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The Exeter Advocate, 1896-9-24, Page 7'A FORWARD GLIMPSE • THE GREAT DIVINE TALKS OF A •GOOD TIME COMING. The Castles of Sin Aro Going to be Cap- tured—A T11110 of Great Municipal Eleva- tion and Prosperity—The Music of the ' Euture„ ' Washington, Sept. 20.—So much that • is depressing is said about the wicked- eess of cities that it will cheer us to read what Dr. Talmage says in this sermon about their coming redemption. The text is Zechariah viii., 5: "And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets -thereof." Gliinpses a our cities redeemed! Now, boys and girls who play in the streets run such risks that multitudes of them end in ruin. But in the coming thee spolten of our cities will be so moral that lads and lasses shall be as safe in the publics thoroughfares as in the nursery. Pulpit and printing press for the Inost part in oar day are busy in discussing the condition of the cities at this thee, but would not it be healthfully encourag- ing to all Christian workers, and to all who are toiling to make the world bet- ter, if we should for a little while look forward to the time when our cities shall be revolutionized by the gospel of the Son of God, and all the darkness of ein and trouble and crime and suffering shall be gone arona the world? Every man has a pride in the city of his nativity or residence. if it be a city distinguished for any dignity or prolvess. 'Caesar boasted of his native Rome, Vir- gil of Mantua, Lyourgus of Sparta, Demosthenes of Athens, Archimedes of Syracuse and. Paul of Tarsus. I, should .have suspicion of base -heartedness in a men who had no espeolal interest in the city of Ms birth or residence—no exbilar- ntion at the evidence of its prosperity _nr I its artistio embellishments, or its Intel- lectual advaneement. I have noticed that a man never likes a city where he has not behaved well. ' People who bey° had a free ride in the prison van never Mete tbe oity that fur- nished the vehiole. Ween I find .Argos and Modes and Smyrna trying to prove • theinselves the birthplace of Homer, I coeolude at once that Homer behaved well. He liked. them and they liked him. We must not war on lendable city pride, or, with the idea of building ourselves up at any time, try to pull others down. Boston must continue to point to its • Fanueil hall aud to its Common and to its superior editcational advantages, Philadelphia must continue to point to its Indepdendence hall anti its mint and its Girard (+allege. Washington must con- tinue to point to its wondrous caiptoline buildings. If I should 11nd a man coining from any city, having no pride in thet • city, that city havine*been the place of his nativity or now being the place of his residence, I would feel like asking: "What mean thing have you done there? What outrageous thing have you been gtalty of that you do not like the place?" I think we ought—and I take it for , granted you are interested in this great woek of evangelizing the cities and saving the world—we ought to toil ' with the sunlight in our faces. We are • not fighting in a miserable Bull Run of • . defeat. We are on the way to final • Victory. We aro not following the rider on the black horse, leading us down to death and darkness and doom, but the rider on the whit home, with the moon nnder hie feet and the stars of heaven for his tiara. Hail, Conqueror, hall! • I know there are sorrows, and there are sins, and there are sufferings all , around about us, but as in some bitter, cold winter day, when we are thrashing . our arms around us to keep our thumbs ' from freezing, we think of the warm spring day that will after awhile come, or in the dark winter night WO look up and see the northern lights, the win- dows of beaven illuminated by some great victory, just 50 we look up from the night of suffering and sorrow and wretchedness in our cities, and we see a light streaming through from the other side, and we know we are on the way to morning—more than that, on the way to "a morning withont clouds." I want you to understand, all you who are tailing for Christ, that the castles of sin are all going to be captured. The victory for Christ in them great towns is going to be so complete that not a man on earth or an angel in heaven or a devil in hell will dispute it. How do I • know? I know just as certainly as God lives and that this is holy truth. The old Bible is full of it. If the nation is to be saved, of course all the cities are to be saved. It makes a great difference with • you and with me whether we are toiling • on toward defeat or toiling on toward a victory. Now, in this munieipal elevation of which 1 epeak, I bar) to renuirk there •will be greater financial prosperity than • our cities have ever seen. Some people 1 seem to have a morbid idea of the mil- lennium, and they think when the better • thee comes to our cities and the world people will give their time up to psalm singing and the relating of their religi- ous experience, and as all sooial life will be purified there will be no hilarity, and as all business will be purified there will be no enterprise. There is no ground for such an absurd anticipation. In the time of which I speak vshere now one fortune is made there will be a hundred fortanes made. We all know business prosperity depends upon confidence be- tween man and man. Now, when that 4 time comes of which I speak, and when e• all double dealing, all clisbonesta and all fraud are gone out of commensial cir- • cles, thorough confidence wile be estab- lished, and there will bp better business • done, and larger fortunes gathered, and mightier suoesses achieved. The great businesp disasters of this country have come from the work of godless speculators and infatnous stock • gamblers. The groat foe to business is crime, When the right shall have hurled back the wrong, and shall have purl - fled theniornmerolal code, and shall have thundered down frauclulenb establish- ments,. and shall have put into the hands • of honest men the keys • of business, • blessed time for the bargain makees! I . am not talking an abstraclion. I am not making a guess. I am telling you God's •, eternal truth. • In that day of which I speak taxes will be a mere nothing. Now our busi- ness men are taxed for everything. City taxes, bounty taxes, state balms, United States taxes, stain') taxes, license taxes, manufacturing taxes—taxes,Mees, taxes! Our business men have to make a small fortune every year to pay their taxes. ,What fastens on out great industries ,this awful load? Crime, individual and official. We have to pay the board of the ,villains who are incaecerated in our prisons We We have to take 'care of the orphans of those who plunged into their graves through sensual Indulgences. We have to support the municipal govern- ments, which are vast and expensive • just in proportion as the criminal pro- elivities are vast and tremendous. Who support the almshouses and pollee sta- aed all the meethinery of 311111310i - pal governineut? The taxpayers. But in the glorious time of which I speak grievous taxation will all have ceased. There will be no need of sup porting criminals. -Virtue will hay tiaten tbe plaoe of vice. There will • b no orphan asylums, for parents will b able to leave a competency to their chil dram There Will be no voting of larg sums of money for municipal Improve meat, which money, before it gets t the improvements, drops into the poet: ets of those wbo voted it. No oyer all terminer kept up at vast expense to th people, No ernpeaeling of juries to ts theft and arson and murder and slande and blackmail. Better factories. Grande architecture. • Finer equipage. Larger for tunes. Richer opulence. Better churches In that better time, also coming t those cities, Christ's • °hurdles will b more numerous, and they will be large and they will be more devoted to th gospel of Jesus Christ, and they will ao eomplish greater • influences for good Now, it is often the case that ithurche are envious of each other, and even min isters of Christ sometimes forget th bond of brotherhood. But in the time o which I speak, while there will be jus as many differences of opinion as ther are now, there will be no acerbity, n hypercritioism, rio exclusiveness. ' In our great °ides the churches are no to -day large enough to hold more than fourth of the population. The chnrolie • that are •built—comparatively few o them are fully nommieci. The average at tendance in the chanties of the Unite States to -day is not 400. Now, in th glorious time of which I speak there ar • going to be vast ceurches, and they ar going to be all thronged with worship ers. Oh, what rousing • songs they wit • sing! Oh, what earnest sermoes the will Preach! Oh, what fervent prayer they will offer! Now, in your time, wha is called a fashionable church is a pliec wbere a few people baying attende very carefullyeto their toilet, come an sit down—they do not want to b • crowded they like a whole seat to them selves—and then, if they have any tins left from thinking of their etore, and front examining the style of the hat in front of them, they sit and listen to a sermon warranted to hit no man's sins, and listen to mush+ whioh is rendered by a choir warranted to sing tunes that no- body knows. And then after an hour and a half of indolent yawnIng they go home refreshed. Every man feels better after he has had a sleep. In many of the churehes of Christ in our day the Innate 18 simply a mockery. I bave not a cultivated ear, nor a culti- vated voice, yet no rnan can do my singing for me. I have nothing to say against artistic IntISIO. `The V or $5 I pay to hear nay of the great queens of song is a good investment. But when the people assemble he religious convoca- tion, and the hymn is read, nod the angels of God step from their throne to catch the innsic on their wings, do not let us drive them away by our indiffer- ence I have preached ie churches where vast stuns of money wore employed to keep up the nausio, and it was.as exqui- site as any beard on earth, but I theught at the sante time that for all matters practical I would prefer the hearty, out - breaking song of a backwoods Methodist camp ineeting. Let one of these starveling fancy songs sung in church get up before the throne of God—how would it seem standing amid the great doxologies of the redeemed? Let the finest operatic air that ever went up from the church of Christ get intala hours the start; it will be caught and Passed by the Hosanna of the Sabbath school cbildren. I know a church where the choir did all the singing, save one Christiun man, who, through "persever- ance of the saints," went right on. and afterward a committee was appointed to wait on him and ask him if he would not please stop singing, as he bothered the choir. and. salvation. This is to emparadise the nations. .Archimedes destroyed a fleet of ships corning up the harbor, You know bow he did it. He lifted a great sunglaele, history tells us, .and when the fleet of ships came up the harbor of Syracuse he brought to bear tale surgless, aria iie focused the sun's rays upon those ships. Now the sails are wings of fire., the masts fall, the vessels sink. Oh, my friends, by the suegless of the gospel converging the rays of the sun of rigbt- e eonsness upon the sins, theevickedness of 8 the world we will make them blaze and e expire! In that day of which I speak, do you o believe there will be any midnight car- - ousel? Will there be any kioking off ° from the marble steps of shivering a mendicants? Will them be any un- " washed, unfed, uncombed children? Will e there be any blasphemers in the streets? Y Will there be any inebriates staggering r past? No. No wine stores. No lager beer r saloons. No distilleries, where they naalee the three X's. No bloodshot eye. No • bloated cheek. No instruments of ruin 0 and destruction. No Ilst-pounded fore - 0 head. The grandchildren of that worn - ✓ an who goes down the street with a curse, stoned by the boys thatfollovr her, Will be the reformers and pbilanthropists, • and the Christian men and the honest S merchants of our cities. Then what municipal governments, too, we shall bave in all the cities. • Some cities are worse teen others, but t in many of our cities you just evalk e down by the city halls and look in at some of the rooms occupied by politicians and see to what a sensual, loathsome, t ignorant, besotted crew city politics is a often abandoned. Or they stand around a the city hall picking their teeth, waiting for some emoluments of crumbs to fall a to their feet, waiting all day long and u waiting all nightlong. e Who are those wretched evomen taken • up for drunkenness and carried up to the e courts and put in prison of course? What will you do with the grogshops • that make them drink? Nothing. Who • are those prisoners in jail? One of them stole a pair of shoes. That boy stole a dollar. This girl snatched a purse. All • of them crimes damaging society less $3 • than $"20 or 0. But what will you do with the gerabler who last night robbed the young men of $1,000? Nothing.' What shell be done wtili that one who e breaks through and destroys the purity of a Christian botne, arid, with an adroit- ness and perfidy that beat the strategy of hell, flings a shrinking, shrieking soul iuto ruin? Nothing. What will you do with those who Sleeved that young man, getting him m to purloin largo sus of money from his employer—the young man who came to an officer of ray church and told the story and frantically asked what he sbould do? Nothing. Ah, we do well to punish small crimes, but I have sonatimes thought it would be better in some of our cities if the officials would only turn out from the jails the petty criminals, the little offenders, $10 desperadoes, and put in their place:e some of the monsters of in- iquity who drive their roan span through the streets so swiftly that honest men have to leap to get out of the way of be- ing run over. Oh, the damnable schemes that professed Christian men will some- timee engage in until God puts the fin- ger of his retribution into the collar of their robe of hypocrisy and rips it clear to the bottom! Brit all these wrongs will be righted. I expect to live to see the day. I think I hear in thedistance the rumblings of the King's chariot. Not always in the minority is the Churoh of God going to be or are goon men going to be. The streets are going to belilled with regenerated populations. Three hundred and sixty hells rang in Moscow when ono prince was married, but when righteousness and notice kiss each other In all the earth, ten thousand times ten thousand bells shall strike the jubilee. Poverty enriched. Hunger fed. Crime banished. Ignorance enlightened. All the cities saved. Is not this a cause worth working in? Oh, yen think sometimes it does not amount to much! You toil on in your different spheres, sometimes with great discouragement. People have no faith and say: "It doee not arnount to any. thing. You might as well quit that." Why, when Moses stretched his hand over the Red sea it did not seem to mean anything especially. People came out, I suppose, and said, "Aha!" Seine of them found out what he wanted to do. He wanted, the sea parted. It did not anaount to anything, this stretching out of his hand over the sea. But after awhile the wind blew all night frone the east, and the waters were gathered into a glittering palisade on either side and the billows reared as God pulled baek their crystal bits. Wheel into line, 0 Israel! March! March! Pearls crashed under feet. Flying spray gathers into rainbow archtof victory for the oonquerors to march under. Shouts of hosts on the beach answering the shout of hosts amid sea. And when the last line of Israelites reach the beach the cymbals clap, and the shields clang, and the waters rush over the pursuers, and the swift fingered winds on the white keys of the foam play the grand march of Israel delivered and the awful dirge of Egyptian over• throw. So you and I go forth, and all the peo- ple of God go forth, and they stretch forth their hand over the sea, the boil- ing sea of crime and sin and wretched- ness. "It doesn't amount to anything," people say. Doesn't it? Gbd's winds of help will after awhile begin to blow. A path will be cleared for the army of Christian philanthropists. The path will be lined with the treasures of Christian beneficence, and we shall be greeted to the other beach by the clapping of all heaven's cYmbals, while those who pur- sued us and derided us and tried to de- stroy us will go down under the sea, and all that will be left of them will be oast high and dry upon the beach, the splint- ered wheel of a chariot, or thrust out from the foam. the breathless nostril of a riderless oharger. Let those refuse to sing Who never knew our God, But children of the heavenly Ring Should speak their joys abroad. "Praise ye the Lord. Let everything with breath praise the Lord." in the glorious time coming in our cities and in the world hosanna will meet hosanna and halleluiah, In that tine also of which I speak all the haunts of iniquity and crime and squalor will be cleansed and will be illu- minated. How is it to be done? You say perhaps by one influence. Perhaps I say by another. I will tell you what is my idea, and I know I am right in it. The gospel of the Son of God is tbe only agenoy that will ever accomplish this. A gentleman in England had a theory that if the natural forces of wind and tide and sunshine and wave were right- ly applied and rightly developed it would make this whole earuh a paradise, In a hook ot great genius and which rushed front edition to edition, he said: "Fellow men, I promise to show the means of cre- ating a paradise within ten years where eyetything desirable for human life may be had by every man in superabundance without labor and without 'pay; where the whole face of nature shall be changed into the most beautiful farms and num amy live in the meet magnificent pal- aces, in all imaginable refinements of luxury and in the most tielightfill gar- dens; where he may accomplish withont labor in one year snore than bitherto eueld be dens in thousands of years. e rein the houses to be built will be afforded the mnst oulturect views that can be fancied. Front the galleries, from elm roofs and from the turrets may he teen gardens as far as the eye can see tall of fruits and flowers, arranged in the most beautiful orate with walks, cello/amities, aqueducts, canals, ponds, plains, amphitheaters, terraces, foun- mins, sonlptuted works, pavilions, gon- dolas, places of popular amusement to hire the eye and fancy, all this can be done by urging the water, the wind and the sunshine to their full development." He goes on and gives plates at the machinery by which this work is to be done, and he says he only needs at the start a company in which the sheres shall he $20 each, and $100,000 or $200,- 000 shall be raised just to make a speci- men community, and then, this being fornaed, the world will see its practice- bility, and very soon $2,000,000 or 0,- 000,000 can be obtained, and in ten years the whole earth will be emparadised, The plan is not so preposterous as some I bave heard of. But I will take no stook in that company. I do not believe that lb will ever be (bine .in that way, by any mechanical force or bt'earte ma - (thine* that the human mind can put into play. It is to be (tone by the gospel °tattle Son of God—the omnipotent ma- chinery of love and grace and pardon The Power of the Gospel. The power of the Gospel is writ plain in all great moral eeterprises. Its virtues have been tried In every department of badiviclual and social life. We know what it is capable of doing because we know what it has clime. We know what It has done for the upliftbag of the masses ieto a true liberty and brotherhood. We know what it has done for the elevation of woman, taking her from bondage and from the seraglio and, through her, teaching the whole world the true ideals of womenhood and wifehood and mother - hoed. We know how it affects social, in: dust -alai and civil life, In all these direc- tions its power has been tried; and we army profit now by experience and ob- servation of the past. • O Need. • Thera is no need to Magnify the truth •in the d offering microscopes. EIGHTH PARLIAMENT DEBATE ON THE FAST ATLANTIC SERVICE. The Delay Explained—Tenders Are Not specifie—Argrunents ,ttor and Against the $7eo,o00 subsidy. TH (IRS DA • Y. Upon the motion to go into Commit- tee of Simply, Sir Charles Tupper called • attention to the statement made by Mr. ,Doleell last night hostile to a twenty -knot Atlanta+ steamship service and in favor of an eighteen -knot serviee. The Minis- ter of Trade and Commerce, Sir Charles said, lind told the House that this ques- tion was receiving the careful considera- tion of the Government, and it had also been stated by Sir Richard Cartwright that none sae the tenders received were exactly formal. He thought that Parlia- ment was entitled to have the earliest in- formation of tho decision of the Govern- ment upon this question. Sir Charles related the circumstances under which the Imperial Government bad been in- duced to add to the subsidy offered by the Dominion of Canada. Inoideiatally Sir Charles mentioned what he had done to produce the (Mange in public opinion In the mother country. When Sir John Colornb had taken an attitude of hos- tility to the project, Mr. Dobell had answered lam and had defended the scbonae favored by the Government. The fast Athletic+ service conneeting with the Canadian Paola° would make the,route throngh Canada the highway of nations. Mr. Leerier said the whole question of a 40 Atlatitio service is under consider- ation, and it has to be considered very carefully. Sir Charles Tupper recalls to the attention of the House that last session, in the position I then occupied, I thought it to be my duty to offer to the Government then every faellity for Passing the bill which enabled the Gov- ernment to ask for tenders for this serv- ice. I had an interest in that matter not only as a Canadian, but an especial in- terest in that I represent the city of Quebec, tvhich has a direct interest in that service. The present arrangements which exist in regard to the trade of the St. Lawrence are setisfactory to nobody. When WO came to open the tenders which were received by the late Goveria- ment in response to notices published in the newspapers, we found ,that the late Government had provided for a passenger service hut net far a freight service, Tbe specifications contained a special provision that the boats to be subsidized provide the best and latest provision for cold storage, but in all the tenders received not a word is to be found as to cold storage. The people ex- pect when we ask parliament to vote the money that WO shall provide for a service that will develop not only passen- ger trade but freight tradeas well; that is the reason .why uhe Government thought it advisable to go slowly in this matter. Mr, Foeter said that it was impossible to get both large freight capacity along with fast passenger service. A choice had to be inade between the two. It was right for the Prime Minister to investi- gate and see whether he could increase the freight tonnage. But Mr. Foster expressed the belief that he would find that to increase the freight capacity was to largely increase the tonnage of the ships, their cost and the cost of running them. Besides, fast freight steamers fol- low naturally a fast passenger line, and It would be peculiarly fortueate in this respect if the Aliens should get the con- tract for the passenger line because they have large freight traffic interests. Mr. Charlton said that the policy fore- shadowed by Mr. Dobell wee the policy that ought to be adopted. He declared thnt he would not dare to advocate a $750,000subvention to a fast Atlantic service or to edvocate a hire*s grant to- wards a Pacific cable and faee his con- stituents again. There was not a mem- ber from Ontario who could favor the steamship or cable subvention and receive the approval of his eonstituents. He warned the Government agaiust being guilty of that act of folly which they tvotild be guilty of if they granted these s(1 liven ti ens. :Sir. Rogers (Patron) declared his op- position to the expenditure of $750,000 a year for a fast lane. The Patron Order and the farmers of Canada were opposed to the scheme, and be only spokebecause he believed the farmers did not want to have any additional obligations incurred by the country. For the next few years they wanted the exenditures kept down. Later Canada might latineth out into some such scheme. elcielialen said he was walling to shpport a scheme which could be ob- tained at a reasonable cost, but he would not support, and he did not believe the people of Canada would support, a twen- ty -knot service at a cost of $750,000 a year. But he had full confidence lit the prudence and sagacity of the Government. Mr. McMullen, as a farmer well ac- quainted with the feeling ie the Prov- ince et Ontario, declared against the project to establish a fast Atlantic serv- ice. What the farmers wanted was a service that would give them cheap freights across the Atlantic. FRIDAY. 'Upon the Intercolonial vote of $211,- 500, Mr. McMullen called attention to the fact that, according, to a reply given by the Minister ot Railways to a ques- tion int by lam, men were employed to the number of 334 per mile. This would mean about laiat men to every ten miles, There was not a road in Canada that was so overmanned. His hoped that, re- clections similar to those which had taken plaoe in the Works Department would be made upon the Intercolonial Railway. Ain Blair stated, in response to ques tions by the Opposition, that three labov- ing men had been dismissed antl that their places had been filled, Mr. Blair, in stating the course that he would pur- sue, said that he proposed to draw a dis- tinction between permanent officials awl those who were simply employed as day - laborers, He weld not do otherwise. It would be utterly 'impassible foe hina to administer bis department with its 5,000 employes and adopt any other comae. He luta come to the conclusion that if any member of the Haase whose advice the Government °mad 'safely anoept, or any gentleman who was a candidate in the onentry and was defeated, informed lain that men employed in a temporary ompacita had taken an active part in an election, he worild receive the statement thus ntade and he world permit his °fac- ials to allow changes to be made. Sir Charles Tupper and Sir Hibbert Tepper and Mr. Quinn characterized it as au outrageous principle to lay down that, while the highly -salaried ofticial will be treated with fairnees, the poor the poet Burns' enthusiasts by revealing laboriaz lean should have ins bread herself as a collector of Burns' relies. taken away from him and Ms family upon the representation of a member support - Aug the Governmeet or a defeated candi- dfralteenat,vao wanted his place for a political Mr. Meltlullen reminded the members of the late Government how they had soehaiilxt with the French trEtnsiatore who in 1888 were accused of offensive partisan - Mr. Lister had down the prineiple that neetrality is the price of office. Men must understand. that now and hereafter, whether this or any other Governnaent was in power, that they were to be ex- neoted to be neutial in politics it they had office under the Crown and. receive the meney of the people. The Intercolten- lal, he said, as a result of eighteen years of Conservative control, bad become a vast politkial m achi ne. Messrs. Fielding, Bell, Robertson, Foster, McNeal, (fraig. Logan, Taylor, McAllister, Martin, Hale and Sir Rich- ard Cartwright continued the discussion. • Before the Rent was passed Mr, Blair gave a statement of the year's earnings and working expenses of the Letercolon- ial system. There was a net loss on the operation of the system of e113,764.17. DRAMATIC AND TERRIBLE. Alt England Appalled at be Danger to h .She ILLS BCPX1 EXPOSed--The Story Ridiculed in France. London, Sept, 19.—The Daily Melt prints the rumor that Tynan will tern informer, and suggests that this explains his long immunity froxn arrest, and also Le Caron's assertion 'that Tynan was in the Government's secret service. The Times says that there is no doubt that the extradition treaty with France would be retroepective, and could be made to cover the Phamix Park mar - dors, for whieh there is a fair chance that • extradition wonicl be granted, but the Times expresses doubt whether the treaty would cover the leaso of a culprit in a fresh dynamite conspiracy. Tho Chroeiole quotes aa well-in- formed Irish corresponaent," who de- clares that Tynan Is not the genuine "No. 1," but only a braggart who posed euch. "He has been in London," de - clam the Chronicle, "within a year. Why' was lie not arrested then? It is quite unlikely that the Foreign Office will press very hard for his extradition as the prosecution he wnuld have might lead to very embarrassing disclosures." FOUGHT FOR FRA.NC.E, The Ceroniele'e Paris correspondeni says: "The fact that Tynan fought against Germany in 1870 is likely to weigh in bis favor with the French au- thorities," The Graphic says it has learned that the real earns of Edward Bell, the Amer- ican arrested at Gla-gow for complicity in the dynamite conspiracy, is ivory. The police regard hina as a dupe of Ty- nan and others. The Standard's Paris correspondent claims to be able to state that the Freneh teoverument has received no application from England for the extradition of Tynan. The correspondent also reports that Le Temps claims to know that the plots are Fenian, and were in no way aimed against the Czar. The Paris correspondent of the Daily News says Tynan was allowed to pose before the prosecutor as a high -smiled patriot, innocent of the Phcenix Park • murders. There was an evident desire to make him out a mistaken patriot. As Poland, however, is in the same case to French eyes as Ireland, it may not do to harp too innoli upon the patriotic chord on the eve of the Czar's visit. DRAMA,TIC, TERRIBLE. The Daily Telegraph says: England learns to -day hoev appalling has been the &Inger from which elle has been rescued. That there should have been a great dy- namite conspiracy plotted in secret and silence by men who are enemies of the human race, that just at the moment when their plans were ripe the police should have surprised and erreeted the ringlenders, and that one of the Men, the chief of the band, should be a (vim- inal wanted for the lasb fourteen years, all these facts are elements in a story at once vivid, dramatic and terrible. There IS ne longer any doubt, apparently, that the conspirators intended to blow up Balmoral Palace when the Queen, Czar and other royal personages were there. RIDICULES THE STORY. Paris, Sept. 19.—The Frenob public press systematically ridicule the 'whole story of the existence of a dynamite con- spiracy, which, they declare, is an Eng- lish political islet: intended to interfere with the proposed visit to France of the Czar. Le Soir announces that none will be allowed to see Tynan or communicate with him without having first secured the consent of the GoVernment. It is learned upon creditable authority that the French Cabinet gives so little cred. ence to tbe English police officials' story of a dynamite conspiracy that it will probably refuse to grant the request for Tynan's extradition. IN THE SOUDAN. Advance from Bella to Sheri-Li-El-Mt.—The Men in Sp/end/4. Form—An immediate Attack on th o Dervishes Expected. Sherib-elatia. on the Nile. Sept. 19, 3 pan.—The Nile expedition under coin- mand of the Sinter, Sir Herbert: Kit- cheneraeft Berja. the camping piece last night, at daybreak this morning. and after a hard menet of four hours, arrived here. Part of the way was over very difficult roolsy ground, and the rest was through deep sand. With intone° heat added it was a trying 'clay. .After the naiddaa Pause here. it is intended to push on six miles further this afternoon, which will bring the colninn witbin striking, distanne of the dervish post at Karma. Varions small bodies of dervishes were discerned to-dey hanging about the flanks •or the whiten, but at a safe dis- tance. They were apparee tly only sceut- ing parties, sent 005 to watch the ad- vance of the expedition, and carry book news of its whereabouts. They macre no attempt to attack the outposts of the ex- pedition, but retreated promptly when the column came in sight. The scouting parties sent out from the column have not discovered any consider- able tome of the enemy, who show no dispostition to advanee to au attack. If the derviehos make a stand at Kerma, there will be a battle tognorrow, as the Sirdar is prepared to make Lin aggressive move on that place. It is the general ex- pectation among the officers thcet to- morrow will see a battle, in which the British and Egyptian forces Will be the attacking party. The men of the party are in splendid form, and are anxious to ineet the enemy. The Queex has agreeably astonished FINISHING TOUCHES. Little Things That Add Much to the Gene. ral Appearance, A lady never appears In soiled gar - mantra and pays the strictest sort of at- tention to the small adjuects of her toil- ette, manaely, her shoes, gloves, neck lingerie and headgear. Her gown may be of extreme plainness, but it vvill be of good material, it will be well ont, and perfectly suited to her in every detail. .Fler shoes will be of tbe trimmest build, fitting her to a Tt not cramping, her in the least, nor so loom as to be sloven'''. They will always be the glossiest of the glossy, and the blackest of the bletek, unless they happen to be russet, and if they are you can see your face in them. Her gloves are a perfect marvel of neat- ness, and fit as easily as does ber boot; there is never the vestige of soil on them, every button is in place, and all the fin- gers well drawn on, so there are no provoking ends at the tips, staring at one, telling of a hurried toilette. The neck rigging follows the latest fad in that line, is always made up of the best material, well roade, and daintily worn. It rnay be no retire than a billowy ruch of black chiffon or tulle, but it is so full and fluffy that one would prefer it to a more expensive arena°. Her hats are the refinement of' good style and are always becoming, Just at present small toques obtain largely, as they always do in the "off" season. Sometimes they are made up of bright yellow straw heavy with black plumes and big jet ornaments; sometim es they are all black, a soft mass of billowy tulle, In which are tuoked clusters of purple violets. The day far roses has passed, and surely everyone is glad, tor the majority of hats have became such a tawdry mass of faded roses tliat one wishes the flower would never be produced in cheap ma- terials again. The plain skirt is certainly on the wane, although most women are loth to see it go; one can be sure of never look- ing the dowdy in a plain skirt, but the same cannot be said of the decorated affair, for not all modistes know wilere to stop when trimming a sairt—most of the trimming takes the forne of panels either plain or lace covered. The term panel suggests straiglit lines, and rather uncouth cutting up of the skirt to admit of the insertion of these straight bands; but there are panels and panels. The most popular form is in the shape of small fans of accordion pleated material set in at regular intervals along the foot of a skirt, reaching to the knees. These give the skirt an unusual waltla and flare, so that it is out ranch nar- rower than if it is to be untrimmed. This bouffant foot -decoration evill not admit of being worn by a short figure; here the long, straight side panels obtain strongly and are far more lamming. When actual panels are not set in, they are simulated by bands of braid, velvet, or any sort of narrow edgings laid on in rows. Sometimes a broad rever is laid, back on the skirt and trimmed. with but- tons; in this case they spread widely at the foot and graduate to a poinu at the waist. A fancy for decorating the skirt seams shows itself occasionally, and bag the effect of creatine,e a dressy skirt from a plain one. Pipings of velvet or satin are mostly employed in this rammer, the same idea being carried out in the bodice and sleeves. The Housewife. The good wife is the most invaluable person to be found on earth. Of what- ever station she may be, there is ea woman's work she cannot, do. As a houseleeeper she is always active, but without bustle or fuss. She holds her domestic team in hand and drives thena steadily along the highway of life. Her eyes are everywhere, and nothing escapes them. The spiders ill thecorners. the dust on the ledges, the dull surface of the glass, the powdery look of the carpet—she sees it all, and her servants soon begin to understand that trying to hoodwink her is labor in vain, and that they had better do their work with thor- oughness if they want peace in their lives or length of dive in the lady's service. She is an admirable cook and can train her youeig servants as well as any in- stitution of them all. She is great in invalid cookery, and when her beioved ars ill trusts their food to no one else. She prepares all with her own bande; and then she knows what she is abOut, and how both material and cooking are as perfect as human honesty and skill can make Ocala. 11 by Not The professor is very punctilious about the use or langunge. His yotingest daugh- ter has learned VI ride a bike, and the feet is very evident in her convereation. Now and then he moved uneasily in bis chair, but he made no comment. After a time be tetia:— "Lucia, would you mind closing that door? I am getting as cold as an ike." She TON 10 obey, and then turned with a Pnaeled air and inquired:— "As cold as a what, father?" "As °old as au Ike.' "I don't understand yon." ''That is very strange. It seems to ac- cord with your theory of verbal expres. sloe. If a bicycle can oonsistently he °ali- en a bike, I see no possible objection to iny alluding to ea icicle: as 80 Making a Record, "Officer, I want you to look me up fax - shooting garne." "Well, where's the garne?" "Oh, I haven't hit anything: order I want my Primate to think I have; and if you'll have my convictioe inserted in the Evening Snoozer I'll give you a fiver." --Boston Globe.