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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Brussels Post, 1899-7-21, Page 3a he 'e4 LID a sal. niN de els In, re- sat Lh- ip+ Sts to .he do ]w- re- ob- ble os6 ode res( re - low• ese , is ust tat- s of, ow - It her, can this as : of dis- iza- tbe ady; heir, neo; lore cone lust inst hon - of heir, ;not tr to imall ntact 1n. one. (lute says :age - :the nigh Dies, ;ores ound (ails, the, ;e so that plant ly tie? addle hoin. s the other, are when sleep sans ie ob. were ae as roons' shine close . The rs night some. ht Ln- a and night hes to y des mita to di- Lars is ins to sf the imals. J'tli,Y 21, 14,309, THS BRUSSELS POST. The News Briefly Told TR WORLD'S EVENTS OF INTEREST CHRONICLED iN SHORT ORDER, Interceting nopponings of Recent Date -The Latest Newe of Our Own Country -Doings 1n The Mother Land -What le doing on to the United Mater -Notes From the World Over. tat disinfect new arrivals from the Flowery Kingdom," Ult1.AT BRITAIN. Valuable deposits of !run one have been discovered need' Dover, England. Everybody in England la pleased with the prueeeed imperial. Pueifie sable eelietno. The 1 11311011 Royal Licenee Commie- sloners recommend a largo reduotion in the nllmllel' of lieensee. Lust week more than a thousand tuns of ruddier and war material were for- warded from the Woulwlah Dockyard Lo South Africa. CANADA, ;August 17 is Winnipeg's Civic Holi day, Hay L5 being shipped from KLugston to Fort William, Crop reports from the North-west are mast favorable. Considerable damage bee boon dorm by the breaking of the delta dyke at Laidner, B.C. kfumilton is worried over its finan- ces, and may out down several appro- priations. ppro- priadons. Dr. J. O'Connor,. Stratford, has been t hern made trainmastor for the nor district, G.T.R. The City of Nelson has sold $00,000 5 per cent. public works debentures at al premium of 7 per cent, Alfred Couture, railway conductor, is dying at Quebec ot blood poisoning caused by the bite of a fly. The Bank of Montreal has purchased an property Craig street, i n tothebead offices, for Dr. F. A. Saundars, of Ottawa, has been appointed instructor in physics tit Haverford College, Philadelphia. The SS.. Gallie, which was grounded Ln the St. Lawrence for some time, is being examined by divers at Quebec. The City of Winnipeg is asking pow - or from the Legislature to tax cir- cuses from $200 to WO per day license fee. Miss Amy Servos of St. Catharines went to bed in good health, was found unconscious during the night and died before morning. At Hatmilton, F. B. Greening, was fined $10 by the Police Magistrate for shooting a dog that was bathing in his fountain. The Dominion Steel and Iron Com- pany's stock in Canada, $5,000,0130, has been almost entirely taken up by men in Montreal and Toronto. In the Manitoba Legislature Mr. Sirott introduced a bill to provide a hail insurance fund of $120,000 annual- ly, by taxing twelve million acres one cent per Imre. The Canada Atlantic Railway Com- pany, owing to its increasing traffic, will this full commence the erection of large car shops in addition to those already put up. Francis E. Brooks. a machinieh at E. Leonard and Son's foundry, at London, Ont., has been informed that out. iu California there is a fortune of $7,000,000 waiting for him. Donald McDonald, brother of Alex. McDonald, the Bonanza King, and T. H. Trotter, two fortunate Klondi.kers, have returned to Vancouver with $80,- 008 in gold crust. Premier Greenway has introduced a redistribution bill, not 0 general Pleas- ure, but to give the increased popula- tion of the north of Manitoba one more member, the total cumber re- maining as new. Margaret T. Cowan, wLdow of the late Holmes Cowan, killed at the Ot- tawa East crossing of the Parry Sound Railway last January, has issued a writ against the railway company for $20,000 damages. In McDonala's saw mill at Mon- tague, N.S., Thos. flume, aged 22, was dhvlwn under the saw of a shingle machine. One leg was out off and he was otherwise so badly injured that he died in half an hour. Adolphe. Martin, egad 18, resident in Hull, attempted to commit suicide be- cause his mother will not permit him tot marry the girl of his choice. Adol- phe slabbed himself with a penknife aver the heart, but may recover. Mr, J. W. Tyrrell, the well-known •eurveyor and explorer, has been in- structed by the Dominion Government to renew his explorations in the coun- try west of Hudson Bay, and he will leave for the far north next winter. • Siebert Whi.tall of Sumach street, Toronto, while attempting to board"a freight train at Paris, got both feet under the wheels, and his toes were crushed, necessitating amputation. He was afterwards removed to the Brant- ford Hospital. Mrs, May Wright Sewall has been elected president of the Inlernat.iunal Congress of Women in suceesston to Lady Aberdeen. The offer of Mr. J. Pierpoltt Morgan to pay for the installation of 919011ie lights in St, Paul's Cathedral, has been accepted. The British Government has agreed to subsidize a fortnightly line of fruit and passenger steamers between Ja- ntaim and the United Kingdom,. In the l,mlyerial Parliament tho issue of £865,000 from the consolidated fund was authorized for the purpose of ac- quiring the Niger Ch.'s territories in West Africa, An official message has been receiv- ed) at Ottawa a0nouncing the decision of the Imperial Government to assume Dight -eighteenths of the cost of the Pacific cable. Capt. Jessop, of the Cambridge erioket team and two members of the Oxford team were arrested in London upon a charge of rioting outside the Empire Mud° Hall. liIrs. Coleman and hat grandson, William Davies, who had been pas- sengers on the Majostio, were ea- pliyxiated at a Liverpool hotel on Wed- nesday night. An important delegation of Welsh merchants has just left Cardiff to visit the leading aummercial centers of Canada, with the view of discussing the beast measures to be taken for de- veloping and Increasing trade. Tha British Hausa of Commons re- jected Mr. Courtney's amendment to the London government hill permit- ting the election of women as council- lors, and agreed to the Lords' amend- ment excluding woman from that of- fice. The Cancer Society of London has oom(nissioned Dr. A. L. E. Duffy to reseed to the United States to collect l2inperot Frenels .10801)11 has almost entirely recovered from his litheee. IAL Corea twenty rioters Were pub- licly beheaded for destruying eloi'Lrie tramway care, Au immense Suclalist meeting 00110 dispersed by the 10(1(00 Inst night in Vienna, Aguinaldo has 0010as8(1 the Spanish prisoners, but the tornts have not been made known. The slnysre of General Luna are said to have been acquitted by a Pilipino ceuri of inveetlgation. lAguinaido agrees to release his siek Spanish prisoners, but will keep the friars in hope of doh runsome. While a carriage containing Iwo ladies was orossiag the railway track near Glace Bay, C. B., it was struck by a locomotive. A married woman, nerved Adamson, was dangerously in- jured, and her sister, Miss Maud Mac- Aulay, had several ribs broken. The Dominion Commercial Travel- lers Association has started a move- ment for the improvement of hotel accommodation by addressing to every hotel proprietor in Canada a number of questions re,gard'ing food, sample rooms, bedrooms, ventilation and sani- Lary conditions. H. 1VolIf, a Galician from the Drift- ing River settlement, in IVlanitoba,took a rope and tied the hands and feet of his wife, than bent her unmercifully with a club. Not content with this, the brute also used the club on a daughter who interfered on behalf of the mother. The magistrate sentencer) him to two months in jail at hard labor. The amount of duty collected at Winnipeg for ,Tuns 1889, was 51011,- 731.56. In June, 1898, it was 70,084.2e, The duty collected at Winnipeg for the fiscal year ended June 30, 1899, was f1I,140,000.9(1; for the previous year it was 5007,051,24, being an increase for the past, year of $ 288,001.72, This is the first Limo Winnipeg has gone above the million dollar mark for cus- toms. Dr. 14fontleambert, Canadian quar- antine officer, is considerably excecie- ed over the appearance of the bubonic' plague In China. In this regard he sntd:-"IL is necessary for us to die, infect every immigrant who comae from China or Japan, and last year 10,000 were put through this prorees along, Those immigrants are meshy outplayed in the salmon etameries on the Eraser Meer. All the melts that are from China or ,Tepan are also dis• infected. We take every precaution The Penes Conference has derided that arbitration shat] be optional, not compulsory, The Coburg Diet has mule. the Duke of Albany heir to the Durhy of Saxe - Coburg -and Gotha. A cat, al a village near Lettish, killed twin babies \Vednasday, smolh- 0ring one and gnawing the other. The French Government, now sus- tained by an immense majority, has prorogued Parliament for the summer, Col. Picquart has declined a sword of honor which admirers of ills in Buda- pest, lluugary, desired to present. to ]tiro. A largo number of Servian poli- ticians, including ex -Premier Taucha- novios, have been arrested in connec- tion with the attempted murder of ex- Iling Milan. The Emperor Welham 11, and Presi- dent Loubet have exchanged friendly telegrams arising from a visit by the former at Bargen to the french traur- ing ship Iphigenie. M. Gruenee, one of the detective agents who testified against Dreyfus in the court -Martial in 1894, has died suddenly. It Ls rumored that he was poisoned. A railway engineer named Gregory, at Bandon India, whose wife had eloped with Capt. Tremonger of the Durham Regiment, shot the captain, killed the woman and then suicided, General Zurlindan, will probably be removed from the post of Military Governor of Paris and made com- mander of an army corps. General Faure Baguet will probably- succeed him. qfJ SUNDAY SCHOOL •Ll. 'J'lluu, host nut humbled Tit i1 4J U iJl,il L flcal't, lhouteh Ihuu knowast ;111 Ibis. 'J'hy silt is till Iho greater because of thy ',esti) '1.1(9eeae. 1.111(11• 01(01 grand - INTERNATIONAL LES.50N, JULY 23, father's fates should have warn -d thee. —•* 'I bine rrors are not of ignur;illre. but "'Fhe Anndn'rlllag on the 001.11." min. 5. of Nolte.tnp't 0f God. 11 •at. tioldem Teal, 1'.11, 10. 1. 23 11av1. lifted up thyself. Like taly PRACTICAL NOTES. grandfather, verse 011, Against lite Verse 17. Belehrtzzlr, the kin Lord 11 heaven. \Vhueh Nebuehadnes- g• was rte' rn+ver (hd. '17118 vtxselst 01 bis 009,ci,11011 N' i.lh Idris (Tither, Nnbonid us, (oa'e fele 1(01y vessels ,jars, edits, on lire throne. Nabonaltl0 was not knives, whh'J1 wore used for seared 11in1yelf it deseeeduat, of Nebuehildnez- Despoils t i the temple in .taro alem. Ilavn In•waghl. hast pruis�d. Baron Nordenskjold, the Swedish naturalist and explorer, is financially ruined as the result of his bocomlug einvolved with the publishing house of Mita, to inveeLLgate the operations of 1 F. J'. Bajer. Alt of his savings mount - the Buffalo laboratory, and to offer ing to $60,030; are swept away). a prize of g10 for the best original email on cancer science. linen Lnlerest is felt at the Ad- miralty in the development of the torpedo-boat destroyer Viper, which will be launched shortly on the Tyne, The Messrs. Parsons are fitting her with the turbine system of engines, and they believe that they will enable her to make 45 miles an hour. !'rime Minister Salisbury, tvho is an ardent devotee of chemical science, has, according to the Medical Press and Circular., discovered and oomplet- ed an important chemical process, which wi11 be communicated to the world at a forthcoming meeting of one of the learned societies.. 'UNITED STATES. A $25,000,000 coffin trust has been formed in the States. Mr. Hobert Bonner of Now York, the famous horseman, is dead. ' An immense fire devastated the heart of Memphis, Tenn., Monday. Brigadier -General Joseph Wheeler has been ordered to the Philip- pines. Robt. Bonner, publisher of the New York Ledger, and the owner of fam- ous Stereos, is dead. The propoced strike at the Home- stead plant of the Carnegie Steel Co„ has been abandoned as inopportune, London old boys in Detroit, of whom there are about 150, will have an ex- cursion to the Forest City on Aug. 5. A car on the big switchback roller coaster in Schenley Park, Pittsburg, jumped the track and eight people were badly hurt. The Nebraska, Pennsylvania and Utah troops, which have been on duty in the Philippines, have started 011 their homeward journey. Dominick Buffunni shot and killed William Barry, at Pittsburg, because the latter interfered when the Ital- ian was beating a small boy. , Raffael Greco, while swimming in the Monongahela river, was seized with cramps. Hie companion Carmillo AndLnone went to his assistance and boon were drowned. Senator William D, Mason of Illinois, John Dovey of New York, and George 11, Williams spoke against expansion and an alliance with England at a Clan-na-Gael meeting in Boston. Michigan's divorce record for 1898 shows that there wore a total of 1808 divorces granted during the year, the wife being complainant in 1,300 oases and the husband in 472. The United States transport McClel- lan arrived at New York from Santi- ago, and was detained at quarantine, because three of the passengers have yellow fever. One is bliss Clandenning, daughter of the surgeon iu charge at Santiago, whose death from yellow fever is reported. Willie Porter, 9 years old, of Coats, Ks., was playing soldiers with a pis- tol he found in the hired man's room. "I'll shoot you," he said to his baby sieter, who was in her mother's aims. Then he pulled the trigger, the bullet passiug Motherr, kilig Lln h them insin both the baby and ilio The Michigan Suproan Court has decided the case brought to test the lalidity of the McLeod. law, which authorized the appointment of the De- limit Street Railway Commission, whose object was the purchase andi munici- pal oWnersltip and operation of atreat railways of Detroit. The decision is that the law La unconstitutional. A marvellous surgical 01)010tion is reported from Binghampton, N.Y. A butcher named. Ginzbury was stabbed iu the breast, and the knife Penetrat- ed the heaa't ora -quarter of an inch, Dr. 31. L. Forlrer,found the man pulse- less and neatly dead from loss of blood. Ile kept up lite by injecting into the rabbi's body a saline solution. IIe then out open the man's side and slopped the flow of blood by taking three (jeep slitchos in the loft ventricle of the heart. GENERAL gislurbe.nees have been resumed (11 13ircelona and Alicante, Spain, Socialist Deputy Prescetti, who was condemned by the military tribunate in, Rome to ten years' imprisonment as a ringleader' in the bread riots of 1898, has just received a new trial in a civil court, and was acquitted. The Hessian Diet has passed a mea - euro requiring bachelors to pay 25 per cent. more income lax than mar- ried men. It has also placed a tax of five marks per annum on bicycles, unless they are used for business pur- poses. A proposal to double tax fe- male bicyclists was defeated by a narrow majority. zur, hal, having to+me to the I hrone, Their self-indulgence and their tiro• had confirm:al Ids peeitu0 by marry- rattily are e00nlly obnasious to fiods ing Nebuc'.1ladnezzar's daughter. Bels. wrath. The that to whose bend thy heizz,u, therefore, wee 0 direct des_ breath is, A host xuiking truth, true of lf•lehaszar :.td of us. Whose rendanl of Nebuchadnezzar. Naboni- ,,,•e aB 11,y ways. 1.1 in nal in mart dus's empire, was gradually crumb- ling in pieces bemuse of the steady enuquex l5 of the 1'ersi,tns and Medea. Belshazzar Wilt hardly more than sev- enteen years 01 age when killed. Nu- bonidus li'id Left 111111 In charge of Baby - bra, he himself having gone forth to meet the enemy. The first purr of this chapter tells how Belshazzar kept a festival day in company with his aubies and his wives and coneubi.nes. His calling fur the vessels taken Dui of the temple and using them in the feast were acts of reckless profanity. The company acre singing and shout- ing praises to their careen and painl- od gods, when " in the same hour came forth fingers of a man's hand, and wrote. . . upon' the plaster of tete wall of the king's palace." That wall, sol far as we Ban learn, was emblazon- ed with the records of the magnificence of the royal family, and in the midst of inscriptions of titles, viotorios, and exploits comes this terrible message - Numbered, Numbered, Weighed, Divid- ed. But neither the king nor the guests could read it, and in Lhe cou- steruation that ensued the queen sug- gested that Daniel be called, The king called him and promised him scar- let alolhing and a chain of gold, em- blematic of authority, and the posi- tion of third ruler in the kingdom, he himself being the second ruler. Imme- diately after this promise comes IJan- iel's reply in this verse, Daniel. Now THE CAPTAIN'S ERROR, Captain Watkins' Deport or Iho Siranding of 1110 l,btur Part, ,bade Public. A dee:patch from New York says:- The ays:Th'e report of Capt. Watkins of the stranding of the American Line steam- ship Paris was made publlo on Mon- day by the Local Board of Steamboat Inspectors. Captain Watkins made no attempt to evade. responsibility for the accident, but, on the contrary, says frankly the stranding of the ship was the result of an unaccountable error on his part. The accident, ho says, was not due to any want of thought or anxiety about his vessel, but resulted from a mistake he made in calculating the position of the ship. Captain Watkins is still in charge of the Paris, and is acting in the in- terests of the uaderwrilers, to whom the ebip was turned over by the Am- erican Line officials. Capt. Watkins has a long and hon- ourable onourable career on the sea. He enter- ed the service of the Inman Line in 1803, and since 1890 has been continu- ally in charge of vessels of the Inter- national Navigation Company. He has made nearly 500 voyages across the Atlantic. BURGLAR SAVES AN INFANT. FIIW8 Girt Molting In ner Crib 111141 Dives W1(1'Iting to Mother. A despatch from New York, says: - To save a baby's life a burglar in Brooklyn gave over his intent to rob, summoned the child's mother, confess- ed his mission, expressed his sympathy and fled. The burglar had broken into the Slat of a policeman, Patrolman John Farrell. Marguerite, the blue- eyed, 'flaxen -haired baby, had been tusked away in her crib. A little be- fore midnight, Mrs. Farrell was awak- ened by (i strange voice. "Got up," commanded the intruder. "Get up nt once. Your child is dy- ing. Hurry," i Tho mother ran to her child jest in time to save her from death, and the burglar went out. The baby's father, the policeman, was on duty, - FACED BULLETS OFTEN. that walkol11 10 threat hid steps." Cl. '1100. "When 11•151-n7,zn' lifted himself up 0)11(1(41 tee' Lord. Thio is the coat inuulion of Daniels s1).ecll. The part of the hand, The .fingers of the !land. Scut from him, From God. lure", Mem,7'eksl, I'phursin. Numbered. Numbered, with the ,ruse, a1=o, of finished, ll'cigh,•d, and Divid- ed. i=0, This Is tile int morel alion of the thing. We have seen that the eters a(Lers were prob (b.y unfamiliar 1,, the Cllalcle'in wise 10 0. When rend the aetual 911000 110 of the words may have been plain, but not their interpreta- tion, or, as we would say, application. Men. (a it , :L ,' 11(1'.(11 ntimbered - lhat is, completely counted -and the application 1s, that (I 11.11 tuts, if we may venture on such a etulparisun., kept a day book of Belsbazzar's r Lau, 0111 made an entry creditable or discredit- able of every act. The record is ,dos- ed now, and the summing up of 1 hes ac- count la altugother agalust B lshaz- 511r. 117. Tekel means weighed, end the application Is, 73'lshttzzilr has hien weighed. in the balances, and found wanting. In almost. every age and language the notion of the human mind. in deliberation has been au0lpar- ed to weighing. The scales oI justice had been iu the hands of the kuig him- self, but he had misused them. Now he is weighed In them, and found worthless, The 'balances" by which men are judged and their fate fixed are not their own opinion of themselves nor the worlds estimate of chem, but the impartial judgment of the Lord. 28. Peres. Broken up on divided, The application is, Thy kingdom' is broken up, and its pieces now belong to the Medea and Persians. Betshazzar's kingdom is divided, or severest from him, and passed over to the Persians. z9. Belshazzar. clothed Daniel with scarlet. Restored the old prophet to the rank which las had held under Nebuchadnezzar. The young king could not now avert] thse temporal re- sults of the vicious government of him- self and his ancestors, but ho could at least not with a kingly integrity, and he did. The gift' of the scarlet robe was as we have seen, a sign of rank, like the yellow jacket of the, China- man. Throughout the East the pre- sene of a dress from 11 prince is a high honor. A chain of gold was also an emblem of office. Made a proclama- tion concerning him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom. This was the fact of dignity which the other two were the emblems of. This promotion of Daniel was of no aervime so far as Belshaz- zar's own rule was concerned, but it must have bad several glorious re- sults for. Daniel himself and for the rause he represented. an aged man. The king, Belshazzar. Let thy gifts be to thyself, and give y rewards to another. Your wealth and your power will be needed fur self- preaervati0n to -night. In this hour of your overthrow throw away no gifts on me. Yet I will read the writing unto the king, and make known to him the interpretation. Two acts which are specified throughout this narrative. ,Evidently the writing itself could not be read, the characters probably be- ing unfamiliar. The interpretation or meaning ut the inscription was equal- ly unknown. 18. The most high God. This was a term which was so constantly applied to Jehovah that it distinguished him from other gods, and became gradu- ally a proper name. Nebuchadnezzar thy father. Actually his grandfather. A. kingdom, and majesty, and glory, and honor, The kingdom was a new one when Nebuchadnezzar took it in hand; it was 11 great one, having no Parallel. for greatness on the earth; it wal5 one that carried to its chief ruler majesty in the eyes of its sub- jects, and great earthly glory. 19. For the majesty that he gave him, all people, nations, and lan- guages, trembled and feared before him. There is not in all literature a better portraiture of an. absolute monarchy than this verse presents, The tribes of the southwestern corner of Asia were of very diverse origin, children of Shem, Ham, and Japbath, people of races like the Jews and Arabs mixed with races of Mongolian extraction and many others, and each nation had its own language. Tha number of languages once spoken, now not only "dead," but absolutely unknown, is beyond human compute - Lion. Languages changed rapidly in the days before national literature fixed Ibeni; and it was an almost un- exampled opportunity for unrestrain- ed power whish was presented to Ne- buchadnezzar. Whom he would lie slew, and wliom he would he kept. alive. The lives of all men are in the hands of a despoti;h Icing, Whom he would he set up; and whom he would he put down. 'There was 00 congress or parliament or court apart from the royal law. The king' was as autocrat. 20. But when his heart was lifted up, and his mind hardened in pride. One of the sad results of all manner of sin is that described by Robert Burne ed the result of lieoniiousness-it pet- rifies the feeliags. Ills heart Lifted up look him away from brotherly re- gard for his fellow -beings, and the hardening of his mind was the nat- ural contve0uence. He was deposed from his kingly throne. Ho was to learn that there was another greater thiol he, the eternal King who could sett up and put down whom he would. They took his glory from him. His authority as supreme ruler, the meg- nificence of his kingly surroundings, all the ineiguia of monarchy, for, poor man, he And not the mental vigor to use his kingly glory, 21. ,IIe was driven from the sons of leen. In stunt, ha was a lunatic, af- Iflietedl by 1t mania that led him to believe thin. he was a boast of the fiel(i. His heart 00'110 made like the beasts. ",Ile made his heart like the beasts." Ills chief desire WAS no longer to en- joy royal privileges, but to herd with the beasts. His dwelling was with the wildasses. In some parts of the uplands of Media the wild ass gallop- ed' in herdll in the waste places, like our buffalo and wild homes of the Western plains. .Cher fed 11m with grass like oxen, He wanted no oth- er food. Such eases al's not unknown to a.uthor'ilies on insanity at the pre- sent time, His body was wet with the dew 1)'f heann, Out in the field he ifved, oxposed'to all the elements. Till heel knew that the most high God rul- ed in the Iringdren of men, and diet he appoinbeth over it whomsoever he will. In Godes good time hie reason Wena restored., rend as it came back to him 0. found, him bumble and trust- ful, nearly to receive from the Bendel of God either holier or dishonor, ready ro soknowledge that Gad was his sup. ream Ruler, Death of an Out Soldier 1d SI. tintllarltnre,,, A despatch from St. Catharines, says:-Sorgt. Daniel MaMannus, one of Al. Catharines' most prominent ribi- zens, died this morning at his home on Contra street, after a short ill- ness, of catarrh of the stomaoh, De- ceased, who Was born at deletion, County of Tyrone, Ireland, 62 years ago, was 111 the siege of Sebastopol, the battles of Alma, Inkerman, and Balaclava, and was an eye -witness of Ibe aelebretad charge of the Light Bri- gade. After the Crimea 110 Wont to Lndin, and was present in many of the battles of the mutiny, being a member of the army that marched to the relief of l.,neknow. Ile (came to lin nada in 1890, and settled ill St. Mainlines, De- ceased leaves a widow, three sons, end ,iva daughters, IIe Will be buried with military honors Monday. 80. In. that night was Belshazzar . slain. Classic writers tell us of the suddenness of Babylon's overthrow. Cyrus's armies were guided by two Babylonian deserters,. 31. Darius the Median took the king- dom. This Darius is probably the men known to other writers by the name of. Astyages. He was really grandfather of Cyrus. Cyrus bad practically dethroned hint, but treated 'hint kindly afterward and allowed him royal honors. M� LIVED ON GRASS FOR 18 DAYS. Itrnl:a•Intrlo lixperlcuee Told by a New 'Worker, witch Noy or Hay Nol Re Tear, A ds'spateh from Vancouver, B. C., says: -William Edwards, a miner Foil- ing from New York, is in the Besslead hospital, a living example of the astounding feat that a man can eat grass as an exclusive diet) for 18 days and live to tell the tale. Edwards wait employed to do some work on Sophie mountain, a very wild part of British Columbia. Ha camped on the rnouutain with two companions. His companions loft him alone for the day, and Ed- wards thought he would olambell up the mountain -side for a short dis- tance. Ile could not find his way back to camp. He went round and round lu circlet, Ile struck a trap- per's empty cabin, and slept( there for the first night. For the next three nights and days he wandered listlessly in a circle, always coming back to the empty cabin. On the third night he killed a beaver by tumbling a huge rook on it. He, sareamodt aloud with joy as he fell on the ground 10 fear it to piece's. As a monster conger stalked up to his prostrate form and sniffed at him. Edwards screamed with fear, and in his crazy rage and fright struck the beast in the faro with his fist. The cougar snarled viciously, made a grab at the freshly -killed bea- ver clutched fu Edwards' hand, and macre oft with it, Edwards prepared for the end, and made his will. Grass, roots, and weeds made up his diet dur- ing the rest of these awful eighteen :nye and nights, half the time of which Edwards crawled ou the ground On the eighteenth day his toes were off this bleeding feet, hes alothos in rags, bare- ly covering his ahnoal bare bones. Ed- wards was again visited by the pan- ther, who eat un his haunches blink- ing at the dying man, evidently wait- ing for him to shuffle off before he de- voured him, but towards evening the panther pricked up lis (11100, Sniffed the ground, and dashed off in the darttua88. The embroil scented another human being, this time with a gun. Edwards shouted deehly,. and before many minutes William Mtgantry, a trapper, was bending over Edwards with the whiskey flask. FULL ULL OF ENCO (JEAUET Eii Bed 5 Months-17ac1 Given Up All Hope) of 1 ;';tting 1 eU—A R6 nraedy Found at LoAS to which. " 1 Owe Pay Life." Boienoe has fully established the fact that all the nervous energy of our bodies is generated by nerve centres looated near the base of the brain. When the supply of nerve force has been diminished either by excessive physical or mental labours, or owing to a derangement of the nerve centres, we are first eon/Clone of a languor or tired and worn-out feeling, then of a mild form of nervousness, headache, or stomaoh trouble, which is perhaps suc- ceeded by nervous prostration, chronic Indigestion, and dyspepsia, and agen- eral sinking of the whole system. In this day of hurry, fret and worry, there ere very few who enjoy perfect health; nearly everyone has some trouble, an ache, or pain, a weakness, a nerve trouble, something wrong with the stomaoh and bowels, poor blood, heart disease, or sink headache; all of which are brought on by a lack of nervous energy to enable the different organs of the body to perform their respective work. South American Nervine Tonic, the marvellous nerve food and health giver, is satisfying success, awondrous boon to tired, sick, and overworked men and women, who have suffered years of discouragement and tried all manner of remedies without benefit. It is a modern, a scientific remedy, and in its :)aka follows ltibounding health. It is unlike all other remedies in that it is not designed to act on the different organs affected, but by its direst action on the nerve centres, whioh are nature's little batteries, it •,1ane00 an increased supply of nevem:I energy to be generated, which in its turn thoroughly oils, as it were, the machinery of the body, thereby en. abling it to perform perfectly its di!. ferent functions, and without the slightest friction. If you have been reading of the re- markable cures wrought by South Amorioan Nervine, accounts of which we publish from week to week, and are still sceptical, we ask you to in. veatigate them by correspondence, and become convinced that they are trop to the letter. Such a course may save you menthe, perhaps years, of suffer. ing and anxiety. The words that follow are strong but they emanate from the heart, acid speak the eentimenta of thousande of women in the United States and Chan• ads who know, through experience, of the healing virtues of the South American Nervine Tonic. Harriet E. Hall, of Waynetowo, a prominent and muck respected lady, writes as follows:— " I owe my life to the great South American Nervine Tonic, I have been in bed for five months with e scrofulous tumour in my right aide and suffered with indigestion and nervous prostration. Had given up all hopes of getting well. Had tried three dootore, with no relief. The firet bottle of Nervine Tonic improved me so much that I was able to walk about, and a few bottles cured me en- tirely. I believe it is the best meth. eine in the world. I cannot reoom. mend it too highly." Tired women, can you do bettse than become acquainted with this truly great remedy 9 Sold by G. .A. Deadman. TORONTO GIRL POISONS HERSELF.' Am1000.ts 'rrlpp. Aged 10, Went to Chicago to rind the Mau Wim rad Deceived A despatch from Chicago, says: Annie Tripp, 18 years old, committed suicide yesterday morning by taking arsenic in a room of the National ho- tel, 28 Van Buren street. She registered the name "Ida Cun- ningham" at the hotel office at one o'clock yesterday morning, Clerk .1. G. Stankey, of the hotel, told the coroner that the girt seemed ill, and when he assisted her to a room she said: "11 anything should happen to me, my true name is Annie Tripp. My parents live at Toronto, Can. I came to Chicago to find the Luau who deceiv- ed me a year ago at nay home. He promised to ,harry me, but did not keep bis promise." The dead girl's sister, Mrs, 11. A. Maxwell, lives at 1,426 Diversey Ave. A Letter written to the latter by the deceased was introduced in evidence. It was written just previous to taking her life, and read as follows: - "Dear Maggie -Forgive me for kill- ing myself, and send for pa at once. Tell him I beg of him to forgive me, and tell him I loved him always. Tell Don Golden to forgive me, and give ray love to all. Your loving chum. "ANNIE TRIPP." A. coroner's jury returned a verdict of death from arsonist poisoning, self- administered, with sul'idal intent. Miss Tripp was unusually handsome, alul her manner and appoarans'e indi- cated good breeding. TEXAS' WOES, Millions in Honey ;whereas 0f T,T•ns and tom. 111 00 Floods. A. despatch from Hou Ann, Tex„ says: -A corres 1 tandem who has just re- turned from a voyage Through the flood district says: The half has not been told of the havoo wrouglt, The disaster is so appalling that description is not pos- sible. After this floodwill come siok- ness undoubtedly, and what a week ago was the fairest part of Texas is now almost a God forsaken wilder - nese. The waters of the Brazos have for six days covered its valley to a depth of from six to thlrty feet. The flooded district has a length of over 500 miles and 1pt breadth of pro- bably 50 miles. . The loss ot life will never be known. perhaps, the bottoms having been populated mostly with negro tenant farmers. These estimates have been made: Lives lost, 100 to 300, Loss to farmers, 55,000,000 to $15,- 000,000. Damage to railroads and country, bridges, $2,000,000 to $4,000,000, FOUND SOME OF THE SPOILS. Sequel to -the Dow'ntattvtite Bank Rob' bery-Wallels 111111 ('11s1t ae'e:ui'e5. A despatch from Bowmanville says: -The rubbery of the Standard Bank here on the 12th of Mal last was re- vived in the minds of our citizens to- day by the finding of the two wal- lets, for which the bank offered aro- word of $100. Two boys, Harold Tucker and Clarence Masons were playing down by the creek west of the station, and saw the wallets underneath one of the boat -houses. The notes andolll- er papers avers all safe, and one of the envelopes contained $50 in bills, whieb belonged to some private incur- ewe money of Mr. Jones, the manager, - and which the robbers had overiookeo� in their hurry. The reward will be di sided between the two boys. where le yet another small wallet belonging to Mr. Byrne, the earthier of the beak, and the tin box oontainiug at large quantity of silver, whichis uo doubt hidden somewhere in the sant Vieill- ity. Judging from the place to whieih the wallets were found, it ie very like- ly that the robbers went west on ono of the early trains passing through that morning.