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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1907-12-12, Page 2--r LESSON XI. -DEC. req. Vonsmentary.-I. The Lord. calls Sam- uel (vs. 1-10.) 1. The child Samuel - "Samuel is supposed to have been about twelve years old at this time. Ilia duty in the tabernacle was to perform those easy eervicea which his strewth would allow, suck as opening the doors, light- ing the lamps, etc. He did not remde in the eanctuary, but in one of the aped - monks around ita which were kept far the use of the priests anti Levites. Eva the high priest, kept Samuel as his spa. eial attendant, not because such au of- fice was assigned him, but, because of the aeep interest he felt in lain, He was Seawall instructor," Was precious -The meaning is that direet revelations from God had, become exceedingly rare, This Was because of the sinfulness of the Prieethood and the people. As sinfulness in the individual heart drives away the Ffoly Sphit, so in the Hebrew nation it drove away the spirit of prophecy, Whed. Com. No open vision -Literally, . no divine communication was spread; that is, published abroad,. made known. -14ritertv., l'ilgre wee no publicl,v recog- nized prophet, whom' the people could wasn't and from whom they might learn the will of Gel -J., & 13. 2. At that time -At the time when the word of God we* rare and there was great spiritual darkness. In his place --In his usual place of rest. It was in the night. 3. Ere the lamp went out .... went out -This refers to the golaen lamp in the sanctuary. /t was lighted at sunset and. burned until morning. It is proba- ble that the main lamp of the candle- stick was never allowed to go out, and that ealY the branch lamps went out (Exod. 27; 20, 21; Lev. 24; 2, 3.) This was some time in the night. Samuel was laid down -Near to Eli's .room, within calling distance, if the aged man should want auything the night. 4. Lord called Samuel -God called him by his name. Some think the call came from the most holy place. Hero am I - "Being unacquainted with the visions of the Almighty, he took that to be only Eli's call, which waS really the call of God!! 5. Thou °allot me -Samuel's industry and readinese to wait on Eli, aro good examples to children to come when call. ed. He hears and runs at every call, 7. Did not yet know the Lord -"He did not understand the way in which God re- vealed himself to his prophets." Many still fail to recognize God's mai. 8. The third time -The call was repeated again and again, for God saw that Samuel's' failure to answer was not from -diso- bedience, but from lack of knowledge as to who called him. In fact, the quick answer to Eli's supposed csal showed that he was ready to obey God as soon 1141 understood it. Obedience to par- ents and teachers precedes obedience to God. Eli porceiyed-Throagh the uncer- tainty of Samuel God. wasccalling the at- tention of Eli to the feet that a message was about to be given. "Eli could not but conaider the eference, width the Lord showed to child, before himself and family, as severe and humiliating rebuke.'" --Se t. 9. speak, c. -This was the nsual way arailiTtbs ie prophets spoke, when they had intimations that the Lora was about to make some special revelation. - Clarke. 10. came, and stood -From verse 15 we learn that Samuel beheld a vision as well as heard a voice, and, therefore, it is the most natural to understand the words, "came, and stood" as meaning a visible appearance. -Terry. Samuel an- swered -He was coraposed this time, and did not rise, but gave attention, and ask- ed God to speak. II. The Lord's message to Samuel (vs. 11-14). 11. said to Samuel -Through Samuel, similar to one which ho had previously sent by a holy man (1 Sam. 2:27-36), but which did not have sufficient effect to enable Eli to compel his sons either to li 'a . ' t leave the ser - vise. of God.- ,. . be ears, . . , shall tingle -With horror and alarm. As a loud, sharp, discordant note thrills one's ears -with pain, so the bitter tid- ings of Israers woe in the judgment about to fall on Eli's house would shock all Israel. -Terry. 12. in that day -In the day when my judgments shall be meted out "The dreadful future here predicted open with the invasion of the Philistinee, recorded in the next chap- ter, and the disastrous victory gained by them, involving the loss of the ark, and With it the loss of the gracious pres- ume of God in his sanctuary for more than a ,generation, until the ark was broaght4o. Zion by King David (2' Sam, aa -1:17). I will perform, etc. -I will bring ,,e- all the judgments against the house of f - Eli Oat / have ipoken. The particulars . of We sum we read in chapter 2;27. ' . Divine threatenings, the less they or, are heeded, the more surely they will come, and 'the more heavily they will fall. 13. I have told him -God gave Eli no- ,., tics of what the end would be of such indiffdrence. These warnings were given in love; he still had an opportunity to change his ways. will atalgeahis house ._,,,, - fof ever -en. will- continue teasacecute judgments until it is destroyed. God re. gards it as iniquity to allow children to choose their own evil ways. Eli's eons Were wieked. Their father knew the Lord, but he neither taught his Ail. dren, nor restrained them by parental authority." restrained them not -He reproved them in a weak way (1 Sam. 2: 23, 24), but he did not use his au- thority and remove them from office. 14. shall not be purged.-aThe sons of Eli had sinned ‘svith a high hand' against light and warnings, and for such usirepentent, presumptuous offenaers the law lied no atonement. See Xum, 15: O7-31."-eam. Tab. What is spoken here relates to their temporal death only. - Clarke. Mercy for their soul's salve. tion was still extended to them and if they had repented they might have been raved, But every effort to restrain these wicked sons proved unavailing, and their doom finally earn°, sudden and ir- resietible. 411. &mud tete the message to Eli ars. 15-18.) The boy Samuel remained on his couch until morning and then py ' arose and performed lds; llama duties about the tabernacle. But he hesitated about making knewn. the message to iet. ring to the .14ord in defending tae, she .p when sent on the errand that ef. forded the opportunity to fight the Phii- ietinee and deliver Ierael Sam. 17. Gideon was threshing wheat when the call came to hint to prepare to save Israel from the bands of hiiellanites thulg. 6. II, 12). Moses Wee leading the floele of Ms father-in-law to the back ehle of the desert wben called to leasl Israel from Egyptian bondage (Excel. 3, I-8). Elislia, was plowing in the field when called to prophetie office (1. Kings 10. 10). Nehemmit wee waiting on King Artaxerxes, as eup-bearer, when permit. ted to go and rebuild, 'Jerusalem, the home of his fathere (Neh. 2. 1, 5, 0). Po minister to the Loi•el in the little things is the sure way to be ready for the great cemmisosion. 11. A calles1 child. "The Lord ealled Samuel.' The call came the night, the still hour of darkness. Its sound was that of a IlliMall voice. He could tot tell it from the voice a Eli. There was a tenderness and sorrow and love M it. An obedient child. "Here am I." A prompt reeponse to the summons, im- plying readiness to obey. To be ever where God knowe where to find us, and ,vhere our friends know where to find us, ready to attend to any call, human er divine, ready to obey or explain, this 'e what God would have of His children. "He ran" (v. 5.) IV. Au undeveloped child.. "Now Sam- uel did not yet know the Lord, neither was the word of the Lord yet revealed unto him" (v. 7.) He had never heard God's voice, never had had a vision and did not know the Lord by a special reve- lation. Many are fanailiar with the writ ten word, and know Jesus as the incar- nate Word, who do not recognize the Lord in his providenees and are ignorant of the etill small eoice of the Holy Spirit 'in" the heart (Hab. 2; 1, margin). V. An instructed ehild, "Speak, Lord?' (o. 0.) Eli taught the ohild to love the Lord. Ile not only kept Min busy about the tabernacle work, but let bim assist in the temple worship (2; 18.) When Eli perceived that the Lord had celled the child he did not hesitate nor remon- strate. He did not say, "The child is too young." "He cannot understand." "There must be some mistake." He bade the little one say to the Lord when lie should again call him, "Speak, Lord, for thy servant heareth." VI. A listening child. "Speak, for thy servant hoareth" (v. 10.) God speaks to men. Oh, what an art it is to listen! Notice the sevenfold injunction to the churches. "He that hath an ear let him hear what the Spirit saith" (Rev. 2; 7, 11, 17, 29; 3, 0, 13, 22.) God wants us "swift to hear, slow to speak" (Jas. 1; 10.) He wants us to think more of what he would say to us than of what we have to say to him. The angels "do his commandments, hoarkening unto the voice of his word" (Pisa. 103; 20.) Tell. ing God our wish and not waiting to know his way is the cause of many a failure, but "Whose hearkeneth shall dwell eafely, and shall be quiet from fear of evil" (Prot,. I; 33.) In London may be seen the ancient Temple church, built by the Knights Templar seven bun. tired years ago. On every hand are fig. uree of stono of tne warrior knights, whose fury in conflict shook the world, although it was in the name of Christ. High up on the wall of the tower is a ehamber too small for the occepant to either stand, sit or lie down. In this ''penitential cell" any knight guilty of crime was shut and left to starve. An opening in the wall revealed the high altar, so that the only glimpse of the outer world given the criminal should incline his thoughts toward God. The widow of one of the most criminal of these knights gave up her life to pray- ing for the pardon of his sins. She re- tired to a cave hewed out of a chalk cliff, making a large, circular cell. Here she lived for many years, alone, in silence. Her time was spent in prayer, and in cutting on the chalk walls figures of saints, crones, martyrs. But to -day we know that it is not thus necessary to thus shut ourselves up, in order to gain the favor of God. A. C. M. Nita HolY Mild One SO young bear st message reprovieg an old Man, and. lte the high prieett But Eli insisted that nothing be hid from him, and Samuel told bim all. Then mid, Eli, with a settee of las own anworthinees, "It if: the Lord; let him do what eeemeth him good." IV. Samuel inereased infinenee and power (vs. 19.21). Samuel grew nnd the Lord woe with John filling Lim with grate: and wisdom. /led "let none of 'words fall to the ground." hut fulfilled Hiss predittione and mused eouneels ' to Im reeeited by Um people, through- out the whole extent of Palestine. All Tared knew then Samuel Wit9 faithful tiad is prophet of the Lord. And the tord continued to reveal Himself • to Samuel in Shiloh. PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. A minietering &Ha -David was min•:1 •• • • YORK LOAN. SHAREHOLDERS WERE NOT CON- SULTED BY DIRECTORS. Application Forms Varied -Official Re- feree Authorizes .Payntent of 438,o35 Commission on Land Sales to Liquidators. 7'011.0NTO LiVa sTOVK. lleseipte el live stock at the city Market were large for Wednesday and Thureday, over 120 leads, but not being able 00 get the G. T. Railway return% wo cannot glee a definite account of the insult:Ors la each class, but Will give a full aeceunt in our 'text 11tst10. Mpor tera-T hero was one load of exportere that weighed 1450 lbs. that were bought ter butcher purposes at $4.75 per cwt. There were no buyers Mr expert cattle. Buteherst-A. few geed loads at 410.15 to $4.50; good eowe and Medluin steers, 53.25 to $8.80; common Cows, and light sneers, and heifers. 52 to $3; canner bulls, at 760 to 52 per ewt, arse elle toae of cattle (ex- porters), from Maybee fto McDonald, 1410 lbs. each, at 54,75 per cwt, Feeders and Stoekers-Best feeders, 1000 to 1100 lbs., at 55.50 to 53,99 per cwt.; best feeders, 900 to MO lbs., at 52.90 to 53.50; boat stackers, SOO to 900 lbs., at 52.85 to 13,16: be.st stockers, 000 to 800 lb4., at $3•40 to 52.75; common stockers, unchanged, at 31.50 to 51.75. 'Milkers aud Springers -Prices ranged from 525 to $62,50 each. Veal Calves -Receipts not very large and quality generally not first -elms. Prieee are steady at 53 to Se per cwt. Sheep and Lambs. -The run of sheep and lambs was large and prices were lower. Ex - Dort eews sold at 5176 to $4; lambs, 54.25 to 55,25 per cwt.; calves, at 53 to 56 per cwt. Cull sheep, $2.76 to 53 per cwt. Hogs -Deliveries light end prices unchang- ed, Mr. Harris qqates selects at $5; lights. $4.75; atores. 54.00. BRITISH CATTLI1 MARKETS, Londom-London cables are Dreier at Ile to 12 3-4c per lb., dressed weight; resriger- ator beef is quoted at 100 to 10 1•20 per pound. LONDON WOOL MARKET. London. -The offerings at the wool auc- tion sales to -day amounted to 6323 bales, chiefly medium and inferior grades. The demand wee quiet, and prices were ist buy- ers:. favor. A few parcels of fine Victorian emrinoz were taken by Americans at 1s 1 1-2 The pales will close Dee, 10. WINNIPEG WHEAT MARKET. • ' Followiug are the closing quotations cni Winuipeg grain futures to -day: merinos were Gain by America:As at 1s 1 1-2. Oate-Deo. 45c bid, May 62 3-4e bid. TORONTO VARMERS' MARKET. The offerings of grain to-chey Nyare +neat is easy, with sales el 200 bushels of rail at 980. and, 200 bushels of goose al 87e. oats easy, 300 bushele eeiling at 61 to M. Isuchwinfut sold at e4c ft bushel for 100 uushols. Vareiers' produce in fair supply, with prices geourally unchanged. .uairy but- ter sold at 25 to 30c per lb., according to quality; new laid eggs at 45 to 50e, and iitor- a ge at 25 to 30c per dozen. Poultry plenti- ful stud eases leay in fair supply, with sales of 20 loads at Mt) to 521 a tom Straw ousy, case load selling at $16 a ton. Dressed hogs are unchanged at sore to 37.76 for light, and at 37.26 tor heavy. Wheat. white, bush. .. ..50 98 $ 1 00 De., red, bush. .. .. 0 98 1 00 Do., spring, bush. 0 90 0 95 Do„ goose, bush. „ 0 87 Q 00 was, bush. .. 0 51 o2 Barley, bush. 0 70 00 Rye, bush. .. 0 83 00 Peas, bush. .. , . 0 86 87 flay, per ton 12 00 2 00 Straw, per ton 16 00 00 Seeds- Alslke, No. 1, bush. .. .. 7 50 00 Do. No. 2. .. 6 75 25 urossee hogs •• .. 7 25 76 J2ggs, Dow laid, dozen .. .. 0 45 50 Do., storage .. 0 26 80 Butter. dairy .. 0 25 30 Do., creamery 0 30 32 Geese, dressed, 0 OD 11 Chickens, per lb. .. 0 08 11 Gneiss, dressed, lb. .. 0 00 Turkeys, per lb. .. 0 12 14 Apples, per bbl. 2 00 00 Potatoes, per bag 1 00 10 Onione, per bag .. 1 OD 25 Cabbage, per dozen 0 40 Beef, hindquarters .. 7 00 oo Do., forequarters 4 00 6 00 Do., choice, carcase 6 75 7 25 Do., medium, carcase .. 00 5 50 Mutton, per cwt. '.. 8 00 9 OC Veal, prime, per cwt. .. .. 7 50 10 00 Lamb, per cwt. .. 8 50 9 60 Toronto despatch: Another sitting was given yesterday by Mr. George Kompele, efficial referee, to the claims of holders certificates in the York County Loan and Savings Co. Mr. .A. E. Herington, accouutant the Natiopal Trust, reported that of the 4,081 holders, -representing $323,-.' 311.42, he had 'discovered that the ap- plications of 3,034 looked the clause indicating that preferred stock was asked for, The certificates, laowever, bore the sttme inscription :le that issued cm the other applications, reading: 'This stock shall be a first charge upon the securities of the company," Mr. Stewart Lynn, former secretary - treasurer of the York Loan, was ex - mined as to the notices issued calling meetings of shareholders. The witness said h. had looked on the various no- tice:a, but failed to discover any refer- ring to the passing of by-laws author- izing the raising of money by the issue of debentures, by preferred stock or by loan. The directors appeared to have considered the shareholders a negligible n titso Mr. Herington Was questineed by counsel as to the changes ilt the na- ture of securities between the annual statement at the ena of 1901 and that of 1005. The great teduction mora gages was ceused by the discharge es the blanket Mortgage on the plant of the Southern Light and Power Com• luny, in exchange of shares, time in. creasing the amount under stock and bonds. A further adjournment was made to enable Mr. Herington to prepare a etatement showing the inovemente. each month during 1003, in the nature of the securities held by the• 'York Loan. An order by 'Arr. tlem.ge Kappele was filed at Osgoode Hail 'vesterday authorizing the - National Trust to. pay themselves $8,Mi, as snmetission - on the sales of York Loa,' real &date effected this year, The remuneration is fixed at two and a half per cent ou the priees realized. 4 • * • moults DROVE OFF BANDITS. A. Pierce Bettie at the Monastery Near Pskov. St. Petersburg, Dee. 0,- Particulars have just been received here of an at- tack by • twenty Lettish-Ketlionian bandite upon it monastery near Pskov, The fighting was fierce and determined. The bandits were finally driven, off. by the monks, who had six men. killed and three witunded .in the fra . The aggro& 8011 were then pursued y .troops ttnd gindarmes and practically exterminated. V-•,k-ttle .•••••••••••••• and mashed the doors. beide a ti fight ovellrreel, and the furniture ..eits So damaged that the theatre had to suspend performances. Half a dozen pollee were 80011. on hand, and dispersed the students. The city will likely be asked to pay for the daumge to the theatre, us no students were arrested. KING GUSTAVE, The New Ruler of Norway and Sweden. Funeral of the Late King. Stocishohn, Deo, 9. -The body of King Omer of Sweden who died here yester- day morning is being embalm& The necessary arrangements for the funeral probably will necessitate delaying this ceremony for a fortnight Queen Vic- toria, wife of King Gustave, arrived here thie morniug. I * TEMPTED TO DEATH. Two Men Offer Children Ten Cents to Go Oa Ice. Toronto, Dee. 0. -Lured to death by the offer of lee made by two unkouwo mem who ran away directly they saw the danger -that is the startling eircum- stance connected with the drowning in the Don on Saturday of 0 -year-old Lam- ence Erns. According to Ethel Marshall, of 13 SO David street, who, with her sis- ter and a companion, was on the east side of the Don flats, about 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon, ihe wee uporeaile eel by two men, one elderly, with grey hair, arid the other about 2O years of age. The younger men miked her to "try" the ice, which covered the stream, by crossing on it, Ile promised her Mc, bat she declined the offer and a short time later he made the same pommel to her sister Flossie,. and to Floseie Dickie, of Arnold avenue. They, too, ref used. Then, they saY, the same young man asked youne Clarence Ellis who went out a .few feet and then, the ice break- ing, sank. Both .men, without attempting the slightest assistance, then rushed up. the hill toward Broadview avenue and ran south. The girls say Bradstreet's Trade Review. Montreal -General wholesale trade has taken on a slightly quieter tone dur- ing the past week. Holiday goods axe in the retailers' hands and there is consid- erable satisfaction expressed at the ex- tent and volume of the ordering in this eonneetion. The retail holiday trade opening out well. Cold weather bus started a good movement in winter lines and a sorting trade is ex,pected to spring up. Wholesale dry eoods houses are busy stock -taking. Riesults are not yet announced, but the year's operations are expected to show satisfactorily, The tex- tile trade continues active. There is no cancellation of orders on account of lower prices, as is the case in the Unit- ed. States. Jobbers have all along been unable to secure their full requirements, and though they are not placing heavy orders, neither they nor the retailers are cancelling orders already given. Val- ues are generally holding steady. Col- lections are, in most cases, fair. The money situation is still soinewnat•strahe ed. Toronto -The .holiday retail trade is opening up briskly here and the expecta- tion is that the volume of trade milt be large. Wholesalers report that the or- dering of novelties and general Cbrist- ems liues has been heavy and welt va to expeetatiOns. Wholesalers are enteeing apon a quiet season, and. in many eases preparations for stock -taking are under way. Cold weather has given quite en impetus to the movement in winter lines, and there is already some sorting trade. Winnipeg -There is a good tone to general business here. Sleighing has belps ed the retail movement both here and in country districts. The Indiday trade has now begun to shoW a brisk move- ment. Vancouver and Victoria -Despite the fact that there is some easing off in in- dttstrial activity adong the coast, whole- sale and retail trade continues quite brisk. The lack of ready money is af- fecting some industrial aed real estate interests. Quebec -Wholesale trade is somewhat quiet, which is usual at the season dur- ing stock-takina. Hamilton-C(7U weather has given an impetus to the movement ot winter lines. 1,Vholeside tiade is quiet., leaving finished with the holiday ordering. Colo lestions-are generally satisfactory, London -The holiday trade there ill ospenieg out well ,and there aro signs that the sorting trade iit winter goods will soon mere more freely. Collections are gocid and the eountry trade is'nose fairly brisk. Ottawa -Trade at the moment is the improvement in the matter of collec•- Lions. The busineas in holiday linee has been_ large and the retaittnevement is already active. Local industries Are fairly busy, • 'BROKE INTO THEATRE, (Meet's 'University Statical Went on the Rampage. Kingston, Dee. 8s -At 10 (Meek on Saterday night Queen's University sta. (teas, several hundred strong,af ter the alma meter election rettnns had been announced,performed their usual street, itronts, finishing up by taking eootplete peseession of the three moving.pictare theatres on Prineess street. At •the 13ijou the doom were loeked until tile audietice had departed through a.,rear entritnee, The students wou!d pot votit 10 011. they could identify the AMBASSADOR BRYCE MAY QUIT. His Successor Likely to be Sir Henry Howard. ••••••.. WITH ONE SHOT. PA••••••• •••••••••••• • Maine Hunter Killed Two Deer, Buck and Don. Orono, Me., Dec. 9,-A positively authenticated instance of a hunter killing two deer with one rifle shot occurred one day last week less than tw,, wiles from. this village: lidwin Currier and two friends, all living at Basin Mills, were out hunt- ing, when they came upon two deer, a small doe and a large buck. Both were side by side, the buck a few feet from the doe. Mr. Currier fired at the buck, but at the mon-lent he pulled the trigger the doe threw up hot head. Great Was the hunter's surprise to see, not only the buck fall, but the doe to stagger off as if badly wounded, and fall within a few rods, Examination showed that the bullet had gone through the doe's neck, cut. tang the large vein, and had strua th.) buck fairly in the spine, killing him almost instmtly. London, Dec. - It is expected that Mr. Bryce, the Britisb Ambas. sealer at Waahington, will visit Lon- don early in the year for the pur. pose of consultation with the au- thorities of the Foreign ,Office, princi- pally with reference to the relatioas .be- tween America and Japan. It is by no means certain that he will retur 1, and in case he does not his successor will probably be Sir Henrsr Howard, the British Minister at the Ilagee. 14 is said in explanation of these reporte that Avilere..Bryce never contemplated long le' sidence at Washington, and named a ygar as the possible dimit of his ser - The British authorities for olo lotus reasons are extremely, anxious ts main- tain geod relations between the United States and Japan and if Mr. hate should insist on retiring they will send a man of wide diplematio ex- perienCe to handle the situations selaich might arise. BOMBS TO KILL CARLOS. Startling Discovery in the Lisbon Opera House, London, Dee. O. -According to the Ma- drid eorerspondent of the Express, two bombs have been found beneath the royal box at the opera house, Lisbon, where King Carlos will attend the open- ineof the •season of December 180. Electric wires lam the bombs led to the rear of the stage. . The chief electrician, a violent Repub- lican, was suspected, and committed sui- cide by shooting himself as the police were about to arrest him. Other persons who are suspected of tbtrerinegsteidmalicatea in the plot have been F/NANCI'TL STATEMENT. Revenue for Eight Months Over Sixty- six Millions. Ottawa, Dee. 8. --The finettelal state- ment of the Dominion giving the total revenue -end expenditure for the Present Men years, according to returns furnish - ea' the Finance Deapriment int to November 130,: show a total revenue for the first 'eight months, April to Novem- ber inclusive, of $66,062,427,, and a total expenditure of SW1,108,043. Total revs enue inereased by $9,148,875, the inereotee for last month being $704,992. 01 the aggregate increase in revenue for the eight months .$7,210,810 was in enetoots receipts, $740,681 from exciee, $437,310 front posteffiee, and $582,047 from public worIce, inaluding rotilwaya. • o .0 YOUNG MAN BOILED IN VAT. Fearful Experience of Leslie Williams at Montreal. 'Montreal, Dec. 8. -Leslie Williams, 10 years of age, fell into a vat of pulp end scahling water at Tupper Lase on Friday afternoon and was badly morn - ed. The vat was six feet deep, and the young man had to wade ten feet before he could get out of the stt if By this time his flesh was parboiled from head to foot, and by the time lie dragged himself out of the hole be was in a wretched state and soon collupsed and fell back into the boiling water, Williams was finally rescued by souse of his comrades, and, after a medical consultation, it was decided to bring him to Montreal.. After an emergehey treatment of cold cream and sweet oil to prevent the skin from peeling off, he was brought' to the General 'Hos- pital. where he died on ?at:tiller. STRUCK WOLF WITH GUN. Piece WO; Discharged, and Unknown German Was Killed.• Shelio. Seek., Dee: 8.-4)0441118 hoot been received of a dietressing fatal- ity in the neighborhood of Ebenezer, about thirty miles southeast. A Ger- m», name unknosvn, luta come to the district for the purp0000 of hunting, and went out on horseback, neeompanied by his hounds. Havieg run dowe a. wolf, . lie alirpted and struck it on the head with t barrel. of his gun, This broke the barrels, and again he struck the wolf with the steel: of the gun, when the gun exploded end the full 'charge enters ed the.man's body in the neighborhood Of The heart, killing him instantly. LAST BOAT LEFT. Weather Mild at Fort William - Wheat Shipments. Ottawa, Dec. 9. -(Special) -The De- partment of Trade and Commerce re- ceived. a despatch from Fort William, stating that the last boat for the season was to leave at noon on Saturday. The weather then was very mild, and the ice in the river soft. For the month of No- vember the wheat receipts were within 200,000 bushels of what they were for the month of November, but the ship- nunts were 2,225,000 less. Oats and bar- ley show a substantial increase both as to shipraents and receipts. The receipts .of wheat for:the month were 10,078,951 bushels, and the shipments 8,341,919, eompared with 10,288,722 receipts and 10,698,447 shipments for November, 1906. MURDERED HIS PARTNER. ...•,••••••••• Confefsed That He Wanted to Marry the Widow. •••••0•1.1••••• Iola, Kans., Dee, 9,William Stewart, proprietor of a restaurant in East rola, and member of a prominent family in Yates County, Bleusas, was murdered near his place of hueinces yesterday. Phe body bore eeidenee of seVetal wounds; any one of Which \Mild have predueed death, The skull had been fi•actured in four plaoes and the theoat cut. Stewart's partner , W. I). Creviston, is DlIfter arrest pending an investiga- tion of tale murder. Stewart and Creviston were carousing ;ogether Stesvart's honee until after nidnight. Then some one knocked at a rack door, Stewart answered the sum- wons and announced that he was going not for a short walls. He was not again teen alive by. hie family. Creviston, police say, confessed hat be killed Stewart because of his ove for Stewart's wife whom he want - el to marry. Mese SteWart wee arrested .ast night, :barged with complicity in ;Its murder of her husband, LOST AN ARM, Charles Sheppard Victim of a Shooting Accident at Queenston. Niagara Falls, Dec. 8.-Oharles Shep- pard, aged twenty years, son of Frank Sheppard, ,met with a serious accident while walking on the street at Queen- ston on Saturday afternoon with Robt, Smeaton and another young man. Smeaton was carrying a shotgun, which was accidentally discharged, and the shot tore through Sheppard's right fore- arm, mangling the flesh and smashing the bone. After temporary aid had been given the young man was brought to the General Hospital in this city. The arm has been am.plutated and Sheppard is in a very serious condition. 4 • 0 KIDNAPPED TO CANADA. ••••••• Thrilling Tale of Beautiful Girl and Determined Lover. Boston, Mase., Dee. 8. --James G Mane and his wife are heartbroken over the kidnapping of their daughter, who is very young, and the police of all New England have been notified of the mime, which occurred at Athol, Mass. The trail leads to Canada, and Chief Beatty has decided opinions that the girl has been taken there. He discov- ered that the alleged kidnapper, whose name is Salvadore, came from some part of Canada. The girl is very talented and beauti- ful. She refused to marry Salvedore, who fell in love with her, and after that she was spirited away. let • DIED OF MORPHIA POISONING. • End of Austrian Aristocrat in LondOn Shrouded in Mystery. London, Dee. 8. - Count Edouard Sims Norris, a member of an exalted Austrian family, who was well known in diplomatic and society Idirelea here, died mysteriously to -day from morphia poisoning at his London home. He became notorious in 1003 through fighting a duel near Paris with Prince Radziwill, member of the Russian Embassy in that city, the trouble arising from a dispute over cards. *ea DEFY THE ARCHBISHOP . •••••••••••••. Moving Picture Theatres in Montreal Open on Sunday. Montreal, Dee. 8. -Last Sunday Arch- bishop Bruchesi issued a pastoral hitter ordering the faithful to keep away from moving. picture galleries on Sundays mid also ordering all proptietors of these galleries to close their premises on Sun- days. To -day the proprietors got to- gether and decided to keep open and defy the Arcbbishop. The next move is benig looked for with a great deal of interest. ' es• • Trains Collide. Poughkeepsie, N: Y., Dec. 0. -Owing to the obscuring of signals because of a dense fog along the lifidson River A slight wreck between two passenger trains on the New York Central ()emir - red this morning at Highlands, a few tulles south of this city, No (leo was killed or injured, The ends o/ 'two baggage ears Were badly damaged, and these two ears were thrown across the main line of railroad, blocking traffie for a short One. • • -4 • ' Bank Manager Attested. San Francisco, Dec. 0. -David F. Walk- er, Presideut of the California Safe De. poeit Co., which closed its doors in No- vember, WAS fOUnd epeeding south on a Southern Pacific train last night, whet he was supposed to be at his San Mateo home. He WAS placed under arrest and taken from the train at Santa Barbara. 'Madame Ella Protein was found guilt:. of witchcraft at Toronto and allowed mit on, bail till Sentenced, NO MORE LABORERS ONLY JAP STUDENTS AND MER- CHANTS TO EMIGRATE. MAN IN FLAMES. CARRIED PROM BURNING ROOM BY VIREMEN. Verbal Assurance Given 'United States Ambassador -Expected Mr. Lemieux Will Receive Same Assurance To- day -Active Campaign Planned. ••••••••••••• With His Night Cletlme Ablaze, Was Found Writhing on Floor When MOM% Intel Rio Apartments -4truck Match After He Turned on Tokio, Dee. 8. -There is reason to be - dove that the entire question of emigre. don of Japanese to America has een mtisfactorili settled, at least for the eresent, after a series of confereneas which have been held between i tilted States Ambassador O'Brien and ARM* cm of Foreign Affaire Hayashi. 10 is underostood that at their last meetiug she report of the Japanese Government outlined a phut hy whick it is agreed to dmit emigration: to students and cone mersial men having means of support, and eutirely to prevent Japanese labor- ers from going to America. It is said that Foreign Minister Haya- shi has determined to exercise alraolute control in the matter. ilou. RoOolphe Lemieux, the Canadian Minister ef Labor, will hole a final conference with :Son. ister Hayashi and Baron Ishii toeu 'now, when he will receive the same assmanees on regard to Ihnitation of emigration oy Japan as the United States has al- ready received. The progressive party is preparing for an active campaign in the Diet, in oppo. sition to the Government's policy to re - stria emigration to the United States a,nd Canada. It is improbebic, however, that it will succeed in mustering enough strength to create a serious eituation. afeanwhile the Foreign Offire remains firm in its determination not to yield to the importunities of the emigration com- panies or others who sympathize with them. THE CYGNET FLIES. Buffalo, Dee. 0. -As reeult of burns sustained by a gas exploeion, Petrick Kavany, of 114 Smith Division street, tow lies id tile Riverside Accident Hos- pital at death's (loot. About 4.20 o'elock yesterday moon. 'lig a citizen saw smoke coming from a third storey window of the rooming house. Believing the plant to be on fire, he turned in an elarm. When the firemen arrived. they found an upper roono ht flames. Entering the room, the firemen found Patrick Kavany writhing in agony on the floor in a futile attempt to extinguish his Writing clothing, Kee - any was in hie night clothes, and the„ firemen threw him into a bed and moths ered the flames. wall token from the room, whieb was by that time Mass of flames, and pliteed in the police patrol wagon from the Seneca street station. He was taken to the Riverside Hospital, where the surgeons found that the en- tire lower portion of his body,- as well as head and face were terribly I burned. The police learned that Kavany, who was a roomer in the house, which is conducted by Miss Hattie Kranfield, attempted to light the gas stove in his room. He turned on the gas and, iighting a match, applied it to the vent in the stove. hither the feed pipe of the stove leaked or Kavany waited too long before lighting the gas. A terrific explosion followed. .1tava,.ny was thrown across the room with Ins scant clothing ablaze. Within a short time the entire room was in ' flames. DR. BELL'S AIRSHIP GIVEN SUC- CESSFUL TRIAL. Tug Furnished Motive Power and Rope Kept the Vessel Straight, But All Who Saw the Trial Were Satisfied of Its Success. Ths %Om Milano THEO. IRMA" Proprliter ••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••**•""'""."."' Dr. Agnew Pfloyslolen, Surgoono Aosouohour Onisio-stapstalse *a *Ise Saixideoe14 Skala Mat cane wowed al *Wee. J. P. KENNEDY, M.D., M.O.P,S.D. Wernher of the *Minh %tidiest •Aseoeistio0., GOLD faiDALIOr AOIDICI1410. 114•7141 attention void to Diseases of 'We. mon avd, 011114ren, houre-4 to 4 v. ra.1 7 to 9 v. so. Halifax despatch: Dr, Alexander Gra- nam Bell achieved a signal success this afternoon in the successful flight of his first airship, the Cygnet. The event, de- monstrating as it does the possibility of the tetrahedral principle applied to fly- ing machines, inarks an epoch in tire solution of the problem of aerial naviga- tion. Early in the afternoon the huge sontrivence of innumerable silken cells was conveyed. to its cradle on board the dismantled schooner eepecially prepared ior the purpose. The schooner was then attached to the steamer Blue Hill by means of a towing tine, and the whole proceeded up Bras d'Or Lakes in the teeth of a • strong northeaster. Upon the Blue Hill attain- ing a speed of fifteen miles per hour the signal was given, the cradle tipped and the G'ygnet, exposing Immediately iter immense area of silken surface soar- ed gracefully into the air. The flying eine connecting the airship and the steps mei- directed the course of the former, also supplying the motive power neces- sary to keep it in flight. After a half hour's trial the Cygnet was allowed tse descend. It sailed grace- fully dewn at an angle of about twenty- five degrees, and rested on the waeers of the hik.e by means of its three hugh floats.. It was then fished up and towed back to Heine Breagh laboratory. BROKE SHAFT. •••••••••••••••• Red Line Steamer Kroonland Meets With Accident. •••••••1•••=1. Plymouth, Doc. 0. -The steamer Kron Prinz Wilhelm, which arrived. here to- day from New York received a wireless telegrana this morning final the Red Star Lim ateamer Kroonland saying chat this vessel ited broken her shaft at a point to the westward of the Li•k ad, during a heavy gale. The Mame land,. Capt. Dexrud, loft Antwerp, Dec. 7 for New York. ' RAN INTO LANDSLIDE. Second Section of Pacific Express Wtecked Near Elope, B. C. Vancouver, Doe. 8. •The eeeond sec. tion raeifie eserese No. 07, %lee tt Vancouver at 6 e. etoeic on Sunday morning, tan into a rack and luta elide two and oechalf Miles cast of Hope, The engine wits ditehed and the mail and baggage ears derailed. .Emenieer Arthur Ostrom and Firenuin Linton were in - fared. All the passengers and the Alter members of the train crew were unhurt, bet badly shaken up. The sec- ond section was composed 00 seven ears. WitS late and was making up time when at a move on the culvert it ran .nto the slide. The eastbound freight ',rain passed the spot a sh:at time pre- viously. The second section arrived here three hems late. The total net lebt of the Dominion nu November 31101 stood at tii?,54,096,SN, an increase Of $2,590,141 during the month. * • I NON-UNION MEN. A Thousand Ready to Start Work at Goldfield Mines. •••••••••• DR. ROOT. C. REDMOND C. S. (MO • 0. P. (Lona.) PHYSIOIAN AND SURGEON Kates erlth Dr. Chisholm.) Goldfield, Nev., Dee. 9. -An euthorita- tive statement was niade last night tha,t sufficient men are already on tho ground to work the mines beginning on Wednesday. The total number of those I that have been quietly brought in and those who have secretly made applica- tion to return to the former positions is placed at 1,000. There are about 1,500 Federations miners out. The men who are to take the places of the strikers are not to be housed at the mines, but will be scattered through the camp, and pro- tection for each individual will be guar- anteed by the Mine Owners' .Association. Two propositions have been positively decided upon -the making of an open camp for all time and the early lowering of the wage scale. At the same time the association is going to begin a vigorous crusade to lower the cost of living in Goldfield. The scopq. of the Mine Owners' Asso- ciation is to be greatly enlarged by the organization of the Nevada Mine Owners' Association, of which the Goldfield Mine Owners' Association will form a part. A determined effort to open the mines is to be made at noon to -morrow by the Goldfield association, and it is said that some trouble may ensue. GIVES OWN LIFE. Hero of Steamer Slocom Disaster Dies as a Result of Exertions. New York, Dee. 0. -"Greater love hath no man tban this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." This inscription on an urn, into which were pueyesterday the ashes of Henry N. Mallabar, brings to light for the first time the story of a hero whose life was forfeited. in the saving of others. On June 15, 1904, alallabar was chief clerk in Riverside Hospital on North Brother Island, when the `ex- cursion steamer General Slocum, a mass of flame, bore down.on that island. Mal- labar was ono of the first to see the burning vessel and one of the first at the work of rescue. A strong swimmer, he plunged in and swam out to Where women and children were jumping. into the water. He seized three little children and took them Oit the second trip two more children were saved and on three suc- ceeding journeys out to the burning steamer he saved three women. The last woman he brought to shore weighed over 200 pounds. As he dragged her to safety out of the water Mallabar fell unconscious. The physicials discovered that his exertion had caused the burst- ing of a blood vessel in the brain. Med- ical ain restored him to the use of his faculties, but from a vigorous, healthy 1111111 he became a hopeless invalid. Shock after shock of paralysis followed, and there eaane one the other day, which brought death with it. Mallabar was born in England, but came to the United States in early youth. • e• BLACKSOD23_AY ROUTE. Sir Wilfrid Laurier's Answer to Irish Delegation, Ottawa., Deo. 8. -The influential dele- gation from Ireland who have come to Canada to support the claims of Black - sod I3oy, on the west eoast of Ireland, to be made British terminus of the riew fast Atlantic service in connection with the all -rod line scheme, waited upon Sir Wilfrid Laurier yesterday and present- ed their arguments. The deputation stated that they represented the views of the entire Irish party in tho British Commons, and unless the Blacksod Bay scheme was incorporated in the larger project of the all -red line the Irish members would not support the granting of the proposed subeidies. Sir 'Wilfrid Laurier stated that the euestion of the British terminus of the hew fast 'service must lergely rest with the Imperial Government for decision, and the views of transportation exports or to the desirability of making Black. sod Hay the terminus, must be given duo weight before any aetion was taken by the Gevernment. Ile would deplore any attempt to make the question a section. al ot party one. ironear. Chirago, Dec. 9. -The Chicego Iled Cross Soeiety is melting a whirlwihd 48- hour campaign, beginning to -day, to rahe $5,000 for the destitute reiatives of the hundreds of Miners :killed by the explo- sion at Itionongan, W. Va. R. VANSTONE TIARRISTSIR AND SOLICITOR Sew to loan at lowest mtea Office- DIAN= BLOM(' WINIGIIAEL ••••••••••••• DICKINSON & MIMS BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, ETC, Office -Meier Block, 'Mayhem. 741. Diekineen. Dudley Holmes. J. A. MORTON BARRISTER AND SOLICITOR MONEY TO LOAN Office--bforton Block, Winghatri. Welliudton Mutual Fire Ins. Co. (Established 1840.) Head Office -GUELPH, ONT. Risks taken on all classes of insurable pro- perty on the =eh or pest:alum noto system TAMES GOLDIE, CHAS DAVIDSON, President. Secretary. JOHN R1T011171, Arent Wingham, Ont. [V°C°611.r!e::::3dlietld'in°111ttn:54bUlaPocel re' r oleilsurtaaR:Pflihrrejkilic t's.T:Aa'le.*: .. -I: 'Itld'rdti. 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Dresden, Dee. 6. ---The projeet of Bern- hard Hantzsch, a Dresden school teacher. wlm from the beginning of 1900 ts the end of 1012 intends to explore Baffin Land Beim-, among the Eekimos. without any European companion, eo arousing great interest in scientific circles. Mentzer+ will utterly renounce all the comforts and acceseoriee of civilization, the only thing to remind him of this be- ing a specially constructed beat which he will take with hitn for use around the southern coasts. Hantz.sch proposes on hie arrival in Baffin Land to attach himself to a migratory tribe, learning the language and adopting the habits of the natives. The expenses of Um expeditioti n be moderate, and part of these he will supply from his owu reeources. ;Ole the remainder will be provided by •ev. oral Dresden scientific bodice. .• _ • TREASURE AT ROUEN. --- Englishman Seeking Buried Gold Beneath Joan of Arc's Tower, New York, Dec. 0. -The Herald has received the following -cable despatch front Paris: The inhabitante of Bonen are much exercised over the presenee of a certain Englishman, styling himself Wiggles 'Worth, who is demandiug au- thorization to exeavotte under the wall of Joan of Are's Tower. He says be has family documents proving that an an- cestor depoeited a treasure plumb be- neath a stone on which is carved the word "open." Investigation has re- vealed a stone with crumbled inscrip- tion oft which only the letters "en" re- nutin. The Rouen people• are sceptical, but are willing to tolernte an excavation, -4 • REVISION OF THE VULGATE. Pope Expresses Hope That the Faithful • Will Contribute. Rome, Dee. 0. -The Pope has writ- ten to Alhot Gasquet, head of tee English Benedictines, who has been entrusted with the revision of tioe Vut- gate, expressing the hope that in view of the expense of searching the librar- ies of Europe tn. manuscripts to aid the work, the faithful will contribute money to enable the revision to be earried out in the best manner. also appeals to the owners of libraries to allow them to be inapected for manuscripts. KEEP LABORERS AT HOME. Prominent japaixeSe Anxious to Have Emigration S topped. Tokio, Dec, 0.- strong movement •leveloped in an unexpeeted quarter looking to the prohibition of emigration of all laborers to Ameriea and Canada, and it is understood that a number of prominent persons, formerly of the Cab- inet, and others. intend to urge the adoption o. sueli eir.easure. !hey will require the Government to und,rtake the development upon a large seode of Hokkaido, -Corea and Manehuria, in order to give eniployment to Japanese.