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ata Three littadree,-
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ary. el. Gideon% verity (via.
Weil of Herod, --A fountain on
orthera fdde of Meant, Gilboa.
a at *ewe a steam a coneiderable
4 '.k Mil of elorch-it IS theught tet-
te; Manton ie the hill meant. weigh la
berme the valley from, Mount Gilboa.
alio thirty-twu thousand leraelites
were encamped on tete north eide of
Mount Gilboa and the one liundred and
tiertystive thoueand Alidianttee were
eueamped to the north toward the eill
ot Alone. 2, Vaunt themselvea against
itaa-The Lore saW the prido of heart
of breed Mut knew their disposition to
tteeeleet or forsake him, Mine teen,
!mod -Even if there weee only the
small army of Israel arrayed, against
more than tour times as many elidlaa-
Kee, and the fornaer amulet be victor'.
taus, they wooed .not. recognize God's
hand in tee victory; 3. Fearful and
rarreee-en Deut. 20: 1-8 several diree-
tions aro given with regard to going
out to war, and in one it is provided
• that the "feserfol and faintheerted"
' yeah return; home.
• (E Yot too many -The Lord purpoaed
to show the people that the victory to
be achieved would not come throttgla
etunIan might. Unto the tvator-The
e fountain of Hared and the fitment
flowing from. it, This shall go
tine shell not go. --Another test was
ordered whiele would further reduce
the aeanher in the aria, e. Lappeth
lar • the Water -From the folleevine
'verse it is learned that this eneression
Means te drink by bringing water
• ,with the hand to the mouth, as a dog
.conveye wator into its mouth with its
touguu\ lloWete down -To, kneel or
IL e. dowu to laring the mouth to the
*water,
ad thus to drink, 6. Three
itundred-.A. small number drank by
lapping the water. 7. By the three
.. hundred men that lapped will I save
you -It is maintained that the mon
Who drank by lapping water with their
'hernia were more fully on their guard
than those who bowed down to drink.
:They! •were etanding • and could keep
their eyes on the enemy, and thus
avoid being ' taken Unawares. This
test, however, may have been employ-
ed because theLord knew that the
;Teeter lumber would drink in the
•Cenvenient Way of bowing down, and
a 'very few "would drink by lapping,
smite thus the number would be re-,
uncork to exactly the desired propor-
tions. Every man tante hts plaeeee.
The _three hundred had Stood tee two
: testa andwere proved to be both brave.'
and wateefttl. The others were sent
to their teets, but the three hundred
were retained as Gideon's army in
Marked tontrast to the "host of Mi-
nn" hi the valleye•
*Gideon eelieburaged (ye. 9.15).
glee Gideon further encouragement
Lord arranged it so that be would'
r a dream told by one of the men
the Midianite army, and its inter-,
tattoo. The man dreamed that a:
a of barley bread fell or rolled into
damp of the enchant*, It -streak
nt old keocked it •down, so that
„fall flat .on the ground:. The ma
a he told the dream sattl. ."This •le
othing 'else save the sword, of Gideon
he son of hash, a man of Israel: for
nt'o Ins' hand hath .God delivered
elidien, and 'all the host." This iu.
erpretation showed that the Lord had
•nspired fear into the bearte of the
kliailites.•
III. The attack (vs, 16-20), 16, into'
laree COMpanies-This was probably
elone that. an approach Oa the camp of
Midian engin be elude at several
Points at the same time, A. trumpet
In every man's hand -Trumpets and
torches were ueually carried by the
leaders of the army and not by corn -
Mon Soldiers; in this case each seldier
was supplied with' them. Ehipty piton-
ers-Earthenware veseels such as were
used for carrying water. They were
to coneeal the lighted torches. Lateles
-Torches-. 17, look tan nie-Gideon
was the leader and his men were to
carry out his plan fully and carefully,
• 18, on every side of all the camp -
The contemplated attack would bring
terror.- as it • Would appear that the
itlianites were wholly surrounded
e sword of the Lord, and of Gideon
or Jeb.oval and for Gideon"e-R. V.
ginning of the middle watch -It
abut Midnight. The night was
1divided into three 'watches, the even -
13
take the pitchers -The sound of the
Ing, the middle and the morning. 20,
ereaking of three hundred pitchers at
Mice would seern like a great Moe of
arras. The sword of UM Lord, and of
Gideon -This tee from three huhdred
men of War, accompanied hy the
, Sounding of three hundred trumpets,
• the breaking cte ap many pitchers end
the gitita of as tnany torches at mid-
night were sufficient to strike terror
to the hearts of the enemy.
.: IV. The vietory (vs. 21-25). 21. Ev.
ery mon in his place round about
. Muir -To each of Gideon's three hun-
dred men a work was assigned, and
•each did it. They were to sound their
'• trumpets, held up their lights and
Silent. As they did their part, the
Lord did Ins, and victory was cer-
tain. The. host ran, and cried and
•
?Ted -The Midianitee were terror-.
stricken and in utter confusion. 22.
Every man's sword against his fellow
-Tele was the Lord's doing. The
eildianites mistook their fellows for
enemies and turned their weapons
upon one another. They fled with
the hope of making their escape.
There seems to have been no thought
of making a tand to fight Mead.
Beth-shittah.... Abel-meholah - The
location or these plow i§ Uncertain.
It is elan evident they -were quite
east of Sezreel, toward the elorden. 23.
'Mee of Israel eratirsued-Men from t1ie.
various tribes.itere hastily' semnioned
and joined in the destruction of their
enemies. 24 25. The men of 'bailment
were called upon to take the region
along the Jordan and head off the
Midianitee front making their escape.
We did not hear 'et the" elidianites
again In bistory.
QUESTIONS. - .Deecribe flideores
tall.' How did the number In Gide-
on* army conwero with tbat of the
Midtanites? What wee the firet teat
applied to Gidtton'e armee Describe
the second feet. • ' Why did tee Lord
-desire to redeye the number of men?
Whet pricOilf.a'aPiliOnt mime to Gedeon7
!erectile, the vireo/trot of Gideonet
men. 'flew we; Jae n0t^ea. triode wren
tbs caoT er fir Midianites? tef-
eeribe flio result.
Praetesal PereeYs
Topic-Men:1v ordelned tests;
/. lenjoined upen the army of ett-
rae4-
et. 1, ffeeto e treeette the Midi:mite,.
o teefelerd tope tlitt !MY of Ttrao1
toed etli,e cite Tit fe eeeettes. lie!,
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reeuctlou of external means was God'e
way of giviag success. Everything
evas in apparent readiness whentwo
mysterious test were enjoined, first,
to check the unbelief and self-conceit
of men and to secure efficiency, by a.
trial of courage and eiscIpline of faith
and inspiration. The army was re-
duced to its effective strength, not ex-
tensive, but intensive. The etecend
test revealed the presence or absellee
of the rarer (mantles. Gideon's faith
was sorely trled on the eve of battle,
but we have no complaint from hini.
Before Goa's elear eorninand all his
natural feelings and wishea gee° way
at once. His faith proMpted him to
obey at whatever samifiee Of Wollner
tion or desire. Alone of all that host
he had Marne tb.e responsibility of re-
ducing it to three hundred, He look-
ed with a single eye to the will of
God and took no count of conse-
quences to himself or to others. He
set the word and promise et God on
one side and all the fearful rlsas and
dangers on the other, when he had
taken due care and caution in verely-
Ing, the work of God. Abundant as-
surance was given to him that the
for what he del. Divine wisdom was
for what he did, ,Divine wisdora was
afterward seen in the selection of the
three hundred. It was that God's
power might be recognized in the vie -
tory, The soldiers did not know that
tbey were determining their fate when
they drank, but that little incident re-
vealed their characters,
IL Effectiveagainst the Midianite&
Belief in the victory of Seativah Wae
all important with Gideon shied he
had eeeeived Sand and distinct ae-
airtime that in he coming battle he
should be triuraphant; yet he needed
the conviction that in the impending
conflict numbers would count for
nothing. In a singular and grotesqtte
style Um dream of the barley cake
with its interpretation taught huin
exadtly that fact. In It we see Me
exquisite adapta ion of divine tevela-
tion to 'hutuan requirements. The
'telethon arrayed against him unwit-
tingly proved to be hie timely- stimu-
lus, It was necessary for. Gideon to
be well aware of the facts, to allow
Sully the nature of the opposition.
Ileetrina from his enemies the promise
of victory, Gideon hastened back "to
his mop fMed with reverence and
joy to prepare for an immediate at-
tack. His ticherne was simple, (peed
•an.d ingettious. His profound trust in
God gave character to his plans. His
strategy* is one or the military ounveM
ofautiquity. A great end weareaehed
by most iosignificant instrumentalite,
Never did means appear more con.
temptibIe than those • eiliployed by
Gideen. The reetalt proved their effi-
ciency, yet what served at that junc-
ture wetad have beets utterly ttseless
at another ten& Gideon's victery was
a triumph of thought and of eontriv-
ante, a vietory God-given and corn -
Mete. The Israelites stod every man
in his place while fear and suepleion
did the work. The dismay he created
and the confusion thus created in the
hostile Camp secured him victory.
Darkness and ignorance -made the
Midianites their own worst enemy.
There was a strange power in Terriers
battle -cry, but there was no blasphemy
In it. By it Gidemes army made
humble recognition of the fact that
God had taken Gideon into his service
and into joint possessien of the sword
with which Gideon fought. Israel
realized .that the battle they had to
fight was the Lord's and not their
own. They stood in unity, courage
and faith, the finite inco-operation
With the Infinite. The far-reaching
encampment of the Midianites was, to
all appearanees, organized for defence
at every point; while Israel was, in
their estimationa defeated, famished
people whose life had been almost
crushed. That one fact which had
become known to the Midianites, of'
Israel's return to Jehovah, shaped into
the dream of one man and the inter-
pretation .of it expressed the cause of
trembling 'weich spread through the
hcsitle hoet. For days and nights the
retreat of the Mldianites went on Until
the strange, swift tritimph of. Israel
was assural. T. B. A.
• *es, •
REV, R.J,ELLIQTT
Harriston, San. 18. -Rev. R. J. El-
liot, pastor of ,the Methodist Church,
died early Sunday morning, after an
nines of six weeks, due to heart dis-
ease mid general breakdown of the
system. He came to Harriston from
Dunnville last July, and during the
short career here has endeared himself
to his coragregatIon and won the es-
teem of the eontmunity. He was the
eldest son of cue of the Methodist
etratit riders in Ontario in the middle
rtf tee last century. and for more
than forty' years has beett aa active
minister et the Methodist Church. He
was the father of the Stattlina aveoue
charge in Toronto, having established
it as a missien.
"leen years he had been chairman el
the districts in which he resided, and
at the time of his death was chairman
of the PaInterston distriet, a nietaber
of tbe Investment Committee of the
Superatintiatiort Fund, end of the
(votive Board ef Alum, College. St. •
Thomasele had been G.enered • Confer-
ence representative to various bodies,
on several cetasions ho, has filled the
Pre,sidentet ebafr and spent teverfal
ecars on she Church Missino Beard of
tin' Cliurcie
Ire is tsurvietel by his widov and
four kterte--P. l. Islitot. et Aniston.
tie W. Pinot. Pentiee Mich.; le'11.
Plitott. remittent. end R. M. Telliott.
BrAnden. Metre 5. et.11111ot. rig lanV-
1:1111, le It's einetivine bertiher. Pt -moral
eerolees 'll 1'104 fn Toe:elate at 1
n'elvek, after .nefitei the reelable WM
tie 4eVer% ter tote -meet +A Newiostrket.
which V14 0+14 nf devased'a e.hargei
TORONTO MARKETS.
rAtairtts' mAlticirr.
igigge, new -laid, dozen.. $ 45 0 00
aucter, dairy • , 20 0 38
Chickens, dreseete lb... 0 15 0 17
Dueks. deessed. .., 0 15 0 17
Turkeys, dressed, lb,. , 0 20 0 21
Geese, dressed, lb, ... 0 15 0 16
Apples, Can„ bbl ......2 50 4 00
Potatoes, bag .... 0 65 0 70
Cabbage, aozen . „ 0 25 0 40
Celery, dozen , 0 30 0 40
Cranberries, bet, „.., 6 00 7 00
Onions, 75-14. sack 1 25 1 40
Doe Spanish, crate., 3 50 4 00
Sweet potatoes, hamper 1 55 1 60
Pineapples, case 2 75 3 00
'WHOLESALE mins.
Wholesale houses are quoting as
follows;
Beef, foreq'ters, ewes $10 00 $11 00
Itindquartere 13 50 14 00
Carceee, choice 00 13 00
Dp., rneditim 10 00 11 00
Dee,. continual . . 8 00 9 00
Veal, common, cwt. .. 12 50 13 00
Do„ prime . 14 00 15 00
Mutton 8 00 10 00
Doe ... 10 00 12 00
Lambs, Spring .., ... 14 00 15 50
Hogs, light 10 00 11 00
DO., hetery ... 0 00 9 50
SUGAR MARKET.
Sugars here are steady at the fol-
lowing wholesale prices:
• Per peva
Extra granulated, Redpath's 6 36
Do., 20.1b. bags . .... 6 46
" Do„ St, Lawrence ...... 6 30'
Do., 20 -lb. bags . ......6 46
Extras, S.G., Acadia, ....* ..„. 6 26
Dominion, in sacks ... e., 6 21
No. 1 yellow ... .... 5 96
LIVE STOCK,
13utcher cattle. choice .. 7 60 to 7 00
do, do, Medium .. 5 25 to 6 00
do. do, common ........4 75 to 5 25
Butoher cows, choice00 to 6 30
do. do. canner* 3 00 to 4 00
do. do, canners .. ., 3 OD to 4 00
do. bulls ... .. 6 50 to 6 75
Feeding stee'rs 26 to G 75
Stockers, choice ' 5 75 to 6 25
do. light ... • •,..4 25 to 625
Milkers, choice, each.. .. 50 00 to 90 00
Springera GO 00 to 90 00
Sheep, owes „ 5 00 to 6 00
Bucks and culls 3 50 to 4 60
Lambs -... .. 7 20 to 9 25
Hogs, fed and watered ,. .. 7 50
Hogs, 1. o. b... .. .,, 7 15
Calves 7 BO to 10 00
OTHER 1VIARKETS.
WINNIPEG GRAIN OPTIONS.
' • Open. High. Low. ;tan. 10.
- Wheat -
Man ... 1 42(4 1 421/2 1 4091 1. 40,
July ... 1 42O; 1 43 1 42% 1 41%
Oats -
May ...0 59% 0_60% 0 50% 060%
Flax- -
May .. 1 741/2 1 74% • 1 70ee 1 70%
MINNEAPOLIS GRAIN MARKET.
Minneapolis. -Wheat- No. 1 hard,
$1.40 1-2; No. 1 northern, $1.34 1-2 to
e1.40; No. 2 do., $1.31 1-8 to $.1.38;
May, $1.36 1-2.
Corn -No. 3 yellow, 67 1-2 to 68c.
Oats -No. 3 white, 61 to 51 1-2c.
Flour -and bran -Unchanged.
= DULUTH GRAIN MARKET.
Duluth -Wheat -No. 1 hard, $1.38 3-1;
No. 1 northern, $1.37 3-4; No. 2 do..
$1.35 3-4; May, e1.38 3-4.
CHICAGO LIVE STOCK,
Cattle, receipts 15,000.
Market strong.
Steers. native . 6 SO to 9 50
Western steers' G 00 ta 7 60
Cows and heifers .. 3 33 to 8 15
Calves . '7 GO to 10 75
Hogs, reeelpts 30,000.
Market firm.
Light.- 6 70 to 7 15
Mixed ... ..... .. 6 65 to 710
Heavy ••• ••• •• ** 6 55 to 710
Rough •• • ' ' 6 55 to 670
. .„ 5 40 to 6 90
Hulk of ;ales .. 6 80 to 7 50
Sheep, receipts 8,000.
Market firm,
Native ................100 to 025
Yearlings ... .. 6 50 to 7 40
Lambs, native ... 6 50 to 8 40
BUFFALO LIVE STOCK.
Bast Boffalo, Despatch -Cattle receipt
3,400; fairly active; prime steers 8.85 ta
Q.15; shipping' 8.00 to VW butchers ,6.00
to 8.15; heifera 6.60 to 7.65; cows 2.85 to
6.50; bulls 4,60 to 7.00.
'Veit's, receipts 8.00; active; 4.00 to 12.00.
Hogs, receipts 22,000; active; heavy
7.15 to 7.30; mixed 7.16,t4 7.35; youkers 7.30
to 7.43; pigs 7.26 to 7.36; VOUghs 6,25 to
6.50; stags 5.60 to 6.00.
Sheep and lainba, rectipts 19,000; sheep
active; lafrms slow' lambs 5.00 to 8.15;
Yearlings 5.00 06 7.26'; waiters 6.00 to 625;
ewes 3.60 to 5.75; sheep, mixed, 5,75 to
COO.
ee-
MONTREA.L MAItKETS,
Receipts: Cattle 1,000; sheep and lantbs
1,500; hogs 1,b50; colves 200.
Prime beeves 7 to 7 1.2; Medium 5 1-2 to
7; eemmon 4 1-2 to 5 1-2.
Calves, 4 1-2 to 8.
Sheep, 4 3-4 to 5 1.4.
Lambs, 7 1-2 to 8.
Hogs, 8 1.4. .;
LIVERPOOL PRODUCE.
Liverpool (table; Closing. Wheat.
Wheat, seer $060 11ROIN LNIIT.,
No. 1 Manitoba -125, 8d.
No. 2 Manitoba -41s, 9 1-26.
American mixed -7s, 96.
Flour, winter patenta.,-43.
Imps in London (Pacific Coast) -12, 16s.
Hattilt, short cut, 14 te 10 lbs. -69s, 60.
Bacon. Cumberland•cut, 26 to 30 lbs, -
841..
Shea ribs, 16 to 24 nis.-.435s:
Clear 14 to 46 lba.-67s.
Long clear rniddleal heavy, 25 to 40 lbs.-
Ses,
sheet dear Wee, 16 te 20 1be.-60s
Shoulders, squere, it to 13 lbs. -54s, 60.
Lard. prime western, in tiereed, new --
641.
Lard, pdime weSterit, irt tierces, old -
665. 2d.
Arnerleati, loaned -0e ed.
American-, refined, 664b. boxes -66s.
Chase, Canadian, finest withe--Sts.
Colored, new -81s.
Resin, comtnen-11S,
Petroleurn. refined -8 2-4d.
Linseed 011-28s.
Cotton Seed 011, tanned, epoteeeis,
ed.
reAL-IAN KING'S ,RELIEP GIFT,
Rome, Zan. 17. .reltis 'teeter Emma? •
nel has 'donated 300,000 for the relief of
the children abandoned or Made orphans
Teimamwe.gn
•PRUPERTH LOSS
NILL 11MOONT
TO $S11,000,100
Is Estimate of Oost of Damage to
Italian District Swept By
Earthquake.
THE DEATH TOLL
**1.***1***,,,•••
Minister of Works Figures On 30,-
000 Victims in District of
Ayezzano.
F YOUR HEAD ACHES AND YOUR EARS BUZZ
YOU SURELY HAVE CATARRH
Paris, Jan, 18. -The Roraeeecorres.
pendent of the Materetelegraphing de-
tails of elle ecenee in the earthquake
district, says: •
"The rescue work contInuma with
great diffieulty, A Man still living
wee takee Put of the ruble Avez-
Mho Sunday morning. Tee rellroad 103
now repaired and stipelies arsr arriv-
ing regtilarly.
"Prinee Selpione 13orghese, who, in
an automobile wee the first to reach
the scene with blankets, food' and ban-
dages, has undertaken"the task 'it cab-
ling the names of hart/item to te-tild
relatives abroad.
"The frequency of the shocks is di-
mioishing. The seismograph has regis-
tered only eleven in the pant 24 hours
In the region of Avezzano and . Sera,
and none in Rome.•
"The
material damage, it is. esti-
mated, will exceed 300,000,000 lire
($60,000,000)." •
CLEARING UP AVEZZANCY.
Avezaniao, via Rome, Jen. 18, -More
than 200 soldiers are at work on the
•ruins Avezzano, which may be
described as a wilderness extending
for several square miles. Lieute,'Clen-
eraa Marini is in command of the
troops. Signsor Ciufelli, 'Minister of
Public Works, estimates that the
number of dead in. the Avezzano dis-
triet Will retitle 20,000, and that 10,000
Mulls are ineured.
So altogether ruined Is the city that
it is difficult for the inhabitants to .
recognize even streets., much les& in-
dividual houses. Prinee GiovannieTor-•
Ionia, while clambering with the, As-
sociated Tress correspondent teed piles
of broken Masonry', whice was once
the Via Della Stazione, one of the
principal residential streets of the
city, remarked:
"Almost every house In that long
street was occupied by my' friendse
They were people of importance, form-
ing
the intellectual life and miter -
Prise of the city." .
Avezzano was extremely important
a manufacturing and trade tentre.
The sugar works cost $1,250,000. Some
of the machinery. ratty still be of value
when it is eng out. Other mille, less`
important; represented' a% property
valueef some $$,000,000. , •
Incidents in which remarkable res-
cues were made are gradually coming
to light. One is told of a lieutenant
of engineers, Cern i Eville by name,
who came here and located the resi-
dence o this mother, Ile worked for
some time alone, pulling away stones,
but presently he was .aseisted, by some
soldieria. After seven •hoursopf the
hardest kind of labor he found his
mother alive, and not very badly in-
jured. She had boort protected by an
unbroken piece of.well falling over, the
corner in teethe. she was eleeping.•Au-
other rescue of the kind, made Iwo -
men, is also reported. The mother, it
seems, had eicaped, and. believed that
her daughter must be aliee undeeethe
fragments of their house. Che -organ-
ized a party ot woinen and herself
stimulated them ea, cmetinuea what
seemed a hopeless excavation in noth-
ing but a heap of irregular piecee of
limestone.
The mother on Sunday hear da voice
just beneath where the women were
working ,and they finally rescuedethe
young woman, who was roofed in and
pretected by two parts of walls 'teem-
ing an angle One foot was held un-
der the block of stone, but otherense
the youog woma nwas Unhurt :She
had been Without food ot drink for
four days, and had been nearly eutfo-
nated by the dust of the powdered
mortar, which sifted down through
crevices while' the women were trying
to reach her. „
WORKS MINISTER'S ESTIMATE:
"The disaster :seems to- be increas-
ing with every report I receive," said
Signor Ciufelli, Minister a kuigic
Weeks, Sunday. "Probably' half the
population of 60,000 in the Avezzano
district are either dead or lathered. I
do not like t� put the number of dead
eigher than 20,000 for this region.
This, of course, does not inelude
Sera.
"I estienating.sornewhat, without
being actually in possesion of detialed
figures,' becattets I have not yet had
word from more than half of the Piety
vinagee in the'zone ordestruction. The
telephoto and telegraph wiree connect-
ing all these towns have been broken,
and many of the roads are blocked by
vast Masses of rock, and we have,
therefoee, not been able tcr rea.elt many
or these places.
"I am afraid that terrible things
have happened, quite beYone the Nav-
el' of local relief to help, •but withia
another 24 hours it Will be possibleeto
send battalions of workers and food fel
all the village& ,
• 'MOUNTAIN TOWN HAM) HIT.,
Magliano duelers'', Jtaly, Jan, 17, 'via,
kerne, Jan. 18. -This town, higher .up
in the mountalne has suffeted sca.reely
less front the earthcatake than (*-
pone, its neigleberiftg village, There
are 1,300 dead and 300 wounded in'a
population of 2,400. Less than 100 bod-
ies have so far been recovered.
Nearly all the survivors seem %to
have had rairaculotts eseaPaO, as 'so
many of the'houses 'collapsed entire -1Y.
The 'cletarch. is cortelderablreentaged,
tie west elmerl is utterly ruined, .1t
contained seine beautiful frescoes IV'
Zuceari.
The surviving popthation in this, as
well as - twine of the other small
places at first :suffered greatly. front
lack eg adietteite es the neceesi-
ties of large towns like Aveztatio and
Hon appeared Moreettegerit, taintlitions
have slime impreveds Alla' state -said
heing stipnletronle0
Feveral autdnitibile!,Parties rem' fr011
it d 'ciordittribtit d breiid
and Nr.
tetante,
et docen't treater how twig yea Itave
euffered, or hoe* oftenyou have failed
to get relief -even though Catarrh
MO affect every organ in your body,
you can lea permanently cured by in.
hiding the ifoothime vapor of Catarello.
201te.
A few breaths through Catorreozone
inbaler clears the phlegm out ef the
threat mad stops rem eough, note -
erns are eleensee of offense% e mucoue
elleellierge, and freeezikig and sniffling
t'tent at once. Partial 1063 of hearing
and ifeadache tuery common amp -
them of eaturehe are qlicl<Iy mired,
:led in a short time every trace of ea -
Mere disappears.
Nothing eau be sitOpler Or More
Melt:mut than Caterrhozotte. Ite hea1.
In piney vapor sehda a wenn Cleans-
ing sensation through all tho ,air pas -
fagot; in the. head and thronee-inaltes
you feel better lzl half a minae.
"My ears buzatea lay elle hour and I
had frigbtful Iteail noise:4," urites
1'. nerdy, from Port Huron. °Cetterrit
Nide eillea, iny Miele head end throat,
got•relief mighty fast what 1 ttled
catarrhozone; it hit the spot Instant-
ly. Yon bet Catarthozono liat cured
me and 1 Mandy eiVear 1ij .it,"
Get the complete $1.00 outfit,. it
'toes the trick in a luirry-oaver falls;
emelt size 5t/c: trial tar Sample size Zee,
sold by all enters everyweere,
••••••••WVA,1••••••••••••.,,,w.sror
OF F000 NIES
London, Jan, 18. -Alt Increase of 70
per Oat, iii the price of wheat as
compared -With a year ago, and similar
advanees in other. foodstuffs. are givs
Ing rise to a demand for some form of
State tentrol of the food enplanes, The
General Pederation of Trades Urlione
low taken up this matter and intends
to urge the Government, when paella.-
ment meets, to take steps to prevent
speculation ea food products. The price
of wheat is now higher than at any
Previbus time in fifty years.
Governmental regulation of freiget
rates for Um transportation of food-
stuffs. over the seas also is strongly
urged.
4.,
-METHODIST MEN
Provincial Association Conference
is On at Brantford.
Brantford, Jan. 17,- The third
annual conference of the Methedist
Men's. Association of Ontario opened
here to -day with special services and
evangelistic meetings in all the Brant-
ford IVIethodist churches. Among the-
ePeCial speakerta were Rev. T. Albert
Moore, General Semetary of the Social
Service and Evangelism Department;
Rev, S, W. Aikens, pastor of Metro-
politan Church, Toronto; Rev. W. 5.
Smith., Pield Secretary, rued Mr. Joseph
Gibson, of Ingersoll. Rev, J. H. Hazte-
wood, •Field Secretary, spoke at Paris
and St. George. Two mass meetings
were held in the afternoon, one at
Brant Avenue Church," addresaed by
• Rev. T. Albert Moore, and the other
.ae Wesley Church, by Rev. ,r. W.
'Aileen& The convention proper opens
teeinorriew morning, with delegates
expected from all parts of Ontario,
The morhing session will be deveted
to brotherhood work, with addresses
by Rev,. T. Albert Moore, Rev. (1. W.
Watch of • Midland, 'Messrs. A. W.
.Briggs Ausman, Toronto.
CREWS GO DOWN
'British Vessels Meet Disaster On
Worfolk Coat.
n 'probationer. in eorsequence of the eartbqualt.., eme yester a ; e _
. eyhe Angie -America 'Nursing Renee arid other food among tee vsoMen seed
take rare teat no 'me hats!, ;ou fVt;etthilt WenitgliVut r°,1*ofNIvrtic )tigle •dtIldttin. eetigliborine
fleeseeettie. have eeter etheate 11144 are, also tenderia
•
London, Jan. 18. -Twenty• -one of
the crew of 27 of the British steamer
Penarth were drowned to -day off the
Norfolk coast.. The Penarth, with a
cargo of maize, was sailing for Hull
from the River Plate. She struelt
Seeringham shoal in a heavy gale,
and is a total wreck.
eix survivors from the Penarth were
pieked by a trawler. The Pen-
arth was a small vessel, of 1,959 tons.
Another British vessel, the George
Royle, also believed to have been
wrecked in the same locality. She left
the line for Saint Nazaire, France.
The flare of rocket signals was ob-
served by the coast guards at Cro-
mer, but the fire disappeared before
the lifeboat reached.the scene.
One of the George Royle's-boats has
come ashore. The fate of the crew
is not known. The George Royle
sailed from. Hull Dec. 10th. She was
of 1,522 tons net.
LIFTS EMBARGO
But Cerra= May Cancel Pearson
• Concessions.
Washington, Jah. 17. -The British
Embassy had announced to -night that
word held been received 'from General
Carranza, through the 13ritish Lego. -
tion in Mexico City, lifting the' em-
bargo me the exportation of oil at
Tampico; which had threatened the
Tote supply of the British fleet.
London, Ian. 17. -The representa.-
tive of Lord Cowdray in Mexico has
tabled Oho that General Carranza has
issued a 'decree catteelling the oil con-
cessions to the Peason syndicate, of
which Lord Cowdray 16 the head, on
the greund that these resources be-
leng to Mexico.
Lord Cowdray laid the matter be-
fcre the Foreign Office, which is
puzzled as to what action to Mae, as
there is 110 recognizea Government in
Meeico .at present.
NE W PRFSIDliN I
Gen. Oarta is LateseHead in Mexi-
can Republic.
BLACK TROOPS
Moroccan Rifle Regiments DA
Great -Work.
SHOOT ITEMS
OF THE NEWS
OF THE HI
Soissons, via Paris, Jan. 18,-Tlie
rear guard of tee Moroccan rifle regi -
meats, who covered the retreat Of the
centre emu the river on the 1.4th,
eCiVered themselVen with glory, Teey
had been posted la the village of
Croue.
At 4 o'cloca in the afternoon, the
Lierraans, in serried ranks, debouched
in tee road and advanced toward the
village. The riflemen carefully con-
cealed their quick -firers, and posted
themselves on each side of the road,
Not a murmur arose, .and nothing was
allowed to show itself above the black-
ened ruin% The Germans thought the
road was clear, and ran to the village
to get shelter from the French heavy
artillery.
When they were , within 500 yards
of the place the riflemen opened fire
and they fell in heaps. Those who
Baur:My:01y, The Germans were sur-
prised. There' Was no room to deploy,
cquld, fell back to the brook of
Reinforced, they reformed their
ranks and tried to turn the French
position by way of the east side of the
village. Three companies of riflemen
deta.ehed and charged. The shook was
awful. threonete were twisted out of
settee, arid then the dusay soldiers
used the butts of their rifles. For a
second time the Germ.ans gave way.
The Moroccans were told to hold
their place till 5 p.m. It was then 6
o'clock, but they still refused to retire,
They only did so after a staff officer
was sent to them twice with art order
tor retreat.
During the night the German artil-
lery roared ceaselessly in. a borabarde
ment of Soissons, but at dawn of the
15111, the artillere fire eleckened and
gave place to infantry fire.
At 7 o'clock a battalion of the line
occupying the farms of St. Paul, were
ordered to protect the advanced
trenehes, which were threatened by
the German attack. They charged and
broke the German ranks, driving them
as far as the Crotty railroad station,
and taking 100 prisoners. Hardly,
laowever, had they got back with the
prizoners when they were assailed by
fresh German forces, and for two hour
St, Paul was subjected to a furious as-
sault over plowed fields, through or-
chards and in gardens, court yards and
In barns.
The tide of battle ebbed and flowed
in the angle of a stable wall. Here
the German dead were so numerous
that some stood upright, lacking room
totall.all.
The
practice of French 3 -inch
• guns, guided by aeroplanes, prevented
German reinforcements from debouch-
ing from the weetern skip° of the
Vregny plateua, and the Germans, ex-
hausted and discouragedadtyloo
ttieirtcl
yt
of success, retired in a bo
at Tahoe() n.
French eethin the mastery of
the suburbs of Soissons, on the right
bank of the river, and of the bridge
head. Their front is stronger than
ever. •
4 ••••
THE GERMANS
Mexico: City, Jan. 17. -Gen; Roque
Gotiselea Gana as last night named,
Provisional President' of Mexico by
the conventionitt sessioit here, over
evhich be line presided. The former
Provipional Pre -Mont, . Gen. Wane
'Outierree, together -with Gens. Mance,
Robles, and jos. Vitsconcelos, left
elexice City this morning at 4 o'cleek
, for Paceuco.
eternal law bite .been declared by
'Gem alarm and Um eity is being
Patrolled by mounted -pollee.
ta pleeting -tiery,a, the ettUrent10/1
'declined iteelfto mpretne, end
until a new President is eSected, haa
tie:mined all the logiblative, executive
tied intleeel pee ere.
Are Trying Hard to Drive Rus-
sians From Vistula.
-
Petrograd ,via, London, Jan .18. -
Recent developments in the vicinity
of Warsaw appear to indicate that the
Germans are directing their efforts
to Push the Russians beyond the east
bank of the Vistula, at the junction
of that river with the Pilica.
It is the opinion of a high military
authority that the Germans expect co-
operation from the Austrians, who
are seeking to foree their way through
froth the vicinity of the upper Nida,
Where reeently hard fighting has been
reeorded. Holding a line of trenches
arid fortifications directly west of
Warsaw, the German activity for the
past fifty hours has been around a
big village between Sochaczew and
Bolenow, where six attacks in succes-
sion Were made Saturday night.
In the region of Pima and Mlatva,
the Germans appear to be on the de-
fensive. They'have been slowly push -
ea back by the Russians, who daily
are reported to be capturing new vil-
lages. Saturday the Russians are said
sed the • River Skrwa,
bt oeSI:o;tvt1611terit):eri; the Austrians have for -
which enters the Vistula, a feW miles
titled along the River Dunajec and
are besiegihg Tarhow with heavy ar-
tillery. Their 'aim is believed to be
to push eastward and relieve Pre-
eraysl,
With all Bukowina in the hands of
the Russians, only one pass, which
is strengly fortified, prevents an in-
vasion of Transylvania, Hungary.
11e-organizatioit of the Austrian
army through whieh an Austro -Ger-
man element predmhinates, on the
eastern front, where formerly there
was a large percentage of Slays, is
said "to have worked a notable im-
provement in efficiency. The Austrian
Slays are reported to have been taken
to the French front
GEMA.7-e
P E VICTIMS
Loadoiihe Morning
'i.t't?5 Stuekholno corrospotident
says:
"Mating the last fortnight five Ger-
man eteamere have disappeared In the
halite :lea with all their crewel. They
N“tre lost by striking mines.
90 is *a ported that leading tnembere
uf Cerntan comnferelal and ehippine
circles have collected $50,000 for He-
tives of Sweelielt reamen who bate,
been lost through cliseteters in the 'Cul:
of Finland dee to Gartner; melee."
Delegation of Japanese .EUS/11045 -
Men Will Tour Canada. to
InspeotInduetries,
POPE'S APPEAL
Antwerp Pays Latest Big Levy
Ordered by German Con-
querors.
John Leo, ex.M. P. Air East Kent,
died at Ridgetown,
Practice with =Milne guns will start
at lexhibitioa camp this week.
South Waterloo by-election writ
names Feb. 1 as nomination day,
A. British naval patrol tug, with all
her crow, was eusik off Dover in a
The cite of Antwerp has paid the
German levy et $10,000,000, which
was due Friday.
Irtthal Greenberg, the child struce
down by a marketnan'e stray bullet ie
Toronto, is dead.
The condition of Queen Victoria of
Spain, who is suffering from scarlet
fever, is reported to be improved.
Helfrerich, a noted bank authority,
mwialnl bTeretalaseuSecretary of the Ger-
y.
Eight relief ships from the United
;States are on the Atlantie bound ter
destitute Belgium, -
Wm. Gray, President of London
Conservative Association, was nomin-
ated for the House of Commons.
Prof. Benzinger, of Toronto Univer-
sity, has applied to the Registrar of
Aliens to go to Princeton University.
Edward M. Wrong, of Bailee Col-
lege,, Oxford, son of Professor Wrong,
of Toronto, has been awarded the Belt
prize.
Winnipeg will receive $122,226.90
from the street railway company as
its share of the profits made by the
road this pant year.
S. Js Donaldson, M.P.P. for Shell
Brook, Sask., was chosen Federal can-
didate by the Conservatives after a
twelve-hour sitting in convention.
W. A. Clarke, M.P. for North, Wel-
lington, was again chosen. candidate
for next Federal election by the Con-
servative Association of that riding.
Dr. Andrew Hunter has been ap-
pointee to the chair of pathological
c.ohoemtoMtry at the 'University of To-
ronto,
delegation of Japanese business
men will shortly pay a visit to Oaraada
for the purpose of inspecting com-
merce and industry.
. II. R. II. the Duke of Connaught
will go to Toronto onahe 22nd to pre-
side at a meetingof the Red Cresa.
Society to be held there.
The Rome Messagero declares hostile
manifestations took place on Thurs-
day in front of the Italian Embassy
in Vienna and the residenne of the
Consular Agent at Villach, Aostria.
Both Panamau and canal sons police
are engaged itt an energetic search for
a powerful wireless telegraph outfit
that is believed to been operation in
the vicinity of Panama city.
Major Z. T. Wood, C. M. G., assistant
commissioner of the Royal Northwest
Mounted Police, died Friday hi Ashe-
ville, N. C.
Right Hon. Lord Justice Sir William
R. Kennedy died suddenly Sunday. He
.was an authority on marine law. Ile
was born in 1840.
The -Dominion and Provincial De-
partments of Agniculture have decided
Jointly to call county conferences in
Canada's "Patriotism and Production"
campaign.
A decree was submitted to President
Poincare which conferred upon Grand
-Duke Nicholas, commander-in-chief of
the Russian forces in the field, the
military medal of France.
A Petrograd despatch to the Paris
Temps says the German Admiral Some -
hon, has been relieved of his command
of the Turkish fleet, on account of
Itis failures in the Black Sea,
The Pope bee .,ordered a special
Prayer for early peace to be recited
all over the world. His Holiness com-
posed the prayer himself and trans-
lated it into the variotte languages in
which it is to be given.
A report has been received at Rome
that the Italian torpedo gunboat ()oath
has been badly damaged while cruising
in the Adriatic. No details were given
regarding the accident.
The death of Lieut. -Gen. Stoessel,
the defender of Port Arthur, is an-
nounced in a Petrograd aespatch to
Reuters Telegrem. Company. Gee..
Stoessel had suffered from paralysis
for several month&
George Boyne, aged 54, Toronto,
committed suicide on Saturday after-
noon by drinking carbolic acid. Boyne,
who was a French-Canadian, had been
despondent since•the death of his wife
several weeks ago.
The Canadian Naval ,Service Depart-
ment is looking for engineer artificers
for the British Navy. Places will be
found for marine migineers in- the
ships ef the Royal Navy for the peeled
of the war,
According to leendersoifeDirectory
for 1915 the ponalar of Greater Win-
nipeg is 213,047. These figures are
baeed upon the number 01 names
Which the directory contains, and is
not ‘5 census.
11 is reported from Petrograd that
Enver Pasha, the 'Young Turk Minister
of War, has returned to Constanti-
• nople from Annetta, and has ordered
• cers for disobedienee to the Gekinan
otlftericeexres.cution of several: Turkish °M-
elee startihg in the boiler house of
the Meteor Mine, which adjoins the
McKinley Darragh Savage property in
the :Cobalt, Completely destroyed the
power plant of the mine, besides the
mine blacksmith Miele
Rev, Dr. R, le. elacietty, er Toronto,
general eceretary of the Pratt-et/Irian
'General Miseion Board etol eve:Moder-
ator of the Presbyterian Vie:lend As-
a:meta, erfletated Stitaley at he oven -
int. %tee (imileatrt'V Vert.litel vf
Prrel yt erien Ilureb at 1Cintore, Peet
Neeteuri towneato. The paeifir of the
chorea a Ite e Dr. Ian Ninebonald,
oho V., to eta to tea, front as a Oar-
lete.
ea' • -
MOST PERFECT MADE
THE INORBASEO NUTRITle
014 VALUE OF FIREAO MADE
IN THE HOME WITH ROYAL
YEAST CAKES SHOULD BE
SUFFICIENT INCENTIVE TO
THE CAREFUL HOUSEWIFE
TO GIVE THIS IMPORTANT
FOOD ITEM THE ATTENTION
TO WHICH IT IS JUSTLY EN-
TITLED.
HOME onsArreAKING RE-
DUCES THE HIGH COST OF
LIVING EIY LESSENING THE
AMOUNT OF EXPENSIVE
MEATS REQUIRED TO SUP..
PLY THE NECESSARY NOUR-
ISHMENT TO THE BODY.
E. W. GILLETT CO.
TORONTO, ONT,
WINNIPEG MONTREAL
LA BASSEE. BIEN
IS NM DENIED:
London, Jan, 18, 3.05 P.m. -The ob-
server with the British army in Prance,
who writes the day-by-day reports
of events given out to the press, is au-
thority ror tne statement that British
forces did not recently capture certain
German positions near La Bassee'and
make an advance of one mile. That
they had done so was reported San.
15 in a despatch from St. Omer, pub-
lished in Paris.
No attack on the positionat La
Bassee has been attempted. by the
Britieh force.
AN AWFUL CRIME'
••••••• ••••••••.0.110
Mont, saler's Deed Too Brutal for
De;mils to Be Reported.
Montreal, Jan. 18.-A crime rivalling
in atrocity any in the records of the
Montreal police was committed on Fri-
day night, when a mean brutally at-
tacked and mutilated in the most hor-
rible manner a thirteen -year-old Jew-
ish boy named Antonio Westowski,
who had been rendered unconscious
by the administration of carbolic acid,
The ease is of such a horrible nature
that the police haye refused to give all
of the details in their reports. Wes-
towski is believed by the doctors to
be dying, and his ante-mortem was
taken this morning.
Joseph Bisson, alias Joseph Archape-
bault, 46 years of age, is charged
the outrage. The police had difficulty
in saving him from being lynched by
infuriated friends of the boy, when
the crime became known.
Bisson has already served a term of
five years for an unmentionable of..
fence,
up. • •
DISEASE IS DUE
TO -BAELIILOOD
To.Cure Common Ailments the Blood
Must be Made Rich and Red.
Nearly all the diseases that afflict
humanity aro caused by bad blood-.
weak, watery blood, poisoned be im-
puritiee. Bad blood is the cause of
headaches -and backagbes, lumbago'
and rheumatism; debility and in.die
gestion, neuralgia and other nerve
troubles, and disfiguring skin dis-
eases like eczema and salt rheum
show how impure the blood actually
is. No use trying a, differeht remedy
for each disease, because they all .
Miring front the one cause -bad blood:
To cure any of these troubles you
must get right down to the root of
the trouble in the blood, and that IA
just what Dr. Williams' pink Pills
do. Teey make new, rich biome aid
thus cure these diseases when coms
mon medicine fails. Mks. Sohn Jack
son, Woodstock, Ont., suffered from
both nervous troiables and a run.
down condition, and experienced a
complete cure through the use of Dr.
Williams' Pink Pills. She seers: "1
watt a sufferer for a number of years
from neuralgia, and a general debility
of the nerves and system. I had tried
several doctors and many medicines,
but to 110 avail, until I began De.
Williams Pink Pills. At the time
began. the pills I had grown so bad
that I could hardly be oe • my feet,
and was forced to wear elastie band-
ages alma the ankles. The ;peen I -
suffered at tithes from the neuralgia
was terrible. I" had almost givett up
hope When 1 began tha lase of Dr,
Wintered Pink Pills. 'In the eotirse
of a fete weeks I felt an improve.
Merit, and 1 gladly Confirmed the use
of the Pills until 1 was -once mere
ottite well aita able to attend to all
my household duties."
11 you are Ming begin to totre your -
sole to -day with Dr. 'Williams' Pink
Pills, Sold by all Medicine dealers
ter by mail at 60 tents a bon or pin
boxes for $2.50 front The Dr. Williams'
'Medicine CO., Brockville, Ont.
4.40.
PRICES RISE IN IttRITAIN.
London, Jan. 17. -Commenting upon
the rise ill the prices Of foodstuff&
Reyneldte Newespaper deelares that the
experts gay that the pekes will con.
Untie to rise until they Pelee a polht
Neherr, the Own:tett will refuse. to
pay theto. In urging action by the
GOVernMent against any monopoly
Which entste itt itecessarires of like
the newepaper points out that the Ad-
eieery Committee of Retail Traders •ap.
Wetted by the Goverment in Atigetst.
had representatives of neither tho
bread nur the eclat tra.deq it demands