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THE DROVES AT THE WELL
Dr. Talmage Discourses on the
Thirst of Mankind.
Thin In* Intlfcil, k World of Thlrat and I n
re*t--.M»ny (Main I .<* a.nna Drawn
from 111* Trit. Well Worth a Care
ful, Thoughtful l'eruaal.
Ei.miiia, N. Y., Sept. 0.—Dr. Tnlmagc
preached hero today to the immense
multit ado who have come to attend the
New York and 1’cunsylvania exposi
tion, which is being held here Septem
ber 1 to Septcmher ll. It is a combina
tion exposition of cattle, sheep, horses
and valuable stock of all kinds from
the two states. The sermon was
preached on the fair grounds to agreat
I v audience of farmers, horsemen, drov
ers and stock raisers from near and far
aa well as citizens from the adjacent
cities Secretary Stanley, of tho Y.
M. C. A. of Elmira, presided. I)r. Tal
mage's text was llenesis xxix : 8: "And
they said, we ruunot, until all the
flocks lie gathered together, and till
they roll tin. stone from the well's
There tire sumo reasons why it is ap
propriate that I should accept the in
vitation to preach ut this great inter
state fair, and to these throngs of
countrymen and citizens, horsemen
just come from their flnu almrgrrs, the
king of hensts, for l take the crown
from the lion and put it on the brow of
the horse, which is in every way
nobler, and speak to these shepherds
just come from their llocks, the I,ord
himself in one place-called a shepherd,
and in another place called a lamb,
and all the good are sheep, and preach
to you cattlemen cotno up from the
herds, your occupation honored by the
fact that (joil himself thinks it worthy
of immortal record that lie owns "the
cattle on a thousand hills.” It is ap
propriate that 1 come because 1 was a
farmer's boy and never saw a city until
I was nearly grown, and having been
born iu the country I never got over it,
| : and would not dwell in cities a day if
my work was not appointed there. My
love to you now, and when 1 get
through 1 will give yon my hand, for
though 1 have this summer shaken
hands with perhaps about-10,000 people
in twenty-ouu states of the union all the
way through to Colorado ami north and
south, 1 will not conclude my summer
vacation till 1 have shaken hands with
you. You old farmer out tliurel llow
you make me think of my fattier! You
elderly woman out there with cap and
spectacles! llow you make me think
of my mother! And now while the air
of these fair grounds is filled with the
bleating of sheep and the neighing of
horses and the lowing of cattle, 1 can
not find a more appropriate text than
the one 1 read. It is a scene in Meso
potamia, beautifully pastoral. A well
of water ef great value in that region.
The fields around about it white with
three flocks of sheep lying down wait
ing for the watering. 1 hear their
bleatiug coming on tlio bright air and
the laughter of young men and maid
ens indulging iu rustic repartee. I
look off and I see other flocks of sheep
coming. Meanwhile, Jacob, a stranger
on the Interesting errand of looking
j‘v ^ for a wife, comes to the well. A beau
tiful shepherdess cornea to the sumo
well. 1 see her approaching-, followed
by her father’s flock of sheep. It was
a memorable meeting. Jacob married
that shepherdess. The Bible account
of it is: "Jacob kissed Uachel and lifted
up his voice and wept.” It has always
been a mystery to me what he found to
cry about! But before that scene
occurred Jacob accosts the shep
herds and asks them why they
postpone the slaking of the thirst of
these sheep, and why they did not im
mediately proceed to water them. The
shepherds reply to the efFoct: "We
are all good neighbors, and as a mat
ter of courtesy we wait until all the
sheep of the neighborhood como up.
Besides that, this stone on the well's
mouth is somswhat heavy, and soveral
of us take hold of it and push it aside,
and then the buckets and troughs arc
filled; and the sheep are satisfied. We
cannot, until all the flocks be gathered
together, and till they roll the stone
from the well’s mouth; then we water
the sheep."
un, imi 1* a tmrsty world! Hot for
the brad, and blistering for the feet,
and parching for the tongue. Tho
world’s great want is a cool, refresh
ing, satisfying draught Wo wander
around and find the cistorn empty,
liong and tedious drouth has dried up
the world's fountains, but nonrly nine
teen centuries ago, a shepherd, with
crook in the shape of a cross, and feet
cut to the bleeding, explorecLlhe desert
passages of this world, and one day
came across a well a thousand feet
deep, bubbling and bright, and apales
?-r cent, and looked to the north, and the
;, south, and the east, and the west, and
cried out with a voice strong and musi
gf f cal that rang through the ages: “Ho
every one that thirsteth, come ve to
the waters!” J
If a herd of swine come to a well
they angrily jostle each other for the
precedence; if a drove of cattle come
to a well, they hook each other back
from the water, but when a flock of
sheep come, though a hundred of them
shall be disappointed, they only ex
press it by sad bleating, thoy eome to
gether peacefully. We want a great
multitude to come around the Gospel
well. I know there are those who do
not like a crowd—they think a crowd
is vulgar. If they are oppressed for
room in church it makes them posi
tively impatient and belligerent. Not
so did these Oriental shepherds. They
■ - . waited until all the flocks were gath
f ered. and the more flocks that came
the better they likod it And so we
ought to be anxious that all the peo
ple should come. Go out into the high
ways and the hedges and compel them
to come in. Go to the rich and tell
them they are indigent without the
Gospel of Jesus. Go to the poor and
tell them the affluence there is in
Christ Go to the blind and toll them
of the touch that gives eternal illumin
ination. Go to the lame and tell them
of the joy that will make the lame
man leap like a hart Gather all the
sheep off of all the mountains. None
Bp torn of the dogs, none so sick, none
so worried, none so dying, as to be
omitted. When the fall eleetions come
the whole land is scourea for voters,
and if a man is too weak or sick to
walk to the polls, a carriage is sent for
him; bat when the question is whether
Christ or the devil shall rule this world,
how few there are to come out and see
the sick, and the lost, and the suffer
ing, and the bereft, and the lame, and
induce their suffrages for the Lord
Jesus. Why not feather a great flock?
All America in a flock; all the world in
a flock.
You notice that this well of Mesopo
tamia had a stone on It, which must be
removed before the sheep could bo wa
tered; and 1 find on the well of salva
tion today impediments and obstacles
which must bo removed in order that
you may obtain the refreshment and
life of this liospcl. In your case the
impediment is pride of heart. You
cannot bear to come to so democratic a
fountain; you do not want to come with
so many others. It is to you like when
you are dry, coming to a town pump,
as compared to sitting in a parlor sip
ping out of a chased chalice which has
just been lifted from a silver salver.
Not so many publicans and sinners.
You want to get to heaven, but it must
be on a special car, with your feet on a
Turkish ottoman and a band of music
on board the train. You do not want
to be in company with rustic Jacob
and ltuehul, and to be drinking out of
the fountnin where ten t housand sheep
have been drinking before you. Y'ou
will have to remove the obstacle of
pride, or never find your way to the
well. You will liavo to come aa we
came, willing to taka the water of
eternal life in any way, and at any
hand, and in any kind of pitcher, ory
ing out; “O, Lord Jesus, I am dying of
thirst, (live me the water of eternal
life, whether in trough or goblet; give
me the water of life; 1 care not in
wliat it comes to me.” Away with all
your hindrances of pride from the
well's month.
Jlere is nnother mnn who Is kopt
liaek from this water of life by tho
«tono of au obdurate heart, which lies
iver the mouth of the well. You have
no more feeling- upon this subject than
if llod had yet to do you the ilrst kind
ness, or you had to do (iod the first
wrong. Seated on his lap all theso
years, his everlasting arms sheltering
you, where is your gratitude? Where
is your morning and evening prayer?
IVhere are your consecrated lives? I
'iiy to you, as Daniel said to Ifelshaz
’.ar: “The (lod in whose hund thy
breath is, and all thy way, thou hast
not glorified." If you treated anybody as
badly asyou havetreated (iod,you would
nave made five hundred apologies—yea,
your whole life would have been an
ipology. Three times a day you have
been seated at Cod's table. Spring,
mmmer, autumn, and winter be has
appropriately apparelled you. Your
icalth from him, your companion from
:iim. yourchildren from him, your home
from him. All the bright surroundings
)t your life from him. O man, what
lost thou with that hard heart? Canst
diou not feel one trob of grati
tude toward the Cod who made you.
md the Christ who cam* to redeem
you, and tho Holy Chost who has all
licse years been importuning you? If
you could sit down five minutes under
die tree of a Saviour's martyrdom, anti
fool his warm life trickling on your
forehead and cheek and hands, me
diinksyou would get some apprecia
iou of what you owe to crucified
iesus.
Heart of stone relent, relent,
Touched by Jesus’ cross subdued;
See his body, mangled, rent,
Covered with a gore of blood.
Sinful soul, what hast thou done?
Crucitiud the eternal Son.
Jacob with a good deal of tug anrtpush
took the stone from the well’s mouth,
io that tho flocks might be watered.
And I would that today my word,
blessed of Cod, might remove the hin
drances to your getting up to the Gos
>ol wall. Yea, I take it for grantod
that tho work is done, and now lilt*
Oriental shepherds, I proceed te water
Come, all ye thirsty! Tea here am
indeilued longing in your aeuL Yon
rind money-making; that did not sat
isfy you. You tried ofiise under gev
srnment; that did not satisfy yeu. You
tried pictures and sculptures, but works
of art did not satisfy you. Y’ou are as
much discontented with this life as the
:elebrated French author who felt that
ho could not any longer endure the
misfortunes of the world, and who said:
“At 4 o'clock this afternoon I shall put
in end to my own existence. Mean
while I must toil on up to that time for
the sustenance of my family.” And he
wrote on his book until the clock struck
1, when he folded up his manuscript
ind, by his own hand, concluded Ills
earthly life. There are men here who
ire perfectly discontented. Unhappy
in the past, unhappy today, to be un
happy forever unless you come to this
.1 os pel well. This satisfi-s the soul with
i high, deep, all-absorbing'and eternal
satisfaction. It comes and it offers the
most unfortunate man so much of this
world as is best for him, and throws all
heaven into the bargain. The wealth
if Croesus, and of all the Rothschilds
s only a poor, miserable shilling com
pared with the eternal fortunes that
Jhrist offers you today.
Come, also, to this tlospel well, all ye
troubled. I do not suppose you have
escaped. Compare your view of this
ife at 15 years of age with what your
rievv of it is at 40, or BO, or 70. What a
jreat contrast of opinion! Were you
right then, or are you right now? Two
iups placed in your hands, the one a
sweet cup, the other a sour cup. A
:up of joy and a cup of grief. Which
has been the nearest to being full, and
lut of which have you the more fre
quently partaken? What a different
place the cemetery Is to what it used
to be. Once it was to you a grand
;ity Improvement, and you went out on
the pleasure excursion, and you ran
laughingly up the mound, and" you
iritioisod in a light way the epitaph.
Rut since the day when you heard the
bell toll at the gate as you went in
with the procession, it is a sad placo,
tud there is a flood of rushing memor
ies that suffuse the eye and over master
the heart Oh, you have had trouble,
trouble, trouble. God only knows bow
much you have had. It is a wonder
rou have been able to live through It.
It is a wonder your nervous system lias
not been shattered, and your brain has
not reeled. Trouble, trouble. If I
-ould gather all the griefs, of all sorts,
from this great audience, and could put
them in one scroll, neither man nor
angel could endure the recitation.
Well, what do you want? Would
you like to have your prop
erty back again? “No,” you say,
as a Christian maa: “I was becom
ing arrogant, and I think that is why
the Lord took it away. I don't want
to have my property back.” Well,
would you have your departed friends
back again? “No,” you say, “I couldn't
'take the responsibility of bringing
them from a tearless realm to a realm
of tears. 1 couldn’t do it.” Well,
then, what do you want? A thousand
voices in the audience cry out: “Com
fort, give us comfort!” l<’or that rea
son 1 have rolled away the stone from
the well's mouth. Come, all ye
wounded of the flock, pursued of tiie
wolves, come to the fountain where
the Cord’s sick and bereft ones have
come.
“Ah,” says some one. “you are not
old enough to understand ray sorrows.
You have not been in the world as long
as 1 have, ami you can’t talk to me
about my misfortunes in the time old
age.” Well, I have been a great deal
among old people, and I know how
they feel about their failing health,
and about their departed friends, and
about the loneliness that sometimes
strikes through their souls. After two
persons have lived together for forty
or fifty years, and one of them is taken
away, what desolation! I shall not
forget the cry of the the lato Kov. lJr.
Ue Witt, of .New York, when he stood
by the open grave of bis beloved wife,
and, after the obsequies had ended, lie
looked down into tUo open place and
said: “Farewell, my honored, faithful
uud beloved wife. The bond that
bound us is severed. Thou art iu
glory, aud I am here on earth. We
shall meet again. Farewell 1 Fare
I well!” To lean on a prop for fifty
year* and then have it break under
I you! Thera were only two years’diltor
i once between the deaths of my father
j and mother. After iny mother's decease,
\ my father used to go around as
| though looking for something;
[and he wouLd often get ud
I iroiu um room, witnout any seem
| ■ “g mason, and go to another room;
! and then ho would take his cane and
I start out and some one would say:
i “father, where are you going?" and
j ho would answer: “1 don't know ex
actly where 1 am going.” Always
i looking for something. Though he was
j a tender-hearted man. I never saw him
1 cry but once, and that was at the burial
! of my mother. After sixty years' liv
I jug together, it was hard to part. And
there are,aged people today who are feol
I ing just sueh a pang as that. I want
j to tell them there is perfect enchant
ment in the promises of this gospel;
and I come to them and I offer them
I my arm, or I take their arm and 1 bring
I them to this (lospel well. Sit down,
! father or mother, sit down. See if
| there is anything at the well for you.
Home, David, tlie Psalmist, have you
| anything encouraging to offer them?
, “Yes," says the Psalmist. “They shall
| still bring forth fruit in old ago, they
! shall be fat and flourishing, to show
| that the Lord is upright, he is my rook,
and there is no unrigntcousness in mu."
Come, Isaiah, have you anything to
»ay out of your prophecies for these
aged people? “Ves," says Isaiah.
“Down to ul»l age I am with thee, and
to hoary hairs will I carry thee. ’’ Well,
if the Lord is going to carry you you
ought not to worry much about your
failing eyesight and failing limbs. You
get a little worried for fear sometime
you will come to want, do you? Your
children and grandchildren sometimes
speak a little sharp at you because of
your ailments. The Lord will not
speak sharp. Do you think you will
cornu to want? Who do you think
the Lord is? Are ills granaries empty?
Will ho feed thu raven and the rabbit,
and tlie lion in the desert, and forget
j you? Why, naturalists tell us that tne
porpoise will not forsake its Wounded
and sick mato. A ad do you suppose thu
| Lord of heaven and earth lias not as
: much sympathy as tho fish of the sea?
Liut you say: "I am so near worn out,
and I am of no use to God any morn.”
I think tho Lord knows whuthur you
are of any more us* or not; if you were
of no more us* l:o would havo takeu
you bo for* this. Do you think God has
forgettaa you booaus* li* lias taken
oar* of you sovonty or eighty yours?
H* thiaks nor* ef you today than ha
*»#» slid, baoawM you think mora of
kin. Hay th« Cad ef Abraham, and
Ism*, and Jacob, and Paul the aged
k* you* God for ova*!
Rut I gather all the promises today
in a group, aud 1 ask the shepherds to
drive their flocks of lambs aud sheep
up to the sparkling supply, “behold,
happy is the man whom God corroct
otk." “Though he cause grief, yet
will he have oompassion. ” "Many aro
the afflictions of the righteous, but tho
Lord delivereth him out of thorn all.”
“Weeping may endure for a night, but
joy cometh in the morning." 1 am de
termined today that no one shall co
away uncomforted. Yonder is a timid
and shrinking soul who seems to hide
away from tho consolations 1 am uiter
iag, as a child with a sore hand liidos
away from tho physician lest he touch
tho wound too roughly, and the mother
has to go and compel the little patient
to come out and see the ph\-sician. So I
come to your timid and shrinking soul
today, and compel you to come out in
the presence of the' Divine physician.
Ho will not hurt you. He has boon
healing wounds for many years, and
he will give you gentle and omnipotent
medicament. Hut people, when they
have trouble, go anywhere rather than
to God. De Quincy took opium to get
rid of his troubles. Charles Lamb
took to punch. Theodore Hook took
to something stronger. Edwin For
rest took to theatrical dissipation. And
men have run all around the earth,
hoping in tho quick transit to get
away from their misfortunes, [t has
been a dead failure. There is only one
well that can slack the thirst of an
afflicted spirit, aud that is the deep
and inexhaustible well of tho Gospel.
Oh, what a great flock of sheep God
will gather around the celestial well,
j No stone on the well’s mouth while the
j Shepherd waters the sheep. There Ja
I cob will recognize Rachel the shep
i herdess. Aud standing on one side of
the well of eternal rapture your chil
dren; and standing on the other side of
the well of eternal rapture, your Chris
tian ancestry, you will be bounded on
all sides by a joy so keen And grand
that no other world has ever been per
mitted to experience it. Out of that
one deep well of heaven the Shepherd
will dip reunion for the bereaved,
wealth for tho poor, health for
the sick, rest for the weary. And then
all the flock of the X.ord's sheep will
lie down in the green pastures, and
world without end wo will praise the
Lord that on this first autumnal Sab
bath of 1891 we were permitted to
study among the bleating flocks and
lowing herds of this fair ground the
story of Jacob and Rachel the shep
erdess at the well in Mesopotamia. Oh
plunge your buckets into this great
Gospel well and let them come up drip
ptng w j h that water of which if a man
drink lA never again shall thirst.
LATE HEWS OF THE MARKETS!
Items of Interest to Dealers and
Agriculturalists.
News From the (Jreat Cattle and Sheep
flanges and the Markets Where
These Products Are Sold—
Marketable Notes.
The world’s stock of lard decreased dur- j
ing' August 750,000 tierces. •
Hogs in the vicinity of Nebraska City, j
Neb., are dying from cholera.
Native cows at Chicago Saturday were i
£0c lower than the opening of the week.
During August the decrease in receipts j
of hogs at Omaha was 177,99d and 1,154 ;
head of cattle.
A Winnipeg dispatch states that the re- j
cent cold wave did no injury to the crops, j
which are looking tine. j
The top on hogs at Kansas City during ;
August was #5.50, which was #1.40 higher j
than during the same month last year. j
During the month August South j
Omaha received 45,330 cattle, 71,589 hogs,
21,906 sheep and 1,541 horses and mule*. j
A bunch of choice 1.500 pound beeves |
sold in Chicago Monday at #6.3# and a
bunch of fancy at #6.25. Inferior to fair j
grassers sold as low as #0.30(^3.73. # j
The average weight of hogs at Chicago !
during August was 213 pounds, being 35 j
pounds lighter than the same month last I
year, and 34 pounds lighter than they !
averaged two years ago. |
I ixu rtuuikiun iueing uuut ro tne packing :
house at Fort Worth, Tex., which will in
crease the killing capacity to 1,500 hogs .
per day. A canning department is also ;
being put in and will be in operation \
within a few days.
During August Chicago received 200,765
cattle, 23,357 calves, 8**4,499 hogs, 100,349
sheep and 5,005 head of horses and mules.
Of this number 88,162 cattle. 4,820 calves,
170,360 hogs, 43,798 sheep and 4,805 horses
were shipped out. '1 lie decrease from the
same month last -year was 33,008 cattle,
17'9,70S hogs and 24,825 sheep.
The production of oleomargarine con
tinues to increase in spite of repres?;ivc
legislation. The average production per
month during the last fiscal year whs !
8.031,201 pounds, as compared with 2,566,
494 pounds in the previous year. Internal f
revenue receipts from this source increased
from $7S6,v9l in 1890 to $1,077,934 in the last
fiscal year.
Stockmen at Pierre, S. D., are perfect
ing arrangements for the establishment of
a system of sun Gash or beliegraphie sig
nals, to be run in oonneotiom with the sig
nal station, to prelect stock on the ceded
lands. The signals can be seal 1^5 miles
and will send out reports of all approach
ing storms, so that cattlo can be driven to
shelter. There uro over 91,000,0U0 worth
of cattle within roach of the signal*.
The Chicago Drovers Journal says of
Monday’s hog market: The range of
prices continued very wide with rough
, and mixed at $hf>0<aj*k73, shaped up mixed
weights at $5.25(3^x40 and fair to pretty
good light and heavy averaging 200(«t&39
pounds at $5 0d(.-45.15. The grass hogs con
tinue to sell badly at fully 81.00 loss than
the good corn-fed hogs of the same weight
and this is a fact that it seem* well nigh
j impossible to impress on the minds of
owners.
I Daily Trade Bulletin: Western roads
will notin the future make allowances for
shrinkage nor errors in cattle weights.
Heretofore the roads have allowed 500
pounds to each car for errors iu weight at
the originating point and shrinkage in
transit,. Taking effect September 1. cat
tle destined to Chicago must be weighed
at the union stock yards and their actual
weight on arriving there will be the basis
on which raw* will^pply. On cattle des
tined to points oast, or to other pelut*
other than the union stock yards, the ac
tual weights as secured at eriffiaatiug
point will apply.
hav* Ususd bands to the »xt«st ef
000 recently, and that a considerable por
tion of these hare boon takes by the Have*
merer company. As a part of this trans
action a working arraugssaont had been
made between the two couoerns, me that
while there was no actual consolidation of
interests, they would uo longer be consid
ered rivals in business. Homs sugar deal
ers believed that if tho Spreoldes company
was not in tho trust, as periodically re
ported, an arraugomont has been mads
which would have about the same effect.
A census bulletin contains the informa
tion that in the census month of last year
there were on hand on the farms of the
United States 14,970,017 horses, 2,210,900
mules, and 49,109 asses. These figures do
not lncludo tho animals on ranges nor
those kept on holdings of less than thres
acres, so that the city ownership is not
enumerated. The increase of horses in
the decade was 44.59 per coat., against
44.95 per cent, for tho ten years ending
1880. Tho increase of mules was much
smaller, and they are most numerously
held in the South Atlantic group of states,
the percentage there being 32.04 of mules
and 07.96 of horses.
The grain crisis In Germany becomes
more acute daily. The ministers are re
I sorting to every expedient to mitigate it
and will soon have to take up again the
question of a reduction of duties against
which the majority and the emperor still
hold out. The present and prospective
action of Russia with regard to rye and
corn renders immediate action neceosary.
The North German Gazette states that
between August 11 and 26, 60,000 tons of
! rye were couveyed by rail from Poland to
Prussia since the interdict went into effect
and exportation ceased, rye has fallen a
ruble in the Polish markets.
Full crop reports have been received
from all parts of Minnesota and show an
acreage of 3,000,000, while enough thresh
ing has been done to allow fair estimates
of the yield. The wheat crop in Minnesota
this season will not be below 70,000,000
bushels, and will probably exceed that
Amount. The recent frosts, which have
extended quite generally over the state,
have not affected the final result so far as
it relates to the wheat crop. The present
condition will also warrant the statement
that the farmers of Minnesota will receive
upwards of $80,000,000 for their crop of
products this year. The yield last year
and in 1889 was but 42,000,000 bushels.
Chicago Drovers* Journal: Corn-fed cat
tle have not been scarcer In years than at
present. The grass has been so good in
many localities that the cattle have done
almost as well as they would have done
with some corn. Even where this has not
been the case farmers have been unwilling
to put much corn into cattle, considering
the prices of grain and beef, and where
corn feeding has been done the feeders
have doled it out very sparingly. In por
tions of Illinois, especially in the southern
counties, some feeders have been cutting
up new corn and feeding to cattle on the
stalk, and the indications are that feed
lots will be busv as soon as the new crop
becomes available.
John Myrick, a farmer in Kingman
county, Kansas, was recently the victim
of a bold thief. Myrich had rented a piece
of wheat land near Norwich, which is a
Ion; way from bit own farm, and after
cutting and stacking his grain, he went
home and dreamed of the golden grain
which would soon be converted into shin
ing shekels. But, alas! a stranger ap
peared at Norwich and representing him
self as Myrick, hired a threshing gang
and teamsters, and by the light of the
moo>p, threshed the entire crop and carted
it #6 market before daylight. The robber
boarded an out-bound train, and as a re
sult of his boldness carried away $1,000 In
cold cash.
The *hog market at Chicago is still in a
bod condition and prices are shading
downward. Receipts last week were
20,000 less than the week before and 82,000
less than the same week last year. In re
ferring to Saturday's market the Drovers'
Journal says: It took good mixed hogs to
bring $5.00 and common stock sold at
$4.45(^4.70, though good to choice assorted
mixed bogs sold at $5.30@5.45. The ex
treme range of price* is very misleading
to farmers and shippers, but sensible men
know well enough there are few hogs
fetching the fancy prices and that if they
get what the bulk of the hogs arc selling
for they have hogs that are as good or bet
ter than the average.
Five hundred cattle created a panic in a
rainstorm on one of the line steamers
bound for Europe the other day in the
lower Delaware bay, and the cattlemen
and crew gave the animals a wide berth
in tbeir hurry to reach the hurricane deck.
'Hie loading clay there was a very warm
one, and the cattle were tied around the
fleshy pari ef the head, with stout ropes
which were drawn light and knotted.
When the rain began to fail the ropes
grew shorter, cutting into the skin. In a
few seconds all the besets were rearing
with pain; some had torn loose from the
stalls and were trying te jump overboard.
It required all hands to loosen the rope
halters and release the beasts from further
pain.
The market for beef cattle at Chicago
Wednesday was not very good owing to
the scarcity of ripe cattle and a liberal
supply of the “bent cuttle in our neighbor
hood,” as the Drovers Journal facetiously
refers to fair to good cattle which owners
considered a-s prime. The supply of beef
cattle from nil quarters, especially the
rangers, was very liberal. For that rea
son buyers could be deliberate and fas
tidious. They were both and the result
was that sellers had to take olT fully 10c on
cattle that were salable, making 15@ft5c
from the close of last week and the worst
feature was that many poor to pretty good
cattle remained without a hid. The fancy
cat tle at 00<$5.C5 were hardly numerous
enough to mention. Some l,4S5-pound
cattle sold to an exporter at 55.25. Such
cattle would have been called pretty good
on Monday and would have brought about
$•*>.50, so the seller .claimed. Kcugh grass
cattle at $1.35(704.00 were hard to sell.
The Northwestern Live Stock Journal in
referring te the possible demand for wost
ern feeder* this fall *av* that with corn in
abundance there must cornu a large de
mand for feeding steer*, and the west is
the main, aad iu fact, only source of sup
ply outside of the corn growing ot-ates.
Shipper* and farmer* throughout those
state* freely adatit that the horn* supply
will fall far short and hundred* of thous
ands of *t«*r* will be required to fill the
demand. The demand for feeders will not
be couliaed to the territory west of Chl
c*uge. Indiana, Ohio and Pennsylvania
will want feeder* from the west and they
will pay f*r good enw. The southwost
will supply a few feeder*, but the states
north and e?>»t of Missouri will depend on
the want and northweat. It also counsels
its patrons not to begin shipping their
feeder* \intil October.
The following are Chicago wool quota
tion*: Michigan and Wi cousin—Fl-ncco
washed, medium, ‘Jf^rUe; line, J4'2r<i7o;
medium unwashed, (<3275c; coarse un
washed, 17<«M9e; Kansas Nebraska, Min
nesota and Dakota medium unwashed, 17
(d'-2c; coarse unwashed, 14^1 Sc: tine un
washed. 12(^1 Sc; territorial, l4^:iJc. At
Philadelphia the quotations are: For
Ohio, Pennsylvania acid West Virginia
doubl* extra and above. ; extra, 2*j
(d'iJu; medium. &’'-<» O^lTTc; roar^o,
IDV^c: New York, Michigan, Indiana and
western tin*, extra or double extra. 391$
-Sc; medium, ;vi<3i>f.c; coaraa. ; iia*
wa»h*d delaine, *xtra and double oxtra,
CXkgSS*: medium washed combing and do
laine, ST^jCi'kJc; coarse washed coxibiug
and delaine, 33<2;>4«; Canadian v*.iko<4
eombirvg, Jl^S-lc; tub washed, choice.
37e ; fair, 33(j)36*; coars*. ; medium
unwashed, eombiag and detain*.
coars* anwaebed. eonabing and del aim* 24
(ft-fle; Meetaaa fiae, territorial,
1S&91*
gt. r»ul Steak J*wna2 : A buyer wha
has watehad tla eattla market of tfc.
norkhwas* shout aa • oselv an anyone in it
fare it as his opinion yesterday that cat
tle now aalling from J>4 to JC 50 per huud
red would be sailing at 50* less before De
cember 1. His statement issue baaed
upon sound logic, be ari umg that the ex
cellent grazing of the summer and the
bountiful corn crop would be the means of
ripening mere than the usual number of
beeves, and as there le known to bo an
abundance of cows and common steers in
the country those grades would bo the
most likely to feel the first effects of '•*
decline that is sure to some. This is
nearer truth than fiction, and shippers
who send la half-fat grassy cows and
spindling acrub steers will' realize the
truth of lb Thin cows arc now soiling at
such low prices that there ia no profit in
them, and an additional drop of 50 ceute a
hundred woul-l. after paying yardage and
freight, leave such a small ’margin that
the shipper conld not aiford to stand the
risk of loss by sending tbvm to market.
The advance in values sb ppers were led
to believe were sure to com.- hare failed to
materialize, and the opposite seems more
probable to be meted out to them.
Denver Live Stock IJecord: Southwest
Xcw Mexico is experiencing a drouth that
if continued much longer means ruin to
the cattlemen. In the vicinity of Lake
valley the plains are covered with the car
cases of dead cattle, and in the neighbor
hood of Gregg's ranch the water holes are
a veritable Golgotha, and teams aro kept
busy dragging the dead cattle away from
the water. The Sierra Land aud'Cuttle
company are busy driving thousands of
head to the mountains, but they are noth
ing but skin and bone, and are i’n poor coiv.
ditiou to climb, for both grass and water.
The regular rainy season generally begin*
there about the middle of Julv. but this
year it failed to come. The usually strong
mountain springs have shown a rapid de
cline ami many of them have entirely dis
appeared, and digging after them has no
signs of water The cattle situation is
becoming alarming and several of t.he
most prominent companies are now selling
off their cattle as rapidly as possible,
while others are shipping them out of the
country as fast as they ean gather them
up and secure transportation. The cattle
kings at present are very sick kings, and
for once are praying for rain and not prey
ing upon the innocent maverick.
Cut Out.
Mr. De Cutter—IVhy this sudden
coolness, Cla-1 mean Miss Beauty?
A few days ago you allowed me to
infer that 1 had at last won your favor
andperhaps—r-. ,
Newport Belle—'i^at vt ill do Mr. De
Cutter. A new yacht has arrived in
the harbor, and it is tea feet longer
than yours.
A mountain of coal ie Wild Dorse
Valley. Wyo., has been burning for
more than thirty years.
Two gum tries which tower over 100
feet above a little churcli in Guatemala
are sixty f£et in circumference and
their strong roots have pushed th
foundation of the church ont of place.
Naphtha 8(
_8<STMtopol
j apriog of a.
foi.se of a ce"«
rhe»« of Su»^'
ZTT” M
For many yea
water ran from .
M. Korotnoff. in
pol. and caused tit
trouble. At times 0,,nn(,
cover the best street in the cit.
mud. Of late the spring has t* * ll*
a public nuisance, and the citv
it.es compelled M. Korotnoff t0
•mall reservoir around it. and *
the muddy substance by sewer nt 01
But -a soon as this was done it
covered that the substance in tlle s
reservoir was pure uaptha. For tf
last three months since the discov *
was mado nothing has been
utilize this wasting treasure.
aery
uoae to
An Effective Barrier,
It Is a practice of the Navajo I„j
Ians' to stretch a lariat of horsehair
about their tents at night, such ?
barrier proving entirely effective t!
keep out snakes, tarantulas aud ceuti
pedes.
A Philadelphia surgeon says that W
three strokes of the lancet he could
paralyze the nerves acted ea to
a wan get mad. and thereaN. jUT
one could pull his nose, cuff ; etrs
and spit on his boots, and bo would
simply smile a soft, bland smile.
Wah Sing, a Chinese laundrym™
died the other day at VYinSeid, Kis
Ho was buried by three of his 0w
couutryn.en, who placed in his coffi
all his personal effects, including $j i
money, a razor, a brush a knife and
some soap. The cot of the deceased
and his bcd-clothos were buried with
him.
A. feeble trnmnn
ifl restored to health and strength,
by Dr. Pierce’s Favorite Prererip.
tiea. If you’re overworked, “ run
down,” or debilitated, you need it.
It’3 an invigorating, restorativo
tonic, and a soothing and strength
ening nervine, imparting tone ar.i
vigor to the whole system. It's 3
legitimate medicine, too—carefnliy
compounded by an experienced phy
sician, and adapted to woman’s deli
cate organization. For ail the
chrenic weaknesses, functional de
rangements, and painful disorders
peculiar to the sex, it is an unfailing
remedy. It’s because it is unfail
ing that it can bo sold under a posi
tive guarantee. If it fails to giro
satisfaction, in any case for whl'-h
it’s recommended, the money paid
for it will ba promptly returned.
It is a legitimate medidnc—iri
a beverage. Contains no alcohol
to inebriate ; no syrup or sugar to
sour or ferment in ■the stomach
Md oauss distress. As peculiar is
its marvelous, remedial results as
Its its eompositiea.
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