doubtedly has the right to expel all foreigners | pleased by this unison between the Prince and
that do not please them, and that without giv-people of Bulgaria, and tries to arouse discord.
ing any reasons for it. We do not intend to The Reichsbote (official organ), St. Petersburg,
deny this right, but we believe that an appeal says: We have no reason to be satisfied with
to national hatred is a very dangerous weapon, the manner in which the affairs of Bulgaria are
and if this weapon is used in France against carried on since Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-
the Germans, in order to save the Government Coburg rules there.
The men at the
from the consequences of the Panama and head of affairs intend to call the Sobranje to
other scandals, the sequence may be imagined. revise Section 38 of the Constitution. Our
We can understand what may be expected if Government does not intend to interfere with
the French Government should think it neces- that country's internal affairs, but we must ob-
sary to avert still greater difficulties by drawing ject to a measure which does not find the ap-
the attention of the public to foreign matters. proval of the entire population. We hope that
Der Long Isländer (Democratic), Brooklyn.—
the people will be able to defend their cher-
The expulsion of Mr. Otto Brandes and the ex-ished traditions, and will be guided by their
cesses connected with it have made a lasting well-meaning clergy.
impression in Germany, and the press warns
the French against playing with fire. The af-
fair has not been without its influence upon
the Stock Exchange at Berlin, and its influence
upon the opinion of the people with regard to
the Military Bill is immense.

THE PANSLAVIST MOVEMENT.

In Russia and Austria the Panslavists continue to agitate against German influence, not, however, without a passive resistance on the

part of the latter.

Leipziger Tageblatt (Conservative).-The Russians continue not only to oppress the Germans in Russia, but endeavor to destroy all vestige of their language and learning. After closing a number of German Protestant schools throughout the country, they have now destroyed the German University of Dorpat. Even the name of the city has been changed to Jurgiew, that nothing may remind future generations how little is due originally to Russian intelligence and enterprise, and that without the German schools as a civilizing factor, the Russians would still be as barbarous as their Cossack dependents.

Neue Freie Presse (Liberal), Vienna.-The best proof that the people are on the side of Prince Ferdinand is found in the fact that when the incorrigible Russophile, the Metropolitan Clement, attacked the Prince from the pulpit on his birthday, the people sent him a deputation which demanded that he should retract his words. The prelate refused, was the key of his room was sent to the Prefect of taken prisoner, and sent to a monastery, and Police. All this was done in such an orderly, determined manner that even the most hopeful at St. Petersburg will see how much the Bulgarians prefer to handle their own affairs.

HOME-RULE BILL.

Irish Times (Unionist), Dublin.—The alarm expressed among the Irish farmers at the prospect of a change of government in Ireland and tyrannous taxation of their prosperity and industry shows that the Home-Rule Bill is not regarded by them as a boon that they should at Mr. Sexton's bidding swallow and not examine. The leading journals of England have dispatched their representatives to this country charged with the duty of examining and describing the latest phase of the disRheinisch Westphälische Zeitung (Liberal) tracting problem created by Mr. Gladstone Barmen.-It speaks well for our national char-upon Irish soil. We welcome these gentleacter that we do not waste time on useless men. There can be no doubt that they will matters, and allow other nations to gratify apply themselves to their business in an imtheir vanity without opposition. But the Ger partial spirit, and no section of the community mans at Prague are surely wrong if they allow will be readier to facilitate their task than the a city which contains forty-eight per cent. great body of Irish Unionist electors. Germans to be exclusively ruled by the Czechs. The most amusing feature is that these Panslavists have no learning of their own, and every man who rises to prominence among them has received his education in a German

institution.

Pester Lloyd (Imperialist), Buda-Pesth.-The Roman Catholic Church will soon have to refrain from favoring the Panslavists. The Germans will not allow themselves to be imposed upon for ever. At Zablya, in Hungary, 650

Catholic inhabitants have seceded to the Lu theran faith. Archbishop Czasska had ordered that their church should be given to the Hungarians, and refused to allow them services in their own language. They took leave of their beloved pastor amid tears, but refused to listen to his solicitations, and preferred to change their faith to becoming slaves of the Hungarians.

AFFAIRS IN THE BALKAN. The Bulgarians show a strong inclination to emancipate themselves from Russian influence. The Russian Government attempts to counteract this by sowing dissension.

Mail Courant (Conservative), Amsterdam. About the middle of April will begin the elections in Bulgaria for the Sobranje, which will be asked to revise Section 38 of the Constitution. This article provides that no Prince of Bulgaria may be a Roman Catholic. There is, however, no doubt that the law will be revised in favor of Prince Ferdinand. The Bulgarians are so fond of their ruler, and so pleased with his marriage, which insures them a connection with powerful countries and a strong dynasty, that they will certainly not deny the asked-for revision.

The Russian Government is not very much

Glasgow Herald (Liberal Unionist).-In few places is greater hostility being manifested towards the Home-Rule Bill than in Newcastle, for which constituency the Chief Secretary for Ireland is one of the sitting members. Large and enthusiastic meetings were held during last week, when resolutions of protest against the Government measure were unanimously adopted. It is proposed to continue these meetings until Easter week, when on the 6th of April a great demonstration will take place in

the People's Palace.

THE PANAMA CANAL.

The extent to which France has suffered by the Panama affair is being more clearly comprehended. Nevertheless the people are inclined to believe that the punishment has fallen too heavily on Charles de Lesseps. That the friendly relations between France and Russia have suffered by the Panama affair is denied

in France.

Nieuws van den Dag (Conservative), Amster-
dam.-The Figaro sent some time ago a mem-
ber of its staff to Panama to examine what
amount of work had already been accom-
plished, and to ascertain how much money
would be needed to complete the canal. The
result of the investigation is not very hope-in-
spiring. The shareholders have paid all to-
gether about 1,400,000,000 francs, of which
769,000,000 only have been expended for the
canal. Four hundred and forty-one millions
of these were spent for actual work and 328,
000,000 in buying the grounds. The value of
the assets is about 300,000,000. Nearly 30
kilometres of the 75 have been dug out.
is about two-fifths of the whole, but if it is taken
into consideration that the completed part is the

That

easiest, then it can be reckoned at about only one-quarter of the whole. At least 1,050,000,000 francs more are needed to finish the canal. It will pay at best about 50,000,000 a year eight years after it is finished. That is not quite five per cent. Better let well alone. It is not advisable to risk another 1,050,000,000 in a business that will at best pay only a small interest. In the face of all this the Estafette says that the Panama affair has not hurt the prestige of the Republic. Is not this rather optimistic?

But it

The audience endeavored to guess what the
Journal des Débats (Independent), Paris.—
verdict would be, and the conclusion arrived at
generally was that with the exception of Bai-
haut all would be found guilty or all acquitted.
The verdict did not justify these predictions;
the decision of the jury is well known.
was sad to watch the emotion and dejection of
the people throughout the room when the fore-
man of the jury was asked: Is Charles de Les-
seps guilty of having corrupted Baihaut ? and
answered Yes" to this question. The people
looked at each other; they did not understand
condemned man.
anything except that Charles de Lesseps was a

La République Française (Rep.), Paris.-He did not hold in the Republic the full position to which his manly virtues and robust intellect entitled him. But the Republicans of to-morrow will rank him with the noblest citizens and the best servants of his country.

La Justice (Bourgeois) Paris.-We have always doubted the merits of his policy, but standing beside his open tomb let us only recall the fact that he took part with great energy in the struggle waged to secure the triumph of the Republic, and let us honor the Republican who disappears.

terity will judge him, but we may say at once La Lanterne (Red Republican), Paris.—Posthat Ferry holds among the founders and servitors of the Republic a position which will ever be prominent in the history of the liberation

of France.

Le Radical, Paris.-The election of the departed statesman to the presidency of the Senate pleased his friends and perturbed his adversaries. His death, however, will comfort nobody, but will afflict his immediate partisans and spread uneasiness among them.

Le Soleil (Orleanist), Paris.—The disappearance of Ferry makes a great gap in the ranks of the veterans of the Republican Party. He was a narrow-minded and sectarian party man, utterly destitute of generosity, but he was a

man.

Gaulois (Imperialist), Paris.—All that the Republic calls its own sprang from Ferry, and every Republican should go into mourning for him. But if he deserved well of his party he excluding from public education the idea of was of ill-omen to the country at large, for by God, he was an important factor in the country's demoralization.

Journal des Débats (Independent), Paris.M. Jules Ferry was a force the loss of which the country may have cause to regret. He will leave in history the souvenir of an honest man, to whom his adversaries could never refuse their esteem.

L'Estafette (Democratic), Paris.—France and the Republic have sustained an irreparable loss. For us, his friends, the blow is terrible.

THE CHURCH PRESS.

The Northwestern Christian Advocate (Chi cago) says on the same subject:

"

VIRCHOW ON THE "MISSING LINK."

Apropos of the visit of the famous Professor Virchow, of Berlin, to this country, The Christian Guardian (Meth.), of Toronto, says:

of the Baltimore Conference to do this has been considered in this polyglot Congress of Religaroused. The Western Christian Advocate ions. Vices exist here and are nurtured in a SPECULATIONS ON IMMORTALITY. (Cincinnati) says: country where people are overwhelmingly Christian, which ought not to be even tolerUnder the title, An Easter Fantasy," The The Baltimore Conference is the first in theated; there are practices which other nations history of Methodism to launch a proposition would not permit. We notice with some surChristian Union (undenominational) advances the design of which is to discredit and nullify prise the absence [in the programme of this. the idea that immortality may be the lot of the official action of the General Conference. proposed Congress] of any treatment of Re-some persons, and not of others. It says: In this alone is its offense. It is the using of a ligion and the National Life, especially with There is current the story of a French Chris- sacred and unchallenged right in a way never reference to other nations. tian, who, to a long argument of a deistical contemplated by the founders of the Churchfriend against the immortality of the soul, re-used in this case expressly to resist and defeat the general right to send down an overture, plied tersely: Probably you are right. Probably you are not immortal; but I am.' action on a pending submission by the General The Conference.. If the reply usually passes for nothing more than a action under happy repartee; but are we so sure that there question is not rank with the spirit of nullificais not a profound philosophy in it? We have tion, then there is no such thing as nullificaProfessor Virchow, by far the most celebeen, perhaps, accustomed to think of the soul tion. as a generic thing possessing immortality; but with great emphasis, in the teeth of the ultrabrated of German scientists, has just declared may it not be true that there are differences in Darwinians, that there exists a barrier between souls that go deep enough to raise the question whether, in some, anything is left capable of When certain changes in our Church consti- men and beasts that can never be removed. surviving death? Nay! may we not go fur-tution are made, concurrent action by the The heredity of transmissible faculties is an ther, and at least question whether in each one General Conference and by the Annual Confer-impassable dividing-line between men and of us immortality may not be a matter of de-ences must ordain that change. The concurA few years ago it was generally begree; that some are more immortal than others rence may be initiated by either the General lieved, says Professor Virchow, that a small because in some there is more and in others Conference or by the Annual Conferences.number of human beings were the " missing less which is capable of surviving death? Neither party to the change can govern the link between human beings and the higher animals. action, or compel action, unless it may be that But a careful examination of these the quadrennial body is inferentially instructed races has shown that they are organized exto act by the fact the legal majority in the An- actly as we are, or are even superior in organization to us. The " nual Conferences is actually realized. missing link" remains a The mode of admission which the Baltimore myth. Professor Virchow's testimony is a nut Conference deprecates is an indirection. We which will break the teeth of the materialists. prefer that the inevitable admission of woman They can produce no one whose authority is. to the General Conference should be through equally as great. the direct door. She is entitled to nothing less. Her final admission should go upon conservatism which had done the utter best for historical record as the final conquest of the

CHURCH UNION.

The subject of a federal union between "the Reformed Churches in this land holding the Presbyterian System," is nearing a decision. The classes take a vote on the question this month, three of them having voted last Fall, all in the affirmative. The Christian Intelligencer, organ of the Reformed Church in America,

says:

itself.

Is difference of belief within confessional limits an insuperable bar to a Federal Union? Are opinions of individuals, or a church's acCHRISTIANS AND CIVIL LIFE. cepted standards to be the touchstone of its The obligation of Christians to interest themorthodoxy? In other words, Is Federal Union selves more actively in civic affairs is a subject only possible among churches identical in belief and practice? To reject this proposed that receives increasing attention from the Federation on the arguments presented, is not Church journals. The Christian Observer only to postpone to another generation the re- (Presb.), of Louisville, refers to the utterances union of churches which ought never to have of Judge McCord, of Texas, to the effect that been separated, but to declare there can be no union of churches until all are ready to aban- more persons were murdered in 1892 in Texas don their own organization and come into ours. in the whole of Europe, Great Britain, It would be painful and humiliating for a and the Continent." The Observer says that church which is of the broad and catholic a similar condition is to be observed in Louisspirit of ours, to declare itself narrow and big-ville, 40 out of 800 or 900 deaths of men in oted, as it would do by such an act. that city during the year being the result of murder. It speaks of political causes for this, and then adds:

THE JEWS AND INTER-MARRIAGE. Referring to the statement made (we believe) by a prominent Jewish Rabbi of this city that the Jews were not opposed to intermarriage, The Hebrew Standard (New York) speaks sarcastically:

The aching after notoriety by some of our own city Rabbis, is quite remarkable. We are now told that the Jews were never opposed to intermarriage; there is no rule against it. The opposition and the rule is on the other side of the fence. Splendid pulpit pyrotechnics! Next!

than "

apes.

REVISION OF CREEDS.

The Mid-Continent (Presb.), of St. Louis, concludes an editorial on revision of the Westminster Confession, as follows:

On the whole it seems that the heartiness and zeal for revision are not what they were two years ago, and that its prospect of success at the present time is more doubtful than it then appeared.

to the doctrine commonly held in the Christian Church in the past. The Christian Advocate And yet, back of all this is the fact that Christians are not exercising the personal in- (Meth. Episc.) devotes two columns to con-fluence on the morals and the tone of the com-troverting the position, point by point. The munity that they should, and that they could. following is an extract: The census tells us that one-fifth of the people of this country are professing Christians. If we would exert ourselves as we ought, the number of homicides in this country would not continue to be as it now is.

It says:

The Christian-at-Work (undenominational), of New York, touches on the same general subject of the responsibility of Christians for the conditions of public life, in its comments "THE WOMAN QUESTION.". on the World's Parliament of Religions to be The " woman question" in the Methodist held in Chicago during the Columbian ExposiEpiscopal Church-the admission of women as tion. delegates to the General Conference—is again. The plan of the Congress covers a great precipitated by the action of the Baltimore | deal of ground; and, while its results may in noAnnual Conference. Heretofore the General wise affect the relations now existing between Conference has framed the propositions to be voted upon, and submitted them to the Annual Conferences. Now the Baltimore Conference has decided to vote on a proposition of its own and then to submit it to the other Annual Conferences. If adopted it will then come before the next General Conference (1896) for final action. Considerable discussion as to the right

the different religious systems, it may, as it
doubtless will, be of especial service in laying
bare before all the defects of their own relig-
ion. In this respect the discussions may ren-
der an important service to Christianity. For
with all that Christianity claims for itself and
which must be conceded, with all that it has
done in the past, is doing now, and promises
to do for the future, it has many and most
serious shortcomings which may be profitably

We have read powerful arguments by avowed Universalists, who have wrestled with the tellectual vigor as to elicit admiration; but for Scriptures in a manner displaying such inunsupported assertions, combined with an ignoring of the real difficulties, and an arrangement of words so as to deceive the unwary, the Christian Union's article surpasses any composition on the subject. It has nothing to say about Gehenna; much about Hades; nothing to say of our Saviour's explicit words: "Ye shall die in your sins, and whither I go ye cannot come." The idea of probation after death virtually implies that God has not done all that He can do in the present life to save His earthly, human children. The Christian Union's ideas of sin, regeneration, future punishment and itsgrounds, the atonement, the nature of Christ, the resurrection of the body, and of a scheme of life in harmony with the teachings of our Lord and His apostles, are disintegrating. They have the effect of an opiate upon the impenitent; they tend to diminish anxiety for theimmediate conversion of their children, in the hearts of Christian parents; for according to its teachings, this life is not the only time to insure the great reward.

Index to Periodical Literature. Money as an International Question. E. Benj. An- Industrial Problem (The) in Australia.

Dimension (The Fourth). Mathematical and Spirit- Hawaii-Our Prospective Territory. Frank H. Pal-
mer. Education, March, 6 pp. Descriptive.
London and the Isle of Wight.-Notes of a Short
Trip Abroad. Jenny June. Home-Maker, March,
15 pp. Illus. Descriptive.

Adams, Jr., late U. S. Minister to Brazil. N. A. Diggers (The) of Thirty Years Ago. Helen M. Care

Rev., April, 6 pp. The two especial faults pointed out are, the methods by which Consuls are chosen. and the change of administrations. Democratic Party (The) and the Currency. The Hon.

R. P. Bland, Chairman of the Com. on Coinage,
Weights, and Measures of the House of Representa-
tives. N. A. Rev., April, 81⁄2 pp. Democratic policy
in relation to the currency.

Fenianism. Capt. John M. Tobin. Donahoe's Mag.,
April, 10 pp. History of Fenianism.
Home-Rule Bill (the), The Peers and. Thomas C.
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I told the professor that I had seen it used. The English papers use it frequently in speaking of the it refers to any member of the crew, or only to sailors belonging to war-ships. I do not know if JAMES R. SPENCER.

When Should Terms be United into or animal: "Blessed shall be the fruit of thy | war vessel, but we could not find it in Webster's. Compound Words and When body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit Used Separately? Great Confu- of thy cattle."-Deut. xxviii.: 4. Gradually the sion in the Practise of Writers word became restricted to edible products of Determined by Definite Gramplants, including all grains. matical Principles - The Synonyms of Fruit-A Man-of-War'sMan.

[NOTE.-Definitions that appear from time to time in these columns, are covered by the copyright of the Standard Dictionary. These definitions have not passed their final revision.]

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How to Use the Terms Fruit, Vegetable, Grain, Nut, etc.

"I wish you would define the word fruit in the Voice, so as to show in what manner a fruit is distinguished from a vegetable. The tomato, although botanically considered a fruit, is in every-day language almost always classed as a vegetable." "BROOKLYN, N. Y. JERE. GINDERS."

In all departments of the STANDARD DICTIONARY, special care is taken to give clearly the ordinary specific meaning of words as they are used by well-informed people generally; and in the Synonym Department we discriminate between terms similar in meaning or associated in In the manuscript copy of the Dictionary we find under the word fruit, the following: fruit-[The definition which will appear in the Dictionary is here omitted].

use.

"Fruit of all kinds, in coat Rough, or smooth rind, or bearded husk, or shell." -Milton, P. L., v. 341.

In botany, a fruit of a flowering plant is the matured seed-vessel and its contents, together with such accessory parts as become finally incorporated with them. Thus, in the botanical sense, not only apples, pears, peaches, tomatoes, figs, etc., but all berries, nuts, grains, beans, peas, pumpkins, squashes, cucumbers, and melons, as well as pinecones, the samaras or winged seeds of the maple, ash, or elm, and many other products, are fruits. Popular usage has, however, become much narThe grains have been dropped, and the tendency is to drop nuts also, so that a fruit is now generally understood to be the fleshy and juicy product of some plant, usually tree or shrub (and nearly always containing the seed), which, when ripe, is edible without cooking, and adapted for use as a dessert rather than as a salad. The eating, is classed among fruits, and we sometimes quince, however, though usually cooked before speak of poisonous fruits, as the berries of the

rower.

nightshade. ¿

the sailors.

"IRON MOUNTAIN, MICH."

In accordance with the determination to have each techinal term defined by a specialist in the science or vocation to which such words belong, the phrase, “man-of-war's man,' "" was referred to the United States Bureau of Navigation. The following we find filed with the information secured for our definers:

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"Your inquiry concerning the term 'man-ofwar's man,' has been referred from the Bureau of The Sailor's Navigation to me for an answer. Word Book, by Admiral Smyth, R.N., and revised by Vice-Admiral Belcher, R.N., defines man-ofwar's man, A seamen belonging to the royal navy'; the Century Dictionary, An enlisted man belonging to a man-of-war and Hamersly's Naval Encyclopedia,One of the crew of a man-ofwar, as distinguished from a sailor in the merchant marine. In criticism of the two American definitions, I remark that at sea I may have a colored boy as my servant and to wait at the mess-table. He is enlisted and is one of the crew of a man-ofthere are a host of men serving on board naval war, and yet no one in the naval service would call such mess-boy a man-of-war's man. vessels in different capacities, to whom the term man-of-war's man, does not properly belong. I should define man-of-war's man, A seamen serving on board of a government vessel of war' The term 'government' is used advisedly on account of there being private vessels of war.

In short,

"F. M. WISE. "Lieutenant-Commander U.S.N., in charge. "NAVY DEPARTMENT, LIBRARY AND NAVAL WAR RECORDS, WASHINGTON, D. C."

A vegetable, in the popular sense, is any part of an herbaceous plant commonly used for culinary purposes, and may consist of the root, as in the beet and turnip; the stem, as in the asparagus, celery, and rhubarb (or pie-plant); a tuber, or underground stem, as in the potato; the foliage, as in cabbage and spinach; or of that which is botanically the fruit, as in the tomato, bean, peu, Our Special Advance Offer,

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