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AWFUL CYCLONE. Spiling Loss of Life fifiana Around St. Louis. PEOPLE KILLED, A Whirling Clond of Deatn and Destruction. 4 (Great Tornadoes Sweep Oat of the Northwest, Crossing Lower St.

Lonis, and Followed by Flood and Fire, De3tToy I Much of East St. Eads Bridge Great Calamity on the Alton of Factory Girls School Children Storm Sweeps Over Sev, eral States. St. Louis, May Louis gasps Jbi the shadow of a horror unspeakable. JFrom end to end it is a city of wreck and ruin.

From end to end it is a city of the dead. A tornado, terrible in its fury, immeasurable in its destructiveness, struck the city at 5.15 p. m. yesterday and for half an pour it rocked and trembled as if a giant in a ST. LOUIS (Built for the Republican National Conven man Kerens says the damage it has recel (earthquake were shaking the earth beneath it It came from the south, where it ecourged a vast extent of country and it wrought unprecedented havoc in this city, i Two tornadoes, one sweeping down from (Moberly, toward the southeast and the (other sweeping up from the southeast, met the Mississippi River at St.

Louis. The storms seemed to join forces and dealt death Ijand destruction. East St. Louis, on tne Illinois side of the river, fared tho worse, a swath several blocks wide being cut through the of that city. The lower part of St.

Louis, on the western bank of the river, was swept through and great buildings were levelled as though they were built of straw. In East St. Louis the loss of life was (greatest. It is variously placed at from two to three hundred. In St.

Louis it I is known that many were killed. Late at night It was said that 1500 persons were killed or wounded in St. Louis. In East St. Louis and environments It is estimated that there are 500 dead and wounded.

Tho latest reports compiled from the scene of destruction in the three States point to the loss of over 700 human lives. According to places, the death roll is divided as follows: In St. Louis, 300; East St. Louis. 300; Drake, 111., 80; Rush Hill.

10; Remiick, Labadie, 10. The disaster appears to be tho greatest tne oountry has known since the Johnstown flood. The property loss runs into millions. It is placed, from cyclone, flre and flood, in (East St. Louis, III, at two millions and a of dollars.

In St. Louis it will be a Ij million more. i Factories and asylums were razed. One cigarette factory, which was blown down, contained at least two hundred working girls, many of whom were buried in the ruins. Fifty school children are said to have I been killed in one school house.

A large i hotel, full of guests, was blown down and i only two persons are believed to have escaped. Despite the flood of rain which followed the gyration of the winds, the electric light i wires ignited the rains everywhere and the destruction was increased. The streets were iso Uttered with debris that the firemen were unable to render assistance In any direction, even if the water works had not already been destroyed by the cyclone. The great Eads Bridge, spanning the Mississippi, was partially wrecked and is Littered 1ST. LOUIS EXrO: I (The famous structure, where many Natio 'with the wrecks of trains and wagons, with or injured men and horses.

East 8t. Louis suffered probably more than Louis. Messengore came at 7 p. m. from 'there, asking for physicians and nurses.

The steamer D. H. Pike, with thirty passengers on board, bound for Peoria, was jblown bottom side up in the middle of the river and a number of persons were killed, The steamer Delaphin. with a crew of sis twenty lady passengers on board, was blown against a bridge pier and broke in two. The ladies and two of the crew clung jto the bridge stonework, an! wzze rescued.

The steamer Libbio Conger, with only (Captain aeaman, his wire, and three of the 'crew aboard, went adrift. The wreck boat opposite Carondelet is supposed to bo the steamer Conger. Ottened's furniture store, at Broadway and Soulard, was demolished and six men are reported killed. A saloon at 604 South street fell with nine men in the ruins. at PntHoL-'a Phiirfh at Sixth and I streets, fell, and the debris tills the The electric railway lino is burned out, a.s well as electric plant.

Fourteen Are alarms were sounded within an hour, and three alarms were sent in 'from the poorhouse, which building has 1200 The roof of the poorhouse was and the fatalities are sreat. During the bvst race at the Fair Grounds roof was blown off the grand stand. The crowd had gone to the open fields for safety, and only four men were killed The armory at Seventeenth and Fine streets was used as a hospital. At 7.30 p. m.

the rain, which had ceased a time, began afresh, and fell in torrents. 8 o'clock the eastern sky was aflame with the light of fires in East 3t. Louis. The metal roof of the Merchants' Exchange was 'roiled up like a scroll and fell into the streets. The Louisville and Nashville east-bound local passenger train hud just reached East St.

Louis when the storm struck the city. The train was overturned, but miraculously only a few passengers were injured. The Chicago and Alton east-bound local passenger train which left St Louis at 5 o'clock was on the east span of the bridge, when the wind picked the cars up and turned them over on their sides. Tlio iron spans and trusses the cars from toppling into the river, 100 feet below. The passengers were thrown into a confused mass.

The network of wires made rescue difficult and dangerous. The east span of the east bridge is so badly wrecked that it will take three days to allow trains to pass. Lightning struck the Standard Oil Works and flames were soon pouring from a dozen buildings. The East St. Louis Firo Department was utterly powerless to cope with the flres, and it was feared that nearly the entire business and a great portion of the residence section wculd be destroyed bv flames, if not already ruined by the" wind.

Among tho principal buildings already In ruins are the National Hotel, thd Standard Oil WgO? East St. Louis Wire Nail Works, the Crescent Elevator, Hesel Elevator, all freight depots and stores and residences on Sr. Clair nue. The damage to the property in St. Lou Is is estimated at 61,000,000, and the loss in East St.

Louis 33,000,000. There were really two tornadoes. One came from the northwest and the other from the direct east. Both met on the Illinois shore of the Mississippi River and joined in a whirling cloud of death and destruction. The list of dead in Louis is beyond present computation.

A startling report reached Police Headquarters that 200 girls were in the ruins of Litfsitt Meyer's cigarette factory at Tower rove Park. There was of life in the southern portion of St. Louis from railroad tracks to Carondolet. The wind swept away the roof of the Exposition Building and that structure is badly damaged by the flood of water. The leveo was packed with peoplo while the storm raged fiercest, proping through the darkness and eagerly imploring information from loved ones on the river.

The Annunciation Church at Sixth and Lasalle streets was totally destroyed. Fathei Read, the pastor, was fatally injured. Michael lUDITORIUM. tion which will be held June 16. CommitteeIved will not interfere with the meeting.) Dawee, a driver, was blown from his wagon In the vicinity and instantly killed.

The middle span of the roadway above the railroad tracks on the Eads Bridge was blown completely away. The Plant flour mills and the works of the St. Louis Iron and Steel Company were destroyed, aDd the big Cupples block of buildings was partially demolished. The Waters-Pierce oil works were destroyed oy are, ana uuuuuigM iu savorui puru ui ma city burned all night. H.

0. Rice, the manager of the Western Union at the Relay Depot on the east side, reports a wreck of terrible proportions. He said the National Hotel, Tremont House, Market House. De Wolfe's cafe, Hazel Mining Company mill, Horn's cooper shop, and a large number of dwellings west of that section were swept into wreckage. The Baltimore ana Ohio and Vandalia roundhouses, tne Standard Oil Works, East St.

Louis and Crescent elevators, and a dozen freight houses were caught in the vortex of the cyclone and reduced to debris. Five hundred freight cars are said to have been blown into the river. The great Eadesj bridge was twisted all out of shape and made an utter ruin. Freighf cars were tossed to and fro, tumbled into ditches, driven sometimes into the fields many rods from where they stood. The great Vandalia freight house fell in a heap of utter ruin, and thirty-five men who had taken refuge in it were buried beneath the ruins and their lives crushed out.

Some of the bodies have been got out, torn and mangled beyond the powers of description. Liggett and Meyer's big tobacco manufactory, the largest in the West, according to the latest report was wrecked totally and the loss of life tnere was great. Twenty dead bodies and many wounded.have been recovered from this building. The scene in the river opposite St. Louis was aDDalline.

8teamboats moored at their landings were torn away, turned over and sunk, drowning all on board. Many people were seen clinging to floating wreckage and pitiously appealing for help. OTHER PLACES STRICKEN. The Wide Reach of the Storm and Some of the Fatalities. Bloomixoton, 111., reached the Chicago and Alton Railroad officials that 3ITI0N BUILDING.

aal Conventions have met, damaged.) a tornado had demolished tbo village cf Rush Hill, twelve miles from Mexico, in Audrian Coumy. The tornado struck the town a few minutes before 4 o'clock, and blew down the schoolhouse, crushing its inmates. The report was to the effect that titty pupils had been killed and a number injured. May tornado passed five miles north of Sturgeon about 3 o'clock p. m.

At Reulck three men were seriously injured and family of colored people were carried over a mile, two children being fatally hurt. Friendship Church, north of town, was demolished. The funnel-shaped cloud was seen by half the people of Sturgeon. Bridges and fences are torn up for miles. Kansas City, May Randolph County, was blown away this afternoon and several persons were killed.

Labadie, was also destroyed. Ten persons were killel at the place. Roodhoi-se, Mav is reported that eighty children were killed hi a schoolbouse in Drake, near Ihis city, by the I cyclone. Passenger In tlie Iliver. Chicago, May train dispatcher on I the Alton road at Springfield, says that the Chicago and Alton vestibule train No.

21, with 200 people on board, has gone into the river with that portion ot the St. Louis bridge that went down. So far as known all were lost. Kepubllcan Convention unit Danger. Caeondelet, May was an unconfirmed report that the now Auditorium had been blown down by the tornado.

This building, which was erected by the Citizens' Committee of 8t. Louis to accommodate the Republican National Convention, stood on Olive street, about five blocks beyond the Planters' Hotel, the largest hotel In the This is the real oentr? the city of St. Louis. The Auditorium was designed to seat 12,000 persons, and the SubCommittee of the National Committee.whloh inspected it recently, declared that it was the best convention hall in the world. TWO NEW BISHOPS.

Chaplain MeCabo and Eurl Cranston Chosen bv tlio Methodists. Charles C. McCabe, D. born in Athens, Ohio, October His alma mater is the Ohio Wesleyan University. In i860 he joined the Ohio Conference.

At the breaking out of tho war he was made chaplain of Infantry and went BISHOP CHARLES C. Bl'CABE. with his regiment to Virginia. At the battle of Winchester, in June. 1863, while caring for the wounded, he was taken prisoner and sent to Libby Prison.

Before the war closed tie was asked for by the Christian Commission, and made the tour of the preat cities of the Republic pleading for that great cause. In 18C5 he was stationed at In 1866 he was made Centenary Agent of his conference and then of the State. In 1868 the Board of Church Extension called him into their service. They were In debt and crippled for want of means. For sixteen years' he gave his time and strength to this work, and during that time nearly 5000 houses of worship were aided Into existence by the Board.

The loan fund grew to half a million and the annual Income to over $700,000. In 1884 the General Conference elected him Missionary Secretary, In which position he did m03t effective work. In 1888 he was elected Senior Secretary of the Missionary Society. xppir BIEHOr EABL CBAXSTOX. The Rev.

Earl Cranston, A. D. is a native of Athens, Ohio, and a classical graduate of the Ohio University. He had an honorable service in the Union Army, and for twenty-one years labored In the Itinerant ministry, six years of which period he gave to frontier work in the Rocky Mountains before his election to the agency of the Clncln 11 TJn Vi a nan Jiiemuuist puuiuuiuK uuuic. had much to do with planting the educational work of the church 1l his Conference, and the cause for Methodism in its mountains and its plains.

MURDERED SIX PERSONS. James Dunham'Kills All the Adults In Hta Fatlier-ln-law's House. Colonel It. P. McGlincy and wifo, their daughter.

Mrs. James Dunham; James Wells, n. son of Mrs. McGlincy; hired woman, Minnie Sheeler, and f. hired man, Jame3 Briscoe, were killed by Jarr.es Dunham, a son-in-law of Coloio! Mjfi.tncy, at Campbell, Cal.

A neighbor rvaed Page heard shots in the direction o' McGlincy home. Entering the house. h'? found the bodies of James Wells, who nad been shot; Mrs. McGlincy aDd her daughter, who had been stabbed to death, and the hired man tjlrl, who been backed to death with a hatchet. There was every evidence to show that the dead had made a desperate struggle for their lives.

No one seems to know the motive for the fearful crime. Colonel McGlincy and Dunham were supposed to be on amicable terms. Tho murdered" family wa3 one of the best known in the valley, being members ot the San Jose Grange and prominently identified with the fruit business. The only inmnte of the house who escaped alive was a baby one month old, the child of Mrs. Dunham and the murderer.

SOUND MONEY IN VERMONT. Democratic State Convention Declares Against Free Silver. The Vermont Democratic State Convention for tho nomination of delegates-at-large to the National Convention at Chicago was held at Montpeller. Mention of the names of Cleveland, Whitney and Russell by the Chairman and the indorsement of President Cleveland by the resolutions awakened considerable enthusiasm. Both the Chairman and the Committee on Resolutions declared In favor of a gold standard and denounced protection and the free coinage of silver.

Nominations for State officers were made as follows: For Governor, Dr. J. Henry Jackson, Barre; Lieutenant-Governor, Dr. Sherwood, St. Albans; Treasurer, James H.

Williams. Bellows Fails; Secretary of State, William W. Rider. Bristol; Auditor, E. T.

Seaver, North Troy! Killed by a Falling Unieball. Stewart Wear, tho eleven-ycar-oUl son 01 Walter H. Wear, of Rock away, N. was killed by a baseball. He was playing with two companions.

One threw the ball into the nir. Wear ran under it and put up his hands. Thb ball passed through them and struck over his heart, and he fell dead. Massacre in Crete. Tho disaster in tho Island of Crete seems suddenly to have been precipitated, and since Sunday anarchy has reigned in Canca.

The Turkish breaking uii (juuruu iuc siieuu, shooting, mass acring and pillaging Christians. Half a Million Dollars' Lightning struck tho largo warehouso ot tho Aulttnan-Taylor Thrashing Machino Works at MansQeld, Ohio, and it was burned to the ground. The loss will reach at least $500,000. A Terrible Cyclone. Fifty persons were killed and twlco that number injured by a cyclone which swept through ten Iowa counties.

REV. DR. TALMAGE IS the SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE pre NOTED DIVINE. th.e wh scr Subject: 'Causes of Failures In Life." has Text: "Men shall clap their hands at him and shali hiss him out of his place." -Job 23. jgj This allusion seems to be dramatic.

The eve Bible more than once makes such allusions. jar Paul says: "We are made a theatre or spec- roj tacle to angels and to men." It is evident from the text that some of the habits of exc theatregoers were known In Job's time, be- tra cause he describes an actor hissed off the fac stage. The impersonator comes on the boards and, either through lack of study of at the part he is to take or inapt ness or other incapacity, the audience is offended and ex- ijjji presses its disapprobation and disgust by saj( hissing. "Men shall clap their hands at q0i him and shall hiss him out of his place." let My text suggests that each one of us is 0j put on the stage of this world to take some arc part. What hardship and suffering anddiscip- cofl line great actors have undergono year after year that they might be perfected in their vea parts you have often read.

But we, put on the stage of this life to represent charity and faith and humility and Vni. little preparation we have made, although we have three galleries of spectators, earth cal and heaven and hell! Have we not been V6S more attentive to the part taken by others than to the part taken by ourselves, and, while we needed to be looking at homo and y0l concentrating on our own duty, we have Deen criticising me oiner ponormere, ana jj(e saying, "that wa3 too or '-too low," or "too feeble," or "too extravagant," or for "too tame," or "too demonstrative," while on we ourselves were making a dead failure and preparing to be ienominiously hissed off anc the stage? Each one is assigned a place, no supernumeraries hanging around the drama gl(? of life to take this or that or the other part, as they may be called upon. No one can g00 take our place. We can take no other place. Neither can we put off our has character; no change of apparel can make us any one else than that which we eternally are.

anc Many make a failure of their part in the am drama of life through dissipation. They the have enough Intellectual equipment and eye good address and geniality unbounded. But pjc they have a wine closet that contains all the forces for their social and business and jjje moral overthrow. So far back as the year 959, King Edgar of England made a law that q.0 the drinking cups should have pins fastened ore at a certain point in the side, so that the in- ml, dulger might be reminded to stop before he got to the bottom. But there are no pins projecting from the sides of the modern wine cup or beer mug.

and the first point at which millions stop is at the gravity bottom on of their own grave. Dr. of France, has tjja discovered something which all drinkers ought to know. He has found out that alco- jjn( hoi in every shape, whether of wine or brandy or beer, contains parasitic life called jatj bacillus potumanias. By a powerful micro- scope these living things are discovered, and j.oc when von take strong drink vou take them Into the stomach and then into your blood, -jai and getting into the crimson canals of life, f' they go into every tissue of your body, and your entire organism is taken possession of to by these noxious infinitesimals.

When ia delirium tremens, a man sees every form of reptilian life, it seems it is only these para- y0l sites of the brain in exaggerated size. It is gan not a hallucination that the victim Is sufferincr from. He only sees in the room what is a(jv actually crawling and rioting In his own brain. Every time you take strong drink jjj, you swallow these maggots, and every time C0D the imbiber of alcohol in any shape feels ver- q0( tigo or rheumatism or nausea it is only Jubilee of these maggots. Efforts are being made for the discovery of some germicide that can killthe parasites of alcoholism, but J16? the only thing that will ever extirpate them for' is abstinence from alcohol and teetotal ab- 90? stinence, to which I would before God swear all these young men and old- America is a fruitful country, and we '9 raise large crops of wheat and corn and but the largest crop we raise in this country Is the crop of drunkards.

With 3ickle made out of the sharp edges of the 1110 broken glass of bottle and demijohn they ar? caf cut down, and there are whole swathes of cat1 them, whole windrows of them, and it takes all the hospitals and penitentiaries and tae graveyards and cbmeteries to hold this harvest of hell. Some of you are going down under this evil, and the never dying worm lay of alcoholism has wound around you one of its coils, and by next New Year's Day it will have another coil around you, and it will af- or ter awhile put a coil around your tongue, anc anda'coil around your brain, and a coil -7' around your lung, and a coll around your iooi, ana a con uruuuu uur ucari, uuu ouuxc day this never dyins: worm will, with one spring, tighten all the colls at once, and In the last twist of that awful convolution you will cry out, "Oh, my God!" and be gone. nn? rhe greatest of dramatists in the tragedy of yea "The Tempest" sends staggering across the stage Stepnano, the drunken butler; but Aft across the stage of human life strong drink con sends kingly and queenly and princely na- mo tures staggering forward against the "footlights of conspicuity and then staggering jpa back into failure till the world is impatient for their disappearance, and human and diabolic voices join in hissing them off the but stage. a DJ Two young men in a store. In tne morn- anc! ing the one goes to his post the last minute or one minute behiud.

The other is ten minutes before the time- and has his hat and coat hung up and Is at his post waiting for an? duty. The one is ever and anon in the afternoon looking at his watch to see if it is not tlJe( most time to shut up. The other stays half or. an hour after he might go, and when asked why, says he wanted to look over some en- vol tries he had made to be sure he was right, or tbe to put up some goods tnat nad ierr out of place. The one Is very touchy about doing work not exactly belonging to him.

The other is glad to help the other clerks In their work. The first will be a prolonged nothing, and he will be poorer at sixty years of age than at twenty. The other will be a "US merchant prince. Indolence is the cause of more failures in all occupations than you have ever suspected. People are too lazy bua to do what they can do, and want to under- take that which they cannot do.

In the drama of life they don't want to be a common soldier, carrying a halberd across the stage, a or a falconer, or a mere attendant, and so they lounge aboutthescenesfill they shall be called to be something great. After awhile, by some accident of prosperity or circumstances, they get into the place for which But they have no qualification. And very soon, "er if the man be a merchant, he is going around asking his creditors to compromise for ten cents on the dollar. Or, if a clergyman, he is making tirades against the ingratitude of churches. Or, if an attorney, by unskillful J113 management he loses a case by which widows and orphans are robbed of their portion.

Or, ttie if a ohvslcian. he by malpractice gives his patient rapid transit from this world to the next. Our incompetent friend would have made a passable horse doctor, but he wante.i 1 to be professor of anatomy in a university. 68 He could have sold enough confectionery to have supported his family, but he wanted to have a sugir refinery like the Havemeyers. He could have mended shoes, but he wanted to amend the constitution of the United bFe States.

Toward the end of life those people P1'4 aro out of patience, out of money, out of friends, out of everything. Tney go to the poorhouso, or keep out of it by running in clo: debt to all the grocery and dry goods stores that will trust them. People "begin to won- 0 der when the curtain will drop on the scene. ma After awhile, leaving nothing but their com- aai pliments to ay doctor, unlertaker, and t'lw Gabriol the gravedigger, they disap- an' pear. Exeunt! Hissed oil the stage.

tWf Others fail in I lie drama of life through demonstrated selfishness. They make all the rivers empty into their sea, nil the roads of lllt' emolument end at tiieir door, and they aul gather all the plumes cf honor for their atj' brow. They help uo one, encourage on one. rescue no one. "How big a pile of money can I get?" and -'How much of the world can I absorb?" are the chiet questions.

They feel about the common people as the Turks felt toward the Asa pi, or common soldiers. nveeDt to fill Ul) hen iiunti the ditches with their ooaies while the other troops walked over them to take the ma fort. After awhile this prince of worldly suecess is sick. The only interest society has in his illness is the effect that his possible de- l'ir cease may have od the money markets. After awhile he dies Groat newspaper capi- l113' tals announce how he started with nothing and ended with everything.

Although for sake of appearance some people put hand- 1 kerchiefs to the eve. there is not one genuine of i tear shed. The heirs sit up all night when see he lies In state, discussing what the old fel- ohi low has probably done with his money. It tui all the livery dtables within fwo les to famish funeral equipages, and all i mourning stores are kept busy in selling eds of grief. The stone cutters send in iposals for a monument.

The minister at obsequies reads pf the resurrection, lch makes the hearers fear that if the unupulous flnaaoler does come up in the ieral rising he will try to get a "corner" tombstones and graveyard fences. All )d men aie glad that tbe moral nuisance i been removed. The Wall street specu2rs are glad because there is more room themselves. The heirs are glad because get possession of the long delayed lnitance. Dropping every feather of all his mes, every certificate of all his stock, iry bond of all his investments, every dolof all his fortune, he departs, and all the ling of "Dead March" in "Saul," and all pageantry of his Interment, and all the of sarcophagus, and all the exvacrancc of epitapnology, cannot hide the that my text has come again to tremenis fulfillment.

"Men shall clap their hands lim and shall hiss him out nf nin niftne." 'ou see the clapping come before the hiss, world cheers before it damns. So It Is i the deadly asp tickles before its stings. Ing up. is he? Hurrah! Stand back and his galloping horses dash by. a whirlwind plated harness and tinkling headgear and bed neck.

Drink deep of his madeira and Boast of how well you know him. hats off us he passes. Bask for days and ire In the sunlight of his prosperity. Godown, Is he? Pretend to be nearsighted that you cannot see'him as he walks past, en men ask you if you know him, halt I hesitate as though you were trying to I up a dim memory and say, "Well, y-e-s, I believe I once did know him, but re not seen him for a long while." iss a different ferry from the ione where 1 used to meet him lest he for financial help. When you started he spoke a good word for you at the ik.

Talk down his credit now that his tunes are collapsing. put his name of your notes. Tell him that you re changed your mind about such things, 1 that you never indorse. After awhile matters come to a dead halt, and an asnment or suspension or sheriff's sale take? ce. You say: "He ought to have stopped ner.

Just as I expected. He made too a splash in the world. Glad the balloon i burst. Ha, ha!" Applause when he at up, sibilant derision when he came vn. "Men shall clap their hands at him 1 hiss him out of his place." So, high up id the crags, the eagle flutters dust into rrVilrth On rrrffh cjc3 yjk iuu iuvu.

niku blinded, goes tumbling over the precie, the great antlers crashing on the rocks. Tow, compare some of these goings out of i with the departure of men and women 0 in the drama of life take the part that assigned them and then went away hond of men and applauded of the Lord Aljhty. It is about fifty years ago that in a aparatively small apartment of the city a vly married pair set up a home. The first invited to that residence was the Lord us Christ, and the Bible given the bride the day of her esposual was the guide of household. Days of sunshine were folred by days of shadow.

Did you ever )w a home that for fifty years had no vliitude? The young woman who left her tier's house for her young husband's home rted out with a parental benedletion and id advice sVj will never forget. Her ther said to har the day before the "Now, my child, you are going away us. Of course, as long as your lather 11 live you will feel that you can come is at auy time. But your home will be jwhere. From long experience I find it est to serve God.

It is very bright with 1 now, my child, and you may think you get along without religion, but the day I come when you will want God, and my Ice is, establish a family altar, and. If be, conduct the worship yourself." counsel was taken, and that young wife secrated every room In the house to i. ears passed on and there were In that ae hilarities, but they were good and lthful, and sorrows, but they were corned. Marriages as bright as orange blosis could make them, and barrials in Ich all hearts were riven. have a lily lot in the cemetery, but all the place illuminated with stories of resurrection I reunion.

The children of the household lived have grown up, and they are all istians, the fathur and thother leadins: way and the children following. What 0 the mother took of wardrode and edulon, character and manners! How hard sometimes worked! When the bead of household was unfortunate in business, sewed until her fingers were ntimb and sding at the tips. And what close calcuon of economies, and what ingenuity In ttlng the garments of the elder children the younger, and only God kept account that mother's sideaches and headaches 1 heartaches and the tremulous prayers i he side of the sick child's cradle and by couch of this one fully grown. nplghboxs often noticed how tired looked, and old acquaintances dly knew her In the street. But hout complaint she waited and tolled 1 endured and accomplished all these The children are out In the worldhonor to themselves and their parents, er awhile the mother's last sickness les.

Children and grandchildren, sumnad from afar, come soltly Into the room i by one, for she Is too weak to see more one at a time. 8he runs her dying jers iovingly through their hair and telli not to cry, and that she is going now, they will meet again in a little while in attecworld, and then kisses them goodby I says to each, "God bless and keep you, dear child." The day of the obsequies aes, and the officiating clergyman tells story of wifely and motherly endurance, I many hearts on earth an4 in heaven the sentiment, and as she is carried off stage of this mor.al life there are cries 'Faithful unto death," "She hath done at she could," chile overpowering all the ces of earth and heaven is the plaudit of God who watched her from first to lost, ing, "Well done, good and faithful serit; thou hast been faithful over a few ags, I will make thee ruler over many ags; enter thou into the joy of thy Lord!" lut what became of the father of thai isehold? He started as a young man in finess and had a small income, and having IU4U In fllA famllv a uiuu auouu vuw it all away. He went through all th? iness panics of forty years, met many jes, and suffered many betrayals, but it right on trusting in God, whether busss was good or poor, setting his children ood example, and giving them the best of insel, and never a prayer did he offer foi those years but they were mentioned in He is old now and realizes it cannot before he must quit all these scenes. ho is going to leave his children an initance of prayer and Christian principles Ich all the defalcations of earth can ch. and as he goes out of the world the irch of God blesses him and tho poor ring doorbell to seo if ho is any better, and grave is surrounded by a multle who went on foot and stood re before the procession of carriages came and some say, "There will be no one to ehisplare," and others say, '-Who will me now?" and others remark, "He shall held in everlasting remembrance." And drama of his life closes, all the vociftion an i bravos and encores that ever ok the amphitheaters of earthly spectacle tame and feeble compared with the g.

loud thunders of approval that shall ak from the cloud of witnesses in the )d up eallery of the heavens. Choose ye ween the life that shall close by beini? nrt rh? utntrn ami the life that shall ie amid acclamations supornal and men an I worana on the stage of life ny of you in the first act of the drama, I others in the second, and some of you in third, and a few ill the fourth, and here I there one in the tlfth, but till of you entrance and exit, I quota to you as peroration of this sermon the most sugtive passage that Shakespeare ever wrote, lough you never heard it recited. The hor has often been claimed as infidel and eistic, so the quotation shall bo not only giouslv helpful to ourselves, but grandly dlcatory of the great dramatist. I quote in his last will and testament: In the name of God, Amen. William ikespeara of Stratford-upon-Avon, in the intj of Warwick, gentleman, in perfect and memory (Go i bo praised), do ke this my last will and testament, in nner and form following: First, I comna my soul into the hands of God, my hoping and assuredly believing ough the only merits of Jesus Christ, ray dour, to be made partaker of life overling." Justice Snodgrasa Not Guilty.

jury In the case tried at Chattanooga the State vs. Chief Justice of the Tennesi Supreme Court, David 8nodgrass, irgeu with shooting John C. Beasley, a verdict of not guilty. RELIGIOUS READING "CONSIDER CHRIST JES08." It Is worth while to look at that wot "consider." What does it mean? Just th sit down with." So, then, the liortatiou is to sit down with Jesus Chrisl stay awhile in His company talk to Hin and listen while He speaks to you. "The Quakers have a phrase, "gettic Into the quiet," which means just this; an who that has looked into the peaceful fat of a Quaker has not felt that here was re of soul which such communion brings? the opening of his Gospel, tells his introduction to Jesus Christ.

He ar Andrew were with John the Baptist whe; Jesus passing by, the Baptist gave his test mony: "Behold the Lamb of God." Tt two disciples, aroused to keenest interes followed the stranger, and when He and asked, "What seek ye they said, ju as we would nowadays when we wish 1 have an introduction blossom into an quaintance Where do you live?" He ai swered, "Come and see." They went wii Him and sat down with Him and stayed tt rest of that day. What the visit was abot we do not know, but it was so impressed John's memory that, writing about it mar years after when an old the very hour when he went to visit wit Jesus Christ. He records that it was aboi four o'clock in the afternoon. A jeweler was showing some fine dii mouds: nnd the first thing he did was i shut In the jewels with a white reflectir surface. 'Because," he said, if you want 1 see a precious diamond to know its valu you must shut out all distracting color an have only white light." Ah! if we would know the preciousness our Christ, we must shut out other tions and view Him in the white light of pure heart.

The Persian bazaars at the World's Fal sold little blocks of scented clay to be ust in linen closets as we uso lavender leaves. Persian poet very prettily makes use of thi He says he took up in his hand a piece scented clay and said to it: '0 clay! when hast thou thy perfume?" And the clay I was once a piece of common clay they laid me for a time in company with rose, nnd I drank in its fragrance and ha now become scented clay." If you have been with Christ it will known. Far louder than yourspoken decls ation will be the sweetness and attractic which come even to our common clay it has been in company with the Rose Sharon. The old monks had a superstitious that if they would gaze continually and i tensely on the figure of Christ on the cro which hung upon their ceiling mar of the wounds would appear in their print of the nails in their han and feet, and the scar of the spear-gash their side. This' Is a gross representation the spiritual truth which lies under Looking upon Him with gas the glorious vision that our eyes beno prints itself deep in our hearts, and tl beauty of the Lord shines in our faces.

are "changed into the same image." TIIE BIOGRAPHY OF CHBIST. Very few readers of the New Testame probably ever stop to think how brief the ography of Christ is, and how much mu have been ommitted from the narrath There must have been another history of tl Divine Teacher, written not by the hands His disciples, but in the hearts of tho whom he had cheered and helped ai healed by the way. There must have a beautiful unwritten gospel passed fro mouth to mouth for many generation tho light of which faded very slow as tho night of barbarism and wanderii came on. For a personality like Christ' filled with divine compassion and lov must have poured Itself out in a thousai unseen rivulets as well as in the great cha nela so definitely marked in the New Test ment story. There must have been tho sands to whom Ho spoke words which we not recorded there must have been mull tudes whose lives were renewed by power of whom no mention is made.

All this was true of the dlvinest personal! known to men, so it is also true of every man personality. The most searching ai influential power that issues from any man life is that of which the person is largely unconscious. It flows from hi in every form of occupation, In eve relationship, in rest or in wor in silence or in speech, at home abroad. There are hosts ot men and who are healers and teachers and helpe almost without consciousness of the fac Light shines from them and help flows fro them at times when they are utterly unco scions that the hem of the garment ia ben touched. The real test of the possession the highest power of character and tl most perfect devotion to the noblest thin in life is not the quality of the direct toucl it is me presence 01 me virtue oven kj hem of the Outlook.

SEEK THE 8CNLIQHT OF DIVINE TBUTH. The fact Is stated that Vorestchagin, tl Russian artist, has a glass studio in home near Paris which revolves on wheel the movement being effected by means of windlass conveniently placed beside artist's easel, by which ingenious contri he is enabled to paint the whole di with the sunlight falling in one direction models and There Is a suggests there for the carver of character. In ord to successful moral development the divi; light must be admitted freely and inva; ably along its own true lines, the sun aJao us does not really change but the of terrestrial modes and seasons may the frequent readjustment of earthly obiec and relations with reference to the undei atingplay upon them of heaven's illurr nating beams. He who arranges to alwa have the sunlight of divine truth and grai falling in one direction on his work will I apt to evolve the most beautiful and proportioned moral vuacrx LIVE WOBTHILT AND DIE REOBETTED. "I have desired," says King Alfred tl Great, ''to live worthily while I have live and after my life to "leave the men th should be after me a remembrance in How lofty the simple words Duty, not romantic achievement, is the ai of his life: not to do some ''great thing." the right right thing being sii ply what God gave him to do.

He seems i nave felt in his inmost being that each mt was sent into the world.not to live like sou one else, but to do bis own work and be; his own the one woi which God has given him. and which ct never be given to or done by another. Elizabeth Charles. "GET THEE BEHIND HE SATAN." There are men who are always carryii on a guerilla warefare with their evil pa sions. If a man iinds a foe to his spirltu well-being, he should exterminate it ai have done with it.

We keep in chronic wa fare with our pride, our vanity, our app tite-i. because we are afraid of hurting ou selves. "Crucify" the old man is Paul manly advice. i)o not parley with him; not make war on him gently. Kill him, to ture him if ueed bo get him under six fe of sod and so be at peace with yourself.

Lyman Abbott. D.D. CHRIST IS SUFFICIENT. A one of the best tl truth and reality and vigor of our Christfr lit' lies in wnen wo anticipate jjpi'nt life to come, however far speculate may endeavor to trace its course in tl prov'nce of that mysterious land, we retui this thought, whieli all the deepest anil dcsin-s of our hear where Christ is wo to be R. W.

Dale. White Buffalo Wants a Pension. White Buffalo, Captain of Indian polic Cheyenne reservation, has applied for a pe sion on account of injuries sustained whiW member of the Third United States Cavali and Examining Physician Hurley says injuries are such as would Rive a white mi a pension. White Buffalo is a son of Sltti Bull, and has always been loyal to the whit as a policeman or soldier. A "Ladj StoKer.

At the electrical exhibition in New Yoi the stoker of the furnaces which furnish power for the concern was a well dressi young lady. All she has to do is to a gauge and touch an electric button when is necessary to stoke up. I SABBATH SCHOOL 5 INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB JUNE 14. Is ct; Lesson Text: "Jesus Cruciflod," Laic? Text: lg I Cor. mentary.

i 3t -It S3. "There thev crucifled Him." Four of words, but how unutterably significant, who id can measure It? Then the events betweon lb? passover and supper of the evening fore and this last and crowning event: Gethie semane, the betrayal and arrest, Peter's deit nial, the long and weary and awful night and morning before the council, and Herod, st I and Pilate; the mockery and the scourging, to and now the crucifixion, and that between two malefactors as If He, too, was one. a- Truly He whs numbered with the transgresth sors, and He complained not. Oh, my soul, it was all for thee! thinkest thou of it it, and of Him who was crucifled on thy ac)n count? 34. "Father, forgivdthem, for they know I nnf fViQTT An 'FVHa voa Wla first Utter JQ UW U-V ance from the cros3.

If we take the seven in order as we find them here and in verse 43. then John 25-27; Math, 46; j. John 28, 30; Luke xxiiL, 46, we have t0 suggested to us the great facts of forgivelg ness, glory, all that we need between forto giveness and glory, His being forsaken that we might never be. His thirst and all that is implied in it, His finished work and then Hi3 exit from the body to His Father. 35.

"He saved others. Let Him save Himself if He be Christ, the chosen of God." 'a Thus the people and the rulers derided Him. They were natural men, tbey understood not, therefore they talked foolishly. He 1(1 could have saved Himself, for He said, ''No a man taketh My life from Me. I lay it down Sf of Myself" 18), but He could not 0j save Himself and save others too.

He laid 20 down His life voluntarily that He might j. save others. ut 36, 37. "If Thou be the King of the Jews, a save Thyself." Thus the soldiers also ve mocked Him, not knowing what they saidHe would not save Himself, but He would be save them if they would let Him. for had He not prayed for them even as they drove )n the nails into His hands? Let us lay to en heart His words, ''He that saveth his life shall lose it, but he that loseth his life for My sake, the shall save it (Luke 24).

on 38. "This isthe King of the Jews." Thua Pilate caused it to be written over Him in IS9 the langnages of the world, Greek and Latin kg and Hebrew, and he would not alter it even to please the Jews. This was doubtless of d8 God, for the time will come when all the in see and acknowledge that this same Jesus, once crucmea ai me piace 01 a it skull. Is the King of the Jews. Then shall He also be King of Kings and Lord of Lords, Without Him all the things of earth are as he empty as a skull, nothing to them, all vanity ye ana vexation of spirit, but in Him and with Him all Is peace and righteousness.

89. "And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on Him, saying, If Thou be Christ, save Thyself and us. Both Matthew and Mark say that the thieves reviled Him. Luke does not contradict that, for If both at first did it. he Is correct in saying st that one of them aid so, and he doubtless refers to the one who persisted in doing so.

To save Himself and them was Impossible, 01 but to give His life in order to save them was what He was doing. 1(1 40. "Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou 3n art In the same condemnation?" When a malefactor turns preacher, something has happened to him, and in a short space of time something remarkable has come to this thief. His eyes have been opened to see that the One in the midst is more than He pears to be, and he has already in his heart ld believed upon Him and received Him as Lord. 41.

"And we Indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds, but this man re hath dore nothing amiss." Here is evidence tf- TTo pnnrlomns himself and VI IUC UOtV UUWU? AAV is i justifies the Lord, whereas the carnal mind, which is enmity against God, always justify fles itself and condemns God (Bom. viiiM Luke 15). He confesses nissins and ld acknowledges that he is suffering only what he justly deserves, while at the same time 5" he testifies to the holiness of the One in the midst. This is -the work of the Spirit of fy God. 42.

"And he said unto Jesus, Lord reor me when Thou comest Into Thy in kingdom." No man can say that Jesus is the Lord, but by the Holy Spirit (I Cor. 3). See, then, the Spirit's work in this man's heart. He believes that Jesus, though crucified as an evil doer, is the Lord of glory and that He has a kingdom. 43.

"And Jesus said unto him. Yerilv I 16 say unto thee, to-day shalt thou be with Me in paradise." What a joy to the penitent thief, his sins all gone, his bodily sufferings ie so soon to be over, and that very day in glory with his Lord! Let us not modify or seek to alter the precious words. They are in perfect accord with other words of th? book concerning the death of the righteous, tie "To die is gain." "To depart and with lis Christ is far better." "Absent from the Is, body, present with the Lord" (Phil, a 23; II Cor, 8). But. says one, Jesus had he not ascended to the Father when He met v- Mary Magdalene on the morning of the reay surrection (John 17).

therefore how jn could the tnief be with Him in paradise that day? He spoke to Mary of His ascend1 hnf QA er inp totaerniuer lu uu iudu ae to His Spirit He was surely In paradise as ri- soon as He died. ve 44. It was about the sixth hour, and on there was a darkness over all the earth until re the ninth hour." He was crucified at the its third hour (Mark 25), or 9 in the and from noon till 3 p. m. there was ii- this awful darkness, for the prince of darkvs ness was doing his worst.

It was his hour co and the power of darkness. be 45. "And the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst." sr. When the Son of Righteousness was suffering for the sins of the world, it was surely meet that the sun in tho heavens should refuse to shine. Just before He comes In His glory the sun and moon shall both be darktie ened in the day of His wrath (Math, 29, 80).

The veil in the temple was a symbol at of His body, for He hath opened for us a new )d and living way through the is to say, His flesh (Heb. 20). The veil was worked full of oherubim, and when it was 1 WKam UA UI rent me coeruoim were rem aiau. iiucuuo n- died, all who believe in Him died, to 46. "Father, into Thy nands I commend" in My Spirit." These were.

His last words ae uttered with a loud voice, so that He may be ar said to have died in His full strength. They rk did not take His life, He gave it up and He 10 went out to God. When Stephen died, he said, "Lord Jesus receive my spirit" (Acta 59), and he went out to be with his Lord, more alive than he ever was before, while kind hands laid his body away till Jesus Helper. JAPANESE NOBLEMEN AT ANNAPOLIS. 3ai An Application for Eight to Enter the r.

Naval Academy. a- Word has been received in Washington unrofficially from an attache of the United I's States Legation at Tokio that the Japanese io Minister of Marine, by command of the Emrperor, will make formal application for the et admission of eight young Japanese noble? men as students at the United States Naval Academy. In the list is a son of Field Marjhal General Matsuablma, commanding the -I A AI 1 KTJ1J 01 ua.puu; tt 9UU Ul Tiuo-Auujiia. iiv( who is himself a graduate of the Naval Acadamy of the class of 1872, and a nephew of ie the Emperor. Already eleven Japanese ofin fleers have graduated at the Naval tio Academy, including Vice Admiral Ito and Rear Admiral Matsushima, who was reputed le to be one of the best mathematicians at the rn institution.

It is said at tbe Navy Departly ment that in case the alleged application is ts made it will undoubtedly be granted. The policy of tbe present Emperor of Japan is to have his military officers educated at St. Cyr and his uaval officers at Annapolis. Fortune Smiles on Minister. Rev.

Mr. Rhodes, living twelve miles east of Timpson, Texas, while plowing his field, unearthed 30,000 Mexican dollars. It apTi pears that the money was buried in leather he satchels. Mr. Rhodes bought the place two years ago, ani for several years there has Qfi been digging in that community by unkno wu es parties at night.

"Unciai'iied." American Fortunes. There is a Arm in London which is circulating a pamphlet containing a list of over 6000 "unclnimed fortunes" in the United gg States. It costs $1 to get any more lnformation as to these fortunes. An Idle Horde. There are 2,000,000 of mechanics, art and day laborers Idle in the United Staiep..