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who suffer for crimes are merely the satellites of some great villains. Igno- minions fraud is a. jugg' er which by «.5 ght of hand and logerdenmin makes. the? gold the t it stole appear in some- b_ody e se '3 pocket. Jeroboam plots the lie, contrives the imposition. and gets his wife to excute it. Stand off from. 11.12 imp0sitions and chicanery. Do not consent to be anybody's dupe. any- body’s a‘ly in wickedness, anybodys aca egoat. 6 story of the text aflsoixmprem me with the fact that r oyaalty some- times paases in disg w. The frock. the veiL. the hood of the peasant wg- m hid the queenflw character otthis; It is for no insignificant purpoae that [present you the thrilting story of the text. in the first place I learn that wickedness involve others. try- ing to make them its dupes, itx‘ allies and its scumgmts. J'erobmm pregosed to hoodwink the Lord's prophet. How did he do it? Did h? go and do the work himsrlf? No. he sent his wife to do it. [hrs the peril of exposure, hers the fatigue of the way. hers the execution of the plot; his. nothing. Iniquiiy is a brag. but i: is a great. coward. It lays the plan and gets some one also to execute it; puts down the gunpowder train and gets some one east: to touch it off; contriv-es mix?- 9hief and gr: sttme on»: 0.59 to “(Mk it; gtarts a 2 and gsts‘ 5' me one else, to cucuiato it. In many ail kiié‘gp'at crimes oi the work; it is found null that. those who pitumed the arson. the murder, the 1;»; tho [mud gm free, while thw- who were decayed .aml cheated and hwdhinkcd into the conspiracy Clank the chain and mount the gallows. Arron Burr, with heart fiIlled w'th impurity and amifition. plots for the overthrow of the United States Gov- ernment and gets off with a few threats. and a. Iittle censure. while :ilennerhassett. the learned BIenner-‘ mass-it the sweetuempered Eleonor- hassett. is decoyed by him from the orchards, and the Iaboratories and gur- dons, and the home on the bank of the Ohio river, and his fortunes are scattered. and he is thrown into prison, and his famifly, hrouight up in luxury, is turnedout to die. Abominahie Aaron Burr has it comparatively easy. Sweet- tempered Biennerhassett has it hard. Benedict Arnold proposed to sell out the forts of the United States; to surrender the Revofiutionary army and to de- stroy the United States Government. He gets off. with his pockets full of pounds sterling. while Major Andre, the brave and briZ'liamt. is decayed into the conspiracy and suffers on the gib- Let on the banks 015 the Hudson; so that even the literatureâ€"the marble tablature that commemorated that eventâ€"has been biasted by midnight desperadoes. Benedict Arnold has it easy. Major Andre has it hard. have noticed that nine-tenths of th oi the city the chiid dies. The cry in the palace is joined in the lamenta- uon of- a. nation. and as they carry gnod Abi'ah to his grave the air is filled wiLix Lht- voice of eulogy for the departed youth and the groan of an afgligiegl kingdgm: 8‘ queen in disguise. The {act is that Peter the Great working in the dry docks of Suardam. the sailor's hill; and the shipwright's ux gave him no more thorough dis- guise than the garb of the peasant woman gave to the queen of Tirzah. But the prophet of the Lord saw the deceit Although his mystical eyesight had failed he was divinely illumined, and at. one glance looked through the imposition. and he cried out: "Come in. thou wife of Jerobozim! Why feign- est thou thyself to be another? Ihave evil tidings for thee. Get back to thy house. and when thy feet touch the gate of the city the chiid shall die." She had a. right to. ask for the re- covery of her son; she had no right to practice an imposition. B'roken heartetl now, she started on the way. the tears falling on the dust of the road all the way from Shiloh to Tizah. Broken hearted now, shie 1.3 not careful any more to hide her queenly gait, and manner. True to the prophecy, 1he_moznent ‘hcr_ fact ”touchmthe gate gums as she might have carried from the paste, she carries only these gifts which seem to indicate that she belongs to the peasantryâ€"a. {cw loaves of bread and a few crackxicls and a. curse of honey. Yonder she goes, hooded and veiled, ' the greatest lady in all the kingdom, yet passing un- observed. No one that m-;e-:s her on the nadway has any idea. that shc is the first lady in all the land. She is 8‘ queen in disguise. The [act is that. Peter the Great Kev. Dr. Talmagc iiruws Some Startling lessons From a tnique Textâ€"Royalty In Dhguiw ~‘l‘he Accuracy of «ad‘s Provldvncvs In the I'nlverse. Wmhington. Dec. 20.â€"-In this sermon from a. Bible Scene never used in serâ€" monic discourse Dr. Taimagc draws same smrtling lessons and tears off the mask of deceit. The text is I. Kings xiv., 6, “Why feignc-st thou. thy- self to be another '3’” “WHY FEIGNEST THOU THYSELF TO BE ANOTHER' ’ THE EASE. 6F DEBT. ‘70]; I‘T' N0 3 | My subject also impresses me with how peoplg put on masks and how the Lord tears them off. It was a. terrible moment in the history of this woman of Tirzah when the prophet ancested her. practically saying: ”I know who : you are. You cannot; cheat me. You [cannot impose upon mes. Why feign- lat thou thyself to be anothefl": Shes fluid-a right to ask for the restoration \of her son; she had no right to practice that falsehood. It is never right to do wrong. Sometimes you may be able to conceal an affair.- It is not neces- sary to tell everything. There is a nat- ural reassure-to the lips which seems to in mate that silence .sometimes is right. but for double deglmg, for moral shuffling, for counterfeit and for sham ‘ I But there was a grand-er disguising. «The fn'orite of a great house looked 3 out of the window or his pilnct‘. and he isaw that; the people worn carrying jheavy burdens. and that some of them. iwez‘a ho‘:3;ling on crutches, and he saw some lying at thu gm: exhibiting their . sores, and th: n 1'19 hoard thi‘ir lamenta- ‘tEonsnnzl il-‘J said: “i, will just put on the cloth-:5 0! these. poor pmplc, and I will go down and. so: whit their sor- frows are, and l will sympathize with >tht‘k’il. and I will he‘ one of thorn, and 1 1 will hell: them." We 1, the ddy comm ffor him to start. The lords of the land 'curne to soe him off. All who could .sing. joined in the parting song, which shook tho hills and wokn up the shop- herds. 'i‘ho first few nights 9 has ghevn sleeping with tho hustlers and the frame! «lriwrs, for no on; knew them was a king; in town. [lo ve‘nt among ‘the dortovs of the law. astounding 3 them. for without. any doctor's gown He knew more low thin any doctors. Ho [ism-d with tho fisherman. Ho smote .with His hammor in tho carpenter’s shop. He nth raw corn out of the field. He friud fish on the lxinks of the Gun- Vnesaret. He- was ‘howled at by crozyi . people in the tombs. He was splashed i of the surf of the sea. A pilgrim with-i ;out any pillow. A SlL‘k mm \i'ithoutH any medicament. A mourner with no' sympathetic bosom in which He could: pour l’lis tears. Disguise complete. l‘i ,know tint occasionally His divine royâ€"i lalty “tailed out. as wh-r-n in the stormii ion (iglzlee‘, as in the red wine. at Lhoi Ewedding banquet, us when H‘- l'roed tho‘ eshzu-kled demonim: of Godard. as why-m Ho tnrnml .l whole school of fish intoi :~ not of 1hr discour- r'rrl l)011Lmt‘n, as, when l?‘ llllui bed liie- into 411» shrivâ€"r elvd nun of tin- paralytic, but for the1 most part [in was in disguis». No one1 81w the King's jewels in His wmdahl No one 51w the royal rolze in His plain g cont. No one know that that shelter-i less Christ owned all the mansions ini which the hierarchs of heaven hadi their habitation. None knew that thatl thungored Christ owned all the olive? groves and all the harvest: whichi shook their gold on the hills of Bales-3 ltine. No one knew thlt He who s'iid.[ “I thristl" poured the Euphrates out: ni‘.‘ his own c'mlice. No one knew that that ocean lay in the palm of his hand liko: a. (lewdrop in the vase ofa lily. No one; knew that the stars and (moons and! suns and galaxies and constollalionsi that marched on age after age were,l as compared with His lifetime. thoE spgrkle ofa, firefly onto. summer night”‘ No one know that the sun in midhoaveng was only the shadow of His throne. Not one knew that His crown of universalll dominion was covered up witha. bunch. of thorns. Omni'potenco sheathed ina' human body. Omniscience hidden in a; human eye. Infinite love beating in a} human heart. Everlasting harmoniesl subdued into a human voice. .Royaltyf en masque. Gmndeurs of heaven in, earthly disguise } newâ€"21 realm vustcr than Jrroboum ever looked at. You went down 11110 the house of dcstitmlon and want and suffurlng. You saw the siory of trial: wrilieu on the wasdvd hand of the mother on the pale cheek of the 1111.111911 on the empty broad tray, on the [iroxss hearth, on the broken chair. You would. not have given :1 do'lar for all the furniture in the. 111111315. But by the gravc of God she in a. psincess. The ovurseers 01‘ 1.1111 poor come there and discuss the case and say, "It’s a. pauper." They do not realize that God has burnished for her a. crown. and ch: 11. after she has got through the fatiguing 111111 119) from .izah toU ShLloh 111111110111 Shiloh had: to "llrzah there \1'111 he a throne ol royal-1y on W’hivh she shall r1~si.for- n1 er Eternal: 1ap1ures hushed up. A1 queen in mask. A mine-11$ in (ll: ~3guise.l Royalty passing in disguise, kings Without the crown, conquerors with- out the puim, empresses wiLhouL the jrwel. You. saw her yesterday on the street. You saw nothmg important in her appearance, but she, is regnant over a. vast reuim of virtues and good- woman of Tirzah. Nobody suSpected. £111: she “as a. queen 01 apmmess as she passed by. but she was just as mu [1 a queen as though she mood in the palace, her robes incrusted with diinunuds. And so aid around anout us theze are princesses and (luv-us whom the worLd does not recognize. They‘ sit on no throne of _roy:1..1_v. they Iide in no 011111111. they 13'. icic no huzza, they make no pretense, but 1)} the grace of God they are pr111essos and they axe (11.991121; sometimes in their poverty, sometimes 1n Ihoir so. denial, someâ€" tunes in their hard smugg'e of Chris- t :m serviceâ€"God knows they are queens. The world does not recognize them. An eminent medical authority assezts that getting up early tends to exhaust the physical power and to shorten life, while the so-called invigorating early hours are apt to produce lassitude, and are positively dangerous to some consti- tutions ciale with the keys in token of tho fealty of the citizens. \Vhen monarchs visit- ed each other the presentation of the city keys became a. compfimentary oer- city keys becameacompilmentary cere- mony, indicating that the city was just as much at the service of the visitor as though situated in his own dominions. Within the last two centuries the cere- j1:330ny has degenerated to an empty orm. . , The expression “freedom of the city”; is a. relic of the old. days when all cities!1 had walls and gates and when the keys, 1 of the city gates and of the citadel» werel presented on golden or silver plattersl io visiting monarihs. The presentation. of the keys was a. token of sunender 01‘4 gubmission, and Kings who visited cities in their own dominions were always men o_utside of lthe moat_ by _the leading uifi- l I am no fatalisl. hut [should be com- ph‘tely wretched if I did not, feel that 1 all the affairs of my life are in God's 'hand and all that pertains to me and l mine. just as certainly as all the affairs l of this woman in lho text, as lhis ('hild lot the text. as this king of the toxin, wore in God’s hand. You may ask me. a hundred questions I cannot. answer. but I shall until the day of my death ll)(,‘lle\’(‘ that I am under the unerring care of God. and the heavens may fall. ‘ and the world may hum. and the judg- ments may thunder. and denial nrxos may roll, but not a. hair shall fall from my lwml, nol, a shadow shall drop on my path. not. a sorrow shall transl‘ix my hnart without heintz divinely ar- ranaeclâ€"arrnngrrd by a loving. sympa- tlwtic Falhor, lIu hottlos our tears. He rntrhos our sorrows. and to the orphan I?“ will he a Father. and to tho widow Hs‘ will he a ‘hushand. and to the out- cast Ilv will ho a home. and to l'ho most misorahlr wretrh that this day crawls up out of {hm ditch, of his abomination crying: for mercy Ho will he an allâ€" pnrdoninr.r God. ’l‘ho rocks shall turn gray wilh‘ ago, and the forests shall he unmoorad in tho last hurricane. and the sun shall shut its f'n‘"; eyelid. and the stars shall drm 131:» lilaslod flLESJIIId the mminvnls shall :10 downliko .‘U‘lt'h- ors in the deep, and the» mean shall have its last groan and lush itself with (-xpiringngony.'in(l lil‘." world shall wrap itself in a winding Shot of flame and low on tho fnnvral pyra» of the judgmmd; day; but God's love shrill nol die. It will kindle its sun after all other lights have gone out.‘ It will he1 a. lllllO‘VY sea after the last ocean 'hasl swept iLss-lf away. It will warm itselfl by the fire of I romsuminq world. It will sing while tho archangel’s trumnet l is Dealing forth and the air is filled} with tho crash of hrokon sepulchrels. and the rush of the winm of. the rising' dead. Oh. may God comfort all thisl people with the Christian sentimentll My subject also impresses m» with how pI‘k’Clse and accurate and particu- 131' are Gml's provulences. Just. :11 iii-,1 :momvnt thzitl woman entered the city the child died. Just as it. was p’rnpho- sled, so it turned out. so it always turns out. Th9 event occurs. thn (loath takns place. thr- nalion is horn. the des- ‘ potism is overthrown at the appoinled time. God drives the univvrsc with a. stiff rnin. Events (10 not just .h'nppen so. Things do not go slipshod. In all the book of God’s providvm‘os l’hc‘re is not one “if." God’s pruvidoncos are never caught in dishahilo. To God thorn are no surprises, no disappoint- ments and no arcidnnls. The most in- significant event! flung: out. in the aces is thst connecting link between two great Miningâ€"tho chain of eternity past and the chain of eternity to come. As min? as I‘ can Lull looking over llhe calendar of the world’s history. "imam grand. bright. lwautit‘ulthinrzs j haw hupnem-d on Friday than :1 0y oth- er day of the, week..- They would not lk‘glll anything on Friday. They \wuld not for the world go back to 2 1h» llnuse for anything after they had ‘nm-e started. Such people are ready to he duped. Ignorance (‘0an along. per- haps in the disguise of midieztl scienc» and carries lvlmn captive. for tin-re are always some men who have found some ‘simngc and mysterious weed in some sll‘unge place and plucked it in 1h:x moonshine, and then they cover the. board fences with the advcrtisements lof “elixir" and “panacms” and ”Indian mixtures" and “inpt’falilo catanluszns" and “unfailing disinfvcmnls” and “lighting: s-llvvs.” and "instantnnwtms -0inunents" enrmgh to stun and svarify and poultier- and kill half the race. 'l‘l --y are all ready to he, wrought upon by such impositions. All, my friends, do not be among such dunes! Do not. act The. part of such perszms as I have lmen describing. Stand back from all chicanery, from all lmpnsilll‘m.‘ ’l‘hoy who praclticn such inunrsitinn shall be. exposed in the day of God’s indignatinn. They may rear great furl um-s, but their dapple. graya will he arrested on the road some. day, as was the ass by the angel of God with drawn svord. The light. of the last day will sh no through all such suhterfuges and with a\'(ll('l‘. louder than that which accosted this imposition in the Loxt: "Cometnhhuui wife of Jerolmam. \Vhy feignvstthuu. lllysi‘lf to be another?" “'ith a voice; louriur than that God will lhunder‘ dmvn into midnight daran-ss and drmm and death all tun-faced men. and all elmrlntans, and all knm’os. and all‘ jockeys. and all swindlers.’ Behold how ; tlu- peoplfl put. un thv nmsks. and he- held how the Lord tears them off! ‘ ARGUMENT FOR LATE RISING. God has nothing- but anathema. and ex- D‘ESUI'O-‘ He will tear off the lie. He “'1“ “D 11p the empiricism; He will scatter the ambusmde. There are no Pf‘nplo who are just. ready to be duped. 'l‘hvy seem to be waiting to be deceived. 'lhey believe in ghosts; They saw one themselves once. They heard something strange. in an uninhabited housn. 9'»â€" mg 311mg the road one night. something approached them in white and crossed tho road. They would think it, very disastrous .to count: the. number of car- rutgz‘s at a funeral. Thuy heard in a. nt‘lgh‘flr's house somothing that, por- tonglcd death in the family. They say .‘t is :1. sure sign of evil if 21‘ ltatatfly into the room on a summer night, or they see the moon ever the let‘L shoul- der. They would not for the world un- dertake any enterprise on Friday forâ€" getful of the fact that if they look over the calendar of. the world Hwy will see that Friday has been the most. fortuâ€" natv day in all the history of the world. “0H. WAD SOJIE POWER THE GIFTIE 01E \VHAT IT MEANS. OM EMEE. ONT. THUR SD A Y. .At Guthrie. O. T.. Fred Hornela, 1.6 years old, killed another boy to get 1113 money. The port of Boston has been opened~ foitlthe export of Canadian and other ca e. The Masbnic hall at New Brunswick N. J.,hv3.s been burned ataloss of $400.- nun It cost Ne“ York $00,000 to clear. awalv the snow fall lazst week. A bill t_o protect perm navigation has been Ilntroduced Into Congress. ‘ Tuberculosis is reported to have in- Earl Russell’s resident!“ at Maiden- head, on the Thames. was gutLed by. fire on Monday morning and there is. stroqg su.mu 10') [hat some one connect- ed with his libel suit against Lady Scott. is guilty of Incondn r1<1n UNITED S'] ATES. The National Bank of Illinois in Chi- cago has failed. The London Ch’ronical on Monday con- tained u, long interview with Capt. Mahan, of the United States navy, re- tired, which is eulogisric of the British navy and its long service. system. 'l 111, Hamilton Pol'u: Va gistmlv fined James Shaw $=;1l 01‘ :1 monLh in jail for .nopmg a gaullling huuse u1 15 Mac- nu 1 31.1‘L-e1 north]. His counsel imimut- ed (hm. he would Lake thix case to To- ronto and have a test. made 01’ it. The cases againSI. Len young men found in Shaw's room by the police were dis- missed. The St. James Gazette Says the Queen will personally dictate and re- vise a, biography of her Majesty which, willl apppa‘r in 1897. gazetted Bzitiskf Commissioner fox the B3 hring Sea arbitration. Mr. L. H. DaV‘ies, Minister of Marine 3and Fisheriea, expects to have the Hud- ‘sun Bay expedition, for which Parlia- ment voted {wentyJive thousand dol- lars last. session, ready to shirt out :early next spring. j bllx luauvggc u! lullAS‘ Lo Fre'ng Lun thb new Chinese An_1â€" mpnts ‘hmr'n disappeal bassadm l0 Exgland, is very popular in ppndent Government. London. Qat least he .in t'ho h in" Hon Ggorge de i_n King h ‘lwm and responsnble men Tom Manayhzw tried to start another douk strxke m Jungland. The. Toronto. Hamilton 8:. Buffalo Railway Company is applying to Payr- liament. for an act to authorize the issue of. dehmluws and p1eferred stuck, to chungu (he heudquzutcrs from T0- Ionfo to Hamilton, and Lu sanction the. agzcomcm with the C. P. R. Another attempt on the part. of the United States to {umber rcslrici the operations 01' 1110 Canadian sealers in 1113 lslclu'ing Sea is anLicipzited and according to informaiion in Oltnwa, dt'l’chd 1mm :1 Minisivexial source, this will be resisted on the part of Can- ada. Mr. \V. XV. Ogi'lvie. ofl )’,Iuntroal who has made an miensive mu; through the I\onh ‘.‘. 951, says Lhat. he has never seen husiness helter than it is to-day in “'innipwg, and thwug bout the en- tire Nwonh-W est Lh‘, farmers are mn- lentc-i 1C tho Dominion Govm‘nmem decide upon the enlargiment of the Si. Law- x't-nce canals at he coming session of Parliament, it will mean Ihe addition of two steamers Lo the fleet of the Richelieu and Ontario Navigation Com- puny. Hon. Sidney Higher. interviewed on leasing \\'a>hingi0n, expressed hissat- ist‘a: ion at Um arrangements made. WiLh Secretary Morton {or a modificu- tion of the. cattle quarantine regulaâ€" tions with the United States. Th9 Minister of Agriculture and Prof. Hulk-r1501) “if! miend Ontario dairymcn's conventions in uBrockvi.ilc, St. Mary's. and Braaltfcrd during Jan- uary. and will deliver a. series of lec- Lure-5. This your many 01,000,000 bushelq of grain passed through the S00 canal. an UH'IL‘HSC‘ of 36,000,000 compared with lust yczlr's movement. Mr. Richard Bryan 0f Merrittun fell [rum :1 (Brand 'lrunk 1min. breaking: his. 10g. [19 lay out in the cold :Lll nighL :In-l was l):i<.,y fromâ€"bimon. "l‘hv Rowland Record published a lisx. (.l‘ 50 mining properties. in the imme- Iliaic vicinity of Runalnlnd. 'l'lvt- esti- mate fours up to nearly $13,000,000. The Department of Trad-9 and Com- merce is (-iu-nfitlenl, that Il‘l‘Xi :scasun wswls‘ will undermkc the voyage from Mwnli‘eal to Auslraliul fur the ‘arriug‘c of Canadian goods. The Dominion (Juvernmnnt is lwing uskcd to adopt a. new hailm for the Du- uuniun wiectiuns, as iL is said Lhc Do- rm-ln-r lm.'lot. is not such a sum-ess as was anticipated. It is rumored lhul. the CPR. at» closing a deal [01 all the swam-Pl“ of th (‘xlumlliu 8; KUUIrDiIV waigrulun (‘mupumy Thu building permits issuud in Ham- ilun during um year mnoumcd 10 $414,455. an mm 52 of $117,385 Mar the prm‘inus your. Mary Matus‘ku. aged three. was burn- 9d to death In Bramlun on Monday, dur- mg Lh-u absence (If her parents. Francis lx'ubinson is under urresi at N. Catharina! charged wuh Improper use of the mxuls. Capt. Sinclair, Lord Aberdecn's spr- remry, \vyLl leave for England Lnrnxer pululcul life. Mr. A. Person, of the C.P.R. bridge. dcpax'um‘m was drowned in :1. Well u." V n'dcu, .uuu. ’l‘humus Hall. a. Haunlmn mnulzgvr, atteulpmd to cmnuxnt suu‘hm by mkmg luudunum. - .Minvrs near Rat Portage recently muhbud a. .surveye-r sum (nut. to survey land. ‘ stun CANADA. _‘ St. Catharines ministers object to bunday funerals. ' RossEzmd objects to the hnm‘igrrzttion mm thu town of any more Chlm-se. ' flossiand objects to the immigration mm the town of any more Chinese. “Th" ficnitemizu‘y commission lyin- wmguung the recent escapes at lung- ed rm [manning Items About Our Own Country. Great Britain. the United States. and. All Parts of the Globe, Condensed an; Assorted for Easy Reading. “ ' THE VERY LATEST FROM ALL THE WORLD OVER. Miners GREAT BRITAIN. US,TAE SEE OORSELSAS [Tl/E123 SEE US.” i The detailed report of the Inspector iof Insurance and Registrar of Friendâ€" *iy Societies, showing the condition of iall insurance socieyies operating in iCanada. has been sem out by the gov- ernment. The report. is compiled from the reports of each mmpany for the year 1895, and which were received by the department during the first, months of the year. Many of“ the. companies do business outside of the country,and full particulars are given. but the, fol- lowing is an abstract total of the busi- ness done by all the companies in On- tario alone and shows the large. pro- portions to which life. insurance has at- tainedzâ€"Number of members in On- tario, 241,2}5; number of members died, $3349.97; death benefits (insurance). $2,405,288.66; number of members Sick during the year. 15.22 ; number o£ wee-ks' sickness experienced. 69.368; amount paid for sick benefits, $257,- 816.82; amount paid for medical at- tendance, $69,605.80; donations to dis- tressed members ,$7,348.08; assets in outline of (‘onlems of the Annual Report. andent Govgrm‘nléhfitz‘ {f \w‘t‘ak:”:1\<‘)1:lvti at Ileast he .31} t‘ho hands of educated A letter from Havana to the 'Iimes dwells upon ih‘ [girl that the white element no“ predominates largeiy in the insurgent ranks. The “org! me- merits ‘haj'rs disappeared and -n inde- r- special from Paris says it is sug- Lrosl‘ed Jat Great, I'irixain, France. and Italy offer their sarvices in the Cuban question, ?n order to prevent, a conflict. betw-ven Spain and th.n United States and to termina‘ic the revolt. Fresh proposals ‘of reform have. been presented Lo Hm Sultan of 'j‘urkny. and the Ambassadors at, (‘onsfantinople have been inrusied to act in unison It the Sultan refuses to comply. force may be employed. Gen. Gallieni. the French comman- dvrâ€"in-ch'Ief in Madagascar. says that the insurrection is virtually mastered. and that only a few remaining hands are hiding in the forests. ‘ At SanLiago. Cuba. several large cal- ibre Krupp“guns have just arriv-z-dand are being; placed at slrnieg‘ic points to defend that. port against a possihie at- tack from a foreign enemy. Brazil makes the claim that the ter- ritory in dispute hen-Keen Great Britain and Venezuela belongs to her, and that' she can vsiahHsh her claim by documentary evidence. An expiosion occurred in a confec- tionery manufactory at Casino, in the Province of Caserta. Italy. killing sev- en persons. The Epoca, of Madrid, declares that together with the reserves. the Span- ish army is fully capahlé of maintain- ing an international war. A motion “ill be inhoduced into th‘e Chamber of Deputies at Rome. sun- pa‘lhizing “i111 1119. Cuban insurgents. Floods are reported in Greece, which have destroyed a large amount of pro- perty and caused some loss of. llfe. Thu condition of lhe sugar. crop in the \\'csL Indies will be enqunmd into by the. English Government. Admiral ‘Bverpnger, Spanksh Minister of Murinendemes thqt the Government is purchusmg \vm‘smpa‘. It is said than nearly all eduvated Cubans sympathize :thh the insur- gents. - Matters are tranquil in HayLi at; Fresvnt. but it is stated that. a, revo- uLion is bound to come later. The S'ultag has, granted amne§ty to 2.00;) Armonmm convxcted of crime. Signor Crispi’s daughter has eloped wilt]: one of her servants. Mr. Dingley on Monday, speaking of his 'l‘ariff hill, said that; proteflinn is, thr‘ (:1‘11111 purpose nf lhzo bill, and that all 12hr protection "which is needed will ln- given. .I‘Imv Zmlxmd hm raisqd a, conLribu- mm ()1 830:) for “Hurrlsfif of Mrs. Stmve'g ‘Unclo Tnunfs Cabin," who Is at Lexungto‘n, K32, desutute. The big h1)upm1t pqwder mills at Car- n-flgifll’S Palm. and thbstown, N J.. are working mgm and day to £111 large ordorsq‘fpr _th~ Government. Spain taxes English and_ South Airman visitors to the Cunarles. ’I‘hn Bank of Minna-mm has failed and u Inhum‘r oi Chung” monetary in- stituting,“ are suffe ‘ing from a loss of public confidence. Trouble exists between 11hr president and eunylnyes of Lhc Huston Street Kai-l- way‘t‘ummny, which. is iikely to result in a serious (strike. 3111911 311011131}; p-roIE-ssor 01 Greek in the, Sioux [11113,1 1).,31'171151 C01- 114;", (1111111 Itted suicide by hmging 11 111. 111' u: 1 \» «duesday l'h' mavm' nf Uhicwgo vetoed a. reso- 1111111.". of 111” (I My Coun :11 [01 four-cent 1::11' 1"11cs. and his cho was sustained W :57 major '31!) Smukcr R-wzl is of the opinion that the. House 01.’ Repawvxnmivus will no: puss 1hr: Cums-run romlutinns in favor of. Cuba. .' Tin;- 976 mmiversnrv nf Hm lama- At Hut'fafo thy body at Jarume Kelly was held for dam, but finally released and sent to Mirhigan for burial. Thirty men cmlzloyvd on Government work at Suul'L 5.9. Marie, Michigan, h:1.ve left to figm for Cuban rcvas‘. AL J‘il-Lietown. W. Va... a falling bridge l«-L 40 persons down mm a urevk, whim two were killed and a. number injured. . 11:33 justw Ix; pm 055. uL g n-vâ€"n-JLM...‘ an n (all Point have how usanuusiy poisoned by eaLing head ahevse. _A §orious raw war Lg: _in px Mayhem. Kentucky, arming " em lynchmgs of colored men James Sgrift, 63 years old vetemq. (bed 1:st was}; at. 4 plds, Mlchzgan. 1‘\(‘llt.‘y-five :(nnt have In fected every herd of cattle in the State of Maine. The late Hmry L. Pierqe, cx-glgygf 01‘ Bumun donated $533,000 In chanmwa bequmts. . Miss Frances the W. L‘. i‘. Cmszile, N. Y. or the l’rovlnria: lnspcclor or Insur- um-o. INSURANCE IN ONTARIO. the Pil Ltd-91$. 410313 mull-(h REEL: 311' celebrmmd -1 thy body m Jamme Kelly ”(1191);, but finally released in-htgan for hurlal. GENERAL. \Villard, l’xesident of- In, Ls suicusly ill at ca-valyymun aL \Vest war Lg: _in progrqss at years oldfiaCrimean “”32; aL Grand Ra- ,» arising huff of rec- x u r Was The present royal crown of Grew. Bri-l tain was made especially for the wron- ation of Queen Victoria. who succeed- ed to the throne June 20, 1837 and was crowned at \Vestminster June 28, 1838. To manufacture the present crown a. numbe; of old crowns belonging to the precedlng sovereigns were Proken up, .._A LL‘A --..__ -_,A_._,L,J ‘iAmulue UV '6““" us "OLD Uluncu up. and the gems extracted for use in the Queen's crown. Thomas Crowell. an old HanisCouniy. N. 8., resident, and his mar It‘lavliVFS have received advices from England that. they have established their right. to the fortune of six million pounds stvrling. whiih has remained unclaimed for wens. 'l‘hene axe twentx -one heirs each: of “ hom will receive about a mi.- lion and a. half dollars Thn Croweil family emigiai’cd from En gland 10 Rhode Island in 1760 and at 1110 nuL- brvak of the re olution lemoved to Nova Scotia. AN INHERITANCE 00F £6,000,000 }."h's Annlt- sun's ”call: an the Montreal i General llospllal. i A despatch from Montreal says:â€" Miss Annie Sims died at the Montreal: ihospiml early on \Vednesday morning. ‘ On Sunday morninglthe 6th Dec.. Homâ€" er Howells arrived in the city from Hartford, Conn, and after an interview with MLss Sims in her father's resi- filence, at 234 St. Martin street, pulled :a revolver from his pocket, shot twice ‘at Miss Sims, and then turned the wea- ‘pon to his own head and shot himself. .Howells died the same morning. and Miss Sims lingered until \Vednesday :morning.; One of the bullets which fwere fired at Mis Sims entered her; :skull by the left eye, and travelled iarou‘nd “m the hack of her right earn - After remaining for several days in a. vsemi-conScious stale, Miss Sims gradu- Jal 1y recovered, and on Friday last was ihoped t9 lie qut “flange; On Sag- The qontmct hats- been let. to drive the mam crOSS-cut tunnql m thy. St. Paul 200 feet more. It Is now In 50 feet. It is rumored here that the CPR. are dosing a. deal for all the steamers of the Columbia, 8: Kootenay Naviga- tion Company. This includes the steamers Nakusp, Kokanne, Nelson. Trail and Lytton. Mr. Mam, Presi- dent of the steamboat. company. has gone to Montreal. “'1th Mr. Marpole, loc_a_l C. B. R. _Supqrmtepdent. Stock in the Deer Park mine con- _tinue.s to advance. The Butte shaft is approaqhing the hundred foot :ml The ore is improving in quality and. qqmtity. The Rossiand Record publishes a. list of 50 minim: properties. in the imme- diate vicinity of Rossland and gives the present cash value of each. The estimate is a. conservative one. yet it foots up to nearly $13,000,000. The list is far from complete, but it gives some idea of the way the wealth of Canada. has been added to withinga few months in this portion of the Dominion. (‘ash Value of the Mining Properly at Rowlandâ€"Mall Service Improvedâ€"Min- ing Notes. A despatch from Rossland, says:â€" Mr. R. M. Armstrong, Superintendent of the Toronto pomuffice, has complet- ed his work of improving the service at the Rossland office. The new ar- rangements will be a, great boon to the people here. urdny night she. suddenly became. seriâ€" ously ill. and on Sunday an operation to remove lho bullet was performed. Miss Sims rallied, but. \Vednesday had a relapse, and slowly sank. She was almost. unconscious up to the time of her death. which took place at twenty minutes to four in the morning. Coroni-r McMahon was informed of Miss Sizus‘ death. but decided not to summon a. jury. Miss Sims was the eldest daughâ€" ter of Mr. J. C. Sims. and was a promin- ent member of the. First Baptist i'hurcha The deceased has a. number of relatives in Toronto. us of External 1' mcdies only IL 151,6 sage this qucsLion that Dr. Deni- One of the greatest triumphs of the medicine of ihv furure wiil be the dis- covery of a cure for a. cancer. M. Denisenko, a Russian donor, on the strength of investigmions he has made, earnestly entreaLs the medical pro- Jezx's‘lc-n to experiment. upon the sap of the wartwort. Cheiidonium mujus, as a possible remedy for the treatment. of this. frightful scourge. The sap of the. plant is widely used in Russia. as it, is in other countries. for making warts disappear. Dr. Donisvnkq baa found that after prolonged use in very smell gioses a preparation of the sap, admin- istered internally, causes cancer growths to disappear. He has published a paper. iilusirated 'I) ' photographs. in which Lhr- history. 0 seven cases of external growlhs in such pl:xces'_ of the body as rendered surgical operations of synko spcciallv_ appeal» In his ct: Ileagqes for co-uporation. Another essential point is zhztl [he Che i(' 0;): 11111 (up con- iu'uLs‘ twu deadly alkaloids, Lhelidonine and sanguiâ€"pvri111-.und it has to be moved whether its cumin Jed use, even in small doses, will not tell in the long run. m) use. and three casJ’s internal growth in “he esophagus and the stomach. From the phumgmphs it would seem that the efiecL of the i‘nlcrnai treat- mvnt especially are simply astonishâ€" ing. The growths have totally disap- peured. The growth in the escphagus was formerly so great. LhaL the patient would swallow liquid food. only; he can now swallow chopped meat. bread and hard-boiled eggs. This is said to be Lhe first case on scientific record of cancer; grpwth§ heinguexpeiied 1_)y _t.he Scientisis Asked In Experiment! “1": [In- Mrw (‘uncvr (‘urm NEARLY THIRTEEN MILLIONS. DIED FROM HER WOUNDS. VICTORIA'S CROWN GIVE IT A TRIAL. uncax Gaga.â€" ’he Montreal Saute Barbe. one of the most famous ’ ‘ ' high schools of Paris. founded in 1461’) [infielforggfitiand the alma mater of Calvin and of ‘ . " | Loyola, has been bought by the Governâ€" Le City from an interview ; ment for 2.000.000 francs. lL is becom- 'ather's reei jing constantly more difficult for pri- ' ' ‘ ' gvate insLiLutions to compete WiLh the ”991' pull-ed State establishments. Last. year the ,, shot thce Ecole Monge, from which religious in- ned we “-93- struction was excluded, was turned over ahot himself to the city of Paris andfivas recline- ’ , ' tened Lycee Carnot. This year It is n‘nmg. and the turn of the Catholic college of Wednesday Sainte Barbe. ullets which; Germany army officers are to have entered rhel'f their pay raised. First Lieutenants CHAS. “I RICIIAIKIIS Publiskolul Propflt'mr When order was restored Archbishop MncLagan refused to entertain the protest, whereupon Mr. Brown "011:: left the church amid the groans o the au. dienoe. The excitement than sudsid. ed aid the services proceeded. A1. the. beginning of the ceremony 11:;- Rev. Edward Brownjohn 51311ch :hsm- present 1)} rising from his 583,1 quid thrice protesting against 1he confir- motion of the newly appointed Anh- bishop upon the ground that he held to the. doctrine of evolution. 'lne ac- tion of \h‘. Brounjmn created a grey. sensation, and when the congregation assembled had recovered somewhat from their astonishment many persons stood up on their salts and heated and roamed at the protesLing clergy- man or some time. The Confirmation of the Archbishop of Canterbury. A despatch from London, says-The confirmation of the Right- Hon. and Most Revfl’rederick Temple as Amhâ€" bishop 012 Canterbury and Primatc of all England, in mewssion to the 1320, Most Rev. Edward “Thine Benson, took place in the Church of St. Mary 31... how in London, on Tuesday. The Most Rev. William Dalrymplo MacLugnn. Archbishop of York and Primate of England. officiated at. iho ceremony. tom the Greek orthodox faith to R0- man Catholicism, and later fled from her home to become a nun. To pre- vent the conversion of the two younger girls the mother put them in the Bou- logne school. on the teacher's engag- ing to keep- them away from the nuns. The girls fled from school. however, and are now believed to be nuns in some convent. The mother's suit for damages is complicated by the fact that her daughters have come of age and have intervened in the suit. through their luvyer, with the assertion that they acted of their own free will in what they did. Mme. Cotescu. wife of a Romanian court councillor at Bucharest. has brought suit for 100,000 francs dam- ages. against a boarding-school mistress of Boulogne sur Seine [or the loss of two daughLers. Mme. Cotescu had placed four daughters in a convent school, where one became converted A queer sect. the Mazarenu. turn- ed up in a. London police court recently. wing to the refusal of their chief priest to pay a printer's bill. He called 'him- self Antipas pastor, Fidei Defensor.and said that he had been a clergyman of the Reformed Episcopal Church in the United States. '1‘ he bill .“1 dispute was for a, pamphlet containing a “State- ment of the Faith once delivered to the saints in opposition to the Faiths of Christendom,“ and on its last page had an advertisement of the " Antepas Cy- cles, priCe 12 guineas." Antipas. F.D.. had to pay. will receive $420 a. year instead of $315. Captaim. $985 instead of $900. Majors $1.500 instead of $1,350, and Colonels, $2.100 instead of.$1,950._ The money for the increase is obtamed from the saving the Government makes in re- during the interest on the public debt from 4 to 3 1â€"2 per cent. The change is not all profit to the officers. as they are compelled by the army regulation. to invest. their savmgs m Government Copenhagen is to have an elevated railroad running along the shore from the city to the woo-is at Charlotxen- lupd. The motive powgr will be clea- tncity or compressed alr. At Dolhain, on the Belgian frontier, toward Germany. the whole population went to the railroad station recenfiy t9 ‘hoot thg Count of Flanders, with has son. Prince Azbert. and his son-in- law, the Duke of Vendome. because the Count had empioyeci Germans on his estate near by. Sweden will send an expedition to Konig Karl’s Land. east of Spitzber- gen. next summer. which will also ex- plore the other islands and the undis- covered regiun between Spitzbergen and Franz J osef Land. Last year’s rush to Spitzbergen shows that the difficul- ties ofi‘ such an expedition are iittle Baroness Hirsch has given $250,000 t9 endpw a. home for Jewish consump- txves )11 England. An extraordinary story of the credâ€" ulity of Russian peasants comes from Slavyansk. in southern Russia, where a. woman whose little ten-year-old girl had sore eyes consulted a witch doo- tor and was told to apply gunpqwder to the child's eyes and touch it off with a much. She obeyed. blinding the child and injuring herself. cester, who is 78 years of age. has tak- en up the bicycle. Old and New World Events of Interest Chron- WHAT IS GOING ON IN THI’ FOUR CORNERS OF THE (3' “OBE. 30%) WE Ffi‘éflfl Wfifiifl. Bishop Ellicott. of Bristol and Glou- lclcd Brieflyâ€"Interesting Huypcnlngs «1 Recent Date. A STARTLING PROTEST.