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It was indsed a gay and pretty sight, a real tyâ€" wleal French affair, such as you Qunuint nud Cicturesque 0 watch the snowâ€"capped washerâ€" ladies doing the lisen in the _ river, pourcling it on big wooden slabs, with a emaller version of the same, and «ousing it with soap out of bottles. All is well that ends well, and they sen} it home exquisitely white acnd well "got up," in spite of the prim‘â€" tive provess. t *4 6 Last Sundayâ€"do not be shocked, my friends of strict, Sabbatarian &ouualion-â€"we drove to a fete at oret, about six miles off, a very icturesque little torn, with a fine old gateway of the 14th cenâ€" tury, a splendidly carved and anciâ€" ent church and a nunnery famous for some renowned barley sugar (sucre d@‘orge) made and sold by the " religieuses." _ Alas! the said poor nuns have just been turned out, with the inhabitants of many â€" another convent in France, as you probaâ€" bly know, for not conforming to Government rules anent the teachâ€" Ing Of «children. At Marlotte, and other villages close by, they gave in gracefully, and so they rest unâ€" molested. It hbas caused a vast amount of bitter feeling, as Kverything to Please the Soul ol man in this soft spot on the Forâ€" esls‘ outskirts, where the air is doubtloss less embracng than in the denser parts. The "Cuisine Bourâ€" geo‘:se," as they cali it, is plentiful, gool, and wholcsome, and what more docs one want on a holday jaunt? Lots oi frut anmnd vegetables, the latâ€" ter cone in "heaps" 0. delicious ways, the "omclettes aux fines herbes" are drecms, over the meat I will araw a veil, for it isâ€"truth to teli â€"tough, but you have chickens, and Just now the trophies of "la chasse," plemp, little partridges and heaâ€" sants galore, to be "washed d‘())wn" as they siy in mediaeval language, with as much red wine, white wiae, beer. or mlk, as you care to drink. Our daylight moeals are taken under & caropy on the terrace, owr dinâ€" ner at seven in a quaint room, half salon, hali sall> a‘ manger, with walls papored with pictures, soime really goodl, some very much the reâ€" verse, many [ {fancy taken by goodâ€" matured old M. Thion from _ impeâ€" curious painters in liew of pension mosey. A{ter dinner we (?) sit and emoke on the terrace anod listen to the soothiug swish of the millstream clos by. There is boating, too, on eur river, or rather punting. and «ome charming li.tle oases, islands,. to be visited, one of which boasts of a restaurant, . where people make picnies, or "pique>â€"niques" as they eall them. â€" There are winding river paths, anl rustic bridges here and there, ani it is so Its terrace and balconies overhangâ€" ing the river Loing, is the "Hotel du Coq" and the favorite designs on the beautiful faience or porcelain, manufactured in the village, are pictures of the important looking chanticleer, the "pere de familie," with his old hen and plumey little ones#. When I asked the "whereâ€" fore" of the ubiquitous bird, both the master potter and the innkeeper said was because it was the emblem of country life, and when visitors came {rom Paris and such big places they liked to bo surrounded by counâ€" try scenesâ€"and take them away in their trunks, forâ€" the _ little tea sets and flower bowls, etc., are Â¥vory fasciniting witih the exquisitely paini«d chickabiddics on soft, duil blus or green colored backgrounds. Any one from Canada, especially any onoe on painting bent, who has timo "to burn," on his next _ visit to Paris, will, I promise him. not reâ€" gret a night or two spent under Monsicur Thion‘s hospitable roof : this is cot a gulde book and "le patron" does not give me a commission, but. truly thore is nearly ( I tried to study the weird neck arâ€" rangement of one who sat near me at dinner, but words fail me, it was a kind of a long knitted garter, such as his grandmother may have bequeathed to him, wound round and round and round; it is strange and rather pathetic that when a man is so keenly alive to the world‘s beauty, animate and inanimate, he is content to be such a grotesque blot on the landscape _ But they are not all like that, and the American artists here make up for the sartorâ€" lal deficiencies of their French broâ€" thers of the brush. The emblem, coatâ€"ofâ€"arms? of Montigny, is the "cock that crowed in the morn," this lovely little vineâ€"covered inn, with Montigny, Forest of l-‘onta.hohlnn. As I foretold in my last letter I write to you from the glorious old Forest, which I confess is more, far more imaginable than describable. At this season of the year, with the trees turning, and the soft Indian Bummer hazo over everything, it is beautiful beyond words, and I long to send you paintings instead, though they fall short in their representaâ€" tion. . This particular little spot,â€" which I reached a fow days ago, after a delicious week at Marlotteâ€" is a veritable painters‘ paradise, and they realizeo their blessings too, those who have had the luck to come to it, for there are many here, working as hard as they can, all gay and happyâ€"goâ€"lucky as it seems to me Parisian painters generally are, at anyâ€"rate on the surfaco; they don‘t care how they dress,â€"dress, do I say, why, they simply clothe themâ€" selvoes For Decency, and No More to feed the hirdlings and nuts in |great variety for the dear little | red squirrels, with which the trees fare peopled. Erery now and then you come to wonderful plots of soft white sand, just like the sea shore ; then you go through valleys of rocks, enormous boulders, covered lw'i.th laxuriant verdure, and next | you wonder to find yourself on the ; edge of a lm:id lake, quite a large | @ne, where the water is eight or ! mine feet deep. The "Fairy Lake" io simply cxqulâ€"ite, "built" on rocks aloue, an oo d d o n e en unc cas is the pedestrianâ€"in good training â€"who has the best of it in the heart of the forest ; none other can describe the exquisite paths, just wide erough to walk Indian file, which meander up hili, down dale, through rich, luzxuriant undergrowth, with soft. springy moss for a carâ€" not, flocked with nair bells, Alpine pinks and heather, pink and white. let and Rousseau and many another worker who loved to paint "en plein air," so I shall hope to tell you more in my next. It is easy to get vehicles in this yet unspoiledâ€" by tourists‘® place ‘for two dollars â€"and a ‘"pourboire" in proportionâ€" you get a Victoria for the whole afternoon, and an automobilecosts you the snme, while for $3 you may drive from morn till dewy eve in a comfortable landau with a good pair of gees. After all. though, it B e e e e t e eneneey in one of the Fontainebleau hotels, then spent a long time in the Palace gardens, watching and feeding the vyeteran red carp, which, they say, have lived (the samo ones) for hunâ€" dreds of years in the ornamental lake! They are quite tame, and look so friendly and sociable. If they could orly become conversational, E‘ke La Fontaine‘s fabulous animais, what inâ€" toresting tales and â€" scandals they could teil of Mme. de Maintenon and her Louis, Maric Antoinette, Napoleon, â€" and _ other worthies! The Shah _ afterward took _ a long drive, and had all the chbief beauties of the forest pointed out to him, but they say there is no doubt he found feeding the fishes more entertaininz, and he gave $20 to the earetaker of the pond: ! In Paris be bas spent much time and money in the jewelry shops, and has been groatiy charmed with even the sham trinkets in the Palais Royal. Toâ€"morrow we purpose driving to .Bm'bimn to visit the haunts of Milâ€" very line and silky, to be becoming, They havre a sort of Spanish flavyor about them, and look decidedly chic on the darkâ€"eyed French â€" women. Nearly everyone here is wearing blouges with short "trotteur" skirts and emart high boois. For cyclivg divided sekirts are in the majority, and hideous they are. In Paris all the elite wear short, trim #kirts, and the other garments are looked on as deâ€" cliedly "bad form." The short walkâ€" ing ekirts are nearly always accomâ€" panied by one of the little, loose paleâ€" tots to match, with open bell sleeves. They are so easy and "comfy" for klipping on an off when we are taking our meals "al fresco," or sitting out after dinner on our "Terrasse" lit up with Japanese lanterns. I saw a smart little costume in brown and green mixed cloth, which was touched up with Russian embroidery Done on Course Linen in red, green and yellow. A pretty green felt Tyrolean hat with metallic cock‘s taiis (not cocktails, bien enâ€" tendu‘) went with it, and long buff doeskin glovesâ€"just the getâ€"up for wearing in the Autumnâ€"tioted Forest. The shah favored us the other day with his august company, driving out from Paris with a large, duskyâ€"hbued :‘rollowing.’_"}lc sumptuously lunched There is an immense deal of motorâ€" ing in the Forest, and no wonder, for the roads are most immaculately kept, the autos are of all sorts and conditions, some only large enough for ‘"Monsieur et Madame," others regular family caravans. â€" We have had so much rain this season that the roads are not over dusty, and in the sheitered Forest we get little wind, therefore the people do not disâ€" {igure themselves with hideous masks or goggles, and I have seen some {fasâ€" cinating looking women in long, puttyâ€"covered driving coats, open over dresses of raw tussor silk, and wearing smart little round hats with a wisp of white gauze round them, or a lace veil, of the large patterned variety which are again all the rage this season, and will presently be seen as much in black ; the latter No Crowd So Goednatured, so gerial, so easily amused as a French one, all ages, from _ the grandpere to the weeist toâ€"to friâ€" voling and gamboling "the happy hours away," till the grand finale cameâ€"a "Bal" jn a big hot tent, with a grassy floor. I did not see one lipsy man, nor hear one crying child, and (I thought, as we all drove home in the cool evening, through the lovely forest roads, listening occasionally to the everâ€" ready babble of our "cocher," with his whip incessuntly "cracking," that it was a picture one would always see in the mind‘s eye. see represented often on the stage. Stafts and booths, with all manner of "fairings" I got the prettiest fans, each representing a. flower with a green wooden stalk, dabjiia, sunflower, marguerite, pansy and Scarlet poppy, for two ceats each. Then the gingerbread cakes in every possible device, lovely Freach dolls, and plates with the quaintâ€" est mottoes. There were dozens of stalls, with the same articles in each onve, quantitiee of sham jewâ€" ery, . which was being eagerly bought up by the gaily attired young men and maidens. The galâ€" loping horses were in huge favor and were of a particularly highâ€" toned order, with the gayest of trappings, and with varied moveâ€" ments. There was rarely an empty saddle, â€" and the orchestra played quite upâ€"toâ€"date and souiâ€"inspiring strains. Again I thought, as often before, there is Berriecs are in Profusion Must be of Keal Lace, To color the ornamental part die solve a small particle of whatever coloring is desired in the lemon juice. Coloring pastes come in fruit red, damaesk pink (which is a vivid cerise), leatf green, violet, golden yellow and orange. It is almost impossible to get too little coloring into icing, but It is very possible to use too much. The quantity that can be lifted. on the point of a toothpick is sufficlient to give a benrutiful tint. The cake ness to white ol eggs. 8 Follow this recipe: Cream ball a cup of butter, adding gradually two _cups of sugar, beat till very light and creamy. Sift together three and oneâ€" third cupse of flour, five teaspoons of baking powder and half a teaspoon of salt.‘ Add half a cup of this to the beaten butter and sugar, add flour and milk alternately, putting in one cup of milk. At the last flavor with one teaspoon of vanilla and cut in the whites of four eggs beaten to a dry froth. Bake in a large round pan well buttered and floured. This cake requires a rather moderate oven and steady watching while it rises. Turn it with the utmost care occaâ€" sionally so that it may be shapely. When cool cover with a plain frosting, made from the white of one egg beaten stif{, two teaspoons of cold water and threeâ€"fourths of a cup of confectlioner‘s sugar rolled smooth. Add hall a teaspoon of vanilia. Beat thoroughly ; spread it on the cake with a broadâ€"bladed spatula, wetting the knife occasionally in cold water 10 make the icing spread we‘ll. When this has hardened put on the ornaâ€" mental icing. Beat the whites of two eggu till very stiff and add â€" two tablespoons of confectioner‘s sugar. Beat hard and keep adding sugar until one cup has been used. While putting in the sugar add gradually two teaspoons of lemon juice. Conâ€" tinue adding sugar by spoonfuls tiil the frosting is so thick that when you lift a spoonful and cut it with a klflre it will remain parted. { But Never a Duster | goes nigh the furniture, very seldom & broomâ€"after the first dayâ€" and | very little water trickles into the | diminuitive jug! Here, however, at | Montigny, as I said before, things Are entirely different, no tourists to speak of, but lots of nice looking people in the Chateaux and Villas all round, charming little ponyâ€"carâ€" lriages with : pretty girls driving | themselves, as well as very smart | turnouts. It is most reasonable, too, | being a place for painters, for the latter always keep down the prices, they cannot as a rule pay much for their lodgment, be they ever so willing, and they have an innate aversion to being fleeced. The making of a beautiful birthday cake is easy if one has a knowledge of icing and how to use a pastry bag and tube, says Good Housekeeping. The cake described below was baked by a mother for a child‘s party, and the decorations made it the triumph of the table. The foundation was a simple cake mixture owing its lightâ€" ness to white of eggs. and Jaques, buzzing round and chatâ€" i tering and amusing themselves with | nothing as French kiddies can. The | chief excitement though is to herd together for a coâ€"operative excurâ€" | sion, filling a hooded wagonette or : break to repletion, "the more the merrier,‘""‘ you pay just the same, ! and the poor horses are the last individuale to receive consideration in this sunny land of France. They | go off in wild spirits, the last thing : you hear as they depart, and the | first on their return, a unanimous i chg_run of "voila," "ohâ€"laâ€"la"! in felt as soft and supple as satin, which are made in shaped flounces, they fall low over the hair at the back, and are held up in front by *wistse and choux of silk â€" muslin. They come in pearl grey, biscuit, paste!l blue and such like tender shades. One was trimmed with a wreath of humming birds‘ wings, sparkling amidet folds of beige tulle which was the shade of the felt. Au revoir ! 7 rupar P ind sn h Snd ut s 0 B c | At Mariotte, for example, both ; the fnhabitants and visitors were ; absolutely â€" @ifferent from â€" those ; among whom we now find ourselves. ‘The hotels were mostiy [illed with , wellâ€"toâ€"do Paris tradespeople, who |flock "en faimille," the jolly lookâ€" |img bourgeois paterfamilias for "la ‘ chasse," and got up in marvelous shooting toggery ail day, â€"his womenkind joninx with kindred ©spirite in slitting _ about the woods and gardens, with their inâ€" evitable embroidery, and black cofâ€" fee, the little Ninettes, and Paunls One little Item I have gleaned is that already the great modistes are showing I fear this can hardly be called a fashion letter, but if mes amies will forgive me for once, seeiog that it is the moset "difficile" time for seeing the new evolutions of "Madâ€" ame la mode," I promise to do more for their benefit in Paris, ere long, when I shall come in for Dame Fashâ€" lon‘s autumn manoeuvres, and shall be able to tell of "tout ce qu‘ ily de ehlc_._"" for the first cold epell. The prices in such places are fairâ€" ly . high, the Frenchman who "fait le commerce," is ready to pay for his summer outing, and as far as food goes in all these small "pays‘" he gets the worth of his money in that quarter. But the bedroomeâ€"or rather the way they are tendedâ€" Ooh! "what a falling off was there"" the bede themselves are generally com{fortable enough, Fascinating Felt Hats Th uio Mx or eight hours. Then drain and turn it into a quart of vinegar, with which two tableepoonfuls of mustard have previouely been boiled. Boil fifâ€" teen or twenty minutes untl a fork will readily pierce the cauliflower. To pickle cauliflower, break it apart, and to one large head add two small red peppere. Dissolve a hallâ€" cupful of salt in water enough to cover the vegetable and leave it for "Well, I‘ll wish for you!" he exâ€" claimed. "Will you, really ?" she asked. CIY(\R” "Well, then, there‘s no use botherâ€" ing with the old wishbone," she inâ€" terrupted, with a glad smile, "you can have me!"â€"Answers. "Oh, you can think of something !" he said. "No, I can‘t," she repliedâ€""I can‘t thisk of anything I want very much." "You see," he explained, as he showed her the wishbope, "you take hold here, and I‘ll take hold here. Then we must both make a wish and pall, and when it breaks the one who has the bigger part of it will have his or her wish gratified." Tall and willowy, with the proâ€" mise ¢of richer, rounder curves as yearse go byâ€"a daughter of the gods, divinely fair, and most divinely tall, is the ideal of the little man. He admires a regal carriage, a touch of bauteur, and, above all, style. Why Wart Wishbones ‘? They were dining off fowl in a restaurant. The big man dreads a woman‘s tongue. He is alarmed at the lightâ€" ning of her eyes, when they flash in anger ; but the little man is amused, and rather likes it. That‘s one of the subtle secrets of the little man‘s masterv. The five foot six or seven man likes a woman to be one or two inches his superior. and thoroughly mature. He dreadse any trace of the bread and butter schoolgir!. His‘ideal reâ€" semblee the strong, heroic women Shakespeare has pictured, full bloodâ€" ed and vital, full of sharacter and spirit, with a fair spice of temper. The dainty, wee, Titania like woâ€" man possesses no charms for bhim. "A pice little thing," he says of such & one. "Fall in love with her? Oh, no, she always makes me want to take her by the hand, run her along and give her sweets. She isn‘t grown up e_:noqgh to ingpire the tender passion.‘ * The little man, on the contrary, is seldom burdened with humility. He is a being of great aspirations and etupendous ambitions ; he believes in himsel{, which is the reason why he generally can get the woman of his choice to smile upon him. _ Big men are usually shy and diffiâ€" dent, and lacking in selfâ€"assurance. The woman who appeals to them is usually some sparkling, vivacious, fairyâ€"like creature with kittenish ways and roguish glances. here described had a white foundaâ€" tion icing and the ornamental part was a delicate pink, which matched exactly the pink candles. When ready to add the wreaths and roses, put the icing in a pastry bag with m ‘tube bent in like teeth at the nozzle. Lift the bag and squeezre the icing gently until it begins to come from the tube. Hold lightly in the right hand and decorate the cake as desired with wreathâ€"like festoons, roses or the tiny buds which are the result of a slight squeeze upon the bag. Do not overâ€"ornament:; this is a waste of icing and is not as beauâ€" tiful as a little graceful decoration. 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His ways are always peculiar. His thoughts are not our thoughts neiâ€" ther are our ways His ways. Isa. Iv. 8, 9. The directions were, (1) exâ€" plicit, (2) simple, (3) positive, (4) complete. When man deans to his own understanding he fails, but when God orders the battle sucâ€" cess is assured. PRACTICAL BURVEY. The lesson before us greatly magâ€" nifies the wisdom â€" and ability of Jehovah. The nations were to seso that his name was above every other name, and that no earthly power could stand before the God of the Hebrews. so that there remained nothing but plain ground for the Israelites to walk over. Probably the wall fell dowtn from its foundations in every part. 19. The gilver, etc.â€"Everything of value was to be get apart for the serâ€" vice of the tabernacle, and counted among the sacred things. God would be honored by enriching His dwelling place. His cause is built up by the destruction of the enemy‘s strongâ€" holds. 20. Fell down flatâ€"â€"Several comâ€" mentators, both Jews and Christians, have supposed that the ground under the foundation of walls opened, and that the walls sunk into the chasm, Cam. Bib. "Thise was the first victory in Canaan. It was Israel‘s Tirst fruite, and as such must be devoted to the Mrd7’1 18. Keep yourselves, etc.â€" Ree R. Y. "It woulid be sacrilege to dediâ€" cate the whole to Jehovah and then to take possession of a part for their own use."â€"Steele. Make the camp... accureed (R. V.)â€"If any one should take for personal use that which had been dedicated to God, it would be the means of bringing a curse upon: them, and the camp would be trouâ€" bled and distressed because of it. _ 17. The clty shall be devoted...... to the Lord (R. VÂ¥.)â€"The word from which the word "accursed," or "deâ€" voted," comes denotes "to cut off, to devote, to withdraw from comâ€" mon use and consecrate to God.""â€" 16. When the priests blewâ€"At the exact time when Tod declared vicâ€" tory. They kept in tune with God. Their expectations: were #o great, their faith so firm, their ear so weli tuned, that their voices were at once réised to sound the note of triumph when God said shout. Shoutâ€"They were to shout by faith as though the victory were already gained. This they did and the wallse fell only after they had declared it aloud. Early risers gain many victorics that othgryiso would have been lost. 14. So they did six daysâ€"Though lately come into Canaan, and their time very precious, yet they must linger so many days about Jericho, seeming not to make any progress. 15. On the seventh dayâ€"The reâ€" prated uge of the number seven must not piss unnoticed. â€" "Seven priests," "seven trumpets," "seven days," and "seven times on the seventh day." Bever Genotes _ perfection. God‘s ways and works are ail perâ€" fect. They rose earlyâ€"Here not only Joshua rises early, as in v. 12, but also the whole army, because a great day‘s work was bofore them. 10. Â¥Ye shall not shoutâ€"The proâ€" cession was made in deep and solemn gilence, exactly as Joshua directed, without acclamations or noise of an y kind. It seems a strange manner for baitle. _ "No mount was raised, no sword drawn, no engine planted, no ploneers undermining." It was by striking terror to their feelings that Jericho was to be taken and subdued. Until the day I bid youâ€" Their vietory would come by porfect obedience to every command. "They were to be rileat and listen to the sound of the trumpets, which they woere to regard as the voice of God among them. _ When He had given victory, they might proclaim it." 12. Rose cearlyâ€"To begin the march. They began early because they wore intent on gaining the vieâ€" tory. Every day was equally imâ€" portant that the victory might be obtained. 9. The armed men went beforeâ€" The soldiers took the lead to clear the way of obstructions. ‘The rearâ€" wardaâ€"The whole company of Israel followed in the line of march. ‘The order of the procession seems to have been, (1.) The soldiers. (2.) The seven priests, blowing continually on large horns. (8.) The ark. (4.) The main body of Israel. The proâ€" cession probably kept at a safe disâ€" tance from the walls so that no weap>ns or missles could reach them. _ 8. When Joshua had spokenâ€"When he had given them directions as God had commanded him, as to how they should proceed to take the city of Jerichno. The escape of the spies, whom Joshua bad sent to jearn the condition of the city, had aroused the King of Jericho so that he took extra care to have the gates of the city well gecured against auy further inâ€" truslon from the lsraelites. The seven trumpetsâ€"These instruments wore probably made of horn, or of siiver, and were the same as used on the jubliee. Before the Lordâ€"Before the ark, cailed the ark of the covenant, for it contained the tables on which the covenant was inscribed. Blewâ€" Instead of the dreadful trumpet of war, they sounded the trumpet of joy, as aiready conquerors, acting faith in the promise of God. The ark ......followed themâ€"*"This was a symâ€" bo! of God‘s presence, and â€" showed that all the victories of Israel were from Him. By this token the faith and patienge of the people were increased. The Fall of Jericho.â€"Josh, 6: 820. .Commentaryâ€"Expianatory. 1. Instiâ€" tutions revived. As soon as the Israciâ€" ités had crossed the Jordan, two of their reiiglous institutions were reâ€" newed : The sign of circumcision, which seems to have been suspended during most of the time of the forty years in the wilderness, was again rcâ€" vived. "It was the visivle token that they were God‘s children and the inâ€" heritors of the promises." The Passâ€" over was also renewed. This kept in memory â€" their â€" deliverance from Egypt. They thus began life in the new land to which they had come by properly honoring and obeying Gou. Sunday School. INIKERNATIONAL LKSSON N0¢, i11 OcToBEKR 19, 1902. ONTARIO ARCHIVEs TORONTO for Finer weather conditions in Manâ€" itoba the past ten days have helped the farmers with their crop operâ€" altions, and the movement of graia is larger. Labor is scarce, u’&u is, t0 some extent, interfering wit# trade in various departments. Business at Ottawa has been geood S s o dn nds s on o ui Lo Business at Pacific Coast pointe as reported to Bradstreet‘s, is duli. In Hamilton the movement â€" ia searonable lines is very satisfacâ€" tory, and the general prospects for business for the bailance of the year are promising. Sales in many deâ€" partmensts of whosesale trade are ahoad of last year, and by the end of the month the increase in the sales for this year should show A% even greater expansion than _ at present. Prices of staple goods are very firmly held, not only on asâ€" count of the present tendency _ of values to work to a higher level in some cases, but because of the difficulty in securing prompt _ deâ€" livery on Fepeat orders. There is a good demaod for fall and winter goods from jobbers at London. The volume ol trade at Quebec during the past week has been just as lag_ge as the preceding week. In Toronto this weck there has been a steady demand for fall and winter goods. The travellers are sending in liberal orders to sort country stocks and the mail orders are on quite a liberal scaie. Wholesale trade at Montreal has been quite active this week. Large quuntities of freight are being reâ€" ceived for shipment from this port, and the khipping business is very active, as it always is duriog Octoâ€" ber. Values of domestic staples are very firm. The cotton mills are inâ€" clised to advance their prices, and in the meantime are not pushing spring business. There is a good demand for money and rates are firmly held. Milch cows, each ....... . Shecp, ewes. per cwt ... Sheep, bucks, per cwt ... uUA maanneny Sheep, buichers‘. each . . . lambs, per CWL. .............. 3 00 Culres, per hoad................ 3 0 Hoge choice, per ewt........... 6 5% Bogs. light, per owt............. 6 1%% Hog*,fat, per Cwt............... 612& do «tores, per Cwt........... 6 do sows, per ewt ......‘* 9 4 30 do stags, per cwi............ 3 Eggsâ€"Sir‘ctiy ifrosh gathored are «carece and lirm at 17 to 18c. 8 conds are steady at 12 to 13¢c, and chips are unchanged at 11 to 12c. B “do oonmtz:i o ulls, export, heavy, ........ Cho "TOdULUE .>++~>>>~txrize is 4+ D ASDDSEET : se ue > +121 558 K686 4 Feeders, shortâ€"keep......... do medinm...; ; ; â€">, ... oN E.: . arr+rss>as4%, Stockers choice.............. Btockers, common............ Ncks: NOPK ... .06 s»ofidhas 75 5â€"8 IOMHRCAKEO s¥¥xerss aSors" arivebconkings 70 3â€"4 Tolédd +.: . «40 I~4 76 1â€"4 Duluth, No. 1 Nor. 70 5â€"8 68 1.â€"8 British Cattle Market. London. Oct. 11.â€"Live cattle slow at 12 to 13%e por ib.; tops, 13%e, dressed weight ; refrigerator beef, lowor, at 114 to 12%¢ par Ib.; sheep steady at 11 to 13 p»r Ib. Teronto tive Stock Market. Ex entile, choice, per owt. $4 80 to $5 23 pd.otnwdlum“ .I 50 lo.:fl D OOMK :sarrs 3i sxaxe mss BP o 4A 06 Butchers‘ export ............... 475 to 5 00 gltchou‘etluo. picked....... 42 to 475 utcher»‘ cat:le, choice........ 375 to 14 % Butcher®‘ cattle, fair........... 3 % to 8 75 Croamery priats, 19 1â€"2 to 20 1â€"2¢; solids, fresh mads 18 to 19¢ ; earlier makes, 17 to 18c ; dairy, tubs and pails, choice, 15¢ ;. maliam, 12 1â€"2 to 14c ; common, 11 1â€"2 to 12¢ ; pound rolls, 15 to 16¢ ; medium, 13 to 15¢. Cheese are steady, and prices unâ€" changed at 11 1â€"4¢ {jor large, â€" and 11 1â€"2¢ for twins, job lots. Potatoesâ€"Car lots on the track here are steady at 70 to 75¢ per bag, anu potators out of store are unâ€" changed at 90¢ por bag. Lenading Whent Markets. Following are the closing quotaâ€" tions at important wheat centres toâ€"day: Oâ€"t, 18.â€"The grain roceipts toâ€"day wore moderate, with litle chinge in privaos. â€" Whoeat is steady, =00 bushels o white selling at 68 to 89;, 200 bushois of red winter at $8:, :00 bushels of goose at 63 to g4c, and a load of spring at $4c. Barley firm, 700 bushols selling at 423 to 44%%e. Oats are easior, with sales of 800 bushols at 32 to 82%e. â€" Hay in limited supply, with sales of 15 loads at $12 to $15.50 a ton for timothy and at 86 to $29 for mixcd,. Straw sold at 8i1 a ton for bundlod, and at $#7 for loose, there boing receipts of four loads. Vegetables=â€"Market is active and stoady, with no change in prices. Potatoos are selling at 80@ to 70e por bushel and 902 to $1 per bag. Toroato Coustry Produce, Butter â€"Choice dairy pound â€" rolls are very scarce, and are {iirm at 16¢. Larger rolls aro nomlial, and packed butter is siow. Croamery is steady. Croamery priats, 19 1â€"2 to 20 1â€"2¢; Dressed Hogs â€" Market steady, with p.ices unchanged at $8.50 to §$9 per cewt. Wheat, white, 67 to 68%e; red, 68c ; goose, 64¢; wpring, 64¢c. Oats, 824 to 3%¢c. Barley, 42 . to 44%e. Rye, 50¢c. Hay, $12 to $15.50; clovâ€" er or mixed, 86 to 89. Straw, shealf, #11; loose, 87. Butter, ib rolls, 18 to 20¢. Eggs, new laid, 20 to 22¢; held stock, 15 to 17e¢. Israel‘s faith Every stop requirâ€" ed faith. From a human «taudâ€" point nothing whaterer could be gained by marching around the walls as they were dizrscted to do. But they believed God. A great viectory. 1. Great because God gave it. These cou!d hbe no doubting the fact that the v1etory was from Jehovah, and not frowm any human power. 2. Gzyeat because a great enemy was comunletely overâ€" no euccess only as there is perfosi obedience. The motives for ohediâ€" ence should not be merely besaus»e of fear ef the consequenses ol di=â€" obedience, . or. even bocauuse it is right to obey, but out of pure love to God. thrown. |THE MARKETS Iucsementss . a09l mm Doronto Farmers‘ SYarket Bradstreets®‘ on Trade. Cash Dece «d ll