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The Brussels Post, 1900-3-1, Page 3lvi;Altru1? 1904, TH.0 BWCISSIITAS DESPERATE FIGIITING: The Boers. Are con esti Every Foot of Lord Roberts' Advance. despatch ton London, Thursday, says:,—The, Iden that .the Boors were demoralized rand lit a condition of panto Auas been diapeiled by the plebe eication• of a serious casualty liet rom, Gen. Lord Roberts without any explanation of how or where the less- ee were incurred, Gen. Roberts' twee - totes despatch, so far as it was pub- lished by the War Off4•oe, gave .Cite impression that the Boers were in fall retreat, Making hardly any resist - ince, and aroused the expectation that the next tidings would announce the surrender of Coammandant Cron- je!s army. Now, comes (hhe news that nearly 50 opt generals, have been killed or BritLshl oP(Lcers, Including two promin- wounded, while the Losses of the rani and file are not mentioned. There can be no doubt tbiat the British invasion of t:he Oxenge ,Free State is being elsa,rply contested, and that the red - mull forces are still in vigorous fight- ling trim, There Ins been no definite informa- teen ;ooncernfing the progress of. the Roberts -Kitchener cangialign since • Sunday, he'vellieh 10 Oi}radians were killed tied 61 Weunded, bet it ie eeulsap- efrle to suppose tbpt Comment/gat CLonje has new beim redeforced. by ten th'ou'sand liven from the south. it is Impossible that the Boers who were wbtirdrnwn from Natal min have yet teethed either blot er .l3loomeotltein, The 'noire front Gad. Bullea's cam- paign is favourable as far as it is goes, AUL the perrfstent report that Lcdy- alnlde hash own relieved proves to have been prematnrc, The Tug la river wee crossed for the fourth time by the .Brite ten yesterday, but the retirement of the; Boers from this point before the Britoil), advance may possibly yob in- dicate an intention to 'dentition ,the siege of Ladysmith and the possession of territory in Natal, In•other words, the crisis Ls not yet, poised eecording to the information at present received, apd ell depends, nee on Gen. ;Sutler'a. campaign, which is now aside issue, but on Gen. Roberts' great dash' et the Froei State capital, The War Office at midnight an- nounced that it lead received nothing flor publiention, and no details have some Prone any of the English wire-' pondente of tbd operations in the Free State laterthan yesterday morning's descriptions, which brought the news ural to Saturday( night, RIVALLED THAT OF PARIS. The Siege of Kimberley Was Very Trying to the Inhabitants. iA despatch from London, Wednes- day, says:—Aicoounts of the mina - Hone of those wlto were besieged in Kimberley are beginning to arrive. Numbers of people,, from Kimberley are now flocking, toe0e Modder river oamp. The women and children are weak from their sufferings during the siege, wltinb, according to the Daily Chronicle's correspondent, riv- alled that of Paris.' For sixty days horseflesh was the daily diet of the inbabitanta of the town. Ail meat had been consumed and the horses were starving. Tfhose which died from starvation ware seized and de- voured by the Kaffire. at was after the Beers brought up their 100 -pounder that the siege be- came worst. his gun had a range of 8 miles, and It wad placed at Kam- Lersdam, four miles distant. It pound- ed with segment and shrapnel shell daily. WOMEN AND CHILDREN were killed in this ugly bombardment even those living in excavations. Those burrows afforded security against or- dinaryartillery, but not against the 100 -pounder. Consequen11y most of the women and children, by Cecil Rhodes' order, were sent down into the mines and dis- tributed along the various levels. Many saw the sun Friday for the first time in weeks. They came to the sur- face pale and weird, looking like in- habitants of another world. ' Nevertheless, it was this residence In the mine workings that prevented a •heavy loss of life. The De Beers Company did everything in its .power for the ion -combatants. Mr. Rhodes personally rendered invaluable help, Indeed, but for his encouragement and infectious good spirits it is doubt- ful whether the town would have held out so long. 1A. DELIRIUM, OF JOY. A truly remarkabls achievement was the manufacture of the 28 -pounder gun known as "Long Cecil." Its •maker was an American named George Labrum, He was recently killed by a shell from the Boers' big gun. werbeh burst In his room in the Grand hotel. 'Long Coed" 'wars rifled, and it tired either shrapnel or common shells. 11 was simply in- valuable in helping to keep the Boers at a distance. it Is easy to realize that (the' oorre- spotedents do not exaggerate when thay say that Gen. French's. arrival drew forth wild demonstrations and rejoicings from the inhabitants, and that they sang and danced •in a de - lull= of joy for half an hour before Gen. Fronolt entered the town near the Premier mine. The succour was not expected, the people nob having evert heard of the British advance. Al signaller sew the column; on She move, and. recognized it as being Beet- les. The emeany'c forces were melting away, and Gen. I'renob's cavalry were ooming up extended along afront of ten mites, Mr. Rhodes rode outof the town, but went to the wrong flank, thus missing Gen. French as he enter- ed. FRENCH'S HORSES NEARLY DEAD, On Friday bhe British horses were nearly dead from the effects of their terrible march but notwithstanding this, Gen. French ma robed north in the direction of Dronfield, hoping Couap- iure the big. Boer gun that had so harassed Kimberley. hut• he did not emceed in .getting it. Tile engineer repaired the railway,. and the first train from the south' en- tered the town Monday evening, BRITISH LOSSFS 12,000. Of Whom 2,100 Are From Disease and Rome, A desp'attOh from London says:— The following report, giving the Brit- ish losses in South Africa from the commencement •of the wear up to Feb. 17, has been issued by the War Office: KILLED -1,677, Offloers 180 Men 1,512 DIED FROM DJSJ ASE -575 Ofilcers . . 13 Men. . 563 ACCIDENTALLY ICLT.LED-13. Officers. . . 1 Men, 12 'W0 bJNDED--5,401, . G iiters . . . 367 atm. 5,034 MISSING -2,617, Officers, . . . 171 Mon. 2,446` INVALTDE:D HOAI1-1,682, O(Llcers 54 Men, . 1,6•d8 Total toss,.. . . . 11,964 TIte Fusiliers who were captured. at er missing after the battle of Nichol - son's nett are nal included in the above flguros, nor, of course, those sustained in the adva ace on Bloemfontein. The War Office also enuouuees iu ed:,i inn to theprevioti$y published sbataament of the losses at.Paardeberg en Feb. 18, that a captain and three lieetenants wore killed. A Lensnoh officer has invented an army bieyele, whten min be folded in two end slung over the shoulder. Lard 'Wolseley, •Lord Roberts, and Sir Evelyn Wood have all written con- siderable for the press. Sir lledvers Buller has toiler writiett anything but i1 spaaches to the War Offloe, and \haws his eversion to any other oban- eels ref publicity. Dead, Nearly 600 Died 1,700 Were Invalided CANADA'S SPLENDID SPIRIT. Should Serve to Impel Britain to Greater Exertions, A dospatah from London, Friday, says: The morning papers allude to the thoughtfulness of Lord Roberts in sending a despatch- to the Earl of Minto, the Canadiap•Governor•-Gener- al. The military critic of the Times urges the continuance of efforts to send more troops to South Africa, so as to be ready for the many difficul- ties that watt be surmounted, even after Lord Robert's hassucceeded against General Croojo. Ile adds: -- "The splendid spirit shown in Can- ada, which bas just received She first news of losses incurred in ,the service of the Empire, should serve to impel us to greater exertions." DISTRESS BEING RELIEVED. Supplies and Forage Being Pushed Oh to Kimberley. A despatch from London, says: -- Friday, Feb. 23, 1.30 a,m.—The (War Officio bus issued the following from Lord Roberts "Paardcberg, Feb, 22. -Methuen re- perts from Kimberley( that supplies of food and forage are being pushed on es fast as possible, 'entire will be enough coal to abut the De Beers rnne in ten days, By thte means great misery will ba'alleviaied, "Scant.laI i,rrengeineuts 1bere re- ported perfect. "He hopes Prirske and the adjoin- ing enunlry will soon be set tied." is oat NEWS SUMMARY,: CANADA. Weiedetteek .sohoul, elaildren. ere tie bo vaaxsiusied, Tho Grand Trunk bee.woured on acct of the East Richelieu Valley'Raii- J. J, Bos'*Ovdolr, a well known St. oho, N,I3,, we'gtaub, committedOde, e auf- ' A. national aetaonouldioal obeei'vatory. will be etrcoted on, Parliament Hill thin slimmer', The Richelieu 6e. Ontario Navigation OetelinY heti decided) to Issue 4848,000 of new stook. Jamar( Goff, son of a wealthy Que- bec) ieolliter, ue-becplothier, banged himself at Mount Vernon, near New Fork. Hon, .1. M, Gibson has bean eleotsd president of the Hamilton Electrio Light and Cataract Power Co. The profits o4 the IWahelieu & On- tario Navigation Co. last year were 3128,780,. par increase of $16,700 over '98. It ie stated that Itbaokenzie & Mann, railway oontraotors, will endeavor to puuebase the Locomotive works at Kingston. :L'roeeedings have been taken ' at Hamilton to unseat Aid. Bauer, charged •wrath having a contract with the city. ` Hamilton will open les new Dun dura Park, on May 24th, with abi.g demonstration, and Lord Minto will be invited. A that on the Montreal Stook Ex- change, owned by Col. Strathy, wars sold the other day to Andrew .Wilson for James Douglas for $10,250. No less than fifty parties have left. Dawson for Cape Nome, Lemke. The distance is 1,600 •miles, and the jour- ney is one only of average diffdoulty. East Zorra, Oxford County, is peti- tioning the Minister of Education to shorten the, summer holidays in rural schools from seven weeks to theca. Sir Wilfrid Laurier has been pre- sented by Otbawe friends with a bust of the Countess of Aberdeen, the work of Hamilton lefacCartlty, the soulplor. A waggon containing Blanche and Walter Hind was struck by a T. I3, & B:, train at Brantford, Ther man's leg was broken, but the wuntan escaped. with a few bruises. Lieutenant -Governor Forget, of the North -'West Territories, says that, le the annual subaidy from the Dominion is not increased tthe finanoittl position of the Territories will be desperate. The new steamship pine between France and Canada will be an accom- plished fact shortly. The first steam- er, the. Roger, will leave Bordeaux af- ter ,a triol at Havre. for Quebec and Montreal, on April 10. The Royal Canadian Humane. Asso- ciation has awarded parchment oerti- fioates to Jabot i6. Illingsw,orth and A, 0. Graig for aaving Mrs. D. H. Davis from death from an approaohe ing railway train at Almonte on June 26, 1899. Ottawa is threatened with an action for 310,000 damages, owing to the death of J.. H. Tucker, by the explosion of a boiler at the Chaudiere in Novem- ber Iasi. The bailer was used incon- nection with the construction of the Street Railway Co.'s new power house. GREAT BRITAIN. England is having a spell of severe weather. The good times in Great Britain are attracting large numbers of immi- grants from Europe. The formal ratification of the Samoa treaty have been exchanged be- tween London and Berlin, • The British House of Comnaons pass- ed the supplementary army estimates, £13,000,000, by 213 votes to 32. Owing to trouble between the Prin- cipal and direotors of the Hamilton Art School the whole Leaching ateff has been dismissed. Rains and a rapid thaw 'have caused many rivers to overflow, and there are unprecedented floods in various parts of the United Kingdom. • The British Pastoffice advise that telegrams tan now be accepted for Kimberley, South Afedoa, at sender's risk, and not exceeding twelve words. Bon, Ivor Guest, Conservative, has been elected to represent Plymouth in the House of• Commons, without oppo- sition, in 9ucoeesion to Sir Edwiard Clarke, Mr. Michael D ivne:, who resigned his seat in the House of Commons as is. protest ageinal Great B.ritain'a policy towards the Transvaal, will start for South Afr&oa next week. The Will of the late Duke of West - Initiator shows a gross estate value of £694,229. It iia claimed that the estates axe.wortb £14,000,000. Death duties ac- count. for the law figures in the will, At the• twenty-third quieten meeting of the Chamber of Shipping, of the United Kingdom, the new, president, Mr. W. J. Pierre, of Belfast, said he dill not think lite British have much cause for alarm at the competition of the United States and Germany. Lord George Hamilton, Seminary of State for Indit, speaking of the war, said that it meant that if proper •use were made of the mountains on the frontier of ;Lndin,the bigger the hostile army that got within these mountains the larger would be the graveyard they would make there. UNITED STATES. Rev. William H. Green, bead of Ilia Theological Seminary at Prineeton,is dead. ,A drinking fountain is to be erected in Brooklyn, N. Y., mitt memorial to the late Miss Frttnaes 14., Willard. The New York Board of Teade and Transportutdon is dlsaussing the pro- posed improvements to Erie canal. Permission huts been grunted for one them:and Cuban teachers to attend the Harvard Summer Schoe for Teachers. During the pest three months 250 demented soldiers have arrived at San Francisco from, Manila, and 200 more will soon arrive, Te the .ragged clothing of Sam Bes- wick, a Chicago character, who died in a charity hospital, was found 35,- 090 in gold and sllvee noted, The Troy, N. Y., steel works, the Bessemer steel works and the Rens- selaer iron works' are being Consoli- dated with n capital of $17,000,000. The proposal to eonstruot a huge dam to raise the level of the great lakes was beno1'e the itiver and Hare bor Goneueittee et Weahington Wed* Wetly. Fire* Were Ile In bhe Obiu $ant Of the National Steel Company ' sloes- day Tne furnaoes, while are the largeeb in the world .have 4 sapiens ee 000 Moe every .twentysfour hours. lChts iinuch-talked-of United Staten eteei combine Wye completed Wedgies. day at Pittsburg, when t'wenty.,fiveout Of a total of tweuby-nine oonoerna amalgamated a na'pibal of •62,000,000. A. MO of negro soldiers iettempted to 'nelettse two comit+ades from the El Paso, Texas, pellets station by force Of arum, As a rwsult one polieemat and one soldier were killed. GENERAL. Distress from famine Is steadily in• creasingfu India, The German Parliament has passed the Samoa, Tonga and Zanzibar treaties. Sall Ben Muses, commander-in-chief of the army of Mor0000, and Minister oaf War, is dead. A St. I?etersburg despatch says the oonatruotion of a trana.Persian ;rain way has been definitely decided up- on. It will bee1,300 miles in length. The Viiotorien and Now l$ouLh Wales g'overninients have agreed to accept the Eastern Extension Company's propos- als to -lay a direct cable betweou the Cape and Australia, The anti -foreign riots in China are Increasing in volume, and a detach- meet of 180 men and, four guns left Tuiento Friday for the proteocionof life, and property in Getman Hinter- land. Viceroy; Lord Curzon presided at a meeting at Calcuhte inaugurating .a Pamine fund, at which the loading Maharajahs and' British officials were present. The suan' of £60,000 was sub- scribed. Sir William Van Horne, during a banquet at Havana, Cuba, said. that himself and other monied (nen hesi- tated to invest their money Int Loans eulty of enforcing payment. Not oontene with his deep -laid plans to revaf England's naval supremacy Emperor William now starts flit catcb up to her as a oolonizer. He has do- nated 10,000 marks" bo promote German emigration to Palestine, It es rumored that the Danish Gov- ernment, which for twenty-five years has rejected all proposals ofthe tinge ed States to purchase the Danish West Indres, is about to submit' a bill au- thorizing the sale of these Possessions at 12,000,000 knoners, Russia's preenipl'ory note raga riling repatriation of Armenian refugees to Caucasia surprised the Sultan of: Bur- key, who believed the matter had dropped. As aompensation for the Bagdad railway concession Russia de- mands prior right on equal terms over all applicants for railway concessions Ln Asia Minor, north of the German line. The St. Petersburg correspondent of the London Times says: "It wilt not dee to place too much reliance epee Russia's official asaaranoe$ that no- thing will be done to embarrass Eng- land in the present situation of af- fairs." Russian troops to the number of 20,000 are being concentrated at ltushk, The Times says the demon- stration is probably intended to cover movements of a more practical kind • itt other quarters. A Chinese ImperisY edict commands Lieleung-Chung to desecrate, and de- stroy the tombs of the ancestors of the Chinese reformer, Hang-YYu-Wei, and offers one hundred thousand tares for the capture of Kang -Yu -Wei, deed or alive. CRONJE'S CHANCES. Looks As If His Army Will Be Destroyed. Mr. Spenser Wilkinson, reviewing the military ait•uetian in the Landau Mor using Poet, says:— "Lord Roberts, who was once en ar- tillery officer, will take 'care that the artillery fire is properly. concentrated, Prolonged shelling will compel ;the Boer i Boers either to hurl .themselves at the British infantry in the hope of forcing their way out or to surrender. "The best• chance for General Oronje would the to make a might attack, hut, the• bayonet will serve the British (at might as welt as Qty day. There are, of course, en. war all' sorts of themes, A party of Boers from .'the mortld or the sonthl might conceivably fall by sur- prise on some point of the investing ring, and thus gain a chance to esoape for the beleaguered Boma, but the profbabilitiesa are that General Croon) will be compelled to surrender, and that thus at Paardeberg will be effect- ed the destruction a the first fraction of, the Boer army." PRAISE FOR OUR TROOPS. Gen. Roberts Says the Canadian Soldiers Displayed Great Bravery. A despatch from Ottawa says:— His Excellency the Governor-General has received the following telegram from Field Marshal Lord Roberts: "Ppardeberg, Oratniee (Free Spate, Feb. 22, 1900.—Catnuditen Regiment has done admirable service since arrival in South Atrica. ,f deeply regret heavy loss it sutfered in the fighting on 1811t inst., and. beg .you% will asses the people how ,heuch we ail here admire conspicuous gallantry displayed by our Canadrtin comrades on this occasion. Signed, "ROBERTS." A doctor with cavalry experience has invented a patent galloping bospital drs,wn by two horses, and capable of accommodating six wounded. Contributions are being gathered in the galleries and pits of theatres in helmets which have seen sorviee in Af- rican campaigns, Dolly—Could anyone be worse than a Mali who will be sloony in spite of all you can. dot Polly—Yes; one who won't 1 J. T)uihamel, civil servant, Otteu'n, saved a boy tied a girl frotn drowning in the Rideau Cabral. Tart words make no friends; n spoon- ful of stoney will catch mote members than a gallon of vinegar. TJ1I SUNDAY SCHOOL« INTERNATIONAL LESSON,, pMAR, 4 demi( Npelleg Jn S'aoernapw:' fliers 1. 8101; 0oldea 'Pett. Hiiele 8. Se. PRACTICAL NOTES, Verse 21. They went into Oaperna. ave. "They" ebands tor Jesus, Peter, Andrew; Jaoees .•end joint. Having made Capeennum bin hems, Jesus promptly made. it the centre of hs work, The town time honored above all others, and, tis we learn front Matt, 11, 23, honored none than the conduot of its inhabitants merited, is net mentioned le the old Teseament, and but once by Josephus. It stood OA the western shore of th.e Se.* of Gal- ilee, and its site a000rding to the best authorities is a village called Khan Minyeh. Straightway, Immediately, a' word obaraoteristio of Mark, who, more than the other evangellsts, notes the promptness and energy, the holy enthusiasm, of the Saviour. On the Sabbath' day. Apparently his first Sebbath' in Cnpernaum. He entered into the synagogue. Jesus regularly attended seldom •In the synagogues until at length he was driven out of them. Misunderstanding and religi- ous corruption did not prevent his reg- ular worship. Synagogue worsbip has been repeatedly explained in our notes. It was instituted either tier- ing or after captivity, and brought re.. ligious truth nearer to the common eople than the temple serviceseat uid do. Tatugirt. The reading of the taw and the prophets was the chid feature u of synagogue worship, but af- ter the reading it was expounded, andn apparently any rabbi might be called upon to take part. 22. They were astonished at his doe- s s a a g d e a le li oil ed n r 0 1 a twine. " At his teaching." He spak not of the puerile themes of the scribe as "haw. far one might walk on Sab bath," or " what vessels might b cased for cooking," but living truth which penetrated the heart and o0a edema;; he proclaimed the kingdom for which all Jews looked as havin come; and he spoke as one that ha authority. 23, A ratan with an unclean spirit The word " unclean" was used by th Jew to describe things wbich tit law forbade, and persons with wham he must not associate. In those day no kindly provision was made for th ssolusion of lunettes and irresponsib persons, a.nd this poor .seater°, see- ing the crowd enter the synagogue followed it. That there are evil spirits and that in out Lord's day they too possession of human bodies, is the plain teaching of Scripture. He cri out. "The loud cry often mention in such cases was no doubt," says Dr Alexander, " of each nature as b indica le the presence of the foreig agent speaking either through o without the organs of the man pis sussed." 24. Let us alone; what have we t de with thee. "Why should yon inter fere?" The person that speaks is evi dently not the afflicted man but the de0von_ inside him and, (hie deuton knows wet that Jesus is his enout , and destruc tion is his destiny. Our Lord ha not uttered a word rupee/atethe judgment on punishment, but gull accuses and condemns itself. The Holy One oil God. • Mee Messiah. Spirits even of evil recognize the holiness of Jesus. 25. Jesus rebuked him. Jesus never accepted the testimony of demons, though he welcomes that of saved men. Hold thy peace. Literally, "Be muzzled." :Come out of him. Jesus does not speak to the man, but to the invisible spirit. 26. Had torn him. "Convulsed him" Cried with a loud voice, "A cry of rage, despair and fear,"—Whedmu. He came out. Against his will, and because of the power of our Lord. Luke's desoriptiob of this scene im- plies that the evil. spirit dashed his victim violently to the ground. 117. They were all amazed. They had wonder on top of wonder. Here was a rabbi against wham the dem- ono were partioularly bitter; this rabbi had .power to expel demons; and, more wonderful yet, the demons recognized him as God's Holy One. They questioned among themselves. Talked over the 'natter by themselves, in groups and apart. : What thing is this? Note fbe exclamation of won - dor at Christ's word and work as giveft in the Revised Version. 1Vith authority commandeth he even the unclean spirits. He does not resort to incantations and raarem,onies suet as ordinary Jewish exorcists used. 28. Immediately. "Straightway," His lame spread abroad. The mirnole called attention to the new teacher and excited a'spirit of inquiry wbiob prepared the people to accept his u( teranees. Neither of the evangelists who record this miracle says that it was the first, but they imply that it was tits first which excited general attention. A11 the region round about Galilee. "All the region of Galilee round about." 29. Forthwith, "Straightway," again. The Ileum of Simon and An- drew. See Mett. 8, 14. These disciples had not been long "settled" in Capornaum. 90. Simons wife's mother, This passage and 1 Oar. 9.5 prove that Peter wee a married; man. Anon. "Straightway," again. They tell him of. be.r. Confident that (he power that can expel an unclean spirit can expel a high' fever. 31, Read Luke's account of this miracle, Far "immediately" read "straightway." She ministered unto than. Doubtless prepared the even- ing meal; and, as Dr, Buell suggests, this may have included grinding out the meal and going to the public foun- tain for {Vater. 32, At even, when the sun dud set. The Sontag sun brought the Sabbath to n close, nail Mined sly 0rovwds whir were conscientiously restrainedl from nekin.g hie help on the Snbbatb brought mite trim all that were dis,I when the Nerve Centres Reed Nutrition., 'int" oaderful Reoover 't . illustrating Qaiek Response of a Depleted Nervi oyster, to a Treatment Which Replenishes Ezha hepe., nstatl Nerve Forces. MR. FRANK BAUER, BERLIN, Oars. Perhaps you know him ? Ie. Water- loo he is known as one of the most popular and successful business men of that enterprising town, .As a.aanag. ing executor of the Kuntz estate, he is at the head of a vast business, repre- senting an investment of many thous- ands of dollars, and known to many people throughout the Pro'vinoe. Solid financially, Mr. Frank Bauer aloe has the good fortune of enjoying solid good health, and if appearances indicate anything, it is safe to predict that there's a full half century of active life still ahead for him. But it's only a few months since, while nursed as an invalid at the Mt. Oletnene sanitary resort, when his friends in Waterloo were dismayed with a report that he was at the point of death.. "There's no telling where I would have been had I kept on the old treat. ment," said Mr. Bauer, with a merry laugh, the other day, while recounting his experiences as a very sick man. "Mt. Clemens," he continued, "was the last resort in my ogee, For months previous I had been suffering indescribable tortures. I began with moss of appetite and sleepless nights. Then, as the trouble kept growing, I was getting Beaker, and began losing flesh and strength rapidly. My stomach refused to retain food of any kind. During all this time I was ander medical treatment, and took everything prescribed, but without relief. ;fest about when my oonditloa Sold by G. A seamed most hopeless, I heard of a wonderful cure effected in a ones somewhat similar to mine, by the Great South American Nervine Tonieoi� and I finally tried that. On the Scat day of its use I began to feel that It was doing what no other medicine had done. The drat dose relieved the distress completely. Before night I actually felt hungry and ate with an appetite such as I had not known for months. I began to pick tip is strength with surprising rapidity, slept well nights, and before I knew it I was eating three square meals• regularly every day, with as much relish as ever. I have no hesitation whatever in saying that the South American Nervine Tonic cured m4 when all other remedies failed. I have reaovered my old weight --aver 200 pounds—and never felt better in my life," Mr. Frank Baler's experience is that of all others who have used the South American Nervine Tonic.. Its instantaneous action in relieving die. tress and pain is due to the direct effect of this great remedy upon the nerve centres, whose fagged vitality is energized instantly by the very first dose. It is a great, a wondrous ewe for all nervous diseases, as well a indigestion arid dyspepsia. it gosi to the real source of trouble direct, and the sink always feel its marvel= long sustaining and reatoratiye pow at once, on the very Bret day of i 1158 . Deadman. eased, and them that were possessed with devils. 83. A11 the city was gathered togeth- er at the door. Such a crowd seemed to Leave nobody in the homes, 34. He healed many. Teta phrase does not mean that he left any that had applied unhealed. For "devils" read "demons." Notice that Jesus suf. eered not the demons to speak. He would have no indorsement from. such w source. 4 WAR BRINGS PROSPERITY, How the Seaport or Southampton Naa Been Transformed. Two months ago a casual visitor strolling clown Bernard street, South- ampton, or any of the other prime - pal thoroughfares, would have found little to attract .his attention, says an English Exchange. Lazy dogs were lying undisturbed in tba middle of the road, now and again somebody dawd- led up or down the street, shop-keop- ars seemed startled if you went in and asked for anything, and the great marvel wee that there should be any necessity for streets and shops at all. Even the arrival of the boat -trains with the mails soaroely seemed to make any difference. Thom would be a faint flutter of excitement round the railway station, and presently a few porters would straggle on with luggage bo the nearest hotel; and that was all, ,But, now at11 that is changed. South- I anneon to -day teams with busy life, and the population appears to be a good deal too large for the streets.' All dray and half the night the May trams are laden with people, rho pavements are crowded with men in seariet, men in blue, teen in khaki; officers, and privates, and tars, with tbed r wives rand sweethearts and' friends and relatious, the hotels are all full, evheels a.re scarcely to bo hal, and landladieans are reaping ue got- don harvest. .Any one who had not visited South- ampton for some i1me. would have. been 'surprised at the appeu rnttoe of the town, crowded as it was with the offs, vers and men at the Sixth Division. • 1 Every one seamed to be buying kit or keepsakes, The shops have riees0 i to the occasion. •Here you can see a ' huge placard reading, "Officers' out. fits at a moment's notioe," and here , the announcement, "Charming sou - 1 veuirs," Indeed, from the amount of shopping going on you would Wet that every one had forgotten what they wanted bill they got to South- ampton. Nightly outside the town's three theatres there are long queues of peo- ple waiting for adanissbon, and scoria ultimately get turned away. In fact, never before has Southampton been so. busy or so prosperous. 'It is an ill wind that blows nobody good," and the war is .realizing in scene degree Southampton's cherished dream of be* coming a second Liverpool. DRIVING ZEBRAS, Where, Instance These 1lAtl leAnlntate Aro 1t.ed rake dories. They teach at school that the metre oaattoe baa broken le harness. But the school hooka are wrong, When Ceoie abodes was iu Berlin he told one ad his German friends about. the great four - in -baud he drove in the Transvaal, and that four -In -hazed was four zebras. Aside from Cecil Rhodes (.(fere are oll- Ors (n Sottth Africa Who enjoy riding behind n swift double tandem of those graceful and variegated animate. Seedy Africa' is not the only part of the world in which the zebra has bean broken to harness. On the steppes of soul hem Kussin, slung the river Dnetper, tunny zebu is are rifted and need for doming on elegem. Baron Walter liothsrltiid, of London, has a zebra feut•-in-hand, and is quite an autbnrit,v an the. care and lrtin.ingof these little animate. He crave tiylt the wild lepras tnny by welts, en to lenrne-es ,just as Well sa those born and raised in enptdvitJ, (hot most of hose born in captivity tie dowel when the attempt is made to break lbrm Io ht 1'0045, while those rapture ed when grown are aeon tamest and are most tractable draught animals.