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The Wonderful garaer of a
Bonaparte Woman,
8, HE WAS A BEAUTY
WIth an Irish Father and French
Mother.
ALMOST HOARE EMPRESS
The Madame de Auto, grancedaugla
ter of Livolen Bonaparte, whose story
ts taken iron) M.A. P. watta eleter of
Lucien Napoleon Bonaparte Wyse,
after whom tlie towasbip of Wyse
on the Ottawa River was named.
Her father was long a member of
the British Parliament. Her bro-
ther, a French engineer, assisted De
Lesseps on the Panama, Canoe, and
came to Canada about sixteen years
U() with a view of organizing a
sehesne of mulgraelon from France
to Canada. He is still living in Paris.
Under the title, "Death of a Daugh-
ter of the Caesars," Mr. A,. P. says:
I have often thought that one of
the most interesting studiee to wieell
a great student of human nature could
devote himself would be the curious
a transformation which takes place
when the qualities of one Sex are
inherited by the other. Take the
physical qualities, for instance. Very
often you find that a handsome man
has a daughter who is very like him
and who yet is quite plain; and simi-
larly you. see a plain man whose
homely features become transformed
into beauty in the face of his daugh-
ter. An even greater difference is to
be seen when the moral and mental
qualities have undergone the trans-
muting Influence of sex. The iron will
—the dominating power—the daunt-
less mortice of a iatber or a brother
become transformed In a daughter
or a sister into mere passion, or ca-
price, or irregularity. And yet, amid
all this difference, -there Is to be
seen a certain family likeness. The
woman who follows the vagrant
fanctee of her soul and body becomes
a dishonor -where the male relative
has reaped glory, and power, and
wealth; bat it le in both cases the
same daring indifference to the
opinions, the interests, the rights of
others, that has produoed these ap-
parently different results.
he Male and iseinate Napoleons.
In no family do you see more ex-
traordinary or interesting examples
of this transmuting power of sex
than in the family of the Bonapartes.
There was not a single one of all
Napoleon's sisters who could claim
to have been a woman of
the domeatIc vlrtues • meet of them
ehoeked even the loose morality of
the time of upheaval in which they
lived One of them in particular had
an adventurona career, full of dram -
ate and moving eventa, and ending,
after many storms, in comparatively
early death. Thia was Pauline Bona-
parte. Napoleon himself, as everybody
iterswa, wee extraordinarily- beauti-
ful in his early youtie. The nose, the
mouth, -the chin, the forehead—ail
were chisselled in such perfection of
line end harmony as might bave been
deemed possible only to the sculpture
in marble or to the cameo made by
same mtghty artistic genius. Tho
frown that never entirely left the
brow, the look of awful command that
never was entirely absent from the
eye—these were things in the lace
that made men ehadder and crawl be-
fore Napoleon. For whether Napoleon
&oiled in pieesare or growled in an-
ger, whether he uttered the word of
command ors the hattiefLell, or spoke
the peraelage of oreireary life in the
drawing-rocen—waether he addressed
man or woman—that frown In the
forebeace that giare in the eye—al-
ways remained the ame. Title pre-
vented the expreaeion of the face
from ever Ming agreeable, but did
not atter the marble beauty of the
noes', or mouth, the chin or forehead.
What Napeleon was in male :flesh,
Pauline was in females By universal
consent she was the most beautiful
woman of her time; so beautiful in
face that men were scarcely able; to
lift their eyes to look at her—so -
beautiful in figure that Canova, the
greatest sculptor of modern times,
chose her as the model for his great -
sect piece of statuary; Bu e while
Napoleon need his gifts to subdue
men and win battles. and make and
unmake mighty kingdoms and em-
pires, the sister had to play her
mealier part in a series of" wild ad-
vents/roe—in transient passion, in
levee that berned and ultimately
killed her. Napoleon lives as a.Mat-
terhorn among the general mass of
men. lonely, cruel, gigantic, impene-
trable, indestructible, rigid as the gi-
gantic pile of solid rock that rises out
of the littr122 mountain side, But the
faster is nothing more than a more
plaything of lite, shallow, uncertain,
jest a fleck of roam that appears
an the top of the watesne for a brief
moment and then melts and le lose
and forgotten
Napoleosee Greatest Brother,
These reflectionare suggested by
the disappearance of one of the last
of the female "race of Napoleons in
Paris during lard week, Lucien Bona-
parte was of all the brotherai of
Napoleon the ablest, the niost eonr-
ageous, the most Independent. When
Napoleon Intended the Chamber of the
Five Hundred in order to make him -
met Pint Consul, he was received
wit': hoots, Was declared an outlaw,
and went within an ties of being there
and then Sent to the ecaffold, It
was' one of the two or three occae
elona in his whole Ilfe when Napoleon
wee known to have shown any' sign
of fear. Ho grew deadly pale and
unnerved, and it was one of those
snprente moments in the dramatic
history of Prance when 1,11e
quiver of an eyelid might
he the Invitation to the political en-
emy to lift the knife of the guillotine..
A.nd the enemies oe Napoleon would
hese sent him the next day to the
guilloelne, If it had not been that
Lvaileit Bonaparte renmined cool and
courageone anti determined when his
mighty brother quailed, and if Lucien
had not, by Me eloquence, self-poseee-
felon. and rapidity of deelfeon, led ble
brotbee's eoldiers into the dumber,
and driven Oat as impotent and
ruined polltlelette the men who, a few
momenta before, hael in their hands
the deolsions of life and death,
Put Lttelen made a love marriage—
Mel With a, woman in a very infereir
aneira position; elits was the widow
se a otoelrefobber. His brother—rsoort
able to beetow crowns and kingdom's
on all hits broth:era and eisteris—was
furieus; deinamled that the humble
• wife obould be divorced, auti promised
to hie brother all the glories or A
stismaech 1( he would comply—ail the
_ tidiherY and diegreoe or exile if he die.
obeyed. Linden disobeyed, went into
exile, andsettled dowu In Rome as a
Mere citizen with a big library, liter
are- tastes, and Republican opinions
Ile Wile the one being eir Napoleon'e
blood whom the E,mperor (multi nei
the r frighten, nor bribe, nor ottiole.
A tort:nee-Irish Marriage.
Ono oft the daughtere of tble mar
lenge was the Princese Letitia Bona
parte. 33y one of those curious ala
tweets which were characteristic. of
the Napoleons), she became the wife
oe Sir lehonme Wyse, an Irishman, a
I •
well known and who now Is forgot-
ten. Aa was oeten the ease with Napo-
leonic marriagess, it turned out badly;
and Wyse, appointed Minister to
ereece by the British, thevernments
went calmly on his own way, and
died at Athena in the quietude or ma
tivonuttto vooittoo. Bait there wore
three obildren otr the marria.ge, sine
one of time is the woman who has
Jest deed. .
A Deughter of the Orates.
She was In many respects a true
Napoleon. She was beautiful ; eke was
tiering; she was supremely serene in
all favtunes, she had extraordinary
talenta, and she was a past mivaress
of intrigue, of influenciug human be -
Inge; oil controlling events as well
as men. Her beauty, after all, must
remain the most abiding memory of
her ; for the power of her, ueauty is
still the greatest of woman's
triumphs. Madame do Rute—the
name by wbesh sbe was finally known
—wrote novels, plays, books of tree
vel, was an editrees, a brilliant' let-
ter writer; was regarded as an
equal by some of the greatest of
France's literary geuluses, and had
the beet columns in the best papers
of the Empire—colurans in which none
were admitted except those whose
writings were touched with the wand
of genius. See was at times enor-
mously rich; she was the very heart
and core of several great political
movements—helped to break down
the Empire of France, helped to build
up the Kingdom of Italy, but, after
all, these are not the things which
remain her glory., A woman might
have done all these things—Madame
de Stasi did some of thenr and many
tlangs snore—a woman might do all
these things, and yet be a* frump or
a be, or it horror. from which all
people fled except the pale -faced stu-
dents of letters and mathematics.
Mane. De Steel, for instance—whom
I have just named—lived all her life
Le the frantic searcb for some man
who would forget her genius and love
her ugliness; and her purauit only
ended In transient passions where she
loved and the Mital suffered her love;
and it was she who wrote the epi-
taph on her own existence when she
declared in the bitterness of her; de-
ceptions that a woman's literary
fame is but the hearse oft her happi-
nese. The world, which admired ner
enormous genius as a writer, never
could entirely forgive her for her
ugliness as a woman,'
Her Supreme Beauty
'father had come. Viien a new Irieli
rebellion had beeu aippreesed. And
Louie Napoleen suffered hitterlY and
railed imelly against tide warfare,
a warfare that threatened lite ilre
every day, so emelt so, that when
- Orsini, threw hie bombs, the Eni.
peror sew the hand. of his vindictive
cousin behind the Italian assassin.
Wife of a Prezuter.
But wilen Savoy was annexed she
made her peace and was 0,c4atItted
- again to Paris. A new career was
- opening for her. Ratazzi wee eu-
- teamed by ber beauty and her wit,
and proposed marriage to ber. Italy
and e'er people aed her ruler were
In despair for her reselessnese and
turbulence of character were euown,
and the fervor and ea-Priees ot her
temperament ; aeid Itatazzi—oue of
the hopes of Italy's independence and
eanification—it was feared, would
cease, with steel a wife, to be the
Sober statesman with the well -or-
dered home wno could continue to
advents°the greet wore.
The marriage was comparatively
happy, but Maeleme Ratant did not
cease to be restless, turbulent; was
In league with all forces welch. were
trying to make her new country
free, and was in time regarded by
the Italian people as one who bad
helped to make them a united na-
tion. Ratan' died, and his widow
once more got into trouble. eler pen
was always active as well as her
tongue; a,nti she had a passion for the
novel where teepee and well-known
characters were depleted under their
disguises. In such a novel site pave
a vivid, but ruthiese account of Flor-
entine society; and its she had been
expelled from France she was ex-
pelled from Italy. •
And so it is teat Madame( de Bute
enjoyed life as Madame de Stasi nev-
er did. For she was supremely beau-
tiful both in face and figure, with
the beauty of the Napoleonic features
doubled with the sweetness and the
ehargefulness of expression that
came from her Irish blood. Few wo-
men could Wage so many con-
quests.- Kings were at her feet,
and most powerful statesmen;
but perhaps she was more gratified
by the honmge she reeelved from
men of genius—those spoiled darls
liege of fortune in such countries as
France and Italy, where the voca-
tion of the litterateur is 0. broader
and more open avenue to the love
of the fair than wealth, or power,
or a crown. It woted be difficult
to enumerate the number of liter-
ary men who were at one time or
other In love with her. Victor Hugo
had for her one of his many pas-
sions; so had Eugene Sue — who
wrote the story of his love for her
In one of his most brilliant stories;
and Sainte-Beuve; Rochefort, too.
when he was a youngster was
among the smitten. She married
first the Baron de Solana, an Alsa-
tian of gigantic fortune; and then
ehe married Ilatazzi, the Prime
Minister, and one of the most illus-
trious of modern Italy's statesmen;
and finally she married Senor (le
Rate, a Spanish politician. Casteiar
was proud to be the editor of her
magazine, and has left a portrait
of her in words rich in all his luxur-
iant imagery and eloquence; Car -
°lug Duran, the great painter, wax
glad to fix her features in paint;
Liesinger has immortalized then] in
marble.
And Her RestIenese
But love was but a small part
to a life full of the bustle, the dyna-
mic energy, the fierce restlessness
of the blood of the Napoleons. Grand-
daughter of one Napoleon, grand-
niece of the conqueror of Europe,
She thought that her tittle had come
when lier couein, Louis Napoleon,
beetime President, and then Emper-
or of France. And for a while it
seemed that her greatest ambition
was going to be gratified. Louis
Napoleon was unmarried, as every-
body knows, when he became Em-
peror; and it waa noticed that he
Was often with his beautiful, vvitty,
and energetic cousin. But Ile fear-
ed, eitehape, her brilliant wit and
her reetlese and incalculable char-
acter, and he chose instead the
Spaniard. And the lepantsit woman
<11(1 not love the brilliant Napoleon,
who in her tarn probably looked on
the Countess of etontijo, as a for-
eign upetart and intruder. Quar-
rels began, and the young daugh-
ter of the Bonapeatee had the
truly Napoleonic love of fight,
eitagerence to riceoruni, readiness to
appeal to the great public; with the
result that at the moment when, In
the magnIfieent bane at the Tuileriee,
the young girl was shining as first
of the young beauties, he was served
with a decree of expulsion. She had '
a, good deal of the Corssiean in ber
character, ioveti and enjoyed her
vengeance, rind she settled down In
Alx-les-Beine in Saves/a-WI:Joh had
not yet been annexed by France; and
there set up a *mean where every
enemy of the Emperor, at some thee
or other, found an aeylom. Victor
Hugo came there, full of hie divine
deepair; Rochefort, bursting with
Witty venom; every man whose hand
was agelnet the Emfdre. In addition
she was in correeponslenee with every
revolutlosiary In Europe,
It seats that epoch in the nineteenth
eentury when revolution was everY•
where, and the mighty changee we
have 'teen were being prepared partly
by armies in the field, partly by the
dagger and the bomb In those se.
eret and squalid meetings of half.
starved Conspiratorwho Rhos*
thrones; from garrets, and made ty.
rant's' grow pale from cellars. 1<os.
Stith ettala to her atter his defeat
in the attempt to free Hungary,
and Poles after their revolution,
and the Carbonari of Italy, who
Were ender the ordere of Garibaldi
and Mould ; and now a.ntl then there
arrived it Man even from that far.
off wetter?) Isle freini Widen her
Nriend or 'tillers.
Even still, however, her day was
not yet do-ne. A Spaniard fell a vic-
tim as had an Alsatian and an Italian
and M. de Ruth became her third hue -
band. She then became a citizen of
a third great city, and for years
was one oh the -leaders of literary
and poetical society in Madrid. But
ele de Rule ads& died in time, and Tar
a -third time she was left a widow.
Meantime events had transformed
Paris from what it vvas in the days
when she was a beautiful girl on
the steps of a throne with her eouein
holding all the resources and power
of the great nation, in hie hands.
She conformed with Napoleonic read -
taus and adaptability to tive new
order of things. She had been a friend
of Millers, the new President or the
new Republic, ab time when she
and ho were " together making
war on the Empire. She mum sent
a characteristic present to the groat,
little man. He was one day handed
a casket with tee message that it
came from a beautiful and witty
woman. He opened it, and found in -
Ade a tress of hair—just the same
length as his own diminutive person
And the two were very good friends.
But Tillers fell, and Madame de
Rut& had little sympathy with the
new- order of things which was
brought in by- Marshal MacMallon ;
she was always too much of a Bona-
partist to care for reaction. • Sae
devoted herself to journalism, and
:started her Revue Internationale,
which remained in existence as long
as she lived, and, like many another
Parisian, she accommodated herself
to the Republican times, and sought
her friends and acquaintances in the
ranks of men of letters—among
actors, actresses, in short, in that
Upper Bohemia which bee always
been especially dear to Royalties,
or quasi -Royalties, when they lia.ve
[alien from their bigher estate. '
As a llobentitan.
Her house became the rendezvous
of all sorts and conditions ot men
ane women. Here, agatai, she showed
all the weird disregarcl -for appear-
ancea and the usual •decorums which
marked all her life. She was always
ver; short-sighted, and did •not, be -
ides, much knoev or care for the
difference between one kind of person
and another. The result was that
Iter entertainments were weird
ieffaire. Young students, isuriding
penny -a -liners, practical jokers, went
there without any invitation and
often were presented under falee
names. Sometimes there was enough
to eat, sometimes there was not;
on some occasTons guests brought
2eme of their awn food with them
in their pockets. The hostess, sub-
limely unconscious, sat at the head
of the table, and talked" brilliantly
and incessantly, and saw nothing of
Lim laugliter, nor the disorder, nor
eie debauch that was going on
around her.
So she lived till she was nearly
eighty years of age. She was uncon-
querable to the end, ia the good and
in the bad sense. Her health was
perfect; her mind bright; het* cour-
age untamed; but she Bought to con-
ceal the ravages of time; she ead
not learned the art—few women, who
have been beautiful and adored, learn
it—of growing old gracefully. And
when she iveitt to her demob with a
retinue of servants, they were
laughing and grimacing Wiled her,
and the bystanders.—with that mock-
ing spirit of Paris—were looking on
in delight. And no wonder.
lier Last Phase.
Ono night, a year or two age,
wao at the Casino de Paris, a place
which bears some resemblance to a
somewhat rowdy music -hell and
dancing -room such as the Argyll
Rooms of our youth. I saw a scene -
what low -sized old lady Whose ap-
pearance could not be ignored. She
was evidently as old as 'She"; the
cheeks had fallen in, the winkles
were deep ae furrows But she woro
a brilliant wig, and was painted and
powdered, and her clothes were rich
and even magnificent. Thai ruin—
looking more desolate and ruinous
because of the awful attemptto
conceal it—wea chattering away
quite glibly; and everybody stopped
to look and Most to laugh at the
groteeque apparition. 13y a cartons
inetinet I guessed who it was. It
WWI • gadatne do Itute—the woman
whom kings and printe minieters,
poets and romancers, had adored ahd
sung and grovelled before. And now
she has passed beyond thew) voicee.
at P.
SEEN IN 11 MN' S EYE,
Ophthalmoscope Tel is of
Coming Apoplexy.
TRYING TO PREVENT FATAL EN'O.
New 'reek, March e4.—Witli great
patience and with the sole idea of
discounting -the future, by defeat-
ing death, Ralph Brandreth, true
:serer of the Brandreth Conmauy, of
al Canal rareet, is aa inmate of
the Bloomingdale 'ileum Asylum,
He is under observation, aria if he
met go a given, period Without mut-
tering ait apopletio or paraiertic
stroke he will Wore:Ise hie life in. -
sureness to the sum of $30,000, and
he will be rid of tlie fear of sucideu
death.
If the ophthalmoscope Ilea Me.
33randreth Will be pealed la a posi-
tion to estrich hie heirs; if It reveal-
ed the truth he has only a brief
thee to live.
William Brandreth, a brother of
Ralph, told a reporter las brother
had been rapidly accumulating fleash
of lett: and had practically given
up all forms of exereise, ele had had
several conversations with his bro-
ther about the matter, and the lat-
ter had admitted that perimps he
bad grown a little bit too "logey."
William Brandreth was not satis-
fled with the situation, however, and
as the result of his expostulations,
his brother finitely decided to increase
his polley In elie Mutual; Life Insur-
suranee 'Company to $513,000. The
Insurance company was duly notified
earl two of their physioians went
to the Canal street offices of the
Brandreth Company a week ago18,st
Tneeday to examine the applioant.
Nothing of a particularly Mauling
nature was noted by the physicians
nutil they began to examine Mr.
Brancireth'S eyes with the ophthal-
• moscope. Such wonderful .progress
in medical knowledge Me been made
by the recent great improvements in
this delicate instrument that oculists
aro enabled to see in the eye itself
unmistakable indications of many
forme of impending disease not dis-
ooveni,ble by any other means, and
a short examination in this inste,nee
convinced tho examiners that their
patient wee in such a condition that
either apoplexy or paralysis would
inevitably make it appearance un-
less urgent measures were at once
talzen.
Mr. Brandreth and his two brothers,
Who were both present, were made
acquainted with the facts, and it
was decided that Mr.Brandretit should
. immediately be put under the charge
of vklied physicians in the Bloom-
ingdale Asylum
The physicians impressed it upon
the brothers that no time should be
lest, and the • same afternoon Mr.
Brandreth, accompanied by his bro-
ther William and an intimate friend,
went to White Plains. ;
Mr. William Brandreth addea that
his brother was in a different sec-
tion of the institution front the in-
sane patients, and was spending the
greater portion of his time in exer-
cise'using the gymnasium ana the
isowling alleys; to a great extent. He
realized the gravity of hie situation
and understood thret.his only hope lay
Le complete rest from easiness cares.,
and healthful exercise, but he did not
lose faith in las ability to conquer
disease.
Dr. Lyons; Ur. Brandretit continued,
was unwilling to make any definite
statement as to the patient's elite
look, but feed given him to unaeretand
that -the ,chances for a complete re-
covery were about -even. Th,e unde-
niable fact was that his brother was
facing a crisis 'wbielt would not come
to a point .before four or six weeks.
If the patient ehonla face this crisis
successfully lie would probably re-
cover entirely. Sh,ould lin fail to pass
It, hoes -ever, either paralysis or apo-
plexy w -as certain.
HOST ,1111k3 TOO THIN.
LOST LOOKING FOR ARK.
Monks Ascend Mount. Ararat and
Cannet be Found.
Berlin, Maroh 24.-4eso Anneniab
monks, have mysteriously disappear-
ed Iron: the monastery near Erivan,
In Tratiseaucaela.
%bey had been close friends and
frequently spoke to the ft./sterility
of their desire to ascena the neigh-
boring Mount Ararat to dIse.over
whether or not any trace ot the
ark kill remained. %lie abbot and
others tried to disiniade them from
the project, and *When they saw
that all their persuasions were
(useless the tvvo monks were put Wi-
tter lock and key as madmen.
But they seemliest and, making
their way to the foot of tlie mount-
ain, they collected a NON: of pro-
visions( in it Nurdieli village there
and started on their lonely climb.
%bey have not been heard of or
seen sainee, and search parties littee
failed to trees) them
Servant Girl Didn't Mean to
Say Ghost, Anyway,
SAW A SKELETON IN A CLOSET.
New York, March 24.—"Ghost drives.
servants from millionaire's home,"
was the title of a story printed in
a Brooklyn afternoon -paper yester-
day. The story told how the ser-
vants in the hou,sehold of the late
Ohrietian F. Winkemeier Era re the
face of their dead master and heard
hits voice calling in the Wiokemeier
home on Eastern Parkway, Brook-
lyn. Mr. Winkemeler made a mil-
lion dollars in manufacturing candy.
There was another story that at
mysterious woman attired in black
attended the Suneral a few smoke
ago.
A Sun reporter wee told by- Miss
Anna Winkemeler that there wars
no truth in any part of the story,
and that the siervant who had ter-
eula,ted the yarn had been dis-
eliarged yesterday.
Miso WInkeineier, who is 18 years
livee In the house with her two
brothers. Shortly before Mr, Winke-
meler died they hired a new ser-
vant, named .Ellen /damson,
Swede. A. few days after she arriv-
ed in the house One of the 'other
servants met her in the kitchen and
whispered:
"Did you see the wonetn in black
at the 'funeral ? she Was also
at the eeinetory. can't tell you
anymore now, bat there le a skele-
ton in the elOset in this house.
Seel 1"
1Viien the upstairs girl met the
eook uhe"evidspered: .
"Did 'veill know there was a ghost
In the closet upstairs? 8-sh 1 It
makes me Shiver i"
Ube cook met another servant
that night and whispered:
"Ella, the upstaire girl, saw a
ghost in the closet last night, th'
Lord preserve us"
And the servant to whom this was
told, hunted up the gardener and
eaId
"Mary, the eook, and Ella, the up—
stairs „girt, saw the gliost of some
ono eix times, and I've been hearing
strenge noises myself."
The. gardener theroupen Went to
the Servant wile: started the story
end asked for further information.
This servant said that by " the
skeleton in the closet" She meant
eomething different from ghost.
Then she explained how In 1804
the newspapers printed et:eon-ins.
abaft a Menne rent brefight by the
late Mr. Whikenieler against him
eaeond wife, and how tbe Mimed b
85 co.reispondett Wes referred to as f
"'Little 'Willie"; that a blonde young C
Wentell named Minnie Arnett, rM.
- It Its supposed that they teethed ployed in the candy factory, bad • u
the line of perpetual snow and per- terstified egalnet Mrs. Whikenleler,
Ished Sterne Who, 110WeVer, woe the fruit; that t
later Minnie Avnett drove in a Nth
to the Wlukemeier honie, when the
Winkentriere lime on the Park Slope,
and shot liermelf in the vestibule
there, leeving a. note saying that
Olio had been a false witness against
hire. Winkemeler, and that Mr.
Winkerneier had promised to marry
her but wouldn't.
Tim Arnett woman recovered from
the wound and be 1800 gave testi.
mons, against Winkemeler, appearing
as ccereepondent in a divorce Hutt
brought by WM Winkeincier, which
Mrs. Winkemeler Wan and got $0,-
000 a year alimony.
After Miss Winkemeler denied the
∇ story yesterday she called all
ghost.
Mise
in au d they laughed
and denied seeing anything like a
Mise Winketneler's aunt euggested
that the ghost story' might live
been circulated by some one who
wanted to buy the property,
SUNDAY SCHOOL
•
INIERNATIONits; billSSONNO.X111
31ARCit 30, 1902.
1itiview,—Acts is 6-11;2:1-4.
Stuumary.—Lesson I. heeple : The
coneeg. kingdom. Places?: Mount Oli-
vet and Jerusalem. Luke, the author
of the Acts; Jesus about to leave
the disciples; they were command-
ed to return to a -arum -lent' and
wait for the promise of the Father ;
they ask Jesus if Ile will restore
again the kingdom to Israel; He
promises the Holy Spirit to Chain;
they' are to be witnesses in all
lands; Jesus amends to heaven; an-
gen/ appear to the disciples; they
reture to Jerusalem and dentine°
la earnest prayer.
11. Topic: The pentecutal outpour-
ing. Place: In an upper room at
Jerusalem. At the .feasst of the
Pentecost ; fifty days alter the
Passover; the disciples assembled
in an upper room; with, one accord;
suddenly a sound from heaven;
tongues. "like as of fire" sat upon
them; they were filled with the
Holy Ghiset ; epake with other
tongues; the multitude heard the
sound and came together ; Joel had
Prophesied concerning this outpour-
ing.
III. Topic; Tbe effect of gospel
preaching. Place: Jerusalem.
Peter continued his sermon begun in
last lesson; showed how great a
person Jesus was; the people were
prieked to the hurt ; they saw
their sia in °metering Christ ; Peter
nails upon them to repent; they
were promised the gift of the Holy
Ghost; three thoasand believed in
Christ and wore added to the
(there!: ; the apostles did many: signs
and wonders.
IV. Topic : The power of Jesus
Christ, Place: thio temple in' Sere-
galem. Peter and John going into the
temple see a lame man ; he asks an
alme; they ask him to look an them;
they dot not give him money, but
oommand him to riael up and, walk;
the man was healed and went leaping
and praising God.
'V. Top1c : jeaue Christ, the corner-
stone, Place: Jerusalem. Willie Peter
and John were preachine the author-
ities came upon them; they were
grieved becau,se they preached Jesus
and the rev:urea:Aloe ; the apostles
were arrested and pat in prison;
many thee heard the word believed;
the neat day the rulers assembled
and Peter and Joan were sot in the
midst; Peter vales tol them and,
again preached jams; the Sa,nhedrin
conakierpti the case and decided to
threaten them and let• them go;
Peter and erelin woirld net promise
that they would atop preaching in the
name ei' Oltristt.
VL Topic : The trials of the early
chureh, Place: Teresalem. Those who
believed were united; they sold their
possessions and had all things com-
mon; no one lacked anything; Barna-
baa sold hie land and laid the; naoney
at the apostles' eeet ; the apostles
wit:noosed of the resurrection of 'Teens
with great power; -Ananias and
Sapphire, sold theb* possessions;
they tried to deceive the apostles and
kept back pelt of the price; the Lord
is not mocketl, and as a punishment
for their sin they both fell down dead
at Peter's fees, tux came upoin the
church.
"VII. Topic: The impossibility of
suppressing the gospel. Place: Jeru-
salem. Sech great numbers , were
added to the church that the rulers
and 'Sadclucees determined to stamp
out the new religion. The apostles
were arrested and brought before
the council • Peter breached Jesus
to them; they were out to the
heart and "took counsel to slay
then: ;'' (lamellas speech, saged
their lives.
VIII. Topic: Choosing the seven
deanons. Place; Jerusalem. The
number of the disciples was large
and the apostles could not properly
attena to all the worthyl poor ; a gears: -
era moetiag was called and seven
men were chosen to attend; to that
buiness.
IX. Topic: Stephen's death. Place;
Jerusalem. Stephen still before the
Sanhedrin; makes a long address in
which he shows that their charges
are false; they cried out against
him ; cast him out of the city and
stoned him; Saul -consented to les
death.
. X. Topic:: Preaching to the Samar-
itan& Place: city in Samaria. Saul
persecuted the church greatly; the
disciples Were scattered absoad and
went everywhere preaching the
Word, Philip preached in Samaria;
many were healed; unclean spirits
Were oast out and there was much
joy In the city. Shwa the sorcerer
pretended to be converted.
Teple: Salvation through
Chriat. 'Places: Gaza, Caesara, Azo -
tee Philip is directed to go south
of Jerusalem. unto Gaze; he drarea
near to a Man of Ethiopia who is
reading the Scriptures; Philip asked
hint if he understood the passage
he was reading; the man did not,
vvheretipon Philip was invited into
the chariot; the place he read was
Isaiah 58; Philip preached Jesus to
the enatich.
XIX. Tante : "The godly walk o
the Christian. Place,: Beene. Mule
-
thine should 'walk in love, avoid all
uncleannees, covertness, focilish jeat-
ing and Idolatry ; have no fellowship
With the unfruitful works of dark-
ness; reprove sin; walk in the light;
awake from "spiritual lethargy ; be
not drunk with wine; be filled with
the Spirit; give thanIc'e to God ; sub-
mit to -one &nether.
PRACTICAL' SURVEY.
The supreme promiee of prophecy
awl the climax of gospel fulfilment
Is tile bestowment of spirituel pow-
er. This is the central thought of
the lessone of the quarter. About tbis
thatight they may be grouped ass tol-
/peva PoWer premised, Ieeson 1. Power
flossed, leesone 2, a. Iso‘ver eXereleed,
(a) in blessing, !besot 4; (b) In pun-
lestson d. Povver opposed, les -
eons 5, 7, 10. Power prevailing,
son 11. Power practised, leason 12.
Power promised. Of kids jeel pro-
phesitel nearly eight hundred years
eines; That the proplieby might be
Winkel wee Ilse "expedieney" ot
hrist'e departure. "If It go not
way, the tomfotter evil' riot Come
nto yft; but if / depart 1 wili
end hint testa Yeti." A, renewal of
lila preadae Wee the loot titterenee
Iof the amending San Of Ood.
Power pow:seed—Tile first effect of
power appliea is always gem In the
- agents of it's tranewission. In a great
factory the moving of the ponderous
maeldnery is the rirst evidenee of
its operation aml alwaye precedes tbe
aceemplieliment of the desired re.
sults. In like manner, when the
long delayed promise was fulfilled,
tee effect was first apparent hu the
waiting compaey of disciples. The
cowardice of Peter and the eelfisb
ambitions or James and John, and
the "desire to have the preeneinence'
among the rest, were alike swept
In the glorious fruitions of that
hew. Teey were Bret given power
over themselves, Personae VictoeY Is
meat a
ever the prelude to great accomplish.
Power exercieed—The earlier event
studied during the quarter wer
connected with great spiritual mov
mets, accompanied with marveliou
manifestations attesting the posse
aion or spiritual power. In lesson fou
wo have the sanie power operating
overcoming physical disease: and lie
helleficentlY in anether channel, and
firmIty. This lesson records the first
miracle of- beating under the dIspen.
setien or the Spirit. Better than sil-
ver and gold was the bestowment
received by the waiting and expect-
ant mendleant Poor in puree, tile
apostles were rich la the possession
of power, anti having freely re -
°Dived, freely gave.
Power opposed. We nin,y miss the
true point of opposition, "With
great power gave the apostles wit-
ness; of the resurreetion of the
Lord Jesus." "Being grieved that
they taught the people, and preach-
ed through jostle the resurrection
from the dead." The miracle was
indisputable. Chap iv. 14-16,
Christ had risen front the dead had
received conclusive evidence in the
miracle wrought in Els name. This
, was the great point of controversy,
- and the event which they had tried
their utiaoat to prevent, and after-
ward to disprove.
der." prevailing. God's great pur-
n
• poses can ever be thwarted. In all
history broad/y viewed, God has
"(mused the wrath of man to praise
Him, and restrained the remain-
-
,:
Power practiced. True religion is
a groat all -controlling principle
implanted in the heart, and which
finds its expression in the outward
life. Temperance consiats of Iwo
elements; the absolute rejection of
. what is in itself wrong or injurious,
- and the carefully regulated use of
what is right. A Obristian bus a
God-given right to all that ele-
vates, enlarges, ennobles, and re-
fines, but finds no occasion for tie
; sensual, the trifling and the vair
• William 11. Clark.
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TIll MARKETS -
One PS. is iS OrlrirVrirlrel
Toronto itarmerse eterket.
March 24.—Orata receipts were
bsavier on Tile street market tills
moraing, 1,900 busetels off eriag. Tibe
w
Plw*IiiNtheeLeteleileit1atsettaea7102081)0 blueisei(eliao
per
Weibel, 000 bushels of goose at 67
to 67 1.2c per imeeel, and 100 bush-
es of spring, at Oe to 69e per busilel,
Barley Iva& asteatie", 800 bueltels;
kerat 51 to 60c ,per bushel,
Oats were steady, 800 bushels
'selling At 40 to 47c per bushel.
er,ay was steady, 20 loads selling
at $12 to $13 per toe for tiny:411y
to $10 per ton for clover.
r Steaw was steady, 7 loads selling
at $8 to $9 per ton.
Wheat, white, 70 to 80 1-2e; do.,
rod. 76 to 77e; do., goose, 67 to 673e;
clg, spring, 08 to tiee ; rye, 580; ber-
leye 51 to 60 1-2c ; oats, 45 to 470;
peas, 85o; seed, per cwt., Joe, alistke,
$10 to $17; do., red clover, $7.50 to
$9.70; do., timothy, $7 to $8.25; hay,
timothy, $12 to $18; do., clover. $8
to $10; straw, $8 to $9; butter, lb.
rolls, 18 to 220; do., creeks, la to vo;
WO, new laid, la to 16e,
hemline watett garkets.
Following aro the (eosin quota.
tient< at ImPortaut ceiolLitraiesi. t Jo-uldyay:
Netw York ... 78 8-4 ead-8
Chicago ... ... 70 84 =15.8
Toledo 78
7
Delutie No. 1. Nor.., 70 1-4 75 1
2 1-48
Duluth, No. 1 hard... 7a1.4
Toronto Hides, woos, Tatum, Etc,
Toronto, March 24.—The local hide,
market is quiet at unchanged prices.
No. 1 green steers, 60 lbs. and up-
wards, Se ; No. 1 cows, 7o; No. "2
°owe, 6e; cured 7 1-2 to 7. Sc4p for,
cows, alai 811-2 to 9e for steers.
Calfskins—Unchanged at 10e for
NO. 1 green, end at Do for No. 2„
Sheepekins—The market is firm,
dealere paying 85 to 90e.
Wool—The nuirket for fleece is
quiet at 13e, and unwashed at 7%c.,
No offerings of new fleece yet.
Pulled wool dull at 14% to 150 for
supers, and at 180 for extras.
Tallow—The market le firm, with
dealers. paying 60 per lb. for render-.
ed, and 2 3i -.L to 111-20 for rough.
Small lots of rendered sell at 6 1-2a,
Toronto I ourory Produce.
Toronto, elarch 24.—Butter—The
market Is umiluenged and is suffering
mach front the contiuued offerings or
k -,w grade and meditun dailies, and
even poor add iota of creameries,
Prices are steady 81111 the demand tor
choice stuff is very good. We quote:
Creamery, prints, 92 to 230; solids,
21 to 92e: aeconeis, 18 to 20o ; dairy,
pound mile, cheice, 18 to 19c, ; large
rolls, choice, 16 1-9 to 17 1-2c ; tubs,
14 to i6n; medium and low. 10 to
12 1-2c.
saFifigr(ela-5T, ritt 14c, oturrielninegclust,eveereye
plentiful and dr mend was good,
Potatoes—There is a good (Rena nal
tov potatoes, and the prospects are
that there w:11 won ba better offer-
ing:: If the weather continues nine.
Cars on the tr tc k hge are quoted at.
et; to 68e. Potatoes out of store
sell at 73 to 80c.
Poultry—Offerings are light and
the demand k strong. We quote:
Fresh killed tutiveys al 19 LIS 12 1-2c,
anal chicketts at 70 to 80e. 'Frozen
k.*ye are quoted at 10 to lic, and
shickene at, LI to We. Ducks; aro
quoted at $1.
Baled Ilay—Dtmancl is good aid
the market is (steady at $10.25 on
track here for N i. 1 timothy.
Baled en w—Off erin a re fair
ana there n good drinei-d. Prices
are steady al $1.50 on track here.
ltriL1st 1.1 re Stock 'Markets.
London, March 24.—Cattle arrs
unchanged at 12 1-2 to la 1-2e per
lb., dresee.I weight; refrigerator beet
Is qnoted at 10 to 10 1-4e 'per lb, ,
0,0110 BOEIIS IN THE rin.o.
Has Telegraphed to Australia
for 2,000 Men,
MORE CANADIAN CASUALTIES.
London, March 20.—During a dis-
cussion in the House of Commons
to -day Mr. Brodrick end Mr. Clutie-
berlain showed themselves to be
rviee:ay. hopeful over the position of
afairs in South Africa.
Mr. C.hamberlain estimated there
were still 9,000 fighting Boers 1,1 the
The Government bias again tele-
graphed Australia, invitieg that
Commonwealth to send 2,000 more
men to Sauth Africa,
Boers Well Supplied.
London, March 21.—A despatch to
the Time from lelerksdorp, Trans-
vaal Colony, says that the Boers in
tile Western Transvaal are well sup-
plied with guns and ammunition, and
bey° mil unlimited support and a
largo amount of Ariel< that their
muiebers give them confidence, while
the blockhoues system has not yet
been extended enouglu to alarra them.
"What Is eossible has been done,"
continees the correspondent, "but
CrWing to the insufficiency of troops
the British columns have been too
anal to cope arlequately with the
Boer forces, which are all compose()
of fighting men, without any inten-
tion of surrendering."
Mere ranadinti Casualties.
Catawa., efareli 20. —The Governor.
General has received the following
cable from the Casualty Department
itt Smith Africa;
'Trooper H. F. Clement, S. A. C.,
was wounded in the flank at Waa
ponteln, near Vaal River, 15th March.
Please -inform R. Clement, Fennelia
P. O., Ont. Trooper Jas. Stephenson.
of E Division, South African Constab-
ulary, dead from enteric fever, on
tbe 17th Inst."
Stephenson enlistal in Ottawa,
but was a resident of Morewood,
Ont. Flo formerly served In D Com-
pany, Royal Canadian Regiment,
H,alifate, and was the champion
sprinter of the regiment.
A Body -guard or Cyclists.
London, March 20.—A cle•spatch to
the Daily Mall from Johannesburg
states that cyclists take the place
af the ordinary mounted escort which
usually surrounds the High Commis-
sioner when lie takes his rides
abroad. Before Lord Milner's car-
riage ride first ot all two mounted
orderlies, armed with rifles, next
come two cyclists in mufti, then
abreast, of the carriage two more
cyclists, while two mare bring tip
the rear.
THE, BRITiSt1 ESTIMATES.
Settle t orecasts of Slr Miele:el Hicks-
Ike:else( Budget,
London, March 24.--alla estimates
of expenditures as printed disclose it
reduction 01 about £26.000,000 front
Melee of 'the current; year, and the
revenue receipts, on the basis of ex-
isting schedules:, aro set down as e2,-
500,000 in excees of the present year.
Experte assume that Sir Miehael
Ilicke-liceoli will have to meet a defi-
cit of about e25,000,000, and that he
will borrow the bulk of it and provide
for the balance by inereakeed taxa-
tion. The auger duties Under the Brus-
sels agreement will nolt ne raised.
Coal export (Intim will remain eta-
tionnry, and the taxation on wines
and spirits is not to be increased. In -
Caine taxation and tobacco will be
exposed to fresh exteetions. Tobacco
affere an alluring temptation, owing
to the brisk eompetition bettveen
Draken rind American truste for eon-
trol or the home inerhoti end the eon-
sequent refluetion of prices. eir Mich-
ele Ilicke-Ileach will eurprIse experts:
if 1m reverts to n,ny !resit eortree of
revenue o'r wklene the area of indi-
rect textieloil. Console were depreseed
yesterday In Anticipation of a new
war loan.
.---eee eee.e.
'rite Hanover Ceurter says eonitner-
eitil treaty negoti felons with. 'teeth,
Austria nnel Italy are almost eon.
elneted. The teeaties will poesibly be
lnJd before the Reielieteg et the
autumn seselon,
Toronto 114ive Stook Market.
Export cattle, choice, per owl$4 80 to 65 es
3 50 to 4 86,
2 00 to 3 so
deo mcootilim
Butchers' cattle, picked 4 70 to 5 00
IlatcherW cat le, ehoice„ 4 25 to 4 85
Butchers' cattle, 3 85 to 4 (s0
do common
do cows
do bulls 3 00) ttoo 33 519
2 50 to 3 25
Feeders, short -keep 3 GO to 4 60
do medium
Stockers, 1,000(o 1,100113c 3 40 to 3 70
do light
Mitch cows, each 3 00 to 3 80
3542 026050 to
00o 5503 5001111
rameTs',erweeastliteges.cpwer • • 3 30 to 433
do spring, (molt
Egicrse, leittte,ep'ePreer wutwt 2 50 to 6 00
tat, per owt 6 00 to 0 Oa
5 75 to 0 es
Hoes,
Bradstreeas on Trade.
Beefless at Montreal has been fair-
ly active this week. The orders
from the travellers for spring and
summer goods are numerous and call
for liberal quantities of goods. At
Quebec trade conditions are muclu
about the same as the preceding
week. Tbe suow during the iniddie
GI the week had a desired effect
bi the country districts, in eoine
quarters merchandise being at a
'standstill on account of the pooe
roads. There has been a fair
amount of activity in Toronto whole -
'sale trade circles this week. The
number of country buyers in the
city has not beeu large an retail-
ers are busy reeeiving spring atookk
Rail getting it In shape for an eerie,
opening. At Hamilton this week
there has been a fair movement ia.
wholesale trade. The wholesale -
houses are very busy shipping goods;
to varloue trade centres at the mime
try, and these shipments indicate
how large the buying has been al-
ready, notwithstanding the ten-
dency in recent years among the re-
tailers to depend more ea sorting
orders than formerly. The values of
.oniestic staples aro firm. The fac-
tories] and mills are busy on orders
and it does not leak as if they will
have ally aurplus stook of any ac-
aount to Job the liext few menthe.
Tefide at Winnipeg lute beet seri-
Dusty interfered with tile past week
gif47uletti,lebul:
Pacific Coast tittles has been ratter
eathveygsonnoeur:itour:dtsr.1:14re:ceoant:
dittoes appear 10 be healthfind the
prospeets for business's the coming
season are not at all unpromising.
Trade at London has' been moder-
lately, active Lite pent week. At Ot-
tawa this week there has been ft
goad demand experienced from coml.
try retallere for the spring. Stock
tie winter goods have been -pretty
cleaned out and there appeared
ke very* little heavy stuff lett.
to oaorY Over te next reason.
Teiglis Of Toronto, took place at
IneetarteCtaMflakyinegr, formerly a, partner
rMealteedr ae't re111.°11' N°I.lif X1(1.)1,11%tvellTrigal(11:i
with embezelement, la believed to
Nevis, 'taken 01 lot $100,000.
'While Wien riminel, a farmer, lear
1(a1aslar Statism, on the C. P. 11."
was driving In his Peon reeently, he
found a, nugget on hie farm, ivhicli 110
lias had atesa,yeel, and MAr finds MD-
IMMO $50 Worth Of gold. Mr. Guise
1:61 vein see if this Means that he
idea sloold miner, oil las lamt, . , ,