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2 i’ destroyed, as Isa. 9. 7; Dan. 2, 44, 45; 7, 13, 14; Psa. 72. 7, which only the reâ€" surrection could reconcile and explain." (2) The testimony of the rk- who had such absolute faith in fact that ment ?ropheq, "onme representing Christ as suffering and dying, as Isa. 53, and the other as a triummnt, everlasting king of a kingdom which shall never be Thoughts.â€"1. Christ‘s death establish ed. This is important or doubt will be thrown on the resurrection. (1) The cenâ€" turion assured Pilate of His death (Mark 15. 44, 45). (2) Blood and water flowed from His side (John 19. 34. 33) â€"a& proof of death. (8) His friends wra m Him in spices for burial. (4) Tfi: b was ugod ane uarded. (3) ‘The astonishment of His disciples on the re surrection mominf shows that _ they kmew that he had died. 2. The proofs of His resurrection. They are abundâ€" ant: (1) The resurrection came in ac cordance with two classes of Old Testaâ€" NB PCOE CCC CVCCG CC 29M 70, ZnG i « the other as a uiumpunt. everlasting killed t‘o-day by _ his . son, George king of a kingdom which shall never be| Sterry, jun. The younger man comâ€" dniroyed. as Isa. 9. 7; Dan. 2, 44, 45;| mitted suicide. The father was a memâ€" 7, 13, 14; Psa. 72. 7, which only the reâ€" ber of the large wholesale drug firm of surrection could reconcile and explain."| Weaver & Sterry, with a place of busiâ€" (2) The testimony of the zfln who | ness at 166 Pearl street. He was enâ€" had such absolute faith in fact that &b t married to & young school they based their rmdun' and their of Mfl&m hope of eternal life upon #, induced had eaused serious family God, who is your Father and God also; i therefore _ let them take courage."â€" Clarke. Go to my brethrenâ€"First serâ€" | vants, then disciples, then friends; now | after the resurrection, brethren. â€"J., l".' & B. This involves in itself eternal inâ€" | heritance.â€"Pul. Com. I ascendâ€"I am clothing myself with my eternal form; ' I have laid down my life that I might | take it again and use it for the blessedâ€" ' ne«s of my brethren.â€"Pul. Com. My | Father, etc.â€"Father of Christ by nature and of men by grace.â€"Westcott, lfl.' Mary .... told the disciplesâ€""An aposâ€" | tle to the apostles." Mary was the first | to see Jesus and the first to prociaim his resurrection _ St. Mark tells us (Chap. 16; 11) that the apostles could not believe what she said. of {he gospel of a risen Saviour.â€"Clarke. Rabbomtkâ€"My Master. "A whole world + JV. Tgw commissions .\hr{ (ve. 17, 18.) . Touch me notâ€"â€""Clin not to me."â€"Clarke. I am not yet i‘finded â€""Jesus says in effect: Spend no long er time with me now, I am not going Immediately to heaven, you will have geveral opportunities of seeing me again; but go and tell my disciples that I am, by and by, to ascend to my Father and Mary sought Jesus more fervently, &n rnn:{mxed 8more affectionatel ug{&flxig to him, than any of the rn{; therefore to her first, Jesus is pleased to show himself, and she is made the first herald body taken to some other place. I will take him awayâ€"She would see that it was done, She would be responsible for his removal to a proper place. _ Love knows no difficulties. 16. Maryâ€"Jesus atirred the affections of the weeping woâ€" man at his side by uttering her ~own }t'mmo in tones that thrilqu E{r to the eart and created the new, sublime con: c’!%}&n_ at h 'a}m:té‘sm ufi}j â€"Pul. C3ML |tbormared?n Marvy sought Jesus more ferventlvy. &nd TL Jesus appears to Mary (ve. 14â€"16.) 14. Turnedâ€"Still _ weeping she turned away from the angels. 15. Why weep est thouâ€"He seeks to comfort her in her great grief. Ciardenerâ€"And there: fore a servant of Joseph of Arimanthae, who owned the tomb, and who, of course, would be friendly. _ No other person would be likely to be there at so early gp hour. Borne him henceâ€"Thinkâ€" Ing {)ut perlapo Joseph had ordered his â€""Are you quite sure that this empty tomb does not show that you ought to rejoice ?" o ie o m c man," while Luke says "two men." It is evident that sometimes one appeared and sometimes two. and they spoke difâ€" ferent things to different persons. _ In whiteâ€"This was an emblem of purity (see Rev. 19.8). 13. Why weepest thou 12. Two angelsâ€"Peter and John did not see the angels. Matthew says there was one angel, Mark says a "young the urldroâ€"'l'he tomb was cut in the side of a rock like a cave and was large enough for several to enter, The stone taken awayâ€"A large stone, like a millâ€" stone protected the entrance. 2. She runnethâ€"In her excitement she runs to the chief apostles. Peter and John must have been at no great distance from the tomb and apart #om the other disciples. The other discipleâ€"John, the authon of this go-rl, refers to himself as the "disciple whom Jesus loved." We know not where, ete.â€"â€"She had no idea of a reâ€". surrection, neither did she think he had been stolen (v. 13). 4. They ranâ€"They were eager and excited. Did outrun Peterâ€"John was younger and more ac tive than Peter. 5. Went he not in Probably because of a feeling of awe and reverence. 6. Went into the sepulchreâ€"Peter was naturally bold and unhesitating. 7. And the napkin, ete.â€"The orderly arâ€" rangement og the clothes clearly showâ€" ed that he had not been stolen and that the tomb had not been vacated in haste. 8. He saw, and believedâ€"That is. John saw and believed. But what _ did John believe?* From v. 9 it seema clear that he believed that Jesus had risen from the dead. He speaks only of himâ€" self, saying nothing of Peter‘s impresâ€" sions. 9. Knew not the scriptureâ€"His faith as yet rested only on what he had seen. The scriptures referred to may have been Psa. 2. 7; 16. 8â€"10, which were wpplied to the resurrection bX Paul in Acts 13. 33â€"35. Compare also Acts 2. 24â€" 27 where Peter interprets Pea. 16. 10 as referring to the resurrection. | 11. Mary and the angele (vs. 11.13.) 11. Stood withoutâ€"She was alone as whe supposed. Weepingâ€"Christ had done much for her, and she had great love for her Lord. Stooped downâ€"In order to obtain a view of the interior of the tomb, wondering if she might not still be mistaken. that from self, sion@ faith fi;b Luke mentidns several women (Including Mary Magdalene), who minâ€" istered to Christ of their substance, in a way to suggest that they were women of "rank, wealth and character." Unto day morning. tflu@.’â€"mn re hntoherfm 8. 2 in such a manner as to clearly show that she is not the same as the sinful woman of Luke 7: sâ€"w.stemurddly deâ€" voted to Christ because of His great mer@y in delivering her from seven evil Jesus Risen From the Dead.â€"John 20: LESSON IX.â€"MAY 31, 1908. 1â€"18. I go to exercise is the power of your God. The holiness, the power, the vicâ€" tory I have achieved and now enjoy are yours; what I claim, I claim for you." "To my God, and your God." "This is a message of the risen Lord to men. He has become the link betweem us and all that is highest and best, We know that He has overcome all evil and left it behind; we know that He is worthy of the highest place. that by His righteousâ€" ness ard love He merits the highest flm. We know that if such a one as le eannot go boldly to the bifihflt heaâ€" ven and claim God as His God and Faâ€" ther, there is no such thing as more! worth, and all effort, conscience, hope, responsibility, faith, are vain and futile. We know that Christ must ascend to the highest, and yet we know also that He will not enter where we cannot folâ€" low, We know that His love binds Him to us as strongly as His rights carry Him to (God. °§v¢- can as little believe that He will abandon us and leave ue out of His eternal enjoyment, as we can believe that God would refuse to own Him as Son, and it is this which Christ puts in the forefront of His message as risen and ascending; ‘I ascend unto my Father, and your Father; and to my God, and your God.‘ The joy that awaits me with ({od awaits you also; the power New York, May 25.â€" about to be married not detmand much of "little born ones." 2. Provides for us (James 1, 17). 3. Clothes us (Luke 12, 28; Iea. 61, 10). 4. Pities us (psn‘ 193, 13). 5* Hears our petitions (Matt. 7, 0â€"11). 6. Fellowships us (I. John 1, 3)~ * 'Oy{‘_ech and chasâ€" thes us (Prov. 3, 12; ts ,Ekt-ll)._%i Kfiyfix'wa because He loves ( l\".'fi, 19, R. V). $. Is our example (Matt. 5, 48; Luke 6, 36). "I ascend unto my Father, and your Father" (v. 17). The word "Father" is the first antl last sentence from the lips of Jesus (Luke 2, 49; 23, 46). The place the divine Son won for Himself in the Father‘s heart He won for us also. All the Son of God enjoys the sons of Ggfl may claim as their birthright (I. John 4, 17). "Father" is a key word of John. It is found there more than sixtyâ€"three times and in all the other (Gospe!s comâ€" bined twentyâ€"four times. We are God‘s children, not on the farâ€"off ground of creation, nor the legal ground of adopâ€" i but the oving groungd_of the di,yir& nature mh»_r_lgi‘tfl-g. !_iloio is great eqmfort in contemplating the fact that }éo%is our Father (James 1, 17; J. Pg% . 31. ~&s a Father, God, 1. Lovas us (L. John 3, 1). The Father i« tender with little children (John 13. 33), and does not detmand much of "little born ones." to be weaned for ever! Mary had to be weaned. Has not the Lord to teach us also the same lesson, until we also have learned to say, "Thou hast stilled and quieted my soul"? He would wean us, detachk us from this emotionel life, that his spiritual life may possess us more abundantly! In the spiritual life we learn to walk by naked faith, in closest communion with Ged, never turning back to the life of feeling for a moment. Faith launches out on the bare word of God; separated forever from the emotional life, as the water above were separated from those beneath. The creation is a figure of the "new creation." "The love Yg Wn constraineth us" (II. Cor. 5â€"14; 4â€"17). 72 SHOT HIS FATHER. ‘et old, was Of these "sanctified sisters" there are at present twentyâ€"two; nineteen are eld. erly women who have had real or imagâ€" ined grievances against menâ€"their husâ€" bands mottly.h‘Mn. Msew;hirter'n visâ€" ion is said to have sprung from & quarâ€" rel over the lnniqnlhr;:ut sum of 21.50. She died some years ago and was sucâ€" ceded bLlflu Famy Holzclaw, who is said to be even more rigid in her views of men than the founder. There remain but three of the young women whose mothers brought them inâ€" to the community as children. Once there were nine. And there is one ;n-;fi Lioail. s clun o S eaicn c 29 Cc e NEey 2o o Cl io con mt ton. It has 121 acres of farm, orchard and woodland, with a big house, three barns, windmills, cattle and horses, and the latest farming implements,. Here the celibate women live and work together. They till the soil themselves and manage the business of their estate. No man is allowed on the grounds. In Washingâ€" ton the commonwealth owns and operâ€" ates a bi{ twoâ€"storey boarding house, from which it gets a fat profit. In all, the community is said to be worth $250,â€" 000, all of which the women have made or contributed themselves. The community, officially called the Woman‘s Commonwealth, is situated near Colesville, Montgomery County, Md:. twentyâ€"five miles from Washingâ€" "This great truth was revealed in a vision to Mrs. MacWhirter, our founder, thirty years ago. All of us who have geen the light have left all to follow her. Since then we have lived without sin. We have been well and happy, with no man to tempt, and God has prospered us. We expect to live as long as no fleshly lusts gain foothold in our lives to destrovy our souls." n Ce en NN t o n l O o o o4 . ~He that soweth to the flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption, but he that soweth to the spirit shall of the spirit reap life etern.u.!l)," quoted one of the sweet faced women of the colony to a reporter yesterday. "Our ideas are too pretty to talk about," she went on, "They must be lived. Life and health on earth and peace in heaven are to be gained only by purifyin% the body and subduing the lusts of the flesh. That is why we gave up the sin of men. The creed of this "Woman‘s &m monwealth" is that for men and women to live together is sin, even under the marriace ta ... Gnv@uzk.~ t Washington, D. C.â€"When R. Franklin Hoover, a Philadelphia hotel cletk, broke into the Amazon colony in Washington a few days ago and stole away Miss Adah Pratt, one of its daughters, he threw the man haters into consternaâ€" tion which has aroused the entire segt to renewed warfare on the opposite sex. Efforts to guard the remaining three marriageable "sanctified sisters," as the man haters call themselves, have been lxi.%y_hlcgl. No man is allowed a sight of the maFrriageable ones. Marriage Regsrded as Sinâ€"But tho Colony Has Had Six Elopements, Though Each Has Been of a "Comâ€" munity Child." AFTER THIRTY YEARS OF EXISTâ€" ENCE MANâ€"HATERS ARE HAPPY. COLONY OF AMAZONS A dose or two of Manâ€"aâ€"lin is advisable in slight febrile attacks, la grippe. colds and influenza. MANâ€"Aâ€"LIN can be relied upon to produce a gentle action of the bowels, making pills and drastic cathartics entirely unâ€" necessary, Remove constipation and all of these ailments dis appear. There ars many ailments directly dependesit upon conâ€" stipation, such as biliousness, discolored and pimpled skin, inactive liver, dyspepsia, overâ€" worked kidneys and headache. MANâ€"Aâ€"LIN Is An Excellent Remedy for Constipation, THE MANâ€"Aâ€"LIN CO., MANâ€"Aâ€"LIN COLUMBUS, OHIO, U. S. A. Copyright 1906, by The Manalin Co, States on a War Footing. Lank Mohonk, N. Y., May 25.â€"The friends of peace and arbitration were called upon at the opening of the Lake Mohonk conference on international arbitration‘ toâ€"day to oppose "the clamor to place the United States on a war footing commensurate with the martial nations of Europe." John W. Foster, former Smnu&y of State and the preâ€" siding officer of the conference, declared in his opening address that the despatch of the battleship fleet to the Pacific and "senseless rumors of a coming war with Japan" have caused this awakening soirit in militarism." Protest Against Placing United Between the paroxysms Mr. Marsh bade farewell to his family, which had gathered at his home in Brooklu, and arranged his business affairs. he would begin to rave, and determined to relieve any suffering that might ensue. Mr. Marsh was perfectly conscious, and apparently did not suffer except when seized vfl convulsions. The atâ€" tackse became re frequent last night, each growing more violent than the mreâ€" ceding one. The physicians feared A.l.t New York, May 25.â€"To ease the last hours of the victim of rabies, Wm. H. Marsh, a wealthy inventor and manufacâ€" turer of Brooklyn, who was told yesâ€" terday at the Pasteur Institute that he had hydrophobia and would live a few days only, the physicians about his bedâ€" side put him under the influence of opiates early toâ€"day, and he will be kept in that condition until his death. Told He Had Hydrophobia and Only a Few Hours to Live. eyes are screlle and Untroubled by hu man passions of love or jealousy. Heayâ€" ing no one to dress for they wear the rough clothes and shoes most conveniâ€" ent for farm work. They are healthy and happy with their flowers and their birds in the bare but cheerful home in the hills, They have the look of women who have "given up the struggle." Of the women now there twelve have been married and five are old maids. Alâ€" though the colony is built on a basis of hate, there is nothing to indicate it in the atmosphere of the place. Whatever the hate was time has effaced it. It reâ€" mains only in theory, but the theo: re mains. The Sanctified Sistera '.3:3 of ith hey hav men with a scorn they have forgotten to feel. Emotion has â€"dl;d f-I Â¥ :vt.}: ons‘ lives and from thei[qf:c?&' wealth alive Mre. MacWhirter cleverly insured the continuance of the commonwealth by providing that as long as there remain two persons who carry out the ideas of the commume it shall be considered in active existence and the capital of the organization may not be diverted. Al of which proves the founder to be a woâ€" man of great perspicacity, for there is little doubt that at least two disconâ€" FRIENDS OF PEACE. Little did . Mr. MacWhirter know, when he refused his lady that paltry dollar and a half in Waco, Texas, in 1877, what a snowball he had set rolling down the hill of discontent. It found plenty of discontented wives and gathâ€" ered up the wreckage of many a smashâ€" ed up glome and evidently is still on its path. For the women of the commonâ€" wealth are cutting lumber on the north wood lot to build an addition to their home for the accommodation of _ new members. ‘ ONTARIO ARCHIVES TORONTO Colony Likely to Endure. That Tolstoi esteemed the commonâ€" wealth highly is shown in this l corâ€" respondence. He approved of meageu of celibacy and of the fact that the women worked as laborers on their own soil and made their own clothes and shoes. Students in \.i'ashington, and indeed all over the world, have taken a great interest in the commonwealth, and have discussed the possibility of making it permanent. Mrs, MacWhirter received a series of commendatory letters from Count Leo Tolstoi, which, if published, would probably be of great value as & key to the character and ideas of the ec. centric Russian novelist. ‘These letters, with many others from noted socialista, fully preserved in the old white farmâ€" house. Mrs. Pratt, the mother of the recent eloper, is one of the charter members of the colony. When asked if she would forgive Mrs. Hoover, she replied, "I do not know any Mrs. Hoover," and would not say anything more on the subject, _ 18 an account of a divorce scandal or a broken up household the older ones will say, ‘There is some more of the married bliss you hear about.‘" "But the younger ones?" ‘"Well, they don‘t say much. You see, many of the older ones had quite a lot of ‘married bliss‘ before they had some quarrele and joined the commonwealth." *~"And they have made good wives," said a member of the commonwealth naively. "They have never come back to us. I suppose they were so glad to find nice men, after all they had been taught about the general run of men, they were only too happy to try to deâ€" serve them." "Are men all despised as inferior to women?" she was asked. ‘"No, not exactly," she replied hesitatâ€" ingly; "but you know we have all the latest daily papers, and every time there I ence is, or what is & Wa done with him when he up, is a subject for ageeu. lation, fi:‘m he is treated with all kindness. He is the only child on the place at present. He has no playmates, so he just works on the farm with the old women. > boy of ten. What his excuse for existâ€" UNDER OPIATES. women can be found to take care $50,000 and keep the commonâ€" Forget Their Teachings. aces. _ ‘Their Cheese Markets. Brockvilleâ€"At the regular meeting of the cheese board here toâ€"day, 1,289 colorâ€" ed and 715 white, a total of 2,004, were offered; none sold, the best offer being 1034c for white and colored. Bank of England rate is unchanged. Renate and House of Representatives fail to agree on Currency Bill, Ohio expects smaller oats and wheat erop on account of reduced acreage, Light demand for etocks in loan exowd. Economies in operating Seaboard more than offeet loss in gross earnings. Guggenheim interests are making arâ€" New York Sugar Market. Sugarâ€"Raw, steady; fair refining, 3.47¢c; centrifugal, 96 test, 4.24¢; moâ€" lasses sugar, 3.49¢; refined, quiet. London Wool Market. _ Londonâ€"The offerings at the wool auction amounted to 10,280 bales. Comâ€" petition was active at the highest rates of the series. A good supply of scoured sold briskly. ‘The suppiy of Merinos was larger toâ€"day ana most of them were iaken by German buyers, Crossâ€" breds were in strong demand and home buyers occasionally paid 5 per cent. adâ€" vance for suitable parcels. Americans bought greasy Mcrinos and medium fine crossâ€"breds at full rates. Toâ€"day‘s sales were as follows: New south Wales, 2, 400 bales, scoured 1s 1d to 1s 7d; greasy, 84 to ls 1d. Queensiand, 100 bales scoured ls 34¢d to Is 8d; greasy, 6lgd to 10d. Victoria, 100 bales, scoured 1s 14 to 1s 5l¢d; greasy, 9d to ls 14 Tasâ€" mania, 300 bales, greasy 814d to 1s 11§d. New Zealand, 2,900 bales, Winnipeg Wheat Markets, Following are the closing quotations on WinnipSg grain futures: Wheatâ€"May $1.115â€"8 bid, July $1.13 1â€"8 bid. sheep ana Lambsâ€"Receipts were a little larger, and the prospects are that from this time forward sheep and lambs will be more plentitul, at lower quotaâ€" tions. Toâ€"day they soid as follows: Ewes, $5 to $5.75; rams, $4 to $4.50; yearlings, $6.50 to $7.50; spring lambs, $3.50 to $6.75 each. Hogsâ€"Mr. Harris bought about 1,500 at unchanged quotations, selects 86 and lights at $5.70. $40 each, ~** "alve anigings .4 WB 29e 0e ++ _Yeal Calvesâ€"Receipts of calves were Targe, with prices easy at $3 to $5 per ewt. for the bulk, aithough an extra choice new milkâ€"fed calf sold for a little more money, xF Jt ce Milkers and Springersâ€"A fairly libâ€" eral supply of good to choice nulkers and springers met a strong â€" market. Prices ranged for the buik of the best at $45 to $60 each, and several of the tops soid at $65, $70 and one at $79, hx witincudr uts o im 2C U oG Butchersâ€"Prime picked lots of butchâ€" ers‘ cattle soid at $5.00 to $5.80; loads of good, $5.40 to $5.60; medium, $5.10 to $5.30; common, $4.75 to $4.90; cows, $3,00 to $4.75; and in a very few inâ€" stances $5 was paid for extra choice cows; canners, $2.30 to $3. QOatsâ€"May 447â€"8¢ bid, July 4634 Exportersâ€"Export steers sold at $5.75 to $6.15; two loads being sold by Dunn & Levack at the latter price. Export bulls sold at $4.25 to $5.25. There was a fair trade at a little gtronger quotations for the medium to good classes of cattle, some commission dealers reporting sales of cattle toâ€"day at 15 and 20¢ per cwt. more than was offered for these same cattle on Tuesâ€" day. Several dealers were on the marâ€" ket from outside points. The quality of fat cattle was reported by the dealers as not being quite up to the standard of those offered on Tuesâ€" day. Live Stock. Receipts of live stock at the city marâ€" ket, as reported by the railways, for Wednesday and Thursday, were 94 car loads, composed of 1,37z cattle, 2014 hogs, 254 sheep and 542 calves. St, Lawrence sugars are quoted as folâ€" lows: Granulated, $5 in barrels, and No. 1 golden, $4.60 in barrels. These prices are for delivery, car lots 50 less. Do., creamery .. .. Chickens, year old, lb. Fowl, per lb. ... .... Apples, per bbl. .. .. Cabbage, per dozen .. Onions, per bag ... .. Potatocs, per bag .... Beef, hindquarters ... Do., forequarters .. Do., choice, carcase. Do., medium, carcase Mutton, per ewt. .... Veal, prime, per ewt. Lamb, per Jb. .. ../.. Vo., mixed, ton Straw, per ton .. Dressed hogs .. . Eggs, new laid, dozen Butter, CaF Y 2:+ sas Do., goose, bush Oats, bushel .. . Barley, bushel .. Peas, bushel .. . Hay, timothy, ton Dressed hogs are unchanged, sold at $8.40, and heavy at $8. Wheat, white, bushel:..$ 0 95 Do., red, bushel ... .. 0 95 Do., spring, bushel .... 0 93 Do., goose, bushel .... 0 92 Hay is steady, with sales of three loads at $16 to $18 a ton. Straw unâ€" changed, with two loads selling at $15 a Farmers‘ Market. The Street Market continues very duit, with little gain coming in. _ ‘The only oifering toâ€"uay was a load of peas, which sold at 90e. ton, OTHER MARKETS, to medium cows sold at $30 to Wall Street News. TORONTO MARKETS. . HeFan s reeery | 1 1| Sugar Markets, $ 0 96 10 Q0 7 50 10 50 11 00 15 00 1 15 11 00 Light 18 00 16 00 16 00 0 14 0 20 0 27 0 30 engagement with the provincial m "Why do women enjoy weeping at a mtinei?" said he. "I don‘t know," am swered she. "Why do men '?’ ting angry at the umpire?" ...:: #ae ues Berlin, May 25.â€"The Foreign Office has received a report from Dr. Rosen, the German Minister to Moroceo, regardâ€" ing the alleged maltreatment of a man under German protection by French solâ€" diers. According to the information reâ€" ceived here, the man was carrying a letter from the German consul, L Lueberitz, to the commander of them of French troops, but the soldiers treated him, while the officer spat upon the consul‘s letter. It is assumed here that Chancellor Von Buelo, brought this matter to the Emperor‘s‘ attention at Wiesbaden on Monday, and possibly this was the cause of the Emper?r"n cancelling a luncheop And Emperer William Refused to Few could swim, and some were stunâ€" ned by the force of the explosion, and went down before swimmers in the party could make an effort at rescue. The eurvivors were found on the river bank by runners despatched from here, because of the I:rolonged absence of the party. Nome of the bodies has been reâ€" covered. ABUSED BY FRENCH The drowned: Miss Lillian Winfid& of Clarendon, Ark.; Miss Alma Pett, St. Louis, Mo.; Mattie Counts, of Clarâ€" endon; Miss Bessice Paltmer, of Kansas City; Miss Aline Burton, of Helens, Ark.; Jos. MeManus, of Olasendon; Dr. A. L. Houston, of Clarendon. Ae Qme of those rescued, Miss Mary Carâ€" ett, of Clarendon, was severely burned. The boat left Clarendon -rlgv in the evening bearing a merry y, who had plann:s to go several A”u: down the river. When about five miles below Clarendon, the tank of the launch exâ€" ploded, wrecking the boat and hurling the occupants into the stream. patch to the Gazette from Clarendon, Ark., says seven prominent young sociâ€" ety people were drowned last night, when the tamk of a gasoline launch in which they were going for a moonlight excursion exploded, wrecking the bosk Other members of the party were resâ€" cued with difficulty, _ _ _ Tank of a Gasoline Launch Exploded Prominent Young Society People Fill Watery Graves. London: The general business feeling continues to improve, although there has been but little increase in the volume of orders coming forward. Ottawa: There has been a bettar torte to trade here during the past week. Hamilton: Business here holds a fairly steady tone. City and country retail trade is slightly more brisk, but wholeâ€" sale trade shows little change. Local industries are moderately busy. Collecâ€" tions are in most cases slow. Country produce comes forward well. Prices are steady. Quebec: Wholesale trade appears to be holding its own, and while country storeâ€" keepers are ordering cautiously, sales to date are fairly eatisfactory, and in some quarters collections are easier than a week ago. Vancouver and Victoria: The volume of wholesale business continues on the light side. Retail trade is fair to good, and a better wholesale movement may be looked for shortly. , Winnipeg: General business continues to take confidence from favorable crop news, Well authenticated reports say the grain is well above the ground and is showing good condition. all lines, but conservatism is still the order of the day. Dry goods men reâ€" port the sorting trade as quiet. Summer orders are light and fall orders fair. Cottons were working lower, but on account of the strike they are showing a steadier tendency. parts of the country are having effect upon trade sentiment, but as yet there has been only a slight increase in the volume of business. The wholesale trade shows some slight improvement in nearly \ Bradstreet‘s Trade Review. Montreal: ‘The trade situation has shown little change here during the past week, although reports from the west garding the outlook are rather more encouraging. There is still considerable complaint on the score of collections. But many wholesalers say conditions are quite up to expectations in this regard. Money is exhibiting a slightly easier tendency, although there is still very little offering in the stock market. Genâ€" eral industries are fairly busy. Labor troubles are not unusually prevalent for this time of the year. The bricklayers are out, demanding fifty cents an hour, and the strike against wage reduction is spreading in the cotton mill. _ Emâ€" ployers declare they have a good stock on hand and are in a good position to carry on the dispute. Toronto: Business here moves along pretty well as it did a week ago. Conâ€" tinued favorable crop reports from all lTittle Rock, Ark., May cent. certificates. National lead toâ€"day declared the rcâ€" gular quarterly dividend of 14 per cent. on common stock. Atlantic Coast Line declared semiâ€"anâ€" nual dividend of 24 per cent. on comâ€" mon, payable in cash, Previous dividend 'szdofotoccond;;e.lk M Sent. / average gross decrease per Total gold exports to date $30,000,000 and more expected. Copmer in Ecndon is 75 64 lower toâ€" Copper in London day. _ New York banks _ lost . $5,632.000 through subâ€"Treasury operatio Friday. s B t n in future. : mIA:din‘ factors in the P“*’: dustry estimate their Wfi per cent. less than at this yer:: > ~>.5 e en ue o9 SEVEN DROWNED. \/o6he id Take ents to~ handle their own copper r};n‘:ioul dividend in A. C. L. 4 per week May were resâ€" i Winfield, | ,, a Pot:fi N , of Clar. ' f Kansas ( Helena, l d idon; Dr. | 41 860 40 | Frepch tro« of the »Frenc of them sp dent, whic!h Office ;\ith m;u'hc Rosen, | "®"®* 1t is subject will regardâ€" French Gove a man | P show |Ilt l5 "What is the matter, little boy *" asl a,?. professor. Have you the measâ€" "Nope," answered the boy. "I‘ve pot the measle. There‘s only i)fle of ‘ean!" "That‘s m" mused the profesâ€" ‘"Then ffénfllfavu‘t lived long i climate, if that‘s all," observed t derly spinster, "I‘ve sometimes ® many as forty winters here in Climatic P seudigaiity. "I am older than I look," said : ron at whose house the sowin had met. "More than forty wint passed over my head." ‘"Then you haven‘t lived long whimuatcs Be exrtlul o 0 00E Prench tr with a letter, and s of tbevk‘rencE soldiers beat him and . of them spat on the latter. The i dent, vhlcrat resent is not repor :vitln much deult is causing a sen=at hnmns ; Forvanti+~ 20T€, lt is said representatior subject will immediately be ma French Government, Emp : EVT 2200 CTemman Po Office is inw:itignting an alleged so affront to a German consular mess, by French soldiers in Moroceo, a plaint regardi which has just reecived from nl'i)e German |repres tive at Fez. The story is that a senger wvas sent to a commander French tr with a letter, and . of tbesl“re::rml.n.... Eiss a 6 & French INSULT General Wilicock‘s Expedition to Destroy Native Villages and Forts. Simla, May 25.â€"Majorâ€"General Wil) cocks‘ operations have now brought the British punitive expedition into the keart of the Mohmand count?y, where it is engaged in destroying native vilâ€" lages and forts in accordance with the recent Government proclamation that the operations would be strictly | con fined to the punishment of the reealoj trant tribes, as no ©ccupation of terviâ€" tory was intended. Fifteen native Inâ€" dian StAOAMK FanaWer ofle.s t 2 ranl fory was intended,. Fifteen nati, dian States recently offered milita, sistance to the expedition if that â€" be necessary, . New York, May 25.â€"While hi was waiting for him to take Providence, R. I., where they h. ned to be married toâ€"day, Dr Maas, a young physician, . throat and his wrists in an effor his life, He was taken to a ho Haas had written a mote j he said he was without means poor health, and that death : orly solution of the probler Young Physician Cuts His Throst Bride His Niece, New York, May 25.â€"While his fiane A short while after the «< a choice fat flying fish around in the galley, and that the waterspout had â€" fish, making it {:;f withou so that it hurtled through : Without trying to reason it ever, tl!e cook scraped the d sel and made it par; of t} meal. The officers had been warchi: interest a procession of po strung out for about a mile, an of them say the waterspon: scores of the porpoises high i: gir. The waterspout was away, but it gave perceptible lurch. mischievous waterspout 0 between Sombrero Light ling‘s Island, in the We New York, May 25.â€"The W mail steamer Suriname rea« yesterday, reporting a pa Flew Almost Into Frying Pan on the Suriname. on the day of his marriage, the possession of Justice Mor at Poughkeepsie. draw the suit. He represe various papers relating to } the case, especially Thaw‘s v New York, May 25.â€"The â€" proceedâ€" ings brought by Evelyn Nesbit Thaw for the annulment of her marriage to Harry K. Thaw were adjourned again toâ€"day. Lawyer O‘Reilly who repreâ€" sents Evelyn Thaw, secured the adâ€" journment by promising either to go on with the case on May 26th or withâ€" Evelyn Must be Ready May 26: or Drop Suit. The accident was caused by a sor of spectators to obtain sample pa« of a brand of breskfast food, whicl thrown from the arena by a youn man who was taking part in the . o °TCt It was the opening night of this | diversion of Chicago society, and tent was packed with more than spectators when the accident occ In the panic which followed soon women were trampled upon. Quick of men in the audience and 0/ « performers prevented the injury of more. Chicago, May 25,â€"Twentyâ€"one persons were injured, many of them seriously, and hbundreds narrowly â€" escaped desth last night at a performance of the Charâ€" ity Cireus, Oak Park avenve and 33rd street, when all the seats in the tont mdae-ly gave way and crashed to the M' P T is idteit nf this latact Seats In Chicago Circus Collspsed at Performance. Caused by Crowd Scrambliog For Breakfast Food Samples. IN THE MOHMAND COUNTRY tro AN ACCOMMODATING FISX THAW DIVORCE. ON HIS WEDDING DAY Soldiers in Morocco Allegeg Have Beater Him. 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