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During the night the, barking 'of dogs roused my Wife several times, but I slept soundly; At perhaps two o‘clo‘ck in the morninghe awakened suddenly 'and realized that the dogs were all roundus. Twelve'or four- teen'huge black beastswere circling ik‘e a pack of wolves; each moment ‘ 3y were drawing nearer. They . ., snapping and biting at one anâ€" We had camped one night not far from aogreat lama monastery on the plains one hundred and sex enty-five miles from Urga. As usual we did not pitch a tent but spread our fur sleeping nags side by side near the automobiles. Between the bags I placed two guns, one a tiny twenty- twdicalihre toy that we had used for shooting birds, and the other my rifle for big game. We had observed a good many dogs lurking about while dinner was preparing, but as they remained at a safe distance we thought nothing of it. THE WILD DQGS 0P MONGOLIA The dogs of Mongolia. huge black fellows like the Tibetan mastifi‘. are savage beyond belief. Their diet of human fleshâ€"the dead bodies of hu- man beingsc arried out from the cit- ies-rseems to have given them a contempt. 'for living men. While returning to Pekin across the desert, says Mr. Roy Chapman Andrews in Harper’s. my wife and I had a nar- row escape from being killed and eaten by them. mayed and fled as rapidly as possi- ble, but the mother 01? the thriving habes said: “May the Lord spare them to prove how foolish this su- perstition is.” But. a test. was in store. The father deveIOped an ab- scess in his ear, and weeks of suffer- ing followed, with danger of a fatal outrome. The missionaries believed that “their extremity must be God’s Opportunity” and continued to pray and rendersuch medical aid as they could. Finally, the crisis passed, and the father was restored to health. Evangelical Christian. Visionâ€"alt is related of Kent, the. missionary who first preached the gUSpel in northern Illinois, that one day when he came to a bluff that commanded a wide View Of the upper Mississippi he took off his hat, look- ed heavenward. and said: There is a superstition in Gaza- land that if twin children are allow- ed to live they will bring death into the family. They are therefore {Tes- troyed at birth. The first, appear- ance of twins in a Christian home at Rnsitu. Gazaland. was in January, this year. when twin boys'were born io one of the native evangelistsfl‘he heathen relatives were utterly dis- "17"vnfr‘nl thysolf." by a Roman em- peror; . ' "Deny thyself,” by Jesus. Three maxims: "Know thvsuli'", spoken by a Greek phiMsnphE‘P; abi‘n and the unnccupiea fields of Medina and Mecc 22 came Mahomet a “013 propac' andisi perxerting the Scxiptures. mixing truth and error. and more nearly than any other farce succeederi' in nverthrowing Christianity. The price which the seventh century church paid for her missionary I‘iegligence is millions of martyrs. the 'loss of whole nations like the Armenians, the \vell-njgh total extinction of Christianity in Africa and .~ sin, and the present- day necessity for a stainegering ontl :13 of life and eifort to “in back the lOSt g’r:vund.â€"Bistmp Nichnisnn, The 5111at [101.31 is «OAECL The 0111111105 01 the 5111111111 c011: ury in 13mm, and Svriu gm \\ 1191 11:51:11 of the spiritual needs of a neighboring peninsula, and out of that bleakflosâ€" ert. sparsely populated, most 1111- prumising, untouched wo‘gld of A11â€" musâ€"my destiny? NO, not that grim ganier. but the great companion, Christ. In reverence. I obeyed his call, and after thirty-live years I have to Say I Have never regretted m} glauice." That mnme: nous \\ 0rd threw mx \" ;-_.iv life into confusion. I went explain; down another road and m -J.â€"â€"â€"â€"m\ destim. ’ \0 no‘ that grim a Solicitors office. Everything was ready, and I was about. to begin, when in Halifax I met an old Sun- day schuol teacher of mine whO‘saiu‘: " 'I always hoped and prayed that you would go into the ministry? , ‘fI decided for the law. My father was making all the necessary ar- rangements for my being aflicled in In the course of a sermon based on the call at Matthew Dr. J. H. Jowett recently .made an earnest appeal to young men who were considering the choieeef a career. Had they ever thought of the ministry? “When I steed at the crossways in my early life and chose my career.” he said, "I take possession of this land for Thursday, September. 7, £93. For The Quiet Hour and be bad beenin _the,0ntario Hos- ‘pital in London. He had only been home about twfieeks and was 39-. Eparently much better. ”He, Was” .38 iyears of age“; An inaue‘st'wae deem; :ed unnecessary. 4 V ' ‘ LOGAN TOWNSHIP HAN HANGS HIMSELF IN BARN Fred Stembach, a resident of the 12th ' Concession of Logan, near Mitchell, committed suicide by hang- ing himself in an outbuilding on his farm, on. Thursday} oHast week." 'He knew. Those that I hit were all de- voured before morning. Suddenly the leader of. the pack, a huge fellow, dashed forward. My wife screamed, and as I rose in the sleeping-hag I instinctively reached fora rifle. My hand found the little twentv-tVV o-calihre toy and, half awake, I fired at the leading dog. Where the tiny bullet struck him I neV er knew, but he drOpped stone- dead, not twaitv feet away. The charging pack swerved to the left. and as they passed I fired twice and wounded two other, dogs. Both were torn to pieces by the rest of the pack. Struggling out of the sleep- ing-hag, I sent shot after shOt with my heaVy rifle wherever I saw a dark shape in the moonlight, hut Scotland‘s contribution to mission- ary service demands at least 200 new missionaries immediately. This shortage is partly due to the retire- ment of many missionaries owing to the severe strain of the war years. Many candidates, also, were killed or disabled in the war, and others have had to shoulder home responsi- bilities since the war. other' and now and then were utter- ing hyenaâ€"like snarls that made her cold With fear. A great missionary congress is planned to he held in Glasgow next October as the climax of the mission- ary campaign aiming the Scottish churches that. has been in operation for a year or more. One-third of the representation at the congress will be ministers. one-third women, the rest, laymen. - He took the boat for England, but. when he came through the Mediterâ€" ranean a l'_-l)oat met. him. His man- uscript was enclosed in a sack, en- closed in rubber, and put into a box. A letter giving the key to the words as he had used them for the transla- tion was there. and a statement re- garding the PXDGI‘iQhCCS that. had come to him. “hen the U-boat tor- pedoed that. liner not. a living soul was saved. and the manuscript went down too. But. after some weeks theredril‘ted ashore in a lonely part. of Tunis. among,r other things, bits of beats and dreadful wreckage, a box. It. was picked up. It. looked in- teresting. It was owned. The letter telling the story of it was shown to an American midnsul, who passed it on to a British elergyman; and in London last month the lastpage of that manus’cript was completed, and the printed limok goes back in the hands of an Oxford student. to the tribe in .â€"\frie'a.â€"â€"M,iss Slattery. ngm‘n in South Africa there was a young Brilisher who was very keen on languages When he went as a missionary they told him he was {Who‘s 111g his life axv av to bury him- :elt in a black belt. and that hé was a fool. But. the call had gotten him and he could never rest until he had answered it, and he went. He found the. dialects rich indeed. but none had ever been reduced to writing; so he decided to reduce the language to writing. to give the natives the four gospels in their own tongue. and lat- er perhaps the Acts. He did it and his manusvr‘ipt was completed in 1917. “You see that man? He is God’s policeman. He searches daily for those who have no Bibles. \Vhen he finds such a man he insists on his buying a Bible. and if he does not buy he reports him to God in prayer." ' . After selling a Turkish Bible in a COgee-lmuse a colporteur heard the following cmxersation between tW‘u Moslems: What. is. said of Kent shouid be said of every man and wnman who goes into missionary work in the spirit 01' Christ. Serviceâ€"One writes of him: “His difficulties were many. His own children died in infancy, but he brought up twelve orphans and edu- cated nine men for the ministry. Hemism. kindness, a passion for souls, shone in his life. N0 task was too hard for his hands, no distance too long for his feet. He lifted, he helped. he sympathized whenever. and wherever he saw a need.” ‘ Christ!" The pl‘eliminary'hearing of John COSSPOV'G, JP... is to be heldbeforo Police Magistrate Creasor at Owen Sound to-day (Thursday) at 10 0‘- clock. Many. of the witnesses heard at the inquest have been summoned for the hearing. ' William Conghlin testified that tl'rsgrove was working for him on the day of the shooting and that the deaf mute oivned and carried a .25- ealihre rifle. Dr. Carter told of the priest's wound and the medical attention given. and Dr. 1\-Ic.Williiams testified at to the post-mortem. . Various Witnesses swore that the deaf mute disliked and had threatâ€" ened the priest. Rev.’ Father J. S McGeoy, of Markdale, testified that the late priest had told him that Cos-J grove had threatened him and that: he was afraid he-wofild do himvio- lence. Connolly told of an incident which «weurred in his kitchen last spring. The priest was taking breakfast 1\ hon Cosgrexe came in. As 'hv p1iest got up from the table the deaf mute grasped him by the throat. Cunâ€" Hollv ' pulled Cosgroxe away. Ho again attacked the priest. but Cun- nollv and his hired man put him out of the house. John Connolly, son of Mich-nol. swore he saw COSt'rI‘o oxe about 200 ) auls from the chulch going tomml at, \\ ith a gun on Saturday, August Is). in.- The following day Father Clohevy told Michael Connolly of the affair. The priest had been at the chum-h and, hearing a movement. near the «loor. came out. The deaf ’mute was. standing, there and pointed what. the priest thought was a broom. He pull- ed the door shut. and the deaf mule pulled it. Open and fired point blank. FIN he. priest had walked the 2m yards between the church and hnusv. and his first. words were: “Thu '«lummy’ shut me." Mrs. Michael Connolly, at whose home the injured"priest died, said she lived only a short distance from St. Patrick’s. Church. Father Clo- hpcy had had supper at her plac‘x on Saturday. August. '19. He was in M'â€" cdlent health. At dusk he went owr it; the church to prepare for the sor- \'iccs the next day. About. 8.30 huth Michael Connolly and Miss Kate (er- holly saw him slumhlc “into thz- imnso. They found him lying: on his 'm-«l and at. once turn away his hlmwlâ€" soakml clt‘ithing'. The wound rum- muncml on his loft hi't‘aSt and tor-- minatctl at. tho loft side. of his hark. Hr was blcmling profusely. 'l'hn hill-- hit. was found ncxtf (lay in the hm! clothing'antl tho pricst asked tha: it be kcpt until his rccowryv as a souvenir. Constable Richard Cronier' of Pro- ton, stated he had called the follow.“- ing jurymen at the coroner’sxrequosl. James Moore, foreman; John Pickett. John Cronicr, James Philip Buckley. John Rice and Daniel Pickett. Tin-y had viewed the remains 0f the lat:» priest and then'adjourned until Sepâ€" tember 5. A feature worthy of notn in connection with the inquest was that Messrs. James and John Rico tuft- uncles of John Cosgrove, held for the murder 0f the priest. The scene ofethe inquest was . SE. Patrick’s parish hall, only a few i’er‘ from the scene of the murder. -. large number of the'farmers of ”iv district gathered not out of morhiz' curiositv, but to hear the inquir" regarding the death of their helow:2 priest. The inquest Was in chum: of Crown Attorney T. H. Dyre «oz-f Owen Sound, and Dr. Frank Martin. (owner for South Grey, 01‘ Dumlall:. Everyone who had evidence on Hi.- shooting or the events leading up lei the shooting was called. Although no one saw the shooting. there seemed practicall}’\no doubt: that Cosgrove was the perpetrator. HoWever, a large number of witness~ es were called and the Ciowr‘. presâ€" .nted the esidence fullv before the jury adjourned. The inquest. held inundiately on the death of Father Clohedy, was adjourned until Mon- day morning of this week. {COSGRAVB NAIR!) AS SLAYER ' OP DUHDALK PARISH PRIEST “We, the members of this juiy, come to the Conclusion that Rev. Father Thomas Joseph Glohecy came. to his death by a gunshOt wound in- flicted by John Cosgrove, deaf mute, on Saturday, August '19, 1922.” Such was the Verdict brought ‘in by the jury at the adjourned inquest into- the death of Father Clohecy parish priest of St. Patricks Chrch, in the 'IOVV nship of Proton. Durham «. ‘ THE DURHAM CHRONICLE SUPPOSED INCENDIARISM IN FIRE NEARCHATSWORTH A fire supposed to lie the WHl‘R of an incendiary .(leslroyml the large barn of Mr. Roy \Vheeldon, about in 0 miles from (Iliifilsworlli (in lhn Tor- onto Road" about, 8.15 Sundoy night. The barn contained the smsm‘x‘s amp including about 1,500 bushels of grain, implements, etc. The loss will be heavy. as only about s3.<:m iiiâ€" Sui‘anco was carrimi. A slim'l timv previous in tho lire :m unknuwn man was $0011 pumping: the liarfl aml sus- picion is that he started llin llI‘P. An arrest. was made of :1. sti-aiig-n mriii. but. there was ii“! mv'iiimico in ("Hi'llll'Ci him with tho iii» and lfzv Inf-'SUPI‘Y remains. What are your health building plans for the spring time? Our pure food isxthe‘ builder Who Will aid you and your family to enjoy the days ' and Weeks of the beauti- ful spring. We expect to hear from you. A joint circular issued by the Cana- dian Pacific Railway and Canadian Pacific Steamships, Limited, announces that Mr. Allan Cameron has been ap- pointed Oriental Manager, with office at Hong Kong to take up his duties on October lst. Mr. Cameron joined the C.P.R. at Winnipeg in 1887. At various times he has held important positions at Vancouver, Victoria,‘ Portland,“ 91';- ~A- T A-J‘“ 13-- __‘_ d ‘- _ v-.--m0\l’ ' V“â€" gon, London, Engâ€"Inna, and N ew. York. 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