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has been t all bri days. y with the under the held by th "no trun that when EASANT DUTY.â€""When I know rumps, There Should Be No Dummy. » uggestion to amend the rules of has been the subject of conversaâ€" mong all bridge players during the w days. _ The reformers wish to ay with the enormous advantage under the present "dummy" sysâ€" d if you are correct, you Iny%uudb:cutlhz one bit who gets money , 1 !0'-!3 Aoswer to us, with he will notity you s inutes of your time, D..!.‘ bur business, » TORONTO oxT * / L prains ante SH SPAVIN LINIMENT ‘0â€" ma He sa estowa it is pretty apt er side of the rdependence of Natioqs. 1@A SaVanDa Credit for Discoveries. Coughs t Ward blemist a )Ottle D ITUTE usly & V EV BRIDGE RULES. ACTION P# ol age: ung troubles, ED SPRUCE ickle â€" takes and heals the IGHS to stay the bu () 8 Ir ut Â¥ TE soft _dealer when playing p" hand. The suggesâ€" he declaration is "no Id be no dummy, an& hould play his own The frequent dectarâ€" 8" is also exereii: bridge playersâ€"a: : player nowadays?tâ€" aprovements are aim. 1e advantage at preâ€" the dealer and his doubtful whether the y their point, and I ‘k‘sâ€"the bridge club general feeling is with the existing one thing, ‘eâ€"al!,"" but 1t 1¢ LF ar description vone, sweeney, swollen throst: ise of one botâ€" wonderful Bleâ€" in the domin~ the strikes and f the source of ence of which _ have had to a result of the 52, endation, I conâ€" " says Rev. Jas. . _ "Dr. Agnew‘s 1 me of Catarr® and truth, but iscoverers who do not know ire inevitably »xploiter, the er, who genâ€" of the press) 1€ r calloused orses, blood affect others 1, after alt, be delayed 18 rtainly un’-- ication ben‘â€" ots i rehabiliâ€" but popu« Professor iven disâ€" to 1 the ply the is Ppl of the nature by counteract« ~W Aureâ€"They _« Prince of Pe army of ange wurrounding t Com. See l K £1; exiviii., 2. Com. See l Kings xxii., 19; Psa. ciil., 20, 21; exiviii., 2. * f 14 â€" Glory to Godâ€"Christ was the *gbat expression of God‘s glory. In the Ahighestâ€"1. In the highest strains. 2. Jn the highest heavers. 3. n In the highâ€" est degree.â€"Peloubet. On earth peaceâ€" Peace with God; peace to man; P II. The angelic message (vs. 8â€"14). 8. BSame countryâ€"Near to Bethlehem. Sbj)herdsâ€"’l'he announcement was not made to rulers or priests, but to humble men who were reng to receive the glad news. In the fieldyâ€"-They undoubtedly had tents or booths under which they dwelt.â€"Clarke. Keeping watch......by nightâ€"Or. "keeping night watches."â€" R. V., margin. They watched by turns, against wild beasts and robbers. The fact that the shepherds were in the fields affords no ground for concluding that the nativity did not take place in the winter. _ ‘The average temperature at Jerusalem for five years was, in Decemâ€" ber, 54 degrees. 9. Angelâ€"Divine mesâ€" senger. Came upon themâ€"Stood over thein.â€"Clarke. Glory of the Lordâ€"That extreme splendor in which the Deity is | represented as appearing to men, and sometimes called the Shechinahâ€"an apâ€" pearance frequently attended, as in this ease, by a company of angels.â€"Bloomâ€" field. It is likely that the angel appearâ€"» ed in the air at some little dinstance above them, ard that from him the rays : of the glory of the Lord shone round , about them, as the rays of light are proâ€" | jected from the sun.â€"Clarke. Sore afraid | â€""Terrified with the appearance of so :lorious a being." _ There is no proof ere that the shepherds were morally | impure and afraid that divine justice | was about to be meted out to them. | Even holy men tremble when they come in contact with the supernatural. _ 2. First madeâ€"There must have been ‘two enrolments. Cyrenius â€" This is the ‘Greek form of chronological difficulty‘ There. Quirinus or Quirinius, was gover« mor of Syria, in A. D. 6, ten years later ithan this, and at that time he took a leensus to which St. Luke refers in Acts .v. 37. Many explanations have been ‘suggested. "The most satisfactory exâ€" *mplanation of the matter seems to be that | XQuirinius was twice governor of Syria,« lin B. C. 4, as well as in A. D. 6. This‘ seems to be a well established fact."â€"â€" iWilleock. The easiest solution of the «difficulty lis the assumption that Quirâ€" rinius was twice governor of Syria, ard this has been made almost certain by dieve, with Dr. Thompson, that the birth metually took place in an ordinnri house «of some common peasant, and that the babe was laid in one of the mangers, euch as are still found in the dwellings of the farmers of this region.â€"Whedon. It is common to find two sides of the room, where the native farmer resides with his cattle, fitted up with these manâ€" gers, and the remainder of the room eleâ€" wated about two feet higher for the acâ€" ecommodation of the.family.â€"Dr. Thompâ€" ... thereâ€"Caesar Augustus was but an linstrument in the hand of Providence to Mulfil the prophecy of Micah (chap. v. 2) with respect to the birthâ€"place of the ‘l(cuhh.â€"hnfi 7. Her firstâ€"born sonmâ€"That excellent end glorious person, who was the firstâ€" lborn of every creature, and the heir of all things ; w{om all the firstâ€"born in the ‘Old Testament prefigured; whom the angels adore (Heb. i. 6); and in whom those that believe become the firstâ€"born wmnd the firstâ€"fruits of God‘s creatures.â€" (Benson. _ Swaddling clotheeâ€"Strips of eloth; these were wound round the inâ€" Want. In a mangerâ€"It seems clear from {the text that the manger was not in the dnn, hence there is good reason to beâ€" rpurely antiquarian researches.â€"Philip ‘Schaff. 3. Into hig own cityâ€"The Roâ€" man custom was to enrol persons at the lace of residence, but the Jewish cusâ€" gom required the enrolment to take place in the native city. 4. Went up.â€"From Galilee to the much more elevated relgl'ion of Bethlchem. City of Davidâ€"Where ‘David was born. 5. With Mary â€" It is uncertain whether her presence was robligatory or voluntary, but it is obviâ€" «ous that, after what she had suffered p(Matt. i. 19), she chose to cling to the mresence and protection of her husband. â€"â€"Farrar. Espoused wifeâ€"Better, "who »was betrothed to him."â€"R. V. 6. While son. Innâ€"This was not like the Ameriâ€" ean hotel, where the traveller‘s wants are supplied for pay, but was a square inclosure, erected at public expense, into which travellers came with their animals and provided for themeslves. the Roman empérors. All the world â€"all of the Roman world. At that time the Roman empire extended further than ‘ever before, or than it has since, and was called "the empire of the whole earth." _ Taxedâ€"Enrolled, or registered ‘probably with & vie_! of taxing. 3 Commentary.â€"1. The birth of Christ (vs. 1â€"7). 1. In those daysâ€"After the birth of John and before the birth of Sunday Sehool,! INTERNATIONAL LESSON NO. L. JANUARY 7,.1006 ‘The Shepherds Find Jesusâ€"Luke 2:1â€"20, A“I“!N'â€"The first of HE HAS BEEN PLACED IN INSANE WARBD OF PENITENTIARY, A Kingston despatch says: +Valenâ€" tine Shortis, the murderer, one of the four prisoners transferred from St. Vinâ€" cent De Paul to the penitentiary last week, has been temporarily placed in the insane ward. Shortis sang to himself while being driven from the railway staâ€" tion to the penitentiary. He is quite simple minded, but retains all the marks of a gentleman. _ The angels. Angels bave always taken , an interest in the affairs of this world.‘ We frequently read of them in the Old Testament. An‘ angel appeared _ unto| Zacharias announcing the birth of John |and to Mary announcing the birth of ‘ Christ. An Angel appeared to Jesus in / the garden, andâ€" to the disciples at the | sepulchre and at the ascension. Jesus on . ‘one occasion said He could call twelve | ; legions of angels and _ we have the bless| , ed assurance given that He gives His â€" : angels charge over us to sustain us in | the hour of temptation and dangw. > | t * Abbie C. Morrow. l The meeting was called by a joint committee representing the ministerial associations of the various denominaâ€" tions and the central department of the Y. M. C,. A. A committee of four was apâ€" pointed fo reâ€"construct a plan for tKo church federation. Each of the speakers had been a de‘eâ€" gate to the New York conference and each referred to the action of that conâ€" ference in terms of the warmest approâ€" bation. * CHICAGO MINISTERS MAY BAR THE UNITARIAN CHURCH. Chicago, Dec. 25.â€"Â¥Five hundred Chiâ€" cago ministers met yesterday to consider steps toward church federation in the city. No definite action was taken lookâ€" ing toward the exclusion of the Uhitarâ€" ian denomination, which was barred or. doctrinal grounds from the recent conâ€" ference on church federation held in New York city, but the sentiment of the meeting was strongly in‘ favor of the exâ€" clusion. ' 3. Personalâ€"The angel said, "I bring ! you good tidings" (v. 10). "Unto you ‘io born a Saviour" (v. 11). ‘A sign unto lyou; ye shall find" (v. 12). Conviction and comfort are in the pronouns of 6. A spoken faith. They made known (v. 17) what the Lord had "made known" (v. 15) to them. The news was too good to keep. It belonged to all peoâ€" ple.. frewe fao fls N j€) 5. A rewarded faith. "They....found Mary and Joseph and the babe 'F) a manâ€" ger" (v. 16), God bids us, " Taste and see" (Psa. xxiv. 8). _ 7 4. An ardent faith. "They came with haste," God says, "Whatsoever ye do, do it heartily," (Col. iii 23), with a holy urgency of spirit, as a faithful, loyal lover of your Lord. ___ _ 3. A perisitent faith. Even unto Bathâ€" lehem. They left their flock to _ find their Saviour. 2. An active faith. "Let us now go." A gentleman was asked, "How do you accomplish so much in life?‘ ‘His answer was, *My father taught me when I had anything to do to go do it." and comfort are in the pronouns of the Bibile, "Thou art the man," Nathan said to David (2 Sam. xii. 7). "I go to prepare a ph.ce for you," Jesus said to the sorrowing disciples (John xiv. 2). Gospel preaching is to the heart. 1. Immediate: "Lot us now go." Proâ€" crastination is a thief. It steals time, strength and opportunity. Delay is disâ€" obedience. The little word "now" is a mighty conqueror. _ _ f 4 I1I. "‘The Shepherds" (v. 15). The shepâ€" herds believed. Their faith was. II. The saying (v. 12). The message of the angels was a model for a sermon. It was. , 1. Comforting. "Fear not" (v. 10). The angel came not to q_l;:ish sin but to proâ€" claim a Saviour. first Old Testaâ€" ment "fear not" is in connection with the promise of the miraculous gift of {luc, type of the beloved Son (Gen. xv. â€"5). 2. Inspiring. "Behold, I brin%yon good tidings of great joy" (v. 10). The joy of the Lord is great in its source (John xv. 11; Gal v. 22.)_ EV €1 18. CHURCH FEDERATION. 2. Ignorded. "She .... laid him in a manger, because because there.. was no room for him in the inn" (v.7). "The babe lying ...... in the manger" (v. 12). "No room for him" (v. 7). Touching forecast of the reception of Jesus from the cradle to the cross. ‘His own received Him not" (John i. 11). No room for him in Bethlichem (Matt. ii 13). No room for him in Nazareth. "They must thrust him out of the city" (Luke i. 16, 28, 29) No room for him in the homes of those he served. : 17. Made known abroadâ€"As soon as they had seen the child they began to tell the glad mnews to every one they anet. ‘They were true preachers of the gospel. 18. wonderedâ€"The story of Jesus is the most wonderful story to which human ears ever listened, and it still catuses those who hear it to wonder. 19. Pondering themâ€"weighing or careâ€" fully considering â€"them.â€" Everyâ€"circumâ€" stance was treasured up in her memory. MURDERER SHORTES. 20. Glorifying and praisingâ€"These sgnâ€" ple men returned to the care of their flocks giving glory to God for all they bad seen and heard. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. I. "A Saviour" (v. 11). 1. Incarnate. "Born ...... a Saviour" (v. 11). The beloved Son of God became the "firstâ€" born son" of Mary (v. 7). The Divine One became the human sufferer, subject to physical law, mental pain and spiritâ€" vual trial. linger. And foundâ€"‘"It is probable that by communicating their experiences to one another their faith was greatly strengthened." his Q'will b -ending. thohl(mhh. Towwldenâ€"wye should show good will both to God and Man, . TII. The visit of the shepherds (vs. 15â€" 20). & 15. Let us now goâ€"There is no time to lose. Let us go now. "This is the language of obedience, desiring. to receive assurance and strength," by seeing for themselves "this thing which is to come to pass." 16. With hasteâ€"Filled and E{illed with holy joy they could not T 0 At the home in New York of John A. McCall, President of the New York Life Insurance Company, esterday, a memâ€" ber of the family saix_that Mr. MeCall was not suffering with pneumonia, as had been r?orted, and that except for a slight cold he was in the best of health. The boiler of;a freight engine on the Wilminfion & Northern Railroad, blew up toâ€"day near Birdsboro, Pa., killing William E. Hesser, the fireman, and fatally scalding H. W. Leinbach, the engineer, and Wm. T. Alderman, a brakeman. All is quiet‘ in Shanghai toâ€"day. Busiâ€" ness has been resumed gut the volunteers and sailors landed by the warships in port remain on duty _ as a precaution against a renewal of the rioting. The U. S. gunboat Villa Lobos has arrived to reinforce the Baltimore. | At Sebastopol new mutinies have 0câ€" ; curred and 1,600 soldiers have been disâ€" ‘ armed and under guard. â€" ‘The troops at Kharkoff have revolted and the inhabiâ€" itants are still administcring the city. The Polish Nationalists have come to the decision that the Jews in Poland must be transformed into Poles and the Nationalists therefore issued a proclamâ€" ation calling on all Israelites to disconâ€" tinue speaking Yiddish and to learn the Polish language. , , The steamer Mariposa, which arrived from Tahiti yesterday, brought the news | that a rumor is current throughout Taâ€" hiti that the United States Government hai: offered France $4,000,000 for the island. | The New York Periodical Publishers‘ ; Association yesterday decided to stand by the Typothetae, the employing printâ€" ers, in refusing the eightâ€"hour day to 'compositors employed in book and job esc c2 The U. S. State Department has reâ€" ceived bitter complaints from fishing vesâ€" sel owners regarding their treatment in Newfoundland, and it has been exchangâ€" ing notes on the subject with the British Govermment. | Luther Filmore, formerly Superintendâ€" ‘ent of the South Pacific Coast (narrow | guage) Railroad, between Oakland and ! Santa Cruz, died yesterday, at the age ‘ of 79 years. A Budapest despatch says: The Emâ€" | perorâ€"King has decided may: in view of !thn existing political circumstances he ‘cannot accept the resignation of the Il"ejen'ary Cabinet, tendered yesterday. The ferry house of the Delaware, Lackâ€" awanna & Western, at the foot of West 22nd street, New York, was completely destroyed, and that of the Jersey Cenâ€" tral badly damaged by fire at noom toâ€" day. On account of some confusion the genâ€" eral strike was proclaimed at Moscow toâ€" day at noon instead of toâ€"morrow and was inaugurated there with a complete suspension of the street railroad serâ€" vice. The Tangier correspondent of the Echo de Paris, gays that the pretender to the Moprish throne, Bu Hamara, is preparing to atack%t]he Sultan‘s troops with a numâ€" erous army near the Algerian frontier. An increase of ten per cent. in the wages of operatives employed by the American Woollen Company was voted at a meeting of the agents of that comâ€" pany held in New York toâ€"day. Superintendent Kilburn, of the N. Y. State banking department toâ€"day made public a call for reports of the condition of the trust companies of the State, Janâ€" uary first next. The 275th anniversary of the foundâ€" ing of Cambridge was celebrated there toâ€"day. The Hungarian parliament met again toâ€"day to be prorogued until January 13 by royal decree. The plant of the sewer pipe company, East Liverpool, Ohio, was burned early toâ€"day, causing a loss estimated at $10,â€" The Allans are going to build two new steamers for the Atlantic service. Miss Bennett of the staff of the Montâ€" real General Hospital, has been appointâ€" ed matron of the Brockville General Hosâ€" pital out of a large field of applicants. She will take office on January 15. At the London, Ont., City Council meeting, Mayor Campbell announced bis retirement. It is understood he will be :ppoi#d Post Office Inspector at Lonâ€" on, Rev. R. P. Bowles, pastor of Sher bourne Street Methodist Church, Toronâ€" to, has been appointed profesor of homiâ€" letics in Victoria University. . Chas. Brown was murdered at Spence‘s Bridge, Victoria, B. C.,; yesterday by a gang of toughs hovering about a railâ€" way construction camp. The Collingwood Board of Education has appointed Mr. George Hammill, prinâ€" cipal of the Collegiate Institute, in sucâ€" cession to Inspector Mills. While Mr. and Mrs. Barilla, of Pitts ton, were at a wake, their bome was deâ€" stroyed by fire, and their eightâ€"yearâ€"old son was burned to death. * Trade returns for the last five months show a gain of $26,000,000, of which exâ€" ports contributed $18,000,000. The late Larratt W. Smith, President Toronto Consumers‘ Gas Co., left an estate valued at $114,992.13. It is reported at Halifax that the C. P. R. will make that city a winter port for theirâ€"new Atlantic passenger steamâ€" ers. " * Principal Sheraton of Wyciiffe College, Toronto, is suffering from an attack of nervous prostration. Plans for a rtumshimo be placed on the Pacific route have been prepared by the (hqadian Pacific Railway. Gteel on the Temislumii:g & Northern Railway is laid forty miles beyond New Liskeard. The work of doubleâ€"tracking the Grand Trunk Railway between London and Hyde Park is very nearly completed. Mrs. Balkewell died at the residencée of her son, exâ€"Premier Greenway, at Crystal City, Man. BKITISH AND FLOREIGN. CANADIAN. ) NEWS . s If you know of any who is sickmdneedsmotherlygvg:luk her to write Mrs. Pinkham, I‘gnn. Mass., and she will receive free advice which it saved my life. Isincerely hope my experiâ€" lan:vwfllmb’en&lgwm hwh':zny- ing from girlb tovm&odltwlhow your Compound will do as much for them." will put her on the right road toastrong, hed{:yudhn,v womanhood. * was recommended, and after hktni ?::lntvhul mvlilul :-innâ€"-l' htyn'-:l:' “Imttoten[youthstlmujoyhibdp ter health than hsvoforvnn.nnd owe itall to Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable Comâ€" * When fourteen years of age I suffered alâ€" most constant pain, and for two or three Wnnn-nndplminmyfi and was dizy and nervous, headaches and was dizy and nervous, doctors all failed to help me. * Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable Comp« A mother should come to her child‘s aid and remember that Lydia E. Pinkâ€" ham‘s Vegetable Compound will at this time prepare the system for the eomizg change and start the menstrual peri in a young girl‘s life without pain or irregularities. Miss EmmaColeof Tullahoma, Tenn., Girls‘ modesty and oversensitiveness often puzzle their mothers and baffie physicians, because they withhol 1 their confidence at this critical period. Abraham H. Hummell, the New York lawyer who for several days has been on trial in the Supreme Court on a charge of conspiracy in connection with the Dodgeâ€"Morst divorce litigation, toâ€" day elected to allow his case to go to the jury solely on the evidence submitted by his accusers. Miss Viola Hess, of San Francisco, who is to be Mrs. Brady‘s only survivâ€" ing relative, contested the validity of this will and brought the case before the Grand Jury. How many lives of beautiful young girls have been sacrificed just as they were ripenin;f into womanhood ! How many irregularities or displacements have been developed at this imgorhnt period, resulting in years of suffering | Charged With Fraudwiently Securing Beâ€" quest of $10,006. White Plains, N. Y., Dec. 25.â€"Rev. Bernard A. Brady, pastor of St. Joseph‘s Roman Catholic Church at Yonkers, was indicted for grand larceny by the Grand JurX toâ€"day. It is charged that he fradulently secured a bequest of propâ€" erty worth $10,000 for the use of his church at Yonkers Mrs. Margaret Brady died recently leaving a $10,000 estate, and a will was offered for proâ€" bate giving this entire property to St. Joseph’s (_‘hunch.' es Do x A TIME OF PAIN AND PERIL CRISIS OF GIRLHKOOD PASTOR INDICTED FOR LARCENY Pinkham‘s Vegetable Compound has Seved Her Life and Made Her Well fiesh more abundantly than Scott‘s Emulsion. It nourishes and builds up the body when oraiâ€" nary foods absolutely ing that will repair wasted tissue more quickly or replace lost should be taken immeâ€" diately. There is nothâ€" e best time to remeâ€" dy wasting conditions in the human body is beâ€" fore the evil is too deep rooted.. At the first eviâ€" dence of loss of fiesh Scott‘s Emulsion Te experienced farmer grains require far differâ€" ent soil than others; some crops need differâ€" enthandling than others. :i;lknowsthata gre;: depends upon rig planting at the right time, and that the soil must be kept enriched. No use of complaining in summer about a misâ€" take made in the spring. Decide before the seed is planted. We tvFl send you a sample free. ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO I M E picturs is the form of a label is on the » London: Wholesale trade is about winding up for the season, and business men are well satisfied with the trade, not alone for the past few weeks, but also of the year. Ottawa: Holiday retail trade is brisk in all lines, and there is still a fair deâ€" mand from wholesale. houses re order lines. Local industries are active and values steady to firm. ¢ Hamiiton: Trade conditions here are generally â€" satisfactory, although the movement in wholesale lines is quiet. Retail trade is very brisk, and the outâ€" look for spring business continues bright. Collections are fair to good. _ s Victoria and Vancouver: Business genâ€" erally has a quiet tone throughout the province. Trade, however, is on a sound basis, and wholesalers feel that after a good season they can afford to wait until the opening out of spring trade, which promises to be very heavy. _ Winnipeg: Fine seasonable weather has given a big impetus to the holiday trade here. Wholesale trade is quiet. Boot and shoe houses report great activity, and there is also a good tone to the grocery trade. The hardware and dry goods trades are quiet. Quebec: Retail trade is active, but a quictness is noticeable in wholesale cirâ€" cles, owing n6 doubt. to the annual stockâ€"taking, which is pretty general at present. The season just closing is reâ€" ported satisfactory, and favorable reâ€" sults are expected. Toronto: Wholesale trade here has been quiet at the moment, and is likely to continue so until after the new year, Wholesale dry goods men have about finâ€" ished their stockâ€"taking. The result is rather more than fairly satisfactory and shows that the trade of the past year compares well with that of a year ago. The Christmas trade in fancy lines, etc., has been excecdingly heavy. There has been a good movement in hardware lines, while groceries are quiet. Metals are very firm in tone, and all lines are advancing. Sugars have advanced slightâ€" ly during the past week. Country and city retail trade is brisk, although the former would benefit by more snow. Colâ€" lections are a little quiet, but will likely improve with the new year. ! Montreal: All lines of wholesale trade continue to show a quiet tone here, alâ€" though there is already something of a reâ€"order trade in some Christmas goods. Stockâ€"taking has been general during the past week, and results show, as was exâ€" pected, that the business of the past year compares very favorably with that of previous seasons. Remittances are inâ€" elined to be a little slow, but there is still no fear for the future on this point. Travellers are returning from their counâ€" try routes, and they speak very hopeâ€" fully of the condition of country trade. All retail stocks are moving well, and there is a good sound basis to work on, in the prosperity of the farming comw munity, which has never been in a better financial position than it is toâ€"day. | New York .. Detroit .. .. Toledo ... . Duluth <... .. St. Louis ... Minneapolis . Hozgsâ€"Mr. Harris got al market, at a decline of 30c lects at $6.15 and lights a sows, $5 per cewt.; stags, | cwt. ‘These quotations a» watered. London.â€"Cattle are quoted at 10 to 12%%c per lb.; refrigerator, 8% to 9¢ per lb. Sheep, 10% to 12c. picked ewes pePieetngpets ailitts snn nacdltls is . M . 12. 2â€" 2P 4 .1 and epringers was much slower than for some time. About thirty sold ail the way from $25 to $50 each. Veal Calvesâ€"About 60 veal calves were sold at $3.50 to $ per cwt. The market is strong for calves of good choice quality. Sheep and Lambsâ€"Export ewes, $4 to $4.30; bucks and culls at $3" to $3.50 per cewt.; lambs sold at $5.85 to $6.25 per ewt. for MIAEAA® Gesias oi T C as 4 # o0 cmd Ameie? . ie Feeders and Stockemsâ€"Prices for stockers and feeders remained about steady at folâ€" lowing quotations. RBest feeders, 1000 to 1150 Ibs. each, at $3.40 to $3.80 per cwt.; medium feeders, 1000 to 1150 lbe., at $3.2%5 to $3.65; feeders, 850 to 1000 lbs., at $2.15 to $3.50; best stockers, 600 to 800 lbs., at $2.90 to $.12%; common light mtockers, at $1.75 to $2.2%5; stock heifers. at $2.% to §$2.75. Milch Cowsâ€"The market for milch cows mm eautwise s sPe . : Trade for common cattle of all kinds was slow at low prices, Exportersâ€"Prices ranged from $4.50 to $4.90 for export steers and $.50 to to $4.25 per cwt. for export bulls. Butchersâ€"A few choice paoked butcher catâ€" tle sold around $4 per cwt., and one lot of 5 was sold at $4.50; medium cattle sold at about $3.75; common at $.% to §3.50; inâ€" ferior and rough at $2.50 to $3, and canners at $1.25 to $2.2%5 and $2.50 per owt. Do., creamery . Chickens, per 1b Fow!, per Ib. .. Turkeys, per Ib. Apples, per bbi CEEs, per dozen Butter. dairy .. Timothy, b Dressed hogs Alsike, No. 1, bushel .. . Doi DNG. 2 :. »â€".» . â€"» + oas se uh . Do., .NG. 3 ... ... c.30} 5... Red, choics, No. 1, bushel _Timothy, bushel .. .. . _ RUESuames . PARmaprte 200 JART] W ETe sold at 76 to 78c per bushel, and 100 bushels of goose brought 70c a bushel. Barley was steady, 300 bushels selling at , 50 to Sic a bushel. ‘Two hundred bushe!s 1 g‘t” oats soldkat 37% a bushel. Peas brought 1 mab .x s P SOW EP / a wod © Business on the street market toâ€"day was fairly "active, with price changes narâ€" row. _ About 100 bushels of fall wheat No outht *h * ++ o s+++ $2% 86% kpols :s .=2. 4. us oo ud 82% 85% BRADSTREET‘S ON TRADE. Market Reports The Week, 1 "L, â€"¢ VTZ_IMC OL 30¢ per‘cw!., or seâ€" it $6.15 and lights and fats at $5.90; $5 per owt.; stags, $2,50 to $3.50 per These quotations are for wed and A Leading Whest Marxets, red, British Cattle Markets. Toronto Farmers‘ Market. Toronto Live Stock. 1b and wethers; bucks * 0 *k*% .k .. UV 18 t W + Aart : +1 x+ P0 »* bex gari»+++ MR ++ 8 Aters +. 10909 Ithel ;. ...~ 5 96 sn en seb sese o 475 1, bushel .. 6 % 14 34 ns wies ID B + *4. 28 srarex, $ 00 + +8 hi i« i.) CIG y is vak c bxae FAW hwlc ie tike ns e D BE s aer sas s s 0 27 asex se sns O 10 £odpes w C 10 0 hx +N 108 sio‘t ‘gll offered on the c. May. July. 95% 92% _â€" s 91 «_ 894 91% 854 834 85% â€"â€" 0 11 0 15 81% 8 040 1 2 0 t 0 12 0 03 0 36 0 12 3 ©0 0 45 to 2 60 British Squadron Will Manceuvre Near Gulf of Cadiz, Cadiz, Dec. 25.â€"Information transmitâ€" ted to the Spanish Admiralty confirms a report in circulation here to the efâ€" fect that the British Mediterranean, Atâ€" lantic and Channel squadrons, comprisâ€" ing sixty warships, will concentrate in April near the Gulf of Cadiz, with a base at I , for combined manceuvres. Some peopEe here are inclined to regard the presence of the British fleet mear Morocco about the time when the Moroeâ€" can conference closes as significant. Constantinople, Dec. 25.â€"The maseâ€" cre of Mussulmans by Armenians was )still in progress at Tiflis and throughâ€" out Caucasia, Dec. 18, according to a dugctch from Tiflis on that date. The Mohammedans were being hunted dowr like deer, no distinction being made beâ€" tween Persians, Tartars or Ottomans, About two thousand Mussulmans families of Tiflis had sought refuge in neighborâ€" ing villages, The Cossacks and _ other troops continued to plunder the houses of Mussulmans at Batoum. PA ARMENIANS HUNTING THEM AT TIFLIS LIKE DEER. alvempt was given up. _ Surrounded by waser, which threatâ€" ened to engulf them the moment the compressed air should fail to hold it in check, the two entombed men had km up constant communication with surface by rapping on the pipes which brougth tgem.fl:.ng They wlcre almozt exhausted when three daring men swam up to the platform on which they were huddled and induced the frightemed men to plunge into the water. The two stronger swimmers of the three cacy took a man upon his back, while the third swam alongside ready to lend asâ€" sistance The rescuers said it might require several hours to penetrate the last seven feet of the tunnel roof. Meanwhile ome of the dangers threatening the impriâ€" soned men had been diminished by the lowering of the water in the tunnel, Two large steam pumps brought the water down so low that an attempt was made to reach the men in boats, which were launched in another part of the tunnel. _ The boats, however, could not mLueeze beneath the roof at the point where the water was highest, and the attempt was given up. _ _It was thought at first that other workmen might have been imprisoned when the earth caved, but those who were reseued said that all their companâ€" ions escaped before the water closed the mouth of the tunnel. The rescuing party then had only seven feet more 40 drill through the ccment roof of the tunnel, where the men have been buried for thirtyâ€"six hours. The was transmitted through the pipe wfic‘ h is being used to transmit air into the tumâ€" nel. More Than a Hundred Rescuers Work _ Thirtyâ€"six Hours to Reach Imprisonâ€" ed Men Forty Feet Beneath the Bed of the East River. New York, Dec. 2%.â€"After nearly forty hours of unceasing effort on the part of more than a hundred reacuers, two Italian laborers who had beea caught in a caveâ€"in in the East River tunnel forty foet below the surface were rescued toâ€"day. _ The men were in a terribly exhausted condition, but will reâ€" cover. MUSSULMANS KILLED. WARSHIPS WILL CONCENTRATE ITALIAN LABORERS RECOYVEREKDS FROM TUNNEL BY SWIMMERS. THAN FLAVORS MADE FROM ALCOHOLIC BASES."â€"DR. R. A. PYNE, DOMINION ANALYST. ""IWANTA‘"‘ MANUFACTURâ€" A 25e TIN WILL EQUAL #: wWORTH OF THE COMMON ALâ€" COHOLIC PREPARATIONS SOLD GENERALLY, LIQUID EXâ€" TRACTS CONTAIN FROM 50 TO go PER CENT. OF ALCOHOL OR PRODUCTS OF COAL TAR. FLAVORING PURITY 'M; co.. AGENTS W RESCUED MEN. 1WA NTA PURE, HIGHLY CONâ€" but those wheo 1 their companâ€" he water closed . The rescuing en feet more 40 nt roof of the ave been buried e was : pipe wfic' h is 18) 11