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The Wingham Advance, 1908-02-27, Page 20111 • LESSON zeo8. Jesus rode the neve ThouSand.-john 6: Tom tanunientarred. The mithering mut- titude (vs, L4). The twelve a-poetles who lame nen sea out over alalike were preaching ena healizig the sick, 'whoa the maned them that John the Bap - Vet had been beheaded. by Herod Anti - em, in hliteherum eastle. Tim disciplo fee- eeedingle baetened to Josue at Oaper- natun. Prom Oepernetun thee ell retired by boat, acres* the Sea of Galilee to the lonely plain a•t the foot of the hills veer Botheaida just outside of the dem- i-One ef Herod Antipm. "They needed this retirement (1) for phyaleal rest, (2) for lestruetion, (8) for couununion with God." But tsten tale people saw wheet Jesus was going they resorted thither from all directions. Teis is typical of the great world-wide throng which is • coming together from China and India and Africa tend the ishends of the sea to receive the true Bread at the hands ef Josue Ceiriet. Practically tee whole world is ceiling for the gospel, and mia. elnary aetivite is increasing rapialy. Money is beginning to flow into the °offer% of the mismonary societies and there is no lack of coluecrated souls ere ready to go to the ends of the earth te eatery the good news of a cru- cified and risen Saviour. The Holy Spir- it is enflaming the work aud encourag- ing reports are being received from all ttuartesrs. Let those who may still ee in - dative in this work heed the great colo- nized (Matt. 28. 10) and go forth in his na•me to rescue the lost in heathen lauds, The whole world anise be gather- ed at the feet od Christ. II. Jesus confers with His Dispieles (vs. 5-9). • 5. Lifted up His eyes -This was in the afternoon toward evening " when the day began to wear away" ,(Luke O. 12). The Jews had two evenings; the lime began at three o'clock, the second at six o'clock. A greet company- He Was 111.0ved with aompassion and walked among the people, teaching them many thiags and healing their sick, His Dis- ciples called attention to the fact that this was a deeert place, and fte the mul- titude bad ben there since morning, it Vral3 tbne to dismiss thte people so they mind go and. buy viotuals, lest they faint by the way (Matt. 14, 15.) He saith un- to Pbiiip-He was probably the proted- er for the Dispielo, as Judas was the treasurer. "Whence shall we buy br•ead -Ohrist had fed their soula, and heal- ed their bodiee, and now He purposes - to feed their bodies. 6. 'To prove Him -Philip had known Jesue for more than two yeses, and it was eow time that he, and the rest of the apostles should begin to have high concepbons of Ohrist's ability. Knew what He would do -"Our Lord is never at a loes in His counsels, bub in the most difficult ease He knows went course He will pursue." Christ propos- ed the questioa to test Philip's faith. 7. Pbilip anewered-Our Lord sem that Hes apostle% needed lessons in faith, and this iniraele was as much for their ben- efit as for the benefit of the hungry multithae. Two handred pennyworth - The penny was a silver eoin anti Was trorth about sixteen cente. The valu,e of the bread they needed would be, there fore, abciet thirty-two dollars. "This ap- pears to have beea all that our Lord and all of • His deseiples were worth of tiets world's goods,' 9, A lad here - The multitude bad no thought of their temporal necessitite, go anxious were they to see end beer Jou, fuel this late "who bad charge of the provisions ef the compemy to which he belonged," had all that could be found. Loaves... lishea-"The loaves were round, flat oakes like large cracker's." Harkey -was their poorest food. "The fisk were small, deka or pielded, and were eaten with bread, like our feerdines." II. The multitude fed (vs. 10, 11). 10. Make the men sit -"In orderly ranks for the eonvenient distribubion of the fotel." Mark says they sat by hundreds and M. aka. "They appear here as heads of fain- iliee around. whom, in many cases, women and children were grouped, though the men alone were arranged in companies tiod numbered, while the iront3it :tad cen- time were served seperately, as Oriental custom required." -Lange. man grads -The gram was ready for mowing at this time of the year. ..teeout five thou- sand-Beaides women and children (efatt. 14. 21). There must have been ten thousand persons fed. Jesus had arranged them so they could easily be (=acid. .11. Jeeus took the loaves -"Thus 'vot- ing like the master of a family among the Jews, who took the bread into his lien& to give thanks to God, before any at tiee table were permitted to eat." J09113 had one loaf for a thousand nice, beeidee the women and childeen. We may hare but little but if we will give the little we have te; Jesus, He will :mil- tipty it a thousend-fold and. pass tt back to us, and grant us the privilege oi pass. hag it oat to the starving, sin -burdened multitudes, . Given thanks-Jous thus sees us an example; we should never eat without first thanking God for our food, and disking Hit blessing upon it. Dietributed to the disciples -There hag been much diseassion as to just how the mire* was performed, Did the bread multiple in the hands of Jesus, or in the hands of the disciples, or, as some think, did the disoiples put a pieee of bread aad fish in the hands of those who sat at the ends of the ranks with orders to gill) it to their conmenionsa There is se doubt but that the food multiplied all along the line . Jesus handed out to disciplce; it inereasted in their hands as they handed out to the multitude, and as it was paseed from one to an- other the bread' and fish continued to swell in their halide until they all had enough aed to :mare. The fishes as much as they would -This dose not mean that there was a searcity of fish. but that all ate as much as they eared IV. The Fragments Gathered tip (vs, 12, 13), ' 1, e 1111 19, When !Mee -Here is one min, Mee of our Lord attestea by at least five thoiteand pereons.--Clarke. No one need ever leave Christ's table hungry. lee is feble to satisfy every demand of enel and body. fie is the Broad of Life, Whether we demand "little or inuelt" it is en easy matter for Christ to fill us. There la a fullness in Hie mercy and love tbat only those who est ean underettind. Vran• niente---"Tbe broken pieces white: remain evor."- -B. V. That nothing be lost -- Ike design ig fo bring out the latrine nom of tkis food which Jessie Inte given. --Schaff. 13. Twelve baskets --.The word intended "baskets" meares bockele or valIete. The twelve baskete were prob- ably the twelve wallets of the twelve epottlee, whielt they earried on their journeyst.---Dr. Deeme, Jesus evidettly intemded that Pfe and the apostles ?should eat the pieect All their litedif 't7, Two 'popularity of Utile foe, 14, 3111 14* 1%40 WO sitent4Jellhe peoPle," -V. 'Vito miraele.-eahout Min% there email I.e no doubt. 'Pratk-Ae. expreesien noting eertainty, That prephot --All who Ilea seen this woudereul nitrate% wore so profoundey intpreseed with it that they eaid there can be no doubt, but Me is the Meesiali-the Prophet that should mine into the world, Ite• cording to tho prediction of MORS (Dent. 10-1$). • 15. --They at once planned. to take Jesus by force and make him a eitig. But Jeaus knew that suck a thing could IlOt be, hot that in A few hours this wave of aorpulasity woule subside and HUI; 1.17fuel.rieces would, to plottirg against Verses 1021 ore parallel with Matt. 14. 22-33; Mark G. 40156. Jesus "eon. strainede-eounnanded -the dieciplea to eater a boat and aisart for Oeperniunn. Time He sent away the multitude and withdrew Himself into a moentain where lie spent the night alone in prayer. Jowl was conscious that a aims. had come awl by communing with Eas God He would prepare Ilineeelf for the 'bitter confilot jest before IBni. Mile Jesus was prayiog the disciples were struggling with a held wind. They had, started at 6 p. in., and Jesue came to them, in the fourth wateh--betweee 3 and 0 a. 211. Tbey were going in obed- ience to Christ's command, and yet they were held by a "contrery" wind so that during all of those weary houra they had only gone between ehree and four miles. Difficultiee before us are not me- cessarily a proof that NVC are out of di. vine order. Jesus eame to them wallting on the sea, Here were three miraoles in one: L He knew of tittle distress. 2, He knew where they week in the (lark. nese. 3. He walked an the water. After their fears had been atlayed, Peter walked ou the water to .Tesms (Matt. 14. 28-81). Then the wind cemed, "fine inunediately the ship was at the land - whither they went," Then they worship- ped Him. They could restrain themselves no longer, but on a "rapture of wonder, devotion and reverepoe" they fall at His feet and openly declare, "Thou art the Son of God." PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS. This incident in the life of our Lord not only declares to the world His di- vinity, .but also tetteltee us a lesson of faith and service. lt breathes forth His nature and mission,. and inspires to la- . bor for the lost. I, A hungry world. "They have noth- ing to eat" (Mark 6, 36). While Christ was feeding this multitude the world was in the deepest need of Moral help, was hungering for the living bread. The' Jewish cherch represented the best that existed in the religious world, but its doctrines had been perverted, ite truths had been glossed freer, end its practices had become corrupted. The syetem was only an empty ceremonialism. The pagan religions could furnish nothing as eom- mendable even as Judaism. There was a famine of the pure word of God. The greatest need of thee age was the gos- pel. 11. A bountiful 'amply, "When He had gieen thanks, He distributed" (v.. 11). rhe supply, to ell appeanteces, was small end in no sense prepOrtionate to the needs of the multitudes. It is not strange thet the disciples should be amazed at the thought of ein attempt to feed the hungry multitude with the visible supply at hand: It is often a temptation brought to bear upon Christians that the world's moral needs are so great, and the bearers of the gospel message are so few that it would be useless to try to meet those needs. We notice, however, that the supply, small aa it was, was devoted to tile purpose that was in Christ's mind. Here is encouragement, for the servant of God. If we place ourselves at the dispool of the -Lord, He can make of us what He will, while if we withhold our- selves we utterly fail of accomplishing His design. IVInet the lad had was food, the very 'thing most needed at the time. The Master made use of what eras available. Ile was able to search out what was at hand. If there had been no food among the multitude or if that which was found was not: at His disposal, it would have been a smallanatter with Him to change the stones thereabout into bread. A lesson here for us to learn Is, that God employs mea.ns that exist and are available in carrying forward His work. The erace of God abounds to satisfy the longing soul. The river of Ezekiel's vision typifies the inereasieg abound. in,g nature of God's grace. Apparently small end of little importance, it is go - leg out to reach earth's remotest bounds, until the limit, "To every creature," is reached. Christ's gospel is not, in its very nature, to be cumunsmibed. As long as sinners live, time, its inherent . energy impels its extension. 1IL The disbributing agency. "Give ye ' them to eat" (Matt. 14, 16). As the • bread and fish were there to be distrib- uted, so the disciples were there to pass it around, receiving it from the Master's ! hands. Humau lastrurnentalities are employed in His service. The very deeel- ples whom Christ employed to hand out , bread to the famishing were to feed the spiritually hungry. la S. Warner. . ; HEART STOPPED BEATING, But Little Child Lives and May Recover. New York, Feb. 23, -For nine days the three-year-old son of Elias Margolies, of 130 Rivington etreet, has been in a state of complete coma, and the physi- cians called to treat the child are bat - fled. ' On one oecesion the baby's tempera. ture WAS 1061-2 degrees and his heart stopped beating. The chances ere, how- ever, that he will recover, but probably will tever regale full use of his mind. Scarlet fever ateicked the boy a week ago last Thursday. When he remained uncimscious for two days, medical 111011 said there was no hope. Sueday be was kept alive by strychnine. There was a slight improvement on Tuesday, ane it Was notieed thet the re- flex senses were active. Since theft there has been no change. Dr. Diamond said yesterday that thii Wan the only ease on record where fever coma of such duration Intel hot resulted in death. • THAW BEING WATCHED. .0111111111111111 `‘,:k LIWIN i'ZPOW TORONTO MARKETS. rumen' Market, The offerings of grain to -day were heavier than for some time, and piene were steady. Wheat unchanged, with sales of 800 bushels of fall at 98 to 09e Oats filln 400 bushels Amnia at 50 to 57e Qats firm 400 bushels se lin bushels eelling at /00 per huehcl. at 56 to 57e. Barley unchanged, 1,200 Z Ailey preduce was in moderate Belo Pin with prices generally uncbanged, Butter sold at 28 to 30e per lb., midterm leld eggs ut 80 to .35e per dozen, Foul. try scarce and Brit; Hay in good supply, with prico stea. dy. Sales of 30 loads at $10 to $81 per ton; Straw steady, six loads selling at $15 to $10 a ton. Dressed hogs are steady, with light quoted. at $7,25 to $7.50, and benvy at $7. 1Vheat, white, bush , ,.. $0 98 $ 0 99 Do., red, nush,,.. $ 98 99 Do., spring, bush., .. .. 0 05 0 00 Do., goose, bush.. .. 93 0 00 Oats, huth .. • .. . ...... 0 50 .0 07 Barley, , . 0 70 0 00 0 84 0 00 Rye, bush,. .. Peas, per bush.. .. 0 88 0 00 Hay tinaothy, ton,. 19 00 21 00 Do., clover, ton- . 16 00 0 00 Strew, per ton.. .. 15 00 16 60 Seeds, Alsike, No. 1, bu8 25 8 70 Do. No. 2 7 00 7 50 bo., red clover.. 10 00 10 50 Dressed hogs,. , 7 00 7- 50 Rees, liew laid, dozen., ..0 30 0 35 Do., storage .. 0 22 0 25 Butter, .. 0 28 0 30 Do., storage.. 0 22 0 20 Butter, deny.. •.. 0 28 Q nO Do., creamery 0 31 0 34 Geese, dressed, lb... ,. 0 10 0 12 Chickens, per lb... . 0 13 0 15 Ducks, demised, lb., . 0 12 0 13 Turkeys, per lb... .. 0 17 0 20 Apples, per 1>ble 1 75 3 09 Potatoes, per bag:. ..1 10 'I 20 Cabbage, per dozen.. .. ..10 3400 .40 4500 Onions, per bag. , Beef, bindquarters.... .. 8 .50 10 00 -Do., forequarters.. .... 5 50 0 50. Do, choke, carcase,. .. 8 00 • 9 00 Do., medium, carcase.. .6 25 7 00 Mutton, per cwt.. .. .. 8 00 9. 00 Veal, prime, per met 9 00 el 00 Lamb, per met .... 12 00 14 00 LIVE POUUTRY WHOLESALE. Turlavgsi young ••• ,.4 0 it to $ Turkeys, old . 0 12, to ..... Geese, per lb. 10 to .... Ducks, per lb. . .. 0 11 to .... Chickens, fancy, .„. 0 11 to .... Chickens, naedium 0 00 tO. „ ". desired effeet on country roads, the lat. ter aro reported fairly good, Ordere for ' apring delivery are coming la well. Pres. ent arearanees indicate that etorekeep. stocks, the atter at present are moving Scams, per dozee 2 00 to • Groceries. -.Montreal granulated sugur, in Ware's,. $4.50; yelkev, $4.10; Acadia, $4.35; On- tario beet, $4.35; in bags prices are 5e leas than above. London, Feb. 22. -Raw suger, °entre fugal, lls; Muscovado, Os tide beet su- gar, robe 9s OW. Provisions. Pork -Short cut, $22 to $22.50 per hturrel; mese $18 to $18.50. Lard -Tierces, Wee; tubs, 12e; peels, 12eee. Smoked aed Dry Salted Meats -Long clear bacon, fleec for eons and cases; hams, medium and light, 34e to 15c; hams, line* I2efic to 13c; bucks, 16e to 17e; shourders, 14e; rolls, 10e to lOtke; breakfast bacon, 14e; green meats out of pickle, le less than smoke& • Sugar Market, St. Lawrence sugars are. quoted ae -Granulaked, $4.40 in barrels, 'and No. 1 golden, $4 in barrels, These pricee tee for cielirary; oar lots 5c less. LIVE STOCK. The reteipts af live stock at the City Afar- ket were 23 carloads, composed of 316 cattle, 403 hogs, 100 shep and 21 calves. On .account at stormy weather the above stock was. un- able to reach the market on Thursday. New York Sugar Market. Sugar -Rate firm; fair refining, 8.20c to 3.23e; centrifugal, 96 test, 3.70e te 3.75e; molasses sugar, 2.95e to, 3.98e; re- fined eteady. Winnipeg Wheat Market. • Followiug aro the closing quatatioids on Wienipeg grain futures to -clay : Wheat-elteb. $1.06 bid, May $1.09% bid. Oate-Peb. 50e bid, May 54eic bid. e British Cattle Markets. London. -London cables are steady at 101/20 to Ink per lb., dressed weighte refrigerator beef is quoted at Wee per lb. . London, Ont -There was a good. 'de- mand in moo lines at thelayei market: Dreesed hogs -Large supply; sales 4 $7.25 and $7.50, mostly at the higher price; live hogs, price for 'Monday's'. Fkipment, $5.10 per met, for selectee weighing 100 tO 200 lbs. Hay sold at, $15 to $10 pee ton; straw at $8.50 pera ton. Butter -There is a keener demand - at firma prieee; 28e to 29e for choice baskets; poand rolls, 27e for croejcs,-. Eggs -Good. demand; pekes firm, 20c to 27e for wholesale lots, BUTTER SCARCE. • There is a scarcity, of butter in England, and priees are abnormally high, The demand:, for Canadian butter is active, while the eup, ply is small, and prices Advanced 6 to 0' shillings Yesterday. Some of the Irish butter whieh was imported into Canada has actually been shipped back to Britain., where it finds ready sale. Bradstreet's Trade Review. 'Montreal -Trade Imre continues to move with a seemly tone. There hew , been little change in the volume of bust, - nos during the week although there is' itt some directions a slight tendency to - war& 'improvement in orders for apring goods. WhOlesitle dry goods men toport they are fairly well satisfied with the outlook foe future business and thateol: lections are generally rather better than' they have previously been. In eome lines of manufacture employers are re-engag- ing •help and it is expected reteil trade will shortly begin to show the benefit' of this move. 'Country trade is brisker now that roads have opened up told Win- ter geode are emit in geed demand. Toronto -Retailers here report that business leis been quiet during the east week, nma many of them semi) to expect little improvement until the spring opens out. The movement of winter goods was brisk while the told weat ler as ed, an there is etill it moderately good denutod, Dry goods wholesalers report fait buying for spring with values for all lines hold. ing steady. In other lines there is a moderate movement of staples. Less tua employed labor ia offering, although there are still plenty of teen With noth. itig to do, Wineipep-Wholesiders report consid- erable improvement in trade as the sea. soli advances. Spring orders are coming in fairly Well, but the 'sorting tfado winter linett quest. Victothe and Vateeeiver-jobbere te. port buaiftess as having been the quiet side during the pad week, al- though there has been ft fairly good re. tail ttovetrient, Laced hidustries are get. erally fairly buoy, Wt the limbering and Mining ttedees are Still dull. Collection?: are fair to good and valitee hold It tteady tone. reeerit- thaw hag the ere w II be cretty woll eleared ef winter well. Hamilton -Business there continues to hold a moderately active tono. Whole- salers report that spring geode are mov. Ing mare freely and that money is eom., inif in pretty well. Retailers have been doing a feir businese in winter linee. Manufacturers in moit lines still find thinge a little slow.. London -The demand for Seasonable goods at retail is moderately brisk, while wholnalers' orders are net large, Ina provement is looked for aw the spring advancee. Ottawa -Retail treat has been. moder- ately good during the past week, but buyers are still cautious in the matter of spring goods. Country trade has im- proved and collections are fair. Companies, Incorporated. Four million ono hundred thousand aollitra is the amount of money re- prmented by the thoorporation of new eompanies, and the increase in capital of old compani•es, evItich appeae in the • current, Onterio Gazette. . The Ontario Gas and 011 Fields, Limited, with a share capital of me million dollars, wicli head office at Ottawa, is incorporated, with the foliewing provi- sioned directors: j. IL L. Steer, T, 13. MeQuestee, C. E, 'Freeman, L. Id. Heal end If. D. alcOrituthon. Anether million -dollar concern is the "Soo" Copper Company, Limited, whose head office •will be at. Windsor, Ont.. which will inine copper in Algoma dis- trict. The peovisionta directors are: Elmer M. Daye _Alpha C, Peoples ard Clarenee E. Day. The Cobelt Silver Bills Mines, Lim- ited, also has a capital of a million dial- lers, end its bead office is to be at Co- balt, Ont. The provisional direetors of the °meaner are: C. P, Mitchell, W. R, Grablen, J. J. Anderson, and It. H. Hall. Ex.pert Will Observe for Sixty-. Days. Albany', N. Y., Feb. 22, ---Dr. Ferris, • President of the State Commiseion in Lumley, saki today thet diarry X. Timm.. acquitted 'of the intuit:1er of Sten - ford \elate on the -gamut of insanity, WaS4 being cloeely observed by Soperin. tended Leanly, of the State Ilotpital for the Irmne Afatteawati, Dr, Ferris Paid fled the proeedure in such 'MAO% 11.3 Thilt101 iS obtervo the patieet for the first sixty days of his bonfineMent, and rib the end of thee -period if lie egarded by 'the; Superintergletrt at' eerie lt repOrt te that effeet is made to the 'court, If Thaw it believed tiy the euper. ink:intent after he bag exambi. obeetvatiohe to be !Wet it ia unlikely Glint A repeat Will ne Inecle to . the comb oiliest required by Thaw's ' course% C. P. R. New Stock. It is learned that about 0,000 shares of the new C. P. R. stock in the aggreg.ate has been paid for in full by small lead- ers, These ebereholders will not get cheques for the new stock until after the paymeet of the semi-annual divi- dend in October, bub will in the mean- time rective-Interest at the rate of 5 per cent. a yeer on the money that they have jlaid in, It is undefstood that there are now only few holders of large blocks of Oen- tutitin PaeiSe stock. Plle total number sherehold•ers is between 18,000 and 19,000. elt. is believed that as heretofore prac- tiCally all of •the present offerieg of earn - mon stock, will be taken by the share- holders. It bas never been necessary for elle! Canadian Paeifie to have an issue of its stock underenitten, Cobalt's Millions. Up to the middle of October Met Mealy five hundred companies' had bee» theorporated for the purpose. of carry - Vag out Millinzr operations in the Cobalt and Larder eake areas. To be exact, 491 oompanies had received charters, tied of these the great majority pro- le:40d to operate in the Cobalt district. The total capitalization of these com- pamies reacries the enormous amount of $472,326,000. Of couree, there are a num- ber by whom not a single share has beeri sold, but the actual capital aub- salted by the public rues into mealy millions of dollars. • The declaration of an initial dividend on the New Temiskaming seock teeek ago hoc brought quite a number ea buy. • ing- orders into the market for these shaies and advaneed the prices upwards of nine points dming the week. Those who are in close totich with tthe com- pany predict that further dividends on this stook will be paid with considerable frequency, as the ore bodies in sight aro large, and shipmenes can bo regularly made from now upward. .1 THE HARTJE CASE. ARSON .CLIARGE wee th.o •witnests reply,. "nod got AGAINST GIRL t"..;4 ‘,„.„ yheniou u.11,01v nothiq of the fire?" SA 4101 .. v. - "Aro thee° your rubbere?” "Yes, ob.." The minimum penalty attaching to the offence with .wheeli Mabel Allen is charged is Seven yearie• insprietonment. .1.: 1. . up,prey in the morning with the rest, of YOUNG GIRL'S WRONG POSSIBLE CAUSE OF FARMER'S L.OSS. 4.4.4•44444444144, • Daughter of East Gwillirnhury Farm- er Facee Serioue Cherge.-Tells Story of Trust Betrayeet---Accusen of Setting F to Barns of. Ilacob Hopkins, Qamsing $3,000 Loss. - Mont ,Albert, Vett 2.4. -The tale of a young girlie vengeance on the• luau who, she alleges, wrenged Iteri of her ten -mile tramp through the snow- drifts and open fielde of East Gwillint- bury in the still hours of midnight to de - Wife Has Husband and Others on Trial For Perjury. • Pittsburg, Feb. 24.-A. G. Hartje, the millioftaire paper manufacturer, eohn L. Welahons, a haedware dealer, Clifford Hooe, a negro, formerly employee by Enereje as a coachman and named as co- reepondeitt in the famous divorce pro- ceedings instituted by Hartje egaing his Wife, Nies.' Mary Scott Hartje, were placed on trial to -day in Criminal Court thatged with conspiracy. It is alleged the men conepired to blacken the char- acter of Mrs. Hartje. • -All the defendants were hi court, Hooe having been brought from the Western Viaitentaary, where he is serving a SeVen years Sentenee for perjury as a re- sult -.of charges growing out of the di- vorce cage. Later Hon waived the right of appearing at the trial and was -Mooed bv Judge MacFarland. NOGI FEELS BAD Over the Sentence of Gen. Stoessel to Death. Sintinnatt, Feb, 24. -General Nogi, eoltimander of tho Japanese forms that 'alga:lived Port eerthur, expressed sym- pathy for his defeated enemy in a brief cabiegram reeeived to -day. Oe the re- ceipe of the hews that Gen, Stoessel had been convicted and sentenced to deedli for his eonduct of the defence of PerteArthur, the Cincinnati Thnes-Star sent le cablegram to Gen. Nogi, statieg theefact, and asking for a statement of hisattiews. In .a reply roared today, the 'Japanese leader said: "As a soldier, deeply ,sympathize with Gon. Stoeesa. I cannot bear to etate My views," • n , SHEFFIELD'S WAy. NO Approval There of Metheds of the • Suffragetted. T 1 t le 23 Slu ff' lel n we - Peeler ble take ea reteremium of the women of Sheffield on the subject of watmei suffrage to the questioe, "A.re yeti in favor of having tbe "suffrage?" The -.vote MS 0,001 for and 14,652 against, On the question "Do you ap- prove of the methods of the sulfa - glees?" the tote tale: Yes 3,504; No, 17,0:24. hi many rases the oanvasseit Were StappOSea to be ageuts of the site- ' ta Ind Were tuned away svitb con- tumely and the voting papers %dig- raMit mattly torn up, unread. Windrnill &Oen Arm, . Avon, Feb, 23.-Thenuts )3tirdge was the vietlin of a distressing ftecident to. day by whith he will lose an arm. . fit• Was filleg the wiedmill two and . a half miles ettat Of here, When hie atilt • wog ought and neerly severed. lle hung for sale thus before help or- tived. , stray title. man'il barns; the tale of bey subsequent proseeubion by this middle- - aged farmer, who in his evidence admit- ted wronging her, and who now seeks to send her to tho penitentiary on a alarm of axon -soh was the case presented against eighteen -year-old Mabel Allen at the sitting ef the fire inquest under Previncial Detective Joseph E. Rogers here to -day, in commotion witb. wleich tbe girl is in custody as an incendiary, and Jacob Hopkins accuses her. The fire witich destroyed Hopkins' barns occurred in the early morning hours of Friday, February 14th, and en - tined the loss of about $3,000. The evidence given to -day went to show that seven neighbors had traced a woolen's footsteps through the snowdrifts to the lane of the Allen home while tbe fire was still burning; how as tbe searthers reached the Aliens' gate a light in one of the rooms suddenly disappeared; how the girl had been employed as a domestic at Hopkins' home, and had quarrelled with him and his mother, and finally how the girl is alleged to have been premised marriage by a man whose wife ie yet living. A Magisrate's Investigation. The inquisition was completed this afternoon, and the girl will appear for a preliminary trial on Monday before the local magistrate, Mr. Thomas eloore, at 11 a. m, Meanwhile she remains in charge of Constable Cook and hie wife. Mabel Allen, the defendant, has just turned eighteen years, and is of a pleasing appearance. She is the (laugh- ter of a struggling farmer and was em- ployed as a domestic in the Hopkins house from September, 1906, to August 15, 1007. Dming this time it is alleged - by Hopkins and. his mother that the girl quarrelled with the family anl threat- ened once to burn the farm buildings, While in fits of passion she would throw articles, such as spoons, knives and forks, at Jacob Hopkins, even once at- tempting to poison him by pouring aqua fortis on pills which Hopkins was accus- tomed to take. • On the other hand, Mrs. Hopkins, who, by the way, is 80 years of age, admitted that her son kieked the girl once, and the defence alleges gross cruelty and abuse. The court house dering the inquest was crowded witb farmers from the surrounding country, to, whom both families concerned aro well known. At one point in the proceedings the hall was cleared of all witnesses and spectators, while Mabel Was cross-exam- ined. The crowd waited outside in the cold for fully an hour, and when the examination was over flocked in again. Jacob's Evidence, Jacob Hopkins was the first witness called. He is about forty-eight years of age; he has been living apart from his wife for soine years, and works the farm, which is at present his mother's, but which falls to lem on her decease. He retailed to the court his actions on the Thursday evening preceding the fire, explaining that he left the barn safe at 8 o'clock. He took the lantern back to the house with him, and after sitting awhile went to bed about 9 o'clock. A boy, John Watson, slept with him, and at 2 o'clock in the morning atvakened him, and they found the barn in such a blue as to make it impossible to save any of the stock. He explained -that there were three buildings destroyed, and that the total loss would probably amount to $3,000. On this there was in- surance for $850, He himself had not semi the tracks referred to. "Did Miss Allen ever tareaten to do anything vioknt?" asked the Crown -attorney, "No, I never hefted bee, but my mother did." "You bed quarrels with her?" "Not of a serious character." • "Was there not trouble about yori not manying her? Had you ever taken advantage of her?" "Yes." "Had you told her you were going to marry her?" ."No. I said in the spiing We might skip out together." Orms-exainined by Mr. Pita', nun - :est for elde.s Allen, Hopkins stated he applied for a divorces from his wife in 1809. • Norman Kay's Story. It was the story told by Norman Kay, a neighboring farmer, of ebout twenty-two years, that brought out the evidence which first led to the asso- chigoe, of the aceu-sed with the ease, He told of following tracks from the back of the eow stable, where the fire evidmetly started. The Accused's Story., Mabel Allen, slender, pretty, brown - eyed. and browt-halrea, with a faze the delicate lines of Which did not seem audicete the type of a WO111Un who could trudge miles through snow mud over feemes to accompliali a violent deed, said ehe hod known Hapkies siece be WOS fourteeti years eld. She was eixteen when she came to week for his mother in September, 1005, and had boil there only two weeks when the became unfortunately intimate with her aecueee. She declared that Hopkins promised to marry her and did net at any time atterward 'withdraw the promisee, She knew he was mar - Ilea, but theught he teas getting a di- vorce, It was only this einter, she s'aid, thee ate kortied while . working at Sandford that Ilopkins was not de vore stopped Itt oiled all donee- poudence with him. During the 'Miele proeeedings john Allen, the gireas father, hovered anxi- ously near tied wbispered suggestions itt the ear of her eounsel, Mr. Pitch, Eetrieg part of tbis examination the audienee aid Witnesses were ordered out of the court room mid the own- inetion prixeceled le private. The peieoner'e lips had been set tightly dur- ing the examination until this point when her mother was eefueed permis- sioo to any. Iter lips quivered ft lit - tie then, It Wee unpleaeoeit story ehe told, Slue had !toted Aimee, the eaid, tinder the belief that Hopkins would marry bor. Certain lettere be. tween the 'two she at first deniM writ. ing, but admitted thein later. She also tulmitted quarrelling with Itop. kins at Ids mother's hoe*, but aver. red haa not made the threte putod to her, "Now, es to your moveniesits on Thursday night," began Alt Drayttoe "What time did yoU °alp "I did net go out, sir, Weht FIGHT FOR LIFE, 1.41.44444444.44 WALKED A MILE AND A HALF WITH CLOTHING BURNER OFF. • •4•44 4.44•me• • A Minnesota Rancher Loses Her Cab- in and All Her Belongings by Fire -Hopes Are Entertained' for Her Ultimate Recovery. SAVED BY sisTER, Ths Wingham Advanot SIX-YEAR-OLD GIRL SNATDDKS ; TODDLER AWAY rRou STOVE. ; I Badly Burned. May Lose Sight,"Nother ill Despair Thrwit Flaming Child Into Snowbank--Neigbbor $mptiod I An lento., Ont, despatch: Miss 1?,dith Knopke, who lived on a homestead claim across the boundary in Minne- sota, was burned almost to el:oath in her solitary cabin, and bad one of the most trying experioncee which ever fell to the lot of one of her sex, She was cookieg meat, when her -clothing caught fire, and the wall paper also ignited. She was too dazed by the sudden conflagration to take any effective measures, and. when she got out of the cabin her clothes Were lit- erally burned Vont her body, and she was suffering terribly, Her honk in ruinsand she in a naked condition, and alone in the wintry woods at night, she Made a plucky attempt and succeeded in walking a mile and a, half tine reached the home of a -neighbor, John Reid, who, with the help of other neighbors, slid what he could for the un- fortunate women, Medical aid was summonee, and tele- grams were sent to relatives in the east. The badly aliened yeung lady was fixed up as comfortably as possible and taken by train from Fort Frances to Minne- apolis. Hopes are entertaieed for her ultimate recovery. She is twenty-seven years of age, and expected to prove her claim- to her homestead in -about four -e months. INSANE MAN AT KERWOOD. Charles Marsidey Takes Possession of ' Railway Telegraph Office. Stratitroy, Feb. 23. -The village of Xerwood, about six miles west of here, was thrown into a state of excitement last night by the actions of a farm hand named Charles Marshley, who went violently insane. Marshley walked into the depot, ordered the eperator out, and took possession, and all efforts to remove him proved futile until the arrival of Arthur Morgan, for whom Marshley had worked for the past three years, After coming out Ma.shley threat- ened to burn the barns and surrounding buildings. After a hard struggle John Taylor, county constaele, succeedea 'in elacing him under arrest, and kept him under -lose guard all night. He leas taken to the London Asylum by Chief Wilson. Marshley is a home boy, about twenty years of age, and has been in this coun- try about three years. , SUNDAY LAW IN THE.WEST. Rev. T. A. Moore Thinks Agitation Will Do Good. Winnipeg., Feb. 23. -Rev. T. A. Moore, Secretary of the Lordei Day Al- liance, left last eveniug to tour the west in company ivith Rev. W. Roch- ester, Western Secretary. •The agitation in Winnipeg arising from the activity during the past few weeks of the police must do good, ac- cording to Mr. Moore, and when the law is really Understood by the people, he says, many of those who now fancy it unreasonable and a hardship. will know that it is .wise legiefation that must result in great good to the citi- zens and to the nation. A law that has relieved upwards of 75,00e men of seven days in the week toil, that has given 7,000 druggists aed their ele'res a week- ly. rest day, that has kept mit of Can- ada 100,000 copies each week of Sunday papers of the United States' and that has given the joys of •honie life to such multitudes of citizens, eart only result in the end hi .great geed to all concerned, is the opinion of the General Secretary: ON VERGE OF AN OUTBREAK. Portuguese Government Foils One Plot ". to Overthrese It. London, Feb. 24. -The Lisbon corre.s- pendent of the Daily Mail, telegraph- ing by way of Madrid, refers to the many Ceneational reports of plots to overehrow the Government, He says there was undoubtedly a reactionary plot by the followers of foemer Prime Minister Franco, with the object of caus- ing publio riots, which would Ore an ex- cuse for the resumption of repressive measures. Tho coup was planned to occur on Thursday night ea Friday. It was al- most successful. .An armed crowd as sauteed in tbo streets, but the author- ities, realizing that a conflict with the troops was part of the reactienary in- trigue, eonfined the soldiets to their bine reeks and thus ev'erted trouble. SOCIETY SHUNS CASTLE. Theft of Crown lovas Has Left Its Effects. Irelend, Feb. 23. -Many Eng - Rah' feshionables, both in the nobility and out of it, dome her enek year to enjoy the gayeties of the Cestle season, which begins this week and will last until St. Patrick's Day. But this year the eourt of the Viceroy, the Earl of Aber- deen, is rigorously boycotted, not only by the English, bot by the Irish aris- toeracy, and the Beason threatens to be A. flat tonere. There is only one Yeasort for this, of nurse -the scandal surromuling the theft. of the Crown jewels from Dublin ()Mile: . • t THREE CHILDREN BURNED. Tragedy at the Stanley Hoe* at Madawaska. -Ottawa, Peb. --ThIce eltadren of Mir. and MrS. James Stanley, of Madawaska, were burned to (loth an Friday eight, AS tee vestal of an oil lamp hang overturned, The victims' agrA Were 5 and 3 ;veers end 3 menthe. The parents left the house and locked the 'children in, and nothing Was knoWn till the houso was in flames. - -" • NATAL ACT APPEAL. The B. C. Government Carry the Case Farthet Vaneenvor, Feb. 0.-Attoemey-Gener- al Dueller, speaking on feeturdny, elle- appeal figninot the Chief juatioes deeimon against the cotatitutionelity of the Natal Mt wordd be hoard week. If the appeal is dismissed the ro. **risibility for the present ondition of Oates would He at Ottawa, Contents Of Wathtub On Her Brother. 44•444.444.44•444 Toronto, Feb, a4,--Urabbillo her littlel brother away from the stove because the! thought his clothes had caught fire, siaol year-old Lillian May Lestee, kname IA in Swansea, herself became wrapped I in flames. Running to the top of the stairs both children started to cry and about at -the; top of their wilco. Below the mother heave the noise and Mating upetairs picked up the little 1 girl and threw her into n mew bank et I "Mrs. Hawke! Mrs. Hawke!" site the back. screamed to a neighbor next door, Mrs, Hawke was washing. Without, dropping the clothes she had in ber Mends elle flew to the scene, Seeiug the child's clothes were on fire she grabbed up the washing treat her tub and threw it over the little one. Another neighbor, Mr, Spenee,•ran to the help of the two women, Ho toi s from the child all the clothes which re- .mained on her and were still burning. Then Dr. Godfrey was called, and the little one, almost dead with the burns, the shock of the snowbanit plunge and the aouebe from the washtub, was care- fully swathed in bandages from head to foot, Even her little face and head wore bandaged un, Sae will recover, Dr. Goafrey thinks, but she may lose her sight, "I was downstairs with my little boy; and Lily had gone upstairs to put her school books away. The little boy fenewed her up," mid elm Lester to The Telegram this morning. "There 'is a stove in the room, and I guess the girl's dress caught on the kuote of the stove. See thought her brother's clothes -be is going on three emus old -had caught fire and she snatched him away from the stove, They both cried out and I ran upstairs. "They were coming down, witle tee little girl's dress in flames. I had to shove. the boy away or his clothes have caught fire. He rolled down the stairs. I threw Lily out in the snow pie at the back and called for Mrs. Hawke. She came and then Mr. Spence followed her, and be- tween them they got the flames out." Mr. Lester is employed in the To- ronto Bolt Works, and he was at work wheu the accident happened. Ho was sent for, and when he arrived the child. was lacing attended eo by the neighbors. "Thank God. she escaped, but the had a narrow squeeze," said Mr. Les- ter: "It is only about tbree months ago since we buried the youngest thild, who was only nine months old," e. • A CHINESE NOAH. Made Money Out of the Story of the Flood. Berlin, Feb. 23. -The German press has received a story about a Chinese Noah which has the great advantage of being authentic. In. the Province of Seehiten• lived a man on the banks of the Yangtse River who had frequent visions. To most of his narratives of visions his neighbors paid little attention, but when he began to tell them that his celestial friends had warned him of an approaching deluge they began to look gloomy. He told 'them they must prepare for it by building a huge .ark. Some thousands of men contributed money,, wood, nails and other materials. Our fnend was tr.easurer. The ark was a mighty vessel When finished, with several storeys and a great store of food. The fatal day came and the ark fill- ed with panicstricken Chinese. The sky was clear and the river allowed no sign of rising, but the change might come at any moment, and they decided to remain in the ark. A day or two passed and still no sign of catas- trophe. • Then they began to look about for the visionary,. but he was nowhere to be found. It is believed that he is prophesying in some other provjuee. LEOPOLD'S DEMANDS. Trouble Again Over the Congo Settle- ment. Brussels, Feb. 23. -The situation in the matter of the annexation to Bel- gium of the Congo Independent State is again assuming a disquieting as- pect. It is said that King Leopold has taken back all his fair promises and now demands that the special fund which was to replace the Crown domain be placed under his control, and not =under that of Parliament, ad it was originally agreed. In ad• dition he asks that $50,000,000 be placed at his disposition to carry out various projects. It is understood that the Govern merit is firmly resisting these de mands and is determined, if neees sary, to resign. As Xing Leopold could riot under such circumetainces find anyone to assume the Ministry it is pointed out that the Ministers' resignations would mean elections that would be bound to result in the return of a majority most hOstile to the Xing. TWICE CAUGHT STEALING. Young' Woman Shoplifter Arrested in Montreal. efontreal, Feb. 28. -On Monday Miss Eva Rivard, a young mid well-dressed woman, was caught stealing in &reg. ekes departmental store. She was forced to give up her stolen goods, and let go with a warning. On Saturdey she was again canght in the same store stealing and -was turned over to the pollee. Her room was searched later and clothieg to the value of $200 found there. There were between 20 and 30 waists and other articles believed to be stolen. A fur coal and diamond bracelet were also found. She appears in court on hfonday. CAUGHT PROM MS PIPE. Abbe Blak Butted to Death at Three Rivers. Three Rivets, Que., Peb. 23. -Attie Elio Blida mot his death oe Saturday aftertioon under peculiar ciremestanees. The Ievereed gclittenutn, who suffered from paralysis, WAS a oilfield at St, Joseph's Hospital. tt is supposed he was enjoying bit after.dinner pipe tied I fell asleep, letting the pipe fall, Whieli set fire to hie clothes, When essist. once toothed hint life was ithnost tinet, his fate, head and shoulders ht. ing badly burned, Ile died shortly af. temente. Detested waif fifty.elght years Of age kria iva* born in Ytinisolleohe, THUM NALL; Prppristior • - Dr.. Agnew 4111WPINOWIsr 014040-Vgetaire fa the ilealeash11 !Desk. )1104 al" IMOW11,114 Aft& • J. P. KENNEDY, MID, 11.0.P.S.O. leassokr tehe avitish %WW1 'AistoMAIOLI 410114D 111111)44101* )0M311'4114 111Paisi staintleal paid. to Dissaoso Igko1 Ala sad Ohndtwa. Cake brIllf-4 tf) 4 p. 111,1 t0 IN DR. ROOT. C. REDMOND pg. It. CI, 0. War) Oa It, C. P. CLo1nt.) 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A., wrest ' and Ws/shit:pat ; phis ,rionle,. es rr, prom. 1- / V dispatch work and qui...klr a enr 1. 1...nts as bro id as I beinventiou flighesi ref; retn.,,,4 furnished. Patents procure3 .brnuch Merin- ft Ma riOn receive op, Oil notice vrithnot eiv..lre in over too newspapers du.tributcd ins coghont the 1) minion. Specialty :-Fateet nosiness of Marlene. torero and Engineers. MARION & 711/LRION Patent Expert and Sc.11cita.s (1111cess 1 . AtioAtIc 0.1. g Washington b C N -o. York Life S'irre. rt,071.-fai TWO MILLIONS FOR ROADS. System of Rotaedndilnmg.provement Ex - Toronto despatch: Over $2,000,000 a year in. money mid statute labot is th cost of maintaining the country roade of Ontario. Tbe statement is Made la the twelfth annual report on highway im- provement, laid before the Legislature yesterday. Tile report points out that the return from this expenditure in the wa.y of benefit conferred by good roads is, however, practically incalculable. The report states the progress being made in highway improvement is, how- ever substantial aid encouraging. The wori is of X cumuletive rather thaa re- volutionary nature, and results from both educative and practical measuree. Of the latter the most prominent tete been the work performed under highway improvement act, Wit leby county road systems, toward waielt One-third of the cost of construetion granted by the Provincial Government, have now been established in fourteet counties, viz.: Wentworth, Simeoe, • Oeford, Middlesex, Perth, Wel- lington, Halton, Peel, Hastings, Pron- tome, Lanark, Pante Edward and Lennox and Addington. Over forty per cent. of the Province to \vela the, highway improvement act is applicable tins thus established and is onetime.- ing improven systems of lending roads. The total expenditare on country 'ea- ten, has to date amounted to $1,1,17,- 664.10, of which the Provincial Govern - merit has 'contributed. $365,218.74.- The systems established comprise 2,550 miles of road. t ONE OF DEWET'S SPIES. The Remarkable Career of a Woman Circus -Rider. London, Feb. 24; --Lily Whiterose, a circus rider, charged with drunken- ness at Bradford, told the Bench an ex- traordinary life story. She was the daughter of ne army officer, she said. Rite ran away. from. home while in lier 'tens and jolted Buffalo Bill's show in Massachusetts, SIM became a crack shot and expert rider under Colonel Cody's tuition. Later sbe married an Mistrial) army officer. She followed him to South Africa, end managed during the war to mouse some secret information roped- ing the movemetts of the British artny. She went to the DOCT General Dowet, sold him the inforniation, and was engaged as a despatch runner. . She Worts military attire and passed at e. Remorse for her treachery overcame her, and she deserted the Poets 'turd joined the British army et /dodder River distetised ea a trooper. She Stott throligh several battles, elm said, and earned special dietinetion by tarrying a wounded soldier part of the way. across the river on her horse. Afterwards she became HI with enter. io fever, and in the hospital her sex was dieotivered, She then been* a nurse, and later, she tor:winded, she returned home to resume Vei professional tstreer. She Was fined MI including costs, with the alternative of three ereekt' heprleolinterit, e. .1 • e, ...,it 1 1 1.•