cuba, and als> on all sugar plantations in the ieland boxes had been shipped by the Lotrl don ageney of the Deutsche llank,, and were . cousigned ‘"To order." "The value & the consignâ€" | mebt was put at £508,000. \\'lwu‘ the boxses were opened _ at the | assay office it was found that packed in sawdust they contained gold bars, every one of which was a United States assay office bar. Acording to the inscription stamped on the bars. [ they had originated in this city aill | _the way from 1898 to the current | _year. _ Based upon the number upon f some of the bars, a few of them had | left this city as recently ag July last, | Just why the boxes were marked "P,. , I‘, K." was not learned, and officers of the city bank whon questioned were evasive in their replies. The suggesâ€" tion was made that if the gold really represented "Kruger gold" there had |â€" been a substitution in Londor of United EStates nesay office bars for | the actual South African gold. _ Also E3 on the Kaiserin Maria Theresa was ' £50,000 of gold from abroad consignâ€" | ed to the Hanover National Bank. || Most of the cousignment was in the | : form of British gold bars, but there | i were also a numfi)er of bars marked | « with the stamp of the mining comâ€" | 1 pany of New Zealand. The two lots | : rogether brought up the total of the gold arrivals thus far to $8,696,816. | t whose full name Paul Kruger. T steaimship did no of the goid, mer boxes had been â€" sv‘a vo we National City Bank, about which there has been so much mystery, arrived on the steamship Kairerin Maria Theresa. The gold, which came in fifty wooden boxes, was taken to the United States Asâ€" say office today. Each box was marked with the initials "P. P. K.," and this cilreamstance started the reâ€" port that the gold had come from President Paul Kruger, now exâ€"Preâ€" skient of the South African Republic, se ce s a% I street understooxi ment * $2,500,00 gold to the Nat about which there mystery, arrived WILL AFTER CUBAN FRANCHISE. Mystery in Arrival of $2,500,â€" COO at New York. not, but here are those whom \h power bhas touched, even they are gross of heart." [G TRIS KRUGER‘S GOLD? $ t Obedient faitlh brooght the blessâ€" ing to every one alike : "As they went they . were cleansed." Now that they ‘in «listress lhad confessed Him as Lord, thre test of their faith was to act on H#s word as if the work were already accomplished. They went, not intent on the moâ€" ment when the work «lould begin and TE ETWY batidiiebut slsc o. Ai : s their distress, he saw them â€" alike needy and gave the gracionus _ comâ€" mand. In thie was Christ‘s recogniâ€" tion of our common brotherho!. It was also a proo{l that, from his side of the great work, all were regarded as under the game law. Ne w in a . 8. m sifctist itc ces s t ©CCWU, ALOB® ter, have mercy on us." ‘Their poigâ€" nant distress made them forget the race hatred that existed bet ween Jew and Samaritan. Community of suffering united their cry for help. That cry was a direct lestimony to Christ‘s Messiahship. _ Among | the dJews it was believed that God sent the plague of leprosy, and that he alone sould remove it, hence physiâ€" clans were not consulited. Their faith stands out in sharp contrast with the unbeliet of the rabbins, who, knowing the law. could not but see ite Tulfilment in this man, yet they believed not. as the ery of one York â€" Report.â€"What _ Wall understood was the consignâ€" ‘ $2,500,000 of South African iT ALL RE EXPLAINED? word that cle ame is Stephen _ John . The manifest of the 1 not disclose the origin merely siating that the en shpped by the Lonâ€" of the Deutsche Bank, siahship. Amdfigfi‘trâ€"v-fl; believed that God sent [ deprosy, and that he an: "Jesue, Masâ€" insed was the PC UEIPHT TT ECCV Y the Coast, sold recently as hi two dollars each for turkeys over fifty cents each for chick At Winnipeg, trado has been . ing a little more activity. No marked improvement in busime the Province is expected till t weather sets in. Collections are and there is a good demand for m usiness at Lond Th~ grain deliveries | Bradstreet‘s on Trade. ! Cooler weather _ at Montreal thiuw i week has to some extent stumula ued | whoiesate trade. Where is a aecaa diy 1mmh,ll)' voldiion apparent in wunoleâ€" !s«lc trade, and the generai oi thook | 10r business to the close of the year | is very promising. Vaizes of neeuriy | all lines in wholesale trade are very firm. There is great acdvicy in shipâ€" ping circles as is nsual so noar the vlose of navigation. _ Trade at Toronto has,in some cases | been retarded by the backward seaâ€" son. Groveries have been quite active, however, there has been a good enâ€" quiry for fall lines of hardware and sporting goodis, and sorting orders in dry goods have been fnir, all things considered, so that the general conâ€"~ ditions of business are far from dieâ€" couraging. There has been n drop of #1 per cwt. in the prices of live and dressed hogs and the marke; is dull. Remittances are fairly savisfactory . At Hamilton there has been a fair movement in fall goods, and large shipments have been made this week, Labor is well employed in the city and the reports from travellers are ;r:irry encouraging. Payments are very At the large coast cities and throughout the Kcotenay, trade is looking :r. especially in Kootenay, reports which are &dtn bright. Considerable shipments at the Coast, sold recently m as two each for and over 1 cents each for ; U 4 o uc d oy oo 3 ind it : _ ~‘he local Winnipeg wheat market remains in the same stagnant condiâ€" tion noted in previous reports. _ ‘The requirements of local mi lers absorb a considerable portion of the quantity marketed, and prices are kept some cents above export value. There l very little No. 1 hard showing up and the trade, such as it is, is becoming more confined to the lower grades. Prices at the close of the week are as followsâ€"No. 1 hard S2te, ‘No. 2 hard 76¢, No. 3 hard 70c : tough No 2 hard 70c, tough No. 3 hard 66c, tough No. 3 northern 63¢, all in store at Fort Wiliiam. Damp and wet wheat 3 and 5¢ under tough in store at Port Arthur. The market was qulet and earsiop toâ€"day, closing @t about 81° for No. 1 hard in store at Fort William. iâ€"xport cattle, choio». por Export cattie, ligh:, ) »r c Butchers‘ calttle picked . Butchers‘ cattie, choice. _ llufichom“('-at,ue, good .. .. do per ewi......... Calves, per head ... . Hogs, choice, per ewi Hogs, fat, per owt . Hors, light, per cwt. Sowe., 02 o ols Butterâ€"Trade â€" was active, _ with plenty of demand for choice pound rolls. They brought 21« per lb., and less desirable grades sold at 18 to 20c, There was a large supply, particulariy of th» cheaper sorts, Eggsâ€"New laid are in great demand, and sell readily at 22â€", Others bring 19 to 21c., and thore are pleaty of thom on th> market. Prade is slightly better, ‘ Poultryâ€"Th>e low prises of the past |thre(~ days have caused a greater inâ€" | AWIKY, Aitd: APKRGO ~ADOHBY Wrias vame Light stock buil, per ewt, L-hlfilc“ cows, cach . . , <x% cep, export ewes, per cwi Co0s DIDEREN] : +s s na n ne n pnln‘s 24 4 2 flhoo&buu-bm‘. ‘Shok..... .. Lambs, euch.../.._. ***** Feeders, heavy..... . Feeders, light... .. ... .. Stockere. 100 to 750 lby . . _, offâ€"colors and heifers do modiim..........., ... nu:fihar; nomlr;mn. ver ow!., ulls, export. heavy. per cwt Bull«, exvort. light, per cwi. . L‘eat}m. shortâ€"keep ...... . 1) | to rctive. Chick Dressed hogs were firm, at $6.75 to #7 per ewt. The supply is not large, and thare is a slight improvement in th» demand. Dressed Meatsâ€"Steady â€" and â€" unâ€" changed. "Trade is fair, notwithstandâ€" ing the mild weather. and Tirmer. Twentyâ€"five lo: highber, at 818 to $15 p*r was easier, two loads sellin #12 per ton. 60. Thoey w and finer q more. Oats firmer Wheatâ€"Three â€" hundr white sold ateady at 65 ol red firm at 68 1â€"2¢., els of goos» 1â€"2 to 1c. 1 Barleyâ€"One thousand bushels sold 1â€"20. lowor 46c. LLP Poultryâ€"Little or no activity in trade changed, Toronto Farmers‘ : Dressed BHogsâ€"Quiet changed at $6.50 to $7 \ supply is not large, and is well maintainec. Butterâ€"No change. 8 sold readily at 18; to s rolls. Duluth, _ No, nerd....""... . Minneapolis, No Northern ... .. Minnenpolis, No ns®(:.}:s» ".... s Liverpool, N« steady, No. 2 r 1â€"2d ; No. 1 nort No. 1 Cal. 6s 4« 68 1â€"20 > March Chicago ... New York . Milwaukee St, Louis .. Detroit, red Detroit, wh Duluth, _ N Leadingz Wihes. markets. _ Fo‘lowing are th> cloing quota tions at importunt wheat contres ; 5 14 Cash. Dee. H Toronto 1Ave Manitoba Grain Markets A V pair, â€" ducks gease at 5 to °¥s at 8 to Y Ca&â€" 2d : Marc and Three â€" hundred at 28 to 2%s. Ome hundred i« Â¥ were noi of the l r qualities are worth 1 1« ment in busimess in expected till the coid hite No. Stra w â€"H ayv NoY, ®.â€"Wheat, spot 2 red western winter 65 northern spring 6« 3 1â€"24; s 4d. Futures quiet ; Dec. rch 68 1 7â€"84. ms sold ks at 5 to 5 1 change. Smail receipts it 182 to 2Ic for pound Nov nd unchange nty â€"{ive loads sold C ze Seporar hundred at 68+. Stock Market rcwL. $i 10 to ~Quiet and unrâ€" to 87 per ewt. The e, and the demand rs‘ Markets bushele sold at [ the best grade, 0 7 O TTA 0 76 i 0 77 0 76 1 0 76 ces of the past 1 a greater inâ€" day was vory at 30 to 55¢. 5 to ©60c. per â€"2c. per Ib., and () 0 78 no demand Prices are 0 76 PW per lb., and t 18 to 20c particulariy ton whels sold tw bushels of 0) bushels 200 Lbuche ‘ at 660. > hundred it ®11 Lo $i 61 plentiful 80 73 8#â€"4 0 78 3â€"4 0 74 1â€"2 0 7 0 7+ 1â€"% 0 T7 3â€"8 0 77 7â€"8 it 2 to little 40 ind unâ€" 1 Oe: tap