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He ind put on one of his wife’s dresses and so disguiud himself otherwise that the children were deceived. ' The motive of the crime infin- known. De Bates is being searched for in all directions. One of the children is dying, ind. the other: are in a critical condition. “'ith curious lock of knowledge as to the past of science, commentators upon the life of Huxley fall into the singular error of declaring that he “established the theory of evolution” of which Darwin is declnred to be the “suthor.” If an asser- tion so widely made. and so absolutely be not inquired into at the moment. of its birth 3 spurious myth will be sdded to popular faith concerning the progress of scientific investigation and its tentative results. 7 A deepzxtch from Keewaunee, Ill. . says :â€" W‘illiam de Bates, living near this town, in charged with hnvinq “tempted. to kill his three children. He has fled. On Sunday some of the neighbors heard screams com. ing from Beten' house. They rushed in end louud ell three children lying on the floor, apparently dying from terrible muti- lation all over their bodies, while is blood- stained hatchet told whetjnetmment had. been used to inflict. the wounds. One little girl 13 years old, was able to tell a confused story of how her mother had rushed in from the room,en§ grabbing them Evolution is not established. In the very nature of thinks it can never be es- tablished. Its premises, according to its own authentic advocates, go beck beyond the scope of men’s power of research or of reckoning time. Thet it is very generally held- to be true is beyond queetion ; but those who believe most firmly in it would be the last to claim for its demonstration. Without demonstration a. scxentific theory cannot be said tobe established. If the evolution of species from species be admit' ted an integral part of the theory of evolu- tion, as it must be, a. monumental barrier stands in the way of its unquestioned acceptance. That barrier has been placed in scientific annals by Louis Agassiz in his exposition of the fixity of species, as illus‘ trated by embryology. Asa Huxley has not established evolution, Darwin v. as not and never claimed to be its “author.” The principle of evolution was nppnrent to Aristotle, who. notwithstand- ing the scsiiiiness oi msterisls, means and opportunity for biologic study, preceived the reasonableness and probability of the principle. The theory itself was widely known among the Greek and ‘the early Christian scholars,an(l was freely discussed, pro and con, in theChristian schools of the first five centuries. Darwinism, properly stated, is natural selection, and it under- takes to justify the principle of evolution. Natural selection. briefly stated, is that ewry kind of suimal and plant tends to increase In numbers in geometrical progres- sion :‘hst every kind transmits a general likeness, with individual difference, to its oll'spnng. and that every individual. has to endure a severe struggle for existence, owing to the tendency to geometrical In- crease oi All kinds of animals and plants, while the total animal and vegetable population, man and his agency excepted, remains almost statimmry. Darwin himself, a chiwflrous, highmind- ed and nonest man, who wrote' modestly and cautiousiy, always resented ascription to him of anything which was not his due. Huxley would smile with his characteristic brusqueness of candor at the absurdity of claiming for him the establishment of a. theory lithich neither he nor any other scientific defender of evalution professed to believe susceptible of demonstration. in the last edition oi “ The Origin of Species,” Darwin somewhat modifies natural seler‘tion in relation to its potency as a favor in the probability of evolution- ‘Vhile he continued to maintain that it is the most important means by which nature has preserved an equilibrium between generation anti subsistence. he does nor. adhere to his original position that it is the only means. It will also be remembered that while evolution is not Darwin’sin any sense. the hypothesis of natural selection Ina put forth by Alfred R. Wallace about the same time as by Darwin, who. however, was antn-cedent in reaching the world with his evidences in nupport of it thereby giving to the hypothesis of natural selection his name. Tries to Kill His Three Children. VOL II- N0 33. Would Take No Risks. CURRENT NO TES I Belongihg to this clue: of irrevocoble I mistakes 138the folly of e minpent youth. We mey look back to our college deyl and think how we neglected chemistry, tor geology, or botany. or mathematics. We may be sorry shoot it all our doy e. Con I we ever get the dieci e or the odventege I thet we would have bed we Attended to thoee dutiee in only life! A men woken no “40 you. ofege and find; ' There is an impression in almost every man’s mind'thst somewhere in the future there will he s chance where he can correct all his miatskes. Live as we msy, if we only repent in time. God will forgive us, and then all will be as though we had never committed sin. My discourse shall come in collision with that theory. I shell show, you, my friends, at God will help me, that there is such 5 thing ss unsuccess- ful repentance ; that there no things done wrong thst slwnys stay wrong, and for them you may seek some plsce of repentance and seek it csrefnlly, but never find it. Ills Opt-non of " The lllnpnrdolnble Sin." â€".\'03 Possible Today to Comm" ltâ€" Some “revocable Mistakes Enumerat edâ€"‘l‘he Signal Gun or the Gospel. N EW YORK, July l4.â€"In his sermon for to-day, Rev. Dr. Talmoge, who is still in the west on his annual summer tour, chose a subject which has been a fruitful theme of theological disputation for centuries past -viz, “The Unpardonable Sin” The texts selected were: “All manner of sin and blasphemy shall be forgiven unto men, but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven unto men. And who- soever speeketh a word against the Son of Man. it shall be forgiven him, but whoso- ever apeaketh against the Holy Ghoetit shall not be forgiven him, neither in this world, neither in the: world to come.”â€" Matthew xii, 31, 32. . THE LATE TU REGALL. “He found no place ofrepenmncofihough he sought. It: carefully with tears.”â€" Hebrcws xii, 17. Now, I do not think it is possible in this (lay to 'commit that sin. 1 think it was possibly only in apostolic times. But it is u very terrible thing ever to say any- thing against the Holy \a’vhmt, and it is a. marked fact that our race has been mar- Velously kept back from that profanity. You hear a man sWear by the name of the Eternal God and by the name of Jesus Christ. but you never heard a man swear by the name of the Holy Ghost.‘ There are those here to-dsy who fear they are guilty of the unpnrdonable sin. Have you such anxiety 1’ Then I have to tell you positively thst you have not committed that sin, because the very anxiety is a result of the movement of the gracious spirit. and your anxiety is proof positive, as certainly us anything that can he demon- strated in mathematics, that you have not committed the sin that l have been speak- ing of. I can look off upon this audience and feel that there is salvation for all. It is not like when they put out with those lifeboats from the Loch Earn for the Ville du Huvre. They knew there was not room for all the passengers, but they were going to do as well as they could. But to-day we man the lifeboat of the gospel, and we cry out over the sea, “ Room for all !” Oh, that the Lord Jesus Christ would, this hour, bring you all out of the flood of sin und plant you on the deck of the glorious old gospel craft ! But ivhile l have said I do not think it is possible for us to commit the particular sin spoken off in the first text, I have by reason of the second text to call your attention to the fact that there are sins which, though they may be pardoned, are in some respects irrevocable, and you can find no place for repentance, though you seek it carefully with tears. Esau had a birthright given him. In olden times, it meant not only temporal but spiritual blessing. One day Esau took this birthright and traded it for something toeat. Oh the folly 2 But let us not be too severe upon him, for some of us have committed the same folly. After he had made the trade he wanted to get it back. Just as though you, to~mrrrow morning, should take all your notes and bonds and government securities and should go into a restaurant and in a tit of recklessness and hunger throw all theee securities on the counter and ask for a plate of food, making that exchange. This was the one Esau made. He sold his birthright for a mess of pottage, and he was very sorry about it afterward, but “ he found no place for repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.” REV. DR. TALMAGE 0N WRONGS THAT CANNOT BE RIGHTED. You see from the first passage that I read that there is a sin against the Holy Ghost for which a man is never pardoned. Once havmg committed it he is bound hand and foot for the dungeons of despair. Sermons may be preached to him, songs may be sung to him. prayers may be offered in his behalf, but all to no purpose. He is a capture for this world and a captive for the WOIld to come. Do you suppose that there is any one here who has committed that sin? All sins are against the Holy Ghost, but my text speaks of one especially. It is very clear to my own mind that the sin against the Holy Goat was the ascribing oi the works of the Spirit to the agency of the devxl in time oi the apostles. Indeed the Bible distinctly tells us that. in other words, if a man had sight given to him, or if another was raised from the dead, and some one standing there should say : “This man got his sight by satanic power. The Holy Spirit did not do 'this, Beelzebnb accomplished it,” or, “This man raised from the dead was raised by satanic in- fluence,” the man who said that dropped down under the curse of the text and had committed the fatal sin against the Holy Ghost. Ac sometimes you gather the whole family around the evening stand to hear some book read, so now we gatherâ€"a great Christian groupâ€"Lo study this text, and {low may one and the same lamp cast. its glow on all the circle. How many parents wake up in the latter part of life to find out the mistake ! The parents save, “I have been too lenient,’ or, “ I hove been too severe in- the disci- pline of my children. If I had the little ones around me again, how different I would do 1" You will never have them around egnin. The work is done, the bent to the churecter in given, the eternity is decided. I say this to young parentsâ€" thoee who ere 25 or 35 years of ageâ€"have the femily altar to-night. How do you sufipoae that. father felt as he lenned over the couch of his dying child and the ex- piring eon said to him : “Father you have been very good to me. You have given me a fine education and you have placed me in a fine aocinl position :you have done every- thing for me in o worldly lense ; but father, you never told me how to die. Now I om dying, end I m efreid." In this category of irrevoooble mutekee that his youth has been wasted, and] he strives to get back his early advan. :ages. Does he get them backâ€"the days of boyhood, the days in college, the days under his father‘s roof. “ Oh,” he says, “ifI could only get those times back l again, how I would improve them !” My 1 brother, you will never get them back. 1 They are gone,‘gone. You may be very‘ sorry about it and God may forgive,so that you may at last reach heaven, but you will never get over some of the mishaps that have come to your soul as a result of your neglect of early duty. You may try to undo it: but you cannot undo it. When you had a boy’s arms and a boy's eyes and a boys heart you ought to have attended to those things. A man says, at 50 years of age, "I do wish I could get over these habits of indolence.” When did you get them? At 20 or 25 years of age. You cannot shake them off. They will ban to you to the very day of your death. fa young men through a long course of evil conduct undermines his physical health, and then repents of it in after life. the Lord may pardon him, but that does not bring back good physical condition. I said to a minister of the gospel one Sabbath, at the close of the service, “Where are you preaching now 2'” “0h,” he says, “ I am not preaching. I am suflering from the physical effects of. early sin. I can’t preach now ; I am sick.” A consecrated man he now ie,and he means bitterly over early sins, but that does not arrest their bodily efi'ects. In this same category of irrevocable mis- takes I put all parental neglect. We begin the education of our children too late. By the time they get to be 10 or 15 we wake up to our mistakes and try to eradicate this bad habit and change that, but it is too late. The parent who omits, in the first ten years of the child’s life, to make an eternal impression for Christ, never makes it. The child will probably go on with all the dis- advantages, which might have been avoid- ed by paternal faithfulness. Now you see what a mistake that father or mother makes who puts off to latelife adherence to Christ. Here is a man who at 50 years of age says to you, “I must be a Christian," and he yields his heart to God and sits in the place of prayer to-day a Christian. None of us can doubt it. He goes home and he says : “ Here at 50 years of age 1 have given my heart to the Saviour. Now I must establish a family altar.” What? Where are your children now? One in Boston ; another in Cincinnati; another in New Orleans, and you, my brother, at your fiftieth year going to establish your family altar! Very well ; better late than never, but alas, alas, that you did not do it ‘25 years ago. When I was in Chamouni, Switzerland, l saw in the Windows of one of the shops a picture that impressed my mind very much. It was a picture of an accident that occurred on the side of one of the Swiss mountains. A company of travelers, with guides, went up some very steep placesâ€"places which but very few travel ers attempted to go up. They were, as all travelers are there. fastened together with cords at the waist, so that if one slipped, the rope would hold himâ€"the rope fasten- ed to the others. Passing along the most dangerous point, one of the guides slipped, and they all started down the precipice, but after awhile one more muscular than the rest struck his heels into the ice and stopped, but the rope broke and down, hundreds and thousands of feet, the rest went. And so I see whole families bound to- gether by ties of affection, and in many cases walking on slippery places of worldli- new and sin. The father knows ‘it, and the mother knows it, and they are bound all together. After awhile they begin to slide down steeper and steeper, and the father becomes alarmed, and he stops, planting his test on the “Rock of Ages.” He stops. but the rope breaks, and those who were once tied fast to him by moral and spiritual influences go over the preci- pice. Oh, there is such a. thing as Icomlng to Christ soon enough to save ourselves, but not soon enough to save others ! Now, why do I say this? is it for the annoyance of those who have only a baleful retrospection? You know it is not my way. I say it for the benefit of young men and women. I want them to understand that eternity is wrapped up in this hour ; that the sins of youth we never get over; that you are now fashioning the mold in, which your great future is to run ; that a minute, instead of being 60 seconds long, is marle up of everlasting ages. You see what' dignity and importance this gives to the life of all our young folks. \Vhy in the light of this subject-,life is not something to he irittered away, not something to be smirked about, not something to be danced out, but something to be weighed in the balances of eternity. Oh, young men, the sin of yesterdsy, the sin of to-morrow. will reach over 10,000 yearsâ€"aye, over the great and unending eternity. You may, after twhile, say: "I am very sorry. Now I have got to be 30 or 40 years of age, and I do Wish 1 had never committed those sins.” What does that amount to? God may pardon you, but undo those things you never will, you never can. The simple fact is, that men and women often take ‘20 years of their iife to-build up influences that require all the rest of their life to break down. Talk about a man beiinning life when he is 21 years of age ; tal abouts. woman beginning life when she is 18 years of age ! Ah, no ! In many respects that is the time they close life. In nine cases out of ten all the questions of eternity are decided before that. Talk about a majority of men getting their fortunes between 30 and 40 ! They get or lose fortunes between 10 and 20. “hell you tell me that a man is just beginning life, I tell you he is just closing it. The next 50 years will not be of as much im- portance to him as the first ‘20. “0H, WAD SOME POWER THE GIFTIE 01E US,’/'AE’ SEE OORSELS AS ITHERS SEE US.” J m OMEMEE. ONT. THURSDAK JULY 25 1895- Esau sold his birthright, and there is not wealth enough in the ireasure houses of heaven to buy it back again. What does , that mean '3 It means that if you are going to get any advantage out of this Sabbath day, you will have to get it before the hand ‘ wheels around on the clock to 1‘2 to-night. It means that every moment of our life has two wings, and that it does not ily, like a hawk, in circles, but in y straight line from eternity to eternity. It means that, though other chariots may break down, or drag heavily, this one never drops the Vbrn.ke and never ceases to run. It means that while at other feasts the cup may be passed to us and we may reject it, and yet after awhile take it, the uuphearers to this 2 feast never give us but one chance at 1 the chalice, and rejecting that, we I shall “find no place for repentance, Athough we seek it carefully with tears." There is one more class of- sins that I put l in this category of irrevocable sins and that is lost opportunities of usefulness. Your _ business partner isaproud man. Inordinary _ circumstances say to him “ Believe in ; Christ," and he Will say, “You mind your :business and I’ll mind mine." But there has been affliction in the household. His j heart is tender. He is looking around for l sympathy and solace. Now is your time. Speak, speak. or forever hold your peace. There is a time in farm life when you plant I the corn and wl en you sow the seed. Let j that go by and the farmer will wring his ‘ hands while other hushundmen are gather- l ing in the sheaves. You are in a religious meeting and there is an opportunity for you i to speak a. Word for Christ. Yon'say. “‘I i must do it.” Your cheek flushes with iembarrassment. You rise half way but {you cower before men whose breath is in their nostrils. and you sag hack, l and the opportunity is gone and i all eternity will feel the effects of your silence. Try to get hack that oppor- tunity. You might as well try to find the fleece that Gideon watched, or take in your hand the dew lhat came down on the locks of the Bethelem shepherds,or find the plume of the first robin that went across paradise. It is gone ; it is gone forever. I place, also, the unkindneasee done the departed. When 1 was a. boy, my mother used to any to me sometimes, “De Witt you will be sorry for that when I am gone. ” And I remember just how she looked sit ting there with cup and spectacles, anti the old Bible in her lap, and she never said u truer thing than that, for I have often been sorry since. While we have our friends with us we say unguarded things‘ that wound the feelings of those to whom We ought to give nothing but kindness. Per- haps the parent, without inquiring into the matter, boxes the child’s ears. The little one, who has fallen in the street, comes in covered with dust, and, as though the first disaster were not enough, she whips it. After awhile the child is taken, or the parent is taken, or the companion is taken, and those who are left say, “Oh, if we could only get back those unkind words, those unkind deeds ; if we could only recall them !” But you cannot get them back. You might bow down over the grave of that loved one, and cry and cry and cryâ€"the white lips would make no answer. The stars shall he plucked out of their sockets, but the influence shall not be torn away. The world shall die, but there are some wrongs immortal. The moral of which is take care of your friends while you have them. Spare the scolding : be economical of the satire ; shut up in a dark cave, from which they shall never swarm forth, all the words that have a sting in them. You will wish you had some dayâ€"very soon you willâ€"perhaps to- morrow. Oh, yes, with a firm hand you administer parental discipline, also admin- ister it very gently, lest some day there mig ht be a little slab in the cemetery, and on it chiseled “Our Willie” or “Our C har- There is another sin that 1 place in the class of irrevocable mist‘tkes, and that is lost opportunities of getting good.1 neVer come ion Saturday night but that I can see during the week gthat I have missed opportunities of getting good. I never come to my birthdny but that I can see that .l have wnsted many chances of getting better. I never go home on Sabbath from the discussion of it religious theme without feeling that! mi 'ht have done it in a more successful way. How is it with you? If you take a certmn number of bushels of wheat and scatter them over a certain number of acres of hunl, you expect a. harvest in proportion to the amount 0! seed scatteled, and I ask you now, have the sheaves of moral and spiritual harvest corresponded With the advantages given? How has it been with you. " You may make resolutions for the future. hut past oppor- tunities are guue. In the long: procession of future years all those past moments will march, but the archangel s trumphet that wakes the dead will not wake up for you cue of those privileges. When an opportunity 'for personal repentance or of doing goal passes away, you may hunt for in ; you cannot find ll. You may fish for in; in will not, take nhe hook : you may dig for in: you cannot bring it. up. Remember that. there are wrongs and sins that, can never be correct- ed ; that our privileges fly not- in circles, but. in a straight. line ; that. the linhmninas have not. as swift. feet, .ua our privileges when they are gone, and let an opportunity of salvation go by us an inch, the one hundredth part of an inch, the millionth port. of an inch, and no man can over-nuke 1t. Firowi‘nged semphim cannot come up with it. The eternal Godhimselt cannot, catch it. lie” and though you bow down prone in the grave and seek a plsce of repentence and seek it. carefully with Lears,you cannot find it. I stand before those who have a. glorious birthnght. Estm’s Wua not so tlcll as yours. Sell it, once. and you sell it. forever. I remember the story of the lad on the Arctic some years Agoâ€"the lad Stewart Holland. A vessel crashed into the Arctic in the time of n. fog, and it was found that the ship must go down. Some of the pus- aengers got on in the lifeboata, some got off on texts, but. 300 went to the bottom. During all these hours of calamity, Stewart Holland stood at the signal gun, and it sounded across the sea, boom lboom ! The helmeman forsookhia pluce,nndthe engineer was gone and some fainted and some prayed and some blasphemed, and the powder was gone, and they could no more get off the Iignnl gun. The lad broke in the magazine 3nd brought out more powder and again the gun boomed over the sea. Oh, my friende, toned on the rough seas of life,‘ acme have taken the warning, have gone 03' in the lifeboat, and they are safe, but other: are not: making any attempts to “wipe. So I mad at this signal gun of the gospel. sounding the alarm, Beware! heware ! "Now is the accepted time: now Is the day of salvation.” Hear it that your soul may [we ! ' Wonderful Trained [Dogsâ€"The Most. Aris- tocrnuc Army In the World. Germany’s wonderful dogs of war are again loose,and running all over the French papers. It is reported that when the in- fantry regiments are engaged in rapid firing these dogs, loaded with a little satchel containing cartridges, run along the lines and supply the men with the necessary ammunition. And when the suck is empty they return to have it replenished, and go through the same performance. They are also trained to seek out the wounded. Some remain close to the pros- trate men, and bark until the ambulance arrives. Others run for a guide, and bring him to the wounded man ; and another set are trained to pick up portions of the clothes generally the cap, which they carry to the guides, todraw their attention,and then lead them to the spot where the soldier lies. At Dresden the other day, on the race course, a company of soldiers was placed at the northwest corner, which was supposed to cover the transport of horses, which transport was to be conducted in secret. A few non-commissioned oificers,accompanied by trained dogs, were sent upon this mis- sion. The officers advanced about two kilometres, and kept up communication with the company by means of the dogs. Notwithstanding the great heat, the dogs ran over the distance in less than two min- utes, and one of them performed the feat several times in one minute. By this method the company was able to know MINUTE FOR. MINUTE the approach of the enemy. and to stop the transport, of the horses in Dime to avoid an «snack. According to the latest register of the German army, it appears that, notwith- standing its immense size, it is probably the most aristocratic in the world. Out of sixty-six Generals of infantry, cavalry, and artillery. there are only two common- ers. and all the rest are nobles. Out of seventy-twu Lieutenant-Generals, there are only thirteen ordinary fellows, all the rest being aristocrats. Out of 140 Major- Generals, there are only 38 ordinary mor- tals, and among 294 Colonels there are only 88 who do not belong to the aristOo uracy. So it appears that the high posts of the German army remain practically in the hands of the nobles. 1n the Prussian army there are forty-nine regiments in which all the officers, without exception. are nobles, and there are twenty-one regiments that, on principle. won’t have even a Second Lieutenant who is not a noble. Considering the immense number of men in the German army, it becomes pretty clear that nobility is sufficiently extensive to become a tolerably common thing in the empire. ... n . - i “ The home life of the Chinese,’ said William Russell, of Shanghai, “appears to be but little understood outside of the limits of the Flowery Kingdom. The most power- ful institution in China is the family. . The most remarkable attribute of the family is its ability to exercise judicial powers upon its members. If a Chinaman commitska minor otl'ence. the law, as we term it, takes 5 o cognizance of the case. The family takes upon itself the punishment of the ofi’ender by flogging or imprisonment, and the com- pensation of the injured party. It is only in the graver offences, such as murder, that the culpritis handed over to judicial author- ity. The ability of the Chinese family to sustain its feudal prerogative is owing to its being part and parcel of the land itself. There are no landlords in China. The land is 'the property of the State, and the occupiers pay a small tax to the former for the use of it. This tax must be paid whether the land is cultivated or not: no family, therefore, makes itself responsible for more lsind‘than its members can cure for. The State further reserves the right, where the occupiers do not do justice to their holdings, to dispossess them and rs-let it. This land tax ranges from 12 to 40 cents per acre,and the u’Veruge size of each holding is nine acres. Apart from this globe, each family has the inalienable right to two acres of land, which is strictly entailed upon the family, and furnishes the site of the home- stead. The members of the family who, in trying; their luck in the adjacent cities, fail to make a success, have always the ances- irul home to {all back upon and the accom- panying hum io work on and live by. A poor law is unknown in China. and failure is not to be found in the lexicon of the laboring class. Another point which young- er nations might incorporate in their code is the respect paid to the aged in China. Tire old people are assigned the best rooms in the family homv, and are notin any way looked upon as worn out or undesirable rela- tions. Such conditions have obtained for hundreds of years and suggest the thought that, wanting as the Chinese have of late been lound in the fighting arena. as home rulers they can give points to the remainder of the universe. ” They Can Give l’oluts lo lhe Remainder «r (In- linlvcruo. Four the aetiefaction of the Soroaia and the rest of the coming women, it should be stated that among the Colonels there are eight who are ladies, and they stand highest of ell. They are the Dowager Empress Frederick, Queen Victoxis, Prin- cess Albert, the Empress Regent, the Duchess of Connaught, the Queen of the Netherlands, and the young Queen of Holland. Little Put, (on her knees, before retiring) -â€"Mnmmn, may I pray for rain? Llammlâ€"Y-e-a, if you want. to; but; ley'.’ _ -.~ , n ,5. 0...-I_..__ I“)-.. :_..=L_ lieâ€""You Say they were both wealthy, and married quietly?” Sheâ€"“ Yes, you see it. was simply 340w afl'uir.” .. .._, . Little Penâ€"Susie Snuckupp didn't, invite me to her picnic. A THE GERMAN ARMY. CHINESE HOME RULE. The Evening Prayer. CANADA. Mayor Stewart of Homilton ha gone to Europe. Paving companies Ire squabbling over a contract in London. Inn-ruling Items About Our 0'": Conn ' try, Great Britain. Ihe United States. and All I’aru of the Globe. Comlcnse d‘ and Assorted for Buy Reading. The Merchants' Bank has imported $100,000 in gold from New York. It, has been decided to enlarge the St- Vincenb do Paul hospital at. Brockvme. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. THE NEWS IN A NUTSHELL Col. Henderson, City Solicitor ml Treasurer of Belleville, dropped dead in his otfice. The late Mr. W. 0. Wykofl' of Carlton Island, left an estate of a million dollars, but no will. The Sir John Mucdonnld statue for the city of Kingston has been shipped from England. It, will he unveiled on stour Day. There is said to be u: organized gum: o‘ bhieves following Barnum'a circus and operabing in farm houses in the country during the attendance of the occupant. st; the show. Alex. Wilson, a young local preacher of Chanhum, who is charged with a number of them, has lost, his reason. The final returns of the second election for the selection of the county seat of Nip- isaing give North Bay a majority of eight votes. At Guelph the! Norway Iron Sm] Company’s building. in course of creation, was blowu down and three men hurt. Mr. Tuck was seriously Injured. l A copy of William Lyon Mockenzie’s hiabory of the rebellion is in possession of Inspector Smith of Hamilton. Manitoba. Patrons and Prohibitioninta have paused a motion in favor of the immediate enfranchisement, of women. Mrs. Prince of Anoaruer, who was pick- ed up on the rondaide nearly dead a few days ago, is recovering, but her memory in a perfect blank, ond she can throw no light. on the mysterious ofinir. Mes-rs. Frank Baker and George Barr of Aultvnlle, bravely rescued a. fishxng party whose bout, had upset; in the St. Lawrence River. A Chatham doapatch reporu that a trunk containing human bones has been fished our. of Mitchell’s Bay. The Ab- mrney-General’s department has been communicated with in regard to the mot.- A New York and Brooklyn syndicate will,-it. is said erect. a. twelve-swrey iron hotel on the site of the old Delaware house, in Albany. A Beach train stuck on the grade near the Barton street bridge. Hamilton, end the regular train from the north ran into it. Fortunately, the engineer had time to reduce speed before the collision. The War Department, of the United States has decided to abandon Fort Pem- bina. A committee of Cincinnati citizens pre- sented a magnificent, silver service to the U. S. cruiser Cincinnati. behoht any known reason for the act, Charles A. Kimball, a new York broker, committed suicide by turning on the gas in [“8 room Mr. Henry Irving, Mr. Walter Beunt, and sixteen others went to Windsor on 'l‘hursday, and were knighted by the Queen. Lady Lia gar, widow of Baron Liagar, who as Sir John Soung wua Governor- Generuloi Canada. from 1868 to 1872, is dead. Capt. Whitechurch has been awarded the Victoria Cross for bravery during the siege of Chitral, when, under a galling fire from Umra Khan’s troops. he fought his way back to the fort, with Capt Baird, who was wounded, on his back. Arrangements are being made for a con- vention in Pnuburg, Pa.., for the study of the Bible prophecies in regard to the second coming 01 Christ. , Kingston’s National Council of Women iii wagmg war against the practice of put,- ting immoral pictures in cigarette and tobacco packages for sale 3 also against the time-honored prize chewing gum. A Kankakee man tned to drown n can by wading ouciuno the river and putting it under the water. The out came 030k, but, the man 1001; cramps and was drowned. The Canadian trade returns for the put twelve months are now complete, and they show that. bbe decrease in Canadian imports and exports was not nearly as great as might be expecbed during the lube depres- anon. William Brusseau,bhc sceomplice of Mrs. Nellie Pope m the murder of Dr. Horace N. Pope m Detroit: last, February. wgs sentenced to twenty-five years’ imprison- menu. Four swarms of bees have taken pos- session of the Methodist. church in East SanJose, Cal., and iv is estimabed that Lhere are at. least. 3“!) pounds of honey bethen the outer and inner walls. Inspector De Barry, of Buffalo, has ap- prehended half a dozen more Canadian plumbels who went L0 Bu“alo in response to advertisements or solicitation to fill the places of strikers who refused to return to work. Recorder Goff, at New. York,on-Thursday sentenced Maria Barberi,who murdered her lover Catalod, to die in the electiic chsir during the Week beginning Auguer. 19. 1f the ren'xence is carried out, she will be the first. woman to undergo the execution by electricity. Commercial summaries from the agencies of Manors. Dun and Bradstreet. report the late favourable business conditions as being unexpectedly well maintained for thin usually dull period of the year. Gennerally the demend keeps up, and more imports!“ still is the steady advance of wage: in several lines of induet-ry. Though We erg UN [TED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN. CHAS. W. RICHARDS Publisher J Propflwl. now in the'midsc of whet in known as the “holiday semen,” trsde ell round is much in excess of what, it was one your ago. There has been a weakening in the price of some commodities, but 5 more then com. pensating ndvsnce in others, end where there has been no nctuel increase quotations are reported as being We“ mint-fined. Among the adverse conditions no poorer wheot prospects, shipments of gold to Europe, lees Invournble United Sum Treasury returns, end some robber coriono strikes. Blnck Flag: in Fox-moan compelled the J apmeoe troops to retreat titer a stubborn bunk. [ix-Prime Minister Stambulofl' of Bulgar- ie. we: finally subbed by mine who dogged hie steps in Sofia. There has been serious bread rioting in the city of Zamora, Spein. Severe! gen- darmee were injured, and one epechetor we killed. The New South Welee Perliunent- in considering a bill to restrict not only the entrance of Chinese as et preteen, but. J epeneee end Kenn! as well. New ha been reoeiVed in Auckhndifrom Samoa, to the 03000 that the nntivee up again in en nneeeuled tube. prepeting e big convention to' decide on peeve or In. A arty of five Bash-h Wuoegd' the rtler mountain in “6‘15 ' flitting 3 guide, were thrown from I [1' cc, «a all were injured. two of then dangerously. It. in aid the: the Ooeem'co Sumlip Company, of Sydney, N. S. W., will cock colonial eid for the construction oi‘now end fut steamers 00 run on its fine “Sun Francisco. There in talk 0} gunnteeing e mail service of twenty-eight day. from Aucklmd to London. Baron Adolphe Von Der Smissen, bro- ther of the famous Generel Von Der Smil- sen, of the Belgian army, committed suicide at Brussels by blowing out his brains with a. revolver. Another of the Genenl'l brothers committed suicide in J us will! the some revolver. unique du Peullo Within Ninety .eye. A deepetch from Montreel eeys =â€"There wee intense excitement in Montreel on Mondey night when it we: leerned thet. the Benque du Peuple hed suspended pay. ment. It hed been told elreedy in the prose of Cenede thet the benk wee in seri- ous finenciel difioulty owing to the heevy overdrefte which heve been allowed. Rum- ore of ‘ many big firms being heevily in- volved have been so many end so veried that it is exceedingly herd to tell just who is to blame. However, other the retirement two weeks ego of the Meneger. Mr. Benn- quet, it wee thought thet mettere would be edjueted, but the henk’e finenoes greduelly worked into such e ser- ious condition thet e meeting of the directors wee held on Mondey efternoon, when the present condition of the benk wee considered. Acting on the advice of their legel edvisere, the directors decided to close the doors of the benk,thus takin edventege of the cleuse in the Cane ien bulking not which ellowe e deley of 90 deys. Mr. Jacques Grenier, the President, though edrnitting the truth of the etetement just mede, declined to sey enything whetever beyond e hope thet et the end of the 90deye the beak will be eble to recommence itshusineeeon efirm footing. The extent of its liebilities is entirely guesswork, end those who are interested in the bank “outside the directors” must re- tire in complete ignorence of the reel The ocean llo-ee and the Grand Trunk “sullen" WIped Out By Fire. A deepatoh from Hamilton Beach nye : â€"About a quarter to five on Wedneedey efternoon the bartender of the Ocean Hone° discovered the bar and bowling alley building to be on fire. This building in aepmate from the main hotel. and the second etory is used as a ball room. Before anything could be removed the building was all eblaze and in 15 minutes we.- com pletely destroyed. The wind was blowing out into the lake, but the fire licked up the small eheds that intervened between the bowling alley building and the main part of the hotel. Burlington'e engine arrived about 5. 30, and quickly had three atreeme of water playing on the adjoining Lakeeide Hotel. No attempt wee made to save the Ocean House, as the fire had eaten half way through it by thin time. In the little station the telegraph operator stuck to his post es long an pouible, but was finally compelled to leave on account of the heat. As the station was small the railway men present threw it over and then tipped it end on and down to the beach. The burned buildings are the Ocean House property entire, the G. T. R. station, with the exception of the little telegraph office, and a number of refreshment booths. The Ocean House was built nearly 25 years ago and has since then been a familiar land- mark to everybody who visited Hamilton by boat. The insurance on the building was $13,000. It was owned by the Birely Estate, and the hotel was under the man~ agement of Birelv Bros. The loss to the G. T. R. will not be heavy, as their station consisted of a large veranda'n only. Forest Fires in British Columbia. A Deepetch from Victoria, B. 0., says: â€"errce forest. fires ere raging in Telegraph Bey,.tour miles from here, and the fie-u uc- tion of. the Victoria powder works :8 threatened. In the magazine are stored 80,000 pounds of nitroglycerin, and the grueu fears are entertained that. the fire will reach it. The 10011 firemen iought it. all Sunday night, being relieved in the morning by employee of the works. 'lhe assistance of the firemen wu naked again in the afternoon. The mngezine is A wooden building, and it was feared one of £125 showers of gnu-kc would set fire to it. 'Ln a‘tompt livill‘bo m‘de w'remove th'e pow ex- on barges. If the magazine ex- pl on it: will do gust dsmsgo hero. $13,000 BLAZE AT BURLINGTON. BANK SUSPENDS PAYMENT. been gaff-fled conguntly. Prob-fly (0