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The Wingham Advance, 1909-10-14, Page 2• SuRday Scbool. ,••••,•••••• LESSON 11 Le-DOT013 ER 17, 1009. Paul a Prisoner -Before Felix. - Acts 24: 10-27. Comenetatery.--Ie The eharges ageenst Paul (vs. 1.9). Within five deya the high priest. A.Haususe tegother with repreeent. Gel?. 26, He hoped, etc. --110 hoped Oust Paul would pay fer hie, freedom. 27. Left Peed beund.--Felix was &air- ous of gaining favor with the Jews as 416 retires from the governorship, and tieerdingly withdrew the special privi. • leges Paul had been allowed. Queetioneee-Who. owe to Ceeserea to testify Ranh* Pettit? How •did Tenni- las begin? What eherges did he bring nab* Paul?. Why had Paul gone up to Jerusalem? How dld Lu mower his acousers? What prieileges did Philip grant Paul? Before whom WO ValtiSLIT- theas:dein, ampenied nmied to 'peek of Chi it? Of -whet t 101'volt froas e Seoo prof.Arnonei orator, lestalicue, la Caesarea to preaent their eltargas evict Paul. Tertolihes began fuitteensg1re1ix 11e oue wee had deee gteet and aeble deeds and wise had great ty advaee 4 the government. lists lYd8 /40t 111 h. eptug whit the truth, far "beta Joesesaas L1.14 Taeltits represent hint .ae Otte tti the meet corrupt and opprese.sive rulete cvsr Sent by the Pennons Into eladea." tufts theu presented three. eitargee Aga int. Paul. They were, 1, Se - et treaeon Against the Rentea geverataesit. e. 'Levey. 3. Samelege in prof:tee:a the temple. These who were with '1'ertullus all aesented the: these thinge wore true.. JL Paulet defense (vs. 10-21). 10. Paul ....answered -Although t W100 before Paul hed spoken what he celled a the fease--ftvst, befere a vast crowd of Jewe In the temple sees, and stgain before the . assembled Saultettria---!yee4his is hie firet aetorti defenee, as he now seande Were lLflliaperiat tribunal, the goverhor repro. seating the person and authorrty of blur emperer,-13ut1er. Fogessanteh as I know -It is ietuorkable that Paul did not iw gia his speech, as Tertutioe had done, by any flattering address, or by any of the acts of rhetoric. He founded hie plea oft the ,justice of hie cause, and rnths feet that Felix had had se much expert enee in the affair:sof Judea that he wee yrell qualified to understand the uteritet of the ease, and to judge hnpartially. Paul was well acquainted with his chat -- octets, and would not by flatteriog word.: e declare that which was not striotly true, -Barnes. Many years -For the Qom- pasatively long period of six or seven years Felix had been in Jerusalem and Calesageo. A judge -A magestrate, .or one appointed to administer the a.fectirs ef government. "dere cheerfully answer -Because of Felix's unneual familierebe with Jewish questions. The fact of hes knowledge is attested in v. 22. L May. est underetand--eFrom the ehortness ot his stay in jertimtlem, any offense eatn- mittsd thee° must have been recent. There eould be no difficulby in obtaining witnesses and proofs. -Cook. Twelve dsoys-Frona the time Pant left Caesarea, until his retium, it was oniy nine days. Only eight of the twelve days had been speet in Jet usalein. His deeign in men - timing the faumber of clays was to allow thoimprebehility that in so shot a tune he eould have produced a tumult. To eves -ship -He went en purpose to wor- ship and had no thought of producing a tumult, er at profaning the temile. 12, 13. Neither found me, ete.-In term of maqualified denial he meets the first ediarge, -of sedition. Worship, not insur- rection, was the object of . his visit to efestmaeme, les sena arreeted while woe. *shipping and had not even spoken in pule lie. Neither oan they Trove -He chal- lenges investigatioo. They had made vague, wad assertiens, hoping the gov- ernor Might be influeueed to :sondem:1 lain without trial, as doubtless he would have done but far hie Beeman eitizenship. They very well knew that their ehargee could not be sustained under the Roman Jaw , Aectrea,nion is not proof. 14. This I confess -This verse and the following contain Paul's reply to the accusatiou ofe-Tertullus that he was a ringleader of ;the sect of the Nazar- enes. Re boldly ..ani joyously confesses that he is a Christian, but at the same this: declines to' acknowledge the op. prehrions terms' used by Tertullus.- Lange. The wity-"The way" is here use by Paul teesignify the Christian religion (See chap. 0:2). Heresy- "A sect." -11. V. The word used is the same that Tertollue used in verse 5,, when making .his 'charge. They had called the Christians a "sect," and Paul dees not disown, the name. So worship -See R. V. It is, as if he said: "Aftee the way which :they call false and er- erolieons, but whieh is according to the ' inward light given me, worship I my aecestors adored." 15. Hope toward God -Having a hepe .ef the resurreetion of the dead. 18. I exercise myself- He ,striees as the athletic or warrior, only his struggle and warfare is within his eoul. Ris supreme tans and constant effort was te keep a elear oonscienee. Conaehave-"The conscience 'doers not tell us what is right, but urges us to wiata _we knew to be right, and re-. leukos tie for doing what we know to be -wrong."--Hurlbut, 17. After many years. -Pail refers to the four years which had elapsed since his late visit to Jerusalem (chap. 18: 2e). -Meyer. He came as nut almoner et help, not as the fomenter of disturb- ance and source of injury to the nation. This ineidental seatentent is the only a)luelon in the Acts to the fact that Paul had been engaged for four years lit gathering collections from all the Gentile elierches in aid of the• poor Christian Jews of Judea. In the epis- tles Paid frequently refers to this matter.-Batler. Ile canto to bring of- eettags, and therefore he had no tkought of profaning the temple. Jewa from Asia-"Patil justly Complains that the very pershns who alone eoul4testify against him were al)- " scent, and showed that there wets really ne well-founded charge against him. They alone eeeeld testify as to anything that eteurred in the tetnple; and at they were not present that charge ought to be diemissed," Or else --"Paul turns with a bol4 challenge to the Saddueeen Jews!' present. Ile demand* their own personal testimony epee the facts that eceutred when he etood before the San- hedrin. With e keen thrust he asks iE the utteranes of the hated truth of the resutreetion wag not :the only charge ef oriledoieg they could 'bring." 111. Impritennient at Ctiesteria (22.27.) 22, 241. 'When Felix heard -The govern. r virtually decided the 'ease in favor of raul. Alt he wishen to keep the good. will of the jews. So he delayed his fin. al newer, In the mertrierhilds allowing h'itui muck liberty. in the company ef his Wendt. Ireving knowledge - Pella know more than *est Roman Tul- are ebent Christianity. Re evidently kuew the cluareeter of the disciples and Qat what Paul (laid wds true. 24. After **settle daye-Velix- came iu the Audi- aiiteachatither with ids wife, Drusilia, tee the arifteller was ettnunosed befnre tit**. Thus Paul baa an oporternity In nis bench of preaching the gospel, and moth an appertertity as lie eortle herdln mtherwiee neve obtaieted. iteattOttet1 of righteousiless, etc rani wreathes es et faithful egostli oneeld have preached to engsk hearers. liney tient ferbhu to hear about darist, They beard Omen *ere than they setred tie bsU. 1Ml tresiblecl-In vie* of bier ittirat Sias, itad the Nage:tent to come. 4ce thy wey-Felix WAS troubled, bet 1* - Weed ottiakin g the way of peaee„ he went theenetreenger of Warttleg away. Conventent-The sinner is always look - int fox a °convenient seaSon" to turn tO es he reason? Whitt was the elle-metes of his hearers? How did the truth affect PRACTICAL APPLICATIONSa Paul Defends the Faith. I. Peed spots. "Foresmeel" as 1 know" (v, 10.) Tertullus began his as- eusetion of Paul with abjeet flattery (vs. 2-4.) Paul respected office and what it repreeented, but did not flatter the bad man in the offiee. He was "subject into the higher powers" (Item, 13: 1.) He spoke truly end availed himself of a plain fact, when he eaide^"As 1 know tbet thou haste been of many years a judgs unto this nation, I do the more eheerfullly answer or nlyeelf" (v. 10.) A greet man will hon. estly praise; he will never flatter. Jesus etnemended Matt, 8: 10; John 4: 17); be never flattered. ss II, Paul reasons (v. 25). To the judge, in public'the prisoner gave the defer- ence due to his, office; to the sinner, in private, the preacher dared to give the warning that his official .theraoter and Ms private conduce would both come in- to judgraelet. To this unjust extortioner, this defrauder of widows, this plundever of children. this buyer and seller of jud- 1041 deeisions, "be reasoned of righte- Oltalletta." To the womee, who lied lost eyerythieg for whiph a wife and mother ought to Ilye, whose passionate degires had never been elseeked, dored to speak of self-control, self.reetreint, self- government. To this tyrannising prieata this unjust judge, he dared to tell of "a judgment to oome," until the man "trembled" at the sight of the peat white throne and the opened 'Weeks whose reoord waa rod with the Mood of "private murder and public maocaore," During the temperance crusade in Brooklyn, Louise C. Reynolds and a friend of hers, ',baited a liquor saloon. Turning to the bar -tender, she said, D. you know there is a terrible woe in the Bible pronouneed against those 'who sell liquor?" and quibecl to him Hab. 2. 15. "That is not in the Bible," he said al- most fiercely. She opened her Bible and pointed to the verse. He snatched the book from her, and pale and trealding road the words. Two days afterward the Hever saloon was elosea. The fearless words of the holy woman smote hie con- science, and he gave up tho -unrighteous traffic. At Pees courageous words Fel- ix "trembled," but he wild net yield. He said, "Go thy way," to the Spirit of Geed,. and "wait for a convenieet seasc>n" to the Christ of God. "God...enow cora- inandeth all meii everywhere to repent" (Acts 17.30). Those who have a .right to command expect prompt -obedience.,Ged has a right to expect instant obedience` as Creator aid Redeemer. That people delay instead of 'decline to become Chris- tians is an admission of God's eterual right to their obedience and a proclam- ation that they deliberately intend to trample upon his claim and longer sin against the here that bought them with the priee of bleed. This is eowerdly, grateful; rebellions. Felix trembles (V. 25). "Paul was not the only one who we being weighed or judged in 'this leeson. Fell.* also was fear of the consequence of hie sin. Many times men have committed mixt which has ation that theydelib'erately inteud to trample upon his claim and longer sin against the love that bought them with the prim, of Wed. This is cowardly, un- grateful,: rebellious. III. Felix trembles (v. 25). F'Paul was not the pnly is who was being weigh- ed or judged in this lesson. Felix also was in the balances. His eonecienee was amusing him for hia sin. He trembled for fear of the-Oonsequence of his sin. Many timee- mee hare committed sin which has made them afraid all their lives, and they haye been unable to die in peaoe." Felix trembled over his sin, but put off the remedy for curing them If he had only listened to Paul anti received Christ they would have all been Pardoned; but he loved his sins so much that he put it off until some other time, and that time sprobably nev- e-me, How honk for boyi and girls or for Any One to put off becoming Chrietlans. Christi:we de Of trereble when they hear ahatasright living and the judgment to (tome. They knew that to die will be their gain. - alcur kapaci5 TORONTO MARKETS, invoke; demend very streng . Dreseed hop much etielee, $9.ta to $10 prevailing .prive; live hogs, select, $7,00; smell pig% pair, $0.50 to $7,50. Iley mielutuged.at trde and $15. Strew, $8.50 to $7.50. Hitlee higher; No. 1, lic pound; No..40.10e; No. 3, 9c; olf skine, 100; leaub;kine, 80. eilelleLternoro.- On the market dreeesed Loge, none offering; do., live, $7.83. BONI hey, $14; loam, $15 to $10. Aisles, farmers $ to 00; batohere, 1() to Ile. Egisgoslieli z,_,,,,oveew) juatrtg@or, .25 4,ticoot2 t3tco...cla but prieee rowan high. Live hog deal- er; pand $8 per cwt.; dressed hega -were $11. Leine hey emice this week selling et $15,50 to $10, latter price prey:tiling', advaneed, ta 30e and butter Sit he eetatnee plentiftti at 55 to 00e, and there is big erop. . Owen Sound.-Thie. moruing'e mai ket allowed an upward tendency in batter ,and eggs. First-class pound printe eald et 24e and inferior from 22 to 23e. Egge increased to 2ile fol. new 1441; storage egga et 240, Hay, $18 te $18.50; eles. baled, $19.50, Strew, $9.50. Hags, live, for Mondity'se delivery, will be $7.50; hope,$ erg& dragged, light, 29,50; no heavy hole rd Themas.-Toalay saw the largeet at endance in the Itietory of market's; prices remain steady. Wheat', 97e. Live hogs, $7.50, Dressed hogs, ie 1.2e. Loose hay, $12; baled hay, $13. Egge. 270perto2Ib. Better, 25 to 27e, Ch:ekens. 1s BRADSTREET'S TRADE REVIEW Montreal reports to Breelatrecit's say Wholesale trade there continues active itt all lines. Toronto reports to Bradstreet's isay the trade eituetion is without change. Winnipeg reports gay both retail and wholesale trede there eontifiuee to in- creese in volume. • Vancouver and Victoria reports arty trade all along the vast continues rte. :11:i:A satisfactory tilall the PrOOPtlibS Quebec reports to Bradstreethi are welilton reporte say all kende of re- tail trade report an eacellient volume of business and wholesalers and montanc. turers are busy with rush orders for muelanebded goods for here and out- side points. London reports say general business there holds a steady tone. Ottawa reports say•a satisfactory tune vol - of bueiness is oaring in all lines of trnd FARMERS' •hlARKET, The .offerings of grein to -day were only 400 bushels. Wheat firm e 200 built - els of white gelling at 91.02 per bushel. Barley sold at 09 to Ole for 200 hillatela. Oats nominal at 42 to 43e. • There wits the uertal lerge Sidurday% amply of fanners' produce on the Mat- Itet to -day. Butter sold at 25 to Iiiht per lb. for good to choice qualities and egge sold at 28 to 32e per dozen. Poultry plc nti ful andleasle Hay in tited supply, with prim steady; 15 loads eole at $10 to $20'a ton for timothy and at 08 to $10 for Player. Dresaed hogs aro cagy, with priori firm from $10,75 to $1145. Wheat, white, new 9 1 01 _1'1 02 Do, red, new 1 00 1 01 1)0,, goose, 0 96 0 08 Oats, new, bubeI„ 0 42 0 43 Barley, bushel „ , , .„ 0 OQ 0 01 Rye, bushel , 0 08 '0 70 flay, timothy, ton 10 00 20 90 Dee clover, ton .. 8 00 10 00 Straw, per ton 16 50 10 00 Seede- faticy, bushel ° 0 75 7 00 Do., No. 1 „ . • 0 50 0 75 Do., Noe. 2 , . o 75 0 00 Do„ No, 3 , . .„ , 5 00 5 25 Red clover, bushel .„ 7 50 8 00 Timothy„ 140 1 00 Dressed hogs .. „ 10 70 11 25 'Butter, dairy .. 0 24 0 30 Do., inferior , „ 0 20 0 22 Eggs, dozens 0, gs 0 32 Chickens, , .„ 0 13 0 14 Ducks, lb. ., , . 0 13 0 14 Turkeys, lb. .... 020 022 Geese, lb. 0 11 0 12 Fowl, lb. ...„ 0 11 0 12 Apples, Wit. 1 25 2 00 Potatoes, load, bag .. 0 60 0 70 Celery, &seen 0 80 0. 35 Onions, bag I. 40 1 00 Canliflewer, dozen 0 75 1 25 Cabbage, dozen , 0 00 0 75 -- Beef, hindquartera 1000 10 00 Do„ forager:dens '500 6 00 Do., choice, carcase 8 00 8 75 Do., medium, carcase7 00 8 00 Mutton, per cwt. , . 8 00 0 50 Veal, prim, per cwt. 8 00 10 50 Lamb, per cwt. 0 00 10 00 200 DESERTERS Left in New York by Visiting• tish Squadrons. •,-.• Nev York, Oct 11,-Slx. of the great foreign men -of -were -three British arm- ored cruiters and three French! hatted - ships -crept out to sea through the Nar- rows just at dark to -night, leaving be. hind'a: great cloud of black smelt,' and thaubsetentiaI number of their men. Jun how many of the blue -jackets remained in the city for Gee reason or anther is a natter of official knowledge„oniy, but it NV3.14 reported that two huidred men from the British Alpo had failed to turn up far duty. Of the French it was said that only three out of the. 2,500 stai'soas hed stayed behind. Fleet officers re- mained to search for the men of beth eguadvone, IVIien the British squadron rutted New York several years ago it Net three hundred illeh. In giving their farewell to -day, the Brie eish e ou Uhl their eon ti e n ofatete, the French, in the floater ef ex. treme courtesy. While international pa. Rennie by no means requireseit, all three of the English oruieers fired a parting salute ef twelay-onsi guns as they pease:. Governor's lelsaul, Old Castle Wil lams fired twenty-one for oaelt veetel in ;c. turn, The Frenth had previottely waited out in silence. •••••••• FELL FORTY FEET. John Meadows Killed in Bland- - ford Township. Woodstock, Oet. 10.-lohn Meadows, aged 27, an Englishietan, two years in this country, was killed yesterda3f on the Premises; of Mellarlene brothers in Blandford township. in making preparations for ,dlling the silo, Mead- ows 'limbed to the top of the silo and. sat on a plank to fix a rope. With- out any warning or outery, he lost hid balance, and fellforty feet to the eetnent floor below, sustaining ter. tibia injuriea, whidh caused his death after an hour and a half. It is be., Hayed that he fainted while sitting on the plank. Deceased Wax animals fled. LIVE STOCE, The quality of fat cattle was not any better than in the early part of the week, very •few of them being good en- ough to sell over $5 per cwt., as wilt be seen by the many sales reported Wilber. Trodeswas Minh the same in all class- es excepting -that good butohers and geed butdhers' cows sold at a little high- er prices. Nearly all offerings were eleaeed - up, Butehers,-Geo, deowntree bought for Harris Abattoir Co. on Wednesday and Thursday 616 cattle. Butchers steers and heifers, 94 to 95.25; cows at 91.50 to 94.60. Stockers and Feeders.-Rarry Murby repertiethe trade for feeders and stock- ers to be about the same. The demand is principally for •the best quality of steers, from 000 to 1,00 lbs., each. Mr. Murby bouilit 200 to -day, and a total of 460 for the week and quotes prices: as follows: Best steers, 900 to 1,060 lbs, eeph, at $4 to $4.50; hest steers, 800 to 990 Ilia. evil, at 93.50 to 93.85; -good steam, acre to 790 lbs. each, at 92.10 to $3.20.; pommon stockers, 92 to $2.25. ' Milkers aKtd Springers. -As wkll " seen by the many sides given of milk- ers and springers, there was an active trade at fair to good prices ranging from $80 to $00, with a few at $65 and one at' $70. Veal Calves. -Trade was good for the calves at steady prioes, ranging from $8 to 98.50, and a very few at 97 per cwt. Sheep and Lambs.-Tra,d• steady, rices unchanged as follows: Export ewes, $3.50 to $3.90; rains, $2 to' 92.- 50; lambs, $5 to $5.25, with a few 01 - *sets at $5.90. Hoge -Selects fed and watered. at the market, $8, and 97.15 f.o.bare at country points. DeWers all say „that prices must go still lower this coming week. THE FRUIT MARKET, The •reeelpts to -clay were small . and prices were steady. Grapes, basket.. ..$ 0 12% $0 15 De., large .. ..... 0 25 0 30 •Oraegesi, 2 76 3 50 Bananas, buneh 1 50 1 75 Lemons, Verdeli . . 3 75 4 00 Peaches, Can., cam,. .. 0 50 0 05 Do., „Crawfords .,.. 0 75 1 25 Plums; Can., bkt.. 0 35 0 SO Pears, Iskt.. . .,.. 0-30 060 Bartletts.. 0 05 0 86 Apples, basket .. 0 15 0 30 Crabapples, bkt.... ,0 20 0 30 Tomatoes, bkt.... 0 20 0 30 Potatoes,•bag 70 0 75 Do,, aweet, bbl. 4 n0 0 00' Peppers, re4, 0 75 0 85 DO., greens, bk.t.. 0 25 0 00 Cranberries, bbl.. 8 50 0 00 Onions, Spanish, ease ... 2 70 0 00 SUGAR MAIIKIIT. St. fawrenee sugars are quoted as follows: Granulated, $4.85 per cwt., in barrels; No. 1 goldeo, $4.45 per cwt., in barrels', Beavers $4,56 per awt., in bags. These prices" are for delivery here. Car lots, 50 leas. Io 100-1b. bags pries are 5e less. OTHER MARKETS WINNIPEG WHEAT MARKET. WheatOetober 97 1-8c bid, Deeember 94c bid, May 94 7-80. Oats-Octobee 34 3-8e) December 33 1-8e bid, May 38 1.4e, NEW YORK SU'CiAll AIA.REET. Sugar, raw, firm; strong, fair refin- ing 3.78 to 3.78e; centrifugal, 90 test, 4.28o to 4.25e; molassee sugar, 3.48c to 3.50; refineA steady. BRITISH CATTLE MARKETS. London -London edblea for cettle are lower, at 12e to 18 3-4e per lb. for Can- adian steerii, deemed weighe; refrigeis- ator beef is quoted at 11 1-4e to 11 1.2o per 1b. Liyerpoo1-3olin Itogebt 41,t Co.'s Liver- lepol to -day; States' eteers frOrn 12 1-2e le 13 1-2c; Canadians, Ile to 12 1-2o to 13 1-20: Canadians', 110 to 12 1-2o; ranch- er*, 10c te llo; COWS and helfere, lffe to 11 1-4e. Trade *low, weather good. 011BESE MA.REETS. Lolidort, Ont. -To -day four fattories offered 788 eolor.ed sheens; no males; bid- ding, 11. 1-86 to 11 1-40. Caton N. t. -To -day, 1,200 tuba but - bold 0'80 1-2e4; 15500 boxed cheese at 15 1-$0. One year ago butter sold for 26e and elteete 12 1-2c, St. Hyacinthe, Que.-To-els:7 200 peek - Agee butter, 114,220 bete(' cheese, 11e. Vitatettesern, N. Y. -Cheese sales -5,000 at 15 to 15 14o. PROVINCIAt MARKETS. tendon, Oilt.-fload metket to -Any. Proddes plentiful, With brisk demand. Efegs Wel ra 26t whole:ode, 26 to 27e retail, some dealers asking 30e. Buttes fit -Me 211 to 24a for rolls,42 to 23e for.. ••••••.•-•.-•4••••1111••••••••••-•, 3,000 DROWNED In Hurricane on Ficuatan-Experi. cues of a Schooner. • New Orleans, Oct,..1L-The crew0 of the schooner Caldwell, of Pensaeola, Fie.. arrived here last last night from . Pro'. greso, Alexia°, on the steamer City of Tampico, afar extraordinary expsri. mew. According to the crew the, Caldwell nailed from Penaacola one month ago; on a fleshing cruise. Several days later she Was struck by the Gulf hurricane whioh mused -havoc along the Mississippi River and the Louisiana coasts. After foul - days the badly bettered vessel was steered among many difficulties to A point off tne Meximn coast near Pro- greso. According to the men, the work of repair had hardly begun when the Whim' gunboat Bravo sailed up and MI* possession of the schooner. It was emaiiued th-at the schoon•er.imel been en- gaged in fishing within it prescribed dish banes from shore, and she was ferinelly confiscated. Although theemen were re- leased, the schooner is stilt. held by the Mexican Government. -The City of Tampico brought a report • leat. from 2,000 to 0,000 'valves were drowned on the jelands of Fiesta tan in this Marianne. • DRY DOCKS. Harland & Wolfe Said to* Have Seat Representative to Caaada. ----London, Oct. Io. -The Liverpool Journal of Commerce says that some far-reaching developments are about to take place in connection With Can- adian shipping. It was the highest authority for stating that, seven weeks ago Harland & Wolfe sent a repre- sentative to Canada to formulate a scheme for establiseng dry clocks and repairing sheds capable of dealing with the largest liners or warships, as they have done at Southampton. 'Quebec, Oct, 10. -The syndicate formed to build a dry dock, etc., at Point Levis, isn ote as first supposed, organized by Quebec merchants, but is chiefly composed of English capit- alists, who are represented here by Mr. W. M. Dobell, and who have as - sedated with them Sir Thomas Shaughnessy and ether wealthy Can- adians of Montreal and elsewhere, to - other with the firm of Harland & Wolfe, shipbuilders, of Belfast. The pronioters of the company have al- ready secured several options On valu- able Point Levis ',property, including beaCh lands and Wharves, and in- tend the construction of a dry dock at Levis, opposite Quebec. They will build a similar dock at St. Sohn, N. B., and mean to bid for the construc- tion of Canada's new navy. • HARRIS EXPLAINS. A nsw er to Toronto ExpotlerRefer- • red to One Japanese Firm. Ottawa, Oct. 10. -The Trade and Corn - melte Depattnient has received from aps,diair Trade Commissioner Harris, of Yokohama, a eable explaining the re- cent letter •from him. to a Canadian ex- porter, which, as published in Canada, apparently deelared that the japenese were not to be trended in matters of trade.. Mr. Harris expiable chat the latter in queation wag a private commun- isation to a Toronto business man, and the 'Warning contained therein was late tended to apply only to a particular \Uvulae firm, about which it Toronto firm had made inquiries. There was no intention at all to discredit Japanese business integrity as whole. 4 $50,000 FIRE. Narreganeet Pier, U. L, Oet, enchet, the magnificent home of former Governor Wm. Sprague, and one of the most beautiful estates in Rhode Island, was destroyed by fire early toelity, with all its eontente. The total lost; :4 about 000,000, on which there is to infiltraneti. Foietter Governor and Mr. Sprague Were twakened by the crackling of the Palliate reefiereeteen LIKE A NOVEL. BIG STORM1 ^•••••••••••• General Luord's Wife Slain •to Ee. cure Missing Idol's Eye. ••••••••••••• Remarkable Explanation of Recent London Murder Mystery. London, Oct. L0.-Readere may remem- ber the murder last year of the wile of the aged Gen. Luard i:u the groutede of th.eir muntry home in Kent, ad the subsequent eurchtle of the hue, band. The author of the murder re - Maine undiscovered and the ease is as much of a Inviteey no ever. But an ex- traordivary story has reached London from an •English officer serving in the Par Ease which euggests a solah tion of the ffair. Mrs, Luard'a body was found stripe pod of its valuables, which included, According to the OffiCial accoune, a net puree, ewe ordinary rings, and "an antique diamond ring, said to be over 100 years old, with a very latSge diamond in the centre and euoireled by other diamon•es," No trace of this stob en property could be found in all Eng- land. But now comes the story that in Ohieese temple an idOl which for many years has been sheet of an eye is now once more petfeot. Gen. Luard on his wedding thee presented to his bride an andel-des ring, in which wsis set the precious :stone that had beeu carried off long ago from a Buddhist temple. AU through her happy married life Mrs. Luard wore Qua ti13E, Tlirough all these years cloth Was ever near her, if the story be true that the -worship- pers of the despolled god .erere sworn to restore, the jewel to their divinity, cost what it 3etight. On the fatel day a hand 'hatched out from nowhere was upon Mrs. Luard, and she died, it may be, be- cause of the yieletion long years ago of a Buddhist temple, the name of which she did not know, hidden a way in a comer of China of which site had never heard. With something of Oriental magic 'the menden:sr vanish- ed. Through the cordons of police he slipped, carrying the relic which would make him a 'hero or saint among his people. English people in the district; says the officers on whose authority the story is published, knew about the disappearance of the jewel from the Noe of the god. When they heard of ite reappearauce and remembered the murder of Mrs. Luard they formed their own conclusions. Wild and improbable these conclusions may seem, but those ew4linoce,know the East know that au East- ern, fanatic would willingly range the world on such a pilgrimage of vong- SAVED THEIR LIVES. In Poor Settlement Twenty Families Lose All Their Possessions. Winnipeg, Oct. 10. -Tales of the havoc wrought by.prairie fires and 'of deeds of heroism are coming in daily from the stricken districts, and indicate a pitiable state of affairs in many cases. At Thord, north of Oak point, Manitelles., where there are many'landlies ix one new set- tlement, all of who; are poor home- steaders, 'who, have not yet received their patents, the district has been prac- tically serept,eand the familiee have only 'escaped after 'heroic fighting for their lives: The schpol built lad summer was also destroyed. Ono •family escaped through being, wrapped in wet blankets end being buried in the sand, . From Grassy Lake, near Lethbridge, comes news 'that the fires there were the worst in the history of the settle- ment. Hundreds of hay stacks have been burned and the town escaped only by a narrow eshave, a shower of rain coming at the opportune time. Considerable damage has also been done around Tisdale where a number of grain !tacks have been hurtled. .CHEAP DIVORCES. Movement Under Way in England to Give Them to Poor. • London, Oet. 10.-A movement is under way in Englena for a system of easier and. cheaper divorces for the poor. Ai the English law stain's only tvealthy persons eau. afford the hucury of a divorce. Solicitors agree that the only ehange neceseary would involve no alteration in the law; but would be pure- ly administrative. Last April a committee appointed be Vat Lord Chancellor and presided over by Lord Gorell, lately preeident of the Divorce Court, suggested reforms with the same objeet in view, the most strik- ing being the cetablislunent ef provincial courts of divorce. In July Lord Gorell moved a resolution in the House of Lards to confer limited juriediction in divorce end aratrinionial eases Oil County Courtin but Ober the Arehnishep of Canterbury and Lord Halifax, Pres- ident of the Englieh Chu's& Union, had gerenuously opposite" the motion, it was withdrawn. MANSLAUGHTER. ••••••••• Capt. Ralph Pringle Faces Imprison- ment in, Michigan. Detroit, Mieb., O'et. 10. --The jury has returned a verdict of mattalitughter ag•alnet Capt. Ralph Pringle, well known ire a navigator of the great !Ace, Who was tried for the killing of George Bite rell Monition in the "Hole in the Wall" saloon in St. Clair last winter. The ter - diet eerrice a penalty of front 5 to 20 years in peleon. Pringle% Idea was that Dirrell had invaded the ettnetity of hie home, A CHEEKY THIEF. A Pretender Gels $170 Pram Store Cashier in blontreaL Montreal, ()et. 10.-4 man walked in- to theetore of A. E, Reit te Co., St, Ciatit- trine street, on Friday afternoon, and, representing hinurelf to the lady cashier as being Mr. nett, iteld he Wanted $170 in a hurry. The young lady, it is said by the secret service men, handed over the money without any hesitation, tts the man wee well dressed and teemed tO be well acquainted with the busi. neat • ••••••• • Strikes Havana and Causes MOS Norge Aare. ••••••••••••••• Havana, Oct. 14.--A, storin of hurri- cane proportions atrucle the city early toalay and raged with intubated fury for several hours. No fatalities red been reported this tnorning, but the property losses front wind And rain Will be enor- mohi lighters and other, small eraft in the harbor lieve hem sunk or driven ashore, All telegraph wiree' in the eity satraeThoddriornewgnn:tiaithe:lectrie povii,er eerviee is crippled, and eeareely a .ree is left ins have finen cease- lessly durieg the past twodaye At 2 •e'cloek this morning a storm of tre- mendous severity, width hail gathered to the west, swept down dpon the seity and for six hours wroughtedemage sim- ilar to that done by the great cyclone of Oct, 17, 1906. The wind Jere down. telegraph and telephone wires through- out the city, uprooted- or: broke dowe eery tree M. its ,,path, anal put out of operation the electric light system, the overhead trolley lines and the Many works dependent upon the electric power nlants. While the wind wee, still doing Ito worst the downpour of rain flooded tho sbbssthroepest.s, making it impeselble to oprn • The smaller craft le tine harbor Wate at the merey of the storit, and to -day many of these are thrown on shore, while others have been, sunken at their andorage. At 9 O'clock the storm had leseened sufficiently so that some idea of the damage could be Md. It iseenor- mous, apparently; but what it will res present in dollars cannot be siiid as yet. No papers were issued this morning, the newspaper plants being 'crippled by the floods. The steamers of the Ward and Plant lines, as well as the steamer from New Orleans, which are due to -day, had. not reported this morning. HEADING FOR HEY WEST. Washington, Oct, 11. -The West India i hurricane s fast approading Hey West, according to a . despatch received. at noon by the weather bureau from, itt. observer at that point. He reported the barometer had further dropped to 28.70 and the wind was ,blowing at the rate of 88 miles an hour.' , In order to safeguard.the life of the weether bureau observer at Sand Hey a small island to the soiethweat of Key - West, 011ief Mocfre ordered the mane to abandon his poet, ThIS-he relmictantly did, and hes reported to Washiegtee that he }lad taken refuge from the Storm in the lighthouse located on the iShind. • • . MANY DlyORCES.. 945,625 hared in the U. S. in Twenty Years. ......••••••••••• Washington, Oet 11. ---The Cenetie Bureau has published it comprehen- sive report on marriage and divoese. The investigation of the subject wee undertaken by direction sef• (;ongniss and grew out of a oonferenee this city "between representatives of vari- ous religious -denominations. The in- vestigation hart extended over a., period of nearly five year, • • "Apparently the divoree tette: like the veloeity falling beily, is con- stantly inereasiug," says the eeport, "and it ie- leaf:mai:by to determine statistically hen available data just. what the results would be if the rate reached at any particular time re- mained constaut; in other words, no statistiesebearing on this question of the duration of anarriages ferminited by divorce, have been- obtained, that. accu- rately rnpresent present eonditiens or conditioiih itt any pareicular period, fen the conditions are not static, bit dy- namic." The, statistics eover a period: from 1887 .10 'the end of 1908, and the total ritun;ber , of nvarriagea • reearded. was 12,832,044. The investigation showed that in the twenty years eoveriad the number of divorcee ,gegneeda was 345,825. In the twenty yewrs from 1887 to 1880 the munber was about 328,716, liardly more than one-third of the nitralier receread in the seemed twentyyears. The eport se:ye that each successive five-year period eines 1867 has witnessed a, marles•d inereasein the num- ber of diverees. • A PRDPER VERDICT. Judge's Report on Trial ef• Mentreal Man Qonvicted of Murder., • Ottawa,' Oet. 10. --Judge Croas' re - pert olt the trial of Sohn Dillon; alias Saith, who ia under sentence of .deittar far the murder of Conatable Shea, at cavioidnetlitrelj,iihda:eboaernosr4:;:d by the Jus- tice Department. After summit)", up the "The defence of insanity or irresponsi- bility was not made out; it amounted to only a week attempt. A verdlet of l'hilty WM the only I:tepee verdict in the eiriumetemees. '"• ."The jurors have recanimended the prisoner. to clemency. While I do not feel 'ealled upon to treat of that room- niendatlon, 1 may say that, hr making it, the jurors were doubtlese ruflitenced by the consideration ()het the prisoier is now a decayed. dandy, about 67 yearspf age, broken in health Rad spirit." a- .• KILLgD ON RA I LW,t,Y. ••• •••,* Henry Woodruff, an Aged Resident of St. David's, Found Dead. Niagara Palls, Oct. 10. -Early this morning the dead body of Henry Woodruff, of St. David's, was found on the Grand Trunk tracks ea Stain, ford, Mr, Woodruff, who is 70 years of age, spent yesterday morning in this city, and left for St. David's late in the afternoon, walking along the railway. Darkness fell before the five -mile joutney was completed, and it is thought that the aged man, tired from the exertion of the day, sat down on the Iine to rest and presuinttbly fell Weep. Mr, Woodruff was wealthy and was one of the oldest Settlers in dietrict. •1•4•01••.••6414 41•••••••4••••••• EARL GREY CR11'1010E0. Rev. 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London, Oct, 11, -The speettecle of lords, .spiritual and temporal, layiug donn eadefiditirni of that much ill-used and foggy phrase, "the wprking classes," eves ono of the features' of the proceed- ings recently on the housing aed town planning bill. The Lords' definition, which they in- troduced in the bill, runs: The expres- eiee, (working classes," throughout the hopstng aqts, unless the context other- wise eequirea, shall mean: Mechanic; Artisans; Lenorers (and others working for wages): Hawkers ;. •dostermongers; Persons not working for wages, but working at some trade or handicraft without. employing others, expept mem- bers of their own femilY; Pet -sons whose Income does not exceed an average of 30s. a week, and such per- sons as may be residing with them. When the division was taken, the new definition of working classes was put into the bill by it majority of 83 to 37. a THE RAINBOW. Little Girl's Five -Mile Quest for Pot of Gold. Bloomfield, N. J., Oct. 11, -Try as she might, Tillie Braciolit could not over- take that rainbow and seize it; so, tired out, the girl of '7 years dropped Asleep ender an elm tree on Broad street, where she was found by Chief Of Police Collins, who carried her to the police station. She told the chief she lived in Newark. When the children were dismissed filen school yesterday afternoon Tillie tetw a big rainbow, and determined to cateh the end of it in her hands, for then the fairies would give her lots of money and nice things. So she walked and walked, but the further she got the fainter the rainbow grew and when licr legs began to ache she just lay down. Her father was sent for, and he took her home. She had walked more then five miles, mistAKeN POR A bEEN. DREAIV1S DEATH. Invalid Wife in Vision Sees Hus- band's Fatality. . Pittsburg, Oct. H. -While under tire influence of an opiate at the Presbye When Hospital Mrs. Martin O'Rourke to -day dreamed that her husband was dead, .and that his spirit entered' her room, beckoning to her. She awiike screaming, and it was some time before s le couk be quieted. The shock was e eh 1\v that her condition is growieg rap - la worse, and •her liN is despaired of. While Mrs. O'Rourke dreamed that her husband was dead,. she (fid not know that he really was m his &an, and sorrowing Mends were in the house at the time she awoke from her horrible vision. Martin O'Rourke was Oltd of' the vice tine! of the Chislett street ear Wreck - Be died shortly after being taken front the car, which turned turtle. At the time Ite was on his evaY to his home. with medicine, His wife was 'then ot the O'Rourke- residence end her OW - Lion was such that it Was deemed ad- sisable to keep her in ignorance of hie death. She was removed to the hospitat along with her three-weeksaold infant... tier husband's continued absence has alarmed her, and her itnaginiogs plung- ed her into an extreme nervous state. This, no doubt,•was responsible for the dreadful dream. INSANE WOMAN'S FRENZY. Had to be Strapped to Cot in Police Station. Brockville despateh: Strapped to it cot ill police headquarters; Miss Stella M. Vargo spout the greeter part of the night. Going violently insane at the hospital, her condition beeeme so violent that the police were &tiled upon to re- move her. Tho eells offered no protec- tion for the raving maniac, who battered her body in every conceivable way, The woman is an epileptic, and same here from Delta over it yeer ago for treat- ment. " Print to that she had been almost burned to death by failing on a red hot stove while in a spasm. She is tow be- ing cared for ra Cite asylum. Getting hie hand caught in the Maven of it core cutting nutelfine, Samuel Dool, • of Bishop's 141111s, bad it severed at the wrist. Henry Lewis Shot in the Woo& Near Saranac Laike, sarenae Lake, N, Y., Oct' 11.---4„ lamentable gunning itecitient oeurred near her to -day, when Henry Levels, proprietor of the Wayside Inn at Cleitr- lake juitctiou, was supposedly mistaken for it deer and fatally shot at Little Fish Pont, twelve nules from thls Letela Wit* hunting with it large party, but the name of the man Who ttnWit- tinnier fired the shot hes not been Made IcnoWin bullet passed through Lewis' bedy jwit above the Tweet, bl- inding it wound frineWhieh 1t intriot retoven ••1•••••• 0•• • ••••••• BUCHAN'S SUCCESSOR, Montreal, Que., Oct, 11. -Col, P. t, Lessard, O.B.A.D.O., head of the Pro- vincial eorps in Canada, is mentioned as likely to succeed the late Brigadier. General Buthan in that title, but not necessarily in the same comtnand. Lt. -Col, Gordon i mentiened foe tho vacancy which would be better if COI, Lessard was higher. +•••••••••••.++4f. •••••••*. Imports at the port of New York are growing rapidly, showing. an Increase of from 35 to 50 per oni. ever the vals nes of it year ago. Roeipts of .f.crti $1,000,000 to 41,010,00 are not unusual in a day.