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The Milverton Sun SER AN MES SegEROLS mor bscribers arrears will be liable to pay $1.50 per year ee for contract advertisements must SisivcasGatia tone tte Bank ot Hamilton, Aiioastar DRS, PARKER & TYE MAKINS & HANLEY ye Hs Office: Gordon block, opposite post office 1 ie AR ‘geo! Milverton, Graduate sa Ontario Vi ari c phone oF otherwisepromptly attended to, bal un ins Schnenter a Block, ane brett } ae mae is 30 p. 1A Store, ‘te Treticop “aay % wel i. Ge : aapesoebel HOTEL, Br Bese i Ont. sun SUNDAY SCHDGL STUDY INTERNATIONAL LESSON, MARCH 9. Lesson X.—The destruction of Sod- om, Gen. 19. 1-3, 12-29. Golden text, 2 Cor. 6. 17, The chapter and verses immedi- hale preceding our lesson peers to-day record the incidents 001 Hees with the birth of febinget and the promise to Abram of the birth of Isaac. account of the renewal of the coy- enant at Mamre, and an announce- ment te Abram of the impending doom Sedo, lom. Chap HEHE 17 re- cords the change of ape nal braham, and of Bacay name their reception’ and entertainment by Lot. Verse that Hi: . The men—The angels, Dregs of Jehovah. ey urge Lot to lose no time in eae the city, an ate 1a, We ill destroy this place — Theit visit had been for the pur- pose of ascertaining the facts con- cerning the city’s reputed wicked- ess. This being established, their commission includes authority to before above — Throughout ne entire narrative Jehovah is spoken of as foetescine ae Spgs? ae |and limitations of men. his jone of the distinguishing marks aE |the early prophetic narrative, of @ which our Jesson. pal part. Compare E where a similar exp 4 ho married— “Or, who were to ees f this Lot nine seems an have aes un- derstood the urgency of the o mand to leave the cit As one that mocked—Better, The sons-in-law are inore lous. To them the destruction of their city seems impossible. 15. When t! dawn. pired while it was sti yy two daughters that ‘are here opposed to the prospective SauRtuuike Soho bad Ehaten to ig- nore ‘the warning, and who were thou be consumed—The im- plication is that Jehovah had fixed a time beyond which the destruc- pe of the city was not to be post- pie y—Or, punishm to lead safely beyond the city gate. 17. Escape for thy life—Further flight is necessary to reach a place thee—Resist every temptation. to return or to | wateh witht eurious eyes the fate of Plain—The valley region in sue neighborhood of the doomed cities, 18-22. The omitted verses record Lot’s plea to be spared the neces- sity of fleeing to the barren moun- |tains, and to be permitted to main in a little village some dis- Waterloo, Conveyaneer, Deods, Wills a d | tance from Sodom. Zoar—afeaning, litle. 24. Rained . . . brimstone and fire Brimstone is the word used uni- Bible for sulphur, x voleanie regions both as an uncombin posit. and as one Beat brands pee, of liquors Scar ttean CU Ria LAA ae QUEEN’S HOTEL, Milverton, Out, mninercial of Railway Time Tables” Seis riteteciocludite donenbs ine 2 5 3 Seeee peoase poe dioxide and iggchareisd hydrogen, | det, which are not. infrequently exhaled | from the earth in ees eeeious or in. th of hot} o dissolve: springs. It is baie referred to in connection with Jehovah’s de- nunciation of the wickedness of nations and individuals Sakae Deut. 29. 23; Isa. 34.9; . 6). See ree. aE ‘sul Dead Sea Sean ward. the destruction of through the use of natural means, ut, Of course, was decidedly mira- pe |e as. 26. Pillar. of salt—Great ledges or). te cliffs of crystallized rock salt are be found at the southwestern shore of the Dead Sea. During the rainy season, fragments of these cliffs become isolated and resemble »|pillars, which are in constant pro- cess of formation and a destruction: formy ere sti believed. 1 ill of salt ieee ey Wi identify the pillar fo in our lesson. pass 27. Abrahai othe longer form of the name, explained as signifying father of a multitude, is wi rom age seventeen forwar 28. Gomorral ie twin city of Eager and coal wicked. remembered Abraham— righteous servant man’s ore usually acyvis ed, Z we to von They include an and to take with M: him Bt ate members of his immedi-| |, e—|his early re-| nia. , HERO OF THE BALKANS, Gen, Michael Savot Is Grim, .Be- eretive and Cold. if the’ Bellen wlliee gisteat tn f the Bulgarian srocpe: ms has spent the greater ae a his the great military powers, his name remained, until lately, quite un- He is ler brought King Ferdina Piste iced af taecal aa ang par of Bulgaria to the final stand out- side the Tehatalja lin General Savofi had worked out a plan of operations long before crisis. He showed its value at the decisive battle of Kirk Kilisso, He lured # army eastwa from me vicinity of Adrianople. He held the initiative at every step. He. never lost sight of the enemy’s force, which he drove back trieff, the military experts give all the glory of the swift pat enleudid 3 Michael Say: the” scion of a native the campaign to Ferdinand. h “the the standpoint ression, and has travelled and studied in Russia, France and Germany, he has relatives who till the soil in while doing it. the period -lhis first appointment to the cadet comps Savoff has been obliged to live upon his pay. The frugality of i years etamped habits of simplicity upon his mode of life which time has not effaced. He General Michael Savoit. still shaves himself daily, still rubs down his own horse, still brightens fs own sword. xhibits none e tendencies of e ees army + to horse- card. playing, or heats. B rac going. he can shoot w. ith x Hanes fs and ride like a Centaur, and sleep in his blanket on the bare earth, It is said that to this day he finds a feather bed provocative of insom- e fares sumptuously on dry biscuit and eater when he must, and he know: dress a wound with all the skill ofa vhs nurse. Educational Trainin: The formative and Sri sas gaabie years his boyhood’ inelude a brief wtay at that Robert College in Constenistople which has done so pee cer Sot was grim, ‘ap tantee hazdworking, and a sie ull and unpromising. rom. disingtshed writes one authority on Bulgaria, produco numbers -o! men 01 wing of the Bulgarian army into tho battle of Slivnitza. e is said to earry under a rib to this day the bullet that stretched him, then on the ground. The episode brought im to the notice of Btamboulof, Bulgaria’s man of destiny, who was an unerring pee es capacity. His fee ee Savefi—then an un- a pear been quoted reeable “but eficient.’” Wien the ce hero of the Bal- ‘al come out of the barracks fepetie he found himself assigned to a monastery in the capacity of | ™ veorganizer of the Bulgarian army. + wal railway, ads. were Savoff’s for three hard-work-|1 ing years. Slowly, but surely, there emerged under his tutelage an in- —. A man seldom laughs at misfor- tune after he gets a personal in- troduction to it, officials rather js ¢ FROM MERRY OLD ENGLAND NEWS BY MAIL ABOUT JOHN BULL AND HIS PEOPLE. Occurrences in the Land That Reigns Supreme in the Com- mereial World. The late Viscount Peel left es- tate! of the gross value of — 175. The year 1912 was one of u! ee preperity in Great Bri tai says Dean Inge. A new Guildhall is to be built at {1 es eae a cost not exceeding stru Rae 1841 the area of the British as Empire has aac by 2% mil- lion square mi One perity in trade is the small number of tramps “‘ ids An Australian team will visit ae National Rifle Association meetin at Bisley next July. Dura e 1911 boys to the ge girls to Gen- At Hale Wine died aie eee “Che- eee 8,000,000 men are employed in regular occupation in Great Bri- ec in, In London there were 2,101 births and 1,433 deaths for week ending February 2nd- During the last fifteen yeaa. the cost of living has advanced i: ig- i by 25 per : cent: ‘old town hall at Newbury, Bortehiro, has been demolished for | y, street improvements. At the London elementary schools 54,000 children Paes years of age are in attend No fewer than 2, 500. train. engines move in and out of Wore Sta- ated by cloclono tion, London, on a busy di The King will open the Metropali tan Water Board’s new reservo: at’ Chingford on March 15 Mrs.’ Emily “Phoebe ‘Winham, of houses ae selling in Covent Garden + from 18s. £0 308. a pound. iy eet Glenrea “has recov- r sight Convery English prison has now a se but prisoners condemned to only a month or less afe not al- lowed poe from ate Sir Rober 73, died a Boston one on ae 15th. ult, while the Bishop of Lincoln was sonstasins service “The sea. Lord ‘help us all, it is the Beusch thing God made.!’’ And (adds a wie the picatert, ee man surely the A hostile iroea invaded a noe mon meeting at Ipswich a few Sere ago meal broke up the pro- ceed’ see or “spotted fever’? has been admitted to the Metropolitan fast Board’s Hospital from Ful- Hee deticicl Waco as be nine, was knocked down and killed ¢{in East Bice, taantons by. eo sat for 30 ‘years a hearing, Mr. T. eae recorder of Bir- 8.E., satiated the watch dog with’ the proprietor’s cakes. John Williams, known as the “Hooded Man, on executed = ss announced, t! 01 ne iftstalling ¢-|a new lightship at the bar with a 40,000 candle-power lantern, A sand pounds, Work has been begun at the new | colliery at the ronal village of Glyncorrwg, near ‘albot, pad sunlores will te toured for about ok Bristol policeman named Flen- en jumped into the River from a bridge, ae rescued Ernest cing consequence of foot-and-mouth dis- ease in England and Wales during fidant of Lord Derby ae Lord Ben- e) sa malicious attempts upon pillar “The, Bank of Hen iehy has secured premises in Waterloo Beane Pa’ Mall, where ther will ish a branch, . This will be fie feet Colo- pial bank ruil in London’s West Bod. eo : matr ial case’ at Ches- terfield ote wife said the first. pert s a dove,” but: latterly her hus- band had Ge ae “to dance on the gallows’: for It is a frequent Saclay that produced no On the other hand, the standard of verse, gay and serious, which does nét claim lofty poetic nr sa mingham tity of machinery, a ao to Terns can hold his tongue t,|can. hold anything,” b sentctane audeahies pate ee ig fire occurred: at the ae 4 Frome | di: ished pianos, and stores of sea- one timber being destroyed, and lamage totalling Pete thousands: z pounds was +8. LIGHTHOUSE BUILDERS. - Romance of the Eddystone—Tho ‘arly Uluminants. came into use. the te Ste iter in his tower and often express- | Ma) ies a wish to be in it during a severe oDhe chance came on November 26, 1705, says the London Globe, when on a storm appearing eminent he set out Les ener hurri- of the most erable recorded a saioes: and other damage it swept away ree ae ae the Tightlisaee) those in it, of course, aie ee Within three years anoth: was built, known as Rudyerd’ 8, ead, like Win. Senley, 8, of wood. obvious ee after an ex- Pee of forty-seven years, it be- ing utter ae doskroped by confla, tion. ex! il ned, a new structure, the present ona fourth, was erected on an adjacent rock, ‘Smeaton’s tower was rebuilt on e. ere can be seen the original can- die chandelier and the gongs oper- should snuff the candles at the pro- per interval n medi illuminant was ‘aeval times the ee a. coal or s|in an open pit which gave a lair: ly good light on a breezy night. + sea can- dles were used.> In 1729 oil was first employed, and in 1700 the Niind circular wick lamp; ae silvered re- flectors was introduc: wi ae experimented ane 1817, a in’ 1858 the South Foreland was lit te electric light. ‘The lights not only warn the mar- iner of Sie Diemiia! efi pe were but also give hi to where he is, This i is sien abe by dimming or “shuttering’’ off the light for a few seconds. Thus, should a seaman observe a light which consists of a long, et by two short flashes, a glance a’ the chart would give him his posi- on. A. JAPANESE LEGENDS OF CATS. |p. Demons That Devour Old Women and Assume Their Shape: Formerly in the Imperial Palace a body of guards called the “‘haya- Corean dogs, the ‘‘shishikomainn,”” one of which was a lion and one a These images came from Yhina through Corea, ied found their way from the pala the Shinto shrines, which they still Ss 2 “fT have more than once ree Er lish visitors to the Land o r Sun,‘ writes Blacl idord son, ‘‘greatly puzzled to find lion and the unicorn, so familiar to them as fighting for the crown on the British standard, at the én- io. parts played | by the dog and the cat in Japanese an legend and superstition; ae for- mer, being a protector.of mankind, the latter eal, its deadly enemy. The char resenting the word ‘Gnu’ doa) is still written on the forehead of a Japane: aby to protect. ey against the poet sof isease. » Utterance of the words “in no ko, inu no ko!’ *(puppy, puppy), is ‘suppo: me al infant quiet when it cries in its csetay ‘Legends about wicked cats are of a different character from those ut dogs, which beet man- kind; the Japaness ‘nekomata,’ or bewitching cat, with her forked tail being: exceedingly dangerous Ate who devours old women‘ and assumes their shape,’ writes Mr. Lawron. “In the seventeenth -cen- side of a corpse in order #0. ee Diexent the cat from walking -o causing it to-revive and change into a terrible demon fe lopetde of the ninatzenth century, ee es a cat plays good part, 3 hat of an-evil demon, and in t ee me sho eacri- He her life oon behalf of her mas- an warded by burial in a Buddhist chovshyad! err masses an old paeien. among She apanese er ee vives to (white, black arid brown) is gn ex- cellent charm against evil spirite. He. know: great sacrifices in order to have one a8’ a mascot on ship.” KS - {serve the same Maste: se ee —$——— * PRISONERS WENT ON STRIKE exerci Secs ard; an the + cer: if- | and took strong measures. rescue them, zi HOW 10 LIVE TRIUMPHANT Take the Life of Him. Who N Who Not Only Did No Evil, _ But Went About Poinw, Good = > way to counteract and con- | men’s aoa The way to attack i ile it is day. he ‘strongest of all ob-|to r stacles to the advance of evil is a clean the temptation of strong drink and 4 a many shames and sorrows that ~ and © inning others, by his gheerful fidelity, to life of your community it. Diskaaskeage wae things the ¥ oieettal and pleasant and interest- that are contagious. Courage is t pasty integrity is con- tagious. e positive virtues, with red ilood in their veins, are contagious, The heaviest” blow hat you ean saan as the kingdom of evil is just w the advice which the dy-| a ae ‘Sie Walter oats gave his son- in-law, ‘Be id a the power cf the gilded saloon and The Grimy Boozing Ken. , Parks and playgrounds, libraries who not only did no eyil, but went nat about doing good. hothing to cling to, nothing to sus- Now, take that thought of fight- hold it up. ing evil with good and apply it to our world and to ourselves. Here are Monstrens Evils and vices in society. Let intemper- ance a the type of them all, be- y of the others are you going to-make of your strength, your. time, your influence, your money, your self, to make a clean- 3 er, fuller, happier, larger, nobler a life possible for some of your fel- 3 low men? ¢ Ido not ask how you are going : to do it. in the law, istry, in te: teachin, his. is ne aeons going personal a the HNianati ‘nae of the place where you do your work purer, stronger, brighter, -better, and more worth living?’ That will be your best part in the warfare ' against ae and crime.—Dr, Henry Van Dyke. You may se in medic: lo. mat in business, = Philips 1 Brooks That ee ate hate uses eee have their limits is just as cle: The stronghold of antemnperae lies in the vacancy and despair of of work to 4 P s had a nice piec 4 er: ae women > 4 4 ot the screaming, WHEN MEN IN DURANCE vip] back to their cells. There the he de- DECIDE-TO MUTINY, through the openings, an: ““Marseillaise’’ houss on end. As in France. Happily, we have never.in Eng- land witnessed such terrible scenes bg occurs few weeks ago in the big French Prison of Roche- tort, up Tuecday afternoon, Noy. 19th last a ReneS pees Dra- * ¥ houet eae the trouble by stiaut- ‘ ing out that his food wai chief elas, Mohuiae Ee) tl Drahounet 3 rushed _at him, and, gl getl @ ra- Curing Habitual Criminals couple of Kindness Did Not Proye Satisfactory. By P Hill Prison was opened a yeah ago wiike ts object of curing habitual iy nan The buildings ie charming surroundings in the sale of Wight, close to Parkhurst Convict ee ave been gra: Bes, eb th e unheard of, says Aas Answers. What is wear a sort of uniform which is not disfigured by the big, flnekhedadinerste iol atl oitien CRUBDE ee be: sie shies ny. eat eevee tes his Mloodstained yeapon ent her Tho plan has failed to, work. In| head completely off the Brat weak of December trot the |, Bhat was the begining of a fear- DHaDHete TERE Go aiGde chareme ne Bet fe whee Drahounet, got: one of their number had been sent | 28 hold of an axe, kille to a punishment cell. weNlah, Bonuey The Hand of the Destroyer, Armed warders were summoned | in telephone from Parkhurst. | their cells, and when order was'ro- When they atrived they found a| stored Drahounet was found dead mutiny in full progress, The men| in his ce were driven back into their cells; ih netball auto flown, et to work to emash eet ryt hing dey could lay their hands The cells at Camp cree re eee ; sash windows, instead of the iron-barred Jights as at moor, The mutineers smashed tore out the frames, broke their furniture, and played havoc | Gra generally. Then the authorities woke up, A num- ber of the ruffians were’ birched,, 4 PRACTICAL TRAINING. A British Under-Senetany Was Once a Stone Mason. The training that the: kis Momy Broadhurst, form youth, was certainly not-of a Parliamen-~ tary nature. as this : story , he knew how to’ turn it to good erst EY 1x Pont: land, where nee will not ‘find life a stone-mason, Broad- 80 easy as they have at the Prison pot othe me hurt Hite his father’s trade until his thinty-s second year, al- tote Wy occasionally worked as a But during this period bd of his Mite he gave evidence of such ability that he was placed in several i ni ane hae det men. e Dar é land, ae Scpeyee Barimodes with ae hundred - the worst old lags i re Bee. ks S = 4 Pi g < 6 $ a £ Bet. Gree ills re Se anything like oddly ehough, this also rove ‘out of a kind act on the part! of the au- Giontioke ; All Through Kindness. |. against him. Even after he had / In January, 1908, cy g e : z PS = = s m8 a 2 2 est Vee @ ee ee ae ee a Oe Pe eee the governor, he did_not-own the pro pee eh In spite» of ndicaps, tant chapel. | Broadhurst quickly. made his way to the top. ce, in a parliamen- f nine hundred, so three hundred were left out. four in_ the afternoon a party of sixty Roman Catholics pads being escorted from their cha- viet the university aoe its baihinge that on asked him whether he was a grad- uate of Oxtord. i trom the ates "ue I Callen had ad chimneys ranks and. si see, Warder ett Blt! ‘repair th thei We ey * * Hard on ee Guesis. 2 Fa a Fl Ey eS Fe ed z ES 3. % fore other warders could come son. Ki 2 ‘3 22 a = @ 6 2 = a = Fag o =o is = Ej = & s a 2 a Vee the next day-a convict as- saulted “Dr. Bier: punching him the - 3 2 $ = a Ba. & eS, 2 = 3 a =. $ te not taste half the courses, and vn eal ishment-cells and floggings soon re- stored order, ly other mutiny in a Bri- tish Suan during the present cen- tury was in March last, when the Suffragettes confined in Ho! followay ob aay itch—“‘Has your wife a mate \—‘Yes. Her motto is — Ba tot? "Hat ‘Never put off till soa dali phat you ean say to-day