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v. < : '''' ' \ 008 FOHEIGB RELATIOSS' The State Department Never Had So Many Complications. MONROE DOCTRINE TO THE FORE. N Tt?? Attention of the Whole World Con- j centrated on Washington and tho Pos?- i nihilities of HMtllitlm Between Thin Conntry nml Several Transatlantic Jfations-?The Policy of Non-Interfercnc?. Tho extraordinary numbec and rapid sequence of foreign complications of a more I or less serious nature which have suddenly ?ome upon the State Department have precipitated a situation in which the United Htates Government hns not been placed be* fore for a great many years, and the opinion of foreign diplomatists in Washington is that the attention of all Europ& has been, in a remarkable short interval of time, transferred from international affairs and rumors of war in the Old World to the alleged possibilities of hostile relations between this coun- j try and several of the European Nations. Even the Japanw*>-Chiitese war. which is j still in progress, is believed to be in the way ! to a harmonious termination bv tho peace negotiations; and the attitude of the United Stntes Government with regard to its own interests, in opposition to the behavior of European Nations on thw side of tho world, it> virtually absorbing attention across tho wean. The State Department has never, within | tho experience of men now living, had so j many difficult foreign questions on its hands, or been interested in so many commotions in ; the smaller republics of thus continent. The dispute with Spain about the Alllanca aud the status of Cuba, quarrels with Great Britain about Blue fields and Alaska, are direct commercial interests in the threatened war of Mexico and Guatemala, the peculiar ' complication in the Venezuelan contention with British Guiana, the Salvador uprising, the Brazilian and Peruvian revolutions, the hostile position of Argentina and the rebellion in Colombia, all of whieh are of special concern to the commercial and political relations of this country, have virtually concentrated the attention of the -xhole world on the State Department at Washington. i The necessity of maintaining the policy of ' non-interference by European powers with < North and South American affairs, common- , !y known as tho "Monroe doctrine," by , <liplomaey, if possible, by force, if necessary, ; ?tuu iut> pruwciiun ui uur interests, paruuularly in Bering Sea, against Canadian contention, emphasize the complicated situation to un extraordinary degree. The Hawaiian muddle also, which was regarded as settled, is revived by Secretary Greshnrn'S demand for Minister Thurston's withdrawal The outcome of any and all those matters cannot fail, in the long run, to redound to the credit and dignity of the Unit-id States; but meanwhile it is feared that mistakes may occur, and the immediate future is doubtful. I OUR FOOD PRODUCTS ABROAD. The Exclusion of American Meats Also a Grave Problem. . In addition to all ot thesa acute foreign complications which confront the State Department. the administration has a very C grave problem to deal with in the action of Germany and other European couniries in 1 excluding American food products. The President and Secretary Gresham are still 1 very reluctant to adopt retaliatory tactics j "v for the reason that it would injuriously affect , the foreign commerce of the United States J i and reduce the revenue from customs. They t are being strongly pushed, however, to take 1 sucn acnon dv tno iarmers, meat pacicere and others interested in tho exporting of ! farm products. Whether there will ultimate- ; Iy be a commercial war or not will depend, in large part, on the action of Germany. I Advices just communicated to tho State ' Department put a more hopeful aspect on the situation. The German Consuls are be- 1 Kiuning to make their influence felt with that 1 '} . Government, and the Department has reason 1 to believe that there will be a reaction iigainst the agrarian movement and that the ports of Germany will once more be opened to American meats and other'products. I Great Britain in SoutH Amcrica. Despatches received at the State Department at Washington from Ambassador Bayard at London, in response to telegrams asking him to ascertain the attitude of Great Britain in case Nicaragua should refuse to pay the indemnity demanded for tho expulsion of tho British Consul, Mr. Hatch, indicate that England will not seek to acquire American territory. The intimation has also ?ome from the British Government of a dist position to submit the Venezuelan question 1 , to arbitration. 1 i Cabinet Moetine on tli?? Subicct. Tbo Cabinet met at the White House anil discussed the international complications, inl eluding the Venezuelan and Nicaraguan situa1 tions and the Allianca affair. ) In accordance with President Cleveland's views, it is said to have heen decided that no ^ decisive action shall be taken at present in B| reference to any of the foreign complications ' DEATH OF RICHARD VAUX. The Well-Known Philadelphia Gentleman 1 of the Old School Paasen Away. >1 # 1 Ex-Congressman Richard Yaux. who had ( been ili of the grip at his home in Philadelphia, Penn., for several days, is dead. He < was seventy-five years of ago. 1 Richard Yaux wan born in Philadelphia in 1810. He came of old Quaker stock. For years he had been .prominent there, and was one of the most eccentric men in that city. Mr. Yaux was a gentleman of the old sehool, and a man of striking personal appearance. One of his marked peculiarities was that he has never worn an overcoat nor 'carried an umbrella, no matter what the state of weather, and he always appeared ou the street Lu patent leather pumps. While Secretary to Minister Stevenson at the Court of St. James's many years ago Mr. Vaux enjoyed the honor unusual to a citizen of a republic of being selected by Queen Victoria to dance a quadrille with her. Mr. Vaux was Mayor of Philadelphia. Recorder Tan office now abolished), and was elected to the Fifty-second Congress to finish the unexpired term of Samuel J. Randall. HypnotUm for Hydrophobia. A leading physician at Chattanooga, Tenn., has created a sensation in the medical profession by completely curing by hypnotic influence a man who had been bitten by a mad dog. The wound was a week old, and the * patient was in a frenzied condition, bordering on madness. A Famous Bull Fighter Gored to Death. Word has been received of the fatal goring at Cullican, State of Sinaloa, of Ponciauo Diaz, the most famous bull fighter in Mexico and impressario of the Bucaroll bull ring, in the City of Mexico. He was gored in the groin and badly trampled. Demoterio Rodriguez, who was lately killed in n similar way at Durango, was an old associate of Diaz. ji wfui.j-oij;iu r iniivnnvii i/ruw?eu. Twenty-oight fishermen were drowned luring a storm on Lake Kuennerow, in Pommerania, Germany. MASSACRED BY CHITRALI5. Lieutenant Koss and I'orty-sls Sikhs Surrounded and Shut. News was received of the defeat of a Sikh company under Lieutenaut Ro3S, of the British Army, by Chitralis in India. Lieutenant Ross and sixty .Sikhs were marching rto reinforce the troups at Kashun. The natives, who were behind breastworks near Karagb, fusilladed them and forced them to retreat. They followed the company closely and eventually hemmed them in on all "sides. There were about 1000 natives, all firing Hteadily upon the Sikhs. Koss, forty-si* Silth soldiers, and eight camp followers were left dead on the Held. The rest of the force ana nod. f 7 Or L V LI HUNG CHANG WOUNDED. A Tounc -Japanese Shout* at tlio OM C'hlnene Statesman. At the close of the peace conference at Shimonoseki, Jupau.Li Hung Chang, China';? representative, when returning home, wo* phot at by a young Japanese and wounded in the cheek. Tho imperial doctor was immediately summoned to attend the Viceroy. Much regret at this \infortunato event wag TICEROT LI HFXG CHAXO. felt both by the* Japanese Government and by tlie people generally. The Central News cofc^spondent says that Li Hung Chang was returning from the peace conference in which he conducts noi?nHftt!on<i In behalf of the Chinese mission. and was accompanied by several of bis suite. When he was a short distance from his apartments a young Japanese ran up to him and fired a pistol in hi* face. The young man was seized and disarmed at once by tho police. At the station house he gave his name as Koyama and his ago as twenty-one years. According to the short report received in lokio, Li's wound is not dangerous. FATAL AND DESTRUCTIVE FIRES. Liven Lost and Property Consumed by Fierce Blazea. All but one member of Hose Company No. 5 lost their lives in a fire which destroyed the St James Hotel,.at Denver, Col. The Hose Company, excepting the Captain, is composed of colored men. Tho dead ire: Harold W. Hartwoll, Captain; F. K. Brawley. Lieutenant; Riehird Dandridge; Stephen Martin. The Maze was discovered by tho clerk. Every room in the house was occupied. All LI A. ?J rrKrv ,UW UCXUJJtUllS IXSCttpuu Wlblivui lujui;. xuu unfortunate firemen were pro ping about in :h? blinding 6moke in the rotunda of :ho hotel when the tile and cement [loor gave way, precipitating them into the basement, whore they were mangled and suffocated. Four other firemen who fell with them managed to climb jut, though badly bruised and lacerated and nearly overcome by the dense smoke. It was more "than an hour after the accident that the body of Captain Hartwell was found, and fully two hours later before the others were removed. A 9700,000 Fire in Kansas City. Fire destroyed the greater portion of Reed Brothers' packing house in Armourdale, Kansas City, Mo., involving a loss of Fully $700,000. The packing house plant is in the west bottoms, and thousands of people gathered on the west bluff of the city to view the fire, rhe fire started in the third story of the hog building, a structure of three stories. At 7.10 p. m. the first wall fell, and then tho fire spread to tho ice house?, five in number. All were destroyed. Next the flames attacked thestorage building, four stories high, [t was packed from top to bottom with pork, rhe floors and walla were soaked with Cfrease and burned like tinder. The plant occupied sixteen acres of ground just across the bridge in Armourdale. The daily ca r Aft o=ft oUnorv and <lnnn [iiit'iiy wus iw tniuc, wu auny ?.uv? ???? hogs. The average number of hands employed had been 1100. Burned to Dfflth. While trying to escape from a fire in the two-story house at 411 Catharine street, Thiladelphia, Penn.. Minnie Witt, aged seventeen, and Frank, her brother, aged nine, were severely, and Mrs. Welmina Klosman, the grandmothorof the two children, fatally, burned. The house is occupied by Frodorick Klosman as a bakery. A Theatre Bnrnetl lit Chicaffft. The United States Theatre, known untile lately as Sam T. Jack's Empire Theatre, -df" No. 144 West Madison street, Chicago, III., was destroyed by lire. The fire was started g t>v an explosion,-which blew a hole in the* top of the building and sent into the air a sheet of flame to the height of 150 or 200 feet. HOSTILE TO BISMARCK, rhe German Relchstajf Declines to Proffer Birthday Congratulations. The German Reichstag at Berlin, by a vote of 163 to 146, rojected the proposal ot Hcrr von Levetzow, President of that body, that the Reichstag charge him with the duty of offering the congratulations of the Chamber to Prince Bismarck upon the occasion of the ex-Chancellor's eightieth birthday. When the result of the vote was announced, President vonLevetzow immediately resigned. The Socialists. Radicals, Catholics, Independents, and Poles succeeded in defeating the measure. An immense uproar resulted in the House and cries of "shame!" came from the floor and the galleries. There were loud cheers from the Opposition when President von Levetzow left the chair. The Government supporters proclaimed that the Reichstag had made itself ridiculous in the eyes of the world and demands were made for the immediate dissolution of the Chamber. The incident was straightway reported to Emperor William, who immediately sent to Prince Bismarck this telegram: "Prince von Bismarck. Duko von Lauenburg, Friedriehsruh: I have to convey to Your Serene Highness the expression of my most profound indignation at the action which the Reichstag has just taken. It is in direct opposition to the feelings of all the German Princes and peoples. William." Emperor William received the following reply: To Hia Majesty, Emperor and King: I pray Your Majesty to accept the respectful expression of my gratitude for the most gracious message by which Your Majesty has transformed the action of my political opponents, concerning which I am not yet fully informed, into a source of joyful satisfaction. "Bismarck." The loss of an army bill could not have excited Germany more than the Reichstag's refusal to congratulate Bismarck. CRUISER CHICAGO HOME. She Has Carried the American Flap Into More Than Forty Ports. Once more in American waters, after an absence o* a year and three-quarters, the United States cruiser Chicago, Captain Alfred T. Mahau commanding, steamed through the Narrows, New York Harbor, and anchored oil Tompkinsville, Staten Islaud. Since the great naval celebration the Chicago has been on the European station, acting as the flagship. Her cruise has been a series of triuinp'is for the ship and officers, and in particular for Captain Mahan, who was received abroad with such honors us have seldom, ll ever, been accorded to any other American naval officer. The Chicago has carried the American flag into more than forty ports, from England tc Syria. She has been gone one year and nine months, and has cruised 21,?80 miles. BigGttleln South England. A sovere gale swept the south of England, Many houses were unroofed. In London three persons were killed and three others severoly injured by falling walls. A raceboat on the Thames was upset and its twc occupants were drowned. Many isolated caseB of death in the storm have been reported from the provinces. DOCTORING PAPER MONEY. CouuterfelterR Ingeniously Uainine One Dollar Bill* to ?10. Counterfeit bills have appeared in Omaha, Neb., showing that sharpers know of some chemical that removes the ink from the paper from which greenbacks are manufactured without injuring the paper. Then the crooks put in other figures, raisins the amount tenfold. The First National Bank received onp of the bill, and another was exhibited to the Merchants' National Bank teller. Both had omo from retailor*. Tho bill at the First National is a .-SI Treasury note, payable in coin, of the series 'if 188G, and with the likeness of Stanton on one side. The other is a silver crrtificrte f the 1880 serif's, on which appears the * Without. I flUf U1 lumwmv .. "v??n. the use of the glass to follow the ink stains 1j\ tho fibre of the paper the only manner in which the spurious bills can bo detected is by tho vignettes on either side.' Thus betrays its spurious origin, but affords ao protection except to exports, who are aware that these likenesses do not appear on my billt- of the denomination of $10. A. sccret service agent said an alarming feature of the case is that chemicals are being 'ised by this gang to remove the figures in the original. The fibre of the paper in use is supposed to bo proof aguinst this sort of manipulation, I'robably two dozen figures must be removed in each bill handled and I others substituted. THE MONROE DOCTRINE. Kuropean Interference on This Hemisphere Dangerous to Onr l'eace anil Safety. President Monroo wns elected in 181G, and in 1820 he was re-elected. Chile declared Its , independence of Spain in 1810, Paraguay in 1811, Colombia, then including Venezuela, in 1819, Mexico in 1821, Tern in the same year, and Brazil revolted from Portuguese domination in 1822. The other States of South and Centrat America, notably, Argentina, had followed in tho footsteps of tho United States by freeing themselves from European control, and the covert propocitinn rn.outj]hli?.h it evoked frOOl the President these nover-to-be-forgotten words, part of his annual message to the Eighteenth Congress on December 2. 1823: "Wo owe it to candor and to the amicable relations existing between the United States and the allied powers, to declare that we should consider any attompt on their part to extend their system to-any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety. With the existing colonics or dependencies of any European power we have not interfered, and shall not interfere: but with the Governments which have declared their independence and maintained it, and whose independence we have, on great consideration and just principles acknowledged, wo eoulu not view an interposition for oppressing them, or controlling in any other manner fieir destiny, by any European power, it any other iight tnan as a manifestation of an unfriendly disposition toward the United Statat." A BIG FIRE IN MILWAUKEE. Several of the Largest end Finest Buildings in the City Destroyed. A fire which originated in the building occupied by tho A. F. Tanner Furniture Company andLandauer & Co., dry goods, at Milwaukee, Wis., became one of the most destructive fires ever known in that city. , The loss was .estimated at SI .000,000. Before the fire department arrived on the scene, Grand avenue and Fourth street, the block was one mass of llamas, aud about ten minutes after the alarm the walls fell in with a big brash. The five story brick building occupied by tho shoo firm of Au Bon Marehe. on thosouthwest corner of Grand avenue and Fourth street, was gutted. On the north side of Grand avenue, among the houses destroyed was the art store of Roelsen & Reinhardt, and most of the valuable pictures are a complete loss. The Young Men's Christian Association Building was partially destroyed, though every effort was made to save the structure, which is ono of the finest in tho city. . MURUACA'S SUCCESSOR. Secretary Greshum Notifies Spain That Scnor do Lome Is Acceptable. The Stato Department received au ofllciul inHmnHnn nf Sennr Dunuv de Lome's solee tion as Ministor Muruaga's successor in the form of an inquiry from the Spanish Government as to whether the appointment of Senor do Lome would be agreeable to the Unitod States. After a consultation with President Cleveland Secretary Grestiam replied that the selection was entirely satisfactory to this Government. and it is presumed in official circles hero that the new Slinister's credentials will 1 be issued at once, nnd that, following an authorative announcement of his appointI. ment, he will conio at once to Washington. It is not thought that, pending his arrival, much progress will be made toward a settlement of existing questions between this coun-' try and Spain. Kniik Robbers Use Dynamite Successfully. The Newcomor Bank at Mount Morris, III., was entered by robbers. After drilling into the vault and breaking the door dynamite was used, nearly wrecking tho safe. The robbers escaped with an unknown amount of money. About 5*10,000 was in the safe. Seed Grain for Nebraska Farmers. Govornor Holcomb signed the bill passed by the Nebraska Legislature appropriating I ftonn nnn fnr tho nurchnse of seed grain and food for drought-stricken farmers of Western Nebraska. The Jaw becomes lmmadiately operative. Out or the Common Ruu. A SA.KP&E order for 20,000 tons of roal for Mexico has been placed among West Virginia mines. Wayne County, Kentucky, is suffering with an epidemic of hydrophobia, and a general slaughter of dogs is in progress. Whon a physician In Arkansas becomes a habitual drunkard the State Board of Health is by law enjoined to revoke his liocuse. Something queer called a "water dog" was found not long ago in a Hannibal, Missouri, cistern, and local scientists believe it rained down. Mary Sweoney, of Wisconsin, has a mania for smashing windows. Sho now claims to have the mania under control, but says the impulse is very strong. At Bristol, Ind., a horso twenty-six years old recently hud its lirst experience of running away," smashing the buggy to bits aud throwing its owner out. An examination of the eyes of white and colored children in the Washington schools shows that tho latter aro much'lexs liable to shortsightedness and astigmatism. Tho practice of cropping dogs' cars lio3 been decided to bo cruel to animals within ,the statute by a London court. An unusually largo cougar was shot and killed near Woodlawn, Oregon, recently. It measured six feet four inches from the tip of the nose to the tip of the tail, and weighed lit! pounds. At Brazil, Iud., Eliza Stank-tou, sixteen years old, testified that her husband, sixtylivo years old, is a witch, and had brought sickness and distress upon her. She related many mysterious deeds which she claimed her husband committed. A cow owned by John Gelston. of Goodspeed's Landing. Conn., has given birth to a two-headed calf. When born tl'.e> valf was alive, but it contracted a cold and died in a few hours. The cow also took cold aud died the next day. A bill has been introduced in the Oregon Legislature proposing a tiix on male perroiJ? who wear a cue. This in special legislation aimed at John Chinaman, but couched in guiieriu tunun. At. Dioppe, Franco, recently, :i Cai.:i'Jiwi vessel loudt'd with flint .stones poumlvd against the quay, the flint.-; struck fire ami the ship burned. Grimes Austin, the "wild man of "Madagascar," who used to sonre folks with hi3 red eyes and white buir from behind the bars of a Iiarnum cage, was bora in Indiana, and died recently worth $40,000. In Wisconsin will now be soon ti:o curious sight of a whole town moved bodily by rail. The big mill of the Penokne I.itmoe: Company having been moved from Mon?e to \akl&nd, a number of vacant hoiwo from the fn?mer town ura fnllnarina hv rn.II. REV. DR. TALMAGE. SUNDAY'S SERMON IN THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF MUSIC. Subject: ^'Tongues of Fire." t Text: "Have ye received the Holy Ghost." ?Acts xix., 2. The word shost, which means a soul, or spirit, has been degraded in common parlance. Wo talk of ghosts as baneful and frightful and in a frivolous or superstitious way. But my text speaks of a Ghost who is omnipotent and divine and everywhere present and ninety-one times in the Now Testa~ n \ L mu~ A?1.. iiieiib unuuu uio xiuij ui&unu 1.110 uuiy uuio I ever heard this text preached from wa3 in the opening days of my ministry, when a glorious old Scotch minister came up to help me in my village clinreh. Onthedayof my ordination and installation he said, "If you get into tho cornor of a Saturday night without enough sermoas for Sunday, send for me. and I will come aud proach for you." The fact ought to bo known that the first three years of a pastor's lifo aro appallingly arduous. No other profession makes the twentieth part of the demand on a young man. If a secular preacher prepares one or two speeches for a political campaign it is considered arduous. If a lecturer prepares one lecturo for a year, he is thought to have done well. But a young pastor has two sermons to deliver every Sabbath before tho satno audience, besides all his other work, nnd the- most of ministers never recover from the awful nervous strain of the first three years. Be sympathetic with all young minister? and withhold your criticisms. My aged Scotch jfriend responded to my first call and came and preached from the text that I now announce. I remember nothing but the text. It was the last sermon he ever preached. On tho following Saturday he was called to his heavenlv reward. But I remember just how he appeared as, leaning over the pulpit, ho looked into tho face of the audience, and with earnestness and pathos and electric force asked them, in the words of my text, "Havo yo received the Holy Ghost?" The office of this present discourse is to open a door, to unveil a Personage. to introduce a force not sufficiently rocognized. He is as great as God. Ho is God. The second verse of the lirst chapter of the Bible introduces Him?Genesis i., 2. "The . Spirit of God moved upon tho face of the waters"?that is, as an albatross or eagle spreads her wings o\ or her young and warms them into life and teaches them to fly, so the Eternal Spirit spread His great, broad. . radiant wings over this earth in its callow and unfle iged state and warmed it into life and fluttered over it and set it winging its way through immensity. It is the tip top of all beautiful and sublime suggestiveness. Can you not almost see the outspread wings over the nest of young worlds? "The Spirit of God moved upon the face of tho waters." Another appearance of the Holy Ghost was at Jerusalem during a great foast. Strangers speaking sevonteen different languages were present from many parts of tho world. But in one house they heard what seemed like the coming of a cyolone or hurricane. It made the trees bend and the houses quake. The cry was, "What Is that?" And then a forked flame 01 fire tipped each forehead, and what Wit a IQO UKlSb UI WIUU tvuu lUO UIvppiUK IUC.L ft panic took place, until Peter explained that it was neithor cyclonenor conflagration, but the brilliance and anointing and baptismal power of the Ho.y Ghost. That scene was partially repeated in a forest when Rev. John Easton was preaching. There was the sound of a rushing, mighty wind, and the people lookodtothe sky to see if there were any signs of a storm, but it was a clear sky, yet the sound of the wind was so great that horses, frightened, broke loose from their fastenings, and the whole assembly felt that the sound was supernatural and pentecostal. Oh, what an infinite and almighty and glorious personage is the Holy Ghost! He brooded this planet into life, and now that through sin it has become a dead world He will brood it the second time into life. Perilous attompt would bo a comparison between the three persons of the Godhead. They ure equal, but there is some consideration which attaches itself to the third person of the Trinity, the Holy Ghost, that does not attach itself to either God the Father or God tho Son. We may grieve God the Father and grlevo God tho Son and be forgiven, but wc are directly told that there is a sin against the Holy Ghost, which shall never be forgiven oither in this world or in the world to come. And it is wonderful that while on the street you hear the name of God and Jesus Christ used in profanity you nevor hear the words Holy Ghost. This hour I speak of the Holy Ghost as Biblical interpreter, as a human constructor, as a solace for the broken hearted, as a preacher's re-enforcement. The Bible is a mass of contradictions, an affirmation of impossibilities, unless the n.H/\a* Violrva 11a t/v 11 mlrafrn.nH Thf? . Blblo says of itself that tho Scripture is not for "private interpretation," but "holy men of God spake as they were movodbytheHoly Ghost"?that is, not private interpretation, i but Holy Ghost interpretation. Pileonyour I study tablo all tho commentaries of the Bible ?Matthew Henry and Scott and Adam Clarke and Albert Barnes and Bust and Alexander, and all the archaeologies, and all the Bible dictionaries, and all tho maps of Palestine, and all the International series of Sundayschool lessons. And if that id all you will not understand the deeper and grander meltings of the Bible so well as that Christian mountaineer who, Sunday morning, after having shaken down the fodder for the cattle, comes into his cabin, takes up his well worn Bible, and with a prayer that stirs the heavens asks for the Holy Ghost to unfold the book. No more unreasonable would I be if I should take up The Novoe Vremya of St. Petersburg, all printed in Russian, and say, ' There is no sense in this newspaper, for I cannot understand one line of ull its columns," than for any man to take up the Bible, and without getting Holy Ghost illumination as to its meaning say: "This Book insults my common sense. I cannot understand it. Away with the incongruity!" No one but the Holy Ghoat, who inspired the Scripturos, can explain the Scriptures. Fully realize that, and you will be as enthusiastic a lover of the old book as my vener able friend who told me in Philadelphia last week that he was reading the Bible through the fifty-nuith time, and it became more attractive and thrilling every time he went through it. In the saddlebags that lmng across my horse's back as I rode from Jerusalem down to the Daad Sea and up to Da'maseus I had all the books about Palestine that I could carry, but many a man on his knees, in the privacy of his room, has had flashed upon niru more vivid appreciation of the word of God than many a man who has visited all the scenes of Christ's birth, and Paul's eloqueDco, and Peter's imprisonment, and Joshua's prowess, and Elijah's ascension. I do not depreciate any of the helps for Bible study, but I do say that they all together come infinitely short without a direct communication from the throne of God in response to prayerful solicitation. Wo may And many interesting things about the Bible without especial illumination, as how many horses Solomon had in his stables, or how long was Noah's ark. or who was the only woman whose full name is given in the Scriptures;or which is the middle verse of the Bible, and all that will do you uo more good than to be able to tell how many beanpoles there are in your neighbor's garden. The learned Earl of Chatham heard tho famous Mr. Cecil preach about tho Holy Ghost and said to a friend on th* way home from church: '-I could not understand it. j und do you suppose anybody understood it?" i ifiiu ciiifl Ilia nhriatia.it friomK ith(3FV ! were uneducated women and some little children present who understood it." I wnr- i mat you that the English soldier had under ' supernal influence read the book, for after the battlo of Inkermann was over he was found dead with his hand glued t?> th?* page of the o}>eu Bible by his own blood, and the words adhered to liitf hands at lliey buried him, '! am the resurrection and the life; he that believeth in Me, though dead, yet shall he live." Next consider the Holy Ghost as a human reconstructor. We must be made over again. Christ and Nicodemus talked about it. Theologians call it regeneration. I do not care what you call it, but wo have to be reconstructed by the Holy Ghost. We become new creatures, hating what we once loved and loving what we once hated. If sin were a luxury, it must become a detestation. If we preferred bad associations, we must prefer good associations. Ia most cases it is such a comolete change that the world notioea the diff rence and begins to ask: ' What has come over that man? Whom has he been with? What has so a (Tested him? What has ransacked his ontlre nature? What has turned him square about?'1 Take two pictures of Paul?one on the road to I Damascus to kill the disciples of ChrUt, the other on the road to Ostla to die for Christ. Come nearer home and look at the man who found his chief delicto in a low class of clubrooms, hiccoughing around & card table and then stumbling down the front stops after midnight and staggering homeward, and that same man, one week afterward, with his family on the way to a prayer meeting. What has done it? It must be something tremendous. It must be God. It must be the Holy Ghost. Notice the Holy Ghost as the solacer of broken hearts. Christ calls Him the Comforter. Nothing does the world so much want as comfort. The most peoplo have been abused, misrepresented," cheatod, lied about, swindled, bereft. What is necdod is balsam for the wounds, lantern for dark* roads, rescue from maligning pursuers, a lift from the marble slab of tombstones. Life to most has been a semifallure. They have not got what they wanted. They have not reached that which they started for. Friends betray. Chango of business stand loses old custom and does not bring enough custom to make up for the loss. Health becomes precarious when one mo9t needs strong muscle and steady nerve and olear brain. Out of this audience of thousands and thousands, If I should ask all those who have been unhurt in the struggle of life to stand up, or all standing to hold up their right hi;nds, not one would move. Oh, how much wo noed the Holy Ghost as comforter! Ho recites the sweet gospel promises to the hardly bestead. He assures of mercy mingled with the severities. He consoles with thoughts of coming release. He tells of a heaven where tear is never wept and burden is never carried and injustice is never suffered. Comfort for all the young people who are maltreated at nome. or receive insufficient income, or are robbed of their schooling, or kept back from positions they earned by the putting forward of others less worthy. Comfort for all these men and women midway in the path of life, worn out with what they have already gone through, and with no brightening future. Comfort for these aged ones amid many infirmities ani who feel themselves tt> be in the way in the home or business which themselves established with their own grit. The Holy Ghost comfort, I think, generally comes in the shape of a soliloquy. You ilnd yourself saying to yourself: "Well, I ought not to go on this, wuy about my mother's death. She had suffered enough. She had borne other people's burdens long enough. I am glad that father and mother are together in heaven, and they will be waiting to greet us, and it will be only a little while anyhow, and God makes ..no mistfah qaWIa/iiiIvo oavSntv* ia uiivu?I vi juu"1 nv?iiv.%{utuvi LTUj *'*{ ) ?w hard to lose my property. I am sure I worked hard enough . for it. But God will take care of us, and, a9,to the children, the money might .fcave spoiled them, and we find that those who have to struggle for themselves generally turn out best, and it will all be well if this upsetting of our worldly resources leads us to lay up treasures in heaven." Or you soliloquize, saying: "It was hard to give up that boy when the Lord took him. I expected great things of him, and, oh, how we miss him out of the house, and there aro so many things I como across that make one think of him, and he was such a splendid fellow! But then what an escape he has made from the temptations and sorrows which come to all who grow up, and it is a grand thing to have him safe from all possible harm, and there are all those Bible promises for parents who have lost children, and wo shall feel a drawing heavenward that we could not have otherwise experienced." And after you have said that you get that relief which,comes from an outburst of tears. I do not say to you, as some say, /lo.not cry. God pity, people in trouble who have the parched eyeball and the dry eyelid aud cannot shed a tear. That makos maniacs. To God's people tears are the dews of the night dashed with sunrise. I am so glad you can weop. Bat you think these things you say to yourself are only soliloquies. No, no: they are the Comforter. who is the Holy Ghost. Notice also the Holy Ghost as the preach er's reinforcement. You and I have known preachers encyclopedic in knowledge, brilliant as an iceberg when the sun smites it, and with G'hesterfloldian address and rhetorical hand uplifted with diamond big enough to dazzle an assembly and so surcharged with vocabulary that when they left this life it might bo said of each of them as De Quincev said of another that in the act of dying he committed a robbery, absconding with a valuablcipolyglot dictionary, yet . no awakening or converting or sanctifying result, whilo some plain man, with humblest phrasoology, has soon audiences whelmed with religious influence. It was the Holy Ghost. -What a useful thing it would be if every minister would give the history of his sermons! Years ago at an outdoor meeting in the State of New York I preached to many thousands. There had been much prayer on the grounds for a great outpouring of the Holy Ghost at that service, and the awakening powor excoaded anything I ever witnessed since I began to preach, with perhaps the exception of two or three occasions. Clergymen and Christian workers by the score and hundreds expressed themselves as having been blessed during the servioe. That nftornoon I took the train for an outdoor meeting in the State of Ohio, where I was to preach on the night of the next day. As the sermon had proved so useful the day before and the theme was fresh in ray mind. I resolved to reproduce it. and did reproduce it as far as I could, but the result was nothing at all. Never had I seemed to havo anything to do with a flatter failure. What was the different between the two services? Some will say, '-You wore tired with . long journey." No, I was not tirod at all. Some will say, "The temporal circumstances in the first case were more favorablo than in the last." No, they were more favorable in the last. The difference was in the power of the Holy Ghost?aiightily present at the first service, not seemingly present at all at the second. I call upon the ministors of America to give the history of sermons, for I believe it will illustrate as nothing else can the truth of that Scripture, ''Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord." On the Sabbath of the dedication of one of our churches iu Brooklyn, at the morning service, 328 souls stood up to profess Christ. They were the converts in the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where we had been worshiping. The reception of so many members?and many of them baptized by immersion?had made it nu arduous service, which continued from hair past ten in the morning until half past two in the afternoon. From that service we went home exhausted, because there is nothing so exhausting a3 deep omnHnn A mftssftn^er was sent out to obtain a preacher for that night, but the search was unsuccessful, as all the ministers were engaged for some other place. With no preparation at all for the evening sorvice, except the looking in Cruden's Concordance for a text and feeling almost too weary to stand up, I begun the service, saying audibly while the opening song was being sung, although bocauio of the singing no one but God heard it: "Oh, Lord, Thou knowest my insufficiency for this service! Come down in gracious power upon this paople." The place was shaken with the divine presence. As far as we could find out. over 400 persons were converted that night. Hear it, all young men entering the ministry; hear it, all Christian workers. It was the Holy Ghost. In the Second Reformed Church, of Somerville, N. J., in my boyhood days, Mr. Osborne, the evangelist, came to hold a special service. I seo him now as he stood in the pulpit. Before he announced his text and before he had uttered a word of his sermon strong men wept aloud, and it was like the day of judgment. It was the Holy Ghost. In 1857 the electric telegraph bore strange messages. One of them read. "Jly dear parents will rejoice to hear that I have found peace with God." Another read. "Dear mother, the work continues, and I, too. have been converted." Another read, '*At last faith and peace-." In Vermont a religious meeting was singing the hymn, ' Waitiugand Watching for M-.'' The song rolled out oil tlic night air, and a man halted and said, "I wonder if there will be any one waiting and watching for me?" It started him heavenward. What was it? The Holy Ghost. Iu that 1857 Jaynes's Hall, Philadelphia, and Fulton street prayer meeting, New York, tedegraphed each other the number of souls saved and the rising of the devotional tides. Noonday prayor meetings were hold in all the" cities. Ships came iDto harbor, captain and all the sailor* saved on that voyage. Police and lire departments met in their rooms for divine worship. At Albany the Legislature of the State of New York assembled in the rooms of the Court of Appeals for religious services. Congressional union pirayer meeting was opened at Washington. Prom whence came the power? From the Holy Ghost. That power shook New York. That power shook America. That power shook the Atlantic Ocean. That power shook the earth. That powerr could take this entire audience into the peace of the gospel quioker than you could lift your eyes heavenward. Come, Holy Ghost! Come, Holy Ghostt He has aome! He 13 here.' I feel I Him in my heart. There are thousands who feel Him in their hearts, convicting some, saving some, sanctifying some. The difference in evangelical usefulness is not so much a difference in brain, in scholarship or elooutionary gifts as in Holy Ghost power. Yon will not have much surprise at the extraordinary career of Charles G. Finney as a soul winner, if you know that soon after his conversion he had this experience of the Paraclete. He says: ' As I turned and was about to take a seat by the Are I received a baptism of the Holy Ghost. Without any expectation of it, without over having the thought in my mind that there was any such thing for me, without any recollection that I had ever heard the thing mentioned by any person in the .world, the Holy Ghost descended upon mein a manner that seemed to go through me, body and soul.. Indeed, It seemed to come in waves and waves of liquid love, for I could not express it in any other way. It seemed liko the vefy breath of God. I can recollect distinctly that it seemed to fan me like immense wings. No words can express the wonderful lore that was shed abroad in my heart. I wept aloud with joy and love. These waves came over me and over mo and over me, one after the other until, I recall 1 cried out, 'I shall dio if these waves continue to pass over me.' I said, 'Lord, I cannot bear any more.'" Now, my hearers, let 500 of lis, whether clorical or lay workers, get such a divine visitation as that, and we could take this world for God before the clock of the next century strikes 1. How many marked instances of Holy Ghost power? When a Hack trumpeter took His place in Whiteileld's audience proposing to blow the trumpet at n certain point iuthe servico and put everything into derision, somehow he could not "get the trumpet to his lips, and .it the close of the meeting he sought out the preacher-and asked for his prayers. It was the Holy Ghost. What was the matter with Hediey Vicars, tho memorable soldier, when he sat with his Biblo before him in a Knt, and his deriding comrades came in and jeered, saying, "Turned Methodist, eh?" And another said: "You hypocrite'. Bad as you were I never thought you would come to this, old fellow." And then he became the soldier evangelist, and when il tiftl/Uftr in anAfhor rorrim?nf ViimritivlM r?f miles away telegraphed his spiritual anxieties to Hedley Vicars, saying, ''What shall I do?" Vicars telegraphed as thrilling a message as over went over the wires, ''Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shalt be saved." What power was being felt? It was the Holy Ghost. And what more appropriate? For the Holy-Ghost is a "tongue of fire," and the electricity that flies along the wires is a tongue of fire. And that reminds me of what I might do now. From the place where I stand on this platform there are invisible wires of lines or influenoestretching to every heart In all the seats on the main floor and up into the boxes and cralleries, and there are other innumerable wins or lines of influence reaching out from this place into the vast beyond and across ejntinents and under tlio sea3, for in my recent journey around the world I did not find a country where 1 had not been preaching this gospel for many years through the printing press. So a telegraph operator sits or stands at a given point and sends messages in all directions, and you only hear the clink, click, click of the electric apparatus, but the telegrams go on their errand. God help me now to touch the right key and send the right message along the right wires to the right places. Who shall we first call up? To whom shall I send the message ? I guess I will send the first to all'the, tired, jvherever they are, for there are so many tired souls. Hore goes theChristly message, '/Come unto Me, all ye who are weary, and I will give you rest." ONLY TWO FEET TALL Death of a Dwarf Who Lived T vrentv-two Years and Never Walked or Talked. Charles E. Mintram, a dwarf, whose singular existence has created widespread attention, died a few days ago at the home of his father, E. Mintram, at Pine Bush. Orange County, N. Y., of pneumonia. He was in his twun'.y-second year and was only twentyfour inches tall. Ho was born in Wortendyke, N. J., and was one of nine children. The first year he was as bright and thriving as the others, and increased a little in weight and stature, but he never walked or talked, and grew to manhood with tho same baby face that he had twenty years ago and the same helpless body. The boy had been examined by many physicians during his life, but none of them could give any satisfactory explanation of the caso. As a child he was .as bright mentally as any other child until, development ceased, and he became an ordinary baby all the rest of his life. He was passionately fond of music and understood all that was said to him, and was healthy until his last sickness. MONSTER GRAPZ FRUIT FARM. To Be One of the Larjett Fruit Orchards In California. One #f the largest enterprises In the planting of fruit orchards now m progress in California has just been begun within three miles of Pomona by Henry M. Loud, a millionaire of Detroit, Mich., who owns 600 acres of fine fruit land in the valley. Mr. Loud is the first man to undertake the production of grape fruit on a large scale on this coast. He has contracted for 3000 trees of this variety of fruit, all that can De nau in inai pan o: rue State for immediate planting, put the success of the experiment will bo watched with in,erest by fruit growers and followers in all pjfrts of the couutry. Grape fruit has come to be in demand at good prices in the Eastern markets, and has been one of Florida's most profitable crops, but the recent cold weather along the Atlantic const killed every grape fruit tree in that State. A CARRIER PICEON RACE. To Test Their Usefulness as Messenger, From Distressed Vessels. As the result of discussion as to the usefulness of carrier pigeons as messengers from distressed vessels at sea, the idea having beon suggested by the voyage of La Gascogne from Havre to New York, Le Petit Journal announces an international race for pigeons. It is intended that the birds shall be liberated from a ship oharted for the purpose, the distances from land to be determined later. The promotors of the scheme offer $2000 in money, to -be competed for, and there will also be other prizes. The race is to take place in June. Entries will be received until the end of April. Injuries in Football Games. The following, says the University of Pennsylvania Courier, is a report from reliable men in a nupnber of institutions in regaid to injuries received in football games last fall: (a) (b) (c) (d) Pennsylvania 100 5 0 0 Yale 55 1 0 0 Princeton 95 7 1 0 Cornoli 80 5 2 0 Dartmouth 77 8 0 0 Brown ?? 65 1 1 0 Amherst 32 1 0 0 Wesleyan 30 5 0 0 Union 50 2 2 0 Colgate 28 2 0 0 West Point ;... 56 10 0 Rutgers..., 45 0 0 0 Lehigh 125 10 0 0 Franklin and Marshall.... 50 4 1 1 Dickinson 30 5 0 0 Purduw 29 0 0 0 University ol Illinois 75 4 2 0 University of Kansas 90 4 0 0 Total 1112 65. 9 1 (a) Number of different players. (b) Players kept out of game for week or longer. (c v Players kept from study and general activity for week or longer. id) Players hurt permanently or for term of years. .Xapan's National Kxhiltition. The fourth Industrial Exhibition of Japan will be hold this year at Kioto. It opeued " 4 1 --- II .i/xttinna unfi I Tultr 01 I OU AOril 1 aim will uuuuuim uuvn ?U.J I This is the Japamse National exhibition ! also being held iu commemoration of the I 1000th anniversary of the founding 01 Kioto ! as the old capital of Japan. Kioto is now i known a< the Western capital, though in ! reality no longer a seat of government, and is the most laseinating city of the empire. Temples abound in and about Kioto and it is the home of the finest products of Japanese looms. Delinquent Jurors Fined, Jloro than two hundred delinquent jurors have been obliged by Judge McAdam, of the Superior Court, New York City, to walk up . to the captain':! office and settle by paying a fine of $i00 for failing to 'appear when sum, moned for jury duty, or pi^escnt their excuses ' tn time. SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB APRIL 14. Lesson Text: "The Wicked llusbaa<U inuD," Mark xlL, 1 l'Z?Golden Text: Murk xll., 0 '-'Mvp $ ?Commentary. H. '-For I delivered unt<. yon, flrst of alt. " that which I also received how that Chri? died for ,our sins, according tr> the Heriptuw." , Various sections of this epistle art Jfcfslly, reoognized by the words ' now concerning" or "now a* touching" (chapter# vii., 1; viii., 1; xii., 1; xvi., 1). The section in whicb we fln<l our losson begins with xii., l and ^nrifwn* the diversities of CriftH whicb j'; hi exist in tlio one body of Christ, the church, ; .showing the supremacy of love and exhort- : "\i ing to be "always abounding in the work of the Lord" (xv., 58). ' ^ 4. -<And that Ho was buried, and that H? rose again the third day, according to tbra Scriptures." The death and burial and resHurreetion of Christ, which constitute the consummation of His finished work and may be summarized by tho phrase "Hta blood," were plainly foretold and may be readily seen by anointed eyes in Pa. xvi. and xxiii., Isa. lvili. and elsewhere. ' , # 5. "And that He was seen of Cephas, then /|g of the twelve." On resurrection day He was seen on* live different ocoasions?first by, Mary Magdalene, then by tho other iwpmen, after that by the two who walked to Emmaus.also by Peter, and in the evquing by the twelve, as they were called, but that evening Thomas was not present, and Juda* Iscariot had gone to his own place. See Luke xxiv.,33, 34; John xx., 24. That He should honor Peter with a special appear- ' ance, and also with a-special message (Mark xvi., 7), should be a matter of special { interest to anyone who may have, through temptation, wandered away. C. '-After that Hb was seen of above 50(1 brethren at once, of whom the greater part , ^ remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep." This must have been'the largest number to which He appeared at one time and may have been in Galilee or on the mount of the ascenlion, probably theformer. r N' ?'S - If two or three witnesses could establish m UiikUld | 9'iUU CM \j\jLkxjjaiMj kv tuiiikw ?w _, , very sure. We have no record of His ever > ?w53j appearing after tbe resurrection and before ' Jura the ascension to any but brethren -that Is, believers?and when He comes agatn, as believers only saw Him ascend, so only b?~ Uqvcrs-will meet Him on His way (I Thrafc. - VtfdH iv.. 16, IV). . v f S 'J 7. "After that He was seen of James, then , of all the apostles." We would not have known of this special appearance to Jamea it Paul had not told us, and 1t may be that both Peter and James talked with Paul of these special appearings when he saw them. during his visit to Jerusalem (Gal. L, 18,19). There were at least ten or eleven appear- \ f mSB ances, Including tho one at the ascension; then after, the ascension He was seen br ... &8 Stephen and Paul and John. That He rose* from the dead and is now at the right hand! of ttfe Father i9 a fact well established. 8. "And, last of all, He was seen of m# ; also, as of one born out of due time." Thiar was the last appearance up to Paul's time, for tho apperance to John In Patmos was full thirty years later. I wonder why Paul did not mention the appearance to Stephen. Perhaps it was too sore a recollection. Paul: . speaks of his conversion when the Lord appeared to him as a birth before' the time, and. r also a pattern of those who should hereafter* - - ''lil '1 believe (I Tim. i., 16), for the conversion oC the nation of Israel will be when they loot upon Him at His coming in glory. We are now saved by looking to Him, not upon* Him. Compare Isa. xlv., 22, and Zech. *$3 xii., 10. 9. "For I am the least of the apostles that < ;; am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God." Paul's growth in his own estimation was true growth in grace. It was very lowly to call , . himself "least of the apostles." It was more . VcTH lowly, at a later period, to speak of himself as "less than the least of all saints" (Eph. ill., 8), but it wu3 lowest of all, at a still later .>!& period, to call himself "the chief of sinners" (I Tim. i., 15). This is the work of the * '{tea Spirit to magnify the Lord in ail Hts loveliness and to increasingly expose the hideousness of the natural man. May we all grow 10. "But by the grace of God I am what I am, and His grace, which was bestowed upon me, was not in vain, but I labored more abundantly than they all, yot not I, but the * ,\v*$S grace of God, which wate with me." Paul was forever magnifying the graoe of God, by which wo are saved, in whioh we stand, which is yet to be more fully revealed, and which Paul felt was in his case "exceedingly , "7m abundant"' (Eph. iL, 8; Rom. v., 2;I Pet. 1., 13; I Tim. L, 14). This abundant grace con- . strained him to abundant labors, but h? wholly renounces all thoughts of his doing anything, and, as in Gal. ii., 20, emphasizes . his "not I, but Christ," "not I, but the grace v"sj of God." 11. "Therefore, whether it werfl I or the v, so we preach and so ye believe." Whether . < it was Paul or Apolloa or Cephas, they were only ministers by whom the Lord wrought 'VU (I Cor. ill., 5-7), so that the members cannot and must not glory, only in the Lord, for no flesh shall glory in His presence. Let us glory only iu the Lord. I 12. "Now, if Christ be preached that He rose from the dead, how say some among ;y*ju that there is no resurrection of the dead?" The Sadducees did not bolleve in ' any resurrection (Luke xx., 27). Some gentiles mocked at the idea (Acts xvil., 32); but. worse still, some professing Christians of , our time say that at death we get our resurrection body, and they have no further use ; J. for the body that is laid in the grave. Yet <S; it is plainlyiwritten that all that are in their graves shall come forth. They that sleep in thu dust of the earth shall awako, and when Jesus rose from the dead many bodies of the saints which slept arose and came out of the graves and went into the holy city and appeared unto many (John v., 28, 29; Dan. xll., 2; Math, xxvii., 52, 53). 13. "But if there be no resurrection of th? dead then is Christ not risen." This verse, I '* think, gives the key to verse 29, which perplexes many. The question which Paul is arguing is, IJas Christ risen? Now, all believers were baptized in the nameof theLord V Jesus, but if He is a dead Christ, and not risen, why baptize for the dead? Why bap- , tize any'one in the name of a dead Christ? 14.''"And if Christ be not risen then fa bur V'i preaching vain, and your faith is also vain." He goes on to add that if Christ bo not risen all preachers are false witnesses, and all living believers are still in their sins, and all dead believers have perished. The great fact o? the resurrection of Christ is not a truth merely for Easter, but for every Lord's day. His life and death would beof noavail to us had He not risen again, but He is risen (verse 20), and thus with power declared to be the Son of God (Rom. i., 4) ?Lesson Helper. NEW HAMPSHIRE FORESTS. ??? C^T.^ I/,. ClaU. but Are Not Conserved Property. The second annual report of tho New Hampshire Forestry Commission says that tho forest area comprises practically sixty per cent, of the entire area of tho State, and has not greatly changed since the publication of the report of the first temporary Forestry Commission in 1885. The amount of virgin spruce forest in New Hampshire is 525,000 acres, about 300,000 acres of this being in the. White Mountain district. The annual product from its acreage is about 280,000,000 feet board me;u>uret and the amount used tov t pulp is increasing about fifteen per cent. eacb? year. The lumbermen, as a rulo, continuetot cut their lands clean." thereby destroying all opportunity for reproduction ol sprue?by growth of small trees, while the large pulp mills, which own vast tracts of virgin,. forest, cut none less than .twelve inches in; diameter at tho stump, and arc already reap- { > ing the benefits of such a course. Tho methods of lumbering arc disc?ssod% and the conclusion is arrived at that a change is accessary, and that the Stiitc must sooa face the <|ucsti<ui h<nv it will stav tin* ruthless* waste ami protect its torests. It is suRgestedl that by the exercise of the right of cmuieat( domain for the i-rc.cti?)ii <>f a .series of pul>lic> forest preserves, the State could effectually secure this object, and mako the White Moun-i tain range a source of constant income, unfailing water supply, and perpetual sconic pleasure. ^ lilTecLs of Uto Freozo in Florida. Professor A. H. Webber andW. T. Swingles two entomological exports, have been seatf Into Florida by the Ooyernment to invests* gate the effects of the freeze upon tho various insect pests which infeot Florida orangaf groves. They are especially directing thairf attontiou to the white fly and the red ?caJ?t? v t '?''?$}$, . . ..