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Rebnur. fals tss Sdoints 2L Witresses in Montreal Case Tells How He Fired Hotel. A. despatch from Montreal says : Henry Carufel, in the witnessâ€"box on Friday, related to Judge Lanctot how at the instigation of Qvilla Lambert, the lesee of the hotel, ne had set fire to Peloquin‘s Hotel on May 26 last. As a result of his conâ€" fession, Ovilla Lambert, who up to date had been out on bail for $6,â€" 000, was sent to jail to await his trial. The crossâ€"examination conâ€" ducted by Mr~ N. K. Laflamme brought out the fact that Carufel had perjured himself no less than seven times during the investigaâ€" tion before Fire Commissioner Ritchie a few days after the fire. Four Dead and Several Injured at Ecorse, Near Detroit. A despatch from Detroit says: Two big suburban cars came jnto collision near Ecorse, a few miles south of this city, late on Monday night. A dozen psople were killed or injured. â€"Four dead bodies have _ sady been taken out. 3 They have no desire, apparently, to cultivate that "‘divinest melanâ€" choly""‘ which the little chirping beastie aroused in the mind of the author of ‘Paradise Lost‘ ; nor does it arouse in them, as it did in the mind of Gilbert White, ‘"a train of summer ideas of everything that is rural, verdant, / and joyous.‘" Well, it is the time of passing for old fancies! The pretty myths and the pleasing fears depart. We grow brave as we grow learned, and dare, no doubt, crush a cricket or shoot an albatross without fear of the results. No one cares to perâ€" mit the innocent buzz of the happy house fly ; but, after all, it seems as if they were almost repulsively scientific in Bristol. To kill all the erickets. Really, it seems as if that were going too far. , It is shocking to lovers of sentiâ€" ment to learn that a warflare has been begun upon the cricket in Brisâ€" toly En,%imd, which the cold bloodâ€" ed inhabitants hope will â€"end in exâ€" termination. _ The ‘"little inmate full of mirth‘""‘ which all persons of kindly superstitions, in the name of Milton and Dickens, have proâ€" tected and endured, even when its persistent â€" cheerfulness. banished sleep from human eyes, is to be set upon with poison powder and swatâ€" ter and driven from the land. If ‘‘the cricket began it,‘‘ the Bristolâ€" ians mean to end it. f ‘ EATALâ€"TROLLEY COLLISIGX,. Avoid a solitary high tree, but seek protection in a wood or|clump of many small trees. In a house avoid, during a storm, placing yourself between two large and prominent conductors of electriâ€" city, such as the water pipe or gas main and the fireplace. If the house is a detached one or a corner house in a row and the storm is close, you may do well to retire into the baseâ€" ment until the storm is over. On the whole, the long rows of houses of fairly equal height in the streets of a great town are about as sale as any place during an electric storm. They are so safe that it is not. worth while to protect them with lightning conductors. The; Eiffel tower in Paris, being entireâ€" ly built of iron, is a huge lightning conductor, and has been photoâ€" graphed in storms with forked lightning harmlessly playing about its head. l Bir Ray Lankester has been comâ€" plaining in the British press of the fact that seience has given the geuâ€" eral public little information on how to be safe in electrical storms. The greatest danger for a human being in a thunder storm is to be the highest projecting object on the surface. Hence it is dangerous to be out on a golf links or hillside or in a small boat on water. The wise thing is to take shelter in a house, or, if that is not accessible, in a eave or under overhanging rock, Oor in a holey or to lie filat. â€" Many more persons are struck, accordâ€" ing to statistics, in the open than when taking shelter â€"under trees, and it appears, from statistics, that more are killed when seeking safety under oak trees than under beech trees, but this may be due to the relative abundance of those trees or to the nature of the soil in which they grow. | NOTE= ANDCOMMENTS CONFESSES TO ARSON. ‘ "There came a sharp bark, a rustle in the underbrush, and away went Jimp, as if he had beea sent home. I kept quiet, and saw Moâ€" L saw two little yellow foxes come jumping out from behind the big rock. They gave a number of quick, sharp barks, as if they were speaking to. Jimp, and Jimp wagged his tail as if he was glad to seo therm. _ They plaved about as if teasing Jimp to join them, and in a few minutes Jimp was up, and it really looked as if they wert having a game ol tag. For a good halfâ€"hour they played as happily as a family of goodâ€"natured pupâ€" pies "He did one thing which was raâ€" ther â€" remarkable,"‘ replied Uncle Philip. ‘"One spring I noticed that every morning Jimp would;;o racâ€" ing off across the fields to a slope of rough, rocky pasture. I wonâ€" dered what he was after, but did not follow him. But one day I had been to the village on an errand, and came home across the pasture. I sat down to rest on the pasture slope, and in a minute I saw Jimp come racing up the hill. He did not see me, but lay down near a big rock, Then what do you think I caw 1‘ ‘‘What made them stop"‘ asked Donald, wishing the story to be longer. imagine what Unele Philip could have seen on the pasture slope, and his cyes grew wide as the story went on. Donald shook his head. He was very much interested, but could not ‘‘Well,"" said Unele Philip, ""I used to go down to the pasture with him, and take down the bars ; then off would run Jimp. He would bark at the heels of one cow until she would start off toward the lane. Then he was after another, until the entire herd was pacing steadâ€" ly toward the barn. As soon as they were in the lane, Jimp would come up to me, wagging his tail ard looking up into my face, as if to sav, ‘There, didn‘t I do well ? * ‘‘"What else did Jimp do?‘ asked Donald, who had already resolved to name his dog Jimp. _ "How did he do that, Uncle Philip?‘ asked Donald, eagerly, for Donald was to have a dog for his next birthday present, and he was already making plans for its education. "©Yes,"" said Uncle Philp. ‘‘I used to live on a farm when I was a boy, and I had a little black dog named Jimp. He used to follow me about, and every night he drove the cattle from the pasture up to the barn." Ceeeee0e0e0s000e 00080 fYould buks For war is the most monstrous putrefying agency on earth toâ€"day, and that includes all military preâ€" paredness. Whoever believes in truth and justice should do what he can, in his small corner, to bring about the parliament of man, the federation of the world. Again, every man of salt and health should do his utmost to Hence, it is for. every moderu soul who feels the strong truths of civilization coursing through his thought, to stand for them, against all comers. He who has the truth is salt. â€" Error is putrefaction. Where wrong prevails in the social organism, let the man of salt thrust himself, as HIS DUTY TO THE UNIVERSE. Certain main points of decay may be mentioned ; certain places where error is flagrant, fragrant and stilâ€" ling. First, it is the duty of every child of light to shine out against the ancient world fraud and inheritâ€" ed curse of militarism. Wherever the harpy, head of war lust, shows itself he ought to take a‘shot at it. In most things we know ourselves ignorant, children facing mysteries ; so in most things we should be tolâ€" erant and liberal. But in the few things that we know through and through it behooves us to be hard as nails. On a question of the trinâ€" ity or the miracles let us argue calmlyâ€"and endlessly; but on a question of decency versus indeâ€" cencey, or cruelty versus kindness. it‘s a word and a blow. Every man that has in him the health of sound principles, owes a duty to the mass of men of which he is & part. All senuine convic fion is militant. A sincere beliet always wants to "go out and comâ€" pe! them fo come in‘ It is essenâ€" tial to any honest faith that it deâ€" sires to draw all others to it. Efuth is at hbeart intolerant ; knowing itself, with a fierce cerâ€" tainty, to be unspeakably better than error. All That Devious Thing We Call Graft is a Breeding Bpot of Nocial Dissase PQOINTS QOF SOCIAL DECAY JIMP. Chiican Steamer Wrecked on West Coast ~of_South America. A_ despatch fromâ€"Lima, Peru, says : The Chilean steamer Tucaâ€" pel has been wrgecked and is a toâ€" tal loss. Eightyâ€"one persons ~were drowned . Miss O‘Malley Cuts Her Throat With a Carver. A despatech from Wardsville says : Miss Mira O‘Malley, youngest daughter of Col. O‘Malley, commitâ€" ted suicide at her father‘s home on Wednesday. While temporarily inâ€" same she severed her jugular vein with a carving knife. Laborer on Construction Gang at Merritton Killed,. A despatch from St. Catharines says: Carlo Sergnesso, an Italian laborer_employed on â€"a construcâ€" tion gang on the Niagara, St. Catharines and Toronto Railway, lost his life at Merritton trestle on Friday while unloading a carload of ballast. He slipped through a compartment and sustained injurâ€" ies to his skull, death being almost instantaneous. All Prices of Foodstuffs are Steadâ€" ily Increasing. A despatch from London says : The threat of a Winter of dear food is growing insistent in many quarâ€" ters. All foodstuffs are steadily adâ€" vancing, and prices which a few years ago would have been regardâ€" ed as exorbitant are threatened in regard to beef, milk, butter, potaâ€" toes, and, above all, sugar. The potato crop has failed in those parts of England where usually it is most assured, and there is now no doubt of a wholesale failure of the beet sugar crop in Germany on which English refineries so largely rely. You will next summer,""‘ replied his uncle. "On the very farm where Jimp and I had such good times. And we will go up in the pasture and see the very place where the little foxes used to play.‘‘â€"Youth‘s Companion. "It does to me,"‘ said Donald; drawing a long breath. "I wish I lived on a farm, Uncle Philip.‘" ther Fox come up the slope. Her children ran to mest her, and the three disappeared.. Then I got up and went on toward home. Tt seemed very wonderful to me,"‘ concluded Uncle Philip. The only healthful, pure, sound, stanch selfâ€"cleaning, and exceedâ€" ingly good and green growing thing under heaven or in heaven, among men or among angels, is â€"â€"the truth. In the nearer affairs of life wo may safely lay down the iuile tbhat whatever threatens the integrity and happiness of the home life, where oue man, one woman, and their children are gathered in the oldest and best institution on earth, is foul. â€"Whatever makes a good woman blush is septic. Whatever tends to make little children unâ€" happy is poison, Whatever gospel takes the nerve out of men and disâ€" courages them, in its general efâ€" fect is unjustifiable and depraved. Also, whatever and whoever loves and clings to a lie, to anything that he knows to be untrue, is pregnant with trouble and obliquity. ‘ DENOUNCE AND OPPOSE IT. It may lurk in intricate tarilfs, or sit snug in wigged courts, or blow like a sperm whale in sigpificd senates, or pervade as an invisble spirit the cireles of businsss; kbut no matter where, how, or why it is, it is rotten. In whatever mask graft ar ~cars, however polished, nonored, aud disguised, wherever one sees the fatal symptom . of public «dlice for personal gain he ought, to break down caste wherever he finds it. Whatever system or orâ€" ganization or custom impedeas the free rise and scope of the ‘ndividuâ€" al ts a rotting point. All selsrt classes, aristocracies, plutocracies, bureaucracies, and whatever schemes there may be for eonrtrolâ€" ling the people or the wealth or labor of the people by a set of perâ€" sons who are chosen by any cther than the people, and who are rot directly responsible. to the people, are germ centres of tyranay, and eventually always of injustice and eruelty. FELL THROUGH TRESTLE. DEAR FOOD IN ENGLAND. S1â€"PERSONS DROWNED. CoMNMMITTED SUICIOE. DR. FRANK CRANE. 19. The king communed_ with themâ€"He tested them by familiar conversation. Among them all was found none like the four faithful lads who had renounced the luxâ€" uries of the court because of religâ€" fous seruples. They were to face severer trials, but their steadfastâ€" ness at this critical period of.their lives proved them of good mettle, besides being a most excellent pre paration for what was toâ€" befall them. Their eseape from the comâ€" mon corruptions of Qriental court ie was remarkable. Their being selected to stand before the king sigrified that they were to become 17. God gave them knowledgseâ€" They continued to flourish intelâ€" lectually as well as physically. Compare verse 4. _ No technical knowledge is intended. They beâ€" came sagacious, versed in such knowledge as was prevalent at the time. As a general forecast of what is to follow in the book, it is further stated that Daniel had unâ€" derstanding in all dreams and visâ€" ions. _‘The Chaldeans attracted great importance to these, but, like Moses and Joseph before him, this youth, though in an alien land, exâ€" celled his teachers in their own field. 18. Brought them inâ€"As verse 19 shows, the "‘them‘‘ refers to all the Hebrew youths mentioned in verses s â€"and 4. 16. Took away their daintiecs â€" The Hebrew implies that the treatâ€" ment became habitual. 15. Their countenances appeared fairerâ€"They were also fatter in flesh, an expression used of cattle (Gen. 41. 2). It has often been reâ€" marked that monks and others who fast frequently have a clearer skin and livelier health. 12. Prove thy servants ... ten daysâ€"This was a kind of mystic Persian week, a sufficiently long time to test the results of the proâ€" posed diet. _ Pulseâ€"Vegetable food in general is meant, besides dates, raisins, and other fruits. § Daniel,. Hananiahâ€"Upon enterâ€" ing the Babylonian court they had been given names less suggestive of their Jewish connections and worâ€" ship. To Daniel, whose name sigâ€" nified "God is my judge,""‘ was givâ€" en the name Belteshazzar, meaning ‘"‘Bel, protect his life.‘""‘ Hananiah (‘‘Jehovah is gracious‘‘) was called Shadrach _ ("‘The command _ of Aku‘"‘). â€" Mishael (‘‘Who is what God is?") was called Meshach (‘‘Who is what Aku is?"). Azariah ("‘Jehovah his helper‘‘) was called Abednego (‘Servant of Nebo""). This practice of giving a new name to a person entering the service of a foreign land was common . It. Then said Daniel to, the stewardâ€"He was certain that the objection on the part of the eunuch arose only from his dread of the king‘s displeasure. So he turns to the subordinaté officer, who acted as a sort of guardian of the Jewish youths. 9. Made Daniel to find kindness â€"Like Joseph in Egypt, he had kindled an affection for himself in the heart of his captors. He had but to make his request, and the prince of the eunuchs looked fayâ€" orably upon it. 10. So_ would ye endanger my headâ€"The king would be greatly displeased if the youths appeared before him unfit because of insufâ€" ficient nourishment. â€"It was the business of the eunuch to make them thrive physically as well as mentally. He would not defile himself{ with Ithe king‘s daintiesâ€"The provision had been made that the Hebrew children should for three years be fed upon the food and wine which came from the king‘s table. This was considered a great honor. The delicacies were of course the finest. At the end of three years of such living, the ‘«children‘‘. were to ‘‘stand before the king.‘‘ The deâ€" filement of this diet would be strictâ€" ly ceremonial. The Jews, especiâ€" ally in later times, laid great stress upon dietary laws. In this case the meat might be that of animals improperly killed, or of animals prohibited as food (Deut. 12; Lev. 11). Then the meat and wine might have been consecrated to heathen: deities, and partaking of them would be equivalent to a recogniâ€" tion of these deities. _ Antiochus Epiphanes sought to force the Jews to eat unclean food in this way. Verse 8. Danielâ€"In the reign of Jehoiakim, king of Judah (B.C. 605), _ Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, besieged Jerusalem, and took with him to Babylon certain sacred vessels of the temple and some Jewish captives. Among the latter were Daniel and his three companions, Hannaniah, Mishael, and Azariah. They were chosen, with others of singular beauty and intelligence, to be trained in the service of the king. Doubtless they were not more than fourteen years of age (compare Isa. 39. 7). j THE SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSON Lesson XI.â€"Daniel and his comâ€" panions, Dan. 1. 8â€"20. Golden Text,, Rom. 14. 21. INTERNATIONAL LESSOXNX, SEPT. 10. A labor war is imminent on the Illinois Central owing to the. reâ€" fusal of the railway company to reâ€" cognize the union« Two Supposed Amcrican Crooks [ Custody at Brockville. A despatch from Brockville says : Wim. Dego and Chas. Cranston, beâ€" lieved to be two American erooks, are in jail here awaiting a hearing on two charges of burglary, allegâ€" ed to have been committed at farm houses near Addison. Theâ€" are alâ€" leged to have forced an entrance to the residences of Henry Hollingsâ€" worth and James Lee, securing a quantity of clothing and $50 in money. _ Descriptions were teleâ€" phoned to Brockville and Chief Burke and an officer started in postâ€"haste in an automobile and two miles out encountered the straaâ€" gers riding bicycles._ One put up a stubborn fight and when searched a loaded revolver was found in his possession. One House Demolishea and â€"Many Buildings Damaged,. A despatch from London, Ont., says: Reports of great damage to the district north of London, especiâ€" ally that around Birr and Elginâ€" field, are coming in as a result of a terrific storm which swept over the country on Saturday afternoon. Old residents of the Proof Line Road say the storm was the worst in their recollection. One house was demolished, and â€" two people had a very narrow escape. Two children driving a horse and buggy were blown with the outfit into an adjacent field, barns were unroofed and trees were uprooted in all diâ€" rections. Some of the finest orâ€" chards in the Township of London and the Township of Biddulph are wiped out, and fruit is lying under trees in quantities of hundreds of barrels. 5 \ Threshing _ Oniflt Destroyed, with Barns and Crops. A despatch from London, Ont.. says: The barns with the season‘s crops, belonging to Richard Payne, wholesale butcher, of _the Third Concession of London Township, ’toge»t-her with & threshing outft owned by A. McCoombe, was burnâ€" ed to the ground on Monday afâ€" ternoon, under most unusual cirâ€" cumstances. Threshers had been at work all day in a large barn and were to have finished within a fow minutes when the blower suddealy caught fire and before the machinâ€" ery could be stopped balls of fire were belched through the entire building. The threshing outfit was practically new and it, too went up with the building and the season‘s crop of oats, wheat, hay and straw. Several horses were saved, but a number of pigs were burned in the stable. In assisting in keeping the flames from a slaughterâ€"house adâ€" joining Ira Ramsay, a farmer, was badly burned about the face and neck, his hat being burned on his head. Insurance of $1,000 will not moet half of Mr. Payne‘s loss. ‘ 21. Continued even unto the first year of king Cyrusâ€"The date would be B. C. 538, or seventy years after this event, making Daniel an old man. As a matter of fact, he is mentioned (Dan. 10. 1) as â€"being alive in the third year of the reign of Cyrus.â€" What is meant here, probably, is that he continued for all those years in the character of a man of great wisdom in the city of Babylon. Amid seductions and pitfalls of a position of influence in a heathen court, he did not falâ€" ter or flinch. 20. Magiciansâ€"The word is of Egyptian origin, and was probabâ€" ly taken from Genesis and Exodus, where it was frequently used, and reférs to those who interpret dreams and work magic. Anyone who was acquainted with the ocâ€" cult arts was regarded as a magiâ€" cian. The Babylonians were worldâ€" renowned in their skill as enchanâ€" ters, or devotees of magic art. CHARGED WITH BURGLARY. his personal attendants naturally a position of influence. _ _ A despatch from London, says: A special despatch received here on Friday from Constantinople says that the prefect of police has notified the chief rabbi of the Govâ€" ernment‘s decision to burn down all the old houses belonging to Jews in the Houkeny quarter, as the buildings are regarded to be hotâ€" beds ofâ€"cholera. Thousands of dwelâ€" lers in the Ghettos will thereby be. rendered homeless, and the leaders of the Jewish community are taking‘ steps to provide for them. The BURN DOWN HOMES OF JRWS Their Quarter in Constantinople to be Purged by Fire BLOWER BELCHED FIRE. STORM NEAR LONDON, This was honor and | _ Ho found the marks were made _ \ by a cripple who could not walk upâ€" / |right. To save his knees he had cut |hobnailed boots in two, strapped _ |the heels to his knees, and put the | toes on his feet. He crawled on his iknees and toes, and so the heels Lâ€"were in front of the toes. go to sea toâ€"morrow for action if necessary. â€" The fleet that assembâ€" led here on Wednesday is believed by German experts to give Gerâ€" many for the first time the rank of the second naval power of the world.. The three great Dreadâ€" poughts of the Ostfriesland class, the first German ships fitted with English guns, did not take p: J the review, but nttl‘act}éfl/rr‘;?u:_ fention as they day at the a in the bharbor. Four ather C poughts, the Nassau, Wes Rheialand â€" and _ Posena, eae" @@@®t which displaces about 20.000 tons, were the chief units of the asâ€" sembled fleet, through the lines of which the Emperor vassed. ‘The total displacement of the great fleet gathered amounted to about 509,â€" 000 tons in rouad figure® A dsspstch from Kiel, Germany, says : The great German naval fleet was reviewed by Emneror William in the harbor oa Wednesday mornâ€" ing, thousands of spectators being given the opportuaity of observing the progress made by the navy and to see the German fleet as it could The Kaiser Reviews His Navy im _ the Harbor 2t Kicl. - A brick is not the only substance which relates its former impresâ€" stons. An elephant, a resident of an English zoo, stepped on the fresh pool. â€" Tnue large footâ€"print thus left which a wandering chick fell and was drowned. . Mr. Buckland tells of some myâ€" sterious footprints which he discovâ€" ered, which caused him a good deal of puzzling thought. He noticed, time and again, in a quiet London street, strange marks in the mud or snow, which apparently were made by the thickâ€"soled boots with ironâ€" shod heels. But the prints wer separated, each toe being two feei from the corresponding heel, an the wellâ€"defined tose pointed backâ€" ward. Again and again Mr. Buckâ€" land tried to explain the trail. At last, after a heavy shower one day, he tracked the prints to their source. 7 Some old Egyptoan bricks bear the marks of cats‘ feet. and one reâ€" tains the tiny prints of the" little jerboa. Sheep‘s hoofâ€"marks have been found on old Roman bricks. One villa tells the story of a rainâ€" storm while its building material was in the process of making. The bricks are covered with little round pits made by the falling drops, and the earthworms, enticed by the wet, have crawled over the soft surface. One Roman brick bears the print of a boy‘s fingers. Did the urchin get a scolding for meddling?‘ Someclear and unmistakable imi prints are found in the ancient Babylonian bricks. _A vagabond dog, strolling by the sull soft clay, put his foot on the brick and left a distinct mark which obliterated in , part the etters of the royal inscripâ€" tion. The dog has been dead for thousands of years; the king with whose title the brick was stamped is only a name in history, yet the little 1.cident is ‘as clear toâ€"day as when it happened. GERMANY‘S FLEET SECOND. in its original â€"construction , bears the imprint of a horseshoe. \Some ancient steer evidently stamped upon the bit of clay before it hardâ€" ened. It has long been believed that the horse of that period wore shoes which were strapped uponâ€"its feet. This impression proves, on the other hand, that shoeing with nails was not unknown in those days. The story of prints inadvertâ€" ently made upon soft brick is an inâ€" teresting one. â€" Mr. Francis T. Buckland gives some examples of such impressions in his ‘"Curiosiâ€" ties of Natural History .‘ > Imprints Are Fourd in the Ancient Babylonian Bricks. The "sands of time‘"‘ may shift and destroy the chance impression, but the sunâ€"baked clay holds its re‘ cord for future generations to in terpret. _The present restoration of the Venetian Campanile has brought to light some curious disâ€" coveries. One of the bricks used a heavy mortality in the Turkish garrison and at the Albanian camps on the outskirts of Beikos. At Uskâ€" up, in the Vilayet of Kossova, there is an average of 50 cases daily, while at Monastir, in Macedonia, the disease is equally virulent. cholera epidemic is obtaining & firmer hold in Turkey. Partial reâ€" turns made by the health authoriâ€" ties show that on August 31 there were 70 cholera cases and 25 deaths from the disease in Constantinople. In addition to these totals there was FOOTPRINTS. Yace %{; m »}$§