HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1917-02-08, Page 2\ LESSON VI.
robraary 11, 1917.—Jess and the
'Woman of Samaria—John 4: 1-29
CoPeraentary-1, On the way to
Galilee (Ws. 1-1.1), 14. The reason given
for the Lord's departure front Judea
Is that the Pharisees heard that more
disciples were being baptized through
the Ministry of Jesus than through
that of John the Baptist, They had
been displeased with Joha's ministrY,
and they- would be more displeased
with that ot Jesus, because of its
greater effectiveness; couSequentin
their opposition would he Correspond-
ingly greater, Jesus proceeded to take
himself beyona their jurisdiction. Ile
WAS finishing his first Judean min-
Istry and the first year of his Pah-
IM labors. His route lay northward
and he must go tarough Sainetrie, ua.
le sa he chose to go eastward across
the Jordan,as many Jews were tee-
custoreed too do to avolethe Samari-
tans, with whom they had no dealings,
O. Samaria—The name given to the
region lying between Jedea. arid Gali-
lee. Syelear—A town between Mount
Ebel and Mount Gerizim, forty miles
north of Jerusalem on the direct route disciples returned. and the woman,
from Jertmenem to Nazareth.Tae
wondering and trustful, wont to tell
more Ancient nente of alle Plush wan her friends what so had heard.
Sheohem and the modern name Is QUESTIONS.—Whet ministry bad
Nablus. Jacob gave to his 1 -on So. Jeeus juot finelted? What' reason
sepli—This Parcel of grottild had an had he ler goMg to Galileo? Where
interesting history. Jacob beitein did Jesus stop to rest en his journey?
of Hamer and gave it to Joseph, and. What was the subject of Christ's ells.
the bailee of Joseph were buried comae to the woman? Who were the
there, after having been brought. up ,Samaritans? What eV! Jesus say
from Egypt by the children of Israel about worship? What great announ-
an their Journey front the land of cement did Jesus make to the woman?
frem ler 4 partial etatetnent of her
ettila whieh led tq an aeltnOWledg-
ittelit on ber part of the prophetic
power of Jens. at -2a Otte wft$
tinned to uphold her religion tee
againAleut ettt e Jews, ad brouglet
up, iii queetion et the proper place
ter wehnh ant Jowl eltenved her
Met, With the. Ming of the new king.
dom. places for woreleip WOUld tun
count. Wberever there wee- a heart
to love and adore God, there wield be
a place to titter acceptable warsbip, 24.
God le a Spirit ---In his very nature
God le absolutely spirit. There is
nothing xuaeerial about hine; and that
weicbconies to him from us en accept-
able a orehip 'must come from the spir-
itual ature, "A pure, a holy, e, spir-
itual worship, therfore, is such as he
sok, the °fairing of the soul rather
than the formal offertag of the body,
the homage of the heart rather than
that of the lipe."-13arims.
IV. Jesus the Mese-MU (ve. 25-29).
2. I know that aneesiah culotte —
The Santariters found the promise of
the itlessiali in the writings of Moses.
They now expect him to come within
the present century. He will tell us
all things- Jesus had told Ler some
things, and she was inclined to believe
them, but she was not quite ready to
declare her faith in him as the Christ,
26. I. „ one he—Jesus revealed to the
woman of Samaria, 1.01ile of the deep-
est truths of the kingdom. This was
his first public declaration of his Mes.
Mahal -tip. 27-29. At We point the
tileir enslavement to their own Can-
attn.
6, Jacobn well was there—ItWati
Drobably called Jacob's well from its
being in the region of the "parcel of
ground" just mentioned, There is
still a well there and there is no reas-
on to doubt its being the one by which
the Saviour set. It le now seventy-
five feet deep, but was formerly much
PRACTICAL SURVEY,
Topie—A spiritual awakening,
1. Convietion fee sin.
II. A Redeemer accepted,
1. couvicaon, for sin. The prudence
or me Master at the firet sign ot
iontility was evideaced in his retire.
enat from Judea. To the eye of man
deeper, as it had been partially filled J..eue appeared to be ileeas irom
with nebbish, The well, is eine neet in i xeecution, To the On et God the
diameter and hewn out of the solid I left. to Samaria was a part of a plan
rock, the wan befog regular anti be which the glory of the divine gee -
smooth, The pleme is now own ea by eminent was to be revealed.: To the
the Greek church and is coeeret .hv e of faith it offers an illustrution
a chapel. Priests are in attetidthece irt welch the purpose of Goa was fill -
who let down a small bucket by filled. Jesus sougat to remove the
means of a windlass and . rope and orejudices of his disciples by pereonal
draw water tor visitors. Being NI ear- contact with the despised Samaritans,
He offered to the Samaritan the
privileges of his Itiugdom. He most
needs pass through the abode et fallen
clines were gone to the town to 13uy limnanity on his way to the throne of
food (v. 8). His weariness declares his kingdom. 1•Ifs own sovereign love
laid the neceesita uPoll himself- The
to us the truth- that He was 'human
as well as divine. Be got not only providence of God brought the woman
weary, but he also became hungryto jeteob's well. Emits apparently
and thirsty. Sat thus on the well— trivial and unimportant changed her
.Under. the 'circumstances of his weeen e Lola future. Jesus suited his method
nos and of the absence of his tits- to iudividual character and circum-
eiples, he sat resting on er by the stance.e. lie began conversation by
low stone out ef tan well. inning .a. favor of the women, thus
II, The Neter ot toe. 7-15.) 7. tinting himself •under obligation, that
There cometh woman of Sarnaral.-. lie might speak to her one of the most
The taste ot carrying water in the Feet sublime discouries of his ministry.
rents largely upon the. women. iree The desire to bless was strong, coo-
ly:mut time for drawing water wris st ant and spontaneous withefesue. -He
hail no national animosity, no eec-
tarian bigotry, no self-rigbteous loath-
ing as the Jews had. There is a. con-
traut here between the narrowness ot
religious prejudice and theegenerosity
61 Christian. grace, The iitterance of
tbe woman's natural surprise gave
Jens the opportunity to teach her
great spiritual truths. He mole no
eentilon of enmity between the races.
lie would not enter upon the old con-
tiottosy which she began. He would
not stir - anger in the soul he was
ifeeeing to seve. She had seemingly
ref herself in .antogoeistu against
tem but Jesus answeretl her by
putting. bis power of supply over
eeninst Iter need. In a way he etc-
: reptethher challenge, though very dif-
ferently from what she expected. He
del not disguise himself, but boldly
announced the majesty of his nature
end the glory of his work, Tenderly,
gently and with compassion, Jesua
charged her with ignorance and
brought home toiler the sad fact that'
ithe had never truly worshipped. She
had no belief that she had to clo enth
the eternal, loving Gan or then he de-
sired to communicate to her deep and
lasting blessedness.' She was ignorant
of the Messiah. She wan the Jew.,
tut not the Scalene God; the , weary
lean, but not the rest for -weary souls;
the thirety traveller, but not ono who
could quench her thirst, She saw ono
who had sent tor food, not one whose
meat and drink was to do his Father's
led with his journey—It was noon,
and Jesus with his disciples had pro-
bably been walking since early morn-
ing. Jesus rested there while his dis-
the early morning or in the evening.
At noon there would be few ecming
.and going, hence the woman was
alone .there to receive the instruction
of Jesus. Tine woman lived in one of
the villages close by, undoubtedly :V-
elma, in the Menace called Samaria.
She was a Samaritan and not o Jew.
Clive me to drink—Jens was thirsty
and he made this request because( she
lead the uteneile necessary for deaw-
ing water -from the deep (v. 11) well.
The request would very naturally open
the way for the marvelous .niscounie
on the living water, which he deliver-
ed to this one wOrnan. 8. Unto the
city. The present city Nablus, Is a.
mile and a half from the well. The
ancient Syehar may have eetended
much further to the east. Meat—Aril-
cies of food.
D. How is it that thou, beim.; a Jaw,
etc.—The Jews claimed for them -
elves -to be God's peculiar people and
considered all others as of small volue.
rhey had Jeri:Wain', and the temple
and they accepted the law and the
prophets including the Old Testament
writings as their sacred scriptures.
Tbe Samaritans held that Mount Geri -
aim was their religious centre and
they held the writing of Mose to be
the only inspired scriptures. The
Samaritans retain their identity -still,
but number leien than two hundred
Persons. They intermarry with none
outside their own people. They are
poor and ignorant, but are now being
aided educationally by Christians. :n
Amenea. They sacredly guard n enpv
of the Pentateuch, which they elebn,
was made by a grandson or a great-
grandson of Aaron, but this claim can
scarcely be eredited. The Samaritanet
are still objects of contempt to the
Jews. 10, If thou knewest the gift of
God—Sone does not at once (lettere
to the woman of Samdrieanie Messiah-
ehip, but gradually prepares her mead
, for the reception of this great truth.
He would have given thee living watsr
—She had as yet no ideaof the nature
and office of the traveler who was
resting by the well, and she did not
graze the thottght that Sous was
speaking of the salvation of the out
Order the fieure of water. 11. Whence
....that living water—The evemena
mind wee on the well and the water it
eontseined. The epoker had nothing
with which to draw Water and she did
not apprehend the foree of his state -
merit, yet she began to suspect that
there was a hidden meaning in hie
word. k 12. Art thou greater than, our
father Jacob—The Samaritan e elairti to
be doeenciants of Jacob throogh Jos-
eph, but they were a mixed racea few
afritelites being joined with idotatora
after the activity of Israel (2 Maga
17; 22-41.) 'The woman tionsidend
that the offer of *Meng was folly, for be-
tould not possibly furnish a better
well or better water than could Jacob.
Gave us the well—The Suniaritaint
lied a tradition, which ;was probably
without foundation. that Jacob dug the
Drank thereof himself—To her
ihere could be no better proof of the
excelleemo of the water than that Ja-
mb and hie household and his cattle
drank of ft.
12. Shah third again—One need e to
drink water often en' he Will stiffer
(root Wrist. Thi a le ear.telaily true
a warm climate. The 'woman un-
derstood that istaten.nt very wall. 1.4,
Shall never thirst—A strong and strik-
ing contrast le drawn between the
water of Jaeolne well and the water,
Jesus offered his hearer. A Well of
water springing up—This 1s a reason
whet thirst alien not rent The liv-
ing water is from a fountain implant-
ed in the soul, fed bY the fountain of
all life, gritee tnd gotedneee, and the
'soul's desire; are fully and tonstatttly
met. 15. nveri then the Wertian of
Samaria did not comprehend the deep
meaning of the 'word"; of louts.
111. ;lite worship (vs. 10-24). le*
1. The miler'. of IOUS that the wo-
man tall her husband, brought forth
will. Ile tougbeel lier eenticieutia and
penned out her elo,, He told lier the
exact titan) of her Me and drew her
to admit it. A tender solicitude un.
leelted her heart aad encouraged con-
fession.
11. Redeemer accepted. in her at.
teMete at eVasien the inatean had IAA
beena1t�t 0 shone teg lier conviction
that ah e eitood before the Supreme
Beiug, The aisle of her life Ixad
emu. The command of Jesus to tier
to go and call her Ituabanti was the
first stroke to break up her calm ex-
terior And reveal 0101111e beneath. ,,T;egUa
required a Complete surrender ea the
(Id life lo order that he Might eonfer
life eternal, His °bleat was to bring
the woman to seek salvation through
him, as•tho fulfilment of hopes as old
tte the race. Upon ins knowledge of
her secret life she based her belief in
Jens as the Messiah, ne put it into
Iter proclamation to her nelabore,
Sena here. reached the eommunity
through an Individual first educated
to the truth and the knowledge of the
truth. The woman came to Jacob's
well a preittelleed Stemaritan, and de-
parted a happy. believing Christian.
Site mule a sinner, and departed with
full faith In Jesus. She Came ab-
sorbed in the temporalities of life, and
deearted engrossed with eWttal eel -
°ninnies. The Saviour' merey was
remarkable, His wisdom was &s-
payed in leis dealing -With a sieful
limn. His patience was perfeet in
boring with her ignorance until she
was. taught. His power was manifest
itt lier conversiou. Sliort as the in-
terview was, Jesus effectually gained
her heart, and„ through her published
the glad tidings of salvation to others.
T. It, A.
MORE
KIN BLOCKADE
Passenger Liners of Allies to
- Sail From New "Stork.
To Be Convoyed Through
the Danger Zone,
New York Report.—The first Pas-
senger steamers to leave this port
since the declaration of the new Ger-
man 'blockade are booked to sail to-
day. Agents of the two British linen
—the 'White Star and the Cunard—
and the French Line, announced that
there would be no change In their
sailing plans.
The office of Amertean Line this
morning was filled with passengers
who have staterooms on the Se Louis
and who awaited an official ennounte-
ment regarding the company's plans.
This had been withheld pending the
arrival of a definite statement from
washingion,
Several freighters left New 'Work
for Europe yesterday.
Officers of the Brinell and French
steamships express no concern re-
garding the German submarine dan.
ger. The Cunard; White Star and
French liners are all armed with a
gun at the stern, and eaeli ship mas-
ter makes his own course across the
Atlantic to the best of his judgment.
Approaching their destination in Eun
ope, these vessels will be met by eon-
Voys, when they -reach a eertaiu posi-
tion that is decided Anion before they
leave New york, "
In neutral shipping circles 'here
there is an anxious discussion of what
means shall be taken to enable vessels
flying the American, Dutch and Sean-
dinavian flags to comply with the
conflicting requirements of the British
and German blockades. .On eugges.
tion is that American itn-d Seatiellna.
vian ships might he examined by the
British blockading fleet stationed lie.
tween the Faroe Islands and Iceland.
The opinion was expressed that the
probable increased height premiums
for beavy risks might lead some of
the more ventuiesome !tippers to
ignore the ruled of both blockades and
pick their own courses to European
Ports.
The.New-York harbor guar d late in-
criased its vigilance. Colleetor
•tems Malone 110W has 1,20) men
assigned to this ditty. ln aeldition•to
the eo-operation of the navy destroy.
Ors stationed at the Narrows, he has
under las commaed the harbor police
,boats and four tugs of the coast: gaard
cutter service.
The leternational Mercantile 'Mar-
ine announted -to-day the •matpone-
teent.of the sailing of the American
Line ateaniship St., Louis froth noon
tc-day until noon Sunday, "an account,
of a shortage et steam coal."
••••••••••••00,
TES TAKE NO CHANCES
1TH GERMANS JUST NOW
*e•MB•••
Bemarld immediate Release of Those Seized
By
Raider---Guar'd lime Property.
Rumor That Hors ay Flock to Mexico and
Raid From There.
Wasbington, Report. --The United
States has formally demanded of Ger-
many, the immediate release of the
Americana who were taken prisoners
on prize • shim by raiders in the
south Atlantic.
TAKE APPAin PRIZE CREW,
Neweert News, Va., Ileport.—Cosat
guard cutter has gone alongside the
German prize ship Appant, and, it Is
thought the German prize crew will
bo taken off immediately. TWO tor.
Melo boat deetroyent joined the Me.
dreadnought Arkansas oft the Virginia
cal es en emergency duty. * •
GrA111) GOVERNMENT PROPERTY.
Washington Report. —No „One ether
theta oincials and employeeeof naval.
entree and if tonne is to 1m admitted
nuch Goternmeat reservatione. Or-
„det,s; to this effect. Secretary of the
Navy Daniels announced, had been is-
sued and would he effective iniMetil-
etelea
HUN ARMY IN 'MEXICO.
New York Report. ----A weladefined
rumor, heerthed _to andel eircies, has
Won rise to 613-apprehen5i0n that in
the event of th) German -Ambassador
being given his pazeporta, that official
will make straightaway 1,,r either
Cuba or liezieo, with the thatieos fav-
oring. the tatter country, according to
the Herald this morning.
- It Is untie-neva:131e, it is deelared,
that the Allied powers would Wider -
take to grant the German Embassy
members safe conduct to Germany,
arid, short of South kraerlea, the hear.
est neutral country Would be Cuba
or Mexibo. Cuba, because of its close
relations With the Enited Staten, is
hardly regarded aa offering the free -
dont of expressioa or &retort that
would be afforded by Mexico, and
then) Is strong reasoo for bellevilig
that the German representittlyps wOuld
be -'welcome in. the. latter COnntrY..
MAXICO for Mats' Pam /Ms been'
undergoing a Prussian influettee.. 11er
artna and equipment are largely of
errnad orlki ii;* and the 'rifle futinitione
works ;were Obtained,. It la said; frOM
Germen SOUreis,
'the inunediate effect of a naevement
of Getman representatives Into Meeicei
Would be seen, it is thought, 111 vast
numbers ot Genteel tiymPathizere Mak.
Ing their Way arose the border.
Once In Melia° this new influx
would Lein position to lend aid to Mir
move which Might be put forward
against the United Statte, and it Is not
too Mueh to tOrteelve aa arm y of 2G0,.
000 men suddenly springing into exist.;
once. DffreAred and handled. 111* 4114
tiered, in Pinielitall Whitt. .
,e1
1•••••••••••• •C•T
1li( EAU
THE NEWS
OF ThE DAY
Britztin Will Appeal to Wo.
men for 100,000 to Work
OA Farms.
BAN PRICE PACTS
France Plans to Atobilize
Her Entire Civilian
Population.
Germany bag inaugurated a submar-
ine mail service).
Franco plans to mobilize all her
population,
Four expert oil drillers left Petrolea
for Persia and Burma.
St. Athena) Proteetant Cathedial at
tainszi,000roa. was destroyed by fire; lose,
It is estimated that Ihe elaims
against Mexico will total about 000,-
000,000.
13ranttord Choral Society has been
formed, under the leaderthie el 3, T.
Sboineld,
Warren Myers, of !Chatham, died
suddenly of ecute indigestion within
an hour after eating his dinner.
Nominations will take place for the
Provincial Legislature la New Breas-
wick on the a7th inst., and polling an
the 24th.
Teo barn and contents on the farm
of Wm, Reeds, Ops township, were
totally consumed by fire at noott on
Tuesday.
Pte. D. j. Howden, worrted over his
brother's tleath and his own failing
health, committed suicide in the arm.
cries at Stratford.
Capt, Daniel Warwick, onFroomfield,
a little village between Sarnie and
Corunna, died suddenly in a grocery
Mere at Marysville, Mich.
Fire completely destroyed the bouse
and barn, with their contents, oa
farm in Hamilton township, about
three or tour miles from Cobourg.
Adelard rilion, an faterceloniai
Railway fireman, was instantly killed
In a collision at Quebee between an
engine end a train conveyine Wage -
men to Levis.
• The wile of Hon. Dr. H. S. Boland,
.former Postmaster -General, still held
as a prisoner in Germany, has died in
Belgium, and he was net pennitecia to
see her.
Government appeal la about to be
made to British women to help the
land .workers to secure the necessary
food production. At leaSt 100,000 land
workers are wanted,
Margaret B. Charleswortn. of Blyth,
Huron county, has given notice of an
epplication to Parliament for a di-
eorce from her husband, Leopold 0.
Charlesworth, merchant.
Admiral Sir Henry Coy Cane, who
a6 captain brotight the British cruiser,
Calliope through the great hurrieane
at Samoa, in 1889, died at London,
England, on Tuesday.
A delegation of Ontario dairymen
interviewed Hon. Martin Burrell and
Sir George Foster, and metered a
'strong protest against the Govern-
ment for removing the cenbargo
against oleomargarine.
Germany has decided upon eternal
law at Brussels, in view of the forth-
coming new deportation ernere - fon
60,000 Belgian worlemeti, according to
an Exchange Telegraph despayi from
The Hague,
Joseph Lane's jewelrY etore at,
Erockvillo was burglarized, entrance
being gainedby a false key. A quan-
tity of repair watches, braeolets aiid
ether jewelry was Stqlen.
, At a meeting of the • Institnte of
Iniudon, Eng., Underwriters, where
war limurance rates quoted by marine
itsurance companies are discussed, It
'Was decided not to recommend any
change In the rates in consequence of
of the Minors' Union.
John MeAdorey, an Irishman, aged
about 45, was found dead in bed at his
boarding house at °Atha. It Is alleged
that alcoholic stimulants hastened his
death, and that since provinchal pro-
hibition came into force he had been
drinking substitutes at a more or lam
poisonous •Ohatacter.
4 • •
FOUGHT RAIDER.
British Cruiser AmethySt at
Pernambuco, Damaged.
KUNS EEPEND
ON titiEW SOBS.
FOR ViCiORY
Bald to Have Great Fleet of
New Submersibles of
Vast Range,
MERRIL ARMS
•••••••••••,•••••••••••••••••••••
Giant Divers Are Swiftl and
Ready to Fight On
the Surface.
• loelne o. retinue of aetitill ,Of Treat
4,000 to 24,000 miles for Surface
cruts:ng. Thus they ;ire in position
New York lteport.—Tbe Tribune
this morning pealisites the following
article by LOttla D. Edwards on "The
Diving Battle Fleet”:
Germany plays her trumps, Three
hundred or more submersibles have
lunged into the waters of the North
ace. to make the tioal effort against
t lintsiti They mobllized 'awn
Kiel, Hamburg, Wilhelmehaven, Bre.
merhat en, where for many months
Picked crewel have • trained with
anxious tboroughnees. 'rimy go in
confidence; for they are the deaallest
of all the brood of sea monstere. They
form the world's tirst divine fleet. a
navy equally prepared to tight above
or beneath the waves. The pries) of
tins strange navy is a powerful fight-
ing craft, a thorough.going cruiser
designed to make :its prowese Mit
upon the eurface as well no in the
lower ocean,
The latest Bea wasps are ugly opine '
ante, with a new kind of a stills 'and
a capacity for give•and-take:'
Most numerous among the super -
submarines in the newnine of patrol
eatalaished Fel Teary 1st are the
Tauchkreuzer of 2,400 tons. There
shine measure 260 feet in length,
twenty-five feet in breadth, and nine -
thee Teat in depth. The motor e de-
velop 7,000 horse -power, and drive
the boats over the surface at a Eleeed
of twenty-two knots an hour. The
smaller cruisers carry a crew ot front
swy- to eighty men. They are eetiip-
ped with torpedo tubes, guns of small
and middle -calibre, wireless telePhene
end telegraph, with intricate devices
for the transmienion and receiving of
unmistakable submarine- signals and
for the blind location of -objects of at-
tack.
The speed of submersibles of tins'
type enables them to keep up with
thips-otline on surface cruises; and,
under certain conditions, they are
able, waien submerged, to follow the
surface battleships, as their submerg-
ed speed of fourteen knots about
Vitiate the middle speed of tbe Dread-
nought. They have a radius of ac-
tion of 8,000 miles. la other words,
they are in a poeition to pay a visit
to our eastern coast, to cruise for a
time- in our coastal watees and to
return to their home ports without
needing to replenish fuel or. pro -
feigns. Sunk:lent supplies are taken
_for eight weeks' time. There is iin.-
otb.er means besides therr own star.
one, however, which enables them to
stay away from home for considerably
longer periode. These submersibles
carty frora eight to ten torpedo tuloe
of, fifty-three centimetres diameter.
They carry from four to ten guns of
light and midelle calibre. The mins
-
are carried below decks and are
brought into actionby powerful
springs. The ;whole proceeding of
raising and preparing the guns for
action, ee also their storage below
decks again, does not fake More than
twenty seconds.
DIVE BELOW THE NETS,
They can bore their way into the
ocean depth- up to 200 metres, or 600
feet, without running any tisk of hay.
their•steel plate erushed or t • nt.
They have been built to dive far be-
low the nets which the British lia.ve.
woven. in a mass of patterns through,
oat the North Sea.
Reinforcing tlis lonely lineef block-
ade will be the present-day master:
piece of a submarine construction. it
is a thorough -going 5,000 -ton cruiser,
a highly ' completed diving mach*
and a formidable fighter In both of ,
its native elements.
400 FEET IN LENGTH. "
It is possible to Mt e a few details
about temp boats. They measure
400 In feet in length, and their whole
surface oposed-to.eneney fire is cov-
ered with a thick, highlieresistent
belt of armor Their powerful en-
gine develops lg,000 horsepower, and
gives them a surface speed of twenty-
six knots. They have remarkable in.
dependence of supporting based, en-
••••••••ww:Is••••
to make a Nome tram the Deltic Eta
to Japan without fluting it necessary
to take now stores of fuel or provi-
Shur, On the way.
'the scope for destructive effort of
the submarine bits been luereatmd itt
them boats in many ways. They fight
from ten to twenty-twO ifesila. They
are fitted With thirty tonoeao tubes,
and carry three torpeiloea for each
tube. Thus the value raone 91 the
torpedoes which they tarry equals
about $700,000.
aloreoter, these boats liaVe the Ithell
submrged speed of seventeen knots
an hour. The rapleity with whicb
they can pursue along the lower levels
will bring tbiem upou many victims
that formerly were able to elode the
Inbeat, 'When called Upon to stand
their ground upon the surface enainet
armed merchant Shipe, torpedo-boat
destroyers, light cruisers or protected
c.,.; of the moray, they can de-
pend upon tlrelr guns. The heavier
of these. guns are mounted on an
armored turret, which can be lowered
Into the body Of the ship and raised
at will, The conning tower eau also
be raised and lowered.
•
KU KLUX RAN
.RAIDERS FAIL
Graphic- Story of White
German Attack
Which Failed to Scare the
British.
With the Britieh Armies in France
'Cable, via London Cable.—From a
staff correspondent of the Associated
Pfe3O—The uerman raiders who made
'two attaelts yeaterday morning
against the Brinell trenches south 01
the Ypres salient looked for all the
world like the famous Ku Klux Klan,
the crusaders of reconstruction days
in the Southern Steins of America.
They were clad in white oheete fash-
ioned into a sort of amock, wore white
hoode and remelts and nought thus to
cross the snow-covered No Man's Land,
without detection.
The raiders eame ever in two waves,
only to be hurled back xvildrheavy;
teepee, in killed and 'wouoded, The),,
ewept into a perfect storm of machine
gun fire, and there were crimson
splashes In the-soow wherever one 01
the etrange white figures fell. There
was 0, ghostly aspect to tins affair
throughout. It was attempted at the
misty hour when, the late winter
moonlight fades into the dawn. After
an ail eight vigil in the front line
trenches the soldiere' nerves are apt
to be jumpy asnmorning approaches.
On this occasion there had been tbe
mull preliminary German bombard-
ment, and something was expected,
but not the ghostly apparitions watch
eventually greeted the gaze of the sen-
tries as they peered in the chilly hall -
light into the barree stretch of white
-separating their trenchea Irani those
of the enemy. .
Regaraieses whether they were
ghosts or Germans, the sentries knew
Owe the proper thine to do was to
shoot, and. there ()erne a crackle of
ilfles all along the lino. One young
Irish officer stood up and let go with
hie revolver. Tben the rase:bine guns
Chimed in, and the first wave ef the
attackers was breaking through when
the second Came over. Two (lemons
managed to plunge into a British
trench, but they got out so quickly
that they left behind them unused a
earl of dynamite, mallY grenades and
a rifle. Ono of the two died in the
nritish wire entanglement e es he was
attempting to retreat.
An officer commanding a portin of
a trench under 'attack reported to -day
that, while some of his troopers. had
Leen under fire for the firet time,
he had had difficulty in restraiaing
then from pursuing the retreating
"ghosts," -
An incident which shown toed the
humane spirit has not vanished hi this
war occurred recently when SOMe Ger-
man prisoners appeared. behind the
British lines with British. gas n,asks
siting across their shoulders. Inquiry
developed that the Eritish army Au-
thorities have orderea this precaution
so that prisoners may have the Same
nrotection from a gas' attack from
their own lines as their meters enjoy.
6 • e•
TO DEMOBILIZE RANADIANS.
London, Cable.—The Canadian ;;'" Vrees
understands mat Gen, Carson is being
placed in eharge of the dernobi14ation Of
tbe Canadian army and the tremendous
sl'ork involved in getting many hundreds
of thousands of mon back to their homes,
The situation demands that a department
-should be established forthwith, and so
Prevent a great waate Which a hasty or-
ganization and resultant confusion would
inevitably produce.
'
cruiser Amethyst lut,s drrived at Per- • LD K , .
Buenos Ayres, Cable.—The British. ,
nambnco, damaged after a fight with U LL
-a German=sUbMarine and an auxiliary , ..
cruiser, aceording to cleepatches from By mEANs oF polsor DARTs
that Brazilian,, City to -day. She Is '
.
aitchoreel ten miles ott that limber, "
mid la nealtiag repairs outside Ufa* '
zilian territorial waters. The damagd ,• ,.....-----.
,
Was probably from a torpedo.
The encounter, it was obi, oceerred r
on Jan. 29, north of Pernatabueo. ,Aritish tittorfiey-Generai Livtliges Alleged
. Aecording to the reporta, receive -a
the Amethyst said the :Gel -titans With-
drew from the tight and escaped:
•
HOUSE CHAIRMEN,
Committee Leaders Named
for the Commons..
i,...•••••••••.•••P•PPP*P; " P ,
Ottawa, Beport.--Cemraittees of the
Howie organized and elected eliainnen
at; follows,: Privileges and Electione,
W,11. Nhnthruli (Htestinge); ItatiutetYsi
Richard Blain (Peel); Private Bills,
Solt Sharpe (North -Cattalo); Stand-
-Ing Orders, . Dr, Paquot (lis1e1);
Pliblie Accounts, W. S. 11114dlebro
(Grey); Banklag and Commerce, Sir
Herbert Ames (Montreal); Agrleul-
tore, A. Seastrilth . (East Peter -
hot*); Marine and Platterlea, Clareace
Jameson (Digby); Miaes and llitterals,
, Shepherd (Nanitino): Iveresto
and Waterwayte Glenda 11, Eirabazen,
(Pontiac); Dobaten, I), Taylor (Now.
Westminster). .
OTTAWA PAPERS TWO CENTS.
Ottawa, 11.6p0rt.--The Ottawa Eveninft
JournalInd Ottatini. Evenina Citizen en.
February Gth the price of therm pettoot
Will be two cOntoi 8 eaope instead of on$
cent, as heretofore. T11.0 reetiop. Omens
the Incretteed enet In publishing OM'S'
nualepitreil. The .nterning. papers In Ob.
ttme creatlyitort at two tante a copy,
Plan itgainst the Premier.
Deed To le lione \Oh Victim .Was Playing
Golf At Vialtotheatii.
Derby, Eng., Cable.—The Guildhall
was erowueu, ena niany pera0n3 Wore •
unaine to. °main tainneeiou, wnen At-
torooyetieweral iiif ISrederiele B. ainith
to -day °petted the case against the
four persons ;tensed of conspiraey
murder Premier David Lloyd ucorgo
and Arthur Henderson, member of the
War Connell. •The accused are Mrs,
.Alice Wheolden, her two daughters,
Miss Ann Wheldon and Mrs, Alfred
George Masonuand Mrs. Mason's hos-
band:
The .Attornoy-General, In his open-
ing,. referred to the prieonere as dea-
ls:late,' dangerous POMO, bitterly hes-
tile to the country, They were, 110
deelared, sholterers of fngitives froni
ilia army, who were doing their t•est
to injore Great nritain hi her preeent
eriseti. Tee arisen& Mason, he, point.
$d oUt, Was a chenlist Of very con-
Sidarttldr. itt11 Vito had triads 11ineelat
tittldf M .pOielOrf, and Might be eon-
aidered an -Snort. in etteh a matter.
trOR,ONTO MARICETS.
VAIWBRIa' MARKET.
Dairy Proaties—
BUtter, choice sairy 39 33
Eggs. doz... .. 9 CO
Dreesee reeitry-
403?
50
0 30
Fowl, , • 611 0 19
LiC404•• Spring •• ••• 1,1 10 018
,Uuealings, In.' „ . ,. 10 0 20
Spring chickens. 0 ge • 0
I-4ve
Fowl, lb. 01? 019
Chickens, lb. . 0 17 0 20
Baldwina, bbl. 3 504 50
beice, bbL, 3 De 7 00
60(3
1.75
1 75
1 78
o 75
70Pi
Do., Grew-mtgs. ba, .. 00
lkactables-
13eets, ii,er bag .„ • • 000
Carrots, per bar....,,,..,. 000
Carrots, per bag .. 00
Turnips, per bag .. 003)
Parsnips, per bag „ .. 0 00
Petatoes, per se.lb, bag_ „ 2 as
MBATs--Wmninisa.1.,E.
Beef, forequarters, cwt. .. 513 00
hindquarters., .. 16 00
varcases, choice , .. 15 00
Do., common ” .. 11 00
Veal, common, cwt. .. 9 00
Do„ medium .,, 13 DO
Do., primo............1700
Heavy bogs .„ .. 15 00
Shop hogs .. , ...„ . 18 00
Abattoir lido „. 19 00
Mutton, heavy ... 1000
En. light ..• . 15 00
Lambs, Swine, lb, .. .. 0 21
$14 60
18(10
10 50
13 00
11 00
1350
10 00
17 00
19 00
20 00
12 00
17 00
0 23
suman MARKET.
Local wholesale quotations on Canadian
Local witolesale quotations on Canadian
refined sugar, Toronto delivery, in effect
atter January 20:-
8t. Lawrence, if rentila.ted „ 1190 lbs. $7.33
St, Lawrence Beaver .. 100 lbs, 7.23
Lantig granulated 100 lbs. 7.32
Rine Star granulated 100 lbs. 7,28
Redpath's granulated., - ' 100 lbs, 7.33
ut
Royal Acaugranulated, .. 100 lbs. 7,32
No. 1 yellove, all iefInera „ 100 lbs, 0.98
Dark yellow ... 100 lbs, 6.75
Dominion crystal, gran., .. 100 lbs. 7,28
1.0-1b. bags, 10 cents over ra.nulated bags..
20-1b; bags, 10 cents over granulated bass.
2 and 15 lb. cartons, 3 cents over gratin-
, iated 109 -lb. bags,
GTHER, -MARKETS.
WINNXPEG GRAIN EXCHA.NGE.
Wheat-- . Open. High. Low. Close.
May .,. - al Gl1/2- 1647 161½ 163t[
July ... bl 1.63% 1 6kit's. 1 614
Oct...........3 33% 1 35% 1 33 /4 3. 34'.4
Cots—
.55% 0 654A• 0 66% 0 551/2
July- -,.......050 0 55', 0'55 0 51/2
Flax—
May 2 84% 264% 201½ '2 611/2
a—To 21.83% sOld•
bf-•To 51.02 sold.
MINNEAPOLIS GRAM MARKET.
Minnerepolis.—Wheat—May, $1.125 3-8 to
$1.06 1-4; July, 31.63 1-8; cash, Na. 1 bard,
11.72 3-2 ta 31,75 3-8; No .3 Northern,
34'to 31.69 3-8; No. 2 Northern, 31.03 3-8 to
21.65 3-8. Corn—No. 3 yellow, 93 1-4 to
84 1-40. Oats—No. 3 white, 50 1-4 to 61
1-4e. Flour unchanged. Brun, $31,00 to
331,50.
-
DULUTH cinik1T MARICET.
Duluth.—Wheat—No. 1 hard, 131.68 1-8;
Nol Northern, 31.67 1-8; No. 2 Northern,
01.62 1-8 to 31.65 1-8, Linseed—To arrive,
32,78; May, 32.81; July, 3202.
CHICA.00 LIVE STOCK.
Native beef -cattle, .. 7 75 12 00
Western steers.... a .. 7 76 10 15
Stockere and feeders ..., 00 9 10
Cows and heifers .. „ -5 00. 10 25
Calves ..., 10 00 14 00
Hogs, reeeipts, 12,000, Market steads,
Light .. 11 15 11 70
Mixed .,. .... 1125• 11 88
Heavy • 11 15 11 90
Rough , ' 11 15 11 48
Pigs. • . • • . 9 50 10Th
Wethers . . 11 49 11 75
Sheep, receipt,
Market firm,
Wethees „ 1140 11i28
nanebs, native .. .... 12 15 14 60
Li V Melo itiL PRODUCE.,
Moo winter patents -47s.
Hops in London (Pacific Coast) -44.
f5,153, -
.Eirima, short cut, 14 to 18 lbs. -113s.
13acon, Cumberland out, 26 to 30 1bs.-
10.9s.
Hams, short out, 14 to 18 lbs. -1138.
Bacon, Cumberland cat, 20 to -30 lbs. -
109s. •
Clear bellies, 14 to 16 lbs. -116s.
Long clear _Middles, light, 28 to 34 lbs.
Long clear middles, heavy, 35 to 40 lbs.
—110.sz-
Short clettr backs, 16 to 20 lbser.-110s.
Lard, prime western. In tierce -111S,
Cheese, Canadian, finest v,,hite--148a
Colored -146s,
Anatolian in London -55s,- . •
" Turpentine, spirits -53s, ad.
Resin common -24s, 3d.
Petroleum, refined -1s, 2' 1-45.
Cotton Seed 011, hull refined. spot -48s,
9d.
:Linseed 011-54S, 65.
GERVIANY'S VIDE
ARE INCREASING
50 P. Q. of Population , 111'
Towns Are Now
Of Disease Caused by Ims-
,proper Diet.
'Amsterdam able.—Gernitiny's dit-
ficutuee nave been inere,aeed by tfie
paralysis or tool transport. Tnere
abundant indication that the trot is
occasioning intense Stlfrering anti in-
convenience.. ,There is zlefitv of con
Out a deficiency Of ratiwa,y, river and
road transport. the Mune.% MilitarY
:uwtihnogrittiotie
esolrdedlicffdie,
'fuel. Also • the university, teehnical
school, theatres, Meetings nena recrea-
tion rtills.
German rivers are frozen ttnd trans-
port on the 1t11108Is at a tandstill.
Malty Dutchmen ere eetweaing tte
Holland, being :unable to eitist in Ger-
malty. From one I hear'..the eititatiou.
.is very bid, RItIne bargestn1tgg1ing,
mail lately a valuable source of food
umply, Ana stopped, though . Mtge
ivaintitioa of provasione are still Mien
glad by hand.
The Telegraaf teams from the east-
ern frontier of Holland all a result ot
intOrillatiOn furnished by tlermatis of
lariouts eocial pomeions living in in1.
lerCillt parts of uormany that priva-
tion has rowed an etuexampied
ne-
roe.. l'axatien bite enonnousiy in-
ereaeod, especially m Cologne, dant
burg, Benin and irraultiairt.
14,cturitig Nreancoday at Berlin Dr,
A sensation was •ereated when At -
August •Moeiler, member of tite Com.
torneseeteneran nMitlt alleged it had'
been' intended tell' ingraer the Premier intlittteedutnu
e teheV
n.axrlliiorroavtistr wCalsmlieevert,i jttesbtilt;
by means ot poitioned darte to be shot w
was -Playing golf at itioortisonoley:tittloiloyignatetocif titonte ofelrftjuif 111;1,
field...* Vets report, published lo
• Both the Premier on'd Mr. Milder. the.
Son were to be killed by means of pot. the' German prees, otivtoasly did not
8011, the Attorney-G(340rd charged, Magnify We :seriousness of the sin ae
eontioned itt 'tubes gni from &Mlle tion. The Telearaare correspondent
atnotoa to DerbYottid handed bY AIM says 60 ,per cent, Df the poptuation in
wneoldon to an agetit, employed by the large towns are suffering from
the military authorittee, and vviio had' cramp in the stoma& and jam dientae,
ingratiated himself into her good fay- which reveille itself by a skin Drap-
ers, The poison, the propentor ale WM, due to the large quantity at jam
ieged, Was C011taillea lie four vials, and COn'quined in default of other f5oti,
Comprised hydio-Ohlerido, stryOhnino,
and an Arnerican Indian poison called "How is your bey ,Tosh tfcttlit). on,
mime, said to be used in polsonirig with his studies?" "1 auntie)," replied'
arrows. It WitS proposed tie use the Farmer Corntossol. **I eateUa .ter -in is
poison on darts, whick wore to be m111111)3 himself to be ono of those
shot at the Premier at Waltoahcath,- diplomats. If to lieu succealt,d- in'
the Attorney -General &Mitred, It Is herein' anything worth talltint about I
St Waltonhesith that the Premier plitYs he surely is intintiglie to ite-"”) it a ,
golf.
,secret."—Washirigton Star.
Waingtoon rtflutuoi
Fire Ins. Co.
ratabilshod 5840.
lisok4 Ottlas, KIE,T.5'21, Q.
RIO* taloa 04 AU al imar,
lago ProPihtY on the Cash Or Prerailana
net, syston,
101,4044 JOUN 441F446OX
rttildent Paratary
416 0110143
Agents, Wiligharei Onto
Dudley Holmes
souirownon, •casicricort,
Moat lAtrylo Wails Whighosn.
R. Ironstone
PAR114411ift $00Orroft.
.4fatta7 ts loan st ;owl*. rata*
, 'Witt CAHA144.
Arthur 1 Irwin
D.D.S., L.D.S.
Doctor of effintel $141Werst ef the Venn.
sylvarda College and Licentiate -of Den-
tal Surgery ot Ontario.
Closed every Wednesday Afternoon.
Office- In Macdonald Block,
r, M. DEANS
D.D.S., ,L.D.S.
•lortOr OredUate ot the Royal Celinge of
Dental Surgeons of Ontario, Honor
Ctraduate of University of Toronto.
Faculty of Denlatry.
Closed every Wednesday Afternoon,
Office Over ea E. Isard & 00./11 Store
inoetcht ebyDeterat. 10.Pglogio,010rnierly °Oen^.
W. R. I-lambhy
&So., M.D., 0.M,
• Sp•oild attention paid to diseases
Of Women wad Children, having
taken postgraduate work in Sur-
gery, Bacteriology and Scientific
Medicine,
Offies In the Kerr reaidence, be-
tween the Queen's Rotel and the
• - Baptist Church.
All business given careiful attentien.
non. lg. P. 0, Box /13
Dr. Robt. C. Redmond
(1116.)
L.R.C.P, (Land.)
• PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
(Dr. Chisbolm's old stand).
DRUGLESS PilYSICIAN
CHIROPRACTOR
Acute diseases respond in most daSnii
quite readily to treatment by a Drug-
less Physician. May conditions which
otherwise call for operative interfer.
cover naturally, so -muted incurable
WWI, naturally. So-calledin curable
casis sometimes benefit Considerably al-
so..
1. A, FOX, D.C., D.O.
Member Drugless Physicians Association
of Canada. •
Office lIours-2 to 5. 7 to 8 p,1n. Phone 111,
DR. L 1 SIEWART
.Graduate of Univeraity of Torent%
Faenity of Medicine' L1001404 of The
0.14ario College of i'hysiolans and
Surgeons.
OFFICE ENTRANCE:
SECOND DOOR NORTH OF
ZDISEIRIBG'S PHOTO STUDIO, •
JOSEPHINE ST. PRONE 29
OSTEOPATtpC PUY ICJA14
• DR. F. A. PARKER. ,
Osteopathy builds vitality and
strength. Adjustment of the spine and
other tissues is gentlysecured, there,
by removing the prediaposing causes
of disease,
Blood pressure and other exatnina'
Clans made. 'Trusses scientifically fit,
ted.
OFFICE OVER CHRTSTIE'S S -TORE.
lionrs—fruesdays and Pridays, 13a,tra,
to 9 p.m.; Wednesdays, 13 to Li s...rn,
Other days by appointment. '
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(Under Government InttpectIon),
Pleasantly situatedt beautifully fur-
nitlhed. Open to all regularly licensed
physicians. Rates for patients (which
include board and nursing)—$4.90
$16.00 per week, according to location
Of room. For further informetion—
Address. MISS L. MA:THEWS,
42
• - Superintendent,
-Sox 223, Wingham, Ont.
•
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some •ekdittient valises.
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:.i.uoTionErt -
Patios Artanged,at th• Ad4441: Offitte
Puri -Bred Mock Sales a Spectialt,y
Sal?. oendubted anywhere In Ontario,
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• FIRE, LIFE, ACCIDENT
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Iwo -ref
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Phones—Office 24; Rolde••• 164,
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• •tdrit erekrei .and *Mt PAYtht
tilit Mite* for geed dream. whY
ewhiturovuoruceriteenntritewen toitt le:oleo:11s otrainece:
near hezneend be hemline your cream
to %to will mirea home ammeter. We
pyty aspress charges arm ,adintria
ett an lumen hnsinats.. Cheats fail*
fa: trnrI:bit rt:tiet evInvelntre vearecah.rtsh.dlipirpcirrt atnhtis
*sinter :aould it, 'won ,to: whip to ual
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