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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-3-10, Page 6TEE BiUSSIILS POST. MARCH 10, 1890 hilL NEWS IN NUTSHELL. 'THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesting Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and MI Parts of the Globe, Condensed. and Assorted for Easy Reading. GREAT BRITAIN. The estate of the late Ferdinand James de Rothschild is found to be valued at te1,488,182, The announcement is made that Bristol Channel will be defended with guns of the latest type, Sir Robert Romera will succeed th date Sir Joseph William Chitty as Lor Justice of the Euglish Court of Ap peal. In the British House of Common Tuesday Mr. Wyndham announced that recruiting for the regular army in Canada was under consideration. J, Pierpont Morgan, the New York banker, will contribute 325,000 to the cost of establishing an electric light plant in St. Paul's Cathedral, London. The decoration of the Imperial Order of the Crown of India has been confer- red upon Lady Curzon, wife of Lord Curzon, of Keddleston, the Viceroy of India. London and German papers are ad- vertising for Prince Ludwig Freuden- berg, missing since he attended the Duke of Portland's party at Welbeck Abbey. Influenza is epidemic in London, Eng., for the tenth year in succession. Doctors say it must soon be classed as a regular disease, the same as pneu- monia. The Lord Mayor of London has in- structed his private secretary, W. J. Soulsby, to take steps to prevent the swarming of uninvited guests at the Mansion House reception, A bill has been introduced in the New York Legislature to prohibit dis- crimination in freight rates by com- mon carriers. It imposes -a minimum penalty of $500 for each offense. Cotton operatives in South Lanca- shire have agreed to give a month's notice ol their intention to go on strike unless an advance in wages is allow- ed them. Over 80,000 persons are af- fected. The London municipalities bill, intro- duced in the House of Commons by Mr. Balfour, divides the metropolis of Lon- don into fifteen municipalities, each electing a Mayor, Councillors and Al- dermen, with full local power. The increase of the importation of Canadian butter into Great Britain oontinues. For the period between Sep- tember 24 last and San. 14, 1899, the amount imported into England was 118,849 owe., as against 81,725 owt. for the same period in the previous year. Sir Arthur Arnold presided at a meeting in London in aid of the peace movement. He said it was desired to hold an annual peace day celebration on. Feb. 22, because that day was the anniversary of the birth of Washing- ton, who was not only a great soldier, but a friend of peace. est gement ever seen there The line will be distinctly a Canadian ono, The Judietal Committee of the Privy Counoii has dismiseed the appeal of the Grand Trune Railway of Canada, and has affirmed the judgment of the Supreme Court of Canada, awarding $..,80u damages to Mr. Washington, a yardman, who was injured at Ham- ilton, the. Nova Scotia Legislature is to be asked t0 ins:of:pinate the company, headed by H. U. Whitney, of l:toston, which proposes to buy irom the Nova Scotia Steel Company the priucipal part of its iron deposits at the Straits of Belle lisle and establish blast lure - afloat; in the is.aud of Cape 13ret n, Thu capital oi: the company is to be el0,000,000. t he first military camp at Niagara will begin on June 6, when all the ru- ral ural infantry corps wilt go out for two d? instruction, together with four squadrons of cavalry, viz.: The Gov- - ornor-General's Lody Guard, Toronto; A Squadrou, Royal Regiment, Cana - s dian Dragoons, Toronto; Second Dra- goons, St, Catharines; First Hussars, London. —' UNITED STATES. Chas. Krauss, of Cineiunati, is suing for a divorce from his wife, she hav- ing concealed the fact that she had a glass eye. Prof. R. W. Wood, of the University of 1'I'f. wi:min, has discovered a method of thawing out frozen pipes by the use of electricity. A separate bill appropriating 820,- 000, for payment to Spain under the provision of the treaty of Paris was passed by the House at Washington, Philip D. Armour has given $750,000 more to the endowment fund of the Armour Institute, Chicago, making his total gift to Lhe Institute $2,250,000. In fire in the paoking house dis- trict in Chicago, on Thursday, Patrick F. O'Neil, a fireman, was killed, and several injured. The loss to the Swift Co.. is estimated at $2,00,000. Charlie Lyle Beebe, 8 years old, pass- ed through Chicago, travellingalone from Manchester, Eng., to relatives at Mason City, Iowa. A big tag and a ticket passed him on. It is reported that a lot of the tin- ned beef brouhgt in for use as evidence before the investigating committee at. Washington exploded, and tits odor was strong enough to clear every man out of the building. A new leather combine, capitalized at $60,000,000, is being organized to take over the tanneries outmside of the United Satter Leather Company. The name of the new organization will be the American Hide and Leather Com- pany. Quincy proposes that Boston shall build a municipal crematory, in which to incinerate the bodies of pau- pers, criminals and others whose bur- ial devolves upon the city. The idea is to do away altogether with the Potter's Field. Articles of incorporation have been filed at Trenton, N. J., of the Ameri- can Car and Foundry Company, with an authorized capital of 360,000,000. The company is authorized to manufac- ture freight, passenger and street cars, also car trunks and car equipments. E. D. Morgan Rowland, of New York, who suffered the loss of a 3500 bill which he handed to a waiter in the Grand Paoific Hotel, Chicago, to pay for a meal—the waiter decamping with the money, was awarded a verdict against the proprietors of the hotel for the amount lost. Jennie Abrahams, who has two lit- tle girls, one 0 years old and the other an infant, sought relief at a Philadel- phia police station, and said she was starving. Her hair wes out off, On et>aquiry it was found that she had clipped off her long tresses and sold them for el to buy food. She has a husband out of work. GENERAL. Germany is taking up an attitude strongly adverse to the American claims In Samoa. Count Soilogub, a Siberian convict, has inherited the fortune of his bro- ther, 5,000 acres and $1,470,000. A committee of the German Parlia- 10001 has rejeoted the Government's proposal to inorease the salary. The Paris police have seized 10,000 medals bearing the head of the Duke of Orleans, and five moulds for strik- ing them. The Congo Free State is enlisting a Belgian legion for police pur- poses. The native insurrection can only be suppressed by a white army. Rev, J. R. Thompson, a Canadian clergyman, chaplain of the 1st Waeh- ington Volunteers, bas died at Manila, ile was a graduate of, Queen's, CANADA. Counterfeit ten -Dent pieces are in cir- culation in Hamilton. The annual Horse Show will be held in Toronto on April 12 to 15. The first railway train has crossed the summit of the White Pass, Nova Scotia expended 13849,330 last year, and the revenue was 3855,980. Lord Stratbcona has given $1,000 to the St, Sean Baptiste Society, of Mont- real, - Parliament has been summoned to meet on Thursday, March 10, for the despatch of business, As a result of recent accidents rho Winnipeg Street Railway will attach fenders to their electric cars. A large emigration is promised this season from the Parry Sound district to the North-West. Toronto fs planning a four -days' fes- tival to celebrate the opening of the new municipal buildings. The Provincial Government has put aside 315,000 to belp advertise British Columbia at the Paris Exposition. The C.P.R.-car shops at Perth, Ont., are turning out ibis winter 300 box cars, 80 coals cars, and 50 flat cars. The machine shops of Robbie & Stuart's foundry at Thorold was burn- ed on Saturday causing, a loss of 310,- 000, James White, a Galt carriage menu- facturer, has been arrested on a charge of robbing Miss Harlon, his ward, of 33,000. The Ottawa license commissioners have decided to reduce the hotel 11- oenses from 77 to 70, and the num- ber of shops from 33 to 30. A by-law will be submitted to the ratepayers of Winnipeg la April to provide for the city owning and ow- ing its own electric light plant. The death of Miss Bertha Dugas took place at Victoria, B,C., on Satur- day. She was a daughter of Judge Dugas, and was on her way to join 1 her father at Dawson City. a American phyeiciaue having been re- y fused permission to take out licenses ' t to practice in the Atlin district, they , have sent a deputation to protest to the British Columbia Government, 11<Irs, Mary Annie Cameron, wile of e Rev, A. A. Cameron, has issued a writ 1 0001051 the Ottawa Electric Railway Company, for $0,000 damages Inc in- eries sustained in an accident dur- ing exhibition week, A Ruesisn elk hunter named Jalin says that he found a bailo,,u, probably Andree's, and throe bodies, between Krasnoyarsk and San Viuicb, en the Pit River. Emperorlienelik of Abyssinia has captured the Abyssinian chief Ras Mangascia, Governor of the Province of Tigre, who for some time had mai n- tained a rebellious attitude toward the Negus. The nickel-is-tbe-slot scheme has reached its olima' in Vienna, where, iy dropping a few krentrers in the lot, you roan get almost any delicacy on may wish, The hotel and rest- aurant keepers view the situation ♦vith alarm. Dr. Ciel, it German of Elln'rfelrl, has confessed to having given recruits medicine which so accelerated the ction of the heart that they could not tuns the enlisting examination. hav- ing apparent heart trouble. At the recent ball given by the Paris councillors to their political support- ers, the 4,000 guess s stole the silver ep+ions, chairs, champagne and a thousand miscellaneous articles, The bail is an annual gathering al the lowest elements of the French capital, The debts of the Princess Louise of Cobcurg, who eloped from her hus- band, Priers Philip, in 1897, with Liout 9eglevitoh, and is now in an asylum, amount to 31,000,000. Mush of this was tnaurred by the Menton - ant, An Imperial mnnifestn has been is - Steed at St. Potersburg depriving the Finnish Parliament and the Senate of the exclusive right hitherto enjoyed of diseussi.ng the measures designed to bring Finland into closer ennformity with the rest of the tenpire. The .C.P.R. line in the west is to be greatly improved thin year. Wood- en bridges will be replaced with steel ones, and a double track between Win- nipeg and Port William is among the possibilities, - A report corers from the Peace River valley of an attempt of a party of Yukon travellers, whose supplies had run short, to kill one of their number named 3. A. McNabb for the purpose ofeating his body. The young man effected his escape. Mr. Alex, Sinclair, of the Elder- Dempster Co. who is i;vnv in Montreal, eaystliatthe company will institute a weekly passenger service betwen Montreal and Liverpool, with the tin - [HE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAR. 12, "Christ nestling' the Mind Alan." John 0, 1.51, Golden Text, John 0. In. PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 1. As Jesus passed by. On souse ocoasion during the three months of his stay near Jerusalem from the feast of tabernacles to that of the dedication. fie saw a man. Others saw only a blind beggar, but Jesus saw ole wbo might become a moue. - meal of mercy and a bold confessor of the faith. Blind from his birth. Ile was a welleknown person, who had long sat begging in his accustomed Mace, Both blindness and beggary are far more common in the East than in our lands. 1. Note here and throughout this story the picture of a sinner. 2. Christ seeks out men before they seek him, -'e His disciples asked him. Attract- ed, perhaps, by the look of inquiry which their Master fixed upon the man. Theirs was "the , scientific spirit," only asking a curious profit- less question ; his was the sympathetic, helpful spirit,. eager to save. Like them in our time some men study social questions; like Christ, a few go down into tbo slums to lilt up the needy. Who did sin. They sup- posed that every misfortune is the result of some specific sin. So Job's friends tried to " comfort " him, by telling him that he must have been a sinner because he was a sufferer. Their reasoning would have been cor- rect if they had given it as a gener- al principle that suffering is iu the world because sin is also. This man or his parents. They may have clues - tinned whether the man was suffer- ing because of sin in some previous state of existence, a view held by some ancient teachers. Or, as Stier sug- gests, " This man, or, for that is out of the question, his parents," 3. The cause of his sin is of less importance than the cure of sin, 3, Neither hall this man sinned. Not that Chia man or his parents had liv- ed an absolutely sinless life, but that his condition had not been caused by any sin on their part or his part. That the works of God should be made man- ifest. Christ suggests not the cause of this man's misfortune, but Sha di- vine purpose in it. That purpose was that a great Blessing might come to the man through it, and to the world through the blind man, How does that man in heaven now look upon those years of darkness 3 Does he not rejoice that through his misfortune he was led to Christ and salvation. 4 Let us see the good hand; of God in our troubles. 4. 1 must work. Revised Version, "We must work." In other words, 'Let us not waste our time in prying into mysteries; yet us see what we can do to alleviate the evils of the world." The works of him that sent me. God's work of restoration and up - building. The healing of the blind man is made a type or suggestion of God's work of grace in bringing darkened souls to the light of day. While it is day. Christ's day of week was while he was bodily on the earth; So our day is the time of our earthly existence. 5. May we use our day as faithfully as he used his. The night comoth, Other works the Saviour might do alter he has passed within the veil, but nut this work of miracle. When no man can work. What work may await us in another world we know not, but as far as this life is eon - earned our work ends at death. 5. As long as Ti am in the world. While Jesus was on rho earth he was the light of men, giving life and health, and in his healing to men's bodies presenting a ;parable of the greater benefits he was about to im- part to men's souls when he should pals out of the world material into the world spiritual. I am the light of the world, Then he was the light seen by the physical eye; now he is the light of the soul, seen by the eye of faith. Lofty as this claim iso who dares, deny now that it has been; verified3 0, Made clay, Christ had more than one method of healing; sometimes a word only, sometimes is louch; some- times the more formal laying on of hands. Perhape, though n1 certainly, there was a spiritual emblem in this Met rumen i.ality. He took common clny end moistened it with Isis own saliva, showing that the most ordinary instrumentality becomes mighty when toothed by divine power, Anointed his eyes. Upon each, eye he placed a blotch or mud from the street, 7. Go, wneh, See the blind' beggar, staff In hand, feeling his way across the city toward the pool, bearing two patches of street mud on bis facet That was his °rues, compelling a confession of Christ and a surrender to his will. Oe meets hint and says, elnindee roan, perhaps you don't know there is dirt on your face. Let me wipe it away." "No," he an- swers. 'The Master put it there, I am obeying his orders." That was "the altar" to which this man went forward in the revival, humbling his prick of sell. The pool of Siloam. A reservoir hewn out: of the rock in the valley of Gillen, south of the temple. It is still to he seen, one of the few certain identifications of Bible loenlie ties, neat' Jerusalem. By inlorrpreta- tion, Sent. ,The word 'Siloam" means "sending," or "sent.' John hints et the. thought lheI the pool was by Cts true nonverslon Is that it attracts at -- One Sent from God. "Go to Siloam" means "Go to Ilii Sent of God," Went his wily, Josue °hose his mon rightly; for ltd • saw that he was oou:r•agcous, obedient, prompt, and independent of public opinion. 6. ;lead the chapter through and find some good examples in this man's conduct. Washed. What a m':ment flint wns, els he groped his way dawn the steps to the pool, pressed the cool wale' to his free, and felt the flash of light t 7. More wonderful fa the l.ransformalion Incrtspiv; eel darkness to light, from sin to salva- tion 1 9. The neighbors, This man had la, cow a frontline figure, and those who ha,l seen him in ether days sverr prompt to observe the. wonderful altaitge that had come across lam. 8. Tho hest evidence of e veryname a synxbal of Christ, the tention from those who knew the sin- ner beforehand, Ilad seen him that be Was blind. Revised Version, "that he WAS a beggar." 1Rvident.ly the man Was tem a bdggae no longer, but was at work earning hie living, 6. Titus salvation often turns Men from idle- ness to industry, from need to self- support. 9, He Is like him. His eyesight matte such a change in his oonnleu- anwe and bearing that it was not strange that some doubted whether he could be the same man. Indeed, he was not the same man, but "a new creature." 10, And as is everyone who bas Demo to the light of life. I am be, Whether others knew it or not, be knew that he was the same man, though changed, 11. Blessed is that consciousness upon the soul of the one who has received gospel light 1 10-11. 11ow were thine eyes opened? testimony of personal experience is al- ways interesting, eventhoughit be in illiterate, entrained words. The story of the soldier in battle, of the shipwrecked sailor, of the conlverted soul, out of sin' into righteousness will always be listened to, He answer- ed, There was no hesitation in his an- swer. 12,. And there should be none In ours, as we tell the old, old story, w•hiob is always knew. A man. . cal- led Jesus, Rather "the man," one who was Well known. 18. Let no one con- verted by Christ be ashamed to own his Lord, COURTED AN AWFUL DEATH. Miss E11,'n Ryer Threw Herself Before a Moving Train, A despatch from Toronto, says:—Miss Ellen Byers, who lives at 357 King street west, was killed by a train near the Dundas street bridges on Friday morning. The engineer of fixe North- ern train 011 the G.T.R., due at 10.10, saw the woman walking near the track, and pulled the whistle string to warn her. When the train was within a few feet- of where she was walking she stepped deliberately in front of the engine and was struck by the cow- catcher. When the train stopped and beaked ap, Conductor Waterhouse found the woman's body lying by the side of the track, horribly mangled, but a faint breathing showed that life still existed. She was taken up and placed in the train, but died before reaching the Union station. A slip of paper found near the wo- man when she was picked up, bear- ing the words, „Forgive me, May," and "357 Ring street west," would in- dicate that she had committed deliber- ate sucide. Her relatives, however, are at a loss for any motive for the deed. The deceased lived with her mother at 361 Ring street west, and was well known and respectably oon- nected. The address on the paper, 357 Ring street west, is the residence of her sister, Mrs, Harper. TANNED HUMAN SKIN. Horrible Fad Reported to Exist In Loudon Society. A despatch from London, says :— Discovery has been made here of an extraordinary traffic that has recent- ly grown up in human skin. Reput- able jewellers admit that they have made belts and cardcasss from human skin; tanners say that they have re- cently prepared quantities of it after the fashion of alligators' and monkeys' skins ;'women boast of having articles made of the stuff in their possession, anis it is said that nicely tanned humor. skin recently formed a novel though considerable portion of the trousseau of a fashionable bride. The skin is procured from the bodies of the indigent poor that are not claimed by thou; relatives and friends. These bodies urs turned over to the various scientific institutions for dis- section, and impecunious students started the scheme by selling the skins to tanners and jewellers. Being source, the skin brings a high price, and as it is now a fad there is a steady demand for it. NO RUM FOR U.S, JACK -TARS. New Order "issued by Secreiney or the Navy Long. A despatch from Washington says:— The ays:The following order, signed by Secre- tary of the Navy Long, has been sent to the oommanders of all navy yards and war vessels:— " After mature deliberation, the de- partment has decided that it is for the best interests of the service that the sale er issue to enlisted men of malt or other alcoholic liquors on hoard ships of the navy, or within the limits of the naval stations, be prohibited. Therefore, after the receipts of this or- der, commanding officers and com- mandants are for bidden to to allow any malt or alcoholic liquor to be sold or issued, to enlisted men on board ships or within the limits of navy yards, na- val stations, and marine barracks, ex- cept in the medical department." INCREASE IN CONSUMPTION. Mortality Pr'osn Centegicus Diseases In 01.15510 'hast Month. Mualeepalities representing 98 per cent. of the population of the pro- vince reported the mortolity from eon- taglous disease lasst month. This is a larger number than has sent in re- turns before, and leaves only two per cent, that have failed to report. The total deaths from all causes were 2,- 154, Tuberoulosis shows a big jump, the deaths numbering 184, as compared with 141 in December, 1808, The deaths from ether contagious diseases were Scarlatina, 03; dithteria, 48; measles, 5; whooping cough, 0; and ty- phoid, 01. LEAGUE OF MERCY FOUNDED, The Prince of {Gales Marts a New Order In liaglaa,1: A despatch from London mays;—The Prince of Wales presided over an in- fluential meeting held at Marlborough house on Wednesday to inaugurate the new order entitled the League of Mer- cy, in which those who collect and pro- mote the collection of subsariptiolls for the Prince of Wales' hospital fund are to be enrolled as members. In the course of a speech explaining the scheme his Royal Highness announced that a president would be apppinled in each Parliamentary division Sof Lon- don, and of the neighbouring coun- ties and that a large number had al- ready been appointed, including the Duke of Westminster, the Marquis of Lorne, Baron Camden, Earl Carring- ton, the Earl of Dartmouth, the Earl of Mansfield, the Earl of Martis, the Earl of Onslow, the Earl of Verulam, and really other prominent men, all of whom were present at the meeting. The Prince of Wales announced also that all persons admitted to the order mast bo approved by the Queen, but that the order would confer no rank, dignity, or social precedence, while no body woula be entitled to admission unless he or she had worked five years for the league. The Princess of Wales has consented to beoume the lady pre- sident of the new order. CARS RAN OVER HIS CHEST. Abraham Kingswood Sleets a 11o'rlbl: Death on the M.C.R. at At. Thomas. A despatch from St. Thomas, Oat., says;—Abraham Kingswood was in- stantly killed at 5.30 on Monday after- noon while passing through the 311. C. R., yards on his way home. He quit work in the ear department, and in at- tempting to cross the track in front of the cats that were being shunted he was struck by a box -car, whirled around a couple of times, and knockes under the wheels. The car passed over his chest, mangling his body in a horrible manner. Deceased hall lived here 27 years, ands was about 55 years old. He leaves two grown-up child- ren. Probably 100 employes of the shops saw the fatality, as It happened as the men were quitting work, Cor- oner Gustin decided an inquest unnec- essary. SERUM CURE FOR PNEUMONIA. Important Discovery of ono of 1'rofcssaa ICoch's S'tun's. A despatch frons Berlin says:—Prof. Wassermann, one of the most diligent and most capable of Prof, Koch's pupils hopes that he has discovered a serum cure for pneumonia. He does not com- mit himself to a definite slatement, be- ing mindful of former disappointments, but prolonged experiments with rabbits and mice have convinced him that an ants-toxine is prooduced in the red marrow of their bones, and in the mar- row from a human being who died from pneumonia. CUT A VEIN UNDER HIS KNEE. Mabee megrim Tries to commit Suicide is a Novel Way. A despatch from Stratford says:— Nathan McGraw, aged about GO years living in Inverness street, tried to take his life by cutting a vein in bis leg Friday forenoon. Be was discovered in a very weak condition by the family closed up in a room and a poof et blood beside him on the floor, and Dr. D. M. Fraser was sent for. When the latter' arrived and endeavoured to dress the wouna the poor man tried to persuade him to desist, as he wished to die. The artery was not cut, nut a vein un- der the knee, and there was a profuse flow of blood. McGraw lost two of his family re- cently, and sus wife was in the hospi- tal for some time. He holds an insur- ance with the Orangemen of 31,000 and with the G.T.R. of 3500, and the poor fellow thought that if ha were out of the way there would be at least 31,500 for the family to fall baalc on. FORGED HER HUSBAND'S NAME. Ole 'I'oek Responsibility, however, and Thus She Wats Saved. A despatch from Ottawa, says:—An interesting case camp before Judge MaoTavish on Tuesday morning in the snit of Joseph Grant, wholesaler, against Mrs, Scovey, of Mechanicsville, shopkeeper. Mr, Grant sued to reoov- er 3130 on a promissory note. Thenute was endorsed by Mrs. Scovey, and her husband's name was also signed to the note, Ile did not sign the note, but Mrs, Scovey admitted that she wrote her husband's signature, imitating masculine writing, He is a tnoabaniu, Mr. Scovey was called, and while he said .be did not sign the note, he prac- tically approved of it, and consented to become responsible. This saved his wile from the (Merge of forgery. The decision, for the amount of the nota was given in favor of kir. Grant, 52,500,000 TO CHARITY. Rnnher at Athena ,tins Instilatloes of Sherd,' 1111,1 '1'arlu,y, A despatch from Athens, says: -81, Syngrous, the great banker of Athens, ivho died recently, has left 32,500,000 to the schools and eharilie sof G3�eeco and Turkey.' By means of a codicil added May, 1807, about: the time when Greene was reaping the bitter fruits of the war with Turkey M. Syngrous includes in his will a keen (Avast at Iiiniz George and the pigmies of Greece revoking huge 'bequests previously made to the royal family. As nearly :12,0110,000 of M. Syngrotts' fortune is dcpnsil:od In English banks, heavy es- tate duties will have to be paid. 11 _ rv.t101triW'.BELL 9 d,D, `s finMILTOi ,Oror, 1 A James A. Bell, of Beaverton, Oat„ brother of the ltev. John lvesiey Bell, li,D., prostrated by nervous headaches A victim of the trouble for several years, South American Nervine effected is complete cure. In their own particular field few men ere beter known than the Rev. John 1Veeley Bell, B.D„ and hie brother air, lames A. Bell. The former wan ne re- r'ognized by his thousands of friends all over the country as the popular and able Missionary superintendent of the Royal 1'emplars of Temperance. Among the e0,000 members of this order in Ontario Lis counsel is sought on all sorts of oc- lesions. On the public platform he is one ,t the strong men of the day, oattling sublet the evils of intemperance. Equally well knownisMr. Bell in other ;irovinees or the Dominion, ham g been 0r yearn a member of the Manitoba Methodist Conference and part of this time was stationed In Winnipeg, His brother, Mr. James A, Bell, is a highly respected resident of Beaverton, wnere Itis influence, though perhaps more cir- cumscribed than that of lila eminent brother, to none the less effective and productive of geed. Of recent years bs W- ever, the working ability of Mr. fames A. Bell has been sadly marred by severe attacks of nervous headache, accom- panied ho cn do tit ork whentahin trouble Btakesa hold of them and especially when it becomes chronic, as was, seemingly, the ease wird Mr. Bell? The troub:e reached such in+ tensity that last June he was complete, 17 prostrated. In this condition a friend recommended South American Nervine. Ready to try anything and everythinF, though he thought he had covered th list of proprietary medtoiues, he secure¢q a bottle of thle great discover , 5. second bottle of the medlc__ippe was taken and the work was done. Employing his own language: "Two bottles of Soutb American Nervine tminediately .relieved my headaches and 'have built up my system in a wonderful manner.' Let us not deprecate the good our elergymet and social reformers are doing In the world, but how ill -fitted they would be for their work were it Lint the reed that South American Nervine brings to them when phyeleal ills overtake them, and when the system, ns a re• suit of hard, earnest and continuous work, breaks down. Nervine treats the eyetem as the wise reformer treats the evils he Is battling against It pleases at the root o1 the trouble. All dere ease comes from disorganization of the nerve centers. This is a scientific fact, Nervine at once works on these nerve centers; gives to them health and rig- or; and then there courees through the system strong, healthy, life-ntainteming blood, and -nervous troubiee of even variety are .things of the past. Sold by G. A. Deadman. JAPS LIKELY TO RETALIATE. Effect of the Ilrlltsh Columbia Exetnaton Act. A despatch from Ottawa says :—Mr. Shaw T. Nishimura, Yokohama, Japan, president of the Japan Tea t'il'ing Co., was in town on Friday. Speaking of the Aot passed by the British Colum- bia Legislature last year against the Japanese, Mr. easnrmura said it was a most nonsensical law, and will be met with retaliatory measures, The Jap- anese consider themselves the equal of any other people, and believe their destiny to be a great one. Such meas- ures as enacted in British Oolunabia will only create il-feeling and prevent the expansion of trade, which will in- jure this country as much as Japan. PENNY POSTAGE IN AUSTRALIA. The l'osinuester'(ten't'als 01' the Colonies 10 Mems. A dcepatah from Vancouver, 13. O. saysl—Mail advicos reoeived from A.us- tralia on Thursday, say that the Aue- tralian 0olo11iaf's are taking up the question of penny postage. They have ,invited the Postmaster -Generals of the different colonies to most and consider the matter. All aro in favor of a penny postage for Australasia, so that two cents will carry a letter from Australia to the United States and all British posses - stone. MONTREAL CIVIC SCANDAL. Charges Now Slade Agtelnst I1.11 Nerv'elarr or the 11111111 Ilrltnrl111a46 A despatch from Montreal, says :—A sensation has boon caused in Oily ball atrcles by a charge made against: Mr. Prank ank J, O'Neil, the secretary of the road department, who, it 1s alleged, was connoted with tate gang of thieves Who for years have been systematical- ly robbing from Leading wholesale houses, Mayor Prelontaine on Friday snspendod ONelt from his functions, and an investigation will be held, O'Neil declares he is innocent of any wrong doing, YUKON PROSPECTS BRIGHT. That is the 0111111 011 of Mr. John J. Healy. A despatch from Ottawa says:—Mr. Sobn 3.'Healy, president of the North American Trading and Transportation Company, i$ in town, Mr. Healy is one of the pioneers of the Yukon,, and takes a most hopeful view of the pros- pects of the year, He says that there will he a better class of men go In this year. The men who went in exirect- ing to find rich diggings and make a fortune without capital have had their day. Experienced men with money at their bath will take hold now, and the result will be astonishing. "'There have been various estimates of the problem output this year," said Mr. Healy, "but 1' feel confident it will reaoh the thirty-milldoil dollar mirk," Mr. Neely entinipntes a big influx of people, and will en1'be surprised to sea a million go through in a short tone, Mr. Healy is engaged with the esnmany's repree intaLive, Ce Math Thos. Howard, in ordering supplies for next season's trade, FIRST TAKEN ILL AT COO. net tired for T11'eiwe Tr11re l,4.11ger lee Cale Il M b.. A despatch from Vienna says:—A. man minted Kohn, who is rertifled to have been 112 years old, bus just died bore. He enjoyed perfect health until he was 100, when he was taken ill, but he recovered, and his health wits virtu- ally normal until a year ago. Never- theless lie rend, hefted, saw, earl ate, and was reminiscent of the Napoleonic wars, until the end. PLAGUE IN CALCUTTA, T00. Nene eases Llsceveredt {Tlthln the Last rife hays. A despatch from Calcutta &aye:—'3'hd health rules prescribed by the Venice convention have been enforced here, There have been nine 555013 or sporadic plague 10 the eity within the last five days