sort of pretext for misrepresenting the local management of this great enterprise. They have confounded that which is no integral or substantial part of the Fair itself with the Exposition proper, and have endeavored to make out that one cannot see this great Exposition except at enormous cost. The truth is that a single ticket of admission covers the whole inclosed area of the Fair and every building of the Fair proper within that area. There will be no extortion. There has been organized a bureau of information which will assist all strangers upon application to places of lodging, and give them all information possible to secure their comfortable abode here during such period as they may choose to visit the Fair.

Union Signal (W. C. T. U.). Chicago.There is reason to believe that an unusually large number of procurers and procuresses are abroad in the country gathering up young and venturesome girls for the dens of vice in this city. The most attractive palaces of sin will be located as near Jackson Park as property can be rented for such purposes. Many of these infamous purveyors masquerade as keepers of intelligence offices. Undoubtedly a large number of persons are doing a legitimate business between the "out-of-works" and the " out-of-helps," but it is not easy to identify the honest ones, and the difficulty has become greater since the city does not require the business to be licensed.

FOREIGN INTEREST IN THE FAIR. Frequent allusions in the foreign journals to the Columbian Exposition and to the exhibits being sent or already sent, indicate a world

wide interest in the event.

Japan Weekly Gazette.-By the courtesy of Mr. Nozawaya we have been enabled to inspect a most lovely collection of embroidered fabrics about to be despatched to Chicago. The centrepiece of the whole is a marvelous piece of embroidery, the favorite peacock being the subject. To show the superiority of the needle over the brush in this land of art, or rather the close rivalry which exists between them, this splendid silken panel is shown in duplicate, one being painted, the other embroidered. The latter carries the

palm without difficulty, and is as fine a piece

of work as we have seen.

things which are sent to the World's Fair is a
collection of photographs made by the cele-
brated chemist Dr. Paul Jeserich. These
photographs show the different appearances of
the blood when poisonous gases have entered
it-as carbonic acid gas. How greatly this will
assist in the detection of crime is shown by a
recent criminal case in Berlin. The blood of
a half-consumed body found in the ruins of a
burned house was examined, and it was proved
that no carbonic acid gas had entered it, and
that the man must have been dead before the
fire. This led to the discovery that the deceased
had been murdered, and the perpetrator of the
deed, the victim's own son, confessed in the face
of overwhelming circumstantial evidence.

Neue Freie Presse, Vienna, Austria.—An ex-
hibition has been held here of the specimens
of female handiwork which will be sent to
Chicago by the Austrian Woman's Association.
The exhibition was open for a few days only,
but it was well worth visiting. Archduke
Charles Louis, the well-known connoisseur,
presided over the board of judges. We would,
however, suggest that the spelling on the little
gilded tickets attached to the objects, be some-
what improved. The word prize " should
be changed to
price to prevent mistakes by
the Americans who may wish to buy.

rest of the world, our city is sending its contin-
Der Bund, Berne, Switzerland.-Like all the
gent to the World's Fair.

"

The Eco said in its last issue that there was
La Epoca (Conservative), Madrid, Spain.—
some difficulty in the Ministry with regard to
the cost of the journey of the "Infantas
Donna Eulalia and Don Antonio to Chicago.
We can inform our contemporary that he is
mistaken. These princes are very proud to
represent Her Majesty and the Nation, and
they are, as members of some of the richest
families, quite able to provide the expenses.
It has, however, been said that Her Majesty
offered to contribute 100,000 pesetas [$20,000]
toward the expenses.

VARIOUS COMMENTS.

The Press, Utica, N. Y.-All those who are to have passes to the World's Fair at Chicago must be photographed, so that the portrait may adorn one corner of the pasteboard which gives them free entrance, thus insuring against transfer of passes.

Japan Weekly Mail.—Some surprise will certainly be caused by the paucity of master-pieces The Post, Cincinnati.-Among the numerous in a branch [keramics] with which Japan's name has been so long connected. Speaking broadly, World's Conventions to be held at Chicago none will be watched with more earnest interthere are two schools of keramists in Japan at present. The one may be called the Yoko-est than the World's First Parliament of Relig

ions.

The Herald, Boston.-The American Bible Society has arranged to distribute 250,000 copies of the New Testament at the World's Fair. These are the only things that will be free there, so far as heard from up to date.

kings have done as kings, or dukes as dukes,
Both abroad and at home
or lords as lords.
men take pride in their family trees, and
heraldic devices are not unknown in American
homes; but while there will be a building for
the Swedes there is none for the Smiths, or
the Vere de Veres. It is a magnificent
"free-
for-all," and Burke's Peerage would con-
stitute a poor guide to the glories of the Ex-
position. If the contributions from all races
indicate a common humanity, the absence of
eminence in any social class indicates a gov-
ernment of the people as the only rational
basis for just authority.

The Press, Troy, N. Y.-Unless the unexpected intervene, the Columbian Exposition will be the grandest ever witnessed on this Copernican footstool. Every quarter of the world will be liberally represented in the exhibits and attendance, and a month at the Fair will be an education.

THE MORMON TEMPLE.

The recent dedication of the Temple in Salt Lake City, after 40 years of building, is commented upon as follows by the secular press:

at Salt Lake is a monument to man's fanatical The Journal, Chicago.-Polygamy's Temple folly and lust. On its tablets should be graven and other murderous acts of the Latter Day the records of the Mountain Meadow massacre Saints.

The Globe, Chicago.-The man who imagines for a moment that Mormonism is dead or even moribund is simply mistaken.

The News, Newark, N. J.-The prediction that with the eradication of polygamy out of the creed of Mormonism the sect would lose its drawing power. seems to lack foundation, judging from the jubilation at Salt Lake City over the approaching dedication of the Temple.

The Sun, New York City.-The original Mormon Temple in Nauvoo had some agreeable features in its courses of polished limestone; and the old Mormon Tabernace in Salt Lake City is a massive curiosity; but from an artistic point of view the Temple just dedicated is hardly worthy even of that hotchpot of superstition and imposture known as Mormonism.

The Press, Philadelphia.-There will always be an admiration for patience and a willingness to endure suffering and hardships for what is believed to be principle. And if the cloak of forgetfulness could be drawn over the crimes and immoralities of the Mormons, there would be a spontaneous admiration for their patience in enduring trials and for the results they have accomplished in spite of almost superhuman

difficulties.

hama School. The other is the SinicoJapanese School. To the former we owe a mass of objects in the ornamentation of which profusion of color and lavishness of labor are set conspicuously above excellencies of technique and chastity of taste. Every one is familiar with the products of this school. The Journal, Minneapolis.-There is a They figure by hundreds on the shelves of bric-a-brac dealers, the features of their deco-strong probability that on May 1, when the World's Fair is formally opened, there will be ration being mobs of saints, crowds of warriors, or gardens of flowers, painted with a condition of affairs on the grounds very closely resembling chaos. Good judges say microscopic accuracy, but associated, in the great majority of cases, with crude pâte and that the show will not be presentable until in sixty-three years made such strides as that

technically defective glazes. Such specimens have been ruthlessly excluded from the Fine Art Section at Chicago.

to form branches.

June. May is a wretchedly disagreeable month
in Chicago any way.
The crowds are not
likely to swarm there then.

fanaticism.

The North American, Philadelphia.-Strictly speaking, Mormonism is not a cult, but a not to-day number at least a quarter million of Had it been a religion, it could disciples and a priestly order comprising about thirty thousand persons.

No religion has ever

indicates. The Jews were more than four hundred years in making such progress. Christianity was at least two hundred years in gaining such headway. The progress of Mormonism is paralleled only by that of Mohanimedan

The Times, New York City.-Whether it is Chemnitzer Tageblatt, Chemnitz, Saxony. How great an interest the public takes in the decided that the opening ceremonies of the World's Fair shall take place under cover or ism. Chicago Exhibition is proved by the fact that out-of-doors, it is to be hoped that those who the companies which were formed for journey-have charge of them will draw a lesson from The Evening Standard, Troy, N. Y.-The ing thither, all named too narrow a limit in the experience of "Dedication Day" last building is 1862 feet long and 99 feet wide. the number of their members, and have now October. The lesson is that the ceremonies With the towers it covers an area of 21,850 should not consist of speeches, which are in-square feet. The foundation is 16 feet thick audible to most of the spectators, but shall and 16 feet deep. On this the granite walls comprise a pageant as impressive and effective are 9 feet thick on the bottom, and narrow to 6 feet at the square. There are six towers, three on the east and three on the west. The corner towers are 26 feet square at the base. Those on the east are 200 feet high and on the west 194 feet. The east central tower of the building is 2222 feet high, surmounted by a figure with a trumpet proclaiming the gospel.

Argus, Capetown, Africa.—The native boys, who are proceeding to Chicago to work the diamond washing-machine, have arrived here. Three of them are splendid specimens of the Zulu race, the tallest being six feet six inches,

and the others also over six feet.

Münchener Neue Nachrichten, Munich. Germany. Among the countless interesting

as can be managed.

The Observer (Evangelical), New York City. There are buildings and galleries for the massing together of the products of nations, but none for the product of classes. There is not so much as a closet in which to show what

Austria

ULSTER AND HOME RULE. !porated and autonomous unions, in reply to most violent protests would be heard from Sir Michael Hicks-Beach's reference to the every anti-Home-Ruler in the United KingUnited States, is unanswerable. Holland and dom. Belgium, he said, had tried incorporative union, and a divorce was the result. and Hungary had tried it, and given it up. Russia's incorporation of Poland, a case of the lamb lying down inside the lion, was the only successful instance Mr. Gladstone cited; and as to that, he remarked, with telling emphasis, "Take your stand thereon if you think fit. Let the Opposition make it the model of their operations. To all unions but one principle can be applied, and that is whether they require

The reports cabled to this country representing that the people in Ulster are preparing to take up arms if necessary to prevent the consummation of Home Rule in Ireland on the plan of the Bill now before Parliament, have naturally stimulated interest in this country. Mr. Gladstone's speech on the second reading of the Bill is also widely commented upon. As is well known the daily press of this country, so far at least as it is outspoken on the subject, permanent maintenance by force. If, when the that no one expects the Bill to be endorsed by

is almost unanimous in favor of the HomeRule Bill. We publish below representative utterances from leading journals of various political affinities, from several of the most influential Church journals of Protestant and Catholic faith, and from several of the leaders of thought in England.

THE SECULAR PRESS.

The Tribune (Rep.), New York, April 6. Mr. Balfour has appealed to Protestant Ulster to defeat the Home-Rule Bill. That is the motive of his mission to Belfast, and he does not attempt to conceal his purpose. Mr. Gladstone has succeeded in satisfying the demands of four-fifths of the Irish representatives. He has also convinced the Liberal members of England, Scotland, and Wales that the HomeRule Bill is an act of justice to Ireland and a statesmanlike measure, tending to promote the interests of peace and union. He has the votes at his command by which this Bill can be forced through the Commons in the course of a few weeks. It is in this crisis that Mr. Bal

force disappears, harmony remains, the union
is good."
The parallels Mr. Gladstone
cited would be sufficient to establish conviction
in almost any assembly but that in which they
were made.

The Sun (Dem.), New York City, April 9.—
There have been epochs in English history
when men would have risked their heads by
such open and defiant abetting of treason as is
now practised by the leaders of Her Majesty's
Opposition. What Mr. Balfour and Lord
Randolph Churchill are now doing is to en-
courage Orangemen in threats to resist, by in-
surrection, an Act of the Imperial Parliament;
for, since a Dublin Legislature would owe its
existence to such an Act, its authority would
have to be supported with military force by the
power creating it. It is quite possible that
some of the Orangemen are sincere in their
truculent talk, but they are deluded if they
fancy that Lord Randolph or Mr. Balfour or
any other clear-headed Englishman will sustain
them for a moment after a Home-Rule Act is
passed. All the Tory leaders want is to use,
the present agitation in Ulster as a scarecrow
at the coming general election.

The Herald (Ind.), Boston, April 8.-While there are questions of detail in connection with this suggested law to which a number of the Liberals might take exception, we are inclined to believe that they will not consider it expedient to antagonize it upon any of its readings, but that the entire Liberal Party will join the Irish Home-Rulers in carrying it through the House in substantially the form in which it has been reported. Our reason for thinking that this course will be adopted is the House of Lords. It is certain to be defeated there, and then it will be necessary to make an appeal to the country by a dissolution of Parliament. If the country elects to the

House of Commons another considerable Home-Rule majority, then the matter will be taken up and put through with the idea of the definite enactment of the law.

FROM CHURCH PAPERS.

The Republic (Cath.), Boston, April 1.—The census statistics prove that Ulster is a Catholic and not a Protestant province. They also prove that the Catholics in the entire island are in a clear majority of 2,379,864. If Ireland is to be governed under the principle of majority rule it is inevitable that the Catholics shall hold sway. But as the Catholics have always shown liberality and tolerance in politics to those who differ with them in religion, there is no reason to fear that the rights of anybody could be infringed.

The Churchman (Prot. Episc.), New York City, April 8.-The Irish Church has uttered a very strong protest against the establishment in Ireland of that Home Rule which is outlined

The Free Press (Dem.), Detroit, April 6.four appears in Belfast to encourage the Ulster Ulster's ostentatious preparation for armed in the Bill which Mr. Gladstone is introducing Loyalists to enter upon a desperate struggle resistance to the Home-Rule Bill under the against what he calls a tyrannical majority, It is an appeal designed at once to stimulate encouragement of misguided Tories, is very religious zeal and to arouse political animosi- likely to influence English sentiment in a diIt points plainly to armed resistance rection directly opposite from that intended. The British people are not easily bulldozed, against a measure which may ultimately be and when a cause is backed by a threat of sanctioned by Parliament. It is the last rebullets it is pretty certain to be defeated by source of the Unionist leaders.

ties.

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are

ballots.

The Evening Post (Dem.), Chicago, April 5.When the position of the speaker [Balfour] is considered, it would be impossible to imagine a more insidious incitement to sedition than is contained in these words from that remarkable He could not wonder, he said, that address.

to the Parliament at Westminster. This action,
coming so soon after the demonstration in
Ulster on the part of Orangemen and Prot-
estants, is very significant. It is always un-
fortunate when religious distinctions are the
badges of party politics.
A religious
war, whether of words or of swords, is never
ended, and never can end, and Home Rule for
Ireland is quite out of the question until the sub-
ject be cleared of all religious complications,
and the matter be settled by statesmen on
grounds of practical expediency, such as men
of all religious denominations will accept as
the only real point at issue.

The Examiner (Bapt.), New York City, April6.-When certain excited people of Ulster threaten forcible resistance to any Irish Parliament, and ostentatiously begin to buy arms on a large scale, it is a fair question whether the limits of constitutional agitation have not been surpassed. If there should be any outbreak hereafter in Ulster, some of the Tory and Unionist statesmen who have been coquetting with treason will have a heavy account

to settle.

The Press (Rep.), New York, April 7.-The astonishment which some people feel because English Dissenters and Scotch Presbyterians are ready to grant local autonomy to the Irish people grows in large part out of the notion that Roman Catholics and Protestants ought naturally to contend against each other in everything. Undoubtedly the Protestant spirit, such a crazy and unjust measure as the last as such, is much more aggressive among the one concocted by Mr. Gladstone had exhausted Nonconformists than within the Church of the forbearance of the Ulster Loyalists. He England. It seems amazing, therefore, to could not wonder that their indignation had superficial observers that, while Protestant broken over all bounds, and that they felt Ulster is all stirred up with violent antago- ready to resort to extreme measures for the nism to measure universally desired by defense of their rights. He prayed to God Roman Catholic Leinster, Munster, and that the Irish Loyalists would not be compelled Connaught, the to fight for their rights. He believed that most intense Protestants in England, Scotland, and Wales such a calamity would be averted; yet the in full accord on this great political tyranny of majorities might be found to be as The Interior (Presb.), Chicago, April 6.-The issue with Roman Catholic as against Protestant bad as the tyranny of kings. He could not Ireland. But a deeper view solves the mystery. deny conscientiously that what was justifiable Conservative and Liberal Union opposition We witness simply the triumph of a great prin- against a tyrannical king was under certain lose no opportunity of impeding the progress They are resorting to the ciple which points one way over a compara- circumstances justifiable against a tyrannical of the measure. tively trifling exception which points the other majority. He trusted, however, that such cir- very tactics they formerly condemned never arise. We way. The millions of British Christians whose cumstances would can unsparingly. fundamental political belief it is that people of imagine what the Right Honorable Arthur all creeds should have equal privileges in gov- James Balfour would have done two years ago ernmental affairs are just and consistent enough if Mr. John Dillon or Mr. William O'Brien to see and acknowledge that the circumstance had addressed such words to a crowd of that a majority of Irishmen are Roman Cath- Tipperary farmers. He would have clapped olics is no reason why Ireland should not enjoy 'em into jail without so much as by your leave. the right of local self-government. The Journal (Ind.), Providence, R. I., April The Inter-Ocean (Rep.), Chicago, April 9.7.-Whether Home Rule is desirable or not, The veteran Premier's speech, in moving the the agitation in its behalf is being conducted second reading of the Bill, seems to have been within constitutional limits; and when its opas effective as his first great speech introducing ponents appeal to violence, either directly or it. It would be strange if it were not. Mr. by implication, they place themselves clearly Gladstone never shows to better effect than in the wrong. Threats of force, which the when it is necessary for him to put forth all his Ulstermen are making and eminent Constrength, and on such an occasion he is simply | servatives are approving, have not the slightest unapproachable in the legislative assemblies of justification. If scenes similar to those taking modern times. His contrast between incor- place in Belfast were enacted in Cork, the

The Congregationalist, Boston, March 30.It is a most discreditable fact that this policy of opposition, even by force of arms, has been, and undoubtedly still is being, advocated by the Tories, in the hope of thus embarrassing Mr. Gladstone. It hardly seems likely that the opposition can make any great difference to the final establishment of Home Rule, 'although it may interfere seriously with the success of that policy locally.

FOREIGN OPINION.

The Times (Conservative), London.―The important manifesto which has been issued by the Ulster Defense Union shows that the opposition of the Loyalists is becoming stronger day by day. We have the proposals of very

influential persons in the North as to the best | non-commissioned officers take a pleasure in

way of forming an organization which shall
take charge so far as Ulster is concerned of the
resistance to the Bill.
None of the
Nationalists themselves quite like the Home-
Rule measure, and that typical body, the Lim-
erick Corporation, only consents to approve it
after "the necessary financial and other

alterations have been made."

Spectator (Conservative), London.—A kind of insurrection against the Home-Rule Bill is going on in Ireland. The entire wealth, responsibility, and intelligence of the island, Catholic as well as Protestant, is protesting against the measure, declaring that, if passed, it will produce a condition of affairs fatal to prosperity and to peace.

making the army a hell upon earth to recruits.
Since the Representatives cannot be punished
in the Courts for libellous attacks, they should
investigate very thoroughly all charges before
presenting them to the House. And the mem-
bers who are true to the country and concerned
for its welfare should not neglect their duty by
being silent against such attacks.

THE FLOODS IN AUSTRALIA. The last Australian exchanges indicate that the calamity inflicted by the recent inundations in Queensland is equaled only by the worst similar experiences of modern times. Times, Melbourne.-It is plain that the The Athanæum (Liberal), London.—There is Queensland floods represent one of the greatest ample evidence of the fact that a great section disasters which the Australian colonies have of the Opposition, including many of its lead-ever known. Unhappy Brisbane has received ing members, have deliberately adopted the a blow from which it will take years to recover. worst form of Parliamentary obstruction in It is a measure of the scale of the calamity order to embarass the Government and delay inhabitants of the total 20,000 have been that in a single suburb-South Brisbane-8,000 the progress of Home Rule. The revelation of this scandalous policy-in its present scale rendered homeless by the flood, and there are unexampled in the history of Parliament-10,000 people in the city who are dependent has roused the indignation of the Liberals to upon the relief fund for food and shelter. In Brisbane itself the strength of the rushing waters was such that solid iron telegraph poles were bent under it. The most pathetic incident was, perhaps, the tragedy at the Eclipse collieries at Tivoli. Seven miners were at work in the drives when the flood swept over the shaft and filled the mine. The wives of the unfortunate miners below gathered, and actually commenced to frantically dig an opening into the mine in order to rescue their entombed husbands. The destruction of property wrought by the flood is calculated roughly at £2,000,000.

fever heat.

Der Bund (Rep.), Berne, Switzerland. Nine-tenths of the men of reputation in Great Britain are against Home Rule. They aver that it will bring back the dark rule of priesthood, will ruin the British Empire, and will work harm to all Europe by establishing a dangerous precedent. Among the men who express themselves thus are such great authorities as Huxley, Tyndall, Lubbock, and scores of others.

are no indications that his hold on his followers has been weakened.

Die Allgemeine Zeitung des Judenthums (Hebrew), Berlin, Germany.-The Sultan has issued a law which prohibits the Jews from possessing real estate in Palestine and Syria. It is well known that the Sultan is a humane, kind-hearted man, but he fears that an immigration of the Jews en masse might cause a disturbance in those provinces. This proves that there is after all not much difference in the administration of Turkey and that of the country ruled by the cruel Northern despot. In an absolute monarchy the sovereign has the power to be unjust to a whole people, be his reasons good or bad. People will point out to us the recent restrictions upon immigration in America as a parallel. But there is a mighty

SUSPENDING THE TITHES.

The "Suspensory Bill," proposing to suspend the payment of tithes until investigation is made into their administration, is before Parliament. The position taken by dignitaries in the Church of England in reference to this Bill is sharply criticised even by Conservatives.

Land and Water (Conservative), London.— The Archbishop of Canterbury has addressed to the Church wardens through the Bishops an invitation to demonstrate against the Suspensory Bill. It will have been observed that the Archbishop is careful to say in his letter that this movement is not to be a political one. This statement is hardly possible of verification in fact. The fact is that the Church has always regarded itself as safe behind the broad shoulders of the land-owners. The tithe is a first charge upon the land and takes priority of mentaries, were given originally to the clergy for rent. But tithes, according to Stephens's Comthe relief of the poor. The tithe is therefore trust-money, and it is unquestionably within the moral right of Parliament to say how it shall be administered, and whether the trustees have acted up to the intentions of the founders.

difference between such restrictions and rob-
bing the emigrants of the simplest civic rights.
PUBLIC ECONOMY IN JAPAN.
L'Indépendance Belge (Liberal), Brussels,
Belgium.-Rector Ahlwardt has again attacked For a year or so, in the Japanese Parliament,
L'Indépendance Belge (Brussels), March 24.-
men of high reputation in the Government. the Opposition, which is more numerous than
He also says that Bismarck has been influ- the Government Party, has refused to vote
enced by the gold of the Jews. The papers,
however, which he has laid before the House, any appropriations to carry on the Govern
ment. The crisis has been brought to an end
seem to be of no value, and the whole accusa-
in a singular manner. The opponents of the
tion is without foundation.
Cabinet asked the Emperor to act as a sort of
arbitrator between the contending parties. He
consented. One of the demands of the Oppo-
sition was for economy in public expenditures.
The Emperor decreed that ten per cent. should
be deducted from the salaries of all the func-
tionaries in the Empire, and expended in con-
structing cuirassed ships, for which purpose he
agreed to give out of his privy purse a sum
equivalent in our money to 1,500,000 francs
[$300,000] a year for six years. This generosity
won over the Opposition, and the appropria-
tions for carrying on the Government have
been passed.

Kölnische Zeitung (National Lib.), Cologne, Germany. The scenes which have lately occurred in the Reichstag [Ahlwardt's course] are not likely to increase the respect for Parliaments; but since it appears to be impossible for the House to act in concert against objectionable members, a repetition of such scenes must be expected. This abuse of a parliamentary privilege is not confined to Ahlwardt; the Socialists and Radicals (Freisinnigen) are fully his equals in this respect. But when people abroad read these vituperative attacks upon the army, they will be led to believe that 90,000 officers and

MISCELLANEOUS.

BULLET-PROOF CLOTH.

El Diario Barcelonés, Barcelona, Spain. -It appears that the evidence that a bullet-proof cloth has been invented in Germany is conclusive. This will revolutionize warfare. Such a cloth is equivalent to chain-armor, without its weight. It will greatly limit the efficiency of cavalry in pursuit, and, we should say, alter the method of armoring ships. German Staff was incredulous at first, but Dowe, the inventor, subjected his armor to such severe tests that no doubt of its value can be entertained. But no hint of the nature of the composition has been revealed.

A CURIOUS COMPLICATION.

The

An in

Neue Freie Presse (Liberal), Vienna, Austria.-It is wonderful that in our enlightened times a man can be punished twice for the same crime in the same Empire, and all on acAnd yet this has happened more than once in Austria. count of faulty legislation. dividual named Heckenast committed a highway robbery upon Hungarian territory. He spent the proceeds, about 50 gulden ($25), and then delivered himself up to the authorities in Hungary.

He was sentenced to two years in State prison. After serving his term he returned to his former abode, a village in the Duchy of Austria. Here the officious StateAttorney proceeded against him for the second time, claiming that since the man was an inhabitant of Austria, the Hungarian courts had And Heckenast was no jurisdiction over him. again sentenced to the same term of imprisonment, which he is at present serving.

THE TRANSVAAL ELECTIONS.

Mail Courant (Conservative), Amsterdam, Holland.-It appears that in spite of all agitaNativist element holds its own in the South tion on the part of the mining population, the African Republic. Of a total vote of 15,415, Krüger (Republican) received 8,028, General Joubert (Liberal) 7,287, and Chief-Justice Kotze President Krüger has there(Advanced) 100. fore been reëlected by a majority of 641.

A CLEVER DECISION.

Nieuws van den Dag (Conservative), Amsterdam, Holland.-It is not generally known that Argenteuil, as well as Trèves, boasts of the possession of a "holy" coat. The Bishop of Versailles was asked to decide which of the two coats is genuine. He got out of the difficulty in a very neat manner by giving a verdict in favor of Trèves and Argenteuil. He explains this by saying that the one at Argenteuil is an undergarment.

CORNELIUS HERZ AND BISMARCK.

La Patrie, Paris.-Conclusive proof has been obtained that Cornelius Herz was really an agent in the pay of Germany. A letter by him to Prince Bismarck, dated Frankfort July 6, 1886, a copy of which in the handwriting of Herz himself was found among some papers seized a few days ago, leaves no doubt about grand officer of the Legion of Honor. the intrigues of this enemy of Paris, who was a The copy of the letter alluded to is in the possession of the Minister of Justice.

ODDS AND ENDS.

STRANGER (before a menagerie): Is that the lion's roar which I heard just now? CASHIER: No, sir, that was the Director explaining things to his wife.-Journal Amusante, Paris.

ADVERTISEMENT.-A widow who has already three married daughters, wishes to marry her youngest to an eligible man. References: the three sons-in-law.-Journal pour Rire, Paris.

MAMMA (sternly): Don't you know that the great King Solomon said: Spare the rod and spoil the child?

BOBBY (sobbing): Yes, ma, but he said that after he was growed up.-London Punch.

1,005,120

Protestant
Communicants.

102,161 63,021 63,505 327,721 51,183 156.396

763,987

and formalism prior to the Renaissance, and
comments in the following severe language:
No real thinker could have written such stale
and false platitudes. No man who knew history
in truth and grasped its philosophy could have
so grossly misinterpreted and distorted the
spirit of the middle ages. Such a passage from
the pen of Taine, disbars him for ever from
any claim to originality of thought. He was
a platitudinist essentially. He was encased in
the hard unyielding prejudices of a narrow
selfish Protestantism. He cast everything into
that mould, judged everything from that stand-
point and measured the whole universe by his
yardstick of bigotry. His "History of English
Literature" is a wearisome stretch of shallow
bombast and French conceit.

The same journal comments on the recent
celebration of Prince Bismarck's birthday:
The Emperor of Germany sent Leo XIII. a
valuable present upon the occasion of his
Golden Jubilee. Not a word did he send his
grandfather's old Chancellor-what a con-
trast!

O! how wretched

Is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors.

CHURCH UNION.

The subject of denominational union is, in one way or another, the subject of almost continual consideration in the columns of the church press. The Churchman (Prot. Episc.),

of New York, says:

so they went joyfully, angels going before-
them, the Spirit with them, and the blessings
them, followed after them.
of the poor, who had the Gospel preached to
changed. Instead of open-faced, frank bold-
All this became

ness the missionaries went in shamefaced-
emasculated of its attractiveness; and it is no
ness and half-hearted zeal to carry a message
wonder now that hundreds of sermons have to
be preached to make one convert.

THE

FOURTH GOSPEL. The Christian Union (undenominational) controverts the conclusions reached in a recent article in The New World on the Fourth Gospel. The writer, Dr. Cone, argues that this Gospel is not historically authentic, basing his argument chiefly on differences between the reports given in it and those in the other Gospels concerning Christ's character and discourses. The Christian Union says:

The external argument for the historical character of the Fourth Gospel is much stronger than it was a few years ago. The notion that it is a product of the Fourth Century is abandoned; it is clear that, if the Gospel did not itself exist in its present form, which is probable, certainly the material of which it is composed existed at least as early as the latter half of the Second Century. This Gospel, but, coupled with the claim by the does not demonstrate John's authorship of that Gospel itself to be written by John, with the title which it has borne from the earliest days, and with a continuous and undisputed tradition, it makes that authorship extremely probable. The only objection is that which Dr. Cone presents so forcibly in The New World-the objection founded on its internal structure-but which, as we have said, ignores the possibility that Jesus Christ may have presented aspects of character and teaching which were not apprehended by the other biog raphers, and which John did apprehend and desired to present to the world.

It will be observed that while the Catholics usually give "population," which includes all baptized adherents, whether adults or infants, the table reports communicants. This means that no baptized Catholics are counted, except The Methodist Bishop Goodsell says: "There those who have been admitted to communion. is a distinct tendency to unity in and around The percentage of Catholic communi- the Anglican Prayer-Book." That there is such cants to Catholic population is much larger a tendency "in" the book lies on its face. than the percentage of Protestant communi- There is never a public service of Common cants to Protestant population. The latter, of Prayer that does not send up a petition for course, greatly outnumbers the Catholic popu- Christian unity. And that there is such a tenlation-probably, not less than three to one. dency "around" it is manifest from the manThe descendants of the Puritans have ner in which it is winning its way back again not, of course, been converted to the Catholic among non-liturgical Christians. It came under faith. They have emigrated to the great West our own observation last week that a Presbyand to other sections in large numbers. Those terian pastor in a large country town advised who are left do not have, from various causes, his people on the Sunday before Easter to so large a natural increase as obtains among tend the solemn Good Friday service in the foreign populations. New England is likely, Episcopal Church" (which accordingly was full therefore, to become more predominantly of Presbyterians on Good Friday morning); The Hebrew World, of New York, makes. Catholic. and appointed an early morning service in his the Passover week the occasion for the followown place of worship for Easter Day. Weing exhortation to Jews for a more consistent suppose that if such signs of the times could be faith and practice. It speaks of "the prejudice The Churchman's ample columns could not collected from all over the country this year, that exists against us to-day even in this gloricontain the notices that night be written. ous land of civil and religious equality," and says:

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THE HIGHER CRITICISM.

The New York Evangelist (Presb.) refers to symposium" on the subject of Higher Criticism in the columns of Zion's Herald (Meth. Episc.) in the following words:

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A MORMON VIEW OF POLYGAMY. Twenty-five of its chief pastors and doctors, The Saints' Herald, of Lamoni, Iowa, organ including a sprinkle of Congregationalists, of that branch of the Church of Latter Day write briefly on the subject, and what is notable Saints which is opposed to polygamy, quotes not one of them in a despairing, or otherwise remarks lately made by Elder Brigham Young than a hopeful and even confident strain. Only good is to come out of the present search-light in services in the Mormon Tabernacle, Salt process. The new President of Dartmouth. Lake City, in which he admits that the results Dr. Wm. J. Tucker, says: Ministers should of Mormon missionary work are rapidly remember, to begin with, that arbitrary theories declining. This admission forms the text for of inspiration, and artificial views of the Bible the following remarks by The Herald: have made the Higher Criticism necessary.' Dr. W. F. Warren, President of Boston University, writes: "The Higher Criticism of the Bible is as old as the Bible. Indeed, the supreme, world-historic achievement of the Higher Criticism was the settlement of the sacred canon in the early Christian Church.' And he concludes by affirming: "The wise preacher will recognize in all loyal, truthseeking Biblical criticism now and evermore an activity of Christian mind honoring to God and vitally edifying to His church." One and all protest that the very worst attitude that the Christian Church can take is that of timidity and craven apprehension.

Let us not disguise from ourselves the truth, that our own inconsistency, our own want of self-respect, our own lack of principle, has created this dark cloud which looms up so and we will tell you why. The Jew has always portentously. We alone are to blame; been held up as a pattern of religious fidelity, and the tenacity with which through ages of dire persecution he has clung to his faith, has the civilized world. And just at this time, secured for him the respect and admiration of when justice is being accorded us, when How early the seductive doctrine of plural an enlightened civilization is about to place marriage began its paralyzing work it is some- the well-earned laurels of fidelity upon our what hard to tell; but the decadence of brow, we repudiate our past devotion to prinmissionary effort and the spiritual influence of ciple, and sacrifice the fruits of centuries the elders sent out to preach began soon after of suffering for the mistaken idea, that the the accession of President Brigham Young to abandonment of those observances "which the leadership of the church, and by the time have preserved, sustained, and maintained us that polygamy, plural marriage, or celestial to this day," will find favor in the eyes of the marriage was publicly declared by Pres. B. community. We have imitated their form of Young to be a tenet of the Mormon Church, a worship; we have gloried in partaking of their rapid retrogression in spiritual power forbidden food; the barrier of intermarriage and progress took place, until thousands has been broken down; we have discarded to upon thousands in Europe and the United a great extent our Sabbath; instituted Sunday States had revolted, and were surnamed services; repudiated a belief in the Messiah; apostates by the Utah Church. The mis- derided the idea of a restoration; avowed the sionary elders were at the outset a bold, aggressive sort of men. They had been promised the aid of the Spirit of Christ and received it. While it was with them, a word, an exhortation, a sermon won hundreds to the belief of the Gospel. They realized that the faces of Jacob's children did not wax pale; and

Ministry (Educated)-A Plea. The Rev. W. M. B. Esthetics, Disputed Questions of. Cornelius Gurlitt. Glanding. Luth. Quar., April, 16 pp. Why the pulpit needs educated men.