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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1898-8-5, Page 6TILE BRUSSELS P OS T. AUGUST r, 1908. NEWS IN 1!1 rim VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER., interesting Items. About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and MI. Parts of the Moire, Condense! and Assorted for Easy Rezone. GENERAL. A naval reserve corps is to be estab-. lisped at Newfoundland. An accident in a colliery near Mor- genrot, Prussian Silesia, caused 24 deaths. Ladies of the Russian court must not hereafter smoke in the Czarina's presence, A funeral service in memory of the victims of La Bourgogne was held In the Church of the Madelaine, Paris. The Premier of Newfoundland, Sir James Winter, will be the representa- tive from the Iaiaud at the conference on American -Canadian affairs, An inquiry into the charge that Austrian -sailors seized one of the boats of La Bourgogne and drove off the others is to be held at Havre, Eben Brewer, who had charge of all postal arrangements of the United. States in Cuba, died near Santiago on Saturday of malarial fever. Arrangements have been made with the Corean Government that American experts shall survey the country, look. Lag to the building of roads and bridges. The German Minister at Seoul ad- ministered e. severe beating to the Corean Minister of Foreign Affairs for the latter's refusal to grant cer- tain mining privileges to German sub. jests in the district of Kiojgu. The movements et the Carlists are causing increased anxiety in Spain. The organizations of the adherents of the Pretender is complete, and they have representatives in every town. The clergy, especially in the Basque pro- vinces and in Navarre, Catalonia, and Valencia, are powerful auxiliaries of Don Carlos, whose order will be suf- ficient to cause the simultaneous ap- pearance of bands in various districts. CANADA. The Tussock moth is troubling Mont- real. The prospects for a large harvest in Manitoba are' excellent. The first 45 miles of the Tulin trail road have been completed.. IA rich discovery of oxide at Lake Winnipegosis has been made. The receipts of the Winnipeg exhibi- tion amounted to about $80,000. Ottawa's population is estimated by the Might's directory at 67,000. Seven of Toronto's leading hotels have been deprived of their liquor licenses. A new set of instrumento has been ordered for the band of the Dufferin Rifles The calcium carbide from sawdust idea is interesting Ottawa lumber- men. Orr. R. J. Graham of Belleville will start an evaportaing factory at Strat- ford. A number of Yukon miners have ar- rived at Victoria, bringing over $500,000 with them, The Montreal customs receipts will total $1,000,000 this month, breaking all records. 3 new system of fire protection is being installed in the Dpminion Par- liament buildings. While bathing at Macleod, Constable Sandamore, of the North-west Mounted Police, was drowned. The monument to the late Sir George Cartier, at St. Antoine de Richelieu, will be unveiled on Labor Day. The Robertson Yukon party, from Edmonton, thought to have been lost on the trailhas reached Dawson City. IIr. Angus C. Stewart, Principal of Talbot Street School, London, died on Saturday from hemorrhage of the stom- ach. A number of Indian relics have been added to the collection of Indian curios at the Geological Survey at Ottawa, Mr. Won. Saunders of the Experi- mental Farms reports the crops in the Maritime Provinces as very promis- ing. Lieut. Sutton of Winnipeg, for some years connected with the Royal Cana- dian Dragoons, has been transferred to Toronto, London Oity Council has granted a 15 -years franchise to the People's Tele- phone Company, which will grant re. duced rates. Montreal police have a man they believe to be Frank IIolmes, wanted in New York for the theft of ,$1,800 worth of diamonds. Two brothers, John and Henry Chambers, were upset in their sailboat on Shoal Lake, near Winnipeg, on Sun- day and both perished. Judge McGuire, writing from Daw- son City, says there may he a greater scarcity of provisions this coming win- ter than there was last year. London Aldermen are visiting the hospitals in Buffalo, New York and ether American tattles to gain internee, tion regarding equipment. An .Indian sea.roh party will be or- ganized to search for LI: e remains of Sir Arthur Curtis, recently lost in the British Columbia mountains. Private advices from tbe Klondike say that the goldyield from the spring clean-up in the Yukon will exceed twenty .millions of dollar's, The reports received recently by flue Director of Experimental Farms from the Northwest and British Col- umbia are most encouraging., Mr; Cesaire L etourneau, of Grand Mere, whose daughter was drowned on tee Bourgogne,has entered suit against the owners of that vessel for. $40,000, R. A. and G. C. Church, brothers, end well-known ranchers were drowned north of Edhloeton &few days ago in attempting to ford the river, Officials of the Ottawa, Aruprior and Parry Sound Railway Company deny te rumor that the road has been sold to the Canadian Pacific Railway Co. About twenty school teachers are re- ceiving drill instructions at Stanley barrectks,TnrGnto, to qualify THE. SUNDAY S strucbora of cadet weeps in high schools. CIiOOL The shipment of lumber to the (Unit- zrr ed States from the Ottawa district is INTERNATIONAL LESSON, AUG. 7. not so heavy es last year. but the busi- ness across the Atlantto is somewhat ii eeemt'ri rilFlral on IUdm." 4 Klnile 8. better, 4•ts. fielder' Text. luxe At a meeting of the Ottawa City Council on Monday night a resolution was mimedto take itptebisotte in Janu- ary next as to the running of street ears on Sundays. Claire iiiLchon, of Belleville, Ont„ a girl twelve year sold, has won the Gov- ernor -General's prize for children und- er tbirteen years of age in the pub- lic schools in Ontario; The Department of Agriculture has advised steamship owners that they should prepare space for the shipment of apples and other fruit under pro- per conditions before the present sea- son opens: The .Kingston hackman have declar- ed war against the electric street rail- way, and have decided to meet the Rtrhlieu and Ontario steamers and take passengers off the boats around the city at 10 cents per head, General Man- ager Gildersleeve will advertise this ar- rangement on the boats, On Sanday afternoon at St, John, N. B., an electric car ran away, and, jumping the track at the corner of Main and Mill streets, dashed across the sidewalk into Harding's liquor sa- loon, embedding itself two-thirds of its length in the building, the front of which it badly wrecked. One passen- ger, who jumped, was the only one injured. His leg was broken and had to be amputated. The Dominion Cotton Company, in ape plying to the Kingston Council for a bonus of $25,000, promise to employ 250 hands, at an annual wage of $90,000; to spend $150,000. on new plant ; and run every working day in the year except fifteen days. The terms were accepted by the Council, who made a stipulation for indemnity in ease of a breach of the agreement to which the company objects. GREAT BRITAIN. The British navy is to be Increased by four battleships, four cruisers and twelve destroyers. Losses from the fire at Sunderland are placed at $2,000,000. Ralf the busi- ness houses in the town were destroy- ed. The place had no fire brigade. The British Government has com- missioned Thomas Brook, R. A., tbe sculptor, to design the statue of Mr, Gladstone, to be erected in Westmin- ster Abbey. UNITED STATES. United States Vire-President Ho- bart and Attorney -General Griggs are at the Thousand Islands. The Baptist Young People's Union, in convention at !Buffalo, decided to meet at Richmond, Va., in 1899, and at Cincinnati in 1900. The steamer Roanoke and the schoon- er Samoa have arrived at Seattle from St. Michael's with returning miners, who bring nearly a2,000,000 in gold. A list of fifty commercial organize„ tions fit the States, all declaring by resolution in favor of reciprocal commercial relations with Canada, has been forwarded to the Ottawa Govern- ment, At Ashley, Mich„ great excitement exists over the striking of a vein of coal four and a half feet thick at a depth of 206 feet. The find was made by men who are drilling a well at the T. S. & M. water tank. Fifty-five volunteers at Camp Alger on Tuesday partook of hash which had been cooked in a tin vessel which had become corroded. 155 of the men are seriously ill, although all suffered from the effects of the poison. The Vermont Fish Commissioners have been informed that a small un- known parasite is killing the fish by the hundreds in streams about Mont- pelier. The matter will be investigated at once. William B. Henderson, president of the Florida Board of Health, denies the report that there is yellonv fever at Tampa. He Bays there Is not oven a suspicious case either in the city or camps there. Levi Z. Leiter, father of the wheat plunger, has now practically elosed the contract which he has been negotia- ting with the North-Western Life In- surance Company for the loan of $8,- 000,000 on his real estate. The rate of interest is four per mut. The harvesting: of the wheat crop in Western New Tork is finished, and the farmers find their barns filled to the roof with wheat, and stacks of it are in the fields. Such a wheat crop Res the one that has just been gath- ered has not been grown in New York State int many years, THE PRINCE WILL BE LAME. A strong Popular Undercurrent of Ap- prehension Regarding Ills Condition —Blunder 1n Bringing flim to Leaden.. Harold Frederic, in his London Gable letter to The New York Times, dis- cusses the aecident to the Prince of Wales as follows:—"Despite the cheer- ful and united efforts of the press to depict the Prince of Wales as rather healthier end gayer than ever under his affliction, the feet remains That there is a strong !papier undercurrent of apprehension,. He has too weak a heart action to make the use of anaes- thetics safe, ttnu ane stupid blunder of bringing him all the way by a slow train to lint, badly -aired London, when Lhe great surgeons should bays been tushed by u specie l out. to Ferdinand Rothschilds' superb rime -try seat, ag- gravated 1be Lrnrture so that: an oper- ation without them now wotilcl be too dangei'wia to risk, Lord Lister, who is himself the most distinguished advo- ate end exponent of. the operationof suturing the hones of the patella by silver wires, which his antiseptic dis- coveries have rendered relatively safe, would be the last in the world to ad- vise cgainst: this operation, if he had not the gravest reasons. ft is admitted that as a result the Prince will ahvnys he lame, and we may be sure this would have been avoided, if possible, TAN'LAL I7,ING. Ile—No gentleman will smoke a ci- garette while walking on the street with a lady. She—Of course not; Ile has no busi- ness to tantalize her sit, PRACTICAL NO'I'Jth. Verse 6. Elijah said unto frim. To Elisha.. Tarry, 1 pray thee, here, At Jitriaho, the largest city in the val-I ley of the Jordan. This is the third time Elijah has urged Elisha to stay behind. Probably neither mu knew dis- tinctly and exactly what was before them, but God knew the end from the beginning, and step byl step he reveals his plans. From Horeb to Abel -mime lab tine older prophet had gone; then, accompanied by Elisha, from Abel -me - hotel to Samaria; from Samaria to the Ekren highway; from the Ek - ren bighway to Gilgal; from Gilgal to Bethel; now from Bethel to Jericho; and presently from Jeri- cho to the region beyond Jordan. (1) So God knows our future, and reveals our llfe's paths one step at a time. This gradual revelation brings into bold railer Elijah's awe in feeing his future terrors and glories, and Blieha's persistent love. (2) They sin who tell us love can die. The Lord hath sent me to Jordan, About five miles from Jericho is a. bond in the river where, according to tradition,. Elijah emend- ed. Several of Elijah's stopping places on this journey were notable at once as "schools of the prophets" (seats of those prophetic communities whose zeal did so much to maintain faith in Jeho- vah during clark years), and as 'strong- holds of hostility to Jehovah. For in- stance, Gilgal is mentioned by Hosea and Amos as a center of idolatrous iniquity; Bethel was the shrine of calf - worship; and Jericho had been rebuilt under the: direct curse of Jehovah, As the Lord liveth, and es thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. This double form of adjuration was the most snared known to the Hebrews. Young Elisha's passion of love embarrassed th'e old man, who) with true humility and mo- desty, seems to have desired solitude before his glorification. They two went on. (Compare Gen. 22, 6.) 7. Fifty men of the sons of the pro- phets. These were young men who had set themselves apart for holy stud- ies and activities. Evidently the sect was numerous; it may have been mon- astic in some of its features. That its members were all in a literal sense sons of the prophets rs unlikely, for it was a Hebrew idiom to call the out- come of anything its son. That by, a regular course of training they were' all graduated into full prophetio re- sponsibilities is a notion without war- rant. Stood to view. On the high ground of Jericho, whence they could watch the descent of Elijah and Eli- sha into the river bed, and their ascent on the other side. Tlney two stood 'oy Jordan. The Jordan and the Dead Sea, like all of men's frontiers and boundary lines, are God's high- ways. 3 No obstacle can hinder God or God's children. The arid rocks are by him turned into fountains, and those things which to human foresight would seem to guarantee destruction are made vehicles of choicest blessing. 8. Elijah took his mantle. The skin of abeast, dressed with the hair en, was the almost universal sign of a profes- sionally holy man. Elijah's mantle was probably a sheepskin. By a re- mainder of the ancient custom certain graduates of English universities wear lambskin hoods, snit kings on slate oc- casion wear ermine. This particular mantle had hada rare history. In it Elijah had wrapped his face amid the mystic terrors of Horeb; it had been thrown about Elisha as a sign of his earliest prophetic call. Wrapped it together. Probably whirled it round and round. Its present use as a sym- bol of the wonder-working power re- minds us of Aaron's rod, Smote the waters, and they were divided bither and thither. It was not Elijah's sheep- skin, hut Elijah's faith, that worked this miracle. 4. God can use one means as readily as another with which to work his wonders. On dry ground. On solid ground. 9. When tbey were gone over. Into Elijah's naive land, Holy scenes were. ail about them. Not far firm this place Joshua and the Israelite hosts had crossedby a similar nninacle ; not far from thislace Moses bid passed In silent glory Ln the world, of spirits, and no man knowoth bis sepulcher to (his day. Ask Meet I shell da for thee. 'rhe awful silence was broken by this loving offer. Elisha's true character will be shown by his answer. The majesty of Elijah's bear- ing in the presence of death is notable. I 5, What would be our answer to such' a question? The measure of the petite tuner's faith' is to be the measure of bis reward. Before 1 be taken many, Ole does not say, "What shalt I do when I get to heaven?" Elijah, as I e. man of like passions with us, could do wonders for Elisha by the exercise of faith, but there is no Intimation that ttdeparted ani t. he old do an as n mad thine fr him at all. Let a double, portion of thy spirit be. upon me. The portion of a firstborn son. "Let me be the heir of your prophetic power." 10, Thou hast asked a hard thing. Be- cause God only could give it. If thou see me. This shall beasign that your request will Tie, granted. Elijah knew that: Elisha was divinely chosen to he his heir, but, as the have seen, hilt full inheritance was Conditional an his faithfulness, If Elishn's heart is true to the. end, he shall see the vision and gain the prize. inclionttes perhaps a toilsome ascent Ifndirates perhaps a toilsome ascent after the long ,journey in the midst of the gathering storm," --Moulton. A sweat communion of soul is indicated, not unlike the disciples' talk with ,Teens Isidore Ills esoenelon, A ohariot of fire, What tbie was we do net know, and ie is ,a waste of time to argue shoat it. ;6 God would have re. waled to us the environments of hea- ennly life with the same diptdnctness that ha his revealed to us the terms of ss.lva (tin if he had desired us to un- derstan't ll:o a characteristics, went up rya wlit. lain 1, Thatthere was an awful storm and that thje fiery revelation was one of the inaideuts id Lida storm seem clear, Into heaven, From whence he oaare again to talk with our Sdvieue on the Munni of '('ransfigueatiun. 12, lel'ejab saw. The condition was fulfillsdb and he ewe to receive the holm he craved, Illy father, The title, in all ages and countries. of the religi- ous tattalrer, ,flat lelisha was now adopted spiritually as 14lijelr's first- born son, and he calls "illy father!" in the eostaey of his assurance, The i chariot of Israel, end the horsemen thereof. The standing army of the nu - tion ; the strongest defense of Israel, Suis, d Kings 18. 14, Saw atm nn, more, ibis shows tbe suddenness of Elijah's translation to heaven. Tuck hold of his own clothes, and rent them to , pieces. Going beyond the usual sign of grief, which did not involve tearing the garment through. 18. Took up also the mantle of Elijalt. fa thgrin God' ehe o aonstele sAsts hhies � took it up his whole nature must have thrilled. It was Lite second time It had rested on his shoulders. For nine years he had been ltlijah's com- panion and servitor. Observe that in character and life the two men were almost a perfect contrast. Elieire was not a wanderer, but: a quiet citizen, of gentle, sympathetic disposition, 7. God raises up workers according to his peo- ple's needs, and employs them accord- ing to thole natures. That fell from him. The old Gileadite needs not that mantle in tbe land wbither he has gone, 8. so we drop our robes of flesh Its we mount from earth to heaven. Went back. Instantly Elisha enters up- on his new work, 9. Let us spend our strength not in sorrowing over the dead past, but by holy action in the living present. Stood by the bank of the Jordan, Just opposite where he and Elijah had stood a little while before. 14. Smote the waters, Elisha arts ,just like his venerable master. Where is t'hd Lord God at Elijah/ The utter- ance not of doust, but of excultant faith. (10) We must confide in God to carry us through, When he also had smitten the'waters.,(11) Witt muse also confide in ourselves if we would ire ef- fective. They parted hither and thither. As they had parted beforie the ark of fGodaits, and before Elijah. (12) God never 15. The sons of the prophets which were tc( view at Jericho. "Which were et Jericho, opposite." they had un- ceasingly watched the two prophets, but had not been able to discern the ascension of Elijah, The spirit of Eli- jah doth rest on Elisha. Whether they knew this by his ownership of Elijah's mantle or by some other indication we cannot tell, (13) There is always some- thing about a true man or God which reveals his caning and commands re- spect. Bowed themselves to the ground. The men trained in the schools bow before the men taken from the plow. (14) .It is a great talent to be able tq recognize a God -ordained lead- er wihen he comes. GOSCHEN'S AGGRESSIVENESS. Ills Naval Estimates n -Warlike Reply to the Russian Occupation, orPort Arthur —No Challenge Frau the Liberals. Iii relation to ItIr. Goschen's speech, the London correspondent of The New York Tribune says :—"Mr. Goschen's speech on Friday night created a profound impression iu the Commons, and was the most important official ut- terance of the session. He has gone over, bag and baggage, to the forward school, and even left Lord , Charles (Beresford web in the rear. His supple- mentary neva! estimates, carrying $40,- 000,000 for four battleships, four armor- ed cruisers and twelve torpedo boat destroyers, were desoribed forcibly by Sir William Harcourt, ars a flaming programme. Goschen's candor in explaining the reasons for increasing the outlay for new construction from $25,000,000 to $75,000,000 was really startling. Rus- sia had suddenly proposed to add four battleships, six powerful cruisers and a torpedo flotilla to her navy, end con- sequently England must respond by strengthening her own fleet by the same number of vessel's, superior in every class. moreover, Mr, Goschen was explicit in explaining that these new ships would be specially built for the passage of the Suez Canal and. meeting the., Russian flea in Chinese waters. IL was thie anti -Russian tone which made a great stir on both sides of the Commons. "This speech, with thin threat to build ship fur ship with Russia and Prance combined, was a more aggressive re- ply tci the occupation of Port Arthur than Sir Michael Blinks -(Beach, Mr. Chamberlain, or anyone else has made. Staid, sober Conservatism .like that of The Standard is evidently shocked by this adoption of the forward pro- gramme in an alarmist spirit, as well it may be when evidence is furnished by the correspondence of that journal that the Russian naval programme hes sud- denly been checked, It plaintively won- ders how long humanity will stand the strain of competitive waste in menac- ing armaments, while one power atter i good some is making g weak- ness, real or fancied, in its system of defence or capacity for aggression. !:t will ehrtllonge this policy with any is not likely that the Liberal. party spirit, and Mr. Labouchere will remain in his splendid isolation. as the only consistent opponent of English militar- ism." SUCH MISERABLE SPECIMENS. Hach Lordtl Chief in err, Phlllppines Warts to autunite Bneon. The Manila correepondent of the Lon- don Daily Mail, under date of July 19, commenting on the state of an- archy among the rebels" says:— "Each local chief desires to become the supreme ruler of the island. It is pitifulto think that a nation like the Spanish has been beaten by such miserable specimens of humanity, "Americaninaotivity is telling on the natives in the rebel districts. Food is plentiful; but• there le no money to purchase it, and no way to distribute it." THE LOST GERANIUM. The village ata Winthrop lay In at valley amixng the Surrey hills; the July sun shone upon it and it was the home of flowers, They were lavish and irrepressible iu their growth, flourish- ing as treaty in cottage gardens as in the squire's extensive grounds. The air was fragrant with the scent of ror'cs and mignonette, soft summer dew filled the tiny saos 00 the caloeolarles and glittered. on the velvet leaves of manta -colored pansies. Bach Tilade, of grass was tipped by a prismatic drop, the births song their sweetest, and na- ture rejoiced. But now that it was afternoon the dew had dltiappeared, the atmosphere was heavy with W drowsy heat, and i1:Lrs, Wigley's sandy sat lay basking in the sun, Mrs, Wigley lived at jasmine cottage which had no jasmine growing over it and did not rightly deserve the name of cottage, seeing that it was duo of a long row of houses at the east end of the village, about as countrified iu appearance as the workmen's dwellings at Battersea on Clapham Junction. Mrs. Wigley had no back garden what- ever, only a tiny piece of ground in front with a wooden paling and there was nptt reale growang there. But a remarkably, Line geranium, hearing magnificent trusses of a pink tint, stood. in at pot on then window sill. This geranium was the pride of Mrs. Wigley's simple soul; she took daily doligbt in it in spite of failing sight, and words of praise from admiring neighbors warmed the cockles of her heart. Her friend, Mrs. Hubbard, Christian name, Eliza, who lived at West Win- throp, was more eulogistic than all the rest put together, for Mrs. Hubbard wa,s a great gardener and knew a fine specimen as well as anyone and better than most. Her own garden was a perfect picture. but she could not show a geranium like Sarah Wigley's, nor, - indeed, anything to compare with it. She called on a certain Saturday aft- ernoon and paasod before entering Jas- mine cottage to inspect her friend's possession. It was in full bloom. "Well, I never!" cried Eliza Hab- bard, "What a wasta!" Sarah Wigley was staring out of tire window, but failed to recognize bar friend; her oyes were contracted to a narrow slit, and she strove her hardest to trace the familiar features, but in vain. "What a waste!" reiterated. Mrs. Hubbard. She can't see me, though I am as big as life and twice as ugly; and yet the Lord lets that fine pink geranium grow and bloom under her very nose. It isn't any kind of good to her, and it woad be a real blessing to me." She might have waved her hand to Sarah, and enabled the contracted eyes to reopen, but she was too much put out to do that. In her present mood she felt that the ways of Providence were unjustifiable. "That tlrero geranium is deliberate- ly wasting itself l" said she, At this moment Sarah Wigley opened the window and stood revealed—a small shrunken widow woman, with a pale face and a pair of gentle eyes, sweet in their expression, albeit somewhat dimmed by defective sight. "If it ain't, Sarah, it's my double." "You've been looking at my geran- ium, Eliza," said her friend, 'Isn't it a picture?" Mrs. Hubbard responded heartily; there was much talk' about the flower, how fears had been entertained that the blight had got to it, eto., etc. "Go in, my dear," she said to Sarah Wigley, "you will catch your death of cold." ,Mrs. Wigley retired, Eliza Hubbard drew the door close. Her face was crimson, her heart beat fast. "It isn't as though she could see," said she,; "she won't even know it is gone, and if she, does, what does it sig- nify? What the eye don't see the heart can't grieve tor i" She seemed rather proud of the quotation ; of a certainty it had never been used in such a connection before. But pride was replaced; by a dull sense of shame as she lifted' up the geranium and, hiding it under her shawl, sped home with it. As she walked she plan - nod where she would plane the geran- ium ; eran-tum; it would look best, she thought, between two fine white oleos, of which she was uncommonly proud, and there she deposited it in the darkness. Having done so she retired, to 'bed, having first knelt down to say her prayers. Oddly enough, however, the words would not Dome, A fete days later Eliza Hubbard cal- led on Sarah Wigley. She peeped in through the window and saw her old friend sitting over the handful of tiro, though the evening was sultry, shiver- ing and holding her thin hands to the blaze. "My gracious!" said she, stepping briskly in, "you ain't cold to -night, are you?" Sarah Wigley rose stiffly. "I'm a bit poorly, my dears; I ain't felt myself sine my lees You've heard tell how soma tramp or other made off with my pink geranium, have- n't you?" "I did hear some such tale," said she. Bull I don't suppose you grieve much, eh, Sarah? It ain't as if your eye- sight was as good.as mine, Youl eau't keep looking at the blossoms." For anawer Sarah Wigley burst into a flood of tears. I know I am worse than a fool to make a fuss about a geranium plant, said she, "but I suppose I am kind et low in health. Anyway,,I ean't help myself. I ought to be ashamed of myself, said she, "et my time of life not to have faith greater than a grain of mustard seed, Haven't 0 Prayed the, good Lord to put it into the heart of that tramp to bring me bank my ger- atrium, and who kndws that he won't see fit to do it. t'cl bad that geran- ium, throe years, 'Liza, and I'd got to set store on it as though it was a child, tvJoiiNW.1ELL9 [J.D. • `' fiRM1LTON,Ii'ef47. James A. Bell, of Beaverton, Ont., brother of the°Rev. John Wesley udell, B.D., prostrated by nervous headaches A victim of the trouble for several years. South American Nervine effected e complete ,cure. In their own particular field few men are beter known than the Rev. John Wesley Bell, B.D., and his brother Sir. Jaynes A. Bell The former win oe re- cognized by his thousands of friends all over the country as the popular and able missionary superintendent of the Royal Tempters of Temperance. Among the 20,000 members of this order in Ontario his counsel is sought on all sorts of oc- casions. On the public platform he is one of the strong men of the day, nettling against the evils of intemperance. Equally well known is Mr. Bell in other provinces of the Dominion having been for years a member of the Manitoba Methodist Conference and part of thin time was stationed in Winnipeg. Ria brother, Mr. James A. Bell, is a highly respected resident of Beaverton, waere Iris influence, though perhaps more elr- cumseribed than that of his eminent brother. is none the less effective and productive of good. Of recent yearshaw- ever, the working ability of Mr. James A. Bell has been sadly marred by severe attacks of nervous headache, accom- panied by indigestion. Who can do tit work when this trouble takes bold of them and especially when it beeomce chronic, as was, seemingly, the ease with Mr, Bell? The trouble mucked auen in- tensity that last June he was complete- ly prostrated. In this condition e.friend recommended South American Nervine. Ready to try anything and everytnlag, though he thought he had covereu ttitr ]let of proprietary medicines, he secured n bottle of this great dlaeovery. d second bottle of the medicine was taken and the work was done. Elmploying his own language: "Two bottles of South American Nervine immediately mitered my headaches and have butte up my, system in a wonderful manner," Let ns riot deprecate the good our olergymea and social reformers are doing In the world, .but how ill -fitted they would be for their work were it not the relief that South Amerioan Nervine brings to them when physical ills overtake them, and when the eystem, as a re- sult of hard, earnest and contlnuoae work, breaks down. NervIne treats the system as the wise reformer treats the evils lie le battling agni.net. It armee a0 the root of the trouble. All they ease comes from disorganization of the nerve centers. This la a scientific fact. Nervine at once works on these nerve centore; gives to them health and vige or; and then there courses through the system strong, healthy, life -maintaining blood, and nervous troubles of every variety are things of the past. Sold by G. A. Deadman. I hope you don't think me a weak sort," Eliza Hubbard cleared her throat. "No," shesaid softly,"I don't. Iwish I was half as good as you. But I ain't. I yield to temptation right away. - I ain't more strength of mind than a baby. I say, Sarah, I wouldn't take on so if I was you. Perhap's--.perhaps"— she hesitated and cleared her throat again. "Perhaps you -11 get your flow- er back again, after a11." She leaned forward and kissed her friend's wrinkled cheek. It was an un- usual action, but accounted for by the unusual circumstances. "Good night Sarah," said shs, I'd pray again to -night, if I was you, just as you did before." "Yes," replied Sarah meekly, "i mean to." She was cheered by her friend's sym- pathy; there was a glowl at boy heart, a ring of confidenoe in her quavering tones, The moment she rose the next morn- ing she glanced out of the window. Did her weak eyes deceive her ? Was it really the geranium she saw below? She dressed herself hastily and hurried downstairs, Yes, there was no mis- take about it ; it was her pet flower, in the same pot, with the splotch of red paint on its rim. 'The Lord be praised!" said she,' hugging it close; "the Lord be prais- ed I" And .Eliza Hubbard, meanwhile, her face rod with sbame, clasped her hands together and offerod her prayer. .`hero ain't a moaner sinner on earth than me," said she, "but I never found it out till now," She stooped low and dug up her finest white ger- anium. "I'M going round to Sarah's now at once," said she; "and while I'm about it I'll take this other white gonanium to her as well. The pink one will: look uncommon nice between them two." 1 R NCH LEGISLATORS. The members of the French Legis- lature each receive1,800 per entrain, A member who is twine called to order during a sitting forfeits half his sal- ary for two weeks, --- THE SOLAR SYSTEM, Aebrcnromers tell us that in our so- lar system there are at least 1'7,000,- 000 comets of all sizes. BELIEVED TO BE THE MAN. One• legged Tramp Arrested lis Diiiiilae ler Conslable TweJI(y's Murder. A despatch from Dundee, Ont•, says: —Although many arrests have been ni.ade in connection with the murder of Policeman Twohey, of London, it is believed that it remains for Chief Twisse of Dundas, to capture the real orimimtt. A peg -leg who answers the cleserrplroe sent out was arrested here on Monday night, after a fierce resis- tance, by Chief Twiss and his assis- tant, Alex. Galbraith. The prisoner was seen on the outskirts at the town early in the cla.•v, in campeny with two other tramps, bub clueing the evening they left the peg -leg, whose arrest fol- lowed. it is believed without doubt that .his is the mita w'antccl, as a. party here who was in London attend- ing the races, when the murder took plane, recognized the prisoner. 'l.'he London police force were communicate ed with acrd wired instructions to hold the man. LANDING U. S. TROOPS, The 5ecnnd. Exped10lon Being ttnpidly Disembarked Noir 1 r 1 t 1ni1a. A despatch from Manila. says :—The .disembarkation of the American troops composing than second expedition is be- ing pushed with the utmost energy, The Colorado regiment is already on the field, near .1?artajo, nand other, regi- ments will lie transferred without, any loss of thne from the t.ranaports to the camp in native boats. The United States cruiser Boston has been de- tailed to cover the landing parties. She now occupies a position almost within range of the guns of Fort Mal- ate, which is only a short diefano from Manila proper. 'Jhe brigade come mended by General. Anderson is still at Cavite, but his troops rive really! to move, The arrival hero of the United States monitor Monterey is auslously expected, A. CHINESE LAW, Under the Jews of Chine the man who loses hie tamper in a discussion' is sent to jail for five Stays to pool delve.