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THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

DOMESTIC.

White Caps demolished a saloon at Leipsic, O. A heavy frost visited northern Illinois, Thursday morning.

The Chicago diainage bill paased the Illinois Senate, Tuesday. A Confederate monument was unveiled at Paris, Ky Saturday.

Many Mormons are traveling to Northwest Canada for location. A disease supposed^ to be hydrophobia, is epidemic in Trimbell, Wis.

Frost in Northern Ohio Wednesday night seriously damaged fruit and growing crops.

Mrs. Caroline A. Brough, widow of John Brough, Ohio's noted war governor, died in Cincinnati.

Internal Revenue Collector Webster says that the prohibitory law has increased the sale of liquor in Iowa.

Daniel Ruth was instantly killed near Three Oaks, Mich., by falling headlong against a rapidly revolving buzz saw.

The Confederate monument at Alexandria, Va., was unveiled Friday. Gan. Lee, R. T. Daniel and others made addresses.

John C. Bradley, cashier of the Merchants' bank at New Haven, is a defaulter to the amount of $100,000. He was arrested Fiiday.

William Hemker, of Dundee, and a boy named Frank Hintz, were instantly killed at Elgin, 111., Wednesday afternoon, by the collapse of a barn they were moving.

It appears in the post mortem over Mind-reader Bishop that the hypothesis of a cataleptic trance and not death may be correct, and that he was killed by the doctors.

Two children of John Bolter, of Fort Arkinson, Wis., were drowned in Bark River, Thursday, while returning from a fishing excursion. The children were a boy and girl, aged eleven and nine years.

The American Starch Manufacturing Co., ef Columbus, Ind., one of the largest concerns of the kind in the country, made an assignment Monday. Liabilities $100,000, assets about the same or more.

Clifford W. Sanders, a well-known St. Louis newspaper reporter, attempted suicide at his home at an early hour Thursday morning, by hanging. His wife discovered him in time to cut him down and save his life.

The residence of Rev. F. C. Clarke, near Virginia Beach, Va., was burned Wednesday night at about 12 o'clock. His two daughters and next to the oldest son and a neice visiting him were consumed by the flames.

Information comes from New York that Henry W. Moore, formerly managing editor of the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and Mrs. John W. Norton, the wife of the well-known theatrical manager, with whom Moore eloped, have parted.

While Anthony Zesnhold. Henry Wiltholder and James Dolan were at work in Otto colliery at Brancedaie. Pa., Friday, they were overcome by a sudden outburst of gas and suffocated. Their bodies were not recovered for six hours.

The Mayor of West Superior, Wis., has closed all the saloons in the city in anticipation of trouble between the striking coal heavers and the new men imported to fill their places. The new men are working under a strong police protection.

Two freight trains collided on the Housatonic railroad, near Trumbull Station, Conn., early Tuesday morning, killing two men, and probably fatally injuring two others. Both engines were wrecked beyond repair and several cars reduced to kindling wood.

Laura D. Bridgman, deaf, dumb and blind from two years of age, made widely famous bv Charles Dickens in his "American Notes," also, ty many public references to her wonderful intelligence, died Friday at the South Boston Asylum, where she has long dwelt, aged sixty.

Dwight W. Lord, cashier of one of the Omaha National Banks, who arrived at Pomona, Cal., Saturday, on the Santa Fe train, claims that on the road, somewhere between the Needles and San Bernardina, he was robbed of $1,300 in paper, besides promissory notes of the value of $5,000.

A single-tax party bas been organized in South Dakota, with the ultimate view of incorporating the single-tax principles into the State Constitution. The advocates of the new theory maintain that all public revenues should ultimately be raised by a single tax on the value of bare land.

The Ohio Supreme Court has decided in the contempt case of Allen O. Meyers, sentenced by Judge Pugh to ray a fine of $200 and serve ninety days in the county jail, that Meyers was in contempt, but that the fine and sentence were excessive. The case was remanded for further proceedings.

Lorenza Iopez, sheriff of San Miguel county, N. M., arrived at Trinidad, Col., from Folsom, N. M., Saturday afternoon, with six prisoners who stole five hundred horses fiom ranches in the above county. Three hundred and fifty were found in their possession, and the herd was being driven toward Montana.

The Cumberl and Presby terian general assembly adjourned Thursday sine die at five o'clock, after being in session eight days. The Rev, £. D. Johnson of Topeka, Kas., offered a resolution that no young man who uses tobacco in any form shall be aided financially by the aboard of education in his studies for the ministry. This was carried with no debate.

The Kansas State Sabbath-school Association which was in session last week,

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resolutions declaring that prohiition Kansas was a success that instead of impeding the growth and prosperity of Kansas it bad stimulated it

~thatit was the only solation of the liquor problem, ana expressing the *hope that for these reasons the Prohibitionists of Pennsylvania may be vicarious in their coming struggle.

At Port Huron, Mich., at 2 o'clock, Monday morning, about twenty masked men forced the county jail open and took the mulatto, Martin, out and hanged him from the Seventh street bridge. They dragged him down the street, not an officer being in sight. Martin was a tramp who entered the farm house of John Gill is, four miles west of the city about two weeks ago and brutally assaulted his wife. She

has been in a precarious condition ever since-, and is not expected to live. The failure of the Scranton. Pa., City Bank and the arrest of the Vice-Presi-dent and Cashier, Jessup, charged with embezzlement, has caused a sensation. All of the Directors, with the exception of President Throop, as soon as they were convinced of the enormity of Jessup's shortage, to save themselves, with­

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to the last penny every cent that they had on deposit during the morning banking hours. Dr. Throop, who is worth $3,000,000, and had $68,000 on deposit, alone of the Directors, allowed his money to go in the general crash.

The Rev. Mrs. Ellen Rinkle, a regularly ordained minister of the United Brethren Church at Wooster, O., is probably the first woman ever authorized to perform marriage ceremonies. The Rev. Mrs. Rinkle made application to the probate judge of Wayne county a short time since for a license to perform marriages. The judge refused to grant it until he had consulted the AttorneyGeneral of the State. That official refused to give an opinion, and the judge, being unable to find any law prohibiting the issuing of a license, proceeded to grant one. Mrs. Rinkle will tie ber first naptial knot within a few days.

A Brownsville (Maine) special says: Those gray caterpillars which stopped a train on the Canadian Pacific's new line in the wilderness Sunday, are still doing businees at the old stand. It is impossible to run trains on a regular schedule, and in announcing their train service the Canadian Pacific managers have to put in the clause "caterpillars permitting." Every train is delayed from two to five* hours. Two hundred men have been hired to spread out over the line and fight the little greasers. In the meantime scientists cheer tne railroad men by telling them that in a few days the caterpillars will develop into beautiful winged things and fly away.

FOREIGN.

Queen Victoria was 70 years old on the 24th. The striking miners in the Kladno district of Bohemia now number 17,000.

Seventeen anarchists are said to have been arrested at Milan, Wednesday, for inciting tumults at Gallarat.

Eliza Duxbury, London, a leading member of Wesley Church and a strong Conservative, who died recently, has left in her will $10,000 to Mr. Parnell for his private use.

Thirty people perished by the collision. Tuesday, off Goodwin Sands, between the English steamships German Emperor, from London to Balbora, and the Beresford, from Haitlepool to Brubay.

Humphrey Keller, seventy years of age, was found dead outside of his shanty near Rapid River, Rainy river district, in Manitoba. When discovered bv tne neighbors a large dog was found standing guard over his body.

Two enormous bombs have been found in Odessa, beneath streets along which royal visitors usually pass on their way to the palace. It is supposed that the bombs had lain for some years in the position in which they were found.

It is stated that in the Samoan conference Germany claimed indemnity for losses caused by Mataafa, and the American commissioners disputed the claim, averring that Mataafa had acted in self defense, and the natives were too poor to pay indemnity.

The work of evicting tenants was continued on the Olphert estate Friday. The ev^tors met with a desperate resistance. During the struggle Inspector Duff was badly wounded. The tenants had erected barricades around their homes, and from behind these defenses they hurled stones and other missiles at the attacking party. Boiling water was also thrown upon the evictors, and a number of policemen and bailiffs were badly scalded. The police arrested fourteen persons. An immense crowd of sympathizers with the tenants had gathered at the scene of the evictions, and when Mr. Ritchie, the agent for the estate, appeared on the ground he was vigorously hooted. The attitude of the crowd finally became so threatening that Mr. Ritchie, fearing personal violence, hastily took his departure.

A SMASH AT PANAMA The unfortunate consequences of the Panama canal smash are becoming more marked every day, says a dispatch, and the deplorable condition of affairs has but one outlet, and that by emigration. The commissioner sent by the Jamaican government has already sent away 4,000 people, and he has issued 3,000 tickets more, and these will leave by earliest steamers. The people are congregated at the different depots with their tickets in their hands, but without food, and almost without shelter, and a tropical wet season is in its full energy. After all the distressed foreigners Bhall have been removed, there will still be much suffering and want here— suffering and want of a character which cannot be even ameliorated until the resumption of work in January next shall have put money in circulation and inspired confidence. In Colon prices havs fallen lower than anywhere else on the Isthmus. Many houses are without tenants. A store for which $200 per month could readily have been obtained a few months ago is offered at $30 and "no takers."

To illustrate the awful poverty reigning here, a clergyman of Colon savs that on Sunday last the collection of a con-

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regation of 300 persons was less than The canal company sold in this city on May 13 a cable transfer on Paris for $20,000 at the rate of 53$ per cent, premium. This fact furnishes at least a quotation for exchange. When the City of Para leaves Colon there will be no steamer in that port, a circumstance almost unparalleled in the history of the port since it was first visited by steamers and became known by the name of Aspinwall. ___________

The marriage of ex-Secretarv Bayard to Miss Mary Walling Clymer is announced to take place June 12, in St. John's Episcopal Church, at Washington.

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A SINFUL WORLD AND A. PLAN OF PURIFICATION.

The Soul Cannot be Cleansed by Apologies, Nor by the Belief that Your Sins Might Be Worse—Grace of Christ and Faith Needed.

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at the Brooklyn tabernacle last Sunday. Text Job ix., 30-31. He said:

I remark, in the first place, that some people try to cleanse their soul of sin in the enow water of fine apologies. Here is one man who says: "I am a sinner I confess that but I inherited this. My father was a sinner, my grandfather,my great-great-grandfather, and all the way back to Adam, and couldn't help myself." My brother, have you not, every day in your life, added something to the original state of sin that was bequeathed to you? Are you not brave enough to confess that you have sometimes surrendered to sin which you ought to have conquered? I ask you whether it is fair play to put upon our ancestry things ior which we ourselves are personally responsible? If your nature was askew when you got it, have you not sometimes given it an additional twist? Will all the tombstones of those who have preceded us make a barricade high enough for eternal defenses? I know a devout man whb had blasphemous parentage. 1 know an nonest man whose father was a thief. I know a pure man whose mother was a waif of the street. The hereditary tide may be very strong, but there is such a thing as stemming it, lhe fact that I have a corrupt nature is no reason why I should yield to it. Tne deep stains ot our soul can never be washed out by the snow water of such insufficient apology.

Still further, says some one, "If I have gone into sin it has been through my companions, my comrades and associates they ruined me. They taught me to drink. They took me to the gambling hell. They plunged me into the house of sin. They ruined my soul." I do not believe it. God gave to no one the power to destroy you or me. If a man is destroyed, he is self-destroyed, and that is always so. Why did you not break away from them? If tney had tried to steal your purse you would have knocked them down. If they had tried to purloin your gold watch you would have riddled them with shot, but when they tried to steal your immortal soul you placidly submitted to it.

Those bad fellows have a cup of fire to drink do not pour your cup into it. In this matter of the soul, every man for himself. That those persons are not fully responsible for your sin I prove by the lact that you still consort with them. You cannot get off by blaming them. Though you gather up all these apologies though they were a great flood of them though they should come down with the iorce of melting snows irom Lebanon, they could not wash out one stain of your immortal soul.

Still lurther, some persons apologize for their sins by saying: "We are a great deal better than some people. You see people all around about us that area great deal worse than we." You stand up columnar in your integrity ana look down upon those who are prostrate in their habits and crimes. What of that, my brother? if I failed through recklessness and wicked imprudence for $10,0U0, is the matter alleviated at all by the fact that somebody else has failed for $100,000, 8nd somebody else for $70i),000? Oh, no. If 1 have the neuralgia, shall 1 refuse medical attendance because my neighbor has virulent typhoid fever? The fact that his disease is worse than mine— does that cure mine? If I, through my foolhardiness, leap off into ruin, does it break the fall to know that others leap off a higher cliff into deeper

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When the Hudson River rail train went through the bridge at Spuyten Duyvil, did it alleviate the matter at all that, instead of two or three people being hurt, there were seventy-five mangled andcruBhed? Because others are depraved, is that any excuse for my depravity? Am I better than they? Perhaps they had worse temptations than 1 have had. Perhaps their surroundings in life were more overpowering. Perhaps, oh, man, if you had been under the same stress of temptation, instead of Bitting here to-day you would have been looking through the bars of a penitentiary. Perhaps, oh, woman, if you had been under the same power of temptation, instead of sitting here today vou would be tramping the street, the laughing-stock of men and the grief of the angels of God, dungeoned, body, mind and soul in the blackness of despair. Ah, do not let us solace ourselves with the thought that other people are worse than we. Perhaps in the future, when our fortunes may change, unless God prevents it, we may be worse than they aie. Many a man after thirty years, after forty years, after fifty years, after sixty years, has gone to pieces on the sand bars. Oh! instead of wasting our time in hypercriticism about others, let us ask ourselves the questions, where do we stand? What are our sins? What are our deficits? What are our perils? What are our hopes? Let each one say to himself: "Where will I be? Shall I range in summery fields, or grind in the nulls of a great night? Where? Where?"

Some winter morning you go out and see a snow-bank in graceful drifts, as though by some heavenly compass it had been curved and as the sun glints it the luster is almost insufferable, and seems as if God had wrapped the earth in a shroud with white plaits woven in looms celestial. And you say: "Was there ever anything so pure as the snow, so beautiful as the snow?" But you brought a pail of that snow and put it upon the stove and melted it and you found that there was a sediment at the bottom, and every drop of that snow water was riled and you found that the snow-bank had gathered up the impurity of the field, and that after all it was not fit to wash in. And so I say it will be if you try to gather UP these contrasts and comparisons with others, and with these apologies attempt to wash out the sins of your heart ana life. It will be an unsuccessful ablution. Such snowwater will never wash away a single stain of an immortal soul.

But I hear some one say "I will try something better than that. I will try the force of a good resolution. That will be more pungent, more caustic, more extirpating, more cleansing. The snow-water has failed, and now I will try the alkali of the good, strong resolution. My dear brother, nave yon

any idea that a resolution about the future will liquidate the past? Suppose I owed you $5,0u0 and I should come to you to-morrow and say: "Sir, I will never run in debt to you again if I should live thirty years, I will never run in debt to you again will you turn to me and say: "If you will not run in debt in the future, I will forgive you the $5,000." Will you do that? No! Nor will God. We have been running up a long score of indebtedness with God. If in the futur* we should abstain from sin, that would be no defrayment of past indebtedness. Though you should live from this time forth pure as an archangel before the throne, that would not redeem the past God, in the Bible, distinctly declares that He "will require that which is past"—past opportunities, past neglects, past wicked words, past impure imaginations, past everything. The past is'a great cemetery, and every day is buried in it And here is a long row of three hundred and sixty-five graves. They are the dead days of 1888. Here is a long row of three hundred and sixty-five more graves, and they are the dead days of 1887. And here is along row of three hundred and sixty-five more graves, and they are the dead days of 1386. It is a vast cemetery of the past. Bat God will raise them all up with reaurrectionary blast, and as the prisoner stands face to face with juror and Judge, so you and I will have to come up and look upon these departed days face to face, exulting in their smile or cowering in their frown. "Murder will out" is a proverb that stops too short. Every sin, however small, as well as great, will out. In hard times in England, years ago, it is authentically stated that a manufacturer was on the way, with a bag of money, to pay off his hands. A man infuriated with hunger met him on the road and took a rail with a nail in it from a paling fence and struck him down. Thirty years after the murderer went back to that place. He passed into the grave yard, where the sexton was digging a grave, and while he stood there the spade of the sexton turned up a skull, and, lo! the murderer saw a nail protruding from the back part of the skull and as the sexton turned the skull, it seemed with hollow eyes to glare on the murderer and he, first petrified with horror, stood in silence, but Boon cried out, "Guiity! guilty! O, God!" The mystery of the crime was over. The man was tried and executed. My friends, all the unpardoned sins of our lives, though we may think they are buried out of sight and gone into a mere skeleton of memory, will turn up in the cemetery of the past, and glower upon us with their misdoings. I say all our unpardoned sins. Oh, have you done the preposterous thing of supposing that good resolutions for the future will wipe out the past? Good resolutions, though pungent and cae^tic as alkali, have no power to neutralize a sin, have no power to wash away a transgression. It wants something more than earthly chemistry to do this. Yea, yea, though "I wash myself with snow water, and should I cleanse my hands in alkali, yet shalt Thou plung me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me."

You see from the last part of this text that Job's idea of sin was very different from that of Eugene Sue, or George Sand, or M. S. Michelet, or any of the hundreds of writers who have done up iniquity in mezzotint, and garlanded the wine cup with eglantine and rosemary, and made the path of the libertine end in bowers of ease instead of on the IK flagging of eternal torture. You see that Job thinks that sin is not a flowery parterre that it is not a tableland of fine prospects that it is not music, dulcimer, violoncello, Castanet and Pandean pipes, all making music together. No. He says it is a ditch, long, deep, loathsome, stenchful, and we are all plunged into it, and there we wallow and sink and struggle, not able to get out. Our robes of propriety and robes of worldly profession are saturated in the slime and abomination, and our soul, covered over with transgression, hates its covering, and the covering hates the soul until we are plunged into the ditch, and our own clothes abhor us.

I know that some modern religionists carricature sorrow for sin, and they make out an easier path than the "pilgrim's progress" that John Bunyan dreamed of. The road they travel does not stop where John's did, at the City of Destruction, but at the gate of the university and I am very certain that it will not coine out where John's did, under the shining ramparts of the celestial city. No repentance, no pardon. If you do not, my brother, feel that you are down in the ditch, what do you want of Christ to lift yau out? IF you have no appreciation of the fact that you are astray, what do you want of Him who came to seek and save that which was lost? Yonder is the City of Paris, the swiftest of the Inmans, coming across the Atlantic. The wind is abaft, so that she has not only her engines at work, but all sails up. I am on board theUmbria, of the Cunard Line. The boatdavits are swung around. The boat is lowered. I get into it with a red flag and cross over to where the City of Paris is coming and wave the red flag. The captain looks off from the bridge and says: "What do you want?" I reply: "I come to take some of your passengers across to the other vessel: I think they will be safer and happier there." The captain would look down in indignation and say: "Get out of the way or I will run you down." And then I would back oars amid the jeering of two or three hundred people looking over the taffrail. But the Urnbria and City of Paris meet under different circumstances after a while. The City of Paris is coming out of a cyclone the life-boats are smashed the bulwarks gone: the vessel rapidly going down. The boatswain gives his last whistle of despairing command. The passengers run up and down the deck, and some pray, and all make a great outcry. The captain says: "You have about fifteen minutee|now to prepare for the next world." "No hope!" sounds trom stern to stern and from the rat lines down to the cabin. I see the distress. I am let down by the side of the (Jmbria. I push on as fast as I can toward the sinking eity of Paris. Before I come np people are leaping into the water in their anxiety to get to the boat, and when I have swung np nnder the side of the City ot Paris the frenzied passengers rush through the gangway until tne officers, with ax and clubs and pistols, trv to keep back the crowd, each wanting his turn to come next. There is but one life-boat, and they all want to get into it, and the cry is: "Me nora" "me next!" Yon see the applitittton belore I make it As long as a

man going on in his sin feels that all is well, that he is coming out at a beautiful port, and has all sail set, he wants no Christ, he wants no help, he wants no rescue but if under the flash of God's convicting spirit he shall see that by reason of sin he is dismasted and water logged, and going down into the trough of the sea where he cannot live, how soon he puts the sea-glass to his eye and sweeps the horizon, and at the first Bight of help cries out: "I want to be saved. I want to be saved now. I want to be saved forever." No sense of danger, no application for rescue.

Oh, that God's eternal spirit would flash upon us a sense of our sinfulnesk! The Bible tells the story in letters oi a fire, but we get used to it. We joke abont sin. We make merry over it. What is sin? Is it a trifling "thing? Sin is a vampire that is sucking out the life blood of your immortal nature. Sin? It is a bastile that no earthly key ever unlocked. Sin? It is expatriation from God and Heaven. Sin? It is grand larceny against the Almighty, for tho Bible asks the question: "Will a man rob God?" answering it in the affirmative. This Gospel is a writ of replevin to recover property unlawfully detained from God.

In the Shetland Islands there is a man with leprosy. The hollow of the foot has swollen until it is flat on the ground. The joints begin to fall away. The ankle thickens until it looks like the foot of a wild beast. A stare unnatural comes to the eye. The nostril is constricted. The voice drops to an almost inaudible hoarseness. Tubercles blotch the whole body, and from them there comes an exudation that is unbearable to the beholder. That is leprosy, and we have all got it unless cleansed by the grace of God. See Leviticus. See II Kings. See Mark. See Luke. See fifty Bible allusions and confirmations. The Bible is not complimentary in its language. It does not speak mincingly about our sins. It does not talk apologetically. There is no vermilion in its style. It does not. cover up our transgressions with blooming metaphor. It does not sing about them in weak falsetto but it thunders out: "The imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth." "Every one has gone back. He has altogether become filthy. He is abominable and filthy, and drinketh in iniquity like water." And then the Lord Jesus Christ flings down at our feet this humiliating catalogue: "Out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornication, murders, thefts, blashemy." There is a text for your rationalists to preach from. Oh, the dignity of human nature! There is an element of your science of man that the anthropologist never has had the courage yet to touch and the Bible, in all the ins and outs of the most forceful style, sets forth our natural pollution, and represents iniquity as a frightful thing, as an exhausting thing, as a loathesome thing. It is not a mere bemiring of the leet, it is not a mere befouling of the hands it is going down, head and ears under, in a ditch, until our clothes abhor us.

My brethren, shall we stay down where sin has thrust us? I shall not, if you do. We can not afford to. I have to day to tell you that there is something purer than snow water, something more pungent than alkali, and that is the blood of Jesus Christ that cleanseth from all sin. Ay, the river of salvation, bright, cryctalhne and heaven born, rushes threugh this audience with a bil owy tide strong enough to wasii yoor sins completely and forever away. Oh, Jesus, let the dam that holds it back now break, and the floods of salva tion roll over us.

Let us get down on both kneee and bathe in that flood of mercy. Ay, strike out with both hands and try to swim to the other shore of this river of God's grace. To you is the word of this salvation sent. Take this largess of the divine bounty. Though you havegone down in the deepest ditch of libidinous desire and corrupt behavior, though you have sworn all blasphemies until there is not one sinful word left for you to speak,though you have been submerged by the transgressions of a lifetime, though you are so far down in your sin that no earthly help can touch your case—the Lord Jesus Christ benda over you to-day and offers you His right hand, proposing to lift you up, first making you whiter than snow, and then raising you to glories that never die. "Billy,'f said a Christian bootblack to another, "when we come up to Heaven it won't make any difference that we've been bootblacks "here, for we shall get ins not somehow or other, but Billv, we shall get in straight through the gate." Oh, if you only knew how full and free and tender is the effort of Christ this day, you would all take Him without one single exception and if all the doors of this house were locked save one, and you were compelled to make egress by only one door, and I stood there and questioned you, and the Gospel of Christ had made the right impression upon your heart to-day, you would answer me as you went out, one and all: "Jesus is mine and I am His!" Oh, that this might be the hour when you would receive Him! It is not a Gospel merely for footpads and vagrants and buccaneers, it is for the highly polished and the educated and rtfined as well. "Except a man be born again, he can not

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ever may be your associations, and whatever your worldly refinements, I must tell you, as before God I expect to answer in the last day, that if you are not changed by the grace of God, you are still down in the ditch of sin, in the ditch of sorrow, in the ditch of condemnation a ditch that empties into a deeper ditch, the ditch of the lost. But blessed be God for the lifting, cleansing, lustrating power of His Gospe'.

Central Asia, and more particularly Central Western Asia, has undergone a revolution during the past quarter of a century. Railroads are being built and telegraph lines connect all important towns. Roads are being macadamized and European costumes and customs are adopted. Education, especially, is fostered where it was unknown and there are ten times the schools there were, besides colleges established by foreigners. Religious freedom is quite general in the place of bitter fanaticism and all classes are waking up to new intellectual and moral life. The lower clasBea look up. Asia, at the present rate of progress, will be regenerated during the twentieth century to cooperate with Europe and America.

WASHINGTON NOTES. A Washington special to the Herald says. The sending of the English flag ship Swifture and the Amphion to Sitka, with orders to cruise in Behring

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has caused quite a stir in official circles here. The Tieasmy Department has time and again ealie.i the attention of the Government to the fact that ships flying the English flag hie engaged in illicit sealing in Behring Sea. in most' cases these vessels are well armed, and our revenue cutters, which carry only 5 howitzers, are no match for them. The Government has decided that its interests in Alaska shall be protected. The United States steamer Adams, which was under sailing orders for Honolulu, expected to leave on Tuesday, but a telegram bas been sent to the commandant of the Mare Island Navv Yard to detain her. She will go north in company with the Iroquois, and both vessels will leave early in the week for Sitka. The State Department has decided that Behring Sea is a Mare Clausum, and intends to assert dominion over the whole North Pacific within the' limit defined by our treaty with Russia." What constitutes the waters of Alaska has long been a complicated question, and if, as appears, the English Government is sending war ships to protect Canadian vessels engaged in taking seal north of the A'^utian Islands, our Government will oe confronted with an international question of the gravest importance. The revenue cutters Rush and Bear and the war Bhips Thetis, Adams and Iroquois will be at hand to enforce the law of the country as de-1 fined by the Treasury Department, so far as depredation of the seal fishing is concerned. Our Government takes the ground that when we acquired Alaska by purchase in 1867 we also acquired all of its vested rights, one of which was Behring Sea. This question was settled in 1829, when England attempted the same tactics she is now engaged in. Russia showed fight and sent a large fleet lo these waters to uphold her )^sition. The question was finally settled by arbitration against England. Secretary Blaine is determined in this matter. He maintains that we have exclusive dominion over all that portion of the Pacific Ocean known as' Behring Sea, excepting such as lies east of the treaty line, bordering on the Siberian coast. The matter has been discussed in Cabinet, and the determination of the administration is to enforce' all our rights in the matter. 1 England persists in sending ships of war to protect the Canadian vessels in taking these young seal, this government will take vigorous measures to stop it.

The first conflict of authority within this immense area of water, claimed and owned by the United States, may mean war. It is believed that England, seeing that this government is determined to enforce its rights, even if recourse to force is necessary, will withdraw and submit the question to arbitration, as was done with Russia in 1829.

Hon. Samuel J. Randall, in a conversation, Wednesday, expressed the opinion that the outlook for the Democracy in '92 is the brightest, and he feels aure of the next House and President. "We fellows," he declares, "have all got to get together, and lam certain we will, and we will whip them out of their boots," JI^The peEsion appropriation act for the current fiscal year appropriated $80,400,-« 000 for the payment of pensions, and $8,000,000 was alsc appropriated for the? same purpose to meet a threatened de ficiency, making the total appropriations $88,400,000. This whole amount? will be necessary to meet the demands of pensioners, and it may be that there will be a deficiency.

Commissioner of Pensions Tanner, while alighting from a carnage in front? of the pension office Thursday morning, slipped and fell, severely injuring him- ?. self. Having lost both of his legs, he is almost helpless when he loses his balance. It is not thought that his injuries will prove serious.

A MOB IN GUTHRIE,

The Metropolis of Oklahoma in a State off Turmoil—Militia Called Out.

For several nights about twelve hundred men, who have lost their lots in? Guthrie, I. T., through contests, have? been holding revolutionary meetings, but nothing has resulted, except to declare the citv officers usurpers. Thurs-: day the marshals undertook to enforce an ordinance which provides for the ejectment of persons who have

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their lots through the decision of the arbitration boards. Adjoining the postoffice a lot had been awarded to the occupant of the rear end, who had a building elected. An old man lived in a tent on the front end, and when the marshals tore his tent down and carried him oft, a mob of 1,500 men came to his rescue. They drove the marshals away and el eased a man from prison who had been arrested for inciting the mob. For several hours the mob had possession of the city, and it was not until a company of soldiers arrived that order was restored. The marshal* under the protection of the military, dragged the old man from the lot where he had slept since the 22d of April. Had not the soldiers arrived in tirna the mob would have demolished the city hall and caused bloodshed. The soldiers are parading the city and the business men are organizing for protection.

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