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The Brussels Post, 1898-12-2, Page 6TAB BRUSSELS POST. IRE IN IA A NUT8llELL THE VERY LATEST FROIY1 ALL, THE WORLD OVER. ti Interesting Items About Our Own Country, Greet Britain, the United states, and All Perls of the Olobc, Condensed and ,'resorted for Easy Reading. CANADA. J. V. Teotzel, Q. C„ le a candidate for the mayoral'y of Hamilton. More arta lsry men for Esquimalt, B. 0.. and Halifax, are en route Prom Eng- land, Kingston Locomotive Works will build six compound locomotives for the 0. P. 11. The C. P. It. has announced cheap rates from Manitoba and Northwest 'Points for the Christmas holidays. ' Mr. W. J. Martin, BS.O., one of the leoturors at the People's Palace, Lon- don, Eng„ is to address several meet - lugs at Ottawa. The WInnipeg Board of Trade are asking to have the methods and equip- ment of quarantine at Halifax and St. John Improved. Mrs. Ireland, wife of the missing Trenton physician, is applying for the insurance on his life, amounting to 583,000. Mrs. Isabella Harvey was found dead in her bed at Hamilton, on Sat- urday. From appearances the woman must have been dead fully a week. Col. McI1iltan, Provincial Treasurer of M'in(toba, has left Winnipeg tor the south, where he wi'l spend the winter, in the hope of recuperating his health, Other arrangements hiving been un- satisfactory, malls between Skaguny and Dawson wi.1 be carried by the Mounted Po lee. A regular service will be maintained. Wiliam McDade, a young Irishman who recently came from Belfast, was crushed to death by the collapse of a huge derrick at Montreal, on Satur. day. > . w a Bering ea a ns 13o n S c mu lssfoner 1891 and British member lof the jo committee at Washington in 1892 dead. Rosin S. Purdy was committed trial 'at London, Eng„ on the elm oft, circulating a libel contained 1 letter addressed to survivors and Wives" of victims of the alohegieu t aster, intimating that her mill was bribed to wreck the vessel. UNITED STATES. John W. Beeley the inventor of Keeley motor, diel at Philedelphlt _the tugboat Plyutoulh sunk at dock in New York with two of orew. - The report that Senator McM'ill of Michigan, is to become UM States Ambassador to Great Beltran revived. in, that the followers of Don C- arlos will int nal issue a revolutionary manifesto, is l abeir Wilhelm has presented lite fur pollee constable who a few due ago saved Courts ArmValley froth murder ego by a madutan, with a speotelly elngrav- n a + nd watch. re- ..rhe Turks are the meat warlike nu. ma„ tient of Europe. from the beginning of the century to the end of 1889 there h8 t, were thirty -'seven years et war and fifty -Mae years of poaoe. A father who has been in a prison her in 7,urioh in Switzerland, since April bar 1905, eervtng a l[fe sentence for the murder of his daughter, has just been an, proved It'ut000nt tad th:• German armoured cruiser Kals- ks er, flagship of the squadron undot command of PrincePrimate, Henry of Preta, in Chinese waters, is ashore in Sam- levee. Bethel, auditor for 18 years the Pecific Express (Mmpnny, is aha ed with etneezzling 5150,01)0. A. riot occurred in the panitenti: et Columbus, 0. One gated was kit mad two convicts fatally shot, The strike of the coal minors Virden and Auburn, 111., has been s tied in favour of the miners. Recently an oreer wee received Peoria, 111„ for a large supply of sp its to be shipped to Groat Britain. Admiral Schley has been prom's the command of the European aqua ron which will exhibit the Americ flag to the European nations. Over 81,000,10) changed hands ont election in New York city alone, The belting was the heaviest on record. Rev. Teller Rhoades, Methodist, was arrested in his pulpit at Wichita, Kan., charged with being an outlaw and horse thief. Dr. Wm. P. Sensebauglt, a dentist of Port Byron, Ill., Is in &precarious condition, the result of pranks while being initiated into a lodge. It is reported at Battle Creek Mioh,, that Miss Kittle Kell, of that place, is to marry Lord John Eyre Nelson, of Norfolk, Eng., a descendant of Lord Nelson. rgf , Sale Bay. try lett at et - It is now said that Esterhazy, at the time of the 'L ,la trial, stated that Gen. Billot, ,fo:mor Minister of War, gave him 510,000 for forging the bordereau, The mother of the. Czar has directed Gen, Sohwedoff and 20 officers to.con- vey relief provided by the Red Oremat iSoolety to the famine sufferers in tr- Asialio Russia. In the neighborhood of Chamberry, ed in Southern 1:'rauee, a family consiet- d- , ing of husband, wife and nine ,children an ' was found, all of whom had six fin- gers on each hand and six toes on each he foot. r An elephant :soaped from the win - Iter quarters of a cirrus at Argentine, Kas., on Thursday. He was given the freedom of flee town, and later 3D bul- lets. He will live. The Royal Canadian Humane Sooirty at Hamilton, has awarded a medal to Robert Darling for risking hie life in saving Wilfrkd Storm from drowning at 1lSerriton in Oct. A largo hardware manufacturing concern of Clevel'n 1, Ohio, is treating wi.is the assessment commissioner for locution in Toronto, in order that the import duty may be avoided. A man named liazelburg was ser- iously injured in a free-for-all fight at Cascade City, B.C., by a man named Lamb. He went to an hospital, where he diad, and Lamb is now under ar- rest. Isadore Bacon, who was arrested at Montreal for drunkenness, on Satur- day, got in.o a fight in the police cells wi h borne o bar prisoners, and receiv- ed such injuries that he died Ln a few hours. John Galt, of Toronto, has been ap- Fl.knted city engineer of Ottawa, on a third vote of th Council, John Aylen, of Ottawa, had ten colas and -Galt thir- teen on the fine! vote. ItIr. Galt is a native of Glasgow, Scotland. Mrs. Burrell, who e killed her 1 res h children in Toronto, and Miss Minnie! Saxton, of Newmarket, who shot her sister dead in August lost, have been taken to the Hamilton asylum in ch age of two keepers. Th, Doran on Government has grant- ed 5500 to the widow of Francis Dies - nerd, of L'Islet County, Quebec, killed wbie empt,yed on the Government eruieer, Aberdeen. James A. Smart, Deputy Minister of the .Interior, hid a conference in Win- nipeg with the C.P.R„ land offhcials re- garding the exchanging of land in oth- er parts of the p'ocince for lands held by the 0. P. R., in the timber reserves, The officers of the steamship West- meath, abandoned at sea on Nov. 6, opened the sea cocks in order to sink h..r. as they decided it was hopeless to attempt to save the vessel, and the floating hulk would be a menace to navigation. John Healy, vire-presteent of the North Ame:lean Trading & Transpor- tation Company, and one of the pion- eers of the Yukon district, now at Ot- tawa, is reported to have made 55,000,- 009 out of the Klondike business dur- ing the past year. A company has been formed in To- ronto with the object of dealing in municipal debentures on 0 large and eystematio scale. The company will be known as the Home and Boretgn de- ourities Company of Ontario, and the onpital will be 51,000,000. incorpora- tion is being asked for. The Government have deolined to ae.- oept any of the tenders submitted for the two-year steamship service be- tween Oennde and Great Britain. Itis prob'tble that new proposals will be invited, It is rumored in Winnipeg that the Northern Pacific will butld. a direct line from Winnipeg to Duluth, bonus or no bonus, and that other impor- tant extensions on the Manitoba di- vision aro in contemplation, The sisters of the Hotel Dieu of Quebee, who are the owners of the xPisins of Abraham, contemplate di- viding the property into lots and Se Mg it, as the lease to the Dominion Government is about to expire, The Government will be petitioned topre- serve this historic hn.ttle field.. Fred W. Johnston, coloured, hashe- gun snit ngeenst J. B. Sparrow, les- see of the Academy of Mustc. Montreal, for $105 damages for having been re - fu 'e . adtnisoion to the theatre on ac- count Of his Dolour. Belied purchased ticket," for reserved orchestra seats for himself and lady. GREAT BRITAIN, The London, ,Eng., County Counoll )las prohibited Sunday nonner's. Lord Landowne hasannoan.oed the Adoption of an improved armanent for Britt It debences. English menufaaturere of armour platehave planed heavy order,[ in Bele glum: for new rrtatnrael. • The Royal I{ . cnh. rapinkoal Society of Loncloh, offers 520,000 to head a sub - (mention for fitting out an Antaretie expedition, The Eritieh Arid illmrri0an flags were displayed togetlier at the launch of OM 8.: Formidable. , Sir geerga Baden-Powell, NLP., who Jesse T, Gates, of the United States, Actuary, who lost part of his upper lap kn the West Indian eampaign, has been awarded the first pension on ac- count wcount of the Spanish war. The United States is determined that Spain will evacuate Cuba before Jan- uary 1, and will not defer the time any longer. The Spanish Government has been notified of thus conclusion. Tate United States transport St. Paul will sail Friday from San Francisco for Manila with about 2,000 tons of supplies, of which 200 tons are Christ - Ines presents for the soldiers in the Philippines. The French Steamship Line has en- tered suit against tits Cromartyshtre for $2,500,080 for the loss of La Bour- gogne, and the British ship has been seized at Philadelphia. Edward A. Kimball, inventor and me- chanioal expert and former superin- tendent of the mechanical departmentt of the t'niversity of Illinois and the Illinois Industrial Home for the Blind in Chicago, is dead. James Me Naughton, hton former presid- ent P ant. of. the Tradesmen s National Bank, New York, has tiled a voluntary peti- tion in bankruptcy. Thera are no es - sets mentioned in the petition, while the amount of liabilities is planed at 81,121,130. A tr. In on the Pennsylvania Railway near the Hackensack bridge ran into a gang of raiway laborers. The re- sult was Lb it einem were killed out- right, one fatally injured, and only three out of twenty men escaped un- hurt, Edward Bellstein of Pittsburg, Pa., brother of Bertha Beilstein, who kill- ed her mother and attempted to kill herself six weeks ago, added another chapter to the tragedy which sur- rounds the family by killing himself on the grave of his mother. Another discovery of gold is an- nounced in the Malvern district near Canal Dover, Ohio. The latest find is at Augusta, a few miles north of Mal vern, where M. 0. Leyda has discovered on his farm an ore which he claims to be richer than the Malvern pro- duct. United States Collector of ,Customs Ivey is under arrest at Juneau, Alaska, on a charge of criminal libel. Lawyer John Hyde, of Seattle, Wash„ says Ivey connected him with a whiskey smuggling ring in a published inter- view. GENERAL. Extensive Japanese military manoe- uvres are in progress near Kobe. Berlin papers announce that the Ger- man army will be gradually increased by 15,000. Advocates will be sent to Cayenne to help Dreyfus in the preparation of his defence, Prince George of Greece, the High" Commissioner of the powers iu Crete, has gone to the island. It is said at Loudon and Paris that Spain will yield, though under pro- test, 10 the American demands, Herr II, H. Dreier, founder of the North German Lloyd Steamship Com- peuy, is dead. He vets 89 years old. The periodicals published tri Paris number at present 2,587, of which 185 made their first appear/1nm last year, Thn Russian sceptre of state is made of 'olid. gold three feat in length, and contains eti8 diamonds, 300 rubies and 1! emeralds. Lne°hrtnk, the murderer of the Em- press of Austria, has appealed from the Judgment of the court coademni.ng him to imprisonment, for life, At en auction of old °mina kn Frank- fort, a gold pager on wliiab wa.s the portrait and lnsoription of King Ptol- emy IV, brought 2020 marks, Orders have been issued Inc the en- rolment of a hattallon lof 1,00D Chinese to defend the British port of. Wei Ilei Wei. It is said at Berlin that Germany it seeking to noquire the Portuguese colony of Angola, on the wast. mast of A1rien, Admiral Dewey Mata rani rioted with a gong Kong firm of wreckers to raise three If the Spanish war vessels sunk n the )att1e of Manila., The Madrid newspapers disclose the Ciarlist agitation, bub express belief Seven thousand Spanish soldiers in Cuba mutinied and demanded their pay before they will return home. They have thee [tend the life of General March. The General promised they would be paid. The Figaro says that the maniafor statues in the Paris struts bas reach- ed an acute phase. It is note proposed even to erect a monument to the Em- peror Julian, who governed in Paris in Roman times. Besides the large expulsions of Danes from Northern Schleswig during lho last foetnight, mem Austrian Slaves and Polish Jews have been oxpeiled Mean Breslau, as well as Dutchman from Westphalia. The death is announced, at the age of eighty -ane, of the Fr',ench cavalry general Michel, who distinguished him- self in the Franco-Prassiin war in the mamma(' of the cuirassiers in the fa- mous charge at Reiahshofen. One of the largest forests in the world rests on solid ice. It is situated between Lake Ural and Lake Okhotsk. When recently en attempt was made to dig a well in this region it wash and thee the soil was frozen to a thickness of 350 feet, Adolph Lowenstein, tried on charges of usury at 10 mover, has 1-een sentenc- ed to serve 32 months' imprisonment, to pay a fine of 5000 and to suffer loss of rights of citizenship for five years. The Rusiau Government has order- ed the construoti.in at the Nevsky ship building yard of twenty-.hree torp do boat destr, gees of the Sokol type. The Sokol is of Nickel steel and aluminum, Her displacement is 240 tons; h'r anal veracity, 09 tons, and her speed 81128 knots. The Philippine insurgents have oc- cupied three eupurhs of 11,4.10 .and are es eclei to attar. this s P k town, b n, Business fe is paralyzed, yaed, and the inhabilanta are in a state of terror. The Liminess men 1 have asked the commander of ibo a United Steels cruiser Charleston Ito remoter in port. The Grand Drake of Meaklenburg-' Stre Lz has just ee °Orated his seventy- ninth birthday. He is five months I.younger thin the Queen of England,• Next in age, 00m01 th s King of Den- mark, who is eighty years 01d. Tho Grand Duke of Luxembourg is the n oldest of all European ruler's -ninety- 9 one years. LUE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DEO. 4 "'fee n0e11 offs, LI,te No au+d." 9 binge YY, 810, golden 11.01. hell. 019.8. PRul41'lICA.L NOTES. Verse 8. Ililkiah the high priest. that of the band of refermere who sur- rounded the throne of Josiah. Ilia an - emery Is given in 1 Citron. 0. 12, 18, Ile had, a little before ibis, received from the king a command to asrertein the amount of sliver Will already con- tributed for the repairs of the temple; this money had oome from Manasseh and Ephraim and all the remnant of kneel, as well as from Judah. 13y a means of this money "onrpenters nd builders and masons" were now set to work, These reputes are not fully re- oorded in this passage; they are in- oidontally referred to, because it was when Shaphan, the scribe ens sent to Hilkiah, the priest, about the money accounts, that Hilkia.h informed him of his great discovery. The scribe, or secretary of an oriental king, was one of his most prominent and powerful of- ficers. Dr. Plttm.ptie uses modern terms to express ancient Mote when he calls the scribe a minister of religion, a more - tare' of slate, and a secretary of the treasury all in one person. The record: of the past, the edicts of the present, and largely the policy of the future were in the scribe's hands. I have found the book of the law in Lhe house of the Lord. This verse el itself shows how neglected had been Jehovah's wor- ship; how enexnmined had bean the cloisters of his temple; and how limp- ing had been the public services be- muse of lack of authorized direction By some means B'ilktals and Shaphan. appear to have identified the book With one that tradition called Inc Ln the temple. It will make our story vivid to try to ascertain what this book look- ed like. It was probably written on parchment, that is, the dressed skin of a domestio animal, and the learned men who wrote it had used a reed for a pen and dissolved lamp -black for ink, and had been careful to write on one side only of each square of perchmont. These squares were fastened together side by side, and rolled upon a stick; sometimes upon two stinks, one tat each end. the writing was in col- umns, wit b.aspace 08 two • fingers' breadth. between each two columns. Early in the history of literature it became suetumtry to ornament books with bright co ors and gold leaf, es - Nei Illy thole W/10 contents were be- lieved to be sacred; s;o'we may imagine this boo's to have been a huge toll with go.geou; writing, but with inueh of stain and dirt, the result of decay anis uegleot. She writing, however, $1441.3 441:111 Legible. Uitkiah gave the bsoka to Shaphan, and he read R. Prob- ably enough ITilkkah could not read; >v men in that ageacold, and a prie..t's work was no( at all literary. n tho::e days moat of the legal forms rad data 01 life were orally transmit- ted from generation to generation. 10. bhnphaan read it before Lhe king. The threats and eurteeofDeutel'onomy were apparently among the passages to us resat to the king. 11, When the king had heard the vo Me of the book of the law. How mild the .Bible impress us if we had ever heard a word of 1.1 until to -day I 'bus was King Josiah duly im- tnessod. And 00 dense was the ignor- ance of his time that it is probable he had never handled a book, and it is even possible that he had never seen one, nor any other literature than the detached sheets of parobment on whish Shaphan at intervals put down the rec- ords of the palace and the kingdom. Wio may imagine tho courtiers who stood around stretching leeward with ANGLO-AMERICAN r'RIENDSHIP. ratted Influence r Two Tower$ Al ready Felt. A despatch from London says: -The Marquis of Lansdowne, Secretary of State for War, speaking at Plymouth a on Thursday evening on general poll - .h tics, referred to his gratification over 1 the Anglo-American friendship; In the m course of the speech he sketched the l proposed largo scheme of improving the h agar floes Lo see that rare curio -a ook. Then, as was Mimed a.ely under - Mod when the voice of the scribe was teard, this was God's word, the direct essago from God to those people, and he first divine message they had ever card. He rent his clothes. Read in home defences by providing a new type of guns, which would require a emaller Mich number. He aaid he felt sure that a when the Government had completed ° its schema the country would be pre- pared for the heavy sacrifices it would enter 11. APOSTLE OF BETTER UNDER- STAND INGS, The Louden Times editorially on Thursday morning hails Mr. Joseph ce Chamberlain as the " apostle of bet- Jr ter understandings with the United V'States and Germany," admitting that nu our class a selection from Dent. 28, $ being probably one of the passages Mich so stirred- Josiab's feelings, The handout of the king was thoroughly mental, but it must have startled the ourtiers and filled them with awe. veryone had seen clothes rent, but NV J a he haat ever seen a proud king of udah rise froln has throne le thus base himself 12. The king conuninded five men - appointed them to be a special com- mittee -to " inquire of the Lord " eon - riling the message of the book, The delc•gatlon was n. very honorable one. irst (tame Rilkish, whose condict roughont shows his loyalty to ;re- oveh. Next was Abikam, son of the oble aerate Sbnphan; Abikem himself pears in Inc.,20. 24; 40. 5, as the head en influential family, and tho ue friend of Jeremiah the prpphet. ext is Achbor, who, like Ahik"m, ideni.ty belnngod toaruling family, (see Mar. 20.s2; 30.12.1 '.Chen the ve,n- able Shaphan; end a man named <ahiah, of. whom we know only that was a servant of the king's -Ghat en officer of Lhe court, 13 In• u re of the Lord. At the best ere were few prophets. Two Jere- nh and Zephaniah proolaimed the ord of the Lord whle Jo fah was ng, but Jerentith (probably) wasnt I s time a very young man in Anaa- oth while Nept inial Lived far ba • ouch, Hulnnh seems to have, been only member of the prophetie order Jet u-atem. The name and offionof ✓ hu band and the mimes al her en Lors are given to indiente her 03 position. For me, and for the opla and Co, all Judith. tele felt, its cry non cientious soul in such dr - in -tames must fail, great pereonni Moly. As a good icing he was anxi- for lits people. Mut his solicitude teller' further atilt, Josiah under- oe t hat amine his people was the only clam revelat.ton of the true God, Other :peep indeed Jeheveh had, but ru they Were gnlltnrell into his fold, and the the prim Morels wind ceremonies of die; 01 her religionsweremeth Tut rmftel than due benefielat. With Jodeh sank or sur- o0,. vived the world-wide hope of the ivies- per Malt. Tho curses read In his Scaring 'and Warned to sv ginner up Gnat hope, They her it rejoices that, in view of the (Hart the a United States are likely to play in the of Far East, a cause of. possible irritation tr has been removed by Emperor Wit- e Barns' change of plane as to his home- (, ward jou+ney. er With regard to Anglo-American co- A operation in the Far last, tho Times he says: -"its effeettvenees will largely le :depend upon our ability to do our own :biro of work and to protect our own eh In' crests without railing upon our I eel friends." 'the ;Orcein correspondent of Ihe j! Times segs:—"Thn German all__ - to deny, the reality and significance tkhi of the Anglo-Amerkettn friendship aro th now brine /Mae laced, There etre ser- to loin iinpontlernbilio., to use an expres- !„- earn or Rismarekee rebirth the citizens of loth countries residing abroad have an already begun to appreci ate as the first proofs of the united influence of i -he g0 two power," in the arrears of t.he. apv Word." ou RISING IN SWAT VALLEY, ou • .e. "Ma lh,tab;" Wish 008 1lcu, neatly foe en ole y AtOarta A despnt.ch from Simla, ;British In, dia, says: -.Trouble is brewing in the Upper Swat valley, whose notorious "mac] lfaktv," at the hear. of 000 men, is preparing to n.t.teek the Nawab of Air end' areata a rkeing against .British rule. :inc, 2, 1898 we to conditioned on Mutat turn Rout God, and elesiab knew that it thrum].from God, Can just wrath .toy ed by ropalltairee 1 !immerse s ranters have not heerkentel unto worsts of this book, Josiah assien that the father's bad had an opporl ity to hear the book and obey meters; but this present. generation (let, end its moral ignorance the you er people had grown. This would ply that the loss of the book was co partitively recent, 14. Iluldah the prophetess. Hulduh Is the only Woman in the 0101 Testament: Weide Miriam and -Deborah who is clearly staled. to have been endowed with prophetic gifts. The keeper of the wardrobe, Either the courtier in alt Ige of the royal robes or the aerate ht aharga of the temple veal -acute. She dwelt in Jerusalem in the college. Revised Version, "In the second quar- ter." By references to Neh. 8. 9, 12 we find that the "lower oily" was di- vided into two districts, 15. Tell the man that sent you to me. There is startling abruptness in this language. 10. 1 will bring evil upon tbls peo- ple. Tho parallel pamage, 2 Chew. 24, is stronger, "Even all the curses that are written in the book which they have read before the king of Judah." ' ]'has pruphecy of irremedi- able doom repeats itself in the two other prophets of the reign. It was irt'emedisl)le for exactly the same rea- son as the "blasphemy against the "Spirit" is not to be forgiven - the sinners have gone too long and too far to repent. We can say with absolute certainty that the bat to forgiveness never can be, on God's side. But fore giveness not merely nlnuot be given - it cannot be received -without change of heart end life. Even Josiah's zeal couldnot do more than wake a flioher- ing loyalty to Jehovah, which postpon- ed the inevitable judgment, God's ap- pointed remedy." -Moulton. 17. Because they hive forsaken me. This is the immadi.ite or remote cause of every earth y calami y. Have bu, nt incense unto o her gods. This was the outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual condition of hostility to the true God. 18. But to the ]ring of Judah. From this on the message is more merciful and the tone more courteous and tender. As touching the words which thou hast heard. The words read from the new. found ro.L. 10. Jori ah "heard" God's words, therefore God "hears" his. 20. 1 wi 1 gather thio unto thy lathe ors. A Hebrew phrase for death. Thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace. Around hie death Providence wit throw toercifal protection. It is not easy to find this prophecy fulfilled in Josiah's death, But we are not justified in ending the prophaoyl wish 1hie phrase. It is clos-Ly oonneetei wi,h whit follows. Thine eyes shall not see all the evil fait I shall bring upon this place. Jonah's beat hopes Mustered about bit nation. The glory of Jehovah and of his people were all he lived for. Death in battle was not more terrible, rather, indeed, more to be desired, thou death from disease. Sesiah's soul recoiled from neither ; Cho one horrible thing from which he plended to be saved was the apparent ruin of God's muse -the overthrow of the within, the destruction of the tem, pie, Lha forfeiture of Judah's prlvi, leges. This was the evil paramount. If. Judah wi I not so turn to God that this evil might be averted, if the ruin must come, then merciful will be the arrow that "gathered him to his grave." in r held( I hen be lVYV fur the ed nn- A Wonderful Recovery, Illustrating the ifs had ng - the Nerve tie itre3 kivua 1VttlY'Ic1Ut�� A CALL -DOWN FOR DE BARRY. Attention of the U. B. Government 10 b Drawn to 1118 Conduer. A despatch from Ottawa says :-It looks as if Mr. De Barry, the United States officer who has made himself notorious in connection with the en- forcement of the alien labour law, has exceeded his duties. A high author- ity stays, that when the International Commission met at Quebec an under- standing was reached by the Iwo par- ties that, pending a conclusion on this question, there should be no action taken by either country to enforce the lacy. Mr. De Barry's recent action therefore Dame in the nature of a sur- prise to elle Government. it is likely that the attention of the Treasury De- partment will be drawn to De Barry's conduct with a view to his being called down. FROM CAIRn TOTHE CAPE. Britain DAY 98101n a Strip of tend no Quid Pro Qep4 A despatch from Berlin, says: - A move' evidently is on foot by Germany to acquire Cho Portuguese colony of Angola on the west coast of Africa, According to the Colonial Year -Book, Angola is on the brink of economic disaster, and should revert to a strong power. The book adds that the general collate.° of the Portuguese Empire is only a question of months. England is not expcoted to interlore in (nett an acquisition by Germany. In return it as proposed to cede to Eng- land a strip of territory along Lake Tanganyika, wh air lies ,just east of the Congo Stele, on the south coast of Africa. This juggling of territory would allow England to realize her dream of a British Africa extending from Cairo to the Oape, 500 INSURGENTS KILLED. News 0r Another 111U and Sotigt'dn,ary 850115, 11, L'(trniosit. A despatch from Tacoma, Wash, says: -Tho steamship Empress of China brings news" of 'nether big bat- tle in Formosa, in whish 500 ihsargents were killed and many wounded. The Japanese lose was also large. The Japanese Government recently granted large bottnty. to native oltiefe x'aturn for their submission. Some of chief's asmlalt•inad of en unfair tribal of. these bounties, and in - cal their followers to rise again. Six rrapanias of Japanese infantry, sap - 43, and troopers marched against surrounded them, killing tate num- stated. Quick Response of a Depleted Nerve Systema to a Treatment Which 1.d spleltl.ishes Exhausted Nerve Forces. MR. FRANK BAUER, BERLIN, ONT, Perhaps you know him 1 In Water. lot) he is known as one of the most popular and successful business men of that enterprising town. As ...anag- ins 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 financially, 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 t'sonly a few months since, while nursed as an invalid at the Mt. Clemens sanitary resort, when his riends in Waterloo were dismayed with a report that he was at the point 1 death "c There's no telling where I would ave been had I kept on the old treat- ment," said Mr. Bauer, with a merry augh, the other day, while recounting is experiences as a very sink man, ' Mt. Clemens," he continued, " was he last resort in my naso. For oaths previous I had been suffering udeseribable tortures. I began with logs of appetite end sleepless nights. hen, as the trouble kept growing, I ,ss getting weaker, and began losing eeh and strength rapidly. My tomach refused to retain food of any ind. During all this time I was nder medical treatment, and took verything prescribed, but withoutat relief. Juat about when my condition 1 u 8 a a d w h d a a m a a i r r w A w b 2 in th iSI tr e n is d fo in to an to eemed most hopeless, I heard of a wonderful cure effected in a oase omewhat similar to mine, by the (4 real South American Nervine Tonic, nd I finally tried that. On the first ay of its use I began to feel that it as doing what no other medioine ad clone. The first dose relieved the 'stress completely, Before night I otually felt hungry and ate with an ppetito such as I had not known for onths, I began to pick up in trength with surprising rapidity, lept well nights, and before I knew t I was eating three square meals egularly every day, with as much elish as ever. I have no hesitation hatever in saying that the South merican Norville Tonic cured me hen all other remedies failed, I ave e recovered my old weight—over 00 ponnds—and never felt better my life." Mr. Frank Bauer's experience is at of all others who have used the oath American Nervine Tonic. Its stantaneous action in relieving dig- ress and pain is due to the direct ffeot of this peat remedy upon the erve centres, whose fagged vitality energized instantly by the very first ose. It is a great, a wondrous ours r all nervous discuses, as well as digestion and dyspepsia, It1°goee the real source of trouble direst, d the sick always feel its marvel. us sustaining and restorative power once, on the very first day of its se. Sold by G. A. Deadman. THE CZAR'S PEACE PLAN. ma Proposal It to cannon, is Gtounited on NYnllonal nnibnrrneantont. A despatch from London, says: -Tho peace conference is to be held, not at Brussels, as proposed by the Czar, but at St. Petersburg, and is not likely to meet before the latter part of Febru- ary or the early part of March. Several of•the foreign Governments signified their readiness to take part in the oon- ferenee is the international -peace eon - grass, providing it was held in the Ruse sten capital, rather than in that of Bel- gium, expressing the opinion that the conference would gain much in pros- .tigc and .in weight Hit were to take place on the banks of the Neva, under the presidency of the young Czar, rather than at Brussels, where so many abor- tive international congresses have been hold, The delay in the meeting, 1s tluo to the fact that the Russian programme for the congress is not fully elabor- ated, and secondly, that some of the foreign delegates expectett would not be able to travel to St. Petersburg an mrd -winter, The world beneflis by the delay, Icor It is manifest thatvwbiln 'Ilusslat, and in natural eensequonae bar subservient illy, France, ars preparing fon apeace conference datfined to reflect glory up- on the young Oznr,they are debarred from embarking in any war, and there is no doubt that it Is they who are popularly regarded as nonsiitWing the chief menaces to peace in the Old World, NEW LEG1ifl' ON CZAU'S PLANS. A private letter written from the British Legation at Tokio to a mem- bor of Parliament here throws an in- teresting side -light upon the Czar's peace manifesto. The Sapaum° Gov- ernment, it appears from the letter, was not at all, convinced of the sincer- ity of the proposal for the peace con- ference, and, accordingly, the Japanese mistioh at St. Petersburg' 'was s tn- atruoted to ascertain what was the real roaaan foe its Wane, In reply, the Japanese Envoy at 5t. Petersburg reported that the manifesto was de- signed first to mitigate the anti-R.us- sian foaling in England, and next to enable the .Russian Government tore- trenah in consegttenoe of the impov- erished condition of the treasury, and the oertainty of one of the molt dis- astrous famines during the coining winter th•tt hos over boon known in the dominions of the Czar. CECIL RHODES' DREAM. II4.11101) of the Orange Vree elute alnl Transvaal. The London correspondent of the New York .Evening' Post says: --"Fresh de- lays have arisen in the matter of the Delagoa Bay 1,11tway arbitration. Meanwhile rife, ll lodes' support:ere talk confidently of hes upproaaltiug sue- ceseiee to the Premiership of Cape Col- ony, when lie will push forward the fed- eration scheme. Sunday's special from Berlin of a corning fusion erra.ngo- ine)tl: between Ihe Orange nice Stale and the Transvaal, Kruger gisiugplane to Steyn se l?resident 01 1he United Republic, may prove to be at fresh beep in the ultimate realization of TSr, 11ho0es 'denten of. n. British Africa . from the Zambesi southwards,"' '(1084 THOUS& fo TS HERMEN S'CAIWI.NG, A despatch from Tacoma, Wash„ says;, -According to adylees hroaght by the 14mpr'ess of China, ten thu'usenrl fishermen are starving on .14trup Is- land, Lu North Japan Letause of the album of, the season's .run of fish. For six years fishing has been batt, but . seal) great hopes were based on theist such great hopes were based on this season's expected run tial. fishermen Invested all the money they could. borrow In Making preparations, Six thousand fishermen were brought in frent other provinces to assist, I Now the fiehermon and dealers are all bankrupt, Tho former cannot get pro- viai0n8,beeauaa merchants hove. glint off their credit, Phausande aro sutl•. listing on I>tttrifled herring crtdl rate.