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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-5-31, Page 3MAY 31, 190Q NEWS MMARK, CAN DA, the Risley team will salt for Eng- land on June 22, The 0,P,11, imperial Limited will be- gin running again on June 11. The Yukon garrison is to be With- drawn upon the opening of navigation. The E. B. Eddy Company, of Hull, will re -tract all their buildings de- etroyed by fire. A delegation from Kentucky will shortly visit Manitoba and the North- West, to "spy out the land." The hospital at Regina is fill o f diphtheria, brought there, it is said, by the recruitsto the :Northwest Mounted Police. The railway orop reports in Mani- toba state that wheat is well ad- venced and earlier than usual, but is in need of rain. Over 4,000 immigrants, it is expect- ed, will have passed through Montreal 8or the Northwest before the end of this week. A strong company has been form- ed at Kingston to operate smelting works. It• is expected that building operations will be commenced in n few weeks. Roman Catholic bishops of Quebec, who form the Council of Public In etruotion, will make the teaching of the English language compulsory In the schools under their jurisdiction. The. vault and safe of carr. R. G. Baxter's private bank at Burlington were vvrceked with nil ro-gyoerine on Friday night, but 61,20 in the bank was menet:uked by the thieves. Colonel Sherwood, Superintendent of Dominion Police, is making arrange- ments to send a squad ut twenty -Live epeotal policemen to guard the Wel- land Canal. The militia now on cuty will bo withdrawn. At Brockville the little son of Mich- ael Costello, while playing with u collie dog, was suddenly attacked most viciously by the dog, which lacerated the child's face and throat and chew- ed off one ear. The eight-year-old daughter of Mr. pmorson Main of Galt was very seri- ously burued on Friday by a firecrac- ker this.wn on her dress. airs. Matin received painful Injuries in putting.. out the fire. The returns of navigation at Mon- treal ah„w a falling off in the num- ber of i,,ward bound vee5e,s, as tem- pered with last year, owiug to rhe number of vessels that are still in the earvice of the British Government as transports. GREAT. BRITAIN. The Kim; of the Be.giana bas arrived In England. an a visit. ' The Queen distributed flowers and conversed with the wounded at }Tetley Respite,' Wednesday. The new British first -chess armoured cruiser ,lbuukir was launched at Glas- gow yesterday. Tho khaki craze has gone so far in London that Lbey are now painting station that colour - The London County Council is eon- ai'Qering a plan for nine miles of underground railroads. Richard croker, jr., New York, pur- chased the famous bull dog, Baduly Mone in Loudon, for $4,000. The Canadian salmon ova sent to Scotland last month have bitched out well and the fry are healthy. The rumour that Lord Beresford was to resign the command of the Mediterranean fleet is officially de- nied. Tete new Royal Ulster Steamship Compauy propose to run a line of fast £[eight steamers between New York and Liverpool. The British National Rifle Associa- tion has beau asked to submit ellen toe rifle clubs, as advocated by Lord Salisbury in a recent address. The Archbishop. of Canterbury ar- gued at the annual meeting of the London Temperance Council for the necessity of adopting Sunday °losing age rallying cry. Tho Jewish Criloutzation Association ' must pay to the English Government 60,250,000 in succession duties on the estate of $10,000,000 left to ilia asso- ciation by the tato Baron Hirsch. An armoured road train built for the War OLlioe, was tried yesterday at Leeds. The trial, though under severe o adiLione, was suaoosefu1, and the train will proceed to South Africa at osteo:.. The Marquis el Lansdowne has intro- duced a bill to extend the powers of the volunteer act, by providing that volunteers may, be mobilized in any great emergency, instead of only to repot newel invasion. The Duke of Argyll, formerly the Marquis of Luras, who has been of - /fend the first: Governor -Generalship of Australia utider the Commonwealth bill, is not, it is said, likely to aooegt, es his Wife, the Princess Louise, ob- jects to living in the antipodes, In the central hall of the !douse of Commons on Saturdisy. Sir henry Ca'oipbell-tlBennerman, Liberal leader fu the Douse, unveiled a etutue of Mr. Gladstone, whom he entitled t.ho "greatest Parliamentary figure of our time. J, bl, Iloward, of New South! Wales, offers the I3titish Admiralty a new submarlae torpedo boat, which oan travel beokwards as well ea forwards without turning, Oinks below the aur- fates without plunging, and fires a torpedo welch tautens itself, by a motion arrangement, against the ship's bottom. The Admiralty has not yet ordered a trial test. Is UNITED STATES, A Chicago boy was fined 825 for kitting song birds, The street ear men's strike at St. Lents has been settled. Foreat firers in Allegheny Moun- tains destroyed 31,000,000 worth of timber. During April the exports of mer- ohandiee from the United States in- oreased 660,000,000. The Indus famine relief oommittee at New York its seeking aid troso every city in the United States. A mob seized a negro named Wilson, from a train near Augusta, Ga., on Saturday night, and hanged him In the woods. Dr, F. S. Morris, New York, 'uses homing pigeons in his practice. He loaves the birda with his patients and gets reports by them. A statue of General Grant, presented by the Grand Army of the Republio, was unveiled in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington on Saturday. The appropriations at this session of the United States Congress will be $2110,000,000 less than two years ago, when the Spanish-American war was GJONERAL. Aussie. 141, equip the entire Bieck Sea fleet with wireless telegraphy. Empress Frederick, mother of the Emperor of Germany, is seriously ill. An official bulletin shown that Cuba lost 200,000 residentsduring the civil war. German newspaper publishers will erect their own paper mills because of the trust's high prices. There are -:now under arrest and awuitiag trial in Servia, no fewer than 30uo political prisoners. In Madras two policemen caused a riot. E,even people were killed, six- teen wounded and s.xty arrested. Mount Vesuvius is again in erup- tion, and spectators are forbidden to approach w. thin a certain distance. Russian spies have found Japan is the one country In the world where officials cannot be bribed ur cajoled. Lionel Berle, an African explorer, sends word of trouble in the :.ung” Free'State territory, where, he says, the Germans have seized a large ex- tent of territory claimed by Belgium. The outbreak of cholera in the fa- m;ue ceder camps in India has result- ed in breaking up some of the camps, and in consequence the number of per- sons seeking relief has declined. Russia's fortifications at Port Ar- thur are being pushed up veryirapid- ly, and troops and supplies are arriv- ing there in suspiciously vast quan- tities. About 1p0,000 coolies have been sent to Manchuria to build the rail- way to I':irt Arthur. Emperor Francis Joseph's cordiality towards Russia, is displeasing to the high political authorities at Berlin Emperor William and the German Foreign Office generally are very much surprised at Austria's bid for Russian favor. Though more then a month has goue by since the opening of the Paris Exposition, there are still very important exhibits which have not been opened to pubiio, and large sec- tions remain in the hands of the workmen. It will take another month to complete the work. BOER DYNAMVMITE TRAIN. Irish Contingent Are Now Operating It altogether. A despatch from Rhenoster River, ' says :-The Boers have evacuated their strung position at this point. Before they left they completely wrecked the bridge aoross the river, and two long culverts, It is said that the Irish'eontingent: are now operating the Boer dynamite train altogether The absence of any wreckage be- tween Kroonstad and this place is ex- plained by the fact that Boers were i anxious to hold the Orange Free State burghers in line. 11 le said that the latter are angry aver the destruction j of the bridges in their territory. • A drought and a cold wind are, pre - veiling, and there have been many ac- cidental fires on the veldt. BOTHA SAVED THE MINES.I Indignantly Pretested Against Kru- ger's Proposal to Destroy 1 hem. The Durban correspondent of the London Times, telegraphing Tuesday, says: - "The Rev. Adrian Hofineyer tells me he was informed by a high Boor ofti- aial that when President Kruger no- tified the Lto,ad of the Government's arrangeMenta t0 blew up the mines and to destroy Johannesburg, Gen. Louis Botha hurried to .1?reloria and had a stormy interview with I'rosi' dent Kruger, CO whore he avid if the plan were not cane,dled, be would himself defense Johannesburg, adding that. the Bones were not. barbarians. At Ihis =circling in litr. tlofineyor, the plan was abandoned." .4 I E BRUSSELS P O S. }.,. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL" INTERNATIONAL LESSON,.JUNN 3. •i'be Twelve Seat North." )Melt, 5. Be to Me, 5. Goiden Text. )Malt. so. 00. Vit,ACTIOAL NOT1+S, 1.3Iis twelve disciples ars galled in the next verse "twelve apostles," An apostle is a roan with a mission ; a disciple is a learner, These men were both. In fixing the number of the apostles at twelve our Lord seems to have had the patriarchs and the tribes of Israel in view. Ile was degree modeling his Church to some eg ee on the familiar plan of the ancient l Church, sh eh, Ilethem pow- er.w C h ' gaveow- e er. A power which, according to the remainder of the verse, was almost as comprehensive as that whish he exercised himself, Like his own heal - Ing power, It intended acute and chronic disease, illness, debility, and the expulsion of demons. That sim- ilar power is given to all Christians is neither taught nor denied in this passage; but that Christians, as a class, have not begun to recognize the power of prayer over all forges, physical and mental, as well as spir- itual, is one of the most evident facts of modern life. Prayer "moves the Arm that moves the world." 2-4. There are four catalogues op the apostles given in the New Testa- ment, one in each of the first three gospels, and one in Aots. The order of names is not exaotly the, same, but they are uniformly divided into three groups. 1'he first group in each catalogue consists of Peter, Andrew, James and John (but in Mark and Acta the name of Andrew is fourth). Tile second group is Philip, Bartholo- mew, Thomas, and Matthew ; (in Mark and Luke Thomas is made thei fourth in this quartet; in. Acts, the second). It is usual to assume that Bartholomew was the same as the Nathanael of John 1. 46 ; Bartholomew is not a name, but means "Son-of-Tol- mai," Thomas means "Twin" ; Didy- mus, which he is sometimes called, has the same meaning. The third group begins in all four lista with James the son of Alpheus. Assuming that there are three persons of the name of James mentioned in the New Testa- ment, James the brother of John, James the sen of Alpheus, and James the Lord's brother, and assuaning that James the Lord's brother was the author of the Epistle of James, nothing more is known concerning James the son of Alpheus, who is generally distinguished in theologi- cal literature by being entitled "James the Less." Matthew, Revised Ver- sion, and Mark give the other three names of the third ,group as Thad- deus, Simon the Oananaean, or Zea- lot, and Surdas Iscariot. Luke gives Simon the Zealot, Zelotes, Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, Acts follows Luke, but drops Judas Iscariot, As the fashion of having two names was common among' the Jews, it is ooajectured that Judas the brother of James and Thaddeus were the same person. Iscariot Is gener- ally understood to mean "of ICerio1h," a small town in Judea. The first four apostles mentioned were all fish- ermen. Peter and Andrew were brothers; it is conjectured that Mat- thew and Thomas were brothers. If Salome the wife of (Zebedee was, as is supposed, the sister of Mary the mother of Jesus, then James and John ware first cousins of Jesus. And if, as would appear, Alpheus, the father of James and Judas, and possibly al- so the father of Matthew, was the husband of a seoond Mary, who was sister of the Virgin Mary and of SaI- ome, then thane three apostles also, and possibly Thomas too, were our Lord's first coasins. But these are, at the very most, probabilities; and Ave know that Jesus was at first) rejeoted by his own household. The apostles were men 04 the common people, not rabbis nor Eerodian aris- tocrats; they were men of mental force, and evidently of good educa- tion for their times, they were not , tion for their times; they were not ex exoeptionally poor, except as they left their all to follow Jesus. 5. Jesus sent forth. The, verb \irane- lated " sent forth." is that from which out word "apostles " is deriv- ed. Go not, The instructions which begin with these words and continue to the and of venae 8 are given only by Matthew. The way of the Gentiles would include not only foreign eoun- lr:es, but pagan cities in Palestine as well. For the sake of Gentiles las well as et Jews the Saviour came;, but the universality of the Gospel messng° hereafter depended upon its .limita- tion for a Little while. Into any ally of the Samaritans enter ye not, Our Lord had already shown his breadth of sentiment and principle by preach- ing in Samaria, but iiia personalanis- eion was to the " lost sheep of the house of Israel." The Samaritans, it will be remembered, were half Gen- tiles, descendants of: barbarians, whom an ancient king of Assyria had set- tled in deserted Hebrew towns. When w,ld besets ravaged their settlements they ternsd 10 " the god of the land" for proleetiou, and as this God was Jehovah, they torinalty adopted the Hebrew reiiglon. Bat harbaroun and sem-pagan they remained through the Centuries. The Jews' hatred of them we not sttxvnge, and it was returned With interest, 6. Go rather to the Ioat sheep of the house of Tamil. No others were yet ready fOr the Gospel. 7,. As ye go, Qi yowl journey. Preach I'roolaim, advertise, melte known. The kingdom of heaven is a,t hand. ;Not yet fully coxae. 8, Heal the elok, Gleans() the lepers, ralee the dead, cast out devils. b'rom Sonia of the beat old manuscripts "raise the dead" is omitted, and there is no record of such a mireele during this tour; but a few years later the apostles of Christ "raised the dead." Lepers, because of the awfulness of e their malady, aro classed by th- m eelves. Of the devils, or demons, Mark states that the disciples cast out many, Mark 0,13. Thee entire son - tame is a direct oommisalon to the disciples of supernatural power. Free- ly ye have received, freely give, "Freely" means gratuitously. Their power was a free gift, and it should therefore bo exercised without fee or reward. The man who attempts to sell divine power, or takes money in return for its exercise, is guilty of the awful sin of simony, and probably guilty also of heartless fraud. That the man who gives his time to the work of the Gospel should receive a odmfortable support from the Gospel -that in sacred as well as in secular work "the laborer is worthy of his bire"-the New Testament plainly teaches; but those who teach that "the gift of God may be purchased with money" have "neither part nor lot" in true Christianity, and to all each the apostle Peter speaks through the centuries, "Thy heart le not right In the sight of God." AS ROYALTY SEES THINGS. WHAT HAS BEEN WRITTEN IN THE DUCHESS OF FIFE'S ALBUM. Quaint Admislonx by membersor the British Royal F,uully-Frinceee or Wales Dislikes Gush, In an album which the Duchess of Fife has kept for many years are entered the personal opinions, person- al tastes and impressions of nearly every member of the English royal every member of the English royal family. Several pages are devoted to likes and dislikes. The following extracts give inter- esting glimpses of the real feelings and inclinations of the leading royal personages. The Prince of Wales, who loves freedom and naturalness in ' every respect, writes ;- WHEN THE PRINCE IS HAPPY. "I am happiest when I have no pubiio engagements to fulfil; when I can forget that I am 'Your Royal Highness,' and can smoke a really good cigar and read a good novel; when, like plain Mr. Joues, I can go to a race meeting without seeing chronicled in the papers the next day that the Prince of Wales has tak- en to gambling very seriously, and yesterday Lost more money than ever he can afford to pay ; when 1 o an shake hands and talk to Sir Edward Clark without it being rumoured that 'the Priaoa of Wales Is violently opposed to the present war'; when I can spend a quiet evening at home with the Princess and my family. "I am unhappiest when t have a raging toothache, and have to at- tend some social function, where I must srnile as pleasantly as though I never had a pain in my life." PRINCESS DISLIKES GUSIL. The Princess of Wales has writ- ten :-"I dislike all those women who talk about a thing being 'awfully jolly,' who think it 'good fun, you know,' to smoke cigarettes; who gen- erally have sumetning secret to tall you, and who talk about their 'dear husbands.' What I love is too sacred to give to the world ; what I like is of no interest to the world." The Duke of York writes :-"L am a sailor, and every sailor loves a lass. Don't show this to the Duchess. Give me a good dinner, a good com- panion, a good smoke, a good glass of grog, and then I dislike nothing and nobody in the world," PRIDE IN HER CHILDREN. The Duchess of York .remarks: -"I dislike every woman who thtns:s her ehildreu more beautiful than mine, and I Like every one who hives the Qu." J'hoeenDuke of Edinburgh wrote :-"I cannot specify thoroughly my likes and dislikes, but oan say when I feel happy and when unhappy. I feel happy when I am told 1 don't look above thirty; unhappy when I foal like sixty I am unhappy when I k,00wl I have to make a public speech, happy when I have made it.. The Duchess of Fife is an extremely reticent member of Lite royal family. She has written in her own book ;- "What I dislike more than anything else in the world is being gazed at. I dislike What is palled popular ap- plause. I am only perteetly happy in my family eirule. This ie the opinion of Your Royal Shyness," The Queen has written ;.-"God has been so good to ms, given me so inunh to make .mo happy during life that now in my old age I will not confess , that I have any dislikes." CAUGHT IN AMBUSH, One of Col, Bethpne's Squadrons Soifere 66 Caspaltles in a halal Trap. A, despatch from London, says: -The War Office has received the following deepatoh from Generel Buller: -- 1 have received the following from J3ethuee "'May 21, while marching in the die rotten of Newcastle, one or my squad- rons of Bethune's mounted infantry was ambushed by Boers eixmiles west of Vryheld, and very few escaped, Lieuts. Lausum and Copell are among e missing, a th i s Captain the :Earl De La g• t Warr is slightly wounded in the leg. The total casualties are about 00. 1 have returned to Nqutu for supplies. Will march to -morrow for Newt:m ale, via Dundee.'' General. Buller then proceeds: - "I detached Col. Bethune and about five hundred men from Dundee, May 17, with instructions to march by Vaut's drift and show his forge at Nqutu, which was reported to have beau evacuated by the enemy, pre- paratory to the return of the magis- trates and the civil establishment to the district. He was to rejoin, me at Newcastle afterwards." CAPTURED TWO COUNTS. Some of the Prisoners Taken by Col. Baden-Powell. A despatch to the London Rally Mail, dated Mufsking Sunday, say's:- ' Among the prisoners captured with Commandant Sarei Liotf are Count de Bremont, a Frenchman, and Count. Von Weise, a German. It is found that the Boers were guided by two deserters named Hay and Bolton. At the enemy's request we have handed over their dead. "To -day one of our men was asked to surrender, and replied 'Never.' The Boers at; onoe sh,ot him. through the head." Further details of the fighting at Mafeking say that Commandant Sorel Eloff's followers deserted hew, whereupon Eloff fired on, them him- self, and then surrendered with 80 fol- lowers. The despatch also says that one party of Boers was driven out of CROSSED NEAR INGOEO. Doubtful if Boers Will Remain in Laing's Nek, A despatch from London, Friday says: -In Natal Gen. Buller'() forces have crossed into the Transvaal near Ingogo, but are still held at bay at Laing's nek, where Lhe Boers are en- trenching themselves. With the ex- ception of this pass, Natal is clear of Boers. They have a big gun posted, but it is doubtful if they will be able to hold the position when threaten- ed by a flanking movement from the force that crossed the Ingogo river. Gen. Dartnell's volunteers Dammed Mount Prospect Monday. Lord Dun- donald's cavalry is at F irmstones, near Ingogo. His infantry rests at Schoenshoogte, Their names are all of Lata! memory in the first Boer war. They face Laing's nek, uwhere the Boers fhrougb the range glasses of the British are occasionally visible. In the march across the Biggarsberg all the farms, except one, were found vacant. A temporary br=age has been finished at Waschbank. Trains now go to Dundee. LOOTED AS THEY FLED. Damage Occasioned By the Boers in. Natal. A despatch from Newcastle, says When the retiring Boers passed through Newcastle they were thor- oughly demoralized. Their wagons came ratting over the veldt fifteen abreast, in an excited hurry to get safely away. In order to lighten vehicles their drivers emptied their contents on the veldt. The Boers have looted the Healing spruit station, and smashed the water tanks. At the Dannhauser and Ingagane stations the tanks have been treated in like manner. The Ingagane railway bridge abutments, the Waschbank grinder bridge, and all the culverts from Waschbank to Glencoe between Glencoe and Dannhauser have been damaged, but can easily be repaired. PLAQUE AT DURBAN. Fatal Case of Disease Reported in Natal. A despatch from Durban, says :-An extraordinary issue of the Gazette annotnloes the existence of a fatal naso of the bubonic plague in Durban. The victim is an East Indian. The local authorities are strictly en- forcing precaution. TO THE BITTER END. lunger'() Proclamation Calling Upon Burghers to Defend Johannesburg A dospabch from Cape Town, gays:- President 'Kruger, it is announced here, has issued a proclamation shying he will defend Johannesburg and Galling upon all the Boers to fight to the bitter end. ��EOTOR. GLES 1■OYMEN �HYII I ANS 1 �.rPy 9 len au44 'omen in all Walks of Life Tell of the Ramarkab*o , ht bySouth `American Nettie Tonic. Cares. Wrought SIX DOSES WILL CONVINCE THE MOST INC:►EDOL,QU$ •c am'.,. '.,.4.-- .w»teal 7 IJ • EDITOR COLWELL, OF Newspaper editors are almost as sceptical as the average physician on the subject of new remedies for sick people. Nothing short of a series of most remarkable and well authenti- cated cures will incline either an editor or a doctor to seriously consider the merits honestly claimed for a medicine. Hundreds of testimonials of won- derful recoveries wrought with the Great South American Nervine Tonio were received from men and women all over the country before physicians began to prescribe this great remedy in chronic cases of dyspepsia, in- digestion, nervous prostration, sick headache, and as a tonic for build- ing up systems sapped of vitality through protracted spells of sick- ness. During his experience of nearly a quarter of a century as a newspaper publisher in Paris, Ont„ Editor Col- well, of The Paris Review, has pub- lished hundreds of columns of paid medicine advertisements, and, no doubt, printed many a gracefully - worded puff for his patrons as a matter of business, hut in only a single instance, and that one warrant- ed by his own peeeonel experience, has he given a testimonial over his own signature, No other remedy ever offered the public has proved Inch a marvellous revelation to the most sceptical as the South American Nervine Tonio. It has never failed 'n its purpose, anal ;t l+ae eared when 4 PARIS, ONT., REVIEW. doctors and other medicines were tried in vain. "I was prostrated with a particu- larly severe attack of 'La Grippe,11 says Mr. Colwell, "and could find no relief from the intense pains and dis- tress of the malady. I suffered day and night. The doctors did not help me, and I tried a number of medi- cines, but withoat relief. About this time I was advised to try the South American Nervine Tonio. Its effects were instantaneous. The first dose I took relieved me. I improved rapidly and grew stronger every day. Your Nervine Tonio cured me in a single week." The South American Nervine Tonio rebuilds the life forces by its direct action on the nerves and the nerve centres, and it is this notable feature which distinguishes it from every other remedy in existence, The most eminent medical authorities now conoedethat fully two-thirds of all the physical ail menta of humanity arias from exhaustion of the nerve forges. The South American Nervine Tonic acting direct upon the nerve centres and nerve tissues instantaneously supplies thein with the true nourish - meet required, and that is why its invigorating effects upon the whole system are always felt immediately, For all nervous di+eases, for general debility arising from enfeebled vital. ity, and for stomach troubles of ever) variety no other remedy can possibly take its ole, -r Sold by G. A. Deadm%n. ON BOER RIGHT FLANK. British Forces Marching East Along the Vaal :aver. A despatch from Pretoria, Wednes- day, says :-An official bulletin issued here says : - "The advance guard at Heilbron re- tired on the main body at the north- ern border. "According to Free State advices the British yesterday were at Grayling's drift, on the Vaal river, 26 miles from Wolmaranstad, with a large force. "Oa Sunday B:albe engaged theBrit- ishbetween Heilbron and Lindley. The Federate had to retire before an over_ whelming force. losing ono killed and seven wounded." RUNDLE AT TROMMEL. One of the British Patrols Attacked by the Enemy. A despatch from London says :-Gen, 1undle's forces are encamped at Trammel, recuperating. A patrol, four miles from Trommel, was attack- ed by the Boers, One man was wound- ed, and several horses killed, The af- fair was unimportant, except in show- ing that the Boors are still in the neighbourhood and on the lookout for any chance of sniping. RFITZ LEAVES PRETORIA. Rio Family and 3700,000 Accompany Him. A Cope Town despatch to the Ex- change Telegraph Co'y,, dttted'Thurs- day, says that 90 boxes of bar gold, veined at £141,000, have been sent from Pretoria to Lorenzo Marques. State Seeretar) Relit, of the Transvaal, his wife and family were on the same train. HIGHBINDEN TRAGEDY. +y,t'rloas )Murder of a Calmer n a Ressland, 11. e. A despatch from Roseland, B. 0., says :-A mysterious occurrence hap.. paned on Wednesday, Dinh -Lin, o cook, was found dead at 0 p.m,,. in the house of bis employer, Mrs. Cheno- weth. He was killed by a bullet en- tering the bead between the jaw bones severing the internal artery and lodging in the spine. Death was in- stantaneous, Nobody was in the horse at the time. It eould not have been suicide, as there are no marks of burning. hlnh-tin's body was !yin@ under an open window on the ground floor. The murder was probably com- mitted by a Chinese highbinder. WOMAN SUFFRAGE IN L(NDON. UMW 115 ('omens. 1'41,Sios the Aldi mn l Sc sal Reading, A despatch from London says ;-The House of Commons on Wednesday dis- cussed the bill removing the political disabilities of women in regard to bolding office in Loudon borough. The bill makes women eligible to election as aldermen and caunoiilnrs. The bill pussed its sound reading by a vote of 148 to 110 amid loud cheers. THEY NEVER DO, There is suoh a thing as somnatn bulism, of course4 queried the ansi- ous-looking young man as he appear- ed at the lawyer's °ffioe. Certainly, was the reply. But do somnambulists ever write lel .tars ? Never heard of It+ A someabulist wouldn't write 210 love letters in a year would he, and each and every one oil them asking. the girl to marry him and threatening suicide if she didn't O Never. Then there's no help for mo, and you may see the girl and settle the breach of promise suit on the best terms you I can.