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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-1-13, Page 6THE BrtussEL-s POST: JAN, 13, 1899 THE NEWS IN A NJS THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. lntorosting Items About Our Own Country, (ireat Britain, the United States, end All Parts of the (lobe, condouned and Aseorte4 lar Easy Reading. CANADA. :Urirts ow the Proof Line road, Lou- don are 15 feet high, AL Montreal the sale of inter -im- perial postage stamps has been enure mous. J. D. Lewis, foremen La the Brant- ford fire department, has been ap- pointed chief. Mrs. Eliza Farr of St. Catharines, while visiting relatives in Hamilton tell and broke her neck. The estate of the late Robert-lIamil ton of Quebec pays $55,000 in succes- sion duties to Quebec Province. The Quebec Ice bridge has formed, Hull, Que., will now control a civic) light Mg plant. It is reported from Winnipeg that the Galician murderer, Simeon Czuhy, is dying of grief. Edward Hardy, out of work, discour- aged, attempted suicide with a razor in Hamilton. Ile will live. I'. X. Choquette, Q. C., Montreal, has been appointed police magistrate of Montreal, succeeding Judge Dugas. The report that ex -mayor A. D. Stewart of H•,milton died on his way to the Klondike seems to be authen- tic. Lord Strathcona has ordered a new organ for St. Paul'e Presbyterian church, Montreal, as a Christmas gift. .,.he returns from the recent ship- ment of fattened poultry to England show that it was highly profitable and successful Four Hamilton shoe dealers were fined 25 cents inch for breaking the 7 o'clock closing by-law on the evening of December 23. Three Italian brothers named Cubelli hive been sentenced at Montreal to three years an the penitentiary for counterfeiting. Prof. E. Stone Wiggins announces that he has gone nuc of business as a weather prophet owing to the lack of popular appreciation. Chu•les Stevens, a London hotel - keeper, paid a fine of 020 for neglect- ing to unsoreen his bar -room window at night. The Militia Department has decided to recall the issue of Snider rifles given to Public School and cadet cops, and to replace them pith the Martine - Henry. The Canadian Bank of Commerce has advised the Dominion Government that it is sending officers to establish a branch of the bank in the Alan Lake district. • ; A delegation of the civil servants waited on the Premier and Hon. Alr. Fielding at Ottawa to urge the restor- atiun of the statutory increases in their pay. • John Henderson, a convict at King- ston Penitentiary, serving a fifteen - year sentence for the shooting of Constable Tidsbury, near Toronto, has been caught attempting to es Daps. The Department of Trade and Com- merce have received notice that lead bullion and dross may be imported in- to the. United States aid refined in bond, subject to a duty of 2 1-8 cents per pound gross weight. During the ,past navigation season 21,231,604 tons of freight were locked through the Canadian and American canals at Sault Ste, Marie, an increase over last year of over 2,000,000 tuns, and the highest on record. Solicitors for the ,Bank of Ottawa have issued a writ against the Ontario Central Railway Company, claiming §306,759.78, the amount due as interest upon certain coupons to debenture bonds issued by the company. The Mounted Police are sending a patrol. to Red Deer country. Settlers report that the Blackfeet are killing cattle. The Indians are short of meat, as the antelope have not °time .south, owing to the mild winter. Arrangements have been made by the immtgratien branch of the Interior Department to send Mrs. Sandford of Portage la Prairie to Great Britain to conduct a movement fur the emigra- tion of servant girls to western Can- ada. GREAT BRITAIN. Sheffield, Eng„ has nude a profit of 541,000 during the past half year in running its own street oars, The Bishop of Bath and Wells was flooded out of his palace at Bath re- cently by an overflow of water front'' the old moat, .tease of bubonic plague is report- s o have been discovered on board the steamer Golconda at Plymouth, from Calcutta. Johann Schneider. Is to be hanged in London, Eng,, for the murder of Conrad Berndt, whom he killed with an axe and burned in an oven. England's oldest royal postboy, Jonas Miles, is dead at the age of 03 years. He served as po:;tilion for George III., George IV., William IV. and Vic- toria. Emperor William has sent a gold watch to the London policeman who saved Count Valley from an assassin outside the German Embassy in Lon- don. airs.. Saunders, who wail the claim- ent for the sum of 590,000,000 left by an uncle, named Leake, who died intes- tate in Aino'ice, died recently at Porteawl, Wales, Rtcaiotti Garibaldi, who speaks Eng- Ltsh well, was the guest of honor at a recent dinner of the National Liberal Club, a,ne shelledthe club by a toast he proposed. 'And now, gentlemen," he said, "L drink to the health of Mrs. Grundy, that is to say, the groat pub- lic, opinion of England," Ireland's telegraph department re- een Lly proved that it could manager Gaeta by 'taking thespeeohes delivered at on Irish festival at Letterkenny, County Donegal, in the native tongue and receiving them at Dublin, so that they could be feinted in Mello oharao- tars in Cho Ii'eemean's Journal. The naval authorities Lave been Offt- einily notified of the intention of Frame to replace her obsolete war vea- sels engaged Lu thin £Ishery protective service on the Newfoundland coast tttth modest eruisera. Great .Britain will else put out of commission the oh:olete gunboats Pelican, Buzzard tail Ogden,. ;Ind substitute fur these vessels of su£firieut power to cope with the lirenchmen. UNITED STATES. It is reported that the big wire iruet lura pureltasett tbe Cleveland hotting hila 'i'.rttst, Mrs. .1. Weller wee burned to death I.y the explosion of turpentine at Oma- ha, Nebraska. llurglars entered a New Jersey jail and rubbed the sleeping Sheriff, George Litterest, of 0100. H. le Bailey, cashier of the National Bank 111 Colebrook. N.H., is under ar- re t charged eel stealing 960,000. Admiral Dewey it new the senior of - firer of the American navy, owing to ' the retirement of admiral Bunce. Police raided three poolrooms to Louisville, li:y„ arrested operators and bettors, and carried away el8,000. Senator Justin S. Morrill, author of the Merrill Tariff Act, of 1861, is dead 'at Washington. He bad been in Con- gress 44 years. A report from Wichita, Dian., says, an old soldier, thought to have died, I remained buried twu days, and when resurrected was living, I Joseph Churchill, aged S0, and his wife, aged 7_, are in the Divorce Court at Janesville, Wis, They were mar- ried in I'eterboro', Ont. Inspectors of the letuard of Health have confiscated 1,510 pounds of horse £Le:h at the depot of the American Ex- press Company, New York. Edward. J. Ivory, the Irish agitator, arrested in Eugsand a year ago on a charge of conspiracy, has filed a peti- tion in bankruptcy in New York. I A voting machine, invented by Mr. P. A. Macdonald of \1'Lnnip ag, was used at the elections baht in several 11anitoba municipalities with good 5000.;55. A mystertuus robbery occurred at the American aationut Berne Sunday night, at Lama, Unite Gerd and paper money t0 the umuunt o1 nearly elauee u was car- ried utf. A satchel was stolen frum Mrs. Wm. L. Smith, of Last Liverpool, Uhio, con - twining money and diamonds to the value ud 01,006, while en rattle to New York in a Pullman cur. Governor Pingree, uL Michigan, says that every American soldier sent to manila should early his cutfin un has ehoulder, es that atuuld be ens of the most necessary adjuncts to his outfit. Anther suspected murderer 09 Amos J. Snell has Leen arrested at Chicago and discharged .He is the 41st thought to he Will teseott, the murderer, who hes eludel detectives now Lor ten years. ' The Nell" York Auto Truck Company with rt capttam-of 51,e00,LOu, bus Men ineurpurated. \Vith this capital it is proposed to place auto-trucxs, operat- ed by ut.ntpressed air, in the streets of , that city. I I . Pope.: o, Columbus, Ohio, believe they have James C. Lunhaue, fur whom there is a reward of el,LUu offered, dead or alive, at San Juse, Cal. lie is charged with the; murder of his wite, her pa- rents and brother, Marten 'Taylor was lynched at Scotts - burg, .Ind., un Saturday morning by a mob. lie was taken from the gaol, where he had been since november 3rd, on the charge 0t having attempted in kill his wile. Joseph VY. Pearson the man who threw a brick through a window of the residence of the J3rttish Amluasea- dor ut Washington, and escaped erten an insane asylum there, has surrend- ered hi eelt to the police. - An international commercial oon- gross is to be held in ihiladelphia met June, To this congress repre-I sentatives of South Africa, India, Aus-I trails, China, Japan, the South Am- erican llepubbo, and other countries will be invited. Prof. Henry T. Rosoland, of Johns Hopkins University, has invented a printing telegraph instrument, which enables several messages to be sent and received at the same Lime from the same ex separate points over the same same or separate points over the same wire. The Pot tlrnd Steamship Company has taken advantage of the Lim.ted. Lia- bility Act, and has petitioned the United Stales District Court to enjoin all persona from bringing suits for damages through the loss of the Port- land, the company declares the loss of the steamer was the act of God. Michael 1'errando, charged in New York with having decoyed a Greek sail- or, Nicholas boulzouble, to his room and there beating and robbing him, has (leen identified as the Greek bri- gand Suterms rte Saranios, for whom the Greek Government has offered 5,000 francs, dead or alive. GEN R.AI„ Civil war seems inevitable in Bolivia. Lawlessness is increasing in Havana, The Crown Prince of Sweden is ill. Dusseldorf, Germany, is making ready to hold a World's Exposition in 1002. Leprosy is reported to be spreading in the provinces of Livonia and Court- land, Russia. The Austrian aulhorties are alarmed over be increase of arsenic eating In the Austrian army, The city of Besancon, France, has de- cided to erect a monument to the min- ory of Victor Hugo. It is reported that the plague lies broken out in the district of Delagua Bay, South Africa, The quarrel between th, Hungarian Premier and M. Horanszky is likely to lead to six duels, The Czar will visit Emperor Francais Joseph of Austria-Hungary, and Xing Humbert of. Italy, early in January, Xing Humbert has granted amnesty to or reduced the sentences of. 2,700 persons concerned in the riots of the spring, An important eonferenoe of Bona - partials bas just been bald at Brussels under the presidency of Prince Victor Napoleon. The Swedish Government amp dation sent out in search of Andrea, the Are- tie retie explorer, has returned to Stock- holm, Peri . of the 'Riul Ranh rnennaein In Switzerland has fallen into the vlllsga of Allele, destroying a hotel and sev- eral houses. Owing to the revolt against Turkey in Yemen, Arabia, assuming serious proportions, 30,000, Turkish troops have been sent against them. The Congress of Miner's, held at Cherloroi, has decided to prepare for a general strike, according to a des- patch from Brussels. le Is reported from Cairo that the Abyssinian flag bus been hoisted at lealabat, in the Soudan, about 200 miles north of Khartoum. The will of the late Baron Roths- child leaves the estate in possession of the family. Lord ltoseleary has be- queathed several valuable pictures. Belgrade's Svski Dojok hes suspended publication for a time, as the sixteenth editor it has had in two years has joined his Lifteee predecessors in goal, Emperor William proposes to spend 5512,000,000, in embellishing tee Imper- ial capital. Part of the neighbouring river is to be etude as magnificent avenue. Galilee's manuscript of the treatise "On the Ebb and Flood of the Sea," written in 1016, bas been discovered in the Vatican library by Father Luzzi, the sub -librarian. It Is alleged that tbe Spanish Roy- alists are torturing Carlist prisoners to force them to swear allegiance 10 .Bing Alfone° and to reveal Carlist Sa- crets. The first woman to receive the de- gree of Doctor of Philosophy from the Berlin University, is Miss Elsa Neu- mann, who recently passed a most successful exomination. The Berlin University hese larger attendance of students this year than any other year in its history. The number of undergraduates is 6,151, nearly, 500' more than last year. Miehael Rossi,•,who was arrested in connection with the murder of the Empress of Austria, and discharged, has been re -arrested in hely, where he was working under an assumed name. Grand Duke Cyril, of Russia, was among the passengers of the steamer China, which matched San Francisco frim the Orient on Monday night. The Grand Duke is en his way to St. Peters- burg, The oldest prelate in the Catholics Church is Cardinal Mertel, who is now in his ninety-fifth year, and so active and energetic thg he rids fair to see the twentieth tient:m•y ushered in. The Petit Bleu, of Brussels, points out that the leolgian cities and vill- ages excel those of any other country in the number of taverns. In Chis- lenghien, there is a tavern for every thirteen inhabitants. A French watchmaker has made a microscopic repeating watch thnt weighs a little over sixty grains. He intends to exhibit it at the Paris World's Fair, after which it will be for sale for 51000. An exceedingly clever Japanese workman of Tokio has carved a figure in wind that is so like himself that. when the two are placed side by side it is impassible to tell even at a short distance which is the living figure. A prominent Berlin surgeon suggests tk.1 the coming peace conference would be a good time for the powers to consider the ,proposition to give first nil to the injured instruction to sol- diers. 'the priests in charge of St. Peter's Church in Rome,were not a litilel sur- prised recently to find the parents and relatives of a child candidate for bap - Mem coming to the sanctuary all rid- ing bicycles. Lieut. Geza von Keglevilch has been sentenced by court-martial to mili- tary imprisonment ,for five years for Torg ng on bits of exchange they name of the Austrian Crown Princess Ste- phanie. John Townsend of Philadelphia told a party of friends that he had drawn lha fatal card at a meeting of a suicide (lab, and would end hislife that even- ing. They thought LL a joke, but he secretly poisoned himself while th.'y vers playing cards. A Russian officer has been making experiments with very successful re- sults in the use of falcons instead of pigeons as oarriers. He finds they can fly much faster. A pigeon covers ten or twelvel eagues in an hour, while a falcon oan do fifteen. Rome has gone poker mad. A num- ber of scions oe nubility have recently hazarded Llieir fortunes on the game, which is being played in nearly all the large cafes of the city and has invaded the private residences. 'The police are determined to stop the nuisance. A subject of much comment is the ex- treme mildness of the weather at Mos- cow and 1C..tzan, Russia, where intense cold usually prevails at this season. The temperature hats been so genial for some time that the trees and bushes in the parks are coming out in bud. :there is .trouble in the Dutch navy. Despite a law recently enacted which pruh.bils commanders of vessels from compelling their subordinates to be present at divine worship on board ship, some of the commanders insist on all men attending the Sunday services. Russia bas been pleasantly surpried by a ulnas of the Czar ordering the Academy of Sciences to make prepara- tions for a fitting celebration of the hundredth anniversery of the poet Puscbk,n's birth, The University of Morrow is arranging for a Pusahkin exhibition next year. A Russian farther sought to emuggle his son across the frontiers near Pink- alien in order to help him evadetmili- Lary serviae by hiding him in a load of h.y. The young man was so badly in- jured by the hay fork of the onsloms officer, during the inspection of rho waggon, Out he died in a few' hours, Three munloipaliltes — Chamounix, Iles Houches and St. Gervais — aro fighting in the Swiss courts for tba ownership of the (top of Mont Blanc, add the right to let concessions to speculators for Lhe entertainment of tourists. The ol.d maps only mark divisions on the lower part of the mountain. A band of robbers nine men strong, recently atiaaked end robbed thirty peessnis on the border of Kutais Province, in the Caucausus, They wore followed by a detachment of Cos- sacks and Mounted men astir as Ad- (aria trr'hare 1114, i,rirronde enen.A 01«6 on their pursuers and retired into lite forest. A perilous feat wee recently per- formed by e Cossack in a menagerie at Moscow. He was directed to Olean the cages of tame beasts and apouge lite animals, By mistake he catered the cage of a savage tiger witbl a buc- ket Of water, and coolly proceeded to leash the brute. Tim tiger liked the novel sensation ani quietly submit- ted. The sale of Prince L3ismarok's mem- oir); has been an unprecedented success in the history of German publishiug, The firm of Colts bought the work from the Bismareks for one million marks, Ten days after the book was published the profits amounted to half a million marks. As the memoirs are being translated into almost every language, the Cotta firm have donee splendid stroke of business. FEARFUL SANDSTORM. Hundreds of Theummnals of Sheep Have Mean Slain 10 mew death wake. A despatch from Sydney, N, S. W., says:—New South Wales is perspiring, groaning and grittingits teeth under a succession ill violent but sandstorms. Reports from 48 places show tempera- tures ranging from 105 to 198 degrees in the shade. This heat is withering the grass and killing sheep by hun- dreds of thousands. At Sydney, with the thermometer registering 109, a duststorm swept through the city, the wind blowing forty miles an hour, The entire population were compelled to shut themselves up in their houses and breathe through wet sponges. In many parts of the country rivers have dried up, and in their beds are the bodies of animals that went there to drink, and finding no wuLer laid themselves in the mud and died. Bush fires have been started in many directions, and many ranches have been destroyed. From all over the colony reports are arriving of disastrous fires directly traceable to TIII; TERRIFIC HEAT. A train running into Burke wile chased by a hurricane that swept the country like a blast from a furnace. A greasy tarpaulin covering a cur of chaff naught fire, and in five minutes the entire train was in flames, while running at the rate of fifty miles an hour to escape the hurricane. When the train stopped the passengers jumped from the ear windows to save t hemselves. At Wagga Wagga a hurricane blew down part of the town. The ruins caught fire, and great damage was done. Between Deniliquin and Broker Hill the entire oountry was illumined by electricity along the steel line of the telegraph wires. Balls of fire three times more brilliant than an aro light danced on the wires for 29 minutes. According to the latest reports the weather was growing steadily hotter, and it was feared that the bush fires of last year eveuld be repeated. LIVE COALS ENDED HIS LIFE. Stork Ills Read Inn Stove to End ills llxtslen'e. A despatch from Chicago says:— Wearied of life, by years of illness, Louis Schliok waited his opportunity to end his suffering, and on Tuesday, left alone for a few moments be thrust his head into the kitchen stove, and held it there until the burning coals and the suffocating fumes of the heat caused him to lose consciousness. For more than a year he had been an invalid, and his mind was not as bright as before. His wife kept a close watch on his movements, fearing that in his despondent moments he would do himself harm. Tuesday she left him while she went to a neighbor's, and as soon as she was gone from the house he turned the keys in the doors and barred her out. He went to the kitchen stove, in which a bright fire was burning, and removed the covers. Then he delib- erately thrust his head and face in upon the live coals. The agony of his suf- fering was so great that he could not restrain a shriek, and Brtrs. Scblick ran to the house: She found the doors look- ed, and peering through a window saw him stooping over the stove with his face buried in the fire. Her wild cries for help attracted several neighbours, and Garrett Wardell, 1,911 North Ash- land avenue, burst in a window, and crawled into the kitchen. be reached Sabllok's side just as the unfortunate man toppled over and fell to the floor, his terrible deed accomplished. Physicians were summoned, and everything possible was done for the sufferer, but he died at 7 o'clock Tues- day night, RUSSIA'S BIG BUDGET. S11 5109 of 01114,10s Alone Increased 1 y $5,000,090. A despatch from Moscow says:—In times of peace propositions and dis- armament rescripts the Emperor is preparing for emergencies. The military budget this year will be stu- pendous, to judge by the increase in the salaries of officers just announced. The increase will amount to not Ear from 11,000,000, rtibles, 55,300000. _ BRITAIN IN CHINA. engin-American epidemic 011111ttvl Moa{ Valuable ('onec tions. The Shanghai correspondent oe the London Daily Mall same—The terms tf 1 h, fin al contract re:.peoting conoessions to the Anglo-American syndicate of mining and railway privileges in be Province of Sze -Chuen have been agreed upon, and are now being signed, Sze - Chuen is undoubtedly the richest, as teed as largosi province in China, Great Britain and the Unit, d Statesge' Use greater portion, the Chineee and ME SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, JAN. 15. " (hr'Ist's fleet ituraele, '",)aha 0. aut. Golden 'taxi, John 0, 1). PRACTICAL NOTlLS. Verse 1, The third day. Counting the day of tee eail of Natlutnuel as the first, the day of the northward journey us the second, and the day oe the ar- rival us the third. During the three days Jesus traversed the entire length of the' province of Perea. (1 is eonjec- Lured that the marriage was in the family Of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Rot familiarity and assumption of authority eeem to give weight to this. conjecture. As Joseph is not mention- ed after the time when our Lord's min- istry begun, it is supposed that he tette now dead, Cana of Galilee is a town about five miles from Nazareth, on the road to the sea of Galilee, built up- on a terraced hill which slopes tweed the setting sun. Lts present name is LCefr Kenna. There may or may not be incidental significance in the fact that Jesus and his disciples were "call- ed," bidden, to the fecal, but the moth- er of Jesus was there, already there when the young Rabbi and his dis- ciples arrived. 2. Jesus was called, bidden. lis came says Dr. Churton, not so much regard- ing his own dignity as the benefit of those who invited him. "The holy es- tate of matrimony Christ adorned and beautified by his presence." His uie- tiples were Andrew, Peter, John, Philip and Nuthenael; and it is well to re- member that one of these eyeveltnesees of the scene wrote this record, Doubt lose they were invited in honor of Je sus, 'l hair dtsoiplesbip was only a few clays old, and could hardly have been known in Cana before they arriv- ed; and it has been suggested that the sudden increase of the number of guests thus brought about ao0Ounes for the failure of the wine. 3. When they wanted wine. "When the wine failed." Dr. M. R. Vinoeut quotes some early authorities: "They had no wine, for the wine of the mar- riage was consumed." Marriage fes- tivals sometimes lasted a whole week. The mother of Jeeus sail:h, Many ques- tions and suggestions arise to the thoughtful reader. Was her interest in the wedding festival caused by her own relationship to the happy pair, or by her anxiety because of the unex- peeled arrival of the disciples of her Son? Did she tautly understand his divine nature'? Did she expect a mir- acle? Was she seeking to exercise maternal authority over him? They have no wine. There is nu special rea- son to suppose that the family was poor. Guests in the Orient not infre- quently contribute to the supplies of the entertainment. 4. Woman, what have I to do with thee? Dir. Maureen, whom; we here fol- low, translates, " What is it to me and thee?" The request should have some, hee quotas Chrysostom as saying, di- rectly from those ehu needed help. It is unfortunate that the word of ad- dress, " Woman," is in English nom- monly need in disrespect. Hence the literal rendering gives a wrong Im- pression, the original being a word of affectionate respect. See John 19. 26. In classe literature the word here translated "woman " is used by Priam to Hecuba, and by Augustus to Cleo- patra on oocasions where not harshness but gentleness was expressed; and the other cemaeions when our Lord thus addressed women were occasions when his heart was unusually stirred with pathos and tenderness, as, for in- stance, when he was about to relieve a foreigner's daughter; when he pitied and healed her who had suffered long with infirmity; when he revealed di- vine truth to the inquirer at Jamb's Well; when he refused to condemn the sinner; when be committee. his moth- er to the care of John; and when he found Mary Magdalene in an agony of tears. For the rest of the eentenoe our Authorized Version is idiomatic ; but it is hardly conceivable that our Lord should have used this phrase in Che some sense as the demoniac who addressed him, Mark 5. 7. The words, however, rraiislated, are words of gen- tle and mildreproof. Mary had erred in her anxiety to serve her friends, and it was a premature request to him to display his power: Mine hour is not yet come, This is not u seasonable time for me to 'work a miracle, " pie waited for a moment chosen by the leather for eaoh meccessive crisis of his life." But the Virgin appears to have un- derstood the words Its spoken to try her faith. 5, His mother saith unto the servants, We aro compelled to believe that Mary felt responsibility. for the succuss of this festival; else her action was that of officiousness and imperinence. What- soever, He saith unto you, do it, "If the holy mother," says Dr. Gabin, "had desired to give the world a perpetual admonition respeoting the Son, she could neit have devised a nobler com- mand than this." " Whatsoever;" "Ile smith ;" " To you ;" "Dp it '—the whole of predawn- Christianity is in these Lour little phrases, Let ue take them as our motto in life. 6. "There were set there six will.erpote of stone. The Jewish authorities pre- scribed stone weterpots to be used in the washing before end after sneaks, because they were less liable to im- purity, The number six indicates the minuteness of an eyewitness. After the manner of the, purifying of the Jews. To faellitat:e the purification customary among the Jews, which Lhe evangelist's Gentile readers were not. remitter with. The extreme to which Ude purifying WAS carried is astonish- ing to us. In the Hebrew home, the Talmud tells us,. the washing of jugs and, cups and betties went an the whole day. 'Containing. "Having /barn for" Two or three firkins apiece. The firkin is a liquid measure containing marry nine gallons. 7, Jesus said unto them, fill the wee terpots with wales'. They had Inc.. stunbablq beets emptied by the wash - James A. Bell, of Beaverton, Oat., brother of the Gee. Juhu Wesley dell, B,D., prostrated by nervous headaches A victim of the trouble for several years. South American Nervine effected a complete cure. In their own particular field few rnen are beter known than the Rev. Jolut Wesley Bell, B,D. and his brother 11r. James A. Bell. The farmer win be re• cognized by his thournuds of friends all over the country as the popular and able missionary superintendent of .the Royal Tempters of Temperance. Among die 20,000 members of thia order in Ontario his counsel is sought an ail Aorta 0f oc- casions. On the public platform he la ono of the strong man of the day, battling against the evils of hrtemperunce. Equally well known is Mr. Bell in other provinces of the Dominion, having been for years n member of the Manitoba Methodist Conference and part of this time was stationed in Winnipeg. 1 -lis brother, Mr. James A, Bell, is a highly respected resident a1 Beaverton, wnere his influence, though perhaps more cir- cumscribed than. that of his eminent brother, is none the less -effective and productive of good, Of recent years,hew- ever, the working ability of Mr. lames A. Bell has been sadly marred by severe attacks of nervous headache, accom- panied by indigestion. Who can do fit work when this trouble takes hold of them and especially wben it becomes chronic, as was, seemingly, the case w.th Mr. Bell? The trouble reached alum in- tensity that last June he was complete- ly prostrated. In this condltlou a trlend recommended South American Nervine, Ready to try uny'tleng and everything, tbongh he thought be had covered the list of proprietary medieiues, he secured ' a bottle of this great diecuvery. A. ; second bottle of the medicine ens taken and the work was done. Sai,ployiug his own language: "Two bottles of South American Nervine immcillanly relieved my headaches and have, bunt up my system in a wonderful manner." Lotto not deprecate the good our ciergymee 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 American Norville brines to them when pbysiedl ills overtake them, and when the system, as 11 re. salt of hard, earnest end coutlmous work, breaks down. Nervine treats the system ns the wise reformer Create the evils he is bottling against It straws ate the root of the trouble. Ali d:e. ease comes from disorganization of the perve centers. Thit is a scientific fartt,, Nervine at once worke au these oared centers; gives to then health and vig- or; and then there courses .through the system strong, healthy, lite-malutaniug blood, and nervous troubles of every variety are things of the pass. Sold by G. A. Deadman. them up to the brim. Prompt obadi- eeiae. 8. Draw out now. In the original, "Bail out." Canon Westcort thinks ,that the water that was changed inlo I wine was not taken from the vessels of purification, but the servants wer'o bidden, after they had filled the ver - eels, to continue drawing from •'fhe 0011.1 or spring. The exact method of the miracle 1e not of unpurtauoo. There is, however, a simple parable suggest- ed Mara in the juxtaposition of thu verb "Lill' and "draw out." Thosi two in,;uretiuni taken together furnish the entreat r• ripe for largo living in epi .vitae itty and in secular endeavor. fall your body with vitality, fill y.ur mend with information, fill your soul ay all menus of grace, and then draw out abundantly fon the benefit oe oth- er, Governor of th., feast. 1.t was the ou,:-trin with the Jews, as with other enri..ua tuuions, to Wein ono of the mine Pang to pi e.4de over as festive enter- tainment and direct its arrangements, acting tis u chairman. '.Che Romans and Greeks selected such a "ruler" by the throwing of dice, It might readily be part of such an otfira to taste the wine before it was offered to the guests. But (there Le some doubt whether this "governor" was net a hired head waiter. P. Noiioe hero that the ruler of the feast knew ihit the liquid presented him was wine, but knew not whence it was, while Lhe servants which drew the wafer knew whence it acme, but apparently did . not know lay what pewee it head been transformed, Rad tasted, (See note on verse 8.) Called rho bridegroom. Culled across the table in sportive bunter. 10. ievery man at the beginning doth set forth good wine. Ile means -sue manta mei et Inge .. tt1) ,fns naveof tom, ave well drunk. l5age (trunk freely, "When the palatee of alto guests have become Tess sensitive through indulgenee,"—Vineent, Worm. Literally smaller"—that is, weaker, Dr. Vineent instanced the English use of the word small beer. '.Thou hist kept the goofy wine until naw. "'This speech of the governor of the feast is no doubt recorded by the evangelist as denoting his wonder el, the event, not knowing Lhe cause. But the wordut are often applied with a symholicsal, manning of which they aro capable, to t be gifts of gram bestowed by Christ, he lass; more preemies then the first." I 11. This beginning of miracles. "'Dab 'am a beginning of his signs." The turn- ing of. waton into wine was not: niece ly a prodigy, a wonderful thing, e Power, it was distinctively a sign, n mark of his power and grace and db vine character, and therefore it mane felted forth his .glory. ,His disciple! believed on him. Liner. :By "behaved into him." • When they saw this mir- acle their ,faith was greatly strength• enad. Canon Westcolt aptly says that the word conveys the idea of the ab! solute transference, of trust from one- self noself. to another. We do not read, bow - aver, of any permanenteffect upon Ilii guests. CANADIAN MAILING' CARDS. may he Used 01 the hutted Stoles r1,1• Trona ndsslan Mee. A despatch from Washington, says:— The Postmaster -General on Thursday signed an order accepting as private mailing cards both the Cana- dian mailing . cards, bearing United States tannins, and mailed on this side of ih" line, and Cho United States cards mailed in'Canada with Canadian postage, This is the result of are- ciproeal arrangement between this and the Canadian Goverunients, look- ing to avoid considerable annoyanaoin refusing postal transmission where travellers both ways write home on cards of their own country, SNOWDRIFTS IN ATHENS. Maiming ('ell Tamen the ('apllnl of the RelIcttes. A despatch from Athens says:— There are snowdrifts in the streets of this tatty for the first time in many years. ,W We most Greeks have at least 'seen snow on the higher moun- tains, oven down in the southern part of the Pel.opounesus, only those who Live in the hills hags rants preolicai experience with it. A fall heavy enough to remain in the Areas and harm drifts rarely oeours in this city, The Wind blew a .gale on M inlay, and travel was impeded by the drifted snow. Owing to the meagre arrnnge- m.ents for heating most dwellings thorn was really a great; deal of sue-