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The Herald, 1907-08-30, Page 9and laud to land --`then beware !'---Park- d errg oetHiBewasreSaw, lestfothou forget the fiord: frget Itis promises, ;for- . StirCCC y School.get His holy d y, forget lP a for t His worship, , forget to love, obey and thank :Etim, forget to render Him the service of thy LESSON XI, -SEPT. z, xgo7. hands' and forget to give Him of thy sub- stance, Worldliness, luxury and forget - Moses Pleading With Israel. -peat, 4: fulness of God have sapped the spiritual • z-= 5 life from many .souls. When menbe- Commentary.--L The duty of loving and obeying God (vs. 1-5). 1. Command.. meats, etc, -If a distinction is made be- tween these words, then commandments must me understood to refer to the moral law, statutes to the ceremonial law and judgments to the judicial law. 2. Which I command thee --"The speaker is an aged man, whose venerable head is cov- ered with the snowy white of nearly six - score years, but whose voice is still both loud and clear enough to be heard afar off." "Moses exhorts, entreats, wrestles with men, that they may be wise and good; there is nothing wanting that is suggestive of ripeness of experience, of depth and, genuineness of sympathy. He becomes ahepherd again, only now men and women and children, . more wayward than ally beasts of the field, constitute hie multitudinous and most trying flock. Read Deuteronomy immediately after Exodus, and mark the growth of the man; how his .voice is softened, though the fire of his eye is not dimmed; how his tears are multiplied; how intense is his pastoral solicitude for the salvation of Israel." -Joseph Parker. Days prolonged -Compare chapters 8: 1; 30: 16; 5: 16. The person who wastes his life in sin does not live his allotted. time. 3.. Increase mightily -Moses saw a great future for them if they obeyed God. 4. God is one Lord -Here is the corner- stone of. the Hebrew faith. Jehovah is one. This great truth stood opposed to all the idolatrous religions of the nations around them, against which Moses warns them so earnestly (v. 14). 5. Thou shalt love -This comprehensive require- ment God calls the first and great com- mandment. And by its side he places the requirement to love our neighbors as ourselves (Lev. 19: 18). On these two hang all the law and the prophets. Com- pare Matt. 22: 37-40; Mark 12: 29-31; Luke 10: 27. The whole significance of the scriptures as a rule of life is em- bodied in these requirements. -Lindsay. Without love God himself becomes but a distant and infinite idol. Love does not reason; love speaks its own lan- guage, finds its own prayers, creates its own songs, and sets them to its own music. Children can love where they can not understand. Love passes straight ough the zone of reason and ascends e heaven where it was created in Bart of God. -Parker. Heart , . . , might- We may understand a. command to devote all of our God. The heart is man's and is the seat of the affec- sires, the motives and the ea "the intellectual, emo- tive latah :ea" It as "the aorta activity." The soul is ty, the individual existence." s "the sum of the energies" ody and mind. "He that hath ve in his heart has the fountain ource of all virtue. It is to the life the mainspring is to a watch, what detain is to a stream, what the soul es to the body, what the two olive trees of Zechariah's vision were to the lamps they fed. It will express itself in love to .man.» Peloubet. II. The duty of teaching God's word tothe children (vs. 6-9). 6. these words -Beginning with chapter 5. In thine heart -Compare Jer. 31:33: These words were to be understood, loved and obeyed. 7. teach them -In every possible way. In the home, in the Sunday school, through the public worship of God. tali - gently -There must be no laxity at this point. unto thy children -Children need to be taught and trained. To neglect either teaching or training is detrimen- tai: The child is undeveloped -training is the art of promoting growth. The child is ignorant -teaching 1s the art of furnishing the mind with the knowledge of things. talk of them Not lecture, upon themsimply talk. The words of i God are to, become part of our life, to mingle with our breath. --Parker. The atmosphere of the home has a great ef- fect on the life of the child. Good train- ing and a family religion are the founda- tion of a strong Christian character. 8. bind them, etc, -Tho Jews applied this injunction literally. The so-called phyl- acteries are leather boxes with four com- partments, in which are put four .pore tions of. the law written on parchment. These were bound to the forehead and arm by long leather straps. "But the real meaning of this command is that God's law should be in every deed of the hand, in the sight of the eyes, in the plans of the head." 9. write them -The Jews take this literally. "Since writings were rare and costly, few could possess copies of the law, or read them if they did possess them; this command kept the truths of God ever before the eyes of the people." The spiritual meaning is that aur homes and fn fact all our pos- sessions should be ruled in harmony with the law of God; III, Warnings against idolatry (vs. 10- 15). 10, 11, Which He swaro-God had sol- emnly promised to bring them into Can- aan.. 're A:brahem-Caen. 13, 14-17; 15, 5; 18, 18; 22, 17, 18. To Isaac -Gen. 26, 2.5, 24. To Jacob -Gen. 28, 14. Buildest not -fire Israelites were about to leave their tents for the homes of the Canaan- ites, who because bf their excessive wickedness had forfeited all right to them. In these verses we have "a Pic- ture of advancing civilization." Wo are constantly appropriating to our own use that which has been produced by the hard fought battles and the laborious ef- forts of those who have gone *before us. 12, Beware lest thou forget the Lord- Theywill be in great danger because of rrit . "Ever let men hear this 'heir r� word of caution `bewares When the come satisfied with earthly blessings, ne is difficult for the soul to urge its way. to heaven. Which brought thee-lt would be profitable for them to recall their former condition in life, and their wonderful deliverance from heathen bon- dage, that they might better appreciate the riches of Canaan. 13. Swear by His name -Not servile fear, but reverential awe, is enjoined. This was the essential basis of. Hebrew worship. The oath in the name of Je- hovah was equivalent to a solemn ac- knowledgment of belief in Him. This command is not to be considered inoon- sistene with what the Saviour enjoins in Matt. 5, 34. --Lindsay. 14. Other gods -Moses saw that their great danger would be their desire to be like the hea- then nations around them, which would lead them into idolatry. 15. A jealous God -God will have no rival. To wor- ship "other gods" meant that -they would become an impure people, because. the objects of their worship would be im- pure. They would be no better than the gods they worshipped. By obedience to God we are made partakers of the divine nature. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS.. I. "Hear" (vs. 3, 4). It was Jesus. who said, "Take heed how ye hear" (Luke 8. 18), and •"Take heed what ye hear" (Mark 4. 24). At His transfiguration, a voice out •of the cloud said, "This,is My beloved Son..hear ye Hien" (Ma+tt. 17. 5). Hearing is a. test of discipleship (John 8. 47). It is an ev3idenee of spir- ituality (John 18. 37). It is sure to be rewarded with blessing (Prov. 8. 34.) IL "Observe to do" (v. 3). "0, but we had a grand sermon yesterday," a poor woman who kept a corner grocery, and had been wont to cheat with scant measures, said to a lady. "Where was the text?" "Sure, now, and I don't re- member." "What did he talk' about?" "Well, I'm beat but I don't konw" "Then what makes you say it was such a fine sermon?" "It was, indeed, for I came home and burnt up all my short measure." This poor woman heard. the word and did it, though she could not re- call text or sermon, III. Study the word "love" (v. 5). It is the fruit of the Spirit (Gal. 5, 22): The bond of perfectness (Col. 3. 14). The ful- filling of the law (Rom. 13. 10). The debt we owe oxie another (Ram. 13. 8.) The path to walk in (Eph. 5. 2.) The companion of faith (1 These. 5. 8). That to which we are to provoke one another. Heb. 10. 24). To serve one another (G 5. 13). To follow after Love is to he fervent Without dissimuiat the Spirit (Col. 1. truth (1 John 3. 18). Ma lay down our lives for others 16). "Love suffereth long and is kindag love envieth not; love vaunteth not self, is not puffed up, doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not provoked, thinketh no evil; rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth; beareth all things, believeth all. things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. Lave never faileth" (1 Cor. 13. 4-8). Read this love chapter every day on your knees and ask God to teach you to Iive it. the 'Thy -will -be -done' spirit in my heart," the child answered, sweetly. VII. "Teach thy children" (v, 7.) The story of the erose hese, peculiar fascina- tion for children. Make the truth simple and comprehensive. A child was asked whether she would rather stay \with Aunt Jane or Aunt Idary, both of whom were kind. She sand, "0, I like to stay with Aunt Janie best, because she always puts the cakes and tarts on a low shelf, where I can get them easily?' Too many talks to ehiillren are like Aunt Mary's Bakes, on-a:high .shelf. Set the cakes. low. Thee teacher who said in a Sunday school lesson, "The extension of divine forgiveness to the impenitent is potential rather than actual," plat his cakes too high. A Christian mother led her little boy to a quiet spat, and, kneeling, commend- ed him to Gokl. As she ceased praying the child looked into her face, with hap- py tears in his eys, and said: "Mamma, I am so glad you told Jesus my name. He knows me now, and when I come up to heaven he will say, 'Come in, Arthur; your mother told me about you.."' A.C. M. TO THE HAGUE. NEWFOUNDLAND DISPUTE TO BE SETTLED BY ARBITRATION. Negotiations in London Have Reached an Impasse -Probable That, Pending a Decision, Modus Vivendi of Last Year Will Continue in Force. IV. Love the Lord thy God with "all thine heart" (v. 5). Love him under- standingly, appreciatively, earnestly, with surrendered will and tender sensi- bility and all the powers of your being. A divided service counts for little. J. R. Jaques says: "During the Franco-Prus- sian war, I had some experience illus trative of this principle. Logically I was on the side of the Germans, believing them right. Sympathetically I was on the side of France, for reasons I could but vaguely define. I had a German head but a :French heart. In vain 1 re- monstrated with my heart for its per- verse sympathy with the French. When- ever the news came of a reverse to the French, my heart was pained while my head sided with the Germans. My head was right. I would have joined the army of the Germans. Would I not have made a good soldier? I could have truthfully sung, 'I'm glad I'm in this army.' But if Gen. Moltke had known my heart, would he have trusted me? Now, in the army of the Lord some of us have hearts that are not true. The heart has sym- pathies that wander away to the armies of the. allies. So God cannot trust us with much power, nor use us fox his glory. But perfect love makes the heart loyal to God and to his kingdom." V. Notice the little pronoun (v. 5), You are commanded to love God, not as did Adam before he fell, not as did the angels who never sinned, not as did Mary who sat at his feet, not as did John the beloved disciple, not as did Paul the great scholar, not as did John ISnox; whose love for souls broke out in the agonizing cry, "Give me Scotland, or It diel" but with thine heart, reaching after a God but just known, with thy soul, so long dead in trespasses and sins, with thy might, which may seem but weakness. Pray him to enlarge thy heart, uplift thy soul, and increase thy strength, until all men seeing thy love Shall know that ye aro his disciples in- deed (John 13:34). VL Hide God's word "in thine heart" (v. 6.) Daviel said, "Thy word have I hJ41 in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee" (Pee. 119; 11.) A little girl loaged. to ,join a picnic party, Her mother felt it wise not to let her. When Susie eame, with her request, the mother said, "No, Stlsie dear, you cannot go." She had expected to'see a sorrowful dis- appointment. in her daughter's face, but instead, the little one bounded+ away effacing merrily. "I was afraid of seeing London, Aug. 26.: The Newfoundland fisheries dispute will undoubtedly be taken to The Hague tribunal as a result of the negotiations conducted in London between the Foreign Office and the Am- erican Ambassador Zihitelaw Reid. Both mad, 61c Till . ET TORONTO LIVE S`POCK MARKET. Receipts of live stock at Cho C4ty Market, as reported by the railways, were 60 carloads, composed of 541 cattle, 428 hogs, 1,087 sheep and lambs, with 162 calves,: The quality of •fat cattle, generally, was disappointing, all of the dealers being Of the same °pineon, and that was that they could, not get enough good quality cattle to, supply their customers. Trade was fair, with prices fully as good es they were at the Junction on Monday, when quality is considered, Exporters -Crawford 6c Ilunnlsett reported one load of cattle, weighing 1,300 Lbs„ at $4.85 per cwt. Export bulls were quated at 4 to $4,26, Butchers• -Beet butchers' were quoted at $4.60 to. $4.76, but Maybee, Wilson. & Hall sold one lot of 10 eheiee heifers, 1,000 lbs. eaoli, art $4.95; steers, 1,100 to 1,200 lbs„ $3.25 .25 tato $33.59; cows, omedium,P.66 too $4 "peer cwt.; canners, $1, to $2 per a wt. Milkers and Springers -Trade is milkers and springers, with the exception of a few of the tops, was dull, and prices ranged from 526 to $50, and one or two were quoted at 565 each: Veal Calves -Receipts were moderate, with prices unchanged at $3 to $6 per cwt., and an odd new milk -fed oali brought 56,50 per cwt. • Sheep and Lambs -Deliveries of sheep and lambs were light in comparison with late market receipts. Demand good, with prices firm for all of good quality. Export ewes, er o t.; to lambs, .76 55,60r wto $5.26 per cwt.,50 to $4with selected lots at a little more money. Hogs -Receipts light, with prices steady at last week's quotations. Mr. Harris quotes selects at $6.75 and lights at 56.60 per cwt. THE CHEESE MARKETS. Stirling, Ont. -At the meting of the Cheese Board, held here to -day, there were 715 white offered; all ;sold at 11 1-160. TORONTO FARMERS' MARKET. Twenty-five loads of hay came 1n to -day. Prices for old and nw are equal at $16 and $17. One loa4 of straw came in, and sold for $18. Two loads of oats said at 60 1 it is bopped that everything required win be on hand before the opening. of the season. The erop outlook is generally very encouraging. The wheat looks well in. near. and harvesting is drawing a The to- tal erop is expected to prove fairly Gime to lase year's figures. Should it go be- hind somewhat, higher prices fax grain will offset the shortage. Vancouver and Victoria-Bxecllent. business is moving in all 1•ines here wad along the coast. The retal] trade is quite brisk, and wholesalers report a very active demand for all lines. The lumbering and mining industries coxn- tinue exceedingly active and the eall IOT supplies is heavy. Collections are good, The shippiug trade shows steady enpane Mon, the season so fax having been asi excellent one, Quebec -Trade reports are usually satisfactory, and while considerable rain has fallen an the eastern section of the province during the past fortnight, creel reports to hand are satisfactory and there is every indieation for a, very fafT harvest. Hamilton -The volume of fall business is now good. Shipments of all .lines are going forward and orders continue to promise a heavy business. Local retail trade is brisk. Harvesting is about bee ginning and erops are looking well. Col- lections are fair to good. London -There is generally a good' tone to trade there. The volume of business will hold moderate until after the close of the holiday season. Retail trade is fair and collections are generally satisfactory. Local industries are. busily engaged. Ottawa -Thera has been little change' in the situation there. Wholesale and' retail +stocks axe moving fairly well and' collections are fair to good. The outlook continues to favor an excellent fall busies ness. the Foreign Office and the Embassy Wheat, white, bush... ., ..5 0 90 5 0 91. Dee red, buan. ... ... maintain diplomatic reserve, but it has . � spring, bush..,. 083 been learned from unquestionable sources �„ goose bush.... o s2 that the long correspondence made it oats, nose. ... .-, .., 0 50 sen*.n that their contentions could not be Earley. bush. .. .• ..• .•. 0 53 75 harmonized and that the negotiations Pte' bush. u Hay, old, too . 15 00 had reached an impasse. Lo., new, ton ... 12 50 Finally Mr. Reid made a proposal to Straw, per ton 13 00 submit the dispute to the arbitration of Dress hogs dozen 9 000 The Hague tribunal, having the authori- Buttia, dairy ... ... ... 031 ty of President Roosevelt and Secretary Root to do so. After a week or two of Fowl, lb. , • . ... • •• 0 09 consideration the British Government at - Chickens, Sprin, lb........ d 16 u00 0 85 083 0 51 0 55 9 :6 15 50 13 00 0 90 9 00 0 20 0i:2 0 24 9 10 0 18 0 15 nueks, eepted the proposal, and then the Ameri- Trkeys, lb 0 per lib.. ... 0 1916 0 20 can Government proposed that for an- potatoes, new, bush......,0 75 0 90 other year, while the matter was under Beef, hindquarters .,. .., 9 00 10 50 Do., forequarters ... .,. 500 7 00 arbitration, the fisheries should be con- Do., choice,'rarcare .. .,, 750 3 50 `ducted as thev 'ere last year, under the Db„ medium, carcase ,,600 7 u0 same mod ' • di..e•Mutton, per cwt. ... ... 10 00 10 i3O rr ' eoneludbig the Veal, per cwt. . ... ... 1 00 11 60 a. .iiti5h Govern { Ilamb, per cwt. .., ... 13 00 15 00 t Sir,` Rab- [ CANADIAN APPLE TRADE, mi!r, to' London. -Official figures of the apple trade show that' Canada sent 3,600,000 bushels, rs t f a million less than Ameri- 0 $250,000 STOLEN.. OLEN.. BIGGEST ROBBERY OF THE KIND' EVER PULLED OFF. Pouches Stolen From Train While en Route From Denver to Chicago and Omaha on the Burlington Railway, Omaha, Neb., Aug. 26. -The biggest robbery of the United States mails ever pulled off occurred between Denver and Omaha last Thursday night, when three through registered pouches, two of which contained. $250,000, we stolen from the Burlington Rai fast mail train between De Chicago. Although the robl red on Thursday night, the only leaked cut to -day. To -day every postal i,>3 'chants, 1100 Canadians realized better cret service man in the ye:ckiug on the case. IT3$H CATTLE MARKETS. Thursday night seven neon, -London cables are steady at 11,,.31,c tared pouches were sent, to see per 1b., dressed weight; refrigerator ver postoffice to the dep Burlington fast mail tra were receipted for by the When the train reached M' nolt, it was found that three of the po were missing. One .of the raga:. pouches was destined to Omaha., an other to Chicago; and the third was an empty for Lincoln. The shipment: - is said to aggregate more than $250,- 000. As soon as the loss was discovered the inspectors were notified and a search begun. Yesterday a dozen Secret Service men, who were in Omaha, were working on the case. The mail crew handling the missing pouches were exr amined, but exonerated themselves. It is the opinion of the inspeetore that the mail employees in collusion with the thieves simply dropped the missing sacks when they were being transferred tfrntm the wagons to the train, that the thieves were beneath: the car. and pulling the sacks beneath' the train, got on the opposite side and• sneaked b,'wa,y with the mail . •sacks. The Burlington fast train leaves Dens ver at night, and in the darkness they could easily escape with their booty. It is the biggest robbery the United Statee mail has ever sustained. beef is quoted at 10c ger lb. condiaeted 7 FLOUR PRICES. he last. 'P110 : RLS STRIKE. All the Operators at Fort William Have Gone Out. 'Fort William despatch The trouble which has existed in the loaal tele- phone offices here for a couple of months reached a crisis at noon' to -day, when all the girls employed on the switch- board went out on strike. The crisis was brought on by the appointment of Miss Oro Hudson, of Decatur, Illlinois, to be chief operator. This young 'lady arrived from the States last week, and the city girls, many of whom have work- ed in the plant since its inception, natur- ally objected to being put under a new- comer, and especially one from a foreign country. Lineiuen employed by the city will also, 11 is said, go out in sympathy to- night, and it looks as -if the civic tele- phone plant will be completely tied up in a. very short time. The appointment of Miss Hudson over the local girls, while it is the direct cause of the strike, is yet only one of the many grievances which the girls say they have against the Superintendent. • • THANKSGIVING DAY. Ottawa, Aug. 26. -The Canadian Manu- facturers' Association has forwarded to the Government, through Secretary .Mur- ray, a resolution endorsing the request of the ommercia Travellers' ssoci - Flour -Manitoba patent, 54.60 to $6, track, Toronto; Ontario patent, special brands, $5; second patent, $4.60; strong bakers', 54.40. WINNIPEG WHEAT MARKET. Following are the closing quotations on Winnipeg grain futures to -day: Wheat -Aug, 9•i t bid, Sept, 941,sc bid, Oct. 25T402 bid. Oats -Aug. 40c bid, Oct. 391' c bid, Dec. 38c bid. E:AL 1401:TrLIVE STOCK MARKET. Montreal. -About 750 head of butchers' cat- tle, 40 mileh wows, 2.td calves, 100 sheep add. lambs, and 400 fat hogs were offered for sale ere was l irFattendance ofbutch+rs, at -end Abattoir to -day. hbut trade was dull anti the prices of all kinds and conditions of live stock, excepting ranchcows, had a downward tendency. Prime cattle sold at 5 to 6'40 per pound; pretty goal animals, 315 to 4g;:c and common stock, „L� W 33ge per pound, while the small, hard - looking bulls sold at 114 to 2c per ib. Mich cows Fold at 511, to $00 each; calves at from 52.50 to $10 each; sheep at about 4%c per lb. and the lambs at 53.60 to $0.50 each. Good lou; of fat hogs sold at from 6%, 4.o near 70 per pound, Bradstreet's Trade Review. Montreal -General business continues to move along well. the demand for wholesale stocks is heavy and big ship- ments are going forward. In this connec- tion the prophecies regarding a heavy fal business axe being well borne out. The Whole country is reflecting the opti- mistic tone to which Western Canada is 'being encouraged by generally excel- lent crop conditions. The stringency in money continues as bad as ever. Cana- dian securities have been seriously af- fected by this factor and by the declines h C 1 T II ' A a in New York. Collections are generally tfair, and where renewals are granted it beions that Thanksgiving Day this year is at considerably higher figures than day. I onis anted ou instead of Thurs- have ruled for some years. The dry convenientt ointed dayuf that Monday is a goods men report that fall and winter more travelhome the for day, a ' thath wish gods are going out 'well. The grocery to home for and' an n interruption of business in the middle of trade is beginnig to show a better tone the week is unesirable. Hon. Mr. Scott, after the holiday season. Fairly good Secretary of State, in replying to the shipments are being made and values 1.,ofl+ noted that it. is the custom, both generally hold firm. A good business is opening out in all lines of hardware. The railways still find difficulty in obtaining desired supplies gird values are firm. in Great Britain and the 'United States, and has heretofore been the custom in Canada., to have Thanksgiving Day on a uan Thursday. However, he promised that The business in small goods as also the Government would carefully consider the matter at an early date. CHASED BY • NAKED MAN. Belleville Ladies Badly Frightened -Un- known Wears a. Mask. heavy. Toronto -There is now rather more activity in general trade here. Whole- salers are busy sending out fall' lines, and they report ,that an unusually heavy business is being done. The total vol- ume is said to be even heavier than that Belleville; Aug. 26.-A roan in a state of last year. Crop prospects are look - of entire nudity has an two oceaskons chased and badly frightened two ladies within the past week. All the man wears is a mask over bis face. Last night he chased a young lady residing a short' distance west of the city, and in broad daylight. The woman's screams attract- ed the neighbors, when the unknown mate got away. Just 'a week ago the same lady's sister was chased by a man dressed in light underclothing. lits haunts are on the Marshall toad. It is ing, but shipments are being made and b ran i' unknown at the door-- then you grievously disappointed" silo said thought the man must be insane, but heavy lines are arriving from the east, is h 1 l but ing well in all directions. Money is very tight and firm and relief in this connec- tion seems to be so fax off as ever. Other branches of wholesale trade report a good, seasonable demand for all lines, and in almost every direction .prices may be said to show marked firmness. Winnipeg ---A fairly good volume of business is moving here at the present moment. At this season of the year there is always a quiet tone to the order - p9s s: piewarel" When. house is added to house ai'tercvard to her i laughter "i have got residents of t;lat vicinity are in terror. 2`n dry goods these arrivals are slow, FOURTH TIME. Bryan in a Railway Wreck But Escaped Unhurt. Chicago, Aug. 26.-A despatch from, Bele idere, Ill., says: .As William Jen- nings Bryan adjusted his neck tie and brushed the cinders from his trousers, after emerging safely from a wreek near hare yesterday, on the Chicago & North- western road, he reflectively murmured,: "F aur." Then drawing out his diary, he noted down the location and the date, with these words: "Fourth time a wreck has occurred on my various journeys to, speak at the Rockford Chautauqua: Where is the silver lining?" With words of encouragement the train Brew and other passeegers, who all escaped uninjured, Mr, Bryea joined, the line of refugees who wended their way up the track for more than a• miler" and a half. .At Belvidere Mr. Bryan took a trolley' car, and imide the Ohnutaugtet, grounds behind schedule time. The wreck was caused by the 'baggiegs car taking an open switch. 0 o:a A black waiter was going upstairs' at a restaurant carrying a dish upon which. was a roast turkey. lie slipped on the edge of a step and fell. How were five countries represented? The Downfall of Turkey, the Upsetting of 'Greece, the Break up of China, the Seeing of rico, the Disappointment trf II'ungarv.•