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E ' From India. come constantly evi- L"' dences of the nationalist movement _ which is giving the British gmcrn- ment so much, grave concern At, _ Dacea more than two score men are to be tried on the charge of con- A"- spiring to subvert English rule in the great province. The prisoners include educated men, collegians, journalists, philosophers, and thinkers. The land is full of ru- mors of conspiracy and uprising. Dacoity exists in many places, and Calcutta is harried with stories ora, -, landwide society embracing all pr, castes and religions, the object of WhiCh is the downfall of British rule at all costs. _At, its Sheffield meeting this year two savants announced "the most important ggricultural discovery in jitittt years"-in1ely, the discovery -that there are micro-organisms that spoil and destroy the soil as patho- genie germs attack and injure hu- _man and animal bodies. Thtre are At the same meeting several sci- entifie experimenters presented re- suits of the application of electri- city to wheat, vegetables and fruits. Surprising indeed are these results, for they indicate that the yield per acre may be incremed sub, .eas-e the yield. But farmers all over the world will hear with plea- sure that even the British Associa- tion for the Advancement of Sci- ence is giving serious attention to these problems. Much has been said lately about seitntifie agriculture and intensive cultivation. Not a little is being gone to improve cultivation and in, Swot-aria- that fertilize and stimulate plants, and there are bacteria that kill these useful organisms. The bad and noxious agents may in turn be attacked and destroyed, thus saving the soil and leaving the field free to the. beneficial organisms, '1ative romance which depicts the dwellers of forest and plain going to fight for Mother India under the leadership of fanatical monks. And so with books for the learned hymns passed from mouth to mouth, music and painting, the propagan- da goes on, waiting-for a leader. Will he come? And if he does, will England's material power be able to stamp out the flres which he and his fellows have lighted? The Bengales-e political dacoits have taken their inspiration from a ’isually commented on in the dis- patches. Aceordiag to Mr; Macdon- ald the movement is closely bound up with a literary and artistic re- vival, not unlike the Celtic one in Ireland. Bengal, for instance, he ‘Says, is idealizing India and trans- lating nationalism into religion, mu- sic, poetry, painting, and litera, ture. The Bengalese are splendid agitators; they prepare men to be led, but no leader is visible, nor does he seem to be forthcoming. Nevertheless the movement goes forward with astonishing rapidity, _flowing down from the higher castes to the man in the hillside furrow. Books, neM"u'3apers, ballads, and hymns are spreading broadcast the seeds of nationalism, and mission-, aries in the remote mountain dis tricts report that little children at the services will strike up the Mar- seillaise or Carmagnole of the na- tionalists, and the singers, large and small, are transfigured and shaken by the' emotion inspired by the patriotic airs. I , NOTES AND COMMENTS One member, J. Ramsay Macdon, ald, has been travelling over India investigating the movement, for him- self. A number of his letters have appeared in the London Chronicle :and they treat of certain phases not The government and its police are busy everywhere, but the complex Indian nature baffles them at most points. Mere thuggery could be extirpated, but this new movement with its munifications into so many conditions of society is too elusive for ordinary police control. Police seizures have revealed the fact that the nationalist leaders are in Co1'r'e- spondenoe with certain members of parliament, although it has not yet been shown that any of the latter have been carried away by their emotions as was Keir Hardie sev- eral years ago. Most of them ap- pear to be seeking for information, and getting it in large quantities. Work at Queenston Heights Has Been Completed. A despatch from Niagara Falls, Ont., says: The monument to the memory of Laura Secord, the hero- ine of the war of 1812-13, has been erected at Queenston Heights. The work was completed on Thursday. The date of the unveiling has not yet been announced. The monument bears the following inscription: "This monument has been erected ' by the Gov- ernment of Canada. to Laura In- gersoll Secord, who saved her hus- bwocl1s life in the battle of these Heights on October 13, 1813; who risked her own in conveying to Cap, tain Fitzgibbon the information by which he won the victory of Beaver Dams on July 24, 181:5.”- 5 o'clock on Monday afternoon, when Charles, the six-year-old son of c. R. Campbell, was killed while sliding down a door upon which his father had been carried home a short time before. Mr. Campbell is a C. P. R. conductor on the way- freight, and while at Wroxeter on Monday afternoon was about to step from the top of one car to all- other when the cars parted and he fell between them, breaking his ankle. A door was used to carry, him to his car and frogl the car to his home on his arrival here. The door was left on the steps at the front of the house, and-his little son was using it as a slide. The little fellow fell and struck the back of his neck on the door, and died in a Tery short time. Little Box [My] Duor as a Plays thing and Was liiliod. A despatch from Teeiswater says: A sad accident occurr.ed here about Science can do much for the farm in several ways. It can add to its prpsperity and comfort, and itrcan make farming interesting and ab, tractive to ambitious" young men and women entering active life. "Back to the soil" will acquire a, new meaning in the light of such scientific discoveries and sugge8- tiong as we have indicated. stantially by the use of electric wires and currents properly direct- ed. LAURA SECORD MONUMENT. For those who have appetite (r appreciation of life's real and pc"- manent values there can be no We tend too much to postpone tlr: profits of piety. Men will not be content always to, deal in the fu ture, and it is a 1lj'"i,rsiadetiion of faith tO'make it little I l ”than a specu lation in heavenlgjv I tity by the in, vestment of eatuifscsnisery. The right life looks out to cltoose amongst all goods the highest good; it discerns the most broadly com- prehensive and enduring ‘good; it chooses the beauty of goodness ru- ther than the ashes of desire. We overemphasize the e‘lernrvnis of loss, pain, deprivation, hardship, and sorrow. We talk tpo much of a cross to be borne with agony and too little of an inner JOY AND STRENGTH which make it easier to beam even the heaviest cross than it would be to fear the jester's lightest hauhle. We talk of the way of sorrow and fail to show how it is the only way in which any human being has ever found strength-and calm. Indifference, to religion is dce " ten to ignorance and/co misunder- standing for which religious people are largely responsible. If the re ligious life were known for what it really is it would not so often be rejected lightly. But we have made it undesirable, unattractive, and have offered it to men as a present. weariness and pain which is to he the price of a future, perpetual but. confessed) somewhat intangible peace and blessedness. It, is childish folly to say that they are led of the devil, neither do an; intentionally slight their own {vol- vantage. The tragedy of it all as it goes on is that, here is life and men are so led as to choose dean. No serious person doubts that t he life which neglects the real val-ms of sincere religion is foolishly guil- ty of serious self-deprivation. Ihr:, who is responsible for the misapp; o hension of religion which leads ihe thoughtless so readily to reject it? "To give unto them beauty for asltcsr"-lsaiah ixi. 3. Those who make up their minds to get as much enjoyment out of life as polssible regard religion as a serious hindrance to their purpos- es. The masses, drifting unhepding by the churches, do so not out ,f intentional opposition but becauce the way of the church does not ap- pear to be worth while; it seems f0 demand so much more than it of- fers. ,', Is It Due to the Assumption That It Asks Too Much of Us? NEnililllliifill fl) HELEN KILLED _WmLFu' AT PLAY. Fish and Game Orerseer Makes a Good Haul at Brookville. A despatch from Brockville says: Fish and Game Overseer Toner made another big seizure of nets in the North Channel, on Monday, getting nine of what are known as twenty-rod gill nets. This makes nineteen nets taken in that section during the past two winks. P. R. eastbound train, No. 2, on August 8 last, William Patrick Lynn, a C. P. fl. brakeman, was on Friday committed to stand his trial by Magistrate Hefferan at the barracks of the Mounted Police. The victim of the alleged offence, Mrs. Blanchflower, was travelling with her husband, Assistant Pay- master 13lanehfUwer of the British navy, from Vancouver to Mont- real, and, according to the prose- cution, was occupying a berth by herself when the attempt to chloro- form her was made somewhere be- tween Medicine Hat and Swift Cur- rent. Serious Charge Against a C. P. It. Brahman. A despatch from Regina, Sask., says: Charged with attempting to fihlyoform a lady passenger on C. ,,,7 ----o -_v.... 4. AAMWJ Jllulllllis, vquu a fast train on the Rock Island ran through an open bridge into twenty feet of raging water. Nine of the dead have been identified. Yet others may have been washed away by the torrent. The stream which wrought the destruction is at or- dinary times simply a dry arroyo with no water, but with its bed thirty feet below the level of the railroad bridge. Early Thursday night a tremendous rain fell and the dry bed was soon filled to the brim with a wild torrent. The bridge itself was quickly broken up and carried away. . Terrible Wreck on the Rock Island Railroad. A despatch from Clayton, Kan- sas, Jays: Sixteen known to be dead, probably others killed and their bodies washed away, and eleven injured, is the result of a terrible railroad wreck which OL'- curred on the Rock Island Rail, road two miles east of this place at an early hour Friday morning, when People are not anxious to empty their lives; they desire to fill them. The rush for pleasure and amuse- ment is part of the expression of our hunger for crowded living. Men need to know how much they are missing by shutting out from them- selves this rich circle of spiritual thought and feeling) how they are robbing themselves when they fail to develop the religious aspects of life'. . V But to the man who passes by the church seems to stand asking for much and offering little, de- manding intellectual subjection to forms of thought and personal sub- jection to duties and self-denial.) religion of negation can never be called a gospel. ,Men can only learn the, blessedness and wisdom of giv- ing up Aome things as they see the higher and better things thus to be gained. The great Teacher of religion called on men to follow him into life more abundant. If we can but show men that the way of religion is the way of a richer, saner, happier life, there will be no difficulty in persu- ading them to this way. Every hu, man heart, is hungry for goodness, truth, and love, longing to come out of the desert of burnt out de- sires into the calm of. right living. The people, who are praying to be nothing, who want, to be as weak and as useless as a rose leaf tossed on a billow, who are proud of an anaemic, milseless existence, im- agine that by the destitution of their lives they GLORIFY THE DEITY. Only life, large, rich, full, free, can glorify the lord of all life. If relig- ion does not; mean the largest, best, highest life, what right have we to urge it on nitm? PLUNGED THROUGH BRIDGE But, if we who have those uniad., ing glories talk as though the way of this finer, better life were as a passing through a valley of 1vecp- ing, as though there were neither light nor joy here and as though life for us all meant, the loss of Vigor. joy, and influence, what wonder lovers of life loathe our way. We have too long libeled the right of way of life. other way of living than that which sets the interests of the higher We first, that which is willing to let the lower serve and bear its burdens that the nobler may develop to its best. The wise seek the prizes that do not fade and these are to be had only by refusing the gauds and fol ly of the passing hour. CHLGROFGR ll 05 PIIILOW BIC SEIZL‘RE 0F NETS. HENRY F. COPE. 10. While they went away to buy --Why is it that men put off, till some great crisis forces them to it, the thing that they can do so easuy at any moment! 'l'nere IS an interval between the warning cry and the actual coming of the bridegroom, but, it is not long enough to transact the business for which there has been ample time ish to the last, for they ought to have considered that the merchants 9. There will not be enough for us and you-ln that day no man will have more than enough for himself. And, even if he'should, he would be unable to communicate it to another. Each man must buy for himself. The personal expcri- ence of Christ's grace is only for those who are willing to pay the price. . 8. Our lamps are going out-lt is an artist's touch which makes the going out of these lamps coincident with the coming of the Bridegroom. A formal religion may barely do to get a man through this life, but it leaves hing in darkness when the summons Sounds. 7. All . . . arose, and trimmed their lamps-Both wise and foolish at the last moment required to do a little trimming. Who of us in the end but will feel the need of, and be grateful for the ehdnce of, a hurried prayer ? 6. At midnight-Tho cry breaks upon the drowsy senses of the wait, ing virgins with startling sudden- ness. Our Lord had just described his coming as a lightning gleam, the swoop of eagles, and the surge of a flood (Matt. 24. 27, 28, 37). The time for preparation has gone en- tirely by; now, all that is left is to go forth to meet him. All slumbered-Both wise and foolish. It was natural, and in the story may be regarded as "a, mer- ciful concession to human weak, ness. It is impossible for creatures such as we are to keep our relig- ious life always at high pressure." Others look upon the figure as meaning the repose of faith, a, "se- rent confidence in God." Some- times all we can do is to wait, and, if all is in readiness, it is well. But the slumber of the foolish is a false complacency. 4. The wise took oil in their ves- sels--The lamps are probably to be understood as torched, consisting of poles wrapped on one end with oily rags. These, cf course, would burn only a limited time, and so would, need to be replenished with oil from the little earthen jar carried for that purpose. If the inner life is nourished by the Spirit, there will be light for each day and for all that the future may require. 5. The bridegroom tarried--The cause for this delay is not given. The one thing certain is that, though his coming may not be at an hour expected, it is bound to occur. 3. Took no oil with them - The oil symbolizes all that is inward in the life of the Christian. With- out that grace which is infused by the abiding Spirit all the externals of religion, such as philanthropies and creedal confessions, are lack, ing in warmth and light; indeed, are a cumbrance to those who bear these empty lamps and a cause of stumbling to those who may look to them for guidance. Jesus is not speaking of hopeless hypocrites; the foolish had a, little oil, that is, a modicum of true religion. But they hadn't any to spare for an emer- gency, and have been well compar- ed to those of the parable of the soils who had no depth of earth. Took their lamps-Oriental wed- dings usually occur after dark, and one of the principal features is the procession, when the friends go forth to meet the bridegroom and accompany him to the house of the bride's parents. All the details are, of Course, not capable ot Interpre- tation. The number ten, standing for completeness, is the entire num- ber of those who make up the ex- pectant church. Among the Jews, ten constituted a congregation. The lamps stand for the outward pro- fession of church members. To carry a, lamp is to announce to the world a definite purpose to be coun- ted among the friends of Christ, who of course is the bridegroom. Tho bride is not mentioned, simply because the church here is depicted in the wise and witless virgins. 2. Five . . . were foolish - Not bad, but improvident and careless. The kingdom of heaven-Cons) ered both as a present and a future reality. The ten Virgins represent those who are members of the king- dom as we see, it in the visible church, and who are therefore can- didates for membership in the kingdom which is to be. So, in some sens-e, they are all friends of the bridegroom. Lesson I. The Wise and Foolish Wus gins, Matt. 25. 1-13. Golden Text, Luke 12. 40. Verse 1. Then-Indicating tho viewpoint of the parable. Jesus has just finished speaking of the coming of the Son of man in iudg: ment. At, that time events will take place as described in this pic- ture and the one following. THE SUNDAY SUHOQL INTERNATIONAL LESSO N, OCT. 2. A despatch from Ottawa says: A case of suicide in the Ottawa, police station was averted on Wed- nesday morning only by an over- dose of poison. Rose Eyr, a young domestic, was given nine months for having 5.350153%, from hier mis. triiss, Mrs. Ogilvie, a $150 dress and then sending it to a laundry, where it was ruined. As soon as she was sentenced she swallowed three bichloride of mercury pills. The does was too powerful, and acted as its own antidote. _ Ottawa Girl Sentenced io Prison for Attempted Suicide. A despatch from Winnipeg says: After firing two revolver shots at his wife and rushing from the house, believing her dead, Hawrylo Tracz, a Ruthenian laborer, aged 4.5, shot himself through the heart in the woodshed of their home on Stephen street, at 1 o'clock on Monday. Tram (lied instantly, but the WO- man will recover. They quarreled over family affairs, the woman hav., ing got into trouble in the Police Court, through stealing from the C. P. R. yards near their home. A Ruthenian Laborer Then Shoots Himself. ’ A despatch from Cochrane says: (There is great excitement here over jthe discovery of lignit-e coal during the boring of an artesian well on the property of the Cochrane Hotel. The common opinion around town is that the deposit here is very much better than that up in Matta- gami River, which caused quite a little, excitement this spring. The coal was discovered at about one hundred feet. Only small samples can be brought to the surface, as the pipe which is being sunk is only four inches in diameter. If any- thing should come of this discov-, ery the T. and N. o. Railway Com., mission will be the "only ones to benefit, as for all the land which they have sold the deeds are for the surface rights only, they hold- ing any mining rights. SWALLOWED POI SON PILLS. Jury Added a Strong Recommenda- tion for Mercy. A despatch from Barrie says: Guilty of murder, with a, recom- mendation to mercy, was the ver- dict returned at the Assizes here on Tuesday afternoon at the conclu- sion of the trial of Mary Dolan, the young woman who, before Mr. Justice Britten and a jury, was charged with having killed her il- legitimate child. The case was a remarkable one in many respects, notably because it involved a capi- tal charge not only against the mo- ther of the child, but also against a man who was alleged to be the father-Thomas McNulty, keeper of a poolroom in Orillia and a mar- ried man with two children-he, it is said, having instigated Miss Do- lan to commit the crime. During the crown counsel's recital of the crime the girl collapsed, and res- toratives were applied by medical men. Her screams were plainly au- dible throughout the building. Her condition was pitiful in the extreme, as she had to be helped in and out of the court-room. _ [Discovery Made While Boring for an Artesian Well. 13. Watch therefore---Our Lord knew full well that the church would not be vividly awake upon his return, that "expectancy would flag and ardor burn law." "But well for such as carry in their souls a deep spring of faith and love, and, when the cry is raised at midnight, awaken with glad surprise to greet him." ' MARY DOLAN FOUND GUILTY. "The mere wish to enter the king- dom, and even the request to be allowed to eater, is of little avail when the prescribed conditions of obtaining admission have been per- sistently neglected." He is sure to see us as we are, and not as we try to make ourselves appear, and to recognize us as his own by our abiding his coming. 12. I know you not-We are not told 1iiiie1ttii,si' foolish virgins ob- tained their oil, or whether the Bridegroom relented and opened the door later. But this solemn word seems to signify, that the be- lated attempt to hs up so as to look like his friends was unsuccessful. 11. Lord . . . open to us-Their interest, then, is just in being ad, mitted to the feast. There are many people who want to get to heaven, but they make very mea- ger preparations for it. The man who is genuinely, and not super- ficially, a friend of the Bridegroom, will pay gladly what it costs to be ready to meet him, and not come clamoring at the gate when it, is too late. The door was T shut-For those that, were ready this meant, 8ec'ur- ity and the delights of the marri- age feast. For those. who were not ready it meant banishment and darkness. . woqld be asleep at and that the lurid have come and gone TRIED TO KILL HIS WI FE. LIGNITE AT COCHRANE. ' at such an hour, bridegroom Would immkxadan dairip.calia " _ . ' Colonel Howell of the San/{w m Army has realgned to become head of the Canadian Northern .Limlwuy (_..I_A, a , . . from Cobalt rifikes Two by-laws in favovr finale Pran- ple's Railway were carried a: Guelph on Monday. The Grand Jury at the Barrie Assizes on Monday, réturned a hue bill against May Dolan for child murder. A Fign pained. Fynanpapre1 was arresied at Samba Ste. Marie, ct: Monday, charged with steahng ore Lord 1?entiand is to be the next Governor-General of Australia. Marconi, the inventor of tieiirive, less telegraph, is on his way from South America to Italy very ill. GENERAL. A heavy frost is reported in Says- katchewpn and Manitoba. T Must Explain I-Iwnm of ll Pris-aunt at Grimshy Beach. _ A despatch from St. Catharines, Ont., says: County Constable Jay Book, of Grimsby, must appear be- fore Judge Carman on Oct. 6, to explain his conduct at, Grimsby Beach last month, when he is said to have letra prisoner who had been placed in his care escape from his custody. Dominion Alliance Prosecutions in Montreal Postponed. A despatch from Montreal says: When the first of the thirty actions taken by the Dominion Alliance against hotel-keepers for selling liquor after hours and ,n Sundays was called in con T on Wednesday afternoon, a $6.}Slltic1 was caused by the Witnesses fo- the alliance failing to appear. The court or,- dered subpoenas issued againzb them. ' . Lieut. Governor of Nova Sootia Died on Tuesday.. A despatch from Halifax says: Hon. Duncan Cameron. Fraser, Lieutenant-Governor of Nova Sco- tia, died at his summer home at Guysboro on Tuesday morning. Hon. Mr. Fraser, who had been in poor health since last June, had so far recovered that he was expected to return to Halifax about the end of this month, but he took a sudden turn for the worse on Monday, dy- ing early on Tuesday. Sixty-one Persons Pcrished in Maine Waters. A despatch from Portland, Me., says: Sixty-one persons, all buts seven of them residents of Maine, lost their lives by drowning in tho waters of this State during the sum- mer just closed. Of this number 19 perished in June, 24 in July, and 18 in August. Most of the drowa- lugs were due to canoe, boat or bathing accidents, but there were several of unusual circumstances. co N STABLE YOATS GROWING IN ALBERTA. Nova Scotia‘s Yield Will be Hardly ' 25 Per Cent. of Last Year. A despatch ffom St. John, N. B, says: The Nova Sootia farmers are greatly disappointed in their apple, crop, said Sir Frederick Borden, Minister of Militia, who passed through the city on Monday night, en route to Ottawa'. "They have been pessimistic for some time," he said, “but the crop has fallen far below the worst expectations. It will not be a, quarter of last year's yield. No one seems to know why." Provides For Force of 50,000 Men at Annual Cost of £400,000. A despatch from Welling, N. Z.}, says: Sir Joseph Ward, the Pre- mier, on Thursday, introduced tho defence amendment bill on the lines; of Lord Kitchener's report. It pro- vides for. a force of 50,000 men at an annual cost of £400,000. The bill was favorably received. Remains of Victim: of Quebec Bridge Disaster Recovered. A despatch from (ly.ebte says: The Quebec bridge disaster was brought back to the memory of tho community very vividly by tho tangled debris 'of the massive steel structure giving up some of,the re~ mains of those who perished in tho fall. The body of Frank Earley,. a Caughnawaga, Indian, has been found this week and identified, and the remains have been forwarded to his relatives for_intermcnt. Were Sown Last Spring-Drought Kept. Them From Sprouting. A despatch from Lethbridge, Alta., says: Oaes' sown last spring.. but which, owing to the drought,, did not come up, are starting to grow. Farmers who intended put- ting disc harrows to work on the fields have decided to let. the cats grow for gveen feed. They expect to get a good supply this way. Winter wheat sown before the ra- cent'rains is growing nicely. WITNESSES WERE ABSENT. NEW ZEALAND . S D EFENCE. RON. D. c. FRASER DEAD. A SEASONS VDRGWNENGS. APPLE mm; A FAILURE. GIVING UP TRE DEAD. me up, are starting to men's who intended put- arrows to work on the decided to let. the cats ween feed. They expect good supply this way. TO FA!) Ii J Ul) f; It