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Storyâ€"- Badenâ€"Var sbit‘ 0me TH ELM. fisher. for-ante mu no wit. 3;“ This of Jule :hat few Turkish finance has been a. subject of king perplexity to the countries having commercial or other pecuniary relations with it. The Imperial Ottoman Bank is- sues all notes, and its chief office is not 3t Constantinople but in London. In 1881 the pone agreed to hand over to a coun- cil of administration the entire manageâ€" The Galata bankers are first mort- gagees on the consolidated foreign debt administered by the council of the pow- ers. The Imperial Ottoman Bank has been stealthily endeavoring to recover something of the losses imposed on it by the porte. which from time to time has repudiated or scaled or shaved its bor- rowings at the whim of whatever minis- ter of finance happened to be in favor. So hard pressed did the bank become reâ€" cently. in consequence of a run started by the Armenians in revenge for per- secution, that it applied to the porte for authority to compel acceptance of its paper without right to demand specie. The Armenians are the most enterprising of Ottoman business men and control the most advanced and con- servative chains of business and trade. The more prosperous among them. es- pecially in the large cities. are money lenders and credit givers in trade. Mus- sulman animosity to them partakes somewhat of th» hatred of certain class es in Russia toward the Jews. and for mixed religious and business reasons. Jabez Balfour. who has just been sen- tenced at London to fourteen years’ im- prisonment, ranks with the eminent criminals of the century. It is estimated that $500,000 has been spent in keeping him out of the clutches of justice. His victims furnished most of the money. Balfour’s career will doubtless yet illuminate a nevel. After his fashion he is delectable to the writers of the fiction which is the mirror of truth of the time. He built his success of ungodliness on a foundation of godliness. A professional philanthropist. he employed his oppor- tunities to cozen mini .033, curates, wid- ows and guardians on promises that only the immature could have believed to be honest. The socalled “Liberator com- panies” were, in plain terms, swindles. but their character was not developed until after Balfour and his copartners had got away with nearly $5,000,000 of savings. the loss of which ruined, by actual record. nearly 40,000 persons. ment of excise revenues to be adminis- tered for reduction and cancellation of foreign debts of the empire. The. coun- cil consists of seven members, represent- ing respectively Great Britain. France. Germany, Austria, Italy. the Ottoman bondholders and the priority obligations of the Galata bankers. The porte has Present at meetings of the council noon- sultative agent without a. vote. The Dutch and Belgian creditors are repre- lented by Great Britain. Balfour escaped first to the continent and then the Argentine, where diplom- acy and international law alike long failed to armmplish his capture. It was only by the conuent of the Argentine au- thorities. finally given in mere equity, that the scoumlrel was surrendered. Two years were consumed in getting him back to face his victims, who thronged in riotous determination the railway station at wh‘ch he was expected to ac- tive, and a lynching was prevented only by the strategy of the government. which brought him into the metropolis by an unannounced route. The plea strenuously made for him, that he had lost the trust moneys by misadventure To strengthen the Imperial Ottoman Bank. which stands between the foreign bondholders and the revenues of the em- pire. has been the primary if not the sole aim of Lord Salisbury and his colleagues represented in the council of administra- tion of Turkish finances. Until the for- eign debt is paid it is vain to expect that these powers will engage in any parti- tion of the empire. They must get their pound of flesh. It is money, not mercy, that animates these Christians in deal- ing with the l'mpoakable Turk. The Turk knows this as well as they; and out of this knowledge the sultan can at- ford to write a. letter to Lord Salisbury making in public promises of reform while in private Lord Salisbury reads the letter Mightâ€"renewed promises to and not in bad faith, was completely overthrown in his trial, where documen- tary evidence was produced showing that, five years before the collapse he had laid deliberate plans in anticipation of expogure and necessary flight. But they had not adx anoed three steps before there was a. crackling of the bed. a rustling of the clothes. and the half- smothered accents of a. wee girl's voice. 33,37 i118: ..-.-- .. - - - X: "Does your husband ever tomes home late at night 8" Mrs. Y: Never at Christmas time they always and him home.” Waiting for Santa. Claus. Mr. and Mrs. Bimber, loaded with good things for the stockings of the two little Bimbers, paused on the threshold of the bedchamber to recon- noitre the ground. It was quite still, and their bosoms swelled with the emo- tion peculiar {to Santa. Claus on such hapffi occasions. e darlings are asleep." said Mr. Bignber! "and _we ‘ca.n_ go 1n_.'f_ 7â€""Wcake up. Willy: it’s tinge for dad to be coming down the ehxmney.” VOL 111- NO '2. NOTES AND COMMENTS. new-re or the Special Alluremenu of flu- SeaaoIâ€"Parenu Should fluke IN!!!" Attractiveâ€"Arm the You: mum Temptationsâ€"Ram‘s Horrors. Washington. December 8,â€"To-day Dr. Talmage chose as the subject of his ser- mon "The Opening Winter." Although the cold comes earlier or later, accord- mg to the latitude, this sermon is soon- er or later as appropriate everywhere as it is in \Vashington. The text select- ed will be found in Titus iii. 12. “I have determined there to winter." REV. DR. TALMAGE’S SERMON AT THE METROPOLITAN. Paul was not independent of the sea- sons. He sent for his overcoat t0 Troas on a. memorable occasion. And now in the text he is making arm-1139' ments for the approaching cold “'6th' er and makes an appointment With Titus to meet him at Newpolis- 5‘10" ing, “I have determined there to ‘Y'm' ter." Well, this is the 8th day of 139' cember and the second Sabbath 0f winter. This season is not only a “St Winter. We have had a few shrill sharp blasts already. forerunners of whole regiments of storms and tem- PeSCS. No one here needs to be told that we are in the opening gates 0‘: of one’s physical endurance. but in 011r great cities is a test of moral charaC- ter. A vast number of people have by one winter of dissipation been de- stroyed. and forever. Seated in our homes on some stormy night the winds howling outside, we imagine the ship- Ping helplessly driven on the coast. but any winter night if our ears were good enough, we could hear the crash of a thousand moral shipwrecks. There are many people who came to the cities on the lst of September who will be blasted by the lst of March. At this season of the year temptations are esâ€" pecially rampant. Now that the long winter evenings have come. there are many who will employ them in high nursuits, intelligent socialities. in Christian work, in the strengthening and ennobling of moral character. and this winter to many of you will be the brightest and the best of all your lives and in anticipation I congratulate you- But to others it may not have such ef- fect. and I charge you. my beloved. look out where you spend your winter nights. is not very much temptation for aman to plunge in on a hot night amid blaz- ing gaslights and to breathe the fetid air of an assemblage. but in the cold nights Satan gathers a great harvest. At such times the casinos are in full blast. At such times the grogshops in one night make more than in four or five nights in summer. At such times the playbills of low places of entertain- ment seem especially attractive. and the acting is especially impressive and the applause especially bewitching. Many a. man who has kept right all the rest of the your will be capsized now, and thoutl‘h last autumn he came from the country. and there was luster in the eye, and there were roses in the cheek and elas- ticity in the step, by the time the spring hour has come you will pass him in the street and say to your friend: "\Vhat’s the matter with that man? How dif- ferently he looks from what he looked last September!” Slain of one winâ€" ter’s dissipation. At this time of the year there are many entertainments. If we rightly employ them and they are of the right kind. they enlarge our socialities. allow us to make important acquaintance, build us up in our morals and help us in a thousand ways. lean scarcely think of anything better than good neighborhood. But there are those entertainments from which others will come besoiled in character. There are those who by the springtime will be broken down in health, and, though at the opening of the season their pros~ pects were bright. at the close of the season they will be in the hands of the doctors or sleeping in the cemetery. The certificate of death will be made out. and the physician. to save the feel- ings of the family, will call the disease by a. Latin name. But the dootor knows. and everybody else knows, they died of too many levees. Away with all these wine drinking convivialities. How dare you. the father of a family. tempt the appetites of the young people? Per- haps at the entertainment. to save the feelings of the minister or some other weak temperance man, you leave the decanter in a side room. and only afew people are invited there to partake. but it is easy enough to know when you mme out by the glare of your eye and the stench of your breath that you have been serving the devil. Men some- times excuse themselves and say after late suppers it 13 necessary to take some sort of stimulant to. aid digestion. My plain opinion is that if you have no more self-control than to stuff yourself un- In the first place I have to remark allurements are especially busy. There til your digestive organs refuse their office you had better not call yourself a man, but class yourself among the beasts that perish. At this season of the. year the Young Men' s Christian As- socia- ions of the land send out circul- ars askinz the pastors to speak a word on this subiect. and so I sound in your ear the words of the Lord God Almighty, "W on unto him that putteth the bottle to his main hbor's lips." Rejoice that you have home to the glad winter months that remind you of the times when in your childhood you were shone on by the face of father. mother. brothers, sis- ters, some of them alas! no more to meet you with a "Happ vNew Year_”. or a. "Merry Christmas; But again and again have we seen on New Year’s day the sons of some of the best families drunk, and young men have excused themselves by the fact that the wine cup has been yoffered by the ladies, and again and again it hasy been found out that alady ’3 hand has kindled the young mans thirst for strong drink and long after all the attractions of the hohdgay have passed that same THE OPENING WINTER. The winter season is especially full of temptation, because of the long evenings allowing such full swing;r for evil indulgent-es. You can scarrely ex- pect a young man to go into his room and sit there from. 7 to 11 o'clock in the evening reading Motley’s “Dutch Re- puhliv," or John Foster’s essays. It. .would be a very.bcautiful thing for him to do, but he will not do it. The most. of our young men are busy in offices, in factories, in banking houses. 1m stores. in shops and when evening ‘OOmQS they want the fresh air, and they want sightseeing, and they must have it. Most of the men here assem- bled will have three or four evenings of leisure on the winter nights. After tea the man puts on his hat and coat and he goes out. One form of allure- ‘mentsays'Tome in here.” Satan says: “‘It is best for you to go in. You ought tnot, to he so green. By this time you :ought to have seen everything." and tthe temptations should he mighty in :dull times such as we have had. but Iwhich. I believe, are gone, for I hear 'all over the land the prophecy of great. ;pmsperity, and the railroad men and ‘the merchants, they all tell me of the jrlays of prosperity they think are comâ€" :ing. and in many departments they thave already come. and they are going: ‘to (some in all departments. but those Sdull times through which we have “passed have destroyed a great. many imen. The question of a livelihood ls with a vast. multitude the meat ques- ttion. There are young men who ex- jpmjtod before this to set. up their house: woman. crouches in her rags. and her desolation. and her woe under the up- lifted hand of the drunken monster to whom she had passed the fascinating (-up on New Year's day. If we want to go to ruin. let us go alone and not take others with us. Can we not sac~ rifice our feelings if need be? \Vhen the good ship London went down. the captain was told that he might escape in one of the iifelmats. "No.” he re- plied. “I’ll go down with the passen- gers." All the world applauded his heroism. And can we not sacrifice our tastes and our appetites for the resvuc of others? Surely it is not a. very great sacrifice. 0h, mix not with the innocent beverage of the holiday ,the poison of adders! Mix not with the white sugar of the cup the snow of this awful leprosy! Mar not the clutter of cutlery of the festal occasion with the clank of a. madman's chain! Pass down the street and look into the pawnbroker's window. Elegant watches. elegant furs, elegant flute. ele- gant shoes. elegant searf, elegant. books. elegant mementos. You someâ€" times see people with pleased counte- nanees looking into such a window. \Vhen I look into a pawnbroker's win- dow. it seems to me as if 1 had look- ed into the window of hell! To whom (lid that. watch belong? To a, drunkâ€" ard. To whom did those furs belong? To a drunkard's wife. To whom did those shoes belong? To a drunkard's child. 1 take the three brazen balls at the doorway of a pawnbroker’s shop and I clunk them together. sounding the knell of the drunkard's soul. A pawnbroker's shop is only one of the eddies in the great torrent of muni- cipal drunkennes.L “Oh." says some one, “I don‘t patronize such things. 1 have destroyed no young man by such influences. I only take ale. and it will take a. great amount of ale to intoxi- eate." Yes. but I tell you there IS not a drunkard in America. that: did not begin with ale. Three X'sâ€"I do not. know what they mean. 'l‘hree X's on the brewer’s dray, three X’s on the door of the zinshop, three X's on the sule of the bottle. Three X's. I asked a. man. He could not tell. I asked another what is the meaning of the three X’s. He could not 1.0.11 me. Then I made up my mind that. the three X's were an allegory, and that. they meant 30 heartbreaks, 30 agonies. 3” broken up households. 30 prospects of a drunk- arrl's grave. 30 ways to perdition. 'l‘hrco. X's. If I were going to write a stury the first. chapter I would call "'l‘lu'ce X's” and the last. chapter I would call “The Pawnhrnkor's Shop." 011. he- waro of your influence. hold. but. {hey have been. disappointed in the gains they have made. They cannot support, themselvesâ€"how mm they support others? And to the curse of modern society the theory is abroad that a man must not marry until he has achieved a fortune, when the twain ought. to start at the foot of the hill anfl togothqr climb_ to .thc top. 1 That is the old fashioned way, and that will he the new fashioned way if society is ever redeemed. But during the hard times, the dull times. so many men were discouraged. so many men had nothing to doâ€"they could get no- thing to doâ€"a pirate bore down on the ship when the sails were down and the vessel was making no headway. People say they want more time to think. The trouble is too many people have had too much time to think, and if our merchants had not had their minds diverted many of them would long before this have been within the four walls of an insane asylum. 'l‘hese long winter evenings. be careful where you s end them. This winter will de- cide t e temporal and eternal destiny of hundreds of men in this audience. Then the winter has csper'ml tempta- tions in the fact that many honws are eculiarly unattrartivc at this season. Yn the summer months the young man can sit out, gm the steps, or h.“ can havg: a bouquet in the vase on the mantel. or the evenings being,r so short, soon after gaslight he wants to retire any- how. But. there are many parents who do not understand how to make the long- winter evenings attractive to their children. it is amazing to me that. so many old people do not understand young people. To hear some of those parents talk you would think they had never themselves been young and had been born with spectacles? on. Oh. it is dolorous for young people to sit in the house from 7 to 11 o'c Or}; at night and to hear parents groan about their ailments and the nothingness of the world. This nothingness of this. world? How dare you talk such blasphemy? it took God six days to make this world, and he has allowed it. 6,000 years to hang upon his holy heart, and this world has shone on you and blessed you and caressed you for these 50 or 70 years. and yet you dare talk about the nothingness of this world! \Vhy. it. is a. magnificent world. I do not be- lieve in the whole universe there is a. world equal to it except it: be heaven. You cannot expect your children to stay in the house these long winter evenings to hear you denounce this star lighted. sun warmed, shower baptized, flower strewn, angel watched. God inhabited planet. . . .I‘xlnl Oh, make your home bright! Bring in the violin or the picture. it. does not require a. great salary. or a big house, or chased silver. or gorgeous uphol- gtery to make a happy house. All that IS wanted is a. father’s heart, a. mo- ther's heart, in sympathy with young “OH. WAD SOME POWER THE GIFTIE 01E US,TAE SEE OORSELS AS ITIIERS SEE US.” OMEMEE. ONT. THURSDAY. DEC- 19. 1895- folks. I have known a. man with $700 ulary. and he had no other income, but he had a home so happy and bright that, thong h the sons have gone out and won large fortunes and the daugh- tcxfs have _ gone out into splendid tors have one out into splendid Spheres and ecome princesses of so- (-iety, they can never think of fhat early home without tears of emotion. It. “as to them the wstibule of heagven: It. was to the the vestibule of heaven. and all thei .mansinna‘ -now._and_ all their"palaoes now, cannot make them forget that earlv place. Make your homes happy. You go around your house growling about your rheuma- tisms and acting the lugubrious. and your sons will go into the world and plunge into dissipation. They will have their own rhoumalisms after awhile. Do not, forestall their misfor- tunm. You were young once, and You had your bright and joyous times. Now lot‘tho young folks have a goodmtim'e: Alas, that old people, so mueh mis- understand young folks! There was: a great Sunday sehool anniversary, and there were. thousands of children presâ€" ent. Indeed all the Sunday sehools of the. town were in the building. and it. was very uproarious and full of dis- turbanee. and the presiding offiecr on the (wezmion came forward and in a very loud tone. shouted “Silenee !" and the more. noise the. presiding offii-er made the. more noise the. i-hildrvn made. Someone. else. rose. on the. platâ€" form and came forward and with more. stentorian VOlt‘O shouted “Silenvel”: and the. uproar rose. to greater height, and it did seam as if there would he almost. a. riot and the police have m be tuned in when old Dr. Beaman, his hair while as the. driven snow. said. ”Let me try my hand." Soheeamoy forward with a slow step to the. front. of the platform. and when the. children saw the, Venerable man and the white hair they thought. they would hush up that. instant and hear what the. old_ man had to say. llc said, "Boys, I want. to make a bargain With you. If you will be still now while .I speak.1 when you get. to be. a» old as I am 1 will he as still as a mouse." There was not, another whizper that afternoon. lie was as much a boy as any of them. 011. in these approaching holidays let. In: turn hark our natures to what they were years ago and be. hovs again and girls again and make all our homes happy, God will hold you re.- sponsihle for the influenee, you now exert.and it. will he very bright. and lvery pleasant. if some winter night when we. are. sleeping under the blan- ‘kets of snow our children shall T_1(l0 along in the merry party. and hushmg a moment into solemnity look off and ”1.. way .u....,. “WV” ‘- nwvu -....-v “V“ ..,. .l stood In front of a house and I said to the owner of the house. “This is a splendid tree." [19 mid in a whining tone. "Yes, but, it. will fade." I walked around his garden and said. ”This is a. glorious garden you have." “Yes," he said, “but. ill will perish." Then he said to my liltlo child whom‘ I was leading: along. “Come and kiss mo." The child protested and turned away. Ho said. "Oh. tho perversity of human nature!" “'110 would want. to kiss him? I was not. surprised to find out that his only son had become a. vaga- bond. You may groan people out. of decency, but. you can nover groan them Into it. and [ declare in the presence of those men and women of common sonse that it is 0. mos! important, thing: for you to make your homes bright if you want your sons and daughtm‘s to turn out well. Alas, that old people so muvh miS- say. "There sleep tho best father and mother that. ever made a happy new year." Arm yuursolf against, these temptations of December, January and lv‘cbruarv. Temptations will mum to you in the form of an angel of light. 1 know that; the, poets represent sa- tan as horned and houfed. lfl were a poet and I were going to picture satan. 1 Would represent him as a. human being, with manners polished to the. lust. perfection, hair falling in graceful ringlets. eyes a little Mood- shot. hut. flouting in hewitehinw lan- guor, hand soft. and diamonded, foot exquisitely shaped. voice mellow as a. flute, hreath perfumed as though no- thlnp: had ever touched the. lips but helm of a thousand flowers. conver- sation facile. carefully toned and _l"renehy. But I would have the heart, Incused with the scales of a monster. and have it; stuffed with all pride and heustliness of desire. and hyprocrisy and death. and thenl Would have it touch- edwith the. rod of disenchantment un- til the eyes became the cold orhs of the adder. and to the. lips should demo the foam of raging intoxication. and to the. fool. the spring of the panther. and to the soft, hand the change that. would make it the clnmy hand of the wasted skeleton. and thenl would suddenly have the heart. break out, in unquenehahle flames and the, affected lisp of the tongue became the hiss of the worm that. never dies. But until dis- enchanted ring‘leted and dizunond’ed uuvuuun\ u ..ub.~ '\\§ .....»_ and flute voiced and conversation fa- cile, carefully toned and b‘ycnch‘y' AA Oh, what. a beautiful thing it. is to see a young man standing: up amid these temptations of city life inrorrupt while hundreds are falling. I will tell your history. You will move in respec- tahle circles all your days, and some day a friend of your father will meet you and say: “ Good morning. Glad to see you. You seem to he rospering. You look like your father or all the world. I thought you would turn out well when I. used to hold you on my knee. If you ever want any help or any advice come to me. As long.r as I remember your father l'll remember you. Good morning." That will be the history of hundreds of these young men. How do 1 know? [know it. hy the way you start. But; here'sa young man who takes the opposite route. Voices of sin charm him away. He reads bad hooks. mingles in bad soâ€" ciety. The glow has gone from his cheek. and the sparkle from his eye. and the purity from his soul. Down he mes, little by little. The people who saw him when he came to town while yet hovered over his head the blessing of a. pure mother's prayer. and there was on his lips the dew ofa pure sis- ter’s kiss, now as they see him paw cry, “What an awful wreck !” Cheek bruised in grogshop fight. Eye lalonrod with dissipation. Lip swoolen with inâ€" dulgences. Be careful what; you say to him; fora trifle he would take your ALIV- Lower down, lower down, until. out- cast of God and man, he lies in the asylum, a blotch of loat’hsomeness and pain. One moment he calls for God. and then he calls for rum. He prays; he curses; he laughs as a fiend laughs, then bites his nails into the quick. then puts his hand through the hair hanging around his head like the mane of a wild beast, then shivers un- til the cot shakes with unutterahle terror. then with his fists fights hack the devils or clutches for serpents that seem to wind around him their awful folds, then asks for water, which is mstantly consumed on his cracked life The Last Government Bulletinâ€"Stock Ex- ports Nearly lmublcdâ€"Grcal Advance In Dairy Products. A dcspatch from \Vinnipoxz sayszâ€"The ‘Pt‘m'im-ia! Government. on Friday issued ‘its last. crop hullutin, which dciailscom- {pletvly the marvellous Munimha harvest gof 189:3. The lolal wheat. acreage is. ’shown 10 have been 1,140,276, from which $1,775,038 bushels were. ra. ed. an aver- l i lips. Some mornin the surgeon goin his rounds will fing him (lead. [)0 nor try to comb out or brush back the matted locks. Straighten out the limbs, wrap him in a sheet, put him in a. box. and let two men carry him down to the wagon at the door. With a piece of chalk write on top of the box the name of the destroyer and the destroyed. Who is it? It is you. 0 man}: if yielding to the temptations of a (lissipated life, you go out and perish. There is a way that seemeth bright and fair and beautiful to a man, but the end thereof is death. Em- qloy these long nights of December .anuary and February in high purâ€" suits, in intelligent socialties, in inno- centamusements. in Christian work. Do not waste this winter for soon you will have seen your last snow shower and have gone up into the (-ompanionship of him whose raiment is white as snow, whiter than any full- er on earth could whiten it. For all (‘hrislian hearts the winter nights of earth will end in the June morning of heaven. The river of life from under the throne never freezes over. The foliâ€" age of life’s fair tree is never {rosi- hiltvnv The festivities, tho hilarilies, the family greetings of earthly (‘hrist- mas times will give way to larger re- union and brighter lights and sweeter garlands and mightier joy in the great holiday of heaven. age of close In 29 bushels per acre. 0! 023's there were 482,659 acres. with 310?.- a.l pl‘uduvl. of 22,555,733 bushels, or an axenun» of nearly 47 bushels per acre. The hark-y acreage was 153,839, total yield, 5,645,036, average per acre 313.69; flax. 1.231.351 bushels were raised; of rye. 81.03:: bushels; and peas 29.229 hush- els. The total grain crop is thus Shawn m_ be (il.3(ili,~17;l, an amount. nearly four nlllliun bushels in (excess of the Govern- ment's estimate. mucle just before the thrwhers got. to»work. ()f putatms there were. 11’ 7111 acres under 1.11111, \1itl1 :1. 10131 prodiution of $1111.56: bushels the amragc yield per awe boingr nearly 211 l)11~<l10ls.'l'he total (‘mp of roots and putatucs was (1.1"R15 buehcls. Crop «11111511011110.1115 in the (‘pu1so of their r0111:11ks say 1111.11 the immense 11119111 «1111) has enabled farmers to sell 113 11111(h :15 was sold at this date hut 1011' enabling them 1.0 pay off pressing liawhililius while still holding the gro-11o1‘ part. of their crop for high- 61 prices 'lhc bulletin shows that the stmk exnorts “ore. noarlv doubled during this year, 11nd 1110 figures show that. sl.'(xkâ€" â€"r:1isin;: for export. is grow- ing 1.0 such propuxtions that it. will soon Immune as i111p111t:1nt an industry :19 11hc411.â€" â€"r.1i.\inng. A great advzinm has also been made in dairy produvts. 'l'ho. 0u1 put of butter and (heme netted 11011111 111-0 hundred lilouxhnd dollars 'l‘hc bulletin shows that. five thou- sand harvest, hands from Ontario as- sisted in garnering the crop, and were paid four hundred thousand dollars by the farmers in wages. Dr. l‘iivrn Swear: “CCI'flHCd 'Wau Burnt to Death. When-upon the Crown ’l‘hrowa Up the Sponge. A despatch from Toronto says :â€"-The trial of Arthur A. Dicks for the murder of his wife Mary on the morning of Saturday, March 2 last, came to an un- expectedly abrupt conclusion on Thurs- day afternoon, when the court took the case from the jury and ordered a ver- diet of acquittal to he recorded. The incident which brought about this sud- den termination of the proceedings was the testimony of Dr. John Caven, the Crown's exiiert witness. who s_wore pos- itively that deceased was alive when the fire reached her, and that she was undoubtedly burnt to death. This, of course. completely disposed of one 01 the Crown's theories, Viz.. that deceased had been first killed and then the fire set to destroy evidence of the murder, and also destroyed the theory that the insurance on her life was the motive of the alleged crime. The theory that the fire hzui been set for the sake of the insurance on the furniture was destroy- ed by the fact that the furniture had been openly removed prior. to the 0t:('tll‘- rence, and upon the remaining posit :01] taken by the Crown t,liat.l.lie fire was intentional, though the killing was in- cidental and not premeditated. the pro- secution admitted that there was not sufficient to warrant the case being ‘ “l, to a coni‘lusion. .L,A4h.l 1L- -....‘ The Judge, therefore. stopped the pro- ceedings at the mnclusion of Dr. Caven's testimony, and directed the jury to re- cord the verdict. of not guilty. Gulifiomc l'owulcr in Ills Eye “'Illle Shoot in: In flunk!ngllannlflrc. A despatch from London, sayszâ€"The Prince of Wales has met with an acci- dent, that for a time caused much con- cern to those who were aware of the af- fair, but the injury turns out to be trifl- ing. The Prince was shooting on Sir Edward Lawson"! e5tate, Hall Barn. Bezaconsfield. B}1(-k1ngharn<liire. when he got some grams of powdcr in 1115 right eye. A doctor was summoned. who applied_{omentatipns to the eyem eubdue the inflammation. and then mâ€" Jected cocaine. after which he extract- ed the powder. The eye is now assimiâ€" mg its normal condition. The Prince has returned to London. \Vard Leonard, of.Vim-ennes, Ind., 60 years old. was drowned in the \V‘abash river a. few days ago. and the fact is recalled that all his family, his mother and father, two brothers and a sister, met death in the same way, being drowned in the Ohio river, at different times, during the last thirty years. If Christmas findsa bridge, he'll break it; if he finds none. he'll make one. THE DICKS CASE COLLAPSES. ACCIDENT TO THE PRINCE. MANITOBA'S CROP. Interesting Items About Our Own Country. Great Britain. the United States. and All Parts of the Globe. Condensed and Assorted lor Easy Reading. THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Mrs. Geo. Francis of Hamilton, an invalid, died while her child was being christened at her bedside. Licut.â€"Col. Boswell. commanding the 90th Butt, 0f \\'innipep;. has resigned his cmmmmd, and rolircs after thirty years of militia. service. The. strike of Italian labourers at Hamilton was ended on 'J'hursday by the cuntrzu-inrs agrez-ing In give the ad- vance asked for by the men. A colored woman named EmilySmit/h died at St. Catharine’s on Thursday. There is conclusive evidence that she was over 100 years old. _A hospital for Indians is m be estab- lgshted by the. Church of England at. Dynevor, on St. Peter's reserve. ' 1‘, The first. steps towards the reerominn of the Grand Trunk cur shops are being taken in Londun. and tandem for con- struction will soon be called for. ’l‘hc Inland Revenue for the Dominion of Canada avorue/l during the month of November aintyur‘uodu to $736.31], as againxt $744 .2? last year. Mr. A. T. Wood has made a lormal offer m the Hamilton City Council to build the 'l‘., H. B. road from Ham- ilton to Toronto without a, bonus, and in put up $25,600 as a pledge of his bow fidcs. Mr. Gilbert Mclmd. market; garden- er. while engaged in unloadingawag- gun in Hamilton, suddenly fell to the ground. and died before medical aid ar- rived. Neuralgia of the heart was the cause, of death. An approximate statement of the lia- bilities- and assets in the estate of Sam- son. Kennedy and Cm, of Toromo, whole- sale dry [:(xnds may-hams. ‘has been pie- [vs-{ml-ll‘iyfitvllévroclélvgf,’ and shows aide- l'icil of about $200,000. The Grand Board of the Patrons of In- dustry. whivh met on Friday in Toronto, have. approved a resolution, to be subâ€" mitted by Mr, Joseph llaycock, M.P.P., all, the next meeting of the Grand Asso- maLion, to admit a 1 classes and profes- sions to the Patron ranks and abolish all stgns, passâ€"words, and pledges. GREAT BRITAIN. The Queen will visit". Nice in the sprmg. -Th<.:1mporial Parliament will meet on February 11. The Queen’s shorthorn heifer won the championship cup at Smithfield Cattle Show. Six of the crew. of. a collier yrgre drownqd by her smkmg m a. 0011131011 near vacrpml. Two hundred trains enter and leave Mmrgatc street station. London. every hour throughout. the day. A Canadian, Mr. Herbal: Taylor Raulo. has been appointed honorary surgeon-general to the Queen. British agriculturists are agitating the formation of a partv in Parliament to look after Lheir interests. l’yEletV engineers have rejected the proposals for a settlement. of the. trou- bles with the shipbulldcrs. A small 010m ric. lamp is being used instead of a. bell in sumo. telephone ex- changes in England. The call for con- na-I ion lights. the lamp. The Prince of \Valcs has given a church at Hahingloy. which forms part. uf the extreme portion of the royal es- tate of Sandringham. Bahingley is re- putod 1.0 be the parish where the first Christian church was erected in East. Anglia. by St. Felix, the Burgundian, about. the year 600 AD. UNITED STATES. Sir Julian Gnldsmid, the. well-known nmmber of Parliament: for South St. Pam-ms, one of the wealthiest and, most, charitable of the Hebrews of England, is in a, critical condition of heath at Brighton. Lowllmr. Conservative, for the Middle Dix'i ion of Cumberland. stated, amid up- roar and applause, that he desired to see a, rciuaLuLion of protection. At. the confercqve in London on Fri- day cullvd to (-onsulpr _thc cxxstmg fiscal wtmn of Great 13r1_uun._M.r. James V. ‘r- ‘ .- Smallpox is reporied in Ohio. behruary 21 has been fixed for the hanging of \\ ”H '.J‘ Durrant the mur- dprer of Blanche Lamont, In San 1‘ ran- CISPU. Senator Cullom made a long speech in the United States Senate in favor of a plain declaration of the Monroe docâ€" trine by Congress: report showed it lower condition and 21 smaller acreage of wheat than had been cxpemcd. The Alchison, Topeka Santa Fe Railroad was sold under the hammer for $60,000,000 to Mr. King of New York representing the reorganized company. Allan G. Thurman. of Columbusflhio. the " Old Roman." as the Ohio Demo- crats delighted to call him, died on Thursday. He was eighty-two years of age. In the. recent: viaduct accident, in Cleveland. Ohio, by which a street-car fell Illx‘uugh an open draw, causing the death of seventeen persons, the coroner failed to find anyone guilty of a crim~ inal act. There is no doubt felt. in \Vashington political circles that an attempt, will he made at an early date to press upon the House of Representatives the desirabil- ity of recognizing the Cuban insurgents as lxalligerents. A high hoard fence is being built around the site of all that is left of the Talmage tabernacle at, Greene and Clinâ€" ton avenues, Brooklyn. Inside the fence is a mass of broken brick and stone and twisted iron braces. Ex-Governor J. T. Churchill, of Little Rock. Ark, a general in the Confederâ€" ate army. has telegraphed Senator J ames Verry, offering his services to the Pre- sident in the case of war with England in support of the Monroe doctrine. Attornevaeneral Childs, of St. Paul, Minn., gives it as his opinion that under the constitution of the United Smies it is illegal to open a. Public school “iih The United States Government. cxjop T. Wood has {nadena foy‘mgl ,unu...‘ ., ‘ 2“: for -théV safile V mOnLh ‘DA'N ADA N A NUISHEH CHAS. “2 RICHARDS Pubmherd Proprietor At St. Louis Rev. Father Cosgrove. a Catholic priest, died as a result of be- ing run over by a. locomotive in the railroad yards. The officials of the road believe the man threw himself under the locomotive with suicidal intent. public worship. eyen if that devotion be restricted to saying the Lord's Prayer. “’hile Mrs. James \Villiams, of Jeffer- sonville. Ind.. was dressing a. turkey for dinner she found in the bird's claw a. diamond solitaire the size of a pea. The fowl came from a farm close to a pier nic ground. and it is thought that it picked up the jewel near there. At Topeka, Kas.. Governor Morill valled out Battery B of the. State mil- itia, to protect the Kansas Medival Col- lege, which was threatened by a mob. The trouble was camwd by the discov- ery in the dissenting room of the col- lege of the hodievpf three women stol- en from the Topeka cemeteries. Business in the United States has been quiet during the week, and no improve- ment is likely to occur now until [be new year. In some directions mild wea- ther is credited with depressing the de- mand for seas-mahle goods, but at vari- ous points in the United States the tem- perature has been quite low enough to makea general seawnable average in a, business sense. Anyhow, wholesale trade is dull all round. and. as usual. stocks just now are not being added to. In holiday specialties there has Deena. no- ticeable decrease in demand. Collections have also shown weakness, and prices continue a downward tendency. The outlook is better for iron and steel next month. GENERAL The Spanish Cabinet has resigned. The Japanese have evacuated Port Arthur. . Herr Dowe, the inventor of the bul- leL-proof coat. is dead. A British and an Italian vessel of war passed up the Dardanselles. Russian troops are being moved from Odessa and Sebastopol to Batoum. 'lzh; Times planes â€"the Italian losses in the battle of Ambalaigi at 2,000 men. The Sultan has issued an irade per- mitting the extra. guardships to ap- proach Constantinople. n A large konak oi” villa. used by the Sultan for the accommodation of Im- perial guests has been burned. Hovas attacked and destroyed a. Christian mission in Madagascar. Mis- sionary MacMahon and his family @- caped. ;l‘he German Cabinet has decided to continue the campaign against the Socialists, upon the basis of. the com- mon law. 1n Inâ€"dia. every residept must. upder penalLy of fine. have his _name wntben up at, the entrance of his house. The Italian Chamber has voted the additional war credit. and prepara- lions for the Abyssinian campaign are going forward rapidly. M Adrien Iachenal who was President of the Swiss Republic 1895, has been elected President. next year. - Eniperor William of Germany gro- ms to give a. grand fete at the m- penal palace on January 18. the anni- versary of the foundation of the Empire. The Postmasters-General of New South \Yales. Victoria and Queensland met to discuss the projected Pacific cable scheme. They decided to send two delegates to the conference. . A special despatch from Shanghai says news has been received which confirms the report; that. the Rqssiams weg‘e the inst igators of the conspiracy of Li-Eua- Shin against the King of Cores. A despaich received from Cape Coast Castle says that, it is re ' d there ‘hut the Ashantis have eposed King Prempeh, and that the war part;w has enthgoned his mother as Queen m his svea . Eugene Kranz. an Alsatian. has held the position of chef in the household of the Czar of Russia for some years. and he is said to be the most accomplished cook in the world. His staff numbers some twelve hundred persons. There isa strong Buddhist revival go ing on in the Japanese Empire. The Church has, been stirred up by the inval- sion of missionaries, and within recent years Buddhist papers have been or an- ized. and Lhc Jappnme press is t of articles about religious matters. A despatch signed by a number of Armenians of Constantinople says that Armenia is at her last gasp. The work of extermination continues. The num- her of people massacred reaches one hundred thousand, and halfa million of survivors have taken to the mountains and forests. when: they are feeding on herbs and roots. Murder at the Falls A despatch from Niagara Falls. N.Y., sayszâ€"There was a murder among the coloured people in the tunnel district on Monday night. in whichaman named Oscar J ones. aged 25 years. was killed with abutcher's knife. The murderer is named Wm. Smith. aged 23. coloured. The men were attending a dance in one of the dives which are run in that. part of the city and are infested with colourâ€" ed people. Italians, and Spaniards. Be- tween midnight and one o’clock inlthe morning Jones and Smith e aged in a _ uarrel. Jones had been drin 'ing heav- 1 y, and it. is claimed by_ the murderer that he stabbed Jones in selfâ€"defence. The police have a dozen or two wit- nesses under arrest. Smith has been held for the grand jury. under the charge of murder in the first degree. Carried the Car One Hundred Feet A dcspatch from Toledo. 0.. says:â€" An \electric car containing four passen- gers had a marvellous escape on Thurs- ilay forenoon in this city from destrucr tion by a. locomotive. The car was crossing the tracks of the Clover Leaf Railroad. when a light engine came along at a high rate of speed. The en- gine lifted the car bodily from the rails and carried it fully 100 feet. before coming to a stop. The motor was badly damaged. Miss Emma Gatling had her back hurt. and Conductor Manson was out about the heaq. August Me era jumped through a Window anq was or- ribly cut. His injuries are senous. The 01 her passengers in the car escaped un- injured. Man' 3 conscience is the oracle of God. â€"Byron. for