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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."
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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."
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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
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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
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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.