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The Brussels Post, 1900-5-3, Page 3TI B E S E .Fut S ?Q$ l% A 'PALLING DISASTERS $2 ,000,00Damage f "y Fre in Ottawa and Hall Ottawa, Ont., Friday, April 27,—I'if- teen thousand .people are homeless hire to -night, 3,000 dwellings have gone up in smoke, 020,000,000 worth of property has been destroyed. Ottawa and Hull to -night are suffering from th'e effoote of the worst calamity in their corporate ltistc:ry, A fire began shortly before noon Thursday, and eaged'fleree}y until one o'clock this morning,' when it watt got under eon- trot, At present: the damage cannot be estimated with any great accuracy, but it will undoubtedly amount to sev- eral oweral million dollars. Conservative es- timetes make It in the neighbourhood o $20,000,000. ltfuny large mum - teetering establishments and lumber almost beyond computation have been destroyed, A distressing feature of the eituatiou is the posilien of a large por- tion of the laboaring people, whose dwellings and sources of employment ',Awe disappeared together. . OTTAWA F BEMEN OCT OFF, !1 he fire started in the chimney of o labouring man's cottage in Hull, ,A very high wind was blowing at the timb, but nobody hod the slightest idea of: the real extent of the danger. An hour later the main street of Hull was all in• flames. Tani firemen of Ottawa hastened to °the assistance of the neighbouring oily, with .the result that they were presently cut off and unable to return, when the fire leaped suddenly across the river, destroying In its course the planking ofthe bridge ifhicb'formed the only com- munication. This rendered the city of Ottawa to a certain extent helpless, Little could be done but watch tbe'flamas lead their way steadily all afternoon through the western part of the city. 'tier a ltttle while it looked as it nothing would be left of the capital! of the Dominion, but, fortunately, the wind kept the fire awayfront 1 most c of Lhe business u nose districts' and ud Prou r the meati peI' ta1- tious resideutnl streets. Those. burned out are chiefly the working popula- tion, which fent serves to render the. distress al] the greater. The vast lumber piles end hills of J. R., Booth, thn lumber king; or Can- ada and .president of .the Canada At- lantic railway, are gone completely,,. So, also, are millions upon rnilhons of router belonging to the Hull Export Co., and. the Export Lumber Co., both of which are heavy losers, us are like - Wise the Bronsons4%Vcstern Co., which bad still milt lum•ber' ou hand, The, Gilmour and Hug•hso t lumber piles and .mill are gone, together with the ohurubes, schools, public buildings, and stores without numsrer, Edd's pulp; mitts were among the first fol aurcuarib to the flames: Since early in the afternoon the city has. heen almost cot aft from the out- side world through the destruction of the. Canadian Paclfio railway station and„the, ruin ;pf' the. track, the ties being sat( on fire and the rails spread by the beat of burning, lumber piles, Most of the telegraph wires 1113 also d. ow u. Every effort) is ,being made 1 o re- lieve the distress of the homeless and• ruined thousands 'who are wandering in the streets, The Dominion Govern- ment nu•tborfties have taken energelIO bold of. the problem, arra the drill. shed anti the pubiio buildings have been thrown open asternpuravy tare, Time has not yet permittedthe organization of any further relief measture, O.ilIGLN' 00' THE I'TRL. The blaze is said to have originated; in the/ house of A. Kirouac, on.Chnu- diere Street. A; burning c'3tianuey-ta (Said to. have been tile cause. Tins house was, in the think. of a lot of wooden buildings, and in a very short While more. than thirty houses en Philomen, Bridge, Cha;u'diere, and A1 - beet streets were in Mimes. TbeHua1 ftee brigade summoned nssistauce, and soon the E. B. Eddy firemen, the Union brigade of flip. Chaudiere, and a part et the Ottawa fire depnrtnnent were doing what they, ttaudd to keep down the flames. The wind proved too strong and fierce, however, and, de- spite the( many streams of water play- ing on the blaze, the fire spread rap-' idly, Even at cousiderable distances away from the original fire area many houses were set ablaze by burning embers. wast It thowglt at tint that Mein street, the business martini: of the town, in(gatt be saved, blit the fire *mime ddwn there, ,destroying all the stores, the Bank of Ottawa building, the English thuruh, the court -House, ward, poet -office, residence and offices as Mr. Champagne, M. P„ and everee- thing else on the street, The original area of the fire extend- ed over Tour blocks front the south slice olf. Philo/nein street to Weight street and between Oliatucliere and Bridge streets. A foot that: rendered. the fire snore destructive wits that moat aaa the buildings which were burned at first were of wood.:People who lived two or throe streets ewn.y, on becoming aware of the flying hint- ,tars, started to pone water on their boueeo in the hope of saving the hu}ldi inns. Many more people remaoenred to Move their houeohold effects. In shite of all these precautions, however, the $(eines woithl get at the houses, and in a few Minutes they were a. mass of flames. DISTRESSING. SCENES. The entire dity in Hull seemed to bo ri"a with stenos of the most cl st'c asi nature, .Many children tvbo had baaen. n bin,V'ing around ,(tete liontee in their are feet were ermini'1led to seek safety wlthont shoes or stockings, Scores of women carried babies in their (trans end stood at u distance watching everything whieh they.pos- sossed go wp In flames, ' It was 1,80 when the fire was disnev- ered on the Ottawit side of the river, It 'broke: out in the lu•mbor distrlo-t adjoining the C,13.11, station, and 'to- night a vast area c0niprising the west- erly section of Victoria Ward and pnnpi;icsally Lhe whale of Dalhousie Ward is destroyed, ACROSS THE RIV.LR INTO OTTAWA. When the Blaze erased the river, the lumber piles between the MOKay mills and the river °ought first, and in lese than five minutes were a ring- ing mass. It was only the work of a few seconds when the small build- ings between the 'piles and the mills were burned, and the great ele- vators of the McKay milia were soon in the cauldron of fire. The br.iagde made a •plucky fight to stop the fire at this junctura, and save the power -house and the Booth property, but it Ana in valu. Tho Immense deluge of water had no more effect than if fired from a squirt -gun. The wind was blowing it gale of 6t1 miles an hour, tannins the flames into such fury that the massive structures were soon reduced to a heap of ruins. While the brigade were fighting these, the embers were ,o cried over to the C.P.it.• stollen, and in an in- credibly shunt time more than thirty houses were burning. The station and freight -sheds fell an easy victim, and on sped the: greedy element until the whole district to Pooley's bridge .was a. veritable ocean of flame. •The old frame houses, for which the district was noted, only served to add fury Lo the biaze,tnnti hundeedsof the poorest of Ottawa's poor fled with ouly the scant clothing on their backs, 'The household effects,, upon which not one in a' hundred had a cent of insurance, were all lost, and crying women and. availing children were straggling on every side. The men worked as with superhuman strength, and many mum ad their furniture throe or four Hines, only at last to sae it go up in smoke. The moot pathetic sight was the aged women and helpless babes, who were witbout friends or shelter, and knew notwheys toturn for help. HELP THE HOMELESS. Fifteen thousand people have beenen rendered homeless by Friday's conflag- ration in Ottawa and Hull,• It was the work of but a few hours. The fire commenced in .Hull; swept through the streets of, that city, licked up the. lumber piles and the milts which sep- arate Hull from Ottawa, and then drove with irresistible force through a. populous district of the capital. The fire-fighters were powerless. Nothing could stop Lhe progress of the Homes; No tilruo wan given to the people to save any of thorn' belongings.For them old and young, sielc on well, it was luck if they escaped with their lives. Fif- teen ihotrsnnd of them are to -day without shelter. They ,are our own. people. All Canadians'• with true Cana- dian hearts beating in their breasts ought to come liberally to their assist - once. Lot individuals, municipalities, in feet, all possible agencies, come at once to the relief of the homeless, WILL RETREAT TO MOUNTAINS The Lydenburg District. Now Being Provisioned. The London Times' Lorenzo Marques correspondent says, that credible wit- nesses vouch for the statement that; the Boer Government Is collecting' enormous quantities of provisions in the, Lydenburg district, Tbis lends ramie to the reports that the burgh- ere contemplate.,ualcing a final stand in that ittountainotts region. Meanwhile the distends round Joh- snzlesburg and Pretoria are being extensively entranched.' Begbie's foundry in Johanneslnu'g is pr'od'ucing 7001 shells weekly. Enormous 'quantitiea of silk have been commandeered in. Johannesburg; to make .balloons. WEPENER IS RELIEVED. The Boers Are Fleeing Along the Ladybrand Road. Donlan, Aleril 25.—The War Office has issued the following. from Lord Roberts, dated Bloemfunteiu, Spell 25, 5.25 p.in.:— "The mimes retired front in front y of Wepsner lust Mutat, duct this morning fled north-eastwards along the Ladybrand road. "Their number was between .1,0110 hail 5,000," LEFTFOR T I- FRONT. NT. E So -Called U, S. Antbulauoe. Corps Fighting With the. Boers, The London ' :Daily' Mail's Lorenzo' �Larotes correspondent, Telegraphing under date of Wednesday, says that' the Irish-Amerlean brigade, consist- ing chiefly of ails inembers'of the so- onlleil ttmttulance oorpes.left, Pretoria Saturday under Co1.Blake, of l sr being addressed by President Kruger. They responded to the address with an American college cheer, BURNED AS PUNISHMENT. ItN ._ rarnl+Hotlse Frain Which Canadians Were Fred Upon, , A despatch Broin l3loemfontein, says: RW11 oo" f fitrnm, near Leauw kop, from whialt, white flying a white flag, the Caundians were fired upon has been burned its a penishanent, ltiebter ie n prisoner, THE SUNDAY SCUOO . INTERNATIONAL 1414SSON, KAY ii, "Statue trni•nine Mud wettings' ltleib 1t 00.30, house, 'test. .: ati. It'2s. • 1?RA.GTIOAI4 NOTES, Verse 20i :This verse seems to °on - neat lanrned(aLely with the dietitiaree about Jahn the l ma:lst, whose plain preaching had left his impenitent !dame without 55(001e; how great, then, trust be the .responeibility of those wbo 'hear. the Sbn of Aman hi in oolf I Then began he to upbraid, Or to rebuke, There is no hint at bot or bit ter tean00r 'hero ; our Lord's words are rather an outburst of holy grief and indignation, which °narks in the history a turning from one class of moral appeals and reasonings to another—it' radlcal'obange in hie ane - intact of teaching. The cities wherein most of his mighty works were done, These"eines" were all 11n the north wosto.rn shore of the Sea of Galilee, The Greek word translated anigbty works" literallytmeans "powers."They repented hot. Drop theological pre- possessions, and understand these words as Matthew wrote them. The ruinous sin, of these people was that our Loral's "mighty works'• had made no change in their lives; whichshows that our Lord's miracles wore not per - teemed for Unite : own sake, were not .merely acts of divine beneficence, were more tlratn'"Dlessitnia signs;" they were loud calls to change, of life and holy living.. So are all the works of God to -day, Ram. 2. 4; Aots 17. 10, 3t. God speaks. through them so clearly that any man, "though a fool," might hear and heed. .But the unbelieving majority in these ci- ties -heeded not; some superciliously and perversely denied the genuineness of the miraoles; others accepted their physical advantages without any spir- itual effect, and sometimes without ordinary gratitude. So to -day thou- sands treat the 'works of God. Every refusal of God's mercy hardens the' human heart and increases : future was. 21. Woe unto tees. on expression nn striking contrast with the ” Blessed are ye" on the Beatitudes. Charazin. Belhseida, These towns are selected as typical of the busy region inwhich the stood, Chorazin is now w y s o identified' with Karam* a few miles north of Capotnaum. Bethsaitda ;folios stood on the banns of the Jordan near the northern end of the lake of,Gabi- lee. It was the home of at least three of our Lord's disciples—Peter, Andrew and Philip. If the mighty wanks, which were done in you, had been done in Tyre and Sidon. Strange to say, no miracle recsorded in the gospels is placed in either Chorazin or Bethsnida. :Tyre and Sidon are Intentioned as the heathen capitals nearest to GsILlee. They had been through many :centuries singularly wicked as well as singularly prosper. ous. Cradles of the( worship 1f Baal, the Most vicious influences' which had injured. early Israel had sprung from i them, It Buell tender appeals could have been made to Phoenicia as were now being made of Galilee, it would have repented long ago in sackoldth and name; a keen sense of sin would have brought keen sorrow to its cities and, forgivenmuoh, they would bevo loved much. Some pupils may need the'eatlanation that orien- tals in their bitterest sorrow thrust themselves into coarse garments like seeks with; armholes, and throw ashes on their heads. That sinful Tyre and Sidon were thus ready, for repentance has iileasing-illustration in the story of Matt. 15. 21-28, in the foot that; thirty years after our lesson Paul found bolievera there, and in the further fact that Tyro early iieoame a Christian city. 22, It. shall Its more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon, Each oily, and each individual abut, shall be judged aecording to its own opportunities. But corporations hove no souls. Cities and nations are said to be Punished when "a due proportion is observed between, ' their ' degree of sin .between of guin." But individual souls — "every one of us shall give amount: of himself to God." The day of judgment bore includes the general system of God's judicial decisions. But it is, as 'diffiow't'for us tar oonoeive final judgment 'withouit definite date an to conceive a heaven without place, This. verse' .would -Neem 10 in- timate whets seems .to be ateeunied throughout the. New Testament, tltnl; there are .deg,rees, of pwnfsbenent and reward in the eternal world, 23, Thou, Capornouen which art exalted unto heaven, than, be brought down to holl, The language through- out is highly figurative. "Heaven" Mends for the loftiest exaltation; "hell," Reties, for extinction as drily, Tbo Revised" Version, following the best texts, tonna the first part of Lhis' versa into question and answer: "Shalt thou be exelterl Unto heaven¢ thou shalt go, down unto Hades" "The amount.eftlight given and rejected is the measure of the,guilt of the nation sail thvl nil I" Tlia site of Cnin- 1 annum is stilt in doubt, 'For many years Dr, Thomsons ' identiften tion lel -Hone with Keleher Natliunit was generally accepts?<l, by English and Antarioan soholnrs. Perltaps the chtof reasoni forthis identifie cation ie a resemblance of the lest syllable of each Of the naihes, a resemblance not made very plain in English. But later investigation, and especially the arguments of Dr.Goorge Adam Smith, have led to the adoption 01 Khan 11Minyel as the este. Like Tel Hitm, this place is on the northwestern °oust of the Sea of Galilee; it has a fountain, referred to by J ee ltus, '.tile the outer ids hns•0000. If the While ,v mighty .storks, which have been done In tune, held been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day,. Sodom is the ittost notoriously wiekeed alty of all history, One Lord does not imply that Sodomite sins were rife in Cnpernmmn, but Istat Cnpernaum was further than Sodom from repenttinoe, But why were not such mighty work wrought in Sodom, and its repentant Unman, semir'ed I A eurnpleLe unswe M0y not be given; but much of the Mystery Is dissipated when) we ronrem bei that our Laird le Wilting 00 these cilias coileotively. Sodom's punish Went was of u physlotrl surf ; spirltua punLshmetit le not the minutia thought h1 either case.' lod'orn sir nee; it was punished by overthrow and esttnction. Canernanm sinned, no by oomznitting greater sins than c1I notiorn, for sips cannot be classified rata less and greater, but by sinning Ligaiuet greater light ishan did .`iodom and its punislwnent, also, was extinc rot. 24, Tile lesson,. ugi, to the attire rd this verse stows emphatically the cunsati;uuynoes of, lm'pen,Lence, and Ihu stn iqgrgatar or' leas, not sir p'repur ttozi to dile greateraeless breach of certain comtaanda, Pen to the great- er or leas turning away from Chespnri of goodness., L,aV us again remind ourselves that there is far: individuals in a sense that potions and cities can- not ` realize, a day of jwdlpment spiritual and permanent, for the deeds done in the body. 26. Deana answered and sold. The ward "answered" may alder 10 'tlte woes just uttered! or to unuttered thoughts in the -bearers' minds, or it man be, merely an -idiomatic phrase if it be• closely eonneeted: with the punishment on Sodom ,and Tyre nnd Sidon, we are to think' of what follows as our Lord's way of teaching that God (coves in a mystetr}ows way his.wendera to perform. 1 thank thee I praise thee; confess thee; abide by thy decision, 0 Nattier. A study of the passages in witinii aux Lord refers to God, as Father will be found, help- fol. See, for example, John 17 11. 21; 12. 28. Lord of heaven and earth, Surprente. Sovereign Creator, Preserves, Destroyer. Thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent. The devised Version brings out the meaning plainer: "Thou didst. hide these things tram the,wise and understanding." It la another way of saying that htaniitn wisdom cannot find out God. "To got God's infinite wisdom. we must re- nounce our finite wisdom," Isa. 6. 21; 1 Cor. 1. 18-27. Revealed them unto babes. The "wise and prudent" are the Pharisees: the "babes" are our Lord's disciples. "Children," stays 11. Clay Trumbull, "can understand muny things just because they are children. The hope of older ones is in learning from children or becoming again its children." The referenda here is to a docile, humble, ohildlike disposition. 20. liven so, Father; for so it seem- ed good in thy sight, Infallible Love and Wisdom cannot err. What is good in God's sight must be good- for his children. 27. All things are delivered unto me of myFather. "Of'' means b . Jesus Y is directlyaddressing'his disci les p; They' are supposed to bavo the child- like spirit, and so will bow to the will of the Father, which is also the will of the Son. No man knoweth the Son, 'but the Father. The rela- tion between God and Jesus is a mys- tery; "it es far transcends mortal understanding as does the nature of God." . The Revised Version gives "no' one "—neither man, nor angel, nor devil. Neither kioweth any man the Father, save the Som, and he to whoawsoever the Son will reveal him. Jeans understands the Father because of what may reverently be called 1 .n. ship, and, the sovereignty over all things having been given him, heoon- fers a profound practical knowledge of the Father upon his beloved ones. 28. Coma unto me. "Only by com- ing to me can you know' Gbd." The invitation is to all, He did not mean merely that those who heard him should in their physical bodies press nearer to 'him, It was man's souls he Invited; and as "he ever liveth" v e Y as well as they may approach him in our souls. Alt' ye that: labor. Allwhoee bodies or minds nae weary with active toil; but not only they. In Ju•llea thonsanals of men in utter weariness and desolation of soul were laboring to secure holiness by minute atten- tion to.innumerebie exactions impos- ed by the "sullies and Pharisees," To -day there are thousands like them who are wearing out their lives trying to do right. All that any leave to do —whether strength or comfort be needed—is to come unto his Son. Heavy laden. Overstrained, worn- out people. The laborers have (tail toe inuch active toil, the heavy laden too much of gossive toil. I will give you rest. Other "masters" enjoin legal burdens "grievous to be borne;" other "lords" demand labor; I, "your Lord and Master," give rest. 29. Take any yoke upon you. The Jews referred to the Mosaic late, with its annexed traditions, as a yoke; but our Lord's doptrine and leadership were easy and light. Laws hard to obey, sinful habits, heart sorrows, anxieties, sickness—those are some of humanity's burden ; but the only bur- den 'our Lord gives is oomlmnionshie with hint, and that brings comfort and peace. Learn of .me, As teach- er and example, Meek and lowly in heart, 'I1 . Robertson says that tbreo causes produce unrest. in mea—suspi- elon of God, inwerd discord, and dis- satis.fantion with outward circum- slanoes; for all these meekness is the cure. Ye shall fined rest unto your souls. Such abounding peace 'within that pressure ,from without is unfelt. 10. My yoke is easy, Pleasing, wholesome. My burden is light. It harmonizes with the deepest needs of human beings, V1ltal is our Lord's burden—tie law he planes upon men 1 Love to God and. to follow -men. Such eve 'produces pence and rest, r NEWS SU.MM RY, OANADA. Winnipeg ,Y.AM.C.A. will area a 1 $00,000 building. Y Brantford will spend more money t- 011 flood prevention works. frlanitoba Tows have subsst•ibe, l 4350 t for' the'Canedi:t leatriolio "L'und, t1 Ontario and Qnobse batteries will likely lie brigaded this year in eaitap at Uoseronta. Moohanioal Superintendent Atkinson o!C the 0. P. R. has beau appointed superintendent at rolling stook, A company being organized at Harn-' ilton for the mitnufaotnre of bricke will reduce the price by 02 a thousand. More settlers with offeols valued at 315,000, arrived at Port Arthur from Illinois, They will occupy, .the State River valley, Laurie & Son, of Hamilton, have been awarded a Government contract to supply 250,000 pounds of meat to the Indian Delrartmenu. Fourteen horses of the Shedden Com - puny at Kingston have typhoid pneu- monia, contracted from a Montreal Learn stripped there. Brandon City Oounell has itself elected W. I'. Willson an alderman to Ell a mammy, a call tor nominations In the ward meeting with no response. The London bricklayers' new agree- ment with the employing builders is foo' 37 1 `2 cents an hour and eight • hours a day, the increase to commence oa June 1st. Capt. Agar Adamson, of the Gov- ernor-Gcnoral's foot Guards, will be the officer in charge of the 50 re ; crusts for the Stratliconu Horse. In- spector Strickland cannot go. There is a great demand fur skilled and unskilled labor in the Cape Bre- ton mines, and Italians have been im- ported from New York, The Dominion Steel & Iron Cu. of Sydney is _doing big work. Another animal suffering from lumpy jaw, was seized in Montreal on Thursday by the inspectors. Dr. La - bergs, the Health Officer,' says lie will put a stop to' the shipment of dis- eased cattle from the West at any coat, Emerson, Man., farmers w111 ask the Dominion Government to open the Russian Indian reservation containing about 13,000 acres el good farming land, only partly cultivated by the Indiana. The Guelph License Commissioners are having some difficulty in deciding which licenses they will cut off in obe- dience to the Oily Council and pending a decision have granted all the hotels three months' extension from the first of May. PRISONERS'EADLY TREATED The British Camp at Waterval lin- Rt for Habitation. A despatch from Durban says:a' blitaltoll, the engineer of the Pre- toria water works, who will expelled by the7'ransvanl Government., has ar- rived here, ,Flo reports that the Bri- tish prisoners asmp at Wntervel ie unfit for babilation, Tho action, Imitation consists of wall nod loan -to roof, with wooden uprlgitts, 'Che nta- .joeity,,of .prisoners aro compelled to sleep in the open. NO resident iloc- ter at oatwp itas been provided, though that'e are 114) cases of fever, Welter is blank and'ntuddy, Pretoria synt- palbilers' with prisoners have givens 43,000 for providing them with cora- for ts. omforte. GREAT BRITAIN, Anne e Beale uopular English p g novelist, is ilea Only four per tient. of British wounded in Africa have died. Lords of Admiralty will ,aspect cadets' training school at Dartmouth. It is understood that Emperor Wil- liam will visit England about August 2nd. General White, tf not required in South Africa, will become Governor of Gibraltar toward the end of May. Rumour says Sir Edward Grey is to succeed Sir Henry Campbell -Ban- nerman as leader of the English Lib- erals. .Primrose Day, the anaitversary pf the death of Lord Beaconsfield, was observed throughout England with customary zeal. The Earl of Lotu(eeborough, William Henry i'oroeter Denison, is dead. lie', was born in 1831, and was vice -ad- antral of the Yorkshire coast, The widow of .Robert Louis Steven- son has taken a depisive stand against toi the proposal d upher husban 's Irr 1g d bones and carry them from Samoa to Scotland for reburial. The great chalk headland at Dover, known asblhakespearo Oliff, is to be levelled in order to give the new rapid-fire batteries of that harbor's defences a better range. A new order has been issued in Great Britain under which Argentine cattle must be slaughtered within 30 hours of landing and North Ameri- cans within five days. For the pres- ent the order will apply only to Dept- ford, The Birmingham Post is responsible for the statement that Turkey has placed several important commissions with the ICrupps, to be completed be- fore tilte end of the year, which in- elude bettor machine guns than aro at present used by any European pow- er, and 100,000 Mousers. UNITED STATES. Automobiles are to be used on ranches in Texas. New York police commissioners will not "issue boxing •licenses. The number of Japanese students in America is placed at 3,000. Eight: persons were killed by the loruado widen swept over Kansas, Copper in large quantities has been; discovered in Tanana district, Alaska. Now York rapid transit tunnel sub- pontra0ts for 320,15(0,000 of the work have been awarded. The managers of the United States famine fund are searching for in vessel to carry oorn to India. The National Sabbath Alliance is working hard to abolish the Sunday delivery of ice cream in New York, New York earpentera are on strike demanding an 8 -hour day for five days a week, and 10 cents an hour. The ilnanage to fruit trees nen: Gluon City, Colo„ from the late heavy storm and frosts is estimated at 3500,- 000. A collie dog has died at. New, York from grief over the death of its owner, Nfrs, Bertha Wise. Two more of her dogs are dying, A 5,000 -ton steamer lint been secured at Washington to take food su.bstribed. by American cite rite ble institutions to stricken India. The Chicago 'Tribune sate an Am. arisen officer, Major Armes, has sent nearly 28,000 Americans to South AQ- rico to aid the Boors, A' hill is before Cont}'ress requiring trusts to punish periodically sworn statements of their capital earnings, expenses, profits and dividends, Rutledge, Rev,. W, 1', t edge, said to have been the first to suggest the, fortune tion of the Grand Army of; the .Rspuh.. .11a. is dead at Jacksonville, James A. Bell, of Beaverton, Out., brother of theii v e John 1'f care 8 l Y e1 B, D. i!' rostra ted by nervous headaches & victim of the -trouble for severnl yearn. South American Norvine effected a complete ,clzre. In their °WWn particular field few men are betel.' known than the Rev. .Iplin Wesley Bell, B.D., and his brother Mr. James A. Bell. The former will oe re- cognized by bis thousands of friends all over the country as the popular and able missionary euperinteadent of the Royal Tempters of Temperenoe_ Among the 20,000 members of this order in Ontario his counsel is Bought on all sorts 01 00- casions, (2n the public platform he is one of the strong men of the day, oattling against the evils of intemperance. Equally welt known.ls Mr. Bell in other provinces of the Dominion, having been for year's a member el the Manitoba Methodist Conference and part of this time was stationed in Winnipeg. Nix brother, Mr. Jannis A. Bell, is a Ltglaly respected resident el Beaverton, where his influence, though perhaps more cir- cumscribed than that of his eminent brother, le none the Tess effective and productive of ood, Ot.. recent years,b.'w- ev er the workingskinner A. Dell has keen sadly mareed by severe attacks of nervous headadbe, accom- panied by Indlgeetlon. Who can do fit work when this trouble takes hold of them sad especially w,jtee it boeq, chronic, as was, see a0.1 '0 Mae, t< Mr. Bell? The uttt rho e to D i a a ,9 lanai, that Inst Julie e a e Y r b s o 1 w quote 9 1 rostra a s e felon prostrated. I Skis o dit a to Y 'il{{ recommended South ,o pr Todd Nervine. Beady to try anythin Aiu4,.G$tit701 6' though be thought be, (tad cbvereeJ tit list of proprietary medicines, lie satiated a bottle of this grief dttebdirj. At second bottle of the medialpe- was. to P and -the work was done. Liloy$og 10, own ianguage: "Two bottleep of'Bouth American Nervine iulatedlately tvlieved my headaches and hive bunt up my system In a wonderful rhanner." tat 115 not depreeate the good our clergynnee sad rectal relormers are doing tit tit world, but how 19l -fitted they would b ler their work were' it not the retie tat Smith Amenlosa Nor sae beings them whenhysical Ills oveittak them, and when est , KS q r. suit of bard, eatvtes1l itpll?,i eoJ,ttpupuq work, breaks down. Nervi teenstit as the wise r5fersiei treats tfi evils he Is battling ago'!sat, It alpines }1 the root of the trouble, $11 41,0 egee ceases from alit" genie tier of 5pn negve:centers. Tbib a a ebtamitffie 5adit Nervine at once works sits tKetle MI centers; gives to Weal health and, or; and then there urns tiro t q .1; lc system strong, healthy, Ike-maiuts One blood, and nervous *gables' of cellsp variety are things of the past, Sold by G. A. Deadman. M. V. McInnes, Canadian Govern- ment agent bas just shipped elle hun- dred and eight settlers and ten cars of stock and effects from Michigan. The Board of Education at Ala- meda, Cai., has adopted a rule forbid- ding the employment as Leachers in the Public schools of any persons af- flicted with tuberculosis. A prospective colony of Amerioan settlers for the Buffalo Lake, Alberta <landlistr.iot, numbering 2,500 ur 3,000, bave appointed four Toledo men as dele- gates to go ahead and select their • President Patton, of Princeton, has made public a statement in which he upholds the Westminster. Confession and claims it to be good enough, for the Presbylerlan. Church wit bout aanendutent. The charge that Ameriosn army: officers at the Engineer School at Willet's Point, N.T., noel other insti- tutions, interfere with Catholic priests in the performance of their religious duties, is being investigated. Little Retie, Knepper, of New fork, whose sleep of More than 0 week has puzzled physicians, diel 't'itttrsday without awakening. A 111 tie nt,tre than a week, ago the child complained of a headache cud fell asleep, :'very effort to awaken her was in vain, C,ENMAL. Pewit ire in danger of n famine. Honolulu is now free of the plague. Plague riots !rave [teased et C,awn- tiaia, India. The Turkish Goveru)nen0 will build a railway from. Damascus to Mecca. A railroad, across 'Greene, to cost, $5,0011,000, will be finished in four years. The bubonze plague is reported to have, mode its appearance. at several porta on the Red Sea, The faihu'e of the ;la matron nnnana crap has. missed wideepread'end acute suffering 'in the island, An outbreak of the bubonic plague is reported in, Persia, near the Tutrk- ishfrontiery 105 deaths have ecuurred In three weeks, ' The anti-British portion of the Cairo press cottinates 1Ite Agit Ion (51iatsl the entennee of Chlristian mis- sionaries into, the Soude.n, Gen, Gemt'z, nuiv at San ;Domingo, says Ceiba fought against the do- aninion of,Spain only to find herself under the heel of the United States. The Boer peace envoys have arrived at The Hague, and Queen Wilhelmina lens received (bent graciously. The European courts, under the leader- ship of Germany, stands aloof, The Canadian, Government will spend 3.50,000 on, literature, both fo. French and English, to be distriltwted at the Paris Exposit 1 0. In an ad- vance copy, of the catalogue it is stat- ed that at. the Lon.iutt !exposition to 1851. the Canadian exhibits were valued ,at 315,000, while this year's exhibit` wilt bo worth over 8200.000. 7,000 AT NIAFEKINQ.' Town Can Hold Out Until the Middle of May. A despatch from London, 'Thursday, says:—I''urllrer reports trans distress- ed Mnfekltlg declare that (trough there are water, food, and ammunition there enough' to last until the middle as Slay, they etre only so on it rest raided scale, the fund nut being more titan enough to be rely sustain life. 'Lhve pints of soup aad two quarts tit ant bran are everybody's daily re Ilona'but: if the siege lasts moth longer it wilt totto find inure than one r thou- ? A census, which has ,just been take en, shows that. the population num. Iters 7,250, CANADIANS IN A:FIX. eat in a , Tight Place But Were g ]'sktl tested, Blueanfontein, April 23. --During the cuttrse. or, Gener'nl Aklerson's advance on Leauw kop the Canadians found themselves in a tight corner Sunday. near Dolike rsporl. The Cana.disn Mounted .Infantry, sent to reconnoitre the :13uer position, approached within yards atertnfl in- the 1os 300y flying a i plla beg, under cover of whirls the, Boers opened sweat n -hut fire on tbo Cana- Wane that they were unable In ab. tempi to retire, until another force of Canadians covered their tel h b► threat ening te 3'0111' ll the BeerpealiPs tion.