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[From the V.\. Evening Tost.)
How came England to get into the
Soudan troubles ? As usual, she did not
sail into them, but drifted into them,
The Mahdi, or Prophet, had begun to
make progress in the Soudan 'before
English authority became practically
supreme el Kebir. in The Egypt by the battle of Tel
Egyptian Government
could Dofc make up it* mind to abandon
this vast region to him or to chance, while
at the same time it had neither the moral
energy nor the material force in men and
money adequate to resist him. and re¬
conquer the territories which were yield¬
ing to him, or at least escaping from their
control. thither, They dispatched some troops
and placed them under an
English officer named Hicks. The repre¬
sentatives of England at Cairo, were in¬
structed by the English Ministry not to
interfere with the action of the Egyptian
Government in the matter. Advice was
sometimes given; more frequently it was
not given, but whenever the subject
was mentioned an emphatic declaration
was made that England had nothing to
do with the Soudan, and that the Khe¬
dive and his ministers must act ou their
own responsibility. Neither Mr. Glad¬
stone’s,Cabinet, nor for Sir E. Baring, seem the
to have doubted a moment that
proper Course was to abandon the
Soudan altogether, and withdraw the
Egyptian Haifa, frontier to a place cnlied Wady
or even to Assuan. That they
refused to force this opinion on the Khe¬
dive was owing to their resolve to make
their occupation of Egpyt purely tempo¬
rary, and let the Khedive’s Government
stand alone as soon aa it was possible for
them to do so.
In November the catastrophe came.
Hicks’s armj* in the Soudan was auni
could hiliated. hot, It was herself, plain that Egypt the
of reconquer
country. The question arose whether
England should Indian intervene either by sending
English establish ^Egyptian or troops authority to re¬
and hold
Khartoum, or at least to insure the safe
withdrawal of such garrisons as remained
in the eonntry. Fearing that to send
troops would involve the permanent oc¬
cupation of part of the Soudan, and the
creation of an English empire in Equa¬
torial Africa, Mr. Gladstone’s Cabinet
refused to do so, but went so far as io
to advise the Egyptian Ministry to with¬
draw , its garrisons and abandon the
Soudan. When, after much delay, it
appeared that the Egyptian Ministry
would not follow this advice, England
went a step further, quitted her attitude
of irresponsibility, Khedive and, early his in January,
told the that if ministers
would not. comply with her wishes he
must dismiss them. He did so, and the
present Ministry of Nubar Pasha came
in to olley tier directions. But mean¬
while time had been lost. The position
of Khartoum had become much more
perilous. Although the Europeans there
have no claim upon England, since they
went out either in the service of the
Egyptian government public or as traders on
their own account, sympathy wits
roused on their tbehalf, and the feeling
grew stronger aud stronger that the
British government ought to take soaie
steps to rescue them.
The. newspapers cried out for this, and
that iafge class who had all along desired
that England sb oh hi strchgthcn her hold
on Egypt, and proclaim a the formal pro¬
tectorate over it, swelled cry for in¬
tervention in the Soudan, because they
saw that the more she committed her¬
self there the less could she forsake
Egypt. the dispatch
There was soon a cry for
of General Gordon, the one Englishman
whose knowledge of the country as well
as pointed his military him gifts aud the personal for daring, the
out as man
•crisis. The English Government pro¬
posed to the Egyptian objections Ministry raised to em¬
ploy him, but the by
the latter took some time to overcome,
so that it wm not till the end of January
that he started. Meanwhile a new
source of anxiety started up on the
coasts of the Red f Sea. Baker Pasha
commanded a body of Egyptian band troops
there. He was attacked by a of
natives, Mohammedan Soudanese, half
black, half Arab in blood, who had come
down from the Mahdi’s main forces,
and so crus kingly defeated him that he
had to escape to the port of Suakim,
where the gnus of British vessels give
some protection. The news of this de¬
feat reached England on the very even¬
ing when Parliament met, aud clouded
the spirits of the Government. It was
quite unexpected, for his force was sup¬
posed to be more than a match for any
antagonist; but it seemed to seal the fate
of the Red Sea garrisons, who were now
left without prospect of relief. Impa¬
tience and irritation rose higher in Eng¬
land. The defeat and the impending
destruction of the garrison were attrib¬
uted to the sluggishness or timidity
of the Government, which ought, it is
said, to have long ago dispatched troops
from India to the Red Sea coast and
prepared to relieve Khartoum by a forced
march across the desert.
This was the state of feeling which en¬
couraged Sir Stafford Northcote to move
his vote of censure. The tension was a
little relieved by the intelligence of Gen.
Gordon's arrival at Berber on the Upper
Nile, from which he ascended the river
to Khartoum in safety. But it was in¬
creased by the subsequent news of the
fall cf Sinkat, one of the posts near the
Red Sea coast, and the slaughter of its
jarrisos. effect all this has been to
The of pro¬
duce amon<£,ihe Liberals a feeling made
up both of mortified pride and impa¬
tience,, which has grown keener and
keener as week after week has passed
without decisive action on the part of
the Government. They are vexed that
a responsibility which the Government
has tventuaiiy assumed should not have
been assumed sooner, when the misfor¬
tunes which have befallen might have
been verted. They do not much sym¬
pathize with its anxiety to abstain from
every possible assertion of authority in
Egypt, and are, in fact, pretty veil
pleased to stay there. They think it
has been too late iu recognizing And and do
acting upon [intent facts. they
not like tbat the troops of a country,
jfhfuh j 8 for the time being under the
segis of England, should be destroyed
and its territories torn away. Such feel¬
ings, it is true, do not exist equally in all
sections of the party. They are much
stronger among the aristocratic and plu¬
tocratic sections, telling far less on the
bulk of the middle classes. But the
fact which is for the moment important
js that they fall upon the ministerial
party in the House of Commons, and
shake tbo loyalty of some of its mein
bers.
The feelings of the Conservatives it is
hardly necessary to analyze. They situ
j * y j 10 j^ that things "that are going the wav
til ey foretold, and the ministerial
wa nt of courage and vigor would sooner
0l . i ater bring disaster both at home and
abroad,
Notes from a Sermon.
Mr. Beecher’s text Sunday morning
was Markv., 18, 19. He Baid during
the sermon:—
“The Gospel can never be preached; is
the Gospel can never be spoken. It
a thing that can be lived, but it defies
letters. It is the living soul in a Christ
like estate. It is life centred iu love,
inflamed by the conscious spirit of the
divine and the eternal.”
“The terrors of hell maybe preached, I
bnt I never could preach them. never
did. I never shall. Still, I do not sit
iu jdugment nor criticise those that do,
as if there never was any propriety iu
an argument of fear.”
“If a man is dry as a chestnut rail,
and yet is pointing in the right direction,
even though he doesn't go there him¬
self, he is of some advantage. But these
old seasoned timber men—then dryer
than Noah’s Ark is to-duv—when they
attempt to lord it overmen of zeal and
enthusiasm I don’t criticism them; they
criticise themselves.”
“The Church to-day is like the butt
end of a broom—as mauv diversities as
the broom has fingers.”
“We have just found out that a good
many people cannot see red. and there
are a good many folks in theology who
can’t see anything else but red—red hell
signal.” fire. Well, red is good as a danger
•T conhl worship with great devotion
iu any Roman Catholic Church in
Brooklyn. I could ministration find meat and com¬
fort enough in the of those
churches. But when they say to me,
‘You have got to call ns the Church, ’ I
say to them, ‘I won’t. j )i
“We are like crabs—a great part can¬
not be eaten aud the rest has to be. picked
out in little morsels. So it i$ with
Christian men everywhere.”
“As a general thing churches are far
more anxious to get people within the
fold than they are to make them genuine
Christians after they get them in. ”
“The power of the Church ought to
lie befront the organ. The power of
the Churteh ought never to lie in the
platform or in the pulpit. The power
of the Church should be the power of
the whole Church, and the power of the
whole Church should not be its ortho¬
doxy tiie or ecelesiastieism, bnt the radiancy
of Christ that is in the midst of the
people.” “I thank God that I not bom
was a
Methodist or a Baptist or a Presbyterian
I was born a baby.”
“Of all things that are heretical there
is nothing more than for a Christian
church to show the devil’s spirit and
then call it religion. Burn duWn the
church; give up every part of it; dis¬
band, for God’s sake, the whole band of
wasps that make believe they are honey
seekers.”
“A quarrel in a church is a holiday in
hell."
THE LOXDOX EXmiSIOX.
Cause ol tin* Slialicrfnir of I lie Victoria
Million a Vfjslery.
The explosion at the Victoria Railway
station, London, shattered the windows
of the Metropolitan Underground Rail¬
way Depot, sixty yards distant, and the
fronts of the houses as far iu other direc¬
tions were badly damaged. The Victoria
refreshment room was wrecked. A clock
eight feet high was blown from the wall
aud thrown six yards away. The streets
in the neighborhood were completely
strewn with broken glass.
A man who said that he was an Ameri¬
can and that his name was Brogue left a
leather bag in the cloak room of fhe Vic¬
toria Railway station and warned the
clerks to handle it carefully as its con¬
tents were easily broken. Shortly after
the cloak room was locked up for the
night and about an hour thereafter the
explosion occurred. Pieces of iron re¬
sembling an infernal machine were found
iu the station. While clearing away the
debris of the cloak room a tin box was
found. The valise which the clerk had
regarded as suspicious was found to con¬
tain nothing harmful. The damage
caused by the explosion is estimated at
£4.000.
Large crowds visited the scene of the
explosion. The report is current that
the parcel left in the cloak room was in¬
tended for use against the House of Par¬
liament,and that it exploded accidentally.
An officer who is acquainted with dyna¬ the
mite was passing about the time of
explosion. He hastened to the spot,
and on entering the dynamite. booking office de¬
tected the smell of
The theory that the explosion was
caused by dynamite gains confirmation
from the fact that the greatest damage
was done laterally. The iron railing
guarding the stairs near the cloak room
was snapped asunder and twisted into
grotesque shapes. It is believed that
ten pounds of dynamite would have been
sufficient to cause the damage. The
theories that gunpowder or gas caused
the explosion have been injured, discarded. and Only they
two persons were
'discredit slightiv. The officials of the railway
the idea that the explosion was
the result of private malice, as the cost
of the material would deter a discharged
servant from thus reta.iatmg. T It is -
generally attributed to tne persons n ho
caused the explosion on tne I ra^sl street
station of the Underground Hallway
some months ago.
A oral, on exhibition at Chicago has
ten fingers on each hand. If she ever
gets married and allows them to toy
with the hair of her husband in the usual
marital wav his bead Is liable to grow
bald in a' single matinee.— Bismarck
T bvnv
THE ARCTIC DEAD.
rHKIR NOm.K SRr.tr.vArRlFICE TUB
T1IEME IN TUE CULUCHES.
Dr. Talnintf nn Wo Toons’.* The U<**
NultMot'llie Jrnunette Expedition—Detitb
did nor Mena Failure.
Dr. Talmage, ou Sunday, took for his
subject, “The Jeannette’s Dead. ” In
the opening prayer Dr. Talmage offered
up a petition for all who sailed the Arctic
* the usual hymns he began
seas. After
bis sermon, taking the text from Job,
xxxvii., 10—“By the breath of God frost
is given; and the breadth of the waters
is straitened.”
Iu the most anoient times, said Dr.
Tslmago, cold weqt forth and assailed
the waters while n| play and took them
into everlasting captivity. The It text the is
descriptive of au Arctic sea. is
home where all our winters are hatched
in nest of iceberg under the brooding
wing of the north wind. There are the
castles where the giants of the cold live;
great battlements of glacier; ponderous
gates of glass that swing open long
enough to let adventurers sail in and
then swing shut, leaving the world to
guess about the lost shipping. Great
cities of palaces and castles and domes
and bridges and statuary lifted up with
such snlendovs that the human eye is ex
tinguished if it gazes too come'ten long. ’
From those regions silent
passengers. What a contrast bebwoeu
their going and their coming! July 8,
1879, summer day, steaming out trom
San Francisco Harbor. Hills covered
with enthusiastic spectators. Fort Point,
with its twenty-one guns of salutation.
Steam whistles and dipping colors, and
by telegraph the whole continent in
sympathy their with the gallant undertaking.
Now return after nearly five years 1
The poor remains of a fragment of the
expedition passing amid lines of sorrow¬
ful thousands, but tbo chief object of in¬
terest hearing not the sound of gun and
beholding not one uplifted hat of rever
cmce. “A failure !” say thousands of
people. I make most emphatic protest
To-day misleading failure. I
against that cry of
shall show you now that Do Long’s ex¬
pedition, in "four respects at least, was a
magnificent success. place, it demonstrated be¬
Iu the first
fore all nations, and as never before,
that our holy religion may be carried
into great worldly enterprises, especially
in those which are scientific. Christ was
not more certainly on board the ship on
Galilee than he was on board the Jean¬
nette. The ice journal of De Long tells
a tremendous story. The diary records
that on the first Sunday out articles the men of wore
gathered together, the wav
were read and then De Long says :—“I
read the divine service, and what
pleased me much was, to observe that
every man not absolutely I on watch Sab¬ vol¬
untarily attended.” see on every
bath the record:—“Read divine service."
I come to the words, “Wo are in the
hands of God, aud unless He intervene!
we are lost.” And now I come to tin
last Sabbath they spent on earth‘ ‘133(
day; everybody pretty weak; read par
of divine service.” Too weak to >gu
more than a part. Far away Jrom horn
hungry aud freezing ft 1 sicloiii<ntyiqp;
an
they cried unto the Lord iu their dis¬
tress, aud He took them right out of a
cold earth into a warm heaven. Pro¬
nounce no expedition a failure which set
up the banners of Emanuel ou the pin¬
nacles of iceberg till all nations saw the
crimson standard. Was there no signiti
\ cance in the fact that on monumental
hill of Lena Delta Engineer Melville
afterward over the tomb of these men
put up a cross oil the cold forehead oi
the world, the beautiful symbol glorious of our
glorious religion'? Oh, it was a
success for De Long and his men that
they could carry this religion into groat
worldly undertaking, all nations and all
ages to witness.
Another great success in this DeLong
expedition was in the overwhelming ex¬
ample of courage which it has set for the
world aud for the church. Remember
it was not going out to tight men. It was
not like the courage which is demanded
of the soldier going into battle. It was
a more difficult courage, because it was
a contest with the dumb elements. The
soldier when in ordiuary battle knows it
is possible that the euemy may be
cowardly and run, but the icebergs are
never panicstruck aud they are nevei
afraid. The soldier knows it is possible
that the enemy may be destroyed by a
flank movement, but the Arctic Ocean
was never flanked. The soldier knows
it is possible that the enemy may get out
of ammunition, but the Arctic always
has enough ice for shot aud ice for guns
aud ice for thunderous bombardment. It
was courage against the dnrub elements,
which show no quarter and never sur¬
render and never die. In our times.
when God wants to give an example of
courage, ho sends out a Livingstone
Stanley into the torrid resflons and
the Arctic a Franklin or a De Long and
au Ambler and a Collins and all their
gallant crew. I am so glad there are
giants still living—men able to conquer
hunger and cold and physical woe, that
they may give the round earth to the
glorious cause of geographical discovery, is
We have found at last how the world
. bounded. It is bounded on the north
and the south and the east and the west
by courage of man and the greatness of
God. We want more of that kind of
courage in our churches. This glorious
example of courage which De Long and
his men gave to the world and to the
church made their expedition forever
and forever a magnificent success.
Another the success of this polar expedi¬
tion is in fact that it has persuaded
the whole world that it is now time to
stop pushing in that direction. It is a
g rea t thing for the world to know when
struck the imjiossible. Never until
110w has every reasonable and enter
p r tifl ;i £ rnau l>een willing to call a halt.
The impression f that has Gixl come does upon the most
j JO p fc f u ] 0 not mean
the race to move aDy further that way.
Let neither private munificence nor gov
ernmental authority pay another dollar
or allow another life to be lost in Arctic
expeditions, except enterprises . like
m
the Greely relief party. God has some
reservations. He must have some paths
where He cen walk alone without being
questioned ny Immaa uiq'usitivenea*.
As we oloee this volrmra of crystal¬
volume lography let ug rejoice that another
of human sniftering is ended.
Nine-tenths of tire shelves of the world’s
library are filled with these volumes of
suffering adorned with vignettes repre¬
senting martyrs’ stakes and Arctic ex¬
peditions. tliis library Overtopping all other volumes
of is the ice journal of the,
world's greatest Explorer, He who put
out against the Arctic sufferings of this
aorl. 1 t is might find a passage for
all outran, yst was frozen by the world’s
negl'ct. . lie first vignette of that ice
joun i. •' as „ disgraceful manger a ud the
' zing God hasten the
0 cross.
^ When the volume Of the world’s
wig shall be- closed I
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1 )'• ayh didn't Woman.—M rs. Martin, of
Onahc, scream when she un¬
linked her room aud saw h burglar. On
tfe contrary, she marched'him to the
pi ice station. The Omaha Bee sketches
filv tfe scene: feet “A high, big, strapping fellow,
six with broad shoulders
heavy frame, came matching up look- the
decidedly '!« h ,V sheepish. :ld . hanging, Right and behind
he*^^Khm nv^|«W. little build, woman, but m of her avej^e eye
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"Mtfe big tel low s head. The pistol
cocked and the prisoner knew trom
thfiook in her eye that a misstep meant
by • Pills for him. After the lady had
tttfcd her man oyer to up office* .p*
away be pistol.
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A Sahara Inland Sea.
The Bey of Tunis has given M. Ran
da ire authority to carry out his scheme
for transforming a portion of the Desert
of Sahara into an inland sea.
M. Roudaire is a French naval officer,
who has devoted special attention to
hydrography. Iu 1873, while engaged
in geodetic observations with a view to
determining the meridian of Biskra, a
town in Central Algiers, lie was im
pressed with the fact that a portion of
the great Desert of Sahara is below the
level of the Mediterranean. He con
eluded that this must lx; the bottom of
an ancient sea, aud he conceived the
which project of cutting through the dunes
separate the sea from the desert,
with the idea that he would thereby
transform vast tracts of arid waste into
fertile country. His plan seemed so
promisihg that the French Assembly
gave him an appropriation of lO.OOOf.,
and be deveted two years to further sur
veys and observations. The results of
this work were made pnhlic in 1877 and
created a profound impression. M.
Wnddington, who was then Minister of
Public Instruction, gave M. Iioudaire
unequaled support. Since then the sur¬
veys have been re-made and the project
has been the subject of much con¬
troversy in the scientific world. M.
Roudaire has t»ecome more
than ever of the feasibility of his plan
and of the immense advantages which
will flow therefrom, aud the difficulties
m the way of its realization are one by
one giving way.
A Training School.
Chicago’s Manual Training School has
opened with sixty-five boys. The build
jug, not yet complete, will accommodate
350 pupils. Practical instruction is to
l>e given in the use of tools, with such
instruction as may be deemed necessary
jn mathematics, drawing, and the Eng
Jj»h branches of a high school course,
The tool instruction, as at present con
templated, will include making, carpentry, chipping wood
turning, pattern iron and
and tiling, forge work, brazing sol
dering, and the use of machine shop
tools. The course of study is to cover
two years. One hour per day, or more,
will be given to drawing, and not less
than two hours per day to shop work,
Before graduating each pupil will lie re
quired to construct a machine. Less
than one-third of those who have pre
rented themselves for examination have
been accepted. l>een The provided expense for by of the the
building lias Chicago Commercial
me ml x:rs of the
Club, and with moderate charges for
tuition it is exjiected that the school will
sustain itself.
Many Washington ladies now writs
themselves ‘‘Mrs. Secretary-,” “Mrs.
General-aud “Mrs. Commodore
’ Me hope the style will spread
until such signatures xs the following
become common: “Mrs. Dry Goods
Clerk -, “Mrs. Butcher -,
“Mrs. Cobbler -, "Mrs. Barber
--"Mrs. He'd Carrier--."etc.
