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The ANr LADY The Pertoo® . book thatk «o carning® ilare, tor w# NE OF THB mmg with a gr a* mt 00 Wik® [ hed 1750 1. PAYNE Da WiHH a®, Ohio, DF ‘«blishing c auil pur i _ Address 0, Winons,. #%, i in artinurtt h box \ \. PLKS rges pro» Anuou<ty3 when diez ‘ A Y N E‘g* &A ral qual; dif= »1 the cra pH, > the anade to coon nali®e sacki a at p+t, n fruas wol inuth taamiy {jWiOK, Ir rU U He But the 1 m M Ir® A Washington report: A practical guestion which is asked in most bouses, and for many years, is here asked by Dr. Talmage and answered. Text, Proverbs xxr., 9: *"Discover not & secret to another," so many people have not capacity to keep their mouths shut. When I hear something disparaging of you, my AOrst duty is not to tell you, but i# I tell you what somebody has said It appears that in Solomon‘s time, as in all subsequent periods of the world, there were people too much disposed to tell all they knew. It was blab, blab, blab; physicians reâ€" vealing the case of their patients, mwyers exposing the private affairse ef their clients, neighbors advertising the faults of the next door resident, pretended friends betraying confiâ€" dences. C C with an emphasis that no man can mistake, No!l But is the object the defense of the rights of any Class against oppression, the improvement If the mind, the enlargement of the heart, the advancement of art, the defense of the government, the extirâ€" pation of crime or the kindling of a pureâ€"hearted sociality, then I say, with with just as much emphasis, Yes! There is no need that we who plan for the conquest of right over wrong should publish to all the world our intentions. The general of an army mever sends to the opposing troops information of the coming attack. Shall we who have enlisted in the cause of (jod and humanity «xpose our plans to the enemy? No; we will in secret plot the ruin of all the enâ€" terprices of satan and his cohorts. When they expect us by day, we will fall unon them by night. While they @re «etrengthening their left wing we will fall on their right. By & plan K battle formed in secret conclave we will come suddenly upon them crying, "The eword of the Lord and 0f (Gideon." Secrecy of plot and exeâ€" cution is wrong only when the obâ€" Ject and the ends are nefarious. Every {amily is a secrot society, every busiâ€" zess man and every banking and inâ€" surance inetitution. _ Those men who have no capacity to. keep a secret are unfit for positions of trust anyâ€" where. There are thousands of men whose vital need is culturing & cA pacity to keep a secret. Men talk too much, and women too. There is a time to keep silence as well as to speak,. Although not belonging to _ Oncâ€"halt of the trouble of every sommunity comes from the fact that against you and then go out and telil everybody else what I told you and they go out and tell others what I told them that I told you, and we all go out, some to hunt up the originator of the story and others to hunt it down, we shall get the whoie comâ€" munity talking about what you dul do and what you did not do, ard there will be as many ecalps taken as though a band of Modo:s had swept upon a helpless village. We have two ears, but only one toogue a physiological suggestion that we eught to hear a good deal more than we tell. _ Let us join & conspiracy that we will tell each other all the good and nothing of the ill, and then there will not be such awful need of eorâ€" mons on Solomon‘s words, "Discover mot a secret to another.". «s to what was going on in Jeruâ€" «alem. They gathered up all the priâ€" sacies and poured them into his ear, any of the great secret eocieties about which there has been so much violent Ciscussion, I have enly words of prai€e for those aseociations which have for gamy and polygamy, and his multiâ€" tudinous associates in the matrimonâ€" khi state kept him too well: informed Hy the power of & secret divulged families, churches, neighborhoods, hattons fly apart. Ry the power of % secret kept great charities, socialâ€" Ules, reformatory movements and (Obristian enterprises may be advancâ€" ed. Men are gregariousâ€"cattle in herds, fish in schools, birds in focks, men in social circles, You may by the discharge of a gun scatter a #ock of quails or by the plunge of the anchor send apart the denizens of the sea, but they will gather themâ€" seives together again. I" you by some new power could break the asâ€" soclations in which men now stand, they could again adhere. God meant it so. He gathered all the flowers and shrubs into associations, You may plant one forgetâ€"meâ€"not or bheartsease alore, away off upon the hlllstde, but it will soon hunt up some bther forgetâ€"meâ€"nots or hearteéease. Flamts tove company. You will find them talking to each other in the dew. You sometimes see a man with no outhranchings of eympathy. His naâ€" ture is cold and hard, like a ship‘s mast ice glazed, which the most agile sailor could never climb. Others have a thousand roots and a thousâ€" and branches. Innumerable tendrils glimb their hearts and blossom All the way up, arnd the fowlse of heaven sing in the branches. In consequence 0f this tendency we find men coming together in tribes, in communities, in churches, in societies. some gather together to cultivate the arts, some to plan for the welfare Cf the state, _ some to digcuss religious themes, some to kindle their mirth, some to advance their craft. Here we find the oft discussed quesâ€" tion whether associations that do their wouk wi‘th closed doors and adâ€" mit their members by passwords and greet each other with a secret grip are richt or wrong. I answer that it depends entirely on the nature of the object for which they meet. Is it to pass the hours in revelry, wasâ€" sall, blasphemy and Oobscene talk, or to plot trouble to the state or to debauch the innocent, then I say, with an emphasis that no man can mistake, No! But is the object the defense of the rights of any Cclass it d the it to Sail, theit object the maintenance of Tight _ Solomon had a very large domesâ€" Â¥e circle. In his early days he had very confused notions about monoâ€" and hts family became a sorosis or temale debating society of 700, disâ€" sussing day after day all the difficulâ€" ties between husbands and wives, beâ€" tween employers and employes, beâ€" tween rulers and subjects, until Solâ€" emon, in my text, deplores volubility out affairs that do not belong to us and extols the virtue of secretiveâ€" Amilustoe, but other â€" forg: Plants tove them talkin Test the first: Their influence on home, if you have a home. That wife soon loses her influence over her husâ€" band who nervously and foolishly looks upon all evening absence as an assault on domesticity. Hoyw are the great enâ€" terprises of reform and art and literaâ€" ture and beneficense and public weal to be carried on if every man is to have his world bounded on one side by his front doorstep and on the other side by his back window, knowing nothing higher than his own attic or lower than his own cellar? That wife who beâ€" comes jealous of her husband‘s attenâ€" tion to art or literature or religion or charity is breaking her own scepter of conjugal power. I know an inâ€" stance where a wife thought that her husband was glving too many nights to Christian service, to charitable serâ€" vice, to prayer meetings and to religâ€" fous convocation. She systematically d@ecoyed him away until now he atâ€" tends no church, waits upon no charitâ€" able Institution and is on a rapid way to destruction, his morals gone, his money gone, and, I fear, his soul gone. Here are six secular nights in the week. ‘"What shall I do with them?" says the father and the husband. "I will give four of these nights to the improvement ard entertainment â€" of my family, either at home or in good neighborhood. I wiil devote one to charitable institutions. I will devote one to my lodge." 1 â€" congratulate you. Here is a man who says: "Out of the six secular nights in the week I will devote five to lodges and clubs and associations and one to the home, which night I will spend in scowling like a March squall, wishing I was out spending it as I have spent the other five." That man‘s obituary is wr‘tten. Not one out of ten thousand that ever get so far on the wrong road ever stops. â€" Gradually his health will fail through late hours, and through too much stimulants he will be firstâ€"rate prey for erysipelas and rheumatism of the heart. Another test by which you can find whether your secret society is right or wrong is the effect it has on your secular occupation. I can underâ€" stand hbow through such an instituâ€" tion a man can reach commercial success. I know some men â€" have formed their kest business relations through such & channel. If the eeâ€" cret socicty has advantaged you in an honorable calling, it is @ good one, but has your credit failed? Are bargain makers now more anxious how they trust you with a bale Of goods? Have the men whose names were down in the commercial agency A1 before they enwr:: the gociety been going down since commercial standing? Then 1«: out. . You o: day know commercial I every day to â€" ruin . through Acsi SR o 0400 Ane tm / Ond fgainst wrong or the reclamation of m"":::» or, like ti®ke score of muâ€" eflt societies called by differâ€" ent names, that provide temporary lief for widows and orphans and 3; men incapacitated by sickness or acâ€" 32“‘ from earning a livelinood. s in:: not been for the secret labor § ations in this country monâ€" opoly would long ago have, under its })onderou- wheels, ground the laborâ€" ng classes into an intolerable eerviâ€" tude. The men who want the whole earth to themselves would have got it before this had it not been for the banding together of great secret orâ€" ganisations, and while we deplore many things that have been done by them, their existence is a necessity and their legitimate sphere distinctly pointed out by the providence of God. Such organisations are trying to disâ€" miss from their association all memâ€" bers who are in favor of anarchy and social chaos. They will gradually cease anything like tyranny over their memâ€" bers and will forbid violent interferâ€" ence with any man‘s work, whether he belongs to their union or is outside of it, and will declare their disguet with any such rule as that passed in Engâ€" land by the Manchester Bricklayers‘ association, which says any man found running or working beyond a regular speed shall be fined 2 shillings and sixpence for the first offense, 5 shillings for the second, 10 shillings for the third and if etill persisting shall be dealt with as the committee thinks proper. There are secret societies in our colâ€" leges that have letters of the Greek Alphabet for their nomenclature, and their members are at the very front in scholarship and irreproachable _ in morals, while there are others the scene of carousal, and they gamble, and they drink, and they graduate knowing a hundred times more about sin than they do of geometry and Sophoclies. In other words, secret societies, like inâ€" dividuals, are good or bad, are the means of moral health or of temporal and eternal damnation. All good peoâ€" ple recognise the vice of slandering an individual, but many do not see the sin of slandering an organisation. There are old secret societies in this and other countries, some of them centuries old, which have been widely denounced as immoral and damaging in their influence, yet I have hundreds of personal friends who belong to them â€"friends who are consecrated to God, pillars in the church, faithful in all relations of life, examples of virtue and piety. They are the kind of friends whom I would have for my executors at the time of decease and they are the men whom I would have carry me out to the last sleep when I am dead. You cannot make me believe that they would belong to bad inrstitutions. They are the men who woulid stamp on anything iniquitous, and I would certainly rather take their testimony in regard to such societies than the testimony of those who, havyâ€" ing been sworn in as members, by their assault upon them confess themâ€" selves perjurers. But Christ has given us & rule by which we may judge not only all indi¢tiduals, but all societies, secret and open. "By their faults ye shall know them." Bad societies make bad men. Good societies make good men. A bad man will not stay in a good society. A good man will not stay in a bad society. Then try all secret societies by two or three rules. Another test whether your or wrong is t secular occup? stand hbow th tion a man success. I } formed their taDnusnesnis . BUUU® O 0 0 the social exceases of one or two members, â€"their fortune beaten to death with ballâ€"players‘ bat Or cut 1 long ago have, under its wheels, ground the laborâ€" into an intolerable eerviâ€" men who want the whole The great obstac : c B oven, le in progress Here is a swell sporting costume imported recently. It has a jacket of red glace silk, with a white linen collar. ‘The skirt is of ivory serge tucked vertically and finished with a deve‘;) svtit'ciledd band at the foot. The hat is a swagger affair in white Panama straw. knees; now they have a mess table with racks to hold tha dishes in rough weather, Tanks on top of the house supply running water, and the reason modern forecastles do not have bath tubs is that the sailors would rather tako their baths on deck by throwâ€" ing cold water over one another. Tho days of the old forecastle, hung away in tho dark hold under the Torward mast, are gone forever, no mattor what flag the vessel may carry. _ The forecastle on new steel ships is in a deckhouse, well forâ€" ward. On American ships it is well ventilated like the skipper‘s cabin in the stern of the ship, has a skylight and apparatus for heating. The men uged to eat with their plates on their to wear when she bounded out at eventide to greet you, and then a thread of the beautiful dress in which you laid her away for the resurrecâ€" tion, and then I twist all these threads together, and i1 have another strand. Then I take a thread of the scarlet robe of a suffering Christ, and a thread of the white raiment of your loved ones before the throne, and a string of the harp seraphic, and I twist them all together, and I have a third strand. "Oh," you say, "either strand is enough to hold fast a world!" No. I will take these strands, and I will twist them toâ€" gether, and one end of that rope I will fasten, not to the communion table, for it shall be removed; not to a pillar of the organ, for that will crumble in the ages; but I wind it round and round the cross of a symâ€" pathising Christ, and, having fastened one end of the rope to the cross, I throw the other end to you. Lay hold of it! Pull for your life! Pull for heaven! regatta, or going down under the swift hoofs Oof the fast horses or +he third test by which you may know whether the society to which you belong is good or bad is this: What is its effect on your sense of moral and rehgious obligation? Now, if I should take the names of all the people in this audience and put them on & roll and then I should lay that rol! back of this organ and a hunâ€" dred years from now some one should take that roll and call it from A to Z, there would not one of you anâ€" swer. I eay that any society that makes me forget that fact is & bad society, f Which would you rather have in your hands when you come to die, a pack of cards or a Bible? Which would you rather have pressed to your lips in the closing moment, the cup of Belshazzarean waseail or the chalice . of Christian â€" communion? Whom would you rather have for your pallbearers, the elders of a Christian church or the companions whose conâ€" versation was full of slang and inâ€" nuendo? Whom would you rather have for your eternal companions, those men who spend their ovenings betting, gambling, swearing, carousâ€" ing and telling vile stories, or your little child, that bright girl whom the Lord took? You can never break away from the little arms that used to be flung 2@round your neck when she used to say, ‘"Papa, do stay with me toâ€"night; do stay with me toâ€" night!" _ You will never be able to wipe away from your lips the dying kiss of your Httie girl. The fascinaâ€" tion of a bad secret society is so great that sometimes a man has turned hs back on his home when his child was dying <* scarlet fever. He went away. Before he got back at midnight the eyes had been closed, the undertaker had done his work, and the wife, worn out with three weeks‘ watching, lay unconscious in the next room. Then the returned father comes upstaire, and he sees the cradle gone, and he says, "What is the matter?"‘ On the judgment day he will find out what was the matter. Ohk, man astray, God help you! I am going to make a very stout rope. You know that sometimes a ropeâ€" maker will take very small threads and wind them together until after awhile they become a ship cable. And I am going to take some very small, delicate threads, and wind them toâ€" gether until they make a very stout rope. J will take all the memories of the marriage dayâ€"a thread of laughâ€" ter, a thread of light, a thread of music, a thread of banqueting, a thread _ of congratulationâ€"and â€" I twist them together, and I have one strand. Then I take a thread of the hour of the first advent in your house, a thread of the darkness that preceded, and a thread of the light that followed, and a thread of the beautiful ecarf that little child used amidships with the front prow of the ed in the large potations of € or Monongahela,. That secret Â¥ was the Loch PBarn. Their es was the Ville de Havre. struck, and the Ville de Havre Saltors and Bath Tubs. Very Sweil, This, Commentaryâ€"Connecting Linksâ€"â€"In B. C. 183%, avout sixtceu years &it=r the even«s Ot uie last lessvn, the Lord again appcaresa to Agq.aimn aBDd _ICâ€" nowed Hs cov.nant wich nim. Abram was "ninely years ola and D.D.," ADJ thoe Loru sami to him, *"*Wais before Me and4 be thou prfect." At ths time vhe Loru cha.g«d uis name from Absam, "h.gh or eXxaltea fathor," to Abraham, meâ€"aniug "1ather of a mulâ€" tivude." fi'or the samâ€" reason, at anâ€" other time, th: name oi his wihe, Barai, "my princess," was changed to baral, * p.i.wc.s‘â€"D0O, Auvran.M 8 aone, but hne forth for the whole world. At this timo> God also in=tiâ€" tuied the r.ts of circumvision, which has ever b»en tive righs of the Jews. bown after this, one day wh.n Abraâ€" ham was sitting in his teut Goor in the heat of the day, he looked up and saw three strangers near hm. Th.se three strangers had two m.ssages to Abraham. One was that soon would ba born to hm the eXxâ€" pected hâ€"ir of tiv» promises. The other that his nephow Lot was in great danger, b cause Sodlom, where he lived, must be destroyed for its wickedness."â€"Peloubet. Abraham at first supposed thes> strangers to be men ; but his course toward them was such that he had no reason for regret wh n ine founi they were anâ€" gels. This is a good way to treat everyboly whom we encounter, 80 that if thoy turn out to be angels they would have no reason to comâ€" plain of us, and we nothing to . be so?ry for in cur treatment of them. â€"Trumbull. Heb. x‘il. 2 A Abraham‘s Intercess on.â€"Gen. 18: 1633 SUNDAY SCHOOL Teachingsâ€"We should have a godâ€" ly concern for others; in a very imâ€" portant sense we are our brother‘s keceper. It is a great privilege we enjoy to be able to pray for others, for our enemies and for wicked peoâ€" ple. PRACTICAL SURVEY. The lesson embraces the first prayer the Bible records in which, with its context, we find the folâ€" lowing practical truths, _ Wia‘e ‘The promise renewed. Long before God had promised the childless paâ€" trlarch that his seed should be as the stars of heaveno. ‘The passing years had seemed to place the promâ€" ise farther and farther beyond the limit of possibility. As the unrevealâ€" ed time of fullilment drew, near the INTLKRNATIUAaA. 2.1080UN NV. VIL. AUG. 18, 1901, 16. The menâ€"Ti»» three angels. Toâ€" ward Sodomâ€""As with the Lord there is moercy, so Ho is the God to whom yengeance belongs." Thoy looked towards Sodom for the purâ€" pose of destroy‘ng it. W.nt with them â€"Public roads did not exist and guiles were necessary. s 10. I know himâ€"His character and dostiny will command his childrenâ€" He not only prayed with his family but ho taught and commanded them and was "prophet and king, as well as priest." 21. I will go downâ€"I will inquire into the facts. God could not have been in doubt, but He desires to show to Abraham that He was not judgâ€" ing hasthiy, or without full knowâ€" leage of all thoe facts. 22. The men turned, ete.â€"The two angels who accompanied Jehovah were now sent towards Sodom ; while the third, which is called th Lord or Jehovah, remained with Abraham. 82. But this onceâ€"Abraham‘s inâ€" tercession was limited because the intercessor was but a nman; it did not reach the need. He said, I will speak yet but this once, and there he stopped short, as if afraid _ of having presented too large a draft at the treasury of infinite grace, or forgetting that faith‘s check was never yet dishonored at God‘s bank. 83. The Lord went His wayâ€"The angelâ€"Jehovahâ€"with whom Abraâ€" bham had hbeen communing, went his way. Abram‘s prayer was anâ€" swoered, though not in the way he expected. s % In chapter 19 we hbave an acâ€" count of the destruction of Sodom and the cities of the plain. The two angels that left Abraham went to Sodom (xix. 1) where they were reâ€" ceived kindly by Lot, but shameâ€" fully used by the people of Sodom. The angels told Lot to warn his friends to flee, for they had been sent to destroy the city. In the morning the angels hastened Lot, his wife, and his two daughters, telling thom to leave the city and not look "Lack lest they be conâ€" sumed. Lot‘s wife looked back and became a pillar of salt. 17. Shall I hideâ€"*"That is, I will not hide." Abraham was the friend of God, and "communication of seeâ€" rets is one of tho special privileges of friendship." "The way to know the divine purposes about this preâ€" sent evil world is not to be mixed up with it in its schemes and specuâ€" lations, but to be entirely separated from it. 18. Mighty natlionâ€"The Jewish naâ€" tion. Shall be blegsed in Himâ€"*" The world" would be blessed in the Mesâ€" sirh that was to spring from Abraâ€" 238. Abraham drew nearâ€"1. In bodâ€" ily presence. 2. In spiritual nearness. 3. In holy fervency. 4. With boldâ€" ness. 5. In humljity. 6. With confiâ€" dence. Wilt thou also destroyâ€""It is a principle of justice, that the righteâ€" ous shall not be punished for the crimes of the wicked, and this Abraâ€" bam lays down as the foundation of his supp.ications." 24. Fi.ty rightcousâ€"These _ were more righteous than existed in the city. i C o 27. Dust and ashesâ€"Dust in my origin, and ashes in my end.â€"How. Com. "By these expressions he shows how deepy his soul was humâ€" bled in the presence of God. They who stand nearest to God are the most _ humible. The â€" boidness of prayer must ever be tempered with humility." F o m ts t 41 . 28. There shall be lackâ€"The safety of the ciiy being granted on the condition that filty righteous could be found, Abrahkam â€" takes courage and asks still larger things.. He drops to fortyâ€"live, then to forty, then to thirty, then to twenty, and finally to ten." evE I 2a. Shall not the Judge ...... do rightâ€""Abraham must have had diâ€" vine teaching concerning the fact that Jchovah â€" was the â€" wor.d‘s Judge." This implies that God would ceriainly do right, although Abraâ€" hany might not see how. 26. If 1 find ... 1 will spareâ€"So faith{ully would God protect His chosen ones when appealed to by Abraham! in their behalf. Accused of Aiding Bresci. Rome, Aug. 8. â€"Lu‘gi Gianotti, an Anarchist, was charged at Milan toâ€" day with being one of the accomâ€" | pl.ces of Bresci, the â€" murderer . of | King Humbert. Gianotti, it is assertâ€" !eJ, can be proved to have accomâ€" panied Bresci from the United States to Monza and to have contributed to tho murder of the> King by provokâ€" ing a scuflfle before the royal carâ€" frin.ge and thus diverting th: attenâ€" | tion of the police from Brosci‘s moveâ€" !ments. Gianotti, after the assassiâ€" ) nation, escaped to Switzâ€"rland, but was extradited. It is expected that ho will make impor ant revelations. 1 It is glso said that the plot inâ€" ‘ volves the assassination of King George of Greece. Beyond question ‘tln whole of Europ» is honeycombed , with anarchistic plots, and1 Kings and Qusens are not slceping on beds of Hint at Widespread Piot. Queen Maria Pia, pale and agitated, |aft.er the attempt on hoer liie, left for Rome, stopping on her way at I'l‘urin, where sh> visited the home of her sister, Princess Clotilde. Hor ‘M.'ljasty enjoined the police to reâ€" frain from muking wholssale arrosts, and it is thought that the extreme reticence of the authborities is due to the efforts thoy are making to ldlacover a widespread and dangerâ€" |0l18 conspiracy, of which the atâ€" | tempt on Queen Maria‘s life was only [ & part. â€" a* 8 It will be seen that the Guernseys and the Jerseys are pretty evenly matched, with the advantage coming latterly more to the side of the Jerâ€" .e, 8. 1~ 44 i 4 L404 courteons hospitality" extended to the waylarers was rewarded by a rencwed assurance of the longedâ€" for blessing, and that the days of weary waiting were nearly over. "God is not slack concerning his promise," "Abraham believed God and it was counted to him for rightâ€" cousness," s God‘s purpose revealod. What was hidden from worlkilyâ€"minded and imâ€" periled Lot was disclosed to trustful, obedient Abraham. One dwelt in Bodom, the other at Mamre. Our vo untary envir ament has much to do with clearâ€"sightedness, or eclipse of sphitual vision. "The Lord‘s peoâ€" pleilare the first to know the Lord‘s wiil." Good showing in the Dairy Test at Buflalo. Ontario cows are doing well in the dairy test at the Panâ€"Amecrican at Bufialo, Reporis received by the Deâ€" partment of Agriculture show that the Canadian wersey herd led the whole list of competitors in the woeek ending July 30ch in tb profit on the production 1 butter fat. ‘The Cauadian Holstcin heâ€"* also led in another branch of ti competition, the profit on the total amount of solids produced, their figures being $9.35 for the week, based on 9 cents per pound for sollls. ‘The profit proâ€" duced by the Jerseys on the butter fat for the week was $8.78, the Guernseys, an American herd, belag second, with $8.61, and the Canaâ€" dian herds of Ayrshire, Frenchâ€"Canaâ€" dian and Holstcia next in order, with $8.08, $7.31 and $7.26 profit, respecâ€" lively, The returns for the season so far indicate that the Canadian Holâ€" steins will captura the prizes for the net profit on sotar of solids, and for the profit on soligs, combined with the loss or gain in live weight. ‘The following table shows the order of the leading competing herds for the butter fat prize for each of the respective weeks since June 11th, the Ayrshires, Holsteins and Jerseys being Canadian and the Guernseys American herds : Guernseys..... 1 2 2 1 2 1 1 2 Ayrshires .. .. 2 1 1 38 3 3 6 3 Holstein ... ... 8 8 5 5 5 4 4 5 Jerseys .. .. .. 4 4 8 2 1 2 2 1 Abraham‘s Intercession. Every petiâ€" tion was granted on the spot ; but ‘"a man‘e praying power is not an arbitrary thing ; it is the resalt of anteccdent spiritaal processes." Al raham‘s long wa k with God prepared him for the crisis and secured a fayâ€" orable hearings for his petitiin. Lot‘s c~mpromised position would have deâ€" terred him from acting the part of an intercessor, even had it not deâ€" stroyed the disposition. Tue demand for destruction. It was not the presence of evil, but the abâ€" sence of good. which doomed the cities of the plain to destruction. Ten righteous persons would have saved the place and turned aside the ficry deluge ; but there was not enough of preserving influence to prevent the universal degeneration. Even Abraâ€" ham had not rightly estimated the utter degradation existing, and withâ€" out doubt thought there were suffiâ€" cient to redeem the cities from ruin. Anarchists of Europe in Wideâ€" spread Conspiracy. Chicago report: Writing to the Recordâ€" Herald _ from â€" Aixâ€"lesâ€"Bains, Murgaret 1. W. Sherwood says : You ask me for details of the recent atâ€" tempted â€" assassination of Dowager Queen Maria Pia of Portugal. The attack, which came near being sucâ€" cosslul, happâ€"red thus: Hor Majesty came to Aixâ€"Jesâ€"Bains late in July. Bhortly after hor arrival a strange looking priest, apparently mentaliy unbalanced, appeared to be shadowâ€" ing the Queen on all her walks and drives, 1 RULER‘S LIVES IN DANGHR. attacked on Leaving Church. On the night of Aug. 4th the unâ€" known mysterious c.cric followed H r hMajesty. Having taken part in whe baptisin of her nicce, Princess Yoâ€" lande, infant daughter of the King of Italy, Maria lia, accompanled by her suite, left the church,. Between the church and the Hotel Splendide the attempt at assassination â€" took place. . Just what happened has not reachâ€" ed the public, but it is said that the insune priest tried to stab the Queen with a poniard. Her escape is attrib uted to her lady in waiting and her chamberlain, who threw themselyves between H+r Majesty and the assasâ€" sin and seized his arm. KING OF GREECE IS$ MENACED. Although the police are making every *hdeavor to bhush the matter up, it is asserted that the assassin has been arrested and that a keen hunt is being made aiter his accomâ€" plices. ONTARIO COWS LEADING. 3 h 6 Following are the closing quota ;l:nl at lhuportant wheat ceatres toâ€" 7: ; uid Sar t A son born to the British Ambasâ€" sador in the United States would have a perfect right to American citizenâ€" ship if he should choose to claim ic, and, being "native born," within the meaning of the constitution, he might become President. The Kosta Glass Works, the largest in Sweden, have been burned. t . day : & swh. _ Bept. Chicago ... ... ... ...... $â€"â€" 8$0 72 18 Kew York ... ... ... .. =â€"â€"â€"â€" 0 76 T8 ‘ToledO ... .. ... .. _. 07134 â€"â€" Duluth, No. 1 nor. 07078 07012 Daluth, No. 1 bard 073 8â€"8 â€"â€" Toronto Fruit Market. There was less activity in the local market today, owing to the emal} rcc.ipts. The demanl} was good and all the offerings were quickly so4 Prices were â€"generally â€" unchanged. Harvest apples wore quoted at 25 to e, and California peaches were lower at $1.35 to $1.069. Other fruite were steady and unchanged. We quote: aApples, harvest, per basket, 25 to 50¢ ; bananas, per bunch, $1.50 to #2 ; cherrics, per basket, $1 to $1,.25 ; curraits, Mack, per basket. $1 to £1.15; currants, red, per basket, 50 to 60c ; huckleberries, per basket, 81 to $1.15; lemons, per box, $4.50 to 85; Lawton berrice, per basket, B to 10c, ( Toronto Farmers‘ Market. Aug. 8.â€"Business was quiet on the street market here toâ€"day, and the deliveries of produce were small. One load of poor goose wheat sold at 65¢ and a load of oats sold 1â€"2¢ higher at 39 1â€"zc. Hay was iirmeor ; old s40d 50¢ higher at $13.50 pen ton for one OQriental Cities Take This Way of Figbhting the Plague. Tacoma, Wash., despatch says: The steamship Hyson brings news that not less then two million rats have been killed by the authoritiee of Oriental cities as means to prevent the spread of the plague. In most cities premiums have been offered to persons who would bring in the largâ€" est number of rat tails within & spetilied time. At Tokio the rat catchers have received so much per head, and large sums have been paid poiat to a steady increase in trade all through the comag fail. Wholeâ€" salers and manufacturers are well satislied with the outlook for busiâ€" ness. Business at Winnipeg was to some extent interrupted by the Exhibition, which was a great sucâ€" coss, drawing larg» crowds. The outâ€" look for fall trade was never brightâ€" er. _ Business at London has beoen fairly active this week for this time of the season. Payments have bees fair for August. . Trade prospoects at the coast are more promising. out in this manner. Similar operaâ€" tions have been conducted at Yokoâ€" hama, Osaga, â€"Kyoto, Shanghai, Hongâ€"Kong, Canton, Amoy, and Foo Chow. At Tokio several buildings of the Imperia! â€" Japaneso â€" University were torn down and burned, because some of the rats in the building were found to be infected with plague bacilll. Although the plague has not yet invaded Tokio the authorities bhave determined not to relax their precautions. With this object thay ara commencing a new crusade gn.lm rats, this time by a systeom reâ€" wards. Instead o+ paying so much per rat, prizes will be allotted after the total number reaches 200,000. do. bucks............. CBO NE . s +2 4 14 2 i a x i 344 Lambs, spring, each .. Laives, per head...... Hoge, choice, per cwt Hogs, corn fed........ flon.ufht..por owt.. Hogs, fat, per oww... Sows, per CWt.......... lond, and new was $1 highor at $9 to $10,. No rtraw was offered. Vegeâ€" tables and dressed hogs were steady, with quotations unchanged, Wheat. white, 69¢ ; red, 69 1â€"2¢ ; goose, 68e ; sprinr, 68c ; barley, 48¢ ; rye, 39 to 39 1â€"â€"c ; oats, 29 1â€"2¢; hay, old, per ton, $13.50 ; new, $10 to $11; straw, $10; butter, pound rolls, 18 to 20¢ ; crocks, 17 to 19¢ ; * Winchester, Ont., Aug. 10.â€"There wore 785 boxes of cheese registered at the meeting of the Cheese Board here toâ€"day, 464 white and 321 colâ€" ored. The highest bide were 9 3â€"80 for white and 9 1â€"2¢ for colored. 12 to 18¢. Toronto live Stock Markets. Export cattle, choice, por owt. $1 60 to 1 ARCHIVES MAKING WAR ON RATS new laid, 14 to 15¢ ; held stock, Cheese Markets. $5 0&