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The Brussels Post, 1898-12-16, Page 6TSE .BRUSSELS POST. DIa0, 18, 1898 INE NEWS IN A NUISHftLI THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Interesting Items About Our Own Country, Great Britain, the United States, and Alt Partsof the (Bebe, Condensed and Assorted for easy Reading. CANADA. Major-General Hutton has gone to New Brunswick Cariboo hunting. The new Imperial penny postage stamps are now on sale at Ottawa. The Northern Pacific Railway Co. will further extend their system in Manitoba next season. The Northwest Land Company re- ports that their sales havo doubled themselves during the past eleven months. Judge MacDougall has declined to re- lieve Massey Hall, Toronto, from tax- ation. It is feared that the bubonic. plague has broken out in Chinatown, San Frandsen. The corporation of McGill University has decided to confer the honorary de- gree of LL.D., upon Lord Minto. Ald. Davies of Toronto, purposes get- ting after the departmental stores again on the question of taxation. The Governors of McGill University, Montreal, have passed a resolution af- filiating Vancouver College with the university. The marine section of the Toronto Board of Trade is urging such improve- ments to Toronto harbour as would make it an ocean port. It is said that the trustees of Emerald Street Methodist Church, Hamilton, contemplate suing delinquent subscrib- ers to the building fund. Australian and New Zealand shipper are feeling the market as to prospects for advantageously laying down ehip- menta of butter in British Columbia. Lad winter and spring a good price was realized for Australian butter, which took vary well. The Edmonton District Beltway Com- pany will ask Parliament for power to build a railway to the ooast by way of Yellow Bead or Peace River passes, or to sonnet with the line which the British Pacific Railway Company is authorized to construct; also to build a branch line to the Yukon River, and to change the name to the Edmonton, Yukon and Pacific Railway Company. The Ontario Provincial Board of Health has adopted a resolution mak- ing it obligatory on physicians to re port encases of tuberculosis oceurrin in tbelr praotiee. If a physician is 00 consulted, then this duty should fal upon the bouseholders; that loca health boards should provide for th regular and systematic disiofectiou o the domicile in whish the patient lives GRJIIAT BRITAIN, Tho British steamer Belluro, a Liverpool from Montevideo, lost 1,19 sheep on the voyage. It is rumoured that Queen Victori will visit: Florence next spring bastes of the Riviera. The Lancet says the Prince of Wale has entirety recovered from the mei- dent to his knee in July last. A gold -headed cane has been recov- ered from the wreck of the steamer Portland, bearing the inscription) "Nov. 27, Toronto, 1887." The Colonial Institute of London, Eng., has passed a resolution express- ing gratification at the coming Drapers lal penny postage. They weigh the Mayor of High Wy- combe each year. This year Liver- pool's Mayor is the champion heavy- weight of England. His name is Out- ten, pronounced "Wholeton." r The °there escaped. The bold -up was Van to have taken place Friday, but the of • the men weakened, and it was fixed s for Tuesda. The company was aware of this and the train Mande ere pre- pared. Fully twenty shots were ex- changed, Manitoba and North-Western butte will have again to oontend in Va Leaver with the Australian artiolo GENERAL, The German Emperor is reported to be planning a tour of England and Scotland next Juue. Emperor William, it is rumoured, in- tends to write for publication an 0.0- count scount of Itis Palestine tour. The Spanish authorities are serious- ly alarmed at the indications of an imminent rising. It is expected that the Khedive of Egypt will. next year visit England to pay his respects to the Queen, The New South Wales wheat har- vest for this year will be 1,500,000 t bushels, 11 excess of that of last year. 1 A. plot to assassinate Prince reve- 1 nand of Bulgaria has been discovered e at Soria and numerous arrests have been matte. . The Journal Official on Tuesday, in Paris, publshes a decree forbidding ad- mittance into France of fruit and 4 plants from the United Status. Thirty-seven people on board the a British steamer Clan Drummond, from d Clyde for the Cape of Good Hope, wrecked in the Bay of Biscay, were drowned, A C.P.R. official at Montreal denies The people in the Channel Islands the statement that the company is not were eo disturbed at the possible con - amply equipped and prepared to sequences of a war between Great handle the western grain business. Britain and Franco that they buried The London City Council and the Bell their valuables. Telephone Company have made a new Mr. William Waldorf Astor has do - agreement for five years and the Peo- anted 5,000 toward the fund Doing pie's Telephone Company has with - raked at the instance of General Lord drawn from the field. Kitchener, to found the Gordon Mem- The report is revived at Vancouver oriel Collage at Khartoum. that the Great Northern Railway is to Leopold Rothschild won 9150,000 in bridge the Fraser River at New West- stakes in the English racing minter, and extend its system into which closed this week. Tha Loire of Vancouver City. .Westminster made 980,000, Lord Rose - The Quebeo Harbor Commissioners bery 955,000, and the Prince of Wales have decided to grant exemption from 930,000. harbor dues to any line of trans Aslan- The Sirdar, Lord Kitchener, of Khar- tia steamers making that port its wes- toum, has been "oat struck." He is tern terminus, reported to have p told a friend that Whether the Government supplies since his arrival in England be has re - them or not the Toronto Public School calved more than a hundred laudatory Cadets who are now being seleoted to poems. visit Florida will be supplied with a Lord Salisbury's recent reference in uniform. They will cost 8500. his s A. large petition is beingcirculated peach at aroused thell angero "decaying the empires" has of the through Northern British Columbia Sultan, who hastens to repudiate the asking for waggon roads from Ash- phrase if it was meant to refer to croft, through Cariboo and Omanica, Turkey. whioh is being opened up very fast. There is some talk in England of A Norway wnater, who owns a fleet sending Lord Kitchener, of Khartoum, of whalers on Norway's ooast, is in to the Cape as the British Governor - Vancouver for the purpose of estab- General of South Africa, Sir Alfred liohing a whaling fleet for the pacific, Milms, the present incumbent, is to with Victoria or Vancouver as a home succeed Lord Cromer in Egypt. port. By direction of the Chamber of Com- ayCustoms receipts from the let of marcs of the State of New York its May to the close of navigation last committee on foreign commerce called year at Montreal were 0,708,345, and on President McKinley and resented 84,842,895 for the same period this p year the' memorial urging him to convene Exports of grain from Montreal an international congress at Washing- ton to consider the question of mak- during the season of navigation just ing private property on the sea free closed show an increase of nearly 20,- from capture in time of war. 000,000 bushels compared with last UNITED STATES. year. During the. 13 years from 1885 to 1898. Eight people have been killed and six 108 persons have been condemned to wounded during the present bunting death in Canada fon murder. O!' these season in Michigan. 60 were executed, and 48 sentences Chicago pork packers have entered were commuted, a strong protest against Germany's aro The Manitoba, Elevator Company, tion in excluding U. S, sausages. whioh owned thirty-seven elevators,has Losses to shipping and vessel owners sold out to the Northern Dominion Ele- vator Company and Bready, Love & Tryon. The Northern Elevator Co., now own 117 elevators. It is reported that Judge Dugas, who went to the Klondike a couple of months ago to succeed Judge Maguire, is troubled with his eyes, and finds the climate SO trying to them that he may have to resign. Harry Morgan, at present in Van- couver, claims to have discovered ,a huge body of ore, a very mountain of mineral, on the north-east coast of Van- couver island. The deposit, he says, strikingly reeembies the Treadwell mine. In view of the approach of the Christ- mas season, attention is directed to the fact that no parcel can be sent from Canada to any other country by parcel poet unless it bears a customs declara- tion setting forth the nature of its contents and its value. It is reported that the Canadian Pacific has purchased a large block of land initheioentre of Winnipeg, froht- ing on the Red River, upon which a handsome union depot will be erected next year, the present depot to be utilized as freight offices. • C. P. 11,. land sales for the month of November amount to 27,000 acres, for which 985,000 was realized. This is a substantial increase over the showing made in October, when 17,000 acres were sold for 950,000. The latest comers from Dawson City bring news that Frank Slavin, the prize fighter, has (secured the right to out the timber for five miles up the Klondike river, beginnitag atits mouth. Any other man living' in this reserve must pay tribute to Mr. Slavin at the rate of 97 a cord. Mr, Douglas, Superintendent of the Banff National Park, suggests that the size of thepark should be increased by taking in the watershed of the Bow River. The extension would be used as a game preserve, and would be under the park management. The Toronto city commissioner re- ports that the total value of the huild- ing permits issued during the month of November is 9109,000, and the total value for the peat eleven months of the year, 91,611,480. This is an in- crease of almost 100 per tient. Mayor Shaw of Toronto has received, a letter from LIoe British War Office stating that the Twenty -First Lan- cers will not return from Egypt for about a your, and that then they will, in the ordinary course 04 events,, re- main at home for several years. Con- sequently they cannot pass i:hiougb Cnnada an their way to India, on the great lakes for the year aro estimated at 92,500,000, the largest re- corded. Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott, whose health is failing, is about to resign the pas- torate of the Plymouth church, Brook- lyn, N. Y. Mr. Joseph Choate, of New York, is being talked of as Mr. Hays' successor as Ambassador of the United States to Great Britain. Detroit shod trustees are wrought np over the discovery that Canadian female leathers have bean offered positions in Detroit schools. Secretary Long, of the United States navy, in his annual report, made pub- lic on Friday, asks for fifteen more warships at a total cost of over 936,- 000,000. Secretary Spaulding at Washing- ton says Canadian commercie 1 travel- lers do not tome within the provisions of the alien labor aot, and ere free to do business in the United States, The pollee of Newark, N.J., have been authorized to offer 9500 reward for the recovery of a watch lost or stolen from a wealthy lady of that city on Wednes- day night. The watch is valued at 91,800. During the past fiscal year the gross revenue of the United States Post Of- fice Deportment was 910,012,818. The gross expenditure was n98,033,523, This is nearly two-thirds more business than was done by the department in 1880. Two east -bound freight train run- ning together on the Fitchburg rail - rood collided near Athol, Mass„ and Brakeman Knight, of Williams- town, was cau±,vht in the wreck by the legs, and burned to death, in spite of the efforts of bis comrades to release m. Mrs. Wynn, the rirhestk resident of Brooklyn, 511„ and owner of half the gown, which Iles across the river from St. Louis, Mo„ was murdered Friday or early Saturday morning by robbers, who cut her throat and left her dead. in the front yard after ransacking the house. The famous old Indian, Pete Wade - man, of Prescott, Mich., aged 118, who was married tWio) to squaws, and whose second wife died only two months ago, was again married Thurs- day to a Polish gill named Emma Jane Swanstephaeski, aged 50, who emigrat- ed recently from Montreal. A Missouri Pacitos parsengor train was held up four miles west. of Sedalia, Mo„ Tuesday night by three masked men. Ono of the men, Jim Web(, an engineer of the 0ompeny, was captured. A despatch from Tripoli says that a caravan from the Soudan has been attacked by a band of tribesmen near Chat, an oasis in the Sahara to the south of Tripoli and on the border of Cazzan. Twenty persons belonging to the caravan were killed and eighty camel loads of feathers and 380 loads of Soudan. skins were lost. Four Hungarians bare bean playing chess with( bottles of wine. When one moved he emptied the particular bot- tle, A few moves saw all the players East asleep. Details ca the new German army bill show that the Prussian peace contin- gent will be increased by 11,424 man and 2,850 horses, and the Saxony con- tingent by 2,078 men, It is decided that the Russian gar- risons in China ann. on the Chinese frontier are to be largely increased next year, and constitute a virtual Russian occupation of Maneburia. A new star has appeared in elle firma- ment of musical art in Italy. It is the Abbe Perosi, over whose latest composi- tion, " The Resurrection of Lazarus," the Italian papers are profuse in their eulogies. The Bank of Spain has made a fresh advance to the Government et 60,000,- 000 pesetas (912,000,000) to cover tbe.ex- penses ofrepatriating the Spanish troops in the Philippines and the Antilles. The French Government has decid- ed to make Noumea, capital of the French colony of New Caledonia ,its naval headquarters in the Pacific. A large dock and naval works will be ereoted there. A bomb cartridge containing 140 grammes of powder and nails, capable of doing lerrtnle damage was found in the Bourse at Marseilles, France, on Tuesday. Tbs fuse had been lighted, but It &lid not burn. Lie ut: General Correa, Spanish Minis- ter of War, declares that the Govern- ment has 140,000 troops in readiness to combat a Carlist rising, and will soon have 200,000 available. He does not be- lieve the Carllets intend to move. The interior of the Royal Palace at Amsterdam is to be entirely renovat- ed, and the young Queen has ordered that the entrance, the vestibules, the doors and the passages are to be paint- ed a light colour, The work will not begin until the spring, L,'.n,y Beaulieu, an eminent in eneh scienl,,I:, la forming a French eyttdi- eaus no the calf+&',• tion of a railroad sones r he ,100,',1 of Sahara. He argues that Barin &suet not have checked French progn-,e in Africa if this rail- way had l,,.en built some years ago, when it wasfirst proposed. The separation of Corea from the Chinese Empire is already having good results. Ports whioh have remained hermetically sealed for centuries against the intrusion of suspicious for- eign craft are now thrown open to the commerce of the world. RThe ConanGovernment has notitied that it will shortly open four new ports to foreign trade. RESEMBLES FASHODA. Negotiations at Nanking Regardhtg lite French Seizure of a Joss Douse at Nina. Pe. A despatch from Shanghai, says: — The negotiations in progress at Nank- ing between the French Consul at Shanghai and Lior-Koun-Yi, Viceroy of Nanking, in regard to the French seizure of a joss house at Ning-Po last summer„ and the proposed ex- tension of the French settlement Shanghai, have reached.an acute stage. The British admiral on board a cruiser is expected to arrive at Nan- king on Friday to watch proceedings. The action of the French in the Yang - tee -Kiang valley indicates a disposition on the part of France to interfere with British interests there. The situation hears a strong resemblance to the Fashoda affair. • SIMPLICITY OF SWINDLINU. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON, DEC, 18, "Tho Captivity or 'Swish." Jer, 82. 111, Golden Text, Jet.. 99.18, PRACTICAL NOTES. Verse 1. One and twenty years old when Ito began to reign, ills kingdom, was small, but kis task was groat for s. The t✓tll''a Aggi'esslons Aleve Beemnr 11)1. Ge bearable to Japan, and the New Cabinet thuloubletily Meanst'lghi. khan Ecotone people regard a blind Man es 1ueapable of ruling. Already Zedekiah's daugbtere had , been taken culottes, Bound hint in obelus. Probably bound him hand and foot. Put hint in Prison till the day of his death. Tradition say) (Slat when in Babylon Zedekials was forced to work in 11 mill ( , GETTING READY FOR WAR. so young a man; Egypt claimed hi kingdom as its frontier previa against Babylon, and Babylon claim it as its frontier province sgains Egypt. He reigned eleven years Years of interminable anxiety and al most matchless weakness of aharacte Of IIamutal, his mother, noticing i known, Jeremiah, his father, was not gofer as we know, related t0 J eremia the prophet. Libnalt was a stron city in the aouthweat corner of th little kingdom of Judah. 2. He did that which was evil in th eyespot the Lord.. And yet he wee no purposely a bad man. 'He 1005 ser thinly no worse, hardly so bad, as th kings who had immediately precede him, not nearly so wicked a Athaliah or Manasseh. Ile does no seem to have worshiped fats gods. His sin was in not resisting the downward current of his time, in weakly rubmitting to the perniciou influence of the nobles, in breaking his sworn promise 01 fealty to Nebu chadnezzar. Moral weakness bring destruction as surely as wickedness destruction as surely as, wickedness The "kings" ofJudah were merely vice anneal, of Lovah, personally respon table to him. When, therefore, in- dependent existence had 'become im po;sibls for Judah, and the word of th Lord eleuriy directed submission to Babylon rather than to Egypt, it was "evil in the eyes of the Lord," posi- tive sin, to disobey that direction. Ac- cording to all that Jehoiakim had done. With less of moral/ perversity however, and much less force of char- acter. O. 1Ie had cast them out from his presence. Courtiers in disgrace were cast out Dona the presences of the king. So these officers of the kingdom are cast out nom the presence of Jehovah, 4. Nebuonadnezalir. . . name, . he and all his army, against Jerusalem and pitched against it, and built forts against it. That is, he drew lines of ditches around it, with a rampart on one side, on which were erected his military engines. In those days, as we all know, gunpowder was not used, but very remarkable machines had been contrived to throw, huge rocks to great distanoes. These and the battering rams were the chief instruments of wax used against invested cities. 5. Tha city was beseiged unto the el- eventh year of king Zedokiah. Of this siege we have many interesting de- tails, especially in Ezekiel and in the Book of Lamentations. That the besieg- ed were able to hold out until the el- eventh year is astonishing espeoially when wo take notice of the poor rab- ble inclosed within its walls, verse 6. 0. The fcturbh month. Made up of our June and July. The ninth day of the month. Possibly July 1. This day was memorable for the breach made in the city walls. The famine prevailed, and there was no bread for the people. The starved soldiers were no longer cap- able of making strong resistance. The A despatch from London, nays: •— t Serious misgivings are expressed by those statesmen and officials here who -Zara in favour of the maintenance of i0 peace at any price at the composition of the new Cabinet at Tokio, formed h by Field Marshal Yamagata, often described as the Moltke of Japan, and to whom belongs all the credit of ° I the brilliant Japanese viotory in the :war with China. The Administration o whioh he has constituted, and which t comprises no less than four members Iof the famous Satsuma fighting clan, o is distinctly and admittedly a war d 'Cabinet. eI Yamagata has never ceased to es- t; prose hie term oonviclion, since Russia, ° , by means of diplomatic methods, rob - ,bed Japan of nearly all the fruits of her victories, (bat his country would be s compelled, sooner or later, to fight in , defence of her existence against Rus- -1 sia, and has invariably added that the • sooner this conflict took placel the bet- lter it would be for Japan, for at pre- •- sent Japan would have Russia at a die- -iadvantage iu the far ease of Asia. But - every month that passes by without war taking place diminishes these ad- -!vantages which Japan now enjoys. Japan's armaments are at the present moment far in excess oe her resources. Her people are overtaxed, and unless she reduces them within a year or so she will become Involved in national bankruptcy. SUPPORTS THE VIEW. A war with .Russia would unite all ' contending factions, and would be a most popular war with Japan. That the blikado's Government is getting ready for something or the kind may .1 be gathered from iha tact that Japan has already prepared an army corps of 200,000 men with food, furs, and full 1 equipment for one year's campaigning in northern latitudes, while numerous small detachments of troops under one pretext or another are quietly be - ting shipped over to Corea, Several Japanese staff officers have beeu cap- tured by the Russians while making drawings end taking notes of the Mus- covite positions at Vladivostock and Port Arthur, and have been allot as spies. Against this army corps of 200,000 men Russia would only be able to op- pose 50,000 man, that constitute the total of her forces on the Pacific coast, while Japan's naval forces in the China seas aro superior to those of the Czar. Japan has already had four dif- ferent•Cabinets this year, each of which has corns to grief owing to efforts to avert the inevitable and popular war. The advent to office of the Yamagata Administration is construed in official circles here as indicating that Japan has come to the aoncluslon that it is useless to attempt to stem any longer the Strong tide of public opinion, and has resolved upon provoking an imme- diate war with Russia, in order to avoid both internal revolution and the danger of eventual destruction by Russia when the latter has completed her trans- Siberian railroad and her Pacific coast armaments. _From a scientific standpoint, Japan is up-to-date, and the fiery little men would undoubtedly give a good account of themselves, especially 'on the water. The navy has been immensely improv- ed since the war with China. Large purchases of guns andships have been made, and they are of the latest pat- terns. Only recently have supplies of distilled spirits been bought in Am- erica and shipped to Japan for use in the manufacture of smokeless powder. phrase of the land may point to the fact that the city was crowded with refugees who had sought its walla for safety from the Chaldean. 7. The city was broken up. In more modern phraseology the northern wall was broken through and the city lay defenseless before its eonquerors. All the men of war fled. The Chaldeans came from the north side of the city, the king and his men of war fled to- ward the south. By night. Josephus says that the city was entered at midnight. By the way of the gate be- tween the two walls, whioh was by the king's garden, Gathering his wives and children and summoning a few bodyguards about him he made his way along a street whioh ran between the wall on the east and the wall on the west side of the Tyropeon valley and whioh ender( at a gate above the royal garden and the Pool of Siloam. .There are several instances in Eastern cities at the present time of a street thus running between two walls. Ole Iking's garden ares at the Pool of Si- loam at the mouth of the Tyropeon Now the Chaldeans were by the city roundabout. This means 'that the in- vestment of the city was complete. They went by way of the plain. The king's party was forced to run along a road leading from Jerusalem to Jericho, They did 'not select the one over the mountains, but that over the valley or plain. They were making a mad race for the desert, 8. But the army of the Chaldeans pursued after the king. The troops, as we have seen, had surrounded the city, and probably detachments of the army held all the road from Jerusalem to Jeeicho; so Zedektuh had little thence. All his army was scattered from him in utter disorganization. Those that wore captured were at once made slaves. 9. Riblah in Lhe land of Hamath. There were two Riblahs. This was the plate to which Pharaoh -nacho had semmonsd Jahoahaz, 2 .Kings, 23. 33. It was on the cast bank of the Orontes --- River, about thirty-five miles north- west of Baalbek. A modern village of the sank name occupies its site. He gave judgment upon him, Commenta- tors call attention to the fact that this was the trial of a common criminal. Zedekinh had forfeited his kingship by breaking his oath. The phrase is literally spoke with him judgments," A striking phrase says Dr. Terry, implying 1 hat the judgments rendered were not in word only, but in deed. 10. Tile king of Babylon slew the ons of Zedekinh before his eyes, It was (he refinement of cruelty to bring the death agonies of the poor king's hig firmon their notepaper, saying Ilow a Rogue Rept Good Style in France , A deetettch £riim Paris, says:—The prince of swindlers was arrested on Monday in Paris. Ile is a young men known es Baron Edmie do Saint Marlin, and it heat cif other high-sounding tit- hes, Ile has been a prominent mem- ber of several Royalist clubs, and a leader of fashion among thlt jeunesse doomcf several French towns, all hough 0£ low origin. ills operations hada siinplo basis. Ile used to order goods in the name of ons into the Iasi scene his eyes (•held. Slew ni:to ail tit: prinees f Judah, :they hate been the Sting's chief advisers in his roe hellion, An abundant opportunity bad been given by Nebuchadnezzar's of£ioers for their submission, I1. Then ho put out the eyes of Zeds. that a traveller would call for thein. 0 Ile nailed himerlf, received the gtr;ds, and sold 10010, On Monday he called at a plao° wliloh baa, been warned, end he was quietly arrested,. - WORTHY OF CONSIDERATION. Proposed Annexation or the Brlttsit West Indies to Canada. A despatch from Ottawa, says:—The Department of Trade and Commerce has been advised that Mr. Edgar Tripp, commercial agent for Canada in the West Indies, brought up at the last meeting of the Trinidad Chamber of Commerce the subjeot of the incorpora- tion of the British Wast Indies with the Dominion. The question was ful- ly discussed, and the conclusion un- animously reaohed that it was worthy of the serious consideration of the Gov- ernment. TO PROTECT THE ARCHIVES, Interior Department to (lave 8,000 Steel Drawers. A despatch from Ottawa, says: — Five thousand steel drawers are to be fitted up in the Department of the Interior for the keeping of the re- cords and arohivea. At the present time the archives, which aro valuable, are kept in' wooden drawers, and In ease of fire there would not be much possibility of their being saved. In the steel drawers, however, which will be euolosed in steel compartments, there will not bo much danger of the papers being destroyed by fire. STARVATION IN RUSSIA. Gloomy Reports or Increasing Famine lteaeh London, A despatch from London, says: -Ad- vices from Resale say the reports of tltc threatened Laraine there are grow- ing more gloomy every day. Count Leo Tolstoi has petitioned the Govern. went for permission to forst relief Com- mittoes to cope with the distress, and the Car himself has contributed 500,- 000 rubles to the Iced Cross Soe0ety to aid the starving peasants, ��1 ., iib .'Q fi`•1°�e li2t1.1 AIN W. B E L L , ®. D• 01BMiLTOPI,O1T. •)) a?) ,k40 v:14 ~Rei nt JRi"IES R. E.LLv BenvEireOId .CWT. James A. Bell, et Beaverton, Ont., brother of the .Rev. John Wesley &fell, B,D., prostrated by nervous headaches A victim of the trouble for several years. South American Nervine effected a complete .cure. In their own particular field few men are bete& known than the Rey. John Wesley Bell, B.D.and his brother Dir. James A. Bell. The former will oe re• cognized by his thousands of friends all over the country as the popular and able missionary superintendent of the Royal Tempters of Temperance. Among the 20,000 members of this order in Ontario hie counsel is sought on all sorts of oc- casions. Oa the public platform he Is one of the strong men of the day, battling against the (vile of intemperance. Equally well known,ia Mr. Bell in other provinces of the Dominion, having been for years a member of the Manitoba Methodist Conference and part of this time was stationed in Winnipeg. His brother, Mr. James A. Bell, is a highly respected resident of Beaverton, where his influence, though perhaps more elr- cumscrlbed than that of his eminent brother, la none the lees effective and W. everutheeworking. 6lityrecent of Mr. Jame* A. Bell ham been end( marred by severe attacks of nervone headache, accom- panied by indigestion. Who can do fit work when this trouble takes hold of them and especially when It becomes chronic, as was, seemingly, the case with Mr. Bell? The trouble reached seen In- tensity that last June he was complete. ly prostrated. In this couditlon a friend recommended South American Novelle. Beady to try anything and everything, though he thought he had covered the List of proprietary medleinee, he ■ecured a bottle of this great discovery. A second bottle of the medicine was taken and the work was done. Employing his own language: "Two battles of Soutb American Nervine immediately relieved my headaches and have bunt up my system in a wonderful manner.' Let tie not deprecate the good our clergymen and social reformers are doing in the world, .but how ill -fitted they would be for Reek work were it not the relict that South American Nerving} brings fat them when physical ills overtake them, and when the system, as a re. suit of hard, earnest and continuant work, breaks down. Nervine treats the system as the wise reformer treats the evils he is battling against it strum at the root of the trouble. All die. ease comes from disorganization of the nerve centers, This is a scientific feet Nervine at once worke on three nerve rooters; gives to them health and vas - or; and then there courses ttirougb the system strong, healthy, lite-malatatnieg blood, and nervouo troubles of every variety are things of the past. Sold by G. A. Deadman. OBJECT TO TAX ON MATCHES. Employes or Factories In Home Ordered to Strike. A despatch from Rome says :—A strike has been ordered, in the match factories of Roma owing to the oppres- sive taxes which the Government pro- poses to lay upon that flourisbing trade—taxes whioh must ultimately come out of the wages of the employes, if the manufacturers are to continue in business. The Government, supported by the majority in Parliament, refuses under the pressure of popular agitation to grant amnesty to political prisoners. The proceedings of the Anti -Anar- chist Conference of (he powers are kept go secret that what rumours are current as to the drift of the business in hand are thoroughly unreliable. BEST FOR TEN YEARS. Shipbuilders or the Clyde find n Good Tear. A despatch from Glasgow says:—The returns of the Clyde shipbuilding in- dustry show the best record for ten years, both as regards launching and work in hand. During the past eleven months 240 vessels, representing 380,- 000 tons, have been launched, as com- pared with 222 vessels, aggregating 278,000 tons last year, Fifty thou- sand tons of shipping have been booked for construction this month, and the naval work in hand is the greatest ever known, WATER POR WINNIPEG. Artesian Well n Snecess Beyond All Anticipations. A despatoh from Winnipeg, says:— The artesian well sunk in the western iimita of the city foe water works Pur, poses has proven a success beyond all anticipations. It tilled beforo being cmpleted, and though pumping water atthe rate of 600,000 gallons daily, the level cannot lie lowerod more than Our feet below the land, surface. The well is Maly 06 feet deep. , vesommassammeal LOSS ON THE LAKES, This Year's Chicago Record or Marine 111x• 0.01015 is the Greatest Known. A careful estimate of losses to ships ping and vessel owners on the great lakes for the year places the probable figures at 92,500,000. This may be in- creased before tbo close of navigation, but even without more storms or foundered vessels it will hold first place far losses ha the history of navt- gation. The year 1895 had hitherto held the record with a loss of 92,090,s 087. WATERT MOTOR. A water motor has been designed, one of whose recommendations is that it can be atljuoted or tilted in any direction while running. It is said 10 bo well adapted to the .running of fans. It can be set up anywher:.. Its pulley can be lined up with a dynamo, sewing machine, jeweler's lathe, fly fan, or other light machinery, and the belt tightened while the motor is run- ning. Hems it is never neessary to out or shorten the belting to take up the Black; the adjusting of the motor body does Ibis, The motor will oper- ate from the ordinary house supply if attaohed to a faucet where there 'is a pressure of 25 1.0 30 pounds or over. With: 50 or 00 pounds pressure, it is claimed that a 7 -inch motor will run over 2000 revolutions per minute. The favorable pointe of a good water motor are that it never gets out of order; it rune for years without perceptible wear; it is noiseless in operation, anti requires no attention whatever be- yond un oiling onoo a day. All them advantages are said to be possessed in a marked degree by the new machine. DOMINION CUSTOMS RE:I:'UIINS. • A despatch from Ottawa, says,—:i'ho Dominion revenue from Customs for the five months ending 80111 November last, was 910,509,600, es compered wills. 0 480 481 for the i 9 , ,, seine three lab( year, or an mcroase of 92,089,124. This is a greater increase than for the whole tweltre months of last year: • 1