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Yon, 25, 1898
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CANADA.
Tire New Brunswick Legislature is
to session.
The Hamilton Horticultural Society
has been incorporated.
Considera't10 improvemonta are to be
affected at the Royal Military College.
Mr, G. M. Rose, the well-known To-
ronto publisher, died Thursday, aged
V years.
ft is reported that the G.T.R. will
1.uJld a n.ammoth hotel at Quebec.
Mr. R. K. Hope has received his com-
mission as Itegistree of Wentworth
County.
Imports from Caita.la during Sunli-
t -try increased $147,582, comi:ared with
January, I8t7.
The life insurance comianies doing
business in Montreal are accepting
risks on Klonllikers.
An electric railway between Cttawa
and Metcalfee ie proposed. The dis-
tance is 20 miles.
The Manitoba Legislature will meet
on March 10'. no session will prob-
ably be short.
Hamilton temperance people are pe-
titioning the City Council to reduce
the number of liquor licenses.
The C. P. R. Telegraph Company will
string a large copper wire between
Montreal and Vancouver.
The Toronto City Council has ap-
pointed Mr. Chas. 11, Rust as City En-
gineer in succession to Mr. E. H.
beating.
The fancy and staple dry goods firm
of Eoisseau L'reres, Montreal, Las sus-
pended payment. The iiai'i:ities are
$110,000.
American secret service detectives
are still at eiontreal, hunting f; r
gotwterreiters, with the aid. of the
total force.
News has come to Edmonton that In-
spect.or Mtody's police party crossed
the rea'e ).fiver Pas. of the Rockies on
Deceml_er 22.
The Chairman of the Finance Cum-
mittee of Montreal prol.oses to start a
huge civic lottery for the purpose of
paying the city's deet.
Reports received at Victoria from
Dawson stats that five men have lies
frozen t:, death near Skaguay, an
three near Dyed,
There is a protability of the Mont
real Park and Island Railwa7 Lein
consolidated with tire- Montral Sties
Railway Company.
By the treaty with Abyssinia (,res
Britain secures another men door and
the moat -favored -nation treatment in
respect to imports and local taxation.
A syndicate is being formed In Que
bee to purobase Lord ,Mount -Stephen'
property opposite the Governor's gar
dens, to build a large block there.
Lieut. Meech, who had the base f
hie skull fractured by falling Dram bi
seeiglt retitle tandem driving at King-
ston, died from !leis injuries.
The Montreal Cotton Company in-
tends to extend its plant by the eroo-
time of a. spinning mill for the mann-
facture of goods which are now int,-
portad,
Evangelist Moody, who is addressing
large meetings en Montreal has re-
curved a letter enclosing $395 from a
man who haat defrauded the Customs
of that amount.
Hon. C. If. eliackentosh will leave
ahortly for Ragland, and daring his
bsence will arrnoge for the develop-
nent of properties purchased. by the
British American Corporation.
Tina Lang Tanning Company will
shortly begin the erection of'a tannery
in Berlin, wthirh will be the largest
In Canada. Three hundred hands will
be employed,
A well made one -dollar American
certificate was discovered in Montreal.
There is reason to believe that a clover
gang of counterfeiters is working in
the district,
ibIr. H. J. 200100r .hits naked the Hull
City Connell for a bonus of $70,000 for
the interprovincial bridge and the Tor-
onto Robber Co. asks $4:0,000 its a bonus
for establishing its rubber factory in
03011,
Japan is going to Laredo the Klon-
dike. It is stated that an army of 5,000
able-bodied laborers is being got to-
gether for the gold fields and in al
month et will make a descent on Dew.
son Cidy.
A landslide occurred five mile; be-
low the Iowa of Quesnelle, B. C., and
buried three miners named \Vm. Allen,
Jas Rioh, and. Alexander McLean, The
2lldels 1,000 feet wide, 000 feet long and
2 feat high,
It is stated that the Dominion Steant-
ship Co.wl11 run a weekly in..tetiel of
a fortnightly lrassenger ser;iee be-
tween: Montreal and Liverpool, and
will place a new steamer, the Domin-
ion, on the service.
City Clerk Ilonderson, of Ottawa, has
received a cheque for $5,000 from the
Provincial Treasurer of Ontario, for
the Casselman Ciro relief fund. The
Ontario Government nese sent a cheque
for $5,000 last autumn,.
A dospatob from Quebec says Lhat it
is rumored that a cable has just been
received there that the Messrs. Peter -
tele have succeeded in their negotia-
tions, assuring the success of the fast
Atlantic steamships.
The Customs Department has decided
to fond two deicers to Skagway and
Byes to furnish information to Can-
adians going through to this Yukon by
that route wad; to assist in the carry-
ing out ori the customs regulations
there.
The Domineer financial statement
for the month of January shows the
total reveetle for th.o month art
1;48,51&,000, en increase over the same
anonbb1 test year of half a million (let-
tere, while the exp1endit0ro for the
Montle has decreased by a quartan' of
a Million,
tINiTI;D STATES,
;Eghteen dead lxa1 es and 38 •missing
is Rollo %he record. of that Pittsburg fire.
The poprtlation of Greater New York
a 8,438,i`fi9, aecor:ling to an °ffdeial es-
ettnettle
a
0
t
tt
During the last fiscal year the Malt -
ad THE SCHOOL. States exported tlomestio merohan- •til ►7U1`I1JL?A c7�+aat1 L,
disc to the value of over $1,033,000,000,
The Luatgert jury at Chicago has
brought in a verdict of guilty fixing
the penslty at life imprisonment.
The Si /wish Minister at Washing,
ten is likely to be recalled for having
in a letter savagely attacked President
MlcKinley.
Katie Gassett, who was arrested en
Toronto, t'luwrgeed wilily stealing a silk
dross, etc., hos been convicted at Ro-
chester, N.Y., and sent to a reforma-
tory.
Edward Hodgman, the absconding
treasurer of the Chicago fiuildiug
Trades Council, has been arrested in a
remote part of the North-West and
will be taken back to Chicago.
A court at Topeka, Kas., has decid-
ed that a bioyolc teas exempt from ex-
ecntion under a judgment, being a
" tool" esscntlai to a man's profession
or occupation,
The New York Municipal Council and
Hoard of Aldermen have passed a reso-
lution condemning the expenditure of
$9,000,000 an State canals, and calling
for an investigation,
The Tronsury Department at Wash-
ington have given a ruling on the im-
portation of fors as wearing apparel.
Hereafter muffs, boas, etc., will be dut-
iable when out of season,
Edward Bel:atuy, author of "Looking
Backward," ant Eugene V. Dabs, late
heal of the American Railway [.inion,
awl leader of the Social Democracy,
have united to launch a new politi-
cal party.
A boat containing five men went over
the falls at Oregon City, Ora., on
Thursday, George Freeman, sr., ills sons
George and James, and L, de Shannon,
were drowned. Harry Freeman held to
the boat and reached shore,
Four th. u=and overhead wires in Chi- ,
cago bel uging to the telegraph tele-
phone and , thee companies in the ;
clown -town districts will be cut down
by the city unless etaps he taken to
place them underground d:efr,re Marl.
Mirs, William W. Pla:re, wife of an
inrturanee adjuster at Naw York, is
charged there with the mlu•der of Iter
mother -in -Jaw. The father-iu-law may I
die from the injuries she Caused to I
hien. Her sulsequent attempt to com-
mit suicide failed,
GI„NERAL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, FEB. 27.
" warning tali einem thee" arms, 11. ee tie,
tartden Te'1, Vett. 11, a8,
PRACTICAL NOTES,
Verse 20, Then began be to upbraid
the cfti^s wherein moat of his mighty
works were done. The narrative of
Matthew 1 awes these reproaches on the
Jew's rejection of Jesus; the name
tire of Luke Weiss them on the rejec-
tion by the Jewel of the apostles.
21. Woe unto thee, Chorazln I woe
unto thee, Bethsaida I It is a remark-
able fa't that not a singles miracle re-
corded in the gospels is placed in eith-
er of these towns, Chorazln is, accord-
ing to the most recent authorities, to
be identified' with the preseut ruins of
Karasek, northward from Tel Hum. The
alto of Bcthsaida has been much in
i dispute. Different references in the
.1 gospels have been supposed to allude
to two towns of thus name, One is iden-
tified beyond doubt. It was a vil'a�re
1 on the bank of the Jordan River, north
of the Lake of Galilee and very near
to the river's mouth, It was rebuilt by
the Tetrarch Philip, and named Jutins
In honor of the daughter of the emper-
! or. Scarab for a emend Path:airla on
the western coaet of the sea seemed to
many' to be stale neceaary by the
statement that after the miraculous
' feeding of the fico thousand Jesus went
to the other silo of the lake towards
Betheaida. But it is nowt certain that.
such a phrasts does not necessarily im-
ply Otto era, ing of Otto lake, and it is
Probable that all Jests and his disci -
ides did was to reiut'n by water from
the scene of the miracle to Bethsaida
.ruli.ae. The pro' et Weeks are all
now in favor of but one Bethsnida. It
was the birth,'a^e of Andrew, and
Pater, nen'1 1n.;i:ip. Both cities are
Mare nl s2 rn-'.d a:s typieel of the hniy
Excellent rains in Northern and Cen-
tral India ,have ensured successful
spring crops,
liir. tieh tro ea have (ecupied Beregou-
run and Bashere, in the B.1rgu1 country
of West Africa.
The result of the Transvaal electirno
was the return of President Kreger
by a big majority.
A telegram from San Jose, Guatem-
ala, announces the assassination of
President Barrios.
The Spanish Government has de hied
to send the Spanish crueler Almirante
Oquendo tet 1levena and thence to Now
York.
Mr. Furness, the unsuccessful. Lib-
eral candidate in the ream Parlia-
enen:tary election in York. 'bias petition-
ed ter a re-coun,t of the votes.
Despatches received trona Manilla,
s capital of the Philippine Islands, an-
-! 1100000 that 200 bu'
uarugs, s'me of
• them of importance. have leen derstroy-
o ed by fire,
is
WIVES SIIOULD REMEMBER,
That Adam was made first.
That "be pays the freight."
That "blessed are the meek."
That nine men in ten detest gossip.
That all angels aro nut or your sell.
That confidence legate confidence,
That men sometimes have "nerves,"
That there should le no place like
home,
That it takes two to prolong a fa- 1,
roily jar. g.
Tbet the least said is the soonest e
mended,
'Chat with ail his faults you 1„va him
still,
That you should have no secrets from
That iutseends have troubles of their ,1
awn. \
That he's "all right" when you know f•
him.
That w'ottean's Lest weapon is her s
weakness, t
That horse is more than half what "
you make it,
regime in whish they lay, a region in
wIJielt the largest part of our Lord's
teachings wore uttered and the largest
part of bis deeds performed. At
Chorazin, there exist ruins of an old
r-ynagogue end houses, with walls still
six feet bigh, The mighty works
whirl were done in you. Which are
forgotten' now, es the reties themselves
am forgotten, Tyre and Sidon, Cities
w;htk••,h in every way were minuet as
typical oil site as Sodom ant Gomorrah,
only that Satkcoa a'nd Gomorrah were
tylekel, orf slue ruin that tin brings,
while Tyre and Sidon stands for that
twmporarily sooeoosfal sin the. flourish-
ing of which is ane of the most serious
lereblzm,s to every ttevnut naiad, The
lessonis that men :ire judged not
merely accordun. Go Oho deeds they
have done, but according to their moral
deolsions, awarding to went they hare
done under other circutnstaitccs. Much
of our good,tutss tint much of others'
bad'no s are due to alpportun1Ly and on-
%ermune:ort, 7.11te wealth and prosper -
107 of the two 'greet Phoemteiaa cities
hail. brought unexampled. luxury and
moat degenontcy. Tyre and. Sidon
were the cradles of Baal worship, They
would, have repented long ago in Beek -
cloth and ashes, They would have
corns fewvard to the mourner's begets
tar prayers, Obey would have openly
avowed their sincere penitence,
11'2. The dee, of judgment mama whet
t enemas ea tam preceding lesson—theeneral
eneral system of Go'l's judie'ind de-
letions.
20. Cape,rnsnrm. "Tee vidlago-oC-Na-
h001," Two strong Creel in traditions
awe settled era two s',tes for Ca errra-
Itn; one of these Tel Hum, has uatid
canaparat:me,ly recently teen generally
rereferred, but it lei now renewably car-
een t.hnit wti nultst seek Capauuaum else-
r'Jiere.. This site is without natter;
veils at Caytennn.mm was anreahle
lento thin described by Josopdous; be -
!dee Oaperntount was evidently nearer
Genatestiret titan is Tel. Hum, The
thee tradition favors Khan h'tinyelt,
I''•is suits generally the desrriptian of
Owyhee and all tee referemees in the
n,spele, and is aroopted 07 Ur, George
Adnet Smitit and Melee eminent recant.
ivestigators. Caperuau,rn was Oho fav -
rite home of Jesus during his public
literary, Lela.rlc calls it ells ho,ruse. Ex-
ited, unto heaven. Perhats the •illu-
rosn ie to the honor given it I+y the
wetting o'C our rorrlt but more irobaiw
.y in the midst of its populous sur-
onnrtia,gs Caperneurot reached great
Iliac he is just ad anxious to get rich `I
13,0 you are. I
That wi;e.w are unusually favored to ji,r
this ;e uil r:: 1 o
That e. .i:es to hear that the heby' 1
is hie deet image.
That six pairs of slippers are enough 11
for any ratan. tl
That a man likos neatness in your
attire at all times.
That candy in excess is worse than
ruin in moderation.
rettlth and relatively great blessing,
Brought dawn to hell, '1'hsit ie to ruin.
ring tine wares hetw•eett the ttomens
nd ahs Jews the destruction was so
neat that the traces of the three
itles menetr:ned etre very slight, As
sing the re ktienre axe Jesus Caper -
.1/42M was the most favored, spot on
meth, en 10 Josue hall healed the no-
lehmen'w 600, It, neon sick of the palsy,
Peter'; wire's mother; besides working
reemeted mdrtu'les which closely fol-
eved that healing, Jaime'srlaugbter,
he Iceman with the issue of bine& and
to cooturion s servant, The fact is,
bugle prrsperelon, of the marvelous
freebies of +lents were wrought in Ca -
Menne but Lees 1100011 thought Is
r'•bubly that of self-exattatica,
24. litter, tolerable for the lanai of
ua+m. There. n1.4,, 11 IlquewtionolAy,.
ere", rd i,tlri•9 Ment 110 wall ns doe • of sewer! ;n Hee future world..
hn int e' jade -meet, no lx+fore, denotesn .011, Ileo el- gond and ova, which
011' vro,-111 course of the world's
rel; re are nil,: ed together, ':Che
ay crf jittlyiu rot" says Dr. Clarke,
'nen% to Sodi an when It was destroy-
ri try fire end bruu l ene frim hottven;
s Chnrnritn herb:elite, end Caper -
Item ellen they were destroyed. by
Nt1 flsa
u.mut. Mil there Is e tiny of
ani judglnr'nt wean every men shall
c rewarded according to his work,
nether good or bad,"
25. I thank thee. T.,itcrall "I full
agree with thee." 1.'hc wee% a d trurl
e.n•t. The wnrtdly-wise, end self-right-
eous. Bates, The simple -hearted,
im
tetables souls "The wise and prude rite
bore wore tits Meting ami Pharisees;
e the helve," the disoteles. "Prudent"
might be rendered intelligent," "art -
uta." The secrests of the kingdom rt't
Jod are not discovered by fleuse who are
That you eboatel not run up bine e
without his knowledge. g
That "a baby in the, house is a well- I e
spring of pleasure." is
Thai eho who puts on the gloves •n
n
should kow h.,ry to spur. e
That he is not in love with every .b
woman he glances at.
That it is pulley to tet him believe he ti
is "Lord end master, t,
That your relatben.hip is closer to t
him than to year mother. . ti
That a prompt and reeled on.tver . a
rime not tarn 01% ay wrath, m
That he does not get sleepy the sante t
moment that you clo. 1
That you should not expect hent to
light the fife in the morning. s
That ,you can't keep : .,, and !hero d.
le no use of your Lryi,:go
that he expe:•ts you t I'.ok your f'
best when you go nut with him. ll
71hat it sloes nnl; improve his razor
to use tt for rbiropodical purposes,
That hotwointneing Is not recitoned.
by the average man as a pastime.
That 8 I•'.Zot, is 60 minutes past 7
I
tl
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HE WAS ELECTROCUTED, y
1 fl
lfnni.reel 1l,tn Tabes Hotel of tate {tires b
and I. Miles. yv
A despetolu from ltfutrtreal says: -•-
Alex. C. thiennt, 26 years old, employed
by Loyrachen anri Striver, general
merchants, was execeroortted on Sun-
day afternoon. Re went into the base-
ment to fir tin 010000io \vire, and tak-
ing both ends in his hands was tnstent-
ly killed. He leaves a whitey and
ming runny,
gamey tt4 r emeek
l .tel t entail route, lint to the
au.l to those who hunger and tirst
after righteousness.
20, E\•eu ao, Further; for so it. seemed,
Yea, Father, T thank thee, that so it
soomod. t
27, All things ere delivered unto nae
of my leather, Seo Jahn 3. 88. No man
Irttoweelt the .Fun, but. the bather; nei-
ther knorenttt any lnun the Pallor, save
the Son, and he to whounseever the Son
wilt reveal him. 10, without any pre-
conception 0110 were to rend this 1 aro,
graph, he could eertaitily recognize it
as a high claim to equality with the
Leather. There is uo favorite class to
when the Son "twills" to reveal the
father,
28. Come unite me all yo that labor
and are heavy laden. That is, become
my' followers; learnt of nio, Every step
taken by a matt heavily laden with a
burden reduces his strength, 'The far-
ther be gees the heavier is his load.'
Few men hour more severely
than the overburdened carrier, No
figure of spcoeh is more ettsv to undet'-
stand than that which passes burden -
hearing Croat the pltysi^,al over into
tate spiritual world, 1'hou•ande and
thousands of peoplelllnp along through
life, bowed over with berd:•ns of Heart
and .head. To arch Teem; s;tys, "Come
unto me," How will he relieve theme
By lifting the burden? Sometimes,
but whether or not, by 11101110 rest, The
men to whom Jesus talted were sumo
of them restive under the Routan yoke;
some larder the yoke oC traditions and
ordinances imeneed i y the Pharisees
and strib s on Lite vonsrii•neen of men;
some under the yoke of conscious sin.
The apostle in writing our Loral's
words eniphaailes the "I." No one else
can give this rest. •
29. Take my yoke upon you. In-
stead of the Marlene,. yoke. Learn of
me. Adopt my rules of life. Tam meek
and lowly in heart. Jesus lived out
the holy principles of hi. beatitudes.
Ye shall find tests unto your souls, See
Ate 0. 10.
30. My yoke Le. easy, (food, kind. My
burden is light. It was really love;
lova tuna the new commandment wltic h
su1'.erseded the anise and eumenin, the
tedious ritual, the useless learning of
the old Jevvs. "That rest Willett the
soul experiences when once safe und-
er Christ's wing melees all yokes easy
and all burdens ljeht."—drown. The
larrdens of 4110 Pharisees Christ had
lritnself eriti'ised as heavy anti. griev-
e -115 10 he borne.
NATIVE LOYALTY SHAICEN.
0.150' of ora islt A.nxielr In Itegtu',l to the
Snadnn-Itlaeit Troops 31ny Desert la
the Mnhdl.
Private letters received is London
from .Egypt, from the front as well
from Cairo, contain a cite to the hith-
erto arrmewllat mysterious cause of
the anxiety which the authorities have
maintained in hastening British troops
to Iferher. It seems that for seine
tinny past a strong feeling of irrita-
tion, and discontent leas been noticed
among the Egyptian and Soudanaso
soldiers. They complain of overwork,
of the severity of the discipline, and
or their not being allowed to have in
ea.mp their wives, who have been kept
dew's the river at the base.
A SECRET PROPAGANDA.
Moreover, there is inuoh reason to
believe that it number of the captive
dervishes and. Arabs, who hall been en-
rolled in the various black regiments
ether swearing allegiance to the Khe-
dive, have been carrying on a secret
propaganda. In babelf of the leladhi,
and hive succeeded In shaking the
loyally of the until now much -vaunted
black troikas. The mutlay of one of
Otto crack core. of Soud,anese under
Major Mor'dowald, cn the Upper Nile,
has reminded the English officers of
the British as well as or the Egyptiee
army, or rho fact that elifferences of
rats and (reed stand in the way of too
much reliance being planed on either
tee 0ondanose or in the fellaheen
troops, alrxl that the latter are just as
likely as not to desert to the Mandi
when the critical moment arrives for
facing the flower of the lattera array,
MISCH UNEASINESS.
Muth of the confidence which up to.
a Allure time ago was inelulged, in here
ee to ting ease atoll rapidity with which
the MIa•hdi would be smashed bave ene
t:irely ceased, and much uneasiness is
quietly expressed as to the possibility
of nicker n. mutiny taking plata or an
attack en melee tern the part of the
Malydi occurittg before sufficient Brit-
ish re -enforcements have reached.
Berber.
HUGE PII,E GF ROOK FELL.
eH 19 el,lsur 13.eapr of rt Fettle Near Ninga;'n
tri111A.
A despatch from Niagara falls says;
—Passengers on the Now.York Central
trrdn of the Lewieten branch, which
leaves here at 9,15 o'clock, had a mdr-
nttilous escape no Monday morning.
Abmtt two anus one-half nailer up the
mountain a 4tuge pile of rock became
loosened from the cliff and mane crash-
ing down upon the emote in front of.
Lhe (rain, Before the engineer could
stop the trail, it had clashed 01131(0 the
pile of rooks earl the engine wile de -
retied,
A OLOSitl SHAVE.
IPortu'nntely the e'nprine came to a
dead stop.% Had it goad a. few feet
further it would have dashed over the
hank and into elite river, many feet
below, 11 the rock had lallea to :mo -
'mot later it welled have struck the
train, and its living freight would have
boort swept into the sever, 'tette train
was in charge of Conductor ,Tames
Walker; the tungd11001' was B. C. Stan.
tune
PANIC IN A CHURCH,
Twenty Mtn, 'Women 111441 Cbdldren Wiled
141 l4 I' li nl r r,t l Service'
A despatch from Warsaw stayst—Dur-
fitg a funeral service in the synagogue
at Idzieuoial4 tit Grodno on Wednesday
the tvatnun's gallery collapsed, Ln the
Pante that ensued twelve women, five
men, and three children were crushed
to death, and many others wore seri-
ously totjttl'ed,
IN A TERRIBLE L bTORM,
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7140 1114141a 111841 n Perllone PBadage ,04''554
the Aristotle,
A despatch from Halifax, N.:1., says
The Gatlin, with the English malls had
a tempestuous and perilous ease/ go,
and was three days Jetts in reaobin;
port. She encountered fierce gates
throughout tee voyage, and sustained
considerable damage of a motor nue
Lure, while the passengers, of wham
there were an unusually large number
ou board, suffered much discomfort on
account oC tee severity of the wea-
t'lter,
The big Gallia experienced such a
stormy time that the crew were kept
at work almost constantly from the
clay she sailed from; Mfoville, and some
of them were out and bruised by be-
ing thrown violently about as the
ship pitched and rolled in the tom -
pest -torn sea, On the first instant a
terrific hurricane descended 011 the
steamer, continuing all day, and for
hours throwing waves o1 enormous
situ over the decks. It was One of
the worst storms ever known on Lite
Atlantic, and Lhe Gallia laboured very
heavily in it,
LIVES END,ANG.ERED.
One great sea wheel for a minute
or two entirely engulfed the steamer
fora and aft, carred much havoo about
tiro deck works, beside sanding a de-
luge of water tato the cabins, and en-
dangering the lives of all the crew on
duty. Two lifeboats were swept away,
davits and skids torn and twisted,
deck-housos sieve in, the engine -
room's skylight and deck ventilators
carried away, rails wreaked, and
sundry other derange caused, This
storm lasted, with slowly lessening
violence, until the •kit.
MACHINERY DERANGED.
For nine hours one day the Gallia
had to lay -lo in order that it slight
clerangemrat: of machinery could be
repaired. On February 711 she met
heavy field ice, and had to steer south-
east for twelve hours before she got
akar of it. The Gallia brought 28
saloon, 47 intermediate, and 110 steer-
age pn.engera. A large number of
these are gold -seekers, bound to the
Yukon country.
RETURNED 5110e1 KLONDIKE.
An interview V7ih 11r. Wilts, of tiro
110.•114 -Nest 3Aluu/od Poitee.
Dr. A. E, Wills, surgeon in the
North-West Mounted. Pollee, stationed
in the Klondike diatricl:, arrived in Te-
rmite on Tuesday evening. He joined
the Mounted Police in 1803, and was
stationed at Fort Cudahy, for the first
fete years, When Dawson City was
started he was transferred to the di-
vision Of the Mounted Police stationed
there, and remained with them until
December 18 last, when he obtained
leave of absence, and set out for Ot-
tawa. Six hundred miles of leis journey
homeward be made on foot, covering
that distance in twenty-two days.
NO DANGER 01? STARVATION.
" There will be no scarcity more
than has been every spring," said he.
"There in always a scattily of food in
the spring, and this spring will be no
exception to the rule. The reports
whish the yellow journals are cir-
culating are greatly exaggerated and
wholly unnecessary, as we have the
ability to send out thoroughly com-
petent messengers for assistance if eve
find it is required,"
" Will the want of food he more
keenly felt this spring than previous-
ly e„
• There are more people in there
than formerly, and there will conse-
quently be a greater number hungry,"
was Dr. Wills' reply,
"It is absolutely impossible to get
in supplies e t this time of year, no
matter how much they are needed,"
he continued, " and 10 assistance were
sent out now it could not get in be-
fore May 1st; '
k'AVOUIIS THE OLD ROUTES.
Regarding Lite routes to the Klondike
Dr, Wills would say very little, Ile
believed the route the Government
had chosen was a practical one. en
the whole,he favored the upper pass-
es. He had, coin oat by L*yea, which
he natsidered the "old etend-by." The
While pass might be all right, he bad
never been over it, tend was therefore
not in a position to judge Col. Dora-
ville probably knew what he was
talking about when he saidrho route
was; praetteable, but .Or. Wills said
that those who knew anything about
the country refused to travel by it,
:Or. Wills xefueett tc say whether he
had. made, a fortune out there or not,
but said that exaggerated stories of
what he had made were in (emulation.
There were not many Hell strikes being
made when .he left.
Dr, Wills is here on business with
the Dominion Government, taut what
that business is he slid not rare to say.
PUGNACIOUS JAPS.
'011.ey Attacked English Passengers and
*Menem Willi Olar•liuspikra,
The steamer Gaelic arrived. at Salt
Freedmen an Sunday from Hong Kong,
bringing advices. Tho Hong .Kong
Telegrepit says that continual U'rrubie
Is being reported from vessels nttrnned
by .Iapanese mews, the Japanese re.•
eon tinig any Inst curt{ t uv or surt'eilrenee
from feuropoan officers, and reeeeving
an eepecial grudge for .JO0t'opean pas•
sant>nrs, Several rases have been re,
ported weer° officers were marked for
attach by the Japanese, and warned
to withdraw from the eeevieo, the ree
trttilon of their positions being invaria-
bly followed by a murdor0us attack
front ambushed Jape/nose enemies,
rl case to point is reported from elle
.N,Y.i ., liner Ifakat° Marta from +f apon
via hong Kong from Tltsigancl. There
were e8 pesse•nger's on hoard the sl tam-
er, mar4li' of whom were repeatedly at -
ORS, CLAI N N, Y U I ANIS
R?'4 `'fir .. '� LI"
5t E ' "x".11..''.
ren and Women in all Walks of Lifo Tell of the Remarkable
Cures Wrought by South American Nervine Tonto.
SIX DOSES WILL CONVfNCE THE MOST INCttEDULOIJ3e
EDITOR COLWELL, OF PARIS, ONT., REVIEW.
Newspaper edieor's aro alinosb as
sceptical as tlto average physician on.
the subject of new remedies for sink
people. Nothing short, of a series of
most remarkable and well authenti-
cated Cures will incline either an
editor or a dootor to seriously consider
the merits honestly claimed for e.
medicine.
Hundreds of testimonials of won-
derful recoveries wrought with the
Great South American Nervine Tonic
ware received from man and women
all over the country betore physicians
began to prescribe this great remedy
in chronic cases of dyspepsia, in-
digestion, nervous prostration, sink
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, but in only a
single instance, and that one warrant-
ed by his own personal experience,
has he given a testimonial over his
own signature. No other remedy
ever offered the pubtio has proved
each a marvellous revelation to the
most sceptical as the South American
Nervine Tonic, It has never failed
in its purpose, and it has cured when
doctors and other medicines were
triad in vain,
" I was prostrated with a portion-
Iarly severe attack of 'La Grippe,'"
says Mr. Colwell, '' and could find no
relief from the intense pains and die.
tress of the malady. I. suffered day
and night. The doctors did not help
me, and I tried a number of modi-
eines, but without relief, .About this
time I was advised to try the South
American Nervine Tonic. Its effects
were instantaneous, The first dose I
took relieved nee. Iimproved rapidly
and grew stronger every day. Your
Norvine Tonic oared me in a single
week."
The South American Nervine
Tonin rebuilds the life forces by its
direct aotion 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
concede thatfully two-thirds of all the
physical ailments of humanity arise
from exhaustion of the nerve forces.
The South ,American Nervine Tonic
acting direct upon the nerve centres
and nerve tissues instantaneously
supplies them with the true nourish.
mens required, and that is why it*
invigorating effects upon the whole
system are always felt immediately,
For all nervous diseases, for general
debility arising from enfeebled vital.
ity, and for stomach troubles of every
variety no other remedy can possibly
take 0tp Diane,
Sold by G. A. Deadman.
tacked by the Japanese crew when-
ever they loft their own state -rooms
after nightfall, On New 'Year's day, the
Telegraph says, till the Japanese sail-
ors and waiters, "mad drunk," and
clad only in breechcloths, made an or-
gsatizod attack en the English officers
tend passengers of Oho Dakota Mario
The Japanese, armed. with knives,
crowbars, and belaying pins, brutally
heat the chief engineer and assistant,
eut.d attacked a passenger,Thomas
Efali, to bps berth, cutting itis head
"pen with a marlin'rpike, Aocor'ding
be the account of the Telegraph, Lha
officer, an'd most, of the passengers
were driven to the bridge, where, un -
twined, forty Eniglishmett kept 100
drink-mtuidenea Japanese et bay ctur
i'tig the entire night by brandishing
their walking sticks,
TO PAY MONTREAL'S DEBT.
Seltetne or the Chide/Hee or Ito a'lnnnen
1.0 lllll
A11..elai'nville, °batruuin of the Mont-
real h'isctnce Cumuli tape, proposes to
introduce a novel scheme tor the .re-
luuatling of the, nil dela, His whew
is to hieugurnto a great: lottery,
Jar to (,host that ere the fashion in
10100)1,4, offering tht' pnbiie the fewer-
ttleity Lo buy the city 'sonde in smell
nu
am'nt.i. Ile believes that' by such 1
a sysetat nee only would the citizens
hove a safe innvestment et 3 per cent„
hitt also have It chance of semi ring a
fortune by' the premiums offered. The
arlaerne ie likely Ln meet with great
oppoeltionit
r1 MIt7RDER0US WOMAN'S WORK.
A despatch from New York says:—
The wife of William W. Pleur, an in-
surance adjuster, iu the employ of the
London h'ir'e Insurance Company, resid-
ing et No. 58e Hancock street, borough
of Brooklyn, on bfondlay killed her
mother-in-law, Mrs. Ida Place, by burn-
ing her rano and hands with acids, at-
tacked her husband with a hatchet
ani. ottt ,him so badly about the head
that lee may die, and then looked her-
self in it room and. turned on elle two
glia jets. When found by an ambulanne
sargeon she was unconscious, but it le
believed that site trill mover.
GREAT NAVAL SCANDAL,
Russian ,td'tnirolty 1'41411 for 110,0911 'feria
Or COO Sever 1Drll erred
dvspu:tee to I he London 1'8'10w Nes
Cram Odessa. sees Chau n srrr'1 write()rn
enquiry undertaken 0,0. elkinst.i,oition
of the, '100 tIinry oC Marine ham reveal-
ed it huge wad se ova mud scandal 1.
einl uo
:'non withthe renting of the 131 acid
ere Cl
seeet, ilth.e 13.noo'a't Athei ratty v1111Ger 00,0000 torts of coal 1,41404!wets newel
del ;ver'od, 'elle 1(4,11 reel r, wire is a
Jew. '1150tber widest several naval ere
?tenors nt Saltateepol, one of thein belangl
senller lulvuinvdl, has Leen arrested,
SEARCH 5011 AN011111.
lta104,4 N)Milenwu 01111 1'al% 111. Nen. 1'neht
and be .11e4soutn9nled by savants,
A dospeeodt from. Rome, says:— The
Unice of Abruzzi will, in Itis search for
Andree, use hie yacht, which evee ro-
aenGly Witt in England, Te is strongly
built, and capable of restating icebergs.
Several. Italian savants will meom,.
pant him, and also soma Alpine moult-
t•tineee:s, Tho prow of Lha vessel. twill
he Norwegian. The oxpeditioh, atroord-
,ing Lo reports, \v111 last three years. f
GOLT) '1N OIRCIJt1,e1TION,
The I'rtineletry d£ Exams reeeth l,y Jn-
stituted art euaitd'ry to 10141n the adn-
°t enn. of gold int aimculatlon. R. here
been a cert,aiuetl that there la 5800,-
0o0A0() we>r.tb b'ariaug the Iyrenrh
slalntlt its eireielnlion. I.1 is ascertain-
ed that elee is te recordamount, and
that the Elmlted States has seven hum"
dyed and twanl.y atiltlimus, Germany site
hundred aed moiety midpons, anti tlecati
I3ritate and Ruts is six txundred Helloes
caribi
to I1.101?Lk1X. TRODUBLE;.
You needn't lie afraid or those count.
erttilt $1,00 bills,
3 needn't i' Tf my hetet gee hinted by
ono he will melee mu week Iver hours
or three 8310)0th8,