The Fearful Kongo State.—Up to the present time, notwithstanding all the agitation, all the exposition of the relentless rule of Leopold of Belgium, all the protests, all the negotiations and attempts at legislation, affairs in the Kongo are not bettered; Belgium's cruel, merciless king is still at the head. The only hope that the Kongo Reform Association has is international interference; but even here the wealth taken from the impoverished and maimed natives is used to corrupt governments and their officials. A recent report tells us that the old king is stricken with an incurable disease; namely, gangrene, necrosis of the bones of the heel. Amputation may help, but it is not probable. Is it divine retribution, or the legitimate crop of vicious sowing? Thank God, the time is soon coming when the oppressor shall cease.