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4. Forg‘ve us our sinsâ€"Sin is here represented as a debt. Man has rnothing to pay. If his dobts are not forgiven, they must stand charged against him forever.â€"Clarke. â€" Sin is an old debt, a just debt, a great and growing Cebt.â€"Honry. We also forgiveâ€"Elso how cou‘d we entreat thee for pardon. Not into temptaâ€" tionâ€"As the prayer for daily bread raises us above care for to day, and the prayer for the forgiveness â€" of wins is meant to quiet us concernâ€" inw the past, so is the prayer against certain future, that _ we may not fall again under the might of evil. â€"Linge. D ver, us from evilâ€"From all the wicked fasenatiorn and migâ€" erable resulite of sin, from its blindâ€" 12; I. Tim. iv. 6), and for the asâ€" sistance and support of His graco, for etrength to do Hs wil‘, for that bread wuich endureith unto everâ€" lasting life."â€"lHaill. needs are felt. Our daily breadâ€" "Life‘s most common necessity, Streagth to gain it, skill to earn it â€" all aro from God. From Hm t:e £oll, the seed, the sun, the harvest." "Tais includos a prayer for the in struction of God‘s word, which is often compared to food (Job. xxiii. 12; I. Tim. iv. 6), and for the asâ€" â€"The will of God is infinitely good, wiso and holy. ‘As in heavenâ€"By the angels and all the hosts of heaven. Ho in earthâ€"by mortals. 3. G.Â¥ye usâ€"The good things of this life are the gi.ts of God. Tuis teaches ws our dependence upon Him, and is & lssson of contentment, frugal ty and pationt labor, moderation, beâ€" revolonce and faith.â€"Norton. Day by dayâ€"In the order in which our He dwelis, and that majesty and glory which aro there, as in their proper home.â€"J., F. & B. This phrase in the Scriptures seems used to exâ€" pross 1. 2. His omnipresence (1 Kings vili. 27). 2. His majesty and dominion (2 Chron. xx. 6). 3. His power and might (Psma. cexy. 3). 4. His omniâ€" science (P‘sa. xxxiii. 13â€"15). His inâ€" finite purity and droliness (Isa. Ivii. 15).â€"Clarke. Hallowed be Thy name â€"The "name" stands for the man Irimsel{â€"his character, his ability, his possessicas, all he has and is : so the name of God stands for all (iod is. ‘"‘To hallow God‘s name is to yive Him high honor and veneration, and render His name sacred ; to set Him highost in our thoughts; to love and trust in His name; to give Him honâ€" or and praiso in all that we do for . Him.â€"â€"Watson. Thy Kingdom come. â€"*"‘Tho kingdom of His power, His . gospoel, His grace and His glory.‘t | ‘The kingdom here intended is the | dominion of His gracoâ€"that proviâ€" . wlon of His infinite merey by which Ho is to tubdue our sinfal race into cheerful obedience and service unt: Himpself{.«â€"Williams. Thy will be done son, zoal for His honor, obedience to His will, submission to His disponâ€" sations and chastisements, and reâ€" w@emblance to His â€" nature.â€"Clarke. MWhich art in Heavenâ€"In the former clauso we express his nearness to us, in this His distanco from us. In this wo contrast Him with the fathâ€" ers wo have ‘here below, and so raise our souls to that "heaven" where 2. SAay â€" ‘Tho beauty and value of the lessons in the Lord‘s prayer arise from, 1. The tone of holy: conâ€" fidenceâ€"it teaches us to approach God as our Father (Rom. viii. 15), in lovo as well as bholy fear. 2. Its abâ€" solute unsellisinessâ€"it is â€"offered for all the brotherhood of man. 3. Its enâ€" tire spiritualityâ€"of its seven petiâ€" tions, oo only is for any earthly boon, and that only for the simplest, 4. Its breviuy and absence of[ ali vain repetitions, Eecl. v. 2. 5. Its simpliâ€" city, which requires not â€" learning, but only holiness and sincerity for its universal â€" comprehension. â€" For these reasons the Fathers called it the "epitome oT ‘the gospel" and "the pearl oi prayers." Farrar, Our Faâ€" therâ€"An expression of love and conâ€" decension. Here are two grand ideas; 1. That tender and respectful love which we should feel for God, such as that which children feel for their fathers. 2. That strong confidence in God‘s love to us, such as Nathers 2. That strong confidence in God‘s love to us, such as fathers have for their children. ‘This relation dicâ€" tattes to us roverence for His perâ€" i o) MnA 11( Proper feed is just as imâ€" e h ”‘/, 7 flj}h‘ U â€" â€"portafit as proper breed. ‘hfi‘"? C 4//\ Every farmer cannot have & )} Noitot t ol (G y( &4 $5,000 Short Horn or Red Poll $s Sag e ols } â€"but he can have his cows give f * y every drop of milk they are capable of giving. More food won‘t do it. Myers‘ Royal Spice will. â€" It gives a spicy relish to ordinary dry foodâ€"makes cows cnjoy everything they eatâ€"tones up the stomachâ€" makes them get all the nourishment out of all the food they eat â€"makes them give more milk â€" helps them through calvingâ€"and by regulating the stomach and bowels often prevents abortion. f Whether you have one cow or a hundredâ€" it pays, and pays well, to season the mash and m kay with Myers‘ Royal Spice. Write for our illustrated booklet. It‘s orth having, and costs nothing. pot only havo its new unfolding of truths, out its uow wevelations may open new modes of access, and new topics oi prayer and modes of worâ€" sinp. A different prayer was offerâ€" ed in the Mosaic rituai from the pat. Marchal {orm:. â€" TBE uo motn SccE d E00008 â€"They knew that prayer was imâ€" portaot, and they had a desire for ability to pray aright, as John also taught.Each new ‘dispensation ma y 10 pruy. Many instances are reâ€" ferred to in the gospelis besides the general staiement in Heb. v. 7; When Ile ceascadâ€"Perhaps He was praying such a power{ul prayer as to arouso the lecling that they knew not how io pray, and needed to be taughtâ€"Whegon. Teach us to pray Commentary.â€"I. Christ teaching Kase 5 » vJ. piPLY, VB. 1â€"4. L. Was prayingâ€"It was tho habit of Christ Sanday y School. INTERKNXATIONAL LEKSsON NO MAY 1. 1904. Prayer and Promiseâ€"Luke 11; 1â€"1% MYERS ROYAL SPICE Co. ingy,, NAGARA FALLS, Ont. & N.Y. _saff Prize MilKkers. By example Jesus taught His followers to pray. On this occasion, as He returned to His disciples from His private devotion, His face aglow with divine inspiration â€"from â€" His _comumnion with God, and His manâ€" ner even more tender than was usual by His inwward sense of divine love, what wonder if His disciples shohld conceive a longing to pray as Christ Lrayed; and that one of the comâ€" Lany, a little more bold than the rest, should voice their desire in the request, "Lord, teach us to pray." This model prayer is addressed to our Father in heaven, and by the very address the children are brought close to their loving heavyâ€" enly Father, If they say "Hallowed be Thy name," they say it with reverence Tor ‘their Father in heaven. This, then, is the perfect Lrayer to the Father in heaven. It speaks the languvage of adoration and submission. It asks for the supâ€" ply of earthly need. It seeks reâ€" ECC ho en es o e e gifts which the Father in heaven can lestow on his praying child.â€"Lange. The Holy Spirit is a divine person, and truly GoJd. He intercedeas for be~ lievers. Ho guides, hears, speaks and shows things to come. To them that ask. The asking must be heatty, sincere, earnest, fervent and in faith. aro ready to provile everything nce essary to their support and comfort. Hoow much more. How much more will ona whose naturo is love and who is infinitely holy and good give good things to them that ask him. ‘"‘The world often gives stone for bread. serpents for fish and scorâ€" ponus for eggs," but God nover dâ€"es. Hr'-ly S{)i'rtt._:l‘h'v__e-ffouc{! ol all good 11, 12. I[ a son shall ask, ota. From that which the friend will do the discourse of the Saviour rises even to that which one could expeci of a "Iather;" and from that which an imperfect earthly father does even to that which the perfect Faâ€" ther in heaven bestows.â€"Lange. The stone represents to us useless gifts thoserp nt and scorpion things which are real y harmful. L human {athers would not give either one or the othor to their children, then it is impossitle that our Fathor in hoavon wiil mock the prayers of his children who cal! upon him.â€"Goodwin. 13. Boâ€" inz eÂ¥l. Binful people are ready and anxious to give good gifts to their children. From natural alfection they be importunate; ask with confidence and humility ; seek with care and apâ€" plication; knock houdly and long." 10. Everyone ...... receiveth, etec. â€" Christ binds himself to hear and answer. . No soul can pray in vain that prayse to God as directed. But our asking must be in harmony with the will of God, and in faith (James iv. 2â€"8.( We are destitute of all spiritual good and have lost God, and are in danger of losing eterpal life; be in earnest ; ......seek......knockâ€"This verse contains very important directions. In every thing, by prayer and supplication, we are to make our requests known unto God ; then we are to "seeck"â€"continue to ask and knock at the door of Zlis mercy. Our approaches to God should be with earnestness and in sincerity. "These three words inâ€" clude the ideas of want and loss 11. The disciples urged to perâ€" sistency in prayer, (vs. 9â€"13). 9. I say unto youâ€"We have it from Christ‘s own mouth, who knows his Father‘s mind, and in whom all promises are yer and amen. Ask 7. Trouble me notâ€"The trouble made him insensible both of the urâ€" geney of the case and the. claims of friendship. In bedâ€"We ICE‘P from travelers that it is usual in the East for a whole family to sleep in the same room, each laying his mattress on the floor. I cannotâ€" Without exertion, which was equa! to "I will not." 8. His importunity â€"Literally, his shamelessuess; that is, his unblushing persistence.â€"Farâ€" rar. His perseverance in asking and stating his own inability to supply a. friend. As manyâ€"His â€" reluctance once overcome, all the claims of friendship and necessity are felt to the full.â€"J., F. & . ........s come â€" Benighted, belated, and who has lost his way. A strong reason why he should have prompt relief.â€"Clarke. II. The parable of the importune borrower (vs. 5â€"8). 5. He saidâ€" Although idle repetitions in prayer are forbidden, yet persistency and imâ€" pertunity in prayer, wrestling with God and not letting him go until he has blessed us, are here distinctly taught. See Luke xvili. 1â€"8.â€"Farâ€" rar. _ Midnightâ€"In thoss hot counâ€" tries it is common, where it can be done safely, to travel in the night. â€"Scott. Lend meâ€"It was usual with the Jews to borrow bread of one anâ€" other; and certain rules are laid down, when and upon what conditâ€" ion this is to be done.â€"Gill. 6. Friend noes and insensibility, from its unâ€" ep.riluality and rebellion, from its hardness and its punishment ; from ali that dishonors God and ruins the soul, trom its guilt, its power, its shame @hame and its doom.â€" Reyâ€" nolds. "Christ delivers from evil, 1, by forgiveness. B, by filling the heart with love. , by the gift of the Holy Spivrit. 4, By setting us to work for Him." The _ Retribution â€" will sail for PBluefields on Saturday next, to demand _ the _ release of the prisoners and the boats, and also immediate compeneation for the ilâ€" legal seizure and detention. _ It is rumored that, should it be found neâ€" cessary, the Retribution will bomâ€" bard the port of Rluefields. British Cruiser Retribution to Return There. Kingston, Jamaica, April 25. â€"The Pritish cruiser Retribution,which, un» der instructions from the Imperial Government, . sailed from Kingston April 11 for a Nicaraguan port, in connection with the seizure of six Cayman turtle schooners and the arâ€" rest of their crews by Nicaragua n officials, returned to Port Royal from the Nicaraguan coast toâ€"day, after ascertaining that the vessels and crews had been sent to Riueâ€" fields. The captain of the Retribuâ€" tion accused the Nicaraguan _ comâ€" mandant, under whose orders â€" the schoorers â€" were seized, of piracy. There is consternation among the Nl'::‘?.ra.guan‘ officials over the affair. WradiaitnraliP t as. prt ied 24us d cA .A 3. d 511320 Jesus tells His UGisciples that the very best gift for which they can Fray and the blessing that includes all others is the Holy Spirit. _ The prayer of the Holy Bpirit is the mos acceptable _ prayer. The Father delights to answer â€" this prayer. to knock for admittance, they may draw, up near and knock at the heart of the Eternal, and the door will be opened and from the door will beam out that mighty lovo that will transform and renew their sinful hearts and shroud them forâ€" ever in eternal bliss. If they were destitute of grace they may â€" ask and receive. If they have lost the favor of their Father and with it the comforts of earth and the blessings of heaven they may seek Hi_:s rnvgr__agg._ln and surely find. But even a perfect prayer couldl h not be offered by ‘His listeners! T: without difficulty. Perhaps â€" Jesus ! saw that by the necessity of con»â€" ] tinued prayer alone, the sluggish th faith of his children might _ be aroused to leap the chasm of its | * own indif{ference and bring back the | st long waiting answer. ie How graciously does Jesus hold out the promisos to His disciples. As Jesus s!:andfirn.t their heart‘s door mission of sin. It calls for protecâ€" tion and deliverance. MAY FIRE QON BLUEFIELDS. ifi y t se LAE UR "I received a little book of yours, pads. Hok ts io mall se mc ink and after reading it, I concluded to try »’ i ols hB\ Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable on igke Ns C oeeies Compound, and I am now a well e s woman. Ishall praise your medicine as long as I live, and also recommend the same to anyone suffering as I was." â€"Mars. Mmxr Orrosox, Otho, Iowa. All sick women would be wise if they would tako Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable Compound and be well. P T d OH N t o e e e d T C Ts c ie 0. msC PCME EsE N ENAERAOENEKs «I felt so weak and sick that I felt sure that I could not survive the ordca.li and so I told him that I would not under%o it. The following wesek I read an advertisement in the J)aper of your Vegetable Compoun: in such an emergency, and so I decided to try it. Great was my joy to find that I actually improved after taking two bottles, so I kept takmg it for ten weeks, and at the end of that time I was cured. Ihad gaine cighteen pounds and was in excellent health, and am now. «" You surely deserve great success, and you have my very best wishes."â€"Miss Arioe Bam#y, 50 North houlevard, Atlanta, Ga. Another woman saved from a surgical oporation by Lydia H. Pinkham‘s Vegetable Compound. Read what she says :â€" xT "Drar Mrs. Prsknam:â€"I cannot thank PE sila you enough for what your Ve(fetable Comâ€" ¢ // M pound has done for me. If it had not been for 9e w your medicine, I think I would have dicd. The universal indications of the approach of woman‘s great enemy, inflamâ€" mation and disease of the ovaries, are a dull throbbing pain, accompanied by a sense of tenderness and heat low down in the side, with occasional shooting pains. On examination it may be found that the region of pain will show some swelling. ‘This is the first stage of inflammation of the ovaries. "Drar Mars. %’mxmx :â€"I wish to express my gratitude for the restored health and happiness Lydia E. Pirkham‘s Vegetable Comâ€" pound has brought into my life. "I had suffered for three years with terrible pains at the time of menstruation, and did not know what the trouble was until the doctor pron‘??xfad it inflammation of the ovaries, and proposed an operation. BW _Miss Alice Bailey, of Atlanta, Ga., WÂ¥ tells how she was permanently cured of inflzammation of the ovaries, and escaped the surgeon‘s knife, by the use of Lydia E. Pinkham‘s Vegetable Compound. ww TORONTO gou 2B s O GRLL L 4 2NR J NHVIIU HaYC GICU, ’ "I will tell you how I suffered. I could hardly walk, was unable to sleefi:r eat. Men. struation was irregular. At t I had to stay in mg bed, and flowed so kadly that they sent for a doctor, who said 1 had inâ€" flammation of the ovaries, and must §° through an operation, as no medicine could help M . me, but I could not do that. Wds ctetp Oitres oi A ID mss l . S 32.3 1208 iB Ne first time that Queen‘s has ever been honored with such a request. The man making the proposal has been to Kingston often. The medical facâ€" ulty decided not to entertain â€"the proposition. Central Ontario Man Makes Requestto Queen‘s. t WANTS TO PAWN HISs BODY. Awful Experience with Hoart Disease.â€"Mr. L. J. Law, Toronto, Can., writes : "I was so sorely troubled with heart disease that I was unable for 18 months to lis down in bed lest T amother, After taking one dose of Dr. Agnew‘s Heart Cure I retired and elept soundly. I used one bottle and the trouble has not reâ€" turned."â€"99 A band of 750 employees seized a train at Biaâ€"Torbagy, brought it to Budapest and reported themselves to the police, who began criminal proâ€" ceedings against them. Tie men in the workshops of the Westera Railroad joined the strikers, who have disconnected the telegraph instruments at various points. The railroad stations are _ now: guarded by troops. The prices of provisions have risen. ed by where hour. Traffc on HMungarian State Lines is stopped. Pudapest, _ {April 25. â€" As a thousand _ railroad employees â€" have been arrested in connection with the strike of railway men, which began yesterday on the HMungarian â€" Westâ€" ern Railway. The strike became general, and on ali the Hungarian State railways toâ€"day traffic is at a complete standstill. The Southern Railway, which is not owned by the Government, alone managed to start trains out of Pmudapest. Six trains due lasw night have not yet arrived. The strike committee by telegraph ordered all traffic to stop at midâ€" night, and all trains to be abandonâ€" ed by their crews at the stations where each happened to be at that GKEAT RAILWAY s [RIKE. Makes Strange This is the ed ""‘milt," and the eggs of the {eâ€" male are called "spawn." An ordinâ€" ary full grown oyster is supposed to lay a million eggs a year. In spawning seagon the water is fuil of these eggs, and ‘when the "milt® and the spawn come in contact, and the water is at the right temâ€" perature, life is imparted to _ the mieroscopic egg, and it drops to the bottom, where if it succecds in grasp. ing hold of something, such as anâ€" other oyster, or shell, or rock, or anything to hang on to, the tiny creature begins to form its shell, and in a few woeeks becomes visible to tho eye. i The oyster farmers are harvesting the crop at present. While the great. er portion of the United States is undeor snow, and in the grasp of winâ€" ter, our oyster farmers are busy | hbarvesting their crop, which reâ€" quires no fertilizer, food or fencing, and costs only for the seed, the sow. ing and the harvesting, and which payis a pood dividend on the investâ€" ment. From 12,000 to 15,000 hands are engaged in the oyster work in eastern Virginia. It is an odd sort of farming, and tho ogyster farmers in winter become corn farmers in summer.â€"Country Gentleman. When a woman wants to indulge in pleasant reffections she consults her mir the femaleâ€""equal rights," we perâ€" ceive. The eggs of the male are call. ed "milt," and the eggs of the feâ€" mnle'a.x:e called ‘"spawn." An ordinâ€" WThere is a profit in such work, when intelligently; managed, of 235 to 33% per cent. Probably more than 100,000 _ acres of artificial oyster beds are made to grow an oyster crop, in addiuon to the acreage emâ€" braced in the "natural" beds. The area ol "artificial" bods is increasâ€" ing rapidly! each year. | Natural and Artiticial Beds in Eastern ' Part of State. I In castern Virginia there are seyâ€" cral thousand acres of oyster Tarms, where oysters are raised by artiâ€" ficial methods on _ artificial beds. Thoe "natural" oyster bed is where tho oyister breeds and matures natâ€" vrally. There are thousands of acres o[ such beds in the Chesapeake Bay sysitom Of salt watrer. In such beds the oysters breed by the millions, and as thoey are too close together there they cannot all reach a satâ€" isfactory growth. If â€" taken when small from these "natural" beds and . strown along on ‘the bottoms, where there are no oysters naturally, at the rate of 600 to 1,000 bushe}s per acre, such young oysters mature and ripen of{f for the market, some in one and tha rest in two years. WThere is a profit in such work, ue bovaie ~( $aWipn NE meu in C & OYsTER FARMS IN VIRGINIA There is a fairly good sorting demand at Ottawa from the retail trade for spring goods. Prices are firmly held. In Hamilton the wholesale trade is rather more active in some departments this week. Large shipments of goods are being made. The corting business is fair, but would improve with fine, warm weather,. The outlook is bright. London jobbing trade circles are fair ly active, accorling to advices to Bradâ€" street‘s. Values of staple goods are firm. Wholesale trade at Winnipeg, as reâ€" ported to Bradstret‘s, is showing conâ€" siderable expansion. Seding of wheat has begun. At Quebec the breaking up of the country roads has interfered considerâ€" ably with wholesale trade, which is reâ€" ported, as a rule, quiet. Collections are still slow. The maple cugar crop in this section is likely to be very small, At Vancouver, Victoria and other Paciâ€" fic coast points this week trade has been fairly good. Only a small run of salmon is expected. s There has been quite a revival of acâ€" tivity in hardware and metals at Toâ€" ronto this week, but in dry goods and milinery the sales are somewhat slow as a result of the unseasormably cold weather,. The outlook for business is encouraging. 6 5l 23 to 26¢; chickens, per Ib., 12 to imec; gesse, per lh, 12 to 138; ducks, per lb., 12 to 14¢c; turkeys, per lb., 17 to 20:; potatoes, per per bag, $1 to $1.15; cabbage, per dozen, 40 to 20c; cauliflower, per dozen, $1.2h to $1.75; selery, per dozen, 40 to 503; beef, hindquartâ€" ers, $7.50 to $9; beef, forequartâ€" ers, $5 to $6.50; beef, choice, carâ€" case, $7 to $7.25; beef, medium, carâ€" case, $6 to $6.50; lamb, yearling, BP to $11; mutton, per ewt., $8 to $9; veal, per ewt., $8 to $9.50. British Cattlie Markets. London, April 2(%,â€"Live cattle firm at 11 to 128 per lb. for . steers, dressel weight ; refrigerator becf steady at 8e to BÂ¥e. Sheep slow, 12%e to 13}c per Ilb. * Bradstreets on Trade. Wholesale trade at Montreal this week has been moderately active in some departments. The manufacturers are busy on gods for the coming season. Large shipments of _ merchandise are being made to the Northwest. Collecâ€" tions are only fair. Dressed hogs are firm, with heavyy :em:?c at $6.50, and light at $6.75 o + Following are the quotations ; Wheat, white, bush., 98¢; wheat, red, bush., 97¢ ; wheat, spring, bush., 90 to 2¢c; oats, fbush., 37 to 38¢; peas, bush., 68 to 70c ; barley, bush., 48 to 48Â¥%c; hay, timothy, per ton, $10 to $11.50; hay, clover, $8 to $9; straw, per ton, $10; seeds, alsike, bush., $4.50 to $5.75; seeds, red clover, bush., $6 to $6.35 ; seeds, timothy, 100 lbs., $2.25 to $3.25; apples, per bhbl., $1.50 to $2.25; dressed hogs, $6.25 to $6.75; °eggs, per dozen, 17 to 18¢; butter, dairy, 19 to 22¢; butter, creamery, Hay is unchanged, with sales of PBO loads at $10 to $11,50 a «on timothy, and at $8 to $9 for mix»â€" ed Straw is nominal at $10 a ton,. The market toâ€"day was very dull, the only offering being a load of ; goose wheat, which sold at 83¢, and | a load of oats at 38c. _ , _ t Apart from his wife and mother, who are said to be the only members of his family in whom the Czar can place imâ€" plicit trust, his only other bosom friend is Prince Ukhtomsky, the proprietor and editor of the Viedomosti, which is the organ looked to throughout the whole empire as the real_exponent of opinion in court circles. The prince accompanied the Czar when still czarevitch on his tour in the far cast, and afterward wrote a most highâ€"falutin‘ book about it. An unsparing critic of England, he is also a Teutophobe of the first water, and ascribes all the present troubles to the Chinese policy of Germany. He has accustomed the Czar to regard India as the ullimate heritage of the Slay Submarine Disaster Poritsmouth, Eng., April 2%.â€"As a consequence of the sinking of the British submarine torpedo boat A1 near the Nab Lightship, off the Tslo of Wight, on March 18, and the death of all on board, eleven offiâ€" cers and men, a coroner‘s inquest wias held, and a verdict that the viectims were ‘"anccidentally drownâ€" ed" was rendered. The coroner‘s jury awdlded a rider to its verdict, exâ€" pressing the opinion that submarine torpado boat manoeuvres should not be held in a narrow fairway, ment of $4,000,000, long due to Rusâ€" sia for arrears fof the TPurcoâ€"Ru=â€" sian war indemnity. Such a demand atisguch a moment, the despatch adds, leads to the belief that Russian dipâ€" lomacy is preparing the way â€" for other demands, Russia Wants Money on Overdue War Indemnity. Paris, April 25.â€"The correspondâ€" ont of the Temps ac Constantinoptc says that on the occasion o the Iast audience with the Russian Ambassaâ€" cdor, M. Zinovieff, was granted by the Sul‘tg._l} _h_e‘ insgisted on the payâ€" Zoltan Doeme Seeks to Have Interâ€" locutory Decree Set Aside. New York, April 25.â€"The bearing in the action brought by Zoltan Dooeme to have set aside the interlocutory decree of divorce obtained by Madame Nordica was begun toâ€"day, J. R. Soley, attornes for Madame Nordica, read from an aftiâ€" davit by his client, setting forth that Doeme, since he married the singer, bhad filled no engagements, and that his on!y income had been from Madame Nordica‘s singing. The afidavit further set forth that Nordica had given Doeme upwards of $300,000 in the past five or six years. she transferring to him at his reque=t on one occasion $40,000, which she had on deposit with a trust company. The names to go before the H Bishops for selection will, therei Bishop Matheson, of this cit: Bishop Eden, of Wakefield, Engil Winnipeg, April 25.â€"the Synod © Anglican Diocese of Rupert‘s Land, el for the selection of two candi for the vacant Archbishopric, cont toâ€"day, The first ballot again res in a deadlock between the two n suggested for second choice, viz., 1} Grisdale and Archdeacon Fortin. i then decided to ballot on two names, Rev. Dr. Eden, Bishop of \\ field, England, and Rev., Prof, Cod: Toronto. The first ballot resulted small _ majority for Bishop Eden, not sufficient for election,. Three ba were taken this afternoon, the teenth of the session, resulting in i Eden‘s selection in a total vote of 1: 32, synod of BRupert‘s Land Make Selections. Judge Wurtele, who is presiding o the Cookeâ€"Blackley libel case at Mo real, became seriously ill of hemorrha of the stomach shortly after dinner i2 night. There is some anxiety as to i result, _ The Cookeâ€"Blackley trial ! been on now for about two weeks, a has proved a severe strain on the a> judge. ! _ The Canadian Underwriters have do | cided to raise rates in Toronto 75 per 'ccnt., beginning last Tuesday midnight The trouble over a French shore claus | in the Angioâ€"French agreement has bee; | settled to the satisfaction of Newfound | land. k Previous to their departure for To: to, where Rev, W. J. McKay goes to come editor of the Canadian Baptist, congregation at Stratford presented ] with an address and a handsome y watch, and a case of silver knives : forks to Mrs. McKay. MceAdam, N. B,. railway junction vi lage was swept by fire last evening. j buildings destroyed are the Roman Cat olie Church, two general stores, Fores ers‘ Hall, the old station building, no disused, and fourteen dwellings, _‘ total loss is $25,000 to $50,000, "Death from natural causes," was verdict of the Coroner‘s jury at Ma ville in the case of John Hewings, old fish mddler, found dead nea; home in that village a week ago. The British Government will prof against the Russian edict forbidding « respondents to use wireless tologra; in the far east war zone. Messrs. Derome & O‘Brien, boot an shoe manufacturers, of Quebec city, has assigned, with liabilities of $42,126, an assets of $27,425. The joint commictee of the « Presbyterian, Methodist and C tional Churches has passed a r« favoring organic union. Engineer Robertson, of the C. P. i. was injured in the yards at Regina la« night as a result of a collision between two engines. 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