"NEW MODUS VIVENDL The Convention Between the United States and England. Protection for the Seals During the Pendenoy of Arbitration. An agreement between the United States and Great Britain for a modus viveandi in relation to the fur seal fAsheries in Bering Bea for the present season has heen signed, at Washington, by Sir Julian Paunocefote, the British Minister, representing the Gov- ernment of her Britannic Majesty, and by James G, Blaine, Secretary of State, representing the Government of the United States. This import. ant agreement was signed at 11 o'clock in the morning at the residence of Secretary Blaine, who, owing to the incle ment weather, did not go to the department. He at once took it over to the Executive Mansion and laid it before the President, who in the afternoon transmitted it to the Senate for its action, The modus is in the form of a supple- mental convention to she treaty of arbitra. tion recently negotiated and ratified, It gays that both Governments will prohibit during the sealing season the killing of seal in that part of the Bering Sea lying eastward of the line of demarcation described ip article No, 1 of the treaty of 1887 |Letween the United States and Russia and each Government will enjoin its citizens and vessels to an obser. vance of this agreement. The United Btates, it is understood, is allowed to kill for the subsistence of the natives on the fslands of St. Paul and St, George 7500 seals, the same restriction as was made last year, atid the United States binds itaell to observe this prohibition, The vessels of either the United States or Great Breatian, or citizens of either coun try, offending against this agreement may be seized by either of the high contracting jes, but as soon as practicable should be nded over to the authorities of the nation to which they belong, who shall have sole Jusadicth n to try the offence and impose e penalties for the same In general it may be said that the docu. ment is a renewal of the agreement of 1891, with the addition of a clause providing for the settlement of damages sustained by the Canadian sealers through the interruption of their business in case the arbitration goes against the United States, Under this clause, owners of Canadian sealing vessels have already begun to file their claims with a commission ap- jtnted to receive and present them. Bat Jeneral Foster, the agent of the United States, who is preparing the case for this Government. and the Hon E 8 Phelps coun- sel, ars leaving no point uncovered, and will be fully prepared to meet the claims on this score, in the event that they shall ever be pressed for payment. he British Prime Minister has sought all along to reduce the liability of his Govern. ment practically to a nullity, by insisting that Great Britain can ackndwledge no re- sponsibility for the injuries to seal life done By Canadian poachers, and must be charged with such damages only as bave resulted directly from Gorvern- ment action Mr. Blaine, it is understood, has endeavored in framing the new agree- ment to obtain from Great Britain a more eral acknowledgment of liability along he lines laid down in last summer's corres spondence, and it is said that, in the terms agreed on he has mainthined the contentions of the United States with creditable success. The Renate discussed the modus vivendi briefly in executive session and then referred it, according to usage, cominittee—that ou Foreign Helations, WORKMEN BLOWN TO BITS. The American Forcite Powder Mills Near Port Morris, N. J. Explode. An explosion in the nitro-glycerine depart. ment of the works of the American Forcite Powder Manufacturing Company at Hopat- cong Landing, N. J., near the lower end of Lake Hopatoong, killed six men and seri ously injured several others. The works consist of forty small wooden buildings on the lake side of Rockaway Hill, The buildings are about fifty feet apart. Nitro-glycerine was made in four of them. The explosion occurred about 2:45 o'clock. Superintendent Smith had just made the rounds of the buildings, and had [gone to the nitro-glycerine department. In the place where the explosion had taken ace there was a big hole in the side of the fll. Not a vestige of any of the four build. ings in the nitroglycerine department re- mained, Other buildings near were damagad. Halt an hour after the explosion all the men employed in the works who had escaped gathered at the foot of the hill, Then it was discovered who had been killed, Then men set to work to look for the bodies In a pool of water, fifty feet in front of the nitro-glycerine buildings, they found two bodies. The apper part of the head and the right | | cruiser was opposed by On | the first body were a chest protector and | leg of one were gone, and all that remained of the other was the head and trunk undershirt and a white shirt. Dr. Taylor, der works physician, recognized the | as one he bad given to Su. | chest protector Jerinendens Smith. The face of the other y was but little bruised, and it was pasty recognized as that of Godfrey Waller. Bmi was married, Waller was a Swede, and unmarried Carlston and Johnston were 8S and married. Plerce was an American, and married. Bath, the youngest of the killed, was nomarried, and was an American. The bodies of Smith and Waller wera placa! ina room of the office of the works, Coroner Fancher visited the piace shortly after the explosion Captain Evans, one of the officials at the works, superintended the ssarch for the bodies. One of the workmen fold him that a minute before the explosion sw Huper- jotendent Smith and Carlston ng in front of the house in which the nitroglycerine was stored, The other men su to be killed Captain Evans said he had learned ware in the other Rouses of the nitro-glycerine department when the explosion occurred. Cassimore, the only The hill, rol ruck D Ay ho 4 pa the was ok by ying of and wood, x was felt for thirty miles around the country, The windows in a train on the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western allroad, coming into Hopatcong landing, were shattered, Windows in several houses in the neighboring to ¥as were broken, A representative of the company, who was Wop the explosion, said that it would be impossible to ascertsin what caused the explosion, KILLED HIS BABY SISTER. Vive Year-Old Willie Applied Fire To Her Curls and Clothing. Bertha Sochmiltetter, a child seventem months ob, disd a few nights ago after being badly burned while play with her five year-old brother Willie, at phia, Taps owes chiliron worn loft alons for a thereon, as follows | Chilean Government, burse the State of Nebraska for expenses in- | ! the Sioux in | 000). | dry to the appropriate i | work o | bill, addi ! The calendar was then taken up. {| resolution extending an | desgendants | the World's Columbian Exposition. the loan from | | Spain of certain articles (Columbian relic) | Exposition, | | Passed the | Presidents of the American Repablics and | | from the committes, with a ——————— ————_—" FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS, In the Senate, Torn DAY. ~The Senate, on motion of Mr, Peller, passe! a resolution requesting the Seorstary of State to obtain from our Consuls abroad information as to the appli. cation of electricity to the propulsion of farm machinery and to the propogation and owth of plants——The Benate also passed he two court bills Intely laid over and spant most of the remainder of the day in execu- tive session over the modus viyendi in Bering Sea and other matters, Tri DAY. Mr. George's resolution rela. tive to the low price of cotton and the de- from condition of agriculture was agreel It directs the Committeo on Agriculture and Forestry to ascertain in every practi cable way and report from time to time the resent condition of agriculture in the Julted States and the present prices of igriculsiiral products, and if there be any of which the prices are depressed then the causes of such depression and the remedies therefor ~The joint resolution to pay to West Virginia the amount due to it under the direct tax refund act was passad without discussion —— The bill to establish a Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia was then taken up, and several amendments (pro 1 by Mr. Hoar) were agreed to. Mr. George moved to strike out the provision entitling the judges to pensions. The motion wasrejocted «7 to 36; and the bill was passed —-The Ber- py Biny modus vivendi was approved A brief silver debate and division occurred when Mr. Platt called up a House bill amend- ing the Arizona Funding act and asked its immediate consideration. Mr, Kyle, of South Dakota, moved to strike out the words which made the five per cent interest payable in gold, snd to fusert the words “in lawful monsy of the United titatss” The motion was carried by a vote of twenty-eight yeas to twenty-four nays as follows: Yeas—Allen, Bate, Berry, Black. burn, Blodgett, Butler, Call, Cockrill, Coke, Colquitt Daniel, Dubois, Faulkner, Gibson, (Md,), Hansbrough, (Nev,), Kyle, itehell, Peller, Ransom, Stewart, Teller, Walthall, Wolcott — twenty-eight, — Allison, Carey, Chandler, Harris, Hill, Jones, Pugh, Vest, Nays Cullom, | Dixon, Frye, Gray, Hale, Hawley, Higgins, | Hiscock, | dock, Proctor, Sawyer, Stockbridge, Washburn, | | Wilson twenty-four. foar, McMillan, Palmer, Perkins Manderson, Pad Pettigrew, Platt, rit Day.—Mr. Teller spoke on Mr. | Morgan's silver resolution——>Mr. Cullum | reported a bill directing the Interstats Com- {| merce Commission to report annually cer- tain information in relation to the adoption | by common carriers in interstate commerce | of a uniform system of automatic coupling. 79H DAY. ~A debate on the Chinese ques | tion characterizad by an onslaught upon the | { Geary bill by Mr. Bherman, was entered upon ——The Senate procesded to the con- sideration of bills on the calendar, and acted swintment of consuls to the Congo Free tate. Passed. Authorizing Dennis W. Mullan, United Ie 3 accept a medal presented to him by the Passed. To reim- curred in repelling a theatened invasion by 1800-91 (appropriating $50,- Providing for sun- and other This bill appropriates Passed lighthouses pavigation, Passed, | $504,500 for a large number of lighthouses i and other aids to navigation mostly on the | great lakes, To establish a military post near Helena, Mont. (appropriating $300,000, , Passed after explanations by Mewrs Hawley and Sanders— Mr. Gorman introduced a | bill providing for the payment to the cor. sorate authorities of Frederic, Md. #3X,- | 000, the sum exacted from them by General | Jubal Early, of the Confederate army, in 1864 under penalty of burning the town, 80 DAY. —On motion of pension of all aged and destitute soldiers of the Mexican war from $8 to $12 a month | Senate bill appropriating $64,000 for Will jam and Mary College of Virginia for occu. pation and damages Oy United States troops during the war was passed——The Urgency Deflcieny bill was passed with amendments | a ypriating $25,000 for representation at the Columbian Historieal ¥ Exposition at Madrid, and $100,000 for continuin the present census—— The House the Secretary of Agriculture to the list of Presidential successors, passed Bills upon it were disposad of es follows: Benata joint invitation to tha King and Queen Regent of Spain and the of Columbus to participate in ‘assed, Joint resolution requesting for the World's Extending an Columbian invitation So the Governors of the American Colonies to participate in the World's Columbian Expo- | sition. Passed——The Geary Chinese ex. | clusion bill cocupied the Senate all day after | the morning hour In the House, rn Day.—The House discussed Naval Approgriation bill. Speeches in favor | of the rehabiifiation of the navy were made | by Mr. Fellows and Mr, Cammings, of New ork, and Mr, Lodge of Massachusetts, while the amendment to Mr. Holman, of In. diana; Mr. Watson, of Georgia, and Mr. Baker, of Kansas, ri DAY. ~The entire day was devoted to the consideration of the Naval Appropria- tion bill, which was finally | as it came s exception of ths dry do~k at Algiers (La), which was stricken out _n 4 point of order, 89m Davy. —The greater of the ses | sion was spent in considering the contestad election case of Noyes against Rockwell, from the Twenty.eighth New York district, The time for discussion was limited to five hours on each wide, 80 DAY. The House resumed considera- tion of the Rockwell-Noyes contested eleo- tion case. 90rs DAY. ~The debate on the Noyes- Rockwell contests! election case was con tinued. gist Dav. ~The minority report on the Noyes-Rockwall cass from New York, in favor of the sitting member, was adopted alter an exciting te. a —— DROWNED IN A MINE. A Flooded Mine Bursts Though the Walls and Eight Men are Drowned, Late the other afternoon a number of men Jost their Niwas by the flooding of the Lytle colliery, Mineryvilla, Penn., by a body of water that burst through the old workings, The accident occurred just about the time the shifts wers changing. The colliery offi. y that eight men were dro where the nocident ocurred isa being Sel ih: fH i : Fs Senate bill for the ap- Commander | tates Navy to | aids to | r. Vilas and | without a roll call the Senate adopted an | amendment to a pension bill increasing the | the | the | build one new | WORLD'S FAIR NOTES. Kentucky has made a £100,000 Worl l's ir appropriation Fue a Australia, has made a World's Fair sppropriation of $100,000. Ix the Government exhibit will appear all the relics which are obtainable of various Arctic exploring expoditions, Gnear BRITAIN has alded £5,000 to its World's Fair appropriation, making it now £60,000 or approxknatel y $300,000, Tur American Bible Boclety will make an exhibit in which will appear copies of Bibles in more than 250 different languages. Anaumests for anl a; ainst Bunday opening of the Exposition wil bs heard by the National Comunission on Ootober 6, Tue number of intending exhibitors an- nounced from Pennsylvania, up to date, is about 850, of which 20 are Philadelphians. APPLICATIONS for space in tho Exposition buildings now aggregate more than 4,000,- 00C square fest, a littie over one-third belug trom foreign applicants. Ix the California building will be shown a growing specimen of every California do- mestic fower obtainable, and also paintings, in water and oil, of 6X wild flowers and Krasses, Tux French Chamber sve by a unanimous vote asked by the Government to be ex the French exhibit at the Expos appropriation amounts to $075,500. Srers have beon taken for a meeting in May of representatives of all the A college fratarnities to perfect plans for a collective exhibit by thess influential organl- gations in the Liberal Arts building. A YOUNG lad, son of the editor of Florida Standard, is making, for exhibition at the Fair, a table upon which appears an inlaid map of the State, each county being acou- rately represented by a separate piece of native Florida wood. A CARNIVAL of sports, in connection with the Exposition, is contemplated and quite likely to be established, It is Jropansa to provide a large arena or samp itheatrs in which will be enacted, as far as possible, every kind of athletic sport known to the various nations and races of the earth. Tur newly elect! Directory has chosen officers of the Exposition as follows: Presi. | dent, W, T. Bakew; First Vice-President, | H. R. Higiibotham, Secretary, H. O. Bd- munds; Attorney, Ww. K. Carlisle; Treas arer, A. F. Seebsrger Aulditar, Ww. BX Ackerman. A cut 1o the extent of nearly | £20,000 a year wus made in salaries, | Mexico's exhibit will include a number of | fine works of art, Casts are being made of | the sacrificial stons, the God of War, the Goddess of Water, the Calendar Stones and other Aztec relics, now in the Mexican Na | tional Museum. From the National Art | Gallery, which has a very large colisction f | paintings a number of ths best works will we sent to Chicago Tux Board of Lady Managers proposes to erect near the Woman's building a child reu's home or public comfort pavilion for } mothers and children. The estimate for the building is $30,000, and for maintenance $10,000, which sums it is proposed to raise by subscription. It is befieved that such a | place where young children can be wafe and well cared for while their parents view the | sights of the Exposition will prove to bea great and appreciated convenience, A UNIQUE exhibit from Pennsyivanis will be a map of the United States, eighteen Ly twenty-tour feet, made entirely of bokliey vegetables, fruit, oto reserved by the company which mak e exhibit, The | State lines will bo accurately showo, and the lakes and rivers will be repressated by vine gar. The larger cities will be indicated by spices, The whole will be covered with a single piece of plate glass, which is being special made for the purpose. The ex pense of this interesting exhibit of the pio kling and preserving industry will be {i | Gx) | Dimgoror Higixsorsax, Chairman of the Ways and Means Commities, gave the Con- | gressional [nvestigat Committees an in | teresting estimate of the resources of the Exposition. The total resources, be thinks, will aggregate over $35,000,000, He believes she gate receipts will bring in $15, 600, 000 or, | {a other words, that there will be 30,000,000 admissions at fifty cents each, According to his estimate the Exposition will recsive $2,750,000 from restaurants, #2,500,000 from other concessions and privileges, and $1,750, 000 from salvage. The stock subscriptions and city bonds figure in the estimate at il, | 565 450, NEWSY GLEANINGS. Tuenz are 861 postofMons in Canada. WHEAT prospects are good in Russia. Houses are dying from the grip in Mary. land, MASSACHUSETTS supports 125 agricultural societies, Fonest fires are doing great damage in | Prussia. Tux total number of Chautauqua grad- | nates is now 20,090, | Sax Axroxio, Texas isin a panic because | of lpcendiary fires, GoLp in paying quantities was discovered | near Texarkana, Ark. Tax United States army is short 900 men of its legal quota of 25,000 ITALY is on the eve of bankrupley and the people are becoming poorer. MAPLE sugar is made to a greater or les extent in twenty-four Htates, Tug latest news item in the agricultural world is that of baling bay in Italy. R OG. Dux & Co. report the West as do- ing the largest business ever known. Tovmsrs in Ireland report an unusual amount of destitution and suffering on every hand. Reronrs concerning the condition of winter wheat are loss favorable than last year. Tug United States revenue steamers Rush and Bear have been ordered north to patrol Bering Sea. traveling public in England is panic over the assaults now #0 common in of Deputies ap he credit 4 for on. The A RUSH FOR HOMES, Opening of the Cheyenne and Ara. pahoe Reservations, A dispatch from Guthrie, Oklahoma, says: “his morning found the Cheyechne end Arapahoe country a wide stretch of land, unpopulated and lonely. To-night this great expanse of prairie is settled at every stone's throw." At noon Governor Beay, In the watch tower at Kl Reno, dropped the signal flag, the battery belched forth the signal to the waiting thousands, and the wild race began, How they did go through ; the rin rain, up fill and* down dale, through the little rivulets © that threatened to be torrents before night,” No trouble of any sort, no disturbances, oc- curred on the line of the opening. About six thousand people made the race from west of Bl Reno, as many from Kingfisher, and 7000 from the line of the Wichita reservation west of Minco, Three thousand from Rover, as many from Hennessy, and about as many as'all these wont in small squads all along the line from the Cherokee strip on the north, the Panhundle of Texas on the west, and the Kiowa Indian reservation on the south, A riot oceurred in front of the Oklahoma City Land Office atthe hour of the opening, and a number of people wers badly in- jured. At 120'clock the register, Leach, an- nounced that no lines would be recognized, and the first person to get in the door would have the first filing, and others in puocessson as they arrived, This pre- cipitated a wild rush, and in a few moments hundreds of men and women were engaged in a d aceful scramble, fighting, pulling, trampling on each other, and fora time it soommed as though many would be killed. One man was struck on the head with a re- volver and badly injured, but he remained in the ring and got the eleventh fling. He had besn third in the line, but sold his place for #250 in the morning. A woman near her had her clothes torn to ploces, and goveral men wers trampled on and injured. Windows of the Land Ollice were smashed and other damage done, The Cheyenne and Arapahoe Reservation, where 30,000 citizens of the United States have just found new homes, is situated in the Indian Territory, between the Cherokee Outlet on the north and the Kiowa, Com manche and Apache Ruservation on the south. Its eastern border adjoins Oklaho- ma and its western the Panhandle of Texas, Its area is much greater than is generally understood to be. It would make two Okla- bomas or five Rhode Islands, while the whole States of Connscticut and Rhode Isinnd could be set in it and there would still remain room for four Districts of Columbia. The tract contains 6500 squares mies 4,000,000 scres. Out of this the row jent In- dians have been alloted by the Governmens$ 534,000 acres, giving to each of the Indians 100 acres. There was thus left for general sottloment about threes and a half million acres, which, allowing a quarter section or 160 acres to each homo seeker, would accom- date about 22 000 settlers outside of the town sites, Very fow of the thousands who had been waiting for weeks on the border and in the frontier towns for the final rush bad any- thing but the vaguest idea as 0 the real character of the land they were %0 anxious to possess, & hen they had reached their claims and had staked them off, and bad taken the op wrtunity to survey thelr broad acres, they that instead of a Garden of Eden, a promised land flowing with milk and honey, as they had fondly believed, they had really { themselves of a section of very or- dinary Western Sratrie land, flowing with pothing but high grass and very brackish streams bitter with alkali, — THE LABOR WORLD, Dron corps all over $s country talk of forming a union. Turns are more women bookkespers than wale ones in France Lavsony work is w being mught in some of the schools of Mogiand. Pants labor leaders de cided not to make an outdoor demonstration on Labor Day. PRILADELPEIA, Penn. js the greatest carpet manufacturing © entre inthe we rid, Tue Lehigh Valley Railway shops at Easton, Penn., have bean put on half-time BagAD riots have occurred in the North of England owiag to the shutting down of the cotton mille, TanovoRoUr the West there isa otir in the implement, toll, wagon, carriage and other trades In Germany and Eog land a girl in service gots $00 a your, and does cleaning, nursing, sewing or whatever she is told, Ix spite of the introduction of machine Jace there are at least 1 000,000 workers in the various Baropean coun tries, Ix France elections are held on Sunday, in order that as large a number of workingmen as possible may got to the p ile, A mint, fixing ten hours as a day's work for railroad smployes passed the Lower House of the Massachussetts Logislatare, Neanty hall of the broom makers of Lockport, N. Y., have ben thrown out of work by the syndioating of the business by the manufacturers of the country MeLnounane, Australia, is just emerging from the overwhelming effects of a land boon. All trades are stagnant and the unemployed are clamoring for work, Tax trouble causad by the anti-script and soreen laws has been settiel for the time being at Charlsston, W, Va. | the miners re- turn to work until the Supreme Court settles the cane, Ir is estimated that the loss in wages to the Durbam (England) miners during the five weeks that they were on strike was #4. 250,000, The condition of the miners and their families was deplorable, A sTRAMER is fitting out in Ban Francisco, Cel, for the Gilbert Islands, to secure laborers for the Guatemala coffees planta tions, thus tically reviving the labor trade, wh is really another form of slavery. Tus London (Baglawnd) women who make shirts are no better off now than they were when Hood wrote hia “Song of the Bhirt” are paid four cents for each and they average sir in KILLED A PRIEST. The Act of a Madman in Spain Dar ing Good Friday Services, or | | ward parts; and in the hidden | ten, “IL the | the reins.” clean, wash me | snow God | ing of the people whom He redeemed from { the bondage of | this verse one should be familiar with the | story of the leper and the two little birds of { story of Num. xix | by the way, the unclean one could | ing for himself until pronounced clean by iB. | sometimes hear SABBATH SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR MAY 1, Lesson Text: “I'he Prayer of the Penitent,” Psalm ii, 1-18-Gold- en Text: Psalm HI, 10-— Commentary. 1. “Have mercy upon me, O God, accord ing to Thy loving kindness; according unto the multitude of Thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions" This is the third of the voven penitential psalms, the others bein the vi, xxxif,, cll, exxx., cxliii,, lest o The title gives the circumstances which led David to write this psalm, and the whole story Is found in 11 Ban, xi, and xif, Let all consider the true significance of the seventh commandment as taught by our Lord Jesus, and Jet only thoss who are not guilty throw stones, 2. “Wash me thoroughly from mine in- iquity, and cleanse me from my sin” Like the leper who said, “Lord, if Thou wilt Thou canst make me clean” (Math, vill, 2), he be- Heves that the Lord can cleanse him, and he wants it done thoroughly. How such a word as | John §,, 9, would have comforted him ‘If we confess our sins He is faithful and ust to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us rom all unrighteousness.” But be bad vir. tually the same teaching in Lev. vi, 1-7. 8. "For | ecknowledge my transgressor; and my sin is ever before me” ‘Only sc. knowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God” was God's ples with Israel by Jeremiah (Jor, fii, 18). David does this, not making light of it nor seeking to hide either his ony the root of all the trouble, or his transgres sion jn which be overstepped the line, or his sin in which he came short of the mark (Ex. xxxiv, 7). 4. “Against thee, thee only, have’l sinned, and done this evil in thy sight; t thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, and be clear when thou jadgest.” When Nathan reproved him he said, “1 have sinned against the Lord” (LI Bam, xi, 18. When Joseph was sore tempted, instead of yielding as David did, he sald, “How can I do this great wickedness and sn against God? (Gen, xxxix., 9.) 5. “Behold, 1 was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me.” Pavia recoguizes sin in his naiure, he did not be- eve that we are by nature holy, but as Paul testifies by the Spirit, “By nature the children of wrath, even as others” (Eph. ii. 8. “Byone man sin eutered the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men.” “The oarnal mind is enmity against God” (Rom. v., 12; vill, 7. 6. “Behold, thou desirest truth in the in- part thou shalt make me to know wisdom, There is something in us known in Scripture as “The | imaginaiion of the thoughts of the heart” (I Chron, xxvill., 9; xxix. 15. Lord, search And it is writ the heart, I try 7. “Furge me with hyssop and 1 shall be and I shall be whiter than made provision for the cleans Egypt, and to understand Lov xii. and Xiv., and also the red belfer In the cleansing of each case, the leper and the defllement contracted do noth- the priest. The byssop was used to sprinkie | the bicod, or the ashes and water, which | symbolized and typified the blood of Jesus Christ. See Lev. xiv, 4 7; Num, xix 15 | and compare Isa. L, 18) 8, “Make me to bear joy and gisdness, that the bones which thou bast broken may re- joie.” One's very bones are figuratively said to suffer because of sin, “My bones waxed old through my roaring all the day Jong.” Neither is there any rest in my bones, because of my sin” (Pa. xxxit, 3; xxxviil, And of Christ, our substitute, bearing our sins, it is written: “1 am poured out like water and all my bones are out of joint My heart is like wax; it i melted in the midst of my bowels” (Ps xxii, 14). How fearful is sin thus to affect the Holy One of God. 9. “Hide Thy face from my sins and blot out all mine iniquities” God sald concern ing Israel, “Mine eyes are upon ail their ways; they are not hid from My face, neither is their indquities hid from Mine eyes” (Jer, xvi, 17). ut Hepekiah could say after his repentence, “Thou bast cast all my sins be hind Thy back” (Iss. xxxviil, 17), and con- cerning lerael w she shall return to God it is written. “I have blotted out as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud thy sine.” ‘Thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea” (Isa. xlil, 25; xivi., 23; Mie. vil, 19 10. “Create in me a clean heart, Ob God; | | and renew a right spirit within me.” This root of the difficulty. We of a change of heart; if by that is meant a now one instead of the old sinful one, all is well; for the old cannot be improved (Rom. vill, 7). We must be born from above (John iii. 8 margin) and receive a nature we never had before, even the divine nature (11 Pet. 4 4. before we can enter the kingdom of God This God is ready to do for us, but He wants us to ask Him (Ezek. xxxvi., 26 27, 30. What is worth having is surely worth asking for, 11. “Cast me not away from y pros. ence, and take not Thy Holy Spirit me.” Moses prayed, “If Thy presence go not with me, earry us not up * And the Lord said, “My presence shall go with thee, and I will give thee rest (Ex. xxxiil, 3, 15), The strength and comfort of Moses, Joshua, Gideon, Jeremish and all the sen yants of God was His preseace with them (Bx. fil, 12; Josh. 1, &; Judg. vi, 16; Jer, i, £19. Andto us out 1 has said, “Lo, 1 am with you alway” (Math. xxviii, 20. ised never to leave us, and bas irit will abide in us (John + IT, so that if we will we may rejoice in the abid of the Father, Son aad Spiris in us (John xiv, 17, 28 12. “Restore into me the and uphold me Salvation ani the joy of is going to the salvation I Pet. i, 8. The Spirit works word aad thus gives us fullnes of Joy (cha restoration, Jesus instruct ——————— — — ————————, JA—". Ss. a —— — SELECT SIFTINGS. The Turkish Sultan's household num bers 6000 persons. It is a gross breach of etiquette for & Chinaman to wear eyeglasses or spectss cles in company. Blazkening the nose, the cheeks and the forehead has been found an effectual preventive of snow -blindness, A rug thirteen feet square and con taining 256 stitches to the inch bas been sold in London, Eosgland, for nearly $5000, The pressure of travel on the Brook. lyn Bridge has become so great that new tracks are to be laid over the present roadbed. The artistic work of the spider in spinning his web is shown by the fact that it takes 30,000 of the floe strands to cover an inch of space. A single Dee, with all its industry, energy and innumerable journeys it has to perform, will not collect more than 8 teaspoonful of honey in a single season. A vicious kick given to a bale of hay cost a quick-tempered Indianian his life. «It dislocated his spine sod ruptured the spinal cord, causing death in a few hours.” The houses occupied by three Con- necticut Governors—Ricbard D. Hub- bard, Phineas Lounsbury and Morgan G. Bulkeley-~stand in a row in one street in Hartford. “Jemimy's Pulpit,” ag immense, boulder nesr the village of Noank,Conu., long known as the ‘‘Noank rocking. stone,” has worn away its base and can no longer be moved. Rattlesnakes command $1.60 each, living and kicking and guaranteed to be healthy, and at least two feet long. Pythons, anacondas, and such other big reptiles, are quoted at from $40 to $100, At a certain church near Ledbury, England, an annual sermon is still preached against the vice of dueling. This is done in accordance with the last will and testament of a damsel whose rival lovers died fighting for her hand. % The brothers Charles and Parlatto, married sisters, and living ot Birmingham, Conn. recently the wife of each gave birth twins, within a few hours of One set of twins was girls; the bows. Miss Cora Smath, twenty-five years old, whose home is in Ohio, but who is at present visiting friends in New York, has been deaf and dumb since she was two years old. During the past year her power of speech has returned, and now she upholds the credit of her sex with the most fluent. In the old days, before French revolution, a favorite pastime at the court of the grand monarch was the ats tempting to guess the identity of a per- son by the eyes alone. Face and form were totaly concealed by mask and domino, and the eyes were left to tell what tale they could. The result was the merest guesswork. ostinet teaches the hen that it would be no good to warm only one side of her eggs sod so when sbe feels that they are v«done” on one side she turns them gently, round. Asyone who has watched set. ting hens has seen them rise every now sod then and shuffle sbout for a few moments on the nest. That is when they turn the eggs over, eacu toe Seventy year old Dexter P. Rumsey, of Buffalo, N. Y., father of a year-old baby, petitioned the trustees of West. minster Church to have the bell silenced. The bell keeps the baby awake, and the baby keeps its papa awake; and there is no health in the bell for either. The church decided by a vote of forty-six to four, to ring the bell, in spite of old age and infancy. The Paris Temps publishes a case of premature burial prevented by the dsaghter of the supposed dead man, who on kissing her father perceived that his body was not cold. The funeral cortege was on the point of starting. Suitable measures restored the man to conscious- ness, and he opened his eyes and uttered one or two words. His condition is re- ported serious, but he was yet alive. Mow Fast Can the Dambh Speak? The deaf and dumb, as everrone knows, ‘‘speak” by means of their fingers. How many words, then, can a good hand-speaker form in a minute. According to the Postal Telegraph De- partment, the average number of letters per word in the Eaglish laaguage is five, Now, a ready band-speaker can make the English alphabet ten times in a min- ute—that is to say 260 letters. It is usu. al for him to pause for the space of one letter after each word to show that the word is complete. If, therefore, we sub- tract from the total just given about one- sixth for these s, the total will be reduced to 215 letters, Let this be divided by five, the average number of letters per word, and we shall find thata fairly expert deaf and dumb person will k forty-three words per minute. A eon in on of speech will prob- ably speak 150 words in the same space of time. New York Dispatch, casino 5 Cloves ara First Robbed. The flower buds of the clove tree, known commercially as “cloves,” are $=3
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