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MAFFIKING'S FOOD SUPPLY.
TheGarr'SOn Prepared to Endure the Siege for -That
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Length of Time==Cola Ylumer's Force
Length
Strengthened,
Landon, Wednesday; April 18.—News
from 112afeking of date' of April 7 re-
ports that the gorrisonthere was then
resigning itself to endure the slogs as
tong as the food Mete, which was ex
peeled to be for two nton,tJis more.
Commandant Snyman has. been replac-
ed by young Commandant Botha, Con -
(Adorable 'Boer reinforcements had
lately arrived, and something of ime
portanae was evidently proceeding
among the besiegers,
There was a vigorous bombardment
of the town at iWtervals with guns of
greater velocity than Lha Boers have
used singe the oommenoemenb of .the
siege,
Colonel PJemer'a foroe was strongly
entrenched to the north-west.
A despatch from Salisbury, Rhodesia,
dated April 11, states that three offi-
cers and 100 cd the J3ritish South Afri-
ca Company' s; Mounted Police have.
left Salisburyto join Colonel Plumate
Col. Fltiimter fought with at Cr000dile
pools, The Deere, too, are well mount-
ed and well dressed, and =teeth. look-
ing patrols. The grain and other props
In the district are'exoelloht, se the
T'antivaelers are not& likely to suffer
from scarcity of food) for a long time,
' Piuma'or'$ little forts is now strongly
entrenched north-westt of Mafeking•
The country hereabouts is much
easier traversed then that the ltho-
(Mepu7ls Piro operating in. The total
casualties Saturday, were 78 but many
are convaleeeing. Men and horses are
=Moving in health ea the winter itp-
prroaches.
Natives report that the inhabitants
of Mafoking, are very hungry. Should
a flying aoluman be despatched to their
relief it will find the country well
grassed and watered as it proceeds
nor thereat.
Tee body of Captain armee hap been
handed aver to Colonel Baden-Powell
and buried in Mafeking cemetery.
The Boers are being bolstered up by
all sorts of stories from Pretoria,
amongthem reports that, Russia and
France have declared war against
Great Britain,
A SUCCESSFUL SCOUT.
Mafeking, April 7.—The success of
Lieut.Smith-Eman, the Rhodesian
scout, who, with the exception of
Resuter's correspondent, a cyclist, is
the .only white nnan who has entered
l efeking since uhc siege began, is
likely to prove of great value to Col..
Plumer, to whom he has returned with
despatches, should Plainer decide to
raise the siege of Mafeking in earnest.
A Scottish crofter bas introduced a
method of making nourishing porridge
with oat bran, 'which is a great boon,
and is solving the question of feeding
the natives,
We are now confident of holding out
two months longer, The man in the
trenches are determined to play the
game Lo the end.
BOERS IN GOOD CONDITION.
Plumer's Camp, Friday, April 0, via
Lorenzo Marques, Tuesday, April; 17.—
A. letter has been received here fro=•
Commandant Snyman with reference
to the British wounded and prisoners
at the Boer Mager after the engage-
ment of March 31, from which it is
learned tbat.Capt, Crewe died of his
wounds. Lieut. Milligan is not a pris-
oner, and is believed to be among those
the. Doers buried, The British casual-
ties were 2 otfioere and Omen killed, 3
offioers and 85.mon wounded, and 1 of-
ficer and 11 men made prisoners.
The Boar artillery about Mafeking
well horsed. Their pompoms are
. mounted ow light 'four -wheeled car-
riages, each drawn' by four smart
horses, in marked °entrust with those,
THE
NEWS SUMMARY,
CANADA,
Owen Sound will erect a school cost-
ing 018,000 at Qwen Sound.
Mr, L. 5, Bllsonnette, deputy high
constable of Montreal, is dead,
Letter -carriers wile lleroaitor ride
tens on the Street oars in London.
About. 20 per cente of the seed of
lvlanitoba's aoxt whtset oro is under
ground.
Bunker and Dominion animus, in the
Klondike, wall this spring clean up
34,500,000.
The Dominion Cotton Company, of
Montreal, will ensue $1,000,000 worth of
new stock,
J. W. lvlaivlaltou, wanted at Geneva,
Neb., for ollegod fraud, is ander arrest
al Winnipeg,
Dn,wslira petitioned theDo-
mpnIon Government .for Federal re-
preeentationon.City
A unmauge was reoeived in Kingston
annonnoing that the Welland Canal
would open on May 1,
Jamee !dews was suffocated ,at
Montreal by a small fire that started
in a room where he was sleeping.
Condoiotore and motormen of the
Hamilton, Grimsby & J3earnsVille Elec-
tric
lco-tric Railway want increased wages.
Felix Guurdeau, a well known Que-
bec tanner, has disappeared, leaving
Liabilities in the neighborhood of
$50,000.
Montreal police have trapped a gang
of thieves who have committed a score
of •burglaries within the past . six
montlie.
Officers of the 47th Battalion have
suheoribed $50 towards a monument
Kat ] ingeton to Lhe late Sir George
Kirkpatrick.
A train of four section, parrying 770
settlers from Ontario and 0127000
worth of effects, has arrived in Win-
nipeg.
The Winnipeg Eleotric Company an-
nounces that after May lst•'the price
.01 gas will be reduced to $1.85 per 1,000
feet to cash customers.
THE SUNDAY SCHOOL
INTERNATIONAL - LESSON, APRIL 29.
"Jesus and John th- e RaptIst." Lune 7.
18.28. ;:olden. Text. .(nark 7.07.
PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 18. Showed him of ell these
things. '0f fill ,what things The
Sermon on the Mount, the beating of
the centurion's servant at.Caperna-
um, the raising of the widow's sen at
Nein, and other teachings and mira-
cle/I.
10. John. 'Phe Baptist, who was
now; imprisoned by Herod Antipas to
the depths of the lonely wilderness
width he had so long made his home. for the present,, at ,least, euro to be
We have not yet studied the feats that ire to Jesus. They, might have pre -
led to his Imprisonment ; they will judices against, John, and our Lord
came before us on June 10; but most wished to correct any wall prejudi-
pupils will remember how he had in- nes.
purred the enmity of the king of Gap- 25. A man clothed in soft raiment?
ilea, and especially of rhe king's bad 1't suns neither u weak man with
ohangofwl dispositions nor acourtier—
wife, by rebuking their sin,'and low
thatt is, a politician—who sought to
partly to protect him, and partly be- 'keep on, the right side of power. They
cause be hated hien, the king had look- which are gorgeously appareled, and
ed him up in the vault of lifachusrtus. love delicately„ are in kings- courts.
Calling unto hire two at his dieeipies, IC you had' been seeking a politician,
have gone to the wild -
Although at Sohn's own • Suggestion, you would not.
erness ;for him.
aortae of his disciples hr ;,followed Jos- 30. A. prophet? Yea, I say unto
us, others clung t''Miten SU death. Art You, and much more than a prophet.
thou ho khat shrt; comet or look we
Inc another7,sihn had. believed Jesus
Lo be the ,lddsiah, and had so pro-
plaimed, nm,' but Jesus is not assume
ing T;• ,vsianie sovereignty. John had
Idmetified himself tvit'h Jesus's inter-
,d}J'ht' but Jesus la ignoring Join.%
..4u.elerings. IL is high time for the
lefessiah to do something worthy of
himself, and it he continues to teach
the peasants of Galilee, John seems
to think he should renounce his Mes-
sianic professions. For what pur-
pose does God send a 11lessiah? On
;lin throne in Tiberias is a villain who
should be in this dungeon, not John,
in Jerusalem aro pagau soldiers defil-
ing the holy place. The.evils all saw
SO clearly years ago are intensifying
13B SSELS
OST.
anon of hie ,boo'ke, II, IL Pitcher, ate
Oakland, Cal„ banker, blew out his
brains,
The Assistant (food Commissioner of
Chicago say! the demand for cheap
goods is largely responsible for adule
PLENTY OF WATER.
Rains Have Removed One of Gen,
Robert°' Chief Diffieuities.
aeration. Bloem£ontein,'April, 19.—During the
The House of Representatives at lust ten days there have been constant
Washington voted 240 to lc in favor ra)lis,
and an enormous quantity of
of the election of Senators by adir•ect
vote of, the people, I welter has fallen. These conditions, al-
Major Armes, of the United States though extremely unoomlortable as
army, court-martialled eleven times, far as the soidiera are oonrcrned, have
has written a book charging persecn, had their advantages, for every dtitn
tion and ovrruption, 1,
President McKinley' will deliver un in the couniry round about is filled,
address before the Protestant'Eeamc- and the question of water, which kith-
notal conference on foreign missions onto during the march of the army has
at New York on April 24. been one of great difficulty, is now
Yellow pine is becoming scarce in
stumbltag in .me." This strange way
in which the Messiah had come was
to the Jews a stumbling -block. Blous-
ed indeed is he who has the spiritual
insight to discern that it is more god-
like to dispense love than wrath.
24. When the, messengers of John
were departed,/ ha began to speak un-
to rhe( people concerning John. Not
that he deprecated; the messengere
hearing what he said, but they having
Dome oat an important mission, he
speeded diem; bock to their =titer,
What rwentt ye out ;alto the wilder-
ness for Lo see? The intense drama-
tis character of most of our Lord's
teachings is too little recognized, and
what follawsi is a gond example of 1t.
A reed shaken• with the wind'( The
answer to this question .is not given;
it to implied. John's message seemed
to go, back on Iris former testimony
concerning Jesus. These ,people' were
Early in this career John had fulfilled
a series of remarkable prophecies that
pointed to the forerunner of the Mes-
siah, and later he had revealed a char -
meter the mural brilliance of which
has been lost in the rays of the ris-
ing Sun of. righteousness. How great
John was we cannot know; that he
was surpassingly great is plainly de-
clared, and it the rays 02 Jesus have
temporarily obscured his brightness,
we knowat leastthat it is of a sort to
shine through all eternity. See John
3. 26-3'2.
28. Among those that aro born of
Amon there is not a greater pro-
phet than John. The Revised Ver-
sion shows that what Jesus said was
"Plliore is none greater than John,"
and a fair interpretation regards
gide as an estimate of his intellectual
abilities,. his honorable 'position and
prerogatives, his moral exoe.11enoe,
But he that is Joust in the kingdom
of God is greater than he. The Greek
The Montreal municipal scandals are
growing worse. Two city officials are
under ur'reet, and there is evidence
pointing to gross corruption in several
departments.
Manitoba hotelkeepers are discuss-
ing the attitude they shall take in the
event of prohibition ueouming law. It
is said they have agreed to close all
the leading hotels throughout the pro-
vince
The Massey -Harris Oompany have
notified the Brantford authorities that,
unless adequate protection from spring
freshets is afforded they will consider
the advisability of moving to some
other ally.
a 'Southern Staten, and mills in practically solved. The troops will
ah
he able 10 010Y0 in any direction with a
Georgia, South Carolina and J'loridu certainty .of finding a sufrlelent Nur
will run on two-thirds time. ply of water.
According to a report sent to" the , P110 whole regular and .volunteer
Navy Department at Washington, the drafts have arrived, and the Highland'
27 prizes taken by American' warships . brigade is now at its full strength.
in the Spanish war realized $000,000.' Lady Roberts and her daughters
ul. 0. Hyder, aged . 84 years, for 30 have arrived at Bloemfontein,
years superintendent of poor at Mar-
shall,-1VIiob,, is .held for trial on a
charge of stealing $10,000 from the
£undo,
T.he American) Navy Department ba
signed a contract with the Holten
Submarine Torpedo Boat( Company fo
the, addition, of some of their boats t
the navy.
and multiplying with the passage of is "Cie that: is lesser,' dr'but Little in
time, Whore, is the fire that shall the kingdolm• Ile that is in the heart
.burn up the dross 4 Where is the hand of our Lord's spiritual ki.ngdoln, bow -
ever little he may bo himself, has
to swing Lhe ant `to nue root of the greater advantages, greater privi'
trwo 4 Where is the winnower to leper- leges, higher prerogatives, than John
ate the wheat from the chaff 4 Why Yes, he will know snore concerning
dally in obemtre c,villages when one flim that ie to come than John min
bold stroke would liberate the nation, know. The statue may not be so
glorify God, hurl infamous ,wretches large, but the Pedestal. will be higher.
Leona high places, and set good men on pedestals the the tvhOle nation over?
20. He that should opine or "Ile that DEN WARREN RECALLED.
Order Said to ave been. Cab1 ed to
• South Africa.
London, April 18,—It is said that a
peremptory Order for the return of
Another case of boodling comes to
Light in Montreal municipal politics.
Huokaters in the markets have been
Paying bonuses ranging from $20 to
060 for favorite positions to a clerk
named Tessier, who claims that all
the cash was banded over to various
aldermen.
The two new vessels for the Quebec,
Hamilton and Fort William Naviga-
tion Company, which are being built
in England, are 225 feet in length, and
will be christened Winona and Stratbt-
cona. One boat will bring acargo of
scoria blocky from Middleboro, Eng.,
to Toronto.
The Oataraqui Mining and Develop-
ment Company contemplate establish-
ing 0300,000 smelting works at King-
ston, where the city has offered them
04,000 a year for 15 years and partial
relief from taxation. The Kingston
Board of Trade has asked the council
to loan the Kingeton Locomotive
'Works 375,000, without interest.
GREAT 1313;ITAUN.
The Duke of Connaught, may sue
coed the late Sir William) Lockhart a
Commander-in-Ohief in India.
The British North America and
Wast Indies squadron is to be increas-
ed by a battleship, two cruisers and
several torpedo boats.
'Phe Prince of Wales, who is visiting
Copenhagen, to suffering from an af-
fection of the throat and has been
obliged to consult a specialist.
Sir William Overend Priestley, mem
bee of Parliament• for the Universe
ties of Edinburgh and St. Andrety'
since1890, end termer President of th
Obstetrical Society of London, is dead
Dr. Joseph ]fenny, for many years
n conspicuous figure in the Irish Par-
nellite movement, is dead. He, with
the late Mr, Biggar, handled all the
funds of the organization, and sat in
Perliastent fur len years, resigning
to become ooroner of Dublin,
A strauge fatality seems to follow
the servants of the Marquis of Lon-
donderry. Last Friday four went out
to sail on $!t.rangford lough, and on
Sunday the boat was found upturned
over theodrowned bodies. of the whole
party. Five years ago sae of London-
derry's servants were drowned in a
sail. boat in the some place. .
The birthday of the ;Rev. William
Booth, General of the Salvation Army,
who was born at Nottingham, ]Eng-
land, April le, 1820, was signalized on
Tuesday by the receipt of hundreds
of congratulations from all parts of
the world, and the presentation of 0
purse of $200.000, as the result of the
collections made during the self -do-
vial week of the Army, just concluded.
UNITJEl) STATES. ,
A vessel sailed from Philadelphia
bound for the port of Vladivo-
stock, Russia, where she will land a
cargo of 31 locomotives and tenders,
which are valued at $430,200. tugual the amount of money neee9-
At Naples a landslide from San sary to :pay the award. Portugal
Gennaro Hill buried an artificial goal courteously deolined the loanon the,
factory. The manager and seven ground that the money had already
workmen were killed, five others be-
ing wounded. Heavy rains caused the been provided.
disaster. The Government intends to protest
Sheriffs' deputies and striking work- against the action of the British in
men on, the big Groton dant near New sending Gen. Ce•onje and the other
York came' into oonfliet on Saturday; Boer prisoners to St, Helena.
several shots were exchanged and two According to Boer reports, there is
men wounded. Troops have been or- a steady flow of foreign volunteers to
dared cut, the Transvaal. Hitherto these adven-
The Earl of Warwick, Lord Herbert turers have been attached to the var-
Vane Tempest land P, 'De C. W. Oak= tons commandoes. Now it is said they
ley, arrived at New York on Wednes- are to be formed into a special legion
day, and have chartered Perry Bel- with Continental offioers, and there is
moat's yacht, the Satanella, and will a rumor that the command will be
fish for tarpon in Peruvian waters, given to a distinguished French sol -
GENERAL. dier lately retired, who is now in the
Transvaal,
PRETORIA PROTESTS.
Thinks Great Britain Had No Right
to Send Prisoners to St. Helena.
Pretoria, April 17.—As soon as the
award of the arbitrators in the mat-
ter of the seizure of the Delagoa bay
railway was known 'here, the Trans-
vaal Government offered to loan Por -
cometh;' was a title given particular-
ly to the expected Messiah. Or look
we for another4 The well of despair.
No Haslet, thought John, would par -
sue such a career as that of Jesus.
But Jesus had filled the earlier con-
dptions of the expected sptriltaul and Lieut, -General Sir CharlesWarren,
tompoeut 'raper. He was now asap_
'poinding the long -cherished Mopes of the commander of the fifth division of
the nation, Why?
21..In that acme hour he cured many
of their infirmities and plagues, and
ot1 evil spirits; and unto many that
were blind he gave sight,Ile continued
vital be hied been, doing for days and
weeks and months oaring for indivi-
dual cases, when John wanted Mem to General Woodgate was wounded until
apply labs fever to the rnation., .'Jhot'ne croft svee a otnled to
22. Go year way, Return, Tell John Colonel1 y I p
Whist things ye htave seen anal =surd. the position, ,and whose heliograph
The olimaetic emphasis is put on what messages to General Warren crtused
they heard, To the poor', the goSpo.i is General huller to appoint J.horney-
preached. O1,. as the Revised Version croft to t he command, was placed on
has 11, " good tidings." ' hole pet, to -day.
29. Bi0esed is he, whosoever shell,ie, Private information received from:
not be offended In me: 'Nerds with lnrewsl,Ury to -day is to the effect (hat
for more of comfort than rebuke, in General Gatacrts is leaving South Atte-
them, The ilevisad Version is, "Who- ere this week to Immune command of n
,eaevev shall find none occaillon of , local dtslrict,
the South Africa field forces, was
cabled to South Mr'ica this morning.
The War. Office declined to give any
information in .regard to the rumour.
Colonel Orofton, who was in cont -
mated at Spion kop• front the time
Yellow fever is epidemic in San Sal-
vador.
Russia and Germany fear a coal
famine.
Fremantle, Western, Australia, has
a case of bubonic plague.
All the fruit ports have been noti-
fied
otafied that yellow fever is epidemic in
San Salvador.
It is officially announced that 111
oases and 88 deaths from bubonic
LOSSES AT WEPENER.
Since the Investment British Have
Had 20 Killed, 100 Wounded.
Maseru, Appal, 17.—Colonel Dalgety's
oasualLies since he has been besieged
at Wepener have beau twenLy killed
plague have occurred at Sydney, N. and one hundred wounded. The Boer
S. W. losses are reported to have been eon -
Owing to an outbreak of smallpox
on the excursion steamer Nqw Eng-
land, many American tourists were
abandoned at Naples by the steamer.
Tho Polilisohe Correspondenz says
Germany is now the third nation com-
mercially withJapan, adding that in the Boar leaders. Some want Lo attack
1890 German imports were 20,000,000 again, while others refuse to du so.
yen, and in 1809 almost 32,000,000 yen. Desultory cannon firing and " snip -
Berlin papers express indignation ing"' continues.
at recent. .English charges that the The Caledon is rising, which alarms
German Government favors baiting , the Boers, who are now on both sides
England and attacks upon the Queen of the river, and might be out off if
and the Prince" of Wyles.
alterably heavier..
After the night attack on April 12
the dead, were left on the field where
they still lie unburied.
There is a conflict of opinion among
m
In the Chamber of Deputies at Brus-
sels the Premier read a oonlunica-
tion from King Leopold, in which His
Majestey presented to the nation the
whole of his real estate.
By a plan whish it is hoped to carry
into effect at the International Agri-
ooltural Conference in Paris, July 9
to 16, itis proposed to ask the farmers
of the world to reduce their wheat out-
put by 20 per cent. and not to sell a
bushel for loss than a dollar.
Leon Gaget, a Paris (stark, has been
=Inured by the French Government
in the apt of selling French.military
secrets to Germany. He neglected to
the
stream was to become flooded.
Five Boer guns are believed to be
disabled.
APPEAL TO AFRIKANDERS.
Boer Government Circulating a Mani-
festo in Cape Colony.
Cape Town, April 17.—The. Been Gov-
ornment is circulating the following
mllnifesto to the Afrikandars through-
out Capei Colony:—
"We feel that our fate, and the fate
of the, whole of Afrikanderdom,is at
place sufficient postage on one of his stake, and 71-e appeal to you to stand
letters to the German officials and his and fight shoulder to shoulder with us.
conspiracy was discovered, He says
he sold Germany false information.
The U. S. Navy is testing oil as fuel
for ahi•ps.
Smallpox is epidemic at Auburn
Centre, Pa.
('ivy thousand oigarmakers are lock,
ed:: oul.i in New York.
Striking builders in Chicago are as-
seulting non-union men.
American subaoribers were alloted
33,000,000 of .the British war loan.
Several Cihieago business houses
forbid the use of ot!garettos by em
pooyes.
The United States has morn money
per capita, more gold and mora silver,
than ever before.
Dr. 0, A, Briggs says heresy sou-
victions are merely partisan judg-
ments by a mnjority.
Between April 1 and August 1, it
is estimated that 75,000 people schism?
for Europe' from the United States.
The tug firemen at Cleveland' threat-
en to slrile° for more pay and to tie up
,ill the harbor Lugs on the lakes.
Lord Curzon, `Viceroy of Indite, re -
Lo an address at Bombay, eulo-
gized the loyalty of the Sikh soldiers,
Daring the progress of an. examin-
AMBULANCE CORPS.
The Chicago "Nurses" Are Now Fight-
ing With the Boers.
London, Thursday, April 19,—The
Daily Mail's correspondent at Lorenzo
Marques says that nearly half of the
members of the ambulance corps from
Chicago, on' reaching Pretoria, accept-
ed biauser rifles and removed their
Red cross badges.
Mr. Hay, the American Consul, noti-
fned the Transvaal Government that he
must' report Lhe circumstance to the
authorities at W'ash'iunitan,
EARTH'S CENTRE.
You cannot. you may not, allow the
tyrant to extinguish forever your
finest Gratis of character as anation,
With you on our side the issue can-
not be doubtful. We must conquer.
God grant that love for your country
and your liberty, and the noble virtues
of men that/ free, may induce you
to join us in the hour of our supreme
struggle."
•
FULL OF e¢ e W Uc,e1.v ialkill
BOERS' LAST DITCH..
Swaziland Said be Chosen For Re-
treat if Pretoria is Taken.
London, April 19.—Mr. Prevost -Bat-
tersby wires to the Morning Post from
Bloemfontein under date of April 17:—
"Observation might profitably be
kept on the intentions of the Boers
revealing Swaziland. The alternative
'— plan of operations following on defeat
at Pretoria includes the employment
theorywas but lately hold that of Swaziland for the retirement of
Thehalf of the Boer forces, while the oth-
the' center oiE the earth WAS "ocou-, ar half falls bank to Zoutpansberg,
' bybut the recent; B i 1 d i .kat
iC „pG"uil- .1 Z,cX'A400 JID`II,JrL,.1Gd1 „si, i M
in Erred I$ Months --Had Given Up A,11. Hops
of °ro
ttin,g Well -A Remedy Found at
Last to which lag Owe i,,' y Life." '
D Is Declared To De Hard ns a Diamond
Dy Recent luvestlgalore.
pied,' a vacuum, ger elnissar es area ren ,y n
mud more general view has been that country endeavoring to purchase se-
cret informative eonoerning the ea-
verns in the greystone country,
which are known only to the natives,
with the object of aeoumulating pro-
visions and ammunition,"
EXCITES BOER GRATITUDE.
the interior of the globe, though part-
ly liquid, is for the most part solid.
Some have considered that a section
through the earth would show the fol-
lowing: 1, An outer solid envelope.
2. A semi -fluid envelope. 3, A fluid en-
velope. 4. A semi-fluiu envelope. 5. A
solid ntloleue. No. 1 results from a re-
duced temperature only. No. 2 from
pressure and temperature not quite
sufficient for liquefaction. No. 3 from
a temperature sufficiently high topro-
d'uco complete liquefaction. No. 4from
n, pressure so great as to prevent even
the terrific heat which most certain-
ly exists deep down in this earth from
flounced Dutch newspapers. Mr. Dup-
cotnplotely liquefying the material on
Dun -
which it wanks. No. 5 front a pressure, hossis, the secretary of the Boer Sick
which overcomes completely the liquo- fund, has a letter in the Ons Laud to -
tying power even of the ltuudmum heat
of the interior. This pressure is esti-
eked to be, at the center of the
hofenoe has fully established the
fact that all the nervous energy of our
bodies is generated by nerve centres
located near the base of the brain.
'When the supply of nerve force has
teen. diminished either by excessive
physical or mental labours, or owing to
a derangement of the nerve oentree, we
are firatconscious of a languor or tired
and worn-out feeling, then of a mild
form of nervousness, headache, or
etomaoh trouble, which is perhapa suc-
ceeded by nervous prostration, chronic
indigestion, and dyspepsia, and a, gen-
eral sinking of the whole system, In
this day of hurry, fret and worry, there
are very few who enjoy perfect health;
nearly everyone has some trouble, an
aohe, or pain, a weakness, a nerve
trouble, something wrong with the
etomaoh and bowels, poor blood, heart
disease, or sick headache ; all of which
are brought on by a lack of nervous
energy to enable the differentorgansof
the body to perform their respective
work.
South Amerioaa Nervine Tonic, the
marvellous nerve food and health giver,
is asatisfying success, awondroue boon
to tired, sick, and overworked men
and women, who have suffered years
of discouragement and tried all manner
of remedies without benefit, It is a
modern, a euientifio remedy, and in its
wake follows abounding health,
It is unlike all other remedies in
that it le not designed to act on the
different organa afthoted, but by its
direct action on the nerve oentree,
which are nature's little batteries, it
ewauses an increased supply of nervus
1l0mna0 (lay In '95111012 Itrttasln Trent
111012' Stell Prisoners.
Cape Towne April 19, 10,55 a.m.—The
successful efforts of the military au-
thorilies in fighting the fever epidemic
among tine Boor prisoners has appealed
to the gratitude of o wen the pro -
tarn thoroughly oils, se it were, the
machinery of the body, thereby en-
abling it to perform perfectly its dif-
ferent functions, and without the
slightest friction,
If you have been reading of the re-
markable cures wrought by South
American Nervine, accounts of which
we publish from week to week, and
are still sceptical, we ask you to in-
vestigate them by correspondence, and
become convinced that they are true
to the•letter. Such a course may save
you months, perhaps years, of suffer-
ing and anxiety.
The words that follow are strong]
but they emanate from the heart, and
speak the sentiments of thousands of
women in the United States and Clan -
ado. who know, through experience, of
the healing virtues of the South'
American Nervine Tonic.
Harriet E. Hall, of Waynetowa,
prominent and muck respected lady*
writes as follows :— —�
" I owe my life to the great Sontli
American Nervine Tonic, I have
been in bed for five menthe with a
scrofulous tumour in my right sidey
and suffered with indigestion and
nervous prostration. Had givenngg
all hopes of getting well. Had tried
three doctors, with no relief. The
first bottle of Nervine Tonic improved
me so much that I was able to walk
about, and a few bottles oared me en-
tirely. I believe it is the best metli.
cine in the world. I cannot recoil.
mend it too highly."
Tired women, can yon do betty"',
than become acquainted with this
energy to be generated, which in its truly great remedy
Sold by G. A. Deadman.
36 DIED IN HOSPITALS.
All But Two of These Were Vietims
of Fever.
London, Aprie 18.—The War Offioe
to -day printed a list of 36 names of
soldiers who have died in various hos-
pitals singe the last. report. Two of
these deaths were the result of
wounds; and others were from fevers.'
The War Office also issued a list of
40 officers who have returned to duty,
including Lieut. Caldwell, or the Can-
adian contingent.
A PRINCE AMONG SLAIN.
day, int wbLtile he says that the British
military authoi'itios deserve deep
gratitude for their willingness to et -
earth, 7,180,593,750 pounds to the ford every relief poest Ma. He adds
square foot --a pressure so enormous or that fthe present: the friends and
that no known substance could fuse' swat 101' zcr's of the Beer prisoners
beneath it. Even hydrogen at the hi b- may rest assurced that everything'
Nit possible tempernture W0111(1, under uer.etiorLor their comfort will be
such conditions, become es herd as a! -done
diamond, Ilonoo'it seems probable that _— _�
r from phare being 0 vacuum at the i i s`al. the Paris Expost-
ItI All the ext b L
ofnintenselynsolidified 11matter there I elere a mass, an will be open Sundays.
Circassian Nobleman Killed in the,
British Victory at Boshof.
London, Friday, April 20.—A de-
spnLeth to the Daily News from Pre-
toria, dated April 16, says that Prince
Barastion Mograff, a Circassian noble -
00210, was killed at Doahof in the same
engagement with the Britten in which
Oal. de Villehois 1tareuil lost his life.
Capt. Soratuff, who was Prince Ilor-
gaff's comrade, will return to Russia
forthwith,
ASKS FOR ASSISTANCE.
FEVER AT MAFEKING.
Pretoria Despatch Says Disease is .•'
Decimating the Garrison.
Pretoria, April' 18, via Lorenzo Marie
ques, April 19, 2 p.m.—The appointment
of Senior Machado as Governor -Genn
evil of Mozambique by the Portuguese
Government is appreciated here. •
A despatch sent from Metope yestei}.
day says that fever is decimating thht
British garrison at Mafeking,
FOREIGN DOGS ARE BARRED.
F.n211x11 Order Preventing 'Mein 11011!;;
Brought Into the t:onntry.
A despatch from London says :—Am
erioan tourists who usually tslre thei
pet dogs with them cannot tering the
into England this year. The Board
Agriculture has put Leith rigid onf
meat an old order forbidding the:1
porary entrance into England of fe
eign dogs• Rabies bus been extermj
aped in Great; Britain. The, last' oast
known was in 'Vales last November
Only seven oases are recorded for 1•tl
ding your. Eleven hundred dead;;
preoe.
of Mullen beings from he drophobti
are on record in Great Britain durtinr
--'—• the last 51 years. Under the meameritt
taken by t.be Government the yea
ons (tiding. numiser of deaths and erases have ll
Moro, Gold Costa Colony, West diad to nothing.
Now that the disease has Vanislit
Africa, April 1.9.—The Governor, Sir the delerminalien is it, keep the dial
I'reflerick Mitchell Hodgson, wires,ease ottl. of England, by keeping fete
from Kumassio that the other tribes' eign dogs out, except. for breeding pure
are rising astir and he asks for time' roses. , ,
Trimble tit Ashanti iteveloas Into a Se*
sL
stanza, � e`
loyal Bekuis have been attacked TO PAY FOR THE NAVY.
The oy 1
by the Asliautis, and 5110 have been , _.
killed. it to feared this will compel"
the rebellion. Evidently OuIs Taxes Avn11221110 2200 Those on tot.
theist to join e y i terles 1,1221 Sloa100.
the matter is extremely serious, and
was minimized until it was too late. I Berlin, April, 19—The Government',
—„- I alter looking into the various Earths,
The strength of the Russian garri- I1g propuaitinus fon raising titres td
non at en, and north includes %iernt, is oabout ! meet: the expenses of the naval alt e
batt ry. 'ret n mthly e n
battery, Previous reports greatly nx, mentation hill, now says that the male
a erat.ed the amennt of the rein- taxes available) tor this purpose art
fotgcements sent from the Citnoasu.s those on lotteries and Bourse kranalite
district, i loons,