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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1896-10-1, Page 3THE DAY DAWNS. DR. TALMAGE THINKS THAT THE MILLENIAL EPOCH IS NOT FAR OFF. Tho First Ray of Dawn Found in the De- sire for Arbitration—Another in the Com- pression of the World's Distances—Facts Chronological and Mathematical.. Washington, Sept. 27. —If the clarion s note of this sermon delivered •at the na- tional capital could sound through Chris- tendom, it would give everything good a new start, Dr, Talmage's text was Romans siii., 12, "The day is at hand," Back from the mountains, and the sea- side, and the springs, and the farm house, your cheeks bronzed and your spirits lightened, I hail you home again with the words of Gehazi to the Shunam- mite: "Is it well with thee? Is it well with thy husband? Is it well with the child?" On some faces I see the mark of recent grief, but all along the track of tears I see the story of resurrection and reunion when all tears are done, the deep plowing of the keel, followed by the flash of the phosphorescence. Now that I, have asked you in regard to your welfare, you naturally ask how I am. Very well, thank you. Whether it was the bracing air of the mountains, or a bath in the surf of Long Island beach, or whether it is the joy of standing in this great group of warm-hearted friends, or whether it is a new appreciation of the goodness of God, I cannot tell. I simply know I am happy. It was said that John Moffatt, the great Methodist preacher, ,ocoasionatly got fast in his sermon, and to extricate himself would ory "Hallelujah!" I am in no such pre- dicament to -day, brit I am full of the same rhapsodic ejaculation. Starting out this morning on a new eooleelastical year, I want to give you the keynote of my next twelve months' ministry. I want to set it m the tunes of Antioch, Ariel and Coronation. I want to put a new trumpet stop into my sermons. We do wrong if we allow our personal sorrows to interfere with the glorious foot that the kingdom is coming. We are wicked if we allow apprehension of national disaster to putdown our faith in God and in the mission of our Ameri- can people. Tho God who hath been on the side of this nation since the fourth of July, 1776, will sec to it that this na- tion shall not commit suicide ou Nov. 3, 1896. By the time the „unparalleled harvests of this summer get down to the seaboard we shall bo standing in a sunburst of national prosperity that will paralyse the pessimists who by their evil prophecies are blashpeming the God who bath blessed this nation as he hath blessed no other. In all our Christian work you and I want more of the element of gladness. No man had a right to say that Christ never laughed. Do you suppose that he was glum at the wedding. in Cana of Galilee? Do you suppose that Christ was unresponsive when the children ,lam - bored over Ills knee and shoulder at his own invitation? Do you suppose that the evangelist meant nothing when he said of ' Christ, "i -Ie rejoiced in spirit?" Do you believe that the divine Christ, 'who pours all the waters over the rocks at Vernal falls, Yosemite, does not believe in the sparkle and gallop and tumultuous joy and rushing raptures of human life? I believe not only that the morning laughs, and that the mountains laugh, and that the seas laugh, and that the cascades laugh, but that Christ laughed. More- over, take a laugh and a tear into an alembic and assay them, and test them, and analyse them, and you will often find as inuch of the pure gold of religion in a laugh as in a tear. Deep spiritual joy always shows itself in facial illumin- ation. John Wesley said he was sure of a good religious impression being produced because of what he calls the great glad- ness he saw among the people. Godless merriment is blasphemy anywhere, but expression of Christian joy is appropriate everywhere. Moveover, the outlook of the world ought to stir us to gladness, Astronomers disturbed many people by telling them that there was danger of stellar collision. We were told by these astronomers that there are worlds coining very near to- gether, and that we shall have plagues and wars and tumults and perhaps the world's destruction. Do not be scared. If you have ever stood at a railroad cen- ter where 10 or 20 or 30 rail tracks cross each other and seen that by the move- ment of the switch one or two inches the train shoots this way and that without colliding, then you may understand how 50 worlds may come within an inch of disaster and that inch be as good as a million miles. If 6 human switch tender can shootthe trains this way and that without harm, cannot the band that for thousands of years bas upheld the uni- verse keep our little world out of harm's way? Christian geologists tell us that this world was millions of years in build- ing. Well, now, I do not think God would take millions of years to build a house which was to last only 6,000 years. There is nothing in the world or outside the world, terrestrial or astronomical, to excite dismay. I wish that some stout gospel breeze might scatter all the mal- aria of human foreboding, The sun rose this morning at about 6 o'clock, and I. think that is just about the hour in the world's history. "The day is at' hand." The first ray of the dawn I see in the pgradual substitution of diplomatic skill for human butchery. -Within the last 25 years there have been international differences which would have brought a' shock of arms in any other day, but which were peacefully adjusted, the pen taking the place of the sword. The Vene- zuelan controversy in any other age of the world world have brought shook of arms, but now is being so quietly ad- justed that no one knows just how it is being settled. The Alabama question in any other age of the world would have . caused war between the .United States and England. How was it settled? By inen-of-war off the Narrows or off the Mersey? By the gulf stream of the ocean crossed by a gulf, stream of human blood? By the pathway of nations inoarnadined? No. A few wise men go into a quiet room at Geneva,talk the matter over and telegraph to Washington and to Lon- don, "All settled." Peace, peace! Eng- land '.pays to the United States the amount awarded -pays really more than she ought to have paid. But still, all that Alabama broil- is settled—settled forever. ' Arbitration instead of battle., So the, quarrel about the Canadian fisheries in any other age would have. caused war between the United States And England. England said, "Pay me for the invasion of the : Canadian fisher- ies." The United States said, "I will not pay anything." Well, the two na- tions say, "I guess we had better leave the whole matter;to acommission.'' The, commission is appointed, and the com- mission examines the affair, and the commission reports, and pay we ought, pay we must, pay we do. Not a pound of powder burned, no one hurt so much as by the scratch, of a pin. Arbitration instead of battle. France will ' never again, I think, through the peccadillo of an ambassador, bring on a battle with other natiuns. She sees that. God, in punishment at Sedan, blotted out the French empire, and the only aspirant for that throne who had any right of expectation dins in a war that has not even the dignity of being respectable. What is the leaf that England would like to tear out of her history? The Zulu war. Down with the sword and up with the treaty! We in this country might better have settled our sectional difficulties by arbi- tration than by the trial of the sward. Philanthropy said to the north, "Pay down a certain money for the purchase of the slaves, and let all those born after a certain time be born free." Philan- thropy at the same time said to the south, "You sell the slaves and get rid of this national contest and trouble." The north replied, "I won't pay a cent." The south replied, "I won't sell." War, war! A million dead men, and a national debt which might have ground this nation to powder! Why did we not let William B. Seward, of .New York, and Alexander H. Stephens, of Georgia, go out and spend a few days under the trees on the banks of the Potomac and talk the matter over and settle it, as settle it they could, rather than the north pay In cost of war $4,700,000,000, and the south pay $4,750,000,000, the destroying angel leaving the first-born dead in so many houses all the way from the Penobscnt to the Alabama? Ye aged men whose sons fell in the strife, do you not think that would have been better? Oh, yes! We have cone to believe, Ithink, in this country that arbitration is better than battle. I may be mistaken, but I hope that the last war betweon Christian nations is ended. Barbarians may mix their war Paint and Chinese and 7apanose go into wholesale massacres and Afghan and Zulu hurl poisoned arrows, but I think Christian nations have gradually learned that war is disaster to victor as well as vanquished, and that almost anything bought by blood is bought at too dear a price. I wish to God this nation might be a model of willingness for arbitration. No need of .killing another Indian. No need of sacrificing any more bravo Gen. Ousters. Stop exasperating the red man, and there will be no more arrows shot out from the ambushmonts. A general of the United States army in high repute throughout this land, and who perhaps had been in more Indian wars than any other officer, and who had been wounded again and again in behalf of our Govern- ment in battle against the Indians, told me that all tho wars that had ever oc- curred between Indians and white men bad been provoked by white seen, and that there was no exception to the rule. While we are arbitrating with Christian nations let us toward barbarians carry ourselves in a manner unprovocative of con test. Let me put myself in their place: I, inherit a large estate, and the waters are rich with fish, and the woods are song- ful with birds, and my cornfields are silken and golden, Here is any sister's grave. Out yonder under the large tree my father died. An invader comes and proposes to drive me off and take pos- session of my property. He crowds me back, he crowds me on, and crowds me into a closer corner, until after awhile I say "Stand hack! Don't crowd me any more, or I'!1 strike. What right have you to come here and drive me off nay prem- ises? I got this farm from my father, and he got it from his father. What right have you to come here and molest me?" You blandly say: "Oh, I know more than you do. I belong to a higher civilization. I out my hair shorter than you do. I could put this ground to a great deal better use than you do." And yell keep crowding me back and crowding are into a closer corner and closer corner, until one day I look around upon my suffering family, and, fired by their hardships, I hew you in twain. Forthwith all the world comes to your funeral to pronounce eulogium, comes to my execution to anathematise me. You are the hero. I am the culprit, .A fortress may be months nr years in building, but after it is constructed it may do all its work in twenty minutes. Christianity has been ,planting its bat- teries for nineteen centuries and may go on in the work through other centuries, but when those batteries are thoroughly planted, those fortresses are fully built, they may do all their work in 24 hours. The world sometimes derides the Church for slowness of movement. Is science any quicker? Did it not take science 5,652 years to find out so simple a thing as the circulation of the human blood? With the earth and the sky full of electricity, science took 5, 800 years before it even guessed that there was any practical use that might be made of this subtle and (nighty element. When good men take possession of all these scientific forces and all these agencies of invention, I do not know that the redemption of the world will be more than the work of half a day. Dn we not read the Queen's speech at the proroguing of parliament the day before in London? If that be so, is it anything marvellous to believe that in 24 hours a divine communication can reach the whole earth? Suppose Christ should descend on the nations—many ex- pect that Christ will come among the nations personally; suppose that to -mor- row morning the Son of God' from a hovering cloud should desoend upon these cities, Would not that fact be known all the world over in 24 hours? Suppose he should present his gospel in a few words, saying: "I am the Son of God. I came to pardon all your sins and to heal all your sorrows. To prove that I am a supernatural being I have just descended from the clouds. Do you believe me, and do you believe me now?" Why, all the telegraph stations of the earth would he crowded as none . of them were ever ,crowded just after;a shipwreck. I tell you all these things to show you it is not among the impossibilities or even the improbabilities that Christ will conquer the -whole earth, and do it in- stanter when the time comes. These are foretokenings in the air. Something great is going to happen. ] do not think that Jupiter is going to run us down or that' the axle of the world is going to break, but I mean , something great for the world's blessing and not for the world's damage is going to happen. I think the world has had it hard enough. Enough the famines and , plagues. Enough the Asiatic choleras. Enough the wars. Enough the shipwrecks, Enough the conflagrations. I think our world could stand right well 'a procession.'of prnspori ties and'triumphs. Better bene, the look out. Better have your observatories opt - toward the heavens and the 'POSE'S u; your most powerful telescopes . well pail. • lshed, Better have all your Leyden jars ready for somo new pulsation of mighty Influence. Better have new fonts of type in your printing offices to set up some astounding news. Better have some new banner that has never been carried ready for sudden processions. Better have the bells in your church ,towers well hung and rope within reach, that you may ring out the marriage of the King's Son. Cleanse all your courthouses, for the .fudge of all the earth may appear: Lot all your legislative halls be,,gilded, for the Great Lawgiver may be about to Como, The darkness of the night is blooming and whitening into the lilies of the morning cloud and the lilies red- dening into the roses of stronger day—fit garlands, wheter white or red, for Him. on whose head are many crowns. "The day is at hand." One Inore ray of the dawn I see in feats chronological and mathematical. Come now, do not let us do another stroke of work until we have settled one. matter. What is going to be the final issue between thbd' great contest between sin and righteousness? Which is going to prove himself the stronger, God or Dia - bolus? Is this world going to be all gar- den or all desert? Now, let us have that matter settled. If we believe Isaiah and Hosea and Micah and Malachi and John and Peter and Paul and the Lord Him- self, we believe that it is going to be all garden. But let us have it settled. Let us know whether wo are working on toward a success or toward a dead fail urs. If there is a child in your 'house sick, and yob are sure he is going to get well, you Sympathise with present pains, but all the foreboding is gone. If you are in a cyclone off the Florida coast and the captain assures you the vessel is staunch, and the winds are changing, for a better quarter, and he is sure he will bring you safe into the harbor, you patiently submit to present distress with the thought of safe arrival. Now I want to know whether we are coming on to- ward dismay, darkness and defeat or on toward light and blessedness, You and I believe the latter, and if so every year we spend is one year substraoted from the world's woe, and every event that passes, whether bright or dark, brings us one event nearer a happy consumma- tion, and by all that is inexorable in chronology and mathematics i commend you to good cheer and courage. If it is nearer morning. at 3 o'clock than it is at two, if it is nearer morning at four o'clock than it is at three, then we are nearer the dawn of the world's deliverance. Goat's clook seems to go very slowly, but the pendulum swings, and the hands novo, and it will yet strike noon. The sun and the Innen stood still once. They will never stand still again until they stop forever. If you believe arithmetic as well as your Bible, you must believe we are nearer the dawn. "The day is at hand." There is a close of phenomena whisk makes me think that the spiritual and heavenly world may after awhile make a demonstration in this world which will. bring all moral and spiritual things to a climax. Now, I am no spiritualist, but evey intelligent man has noticed that there ere stern and mysterious things which indicate to him that perhaps the spiritual world is .not so far off as some- tiznes we conjecture, and after awhile from the spiritual and heavenly world. there may be a demonstration upon our world for its betterment. We call it magnetism, or we call it mesmerism, or we call it electricity, because we want some term to cover up our ignorance. I do not know what it is. I never heard an audible voice from the other world. I am persuaded of this, however: That the veil between this world and the next is getting thinner and thinner, and that perhaps after awhile, at the pall of God —not at the call of the Davenport broth- ers or Andrew Jackson Davis—some of the old Scriptural warriors, some of the spirits of other days mighty for God—a Joshua, or a Caleb, or a David or a Paul —may come down and help us in the battle against unrighteousnoss. Oh, how I would like to have them here—him of the Red Sea, him of the valley of Ajalon, liim of Mars' hill! English history says that Robert Clayton, of the English cavalry, at the close of the war, bought up all the old cavalry horses lest they should be turned out to drudgory and hard work and bnught a piece of ground at Knavesmire heath and turned out these old war horses into the thickest and richest pasture to spend the rest of their days as compensation for what they bad done in other days. One day a thunderstorm came up, and these war horses mistook the thunder of the skies for the thunder of battle, and they wheeled into line, no riders on their backs—they wheeled into line ready for the fray. And I doubt me whether, when the last thunder of this battle for God and truth goes booming through the heavens, the old Scriptural warriors can keep their places on their thrones. Me- thinks they will spring into the fight and exchange crown for helmet and palm branch for weapon and come down out of the King's galleries into the arena, crying• "Make room! I mast fight In this great Armageddon!" The old war horses mingling in the fight. Beloved people, I preach this sermon because I want you to toil with the sun- light in your faces. I want you old men to understand before you die that all the work you did for God vrhile yet your ear was alert and your foot fleet is going to be counted up in the final victories. I want all these younger people to under- stand that when they toil for God they always win the day; that all prayers are answered and all Christian work is in some way effectual, and that the tide is setting in the right direotion, and that all heaven is on our side -'saintly, cher- ubic, arohaogelic, omnipotent, chariot and throne, doxology and procession, principalities and dominion, He who hath the moon under His feet, and all the armies of heaven on white horses. Brother, brother, all I am afraid of is not that Christ will lose the battle,but that you and I will not get into it quick enough to do something worthy of our blood bought immortality. Oh, Christ, how shall I meet thee, thou Of the scarred brow, and the scarred back, and the scarred hands, and the scarred foot, and the, scarred breast, if I have no scars or wounds. gotten in thy service? It shall not be so. I step out to -day in front of the battle. Come on, ye foes of God, I dare you to combat. Come on, with pens dipped in malignancy. Come on, with tongues forked and viperine. Come on, with types soaked in the scum of the eternal pit. I defy you! ,Come on; -I bare my brow; I uncover any heart. Strike! ] cannot see my Lord until I have been hurt for, Christ. 'If we do not suffer with him on earth, we cannot be glorified with him in heaven. Take good heart. On, .on, on! See, the skies have bright- ened! See, the hour is about to come! Pick, out all the cheeriest of the anthems. Lot the orchestra string their bestinstru- ments, "The night is far spent; the day is at hand.;; EIGHTH PARLIAMENT DISMISSAL OF THE THREE PARTI- SAN TRANSLATORS DE- CIDED UPON. Rumor of Joseph :Martin's Appointment to the 11, C. Supreme Court—Immigration Tteni5 Taken Up in Committee of Supply —Questions of Freights. Etc., Disyussed. THURSDAY. To -day the dismissal of the three parti- san translators was debated and decided by the House, and there was afterwards time to proceed with the main estimates. ,These are now so nearly disposed of that practically the only business remaining is the passage of the supplementary esti- mates. The dismissal of the translators, which threatened to be opposed at some length, did not realize those expectations. It was pointed out that in 1889 the Gov- ernment of that day had dismissed three Liberal translators who had interfered in the elections, and that the three who are now in trouble were appointed at that time to those vacancies. They knew, therefore, most clearly the penalty for interference in elections. In the face of this the majority of the House found no difficulty in voting to dismiss them. The Opposition did not divide the House. Col, Prior asked the Premier, upon the House going into supply, whether there was any truth in the rumor that Mr. Joseph Martin was to be appointed to the Supreme Court of British Colum bia. Ho expressed his disbelief that the Premier would administer such a snub to the bar of that province. But- that the rumor received some credence in British Columbia was evident from the foot that resolutions had been passed by the Bar Associations of various places in British Columbia. One of these from the Bar Association of Victoria he read, and it contained a protest against the ap- pointment to that position of a barrister who was not a member of the bar of that province, There was another objec- tion to Mr. Martin. He was a violent partisan, and he had used language of the most violent character. Col. Prior asked the Government to carry out the recommendation which had been made to the late Government, to appoint Mr. Eberts to the vacant judgeship. The vacancy was one of Dight months' stand- ing and should be filled as early as pos- sible. As the Supremo Court Bench in Ontario, Quebec and the Maritime Prov- inces must by the terms of Confedera- tion be filled from the bar of the respec- tive provinces, he thought the same thing should be observed in British Col- umbia, although it was not stipulated in the terms of the union. Mr. Laurier promised that the vaoan cy would be filled as early as possible. But if it had been vacant for eight months the fault was with the Government of which Col. Prior had been a member. (Hear, hear.) Col. Prior wastoo old a politician to put reliance in newspaper rumors, However, as to the name men- tioned, Mr. Laurier said lie wassurprised to hear him spoken of by Col. Prior in the terms he had used. It was only last evening that the member for Winnipeg (Mr. H. J. Macdonald) had spoken of Mr. Martin in such terms as to make it appear that nothing was too good for Mr. Martin. Mr. Martin's fitness for a judgeship Inight be left to Col. Prior's colleague. In Committee of Supply the immigra- tion items were taken up. Replying to Mr. Foster, the Premier said the Government would continue the system which the late Government had attempted to inaugurate in order to in- duce immigration into Canada from the western states, He believed it would not be very long before there would be a movement of surplus population across the border from the United States. He thought it would also transpire that the United States would become a market for the crops of the Canadian wheat fields. As for immigration from France and Belgium, he had not much hope of great results, although those efforts would not be abandoned. The Government had reason to believe that there would be a considerable immigration from the Brit- ish Isles. Mr. Richardson agreed with the Pre- mier that the true solution of the prob- lem of peopling the Northwest was in the overflow from the United States. He thought the best immigration measure which could be adopted was the reduce tion of the tariff. Sir Charles Tupper agreed with Mr. Richardson that the Government could devote itself to no snore important task than the promotion of immigration to the Northwest. He spade the prophecy that the time would Dome when the dim- inishing wheat areas of the United States would be taxed to supply the enormous population of that country. lie considered that no more desirable class of immi- grants could be secured than the Iceland- ers. He expresso his gratification at the netermination of the Government to do everything possible by way of encourag- ing inunigration to promote the rapid development of the country. lir. Davin spoke appreciatively of the value of the Icelanders as settlers. He favored the immediate removal of tariff duties on agricultural implements and coal oil Mr. Fraser directed the attention of the committee to the consistency of Mr. Davin's speech. How Mr. Davin could vote for protection last night and beg for the removal of duties on agricultural implements and coal oil tonight passed all understanding. Mr. Fraser gave ex- pression of his appreciation of the vital importance of adopting an effective im- migration policy. He advocated the free- ing of the large areas in the Northwest now held by corporations, so that there night he more individual ownership of land. Messrs. Oliver, Bostock and Macdon- ild (Winnipeg) continued the discussion, 4peaking of the needs of the western anuntry and the mistakes of the past, l'ho questions of freight rates, land com- ;anicsand railway monopolies Same ,up Soy treatment from a Northwest stand pnint. FRIDAY. An important measure was brought in by Mr. Fisher, the' Minister of Agri- culture. It was a bill to amend the Dairy Products Aot. 1893. In his explanation the Minister said that at: this stage of the session he could, hardly expert to get the hill through immediately. The bill. provided that dairy produots should be branded, not only as they now were with the word "Canadian," but than they should also have the name or number of the factory at which they - were produced staueped upon them, in the case of cheese the date of manufacture should he branded upon the article. „ Some time ago Prof. Robertson invited a discission of the matter in the country, and sent out circulars to the factory men, owners and patrons, asking them whether they wished to have it made compulsory that the date of manufacture should be branded upon cheese. Out of 617 replies received 554 answered yes, and only 63 answered no. Major MoLennan expressed; his appre- ciation of the action of the Minister of Agriculture in bringing in this bill He asked that the bill be pushed through this session, 1t was given its first reading, Replying to a suggestion by Sir Charles Tupper that an address might be introduced by the Government upon the occasion of the 60th year of the Queen's reign, Mr. Laurier said that it might be proper to take suoh a step, but he had not taken' the step, for the rea- sons which he thought just as well not to mentipn publicly, but which he would mention to Sir Charles Tupper privately. Upon going into Committee of Supply the militia estimates were discussed. On the item of clothing Col. `Tisdale, ex - Minister of Militia, explained the mat- ter of clothing contracts which were made on the eve of the elections by him and subsequently cancelled by the present Minister. He explained the changes which had been inaugurated by his pre- decessor in the system of purchasing the clothing. It has been found, he said, that the purchase when made from par- ties at a distance had been unsatisfac- tory, because at times the department. had bean obliged to accept clothing which was not perfect either as to mater- ial, make or fit. Therefore, after consult- ing with the officers of the department, it had been decided to obtain the cloth- ing in Canada if possible. It had then been determined to let the contract for three years,because the filling of the cen- tred required the expenditure of a con- siderable sum for machinery on the part of the contractor. It had been decided, too, not to advertise in the newspapers for tenders. It was considered that those who could supply the clothing was so limited in number that a circular would do as well, and at a greatly decreased cost. This then was the system which had been inaugurated some years ago. Coming now down to the re -letting of the contracts which occurred about the time the general elections carne on he denied that there was any connection be- tween the two events, or any political significance. It just happened that the time for re -letting the oontraots oeourred at that time. Ciroulars bad been sent out to all firms in the business, Eight ten- ders had been received for supplying clothing and shoes, Of the tenderers be did not know the political proclivities of any one, except that he knew Mr. San- ford of the Sanford Company. The prices et which the contracts were let were lower than had ever before been obtain- ed, while the material was better. Some of these contracts were for two years and some for three years, Dr. Borden, replying, said that the explanation of the late Minister of Militia was n weak one. He did not charge any corruption against Col. Tisdale, but he did charge that there was impropriety in entering into a contract which was not to begin to run until July lst, 1897. The fact was that the contracts were not legal, according to the opinion of the Minister of Justice. There had been six tenders for the clothing and boots, and every firm which tendered had received a contract. There was a suspicion that there was among them a perfect under- standing. There were two firms which were asked for tenders for boots and shnes. There was a monopoly In the scarlet serge of which the tunics were made, because it was made at only one mill in Canada, that at Sherbrooke, and the total output of the mill had . been purchased by Mr. Sanford, so that no one could get it except by arrangement with him. Col. Domville said that the militia were not satisfied with the result of the money spent by the department in the past, He asked the Minister to appoint n non-partison royal commission to in- quire into the condition of the militia and suggest suoh reforms as might be considered necessary. IVORY'S TRIAL. The Police Say the Dynamiters Lived Freely Before Their Arrest ---Bombs in their Possession, London, Sept. 28.—The examination of Edward J. Ivory, the alleged dyna- miter, was continued in the Bow Street Police Court to -day. Mr. Gill, the keeper of the hotel at Antwerp, at which John F. Kearney and Haines. two df Ivory's alleged fellow-oonspirators, stopped while in the city, was put on the stand. Gill is a brother-in-law of Kearney. He iden- tified photographs of Kearney and Haines, who are under arrest in Rotter- dam, and P. J. 'Tynan. Ile said the three men bad been at his hotel. He also identified the prisoner in the dock, who, he said, had been known to him as Ed- ward Bell. The four had held conferences in a wine shop. Kearney "drank like a fish" while in Antwerp, and the witness threatened to nut him in an'asylum. Detective Beausedom, of Rotterdam, was the next witness. He described the arrest of Kearney and Haines. When they were searched the police found in their possession receipted bills for nitric and sulphuric acids and absorbent clay. In a shag belonging to Haines were found twelve bombs. When asked how it came about that they had the bombs in their possession they said that an unknown man had given them to them. They then refused to answer any further questions. Dynamite cartridges were fonnd be- neath Kearney's pillow in his room and torn letters signed Edward Bell. The ex- amination was then adjourned for two weeks, TELEGRAPHED TO THE SULTAN. St, Petersburg, Sept. 28.—In a re- strained and dignified article on the Armenian question, the Russian Gazette urges, in the interests of European peace and upon principles of humanity, a rap- prochement between Russia and t.,'reat Britain, It declines to endorse the siiggsstinn that Great Britain arranged OW massacres in her own interests and declares that it believes that the sympa- thy of the powers is on her side. It is in favor of decisive pressure being brought to bear on thePorte,to whose faulty gov- ernment is largely due the dark side of recent events. The Gazette adds: "Strict watchfulness of the interests of Russia, in the East cannot be considered by Rus sian diplomats as an n bsolnte impedi- ment to the establishment in the near future ofsuch an entente with Great Britain and the other powers as will afford a solution of the complicated question which unceasingly alarms ,Eu- rope. London, Sept. 28.—The anti -Turkish speech delivered by Mr. Gladstone at the mass meeting held in .Liverpool yester- day to protest against the Armenian: atrocities was wired to the .Sultan at Constantinople last evening. A FATHER'S STORY. RAPPXNESS RESTORED WREI( ROI'E HAI. ALMOST G1ONE. His Daughter Began to. Droop and Fade.. Was Attacked With Hemorrhage and Life Was Despaired Of --Site is Again Enjoying Robust Health. Il'roln the Brantford' Courier. A recent addition to the Grand Trunk staff in this city is Mr, Thomas Clift, who is living at 75 Chatham street. Mr. Clift, who was formerly a policeman in the great city of London, is a fine-look- ing specimen of an Englishmen of the type so often seen in the Grand Trunk employ and who make so desirable a olase of citizens. Sinoe his advent here he has been a warm advocate' of that well known medicine, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and through his endorse, meat, dozens of boxes have been sold to his friends and acquaintances. A Courier representative, anxious, al- though not surprised, to know the rea- son for Mr. Clift's warm eulogy of the pills, called on that gentleman' recently. Mr. Clift willingly consented to an in- terview, and in the following story told his reason for being so sincere an advo- cate of a world-renowned medicine. "Some five years ago," said Mr. Clift, "my daughter Lilly began to droop and fade, and became disinclined either for work or pleasure. A doctor in London was called in and be prescribed exercise and a general 'rousing up' as the best medicine to effect a cure. My daughter did her best to follow his instructions, but the forced exercise exhausted her completely, and she gradually grew worse. Coe night I and my wife were terribly alarmed by a ory from Lilly, and hastening to her room found her gulping up large quantities of blood. I. rushed for a doctor and be did his best to stop her hemorrhage, but admitted to me that her case was very oritioaL She drooped away to a t ritable shadow, and for weeks when I went to bid her good- bye in the morning as I went to my work I feared I might not see ber alive again, This went on for a long time until one day a friend recommended my daughter to try the effect of Dr. Wil- liams' Pink Pills, She consented to do so and in a comparatively brief period a decided benefit was perceptible. She persisted with the use of the pills and gradually rose from a bed of suffering and sickness until she once again at- tained robust young womanhood. For the last three years she has been in excel- lent health. It was Pink Pills that vir- tualty brought her from the mouth of the grave and preserved for me my daughter. Now do you wonder why I sound their praises and recommend them at every opportunity?" Dr. Williams' Pink Pills strike at the root -of the disease, driving it from the system and restoring the patient to health and strength. In cases of paralysis, spinal troubles, locomotor ataxia, scut ice, rheumatism, erysipelas, scrofulous troubles. eta„ these pills are superior to all other treatment. They are also a specific .for the troubles which make the lives of RD many women a burden, and speedily restore the rich glow of health to pale and sallow cheeks. Men broken down by overwork, worry or excesses, will find in Pink Pills a certain pure. Sold by all dealers or sent by mail post- paid, at 50e a box, or six boxes for $2.60, by addressing the Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, Brookville, Ont., or Schenec- tady, N. Y. Beware of imitations and substitutes alleged to be "just as good." Century for September. General Horace Porter's personal recol- lections of General Grant, which, The Century will publish beginning In Nov ember, are to be called "Campaigning with Grant." General Porter first met General Grant at Chattanooga; he soon became attached to his staff, and was with him constautly from that time until the close of General Grant's first term as President, during which he was Grant's private secretary.. At his first meeting with General Grant General Porter was deeply impressed with the genius and power of the great com- mander, and he ]rade a practice.of jotting down impressions of the important events_ then crystallizing into history, with full notes of his conversations with his chief.' The result is a series of graphic pen.; pictures, which will give the reader a close and intimate viers' of the great general. • OUT OF THE TOILS. __— Physicians Failed Cure -All Failed --Bat the Great South American Kidney Cure, a Specific Remedy for a Speci- fic Trouble, Cured Mrs. A. E. Young of Baruston, P.Q., Quickly and Per- manently.• r This is her testimony: "I ryas taken 'sick in January, 1S98. I employed several of the best local physicians stud was treated by them for kidney disease until the autumn of the sante year without receiving much benefit. I then began using your South American Kiduey (Jure,' and derived great benefit almost immedi' :Italy. 1 feelnow that I am quite cured I have taken no medicine for some length of time and have not had a returu of the slightest symptom of the disease." AGolden Beginning. Gilhooly—This is a little peculiar. 3lustetter McGinnis—What is peculiar? "Young oung Freshy has really married that rich old widow he has been courting." "What is there so funny about that? "Nothing, except that he begins with this golden wedding." In Ignorance. husband --Will you send me up a drink of water, clear? Wife—What time did you come in last night? "1 don't know whether you want a glass or a pailful." ' A Benefactor. Ilnmorist—I have, sir, an, original joke for sale., Editor of Comic Weekly—Very • sorry, sir, but we have been simply oveW elmed-- Inmorist-But this does not refer to the X rays. Editor of Comic Weekly(excitedly)-- ( y) Bless mel What's your price? Net So Very Lucky. "Robbers attacked Site train I was on, and held upthe porter, not molesting the iassengers. `a "Tbatwas lucky for thep as)lengers." "It' was, I don't think. Pio porter promptly went around with his broom sad, made another collection."