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CANADA.
The Manitoba Legislature will meet
Maisel 10th.
Another smallpox case has develop-
ed is Montreal,
Counterfeit $2 Ameriean hills are
being circulated in Western Ontario,
The stew elevator of the Montreal
Traospertatlou Company at Kingston,
has been completed.
According to reports froth. Juneau,
Alaska, the victims of the Yukon
blizzards number 2J.
Guelph line a new Industry in the
eliape of a foundry that till manufae-
'aure coal and wood stoves.
Mr. T. A. Gamble, ex -Reeve of As-
sinihoia, is dead of apoplexy. He was
formerly of York County.
There is a plan on; foot in Oituwa to
establish flour mills at the Chaudiere
and along the line of the Parry Sound
Railway.
Julian Finn, a small boy, who was
operated on at the Hamilton Hospital
for peritonitis, diets just after the op-
eration.
Dr. Dawson, director of the Geo-
logical Survey, estimates the gold taken
out of the Yukon last year at $2,500,-
000.
The Messrs. Abbott of Maatreal bave
withdrawn, from the negotiations for
the establishment of their industry at
Kinn t,>ton.
The Experimental Farm authorities
are sending out samples of new and
improved green seed for testing by
farmers.
The mail steamer Joan, running from
Vancouver to Nanaimo, has been char-
tered by Mr. Magn, the Stikone rail-
way contractor.
A petition is being circulated for
clemency for Nulty, the convicted mur-
derer of his three sisters and brother,
on the ground ot insanity.
An Ottawa Klondike party now be-
ieg organized is making application to
Archhiehop Lanigevin to be allowed to
take two priests with them.
The directors of the Winnipeg Gen-
eral Hospital have decided to call for
tenders for a jubilee edition, suffici-
ent funds now being promised,
Wm. Barihald, of Lindsay„ when sen-
tenced to the Central Prison for one
year for stealing some castings, asked
that his sentence be changed to hang-
ing.
ang-I g.
The bill in connection with the pro-
posed railway from Winnipeg to Lake
Superior wilt be considered by the
Nanitoea Legis'.atnre early in the ses-
sion.
Mr. T. H. Snaallman and others of
London are asking power at Ottawa to
build esteem or electrio railway from
London to apoint near Grand Bend on
Lake Huron.
The story is revived that the C.P.R.
will erect audition bushel elevator at
St. John, N.B., for next season's trade,
the one now used being entirely too
small for the demand upon it.
A deputation of letter carriers from
all the leading cities. of the Dominion
waiter] on tee Postmaster -General and
presented a petition for increased ray.
Hon.3tr. illulock promised compliance.
Die chairman of the Board of Steam-
boat Inspectors goes to British Colum-
bia to see that the law is strictly en-
forced with, regard to the safety of
vessels carrying passengers and freight
to Alaska.
errs, Livingstone,formerly of the Do-
minion Lands Office at Winnipeg, has
been appointed by the Department of
the Interior to take charge of the im-
migration of asuperior class of domes -
fie servants from Britain to Manitoba
and the Territories,
The directors of the Canadian Pa-
cific Railway Company declared the us-
ual balf-yearly dividend of L per Cent.
on the pr'efer'ence stock and a dividend
of 21-2 per cent. on the ordinary stock,
making, with the dividend already
paid, 4 per cent, for the past year.
The Baptists of Toronto will have the
honor of sending the first Baptist mis-
sionary, if not the first, regular mis-
sionary, into the heart of Bolivia. Rev.
A. B. Reeskie, a young man. who has
just finished his course at McMaster
tent -vanity, will leave on the 25th inst„
for the city of Oruro, Bolivia, ffe will
travel by way of New York and the
Panama Isthmus, and down the eoast,
The journey will consume a month,
GREAT BRITAIN,
The British Government has invited
tenders for four first-class armored
cruisers of 21,000 horse -power.
Lord William Nevill was sentenced
to five years' imprisonment at London
for fraud. He admitted his guilt.
The Saturday Review reports that.
the Chinese. loan will he made by Great
Britain, and that the preliminary con-
tract has ecIutally been signed.
Add States.
The result of the election in Edg-
baston division of Birmingham., Inc a
member of Parliament to succeed BIr,
George Dixon, is that Mr. F, W, Lowe.,
Conservative, has been returned with-
out opposition.
Hon, A. le. Balfour stated in the
Mouse of Commons on Monday that the
Government would be very glad to see
an international agreement :regarding
currency, but he Battnothing to arld
to the information already in the pos-
sesstnn of the House.
`All the properties and scenery of
'self a dozen plays belonging to bit
Henry Irving have been destroyed
by a fire in the archway under the
London, Chatham & hover Railroad,
near the Ludgate bill station, which
tits used as a storehouse for the scene-
✓ y of the T,yceum Theatre,
The London daily C'hroaiele 11ub-
Itans a reendr that Baran iC'romer,
Minister plenipotentiary in the dip-
lomatic service and British Agent
and Conseil -General in Iegy»t since
1088, will 'veno* Imperial Senrelary
of Slate for Foreign Affairs after the
capture of lllfartoutn by the Aingio-
tegyption ascpedetiorl.
UNITED STATES,
The Spanish warship Vizcaya has ar-
rived at New York,
Dr. Robert A. Wheaton, a noted
American surgeon, is dead at St. Paul,
BItnn.
August ftiogllug, father of the Ring-
ling brothers, of circus fame, is dead
at Baraboo, '\Vie.
American labour leaders will make a
demand about May lfatb for an eight-
hour work day.
For the first time this winter the ice
in Lake Michigan is giving the across
the lake boats considerable trouble.
Mrs. Jennie Morton committed sui-
cide at i1liddletoe, N.Y., because, about
a fortnight ago, she accidentally smoth-
ered bar baby.
Forty thousand Cubans bavo gone
from their native country during
the past fete years to take up the to-
haec0 business in Florida.
The secret service has discovered a
new counterfeit $10 National Punk
note. It is est the Hibernia National
Bank of New Orleans, series 1882,
Judge Gary, of Chicago, has denied
the tuotion for a new trial In Luet-
gert's mss and sentenced him to life
nnpeisonment.. An appeal will be tak-
en to the State Supreme Court.
Frederick Pedlar, driver of a post -
office mall waggon at ]8nffalo, bas been
discharged being an a'len, He had
sworn fealty to the United States
though a Canadian. and a resident of
the United States for five months. He
may now be tried -for perjury.
Willlasei Riley Foster, Jr„ who dis-
appeared from New York in, 1888, and
teak with high. it is alleged $198,000 of
teas gratuity fund. of the Produce Ex-
change, and who, after years of search
by detectives all over the world, was ar-
rested in Paris on October 24 last, .has
been brought hack to New York.
GENERAL,
France bas $500,000,000 of gold in
circulation,
It has been decided to construct an
underground railway in Berlin.
Reinforcements have been brought
in to strengthen the garrison of Paris.
Mme, Florence -Morgan, the superin-
tendent of the plague hospital at Bom-
bay. utas died of bubonic plague.
A plague hospital at Bombay was
destroyed by fire. Twelve European
and 84 native patients were saved.
The Congress of Nicaragua has au-
thorized President Zelaye to collect
000,000 pestes by forced loan.
The Oceanic S. S. Company's steamer
Mantra sailed from Sydney, N. S. W.,
for San Frauciaco, carrying £80,000 in
sovereigns.
There le some talk of the betrothal.
of Queen Wilhelmbna to Prince Louis
Napoleon, new colonel of the Czarina's
Lancers in the Russian aren.y.
The Emperor of China has issued a
special edict instructing the Gov-
ernment of Kitting -Su to accord Prince
Henry ref Prussia "In every respect a
worthy reception."
M. Papinaud, editor of La Libre Par-
ole, of Paris, hits (shelti egel M. Jaua•es,
the Sociaeist leader, to a diel, owing
to a quarrel that has grown out of the
Zola trial.
Reports from Odessa say that a re-
cent secret police enquiry bas revealed
a sensational scandal in connection
with the pooling of the Black Fee
fleet.
Advices from Port Said report that,
the British battleship Victorious,
which sailed from Malta on February
11 for Chlua, went ashore outside the
ear while entering that tort.
All the details have teen settled for
carrying out Cecil Rhodes' scheme for
the: extension of the Buluway-o Rail-
way to Lake Tanganyika (Central Af-
rica).T.here is 00 difficulty apprehend-
ed in getting £3,000,000, the amount
of capital needed.
'else British brigantine Phyllis, Capt-
ain Davies, arrived. at St. Jahns, Nfld..
on Monday from Turks Island with
her bulwarks gone, her life boats
swathed and her sails and rigging car-
ried away. For twelve days she was
among the ice floes and she had her
sides nearly cut through.
An attempt was made late Satur-
day evening in Kingston, Jamaica, to
kidnap Prince Clarence, formerly chief
of the Mosquito territory, who is now
living there as a pensioner of the Brit-
ish Government. The attempt is be-
lieved to have been the result of Nicar-
aguaa instigation.
CIGARETTES AND TOBACCO.
Sudden Death or it Former Toronto Boy at
Mason, Men., Charged to Thenl,
A despatch from Mason, Miele, says:
—Fred Einhardt, a Lansing officer,was
bringing three men from that city to
the gaol on Thursday to spend ten
days each for vagrancy, and when com-
ing from the depot up Lown one of
them dropped to the walk, He was
carried into an office and a physician
called, who pronounced the man dyad.
A fellow tramp said ho bad met the
deceased at Port Huron Sunday last,
slnce.when they had beaten their way
as for as Lansing. He had given Mia
name as .lames Hackett. Ile said his
father was in Toronto, and his moth-
er in Chicago, where be was going. A
coroner's jury was summoned, and aft-
er listening to the testimony render-
ed, a vcrdiot that Ilacket.t came to his
death from heart disease, ennead from
excessive use of cigarettes and toban-
co.
131E NUGGelT FOUND,
'Norte by Weight Over 7(476, nal Is tine
Second Largest
1. despatch from Viotorla, 13,C., says:
—'the steamier Seattle, just from Skag-
ens', brings a Party of D uwsontttns, who
left the Klondike on January '22nd,
and who report, the finding of a 81-
otrnce nugget at Skookum gulch, this
being tate second largest, lump of gold.
yet uncovered in the Yukon, and worth
by weight over 4476, or only ten dol-
lars less than the Olsen nugget, whieb
still holds the palm.
The discovery of this piece of pure
gold hos created a boom in Skookum
gulch, while reel finds on the Big
Salmon, twenty mi.les from the mouth,
have caused a migration in that di-
rection.
suNDAT SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MAR, 6,
5—
' de5115 and the Sabbath," .Matt, is, 1.111,
l:eltlen 'r'ex \ !seq. lc. 8,
PRACTICAL NOTES.
Verse 1. At that time (season). Luke
gives the time as the "second -first
Sabbath," whatever that means. It is
clear that the event of our lesson oc-
earred between lite Passover and the
Pentecost, "between the beginning of
the hurley and the end of the wheat
hier'vesh" Went on the Sabbath day,
Evidently on his way from the syna-
gogue. Through the corn. Through
the wheat,- the restriction of the word
"corn" to .lndlian corn is an American
idiom; rye, and wheat, and barley in
England a 'e railed corn, Mark says,
"Began to make a path, plucking the
ears," wltaoh vividly brings to our no-
tice the lack of both fences and "made
roads" in Syria. His di;olples were
altungered. Pious Jews were accus-
tomed to go to morning prayers at
the synagogue before they had eaten
any food. Began. The use of this word
shows how eager the Pharisees were
to find fault with Jesus; they began
their criticism just as soon as the
disedples began to eat. To pluck the
ears of corn. Luke says, "Rubbing
them in their hands," It is not unusu-
al in the East for countrymen to eat
a little wheat and barley without
grinding or cooking.
2. When the Pharisees saw it. Pro-
bably these Pharisees were those who
land been sent down from Jerusalem to
measure the influence of the new
Teacher, and report. They were not
friendly observers. Jesus did things
that shocked them. He assumed
to forgive sins; he ate and drank with
publicans and sinners; from their point
of view its taught man to dishonor the
Sabbath, No wonder they were alert
with their critirism. Tiny disciples,
Every rabbi had his followers who ex-
emplified his teachings; so that the
criticism on a rabbi's disciples was
really a criticism on himself. That
which is not lawful Lo do upon the Sab-
bath day. The "law" here referred to
is not to be foend in the "leo:+aid"
Looks. It had its origin among the
Pharisees themselves, So intent were
they to avoid transgression of the Mos-
aic law that they made many minute
and troublesome regulations clear ov-
er the edge of Moses's commands, and
held that it was as wicked to disro-
gard these man-made regulations as
to break God's law. This led our Lord
on another occasion to charge them
with ' making void the law." The
pinolting of even one ear of corn, (Ley
esi,l, was reaping; to rub it with the
hands was to l.hresh; to catch a
flea was to bunt; even to cat to
fresh egg on the day after the Sab-
bath was a doubtful act, because the
herrn Might have laid it on the holy day.
Sada quibbling' shows an utter lack o11
ulnderstn.nding of the lot ing purpose of
God's lair. Natio?, however, that there
was no objection shade to the plucking
of ata sears; wale- to its ,Dein:; clone
cva aha Sabbath. Accord'in4 to our
modern laws, tel&ch are Romeo pagan,
la their origin it might be counted
an Jntmn.eion, even robbery, for a per-
son to help himself to the product of
another's field, hut the Mosaic law
made special provisioln for the way-
farer, Dent. 23. 24,
3. Have ye tui read what David did?
The story is told in 1 Sam. 21. 1-17,
which, accordkm,, to Dr. Farrar's brtt-
liant conjecture, for which he gives
some reasons, had been read in the
synagogue as the appointed Scripture
that very morning. Jesus dict not need
any indorsement from David, but he
used the Pharisees' weapons against
themselves; they were worshipers of
the letter of the law, and he shn'vs
thea, Leat the ideal. Hebrew of earlier
times cr1 a pivotal occasion of his life
broke one of the directesi: laws out-
right. He knew the Pharisees dared
not in Corse this est of David's, end
they dared not criti.ise it. But if not
then why'shoulcl they criticise the dis-
ciples of Jesus, whose act was not di-
rectly illegal?
4. The house of God. Which was the
tabernacle at Nob. Mark, 2, 2(I, men -
Hone Ahiathur as the name of the
high priest; the record in Samuel culls
hum Abimelech. t The ,•howbread.
It convicted of twelve cakes or loaves
placed. 10 two piles on a golden tattle
every- fedi atli, and on sada pale, or
else between the tu'o w•as laid a -golden
cusp of frankincense. These stood forth
perpetually in the presence of the
Lord, as one of the most sacred and
beautiful eutblems of the ancient wor-
ship. " It was," says Da'. Morison, "a
significunl and suilinse. symbolism, de-
noting that Jehovah was the provider
of his people's foo•l." Every week when
the new bread vvas put upon the table
113e old. cakes were removed, and .the
law forbade any to oat of these but
the priests. By thus instancing Dav-
id's breach of Moses's dew our Lord
would leach that when God's commands
seem, to come into collision with the
real needs of mankind, as they must cm
rare occasions in a world of infirmit-
ies, it is men's needs that have the
right of way; for God's commands ex-
ist on account of those needs. :rhe Jew-
ish sailor, who, to the peril of mane,
refused to Louth the helm; an the Sab-
bath, when a wild sterni was raginng,
was a badly mistaken moral baro, if
not, rather, an unconscious criminal.
Govt 'ices not need showbread to eat ;
Grad does not need a Sabbath to rest;
God does not need the money given
No
the Cherub' but men need to rest,
and Iona need to give, :Livery law, like
the law of the Sabbath, was made for
men,
0. 'heave yob not real in the law 1 See
Num. 28, 9, Tihe priests in the temple
profanes the Sabbath, By doing work
wvit:'hin• the temple which on general
pri'nciplo.w had been forbidden; for in-
stance they removed the show bread,
they lighted the lima and even, slew
the vintims of sacrifice, The Sabbath
was their busiest day. But who would
blame 'teem? They served; Jehovah,
6. But I say unto you, This ielbga s
wheat Tome repeetedly there maet bay
jarred harshly tat the Pharisees' ear
for they were forever quoting piece
ant and atutlltridy; what cane dead re
bi end said was of Inc Moro importers,*
to dbtm than any fres'b thought, I
this tsetse* is one greater than th
temple. Very 1alurally stn this plaa'a
referred. Le our Lord ben self. Gu
baling are templets for e Holy lobos
1 Cor. 0. 19, and smelly the Son of 'ma
its his Own eihysieae rson was a per
feet temple of God. set our Lor
Invent more than merely that ho hl
e:'lf twee greater than the tetnele; mor
avian, Shan that the human body of
believing Christian is a better tempi
than any that can be Meet of marl)!
and Vold. The deeper meaning of ht
sta..tement is that the prinelpl
he now declares is a greater prin
elide than that for which the templ
Um stood. For a beti.er translation. is,
"Hate is somre,Lhin,g 'greater thanthe teanple," If, whether we eat, or,
wbeltber we drink, or'wheeever we do,
we do all to the glory of God, we there-
in perform the highest and holiest ser-
vice ; and our bodies become fit tem -
pies for the holy Ghost to dwell in.
7. If ye had known what this mean-
eth. If ye had understood Hosea 6. 0,
1 will have :mercy and not sacrifice.
This 'quotation had bean given before.
Mall. 9.13. 'It teaches in other phrase-
ology, the very doctrine that Jesus bad
just taught, ":.'here is something More
binding than the law, and' that is the
Cprinciple which underlies the law."—
arr. " lvferey " is better than "marl
floe ;" deeds are more important than
ceremonies; love is Letter than tiny
command based on the duty of love.
The Pharisees habitually inverted the
proper order of things, and made the
form of more consequence than the
power. Ye would not have condemned
the guiltless. When Jesus defends his
ocv'nhe does it not by halves; here is the
argument of a vigorous debater.
8. Tine Son of Mau, A phrase which
probably wits understood by our Lord's
hearers as implying that he was the
Messiah. Lord even of the sabbath day.
That the Meso:ah was governor of all
Sabbath lases the Pharisees, probably
would admit, but that Jesus was the
Messiah they denied.
9. When ,he was deensl.ed thence. At
first sight then would ia:lica.te, and the
narra:t't -v let Mark conveys a similar
!impression that Jesus left the place
wirers the 'ph: r;sses were, and straight-
way want iliac)a. synogogue with wjnich
thaw P,hrrr'seesewere connected; but'
Lulea states t.he,t blue healing we are
about to study came on another Sab-
hath, It is very likely, however, that
It also took place en Caperncaum,
10. There wait a, man which had, his
hand n-!ut,hc•red. "His right hand."—
Luke. It web paralyzed'. Aa ancient
trald'i7tbon• says he was a Mason, who had.
h'u'rt ,hie hand while wasrking with
stone. They asked' him. They evident-
ly' expected t en't he would heal the
man, and hal made n,p their minds to
ato.:sehnuofbr aho^Ihtlaw. I mieht
be inferred fro':1 th:vs incident that the
Tabh:s (generally- regarded as sinful all
efforts to head on, the Sabbath day,
But this von'; not the case. In eases
of life- and. death they taught that a
physician sbould be called; hut any
permanent disfigurement or pain they
thought. should (e endured without re-
lief on the. Sabbath; chronic sufferers
must not tyke medicine; nor might: a
dislo:ated Ione be set. Is it lawful to
heal on the Sabbath days? A 'torrent
question, aa':ed simply teat they might
accuse him of .:reach' of the late, s-ndso
put a stop to Lis career as a rabbi and
(as they suppoeod) as it candidate for
the crown,
s;
d
b-
0
n A, Ithspateha: from London says: In
O the !Haase of Commons on Friday even -
see earl, the Right lion. amyl]Chamber-
e lalal4 Secretary of Stale for the Colonies,
o replying 'toe question by Sir Charles
Dinka, winds reference to bite grave news
d from West Africa, said lie would read
hen
BRITISH FLAG ORDERED DOWN,
illy. Chamberlain Asked in lite house of
el/3111tmen$ Regiirdlag the Aew•a.
the telegrams received, leaving the
e House to judge of their Janportence. Tie
o saitd
"I :
received to-niglie 1J1is telegram
e from the Governor of :Sorrell, a place
in the Lagos Il•enlea+la:nd., *moulded by
a the Howse Gutted. on February 611:—
On February 9th, 80 Senegalese, prob-
ably from Nikki, arrived at Entree tan-
; der orders to occupy it, 'They ordered
the Jnon-eammisajonoet officers 'to haul
donee the British flag. The demand
was refused, as made by a foreign pow-
er, whereupon the Senegalese retlr-
•ed and pitched their camp about three
nail:s from the town. 1
"I have also received tlsis evening,
thronglt the actiing Governor of the
Gold Coast, a telegram, from Major
Nortbcato, wlho is in the Gold Const
,JIin:terl,andr. It rune thus :—
"'I a'egret to imfonm you that the
Franck.,have este l shed a -post at Wan,
consisting' of subaltern officers, and
about 89 native soldiers, M. Codren-
ier, wlilam I beii:elve to he a lieutenant,
though S have not yet ascertained his
rank, accompanied by Captain illinela,
two lieutenants, and 04 nati=ve soldiers
arrlwed at Vassa on February 1st, and
triers to establish a, Post. I despatched
Major Tortesou.e to protest against
'passi'ng by this point, and suggested
a conference of Was. :De.ap'Jte my pro-
test Ira advanced. After protests in the
usual form between both parties, 111.
IGodrentser' 'left for- Leo to -day, lea,viing
;behead Ibe above mentioned post un-
• molested.' "
THE PROSEPOT SERIOUS.
The Standard c'dmmenting editorial-
ely on aha news from West Africa„ says:
—"The despatches tread by Mr. Cham-
b_rl'and are of the very gravest itin,port-
ancte. A French offioar :tuns established
wells. a 'large faros a station at a place
we regard as within our sphere. It
must be recognized that the time has
arrived to face the situation. The pro-
spect is serious, but no English, Cabi-
nct can venture to purchase peace by
abaneloning what is considered an un-
impeachable Tight."
11. What man shall there be among
you, to. To relieve as animal that had
fallen .into a pit was regarded as law-
ful even by our Lord's critics, but
some of the rabbi's taught that to pall
a sheep out of a ret on the Sabbath da.y
was a sin, while to let food down to it
was a good dead. In Mark and Luke
we have the question in a somewhat
different form, "Is it lawful to do
good on the Sala at.h day or to do evil?
to seve life or to destroy -it?" Phari-
sees would answer, "To do nothing at
all till the next day." But our Lord's
teaching is that it is never right to
leave a goad dee:. undone. It has been
well said, ' Not to do good when it
lies in our power is praet:ically to do
evil,"
12. How much then; Ls a man better
than a sheep? The argument here is
much more simile and climect than that
tin: Mark and Luke. Wherefore it is
lawful to do well (MI the Sabbal:h clays.
That is, to do goo•. on the Sabbath days.
No truly good deed is out of order
over•,
13. Then south he to the man. Mark
adds, "Lookiet, round about hinr, be-
ing grieved et blot hardness or their
hearts." Stretch forth thine hand.
Tee man \sets called upon to do what
be seteroe 1 incapable old doing; just so
the sinner ie called upon to believe his
in Ia;r"n away, He stretched it: forth;
Band it, WILA restored whole. Atter all
their que:Li' an and anxieties the cure
was perforneel wibhout any labor at
all. et is ow to figure amoral natures
as having eyes to see, anti ears to hear,
and Mit nes Its work for God There are
many withered hands in our churches;
let: them retire out i'n action in obecli-
enee to our Lord's conim.and, and they
will find posy r to work,,
SOCIALIST MOVEMMIsNT SERIOUS.
A'Thousand ('e;txatit, in Revolt at li.lsitn'.
itchy, Itna•ntt'y,
A despatch from Vienna, says:—
The agrarian Socialist movement in
Hungary is becoming most serious.
At Kistarkany, in the Hasohau district,
a thousand peasants axe on open revolt.
They have murdered the local magis-
trate, and are holding the village
against the troops sent to restore order,
At Agrad, in the same district, in
a desperate fight between the gendar-
mes and the peasants four were killed
and twenty wounded.
WHAT'S IN THE WIND.
Aro illannling sinus at :lehninneslntrg and
Trnnap0111ng A - .101,.
The Cape Town correspondent al the
London Daily lYlail says:—'"Che Trans-
vaal Government is mounting guns at
Johannesburg and conveying Maxims,
shells, rifles and cartridges to that
point in an offensive and ostentatious
manner. During the last week eight
railway truck teats 'of War mateelal
were paradedthrough the streets Of
Johannesburg, and carriea under see
coat of an artillery detacbmeet to the
fort on the bill outside the town."
MISS FRANCES E. WILLARD DEAD.
President of the `I'ettlett'A Christian 'Tem-
perance Union anal of SLuty Other KM.
dred Seek:ties.
A despatch from New York, says:—
Miss Frances E. Willard, president of
the Women's Christian Temperance
Union, died Isere on Thursday from
pneumonia.
Miss WVillard was born' September 28,
1839, at Ch:urehville, near Rochester, N.
Y., and was the daughter of the Hon,
Josiah F. and Mary Thompson Hill
Willard. She was a graduate of the
Northwestern University, Cbicago,and
took the degree of A.M. from Syra-
cuse University, In 1882 she was pro-
fessor of natural science at the North-
West Female College, Evanston, Ill.;
1800-07 she was preceptress Genesee
in the Wesleyan Seminary, Leima, New
York; 1574, corresponding secretary of
the National Women's Christian Tem-
perance Union; 1877, was associated
with D. L. Moody in revival work in
Boston; 1578, president of the Wo-
men's Christian Temperance Union of
Illinois, and editor of the Chicago Daily
Post; 1679, president of the Nation-
al Women's Christian Temperance Un-
ion, the largest society ever organ-
' izad, oondue ted, and controlled exclusi-
vely by women. She made the tour of
e the Southern States in 1883, and found-
! ed, and every wnere introduced the
Women's Christian Temperance
Union. She travelled thirty
thousa
nd miles that year in the Unit-
ed States, visiting every Slate and
Territory, aecomi.anied. by her pri-
vate secretary, Bliss Willard gave to
the National Women's Christian Tem-
perance Union its motto:—"For God
and Home and Native Land," and clas-
sified its forty departments of work
under the heads of preventive, educa-
tional, evangelistic, social, legal and
organizing. In 1884 she helped to es-
tablish ;mho Prohibition (of intoxi-
cating drinks) party. In 1887 Miss
Willard was elected president of the
Women's Council of the United. States,
formed from confederated societies of
won -.en, and in the same year she was
electedto the General Conference of
the B1ethodist Episcopalian Church,
and in 1889 she was cleated to the Oecu-
menical. Conference of the same Church.
FAST MAIL CONTRACT.
IIeAAi•A, Petersen Assert They Have illerr
thing heady 10 Proceed.
A despatch from London, says:—'Phe
Messrs, Petersen, stitu stoutly deny the
suggestion that they may not be able
Co earry otnt the fast *tett contract,
They say ,tbby have fulfilled all the
Government's prelleninary 'conditions,
ant have every detail of the speetlica-
tions ready to proceed et a moment's
noble* Iwitth the ahem, so as to have
two ready by the contract time, June
1st, 1899, and the odder two by June,
1900. - Tee ships are to be turret -Shape,
as brlginally proposed,
FIFTY PERSONS PERISH,
Terrible Explosion of Eire -Danns Lt n
I'riaMinli Colliery,
diespebch from Bochum, Prusslla,
toys :—A terrible explosion of fire-claimp
occurred: lin the Vereinigte Cttrolineng•
lueck colliery et HEamme early ilhurs-
day enorning, T,bi.rty-seven bodies have
been eecovaiecl. In addition .many
miners have been seriously injured. et
le believed that fifty persan4 have per-
ished], -
When the Nerve Contras Neca Nutriti n
A Wonderful Recovery, Illustrating the
Quick Response of a plated Nerve
System to a, Treatment Which
'Replenishes Exhausted
Nerve Forces.
MR. FRANK 'sAUER, BERLIN, ONx,
Perhaps you know him ? In Water-
loo he is known as one of the most
popular and successful business men of
that enterprising town. As manag-
ing executor of the Kuntz estate, he is
at the head of a vast business, repre-
senting an investment of many thous-
ands of dollars, and known to many
people throughout the Province.
Solid finanoially, Mr. Frank Bauer
also has the good fortune of enjoying
solid good health, and if appearances
indicate anything, it is safe to predict
that there's a full half century of
active life still ahead for him. But
it's only a few months since, while
nursed as an invalid at the Mt.
Clemens sanitary resort, when his
friends in Waterloo were dismayed
with a report that he was at the point
of death
" There's no telling where I would
have been had I kept on the old treat-
ment," said Mr. Bauer, with a merry
laugh, the other day, while recounting
his experiences as a very sick man,
"Mt. Clemens," he continued, "was
the kat resort in my case. For
months previous I had been suffering
indesoribable tortnres. I began with
e, loss of appetite and sleepless nights.
Then, as the trouble kept growing, I
was getting weaker, and began losing
hell and strength rapidly. My
stomach refused to retain food of any
kind. During all this time I was
under medical treatment, and took
everything prescribed, but without
relief, Just, about when my condition
Sold by G.
fo
seemed most hopeless, I heard of A
wonderful cure effected in a case
somewhat similar to mine, by the
Great South American Nervine Tonic,
and I finally tried that. On thefirat
day of its use I began to feel that it
was doing what no other medicine
had done. The first dose relieved the
distress completely. Before night I
actually felt hungry and ate with an
appetite such as I had not known for
months. I began to pick up in
strength with surprising rapidity,
slept well nights, and before I knew
it I was eating throe square meals
regularly every day, with as muoh
relish as over. I have no hesitatiop
whatever in saying that the South
American Nervines Tonic cured me
when all other remedies failed. I
have recovered my old weight—over
200 ponnds—and never felt better
in my life."
Mr. Frank Bauer's experieuce is
that of all others who have used the
South American Nervine Tonle. Its
instantaneous notion in relieving dis-
tress and pain is die to the direot
alIset of this (;rest remedy upon the
nerve centres, whose fagged vitality
is energized instantly by the very first
dose. It is a great, a wondrous cur*
for all nervous diseases, as well as
indigestion and dyspepsia. It goes
to the real source of trouble direct,
and the sick always feel its marvel-
lous sustaining and restorative power
at once, on the very first day of its
use,
A. Deadman,
TERRIBLE HOLOCAUST.
Mother and Sons Mimed 10 beetle hi the
Township or Mini,.
A. despatch from Ornllin, Ont., says:
Suhtcley night about 12 o'clock fire
broke out in the dwelling of ,Teens Ar -
theirs, a settler in the (township ot
Rama, three miles north of Sehriglat,
and about 20 miles from Isere, and as a
result titres persons are dead and a
fourth fatally burned. The dead are:
Mrs. James Arthurs, James Arthurs,
aged 12; Arabia Artiturs, aged 9,
Agnes Artheirs, aged 18 is fatally burn-
ed,
Mr. Artemis was awcke.ned by the
cies of his son, Steams, who was
sleeping in the attic, He endeavoured
to rescue the boy, lout was forced to
desist, with his left arm and head badly
burned,
Mrs. Arthurs ran out of the house,
but returned for her nine-year-old son,
who slept in the room with his par-
eines.
areines. Site and the son, Archie, as well
as James, were burned to a crisp.
A TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE.
Agnes, the 18 -year-old daughter slept
en at'l,ttining ream, and atte.mp,tcd
to esealpe through- the kitchen„ hat
was dream. beak by elm Eames, and
broke her way otos taltirough the window,
S:lv then ram throe hundred yacde to
arouse a, :netlg,Jubom, Mr, ivfe,Faydem, her
track naarlcod ill the snow by blond. Site
ivies LeTr:Wlg' bIlrelpd robaut: Lite heath
Mewed:sea breast, and front hes hips to
heti feet. The finch fell free' her fent
Mite a pair of sanalatle, exposing the baro
hems,
Dr, Girchrisl;, of Orlllia, was stem
atoned„ and dal what. the could to al-
in,vllul:t Iter sufferloge: but alto cannot
Hilae long.
iL'wcr.lether children„ a 5011 •n;ztl dumb -
ter, Were absent from home, end there-
fore escaped.
The fire probaley oritgbnatoi, from
tee stover, iia 'wlhielt fire was loft
for the (violent of ids, absent sot on
his return, when: the trundle retired
about 9 o'clock.
Dr. Genie, of Beever'ton, des'lcl d 'than
an 110(10sat was unnecessary,
MONTE CARLO "ACCIDENTS."
Two Women 'rake Their Lives inn Single
Day tit lltr. Pastan.
In spite of lata enonmous subsidies
paid to the European press by the dir-
ectors of Montle Carlo, certain errant
newspaper men occasionally tell the
truth about the: gambliing resort there.
A writes in the London Standard wit-
nessed Jm a single day the suicide of
two women, the reports of which were
sent out through the usual news l:tur-
ea,u as "accislonts." One of tele vletims
was a young Frenehwootan, win) hav-
inig lost 1),000 fr, at play, stepped to
a balcony overlooking the sea and. calm-
ly blew her brains out with a small
involver. Her body was promptly Snr-
ried, bike ass inner roam and Lha play
went Jm. The other woman walked
down to the sea, dllrectly beneath the
esplanade of the Rotel lIletropolo. In
the fuel view of,hundireels she waded out
tenth] the water was above her waist,
and then piunged in. A shriek went
up from the shore, wnid excelled mot
ran frantically cup and crown the rocks,
calling foe' some one to save her. After
a time a twat was pmshect out and 1155
hotly was towed ashore. hater in the
day the Standard manasked ane of
the Cnsimdio tele:w els what mho name of
the suicide was. He replied:—"Pshaw1
No woman committed suicide. Every
accirl,en,t• here is a auicido. There
sobs a woman sitting out there on a
rock and fell M. Instead of jumping
in offer leer, they took time to get a
boot, and when they reached her she
was ileac., A person can't Live forever
in 'the watee."
HOLLOW AND HUNGRY,
011, par excls(,mell the dear girl, her
sapphire eyes brimming with unshed
tears, stow can you nay that society 13
heal law
Wby islttni7:dla't I? retorted pa, with
a coarse laugh that betrayed 1•be fact
Chat lee had payed; Move at.tesn.tion to
snaking money than acquiring polish.
Why shouldn't I, when I have to pay
the bills for feeding the girng thatou
heave here at your blowcul,st y,