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ejudice or selfishness, fighting a natural aw avd trying to make Niagara run up stream. Mr. Pitt, the Prime Minister of England, was always saying wise things. One day Sir Walter Farquhar called on him in great perturbation. Mr. ‘Pitt inquired what was the matter, and Sir Walter sold him that his daughter was about to be mar- ried to one not worthy of her rank. Mr. Pitt said: ‘‘Is the young man of respect- able family?’ ‘‘ Yes.”” ‘‘Is he respect- able in himself?’ Yes.” ‘‘Has ho an estimable character?’ ‘‘ Yes.” ‘' Why, then, my dear Sir Walter, make no oppesi- tion.” The advice was taken, and a happy married life ensued. Let ministers and otticers of the law decline officiating at clan- destine marriages. When they are asked te date a marriage certificate back, as we all are asked, let them peremptorily decline to say that the ceremony was in November instead of January, or decline to leave the date blank lest others fill out the record erroneously. Let a law be passed in all our States, as it has already been in some of the States, making alicense from oflicers of the law necessary before we can unite couples, and theu make it necessary to pub- lish beforehand in the newspapers, as it used to be published in the New England churches, so that if there be lawful objec- tion it may be presented, not swinging the, buoy on the rocks after the ship has struck and gone to pieces, And here it might be well for me to take all the romance out of an escapads by quoting a dozen lines of Robert Pollock, the great Scotch poet, where he describes the crazied victim of one of these escapades :

“ * © * * Yet had she many days

Of sorrow in the world, but never wept.

She lived on alms, and carried in her hand

Some withered stalks she gathered in the spring. When any asked the cause, she smiled and said They were her sisters, and would come and watch Her grave when she was deaa. She never spoke Of her deceiver, father, mother, home,

Or chiid, or heaven, or hell, or God, but still

In lonely places walked, and ever gazed

Upon the withered stalks and talked to them ; Till wasted to the shadow of her youth,

With woe too wide to see teyond, she died.”

Bat now ] turn of this subject an jin- tenser light. We have fifteen hundred lights in this church, and when by eleetric touch they are kindled in the evening ser- vice, it is almost startling. But this whole subject of ‘Clandestine Marriages and Escapades,” £ put uaoder a more intense light than that. The hesdlight of a locc- motive is terrible if you stamd near enough to catch the fall glare of it. As it sweeps around the ‘‘ Horseshoe Curve” of the Alleghanies, or along the edges of the Sierra Noevadas, how far ahead, and how deep down, and how high up it fishes, and there is instantaneous revelation of moun- tain peak and wild beasts hieing themselves te theif caverns, and cascades a thousand feat tall, clinging in white térror to the ptecipices! Bat more imtenss, more far- reaching, more sudden, swifter and more tremendous, is the headlight of an advanc- ing Judgment Day, under which all the most hidden affairs of life shall come to discovery Snd arraignment. I quote an overwhelming passage of Scripture mm which I put the whole emphasis on the word ** secret’: ‘God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good or evil.”

Whata time that will be in which the cover shall be lifted from every homs and from every heart. The iniquity may have been so sly that it escaped ail human detec- tion; but it will be as well known on that day as the crimes of Sodom and Gomorrah, unless for Christ’s sake it has been for- given. Ali! the fingers of universal con- demnation will be pointed at it. The arch- angel of wrath will stand there with up-‘ lifted thunderbolt ready to strike it. The squeamishness and prudery of earthly society, which hardly allowed some sins to be mentioned on earth, are past, and the man who was unclean and the woman who was impure, will, under a light brighter than a thousand noonday suns, stand with the whole atory written on scalp and fore- head, and cheek and hands and feet ; the whole resurrection body aflame and drip- ping with fiery disclosures, ten thousand sepulchral, and celestial and infernal voices erying: ‘‘ Unclean! unclean ! r

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All marital intrigues and all secret iniquities will be published, &s though all the trumpets spoke them and all the light- nings capitalized them, and all the earth- quakes rumbled them. O man recreant to thy marriage vow! © woman in sin‘ul collusion? What then will become of thy poor sou'! The tumbling Alps and Pyre- nees and Mount Washingtons cannot hide thee from the consequences of thy secret [f sins. Better repent of them now, so that they cannot be brought against thee. For the chiefof sinnors there is pardon, if you askitin time. But I leave it to you «o guess what chance there willbe for those who on earth lived in clandestine ro- iations, when on that day the very Christ who had such high appreciation of the raarriage relation that He compared . tw His own relation with the Church, shall appear at the door of the great hall of the Last Assize, and all the multitude of earth aud hell and heaven shall rise up and cry out from the three galleries, “Behold the bridegroom cometh!”

Oddfellowship and its Progress since 1830.

In his address at the laying of the correr stone of the} Ridgley monument, in Har- lem Square, Baltimore, the Grand Master of the Oddfellows said :—Twenty years ago the Order was assembled on Broadway, of this city, to lay the corner stone of a monu- went designed te perpetuate the memory of the Father and Founder of Oddfellowship in America—Thomas Wildey. To-day we have gathered here to lay the corner stone of a structure to be erected by the voluntary contributions of the members of our great Brotherhood, as a testimonial of their love and appreciation of the services of one who has justly been termed the Preserver and Benefactor of the Order, James L. Ridgely. “os Locking back over the two decades since the memorable year 1865, we cannot bat be impressed with the ,changes that have been wrought. In April twenty years ago, We were jest emerging from the tur- moils and strife of a bloody conflict of four years duration, and the advent of peace so ardently hoped for was gladly welcomed, when the nation was plunged into grief by the ‘mad act of an assassin, who, without warning, struck down the Chief Magistrate of the Union. In two decades, wars in foreign countries have overthrown empires and kingdoms, and the map of the world has been mderfuily reconstructed. In our Urder the changes have been no less eanlng. We have gained sight grand ca «é 5.581 subordingte lodges, while mimembers we have increased

to 523,467. In the encampment branch we have been equally successful, advancivg from thirty to forty four grand encamp- ments, from 687 to 1,943 subordinate en- campments, and from 27,593 to 94,589 members. In the fulfilment of the great command ‘‘to assist the sick, relieve the distressed, bury the dead and educate the orphans,” we point to the expenditure of $2,112,000 in 1884, contrasted with the $604,000 in 1864, and a revenue of $5,275,- 000 against $1,740,000. - In clos- ing, let me urge you to ever remember the many instances of devotion bequeated you by the long list (too numerous to mention individually for an occasion like this) which the departed brother, whom we honor to- day, stood forth as a noble example, worthy of emulation by all.

The Hon. H. F. Carey, grand sire on the same occasion, said ‘‘sixty-six years have passed since five workman met in this city to form a fraternal society. They as- sembled at a hostelry on Second street, known by the sign of the Seven Stars, and then and there laid the foundation of what is now styled as the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, { speak of the Order as well known, because it numbers in the State of California about 23,000, in Massachusetts more than 30,000, in Lli- nois about 33,000, in Ohio about 50,000, in New York about 42,000, and in Pennayl- yania more than 80,000 members. Time will not suffice to apeak of all our States and Territories, of British America, of Chili, Mexico, Peru, and of a large portion of the Continent of Europe. That it is one and indivisible, under the control and paternal rule of a congress, regulated by law. Thatit knows no sections and no parties, no sects and no form of civil gov- ernment, no secular emp'eyments and no titles but these of benevolence. : Although we date from 1819, no reliable financial record was kept un(il 1830. Since that year (omitting fractional amounts) our total expenditure for the relief of brothers and their families was thirty-nine millions of dollars, being dues paid under the benefit system. inthe same time twenty millions of dollars were spent in general charity. The estimated value of the invested fund of our Lodges in the United States and Canada is twenty-five millions, and the halls owned by the Order, with their furni- ture and regalia, are put down at an equal sum. * * * In addition to numerous halls, owned by its subordinates, the Grand Lodge of Maryland owns the magnificent hall on Gay Street. It contains apart- ments in which thirty-two Lodges are accommodated, with an aggregate member- ship of 4,459. The corner stone of the Ridgeby monument was ‘laid April 27th, 1885, and on the, 22nd September of the same year was unveiled, the total cost— $20,000, made up by voluntary contribu- tions. The largest amount any oue mem- ber was alowed to contribute was five cents

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The Colorado Snow Slides.

A despatch from Denver, Col., January 23rd, says the Maroon pass road has been the seene of fearful loss of life. The hor- rors of Thursday were intensified by the developments of the following day, which show the pass te be asnow-bound tomb. While we were hunting for bodies of those lost on Thursday, word was received of another further up the canon, An ava- lanche struck the latter point at midnight of Tuesdsy. Clayton Gannol, Sol, Camp, Charles Tuttle, Martin Riley, Jap. Ferris, Aug. Goodwin, A. L. Soms and Martin Patterson were asleep in a cabin, which they supposed was safe, as it was built in a grove of heavy timber, but when the slide came down it snapped the trees as though they were pipe stems, hurling them against the eabin and crushing everything into a mass. Martin Riley and Ang. Goodwin had their backs broken, and Riley was suf- focated. When the slide struck the timber it divided, part rushing across the gulch, burying a cabin on the opposite side occu- pied by three men, without injuring them These men worked their way out at noon, and started out to rescue their friends. On Wednesnay evening, after cutting through numberless fallen trees, they effected an entrance into the cabin, and found three dead and five others sufforing terribly from suffocation. Sol. Camp lay on his face dead. The body of Jap. Ferris was pinioned across the back by heavytimbers. Riley died five minutes after the disaster occurred. His dying convulsions nearly caused the death of a man underneath him. Camp had sustained a terrible cnt on the head from which the blood flowed profusely. He became terribly thirsty, and being in a position where he could hold his hands under his bleeding head and lift them to his month, he quenched his thirst with his own blood. All the men who were alive when foynd were nearly crazy, all were undressed and fad bitten themselves on the hands aad arms in their delirium, and pre- sented ¢ sickening spectacle, They may al} recover, but the cases of one or two are extremely doubtful.

A New Explosive.

A reporter called at the office of O’ Donovan

Rossa, a few days ago, and found him in close coneultation with the well-known Boston re- presentative of the Feniap Brotherhood, Capt Joha D, Driscoll, ‘Mr. Rossa,” said the re- porter, ‘ta cable despatch from Londen statcs that you have discarded dynamite, regarding it as 4 blundering medium, and will order hereafter the use of pistol and knife Is this so!” ‘*Dynamite has not been discarded,” was the reply. ‘ Bat as England is using every moas- ure to fight [re'and, using the knife and dagger all over the worl4, so Ireland has the right to use every meseure ehe sees fit.”

‘‘Bul there is something worse than dyna- mite,” suggested Driscoll, with a nod; ‘‘it is a new des‘ructive agent just invented, the process of making which is known to only three men living, and they «re Fenians. It is twenty times more destructive than dynamite.”

After considerable questioning, the reporter learned that this new explosive has been the subject of a recent conference of the Fenian ieaders, at which it was practically decided to adept and usethe material, providing England does not give Ireland Home Rule by

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peaceable measures, It is expected that avother conference on the subject will be held shortly, at which representatives frem London aod Publin will bejpresent. ‘‘Enough | can be made iu 74 houre,’ added Driscoll. to} destroy the whole of London. It is not a very seusitive explosive, and can be handled | #0 easily that a person can take a package, if great care be teken. We shall use it if cir-| cumstances require. Irishmen in England | and Jreland and throughout this country are determined to uze every means to obtain for | Ireland her rights.” Rossasaid he expected nothing from the Englisn parliament,

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The Railway Age.

It is stated that of some 300,000 miles of railway in the world, North America pos- sesses one half, and the United States alone about 120,000 miles. Canada enjoys the distinction of having the longest line of continuous rails running east and west across the continent. But there has been an enormous developme:it of railways in other quarters ef the world within the past few years. In British India there are now thousands of miles of steel rails laid down, amid a population mostly heathen. Eng- land’s iron route, from the Arabian Sea to Afghanistan, has recently reached the Quet- tah plateau through the Belan pass. The work on Russia’s great trans-Caspian line is being pushed forward day and night. It is now approaching Merv, and Russia ex- pects to carry it on to Bokhara and Tash- kend. Indeed it will not be many years before the Indian lines, pushing up from the south, are joined in the heart of Asia to the Russian lines from the north, The Australian colonies have now a vast railway system built by the provin- cial governments there. And even South Africa now boasts of 1,562 miles of completed lines, including the lines recently opened from Cape Town tothe diamond mives at Kimberley, 700 miles distant. These lines are all owned by Cape Colony, and it is claimed that during the first six months of the fiscal year they paid all work- ing expenses with 3} per cent. to apply on interest account. ‘The King of Siam de- sires to connect his capital by rail with the Chinese frontier, and has promised to build thisroad if the Indian Government will construct a line through Burmah to meet him at that side of the Siamese territories. China has madea small beginning in rail- ways with a short line at Tien-Tsin, and has now some 3,000 miles of telegraph lines. In South America each of the principal siates has now its railway lines. So that in every quarter of the earth railway building is going on at arate unprecedented in the world’s history, as it is aiding stupendously to international intercourse, to the facilities of traveland the interchange of products. Not less important must be the results in advaneing civilization and in impressing the benighted and semi-savage inhabitants of Africa and Asia with the importance of Christianity, liberty and social advance- ment.— St. John Telegraph.

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A Constable’s Brave Act.

A fire took place at Montreal on the morning of the 22nd inst., in the front stere of L. H. Mooney & Co., tailors, and W. Harvey & Co., dry goods merchants, and damaged the former’s stock to the ex- tent of $500, and the latter’s to the extent

of $2,000. The building, which is owned by Mr. Davis, has been damaged to the extent of $500; all covered

by insurence. Mr. D. Roy and family lived in. the upper part of the building,and during the fire two women and several children were screaming, when Con- stable Soulliere shouted to them to be of good courage as he could save them, Climbing ap the waterspont, 30 feet, he de- scended into the yard and was about to

enter house from the back, when a boy of nine years jumped from the attic window into the _ yard, forty feet below. The youngster fell

into af heap of snow and escaped almost unhurt. His perilous exploit was followed by a young girl, who, however, hit on a clothes line and was badly scraped. The women with their babies were about to follow,when the constable shouted ‘courage’ and dashed through a back door and

upstairs through the suffocating smoke and, gaining the attic, calmed _ their fears. Then taking one of the babies

in his arms, he told the mother to follow him and, getting out on the ledge of the house, he walked along the gutter to the window of the next house, where he broke through the double windows and landed her inside. He then went back for the other woman and child and landed them also in safety.

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A Midnight Raid for Rent.

From Dungarvan, Ireland, a remarkabie raid for rent in the dead of night is reported. A large number of tenanis in the county Waterford refused to pay their rents, being indignant that one of the local landlords _ had charged the Roman Catholic bishop with inciting them to this course. The tenants having decided to maintain possession of their holdings, and to re- move their effects to avoid seizure, a num- ber of writs were issued, and the sheriff was called upon to make araid at night on the tenants. This was accordingly at- tempted, 100 police being sent from a dis- tance to assist the sheriff; the local force being left in ignorance to pre- vent information reaching the tenants. The sheriff and his men proceeded on the expedition, which, however, was a_ tota failure ail the tenants having removed their stook, and not a single seizure was made. Dorivg the march snow fell thickly,and the large body of police, silently marching over the mountains at such an unusual hour, created the greatest surprise and excite- ment.

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A Bark’s Eventful ‘Voyage.

The British bark Stanfield arrived at New York on the 21st inst., after an un- usual series of mishaps all round the world, She sailed from Sunderland, England, a year ago for Java. On the day of sailing. Wm. Allen, the steward, committed enicide by cutting his throat. Next the ver- sel encountered a succession of storms until she reached Java. At Ijiljap the boatswain, one Wm. Wood, deserted from the ship. Laden with a cargo of coffee the bark sailed from Padang on October 3rd. Fourteen days later Java _ fever broke out among the crew, the mate, Wm. Douglass, dying, and the captain and nearly half of the crew beiag ill. Alexan- der Hansen, one of the seamen, was suffering greatly from the fever, and when the vessel touched at St. Helena he was put onshore. With such a reduction in the crew it was found difficult to handle

ithe bark, and, to add to the general un-

Juckiness of the voyage, when the Stanfield was off Cape Hatteras. she encountered a furious hurricane that drove her 200 miles out to sea.

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