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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Wingham Advance, 1904-08-25, Page 2gy dra,wing steadily closor, but by 1 Op. 111^ Sunday be110010-34rAutattiggog4n1114YresZialt sweep alte entire town. Many of the eitizens *en prpeared for flight, and a INTERNa.TIONAI. '4415150N NO: IX. ltaandincii=or oultgedi nt:006444;14k°yriteo 1;tr°141fieelt. AUGUST 28. 11.004 Mon began digging great holes in their =Jail Discouraged. -1 Kings 1911-3. ContIntentary.-1. The rgiiMa las. 1-31, 1, Tobi Jezebel -She was not afasetsid tny le tety aeflie Atotnit ;nava been Ds,' tne aotual eies. Elijah had done -Ahab did not appear to recognize the hen:1'01'0a hi the Whir. ma &A -The slaughter of the propheta a Baal, who VW* probably Of the MO felafign race as the queen, was what stirred all the fieteenees of her nature. As site Batelle tO. the story her one Oa:Bight ia rerenge. 2. tient a messenger -Here was lack of shrewdness and forethought, „if she really wiehed and designed to carry out her threat, for euch air annouacement of her porpoise We Elijah- fall opportunity to escape her, or prepare to meet her oppoeitien, Some have thought that the exect time which Vats given him - "by to -morrow about this time" -is prof that her threat "was intended and understood aa a sentence of bstnislunent on pain of death." 'Unto Elijah -The prophet did net venture into the city: and thus put himself into her power, but waited to see how she Nvould receive the new. 3. When he eaw--When he heard of the tage of Jezebel, and saw the storm that wee. corning on him. Wept for his life -Be knew Ahab's weakness and lack of courage, and the instability of puhlic sentiment. It seemed to him that his efforts had been in vain, that the bright prospects on Carmel had resulted in no permanent good, and that God's cause was utterly. lost. "Jehovah seems to have left him for a season to himself. Beer -Sheba -At the extreme southern limit of Palestine, and about 95 miles froth Jezreel. Beer-slieba was originally assigned to the tribe of Simeon. Left Ids servant -The ,servant must have attend- ed. him from Carmel to Jezreel and from thence to the: south of Judah. II. Elijah in despair (v. 4). 4. Into the •wilderness-The-vildernese here sfoken of is the desert of Paran, through which the Israelites had of old wandered from Egypt toward the promised land.-Lum- by. He did. not feel himself .safe until he was beyond the imaitory of both Ahab and Jeliosopliat. "He is now led down into the dark depths of temple- , tion." -Lange. Juniper tree -The -He- brew says, literally, one juniper tree, or broom shrub, and thus depicts the deso- lation of the country. back yards, aud burying their posses- sions. Thanks, however, to the foresight of Ittallegan,ASbur Wilson, of the Crow's Net Coal Company, the town is ftilly Iwo:prided for such contingencies with a •tve.ter system. In a. short time the build- ings were fairly delugedf with water, ,Fortunatelv theawind died clanam avert- ing immediate disaster. The company had to close the outranco to the var- ious workings so as to tender them air- tight, o,n&i thus prevent the antoke mingling with the gas and causing trou- ble. A RICH BULL -FIGHTER. Mazzantini of Madrid, Retires After a Long Ring Career. Florence, Aug, 22. -The celebrated bull -fighter, ldazzantlni, who has become possessed of millions and who boasts that he has killed 3,500 bulls, bes retired from the bull ring, and cbosen this, his native city, as his future residence. Luiz Mazzantini is one of the best known of Spanish bull -fighters, and is quite and idol with the frequenters of the arena in Madrid, Seville aud other Spanish centres. He visited Mexico in 1901-2, where he slew more than a hun- dred bulls. Mazzantini was originally a law student, but, finding that profes- sion dict not pay, became a telegraph- er. Though promoted to be manager of a telegraph office,.this did not con- tent him, and, choosing the career of bull -fighting, he entered the arena in 1831, in three years securing his diploma as a matador. He was soon advanced to the front ratik and it was considered one of the sights of the great fair at Seville to see him 1.111 a bull. He has had many narrow es- capes from death, and bears the scars of his encounters, but fortune has smiled on him, and be has property all over Spain. III. Elijah fed by angels (vs. 5-8). 6. Lay and slept -Elijah was physically ex- hausted. It was the reaction after the intense nervous strain on Carmel. First of all God suptplied his physical neces. sittes. "He givith his beloved sleep." An angel -We hear little of these heavenly ministrants during the great period of prophetie activity. The mediation of angels was largely supplanted by that ofinspired men. But at times they ap- pear to remind us that they ever en- camp around God' a servants. -Hurlbut. Arise and eat -Food was provided for him. "Jehovah is not yea done with as he did for Jonah when he fled from duty. 6. Cake -"A round, flat cake put be- tween hot stones laid in embers of a charcoal fire"; but he is too weary to eat a sufficiency, and so falls to sleep again. 8. Went .... • forty days -He was miraculously sustained. On the same mountain Moses had twice fasted this same length of time; (Exod. xxiv. 18, mariy, 28). -Terry. Horeb- This is the same as Mount Sinai -the mount at which the law was given, The distance from Beer-sheba to Horeb is not over two hundred miles. Elijah was probably wandering in despondency and seeking to hide himself. Mount of God -So called because God here revealed His majesty and glory and gave the law to Moses. PRACTICAL SURVEY. Relying on supernatural power -Elijah engaged in the battles of the Lord. As a man he was a poor, feeble subject, but as the prophet of the Lord he was mighty. During the conflict on Mount Carmel he stood out as one man against a nation. Elijah's flight-. By order of Elijah the prophets of, Baal had been slain. Whn Jezebel learned what had been done she despatched a. messenger to Elijah, saying, "So let the gods do to me, and more also, if I make not thy life as the life of one of them by to -morrow" (v. 2). Considering former deliverances it would seem that Elijah would have been unmoved by such a threat. What a victory he might lave gained had he trusted in God and held his ground. But in the exercise of human precaution he fled for his life. Elijah's discouragement. The miracle at Carmel not having resulted in the can - version of the court and the country as Elijah bad expeeted, he became greatly discouraged. A journey of ninety-five lanes brought him to Beer -Sheba. De- siring to be alone that he might be less likely to be discovered, he left his ser- vant and plunged a day's journey into the wildernes. Causes for Elijah's discouragement. Physical exhaustion. Outward conditions affect the inner life. Many saints have suffered intolerable depression from phy- sical and nervus causes. The body is a temple. It must be cared for. If ne- glected or avertaxed the spirit suffers proportionately. It has been truly said, "By violating the laws of physical right - lowness we only make moral and spir- itual righteousness more difficult to at - attain. Hold steady amid the tests. You may not see God in the "wind" or in the "earthquake" or in the 'fire." Perhaps it remains for The "still small voice" to convey to you the message of his WM. Jk life devoted fully to the will of God ran not be a failure. Looking away from God. Elijah became alarmed at Jeze- bel's threat. So long as he looked only unto Goa he did not fear the wrath o' man, but when he descended to take eir- eurastances into eonsideration he weak- ened and at once fled Irmo his pur - suers. "Look unto me," with the Lord. Circumstances, diffieulties, human imposhibilities are all overcome by the person 'who look e only to God. No man is an absolute necessity to God's wont Possibly Elijah had thought himsely absolutely necessary -"an indispensable agent for the task of deliver!) Ing /Brad from the guilty and demoral- izing apostasy of Baal worship." Ilia cry had been, "I, even 1 only, am left. sad They sleek my life to take it away" (v. 10). Ile had yet to learn that God hAti reserved to himself seven Thousand in Israel, all the knees that had not bow- ed unto Beal (-v. 18). God Ma ordain- ed that no flesh should glory in his presenee" (I Cor. $. 29). Burton R. Jones. PIUS AT MICHEL The British Cettliebien Then Threatened With Destructisni. Nelson, B. O, Aug. 22.--A specie to the Daily News from Miehel saye, the *smoke at Miohel from the forest fires wits en bad that it entered The &rat Sainte arid rendered them almost muses to work in. All day long the fires burned, The Markets isese , ,1 Toronto Farmers' Market, There were no deliveriee of grain on the street market to -day, and prices wer-, practically unchanged. Dzessed hogs were firm., Light ones bring $7.75 to 0,25, Wheat, white, bush., $1.05 to $L12; red, $1 to $1.05; spring, 95 to 96o; Paso. 45 to 87e; oats, bushel, 38 to 39e; barley, bushed, 40e; hay, old, per ton $11 to $12; do., new, per ton, $8 to $0.60; straw, per ton, $11to $12.00;dressed hogs, light, $7.75 to $8,251 eggs' per dozeu„ 18 to 21e; butter,• dairy, 10to 19c; do., cream- ery, 21e; chickens, spring, per lb., 14 to He; turkeys, per lb., 13 to 15e; cabbage, per dozen, 40 to 60e; potatoes, new, per Wawa, 65 to 75e; cauliflower, per dozen, 60e to $1; celvy, per dome., 35 to 50e; beef, hindquarters, $8 to $0; do., forequarters, $4.50 to $5.50; do., choice cateass, $5.75 to $6.50; do., me- dium carcass, $6 to $6.25; mutton, per cwt., $5,50 to $7,50; veal, per cwt., $7.50 to $8.50; lamb, per cwt., $9 to $10. • British Cattle Market. London, Aug. 20, -Cattle are steady at 1016 to 120 per lb.; refrigerator beef, 10% to lle per lb. Sheep, 10 to. 12c, dressed weight. Toronto Fruit Market. The loan! market was quiet. Raspber- ries 7 to 8e; Lawton berries, 7 to 8e; red currants, large basket, 75 to 85e; cherries basket, $1 to $1,50; black cur- rants, id; huckleberries, basket, 90e to $1; watermelons, 20 to 35c each. Cana- dian apple?, basket, 15 to 25c; peaches, basket, 25 to 30e; pears, basket, 30 to 40e; plums, 25 to 35e; potatoes, bushel, 60 to 70e; Canadian tkmatoes, basket, 115 to 350; celery, dozen, 40 to 65e; Egypt- ian onions, $1.50 per sack. ANOTHER DROWNING. Harold Bavidge, of School of Science, the Victim. Toronto, Aug: 18. -James Harold Bav- idge, a first-year student at the School of Practiol Science, was drowned at Bronte yesterday afternoon. He swam out to the rescue Of a young lady who was alone in a rowboat and without means of propelling it. After handing her an oar he turned and started- to swim into shore, but ;suddenly .aank without warning in six feet, of water. Although a large number of persons wit- nessed the accident, it was 45 minute before the body was recovered. Two doctors used every endeavor to resusci- tate the victim, but without avail. Mr. Black, of Toronto, a friend. of deceased, was instrumental in locating the body. It is thought that Bavidge was seized with cramps, as he was an excellent swimmer. THE CANADA SAILS. The New Fisheries Cruiser is a Very Fast Vessel. London, Aug. 22. -The fishery protec- tion cruiser Canada launched last June, left the Viekers-MAim yard to -day for Canada, haying completed her trials to nhe entire satisfaction of the autho'r- Hies here. In order to ensure the best results the builders aimed at obtaining a speed of 17 1-4 knots. Under fair con- ditions ,she is always able to maintain her contract speed of 16 knots, but a 17 1-4 knot speed was obtained with the low power of 1,800 horse -power, her tri- ple expansion enginee ,with wideh she is fitted, running 177 revolutions per min- ute, 'while her two boilers worked with 130 lbs, steam pressure. The Canada looks very smart, her sum bow and rakish masts and funnel giving the sug- gestion of strength with speed. TO REPATRIATE CANADIANS. British Vice -Consul in Algiers Is Ap- pealing for Aid. London, Aug. 22.-H. Scratchley, Brit- ish Vice -Consul at Phillipeville, Algiers, is appealing for financial assistance for the return to Canada of Mrs. Vacher and her three children. Mrs. Vacher was married in Buctsingham, Ontario, 15 years ago, and was deserted by her hes- band in Algiers. The Lieutenant-Gov- rnor of Ontario two years ago declined to authorize the expense of repatriat- ing the woman on the ground that the law did not apply to such eases. The Al- gerian authorities refuse to interfere, stating that her marriage is null, the formalities of the French law having been complied with. Subscriptions are being taken in Londork FEARFUL OF TROUBLE. Remarkable Article in the St. James' Ga- zette 071 Canada. London, Aug. 22. -The St. James' Ga- zette, commenting on the King's speeeh says the effect of the apparent impo- tence of Great Britain to protect her own may have far-reaching consequences. Not only shall we be crnee more dis- credited abroad, but we must also count on irritating our own colonies, who set some store by the British navy and the British flag, and if a fraction of the very disquieting news which has reach- ed us from many responsible quarters with regard to the state of feeling in the Dominion of Canada be true, at is certain that a less opportune moment for playing tricks with the bond of sentiment that help to "make us" count not be chosen. GOLD NUGGET IN ROCHESTER. SerapS Worth 520,000 Stolen frOln a Manufacturing Firm. Rochester, N. Y*., 30.-Itoeliester discounted the Kiondike on gold nug- gets when the police last night took possession of a nugget weighing nearly two pounds, worth $6,000, and arrested David. Eber, a jeweller, ors the charge of reeening stolen property. IT7 4007 speeta it was the most remarkable ease e re' the floor, antl when those about him with which the polio have ever had to picked Lim up lie was dead. deal. A. short time ago Bausch & Lomb, the optima Works, rtorafiett the police a:z. thorthes that their inventory af gold used in manufacturing eye,glaas frames showed a shortage, covering a. cansilcr- able epaeo of lime and amounting to several thousand dollars. An employee was suspeeted, who had access to the vault, end The polke ob- tented fc cenfession. They wore told that an employee 'Stole tempts of gold regislarly etteh week, /selling Ebel' for $10 phi Worth $125. These aerap s Ebel., it is alleged, melted together, mid they form- ed the nugget, to the police -claim, which Woe NAM& nu, IOW AMOunt of geld taken is ettianattal at $004609. The Cheese Markets. Cowansville, Aug. 20. -To -day 27 creameries offered 1,584 boxes of butter and 24 factories offered 1,000 boxes of cheese. Cheese report -Brice secured 310 boxes at 8 1-8 cents; Alexander se- cured 148 at 8 1-8e; McPherson secured 300 boxes at 8 1-8e; Gunn and Langlois secured 63 at 8 1-8c, Belleville Ont., Aug 20. -To -day there Nvere offered 2,000 white Augusts. Sales: -800 at 8 3-8e and 600 at 8 5-16c. Watertown N. Y., Aug. 20. -Large white 1,105 'boxes 7 3-4 to 7 7-8e; large colored, 1,605 boxes, 8- to 8 1-8c; small 'white, 1,660 boxes, 8 1-4 to 8 3 -Se; white twins, 1,498 boxes, 8 1-4 to 8 3-8e; col- ored twins'3,508 boxes, 8 1-4 to 8 3-4c. • London, Aug. 20. -To -day twelve fac- tories offered. 2,129 boxes; no sales; bids 8 cents. Cornwall, Aug. 20.-1,695 boxes of cheese were boarded here, 900 white and 795 colored; all sold but 50 boxes white; white at 8 1-4c and colored at 8 5-16e. Canton, N. Y., Aug. 20. -Butter, 19e; cheese, twins, 8 3 -Se. Alexandria, Aug. 20. -At the board here to -day 959 boxes of white and 378 colored were boarded; white sold at 8 14e; colored at 8 5-16e. The Apple Crop. The Press Committee of the American Ap- ple Shippers estimates that the New England States will have twice the crop of last year, the central States and middle west a some- what heavier yield than last year, the south- ern States less, and Pacific coast States more apples than a year ago; Canada, also,.a lit- tle more than last year, and Nova Scoda the lame as last year. This was as far as the committee would go for publication. From a number of correspondents in the Povinces of Quebec and Ontario it is learn- ed that the yield in the maiority of orchards is on the heavy side, so that in their opinion It is safe to say there will be a good 'aver- age crop in upper and Lower Canada as well Is Nova Scotia. Toronto Live Stock. Export cattle, ex. c'e., $4,80 to $5; do., good to medium, $4.70 to 54.90; do. cows, 53.75 to $4; butchers' picked lots, 54.50 to $4.60; good to choice loads, ails to $4.50; fair to good, loads, $3.70 to $4.10; mixed lots, medium, $2.- 50 to $3.25; good cows, p.m to $3.50; common to fair, do., $2.50 to 53.25; butchers' bulls sz to ;4; bulls, export heavy, $3.50 to $4; do., medium, ss to saao; do. light, $2.75 to $3; stockers, heavy, 53.60 to $4; do. light, 52.75 to $3; do. common, 52 to 52.75; light bulls, $1.- 75; feeders, short -keep, 54 to 54.50; do., med- ium to good, $3.50 to 54; do., com. and rough, 52 to 52.50; milch cows, each, 525 450; ex- port ewes, per cwt., $3.65 to $3.75; do. bucks, per cwt., $3 to 53.25; cull sheep, 52.50 to 53.- 50; lambs, each, 52.50 to $4; do. per cwt., 54.50 to 85: calves, per lb., 336 to sa; do., each. 52 to 530; hogs, selects, per cwt., $5.85; do., lights, 55.60; do, fats 55.60. Bradstreet's on Trade. At Montreal this week wholesale trade has been on the quiet side. The between seasons period is seldom productive of trade expansion, and the backward con- dition of the wheat crop in the West and the fears of damage by frost, ter. gether with the delay in fixing the pricts of cotton goods, tends to curtail business commitments, Toronto wholesale busi- ness is of normal volume for this season. At Quebec busines' s as a rule, still con- tinues quiet, and likely to remain so until after the holidays. At Victoria and Vancouver wholesale business is good for this time of the year. Wholesale trade at Winnipeg has been a trifle quiet in wholesale circles since the close of the exbibition. There bas been a fair en- quiry for fall goods in wholesale trade circles, at Hamilton this week, and re- tailers are sho-wing more disposition in some departments to discount the future, but a good many are waiting for crop developments, and later on more activaty in buying is looked for. Business in London this week has been moderately active in ftome lines. Wholesale trade at Ottawa is in e. healthy condition, and next month renewed activity is looked for in many departments. HOW THE BUCKET SHOPS fiOT EXCLUSIVE QUOTATIONS. Peep Hole View of Blackboard in New York Office. New York, Aug. 2, --An agent of the Chicago Board of Trade has stopped a, leak in the grain market 'quotation ser- vice in this city and ceased the arrest of a telegraph operator, who was accused of supplying the service to bucket shops in Boston and Albany. The polio raid caused by the Chicago board caused much interest on upper Broadway, where it took place. For several months agents of the Chi- cago board have been searching for the source, from which several large bucket .hops in nearby citio were procuring quotations claimed by the board as the. exclusive property of the members. Sus- picion finally alighted on it room adjoin- ing the uptown branch of a consolidated dock exchange firm, which also is a member of the Chicago boa Investiga- tion showed that a small hale badbeen cut over it door which was settled. Through this hole the quotations on the black -board in the brokerage offiee were plainly visible. Having procured. a kay to the room, the detective with several policemen burst in during exchange home, They found an operator eating on a chair placed upon it table, With hi a eye to the aperture over the door and one hand on it telegraph key, he was sending out the quotations ea fast is they appeared on the black -board, Tune or four leased wires and it telephone were found, The. brokerage office was at once discoatinued to prevent thriller leakage. Magistrate °noon, after heariug the story of the raid, dismissed the charge made against the operator. FINLAND HAS A NEW GOVERNOR. Desperado Kills One Officer, Wounds Another and Escapes. Helsingfors; Finland, Aug. 22. -Prince Obolensky to -day assumed his functions as Governor-General of Finland, succeed- ing General Bobrikoff, who was assas- sinated on June 10. Upon his arrival here lie was driven to the Uspensky Ca- thedral, where he attended divine ser - vice. Subsequently the Governor held a . grand teeeption at the Imperial Palace. The Governor will start at once on it tour of inspection of the Grand Duchy. Killed One, Wounded., another. Newcastle, Pa., Aug. 18. -Patrolman Frank Skidmore was shot and instantly killed, and Patrohnan John Atkinson wounded while attempting to arrest Ros- well Waite, in the outskirts of New - Old Familiar Fake. Baltimore, Aug. 22. -Consternation reigns in the little town of Allen, in Southern Maryland, over the strange death of Walter H. Whitney, a pro - nounced atheist, lint one of the most popular residents of the place. On Sun- day night Whitney was conversing with some friends, when he suddenly exclaim- ed : defy the Almighty to strike me dead 1" Instantly Whitney fell to Peers* 'Horseshoes for Castle Wall. rAndon Daily '1,fai1.) Ac.r.t,r,ling to a vcry asaient Custom, CAIry per rasaing tgh Oakkaat has to leave a I..r.,rs:A.f.e t,r its auivaient to be pifined irs t!:e flecastodian has thras track rate -Nal 1.57'i, -(A01`17 Irmo the Duke si WrsArnir-ste,r, tko lfarquie of London:let:rt.. Earl talogan, the Earl of Mar and Kellia, Lord Leronfield and Lord Bernard. There ere 154 Pilots rum on the restle wall, ineluding those given by the Ring, the Queers and the Duke of Connaught. castle. Waite escaped 'and is supposed to be in hiding among the rocks near the railroad. He is armed. As soon as the killing was learned a posse of deputies were hastily sworn in and armed, bloodhounds were telephoned for and troop F, of the National Guard, was ordered out. POSC077 of beavily - armen Men surrounded the place in which Waite is thought to be hiding. Skidmore and Atkinson were sent for about 8. o'clock last night to arrest Waite, who was raising a disturbance in his mother's house. Skidmore and At- kinson found 'Waite. In the fight that ensued, Officer Skidmore was almost in- stantly killed, -and Atkinson had -a leg shattered, which prevented him follow- ing Waite, who reached his home and se- curing a supply of ammunition he disap- peared. FIGHTINfi THE IIEREROS; fiERMANS WIN ALL=DAY BATTLE. Colorado Judge Says He 'A ill Not Pro nounce Death Sentence. Berlin, Aug. 22. -Four columns of German troops attacked the Hereros near Hamakari, Gennan Southwest Af- rica, on the night of Aug. 11. The fight- ing continued all day, Aug. 12. The natives were defeated with heavy losses. Five German officers, including Count Von Armin, and inneteen men were kill- ed. Six officers, among them Baron Von \Vatter, and fifty-two men were womided. Two are missing. Thousands of cattle were captured. Won't Pronounce Death Sentence. Deliver, Col., Aug. 22. -John I. Mullins, Democratic national committeeman and judge of the State District Court here, made this declaration yesterday from the bench: . "In private life I never was a party to the killing of a man or a human being. I shall never be a judicial party to such a killing. The State has no right to take a life. Capital punishment in Colorado has not deterred the commission of crime. Murders have increased. Influential per- sons escape the gallows. "A man having no right to take his own life, surely the State cannot take that life from him under the guise of the law. I will do as my conscience prompts me in this matter. I am op- posed to capital punishment. While a judge of the District Court I shall never impose such a penalty upon a defendant. If a person is found guilty of murder in the first degree arta the jury fixes the penalty at death I shall disregard that verdict if need. be. The State does not give life; it cannot take it. It is contrary to reason and contrary to morals." FREE US FROM PRINCE GEORGE. • 1 hat is the Petition Sent to Italy by the Cretans. Rome, Aug. 22. -Inhabitants of the Island of Crete have addressed a strong petition to the Italian Government, ask- ing to be freed from the government of PrinceGeorge of Greece, the high com- missioner of the protective powers, whom they accuse of misrule. They ask for annexation to Greece, and threaten, CANTERBURY'S VISIT. His Not Visiting Canada Would Have Been a Slight. London Aug. 30. -The Times says that for the Chief prelate of the Anglican communion (the Archbishop of Canter- bury) to have crossed the Atlantic and pass by the Canadian dioceses would have been a slight on his fellow -subjects and fellow -churchmen, who are holding their own with considerable difficulty, and whose episcopal record is equal to that of the American church. It calla attention to the fact that in 1787 Nova Scotia was the first colonial see, adding that informal consultations with such Canadian Bishops and Archbishops as he can find the opportunity to meet on weir own ground cannot be but advantageous to the future development of their work. He will not get Inc enough west to realize that. the prompt pioneer work in the interests of the Anglican Chbrch, but will understand the urgeocy of such work, and admire the enterprise of his fellow Scots in planting the Presbyter- ian ministas at a time when the home Church is working its way towards a representative consultative body. . It will be tin instruction to him to find himself 12 British dioceses enjoying no small measure of selagovernment, and where the laity ltave the right to feel that their part in church life does not merely consist in doing what the clergy choose to demand, WILL TARE OFF SPECIAL LEVY. , --- The Montreal U'nderwriters New Regret Their 1/a8ty Attion, Monteral, Aug. 30, --It is reported that the Fire Underwriters' Assoeiation have decided to remove within the next month the special levy of fifty cents recently plaeed over the congeated por- tion of the city as a result of the re- cent, reports eirculatca emicerning the Nfontreal waterworks and apparatus, particularly to the effect that the boil - era at the low level 'pumping sta- tion *were in danger of giving out. The underwriters, it is said, finding that they have to a certain extent Made a mistake by their hasty Aaiun in in- creasing the already high rate, desire to right themselves with the pulite, and should their request not be granted, to start a revolution. The position is ad- dressed to Italy because Cretan afiXirs are under the supervision of the Italian Foreign Minister, assisted by the Rus- sian, French and British ambassadors. Prince George, it is reported, is about to start ona visit to the capitals of the protective powers. • they arc now engaged in making it spe- cial retina of -the portion of the city that was 1111 by 'the increase, so that in time the extra tax may be elimin- ated. JOKED WITH DEATH. Parisian's Announcement to Man Who Found Him Hanged. Paris, Aug. 30.-A practical joke, at- tended with tragic consequences, was played yesterday by a man named Jean Knit, of St. Maur, it small town on the •eastern side of Paris. A workman on his way to the fields found it stick fixed in the ground and on the point was a hat, to which was pinned a paper bearing the following notice: "Whoever reads this outy, if he be so inclined, find it small fortune. Let him walk to the end'of the field, turn to the left, ant proceed to the four- teenth tree on the right. At the foot of this tree, by removing a little earth, he 'will discover a purse containing £200 in gold." The workman followed the directions, and was horrified on reaching there to find the dead body of it num, with ter- ribly distorted features, mining from the tree. It was founn to be that of Jean Kalt, who had been known as a practical joker in the district for many years, an1 who had lately shown signs of mental disturbance. , ...••••• a*. AN INVENnON libNORED. Germans Present a Gold Medal to Mr. Persona, of Turbifte Paine. .0ambridge, Eng., Aug. 30.---111te Hon. Charles .Algernon Parsons, the English inventor, who developed the steam tur- bine and made it suitable for the gen- oration of electricity and the propulsion of war and mereantile vessels, address- ing the engineernig section of the British year. here ie it decrease of over 5,000,- Aseociation for the Advaarement of Sei- 1 000 bushels in oats, and it deerease of enee to -slay. Premier Balfour,- who is 870,814 bushels in ryt. The yield of Presiderit of the Assoelation this year, barley shows nu inerease of 757,818 en lolialf of the „Associated German En- • bushels. There is an immense inerease gineers, presented it geld inedtil to the in hey and elover,ithe total yield Meg President of the :lotion, Mr. Person, estimated at 5,259,189 tone,. as -ma- in recognition of his merits. as an invent- pared with 400,802 tons in 1003i or, lkfr. Parsons' address was it long and interesting one, dealing with inven- tions and patents. He urged that greater encouragement, Resistance and protection be given the British inventor and patentee° by the State along the lines adopted by (lernmoy and the Unit- ed States. lie strongly advocated the changes ofpatent laws of all countries, i especially n regard to the extension of the timelisnit, but he pointed out that it would be useless for Great Britain alone to make these changes if capital- iBta were to be imluced to invest money in the development of great undertak- ings dependent upon patents from which the world would reap: immense. bene- fit, CfflMAV WEDS AGAIN. Pays $3,000 to be Free From Rigo and Weds Railway Clerk, Leaden, Aug. 22 -Tho Princess Chi - may, formerly Miss Cleat Ward, of Detroit, Mich., who has on it number of occasions coated a mensation by her eccentric actions, was married in the registry -office in London on Wednesaity- afternoon to Gegliegmo Ri- cardo. Before the ceremony the princess, in the presence•of witnesses, gave Rigo, her violinist paramour, $3,000, upon the receipt of which hesigned it paper re. signing all claimsupon her. • During the wedding the princess, who was handsomely dressed. and rouged and powdered, kept wetting her fingers at her lips and plastering. don n Ricardo's scalp lock, and otherwise fondling him, After the ceremony was °oyer the newly -married couple left immediately for Paris on their honeymoon. The paincess is much past 30 years of age, but in her life she has had many and varied experiences. On the death of her father, Capt. Eber Ward, who was the wealthiest man of his day in Michigan, the princess received an income of from $30,000 to $40,000 a year and became heiress to between $,3,000,- 000 and $4,000,000. While at school abroad she met Prince Joseph 'of Chaney and Curaman, who belonged to the high- est rank of Belgian aristocracy, and in 1890 she married him in Paris. At the marriage were the American and British ambassadors. Four years later there were runtsgs of it scandal. The princess had become infatuated with a fiddler named Rigo, whom the had heard play in a Paris cafe, Her elopement with Rigo fellowed.The Prince of Chaney obtained a divorce, but his former wife, and Rigo did not marry, for the very good reason that •Rigo al- ready had a wife. Since that time -the princess and Rigo have travelled all over the country together. Recently the princess, while travelling in Italy with Rion, saw Ricardo at it small railroad station where he was em- ployed.. He is handsome. The princess was smitten; She made some excuse to Rigo in order to return to the station to talk with the young railway clerk. From that time Rigo.'s. sway ended. When the princess finally returned to Paris she brought Ricardo with her. Rigo since has taken his banishment .philo- sophically. BALFOUR AS PHILOSOPHER. 4.e )14.1 ingbron Abbante Txmo, BALL, 1liOrEIRT03. C. J. 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London, Aug. 22. -Mr. Balfour last evening delivered the opening address at the annual meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Sci- ence, at Cambridge. The address was delivered before a crowded, fashionable audience in the Corn Exchange, among those present being the Duke of Devonshire, who is Chancellor of the University, and dis- tinguished persons from all parts o'f) Great Britain and the continent. The subject of Mr. Balfour's address was "Itellefetions Suggested by illnt Npiar Theory of Matter." This is the first time in the histery of the association that it has had a Prime Minister for its president, Mr. Balfour paid a splendid tribute to the University of Cambridge, toward which, 'he said, he might be pardoned if he dis- played partiality, because it was his own university. The attendance at the meeting of the association this year is larger than that in 1901 FINNS FOR -CANADA. Large Influx Is Expected After the War is Over. Ottawa, Aug. 30, -It is expected that one result of the ending of the present war in favor of Japan will be the im- migration to the Canadian Northwest of large numbers of Finns. Emigration of this desirable class of settlers has been prohibited by the Russian authori- ties, so that, although smarting under the drastic denationalizing policy of \the Czar's administration, these people have been compelled to abide in their native land. Should Russia meet the disaster that seems likely to overtake her in the Orient, it will no longer be possible to enforce this policy, and many of the peasants of Finland, will doubtless seek new. homes in Canada. The few Finns settled in British Columbia have pros- pered greatly, and have proven them - selves to be excellent citizens. STRATHCONA'S ADVICE. Words of Counsel in Regard to the Scot- tish Church Quarrel. London, Ang. .30.-sLord Strathcona, in laying the foundation -stone of the new parish church at Fortes, made up the anticipated deficiency of £1,50. In exprefaing his views regarding tile re- cent Church decision, he said though there was tiloppointment on one side and almost exultation oe the other, he hoped all would set together to pro- vide a solution of it most serious ques- tion, Speaking later at the Fortes Aeademy Club's dinner, Lord Strath. eona referred with much satisfaction to the visits of the royal family to Can- ada. He thanked the Forms people for their kindness to the Canadian bowl- ers, a reception which he said Would be returned when the Forres bowlers visited Canada. ONTARIO CROP REPORTS. --- Big Falling Off in the Total Wheat Yield. 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About $1,00 of this was in cash, and the remainder was in pledges, whieh ranged from loss than $1 to $3,000. Dr. Simpson preached a powerful see - mon on "Selfishness," and after it viviti description of the condition of millions of people hi foreign countries, the col- lectiott was taken. In less than fifteen minutes more than $30,000 had bon pro- mised. When these animal collections were first /darted men became so excited after hearing Dr. Simpson preach that tlTy gave steam launelies and other things of equal velue, but those seusa- item' tenets were not repeated to -day. The National Soeiety for the Presen- Con of Cruelty to Children estimates that of the 140,000 or 160,000 eases that tome under its 3otie0 yearly onebalf are caused direetlt by drunkenness mid eoneequent neglect by parents.