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Io Show: low l-‘utlle Are the Aunults Blade Upon the Scripturesâ€"The Bible In Compared to Other Booksâ€"Its nlv' Ile "election. NEW YORK, June 9.â€"-In his sermon for to-dny Rev. Dr. Talmage deals with a aub- ject thet ie neitating the entire Chriltien church at the present momentâ€"viz, “Ex- purgntion of the Scriptures.” The text choeen who, "Let God be true, but every um: I. liar" (Romans iii. 4). REV. DR. TALMAGE OPPUSES BIBLE RECONSTRUCTION. The Bible needs teconatructiou,eccording to some inside and outside the pulpit. It in no surprise that the world bomberdl the Scriptures, but it in amazing to find Chris- tien ministers picking at this in the Bible nnd denying that, until many good people ere left in the fog about what parts of the Bible they ought to believe and what parts reject. The heinoueneee of finding fault with the Bible st this time is most evident. In our day the Bible is mailed by loin-tiliâ€" ty, by misrepresentation, by infidel scientists, ell the vice of earth end all the venom of perdition, and at this particuht time even preechers of the gospel fell into line of criticism of the word of God. \Vhy, it makes me think of a. ship in e September equinox, the waves dashing to the top of the emokestnck, and the hatches fastened down. and many propheeying the founder- ing of the eteemer, and st that time some of the crew with axes and saws go down into the hold of the ship and they try to saw 03 eome of the planks and pry out none of the timbers, because the timber did not come from the right forest. It does not eeem to me a commendable business for the crew to be helping the winds and storms outside with their axes and sews inside. strength enough to createo sun and moon I could make them stand still, or cause the refraction of the sun's rays 80 it would upper to stand still. “ But.” they any, “ you don‘t really believe that the whale swallowed Jonah 2’” Yes, and if I were strong enough to make a whlee. I could hove mode very easy ingress for the refrac- tory prophet, leaving to evolution to eject him if he were on unworthy tenent. “ But,’ any they, “ you don’t really believe thet’ the enter we: turned into wine 2" Yes, \ inst u easily as water now is often turend into wine With an admixture of atrychnine nndlogwood. “ But," any they, “ you don’t really believe that Semen slew a. thousand with the jawbone of an m 2” Yes, and I think that the men wizoin this day unaulte the Blble in wielding the segue weapon. Now, this old gospel ship. whot with the routing of earth and hell around the Item end stern and mutiny on deck, is having a very rough voyage, but I have noticed thnt not one of the timbers has started, sad the captain says he will see it through. And I have noti :ed thst keeleon and counter tim- her knee on built out of Lebanon cedar, and she in going to wenther the gale, but no credit to those who mske mutiny on Ori en in the second century and Tertullian in third century and by men of difi'er- ent ngee who died for their principles. The three beet copies of the New Tenta- ment in mumpt in the possession of the three t churchesâ€"the Protestant church of ghnd,the Greek Church of St. Peterabnrg end the Ronnie!) church of Italy. It is a. plain matter of history tint Tis- chendorf wentto a convent in the peninsuls of Sinai end in: by ropes lifted over the N1 into the convent, that being the only mode of ndmiuion nnd thot he saw there in the m bucket for kindling for the fires, a mucript e! the holy Scriptures. When I see professed Christians in this pertinlsr day finding feult with the Scripturex, it makes me think of a. for trees terrificslly bombarded, and the men on the ramparts, instead of swebbing out and lending the guns and helping fetch up the ammunition from the magnine, ere trymg with crow bars to pry out from the wnll certsin blocks of stone because they did not come from the right quarry. 0h, men of ramparts, better fight back nnd fight dorm the common enemy xnsteed of tryxng to make breaches in the wall ! While I oppose this expurgation of the Scriptures I shall give you my reasons for such opposition. “ What,” any some of the theological evolutonists, whose brains hnve been eddled by too long brooding over them by Darwin And Spencer, “you don’t now really believe all the story of the Garden of Eden, do yo on?” Yes, as much u I believe there were roses in my garden lest summei. “But " say they, " you don' t reelly believe that the can end moon stood sytill. ’" Yes. and if I had There is nothing in the Bible that stag- gers me. There are many things I do not understand, I do not pretend to under- stand, never lhall in this world understand. But that would be a very poor bod who could be fully understood by the human. That would be a very small Infinite that can be measured by the finite. You must not expect to weigh the thunderbolts of Omnipotence in an apothecary’s balance. Starting with the idea that God can do anything and that he was present at the beginning and that he is present new. there is nothing in the holy Scriptures to arouse skepticism in my heart. Here I stand, a fossil of the ages, dug up from the tertiary formation, fallen 05 the shelf of the anti- quarian,a man in the latter part of the glorious nineteenth century, believing in a whole Bible from lid to lid. I an opposed to the exnurgetion of the Scriptures in the first place became the Bible in its preeent ehape has been no miraculously reeerved. Fifteen hundred year. after erodotne wrote his history there was only one manuscript copy of it. Twelve hundred years niter Plato wrote his book there was only one manuscript eopy of it. God was so careful to have on have the Bible in jnet the right shape that we have 50 manuscript copies of the New Tenement 1,000yeare old and some of them 1,500 years old. This book bended down from the time of Christ, or just nfter the time of Christ, by the hend of epgh men as VOL 11- NO '28. STANDS LIKE A RUSK That night he copied many of the passages of that Bible. but it WM not until 15 years had passed of earnest entreaty and prayer, and coaxing and purchase on his part that that. copy of the holy Scriptures was put into the hand of the Emperor of Runninâ€" thet one copy so marvelously protected. Do you not know that the catalogue of i the books of the Old and New Testaments as we have it is the same catalogue that has been coming on down through the ages? Thirty-nine books of the Old Testament thousands of years ago. Thirty-nine now Twenty-seven books of the New Testament 1,600 years ago. Twenty-seven books of the New Testament now. Marciun, for wickedness, was turned out of the church in the second century and in his assault on the Bible and Christianity he incidentally gives a catalogue of the books of the Bible â€"that catalogue corresponding exactly with oursâ€"testimony given by the enemy of the Bible and the enemy of Christianity. The catalogue now. just like the catalogue then. Assaulted and spit on and torn to pieces and burned, yet adhering. The book to day, in 300 languages, confronting, four- fifths oi the human race in their own tongue. ; Four hundred millions copies of it in exis- tonne. Does not that 100E as if this book had been dxvinely pratected ; as if God had guarded it all through centuries ‘2 In it not an argument plain enough to every honest mm and every honest woman that e book divinely protected and in thia ahepe_is in the very shape thnt God wants it? It pleases God and ought to please us. The epidemics which have swept thousands of other books into the sepulcher of forgetfulness have only brightened the fame of this. There is not one book out of a thousand that lives five years. Any publisher will tell you that. There will not be more than one book out of 2,000, that will live a century. Yet here is a book much of it 1,600 years old. and much of it 4,000 years old,and with more rebound and resilience and strength in it that when the book was first put upon parchment or papyrus. This book saw the cradle of all other books, and it will see their graves. Would you not think that an old book like this, some of it 40 centuries old, would come along hobbling with age and on crutches? Instead of that, it is more potent than any other book of the time. More copies of it printed in the last ten years than of any other book, Welter Scott’s Waverly novels, Macauley's “ History of England,” Dieraeli’s “Endymon,” the works of Tennyson and Longfellow and all the popular books of our time having nosueh sale in the last ten years as this old, worn- !out book. Do you know what a struggle }a book has in order to get through one 1 century or two centuries? Some old books ‘ during a fire in a seraglio of Constantinople ‘ were thrown into the street. A man with- out any education picked up one of those books, read it and did not see the value of it. A scholar looked over his shoulder and saw it was the first and second decades of Livy,and he offered the man a large reward if he would bring the books to his study, but in the excitement of the fire the two parted, and the first and second decades of Livy were forever lost. Pliny wrote ‘20 books of history. All lost. The most of Menander’s writings lost. Of 130 comedies of Plautus. all gone but '20. Euripides wrote 100 dramas. All gone but 19. .iEschylus wrote 100 dramas. All gone but seven. Varro wrote the laborious biographies of 700 Romans. Not a fragment left. Quintillian wrote his favorite book on the corruption of eloquence. All lost. Thirty books of Tacitus lost. Dion Cassius wrote SO books. Only 20 remain. Berosius’ history all lost. -.. . .1! e Nearly all the old books are mummified and are lying in the tombs of old libraries, and perhaps once in ‘20 years some man comes along and picks up one of them and blows the dust and opens it and finds it the hock he doesn’t want. But this old book, much of it 40 centuries old, stands to-day more discussed than any other book, andit challenges the admiration of all the good, and the spite, and the venom. and the animosity and the hypercriticism of earth and hell. I appeal to your common sense if a book so divinely guarded and protected in its present shape must not be in just the way that Gods wants it to come to us, and if it pleases God, ought it not please as? “J Al . l 3 ,,,,, A ‘ Not only have all the sttempis to detract from the book failed, but all the attempts to add to it. Many attempts were made to add the apocbryphsl books of the Old Testament. The council of Trent. the synod of Jerusalem, the bishops of Hippo, all decided that the apochryphal books must be added to the Old Testament. “They must stay in,” said those learned men, but they staid out. There is not an intelligent Christian men to-day that will got the book of Maccabees or the book of udith beside the book of Isaiah or Romans. Then a great man said, “We must have books, added to the new Testa- ment." and there were epistlee and gospels and apocalypses written and added to the New Testament, but they have all fallen out. You cannot add anything. You cannot subtract anything. Divinely pro- tected book in the present shape 1 Let no man dare to lay his hands on it with the intention of detracting from the book or casting out any of these holy‘psges: . BeEi‘Eéakm‘, 1 am oppoan‘ :5 this ex- purgnion of the Scriptures because if the stump: were successful it would be the Annihilation of the Bible. Infidel geologists would soy, “Out with the book of Genesis.” Infidel utronomere would say, “Out with the book of J oshua." People who do not believe in the atoning sacrifice would say, “Out with the book of Leviticus,” People who do not believe in the miracles would say, "Out with all those wonderful stories in the Old and New Testaments,” and. some would say, “Out with the book of Revela- tion." and others would any, Out with the entire Penteteuch," and the work would go on until there would not be enough of the Bible left to be worth as much on last year’s elmnneo. The expurgntion of the Scriptures means their Annihilation. I on also opposed to this proposed ex- purgntion of the Scriptures for the fact that in proportion u people become self sacrificing and good and holy end consecrat- ed they like the book as it is. I have yet to find a men or women distinguished for self merifiee,ior consecration to God. for holiness of life, who wants the Bible changed. Many of us have inherited family Bibles. Those Bibles were in use 20, 40, 50, perhaps 100 years in the generations. To- day teke down those family Bibles, sud find out if there are my chspters which hove been erased by lead pencil or pen 39:! if in say mrgins you can find the words, "Ihis chapter -not fit to M” w uu-g vâ€"â€";â€" ~~~ 7* Than bu boon plenty of opportunity din- \, ing the last. ho" century privately to ex- 1) put-gate the Bible. Do you know any case t] of such expurgabion 2 Did not. your grand- 0‘ {other give in to your father, And did not '1 your father give it to you 2 y Besides that, I am opposed to the ex- ) purgation of the Scriptures because the so called indelicacies and cruelties of the Bible have demonstrated no evil result. A cruel book will produce cruelty. An un- clean book will produce uncleanness. Fetch me a victim. Out of all Christendom and out of all ages fetch me a victim whose heart has been hardened to cruelty or whose life has been made impure by this book. Show me one. One of the best families I ever knew of for 30 or 40 years morning and evening had all the members gathered to- gether, and the servants of the household and the strangers that happened to be with- ‘ in the gates. Twice a day without leaving . out a chapter or a verse they read this ‘ holy book, morning by morning, night by night. Not only the older children,but the little child who could just spell her way through the verse, while her mother helped her. the father beginning and reading one verse, and then all the members of the family in turn reading a verse. The father maintained his integrity, the mother main- tained her integrity, the sons grew up and entered professions and commercial life, adorning every sphere in the life in which they lived, and the daughters went into families where Christ was honored, and all that was good and pure and righteous reigned perpetually. For 30 years that family endured the Scriptures. Not one of them ruined by them. Now. if you will tell me of a family where the Bible has been read twice a day for 30 years, and the children have been brought up in that habit, and the father went to ruin and the mother went to rain, and the sons and daughters were destroyed by itâ€"if you will tell me of one such incident, I will throw away my Bible, or I will doubt your veracity. I tell you if a man is shocked with what he calls the indelicacies of the word of God he is pruri- ent in his taste and imagination. If a man cannot read Solomon's Song without impure sug estion, he is either in his heart or in his ife a libertine. - The Old Testament description of wick- edness, uncleanness of all sorts is purposely and righteously a disgusting account in- stead of the Byronic and the Parisian verna- cular which makes sin attractive instead of appalling. When those old prophets point you to a lazaretto, you understand it is a lazaretto. When a man having begun to do right falls back into wickedness and gives up his integrity, the Bible does not say he was overcome by the facinatione of the festive board, or that he surrendered to convivialities, or that he became a little fast in his habits. I will tell you what the Bible says. “The dogie turned. to his own vomit again and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.” No gilding of iniquity. No garlands on a death’s head. No pounding away with a silver mallet at iniquity when it needs an iron sledge ham- mer. I can one ly understand how people brooding over the description of uncleanness in the Bible, may get morbid in mind until they are as full of it an the wings. and the beak and the nostril, and the claw of a buzzard are full of the odor: of n carom, but what is wanted is not that the Bible be disinfected, but that you, the critic, have your mind and heart washed with catholic acxd. I tell you at this point in my discourse that amen who does not like this book, and who is critical as to its contents, and who is shocked and outraged with its descrip- tions. has never been soundly converted. The laying on of the hands of presbyteryor episcopacy does not always change a. man’s heart, and men sometimes get into the pulpit as well as into the pew, never having been changed radically by the sovereign grace of God. Get your heart right, and the Bible will be right. The trouble is men's natures are not brought into harmony with the word of God. Ah, my friends, expurg- ation of the heart is what is wanted. You cannot make me believe that the Scriptures, which this moment lie on the table of the purest and best men and women of the age, and which were the dying solace of your kindred passed into the skies, have in them a taint which the strongest micro- scope of honestcriticiam could muke visible. If men are uncontrollable in their indigna- tion when the integrity of Wife or child is assailed, and judges and jurors as far as possible excuse violence under such provocation, whet ought to be the over- whelming and long resounding thunders of condemnation for any man who will stand in a Christian pulpit and sssail the more than virgin purity of inspiration, the well- beloved daughter of God; n Expurgste the Bible ! You might as well go to the old picture galleries in Dresden and in Venice and in Rome, and expurgute the old paintings. Perhaps you could find a foot of Michael Angelo’s “ Last Judg- ment” that might be improved. Perhaps you could throw more expression into Raphel’s “ Madonng”. Perhaps you could put more pathos into’ Rubens’ “ Descent From the Cross.” Perhaps you could change the crests of the waves in Turner’s “ Slave Ship." Perhsps you might go into the old galleries of sculpture and change the forms and the posture of the statues of Phidias and Prsxitcles. Such an iconoclast would very soon find himself in the peni- tentiary. But it is worse vandaii- m when a men proposes to refashion these master- pieces of inspiration end to remodel the moral giants of this gallery of God. Now. let us divide off. Let those people i who do not believe the Bible, and who are ‘ critical of this and that part of it, go clear over to the other side. Let them stand be- bind the devil‘e guns. There can be no com- A promieebetweeninfizlelity and Christianity. i Give us the out and out opposition of inii- . delity rather than the work of these hybrid I theologians, these mongrel ecclesiastica, . these half evoluted people, who believe the 1 Bible and do not believe it, who accept the ! miracles :and do not accept them, who be- I lieve in the inspiration of the Scriptures 1 and do not believe in the inspiration of :he Scripturesâ€"trimming their belief on one . side to unit the skepticism of the world, I trimming their belief on the other side to ‘ unit the pride of their own heart and feel- ing that in order to demonetrate their cour- age they must make the Bible a target and shoot at God. There is one thing that encourages me very much, and that is that the Lord made out to manage the nniverle before they were born and will probably be able to make out to manage the universe a little while after they are dead. While I demand that the antagonists of the Bible and the critics of the Bible no clear over where they “0H, WAD SOME POWER THE GIFTIE 01E US,TAE SEE OORSELS AS [TREES SEE OMEMEE ONT. THURSDAY. JUNE 20. 1895- belong, on the devils side, I ask that all the friends of chic good book come out. ofonly and above board in behalf of it. hot book, which was the best. inheritance you ever received from your anceebry, and which will be the beat, legacy you will leave to your children when you bid them good- by as you cross the ferry to the golden city. Of all the works of Dore, the great artist, there was nothin so impressive as his ‘ illustrated Bible. hatscene of Abrahamic faith, or Edenic beauty, of dominioni Davidic or Solomonio,of miracle or parable, l of nativity or of crucifixion, or of last‘ judgement but the thought leaped from the great brain to the skillful pencil, and from the skillful pencil to canvas immortal. The Louvre, the Luxembourg. the National Gallery of London compressed within two volumes of Dore’s illustrated Bible. But the Bible will come to better illustration than that, my friends. when all the deserts have become gardens, and all the armories, have become academies and all the lakes have become Gennesarets with Christ walking them,and all the cities have become Jerusalems, with hovering Shekinah and the two hemispheres shall be clapping cymbals of divine praise, and the round earth a footlight to Emanuel’s throneâ€"that to all ages, and all centuries‘ and all cycles, will be the best specimen of Bible illustrated. ENew York "as Is Residents to a Home 1 London 7. Paris 25. and Toklo Oulv 5. _ In all the countries of Europe, in the ' United Statemend the Dominion of Canada, ithere are, so far as recent and authentic figures show, 70,000,000 houses. There 'ere 342,000 houses some of them unsub- ‘ stemiol affairs, in the city of Tokio,Js.psn, : one for every five people, no that the Japanese metropolis does not sufler from 1' overcrogdiug. Where nlch Deposlls are Foundâ€"Drying, Cleanlng‘, Pollehlng and Packing. Mr. Cumberbatch, British Consul at An- gora, in hie latest report, says that rich deposits of meeraohaum are found twenty miles to the southeast of Eeki Shehir, an important station of the Anatolian railway The Belgian Uonsnl in Constantinople, who recently visited the place, states that it would be difficult to determine the exact arena in which the meerechaum is to be found. Judging from the number of pits at considerable dieteneee from each other it must be extensive. The meerechaum is extracted in the same way as coal. Pits from 25 to 1‘20 feet deep are dug, and as soon as the vein is struck horizontal galleries, sometimes of consider- able length, are made, but. more than two galleries are seldom to be found in one pin. The stone aa‘e‘xtr‘acted is called “ ham 3:, 1 tiash,’ or rough block, and is soft. enough to be easily cut. with a knife. It is whim with a yellowish tint. and is covered with a red, clayey soil of about 1 inch thick. In this ltate the block. are purchased by deal- er: on the spot, not by weight. or measure- ment,but according to approximate quanti- ty, either per load, of three sacks or per cart load, the price varying from £5 to £30 per load according to quality. These blocks are dried and subjected to certain prepar- ationsbefore being conveyed to Eski bhehir. Some of them areas small as a. walnut,while others ottsln the size of cubic foot. Those which combine regularity of surisce sud size are the best. The manipulation re- quired before they are ready for exportation is long snd costly. The clayey soil is removed and the meerschsum dried. In summer exposure for five or six days to the sun’s rays suffices, but in winter a room heated to the required temperature is necessary, and the drying process takes eight or ten dsys.‘ ___. e , I n u “When dried the blocks are all well cleaned and polished, then they are sorted into about twelve classes, each class being packed with great care in separate cases, and each block being wrapped in cotton wool. The bulk of the meerschaum is sent to Vienna, where it is worked, and dispersed all over the world. Most of the finest specimens aresent direct to Paris. Certain American dealers have Visited Eski Shehir with the object of obtaining the raw material direct instead of through Vienna. thereby saving the highest custom house duty payable on the worked meer- schaum. The quantity anually exported is put down at 8,000to 10,000 cases. The various tsxes levied by the Turkish Govâ€" ernment amount to about 37 per cent. ad valorem. DENSITY 0F POPULATION IN CITIES. New York has 115,000 houses, averaging eighteen residents to each. London, the greatest sccumulstion of inhabitants in the world, has 600,000 houses. or seven resid- ents in each on the average. London has increased in this respect very rapidly, for at the beginning of the present century the number of houses was only 130,000, little more than New York has at this time. The population of London at that time (1800) won 960,000. It is now 4,200,000. So it has increased nearly fivefold, but the number of houses has not increased in as large sretio. Paris has 90,000 houses. At the close of the Franco-Prussian war it had 70,000. At the close of the Napoleonic were it had 28,000. The area. of the city has been extended meanwhile. The average number of residents in a house in Paris is twenty-live. The majority “of public buildings in Paris are utilized for purposes of residence, especially upon the top floors. uvv-m In all computations of city population by houses Philadelphia ranks as a. shining example of a big town which has plenty of elbow room to expand in. Philadelphia, with a population in excess of 1,000,000, has 187,000 homes. It is less densely populated than London but not much less BO. Mrs. Brownâ€"Haws you An indulgen husband 2 Mrs. Greenâ€"0h, yes, indeedâ€"he comes home intoxicsted nearly every Fight. Honey, by some swaet mystery of the dew, is born of lit, in bosom. of the flofwarl. â€"Ri1collsi. PRODUCTION OF MEERSCHAUM. Ha Indulged. Interesting Items About Our Own Country. Great Britain. the United States and All I’M-tn of the Globe. Condensed and Anon-ted for my Beading CANADA. Treasurer Stock of Wentworth, has been naked to resign. The Monaâ€"'esl Street Railway earned nearly $4,000 on Sunday. The proposed grant to Lady Thompson has been voted by Parliament. Belleville merohents have granted a Friday bnlf- holiday to their employees. Mr. W. E Parker’s jewellery store in Hamilton was robbed of $40) worth of goods. 7 The Windsor salmon cannery on the Sheena. River, British Columbia, was burned. The steamers Edna Brydgea and Algoma collided near Rat Portage. The Algoma. wan badly damaged. Two members of the Ladies' Omnge Ben- evolent. Association were fined $20 each at Hamilton for violating the insurance not. Mr. Craig, the horticulturiat at the Ex- perimental farm, thinks that Cansdiun tomatoes could be placed with profit on the London market. The Mackenzie tower on Parliament Hill was struck by lightning and several of the Public Works employees received severe shocks. The Montreal Street Railway Co. will run a night service of refrigerator can between the cattle markets, the abattoir: and the meet marketl. Mr. Hiram Walker, the big distiller, who il 78 years old, has retired from the bulinesa, which will henceforth be man- aged by his bhree Ions. Prices of hardware in Cnnnda. sre gen- erally advancing. Wire nails. horse nails and shot have advanced. and prices of oiled or mnealed wire and iron pipe have been withdrawn. The Champhin monument. cost. $40,000. It will be erected on a site granted by the Government, of Quebec in Quebec City. Lieutenant-Governor Chapleau is a sub- Icriber to the amount. of $2,000. The British exports to Canada increased four per cent. in May, and decreased seven per cent. for the five months. The imports into Great Britain from Canada increased seven and eight per cent. in the same periods. ' Co-operetive dairying is making great, progreao in PrinceEdword Island. When the Cornwall factory opened on June 15, 1893, less then 700 pounds of milk were delivered, but on June 3, 1895,the delivery was 9,327 pounds. A mulntm numed William Jones, of St. Catharines, was picked up on the bank of the Niagara River, having apparently fallen over the precipice probably the day before he was found. He was delirious and badly injured. In the Dominion House of Commons Mr. Ouimet stated bhnt there were three state funerals given to Canadians. Sir George E. Csrtier’s cost, ten thousand dollars. Sir John Mlcdonald’s cost six thousand dollars, and it was expected that. the expenses in connection with Sir John Thompson’s funeral would not exceed twentyâ€"five thousand dollars. - The Countess of Essex, nee Adele Grant, of New York, has given birth to a daughter. Lady Wilde 15 said to be dy ying of a broken heart, and her friends in London pred1cc she will never see her eon again. The passengers of the little British vessel Why N ot,which was on fire and abandoned at sea by her crew, have arrived in Jersey. Prince Edward of York has made his first public appearance in London. He was driven through St. James’ park in an open carriage,propped up by his two nursea,snd was cheered as he went. by. The rumor has been revived the the Duke and Duchess of York will be the guests of Mme. Adeline Patti at, Craig-y- Noa early this summer, and it is stated that, preparations are already being made for the royal visit. Sir Edward Grey, in the Imperial House of Commons said that the Government had been fully possessed of the views of the Canadian Government with regard to the Behring See, and in the bill before the House the Imperial Government had tried to meet these views in substance. UNITED STATES. In the colored Bapbist church at Double Springs, Alm, on Sunday, while the Rev. Greenleef Lee. a youiig‘mun, waepreeching Two unknown men succeeded on Monday in mutilntmg a portrait. of Mr. Gladstone on exhibition in London, and oncaping without arrest. Henry Ledtke, a. fnrm hand employed in Hyannis, Mast, in a fit of jealousy shot. dead Lizzie Coleman, fourteen years of age to whom he had been paying atten- tions, and then commitbed suicide. 07673116 cormehm bf he‘ll, hé sudaenly fen dead. Since Senator Stanford’s death not one dollar has come from his estate to the uni- versity he founded. To keep in running Mrs. Stanford has given on an average of $1,900 a (by. half her private means. A letter has been received in Boston from a reliable American citizen residing in Turkey, giving in debsil some of the horrid crueltiea inflicted by Kurds and Turkish ofliciuls on the unfortunate Armen- ians in prison. The oommercml treaty between Russia and J apan has been signed. In the Town of Mereny Hun u- thre hundred houses were buzzned aidygeverai persons were killed. Rugsia is massing troops on her Armenian frontier. - One hundred and twelve persona lost their lives in the floods in the Wurbemberg dimriet of Germany. - Thé statue of Martin Luther, which has been a long time in course of construction, was unveiled in Berlin. GREAT BRITAIN. GENERAL. US."l It is reported that H. M. S. Mohawk was fired on by n Spsnish vessel near the coast of Cuba. The Mohawk follo wed the Spsniurd into port, where a full apology was tendered. The Psrisisns are so vastly pleased with Paul Dubois’ equestrion statue of J on of Arc that they hsvs started to take up a. subscription with which to purchase the artists. memorisl us a. testimony of their admiration. The bark Carrie E. Long was struck by lightning 013' the Bahamas. The veuel was loaded with petroleum and other in- flammable material, and burst into flames. The crew had a terrible experience in the shall-infested waters. A special despatch from Shanghai any: thnta remnant o! the famous black flags in entrenched at Chqng-Wadpland of Formosa, ,,,,A:__J uVLqunnv-a w- v..â€" v _‘__, and are expectedâ€":0 . 'mnke a" determined stand against the Japanese, who are taking possession of the island. The Autorite, of Paris, in demanding the publication of the text. of the treaty between France and Ruesie,eeye the French Government does not dare to nblieh it. because its first clause binds renoe to accept. the European situation, manning acquiescence in the loan of Alsace end Lorreine. Greet regret is felt in Rome at the death of e Germanâ€"Baron Hufinerâ€"who has done more for the city in recent yeers than almost any native. He was formerly Prussian Consul it: Paris, and a grand seigneur in the true sense of the words. He presented the square in Piazza Ceiroli to the city, and gave much of his we elth to beautify Rome. THAT REMEDIAL ORDER. HOW IT IS REPLIED TO BY THE MANITOBA GOVERNMENT. Text of the Memorialâ€"Grave Dlmcultles of the Cueâ€"The Order lulled Wm: out Full Informationâ€"Introduced as a. Notice of Motion. A despatch from Winnipeg,Man., says:â€" The Manitoba Legislature assembled on Thursday atternoon. The first business was the consideration of the Remedial Order of the Dominion Government,celling upon Manitoba to restore Separate schools. The Government submitted a resolution to he House which takes the form of a mem- orial to the Goveruorâ€"General-in-Council. The memorisl recited the clauses of the remedial order. and summed up their effect .' 33â€" “I've been watching for a chance to kiss you for the last. ten minutes." She â€"“ You must be non-sighted.” on the Province if the pernicious system of Separate schools, as they existed prior to 1890, was restored, and pointed out that the present system or nationsl system, was adopted after a careful examination of the results of the Separate system. The schools were found to be inefficient. The old Separate schools have never been defended on their merits. After these arguments the memorial says: uuw v.‘- â€"Jâ€"~v_ -_- , , The memorial says : “We labour under great difficulties in maintaining an eflicient system of primary education. School taxes bear heavily upon our people. A large amount of land, which is free from school taxes, and the great extent of country over which our small population is scattered pre- sent obstacles to efficiency and progress. The reforms effected in 1890 have given strong im- petus to educational work, but the diflicul- ties which are inherent in our circumstances have constantly to be met. It will be obvious that the establishment of a set of Roman Catholic schools, followed by a set of Anglican schools, and possibly Mennonite and Icelandic schools would so emasculate our present system that any approach to even our present general standard of eflici- ency would be quite impossible. \Ve contemplate the inauguration of such a state of affairs with very grave apprehen- sion. We have no hesitation in saying that there cannot be suggested any measure which. to our minds. would more seriously imperil the development of our province.” “We are therefore compelled to respect- fully state to your Excellency in council that we cannot eceept the responsibility of carrying into effect the terms of the remedial order, and the disadvantages under which the province would lnbour if the old system Were restored." I I, ,,,,, ,_AJ__ It is well known by chemists that caustic soda can be produced by passing a current of electricity through common table salt The salt, which is chloride of sodium, sep- arates under the action of the current into soda and chlorine, either of which by itself is much more valuable than the salt from which it is produced. The process is a simple one, and not expensive. The salt is dissolved in water and a current from a dynamo is V passed through the solution. Metal plates are placed in the salt water and attached to the dynamo wires. Chlor- ine is set free at one pole and caustic soda at the other. The great difficulty, however, is that chlorine dissolved in water is one of the most powerful solvents known. Almost all metals are dissolved by it. Even carbon. one of the most unsoluble of substances, is rapidly attacked by chlorine and wears away quickly. This peculiarity of chlorine interferes with the commercial practicabil- :ity of the process. No substance has yet {been discovered for the electric terminals ‘ which will stand the strain and yet be cheap ‘ enough for manufacturing purposes. igcbw.‘ Salt Treated Electrically. H. M. S. Mohawk 1: 'v-v v”... m.(.r.g-~v;mm,wwcvv~o “saww CHAS. W. DAVID SGULLIE’S HEATH. STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS IN THE OTONABEE TRAGEDY. Thou. Gray snd Ills Wire Clan-zed wm: the Murder of the 01d Munâ€"Evidence In “1 I. Sister. A deepatch from Peterborough, eaye :â€" The latest developments in the investiga- tion which Provincial Detective Murray has been making into the death of the old man David Scolhe promise to make the fire which destroyed the dwelling-house of Thomas Gray, in Otonaboe, early in the morning of the 23rd February, 1894, the centre of one of the most sensational criminal trisls which has ever been held in this country, and one which will be notable for the detail and in- vestigation it involves. As the re- sult of Detective Murray’s investiga- tion and the evidence which he hes accum- ulated, three informations have been sworn out here before County Police Magistrate Edmison, one cherging Then. '13. Gray and his wife, Hessie Gray, with the murder of David Scollie on February 23rd, another ‘charging Hessie Grey with setting fire to the Gray dwelling-house on February 23rd, and the third charging thet Thos. T. Grey did on February20th incite, move, procure, and counsel Bessie Grey to commit arson with intent to defraud the Mercantile Fire Insurance Company of Waterloo. Three werrnnts in accordance with theee infor- mstions have been issued, and the taking of evidence in connection with extradition proceedings has been commenced. It will be well to recall the occurrences of Friday morning, February 23rd, as they are con- nected with this case. m TRAGEDY “CALLED. Thou. T. Gray, his wife and family, and David Seollie, a man aged 67 years, lived on a small farm in Otonabee township, about two miles from town. The farm was owned by Soollie, who had entered into an agreement that the property was to go to the Grays upon his (Scollie'e) death, and the old man wan to be given a home and board while he lived. On the hon-e was an insurance of $300, and on the content: a policy for $200. The old man led a quiet life, and no particular complaints were heard from him. It was early on the morn- ing of Friday, February 23rd, that the Gray dwelling was burned. At the time the ogcupante ‘Were Mrs. “Gray Nun-w u..- .. -v __ and her fiver children and David Scollie. Mr. Gray was said to be away at the time, Mrs. Gray stating after the fire that he was at Madoc or Belle- ville. The mother and five children slept downstairs, and the ill-fated man occu ied a room in the second storey. The st intimation of the fire carried to anyone out of the occupants of the house was given to Mr. W. J. McGregor, a brother- in-law of the Grays, who lived a short distance away, and who was awakened by Mrs. Gray. When he arrived the children were all out, but Mrs. Gray said she had been unable to rouse Scollie, and McGregor was unable to reach him. The remains were discovered in the ruins in the morning, and their condition was remarked upon as peculiar. The head had completely dis- appeared, while the bodv was still eovwad by the blanket, and was not badly burned. UGLY RUMOURS. At the time an inquest was not consider ed necessary, but ugly rumours began to be circulated, and an inquest was held on March 7th. The evidence heard did not bring out anything to support the rumours, although the jurymen laid great stress in their questions on the body falling from the second storey, where Mrs. Gray said the old man slept, to the floor beneath, and then being found in a sleeping posture with the blanket still wrapped around it. The total disappearance of the head was also remarked upon, but the verdict was one of “purely accidental death.” After the inquest Gray rebuilt on the property . and sold out and with his family Went to the United States to reside, and is there yet. Rumours in regard to Scollie’s death did not cease entirely after the inquest, and finally resulted in the Attorney- General’s Department putting Detective Murray on the case to investigs to, and the result was indicated in the startling developments given above. BTABTLING EVIDENCE. The most startling evidence was iven by Mrs. McGregor, the sister of Mrs. ray. Mrs. McGregor deposed she had heard her sister, Mrs. Gray, threaten that she would do away with Scollie, and would do it so that Tom (her husband) would not get into it. The witness also said that later Mrs. Gray, evidently alarmed at some reference to the case in the newspapers, had come to her, and asked not to tell what she had said or give evidence that would injure her. Another point brought out by a witness was that Gray, at a time subsequent to the fire, had boasted that he had one of the smartest little women in the world, who could do away with the old man while he (Gray) was away, and get the insurance. This is new evidence, and it is said that this has leaked out little by little as time passed,and was traced up by the detective. RICHAIDS Publluhor a Proprietor. Itia often hard to determine but from “ good wit." in the case» { children, and some of their flushes of precociby seem not to be unconscious, but. rather the fragment of some remembered? knowledge. _ v. nun“. - .---__ A little maid of five. who had been listening quietly to the puzzles 3nd conun- drums of the older children, seemed at last to divine the method of their construction and. after some thought. asked : Ihe Extrndltlon Proceedings Begunâ€"- History of the Fire and Dunn of Scol- lIoâ€"llzly Rumours (Simulatedâ€"Damag- stefp mountain? Tfie answars were ice, snow, rocks, eegles’ nests and the like, to all of which the little one persistently shook her head. When asked to tell the nnawer she triumph- antly cried, “ Nothing !” “ But. why 2" asked the others, in n breach. “ Because on couldn't get up there nine: it,” was the ensure reply. Iu. nun: w-uv any--3...“ .__-_ V “ What coulduyou get on a. very high. Evidence Given by Her Conundrum.