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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1900-6-7, Page 319 0 O. BRUSSELS 08 T,. SENDER OF PRETO The Union Jack Is Now Flying ver Oom Paul's Capital. A despatch from 1,unian, Thei'day save ;—The 'Daily Mall publishes the following despatchfrom the Earl of Roselyn, wise watt a prisoner al 'Pre- toria, and who, as a civilian, appears to have been released "Pretoria, Wsdnesdey,May, 80, 11,40 a,m,—Pretoria will be ueoupiod in about two hours without resiatan06. "The President sea gone to Water• vallioven. "The burgomaster, De Sousa, is authorized to receive the British. He, with an influential committee of citizens, igoluding Chief Justice Ore- gorowski, has been appointed to pre- serve life and property during the in- terregn am. "Everything is quiet, but crowds are waiting expectantly in Ohureh square for the arrival of the BriLieh, "Fearing .a possible distnrbanoe and bloodshed among the prisoners of war at \tTatervel, United States Con- sul Hay and Mr. Leigh Wood insisted upon 20 oiliest% being liberated on parole ' to• go to the men. Their ac- tion cannot be too highly praised.. "I was permitted to accompany the officers, Everything was quiet." CONFIRMED BY OTHER CORIi.LeS- POND:G'NTS, A desgutott from London ant's;—Tbe War O'ffioe has issued nothing from Gen, Roberts nine° it made. public Ito despatch sent from Germiston Tues- day, 'announcing that he expected to occupy Johannesburg without opposi- tion, huttelegrams.frorn eorrespond- ents al Paetoria. state that the Boer. capital has been abandoned Lo the British, the forts having been eveeu °ted, rind President Kruger and the Executive Council having fled. BRITISII IN POSSESS{ British Fla N. Hoisted Over Johan= nesburg on Thursday. London, May 31, -The following de- speech from Lord Roberts, the British aommauder-in-chief in South Africa, MIA been received at the War Office here: Johannesburg, May 31. 2 p.m.—Ear I'ta jetsty's forces are now in possession of Johannesburg, and the British flag floats over the Goverument buipd- Inge.' The following despatches from the commander-in-chief were received ear- lier in the day Germiston, May 30, "In answer to a flag of truce I sent to Johannesburg this morning the commandant came to sea me. He begged me to defer entering the town for twenty-four hours, as there were many armed burghers still inside. I agreed to this, as I am moat anxious to avert the possibility of anything like disturbance inside the lawn, and as bodies of the enemy are ,still hold- ing the hills in the immediate neigh- bourhood, from which they will have to be cleared off beforehand. "Rundle reports that he attacked a large party of Boers near Senekal on May 28, He said his casualties were not heavy. "Brabant reports that on May 28 two of this patrols, consisting of two officers and forty men, were cut off by the enemy, and taken prisoners." "Germiston, May 30, 9p.m. "The brunt of the fighting yester- day fell upon Ian Hamilton's column. I have sent him, as already mentioned, to work around to the west of Johan- nesburg, in support of French's cavalry which wus directed to go north near the road leading to Pre- toria, I have not heard from French. yet, but Hamilton, in a report which has just reached me, states that at about one o'clock in the afternoon he found his way blocked by the enemy strongly posted un some kopjesand ridges three miles south of the Rand. They had Iwo heavy guns and several field guns and pom-poms. Hamilton forthwith attacked. ":Che right was led by the Gordons. who, after capturing one extremity of the ridge, wheeled around and worked along it until after dark, (searing it of the enemy, w'bo fought most obstinately, The One Hundred and fourth led on the other flank. and would not he denied, but the thief share in the action, as in (he,casual- taes, Pett to the Gordons, whose gal- lant 'advance excited the admiration of all. "Hamilton is now al Florida, due went of Johannesburg, and French is a few miles further to the north- east. .The Gordons, the cavalry, the mounted infantry, and the seventh division are holding the heights of the town. The eleventh division, with Batteries '11' and 'G,' and the heavy artillery, are south of Johannesburg. "Hamilton speaks in high terms of praase of the manner in which Bruce Hamilton, end Colonel Spens, of the Shropshire Light Infantry, handled their men, under Smith-Dorrien's direction," THE WAR MAY CONTINUE. Krieger and the Boers Expected to Retire to the Lydenburg Mountains - While some of the newspapers in Q o ndnn regard Lira surrender of Pre- toria, as dale end of the war, there are others that do not venture such a sanguine opinion, contenting them- selves by saying it is the beginning of 1111° end, They recall the frequent- ly reiterated intention of the Boers to withdraw into the mountains of Ly- denburg, and find confirmation of this intention in the fact that Presi- dent Kruger hes gone Lo Waterval- boven, t1U"om that place the main roped runs due north, to Lydenburg. They argue that if the President was merely seeking to escape capture he would continua his journey tLor•enzo Marques, instead of belting at Wa-. tervalboven, whpch is 110 miles west of the eastern frontier of the Trans- vaal. It is assummed that President Steyn, of the Orange Free State, and. State Secretary Reitz, of the Trans- vaal. 11is assumed that President: Kruger, but there is no certain in- forenation concerning their move- ments. THE • BRI•ISH PRISONERS. Boer Commanding Officers Urge Their Transference to.Maiges. A despatch: from Pretoria, May 27, vin Lorenzo Matrquest May 20 says:— President IKruger to -day issued n pu•ooleiaas lion appointing a day ' of general 'humiliation .throughout . the Republic in view of the or'iticnl situa- tion. Koomatipoort, the last Transvaal town on the railway to ljelegoa bay, es being fortified, The question of the removal of the British prisoners is resolving the seri• eu: atIi:ition of the Executive Council, Toe cammneding officers atthe franc demand their immediate removal to Matgca, which is close to the terminus of the Seem railway. President lieu - gee et opposed to removing the prison- ers, The feverish nativity in lidding to end Si rengtl:smog the defence Werke of the capitol condones. TRE WAR ABOUT OYER. Pretoria Says Boers Have Ceased to Offer 1lesistance. A deapatch from Pretoria, May 28, via Lorenzo Marques, May 29, says: —The Boers have ceased Lo offer fur- ther .resistance to the advance of the British troops. There is good reason to believe the I Transvaal authorities will immediate- ! ly open negotiations for peace, if they have not already taken the first steps in that direction. Yesterday they made final enquiries in various quarters by cable, asking if any hope might still be entertained of help from them friends abroad. The British occupied Ethernet this morning, and e. large force is march- ing on to Liohtenburg. Am official bulletin states that the British crossed the Vaal river Satur- day. Gen, Lemmer had a severe fight at Kittr river. Five of the burghers were wounded and two were captured, The British were five thousand strong, Fighting took place at Vunwytrust, fifteen miles south of Johannesburg, with a large force of British which broke through Klip river.. THE COLLAPSE COMPLETE. Thunderer Takes No 'took In Threat of Guerilla Warfare. A despatch from London says :—'The Daily Express says,—"Mr. Kruger has invested £140,000 of his money in lands and mines, This took place be- fore the war broke out, and to this fact may be ascribed the failure of the officers to blow up the mines," The Times says :—"Any further resin tepee the Boers may offer will be fu- tile. The collapse of the Transvaal as a militant state may be regarded as complete. Threats of obstinate gnerilla warfare need not. be taken more seriously than the exploded men- ace of resistance at Johannosburg'and Pretoria, Tho formal annexation of the Transvaal 'wilt speedily follow, The war is rapidly approaching its close," Jive thousand fresh troops will em- bark for South Africa within the next few days. NEWS SUMMARY, CANADA A crematory is fe be built at Mont- real. London Pae reduced the number of wards from 0 to 4 Canada'e exhibit at the Paris fair is to be closed on Sunday. Several Hamilton ehurehes are in- creasing the salary of tbetr pastors. Guards of the principal harbour fortifications at Halifax have been doubled. The Montreal eugar refineries have nmaele a cut in sugar of five cents per 100 pounde. Ottawa's assessment is 824,478,800, its net debt 82,940,045, and popula- tion 57,000. Regiments from smallpox-infeoted districts are to be exempt from an- nual drill this year. ` Ottawa maehiaisls and moulders are joining in the general movemeut. fee increased. wages end shorter( hours. Port Dalhousie ratepayers have voted 112 to 3, in favor of granting a bonus of $0,500 to the Toronto Rub- ber Shoe Co. :fifteen new grain elevators are to be erected by the Ogilvie Milling Cana - Pony at different points in Manitoba and the Territories this year. The City Cotaneil of Ottawa, by a vote of 12 to 11, defeated the by-law re,lpu'ins that buildings erected in the burned urea be fire proof. The 120 versa which. the Govern- ment has added to the tit. Jlegis re- , servation near Cornwall have been divided into homesteads for the In- dians. Hamilton City Improvement Society will offer rrizes for the best -kept boulevards and lawns, stud also tor flower decorated window's, porches and verandahs. Part Arthur hos eight cases of amatlpox; Fort William three. The sixth smallpox death has occur- red at Winnipeg. A Minneapolis wo- man was the victim. .frank Werke, the Italian who killed his wife, pleaded guilty to man- slaughter at the Welland Assizes and will serve ten years in Kingston pent- tentlary. He is 00 years of age. The Putrid is highly stated over the re-establishment of commerical re- lations between France and Canada by the arrival at Montreal of the Mont Blanc, the first steamer of the new French-Canadian Line, Rev, G. 0, Troop may resign as paster of 81. Martin's church, Mont- real, as a result' of trouble with the Finance Committee over the question of pew rent. The pastor would have free paws, GREAT. BRITAIN. Mr, Cha mberlai n will attend Lha Otto- dian banquet in Lohdon on Dominion or Day. oouneed that Lord Salisbury would ennsidet a proioait'lon to bold a pe- Lionel tlonksgiving day ei aeltnow- lodgment of hods vouobsafing victory to the British arms, UNITED STATES, leIlehigan Slate banke have '$11,807,, 132 more on deposit than a year ago, A Gennari firm bas ordered 100,000 tons of Alabama eoal at $2,50 a ton, Ohioago is excited over a report that plague-infeoted coffee from Bre- ad has been used there. t1oor children .of Thos. Brady were burned to death in their home near Nashville, Tenn. :0211d cases of smnllpux hove been reported al Oneonta, 'Tarrytown and Havant -raid, New York, Over 2,000 monlc;ers In Buffalo are on strike, refusing to work with °ores made by non-union coremakers. The German eleamer Albano, from Homburg, is in quarantine at New York with two eases of smallpox: Presbyterians of Woodlawn Park, Chicago, will hold serviees in a church belonging to the Roman Catholics un- til their new building 1s completed. Massey, defaulting, cashier of the Merchants National Bank, of Rut- land, Vt., will serve seven years, and Fairer, former cashier of the Water- bury National Bank, who stole $30,- 000, will serve six years. Chicago meat packers are asking the United States Government. to pre- vent the German meat inspection law, just passed, from going into ef- fect until the contracts now held by Chicago packers can be filled, The Massaehusetts Supreme Court has decided that druggists cannot sell cigars on Sunday. This decision is the outcome of litigation pruinoled by Boston tobacconists, who were suffer- ing from the druggists' success. GENERAL. Ilio Janeiro has several eases of plague_ Russian crops have been damaged by frosts. An American is dead from bubonic plague at Manila. The first death, THE S. S. LESSON • INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 10. "Dealrt or John site unsold." ritrk 6. (3.25. Golden Text. EPL, 5. as. PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 14. King Herod heard of him. Herod Antipas, the tetrarch, or king of. Galilee and Perea, beard of Jesus, W110, as we learned, in our last les- son, was now travelling throughout Galilee, One of Herod's capitals was Tiberius, on the Sea of Galilee, and since our Lord's name was spread abroad rumours of his words and works cane thither to Herod's court, Herod Antipas was a typical ,Eastern despot of great pretension, small abil- ity, weak will and lavish expenditures —a ''bundle of patty vices." He said. To hie courtiers,'See the account in h•Iatihow. Thal John the Baptist was risen from the dead. Herod had mur- dered John, and was haunted by re- morse. See note on verse 21. There- fore mighty works do show forth themselves in bim. Revised Version: " Therefore do these powers work in him." Herod imagined that John .had COMB back to life clothed with new and dreadful powers. No wonder he was terrified. Herod was n Saddueee, and denied existence of the soul af- ter death; but a guilty consciene.eis stranger than a creed. 15. Elias, The Greek form' of .Elijah, whose return to earth had been fore- told by Malachi. John had fulfilled this prophecy. It is a prophet. A third explanation. Jesus must be u new prophet sent from God after a silence of four hundred years. Or ns one of the prophets. A miracle w, rk r wh se I powers riveted the great prophets of the past.. All these various explana- tione appear to have been made to quiet ilarod's efonsbience, but that woo pot ecu Lastly slope 10.It le John whom I beheaded; he is rlsen The ingenious sugges- Hone of the ebur tiers .all fail to allay the pangs of a aensolence whieb was " u thousand swords," 17. hared ltiniself. Tor personairea- eons, without the complicity of priests or Pharisees. hound bite In prison. Thrust him Into a huge building-- furtress, dungeon, end palace in one, For Heradiste' sake. Herodias desired John's death because lie had censured her sinful relations with Herod. Part- Ily to appease her and parity to pre- serve John's life Herod had imp'r'ison- ed him. Mark writes with the inexor- ableness of Truth. Herodias was Herod's 'queen, but in the sight of God site wus still his brother Philip'° wife. Herod Antipas, married her. Herodi- as bad first been married to her uncle Philip -sin act which was Itself con- trsry to Jewish law. To tbair home enure Herod Antipae, who was also her uncle, as guest. He induced Herodias to desert Philip and become his queen, her daughter Salome came to Galilee with her, Meanwhile Herod had abandoned his lawful wife, and had, as a consequence, been drawn in- to war with her Lather Aretas, an Arabian king. 18, John bad repeatedly said, It is not lawful for thee to have thy broth- er's wife, A Jewish king, even though he owed his dignities to the Romans, was expected to keep the Jewish law, How this law bore an Herod's acts may be seen from. Ler, 111. it 10, If John wished to reform the morals of the nation, he dared not neglect the vices uud crimes of the national leaders, Herod's sin, with the war it had brought on, would bring inevitably ,much suffering to thousands, and such sin a faithful minister of God must. rebuke. 10. Herodias had a quarrel against him, Or, as the Revised Version bus it, "Set herself against him." Would have killed him. "Willed" • to kill him. She could not forgive the man who bad denounced her; besides, John's attack on her was a very seri- ous affair. Her whole prosperity was conditioned on his downfall. The Galilean had never liked her ; but they reverenced John, If Herod long listened to John, she would be de- throned and deserted. She saw !clearly that either John or herself must be destroyed. She could not. • Herod, feeble as he was, thought too highly of John to allow him to fall into He.rudias's clutches. althougb in certain moods he had himself been tempted to kill him. 20. Herod feared John. With a fear that was inure than reverence, and for which there were at least three reasons: 1. John was the most popular of living Jews. What he said they accepted without argument. What despot could but fear the de- nunciations of such a man 1 2. John represented God; and how many An- gels waited on him. what supernatur- al powers had been intrusted to him, Herod did not know. Without spiritual religion Herod had spiritual supersti- tion, and dill nut dare to fight the Un- known. 3. With all Herod's infirmity of will and selfishness of purpose, he had a Jewish admiration of moral good- ness, and recognized holiness when he saw it. Jahn was a just mon aid a holy, and Herod could not but revere him, Observed him. "Kepi bin' safe." Hes anger as John made him glad that he was shut away from the multi- (udes; his reverence for John made Min glad to Rive bim safe from Hero- dias. When be heard'him, he did many things. The Revised Version,. following most. anesent authorities, renders this "be was much perplex- ed.' His sense of right and his Tuve of wrong, the influence of John and the', oile, o: Eleroci,a.;. m k, him un: er din w• hat course to take. Heard him glad 13'. lib wanted to obey his higher nature, but could not because of she! Te nspec The ?12ttnsion House Lund in London for victims of the Ottawa five has reached 050,000, While in England the 'Khedive of Egypt will ask Lord Salisbury's per- mission 10 visit America. Capt. iiseley, Unionist, succeeds Sir Richard Webster as M.P., for the tele of Wight division of Liampshire. Twenty miles of tramway have been added to those already under control of the London County Council. IL is persistently rumoured that Sir eviliain Henry White, who has been director of naval construction since 18c5, is resigning his post. There is still no change for the bet- ter in the famine stricken district of India, ncaording to Lord George Ham- ilton, Seoretary of Slate for ladle, William Waldorf Astor, hits sent a cheque for £10,000 to the Maidenhead Clottage Hospital, in England, in cele- bration of the coining of age of his °idea son, The National Bazaar was opened by the Princess of Wales et I2ensington, over £10,000 being taken In during the Bret afternoon, to be used in aid of the war sufferers. In the Rouse of Commons UM Gov- ernment leader, A. J. Balfour, stn - f Steamboats For the Dominion Government was unable to find a cure for Itching Piles—After 9 years of torture he was positively cured by Dr. Chase's Mr, 0, P. St. John, the Dominion inspector bf steamboats, residing at No. 20 Shaw street, Toronto, was for many years chief engineer on the lake steamers, and is a prominent citizen. 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Her evil purpose had long been cherished. Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords. Herod was famous for his birthday suppers. Persius, a Ronan poet, speaks of him as sitting years after at the table, surrounded by his friends, assembled in honor of his birthday. Before him in a red porce- lain dish was a tunny fish. Suddenly in that flab, with the red porcelain about it, he saw the heed of a murder- ed man, and bec'nme sielewtth remorse. Lords, high captains, and chief estat- es. Nobles, army officers, and weal- thy men. 22, 23. The daughter of the said Herodias Dame in, and danced. The Revised Version brings out mere strongly the astonishment of the peo- ple to see a princess dance. Some of our pupils will need to be reminded that social dancing was and is un- known in the East, but professional dancers, who form a class by them- selves, by graceful and sensuous movements delight the men who as- semble at the feasts. That a Jewish princess should dance before the drunken men at this dinner was a shocking thing to the people at large, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee , . , unto the half of my kingdom. Herod was only called king 'by courtesy, What lit- tle power he had was delegated. Ile could not have kept such a wild promise if he would. 21, What, shall I askI The story, dramatic and sensnons up to this point, suddenly becomes loathsome, That a girl, led by her mother Pito shameless oonduct probably for the purpose of obtaining a favor front a corrupt man, should go to tbat mother to tisk for guidance, and be guided to the crime of murder, 15 one of the most horrible tbings that his- tory brings to our notice. The head of John the Baptist. Hero.i might do many things—hear. John gladly and indulge in bacchanals by turns —but his implacable 'wife through all the months had one plan in Jeer mind, and that was for John's earthly ruin. 25. Straightway. Immediately, with baste; for if Herod had time to heronse sober, he might nut keep hie word. A charger. A large• plate or platter. She coveted not only her enemy s lite, but reveled so his pans. 20. The king was exceedingly sorry. Annoyed, exeaperated, worried, hue not penitent, it htti•t his ronseiecioe to kill this good man; it endangered Sus cause with tbe people to offend them by killing their favorite; it endanger- ed his interests in Rome to commit such flagrance and injustice; besides, what unknown spiritual friendeenight nos this, holy prophet haver For hie oath's sake. This word should be plural possessive. ile had sworn over sod over again, The Jews more than any other nation insisted that an oath or vow must le kept, even af. made under mistaken conditions. There stere ninny of those which sat with him, doubt- less, who were almost as eager for John's life as was Herodias. 27, The king sent an executiauer. A soldie.r of his guard, 28. Brought his bear) in a charger. Bringing the head to the person who cummeedetl the death was not very strange; sues things have been done repeatedly. Putting it into a charger ns if it were an artiole of food was a horrible sarcasm: Jerome says that Herodias pierced his longue with a hnittin, Tile damsel gave it t„ her mother. Accustomed to sensunllt,v and deed:: of Blood, this girl thought little of doing a deed that the worst modern criminal would recoil from. 20. Ills disciple°. John's disciples, They came and took up his eorpae. .l statement whish shares that. some £avers h.ui Peen shown Jnb'n^; of her- wise. his diieeittles could not have crane Besides, men who hod sof ere,i :••'puss punishment often wear tretnd in 'death with greet, indignity. Laid it its n torah, and Then, ns We are told by Metlhely, "went and told Jesus.