Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1889 — Page 7

THE STATE LEGISLATURE

The morning session of the Senate on the 19th was devoted to the Boyd and Timmons natural gas bills. The Boyd bill, which provides regulations for use of natural gas, was amended and engrossed. Timmon’s billjwhich provides for of property needed for right of way pipe lines, and for assessment of damages to be paid land owners, was passed and sent to the Governor. Johnson introduced a civil, service bill, The following bills were passed: To provide for the crossings of railroads; declaratory of the meaning of the word “mining” as embracing petroleum and natural gas; to authorize boards of commissioners to negotiate and sell bonds to complete court houses in certain cases; to pay to eight trustees of Clay county for moneys lost by failure of the bapk in which they deposited public funder concerning orphans homes for destitute children. Several bills were engrossed and others read a third time. The bill to increase the liquor license was laid on the table. The House was occupied by consideration of Foster’s bill fixing salaries to be paid county officers instead of fees, which was’ down as a special order. Foster made a lengthy speech in its support. Pleasants moved to recommit the bill. Lost by vote of 07 to 25. After further discussion it was engrossed. The school book bill was up for consideration. The following billswere passed: To organize an interstate fair; to appropriate 560,000 to the Indiana University; to provide for election of justicfefi of the peace, and reducing number of jurors in such courts to six; concerning the duties of supreme court reporter and reducing his emoluments; to provide for the election of trustees for the State hospitals; to pay claim of Cornelius Loy; for the relief of Edgar Hibbard; tor relief of Q.O. Rugy, to encourage construction of levees; concerning taxation, relating to railroads,, building branch lines, to appropriate lands lor railroad purposes; fa fix salaries of certain township officers; to authorize the purchase or condemnation for public use of the shares of bridge companies. The Senate on the 20th passed the bill creating a Supreme Court Commiss'on by a party vote. Byrd’s bill providing for aState Geologist and a mine and coal inspector by the legislature came up. Johnson arose to declare himself. Alter he had said that he would fight the bill. Byrd turned and demanded the previous question. Johnson maintained that he had the floor and that the previous question could not be demanded while a member was br aking/ In his characteristic way he 'proceeded to denounce the bill,continuing to speak longer than the five minutes allowed by the rules. The Democratic Senators protested against his being allowed to continue speaking, until the confusion was such that even Johnson’s Voice could not be understandingly heard. A=s’«tant Doorkeeper Bulger stepped from the corridor and an-'' nouuced, that if ordered to do so, he would force Johnson into his seat. “I dare you to attempt it,” exclaimed Johnson. ‘ T/ese cowardly brutes may put men down'in the House but you can not force into his seat a member of the Senate.” “The whole twenty seven of them can’t do it,” exclaimed Dresser. “No, sir!” cried out General Grose. “You can’t do it in here; all of you can’t.” Johnson squared himself, “l am waiting” he cooly remarked, “for that Doorkeeper to force me into mv seat.” “Yes, we arp waiting for him,” added Dresser. The forcing was not attempted, however; and Johnson continued speaking. Dresser also spoke, saying that the minority had been submitting to outrageous rules simply for the purpose of getting through some of the legislation needed by the State, but the rules were being pressed a little too far, and a crisis was close at band. Lieutenant Governor Chase stated that he “hoped no Doorkeeper of the' Senate would ever again take such liberty.” If the. assistance of any of them in forcing a member into his seat was ever desired he, the presiding officer, would call upon them. Later in the’session Dresser offered a resolution ordering the discharge of the Doorkeeper for “indecent violation of the proprieties of the Senate.” Senator Smith, as an explanation, stated that Bulger admitted that he had acted hastily and regretted it Cox repeated the same statement’, saying that the Doorkeeper felt that he was at fault and was sorrye A motion to reject the resolution was lost. The motion was then withdrawn. A message was received from the Governor reciting that there is great complaint throughout the State in regard to the management of the Insane Asi lum at Indianapolis. Whether such complaints are just'or unjust, the future walfare and reputation of that.institution demand a full and fair investigation of its management and'financial operations, The expenses of the asylum for the montn of January past ataonnt to the enormous sum of $23,916.66. For the fiscal year ending October, 31, 1888, the expenditures amounted to $287,(Mi0. The coal bill for that year was $25,619.9), the gas bill $5,840.35, making a total for gas and coal of $31,260.26. These items seem to be enormous fpr one institution. I respectfully request that a joint resolution be passed authorizing the Governor to appoint three or 'five non-partlean experts, the appointment to be confirmed by the Senate, whose duty it shall be to make a full and thorough examination of the condition, management, accounts and expenditures of all of our benevolent and reformatory and make their reports at such times as the General Assembly msy direct. Johnson offered a resolution demanding that some report should be made by the committee on benevolent institutions. Thompson, chairman of the committee, made a verbal report, stating that the' hospital had been visited and found all right from cellar to garret, and that Phil Gapen. the Treasurer, had made an affidavit declaring that the funds were all right Barrett offered a resolution which read: “Resolved, by the Senate, the House of Representatives Concurring, That a committee of four be appointed by the Senate to act with a committee to be appointed by the House, two members to be selected by the majority and two by the minority oh the part of the Senate, to fully and thoroughly investigate the condition of affairs of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, with power to send for persons and "papers to employ a . stenographer and expert accountants and to report at as early a day as possible. Johnson proposed as a substitute that the Governor select five experts, and that thfeir names be submitted to the Senate for approval. The substitute was rejected, and Barrett’s resolution was adopted. Another

resolution was adopted providipg “that the joint committee investigate the boots of the Auditor of State and report whether the expenditures of the benevolent institutions fo’-the year 1888 reached SB7 JOO, as stated in the Governor’s message, or only $75,519 as stated in the Auditor’s report’’ Cortez Ewing, elected to succeed Catpenter, unseated, was sworn im .The Republicans resorted to dilatory tactics, however, and delayed the event for some time. Bills passed: to make Hancock the 18th and Henry the 53d judicial circuit; to establish a State Board of Charities. Numerous bills were reported from committees. The House passed following bills: coneerning public offenses; to protect sheep husbandry; to legalize town of Rensselaer, to appropriate $5,000 for the Soldiers’ Orphans’ Home; to empower certain trustees in Steuben county to sell certain lands; to create the 33d, 35th and soth judicial circuits; to equalize acts of trustees of Booneville; appropriating money for Deaf and Dumb Institute; to regulate insurance companies. A resolution Requesting Indiana Representatives in Congress to vote for the arrears of pension bill was adopted. The Senate concurrent resolution for an investigation of the Insane Asylum was adopted after increasing the committee to five from the House. The bill to regulate the sale of drugs was indefinitely postponed. The Pleasants school book bill was passed—--12 votes only being cast against it. The nays were: Adams of Morgan, Covert, Cranor, Dryer, Hobson, LinCk, Hoop, Logan, Mendenhall, Raygan, Stanley and Stubblefield, all Republicans. The Senate on the 21st passed the following bills: To regulate insanity inquests; relating to city sinking-fund commission; relating to the Beaver lake lands; toatuhorize the organization of corporations to conduct health, resorts and manufacture medicines; to appropriate $60,000 for buildings at the State University; relating to the issuance of $3,905,000 in bonds to be redeemable after fifteen years; to refund the State debt; to legalize certain acts of Michigan City authorities; amendatory of the school law; to appropriate $185,000 for the completion and furnishing of the three additional hospitals for the insane; to abprbpriate $27,000 to provide fire protection for the building at the Reform School for Boys, and heating the same; for the registration of plumbers in larger cities; relating to the Howard and Tipton county courts; to prevent the use of stoves in any baggage or passenger car by railroad companies; to prohibit contracts of waiver by which persons agree to purchase goods at a particular store (pluck-me store.) The House passed bills as follows: Concerning Cemeteries and voluntary associations; concerning term of life concicts, fixing the life term at 25 years; relating to public notices, to empower county commissioners to appropriate money for the erection of soldier memorial structures; relating to crime; concerning voluntary associations; concerning the appointing of deputy sheriffs/ The resolution to pay of the Peyton-John contest was adopted. The Foster fee and salary'bill was defeated by ayes 39, nays 54. The nays were: Adams of Morgan. Applegate, Askrew, Bell, Bernethy, Bigam, Briant, Carrick, Carroll, Claypool, Covert, Cox, Fowler, G ladio, Goodwin, Harley, Harrell, Hay, Henry, Heiney, Hughes, Iddings, Kobbe, Langstaff, Legg, Linck, Loop, Logan, McGovney, McKittrick, McQuilken, Manwarring, Moon, Nolan, Nugent, Patton, Peyton, Pickhardt, Pierce, Pleasants, Ragon, Robbins, Schmuelr, Stanley, Stephenson, Stubblefield, Timmons, Vandolah, Whitworth, Woodward, Work and Zoercher. The Senate on the 22d passed bills as follows: ,To amend the act to regulate thevpractice of medicine; to enable county commissioners to purchase toll roads and make them free; to pay S. P. Thompson for services, to make accessories to a criminal act chargeable as principals; to create separate judicial circuits of Floyd and Clark counties; to regulate manufacture and sale of dynamite; relating to telegraph companies; to prohibit obstruction of ditches. A resolution was adopted requesting members of Congress to vote for the arrears of pension act. The bills to exempt ex-soldiers and sailors from working on the roads and to require farmers to mow down weeds, thistles and briars in the roadway failed to pass fpr want of a constitutional majority. A message from the Governor vetoed the bill creating a Supreme Court commision on account of its unconstitutionality. By a party vote the bill was promptly passed over the veto. The House passed bills as follows: Authorizing county commissioners to purchase" lands for establishing orphan’s homes; to pay claim of Vulcanite company; to create department of geology; concerning voluntary societies; relating to the appointment of humane inspector; to define the crime of riotous conspiracy; to equalize acts of board of commissioners of Lagrange county; to regulate life insurance companies; concerning -the opening and vacation of highways; concerning the levying of tax for library purposes, relating to the institution for the feeble-minded; to confer additional powers on town marshals. A resolution instructing the Governor to appoint an experienced committee of three to draft a fee; and salary bill to be returned to the next General Assembly was tabled. A resolution was adopte’d. providing for a committee of five to visit St. Louis to confer with a committee from the Kansas Legislature in relation to the combination pl pork and beef-packers. The Governor vetoed the bill creating a supreme court commission. By a party vote bill was promptly passed over the veto. V The Senate, on the 23d, passed bills aet follows: To prohibit explosion of dynamite in certain cases; the Peasants school book bill. Various bills were advanced, and a few indefinitely postponed. * , ' The House passed the bill to build a sewer at the northern penitentiary. There was not a quorum present and the business transacted was of a routine character. Neither House transacted any important business on the 25th At noon both Houses adjourned until 4 p. m., in respect for the President-elect.

LEGISLATIVE NOTES.

” The Senate committee which is to investigate the Hospital for the Insane is composed of Hays and Shockney for the Republicans and Burke and Howard for the Democrats. The Democratic members of the Hnusshave determined in caucus to pass the bill abolishing the office of President of Benevolent Boards, and threp Trustees will be elected for each institution.

Petitions are circulating among the farmers of Clay county asking, lie Legislature to lay an embargo on the importation of dressed beef into the State*claiming that it is making the raising of beef cattle unprofitable.—lndinapolis News. The bill introduced by Senator Kennedy. authorizing the State officers to negotiate a loan of $3,905 000 with which to refund the present State deot at a lower rate of interest, was passed by the Senate, Thursday morning. It is believed the bill, if it becomes a law, will save the State about $117,n00 per year. Mr. Willard’s bill declaring twentyfive years a life sentence House, Thursday. It allows for good time, and, life convicts who have served seventeen years and nine monttyk will be paroled’for life, if this bill passes the Senate. There are two convicts now in the Prison South who will receive the benefit of this bill—O. T. Bailey, of Dearborn county, and James Aston. The former has been confined for eighteen years and Aston for twenty-three and one-half years, < There are three or four life convicts in the Prison North who will be let out by tnis bill, if enacted — Buell Webster, of Allen, who has been in the “pen” twenty-four years; George Stetler, of Madison, eighteen years, and Robert Robinson, twenty-nine years. Senator Johnson introduced a civil service bill this morning in the Senate. It provides for the appointment of three Civil - Service Commissioners by the Governors They shall be appointed from the three political parties which polled the largest number of votes at the last general election preceding their appointment. They shall elect a Chief Examiner,-who shall hold competitive examinations at stated intervals, and appointment to all appointive offices in the State public institutions shall be conditioned upon a successful passage of the proper examination. Different clauses of the bill give the preference in appointments to honorably discharged soldiers, make promotion dependent on merit, and fix a time of probation for the appdintee before his position is permanently given him, and prohibit political assessments. The Democratic Legislators caucused on the 21st to nominate officers for the various institutions, with the following result: State Geologist—S. S. Gorby. Custodian of State-house—Tim Griffin. Chief Engineer of State-house—M. H. Cain. State Statistician —Win. A. Peele. Supreme Court Commissioners—William E. Niblack, of Knox; Jeptha, D. Jennings; John R. Ooffroth, of Tippecanoe; Robert Lowry, of Allen; Mortimer Nye, of LaPorte. •' Trustees of Hospitals for Insane: Indianapolis—Thomas Markey, of Marion; Zick H. Hauser, of Bartholemew, J. L. < arson, of Shelby. Logansport—David Hat’gh, of Noble; L. F. Baker, of St. Joseph; Dennis Uhl, of Cass. Evans-ville-William Rahm, of Vanderburg; Thomas Wertz, of Dubois; P. H. Blue, of Sullivan. Richmond—W. H. Harkins, of Jay; Dr. M. C. Benham, of Wayne; George W. Koontz, of Directors of State Prison North—Levi Mock, of Wells; Janies D. French, of Tippecanoe; James Renfhan, of Marion; South—W. B. McDonald, of Gibson: Floyd Parks, of Clarke; R. E. Slater, of Dearborn. Trustees of Institution tor the Deaf and Dumb —D. W. Chambers, of Henry; Charles Haugh, of Marion; T. L. Brown, of .Lawrence. Jack Riley,*of Marion; Terry Cullen, of Marion; John B. Stoll, of St. Joseph. The Pleasant’s school book bill provides that the State Board of Education shall constitute a Board of Commissioners for selecting or procuring the compilation of a series; of text-books, none of which shall contain anything of a partisan or sectarian character, and all of them shall be at least equal in size and quality as to matter, material, style of binding and mechanical execution’ to the books,now in general use. The Commissioners shall advertise for sealed proposals from publishers of text-books ,to furnish them for a term of five years, stating specifically the price at which each book Will be furnished. Propasals shall also be received from authors who have manuscripts of books and from persons who are willing to undertake the compilation of books. All bids by publishers must be accompanied by a bond for $50,000. acceptable to the Governor, and it provides that no bid shall be considered unless accompanied by an affidavit that the bidder is m nowise; directly or indirectly, connected with any other bidding firm, and that fie is not a party to any compact, syndicate or scheme whereby the benefits of competition are denied to the people of the State.* If any competent author offers to give the State the use of his books, the commissioners are required to accept it. The Board ’ shall not contract lor books which will cost schooj patrons more%han the following prices: Spelling book, 10 cents; first Reader, 10 cents; second reader, 15; third reader,2s; fourth reader, 30, fifth reader, 40; intermediate arithmetic, 35; complete arithmetic, 45; elementary geography, 30; complete geography, 75; elementary English grammar, 25; complete English grammar, 40; physiology,3s; history of the United States, 50, and copy books, 5. It it required that it shall be made a part of the terms and conditions of every contract that the State shall not be liable to any contractor for any sum, bu,t the contractors shall receive their pay solely and exclusively from the sale of the books. After the contracts have been made the Governor shall issue a proclamation announcing the fact to the people, and within thirty days after its publication the trustees of every school corporation in the State shall certify to the superintendent of their respective counties the number of text-books that* will be required in their schools. The County Superintendent shall forthwith transmit the requisitions to the State Superintendent, who in turn will make a requisition upon the contractor for the books, which must be shipped directly to the County Superintendents. The books can be sold for cash only, and the trustees are held liable on their official bonds for the money. ;The trustees shall make settlements every three months. Special bonds for carrying out the provisions of the act are required from County Superintendents. / The only appropriation provided for in the act’issl.ooo, tp be used in paying the advertising ekpensee. It is estimated that the cost of new books Complete f or the whole State, finder the fixed scale of, prices, will not exceed s3oo,‘>oo but if new Ijqoks are not adopted it will be proportionately less. . > £ . ’

MYSTERIES OF LIFE.

THE WORLD IS FUDL dF THE - MYSTERIOUS Which Cannot Be Solved this Side the Grave—The Reckoning of the Last Days Will Be Just to the Wicked and Good. [, Rev. Dr/vffalmage preached at the Brooklyn Tabernacle last Sunday. Subject: “Dark Sayings on a Harp.” Text Psalm xlix., 4. He said: The world is full of the inexplicable, the im passable, the unfathomable, the insurmountable. We cannot go three steps in any direction without coming up against a hard wall of mystery, riUdles, paradoxes, profundities,labyrinths, problems that we cannot solve, hieroglyphics that we cannot decipher, anagrams we cannot spell out, sphinxes that will not speak. For that reason, David in my text proposed to take up some of these somber and dark things and try to set them to sweet music: “I will open my dark sayings on a harp.” So I look off upon society and find people in unhappy conjunction of circumstances, and they do not know what it means, -and they have a right to ask, why is this? and why is that? and I think I will be doing a good work by trying to explain some of these strange things and make you more content with your lot, and I shall only be answering questions that have often been asked me, of that we have ail asked ourselves, whilp I try to set these mysteries to music and open my- dark sayings on a harp. Interrogation the first: Why does God take out of this world those who are useful and whom we cannot spare and leave alive and in good health so many who are only a nuisance or a Fositive injury to the world? I thought would begin with the very tougness of all the seeming inscrutables. Many ’of the most useful men and women die at thirty or forty years of age, while you often find useless people alive at sixty and seventy and eighty: Similar questions are oiten asked. Here are two men. The one is a noble character and a Christian man; hfi chooses for lifetime companion one who has been tenoerly reared, and she is worthy"of him ana he is worthy of her; as merchant, or farmer, or professional man, or mechanic, or artist, he toils to educate and rear his children; he is succeeding, but he has not yet established for his family a full competency, he seems absolutely indispensable to that household; but one day before he has ■ paid off the mortgage on his house, he is coming home through a strong northeast wind and a chill strikes through him, and four days of pneumonia ten 1 his earthly career, and the wife and children go into a struggle for shelter and food. His next door neighbor is a man who, though strong and well, lets his wife support him; he id round at the grocery store or some other general loafing place in the evenings while his wife sews; his boys are imitating bis example and lounge and swagger and swear; all the use tfiat man is in that house is to rave because the coffee is cold when he comes to a late breakfast, or to say cutting things about his wife’s looks wtieu he furnishes nothing for her wardrobe. The best thing that could happen to that would be that man’s funeral; but he declines to die; fie lives on ami on and on. So we have all noticed that many of the useful are early cut off, while the parasites of society have great' vital tenacity. I take up this dark saying on my harp and give three or four thrums.on the string in the way qtsurmisipg and hopeful guess. Perhaps thte useful man was taken out of the world because he and his family were so constructed that they could not have endured some great prosperity that might have been just ahead, and they altogether might have gone down in the vortex of worldliiivss which every year swallows up ten thousand households. And so-he went while he was humble and consecrated, and they were by the severities ta life kept clpse to Christ and fitted for usefulness here and high seats in heaven, and when they meet at last before the Throne they will acknowledge .that, though the furnace was hot, it: pm itied them and prepared them for an eternal career of glory and reward forwhica no other kind of life could have fitted th-tn. On the other hand, the useless man lived on to fifty or sixty, or seventy years, because all the ease he ever can have he must have in this world, and you ought not, therefore, begrudge him of his earthly longevity. In ail the ages there has not a single loafer ever entered heaven. There is no place there for him to hang around. Not in the temples, for they are full of the most vigorous, alert and rapturous worship. Not on the river bank, for that is the place ©where the conquerors recline. Not in the gates, because there are multitudes entering, and we are told that at each of the twelve gates there is an angei, and that celestial guard would • not allow the place to be blocked up with idlers. If the good and useful go early, rejoice for them that they have so soon got through with human life, which at best is a struggle. Andi, if the useless and bad stay, rejoice that they maybe out in the world’s fresh air a good many years before their final incarceration. Interrogation the second: Why do so marly good people have so much trouble —sickness, banxrUptcy, persecution, the three black vultures sometimes putting their fierce beaks into one set of jangled neryes? 1 think now of a good friend I once had. He was a consecrated Christian man, an elder in the church and as polished a Christian gentleman as ever walked Broadway. First his general health gave out and he hobbled around on a cane, an old man at forty. • After a while paralysis struck him. Having by poor health been compelled suddenly to quit business, he lost what property he had. Then his beautiful daughter died.** Then a son became hopelessly demented. Another son, splendid of mind and commanding of presence, resolved that he would take care of his father’s household, but under the swoop of yellow fever at Fernandina, Fla., he suddenly expired. 8o you know good men and women who have had enough troubles, you think, to crush fifty people. No worldly philosophy could take such a trouble and set it to muster or play it on a violin or flute or dulcimer or sackbut, but I dare to open that dark saying on a gospel harp. ♦You wonder# that very consecrated people haveStouble? Did you eler know any very consecrated man or s woman who had not had great trouble? • Never It was through their troubles sanctified that they were, made very good. If you

find any where in this city a man who has now and always has had perfect health, and never lost a child, and has always been popular, and never had business struggle or misfortune, who is distinguished for goodness—pull your wire for a telegraph messenger boy and send me word, and I will drop everythingand go right awa/tolook at him. There never has been a man like that, and never wili be. Who are tl ole arrogant, self-conceited creatures who movi about without sympathy for others, and who think more of a St. Bernard dog, or an Alderney cow, or a Southdown sheep, or a Berkshire pig than of a man? They never had any trouble, or the trouble wad never sanctified.' Who are those men who listen with moist eye as you toil (hem of suffering and who haye pathos in thefr voice and a kindnetein their voice and an excuse or an alleviation for those gone astray? They are the men who have graduated at the Royal Academy of Trouble and they have the diploma written in wrinkles on their own Countenances. My! my! What heartaches they had! What tears they have wept! What injustice they have-suffered! The mightiest influence for purification is trouble. No diamond is flt for-A crown until it is cut No wheat fit for bread till it is ground. There are only three things that can break off a chain—a hammer, a file or a fire, and trouble is all three of them. The greatest writers, orators and reformers get much of their fore - from trouble. When in olden time a man was to be honored with knighthood, he was struck with the flat of the sword. Bat those who have come .to the honor of knighthood in tne kingdom of God were first struck, not with the flat of the sword, but with the keen edge of the ci»i-u-r. To build his maziiificeni'e of character, Paul could not have spared one lash, one prison, one stoning, one anathema, one poisonous viper from the hand, one shipwreex. What is true; of individuals is true of nations. The horrors of the American Revolution gave this country this side of the Mississippi River to independence, and the conflict betweeh England and France gave the most of this country west of the Mississippi to the United States. France owned ity but Napoleon, fearing that England would tak-> it, practically fimde a present to the United States—for he received only $15,090,600—0f Louisiana, Mississippi, Arkansas, Kansas, Nebraska, lowa, Minnesota; Colorado, Dakota. Montana, Wyoming and the Indian Territory. Out of the fire of the American Revolution dame this country east of the Mississippi; out of the European war came that west of the Mississippi River. The British Empire rose to its present overtowering grandeur through gunpowder plot, and Quy Fawkes conspiracy and Northampton insurrection, and Walter Raleigh’s beheading, and Bacon’s bribery, and Cromwell’s dissolution of .Parliament, and the b ttle of Edge Hili. Trouble a good thing for the rocks, a good thing for nations, as well as a good thing for individuals. So when you push against me with a sharp interrogation point, Why do the good suffer? I Open the dark saying of a harp, and, though I can neither play an organ, nor cornet, nor hautboy, nor bugle, nor clarionet, I have taken some lessons on the gospel harp, and if you would like to hear me I will play you these: “All things work together for good to those who love God., Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous; nevertheless' afterward .it yieldeth all possible fruits of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.” “Weeping may » endure for a night but joy cometh in the morning.” What a sweet thing is a harp; and I wonder not that in Wales, the country of my ancestors, the harp has become the national instrument. * Interrogation third: Why did a good God let sin and trouble come into the world when He might have kept them out? ® My reply is, He had a good reason. He had reasons that He bas never given us. He had reasons which He could no more make us understand -in our finite state than the father starting opt on some great and elaborate enterprise could make the two-year-old child in its armed chair comprehend it. One was to demonstrate what grandeur of character may bb achieved on, earth by conquering evil. Had there been no evil to conquer and no trouble to console, then tnis universe would never have known an Abraham ora Moses or a Joshua or an Ezekiel or a Paul or a Christ or a Washington or a John Milton or a John Howard, and a million victories which have been gained by the consecrated spirito of all ages would never have been’ gained. Had there been no battle there would have been no victory. Nine-tenths of the anthems of heaven weuld never have oeen • sung. Heaven could never have been a thousandth part of the heaven that it is. I will not say that I am glad that sin and sorrow did enter, but I do say that I am glad that after God has given ail his reasons to 'an assembled universe he will be more honored than if sin apd sorrbw had never entered, and that the unfallen celestials will be outdone and will pat down their trumpets to listen, and it will be in heaven when those who have conquered sin and sorrow shall enter, as it would be in a smau I singing school on earth if Thalberg and Gottschalk aud Wagner and Beethoven and Rheinberger ipd Schumann should all at once enter. altwassafd that Diana, the goddess, could not be present to keep her temple at Ephesus from burning because she was attending upon the birth of him who was to be Alexander the Great. But I tell you that your God and my God is so great in small things as well as large things that He could attend the Cradle of a babe and at the same time the burning of a world. And God will make it all right with you, and there is one song that you will sing every hour your first ten years in heaven, and the refrain of the song will be: “I am so glad God did not let me have it my own way.” Your case will be all fixed up in heaven, and there will be such a reversal of conditions that we can hardly find each other for some ' time. Some of us who have lived in first-rate houses here and tin first-rate neighborhoods will be-found because of our lukewarmness Of our earthly service, living on one of the back streets of the celestial city, and clear down at the end of it, at some one who had unattractive earthly abodes, and cramped one at that, will, in the heavenly city, bfe in a house fronting the Royal Plaza, right by the Imperial*fountain, or on the heights overlooking-the River of Life, the char iota of salvation halting at your, door, while those visit you who are more than

conquirors and those who are Kings and Queens unto God forever. You, and you mv sister, who have ft so hard here, will have it so fine and grand there that you hardly know yourself and will feel disposed to dispute your own identity. Amid the tussle and romp of reunion I tell you whose hand of welcome you had better clasp and whose cheek is entitled to the first kiss. It is the hand and cheek of Him without whom you would never have got there at all, tfie Lord Jesus, the darling of the skies, As He cries out, I have loved thee with an everlasting love and the fires cou’d riot burn it and the floods could not drown it.” Then, you, my dear people, having no more use for my poor harp on which I used to open your dark sayings, and whose chords sometime snapped, dispoiling the symphony, you will take down your own harps from the widows that grow by the eternal water-courses and play together {those celestial airs, some of the names of which are entitled, “The King in His Beauty,” “The Land That Was Far Off,” ‘Jerusalem, the Golden,” “Home Again.” Andas the last dark curtain of the mystery is forever lifted it will be as though all the oratorioi that were ever heard had been rolled into one, and “Israel in Egypt” and “Jeptha’s Daughter” and Beethoven’s “Overture in C” and Ritter’s fl st sonata in D minor arid the “Creation” and the “Messiah” nad been blown from the lips of one tr impet or been envoked by the sweep of one bow or had dropped from the vibrating chords of one harp. But here I must slow up, led; in trying to sol ve mysteries I add to the mystery that we have already won ‘ered at — namely, why preachers should keep on after all the nearen are tired?* So I gather up into one great armful all the whys and hows ana wherefores of yoUr life and mine, which we have not had time or the ability to answer, and write on them the words “adjourned to etern ty.” I rejoice that we do not understand all things now for if we did, what would we learn in heaven? If we knew it all down herd in the freshman and sophmore claw, what would be the t use of ottrvgoing up to'stand among the juniors and seniors?

NEWS FROM STANLEY.

Lieutenant Baert, who was at Stanley Falls when Henry M. Stanley’s letter to Tippoo Tib was delivered, has arrived at Brussels. He states that the messengers were closelyquestioned, and they confirmed the details of the letter. Lieutenant Baert believes that. Stanley only reached Wadeledi by strenuous efforts, and that Emin Pasha relieved Stanley instead 1 of being relieved and by him. Stanley was enabled to return to Murenia in eighty-two ’ days, when the journey from Yambunga’to Wadeladi occupied ten months. Baert adds that fresh letters from Stanley for England, written when Stanley departed from Murenia to rejoin Emin, may be expected shortly. He says that Stanley will not return either via the Congo or via Zanzibar, but that he intends to capture Khartoum and wrest the Soudan from the Mahdi. Baert expresses confidence in Tippoo Tib’s fidelity, and says that Tippoo’s refusal to accompany Stanley was due to his fear of risking the consequences’of a prolonged absence from Stanley Falls.

THE NEW STATES.

The House and Senate conferees on the omnibus territorial admission bill have reached a conclusion. The bill,as agreed toby the conferees, fixed the names of the two Dakotas as North Dakota*and South Dakota. The peonleof South Dakota are to vote upon the adoption of the Sioux Falls Constitution May 14. and the location of the capital is to be settled by election. On the same date, the residents of North Dakota, Washington and Montana, may vote for the election of delegates to constitutional conventions and for a lull list of State officers. On the first Tuesday in October the people may vote upon the constitutions proposed by the convention, and if adopted, after the President’s proclamation to that effect, the Governors of each'may order hn election of members of the Legislature, and of Representatives in Congress. The Legislatures may meet and elect two Senators each, in time to take their seats at the beginning of the first regular session of the Fifty-first Congress, in December next, at which time the Representatives shall also be admitted to seats. The provisions apply also to the Senators and Representatives from South Dakota.

AIFREAK IN IMEDICAL SCIENCE.

Raising babies of premature birth by the aid of a mechanical incubator is the latest freak of medical science at the woman’s hospital, Philadelphia. This process was put to a practical test ten days ago when Florence Ryal, an eight months child, was wrapped in swaddling clothes and placed in the incubator. The baby is thriving under the process and apparently enjoying the best of health. She weighed at the time of her birth about three pounds, or onehalf the weight of an average new-born child. The incubator has raised the baby’s weight up to five pounds within ten days. She rests in the incubator constanstiy, except when taken out to receive nourishment or is given a sponge bath. The former operation occurs three times a day and the latter twice.

THE MARKETS

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