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Us WItutimi et John the, BILIANt
John I. 9-34.
Commentary. - I. The testimony of
aohn ane eeaptist (vs. 19-28e. 10, This is
the nelteM (I1. V.) ---The sentence means
Thia is the testimony that Joan bore,
The Jews -This term in Jolting gospel
commonly means the opponents ef
Christ. "The Jews" are to him not UPI .
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fellow countrymen, but the persecutors
MI -murderer* of the Messiah. The name
of a- race has become the named a sect.
lie uses the term about seventy times,
alutoet always with this shade of mean-
ing. -Cam Bib. - Priests and Levitee-
"The. combination, 'priests and Lisvites"
occurs elae'here in the New Testament.
Together they represent the hierarchy."
Tina was a delegation from the Sanlied-
rin. Who art thou -What do you, pro -
fee* to ben Do you. assume to be the
Messiah, or are you a prophet? "Two
things are plainly taught en this verse:
One is the great sensation caused by
John the Baptist's ministry. The other
is the state of expectation in which the
people were at tins time."
20. Not the Chest -The form of speech
in this verse implies a very positive and
uninistaleable assertion. We have in this
and the following verses an instructive
example of true humility. John the Bap-
hiet was an eminent mint of God. Few
names in the Bible stand higher than his,
Jesus 'imam highly of him -see Matt.
xi. 11; John v, 35. Yet here he abases
himself, declining all flattering titles,
and exalts Christ. The greatestsaintsin
all ages have been men of this spirit, who
have not sought .their own honor, but
who have always been ready to decrease
If Christ might only increase. 21. Elias
-Greek form for Elijah, I am not -
That is, not in the sense you have in
mind. They were speaking literally, and
John was not Elijah returned to earth
again. When Jesus said that John was
Elijah. (Matt. xi. 14) He was speaking
figuratively (comp. Luke i. 17). The pro-
phet (R. V.) -"The well known prophet
of Dent. xviii. 15, who some thought
would be a second Moses, others a. second
Elijah, others the Messiah." No -John
knew that 'the prophet" to whom they
referred WAS the Alessiah, His answer
is abrupt. 2. After exhausting all special
names, they. press John to give a full de-
scription of himself, that they may be
able to give a proper answer to the San -
2
23. The voice -He was not the "word,"
but merely a "voice." He was called a
voice because. 1. He was uttering God's
thoughts. 2. The importance lay chief-
ly in the message, not in the messenger,
3. Although weak in himself yet -He
produced a great commotion. Crying -
Heralding, proclaraing. In the wilder-
ness -"The world was, indeed, a mor-
al wilderness when the time drew near
for the coming of the King." Make
straight. etc. -See Tea. xl. 3-5. The idea
is taken from the practice of eastern
monarchs, who, whenever they took a
journey, sent harbingers, before them to
prepare the way. Before our king will
come to us there must be a thorough
preparation for his coming.
24. Pharisees -The Pharisees held
most strenuously that no prophet, after
Moses, had a right to introduce any new
sacred usage, rite or ceremony among
the Mosaic inteitutions, except the lles
Malt himself. The question then in the
following verse. Why baptizeth thou
then? was a very preemptory one. -
Wheedon. 20. 1 baptize with water -
Johns answer is very pertinent. My
baptisim is the symbol and procurer
of a real baptism by the great Bapti-
zeer.- I bid. There standee' one -It is
not neessary to suppose that Jesus was
standing in the crowd at that time, but
He was living and abiding among the
people, and Ile was Unknown to them.
27. See R. V. After me -John was the
forerunner to announce His coming. Not
worthy -A proverbial expression. The
work of unlacing and removing the san-
dals belonged to the humblest servant,
and, in comparison to Christ John says
he was too inferior to do even that. The
desire to exalt Christ and abase hems -elf
is ever uppermost in John's mind. 28.
Bethabara-The R. V. has Bethany.
(This was not toe Bethany on the
Mount of Olives.) Both names have
nearly the same meaning, Bethany
sometimes signifying "boat house," and
Bethabera "ford house," or"ferry-
house," Probably these were the names
of two villagers or districts near to-
gether, of which the name Bethany, the
smaller of the two village.% faded out.
Or John may have been baptizing in
a place between the two villages, and
hence sometimes called by, one name,
and sometimes by the other.'
29. The next day -After the testimony
of John to the deputation from Jerusa-
lem. Seeth Jesus -The fact that John
knew Jesus shows that the baptism and
temptation (Matt. iii. 13 to iv. 11) pre-
ceded the events of this lesson. Lamb
of God -There is no reasonable doubt
that John gave this name to our Lord
because he was the true- sacrifice for sin,
the trite antitype of the passover lamb.
And the lamb prophesied of by Isaiah
(Tea. lin. 7). -Ryle. The daily sacri-
fice of a lamb was continually before the
people, reminding them of their need of
an atonement for sin, Without doubt,
John, who was the harbinger of Christ,
was enlightened beyond others with re-
spect to Christ's office and mission, and
saw in him the great sin -offering for the
sins of the whole world. Taketh away
-Or "bareth away," as in the margin.
n On the great day of atonement the priest
confessed the sins of the people and lain
them up on the scapegoat, and the goat
was sent to the depths of the desert.
Christ's taking away of the sins of the
world is borrowed from this act. We
have here one of the many expressions
which declare the great scriptural truth
that Christ's death -was it vicarious sac-
rifice for sin, The sin -All the Sins of
all the children of Adam. The atone-
ment was complete, no one was left
out, but all may be saved if they will
accept the provisions made. 30. .After
me, etc.-desue came after John in point
of time, but he was preferred before him
in dignity and honor. Was before me -
This refers to Christ's pre -eternal exist.
cues with the Father. 31. l'iniew him not
--I was not previously acquainted with
him, and there has been no private eels
What or arrangement between us. But
ethos think that as John was a cousin
of our Lord, he must have been no
quainted with him, and that the eXpres-
sion here means that he did not know
him as to his nature, offiee and mission
until the time of his baptism. Therefore
am I come -John here declares that the
great end of his ministry was not to
form a sect in his own name, but to
make Cheat known to the Jews.
III. Mar john knew Jesus (vs. 31-
34). 32, Bare record -John now proceeds
to tell how, forty-two days, 'before this,
at the time of Chriet's baptism, Ile
leerned that he was the Messiah. I saw
---"I have beheld." -R. V. John had been
an eye -witness, and was not reporting
from hearsay, Like a dove -"That the
epirit of God should demand as a dove
et in accordance with the emblematic
eharecter of the whole transaction. The
dove retresented an undefiled (S. of S.1
en m, harmless Matt. x, 16), gentle,
meek ellatitoter (S. Of S. II. 14). It Was
to Jesus, -
the emblem of peace (Gen. viii. 11) and
Of beauty ixylit. 13). It WM the
only biro allowed to be offered insacrie
fine by the Levitical law. It was, like
the vine, a popular symbol of the came
nation, and, so far as this manifestation
was made knownethroad, it would doubt-
less mark Jesus in public opinion As
the ideal, typical, representative Ierael.
lie, and, therefore, by implication, the
Messiah. John understood the marvel to
indicate thin."
33. Be that sent me -John Was Ms
scions of bis divine mission, lie was
sent of God, 34, The Sue of God -The
Messiah -the Christ. John here declares
that Jesus was divine.
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS.
Sacrificed. "The Lamb that was slain"
(Rev. T. 12. xiii, 10.) The Lamb of God
stands for submission, suffering and
death. 'Cutler law, hi a figure, the sins
of a guilty soul were transferred to the
white, innocent lamb ere it was slain.
Under grace, in Viet, the sins of "all"
guilty souls were "laid" on the Lamle of
God ,ere Re Was sacrificed for us (Isa.
Mi. 0). He rook our pine. lie died in
our stead. He became our substitute.
On the Dailies of the Mississippi lived,
little maiden of thirteen, the oldest of
four children, whom tier parents called
"little mother," because she was always
so quietly thoughtful and helpful. One
day her parents went away, leaving the
Children en her care. "Be mother's lit'
tie woman," the mother said, as silo kiss.
ed her. "We leave the children In your
care," the father said. Two days after-
ward the Mississippi broke through the
levee and flooded the little town. What
should she do? "Oh, if I only had,
boat," she cried. lamming out to look
for their colored mammy, she stumbled
over a lenge, oblong, old-fashioned tun.
Here was her boat. The water was sev-
eral inches deep. She half floated, half
dragged the tub into •the room. She lined
it with a blanket and prepared some
bread and meat. She dragged it to a large
window and set it where, 'when the water
rose, it would float out. She flung open
the window and made Rob get into the
boat, and put Kate in, and laid baby
Rose in the brother's arms, and, taking
the basket of food, went 'to get in too,
but there was no room for her with
safety to the rest. She paused a moment,
drew a long breath, kissed the children
quietly, gave them the basket of food
and bade them guard it, and said, "Good- '
by, dears. Say a prayer for sister, Rob.
When you see father and mother, tell
them I took care of you." The next day
the father found the tub in a sycamore
tree. The children were frightened, chil-
led, and. in tears, but -safe. Afterwards,
floating on the water, with her brave,
childish face turned up to the sky, they
found the "little mother" who sacrificed
herself that she might save others.
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CHINA BACKING JAPAN.
WILL PREVENT A NEW INVASION
OF MANCHURIA BY RUSSIA.
Boston, Mass., Dec. 20. -The American
Board of Foreign Missions made public
to -day a report from its oldest mission-
ary in Japan, ,ReveD. C. Greene, D, D., of
Tokio, in which Dr. Green states that
there are now 1,000 Chinese students, in-
cluding 500 military cadets, in Tokio un-
ner the auspices of the Chinese Govern-
ment, and 1,000 more in the city inde-
pendent of the Government.
Dr. Greene further stated that if one
shoul1 add to this the fact that in sev-
eral provinces of China there are mili-
taryschools with Japanese instructors,
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"It s not difficult to see that when
peace is restored, Japan is not to stand
alone in her purpose to prevent a new
invasion of Manchuria on the part of
Russia."
There is no evidence, according to Dr.
Greene, that Japan is becoming exhaust-
ed. 'elle rice harvest of this year is es-
timated to be worth 130,000,000 yen
more than the average, and is the best
for twenty years. Prices range high, but
otherwise there is no sign of serious
strain. Private enterprises, like electrical
railways, are being pushed forward with-
out serious loss of vigor. Government
work is being restricted, but railway ex-
tension is still to go forward, though
more slowly.
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BORGIAN POISON POWDER.
It Causes People to Stagger and to
Faint.
New York, Dec. 26,-A special to the
Sun from Paris says: AT. Grenbanval, a
municipal councillor of Paris, has been
the victim of a strange experience which
recalls the mysterious poison powder
used by the Borgias. •
On December 9 AL Grebanval was
talking in the 'council chamber with M.
Barillier, when an usher brought a letter
with a Tunis postmark. AL Grebanval
opened the letter and immediately stag-
gerel and fell in a faint. He reeyeered
consciousness before the arrival of it
doctor, but suffered with a headache for
several days afterward. AL Berliner
was affected in the same way, but to a
less degree.
While the doctor was attending to B.
Grebanval, Police Secretary Lament
picked up the envelope front the ground
and very carefully opened it. The en-
velope contained a white odorless pow-
der wrapped in a scrap of newspaper.
M. Laurent was immediately attacked
with a most violent headache.
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GRAND TRUNK PACIFIC,
Grand Trunk Shareholders Formally
Guarantee Issue of Gold Bonds,
London, Dec. 26.-A special general
meeting of the Grand Trunk Railway
shareholders was held to -day for the pur-
pose of sanctioning and confirming the
resolution in relation • to the Grand.
Trunk Pacific passed by the directors at
the November meeting. After some dis-
cussion the resolution was confirmed.
London, Dee. 21.--eAssoelated Press
Despateb.)-At a special meeting today
of the shareholders of the Grand Trunk
Railway, presided over by Sir Charles
Rivers Wilson, it was agreed to guaran-
tee the issue of $7,500,000 four per cent.
er,old bonds for the conetruction of the
hake Superior branch of the road.
BOG SLIDE IN Plum.
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Farm Houses Inundated by Moving
Marshe-Inhabitafite 'lee,
Dublin, Dec. 20,-A bog calamity is
reported from Castlereagh, Roscommon
County, west of Ireland, in whith much
property has been destroyed and Many
livers were placed in danger. Tim bog at
Cloonshietier suddenly 'began to Move
during the night, end in lese than a.
hour had covered an area of three-emitr-
ters of a mile which had hitherto 'beeft
dry ground.
• All the farm houses hi the path of
the slide were submerged and the 0011.
pante had to flee for their lives, leaving
all their belongings behind ewe.
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Some people are always either kick-
ing or being kicked.
Some men must eat tight 'before they
An let thenleittnea Wee.
Market Reports
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The Week.
l I above 88 degroee Palumalleit, end the 1411 UnS
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Toronto Ponders' Market,
Immense In grebe on the street Was
Wet to -day, with prices as a rule un-'
ohaiiiieSi. Wheat steady, 100 bushels of
white sold unchanged at $1 to $1.01 per
bushel. Barley steady. 200 bushels sell-
ing at 44 to 490 per bushel. Oats steady*
30() bushel! selling at aoso to ;tio per
Ray' Ray is unchanged, with sales of BO'
loads at $9 to no a toxi for timothy, and
at VI to gi for mixed. Straw, 4e to ;le
a ton.
Dressed hog. are unchanged at 06,20 to
Wheaat, new, per bitshfil oct to
Do., red, bushel ,. .. 1 00 to
Do, spring. bushel .. 0 95 to
Do, goes, bushel .• 0 88 to
Oats, bushel 351fi to
Rye. bushel............* 4. 0 704 to
Barley, bushel . • . .. 0 44 to
Peas, bushel . Q 70 to
Buckwheat, bushel .. 0 66 te
Naf, timothy, Per ''On .. SO to
Deo mixed. 'Per ton 44 414 100 to
Straw, per ton 0.•• .. 9 00 to
Seeds--
AlsIke No. L bushel .. 6 50 to
Do., 'No. 2, bueltel 500 to
Do., No. B. bushel ":: .. 4 00 "to
Red clover 600 to
Timothy 100 to
1?ralmAri .. 6 25 to
Apples, per bbl. ...• 00 •• 1.• 1 25 to
ssigs, Per dozen 44 O. 4444 0 25 to
Butter, dairy " . 0 19 to
Do., creamery 0 22 to
Chickens, spring, per lb .. 0 09 to
Ducks, per lb. „.„ 0 10 to
Turkeys, per lb. 0 14 to
Cabbage, per dozen ., 0 25 to
Potatoes, per bag ,. " .. 80 to
Cauliflower, per dozen .... 0 76 to
Onions, per bag .. 1 00 to
Celery, per dozen .. .. 30 to
Beef, hinduarters .. 7 00 to
Do., ferequartere ,. 4 60 to
Do., choice, carcase .. 6 75 to
Do., medium, carcase 60 to
Mutton, per cwt. •,. 6 60 to
Veal, per cwt. .. 7 50 to
Lambs, per cwt. 700 to
Leading Wheat Markets.
Detroit ..
New 'York ., 1.18% 1.13'4
„ 1,18 1.20
Toledo " • • ., 1.16 1.171/2
St. Louis .• 1.14% 1.12%
Duluth „•• •• .• 1.10 1,13
Minneapolis 1.09% 1,1314
Toronto Live Stock.
Receipts of live stock at the city mar-
ket were 75 carloads, composed of 801
cattle, 1834 hogs, 1700 sheep and lambs,
with about 50 calves.
The quality of the bulk of fat cattle
was not as good as could be desired,
although there were several lots of fair
to good exporters and butchers' sold.
Trade was generally goods, especially
for the best lots of butchers' and ship-
pers.
Shipping cattle sold at $4.25 to $4.90
per cwt., -with one or two loads bring -
lug $5 per cwt.
Butchers -There was a very fair
demand for the best butchers',
which sold at $4.25 to $4.40,
but there were few brought these
prices; loads of good sold at $3.50 to
$3.75; common la $2.75 to $3.25, and
canners at $2 to $2.30 per cwt.
Feeders and Stockers -There were
few feeders and stockers offered, with
a light demand at following prices,
Feeders, 1,000 to 1,100 lbs„ are worth
from $3.25 to $3.60; feeders, 800 to 900
lbs., $2.80 to $3.15 per cwt.; stockers of
good quality sold at $2.75 to $3; inferior
at $2 to $2.50 per ewt
Much Cows. -About 25 mil& cows
and springers, of common to medium
quality, sold at $30 to $45 each.
Veal Calves -Good to choice veal
calves sold readily at $4.50 to $5.50, and
one or two at $5.75 per cwt., but com-
mon to medium calves sold at $3.50 to
$4 per cwt. •
Sheep and lambs -There was a fair
deelivery of ehep and lambs, which Sold
readily as follows; Export ewes, $4 to
$4.25 per cwt.: bucks, $2.50 to $3 per
cwt.; lambs, $5.25 to $5.85 per cwt.
Hogs-Theer was a fair run of hogs,
which sold. at $4.75 for selects and $4.50
for lights and fats, fed and watered.
The market was inclined to be weak at
these quotations.
Bradstreet's on Trade.
Bradstreet's advices from Montreal
say: There is still a fairly large volume
of holiday trade ,being done among the
wholesalers here, but mu& of it is over
and business is assuming a quieter tone.
Sorting orders have not been heavy, but
have been farly well distributed. Many
wholesale houses are taking. advantage
of the quiet period, which is expected
to last until after the holiday season,
and are busy stock -taking and balanc-
ing up for the year. The previous year
was an unusually busy one, so in some
lines this year's trade does not compare
any too favorably with that of the year
before.
According to Bradstreet's Interims
wholesale trade at Toronto during the
past week has been fairly brisk, Through-
out the Province Onerally retailers are
busy, the holiday trade being particu-
larly brisk. The hardware men and the
grocers are busy, and fairly. good sorting
orders are coming in to the dry goods
men.
At Quebec trade during the week in
some lines has been more active, espec-
ially in groceries.
At Winnipeg whelesale trade generally
continues very active. The hardware
trade, an exception, is somewhat quieter.
Country merchants report stocks moving
well. Collections are not so brisk as a
week ago.
Adives to Bradstreet's say wholesale
trade at Hamilton is of fair volume. The
holiday goods are now largely in the
hands of the retailers, and they are
moving well. The movement of sorting
lines is fair, and there is some improve-
ment in collections.
Trade at London is in satisfactory con.
dition. Money is flowing more freely,
and the volume of wholesale busines is
good.
Advices from Victoria and Vanceuver
to Bradstreet's say: There is a quiet
tone to trade generally, although the
movement in holiday goods is and has
been active. There is still depression in
the lumber trade.
Bradstreet's advices from Ottawa say
there is a better tone to wholesale trade
there.
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;her and the natives down on the coastal
!plain could pot endure it. But the hardy •
tribes of the great plateau, well wrapped
in native cloths and imported cottons,
thrive in this fine air. None of the
diseases which afflict the tropics can
pin a foothold here.
When the Italians occupied .Asmara in
1897 there were only a fen; score huts
and an Abyssinian fort, Asmara now
has a population of 0,000, of whom
1.000- are European% The whites in'
'elude a few Greeks end Norwegian mis-
sionaries, all the others being Italians,
The town is in the midst of splendid
pastures, and its name signifies "good
place to feed the flocks." Many vari-
eties of trees and not a few European
crops are thriving around it.
Italy spent two years in building the
wagon road that winds up the face of the
mighty well of this plateau. It is one
of the most remarkable wagon roads in
the world,
it winds from terrace to terrace
through deep cuts in the rock, through
many tunnels, and along the preciptous
face of the wall where it line been amen
out of the reek. At many points the
view for thousands of square miles oyez
the council plain and sea is surpassingly'
beautiful, The road, is wide enough for
wagons to pass one another and a barrier
of hewn timbers has been built along the
outer edge wherever safety required,
The railroad from Massa -welt 'extends
to Macatat, not many miles from the
base of the wall, and. the wagon road
from Idacatat to Asmara is forty-two
miles long. Stages run daily over the
road, the passenger fare to Asmara, be-
ing $5. It takes seventeen boors for the
mules to draw the coaches to the top
of the plateau from whose edge Asmara
is only a mile and A half distant.
Italn intends to build a railroad up to
Asmara, but the enterprise may not be
carried out for years, The cost will be
enormous.
The new capital is already a European
town, with fine villas for the well to do
whites, cafes, a theatre, e casino, it ho-
tel, postoffice and fine public and private
gardens. Some of the best farming
lipayeldmsllt,of Africa spread away for a great
distance and this lofty part of the Ital-
an colony is sure to have great dent-
.
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ERITREA'S 'NEW CAPITAL.
Italians Esteblish a Pine City in Their
Colony on the Read Sea.
Tim Italian colony of Eritrea in Af-
rica, fronting on the Red t...-7.ca, has a new
capital. Tim distinction has been taken
from Maseawale which is centrally situ-
ated on the coast, but is one of the hot-
test towns in the world and has a very
unhealthful climate.
All the Government offices, located
here since Italy entered the country, are
now to be moved. The Governor of Ern
tree, Ferdinand Martini, has induced. the
Ithinn Government to transfer the cap-
ital to the salubrious heights of the in-
terior. Asmara, a mile and a half above
the sea, is the city selected for the hon-
or.
Asmara is only sixty miles from Mas -
gavel!, but a greater contrast than that
between the two places could scarcely be
imagined.
Massasoit has been a. penthole for the
Europeans Settled there. 'The death rate
among the thousand Europeans has been
very great.
It lies ecareety above the eurinee of
the Red Sea, while Asmara is 7,800 feet
above sea level, with a climate that Is
scarcely surpassed enewhene. The tem-
perature of Asmara hardly ever rises
MANY PREFER DEATH.
Terrible Scenes Are Witnessed in
'Poland.
Paris, Dec. 20. -Great precautions
continue to be taken in Poland to pre-
vent the real situation provoked there
by the Russo-Japanese War from be-
coming known , to the outside world,
and nothing has been: made public
through official channels, but accord-
ing to trustworthy correspondence 're-
ceived here by prominent members of
the Polish colony the situation is an
awful one.
More than .40,000 reservists have just
been mobolizen and sent to the front
in spite of their protests that Russia
is not their fatherland, and that they
prefer to die in Poland, fighting for
liberty and independence, to becoming
food for Japanese cannon.
In some towns of Poland wives of re-
servists have thrown themselves in
front of. trains which were transport-
ing their husbands to Russia, and have
been crushed to death.
• In three provinces the people have
been fired upon by Russian recruiting
parties. At Goston, when orders were
*Wen to decimate the Polish reservists
who refused to march, the Polish Col-
onel Dzwonskowski blew his own brains
out in front of his Men.
Contrary to the alleged orders of the
Czar, fathers of families and widowers
with families are taken without dis-
crimination. One man, on receiving
marching orders, hanged his three chil-
dren and then gave himself up to the
military authorities with the remark:
Zeihave no one with whom to leave
Another man was sent for on the day.
of his wife's death. He thereupon
killed both his children, a girl of two
years, and a new-born boy, with a
hatchet, and placed them in their
mother's coffin.
In another case a man killed his wife,
his children and himself.
FIVE FIREMEN' HURT
IN A DISASTROUS FIRE AT COLUM-
• BUS, OHIO, TO -DAY. •
Columbus, Ohio, Dec. 20. -Fire to -day
on High street, near -Broad, destroyed
$225,000 worth of property in the bus-
iness district, and -in an explosion dur-
ing the fire five firemen were injured.
The flames started in the 'Mithoff
building in the rear of the Pirst Nation-
al Bank. The second, third and fourth
floors were occupied as elate, and fif-
teen families resided thernanut all were
rescued.
The fire spread to the stores of the
Krauss, Butler and Benham Company,
one of the largest carpet and rug deta-
in in Central Ohio, and the Wheeler
nrocery adjoining.
'While the firemen were at work on
the second floor of the Mithoff build
nig there was an explosion of gas. Five
ireinen were injured, but none seriously.
Of the :total loss, $50,000 is on the
Ilithoff building and $100,000 on the
stock' owned by Krauss and Bethel%
• •
KILLED IN COLLISION.
Bad. Railway Wreck West of Fort Wil-
liam.
'Port William, Dee .20.-A train of
empty passenger eatidlies WeStbenild del-
lided with a freight near Tainarac 100
miles wet of here. Conductor Petrick
Savage, in charge of the passenger train,
was killed; and 'his engineer, Sheridan,.
Fireman Reid min Mr. Southwick, of Sud-
bury Union Bank, it clerk, Cli route. to.
Winnipeg, were injured,
The 'wreck, which omit -red. at 3.45 it.
me was a bad one, both locomotivee be-
ing almost entirely demolished. A num.
bee of coaches and, ears were smashed.
Fire- added horror to the scene, conanno
ing two passenger oars, and in the do-
bris the body of Sheridan Was found.
The engine of the freight had "died" on
the train -owing to a defective throttle,
end Conductor Bell walked to &newer
for assistance. A flagman was sent
ahead. to Warn the approaching passen•
;er train, but, Engineer Sheridan for
some unknown reason failed to see him
red erhslied into the standing freight at
full speed. An investigation will be
Itch). to' fix the blame. The crew of the'
freiglit Raw the impending danger in
time to escape.
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Swept by Tide Wave,
New York, pee. 20. -After a tempos -
thous voyege,h* which she Was struck
by a tidal w the Red Sear Line
steamship Kroonla arrived here to-
day from Antwerp, en the tidel
wave struck the ship, o of her as
'angel's was thrown er es t pek
end had a kg broken; and it sailor fell
from the crow's etest, but suffered no
serieus injury. On the second day out
a stewardess 'oat. glean. and Was Inge.
ed under tinraint.
Quiet Wedding Unites Lovers Who Vowed
to Volt Until All Their Relatives Died,
Lockport, Dec., 20.-A holiday romance
conies to light in the marriage of Miss
Elizabeth Eche and Charles [henry, an
estimable couple both from good families
of Royalton. They were married quietly
at the English Lutheran parsonage yes-
terday evening by Rev. H. J. Watkins.
No members of the families of either the
bride or groom were present at the cere-
molly, as they have no relatives living.
It seems when the young people began
their courtship a good many years ago,
some say 25,, some 30 years, they vowed
they would wait for wedded bliss until
them relatives on both sides were dead.
Whether their relatives opposed the
match or not is not stated by the minis-
ter, AV110 Is quite reticent about the zee
mance. Mr. Watkins even declines to
give the ages of the people just marled,
but will do so when he files the mar-
riage certificate. Roth are said to be
not far one way or the other from the
balf century mark. The couple kept theit
youthful compact until time and its
changes have at last enabled them to
fulfil their vows in the glad holiday sea-
son.
SHOP BY INSANE BROTHER.
Fired Five Shots at Him While Sitting
the Breakfast Table.
New York, Dec. 26. -Becoming sudden-
ly insane while at the breakfast table
with his brother and their mother„ Abran
barn Cbapkowsky to -day fired five shots
at his brother Louis and Wounded him
in the head, probably fatally. The
wounded man, is it well-to-do cloth im-
porter of Lispenard street, Abraham in
under arrest and has been identified by
Louis as the man who shot aim. _
The brothers were businesi partners'
until four years ago, when Abraham's
wife died and he became insane. For
three years he was kept in. an ("Sternum
but about a year ago. the untiring ef-
forts of Louis secured his release. The
latter was warned that Abraham was
possessed of homicidal tendencies, but
scoffed at the idea,
The another wrested the revolver from
the hand of the Son as the last shot
was fired, Immediately Abraham seemed
to recover his senses and, dropping on
his knees by the prostrate Louis, beg -
get], his forgiveness.
THE UNHAPPY PRINCESS LOUISE,
Much Sympathy for Her in Her Desire to
to See Her Children.
Dresden, Saxony, Dec. 20, -Countess
Montig,noso (formerly the Crown Prin-
cess Louise and divorced wife of King
Frederick Augustus) by coming to Dres-
den and trying to see her children yes-
terday has probably forfeited her allow-
ance of $7,500, ohm of the conditions of
which Was that she should not set foot
on German soil.' This condition, how-
ever, may not be enforced, as popular
sympathy with the Countess is so strong
already that the court will avoid any -
,,thing giving the impression of punishing
the Countess for her natural womanly
feeling. The version of tae Countess'
misadventure commonly believed in the
kingdom of Saxony is that she is guilt-
less of actual wrongdoing and is the
victim of intrigue of the Centre party,
which is described as using unscrupulous
means to prevent a strong Liberal team
becoming Queen. The eircumstanees of
the Countess leaving the court are so
overlaid with fiction that the truth prob-
ably will be unknown to the present gen-
eration of Saxons.
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SHOT 'THE WIDOW
Because She Would Not Accept His
Attentions.
Newfaue, N. Y., Dec. 20. -Fred Jones,
a clerk in Pettit's grocery store at Char-
lotteville, this afternoon shot and killed
Constable Wm. Gray and . Mrs. Abbie
Goodrich, a widow, he then turned
the rearolver upon himself and, fired a
bullet into his brain. He is still alive,
but surgons say he cannot recover.
Jones' was ,a suitor for Mrs. Good-
rich's hand, and the shooting was the
result of her refusal to accept his atten-
tions. Jones is twenty-eight years old,
and Mrs. Goodrich was fifty-four, and'
the mother, of several children.
So persistent had Jones become that
Mrs. Goodrich went before a Justice of
the Peace at noon and made a complaint,
claiming that he had threatened to kill
her and set her buildings on fire: A
warrant was issued and given to Con-
slabel Gray to serve. Gray went to
the store were Jones was working.
4
TO CARRY DEMANDS TO KING.
Boers' Discontent Regarding Payment of
Compensation.
Johannesburg, Dec. 26. -The delegates
to the representative congress of Boers
of Orange- River Colony, at Brandfort,
bitterly ataek the Government regard-
ingthe payment of compensation, al-
leging a breach of faith under the peace
terms. The only proclamation carried.
out was &dared to be that regarding
the ammiation of the colony.
The consensus of opinion was that a
deputation should be sent to the King,
but some of the delegates said that they
ought not to :go 'cap in hand for what
had been voted.
After two days' discussion, resolutions
were passed which practically amount
to an ultimatum for the immediate pay-
ment of officers' receipts in full, which
was promised by Mr. Chatriberlain, Un-
less the Government complied with the
demand, it wits stated the Boers would
be unable to co-operate at their own free
will with the administration'. The Lieu-
tenant -Governors Sir H. Gold -Adams,
will be' asked to forward the resolutions
to the King.
4
THE PASSING OF Titz HOME
'One of the Saddest Phenomena of Mod-
ern City Life,
A home is a tract of ground, big or little,
partly' occupied by some kind of a dwelling
and otherwide filled With flowers, trees, rose.
table gardens, she bric-a-brac, of a back yard,
or anything else, so only tbat some spade Of
:nether earth may remain whereon tho chil.
then of the tinnily May disport themselves,
where the illusions of childhood may trans-
form woodpiles into great ships, clothesline
into telegraphs beanpoles into armies, old
sticks into horses, and washtubs into char -
iota, nud in which, as the twilight comes on
and the shadows deepen, living forms, to
the childish imagination, seem to hover and
flit in the gloom from one dark corner to
another., Above nII, for all purposes of en-
Joyment or occupation it is one's very own,
the one spot where none else may come un-
invited, but Which to hint stands over open,
the scenes of his happiest hours, his refuge
hi time of trouble. Within the Memory of
men still young no family in America, out -
tide of a tow congested districts in large
cities, Was Without a home of that kind; The
dwelling upon itrd ight be it cabin, a cot-
tage or a Mansion, but Such as it Was it was
the owned or rented possession of one family,.
held satred to the use of its members from
the centre of the earth to the clouds above.
It Was the home.
The pasties; of the home is the saddest
phoneme:in of modem city life. The tens -
meat house -which we 'seek to disguise under
the name of "flat" -is a Most wretched siib-
stitute for the humblest of homes. That, our
neople endure them Is an indication of' de-
generacy, as ft Will unquestionably be the
Woke of a more rapid descent. ti le rimeamy
certain that the rigor of the race can be
Maintained only ter per/tonal contact with th,1
mother earth from 'Which we sprang, whieh
nourishes and sustains tis While We IWO, Sad
Which receives Us in her borent When we die.
Why this is, Perhaps, no One knows, but it
Is within the knowledge of all that the vigor
of the city is constantly recruited Min am
-
try We. To deprive children of daily con -
tate With the soil is a Sin,
The Welt Of tbe tenement house Was net
toenail Until it passed from the; Slums, be.
Mutts few of us knoW how the other bah
It is perhaps net so desperate a mis-
fortune to those who live by manual labor,
for Met get their contact with earth in other
ways, sod their obildren, less *rood by the
conventions of society, find access to the soil
by some means and pass, while still young,
to the occupations of their parents. The most
terrible effect of the tenement house is in the
families of the "salaried" class as distin-
sulshed from the "wage earners," and who
flit from flat to flat, seldom remaining long
enough anywhere for home associations to
be fermed. There can perhaps be no home
associations worthy of the name which are
not connected with a piece of open ground
in the sole possession of the family. It
would seem that in our largest cities this
privilege can no longer be enjoyed except by
the rich. A recent editorial on the subject
in the New ...York Times states that during
the year 1903 but fifty-six single houses were
erected in that city, "estimated to cost less
than $3,000,000." This indicates that the aver-
age cost of a real home in that city is over
$50,000, and, of course, out of reach of any
but the really well-to-do. Land has become
too "valuable" to be devoted th such pur-
poses. To secure an income from the land
its rental must be divided among such a
number of families as can carry the load py
united effort ,and they are packed in, over
and under each other and side by elde until
the requisite force is assembled. In this city
until recently the "three -flat" abomination
has been the usual limit for "genteel" peo-
ple, Now regular tenements are being erected
in the pleasanter parts of the city; in which
chIldiesss couples hudddle in four -room
"apartments." It is not good.
This is not,yet necessary ha San" Francisco.
There are wide expanSes of territory within
an hour's ride from the businesss sections,
where real heroes may be ostabliehed at mod-
erate cost by those willing to live in un-
fashionable and primitive ways for the sake
of a real home, and there is nq question
whatever that any family, rich or poor, is
better off 4n a four -room cottage in the saud-
bills than in a ,tenement flat on Pacific
Heights. If they are not happier in such a
location it is because their normal human
instincts have been warped and impaired by
the artificial life of the city, and they have
lost the art of drawing comfort from the
soil and the living things which can be made
to grow upon it. -San Francisco Chronicle,
• •
METHODIST CASES,
Appeals Heard Yeaterday-One of Them
• a Hamilton Case,
Toronto, Dec. 26. -The Coutr of Ap-
peal of the Methodist Church of Can-
ada, presided over by Rev. Dr. Carman,
after two sessions in the Wesley Build-
ings, on Tuesday and Wednesday, gave
decisions in four cases submitted for
argument, last night.
The Methodist general conference im-
posed a tax of 2en per cent, of the super-
annuation fund on the Maritime Prov-
inces. They questioned the legality of
conference in imposing the tax, and en-
tered an appeal, which the court dis-
missed.
A minister in New Brunswick was
given leave of absence by his congre-
gation for a year. Shortly afterwards
he resumed pastoral work, The appeal
questioned his ministerial standing, and
was sustained. •
Another case was from the Hamilton
conference, inn, which the contingent fund
committee discounted an allowance for
supply in case of death along with oth-
er supplies. The appeal was against
this action foul was dismissed.
ICE -BREAKER A SUCCESS.
Test of the Steamship ndontcalm at,
Quebec.
Quebec, Dee: 26. -On Saturday morning
a prattlent demonstration of the power of
the new ice -breaker, the steamer Montealm,
was made In the Ice -covered River St. LAW.
rence, and everything Went to show that the
vessel is a valuable aid to winter nevigatiott.
The Montcaltn, meter coinntitild of Captain
Hoenig, left the wharf at 1.20 O'clock or:
an Offietal trial trip up the river, with the
Mon. R. Ptefenteine, Minister of Marine and
Fisheries; Gotirdeau, Deputy MM.
later, and a large ritlinber of prominent In-
vited guests oo board. She went through
fields of ice Matt end nine Inchon thick
With perfect ease, that did not even in the
least impede her speed. She sailed at the
rate of about 12 knots, passing the Narrows,
at the Chaudiere, which were choked with
Ice as far as St. Aug:Pahl.
When Cape Rouge Was readied the ice was
packed Into ft solid mass, but the Montealm
timplerewent through it, elating lee In places
10 and 11 Inches thick 'without any din
winttever, or causing any violent 'vibra-
tion on board. The triple eXpattelitif engines
worked beautifully, and the Minister of Mar-
ine and Fisheriee, who 'remained nit deck dur-
ing the trip, and took a keen interest in every
umse Made by the ship, was extremely well
pitied whit the new Government Ice-
breaker.
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FOR RUSSIAN LIBERT
STUDENTS THREATEN TO JOIN
WORKINGMEN IN THE AGITATION.
Moscow', Dec. 20. -Students of the Un-
iversity of' Moscow have adopted re-
solutions denouncing the reetor for pro-
hibiting their meetings, declaring their
determination to unceasingly strive for
the liberation of the opposed fatherland,
and threatning that if they ate punished
for assembling they will organize mani-
festations in conjunction withthe work-
men. Several groups af citizens liana
signed an address to the municipality
expressive of the strongest. empathy
and support of its claim for constitu-
tional reform a sembodied in the resolu-
tions adopted by the town council on
Dee. 14, and promising every effort in
furtherance of these reforms, which, the
address declares, arc desired by the
whole of the Russian people.
LABOR TEMPLE OPENED,
Fame Inauguration Was a Great
Success.
Toronto, Dec. 20, ---The formal ope4. --
Mg of the new Labor Temple took mace
hist evening in the presence of about
1,500 trade unionists, among whom were"
representatives who have been the back-
bone of organized labor in Toronto for
many years. The speaker of the even-
ing was Prof. Goldwin Smith, who was
introduced by Ala D. A. Carey, president
of the Toronto Labor Temple Compel,.
Not the Time for Reform.
St. Petersburg, Dee. 20. ----Prince
Svai-
topolk-Mirsky lead before the Colleen the
addresses and resolutions adopted by the
Congress of Zemetvoe, which was held
here last month. Prince fivaitopolk-
Mirsky, AL Witte and Count Zolsky
fit vored a policy of COACOPSi011, but'the
others opposed such a policy on the
ground that the demands of the Zeno
istvolias were subversive of the essential
principles of autocracy.
4,4 •
Derrick Runs Armtek,
New York, Dee, 20, -Breaking five
great cables fts. if they had been three&
the 100 -ton floating derrick Reran
moored to flu', side of the now batt
ship COnneetietit, broke adrift in the•
navy yard basin in Wallabout Bay to-
day and crashed into the stern of the
battleship Texan enmehing several
plates and SO injuring the war vessel
that she will have to go into the dry
-dock.
TRUE.
Fusions Father -Mow is it I atch you
kissing my ilaugater?
Her 'Young itfui -lleeitilse I didn't see
you taming.