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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-06-27, Page 2As Te Have ReedVet; no Walk. Sleep, for the Master slept, To rest His weary head; Weep, for the Master wept, And Mourned the silent dead. Wan for the Master prayed, Who had no need of prayer; Sigh, for the Master sighed, In the light of another's care. Heal, for the Master healed, And cured deep-seated stain; Touch, for the Master touched, With dignity and pain. Eat, for your Master ate, At holy festive board, And help your trembling feet To tread the heavenly road. Sing, for your Master sang, The deep triumphant song: Bring in the needy, bring A guilty, helpless throng. Sleep, for your Master slept, Dream of His crown and throne; Rise, in your sleepless might, And claim him for your own. H. T. Miller. Beamsville, Ont. The Porter. He is in danger of being forgotten. He comes before us oow as the man who puts cheeks on our luggage, or the man who carries parcels. The original porter was different. I recall a scene of my boyhood. I first entered the Bay of Smyrna as a cabin boy. One day I was in Asia sent ashore to deliver a parcel at the residence of a native mer- chant far uptown, and when I reached the place I made practical acquaintance with the potter, a well-dressed, comfort- able -looking man, who was impressed with the dignity of his office. I took in the scene. Here was the man and his dwelling, a comfortable bunk on the side of the portal was a part or the equipment; here he slept by night and watched by day. This portal wee the only entrance. If a pail of miles was taken out it did not escape Ms notice; if a basket of fruit went in far Inc master's table, it passed under the eye of the porter. All ingress and, egress of persons and things passed with the ap- proval of the porter. I have read a few books in my day; I have had no such help to realize a scene so vividly as that one visit afforded me. The Master gives every man his wcrlc and he commands the porter to watch (Mark xiii. 34). This simple attitude suffers no dim- inution in its transfer from Old Testa- ment to New Testament times. The entrance to the dwelling in those olden times was absolutely one, like a sheepfold formed out of a cave. The .por- ter controlled the lestablisinnent—ane most important and best trusted ser- vant of a11. The Master says, "I am the door,' the living, discriminating, absolute One. We are under -porters and we are commaad- ed to watch. What shall we let in at the portal of the soul? Truth in its purity, love in its simplicity, courage in its energy, hope with its lamp— J11 that makes for righteousness. With redoubled care we must watch what cometh out. The floor of the portal is like that beach scene so clearly set forth, dis- crimination, selection, dispersion—"They gathered the good fish and cast the bad away." Each believer must of necessity be a watcher. Constant fidelity, wonderful care, continuing instant in prayer. We must be armed for silent services if we are to be men. Our very friends are kept by silences, rather than by confidences. Our enemies are weighed and measured in silence, and we are secretly com- forted that temper and irritation soon wear themselves out. Napoleon sold the Louisiana valley in 1804 to worry Eng- land, and lately England's costly trea- sures adorned the great occasion at St. Louis. Seward bought Alaska from Russia forty years ago with the same kind of temper and lately a few gentlemen -Bs- cussed and dined together and sealed the business of the boundary line. There vole peace -before. there was war. Let. us be silent, solicitous, vigilant watchers on the walls of Zion. H. T. Miller. Beamsville, Ont. Prayer. 0 Lamb of God, who takest away the sin of the world, have mercy upon us and take sway the guilt and burden of our sin. Thou who didst shed Thy preci- ous blood for our redemption, grant us such recollection of Thy love that it may be a constraining power in us, making 1,s ashamed and sorry for all that has displeased awl grieved The and kindling aspiration and endeavor after holiness and likeness to Thyself. We thank Thee for the multitude of Thy redeemed ones in heaven and on earth whose hearts are filled with praise because .T)hou ditLet find them when they were lost and didst bring them back to God. 0 let Thy gracious work go on until the whole earth shall rejoice in Thy mien - Mon. Amen. Helping the Young. The most potent influence on earth is always a personal thing. Indeed, we only exist as persons. and we only know ourselves and know one another as per- sons, "Right" and "wrong" have no pro- per meaning except in regard to the rela- tions between persons. Spiritual forces are functions of personality. The awful power which sways the eters in their courses is blind and helpless compared with the attraction of noble example and the energy of self -forgetful love. When we reflect and consider care- fully, .we may perhaps discover the peo- ple who have exerted the most decisive influence for good in our own lives, and the way in Which they have exercised it. This will give 113 the clue to the secret of personal influence. Probably we shall find that our characters received their bent and stamp through the impressions made upon us at different times by a quite limited number of men and women. Probably they ease affected us not by their special gifts or abilities, but simply by their sheer goodness. Their faith be- came a contagion to our souls. Their eio ample lasted as "an external conscience" --rebuking and convicting and inspiring and confirming our consciences. Their lives made the great words and truthe of the Bible living and real to M. They redeemed to to the Redeemer. In their faces we caught our first glimpse of the very eountemance of Christ, revealed afresh in the lineaments of disciples who loved Lovest Thou Me? (By Rev. M. Ramsay, D. D., in Do minion Presbyterian.) "He ealth unto him the third time, I'Simon Barjonae, loveet thou mel""---. John xxi. 17. .Some people said it Was impossible to love Jesus Christ without seeing Him, But if Ile lived, Ile could be loved, for it was possible to love an unseen friend. They could. read Christ's word and, learn of His ways. Why couldn't they love Hite What was it to love Christ? Was it that they might have Him in their pos- session? When they said they loved Jesus they desired to make themselves his rather than to have IIim become theirs, They could have no love for a human being or even for an animal if they only desired that person or animal for themselves. No boy loves an animal or a human being who simply wants to. make it his own and not that he might care for it. The purer their love the more they would desire to have some friend Or animal to love that they might serve the objects of their affections and make the world happier for them. The little girl who put her arms around her moth - pee neck and said, "Mother, I want to help you," ?mega she loved her mother by willingly giving up her play in order to help the mother, As they laved fath- er or mother or brother or sister, so they ought to love Jesus Christ because Ha was their unseen friend. Why should they love Jesus Christ? They should love Him because of His loveliness. ,Jesus was the one perfect Romer of the human race. He was perfectly lovely in the best sense of thos. words. He grew up perfectly spot- less in beauty in spite of all the trials that came upon Him, and continued so throughout His whole life altogether lovely. How good, how gracious was the life of Jesus Christ. See what moral cour- age he had. They admired the beauty of the ivy but did they not also admire the strength of the oak about which it clings? In the life of Jesus they saw entwined all tenderness, all strength. The great point was that it was for their sakes that Jesus Christ wished to let men see His loveliness. It was for Peel: salvation that the Son of man cam: down on earth to live. Heaven am not be their hope if Christ had not borne Ms cross, Why was it that so many refused. to love Christ? Because they preferred other gods. There were people in Ot- tawa whohad made a god of money and were willing to become its servants ant toil for its sake. They were becom- ing old. before their time, in order that they might pile up heaps of gold and silver. They were making themselves small, were debasing their souls through wmelapping silver and gold. Gold and silver and pennies were very useful, but how many people there were that would not put them to use. Money did much good—built churches, sent out missionaries to heathen lands—but it was often the rival of Jesus Christ and drove Him_ from His rightful throne in the human heart. A Pageant of the Skies. (By A Banker). Of all the varied manifestations vi Nature's grandeur, of her power, end of her wrath, perhaps with the one ex- ception of an outburst of the imprisoned fires ever tumultuously raging beneath the crust of the earth, the numerous developments of that subtile energy— electricity, are the most awe-inspiring and the most beautiful. And of all these diversified pagegts doubtless the most transcendently suhlime is a great olis- play of the diffused. electricity known ae sheet lightning. The twilight is fast fading away and the advancing shades of night are veil- ing in gloom and obscurity both the heaving waters of the great ocean and the long sweep of the iron -bound rock girt mast with its scarped and. buttres- Sed ramparts, which for ages past have stayed her proud waves, and have with stood her most furious onslaughts. And now from time to time the line OI the distant horizon is dimply lighted up with an intermittent lambent glow, at, first but faint and sharowy but ever gather- ing in intensity and volume until at each momentarily recurring flash the heavens are illumined in a flood of shimmering, coruscating fire and the glittering, tos- sing waves sparkle and gleam as though the great deep were a splendent ocean of molten silver. And now the radiant and august sr ectaele is solemn a -ad al- together majestic; as though the very heavens were opening—and some of those who in their childhood had the rare privilege of witnessing this vivid. and lus- trous display wondered that they could not see the angels flying to and fro in the courts of heaven; as though a glimpse of the bright spirit world were opened to our gaze; as though the laws of nature were for a. moment suspend el and a supernatural brightness from realm beyonds , beyond the ether were irradiating the earth. For the firmament appears to open. and from the horizon far up towards the zenith itself the ex- panse of space is flashing in a flood of light, the momentarily mewl a; inter- vals of darkness only cub:teeing the splendour and the beauty of the display. And then thme. flashes bee eine more and more intermittent, until at length the last faint gleam fades away and nieht Ohre more asserts her sway. But though in the flights of faney this wondrous and rarely witnessed pageant may have reminded some of that Great Day when the heavens shall be opened, yet that glorious v will be in- finitely and supremely more majestic and more transcendent, For Tie whe "made the worlds," who n:neteen (anima tes ago came to this earth in humility to suffer the chastisement 'Inc TO those who will accept Him as their Relmeter will then come in the Glory of His Maj. esty, attended by angel and Archangel, and by the -shining beirarchy of heaven. • • * SAVED HIS PLAYMATE. Ottawa Lad Dived for Body, and Resus- citated Him. Ottawa, June 23.--Kieoege Termites the 8 -year-old son of Mr. Emile Tureotte, assistant superintendent of the fire al- arm system, was under the water in the Rideau Canal for five minutes on bei any evening, and would have lost his life, but for the bravery and intelligence of hie companions. Tureotte and several playmate& wont in swimming about 0 o'clock near the Exhibition grounds. Shortly after they went into swim the other boys missed. Turentte, and 'noticed bubble% rising from the deep water. They at once suspected that their com- panion had gone down, tout Albert Howse. 15 years old, who resides on Mutehmore street, swam out, dived and hi -ought Turcotte front the bottom of the canal. Life was almost extinct, but fortunately bi mates had been taught at school the means of resetreciation. An Apology Refused. Niagara Falls, June 22. --The solici- tors for Mrs, Mattie Perkily*, atA, the other parties, who are suing It number of newspapers for libel in connection with t.hi reeent murder tried at Cayuga, have refused to accept an apology print. ed by Phe Daily Record of this city. and demand t750 cash in satisfaction on the Claims. womom,041,4. Market Reports The Week, 7-7477+ Toronto UN'S Stock Receipts of live stock at the city mar- ket eince Tuesday, as reported by the railways, were 120 carloads, consisting of 1,703. cattle, 1,502 bogs, 091 sheep and lambs, with 325 calves. The quality of fat cattle, outside of the stall -fed lots, ivas not good. The high prices paid has had the effect of bringing a large wit- her of grassers that ought to have been left for at least a month or six weeks longer on the grass. There were many cattle that were certainly not fit to kill for beef purposes. The result has been that prices for this glass slumped an- other 50e per ewt, since Tuesday, or fully a dollar per met, lees than was pia for grass cows a week ago. Prices for stall - fed cattle held. up better than might have been expected, considering the heavy decline in the grassers, but they also were off fully 250 per cwt. Alice a week ago, especially for butchers. Exporters—Prices for exporters ranged from $5.85 to $0.40, the bulk selling at about $0 to $0.10 per ewt. Export bulls sold at $4.50 to $5, and some very choice quality bulls brought more money. Prime picked lots of butchers sold at $5.00 to $5.85; loads of good at $5.50 to $5.70; medium at $5.15 to $5.30; common at $4.00 to $5.10; cows, $3.50 to $4.50 per cwt. ' Mitch (lows—Trade in milch cows was not as good as it has been. The demand was only for those of good to choice quality. Medium and common light cows were slow sale. Prices ranged from $2.5 to $55 each. Veal Calves—The deliveries of veal calves were liberal. Trade was fairly strong and prices ranged from $3 for in- ferior to $0.50 for good, and $7 for prime quality new milk -fed calves. The bulk of calves sold at $5 to $6 per cwt. Sheep and Lambs—There was a good market for all sheep and lambs of good quality. Export sheep $5 to $5.40; rams $3.50 to $4.25; Iambs $3 to $6 each, and prime lots 'brought as high RS $7 each, Hogs—Mr. Harris, who bought over 1,500, quotes unchanged at $6.00 for so - timid $0.65 for lights and fats. Toronto Farmers' Market. The offerings of grain to -day were limited, consisting only of 100 bushels of goose wheat, which sold at 87e, and 100 bushels of oats at 52c. Dairy produce and vegetables in fair supply today. Butter sold at 20 to 23e per lb., according to quality, and eggs at 20 to 22c. quoted at an advance. Hardware trade continues exceedingly active. The de - mend for all lines is active. There* also a good volume of business moving in groceries. There is now a heavy movement of freight at this port. ',the amount of incoming traffic is particular- ly large. The export business continues Ott the light side. Collection% from al- most all parts of Canada are showing some improvement, following better con- ditions in retail trade. Money is still exceedingly scarce and firm. It is title factor that has to a very large extent kept prices for Canadian securities at the low figures which have been ruling for some months, There is a well de- fined hope that money will be freer in the near future, Such predictions, how- ever, have been made for some months. Toronto—There has been a good tone to general trade here during the past week. Better weather has increased the retail movement of summer lines and wholesalers report an improved re -order business. Wholesale buyers of dry goods are reported covering themselves as far as possible ahead into 1008, Cottons are firm and the linen market is somewhat Panicky. Silks are moving upwards, and Orders are already placed for this time next year. Trade in high class ready- made clothes is better than it has ever been at this time of the year. The movement in groceries is active. The movement of canned goods is now heavy and prices are firm. Teas are quiet. Money is showing a slightly easier tone. Collections are also improving. The out- look for Ontario crops is reported as sat- isfaetory. Winnipeg—Uncertainty regarding the coming crops has, to a certain extent, unsettled trade here. The situation, however, looks more cheerful as time goes on. It is now generally accepted that, while the grain area in Manitoba will be lower than last year, in the Pro- vinces of -Saskatchewan and Alberta the increase will be very large. Vancouver and Victoria—A good brisk trade is moving in all lines hero. Pro- vincial industries are busily engaged. The lumber -trade has had 6, good Sea- son. Last winter logs were scarce and dear, but the continued fine weather during the past month or two has re- sulted in a heavy cut and prices are easier, To, relieve the situation opera- tions are to be ceased, This will put in- to the labor market about 2,000 men who are badly needed in other branches of industry. Quebec—Summer trade is fairly on, and reports are generally favorable. Owing to the large number of visitors in the city during the past week retailers have been kept busy. Weather condi- tions are favorable to growing crops. Reports in the Province of Quebec east of Three Rivers are almost unanimous in their expressions. Hay is steady, with sales of 10 loads Hamilton—There is now a fair re -or - at $17 to $18 a ton for timothy, and at (dee trade in all lines of summer dry $13 to $15 for mixed. One load. of loose goods. General business has improved straw sold at $7 a ton, with the arrival of warmer weather. Dressed hogs arc steady, with light Local industries are busily engaged and quoted at $9.50, and heavy at $9. collections are fair to good. Meat, white, bushel ...$ 0 90 $ 0 91 London—Trade there and in the sur- rounding country is brisk. Wholesale and retail stocks are moving more brisk- ly. Voot and shoe factories are doing a big business for the fall and winter trade and there is continued activity in all other lines of industry. Do, red, bushel ... 0 00 091 Do., spring, bushel .. 0 87 088 Do., goose, bush 0 87 088 Oats, bushel . 0 51 052 Barley, bushel ... 0 50 059 Peas, bushel ... . 0 77 , 0 78 Hay, timothy, ton ... .. 17 00 18 00 Do., mixed, ton ... 13 00 16 00 Straw, por ton ... ... 13 00 00(1 Dressed hogs ... 9 00 950 Eggs . 0 20 029 Butter, dairy ... 0 90 023 Do., creamery . 0 23 026 Chickens, spring, lb. ... 0 20 023 Turkeys, lb. 0 16 0 18 Potatoes, per bag......120 123 Beef, hindquarters ... . 9 50 11 00 Do., forequarters ... 6 00 7 50 Doe choice, carcase ... . 9 00 950 De., medium, carcase ... 750 8 00 Mutton, per cwt. ... 11 00 13 00 Veal, per cwt. ... 800 10.50 Lamb, per cwt. ... 15 00 17 00 Winnipeg Wheat Market. Following are the closing quotations on Winnipeg grain futures to -day: ‘Vheat—June 87 3-4e bid, July 885-80 bid, October, 91 3-4e bid. Oats—June 42 1-8e bid, July 41 5-8e bid, October 37e bid. Flour Prices. Flour—Manitoba patent, $4.05, track, Toronto; Ontario, 90 per cont. patent, $3 bid for export; Manitoba patent, special brands, $5; second patent, $4.40; strong. bakers', $4.30. The Cheese Markets. lexandria, Ont.—To-day 031 cheese boarded, all white; sold at 11 5-16e at meeting to -night. Belleville, Ont.—Toelay there were of- fered 3,880; 2,000 sold at 11 1-4e; 490 at 11 5-16e; 380 at 11 3-16e; balance refused et 11 3-16c and 11 1-4c, selling on curb at 11 1-4e and 11 5-10e. Brockville, Ont.—To-day 6,000 boxes were registered, of 'which 2,730 were white, balance colored; 11 5-16c offered on board; about 900 sold on board at that price. Canton', N. Y., To -day fifty tubs but- ter sold ,24c; 3,000 boxes cheese sold 11 - Cornwall, Ont.—To-day 1,100 white and 425 colored offered; all sold at 11- 1-4e for white and 11 5-16e for colored. Cowansville, Que.—To-day factories of- fered 1,019 boxes Cheese. Sales of cheese: Alexander, 317 boxes at 11 lac; 131 -at 11 1-4e; Hodgson, 159 at 11 1-4e; Dickey, 40 at 11 1-4c, 68 at 11 3-16c, 250 at 11 1-8c; 45 boxes unsold. London, Ont.—The folloWing were the offerings on the London Cheese Market to -day; 'Elgin 100 colored; Avonbank, 145 White; Yarmouth Centre, 200 col- ored; Malalade, 165 colored; Firby, 1.50 colored; North Branch, 108 colored; Bab lymote, 120 svhite; Belmont and west. 460 colored. Total, 1,446 boxes; 400 sold at 11 1-4e to Mr. Booth. Pieton, Ont.—To-day 20 factories boarded 905 cool cured. 1,665 ordinary cured. Total, 2,570; 240 cool cured sold 11 0-16; 660 cool cured at 11 1-2c; 1,665 ordinary mired at 11 3-fia MARK TWAIN. MAKES A SPORTING OFFER TO BUY WINDSOR CASTLE. The King Appreciated His Jokes and Gave Him Royal Warrant to Im- prove on History Whenever He Felt Like It. London, June 24.—Three Kings met at 111ndsor to -day, the King or Great Britain and Ireland, the King of Siam and the king of humorists. They all seemed to enjoy themselves. The oc- casion was King Edward's great garden party of which six thousand invitations had be -en issued. Mark Twain was accompanied to Windsor by Mr. Hen- niker Heaton, the "father of Imperial penny postage," who introduced him to many of the King's guests on his way to the party, including Sir Henry Camp- bell -Bannerman, Fridtjof Neilsen, Sir Henry Mortimer Durand and Ellen Terry. .After tea, which was served on the lawns, Ambassador Reid presented Mark Twain to King Edward and Queen Alexandra, and the King and the humorist spent a quarter of an hour in conversation.' The King laugh- ed heartily at Twain's jokes. The Queen also joined in the conversation and was much amused when Twain asked if he could buy the Windsor Castle grounds from Her Majesty. Then the King caled on him to meet the other guests. He introduced. Twain to the King of Siam, the Duke of Con- naught, Prime Arthur of Connaught and .others. .Prince Arthur is to re- ceive a degree at Oxford at the mine time as the American humorist, and he remarked that lie would collapse if call- ed upon for a speech. Thereupon Twain offered to undertake to speak for him. Mark Twain wore the regulation frock coat and silk hat at the garden party. Speaking of his reception there he said: 'Ms Majesty was very courteous. In the course of the conversation I re- minded him of -the episode -sixteen years ago, when I had the honor to walk with him when he was taking the waters at Homburg. I said I lied often told about the episode, and. that whenever was the historian I made good. his- tory of it and it was worth listening to, but that it had found its way into print once or twice in uneutheetie ways and had been badly damaged there, I ad 1 I I a1 tl t should like, to go on re- peating this history', but that I should be quite fair, and reasonably honest, and while I should probably never tell the Rioted!, Ont.—To-niglit 043 cheese I story twice in the same way, I should boarded, all white; 333 sold 11 1-4c, mt least never allow it to deteriorate Vankleek Hill, Ont.—There were 1,-965 at my hands. boxes cheese boarded and sold on Vank- "Ms Majeety intimated his willingness leek Cheese Board here to -day. Bidding that I should continue to disseminate was started at lie; it afterwards raised that piece of history, and added et cam - to 11 1-4e, and after repeated calls were pliment, saying that he knew good and mule and salesmen held oat, price was sound history would not euffer -at my finally raised to 11 5-16c, and at this bead% and that if thiq good and sound figure all cheese on the board woe quick- ly sold. history needed any improvements be- yond the facts he would trust me to Watertown, N. Y.—Cheese sales—Fit' - (mese Ilmese orabemahmenta, ven thousand large, 11 1-4e to 11 1-2e: "I think it is no exaggeration to say small, II 1-2 to 11 3-4e, ruling 11 1-2e. Winchester, Ont., June 22.--To-night that the Queen looks as young and beau- tiful as she did thirty-five years ago, 1.005 white and 100 colored were reeds- when I saw her first. I didn't soy this tercel; nearly all sold on board at 11 5- to bee. because / learned long ago never ltle for white and 11 3-8e for eolored, to say an obvious thing, but to leave Bradstreet's Trade Review, an obvious thing to commonplace and Alontreal---General trade here has inexperieneed people to Say, shown considerable improvement during "that she still looks to me SS young time past week. Hot weather seems to and beautiful as elm looked thirty-five have definitely set in and retail trade years ago is good evidence that ten has not been slow to reap the advantage. thensand people already have noticed Sommer linos of dry goods are now re- this and have mentioned it to her. if ported to be moving well, Orderer for could It have said it and svoken the truth fail business continue heavy. The ar- hut I have been too wise for that, I rival of such weather as would fever have kept the remark unuttered, and the clearing up of summer lines in re- that lies saved Her Majesty the *WO - teflon,' hands is likely to much extend tion of hearing it for the ten thousand Om volume of fall and winter businems, and eneth time. although it has already been exceedingly "All that remit emit Inv proposal large. Cottons and threads hold very to buy Windsor rastle and its grounds firm. Some grades of the latter are is 9, false 11111101"—; started It myself." MANY OF ORCHARD'S STATEMENTS HAVE KEN CORROBORATED. iDefence Will Not Deny 'Them, But Will Deny HaYwood's CoLnection. Boise, Idaho, June 24.—What le ex- pected to be the last day of the direct evidence to be produced by the State of Idaho against Wm. D. Haywood, the Secretary -Treasurer of the Western Fed- eration of Miners, charged with the mur- der of former Governor Frank Stemma - berg, will be occupied by the evidence filling its the gaps left opeu because of the absence of witnesses or documents. More documents are expected to -day, and other delayed corroborative evidence will be introduced,. The State will go back to the San Francisco chapter of Orchard's story and may produce the ramie' of the sale of the gunpowder with which Orchard says he made the bomb which he says he exploded at 14 Erect Bradley's door. This will complete the corroboratiou of this chapter. So far many statements made by Orchard le his confession on the stand have been corroborated. He told of the house he visited and the rooms ha' occupied in Sian Francisco; he told of experiMents with the peculiar bomb which, lie says, was invented by Pettibone. He told of re- ceiving money from "Pat Bone," who be said was Pettibone; he told of the poi - soma milk; Ito described his plans to blow Bradley and possibly his whole family to their death with is bomb load- ed. with dynamite; he gave his hotel addrees, and each statement has been corroborated by witnesses whose testi- mony hits not been successfully aseailed in their cross-examination. , The defence will not attempt to deny or contradict Orchard's eta -temente that he is many times a murderer, or that he is guilty of crimes which lie stands charged with, but they maintain their client, Haywood, had no connection with them, and. to -day or to -morrow will naive that the charge against Haywood be dismissed, because the State has fail- ed to show his conneetion with any of the crimes Orchard line told of, or to connect him with the specific crime with which he is charged. The defence will be conducted by Mr. Darrow, and he intimates there are cur - prises to come. Evidence to -day, accord- ing to the State's counsel, will be im- portant in the linking of Haywood. The real struggle begins with the opening of the case for the defence and the outlin- ing of tts case. It is possible that court will adjourn untli Monday, when an ad- journment is taken this afternoon. C. 0. 0. F. GRAND. 'SMALL HAMLET CLOSING SESSION AT LINDSAY— LYMAN LEE RE-ELECTED. A Lindsay despatch: At the closing session of time Grand Lodge of the Cana- dian Order of Oddfellows, this afternoon, the following officers were elected: Grand Master, W. T. Junken, Fenelon Falls; Past Grand Master'D. Young, Montreal; Deputy Grand Master, Wm. Erwin, St. Thomas; Grand Secretary, Robert Fleming, Toronto; Grand Treas- urer, W. H. Shaw, Toronto; Grand Chap- lain, Rev. Dr. W. D. P. Wilson, Belleville; Grand Medical Referee, Dr. H. S. Bing- ham, Cannington; Grand Auditors, W. T. Voting, Markdale, and C. J. Musson, Termite; Grand Solicitor, Lyman Lee, Era/ninon; Grand 'Warden, Harry Bliss, St. Catharines; Grand Guard, A. Ken- nedy, Lindsay. An address of thanks was tendered the local lodge by the grand officers, which was heartily responded to. Session dosed at 4 o'clock. os 41L GIRLS AS PLATE LAYERS. Labor Scarce in Germany, They Have to Take Men's Places, Berlin, June 24.—Germany's labor famine, an aspect of her prosperity, has become so a -cute that it has been found. necessary to impress peasant girls into the railway service as plate layers and repairers. A gang of them is now hard at work near Beyersdorf, much to the disgust of the farmers, who there, as elsewhere, are suffering severely from inability to secure sufficient men or women workers. FUSHIMI PLEASED. HAD GRAND TIME AT BANFF— CAUGHT FISH. Royal Train, Banff, Alta., a une 24.— The Imperial train will leave Banff this morning as per schedule at 10 o'clock. Banff has proven so attractive to Prince Fueliimi that during his stay of 36 hours at Banff, the weather conditiona though not unusual here, have been ideal in every respect and the entire party is in raptures with this beautiful mountain resort and its environments. The fishing expedition proved most suc- cessful. A t'large catch resulted of which his highness accounted for a full share at one time getting a "double" and al- so having the good fortune to land two of the largest fish of the day. SLIPPED OFF A LOG. Bernardo Home Girl Drowned at Delhi Yesterday. Delhi despatch: This afternoon about 6 o'clock a Barnardo Home girl named Martha Parsons fourteen years of age and employed at:the home of Dr. Davies, was accidentally drowned. She and an- other girl were down by the creek, bare- footed, and Martha Parsons walked out on a log overhanging the water to wash some sand off her feet and. slipped in. She was in the water about ten minutes before being removed by Dr. Davies. All attempts at resuscitation were without avail. • • • ALL -RED ROUTE. Lord Strathcona is Confident of Its Success. , London,. June 24.—The Daily Citron - id has interviewed Lord Strathcona on the all -red route. It says that the gated old 'Malt of the empire is full of ardor for the new scheme, hopeful of its early realization and confident of its success, Lord Strathcona consider- ed that the new route would not be confined to a passenger -and. express - service. Canada was ready with a contribution equal to that of the Unit- ed. Kingdom for it new service to Hali- fax. • • ea' - BANK TELLER DROWNED. Harold S. Painter Loses His Life at Vancouver, B. C. Vancouver, B. C. despetelo Harold- S. Painter, aged '21, teller in the east end branch of the Union • Bank of Canada, was found drowned in the Illeglish Bay bathing grounds this evening. He was bathing with a number of others. Ms companions returned to the bathing sheds, awl missing him, went out to look, and found the dead body. Death is considered to have been clue to heart failure, Deceased came west from Ot- tawa. He was four years in the Union Bank mit Moose Jaw, hut had been beet - about three months. i• JEWEL ROBBERY CHARGED. --- A Montreal Man, Named Smith, Arrested in France. Paris, June 24.----A man named Smith, hailing from Montreal, has boon arrested at Lille, charged with perpetrating the recent jewel robbery at the Palais Royal. lie is alleged to be a member of tin international gang of thieves. In his rooms were found twenty-five suits of elothee, twelve overcosts, eighteen Pan- ama, bats, twelve pairs of boots, a box containing jewels to the value of 1E28, besides a complete burglar's outfit, zy occurred. WASHED AWAY. The Rio Grande Causing Much Dam- age and Distress. Albuquerque, N. M., June 24.— The Rio Grande, swollen by recent rains in New Mexico, has passed the danger point in the valley south of this city, and thousands of dollars' worth of dam- age has been done. Cs'endelajara, a small hamlet of several hundred people in Socorro county, is reported entirely washed away, and the natives homeless. Great damage has been done in San Antonio and at Sam Pedro, and small native villages below San Antonio. A large force of men is at work building levees at San Antonio to keep out the water. At Guadalajara the river suddenly changed its channel and the villagers barely escaped with their lives. e•se CUT ADRIFT. NATIONALISTS SEPARATE FROM THE BRITISH PREMIER. They Decide to Inaugurete at Once a "Great and Really Virile" Movement for Home Rule. Dublin, June 24.—Carrying to a logical conclusion their recent repudiation of the Government's attitude towards Ire- land, the Nationalists to -day formally cut themselves adrift from Sir Henry Campbell -Bannerman and his colleagues, and initiated a new and active campaign for Home Rule. A meeting of the Irish League directory assembled here, under the presidency of John Redmond, and sat for four hours to -day. The official report records the adoption of several important resolutions. By the first of these it was resolved to "inaugurate without further delay a great and really vinil movement to win thee full na- tional self-government which must be secured before the foundations of Ire- land's future prosperity can be laid." The resolution affirmed the country's demand for an elected Legislature and executive, responsible thereto, and urg- ed a speedy and united expression of the national determination to secure these rights. The directory was empow- ered to organize a series of great public demonstrations to this end throughout the country, and all the members of the party were called upon to energetically devote themselves to the promotion of vigorous and sustained agitation throughout the coming autumn and win- ter. The meeting recorded its confidence in the Parliamentary party under the lead- ership of John Redmond, and heartily approved the party's decision to with- slraw its general support front the pres- ent Government. .•. TELLS WAR STORIES, THEN TOSSES CHILDREN COPPERS AND SHOOTS HIMSELF, New York, June 24.—After playing for an hour with a score of little girls at Fort Clinton and telling them war stor- ies'Philip Iathm, war veteran and real estate dealer, shot himself dead. in Cen- tral Park to -day. His last act before pressing the muzzle of his revolver to his right ear was to plunge his hand in- to Ine pocket, draw out hundreds of dillies, nickels and pennies and throw them in the air. As the coins came down on the grass the children scrambled for them, and while they gathered the dimes and nick- els the old man fired the revolver and ended his life. The old man entered the park at 10 o'clock, and began playing with a half- dozen children. He gave them a handful of small coins and soon other little girls and boys came till the veteran Was sur- rounded by dozens of clamoring young- sters. Ile quieted them by saying he would tell them a story, and they listen- ed with rapt attention to his narrative of the battle of Harlem Heights. It was a dramatic prologue to the tragdy that came a few moments later. Lahm lived at 01 East One Hundred and Eighth street, only a short distance from old Fort Clinton. DEATH RESULTED FROM BLOW. Verdict at Inquest On Man Killed in Fight at Stratford. Stratford despatch; The inquest on the death of Noah Mills, Wtt9 finish- ed here to -night, the jury returning averdict that the deceased came to hie death tie the result of a blow struck by Henry l'ex'keyer, in a, fight between the two. Crown Attorney McPherson prom- euted and .I. C. Making appeared for the prisoner. Little new evidence of importanee Was adduced. 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Young Dorland Foote Shows Police How He Fired Several Buildings—Amy Stewart, Aged Sixteen Years, Ar- rested as an Accomplice. Belleville despatch: Hardly anything else is being talked. about in this city to -day but the discovery and arrest of Dorland Foote. time toine-andemeholte year-old incendiary, who bee admitted several times since taken in custody having set fire to several places withia/ the past three months. Sergeant Hayes, who suspected the boy, took him over the scene of difter- cut fires, and the boy showed exactly how he did his work. He was armed with matches and yesterday lie went in the rear of the stable, struck a match and. threw it blazing into the hay in the rear of the horses. As' soon as he did this he ran to the City Hall, about 150 yards distant and was there when the alarm was sent in. A young girl named Amy Stewart, alias Browne, sixteen years old, wee taken into custody as an accomplice. The boy said the Stewart girl incited him to do the deeds. In the Police Court to -day before Mag- istrate Masson and Crown Attorney An - demon young Foote told et remarkable story in a very terse, forward way and very intelligently. He said that a few days before May 24th, the girl Stewart proposed to him that they burn all the barns and frame buildings along the east Side of the river between the lower bridges, ci distance of 200 yards. Both* of them, he said, set fire to ,Tenkine livery stable twice, but each time the fire was extinguished. Crown Attorney Anderson says Piet the boy will probably be sent to an in- dustrial school and a home may be found for the girl. The Magistrate adjonerned the ease till Monday, allowing the boy to go with -his mother and the girl with her mother until then, 5. CABRERA DYING. BLOOD POISONING FOLLOWING EX- TRACTION OF TOOTH, Mexico City, June 24.— President Es- trada Cabrera, of Guatemala, is dying. This startling statement was made last night by Jesse D. Games, who is in the city azseitalyma,donfifNidiecialtriangluazent of rosi- n'. Games claims to have received In- formation i eferto aatn iltireqstim de setnitongl)ereerilmin suffering from blood poisoning, whioll tfioglhl:wdedays. the extretion of a tooth. Ac- cording to Mr. Gomez, President Cabrera has not left the executive mansion for e lie—Does your -father know I write poetry? She—No, dear; I've told him about your drinking and your gambling vitleass.obntoit el. couldn't tell hint all yolir