Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1890 — Page 7

THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The Hatfleld-McCoy feud is on again. Sunday, 1,775 emigrants landed in New York. Chicago’s population is estimated at 1,852,000. Buffalo, N. Y., had three fatal sunstrokes Wednesday. Santa Rosa, CaL, reported two shocks of earthquake.on the 30th. Georgia Republicans will not name a State ticket, but will nominate to Congress. The National Sulphur Company has been incorporated in Kentucky. Capital, #lO,000,000. The forest fires near Boulden, Col.,have been extinguished. Nearly 2,500 acres of trees were burned. The Louisiana Senate amended the lottery .bill, making the annual payments $1,250,000, and then passed it. A tornado visited Gallatin. Tenn., on the <39th, blowing down a colored ‘church and fatally injuring two of the worshippers. George A. Parkhurst, an actor who was on the stage of Ford’s Theater when Linooln was shot, died at New York on the 3d. Census returns indicate that Cleveland, has a population of 265,000, a gain of 105,000; Pittsburg, 240,000; Alegheny City, 105,000. Young Wallace and his accomplice, who robbed his uncle of $50,000, was Wednesday sentenced in New York to eight years’ hard labor in State prison. Maine Democrats nominated a State ticket on the 2d. A resolution was adopted 1 , by a vote of 145 to 99, submitting to the people again the question of license or prohibition. If New York failes to raise the money for the Grant monument by Sept. 1, a —number ofcx-confederates propose to raise the amount by subscriptions, exclusively from southerners. A statement furnished by Bradstreet’s agency shows that the number of busine: 8 failures during the past six months is 452 less than for the corresponding period of 1889. The liabilities are $4,743,749 less. Superintendent Porter states that tho population of the United States is 64,500,000. The complete official returns will all be in within thirty days. The population of the United States by the census of 1880 was 50,155,783. 3=SHBE □ Tne Peabody Institute, at Danvers, Mass., was burned to the ground Wednesday; loss, #75,000. The fire was caused by painters, who were burning the old paint from the building. The building was the gift of George Peabody, and was insured. Reports of a bloody encounter between revenue men and moonshiners in Rowan county. Kv.. are rumored. Three men were killed, but uo names are given There has been intense feeling against the revenue men ever since the last raid, six weeks ago, and the government force has probably been led into an ambuscade. Pennsylvania Democrats met at Scranton on the 2d, and nominated Ex-Governor Pattison for Governor. The resolutions favor ballot reform, extol ex-President Cleveland, denounce Senator Quay and the federal election bill, and arraign the Republican party. The tariff plank is in these words: “That tariff reform is necessary in order that both producers and consumers may be relieved from the burden of necessary taxation.” The Lpuisiana Legislature’ has passed the lottery bill by a vote sufficient to pass it over the veto of the Governor should he veto it. When the vote on the lottery bill was being taken Wednesday night in the Senate, in explaining his vote, Mr. Foster said: “For my country and her honor, for my State and her fair name, for her dead; aid for her living, I vote no.” Mr. Posey; said in explanation: “For my country and her poor, helpless insane, and for her on-' ward march and future, I vote yes.” ' It is estimated that the brief and unsuccessful strike ea the Chicago divi- : sion of the Illinois Central Rail road last week involves a loss to! that coporation of SI,OOO per hour, or a total of #IOO,OOO. This does not include thq,extra expense which was forced upon. 5,000 suburban residents vyho live out of range of the.cable cars and other modes of. transportation, and who were forced to remain in town at hotels while the trouble' was in progress. The loss of wages to the employees will probably reach another #20,000. Thd following will appear in this week’s Farmers’ Review: As a rule, chop conditions have improved ia the States covered by our report. This improvement is, in most cases, due to heavy rain fall, accompanied by hot weather. The condition of the soil is reported wet in Dakota and Kentucky, and sufficiently moist in lowa Indiana and Minnesota. Rain has fallen in Nebraska, but many counties in that State are still suffering from drought Parts of Kansas, Missouri and Illinois are getting dry. Spring wheat in South Dakota has greatly improved and is now up to tho usufl average condition.

1 FOREIGN. It is row becoming clear that the San Salvador President was the victim of a political conspiracy. He was poisoned. Under a law which went into effect Wednesday, life imprisonment is now toe penalty of reporting Canadian fortifications or armanent to other powers. The hot weather of the past week has been extraordinary. At many places the temperature reached 100 degrees and more, and fatalities are reported from .all directions. In Chicago on the 29th twelve fatal cases of prostration were reported, .and 117 other cases are said to have occurredEight fatal cases were reported from St. Louis. The temperature at Terre Haute reached 104. Horses ire reported to have fallen dead while working in the fields. At Peru the thermometer reached 102, the hottest ever known there. Eatal prostrations are reported from Peru, Crawfords ville, Bloomington, 111., and many otber places. Eighteen cases of prostration occurred at Cincinnati.

Two former Vaasar students are tbs editors and publishers of a weekly paper at Atlantic Highlands. They are said to be practical, enterprising girls who are running their Journal on strictly business-like principles, and are making it a sucoesa.

WASHINGTON.

It is estimated at the Treasury Department that there has been a decrease of about #20,000,000 in the public debt since June 1. This will make the total decrease for the fiscal year $87,800,000, as against #114,000,000 for the previous fiscal year. The Navy Department has issued a circular inviting proposals for building the three 8,500-ton coast line battle ships whose construction was authorized by the naval appropriation act passed by Congress a few days ago. The vessels are to cost, exclusive of armament, not more than #4,000,000 each, the term armament including, besides the guns and ammunition, al] armor of turrets, barbettes, gun shields and armored tubes directly pertaining to the protection of the guns and loading positions. All parts of the vesseU shall be of domestic manufacture.

The President has approved tne uavai appropriation bill, the invalid pension appropriation bill, the postoffice appropriation bill and the jointresolutions providing temporarily for the expenditures of the government. Tho actual reduction of tho public debt in June was $20,685,726. The Pension Office issued during the fiscal year just closed 151,658 pension certificates. The number issued during the preceding year was 145,292. Of the number Issued during the year just closed 66,637 were original pensions, which is an increase of nearly 15,000 as compared with the number issued during the preceding year. The President spent the 4th at Cape May. The corridors of the Capitol have been cleared, by order of Speaker Reed, of all caterers and vendors. One of the latter has had space in the corridor for twenty nine years.

The conference committee on the silver bill met to (Jay but came to no conclusion. In fact, the members did uothing but talk over the situation and indicate what each desired in the way of silver legislation. The ultimatum of the silver men was presented by Senator Jones, of Nevada, who said the only thing they would agree to would be the purchase of 4,500,000 ounces, instead of dollars’worth of silver monthly; that the standard dollars coined therefrom should be legal tender aud redeemable in .coin, and that there should be no traffic in bullion by tho government. These propositions were generally discussed. The President mado nominations as folx lows on the 2d: To be general appraisers of merchandise: George C. Tiucher, of the District ol Columbia; George H. Sharpe, of New York; James A. Jones, of New York; Cnarles 11. Hum, ol Illinois. Louis R. Walters, ol Pennsylvania, to be Assistant Treasurer of States" at Philadelphia. Charles Wilmore, of lowa, to be Supervisor of Customs for the port of Burtiugton, la.

OFF FOR BEHRING SEA.

Important Orders ter United States Revenue Vessel. The arrival of Colonel A. C. Mathews First Comptroller of the Treasury, in Port Towusend on Monday caused some little excitement. The Colonel brought orders from the Treasury Department for the commanders of the revenue cutters Richard Rush and the Corwin. The Rush immediately prepared to proceed to sea. The Corwin Wednesday morning took water at the fort and will sail Thursday. The department deemed the dispatches of Buch importance that they would not intrust them to the ordinary methods of delivery, but sent them by hand, and would even then allow only one of the highest officials to carry them. Colonel Mathews delivered his orders to both naval officers. The orders to the Rush were to proceed at once to Onalaska. and then to patrol Behring Sea, seize all vessels found in the sea with seal skins aboard, or any other with prima faci evidence that they had been poaching. The cutters are to then take the papers and instruments, and leave on board only sufficient food to keep the crew until the vessel reaches the nearest port. If any resistance is offered, the poachers are to be fired upon and compelled to submit. Captain Hooper, of the Corwin, said that although the orders to tho Rush were for her to sail, the Corwin was still waiting to hear from Washington. The documents she received from Washington were of no public interest, but simply private communications from the department- and he did not care to make public their contents. The Rush, Captain Hooper said, was to proceed direct to sea and carry out the ins structions ol the Treasury Department. He expected to receive orders almost any time, aud was ready to proceed North without delay. The orders received by the Rush are sealed and will not be opened until the vessel is at sea. From one of her officers it was learned that the general impression was that there would be no change in the policy already outlined by the department. The Rush has been on the Sound sinco June 9, and os the season opened on June 1. the vessel will be a month late in reaching the ground. The British Govern* rnent is centralizing the Pacific squadron at Esquimau, and it may be that the sealers will be protected by the authorities. The Amphion is now at Esquimalt, and fire other war vessels are on the way there. When the squadron is mustered, it is re ported, two, and perhaps three, vessels will be sent to sea and will sec that no British vessel is outraged or the Britisi flag insulted.

A Difference.

“What’s going on?” said tho little old woman, pushing into the cro-rded church at high noon. “A wedding,” said somebody. “A wedding, eh!” said the little old woman, “who’s the brideP” “Tain’t a bride,” said .another old woman, ’ “she’s soma divorced woman.”

THE GLORIOUS FOURTH.

Tammany Hall celebrated the Fourth. Congressman Bynum was the principal speaker. Crisp, Springer, McMillan and others made brief speeches. |A letter from Mr. Cleveland was read. Ex-Confederates celebrated the day at Chattanooga in a patriotic manner; no rebel flags were displayed, and the warmest loyalty was exhibited in all the decorations and oroceedings. The Army of the Potomac celebrated at Portland, Maine. Generals Sherman and Butler aud other prominent men were present. Tho F. M. B. A. celebrated by a great display of strength, and by speeches, at Vincennes. Celebrations wore held throughout Indiana and the country. The casualities were as numerous as usual. Three lives were lost and others injured by the burning of a steamer and coal dock at Ashland, Wis. Fire crackers caused the destruction of the Kenney Hotel, at East Saginaw, Mich. James Benham was burned to death. Many other fires wore reported. Four people were drowned by the capsizing of a flatboat at Pittsburg. A cannon exploded at Cantoiv, O-, killing an 9-yeai old girl and injuring Charles Elkins. Sylvester

Shockey was killed at Oil City, Pa., by the bursting of a cannon. Two persons were fatally hurt at Wichita, Kansas, by the bursting of a gun. Annie Goble, of Covington, Ky., was killed by a stray bullet. Robert Thompson was accidentally shot and killed at Lima, O. J. C. Lineman, of Lima, 0., had a thumb and two fingers blown off by a grant fire-cracker. Rev. Charles Tanner,of Cincinnati, was knocked senseless by a rocket. Twenty-one picnickers, in a wagon, were struck by an engine at Louisville. Three of the party were instantly killed. Three others were all more or .less injured. S. F. Black made an ascension at Beardstown, 111., in a balloon, expecting to return by the parachute route. When the balloon was at great height the parachute took fire; aud burned. Block fell to the ground and was horribly mangled and instantly killed. Dr. Corcoran, of Minneapolis, had a leg blown off by fire works. An aid in the procession, at McKeesport, Pa., was thrown from his horse and fatally injured. The accidental discharge of a revolver, at Hudson, Wis., killed an eight-year-old boy. Frank Palmer was hurt by a toy cannon, at Menah, Wis. Three persons were injured at Cameron, Mo., by the premature explosion of fire works. The returns are not near all in. T. :

OTHER NEWS ITEMS.

The President on the 2d signed the bill admitting Idaho as a State. At least twenty horses have died iu the harvest fields of Clark county during the week of heat. The new wheat crop of Kansas is reaching the local market. The dealers pronoun ee the grain as first-class. A Pasteur Institute, for the cure of rabies, lias been opened in connection with the Rush Medical College, Cuicago. France and England are preparing to enact retaliatory measures against the United States on account of the McKinley bill.

A riot occurred among cloak strikers, at New York, on the 3d. Several persons were injured. The proprietors and clerks were not allowed to enter their places of business. ~~

Sunday night four men surrounded the sawmill of J. E. White, at Tallahassee, Fla., drove off the workmen by a display of shotguns and set fire to tho mill, which was burned to the ground. The board having in charge the trial trip of the new war vessel Philadelphia, reported on the 3d, stating .that the vessel was first class in all respects and up to.the requirements of the contract. At the annual banquet of the Club National, held at Montreal, Can., at tho Wiudsor Hotel, Hon. Wilfred Laurier, the leader of the Liberal party in Canada, said: “Canada can not always remain a colony. The time must come when we will take our proper position in the world, and for my part I favor independence.” Statesmen who remained iu Washington Friday discussed the outlook for the admission of additional States into the Union, and they were unanimous in the conclu® sion that no more will come in sooner than the Fifty-third Congress,four years hence. There are but four remaining Territories —Arizona, New Mexica, Utha and Oklahoma. Tho Indian lerritory and Alaska are now but provinces, without representation in Congress. It will take four years for the proposed laud title court to clear up the titles to tho laud in Arizonia and New Mexico, and till that is done state-, hood is impracticable. The anti-Mormon law will likely put Utah in the proper social State for Statehood by the Fiftythird Congress, and not till that time is it believed Oklahoma will have sufficient population for Statehood. Indian Terri, tory and Alaska will come in last, and the latter, it is thought, will make the fiftieth State, so that the twentieth century will close with fifty stars in our flag.

From this time forward the House will devote itself to the settlement of contested election cases, the original package, bankruptcy and a few unimportant measures which have passed the Senate. The work of the House is virtually done for the session, aside from conference work on tariff and silver. The Republican Senators will determine in eaucus early next week the order of business, In view of a clash between the tariff and the river and harbor bills. If it is determined that the election bill shall follow rivers and harbors, silver and the tariff, no one can estimate the length of the session or forecast the result of tariff debate, but if it should be concluded that the election bill shall go over to the next session, it Is stated, on the best Democratic authority, and the Republicans who object to features of tht tariff bill, that it can be passed within ten days from the time it Is taken up in the Senate. The fact that there is a strong demand from the business of the country for the speedy disposition of the Vsriff bill, so that orders for fall and winter trade may issue, will be the strongest argument for postponement of the election bill till the next session.

CLOAKS OF SIN.

THE VARIOUS GARBS IN WHICH SIN MASQUER ADES. Evil Cannot Be Made Sacred On a Throne— Meekness of Manner is a Subterfuge of Satan—Dr. Talinage’s Sermon,

Rev. Dr. Talmage preached at Winfield, Kansas, Sunday. Text, John .xv., 22. Hesaid: Sin is always disguised. Decked, and glossed, and perfumed, and masked, it gains admittance in places from which it would otherwise be repelled. As silently as when it glided into Eden, and as plausibly as when it talked to Christ at the top of the temple, it now addresses men. Could peo. pie look upon sin as it always is—an exhalation from the pit, the putrefaction of infinite capacities, the ghastly, loathsome, God-smitten monster that uprooted Eden and killed Christ, and would push the entire race into darkness and pain—the infernal charm would be broken. Before our first parents transgressed sin appeared to them the sweetness of fruit and the becoming as gods. To Absalom it was the pleasure of sitting upon a throne. To men now, sin is laughter, and permission to luxurious gratification. Jesus Christ, in my text, suggests a fact which everybody ought to know, and that is that sin, to hide its deformity and shame is accustomed to wearing a cloak, and the Savior also sets forth the truth that God can see straight through all wrappings and thicknesses. I want now to speak of several kinds of cloaks with which men expect to cover up their iniquities, for the fashion in regard to these garments is constantly changing, and every day beholds some new etyle of wearing them, and, if you will tarry a little while, I will show you five or six of the patterns of cloaks. First, I remark that there are those who, being honored with official power, expect to make that a cloak for their si - There is a sacredness in office. God himself is King, and all who hold authority in the world serve under Him. That community has committed a monstrous wrong, which has elevated to this dignity persons unqualified either by their ignorance or their immorality. Nations who elevate to posts of authority those not qualified to fill them will feel the reaction. While positions of trust may be disgraced by those who fill them, I believe God would have us respectful to the offices, though we may have no admiration for their occupants. Yet this dignity which office confers can be no apology for transgression. Nebuchadnezzar and Ahab and Herod, in the day of judgment, must stand on a level with the herdsmen who kept their flocks, and the fishermen of Galilee. Pope, and King, and President, and Governor, must give an account to God, and be judged by the same law as that which judges the beggar and the slave. Sin is all the more obnoxious when it is imperial and lordly. You can not make pride or injustice or cruelty sacred by giving it a throne. Belshazzar’s decanters could not keep the mysterious finger from writing on the wall, Ahab’s sin literally hurled him from the throne to the dogs. The imperial vestments of wicked Jehoram could not keep Jehu’s arrow from striking through his heart. Jezebel’s queenly pretention could not save her from being thrown over the wall. No barricade of thrones can arrest God’s justice in its unerring march. No splendor or thickness of official robes can be a sufficient cloak of sin. HenryVlll., Louis XV., Catharine of Russia. Mary of England—did their crowns save them? No ruler ever sat so high that the King of Kings was not above him. All victors shall bow before Him who on the white horse goeth forth conquering and to conquer. Again: Elegance of manners can not successfully hide iniquity from the eye of God. That model, gentlemanly apostle, Paul, writes to us: “Be courteous.” That man can neither be a respectable worldling nor a consistent Christian who lacks good manners. He is shut out from refined circles, and he certainly out to be hindered from entering the church. We can not overlook that in a man which we could hardly excuso in a bear. One of tho first effects of the grace of God upon an individual is to make him a gentleman. Gruffness, awkwardness, implacability, clannishness, are fruits of the devil, while gentleness and meekness are fruits of the Spirit But, while these excellences of manner are so important, they can not hide any deformity of moral character. How often it is that we find attractiven of persoQ, suavity of manners, gracefulness of conversation, gallantry of behavior, thrown like wreaths upon moral death. The flowers that grow upon the scoriae of Vesuvius do not make it any less of a volcano. The sepulchers in Christ's time did not exhaust all the whitewash. Some of the biggest scoundrels have been the most fascinating. If there are any depending on outward gracefulness and attractiveness of demeanor, with any hope that because of that God will forgive the sin of their soul, let me assure them that the divine justice can not be satisfied with smiles and elegant gesticulation. Christ looks deeper than the skin, and such a ragged cloak as the one in which you are trying to cover yourself will be no hiding in the day of His power. God will not in the judgement ask how gracefully you walked, nor how politely you bowed, nor how sweetly you smiled, nor how impressively you gestured, the deeds done in the body will be the test, and not the of Lord Chesterfield.

I Again: Let me say that the mere profession of religion is but a poor wrapping of a naked soul. The importance of making a public profession of religion if the heart be renewed can not be exaggerated. Christ positively and with the earnestness of the night before His crucifixon commanded it. But it is the insult of Christian char* acter, not the cause'of it. Our church certificate is a poor title to heaven. We may have the name and not the reality. There are those who seem to shrow themselves back with complacency upon their public confession of Christ, although they give no sign of renewal. If Satan can induce a man to build on such a rotten foundation as that he has accomplished his object. Furthermore: Outward morality will be no covering for the hidden iniquity of the spirit. The Gospel of Christ makes no assault upon good works. They are as beautiful in God's eye as in ours. Punctuality, truthfulness, alms-giving, affection and many other excellences of life that might be mentioned will always be admired of God and man, but we take the position that good works can not be the ground of our salvation. What we do right can not pay for what we do wrong. Admit that you have all these traits oT character which give merely worldly respectability and influence, you must at the same time acknowledge that during iiie course of your life you have done many things you ought not to have done. How Are these" difficult matters to be settled? Ah, my friends, we must pay an atonement. No Christ, no salvation. The great Redeemer comes and says, “I will pay your indebtedness.” So that which was dark enough before, is bright enough now.”

The Btripes that we deserve are fallen upon Christ. On His scourged and bleeding shoulders. He carries up over the mountain of our sins and the hills of our iniquities. Christ's good works accepted are sufficient for us but they who reject them, depending upon their own, must perish. Traits of character that may make us influential on earth will not necessarily open to us the gate of heaven. Again: Exalted social position will be no cloak for sin. Men look through the wicket door of prisons and seeing the , incarcerated wretches, exclaim: ‘ ‘Oh, how much vice there is in the world!” And they pass through the degraded streets of a city, and looking into the doors of hovels and the dens of corruption they call them godforsaken abodes. But you might- walk along the avenues through which the opulent roll in their flourishing pomp and into mansions elegantly adorned, and find that, even in the admired walks of life Satan works mischief and death. The first temptation Satan wrought in a garden, and he understands yet moro thoroughly how to insinuate himself into any door of ease and splendor. Men frequently judge of sin by the places in which it is committed; but iniquity in satin is as loathsome to God as iniquity in rags, and in the Day of Judgment the sins of Madison avenue and Elm street will be driven in one herd. Men can not escape at last for being respectably sinful. You know Dives was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day; but his fine clothes and good dinners did not save him. He might on earth have drank something as rich as champagne and cognac, but at last he asked for one drop of water. You can not trade off your attractTve abodes here for a house of many mansions on high and your elegant shade groves here will not warrant you a seat under the tree of life. When God drove Adam and Eve out of Eden He showed that merely living in a garden of delights and comforts will never save a man or a woman. By giving you so much earthly luxury and refinement He intimated that He would have you enjoy yourselves, but He would not have you wrap yourselves up in them as a cloak to hide your sins. God now walks in your garden as He did in Eden, even in the cool of the day, and He stands by your well as He did by a well in Samaria, and He would make your comforts on earth a type of your rapture in heaven. Furthermore, mere soundness of religious belief will not hide our iniquities. There are men whose heads are as sound as Jonathan Edward's or John Wesley's, whose hearts are as rotten as Tom Paine’s or Charles Guiteau’s. It is important that we be theoretical Christians.

It is utter folly in this day for a man to have no preference for any one form of faith when it is so easy to become conversant with the faith of the different sects. But there are those who never become Christians because their obstinacy prevents them from ever taking a fair view of what religion is. They are like a brute boast in the fact that their greatest strength lies in their horns. They are combatant, and all they are ever willing to do for their souls is to enter an ecclesiastical fight. I have met men who would talk all day upon the ninth chapter of Romans, who wpre thoroughly helpless before the fourteenth chapter of John. .But there are those who, having escaped from this condition, are now depending entirely upon their fondness of religious theory. The doctrine of man’s depravity and Christ’s atonement aud God’s sovereignty are theoretically received by them. But, alas! there they stop. -? It is only the shell of Christianity, containing no evangelical life. They stand looking over into heaven and admire its beauty and its song, and are so pleased with the looks from the outside that they can not be induced to enter. They could make a better argument for the. truth than 10.000 Christians who have in their hearts received it If syllogisms and dilemmas and -cound propositions and logical deductions could save their souls they wduld be among the best of Christiana They correctly define repentance and faith and the atonement.

while they have never felt-one sorrow for sin nor exercised a moment’s confix deuce in the great sacrifice. They are almost immovable In their position. We can not present anything about the religion of Christ that they do not know. The Savior described the fate of such a one in HU (parable: “And that servant which know his Lord's will, and prepared not himself, neither did acto His will, shall be beaten with many stripes.” Theories in religion have a beauty of their own, but if they result in no warmth of Christian life it U the beauty of hornblende and feldspar. Do mot call such coldness and hardness religion. The River of Life never freezes over. Icicles never hang on the eaves of heaven. Soundness of intellectual belief as a beautiful cloak, well woven and well cut, but in the hour when God shall demand our souls it will not of itself be sufficient to hide our ini* quities. ..

My friends, can it be that I have been unkind, and torn from you some hope upon which you were resting for time and enteruity? Verily, I would be unkind if, having taking away our cloak, I did not offer you something better. This is a cold world and you want somethhig ta wrap around your spirit. Christ offers you a robe today. He wove it Himself and He will now with His own hand prepare it just to fit your soul. The righteousness He offers it like the coat He used to wear about Juda, without seam from top to bottom. There is a day of doom. Coward would Ibeif I did not dare tell you this. It shall be a day of unuiterablo disappointment to those who have trusted in their official dignity, in their elegant manners, in their outward morality, in their soundness of in-* telctuai belief. But I see a soul standing before God who once wac thoroughly defiled. Yut look at him and you can not And a single transgression any where about him. How is this? you ask. Was b 9 not once a Sabbath breaker, a blasphemer, a robber, a perjurer, a thief, a murderer? Yes, but Christ hath cleansed him. Christ hath lifted him up. Christ hath rent off his rags. Christ hath clothed him in a spotless robe of righteousness, That is the reason why you can not see his former degradation. This glorious hope in Christ’s name is proffered to-day. Wandering and wayward soul, is not salvation worth coming for, worth striving for? Do you wonder that'so many with bitter weeping have besought it, and with a very enthusiasm of sorrow for Divine compassion? Do you wonder at the earnestness of those who stand in pul-’ pits beseeching men to be reconciled to God? Nay, do you wonder at the importunity ntbe Holy Ghost who now striveth with thy soul? In many of these palaces of Europe the walls are mosaic. Fragments of shells and glass are arranged by artists and aggregated into a pictorial 'splendor. What! made out of broken shells and glass! Oh, yes; God grant that the transforming power of His Spirit we may all be made a part of the etarnal palaces, our broken and fragmentary natures polished and shaped and lifted up to make a part of the everlasting splendors of the heavenly temple!

MEN TRAT ARE KNOWN.

Sam Jones cleared $2,000 by a weak’s work in Aberdeen. Mias. __ .... Vice-president Morton has entered upon his sixty-ninth year. Dr. Gatling, the inventor of the gun that bears that name, is an active old man of eighty years, whose home is in Hartford. The Rev. Dr. Wicken, of Manchester, Vt., claims to be the oldest living graduate of Yale. He is ninety-six and received his diploma in 1815. Senator Cullom is said to wear his hair and beard exactly as Lincoln did. He is supposed to do this to intensify his striking resemblance to the martyr President Henry M. Stanley is not likely to renounce his American citizenship to receive English honors at present, as in doing so he would forfeit the copyright of his book. Richard Vaux, who succeeded to Samuel J. Randall’s seat in Congress, seals all his letters in the old way, with wax, using a seal ring, which he. wears on his forefinger. King Humbert is a prudent monarch. Last year the civil list for the royal household was 15.350,000 francs, and) the king spent 15.339,999 francs 92 centimes, leaving not quite two cents to his credit for the ensuing year. ODr. Schliemann is working with a will at his task of laying bare all that the ages have lef. of old Troy. He has 250 men at work and he has laid down a small railway, so he is making rapid progress to the attainment of his object. During the summer holidays of each year the immensely wealthy Duke of Westminster takes in about $5,000 in sixpences and shillings, paid by sightseers for admission to his country seat. Eaton HalL He gives every penny of it to charitable institutions. Herr Krupp, a manufacturer of metal goods at Bemdorf, received a letter containing a threat that his factory would be set on fire. He immediately called a general meeting of his workmen and told them that if the factory - was burned he would not rebuild it, as he had plenty of money to live on. The fire department was not called out. It is stated that the first Napoleon very rarely wrote a letter with his own, hand, and those few in his own writing which do' exist are mostly in Italian; Ho usually dictated to a secretary a t such a rapid rate that the amanuensis had to fill up gaps from memory, rnd it is a funny fact that most of Napoleon’s love letters to Josephine were thus dictated.