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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1898-6-10, Page 6'ilaB BRU$8ELS PORT, e tlNli; )lrf, IS9 i!k �EIiS IN 1 NUTSHELL 'IHE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. niter:sting Items About Our Own Country. Oseat Britain, the tinned Slates, and MI Peels of the Globe. Condensed one Assorted for Eaay Reeding. CANADA. Mr. Jahn Iiendrie or Hamilton le need, Henrietta Reeves, aged 81, was burnt to death at Montreal. Berlin decided try vote to puree:ore tbe local waterworks. Rohr. 1'. Metil.,ahan, aged thirty-five committed suicide at lluritreat Philip (Sampan Pinto! a pot contain- ing 01,100 on his farm near Terurnse n Jahn Dillon of nloutreal believes he ie heir to the Earldom of Ros,ornmon. The Montreal herald is charged with criminal libel by Chief of Police Hughes, joint Jenkioe a siz-year-old boy, was ran over and killed in 'Toronto on Wednesday. At Bro.l vine Cyrus Seymour. benne tbief and higalnist. was given eight years is the penitentiary. Two thoueen.i five bundred cords of wood were destroyed by a prairie fire at Elm River. Man. The Ogilvie Miffing. Cu., have bought S. Nairn's trammel mills ar Winnipeg and will double their triplicity, A young man named Oakley. suppos- ed to belong to Toronto, was seriously injured on the C. P. R. at Souris. Mary Ann Blackwell, 9 years old, lost the sight of her right eye at Lon- don through unmet with e fire- cracker. Water meters are to be plateal in Hamilton saloons, livery stables and other glares where mu' h water is utsed. The Kingston Board a' )'rade hasre- queeterl the Government to close the cabala on :`•unday only from 5a.m. to 9 p.m. At Alontreal Francis Donnelly climb- ed an electric. light pole to loop at the river. He toucbr.d alive wire and nes electrocuted. At Ottawa Edgar Eagleeon, nineteen years old, was drowned in the T.M.C.A. plunge bath. and a lad named Hogan was drowned in the river, At London the little child of ail Thos. Copeland, who accidentally dram( a quantity of carbolic acid on Satur- day, died from the effects. The eetar Thomas W. Keene was eo 111 at H:emiltere that he had to cancel his engage8lents and go to New York, where an operation for appendicitis will be performed. &rnt, of the peach trees in the Ni- aaro district are affected with curl- ed e u ed leaf. the leaves furling up and fin- ally dropping off. It is feared the crop may be injured thereby, Tee Gt'veinment grant to the city of Ottawa in lieu of taxation on Govern- ment property by the city is to be in- creased. it is announced to 880,000. Heretofore it has been about. ,x20.000 per annum, Captain Ferguson, A. D. C. to Lord Seymour, oho succeeds Lieutenant - General Montgomery Moore in eom- manet of the imperial forces in British North America, has arrived at Mont- real. OA ing tothe failure of arrangements at Ottawa ntesars. Mackenzie & n2ann have notified the British Columbia. Gov- ernment that they c,inuot carry out their railway e:vntract with the Pro- vince. While most of the Indians from the Ineeesee reserve. in Cowichan, were in Victoria, B.C., to participate in the Queen'e Birthday celebration their set- tlement was entirely destroyed by fire, and an old wonnen of the tribe burned to death. The St, John medical men, who some mouths ago bad one Barry Ruterls, of tit. George, Bermuda, sent to Tra- radie as a suspected leper, have re- ceived word of his arrival home, the Traeadie authorities finding that the man Ives nut afflicted with leprosy. During Roberts' detection al Traeadie he was not an inmate of the Lazar- ette. the medical officer there hav- ing sustd.:iuns that his was not a genuine case, GREAT TRRIT&IN, The Queen tine granted it royal char- ter 1.o the Victorian Order of Nurses for Came da. Tbe Trish Load Government hill weed the commit tee stage in the House of Commons on 'fuesday, The )upon that Great Britain had sent a note to npnin,asking an explan- ation of the concentration of troupe in the neighborhood of Gibraltar is of- ficially dented. UNITED STATES, One hundred children were hurt by theeollapse a agrand stand itt Denver. At Salisbury, Md„ Cart(e)d King, a negro aged about Ib, was taken from gaol, hanged to a tree and shot to pieces, The United States Supreme Cutlet Inas decided Ilontictions under the oleo- margerine laws of Pennsylvania and New il.antpshiro to be invalid, (nue holding the laws uneonstitutional. Rev. Daniel L. R. Libbey, a Wa.ter- town, who has been confined to the St. Inevrentc State Hospital, et Ogdens- burg, committed sulcide on Sunday, hanging himself hi his room with a Meet. • Chas. 11. Cramp, of Philadelphia, de- nies ebsdlutely that there is any truth in the reported consolidation of the ('ramp Company and Vickers, Sons & Mewriut, of Harro4v-on-le`vr'nesr•r Eng- tand. Him, John Sherman, until recently I. nft('d States Secretary of State, will lone Washington this week in com- pany with Mrs, Sherman for a tour of tine West. They expect to travel as i'ar north as Sit:ka, Meeks, and return �ly.iitt the last of August through Cane akin, ' '. 1 " Xlto coneedidation is announced of tbe Cramp Sb)pluildiug Company of I=hibolelphka and Viokers Servs &Max-. hit of nineineve on Pnrneea, Unto, into one great ehipeurlaing comeon. 1'(11= a1tau'e. if pe:fcrrrd silt ori ke one of tint moat powerful corporanoos of its kin.: (m either vont:lo rpt. GENERAL. 'thirty bodies, hate been recut ered from the Zollern Mani di aster it: Prus- sia. the ltcj.utlie aL 1IawiQt lies offered be:seit to:eruditior,:tliy to the 1 niteJ Shotes, Lonneaettc ftitm It tit's inspr-(tat (eenerui of Natal Engineering anti Min- ister of Marine h dead. The uatiunnf eubsce:ptiun to iut•re-c$e the strength of entente]) navel forces has nen. teitel:ed twelve miillea pont-. as, ne.400,0l0. 'there aro 41,901 otos of coal at Cadiz. end 30,1(00 tuns more ere expected this week. One firm bee contraete:I for 1e0- (100 tons for Cadiz. Gustavo Buck. the millionaire Heenan eigorinaker, who has been trying to get tht,rugh the blookade Tutu Havana, and who is alleged to he a colonel of Span- ish volunteers. will not be permitted to go. According to a de'apalch from enteral. tar the Austrian cruiser Kaiser :Fran- cis Joseph L has arrive! there. and on friday will sail for Cuban waters, with the armored cruiser Aaiserine Maria 'Theresa, The United States Government is con- si ierahly embarrassed in tbe sending of reinforcements to Admiral Lewey, owing to the lack of transports on the Pacific, and may have to impress res - tele for that service. Efforts are beue6 made by (he tut- !Ber]tiee to provide nn adequate sup- ply of foot for the residents of Havana tend the soldiers. provisions having be- come scarce since importations from the United States ceased. WAR BRIEFS, A despatch frore. Gibraltar ,atlye that it may be positively .stated that there ha; been no movement from Cadiz of the Spanish reserve equedron. A third call for•volunleers is certain to be issued nit hln 118 next two weeks, .says a Washington despatch. The President ha; be,•onte convinced that the military forces for invasion trill have to be much enlarger!. He estimates it will require 1250000 men for Cuba, 00,000 for the Philippines, and 30,000 for Porto Rico, 'melees many for home defence, A Bong Kong cable says:— "Ad- miral Dewey is fortifying Corregidor island, in Manila. hay, ruining the ehau- nel at the entrance to the harbour, end etllernite preparing to receive any Spanish fleet." The unknown steamer, supposed to b( a Spanish auxiliary cruiser. sight- ed by the Wilmington and Bancroft, ahmat fifteen miles off Key West, ear- ly i -n Thureday evening. wee not rap- tured. The Bancroft gave up the chase. eteA Hong Kong ,-able tents the police ietzed a quantity of stores supplied by a Chinese merchant le the Ame'iaan atuiliary (ruiner 'hafiro, which ar- rived on Thursday from Manila. The stores were being conveyed to the ship on lighters, The Zrairo is still at Knewionn hay, where elle coaled and provisioned. Rear -Admiral )Jewee bas informed the authorities al Manila that he will bold tbrtn responsible for the life of the captain of the Spanish gunboat Callon., captured by the United States fleet. The S,.aniards have been 1 hreat- ening to shoot him for surrendering although confronted by the wbole Am- erican fleet. The London Daily t'hronicle, refer- ring to the !United States, eve: "We have no doubt tt•1lacever of her sueeess, No lieople of tougher grit ever fought for their place in the world, but 11 o ill greatly ehorten and simplify their task, assist ing the work of civilization if they are assured that British di- plomacy and the British army lire act- ing as their reserve force." FRANCE IS PREPARING. llnitsterw Arranging the Rest Methods Penton. A despatch from Paris. says:—Tbe Matin says on Friday morning:—"In view of the eventualities of the Span- ish-American war. bI. Lotion, Minister of the Colonies. Admiral Bernard, Min- ister of Marine. and General. Billet, Minister of War, met in commit on Thursday, under the presidency M M, Faure, to decide upon their respective spheres of responsibility, 'It was decided that General Billot should be exclusively (barged with the defen::e of France, Corsica, Algeria, and Tunis, and that Adrniral Besnard should undertake the protection of the coasts of France and of all the col- onies. "M. Lebon accepted the necessity of military preponderance in colonial - man t.ers and decrees to carry out. these de- cisions will he promugalted immedi- ately." THAT RAG OF A ?LAG, !.ears and Stripes Referred to Lnrnmpll- t(r1 , r ry to the ('nrte8. A despatch from Madrid says:—In the Senate on l'ridtay, Marshal Primo de Rivera, former Captain -General of the Philippines, defended his adminis. trution of the colony. He said he could not believe his ears wham be was told of the disaster at Cavite, adding1-- "'Chat rag called the Ameritst(n flag shall never float over the walls of Mien - rte." The an- rte "1'he Philippines, he continued, heti net bait adequate meting of defence. Ile up/reeled to the Government to supply them, but the Government answered Ihtat the Pope had intervened, and that there was no fear of a rupture. The Naval Comitittee at 1'Ianila examined into thepp oait on oarennlly, and reached .t 't ilia conclusion that 1 n Wee .suite im- possible to offer battle to the Amerloan squadron, ' The 3: ankees are deceiving them. selves," Marshal die Rivern declared, ," x32 to tile ai.tuetten et the Philip- p,( ERE SUNDAY SCHOOL ',NTE'RNATIONAL LESSON, JUNE 12. ''.lest., Crucified." Mall, Si* 35.00, (ielleleil •Lest. 0. C'ar, la. S, PRACTICAL NOTES. Venae 31. They crucified him. The exeeuti(ru,rs were f':ur Romeo soldiers. In the net of crucifixion they first laid the ernes on th' grated. and taking of( the clothing of tb;' criminal, they made him lie down upon its main letup and stretch out hie arms along the transt'erse intim, The cress Was low. 171e arms were nailed. in place; the feet were sometimes tied, nut more gun erally transfixed by a single large rail, Wlae. the eriminel had 1)100 seourely resumed the (muss 1.115 retried to an lepright position .tmi sliddcn or droppei into a hole ling tit r'eveive its 10r, et end, Death came very slowly, general ly after boors, sometimes after days of agnuy. According to Mark, Jesus was fa51011(,31 t , 111,' Truss at the third bear--abut(t nine o'clock, .John says it was ttbuut the s xth h our, To harmon- ize these upparenty contradictory statements it is assumed by many echolars that. Jahn, when writing this letter iu nil heeus and among Gentile surroundings, followed, the European weer of reckoning time. Parted hie garments. It has been usual in must ages and eotultriee fur tit•- <:xecutiener to regard the personal property of the criminal as hie own. alatt new notes the geuera1 fulfillment a a prophecy in P,a+311 22, 1S; fru' a still more .y' ia.! cr•incitence tee John 19, 23, e'4, This 1•aim is '01'po5ed to have been written nurinr the exile by a godly Jew in ca' tivity ars Babylon. Calling Iola, Garments wltirh would not be apailed try cutting would be divided equally among the extent loners, brut other articles, Bach as the gird) e. and turban and sandals and the ae•amie.ss Chiron, woven c_ full oat and Porn next 1 he Cody, would lose their value if cut, and so far them the lot was resorted to. At this juncture our Lori prayed, "Fat her. (11-51ve them; for they know nut what they do" (Luke, 23,• 3.1). 31. They watched him there. Appre- hending ten 8ltempt 'tI rescue. 37. Nets up over his head bis accusa- tion: Whether this nut done before the (moss with its sufferers had been plant' erect we do not 'know. (h1 the humiliating protesslon to Cal -ears thin accus:mien 1ue carried in frmlt' 01 Josue. It is said to have been ous- t0niery to write tbis accusation (n black letters on boards smeared with white gypsum. 'Chis is Jesus the firing of the .3(•0-5. The varhttions in the form aro notable. Compare with this verse !hitt 15.21; Luo' 23,3)): and. John 19. 19. it was written in three e, —(• pan out s ,retk I,attn and Hebrew. w t- g The words, "The King of thee Jews," are found in each al the evangelises. One might expect that m the three Languages ta9 there would. he differences.. g Verbal. translation was not demand- ed, 38. Two thieves, Robbers were always put: to death by rrucifi..ian Great bands of "thieves"—robbers— at .hits time infested rho cuuol15aitout Jettison -on They were what axe now called len die i, and renresent.erl a half -organized poiftdc d movement— that chruuie rebellion which disturbed both l{eroa and Pilate through nearly ' the whole of t.11ei'r official terms. These 'thieves" were probably already und- er sentence of death at the time of our Lord's trial. According to legend their names were Demotes and Gysmas. One teenti.o.0 mountain robbers, accord- ing to ha ',thus, dashed into Jenieho and Minima tis lailucea and another for ' twenty yea.,,s wasted 0 wide spread aruntry 1 i•th fire anti sword, I 39. They that passed. by. 3lultitu(les would he journeying to Jerusalem 00 t',he day of pt'epartetton for the pass- • over, In theist: harharic ttge the high- est (lignite ries ware not: ashamed to take part in mocking a dying man. The brutality itemn ponying ChrisL't death . wan rhttrtmteristic of execution through cent. times. Reviled hint, wag- ging their heads. See Psaltn 22. 7. This Tomlin seems to have been in !Matthew's mind during i the penning of thin entire. narrative,. Ve ry likely, bun line out• Lord a little i later recited it, or part of It. 40. Thou Chat (lest royes1 the tem- pie: and bttindest it.en three days. The saying here misquoted teles mere gen- erally nti:-underatood than most of the teachings of our Lord. It- ramie it deep impression on the minds of the people eat ly In bis earcer, and (lout hits led . more persons to concent to his death than urryt.hing else that he said. And , yet we are to remember that: he lta,tl never been lortuelly condemned nn 1 th(11 elm rge, as he halo been on Idle neon one rnentiurte$J. Duke gives tit ' nut the taint of the Jewish pnpulttt•e but that of the: sul- (ltelra; "Iif ninth be the Ring of the Jews save. iby'self," Imam 33.17, 10 thou. he the Son of God. Tbe eeemse- I.i vn )lint he claimed to he (his eves the ground of the. charge of bleshhe'my, of which be had beet found guilty. It is a strange coincidence that these words are exactly the words pronounc- ed by the devil in She tem)ntation int the wilderness, and the temptation is the same note ars then. ,'1'31 accept such a challenge would have been to admit a leak of trust in the heavenly !father. 41. Clnet' priests . scribes and &!jar's. "Rulers," Luke 23. 35; metn- 1(0124 (rf the Sanhedrin. It wire in 1(e- cnrdence with the euetotte of the time for '!hose who had condemned him to walth his penal suffering. 42 He eased others; himself he cam - not save, ,1lcnlernbe.r that his name was Saviour, that is the meaning of Jesus, and that just 0510 week before 111]4 thecnthu5dnstic crowds had cried, "Ho -Anna, save nowt" These incidents, retnote as thoy axe to us, were tell fresh Iso lite ears and 43105 of those who clus- tered about the erase, \Vhet they meant by his saving others is not cer- tain. As the words were a contempt 1t is prolmhle that they Were o derisive reference to tale evonks a heaping, tuid or<geaie,lly toile raising) of Lazarus been i,he deed, the antutili,ty of which these wormers Would probably be dlsptieed to der?: He t.rttste4 in Gori, Hee Psalm 32, 10. The, enemies of our Lord 4lpplied. to him Lilo words of. 9eropbecy. IAS Dr, Plunaptte rents: "The fulfillnlentof ane of the gren•t 3,Iessianic prophecies irl this manner is almost incredible) but 1831 things ase tone retuetrrben'edthey did not believe, its we do, that this neaten was Meseinnic< for they" iguorotl the idea of a suffering Christi. 13e. sides their very' fainillaritp with the words of elle petim would naturally brtn ifs pht'nseolo ,t• their s whm oc:c(teiun t(entttndecl it—too:113 114lip53'•uuold persuade themselves they were rightin stir ]ng 11, 'e hen .David's enemies tvel'e 331,535" 44, l'be thieves. Both of them, it ttoerld went• at the first : until. ane 8318 converted l.y rho .sight of our Lord's suffering. anddl his reeign(ation In an unmerited pulrishrnent. ee, ',nem the sixth hem. There was darkness m'er all the land unto the ninth hour. "J'hit darkness wits pre- ternatural ; but rut eclipse, for an ec- lipse mull not take- place at the full moon. 'All the land" is really all the 1 earth and there is ua sufficient rens- • on to conclude that Ile darkness teas confined to Judea. Our Lora 1.32(1 0111- al. the tbird hour, which is nine o'clock. and remained six hours on the moues, the sixth hour would be noun." --Chet-ton. The ninth hour bull le • about three in the afternoon. when the 1 vening ancrifice wits laid on the altar before the temple. 40 Eli, Eli, lama eallachlbanii The [first words of Psalm 22 in the Ara nude dialect of the Hebrew tongue, the dia- lect that Jeeus spoke in his ehilrlhoorl Thus with bis last breath (lues our Lord gine honor to the leath.e and hear wit- ness to the fulfilled words of the Old Cestant('nt. \L'h(tl'. ltd !esus mettn Ly thus quoting the psalmist's pathetic r•epro:tclt, "ldy God, my Gott, why hast thou forsaken me 1" Ili'. -Abbott gives 0eummonly received explanation when he considers It represent:tLit•e of that phase of Christian ext,erience, in which while the intellect stili h •.Ids fest to its belief in God, tine heart feels it no mere, and the soul is in darkness in spite of its faith in (.)•ori. Psalm 22, .how- ever, has .11en been used by Indy Ile - brows 318 n sort of death chant, and it is not straining the meaning of verse 40 to undr'ratand Ihat th:' sentence• quoted stands for tin; w•holr medal. Just as we would say chat a man sang, "Jesus, Lover of uty soul,' alai try. I tint phr.'.;e mean that he sans; the whole 1•t•nu1 which thus begins, so t)te ecarlg:•lis1 play mean nun Jesus re- cited this psalm, as wax the custom• of gorily Hebrews. 17. Some. of them, Wild Iuu+t have been Jews. Elem. P811113' n tuisund- •eretandin. of the word Eli, hat more !pro) ably a bitter mockery. Elijah w,as exi'e..ted by lbe Jean as the forerunner of the Messiah. 48. Toole a sponge, bud filled it with vinegar. That is, with sour wine, the ordinary drink of the soldiers. Put it. on a, reed. So Its 10 1.01 P1 ++)thin re:u'h of the sufferer's mouth. 49. Let be. Another speech of mock- ery, - 110. Cried again, (See .L.l:m 19, 30; i.uke 23. 98.) The words were, ".Lt is fin- 'ished,' and, "In to thy hin,ls I com- mend my spirit." Yinlied rip the ghost. .re red u11 his spirit, as if his spirit was hits servant, 'whom heonow volun- tarily dismissed. ISeeJohn 111. 18.) 78,000 MORE MEN. itelCttL i" Seeoiol Ciitll l'or fritted Stales. lfntuidcr'rs. A despatch from Washington, says: —The President's proclamation, issued on Wednesday calling for 75,01)0 ad- ditional volunteers, reads in part as follows:—"Now, therefore, 1, William McKinley, President of the United States, by virtue of the power vested) in me, by the tcnstit:alion and the laws, and deeming sufficient occasion to exist, have thought fit to call forth, and do hereby call forth, volunteers to the aggregate number of 73,000 in ad- dition to the volunteers railed forth by my proclamation of the. 23rd of April, in the present year; the same to he apportioned, 328 far as practice able, among the several Stales and Territories anti the District of Colum- bia, according to population, and to serve for two years, unless sooner dis- charged. The proportion of each arm and the details of enlistment and or- ganization will be made known tbruu,gh the War Department." One hundred and twelve thousand men have now been mustered into the volunteer army of the United States, and the official reports shoe that the greater nuYnber of these are ready to move to 1he front:. Over two-thirds of the Status have entirely completed their musters. The failure of some of the states, notably four or five in the South, to furnish the men called for up to this time is ascribed to a belief.. probably sharedby many of the Na- tional Guardsmen, who had home ties and connections which they could not W ell afford to give up, that plenty of other persons not so encumbered would readily be found to take their places. Should u•ny of the Stant default, the probability is that the fact wilt be re- ported to Congress fur action by the Secretary of War, WEl-HAI-WEl NOW BRITISH. Jam:mese llemeral Was Still and 8lleut evhen. Handing tt Over. A (le:match from $litngho.i, says:-- Wei-bai-Wei had leen evaeuatnd by the Japitnose, Twenty Chinese arrived there on 2tay 20th tont took possession The Teot:ai, or Governor, ia.nded on May 21st, and was received by the Japanese general, The Tanteti bowed find said, "Thank you." The general bowed stiffly, and proceeded to his hetodqutu'tery, whore he handed to the anoint a plan of earth of the forts. Sil- ence reigned throughout. The 'Taotai nodded upon receiving each plata, The proceeding's lasted half nn hour. The J Lanese left Wel-hal-Wei. imtnediettl- ly, The British cruiser Narcissus arriv- ed lit Wal-ha]-1Vel on Many '2Oth and landed 45 marines on May 21st, taking possession of. the place, the Chinese (tis- opt>earinlif, The Narcissus landed two flagstufis In the tftcumen, which were erethe , on the west fort, No flag was hoisted, o,ithoug1 the Jlrit- ish appear to be in full possession, Sentries Have been gusted and the mar" )nes are quartered in the barracks, Thu guns have been removed, but the Porta are in good enntlitien, AT BEST IN THE ABBEY GLADSTONE HONOURED BY THE NO- BLEST IN THE LAND, A 81!1131(1 Slate TuneriU--Obeegitlea or the Late (wren( Commoner Celebrated at 1Fesimtnster on Nntnedny. A despatch frcen Louden, says: --In ii'eetenin4ter Abbey, in the northern transept, 1(1)016 ls'ngland's greatest (lead rest, the body of the late William Ewart Gleulet,ine wee entombed on Sat- urday with the cetemnnies of the on. tion be hail served n•u(1 of the church he 1181 loved. His grave ie beside that of 1114 life- long adversary Disraeli, whose marble effigy lxralcs down upon it, dee'ked with the rega.11a which Gladatone had re- fused - HONOR OF 5flle NATION. Two future kings of Great Britain walked beside the great Commoner's coffin.:.•nil nit the nobility and learning of the. State surrounded it, tbough the wish of the deceased lead been for sign; plieity. This official funeral, the first sin: a that of Lord Palmlet'aton• wits rendered an imposing spectacle 1,5 the ,magnificence of the building in Whhsll it was solemnized, The cof- fin rested on an elevated bier, before the 61101, ins plainness hidden beneath a pall of white and. gold embroidered with the text: "liequiescat in Paoli," Six tall can;lles burned beside it, and on either aide stood the supporters of the pall. The Prince of Wales and the Doke of York, were at the head of the coffin, and ranging behiricl them were the Marquis of Salisbury, the Earl of Kimberley, Hon, A. ;f. 13a1 - four, Sir William Vernon .Harcourt, the Duke of Rutland.. Lord Roenbe.ry, and Afr. Gladstone's two old -tiaras friends, .Baron Bendel a•nd Mr, George Armistead., THE CLERGY. Within the chancel stood the Dean of Westminster, and behind hire were gathered the cathedra] Wergy, the Arrhhishop of Canterbury, and the scarlet and white surplire.d choir, fill- ing the chapel. The mourners, who stat. in the stalls nearest to the bier, were ears. Glad - atone, her sons, Herbert and Stephen, ant other tuenloers of the fanny; with little DoroLny Drew, Mr, Gladstone's favorite grandchild, The Princess of Wales and tbe Duchess of York, occupied the Dean's pew, opposite. In tiers of temporary seats in the north and south transepts were as- aclnbled the members of the I-Toese of Lords L s the House of Gammons tbe H b Mayors of the principal eitdes, dele- gates from Liberal organizations, end representatives of other civic and puli- tical organizations; while the long nave was crowded with thousands of men and women, among them bring most of the celebrities in all branches of English IP"', and every gallery, bal- cony and niche high up among the rafters, held tl.cluster of deeply inter- ested spectators, In all 2 5011 persons were assembled in the Abbey, all clothed in the deepest. black, Savo e, few officials, t'h'ose regalia gleamed brilliantly from this sombre back- ground. BIG CROWDS OUTSIDE. 'Chowsands thronged the aq,uttre out- side in order to witness the passage of the funeral procession from Westmins- ter TTall. Numerous fakirs mingled. with the crowd, bawking Gladstone souvenirs, refreshments and toys, A double line of five hundred police- men kept an open passage for the funeral oortege, and. edition. WANT TO END THE WAR. Sputa is looking fen• Some Means of WCon- ouru;ble Tepee. The Aletthrid correspondent of the London Times says:—"Tbe dominant note of public opinion here is a desire to find some way to honourable peace, as Spain has nothing to gain by an in- definite prolongation of hostilities. All idea that France loi11 intervene, how- ever, is now ananaoned, and hopes are fixed upon the possibility that Duke Ahm.odot'ar de Rio, the new Minister for Foreign Atfair5, will find some fitting Occasion on which to take the initiative." MINISTERS' STATEMENT. Tbe .Madrid correspondent of the London Daily Mail says:—"The politi- caloutlook is brighter, and the Minis- torialists believe that a Cabinet orisis can be avoided, Captain Aunon, Min- ister of Marine, declared in the Cortes on Thursday, that wben an oppor- tunity presented itself, the Cabinet would not fail to do its heat to bring about an honorable peace." LARGE. FRENCH LOANS. Spoilt Bald to brave. (then the. canaries as Security. The London Chronicle says, under reserve, that France bas loaned Spain 400,000,000 frames, of whiob an01333; 40,- 000,000 francs have already been fur- nished, The paper euggesls tba.tSpain has possibly given the Canary Islands as security. impossible t verify he story, It is impala u ve y t y, but it aeeln8 to be tt re-echo of the re- port that the Bank of Paris and the Netberlantle had, advanced a large sum to the Spanish Treasury, SLATIN PASHA. vent 1tetln•n to Khartoum as (minnow 'General of the Bonded. A deaputch frbm Berlin to the Lon- don Standard says it is (1e01a1•od that Statile Pasha will 1x1 appointed Gover- nor. Generpt of the Soudan after the oapture of Opeellurman, the seat of the. dervish power, by the Anglo-Egyptian expedition, The ofLioial residence of the Govorlaor-Geneve l trill be at Khartoum; James A. Bell, of 13eaysrton, Ont„ brother of the lieu, John Wesley Ball, S.D., prostrated by nervous headaches A victim or the trouble for several 1'esrs. South Amerlean Nervlue effected a complete cute. In their vtn nartleular field tew men are beter known thau the liar. John Wesley Bell, B.D., and hie brother Mr. .Primes A. Bel). The former win be re- cognized b • his th u g S o sods of friends all over the ceuetr'y as the popular and able missionary snperintendent of the Royal Tempters of Temperanee. Among the 20,000members of tills order in Ontario his counsel is sought on ail sorts of oc- traeloas. Go the public platform be 111 one of the strong .nen 'of the day, training • 501,340 the evils of lutemperanee. ltqually well known ie Mr. Bell 1n other provinces of the Dominion, hovlppg been for years a member at the llianitoba Methodist Conference and part of this time was atatloned 1n Winnipeg. Ills brother, Ivir, jaunt( A. Bell, 1e a highly reapeeted resident of Beaverton, lettere his influence, though perhaps more eir- ettmncribed than that of his eminent brother, Is none the lees effeetIVo and productive of good, Of recent years 1pw- everi the wonting ability of Mr. jamasA. Fell has been Badly starred by severe attacks of nersous headache, accom- panied by Indigeat(on. Who eon do fit work when this trouble takes hold of them and eopeolally when it beco � chronic, all was, seemingly, the ease W up Mr, Bell? The trouble reaohed -suee neo tenelty that last June he was complete n ly prostrated. In this condition ag friend" recommended South American Nerviuo.. Ready to tr • anything and ey eryt1 03 �though he thought he had covered hat of proprietarymedicine5, he seoure a bottle of this discovery. d9 second bottle of the mediciue wae take end the work was done. Employing hl own language: "Two bottles of Scut}� Ameri9nn Nervineimmediately relieve 1 n eve(I 0ny beadachea and lave bunt an my. ayatem In a wonderful .manner." Let MI not deprecate the good our elergymo5 and social reformers ape doing In the world, but how 111—fitted they would he for their work were it not the relief that South American Nervine bring(' t(y them when phyelcal ills over/tete them, and when the system, as u mew atilt of bard, earnest and contiuuop9 work, breaks down. Nervine treats elan eystem as the wise reformer treater 1th 97118 he is battling against It etrlaes ail the root of the trouble, Ail dist' ease comes from diaor'ganiaatlon of .lin nerve centers, This Is a scientific fnet, Nervine at once works on these nerve centers;Ives to them health and vine or; and then there course, through the system strong, healthy, life -maintaining blood and nervous tkoublee of on, variety co y are things of the past. Bold by G. A. Deadman. CLOUDS IN THE BALKANS. Servla Threatens e. Revolution or F,xlitt.ng Conditions. The Vienna. correspondent of the London Daily Telegraph says:—)fresh disturbances appear: to be ism prepara- tion in the Biellkwns. Tit wail -informed enrolees the possibility of a complete re- volution of existing conditions shortly is already discussed, A distinguished official said:—"The greatest source of danger lies in Servia„ where the ()bren- ovitcll dynasty appears enitlt'edy shak- en on (5e one hand by the return of ex.. King Milian, and on the other by' fin - 1(11 :lad distress of the most baffling de- scription. Moreover, there is the eir- cuanetanoe that King Alexander has fallen a viotim to an incurable malady. "Prince Nicholas of Montenegro is endeavotu'ing to utilize the situation by the realization of his ancient plan uL founding 11 Balkan alliance, in 011165 the Servian dyntlsty wanld not be .re- ceived. The. 1m:leusitng ill feeling in Sonde, and..Bnlgarie, as well as tine disordered condition of Servile, tins favoured the plain of the Montenegrin ruler, who hopes to become King of tall'Phe Sere vitals. No intention exists at Vienna lie St.. Petersburg to contract to sup- port the 0brenovttch dynasty, or to suppress the dtai,ly in0r1nsimg agitation in Service," 5S DROWNED IN COLLISION. !trills, steamier 1leeea Sunk by the, A despatch from Calcutta says:—On Tuesday, while the British .India Steam Navigation Company's steamer Mecca was towing her sister shit] Lin<lula, t^hose shaft was broken, the beayser parted. The two vessels tettne into col- lision and the Meeea was sunk, her eon - Mtn and 52 others being drowned, Further particulars regarding the disastrous collision between the Srit]sh India Steam Navigation Company's steamer Mecca and liar sister ship, the Lindula, shote the former had 300 per- sons on board. The passengers were mostly Asiatics, The Liu/luta brought the nervivare 10 this port. WARSHIPS NEAR THE PHILIPPINES. 10r11utri's Farce Stronger 'rOon 'Moot of France, Germany and Russia l'u111dee(Ii. 113 view of reports that German, French and British ships are centering tet the Philippine Islands much inter- est leas been excited In navvy choles at Washington, as to the strength of the several fleets of these Powers. There Is little ur no apprehension in official quetrtors here that tate ga.tb- ering of foreign vt'arahips is meant ah a menace to American interests in the Philippines. At the same time the strength of the foreign foyers in Asia. tic waters is an interesting theme of eonjecturc, From reliable melees the statue of I'H:G 481 ATM SQUADRON Ts as follows: Germany's fleet in Asiatic water() rout'iate of e1ghe first-class modern vessels. Admiral Hoffman 10 the Com-, mancler-ill-Chief, with the battle ship Kaiser as his flagship, Second in com- mend is Vice Atlnllra) Pelnee Henry, a brother of the Emperor of Germany, whose flagship is the battle ship Dent- sohland. The British squadron in Asiutie wat- ere is greater in guns and tonnage then that of (lermany, France end Bus - nit'. combined. It includes 31 modern fighting ships, ranging from the mons- ter battle 51119 Vio'torious, of 14,900 tons, to (ho 0311). little gunboats Pie. Yoe anti Firebrand, THE ER I'1'ISH SQUADRON Ts under Admital Sir 8, It, Seymour; Colntuandel-in-Chief, with his flag on the hal tlo ship Centurion, Rear Ad- miral 0. C P. .Fitzgerald, is second in command, with. his flag 031 l )le tone, er Grafton, The Tt1lssian fleet eona1515 of 22 ships, with Admiral 13cuetff es COM - roan der-in»Chief. . The French fleet i e s made up of 11 elope, with Rear Admiral Wolin. de 10, Redttlliere ne Contreendal•-1n-Cblefo with his flag on the sJ Tinteeenstean, /ivory noble work to at Area: lot901- 811111,.--Cariyl