The Wingham Advance, 1909-02-18, Page 2••••••••••••••
LESSON \mt.-FEB. 21, 1009,
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Stephen the First Obristian Martyr.
os -Acts 6; 14; 8. 61 I145; 7: 04.0; 3.
Commentary. ---1. Tbe lieVell deacons;
chosen (vs. 1-7). After it time, wheu
the elattelt bad. become numerous, a
complaint was made that partiality was
ehown in the distribulden of the commons
fwd. The Grecians charged that their
widowwere neglected. The apostle im-
mediately celled the church together
and asked that seveu men be chosen
whose duty it 6110111t1 be to attend to
the distribution of the fund. This was
dont, Stephen being one of them.
II. -Stephen falsely neettseti (vs. 8-15).
8. and Stephen -Very little Is known of
the Itistory of Stephen. It is thought
that bo was ono of Peter's converts on
the Day of Pentecost, full of pace and
power (t. V.) -Ile was filled with the
Holy Spirit and had power, (1) as a
great reasoner aud (2) to work miracles.
He was a. deep student of the Old Teeth -
meat, a theologian of nai10114t insight,
and showed a wisdom in speech that his
.eleserearies could not gainsaydid-
"Int was a man of deeds," wonders-,
This is one of the words used in. the
New Testament to denote rniracics. mir-
eles-onSie.su,s "-R. V. "Ile wrought
miracles, principally, no doubt, in epee
of sickness and suffering."
9. there arose eertnin-By bis miraclo
and by his eloquence and power, Ste-
phen extited the jealousy of the unbes
• lieving Jews. They became excited and
engaged in discussions with him. Libels.
tines -"Freed men." Roman captivez
'Met had been given their liberty. Many
• of these had returned to Judea and they
liad it synagogue of their own in Jesusa.
lem, Cyrenians--Cyreno was the chief
city in North eAfrico, and a great Jowls])
colony. Numberi of Jews were settle(
there, and are said. by Josephus te hav
been a fourth part of the inhabitants 01
the city, Three Jews also had a syna
gag,ue. Alexundrions-The Talmud spe
eially mettle= the synagogue of th
Jews who came teem
win& eity about 100,000 Jews resided
They were tho most learned of their
rate, Cilicia-Paul's native province
Asia, -This was the Roman province i
western Asia Minor, and not the "gran
• division." 10. not able to resist -43
any arguments which bhey could bring
11. subedited men -Privately bribe
and instructed. against leloses-Stephet
taught thed the old dispensation was it
decay, and that the temple must pas
away. ,against God -"This must rete:
to the suprerne dignity and authorit
which Stepnen claimed f or Christ a
the Head ,of the neW econenty which wa
so speedily to amused° the old." .12
they stirred up the people-Atthis hut
thi
e whole Jewish people were n a stat
of ill-suprreseed frenzy, and most sell
sitive jealousy for the honor of tbes Mo
sob .institutions -feelings wlueh brok
out in constant revolts against .the Ito
man power. This accusation was there
fore the most likely one they cool
-base pitched upon to stir up ill -will.
Spence. caught him -Without la,w .o
form of justice. 13. false witnesses
"Their falseness consisted in the pervert
ed turns which they gave to the word
of Stephen." 15. all....saw his face
All eyes turned upon Stephen,As Ix
haa been inspired by the Sprit in 11
• arguments, so now, in the bouy of tria
the Spirit shone out upon his face t
testifY of his presence within. of a
angel -God's people shine brightest.
the midst of tho darkest and most s
vere trials.
111. Stepheo"s defense ('7. 1-53). Aft
the false witnesses had testified the he
• Priest asked Stephen whetherthe
things of which. they accused him eve
so. Then follows His defence or apolo
in which He gives a concise history
the Jewish people. He answers t
&ergo of blasphemy by showing that
reverences the scriptures, and that
holds the faith of Moses. He shows th
the gospel was a continuation of t
Mosaic economy, and that their est
nal rites foreshadowed the more perk
spiritual system. Ho charges them evi
• resisting the Holy Spirit and decla
that they were merely following in 41
footsteps of their fathers •wno had sla
the vory prophets who had foretold
coming of the Christ they had killed.
'
IT. Stephen's triumphant death (7.
8 3).
64. When they heard -It is disput
• whether the speech was finished or n
His abruptness in doping and the an
• of the Jews at this moment render
-probable that he was interrUpted,
to the heart -Literally, they wore sa
through,, or asunder. A figurative
pression for being greatly onrag
°leashed on him -They thirsted for
blood; "spooled like beasts of pro
"Truth would always seem to produce
• double effect. Sometime ago we re
that when the people heard Pete
speech they were pricked in their hoe
and said, 'Men and brethren, what sh
We do?" But when the people hoard S
plum deliver substantially the same m
sago they were cut to the heart, a
gnashed. on him with their teeth. '
is the history of preaching to -day."
Parker.
55. Being. full -The Greek "bei
full" implies, not a sudden inspirati
but a permanent ,state.-Phunpt
',naked up -We would see more heave
visions if we would "look up" often
Into hese-The question has been A
_ea how he could see into heaveo fr
that council chamber; but we should
member that the Spirit revealed to
this scene in heaven. "The eye of fit
can see heaven fromany spot on Cart
Ond saw. -There is no indefiniten
tebout tins statement. The glory of
-14 was sonte visible manifestatiou,
the divines plendor, such as Moses
on Horeb end Ezekiel at Chelsea% ft fi
no---•"- filled the tabernaele and afterward
temple, and shone round the sherher
and appeared to the apostles upon EE
no.m. Ana Jesus -410 saw Jesus "
Itis official chaoatter as mediator
tweets God and man." Standing -
other places Jesus is terresented as
ting on the right hand of Goa (
Matt. 26. 64). The right liand-Ch
was exalted to a, place of honor
power. 56, .11eavens opened -A figu
the) expreesion denoting that he
permitted to see into heaven, Son
otan-Thie is the wily time. that
And is by human lips called the
or man. after 1.1iS ascenftion. And
essay Stephen speaking by this spivi
164 to eopeat the vent Words in evit
Zoos Ilimaelf, before this tame coon
had foretold His glorification.-Alfo
Spe Matt. 20. 04. 58. Hien out of
(sty -According to the law (Lev. 24.
The peteoh to be Stetted Was feqUi
t* be tarried without the camp. Sto
lunt--The pereon to be stoned Wag Ott
on an elevation twit° the height- o
tnaa, from whence with his hands bo
he 'ss thrown down, and then a at
as 'Much ae two rime could (wry
roiled dont upon him 'by the withcni
after *hie% Tell the people present c
stoneupeti earn. 13I1I.
.... -•........
5.4 Ileveive my epirit- They stoned
hint while he wite praying. This is the
identical prayer that Quist himself bad.
offered on the moss, Hero is clear prof
that it Is proper to offer prayer to deems
cbsist, IA Kneeled down -A stood poi.
tion in wide% to pray, or to die, Veil
asleep -41e died. "But sleep Intones. an
awakening." 1. Raul was consenting -So
terrible was the hatred which this man
bore to Christ turd his fpllowers that he
delighted In their destruetion, .A. great
perseeution-the rttlera carried on thethen
1.iersecution with inmasing violence. 2.
.
---n evidence timtsne
tireat lamentation A
seas nob condemned by tho Sanhedrin,
I
se publio lainottation was ferbidelen en
such eases. .
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS.
Stephen the Witness,
,
T. Full of grace, "$tepnen, full en
graee" (v. 8, It. V.) AS 4 /444e he Was
honest; as a &memo powerful to. work
%voltam ona sedreelee (v. 8); as a pris,
oner, radiant, oejoiclog (v. 15); as a
Reader, scriptural (7; 1-60), setirching
(7s 51-53), irresietible (v. 10) I 0 a
martyr, full of to spirit ef faith (ve.
55, 50), hope (v, 00), love (v. 00), Spur.
goon says, "It is remarkable that, Ste-
phen's is the only death seene desceibeel
at !worth in the New Testament, except
our Lord's. The Iloly Spirit Would not
have us attach so noleh iinpOrtance to
the mauner of men's death, as to the
clearocter of their lives."
lie Falsely mewed. "They suborned
men'e ... awl set up false witnesses" (vs.
11, 13)d The last beatitude b, "Blessed
are, ye, when man .... say all manner
of evil against you falsely, for my sake"
(Matt. 5: 111. If you heve given all
your motley, time and influence to the
right, and are doing everything you can
to make the world better, and liave
• raised your voloc aoninst the crying evils
of the day, and 'nhave tola of your
glimptes into heaven, you will be miss
understood, falsely aectised, sneered at,
eerieatured, denotmesid and hated, but
you will be, like Stephen, a witness for
Christ, and along those of whom it is
written, "If ye be reproached for the
nanm of Christ. happy are ye; for, the
spirit of glory and of God restoth upou
• • you (L Peter 4; 14).ineady
III, Full of attraetion. "All
looking steadfastly .... ..saw his face
as if it had been the face of an angel"
(v• 15). ,The inee of an angel at the
, tomb of Jesus was "like lightning"
• (Matt. 28; 3), Gel's messengers are "a
, flame of fire',(Heb. 1: 7). Moses' face
, slione as he cleme from personal cam-
1 mullion with God (Exod, 34; 30). .
, Stephen 'the Martyr.
• I. Meet with the Spirit. "Ile being
• full of the Holy Sphit...... sew the
' glory of God" (v. 05). A. J. Gordon
' says that when reading the Words, "That
' we through patience and comfort of the
scriptreee miglet .have hope" (Rom. 15;
' 4), there came to him a suggestion of
t exceseding -sweethess from the word
5 neomfort" in the original. The Spirit is
• called the raraciete, and hero his office
3 Is cancel the parsiclesis, the inspiring of
3 the Holy Spirit to sustain in time of
' trial. Of how manyheroes it may still
- leo said, "These all died in faith, not
' having received the promises" (Heb. 11;
- 13).
; IL Free from cain. "He looked
t up stenelfaetly into lieaven, and nam the
- glory of God.. (v. 05). There were no
' care furrows on Stephen's brow. There
- was no anxious, bunted look in his eyes;
e no quiver on his lips. He did not fear
s nor faint. Ile aid not cry out in dis,
- may. Ile did not worry and wonder
0 what the poor widows and orphansewciuld
,g do without bis ministry, Ile • did not
'4 thrink from any earthly pain; he did
o n!ot tremble before nuy heavenly glory,
n self was forgotten, He "'coked up
n steadfastly." ..
!' III Finding a soul. "Whose name
eras Saul" v. 58). "Stephen's last
!r prayer never ceased. to •echo in the ears
It of one who afterwards became a mightier
ee advocate of tbe gospel than was he. IF
so Stephen had not prayed, the -ehurch had
•
d' not had Paul." .
Df ow, won of triumph. "He fell asleep"'
ze • (v. 60) There he lay on the sharp stone
to with the blood dropping from hia face
le and dyeing his gooments, but so quietly,
It so contentedly, so peacefully had he
se resigned himeelf to the Saviour, who
r- stood waiting for him, that the record
ct says of him, "Ile _ fell asleep." Replan
•
bh le a witness still: Ile is speaking, to-
op day to all Christendom. A. C. M.
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TORONTO MARKETS. • ett
live
FA1tU11RSXAmtor. , fat
The receiptg or grain to -day autouuted •ROM;
to 1,,200 bughele, Wheat, was firm, 10o and
b It 1 f fall selling t $1.03. B rl n
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--- ---o- ' e''' ---- -- - ------ - week.
56 to (leo. Oats firm, 500 bushels sellinse .
- ' es in
at 40 to 50e. 24e,
Dairy produce in fair offer. Botter
easier, soiling at 22 to 27o, Eg•gs 4
at 30 to 3ea per dozen. for new laio.
Poultry scatce and firm, 691ed $81.20;
straw,
fered,
Itay'in moderate oupply with sales of
40 I ad at $12 t al3.50 a to for NO.
° 8 'o
1. and at $9 to 81a for Aimed. Straw '
nominal at $12 a ton.
- • t $9 to $0.-
.1-/r00404 hogs aro easter a 1
25 for heavy, and at $9,60 for 1 ght.
Meets, fall, both ,...$ 1 03 $ 0 00
Do•s ,goose, Well .. „. 0 05 0 QO
Oats, Web-, • • ., , • • . 0 40 0 50
ThrrloYs bueb• • .. - .. .. 0 50 0 00
Ityt), bush ' , .... ... ... • • , 0 09 0 70
Pees, busb, ... . „ ..„ 0 00 0 00
}lay, pet tote _ .. .. „ 12 00 ea 60
Dn., pro. 2., .•., .... 9s 00 10 00
Straw, per ton .. .. ., ., 12 OQ •0 00
Dressed 'hogs .. .. ,. .. 9 00 9 50
Butter, dairy.. „ ,. ., 0 22 0 eft
Do., creamery .. .. .. 0 27 0 30-
Eggs, new laid.. s, .. ., 0 300 32
nio,, fresh,. .. ,, „ 0 27 9 28,-
Chickens, dressed, lb. „ „O 15 0 18
Fowl lb. , , , ,,,,, , , 0 12 o 13
Turkeys, lb. ,. .. .. .. 0 22 0 25
Cabbage, per dozen.. .. 0 60 0- 75
Celery, per dozen ., ,. - 0 60 0 75
Potatoes bag. „ . .. .. 0 75 0 80
Onions, 'bag.. .. . , ,. .. 0 85 0 90
Apples, barrel,. .. .. .. 3 50 5 00
Beef, kindquarterss 8 50 10 90
Doo foresuarters . ..6 00 7 -50
Do , choice, carcase, .* .. 8'00 0 00
Do:, medium carcase.. 5 5i) '7 00
Mutton per °A , ..„8 00 10 00
prune, per cwt. ., 0 11 00
Veal,' 7 " . 8 s
, per c , .. ., .. „11 50 13 00
Lamb wt
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LIVE srom.
The railways reported 108 carloads of
,
dies stock Its being received at the Oity
Market on Wednesday and Thursday,
There were several lots and•loade or
cood to choiee cattle, but MOTO of the
n
common and medium,
Trade was good, espeeially for the
best grades of butchers; in fact, en
grades of butchers were a Me higher
in price.
Exporters -About 00 export steees
sold from $.5.25 to $5.55, one load, the
best on the market, in feet the only hillreported
load, being sold at the latter price. Dills
sold from $4 to $4.50, and one at $4.75.
Butchers-Clioice loads and lots of
butchers eold from $L75 to $5.10, and
there were some light exporters sold for
• hotelier purposes, at $5.25 to ,$5.50, as
will he seen in sales given by McDonald
& Halligan; loads of good, at $4.50 to
$4.00; medium, $4 to f4,40; common,
$345 to $4; cows, $.3 to $4; wirier et.
$1,50 to 22.50,
Milkers and Springers -This week svit-
nessed one of the strongest markets of
ths. year for good to choice milkers aud
sprmgers, whech were bought up readily
at prices ranging from $35 to $75 each.
but only one at the latter price; ries,
end, however, reached $70.
Feeders and. Stockers --Messrs. Murby
bought :elided 150 head at the folowing
•
quotations: Best feeders, ow to 1,000
lbs. each, at $3.7e to $4.25 per awn;
medi tun from $160 ' to $4; stockers, $3
to $7, and $2.75 to 3. • Fleshy steers sold
c
leo high for'imther ptursos and were
not dealt in for stockers.
Veal Calves - Receipts maderate;
prices unchanged, at 3 to $0.50 per cwt.
Sheep and Lambs -Receipts light and
prices Melon Export ewes, $4 to $4.50;
rams, $3 to $3.50; lambs, grain fed, e0
to $0.60; common,$5 to $5.50.
Hoge -Mr. Harris, in met alt of the
dealers, Quoted select bogs, fed and wat-
ered, at $6..75; f. o. b. cars, at country
nte, $6.00 to $0.05, were the general
Mic,es. •
PROVISIONS.
• Pork -Short out,. $23 to $24 per bar-
rel; mess, $19.50 to $20. •
Lard -Strong, tierces, 12½n; tubs;
' 12-3-4e• pails, 13e.
Sinoked and Dry Salted Meats -Long
clear bacon, 110 to 11 1-2o, tons and
cases; hams, large, llo to 13e; small,
13 1-2c to 140; rolls, 10 1-4c to 110;
breakfast bacon, 15e to 16a; green meats
out ef pickle, lo less- than smaked.
Prices at -country points are:
' Alsike -No. 1, $7.50 to $7.75; ex-
tin 87.25; No. 3, $6.75 to $7 per bushel.
Timothy -$1.50 to $2.10 per bushel,
of according to quality.
•o Lemke, Feb. 13. -Calcutta linseed,
February -March, 42s 7 1-2d per 412 lbs.
PALED HAY AND STRAW.
i • n car lots on track, Toronto,
ate' ••
Hay No. 3. timothy, $10.75 to $1.1.•
of inferior, $0 to $10.
' Straw -Ramp is from $0.50 .to $.7,50,
of eccording to quality.
' GROCERIES.
Local sugar quotations ate: nfootreal
granulated sugar, per cwt. in barrels,
84.50; yellow, $4.10; in bags prices are
$50 less; Acadien, in barrels or bags,
$4.40; Outatio 'beet, in barrels or nags',
$4.40; No, 2 granulated, in bags,. $1,20.
London, Feb. 13 -Raw sugar, centrifu-
gal, lls;,Muecovado, 10s. '
UNION HORSE MARKET.
Trade at the Union Horse Exchang 0,
• • •
Toronto, wee the best this week, that has
been this year. The Vent trouble
has been to get enough horses to 1111 the
many orders that Mr. Smith has re-
ceived during the past two weeks Dean
h h b • 1 .
, ere w se have been zu t le country try-
• ie
a- mg to p k op a few good quality horses
find the fartners very hard to deal with
e ' -
a prices that would. leave A very toriall
' margin for Tisk and trouble in handling.
Femora have been getting such high
Prim for the pasb two or three years,
that they do not scent inclined to take
curreht selling quotations. Me. Smith
•Shipped One car load of horses to Brant-
ford, Ont., 2 car loads to Manitoba and
1 car load Peterbovo, Buyers front all
to
over the DoillittiOn Were present, which
goes to thow the Itigh estitnietimi, of the
libelers for fair dealing and h000rable
treatmentreteived front the Undo of
the management of these stables. Pekes.
rifled as follows: Drafters, $160 to $400;
gmieral purpose, $14.0 to $100; express.
ors or -wagon horses, 41s0 to *210; two.
Os, 8100 to 3100; setvieedbly Bound
horses, $40 to 800 each.
of- • . .. .
OTHER MARKETS,
PROVINCIAL MARKETS.
4 strotfolg 0 e ev
' ' - -' -Hogs, $0-5 to 03,30, dress.
ed, $815 to .504 eosin, 3 1.2 to 4e;
dressed, 01-2 to 7e; Steens and heifers,
to 4 1-2e; dressed, 71.2 to 8e1, 1 b
a ani se
4 1,2 to 5e; dressed, 8 to I0e; calves,
he 41.2 to 5 idle; Wheel, $1. standard; oats,
40e statd, ord. pea a, 80 to 85e; b arloYs 4a
10 Mei loan, $22; elites, $25; butter,
24 to 25-e; eggs, 27 to 28e; hay, $0.60 to
810; no atraw.
are wits crowded to -day with great
of proiloce. Prices were weaker,
bogs which sold all week at
.9.,..„ ...e offered at $0 and
at $8.75, though Knott eAlee were
at $9.25. Butter, too, was easier,
selling at 50 to 28e, reit 54 to
and crock At .23 to 24e; •eggs, pack -
24 to anc, fresh lahl, dozen, 20 to 20e;
hogs,. select, $0,50 to $0.70 per cwt.;
sows, $4,25 to $4.50; hay, $9.50 to
straw, $0 to $0.75; bides, wool
tallow unchanged.
Owon Sounds -The market conditions
)1Ot changed greatly during the
Butter was plentiful at 51 to 23o
patina prints., Fresh eggs dropped to
Hogs live, are eteady at $6,40; do.
*coed, lieht, $8,00; dreesed heaver
lusn's $10 to. $10.50; prelsetl, $14.;
• I d ne t $5• lt • f
I Pel oft r .., _ 0 , no pou ry o .
, 1H, itun-The general produce, mar.
Li 0
k'et was quite law.. Quotations are:
Potatoes plentiful at 00e per bag; but-
ter, 25 to 28e; eggs, le5e; ellickens, 15 to
000:
, geese,. 75e; turkeys, $1.25 to $1,50;
be, demand good, eupply small, live 3
to 4c; exports De; dressed, 51,2 to 7e •
Log prices weaker; live, $6.75; drewied,
$8.75; some blabs, live, 0 1-20; Inlele-
wheat, 40; barley, evet. $1.05; corn,
shelled, (10c, on ear 08e; hay, clover, $8
to $9; timothy, $0 to $10; strew,. $5.50
to o3,60; °ate, 40o; wheat, $1; heeme,
$1,35 to OA; evools Washed, 14 sued 1504
unwashed, 8 and Oc; Maple syrup, 40e
quart.
$t, Thomas -Market quotations to
day; Live bogs, $0,50; dressed bogs, $0;
loose hy, $11; baled hay, $12; straw,
e
$9; eggs, 28e; butter, 20 to 28e; Wheat,
en.
Peterboro-On the marleet dressed
hogs sold at $8.75 to $9.60; do. live,
S0.80; baled bay, 812 to $14; loose, $11.
to $14; farmers' and butchers' hides,
7 1,2 .to 8 1-20; butter, 2810 30e; eggs,
28. to 32e.
Belleville -Both the hay and hog mar-
kets the past week were vory brisk. Hay
is coining in freely, and the average
price was $13 per ton, and of the best
quality; no loose straw offered; baled,
$10 to $12; live hogs advanced to $0.90,
the bighest in some time; dressed hogs
, at *9.50; oats, 60e straight; po-
ta,toes, 75 to 80e; feesh eggs dropped to
25e; butter, 25 to 28e; no eba,noe in bide
prices.
BRITISH AlnICETS.
Lieerpool--John Rogers & Co. quote
today:. States steers, 12 1-2 to 131-4e;
Canadians, 12 to 13e; cows and heifers,
Ile 91-2 to 10e. Trade
11 to 12c; bu ,, •
*low; exterket firm. ,
BRADSTREET'S TRADE REVIEW
Montreal -But little change has taken
P1 • t d d't' hero during
ace in ra ke cAon 1 tons
b travel
the pant wook. s y
lore throughout the country there sdeme
to be some real bnprovement in business
moving. his improvement, however,
very gradual, but it promises well for
tb.o future.
Toronto -The volume of business here
continues to show a steady improve-
rant although in no lines is the move-
ment yet brisk. Dry goods orders aro
for a wide range of linos, but in most
cases are not heavy. With anything like
a good season a heavy sorting trade may
be expected later on.
'Winnipeg -Reports say the sorting
trade in all lines is 120W light, bot excel-
lent orders for spring and summer goode
are coming in, and in a week or two
shipments to country points will
1 arge.
Vaneouv.er and Victoria- Wholesale
- . .. . , _ . ., .
t nues fairly active
and roan Luau con 1
and buyiug for spring has been good.
- ieuebee-General business is still slow
is
and - no increased volume expected -on-
til the season is more advanced.
Hamilton --Business here holds
steady tone. The sorting- trade is only
fair but good orders for spring Ikea
aro coming in. Misnufeciturere axe- fairly
busy and are reeeiving good orders. Re-
tail teade is generally good, Country
trade is moderate but in. most lines col-
'cations are satisfactory. Produce comes
forward freely and prices hold unehang-
ed to easy. Money continues easy.
London -Business is steady and fac-
tories are nearly all psoderately busy.
•Ottawa -The volume of trade moving
tem is moderate.
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vahgeren"ettodollocTIG
let
across
smoke
wagon
, Our
) all
whose
a
went
were
• It
(eloped
was
I
lon;
.
heeman
hew
work
Lareo
'
e
in
grow
came.
ion,
it
la .
in
a
to
a
'
a
the
es-
in
of
ser-
all•
•ney
the
Mc-
a
of
the
on
do
set
out
who
let:
ran
the
pros
cry
be.
this
the
the
Man•
it
.......
comehris out. Itly Vaulter
-1311acstent to each roost
to the teachere: 'DMA let
Tteentylti
their elsildron go home."
One little girl labels hey offo
2eihr: itbtiZY °f. 4 .rke's
"There was a fire in a little el
of our window. We though
was 0011114 from the olden.)
we saw the eugines and A
eome. Then we new it was
teaehee was very bride, Wt
braiv," •
niii on0 is from a 7-yearen
first name is Serial. The
fine noon the school. Miss nb
out for a minute and the el
alone. It was uot 4 vory lot
was a very big smoke. The f
down the ham Then t
old."
A ,., , oss . ,
boy desetwes tue unteiene° ts
fireman and a policeman in tbi
41t. was a fire near the school.
ran near the fire and t:
the fireman. dr,„ abet i
but holler ont orders, Mi
saw tbo fire. We all saw t
We were not afre.id. I would gru
li tl r "
po ceman um a woman.
This May is from a girl who Ir
settee' less 'than two onos:
"There was a fire near our
brave Miss McLortin was of 1
We were all very brave, Tho
The roof was birning„ T1
was birnii,g, to. The firetoa
he fire out. We did not go hon
was oot,g,
Another min writes of her t,
kindness as fellOWS;
"There was a fire rith near the
The fire engines eame rlt,b. awl
made it out. Then the smoak ea
The firemen made it out rith ow
teacher let us stand up rnen tle
the fire out. My teacher was ve
ely teacher is 4 heor. She let
out the window. Hain't sbe kin
This also is from k girl:
"There was a fire neer the soli
nobody got hurt, We did not in
the windows. We were standi
our seats. We would eol; run
took out like the win, cite chi'
the last floor do, We were 1
still. Furse there was a little
end then it stard to burn fal
faster, until it got out. Miss :
whent around to all the rooms
fhe teehr to not let the chi:
,
ham. \Vasco Miss McLaren b
, . . . ,
. "When it Is taken into cone,
'hat that is the first work in
ein for many of the children,
he show remarkable a tit i
'. , y , .p a
Muss McLaren. 'I certainly a
of them "
. • 4)
4
.............
of White Unemployed in
- • - - • •
N. Y. Church,
- Were Hungry and Needed
Work and Food.
............„,
. ,,s,
Sale Just Like °lie 114 lue
Days of Slavery.
--sm..,
Nov yorig, yob. 1.4..7.3Forty well loog.
,
for jobs, souse of them gray 'unrest
au with their faces hidden, behind
black masks, conseute4 to appear
, , „ „ , .„ e es 1kside
i co siavo at late .1.4 03a.11,4
the ro e ,.i.s
Church, in Jeletbuse, tit
monis, while E. T, O'resnighlha anther
the scheme, played the part of the
and pretended to sell the to
, , ......
highest bidder. Time were hoe bia
and they promised to give fivo men
behind the =eke some kind of employ-
ment,„.,,,,
Before tbo "nlod'es" were lea to
Wok in, front of the pulpit, Pester Long
just how his ellurdis came to
be the scene el such a thing. Mr, lotag,
he said, had satisfie4 himself that
O'Loughlin es•as sincere, and if nobody
should buy any of the men it would
prove that the whole Kele' order woe
on tlie wrong basis.
They put 'ep the "slaves" one by 011%
No. 10 cisme first. O'Loughlin described
hint as a young man who was willing to
work or be driven.
"How much am 1 bid for tens man?"
said Mr, O'Loughlin.
He C. Will, a baker, of Coney Wenn,
. • I • I offered $10 and lea him
pillow( up am
t If also offered to give three beano
ou • ' ° - b •'d 1 tl le ilding
of bread a day esi r., and . to I
hook with cheers,
Several mon in the audience walked
to the platform and, as in slavery days,
mit-1011y surveyed the subject. One man
went so far as to fol of the man's limbs
end muselee. It was finally announced
.. . . . o tl to W
ti at the man had ben sol • W.
t oy.
Copelan4, who would give him env'
ment in an industrial association in New
York. The terms were not announced.
. Number 21 the next put up, was
, ) .
dcecribed as baying served in the 13oer
War and in the United States army
the Pleilippiues, an electrician by trade.
ele went to a Flabbush family, the IMMO
wit11e14 by reqoest. It was announced
that the family would give him $35
mantle need board. .
Nomber 23, a painter, went to a WOW.
atk, N. J.,. mato who promised him $10
a week, wbile No. 14, a gray-haired men,
was taken away by a young man, who
•said, he would give him a home and work
at once. -e ...
The old men were not' put up, but ono
man in the audience, noticing a grey
beard behind one of the black masks,
drew the wearer gently aside, talked
him, and then it Was all1101lIMed that
No. 17 hael a job. One other man,
young one, got a $10 a week job, mod
another a promise of $35 a 'month after'
March let, and Another job, the compete-
setion for which was not stated.
John D, Rockefeller, who bad been
invited to be present, sent, a telegram
regretting his inability to atteud.
..., -
•
THE FIRE FIE
_
Drove Toronto Family Out
. , Beds Into the Cold.
Early Morning Fire at Ou
- - (
Yacht Club.
-en,-
Toronto, Feb. 15.-A ewift
the steward' s quarters of t' .
Ci ty Yacht Club early this
turned the steward John Daly
his; seveloyear-old son, ins moti
Mrs. Judson, and bis brotl
Harry Judson, out of doors. T
and the lad, dressed only in ne
and. slippers, had to rase a
windy -wharf in a smother a
the Argonaut Rowing Club, n
were taken care of. Mrs. Jude
aged 05 years, is to -day eolith
room from shock. The fire b.
en g. e.
tie flantes ou it •lueIs ea •d '
before diunagse to the extent
'had- been done, mostly to
goods. The loss is covered by
.
Electric wires are, blamed for
'
• A "HEROM " .
'
PU P I LS' ESSAYS ON FI RE PRAISE
.
"BRA1V" TEACHER.
o -w .. e Where all Quiet" -Ch icago Child-
• ren Tell What They Saw From
Classroom Window.
se .
TREED BY W01.
Chicago, Feb. 15. -In the eatimation
of her pupils, Miss Helen McLaxen,
a teacher at the Rogers school, fs
"herom," whatever that may be.
• Half "ti hundred children in
second grade yesterday turned in
sa s on. a fire which had occurred
3r
:.
a butcher snap near the sehool.
• Miss McLaren speaks enodestly
her efforts to avert a stampede, whibl
undoubtedly would have resulted
•
tously.e But the other teochere give
her unstinted priase.
When one of the children called
her attention to smoke from. the fire,
IVfiss McLaren had to think quickly.
"Children," ahs said, "you may
stand up and look out this windoW.
NoW, don't get frightened, • beesolee
there isn't any danger. If any
shoote 'fire' he'll have to sit (Toone
and then he won't see the engines.
So the pupils watched. the blaze
quietly from the windows. Instead
of being frightened they onoyed
speetacle. Then they had a language
lesson on the fire.
"Isadore Kosikov," said. Miss
Laren, "what do you seeP"
"I see. a great big sr:stoke and
man on top of the roof with a pan
water," was' Isadore's reply. ogge
spilled the water on the fire. On
sidewalk in front of the Kother they
are two boxes with geese and ducks.
r guess they know the Kosher is
fire. .
"That's ' good," was the teacher's
comment. "You. will get 100 for Ian-
Is
guage. ow, Sadie Adolph, what
yott seep.,
"Please, teacher," she said, "I
the fire, and it leeks Mee it Welet
bo much. The smoke is corning
of the roof. That's all I can think
of to say about it."
A -doten other children wets called
upon to toll what they. saw. Then
fearing that the other Li:tellers,.
were ignorant of the fire, would
the younger children out out at 11.16
o'clock, as usual. Miss McLaren
from room to room, whispering
awn to the. wader in obarge.
The thildren were kept in, thus
. :
ventaig thorn horn raising the
of "fire" and frightening tho whole
school,
lVfiss McLaren • found her class
having admirably, and after giving
the pelpils inatructione to write
story about it the young children were
difittli880(1.
Front the rfty-four ,essaya submit.
ted Miss McLaren gave Tho Tribune
thoee which she Bald were the beat.
Ono boy described the fire in
'wan: "There was a big fier. The fiat,
• was vory old. Miss Mormon wits
man has work all day, We Raw
Her. Tito point of the luenae evite bine.
ing. A man cane up on ths roof,
He apild a pan of water. The .koish
hotel% She went its all the Moms
end told the Toshr. She was a good
i hmonn"
Another boy wrote:
"Thete was a tiro by the school.
The fire enginisa came. Then the
took o, • pail Of water and "Sprinkled
.. It*. .. • .• . . .. • 1.
Tsvo French Canadians R
' Exciting Experi em
aon ne Feb. 1.
- neask-tg' O - '' -
chased by wolves and to be
W
spend the night in a tree as '
once of Edward Braivier and ;
Tho men were on their way
a place called Island Farm •
tvere overtaken by a pack of 1
which gave every indication
in a famithiug condition.
Not having weapons with
fight the animals, they fled.
closer upon them came the ho
kens of the forest, and, seeing
lives were in danger, Bravier
climbed a . tree, where they
eurity. .
"'
The men.were in for a long
ever, for the wolves took up
beneath the tree, and their hi
lings wore kept up throughout
•
Tho might was cold, and i
sued were now free from al
were not free from the &tow
frozen, It was a balsam tree
seated in.
As soon as day broke the w .
of and the two arboreal; b
descending, went home. The
'
is one they will not ;soon for;
Wolves have been bad in 41
the country for some tines a;
complain frequently that th
being killed by them, So bol
animals become that they go;
the villages.
, -------O-•4n.
ROYAL TEMPLARS
lie
in ABOLISH THE BAR.
lie
' --
'4" The Movement in Manitoba may
ed be Successful. .
A. 4,
- ..
eg
May Move Headquarters From
Hamilton to Toronto.
-
toil o, ie . .- ior er hours, for
To • t 1' b 35 SI t
°oleos, eI osmg
sale, abolition of club li s '
•
bars on holidays, abolition of three-
fifths clause. These are the four chief
topics to be diseassed at the Graud
Council of the Royal Templars of Tem-
peranee, which oucus here to -morrow
• . ,
morning In Zion Gongtegetional Church.
One hundred and fifty delegates are
, pected to be present. The council also
will consider the question of =vine the
";
to or( or from Hem lton
hod offices of tl I
to Toronto. A diamond medal e10021-
tionary contest• will be held. to -morrow
night in which eight gold medallists will
emeeeee
e"`"1"--"' ' ve
.
er Winnipeg, Fob. 14. -Radical amends
it
„t • melds to the liquor act are talked
VA in legislative circles, 'but nothing de-
x- finite will be announced by the .Gase.
tel. eminent until after the petition to bans
ds ish the bar, which is being signed by
'." thousands, has been presented, thus giv-Prices
a ing an idea, of public sentiment on the
ad matter. Report says thab Premier Bob-
rhs lin is disposed to grant the request
ts, the petitioners, provided they. on show
all by their petition time the majority
the the electors do not favor the retention
es- of the bar.
lid ---4-4.4,...._____
12f.-1 SCOTCH D1VORC ..
El.
• •
FOUND DEAD.
-.-
ag
nes Argument in Stirling Case Finished
re.
sly -Judgment Reserved.
or.
's - ee
Michael Connell, Farmer, Suttee
cated in the Snow.
--a.--
sk- s
Jedinburgh, Feb. 15. -The arguments
5M
re- of eounsel in the Sterling &dome eagle
on were concluded to -day, and. the court
[th reserved its judgment. John Alexander
1." Stirling is suing
his wife, who %vas Clarae
0
etts Elizabeth Taylor, eel AlllerlOS11 show girl
od alleging misconduct with Lord North.
of land, while the svife is bringiug a suit
OW against her liwebeeld, mining a Mrs. Atli.
ret erton RA eo•reeporidtent. The attorney
_
Ise for Lord Not') 1 1 s 1 that
i ant oec.arct, au ma.-
ds. verse decieion woula ruin his client and
or. wreck his Career. Ile argned Meet Mrs,
in Atherton's testimony of Lord Nottit.
be- land's alleged midinglit evisit to Ales.
In Stirling at Amberly was incredible, and
it. that there was unt a Wilde of evidenoe
see to sustain the allegatioo of misconduct.
. it•
Brockville, Feb. tO.- Last night
Michael Cneounell and 'Henry .11,ath-
.
well, two evelnknown farmers of Eitley
'vise ec e.spel, an 0
township, ' 't 1 I • d 1 ft
•
village aboue 16.30. They -were driv.
,
' in a sitigteontorse, attached to a out-
seg
-
ter, end, it is thotio,ht, the horse shied
40 upset the rig. They had only pros
coded two miles, but were not found
, h • •
until a o eke this mornmg. Wm
the i
Ferguson nodded euttet Over-
teemed, and on righting it found
two men lying underneath, itethesell
asleep Ana O'Colinell with his heita bur-
ied 'under the snow.
ed , W. T.
_ Fetguson suitimouDr,
dekmte C°Tcthat, from jasper, who
found. that O'Connell had died from
.footition, In his pockets were $41 end
a gold watch. Hs was 51 yearn. of age,
a bachelor,: and worth about $7,000.
leavce ono bristlier, a resident of Golf-
votnellr, X. Y.
- .
*.*
• •
TOWN &MITT
.e..........
' • '
Nitiolv pergions Sick in
----'' - --
and Three Dead,
.......ss.
' Toronto, AIL 1.5.-A myste
se has broken out i • -
ea•n Lam
'
UelitYeAl‘ . The symptoms
typhoid fever, but it is not. 1
of the sofferars swell and bk
of 900 of a reputation, nits
a all 0 1 All oe
d tree have died. . d
a loss as to tho nature or es
disease.
.
RAILWAY ROAM
in li II ----T .
Ottawa, Ont.; ..! t. ''. t . it
railway Commissioners will 1
don on the twentysfiftli of
and will there take up the
street eroasing, the Grand Ti
ings in ntat London and the'
crossing MOS. The 1)0
sit in Guelph on the 200 an
eider the npplication for ino
tion Accommodation.
55dial1tiln, the G. T. /t.
NA boa released ea $10,000
00,...,...1..1.1 1, . .0 114."J•twholl1.a V.kt 6.4 A
ist
ad
ras BINDER TWINE
ves
_
of . ,
mr Penitentiary offiemis Declare Its
em
' "
ily Manufacture Nat. a Failure,
Is -
• •
kb A
Al, musts% Ont.. Veb. 15.--Peultentiory
rd. ficials er0 indignant at the information elven
he out in the Isederai nous° tied the binder
,`iir. tvsine induetee at the "Pen." has bon
failure owing to the largo amount of money
, 0*M by farmers to the depattreent tor twine
by om. trills is entirety enttrue,
leo purchasedn
tw
...td eediest to tbe best of eutherity as the
, breinere bee envoys been conduetea en
. 4 tot basis and there is not a dollar of 144
Ind credit en the books, II June there will
„,,„„ sueuall PM he trittnuftictitfed tO Meet tdo
,..-- state demand end thie es tented/1nel nut-
va% Meat reason fOrejrit,..411oWn.
Illillii...• id...
4 •
ALBERTA LEADER.
Ottawa, Ont., Vels. 15, -Mr. M. 5,
earthy, M. P., Sta014 tiltlyt IlO TeCel.Ved
by wire the offer of the Albettn. Cons
s4orvatconvention of the leadership
4 f Y '' in '
° the party that P rovinee, but that
he Will make tie veiny until he receives
confitleintion of it by letter. In
meantime Mr. 1%leCleirthy will consider
vebetlier or riot lie will 4rOp out of l'ed-
eve; polities to tak. op pros -Imam went.
al,
net Itilestian noliee have 'anted a warrant
Geerge "Maraelb eged 00gdietTlie4 dead
for Maxim Gorky, the novelist.
London-, event Clardert • et et, on a Torouto streetear,
UitOiI isia nra.
was
and
your
re is
d not
ttage
that
. Ane
salmi
a fire.,
W015
4 let
r WLLS
Laren
tildren
g fire.
iremen
lie fire
tween
e
A po-
led to
Lo any
ss Me.
ho fire,
her be
s been
Benton.
he fire,
patrol
m seal -
n made
o until
aoher's
school,
y. He
me min
ay. The
y made
ry kind.
US look
4?"
IMO, PAN.
Doctor of Pemba Ourgaw ot the Pea-
ls._ Artille, College owl Ueeat OA of-
4404Toei milrgerr of Ontario.
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ng near
up and
don en
ice aud
smoke,
tor and
foLaren
and told
dren go
rave?"
devotion
composi-
I thiuk
e," said
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blaze in
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morning
, his wife,
ter-in-la•tv,
ier-in-law,
us women
ht gowns
bang the
snow to
Imre they
on, who is
ed to her
igade got
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houeehold
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the fire.
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STILETTO AGAIN.
GIOVANNI CIOTTI MURDeRED IN
STREET AT THE SOO.
His Body Lay in the Street All Night
-Ho Had Been a Witness for the
Crown in an Assault Case a Few
Days Ago,
Sault Ste Marie, Onie Despatch -
Giovanni Ciotti, an Italian, known
more familairly as Joint Shortie, a
resident of Little Rain was murdered
twit night ill the Italian settlement.
The body was found at daylight by C.
elitherty„ who was on the .way to his
work, lying on the street in front of
Pietro Alauzon bnieber .shop, 110311' the
caner of James and Supeelor steeete,
The frimt of the butcher shop was
covered with blood, and the dead man
bad a deep knife wound. on the ieft
side of the nook. His cloths were cov-
ered with blood, and the snow gave eva
donee of the feet that the man• bed
been attacked and atabbed and had
made a struggle.
No trace of the gates party has so
yet been found, although four men
whet saw the dead inati after he had
Oven stehbea have been arrested as
while:we. 'The motive for the murder
centiot ae yet be esteldiehed. Uiotti
wile a witnees in an assault casts a
few days ago, in which an Italian
named Palm, a storekeeper, was fiued
for aesarilting Judy. Ginsutj, The mur-
dered man appeared for the prosecution,
and was suhpeellAtS1 AS a witenss undtr
• the uame of John Shortie..
PLOW WAS married ,nan, aged 35,
and resided on Snootier street. Ito was
last son by his friends at 11 (Mock last
sight in the house of Eugene Muzzin,
Murray street, where Ms brother states
lte Tial a few drinks. Ite left about
twenty mittutes before the rest of the
party departed,
NINE DROWNED.
British Steamer Forest Castle
Founders at Sea.
London, Feb. 15. -The British steamer
wrecked yesterday In the bay of Brest
was the Forest Castle. This. information
ia contained in a despatch received Ude
morning from Brest by Lloyds. During
a fog she ran on a rock off Ushant
Nitride and then slid off and. sank in
deep water. Nine of her orew were
drowned, butthe remainder took to the
&thinner's sinall boats .and, later were
picked up by a pilot.
The Forest Castle was lost reportea es
sailing from Bordeaux, France, on dam
27e for 1311boa, The warner is of 1,800
tons net, 300 feet long, 43 feet beam and
23 feet depth. She WAS built; at Sun-
dant*, Englatid. in 1898. and .owned
by .the Forest Oak- Steamship Company,
Lineitea, of Newcastle, England,
SUNDAY SHOWS.
ChArges Against Theatrical Agents
at Montreal Dismissed.
aw.botrao...
Montreal, Feb. 15.-- Mr. Reorder
Weir gave judgmeut to -lay, diendosino
the notions- against W. A. Edwards, of
the de B. Sparrow Theatrical* & Amuse -
1110114 Comproy, and. W. Streelitot, of the
Theatre National Francais for giving
perfortuntecs on Sunday.
Tho actions wore &missed on two
wow' ise firat, bemuse they should havo
been diverted against the compardes,and
not against .their -agents, imlese 'express.
ly On agents, as :lidera and abottors. Tito
aeeond point was that in the °pluton of
the Iteeoreler to on a theatre -nova
to open it for theattieal performancen
and an exhillition of moving pictureewao
. not among the thins prohibited by the
by-law,