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4 t L2 _ CC@ COr ns Fecutn. NE‘ (-ovl'knows when we start toward a.n. Sin has made the distance great, "t'“:t;m; l:':be lost one starts to e Fat compassion. And TAM,. etcâ€"This -â€"-A‘.L» 2k tNet was Bo God | 7 ,_"!€ aroseâ€"He ; Gireat way off â€"He 3 in rags, in disgrace, "‘ 'Qk'm_ FI SBsut 1 ther " pOom s amd OS TTH 2, "" but forth In returning to God there is something to do. I have sinned â€"The first thing to do is to make a fi!! confession of our sing (1. Jahn i. 9; Job xxxili, 27, 28). Against heavenâ€"Against Ciod, Ksame ain‘L. . _ s onE mox@nt n¢ ftags ,6° "C@ard TOr the privileges of God‘s house, and are ready to take the lowest place in it. ml:'. The return and the welcome (v« 24\ 19. xo "Nb;'v nÂ¥ 0x humble himself, tice his father c against him; he p penitents have a worlkd. _ Bread ecnough and The lowest in my father‘s bread to give to the poor. ple are abundantly supplied things. 1 perishâ€"Sinners wi to Christ until they _ see ready to perish. 18. I will had ieft home by his own fre he must return in the same compels no one to do right. Following the decision there 1 SHfOFE DuC FOXbh O Pa sspclcos feeuing swine." le was driven to the extromity of trying to satisfy his hunger with the food that was fit only _ for eswine. So sinners endeavor to satisty the sou! with earthly aml sensual deâ€" Â¥ights, No man gave unto himâ€"Those whom he had called his friends now deâ€" serted rim. They had taken his money and then cast him aside. Satan‘s agents do the same toâ€"day. The saloonkecper will rob a man of his money, health and charactor, and then kick him out of the IL In deep distress (¢s. 14â€"16). 14. Spent allâ€"He did not stop until his last dollar was gors, His passions reigned. This represents the sinner who _ has thrown away the meréy, favor and love of God, and has \7nhllly rejected the salâ€" vation of Christ/It seems that he spent all very soon; the enjoyment of sin is brief." A mighty famineâ€"The soul livâ€" ing at a distance from God, and shut out from, intercourse with Him, will very soond feel its own utter emptiness. A mighty famine will follow. In wantâ€" Real want is soul want. The prodigal now felt the effects of hisfissipated eourse. The steps downward were "aposâ€" tasy, profligacy, penalty." "See Prov. xxiv. 34. The soul has many cravings and the pleasures, riches and honors of this world can never satisfy it. 15. Joined himself to a citizenâ€"The same vwicked life that before was repreâ€" sentod by riotons li\‘fg is here repreâ€" sentel by servile livigs, for sinmers are perfoet slaves. The gdevil is the citizen of that country; hefis both in city and ¢ountry. Ninnuers jogn themselves to im to zo at his bidding (John viii. 34), and are depemlent upon him for their Bving. â€"Tionry. To feed swineâ€"This was doubâ€" ly degrading, and especialy so to a Jew. "The degradation at the end of a course of sin is here represented." _ "Shame, eontempt and distress are wedded to sin, amd can nover be divoreed." 16. With th husksâ€"The husks wars 15. Joined hims same wiecked life t sentod by riotouns sentel by servile . perfoct slaves. T of that country ; i eountry. Sinners j to zo at his biddin are depemlent upo â€"Tionry. To feed ly degrading, and e "The degradation : of sin is here rep 24) t showed (1) selfishness, (2) ingrati‘;.ude. (3) self will, (4) a determination to do wrong, (5) undutifuiness, (6) narrow vision." It indicafed a state of mind He Commentary.â€"1, Leaving home (vs, M43). 11. . cersain manâ€"The simple, unpretentiogns beginning of the most beautiful of all the parables. The man is here the image of Gad the Fatherâ€" l‘,‘_!’- Te 8O Phnie Kaes ascags oi en iruit â€"This very sin is a sin more aworthyâ€"He In deep distress (¢s. 14â€"16). 14. allâ€"He did not stop until his last was gors, His passions reigned. hm e apg ~Cgp on (OTC C COEY to mself. He knows that in jusâ€" ather could shut the â€" door m; he pleads for merey. Tryo ues . N ule 1 ever Eht N A D erm A j ime to himselfâ€" . _\ state of sin mariness, but th AUGUST 12 Parable o% the Twn e to imnmselfâ€"Sin dethrones A\ state of sin is a state of «lness, but the madness is (Feel. ix. 3). His lack of n. 1. In that he calted for 2. When he left home, 3. it to live with harlots. 4. ertook to satisfy his hunâ€" ic‘s food. But he now be his condition and see him who have onee kEnawn iL. th_a't he fiio:nd«; " 72 ° °~ wid aecided upon, â€"He was coming slowly, Trace, questioning about ‘ather saw himâ€"The faâ€" watching for tis return. represent3 k uEC CEvere pleads for merey. Tryo iÂ¥ “lh regard for the x 4C L husksâ€"The husks were of some other fruit, but the carobâ€"tres, used for _ He was driven to the m to re rreless youth. He was over 1 could be easily deceived. has been a custom in the to demand and receive their * inheritance during the faâ€" ay Ochool immediately did a1 there must be an aimn against (God ‘Sr 12, 1608 the Two Sons. â€" turn home goâ€" (vs rood â€"Luke 13 (vs . VIL 2060 EDC OCMCICA 222 COUId fall on his neck and kiss him in those rags. God in Christ has stooped to the lowest pcint of a man‘s moral condition, that by stooping he might raise mnkt;) the highest point of blessedness in felâ€" lowship with himself."â€"A. C. M. VIII. Contrition. "I..am no fore worâ€" thy to be called thy son" (vs. 19,21.) To repent of sin is to be humbly conscious of deserving all punishment for sin. X. Conciliated. "Robe .. .. put it on him" (v. 22.) "The robe of righteousâ€" ness" (Isa. Ix. 10.) As C. H. McIntosh says, "Sonship being founded on resurâ€" rection, . stands connected with perfect justification, stands connected with perâ€" feet justification, perfect righteousness, perfect freedom from everything that could in anywise be against us. God could not have us in his presence with sin upon us. The Father could not have the prodigal at his table with the ;x of the far country him. He fall on his neck n‘:l’:ilu him in those rags. God in Christ hus abmomak a. oh" VII. Confession. "I have sinned against heaven" (vs. xviii 21. He acknowledged he was without excuse. Not a word of "faults" or "failing" or "wild oats." He called his wrong doing _ by the right name. It was sin. When man takes his place as a sinner the Father can reâ€" ceive him as a son. "If we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins" (I. John i. 9). | ho t e e i soays "Reasons why I should serve the world." There were so many more reasons in faâ€" vor of Christianity than of worldliness than she immediately turned her face toâ€" ward God and heaven. V. Coming to hims=tf. "}He came to himself" (v. 17. He began to be disenâ€" thralled from the enchanter‘s power. He was aroused from the lethargyâ€" of sinful insanity, he woke from his dream of ’an.vuml pleasure, he stepped out of his grave, VI Considering. ‘He said" (v. 17.) He began to contrast his present with his past. There is hope for a sinner who will obey the command _ to "consider" (Hag. i. 5, 7.) A pleasureâ€"loving young lady was persuaded to think on her eterâ€" nal interests. The world was fascinatâ€" ing, and the life of a Christian seemed narrow and unattractive, but as she thought of the future she said to herself, "I will decide this matter. Why should I longer halt between two opinions ?" Taking a sheet of paper she wrote upon one page, "Reasons why I should serve the Lord." And upon the opposite page, #6 Mn ce m ues s e n e n y VC °& _ III. Dissatisfied. "There wasted fis substance in riotous living" (v. 14., The life of a wanderer from tod is an vtter failure, and the respectavle mor»] sinver wastcs his substance as rcally as the proâ€" fligate, immortal sinner soon»t or laler. They both squander ali, money, hea‘th, time, talents, opport tavies, everything. They gather "all" (v. 13), they spend "all" (v. 14). IV. Disappointed. ‘A mighty famine" brought ‘want" (v. Ht. Hs was ready to "perish with hunger‘ (v. 17.} To hir. were fulfilled the words oi (iad, "The deâ€" sire of the wicked shall perish" Psa.exii. 10.) _ "The expectation of the wicked shall perish (Prov. x. 28.) So:om m knew this by bitter expericuce ‘(Eedl. in 10â€"23.) Another prodigal, a so.iier dying in # hospital, said, "I have triedl war hevor, the pursuit of money, of pleasur», ard I have tried vice, but I have found satisâ€" facticn in nothing!" !t is ever so. Satan never keeps his word. I. Discontented. "Give me" (v. 12.) He demanded a change. He _ chafed againat restraint. He wanted his own way. He longed to be independent. He was not contented. II. Distant. "Son gathered all together and took his journey into a far country" (v. 13.) "Far" from the light of the Faâ€" ther‘s smile, "far" from the touch of the Father‘s hand, "far" from the joy of the Father‘s approval. The life of the wanâ€" derer is "far‘ from God. He is ‘an alien in a strange land" (Exod. xviii. 3). â€"As Jesus was then entreating the capâ€" tious Pharisees not to spurn the repentâ€" ing outcasts. _ 29, 30. In these verses Jesus gives, in parable, the substauce of the Pharisaic murmurings: We are betâ€" ter than others and should have great respect and deference paid us; but you have left us and interested yourself in these publicans and sinners. 31. All.... thineâ€"All is within thy reach. _If you do not enjoy my bounty it is because you will not. _ Notice that the parable leaves the elder brother on the outside, stubbornly refusing to enter. "Afterthe parable has thus fulfilled its immediate object, it may be applied to a great variâ€" ety of equivalent cases. We may truly then say that the elder *son is the Jews and the younger the Gentiles; and that the return of the prodigal is the restoraâ€" tion of the (Gentiles to the church of God."â€"Wedon. This "pearl" of the parables is a most beautiful portrayal of the Father‘s pity, tenderness and love. Whether we look at the prodigal as an unsaved sinner, a son of God, by creation, as was Adam (Luke iii. 38), or as a backslidden sinner, a son of God, by recreation, the teaching is the same, the love of the Father. In the parable we see a young person. __V. _ The elder brother (vs. 25â€"32). 28. He was angryâ€"Our Lord now holds up to the murmuring Pharisees a likeness of themselves. _ As the elder brother is anâ€" gry at the joy which welcomes the pzoâ€" digal home from his wanderings,so have these men murmured at the merey with which Jesus has received the publican and the sinner.â€"Whedon. Intreated him | nerw. 21. The son saidâ€"He makes his | confession; he abases himself. All true penitents feelâ€"their unworthiness. They are conscious that they deserve nothing but death, and their only hope is in the mercy of Christ. a son . 24. _ Was deadâ€""Lost to «l good, given up to all evil." Is alive againâ€"Here was special cause for rejoicâ€" ing . Who would not be partaker of this joy 23. Be merryâ€"Be joyful and happy. The Bible gives the children of God liâ€" cense to shout for joy. _ When Christ reâ€" stores the wanderer there is general reâ€" joicing and he is immediately treated as he was a free man. ‘There is no license given here to adorn the body, as some have vainly tried to show. The true standard for suen adorning is given by Paul and Peter (1 Jim. 2, 9â€"10; 1 Peter 3: 3. 4). 22. But the farnerâ€"The father did not wait until he had finished his confession. Said to his servantsâ€"The father‘s joy is full and he instantly issues ordets to celebrate kis return.â€"Willeock. Bring In this we see the great affection of the father and his willingness to forgive forth quickly (R. V.) â€" Let us show at once by our acuions that the wanderer is fully forgiven ana reinstated. Put a ring on his handâ€"A sign of affection and that with whieh_God receives returning sin serve the world." ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO Incendiary Fires at Rapides Des Joachim, 5 o‘clock, which stated that property was destroyed by fire the night previous by incendiarism and ten lives lost at Rapides Des Joachim, county of Pontinc. The despatch gave no further informaâ€" tion, and the| department immediately wired the Provincial Detective Bureau at Montreal to send a man to the county of Pontiac to investigate the despatch and particulars of the holocaust if trus. Quebec, July 30.â€"The Attorneyâ€"Genâ€" eral‘s Department of the Province reâ€" ceived a despatch yesterday afternoon at Serious Accident to a Wellâ€"Known Horse Breeder Near Cobourg. Cobourg despatch: Mr. Gorge Cockâ€" burn, sen., ot Baltimore, a wellâ€"known horseman and breeaer, was very seriousâ€" ly injured on Tuesday. He was in a field with a team attached to a mowâ€" ing machine, when something (an autoâ€" mobile, it is stated) frightened _ the horses and they ran away. The outer end of the cutting bar caught Mr. Cockâ€" burn by the feet and he was dragged through the fiela for forty rods before the team was stopped. _ He is very se riously injured, but, this morning his conâ€" dition was reported slightly improved. The King is a splendod and fearless horseman, and it has been whispered from court circles that on Sunday he rode his horse up the stairs of the royal palace and into the drawingâ€" room of the dowager. _ The sensational appearance of the King is said to have so startled her Majesty that she fainted. When visiting _ Windsor Castle he amazed the staid English court by turnâ€" ing cartwheels as proof of his actrobatic skill; while at La Grange he clambered up the rocky mountains like an Andaluâ€" sian goat, and he signalled his return to Madrid by another feat. Madrid, July 30.â€"His Kingship, his marriage and his approaching fatherâ€" hood do not in the faintest diminish Alâ€" fonso‘s exuberance of spirits. Mother Faints at Appearance in Drawing Room of Horse. IThree Ladies and Two Gentlemen Tarown Several Feet by an Accident on the Winnipeg Exhibition Trackâ€" Not Seriously Injured. Winnipeg, _ uly 30.â€"While speeding on the track at the exhibition grounds ;to-night Wilson Pattison in his auto colâ€" lided with a track harrow. There were three ladies and another gentleman in the machine at the time and all were thrown out and hurled between 20 and 30 feet, but escaped serious injury, alâ€" though two of the ladies were unconâ€" scious for a considerable time. The harrow had been left on the track owing to the fact that the teams which were hauling it had run away when the fireâ€" works started shortly before and had jumped the fence. Their driver was injured, while the horses escaped, consequently the harâ€" row was not removed. No one knew it was there. AUTOMOBILISTS THROWN OUT AT WINNIPEG. The greater part of this sum to be paid is to come from the collection of ’ Chicago, July 30.â€"The three cornered _controversy between the Board of Reâ€" view, the executors of the Marshalil Field estate and the city corporation counsels, came to an _ end yesterday, when the taxing body decided that the Field estate should be taxed at a total of $180,000,000, this year, including back taxes, The decision means that _ the executors of the estate will be compelled to pay to the county $2,800,000, which is more than the total amount of property on which Mr. Field was taxed during the last vear of his life. | Will Have to Pay County $2,800,000 on An Assâ€" essment of $180,000,000. TEN BURNED TO DEATH. It appears that the incident was preâ€" arranged and the officer who attacked Dreyfus is said to have declared that he would refuse to fight a duel in order to bring opprobrium on Major Dreyfus \ Publicly Insulted by an Officer With a View to ! Drive Him From Active Service. Instantly there was almost a riot in the club rooms, two groups being formed of sympathizers and opponents of Dreyâ€" fus. RAN INTO HARROW. It was at a reception given by the Cercle Militaire to the Thirteenth Regiâ€" ment of Artillery, that Major Dreyfut and Commandant Targe made their first appearance in a military garb, since the recent court verdict. As soon as Major Dreyfus came into the salon an officer, whose name is not yet known, ran up and slapped him in the face. The Major did not reply. New York, July 30.â€"A special cable to the New York Herald from Paris and dated Wednesday, says: Just after beâ€" ing honmored by President Fallieres at the Elysee Palace toâ€"day, Major Dreyfus was publicly insulted in the Cercle Milâ€" itaire, one of the most exclusive clubs in Paris, by a commandant, who slapped him in the face. ALFONSO‘S MERRY PRANKS. MAJOR DREYFUS SLAPPED IN THE FACE. BACK TAXES OF MARSHALL FIFLD. HURT WHILE MOWING *ACAO}.. He Wias It & eam attached to a mowâ€" vhen something (an autoâ€" stated) _ frightened the y ran away. The outer les that on Sunday he up the stairs of the nd into the drawing ager. _ The sensational on by subâ€"committees, San Francisco, July 30.â€"Dr. Edward T. Devine, Col, George H. Pippy and Edâ€" ward F. Moran, composing the commisâ€" sion which has had the relieft work in charge here, resigned last night, the resignations to take effect on August 1. , Dr. Devine, who was sent here from New York by President Roosevelt as the representative of the National Red Cross, and who has been directing the relief work, made known his intention of resigning several days ago, â€" Colonel Pippy also declared some days ago ihat he would resign because of the pressure of private business. _ Moran‘s resignaâ€" tion was not expected. A salary of $6,000 a year was attached to the posiâ€" tions. _ The relief work will ha asu.to y SAN FRANCISCO RELIEF COMMISâ€" SION DROPS OUT. Mr. Kipling reminds Englishmen of the price paid to loose "The yoke ‘neath which our brethren lay," and condemns the alleged treachery by which the colonists again will be betrayed into the hands of the Boers, saying: "Our rulers juggingly devise To sell them back again." Eloquent Yet Condensed Statement of British Case in That Countryâ€"Reâ€" minded of Price to Loose the Yoke. London, July 30.â€"The Standard this morning publishes a stirring poem by Rudyard _ Kipling, entitled _ " South Africa," which the Standard calls "An cloquent yet condensed statement of the Britnsh case in that country." 1t is a satire on the Government‘s alleged haste to frame new constitutions for the South African colonies under which some persons fear that Boer ascendency again will be established in the Transvaal. STIRRINC PCJM ENTITLZD SOUTH AFRICA. come to the coast It is probable that the white workâ€" ers will protest against this importaâ€" tion of men from India. _ They want to make this a white British Columbia, However, the mills say it is impossible to get enough white men,. Cauncasians who may find it difficult to get employâ€" ment in the mills of Michingan should Wancouver, {Fuby \>4%â€"The EK§ndpos who have been working here for the past year have taken advantage of the eall for manual laborers for sawmill, ralway and other work to send home the joyful tidings to India, with the result that it is announced that 2,000 will be here shortly. _ Dr. D. R. Daviâ€" dhand has a contract with a number of sawmills adjacent to Vancouver to furnish that number of Sikh and Hindoo laborers, _ He has already placed 300, Most of those l'fnen are British army . reservists, and they are found to be better for work in the mills than Chinese and Japanese, Manual Labor is Slo Scarce That Some 2,000 Orientals Will Be Shipped In â€"Better Than the Chinese or Japâ€" anese. BRITISH COLUMBIA EMPLOYERS IMPORT HIM EN MASSE. To this sum will be added ten per cent. interest fixed by the law to _ be collected in all cases of this kind. This interest amounts to $432,000, The perâ€" sonal property upon which the state shall be compelled to pay taxes for this year was placed at $25,000,000. The President of the Board. F. W. Upham, held that the Board should fix the amount of property upon which taxes had not been collected since 1899, at an average of $15,000,000 a year, amountâ€" ing to $105,000,000 for the seven vyears. back taxes on which Mr. Field is held by the Board to have escaped payment. The members of the Board estimated the back taxes without any authentic figure to guide them. HAVE RESIGNED. "According to custom the officers of the first cavalry division gave a dinner to two newlyâ€"appointed lieutenants and the: Minister of War authorized the ofâ€" ficers upon their unanimous request, to invite Major Dreyfus, The dinner occur red and was marked throughout by aniâ€" mated sentiments of the most perfect good fellowship. _ The officers separatâ€" ed towards 9.30 p.m. without the occurâ€" rence of anything which could give rise to the rumor put in cireulation." The official statement says: "A deâ€" nial of the most formal kind is authâ€" orized concerning the incident which it is rumored occurred last night at the Military Club, during a dinner at which Major Dreyfus was present. _ The facts are as follows: Several other disagreeable incidents are said to have occurred in the club rooms toâ€"night and a great crowd is in front of the doors which have been closed. No Truth in Story. Paris, July 30.â€"An official denial was issued toâ€"day regarding the rumor that Major Dreyfus had been assassinated yesterday by a brother officer at the military club. KIPLING‘S LATEST. and force him to retire from active ser vice. NOW THE HINDOO. attached to the posiâ€" work will be carried mibt"* tolos 06. Pn infi nfi iacsn isnn is2 L23 _ Winnipeg.â€"Trace here continues active in all lines. Wholesale shipments of fall lines are heavy, while trade for immediâ€" ate requirements and the retail moveâ€" ment is a little quiet, the farmers being busy upon their land. The crops are looking better than ever before at this time of the year, and the wheat crop will~be the heaviest in the history of the country. The exportable surplus of both wbutndutcwmbahrgn. Ottawa.â€"The outlook for future trade here is satisfactory. _ The demand for wholesale lines is good, and.retail trade is fairly active. High prices for cheese and the heavy make have a good effect upon collections, and the crops hereâ€" abouts are generally in fine condition, Mursi cz lb4s m 1 __Vancouver and Victoriaâ€"There is a continued good tone to trade all along the coast. Wholesale lines are moving fairly well and ‘collections are good, Hamilton.â€"There is a good volume of business moving in all lines. The sortâ€" ing trade is fairly active and heavy shipâ€" ments of staple lines are being made for fall:account. Country trade is fair. Reâ€" ceipts of produce are not heavy, and values hold generally firm. Collections are fair to good. 1 Toronto.â€"There is a continued satisâ€" factory tone to general trade hore, the result of a good _ business _ moving throughout the country. The dry goods trade reports a heavy movement in genâ€" eral fall lines and particularly in readyâ€" made garments.* The sorting trade for seasonable lines is active. Values of linens. woollens and cottons hold firm. Ir the hardware trade there is a heavy demand for ouilding supplies and farm machinery. Prices are generally steady. The grocery trade is moderately active. Sugars are firm and in active demand. The pack of strawberries will be light, and not more than fifty per cent. of wholesalers‘ orders will be filled. The outlooks for other fruits is good withl the exception of plums. Sheep and Lambs.â€"Evport ewes, $4 to $4.40; bucks, $3 to $3.60; lambs, $7.25 to $7.75 per ewt. Hogs.â€"Mr. Harris reports selects at $7.00 and lights at $7.65 per ewt. Bradstreet‘s on Trade. Montroul.â€"The general condition of trade here has shown little change durâ€" ing the past week. The movement of whoiesale trade is not heavy, but the outlook favors a good trade in fall and winter lines. Heavy shipments in auâ€" tumn dry goods are going forward and prices are steady with firmness noted in some lines of cottons and wools. The movement of groceries is fair. Sugarl‘ are in active demand for preserving and prices are firm. Dried fruits are scarce and firm. Mardware continues to move briskly, Some dry goods houses report between 85 and 90 per cent. of paper being paid. Farmers are busy haying, and country trade has a quiet tone, The business in dairy products _ continues brisk., Veal Calves.â€"Prices ranged from $3.5 per ewt. for "bobs" to $4.50 to $6 p! ewt. for good to choice. Milch Cows.â€"There were a few farmâ€" ers looking for some good cows, but there was not enough to supply them. _ One extra fine cow sold at $70, another at #54; the balance at $30 to $45 each. Feeders and Stockers.â€"Harry Murby reports trade easy at following prices: Best 900 to 1,000 15. steers, $3.80 to $4; best 800 to 900 ib. steers, $3.60 to $3.80; best 600 to 800 lb. steers, $3.25 to $3.60; medium stockers from $3 to $3.25; comâ€" mon stockers from $2.10 to $2.50. to $4.65 per ewt. Had there been some choice â€"shipping â€" cattle they no doubt would have brought a better price. Butchers‘.â€"A very few picked butchâ€" ers‘ of prime quality were reported â€" as baving sold at $4.50 to $4.75; fair to good at $4.1214 to $4.35; common to $350 to $3.75; cows at $2.50 to $3.50; canners, $1.75 to $2. Exporters.â€"There were few shipping cattle offered and they were of common to medium quality, selling at $4.50 to #$4.060 per ewt. Export bulls sold at $3.50 _ London.â€"Cattle are quoted at 10%e to 12%e per lb.; refrigerator beef, 94c to 9%c per Ib.; sheep, dressed, lic to 1%4c per ib. Toronto Lrve Stock. Trade in fat cattle was dull, only the good ones finding ready sale, while the market was decidedly dull for common to medium. classes. Several lots were reâ€" ported as ieft unsold at the close of the market. New York Detroit .. . St. Louis .. Minneapolis Toledo .. Duluth .. . At the Winnipeg option market toâ€"day the following were the closing wheat quotations: July 79%e bid, Aug. 80c bid, Oct. TTlke bid. Do, creamery.. .. .. Chickens, alive. per 1b Hens. per ib. .. ...... Turkeys, per Ib. .... . Potatoes, new, bush .. Beef, hindquarters .. . Do, forequarters .... Do, choice, carcase .. Do, medium, carcase Mutton, uer owt. .. ... Veal. perewt. .. .. ... Lamb, per ewt. 2. .... Do, old, per ton Straw, per ton ... Dressed hogs .... Eggs, dozen .... . Butter, dairy .... Oats, bush... .. .. Barley, bush ... . Peas, bush. .... .. fys,‘.ush. .... .. Hay, new, per ton light quoted at $10.85 to $11, anc heavy at $10.65 to $10.75. Wheat, white, bush. .. ......$ 0 81 _ $ 0 09 Do.. â€"red, bush. .. .. ... "/. O# 0 60 Do, spring, bush... .. .. .. ... # 16 0 78 wDo, goose, bush. .... ...... 0 7 0 T4 '_iic; in B;tâ€"te?--ifibpiif with prices firmer; 15 loads sold at $9 to $10.50 a ton for new, and at $15 to $17 for old. Straw sold for at $11 a ton for one load The grain market is very dull with re ceipts nil and prices nominal. i M Market Reports â€"OPâ€"â€" The Week. Leading Wheat Markets, 4+ he css +s dhp M9 0 British Cattle Markets Toronto Farmers‘ Market. There is a good volume of ing in all lines. The sortâ€" irly active and heavy shipâ€" le lines are being made for Country trade is fair. Reâ€" Manitoba Wheat. are scarce and firm, with Tok 18%4 76% 164 14% 164 15 00 10 00 10 6 017 0 15 0 10 0 48 0 T2 11% 77% 804 10 50 10 00 13 00 Lightning Sets Fires Going at Seven Pointsâ€"Houses Demolished, St. Louis, Mo., July 30.â€"A terrific wind and rain storm struck 8t, Louis and vicinity this afternoon. Lightning startâ€" ed seven fires in different parts of the city. _A negro, name unknown, was blown from his wagon under a E‘unng fire engine and was ‘killed. ectric wires were blown down, sheds and a new frame house were demolished and a num. ber of ‘persons were hurt by debris. 831 0 60 0 u0 10 50 17 06 11 00 11 00 Aiter Two Years, Five Members of Beâ€" ' reaved Family Take Revenge, St. Petersburg, July 30.â€"Strongâ€"hand. Leaptrot was shot and instantly killed and _ her husband probably fatally wounded last night while sitting on the porch of their residence, near Cherry Valley. _ The shooting was â€" done by three mounted men, who fired from the front gate. To£y at Vanndale five Woolbright brothers were arrested on the charge of complicity in the murder. Two years ago, it is said, Mr. Leaptrot killed a member of the Woodbrigh+t fail.. 6 50 0 16 0 11 0 15 110 COUPLE KILED By After Two Years ;;;a 3 CAUSES THE DEATH OF ONE MaAN AND THE INJURY OF SIX. New â€" York, July 30.â€"By _ the exâ€" plosion of two tanks each, containing about 10 gallons of naptha, one man was killed and six men were injured, two of whom are expected to die, at the leather plant of M. Caffery & Son, 220 to 233 New Jersey Railroad avenue, Newark, yesterday. Jas, Caffery is dead. The in. jured, all of whom are in St. James‘ hosâ€" pital, are Matthaw Caffery, 60 years old, senior member of the firm; Mathew Cafâ€" fery, jun., and John Caffery, his sons ; Andrew Galle, 223 Kinney street, Wil. liam Goelvolt, of 23 Belmont avenue, and Joseph Cruik, of 181 Broome street, The Cafferys live at 69 Walnut st., Newark., 0 73 0 41 g to Find Out the Men Who Killed Them. Quebec, July 30.â€"The municipal â€" and Provincial authorities, who are workâ€" ing day and night to discover the real perpetrators of the row. on the Lonise docks on Monday night last, and place the responsibility of the murder of the two sarlors of the threeâ€"masted schoorâ€" er M. J. Taylor on the guilty person or persons, bave not succeeded so far. The owner of the packknife found embedded in the back of Thomas Powers has not yet been discovered and it is said that unless one of the four R. C. R. soldiers held as prisoners for the crime _ speaks out the police will never find out the identity of the man who stabbed Powâ€" ers in the back before he fell into the water. _ It transpires, however, that three of the R. C. R. soldiers, Corriâ€" gan. Higgins and Walsh, were not steamâ€" ship stokers, as at first alleged. ’ W. 1. MeKenzie King, of Canada. said that the work in Canada is being carâ€" ried on abong the lines used by the Naâ€" tional Bureau at Washington and in London, England. Aceidents of all kinds due to industrial causes have been classified with a view to having legislaâ€" tion drafted which will make less the possibility of similar accidents. A discussion on the "fair wage" rate followed, during which it developed that many cities in the United States adopt â€" ed the Canadian Government‘s plan of Government suparvision of eontrai; wages. This plan met with general apâ€" proval. Canadian Government‘s Plan of Superâ€" vision of Contract Wages in High ‘ Favor in United Statesâ€"Generally Approved. Boston, Mass., July 30.â€"Routine busâ€" iness was on the programme toâ€"day when the delegates to the twentyâ€"seâ€"ond annual convention of the Association of Officials of Bureaus of Labor Statisties of America assembled for their second day‘s session. The committee on arâ€" rangements had prepared visits to points . of historical interest and a trip down the harbor was takem" after the buii-l ness session. NAPHTHA EXPiOSION CONVENTION OF ASSOCIATION IN SESSION AT BOSTON. _ Both women were registered at the some hotel as Mrs. Joseph R. Bacot, and both demanded the body as well as the box. _ Later, the Mississippi woâ€" man telephoned her attorneys, and afâ€" ter consulting _ them, relinquished ail claim, for the time, stating that the expense of dragging the case through Canadian courts would outweigh the gains. _ The dead man is known to have possessed â€" fully #$20,000 worth of diaâ€" monds, besides real estate and bonds. LABOR STATISTICIANS. is said, contains _ $100,000 in â€" jewels, money and bonds. Twelve hours after the coming of the strong box, another wife arrived, hailing like the box, from Clarksdale, who says that she _ has been twice married to Bacot, a divorce intervening between the first marriage 18 years ago, and the second, about six years ago. She was after the box, which the Canadian wife declined to give One hour after Bacot died, an exâ€" press company delivered to this wife a steel strong box, shipped by a Clarksâ€" ville, Mississippi, bank, and which, it man, who asserts that he married her in Canada last summer. AND TWO ALLEGED WIVES CLAIM HIS WEALTX, Bacot, a wealthy industrial . promoter from San Francisco, died suddenly Tuesday at Gaeton‘s Hotel, from exâ€" cessive drinking. With him and regisâ€" tered as his wife was a handsome woâ€" STORM AT St. LOUIS THE MURDERED SAILORS Memphis, Tenn RICH MAN DIES.. > anndale five Woolbright rrested on â€" the charge the murder. Two years Mr. Leaptrot killed a Woodbright family, im are in St. James‘ hosâ€" aw Caffery, 60 years old, f the firm; Mathew Cafâ€" John Caffery, his sons ; FEUDISTS. July 30.â€"Joseph R uian composer presented from Earl Grey and Sir Wilfrid Lauriet bearing upon this international musical propagauda. Wynne, Ark., July 30.â€"Mrs. H. A. Raens has consented to conduct his works and other French compositions for the Canadian people at the second cycie of musical festivals to be given throughâ€" out Canada by Dr. C, E. A. Harriss. The â€" great â€" French composer was inâ€" fiuenced by credentials which the Canaâ€" French Composer Consents to Conduct at the Canadian Musical Festival. London, July 30.â€"It seems that the longâ€"talkedâ€"of change in men‘s evening «dress is about to be realized. High class tailors in the west end are alread» * making new samples. During the com ing season the coat will be of blue cloth, with a velvet collar and silk facings brought to the edge of the lapel. Trousers or knee brecehes will be op tional. They will be of black cloth Trousers will sometimes have two rows of braid on the side seam. The entine outfit will be similar to the _ evening dress recently prescribed for gentlemen of the King‘s household. This specification includes gilt buttons On the whole, it looks as if the mo mentous result will be the garbing of / men as footmen instead of waiters. WILL LOOK LKE FOOTMEXN Revolution in Men‘s Fvenin_ m the lighthouse being reported, ufi also being impressed with his responsibili{y as custodian of the royal donkey, . ho complained to the officials of the ligh house‘s neglect, An enquiry was immediately instito ed, which revealed that when the Mont bello passed the lighthouse and gave th, first signal the signalman was using the telephone and was unable to reply. Whon having finished his conversation over the telephone he saw the second signal, he construed the word "ass" as a contempt nous epithet applied to himself. His dignity was wounded and he re fused to report the offender. Lordon, July 30.â€"King Edward lato sent to his grandson, Crown Prince n of Norway, a gift of a donkey, conti ing the animal to the special care of t\ captain of the steamship Montebe!! When the steamer avrived outside Chri #iania the captain signaled the lighthow "All right."" No acknowledging sign was given, whereupon the captain s«t signal reading, "Ass. One must be : all right as the other." Still there was no reply, and the c5; tain took his vessel into the harbo !{ngm‘ing that the AUthOritiene ava min tillions in Lighthouse Official‘s Feelings Were Hurt â€"â€"Captain Having Chorge of King Edward‘s Gift to Norway‘s Heir Out With Lighthouse Keeper. PRINCE OLAF‘S DONKEYy CaUsr»p * MISUNDERSTANDING. The murder of Mrs. Gentry was on the series of brutal crimes agains: men which were committed here ca in the year, arousing public indigna: to white heat. No motive for the on has ever been discovered. Constay _ and Mrs, Gentry were alone in â€" _apartment at the time. The first » mation given of the crime was w Mrs. Gentry fell down a stairway ic ing from her apartments, striking 1 doorway of a physician who lived on ; floor below. Opening the door he fou Mrs. Gentry lying against it with | throat cut from ear to ear. _ She y dressed for the street,. Her death . curred within a few minutes and wi out her being abile to utter a sin: sound, _ Constantine was a boarde; the Gentry apartments, and a ra, marked "C,." was found on the floor $u outside the doorway, 1t has been : theory of the police that he approach her from behind and cut her throat | fore she was aware of his intention,. i was seen by several persons to run {ro the building. _ A. Gentry, the husban of Mrs. Gentry, who is a prospere business man, offered large rewards + the arrest of Constantine. Ore of Those Crimes Committed ;, Chicago Early in the Year W»i» Aroused Citizens to White Heat. Chicago, IIl., July 30.â€"Framk J. > stantine, the alleged murderer of \|â€". Luise A. Gentry, at her home in ; Salle avenue, January 6 last, is sail o be under arrest in Poughkeepsic, N. \ Constantine is said to have been voâ€"oy nized by a woman who once lived in tn0 apartment in which the murder was â€"~ mitted, _ She reported to the police uu thorities at Poughkepsie that the man was Constantine, and he was at once a rested, ALLEGED MURDERER OF NMRS. 1. 1 GENTRY IN TOILS. 66 _ It is incidentally learned from +) report that automobiles have incresâ€"»; from 51,000 in January, 1905, to 8® gn, in May, 1906. The taxation daring .. same _ period â€" yielded _ approxima:~, It is also recommended that the s limit be fixed at 12 miles an how: towns and when â€" rounding â€" dang» points, and that an increased tax he ; ed on automobiles, the revenue to he plied to improving the roads. London, J!&v 30.â€"The Royal « mission on Motor Cars has submic», a report, which recommends new ;», ulations for "qinhe ears and | pub},, omnibuses. e principal recommen|, lfi' is for the abolition of the ~ isting speed limit of 20 miles an };>,,, in the open country, only imposing penalties for reckless driving and » dangering the public. | £100,000. irltfl Royal Commission Recommo»; ar Increased Tax. SANITâ€"SAENS COMING REGULATION OF MOTOR CARS UNDER ARREST. Britain e was no reply, and the c;; his vessel into the harbo: 1at the authorities are pond ”‘w to vessels passing " READ SIGNAL. 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