mma Ec ————— a APPALLING CYCLONE. A Terrific Tornado Sweeps Over Western Pennsylvania. It Brings Death and Havoo to Reading and Pittsburg. One of the most appalling catastrophes ac- companied by loss of life that have ever visited Reading, Penn., has occurred. It had been pouring down rain all day and at 4 o'clock it cleared up nicely. Tho sun sho brightly until about 4:30, when a black cloud formed in the southwestern sky and moved rapidly toward the city. be rain poured down in perfect torrents for fifteen minutes, when a funnel-shaped cloud cut its way through the city, over throwing many trees, telegraph and electric fight poles. The wind blew harder and harder, until a roaring cyclone was in progress, Its course was from west to east, and covered a path of about 30 feet, In its course was the Reading Silk Mill, located in tha northwestern portion of the city, in which about 300 operatives, prin. cipally females, were at work. Befors the storm reached the large mill, however, the girls saw its approach and saw it precipi tating all the house-roofs in its path A panic ensued and the operatives made | an effort to escape from the building. Be- | fore they could get their wraps the cyclone | struck tne five-story building, and in an in- ! stant the massive brick work and heavy | machinery were piled pell mell on the unfor- | tunates, from the fifth to the first story. | The building was a large structure, most | substantially built, four stories in helgnt and”| had a basement besides, It occupied an en tire block of ground. The building itself | was nearly 500 feet in length and about 150 | feet wide, It was supmounted by a massive tower, fully 100 feet from the ground. The | funnelshaped clond struck the building | directly in the centre on its vroadest side, which faced the west It fell to pieces as though composed of so many building blocks, | Nearly 200 human beings went down in the awful wreck. Human tongue never tall the terrible scenes of that hour. The walls gave way, the floors fell down, one on top of the other, und carried their great mass of human beings to the bottom. The bricks were piled up in the greatest confusion, while, amid the hurricane and whistling, rushing, roaring wind, terri la cries for succor were sent up to heaven, Almost simuitaneously with the fall of the building came the awful cries for relief. Girls with blackened faces, bruised and broken Limbs, their clothing tattered and torn, dragged themselves from the ruins. Proba- bly seventy-five to one hundred escaped, or were dragged out by their friends These, of course, worked on the upper floors, and were thrown near the top of the debris. At some places the bricks were piled twenty feet deep, and underneath were lying human bodies by the score The entire police force was called out, the ambulance and relief corps, and a thousand Peon were in among the debris carrying out pricks, pulling away timbers, and assisting wherever they could —all at the same time, | but their work was slow compared | with the demand for the rescue of the victims of the disaster. Here a young woman was taken out, all bloody, suffering | with cuts avd bruises. One body as it was dragged out had its head cut off. Others were in various postures, the living all suffering from the most t rrible wounds,and some al- most scared to death, The reporter entered | what was once the basement of the building, and, groping his way through the debris, no ticed five bodies of young girls lying close together. He tried to pull them out, but they were pinned down, and it was impossi- ble to get them out. They were dead, and beyond all human aid, os Augustus Rosay, foreman of the second story of the silk mills says that 245 operators were at work when the building was wrecked He says: *'It was about 5:15, just after I had turned on the electric lights. All the flonrs of the mills were brillisutly flluminated, and the girls were all] busy. Suddenly 1 heard a strange! rushing noise of wind, and I thought it sounded like a cyclone. Then the building shook as if by an earthquake, and the end of the large room in which I stood went down first, At least thirty girls rushed to me and wildly sereamed and tore their bair I was helpless. The other end of the room seemed as if up a steep hill | The girls became panic stricken, shrieked, and left their machines, The next instant the building collapsed. 1 shall never in all my life forget the heartrending screams of those 200 girls just before many of their voices wers hushed tor ever in death. At first we had only hand lamps to see by. Under the wreck ris were piled six deep, mangled and bleed: wh and helpless. The first dozen bodies re- moved wers covered with blood. One gir! bad her head cut off. The sight was heart- vending, and [ can say no more” can At Pittshurg There was an awful catastrophe at 12.50 in the afternoon at Pittsburg caused by the same cyclone that wrought such havoe at Reading. At least fifteen persons were killed, twenty-nine injured and several were missing. The high wind that struck the city at that hour completely demolished the large brick building in process of construction in Dia mond alley, immediately in the rear of Weldin & Co.'s big bookstore. The building bad been completed to the | seventh story. Tt is a completes wreck, and | as iv went down crushed the barber shop next to it. The falling debris was thrown | inst Weldin & Co.'s store, the front of | which was knocked eut. ] The rears of all the stores on Wood street | as far up as the bat store of Paulson Bros | were wrecked, Bix men were in the barber | shop. Two have been recovered alive, two | are dead and two were still under the debris. | There were at least fifteen printers in the | rear of Weldin & Cos store on the second floor and many of them were badly injured As fast as they could be brought out they were carried on stretchers to the various tl One man, who was on top of the new building, fell into the basement. His skull was fractured and both legs were broken, Throughout the afternoon the firemen and police worked bard to rescues the victims or covy their and Riodtia arttved large number yslciany vod at the scene, rendering all possible assistance to the injured. At the time the whirlwind struck the build. men were on the first floor, and brick, and ing shouts would go sight was heart: many tears in the |= El 1 Other Places. A rain and wind stor sain up suddenly t Nail Mills. They slate rool, complete] dling department were employed in this department, of them wute buried in the ruins wore on ont dew A number of buildings were destroyed at Steubenville, Ohio. Beveral buildings were blows down ak Jeune. 1 Su nbay. van TRIS Te amage In all the interior towns, Several bridges were blown down at Altoons, Brooklyn hes been (visited n cyclone. It came from the sou and in less than three minutes did many thousand dollars’ worth of damage, Houses were un- roofed, trees torn up, and the United States Marine Barracks at the Navy Yard were de- molished, Twelve marines were injured, Two gas tanks belonging to the Citizens’ Company rxploded, wrecking nine houses in the neigh- rhood, RAILROAD MEN AGREE Important Conference in New York | —An Interstate Association. Substantially all the leading railroads of the country were represented by their Presi dents or other officers at a meeting held in New York for the purpose of effecting a i radical reformation in railroad matters, rate | and other troubles having caused a | great depreciation in the securities of most | cuttin of the companies. Prominent New York bankers also took part in the conference on behalf of the security holders. A committee which had been appointed to perfect a plan of organization submitted a long report, which wasadopted. The essence of the propo sition of the committee is that an association be formed of the Presidents of railroad com. | panies. The purpose of such an association shall be the enforcement of the Interstate Commerce act, and the establishment and maintenance of reasonable and uniform rates; to secure complete reports of all com petitive traffic subject to the Interstate act, and such other traflic as may hereafter be deemed advisable A Board of Managers shall be formed to consist of one accredited representative from each company whose President is a member of the awociation. This Board shall meet monthly, or at such rpecial times as may be deemed necessary. They shall appoint rate committees to consider all changes in rates One oflicer from each company shall be held responsible for the maintenance of rates by his company. Agencies and commissions shall be regulated or abolished, No conces sions shall be made to influence business, All official reports must be certified. For violation of any of the laws or rules of the proposed association pemities are pro- vided, including dismissal from service of any employe responsible for such violation The association, when formed, is to be known as the Interstate Railway Associa tion. Asa guarantes of good faith each member of the association will be required to keep in a bank, to be named by the mana- gers and to the credit of the managers, not less than £1000 and uot more than $3X6), as may be agreed upon, The plans submitted by have the endorsement of the meres Commissioners THE LABOR WORLD. Tue St. Marks Railroad in Florida has a lady conductor. In Eastern shoe factories the girls roake from §7 to £10 a week Ix nearly every industry men are paid two the committee Interstate Com- to three tinws as much as girls Ix New England candy factories the wages of girls are from #4 to $4 a week, Ix the California cotton mills the average pay of a woman is £7.50 a week tI BESIDE locomotives, there were seventeen rotary snow-plows built last year, AS a rule, the hours of labor have been re duced within the past half century. # Tueue are indications of another strike in the Pennsyivaia coke regions THrER men over eighty years of age are big employed in a factory in Taunton, Mass Tur average of salaries paid to working girls in the city of New York is about $5.55 a week. ApotUT 4000 laborers employed on the Cule bra cut of the Panama Canal bave Leen dis charged, AX increase of fifteen cents per day has been granted the striking switchisen at Lima, Ohio Tax average salary earned in Germany by men working on machine made shoes is soul $5.00 a week, Fon girls under fifteen years old in North- ern factories the pay is from thirty cents to seventy counts a day. Frou 400 to Hx tramps have taken up their abode in empty coke ovens between Pittsburg and Johnstown, Penn, AX electrical locomotive is building at the locomotive works in Rome, N, Y. It will be constructed as an experiment, THERE are said to be women in Cincinnati who do all the work on pautaloons for tive cents a pair, and furnish their own machines THERE are now in the Bouthern States more than 300 cotton mills weaving 1, Ma 000 spindies against 15% mills and 700,000 spindles | in 1880, Tux retail clerks of San Francisco are said to be preparing to make a vigorous effort in | the beginning of 153 to establish early clos ing in stores, IT is reported that all of the St Louis | (Mo) show factories are overcrowded with orders and there will probably be no shut. down this year. Tur Hartford (Conn) Fost of a recent date made this statement; “Every line of | reading matter in today’s Fost is printed from typ: set up by machinery.” Tue British plumber will hereafter have to be regideced before entering upon the pursuit of bis trade. He will be ro juired to pass an examination and will be given a di ploma. In 1858 seventeen firms bullt 2150 Jocomo- tives, and sixty-six railroad companies in the United Siates and Cana la ouils 382 This is undouttedly very near the whole year's output, Tur New York dry goods clerks’ recent appeal for a shortening of the day's work from fourteen to twelve hours is esting with warm support (row the labor organize tions of that city. Tue Amalgamated Union of American Carpenters has 454 branches and 25,22 mem: bers. [tis the rival of the American Droth- THE eight hour system of labor, which was adopted in Australia many years ago, has been found to operate so advantageously there that it is now upheld by both employers and wage workers, NEWSY GLEANINGS. Bosrox has 101 clubs, . BKATING is in full swing in Paris. BenLiy is to have rubber pavements, OREGON apples are shipped to China, BROOKLYN hus 80,056 school children, Tue Patent Leather Trust has suspended, t Ix France last year 701 wolves were killed. ba English cavalry are wotully short of There are 5000 fi CanieE professional tramps in IN 1885 629 persons died in Connecticut from old age Tiere was a decline in tonnage last year on the canals, ap y Tux Virginia peanut crop is alm total failure this oe da op oY ONLY eight counties in Kansas are now without railroads Tune wero eight lynchi in N Carolina last Years y ge nh Over a million tons of pig-iron were made in the South in 183%, Pig Tue Southern Pacific Railway earned about $47,000,000 last year, y THe winter in France has thus far been | the sev rest in fifteen years, MAINE'S mackerel catch for last year is in | the neighborhood of 25,000 pounds, You may be incinerated in Philadelphia now--after you are dead-—for $25, Tarne were nearly fifteen thousand wed- dings in New York city last year, FRANCE if excited over the attitude of the i Unieq States on the Panama Canal ques jon, | BEFORE the new year was fifteen minutes oud murder was committed in New York city, A Town of Oklahoma boomers grew from fifty inhabitants to five thousand in sixteen | days 18E next Legislature of North Carolina wil have about 1400 justices of he peace to elect, THREE HUNDRED AND PIFTY-ONE patents wers made out at Washington in one day re- cently. Tur records of Kansas show the amount of land morigages in the State to be $235, - OOO (0, ~ Tux United States hog cholera commssion Ix traveling through the South seeking for information, Tuene will be sixteen Republican Repre- sentatives in the next Congress from the Southern States New Jensey has 16 5 public schools, em ploying 4121 teachers and giving instruction to 7.545 pupils = THE value of the agricultural products of the South in 158% was $90,000,000, against $570,000, 000 in 1880, 4 CAREFUL estimates place the number of people Mving within ten miles of Boston Common at 1,000,000, Eastenx markets are overstocked with apples, and a great quantity is going w waste for want of sale, It is deemed a flattering sign of the times that seats in the New York Stock Exc bange are now held at $21,500, Siovx City will send a special “corn palace” train to Washington at the time of Harrison's inauguration THe Supreme Court of Indiana has de cided that railroad stock is taxable in the county in which it is held THe bank clearings at our thirty seven large cities for twelve months of [88% ng- gregated about $49,191, 000,000, Arovr 154 deaths during the last four years is the recond of slaughter at reflway grade-crossings ‘in Philadelphia, : Over 355.000 immigrants landed in New York during the past year. This is about 12.000 above the record for 1587, Tur prosecution of Professor Geffoken for publishing the diary of the late Emperor Frederick of Germany, has boon abandoned. PHILADELPHIA has 847.000 people and 179.0% houses while New York with 0,000 inhaly tants is ssid to have but 92.000 houses Tux four leading Edison companies are to corns slidate into general electric com pany, with a capital of twelve million dollars, CP. Hustinorox has declared that his Pacific steamship company would be dis solved, owing to the Chinese Exclusion bill, one PROMINENT PEOPLE. Joux Brigir belioves in phrenology THE Queen of Portugal bas a mustache Kixa Wiitiax of Holland is reported dying. Prixen DisManck is sgain suffering with | neuraigia, James 6. BLAINE has engaged apartments in Washington for the winter, Tr young Duchess of Braganza is at pres- ent a popular idol at Portugal Tie fund for the benefit of Mra Matthow Arnold has now reached $40,000, Tyne is a probability that Browning will Le the next Fost Laureate of England Lown Raspovrn Cov neni has given up Lis contemplated trip to South America. Ex-Mavor Hewrrr,of New York, paid out £40,000 in his unsuccessful attempt to be re- elected Ex-Paesivesr Woorsey, of Yale College, thwirh nearly nivety years of age, is still vigorous, A NEw statoe of the Duke of Wellington was rec ntly unveiled in London by the | Prince of Wales H. P. Cuzatnan, who has been elected to | Congress from the Second North Carolina | District, was born in slavery, Tne Russian Car delizhts to show his good will toward France by delicate atten. tions to her distinguished citizens, M. Canxor, President of France, is a firs? class carpenter, and can handle the saw and plane as well as any mechanic. Gronoe Rovrienar, the London pub. | lisher who died the other day, printel and sold 600,000 of “Uncle Tom's Cabin.’ Dox Pxnno, of Brazil, is the oldest reign- Ing sovereign now living. He mounted the throne in 1551 at the age of six years, THE two most punctual men in the House of Representatives are Buchanan, of New Jersey, and 8. V, White, of Brooklyn. A Biot x chief named Lame Wolf William F. Cod Ex -PosraastenGroenat. Fraxx Hare vov, who has just bought the Washington Post, was the ou citizen ever called to Conanessuasy Manrin, of Toxas, is sixty. ve Years old, the father of nine ehidren for fifteen per cent ad va orem, i ing of the ent | report | propriation bills were passed | and danger of immeditate suffocation. 1 on the continue its investigations, . .. The resolution reported from the Committee on Foreign Relations {nn reference to the Panama Canal was then taken up and discussad in secret sossion, ., . The Edmunds resolution prohib- iting the interference of any European Gov- ernment lo interoceanic canalson the Amer- cun Continent was passed, only Shree vobes being cast in the negative. 19m Day. The Postoffice Committees. re- od the bill 2 ding that the omission pay the lawful postage on a “spacial de- livery" letter shall not prevent of delay ite transmission and delivery, but that the Ho ful postage shall be collected on its delivery, which wis passed... The Senate then, ut 12:50, resumed consideration of the Tariff bill, at paragraph 347, relating to collars and cuffs for men's wear, and fixing the duty on those composed entirely of cotton at fifteen cents per dozen pieces and thirty-five per cent. ad valorem, and on those composed ene tirely or partly of linen at thirty cents per dozen ploces and thirty-five per cent. ad valorem. Mr. Vance moved to strike out those rates, and to insert forty per cent. ad valorem. The amendment was rejected by the usual party vote--veas 19, nays 24. No amendment was offered to paragraph 335, | six cents per | The bill then | taxing hemp or jute carpetin square yard, and IT Was passed, went over till next day, Mr. Allison giving notice that unless better progres was made with the bill he would move for evening sev sions, or to meet at 11 ard sit till 6 or 620 PML Mr Sherman introduced a bill to make and alter regulations as to the time, lace and manner of holding elections for | lepresontatives in Congress, 2 DAY. ~The debate on the Tariff bill was continued. A motion to put coal on the free list was discussed 218r Day. Consideration of the Tariff bill was resumed at paragraph 411, taxing leather not specially enumerated or provided No amend ment was offered, and it was passed, twelve pages wore disposed of... . Mr. Honr urged that all works of art be placed on the fres list, 220 DAY. ~Ouly six Fenators were prosent al the opening. Mr, Butler moved a call of the Senate. The Chair decined to entertain the motion. After an hour's delay a quoram assembled . The Benate then resumed con sideration of the Tariff bill, the pending question being on the amendment offerad by Mr. Plumb, to strike out of paragraph 557 . the words a xXeept when frozen or packed in ioe, or otherwise prepared by any [rrOoess for preservation™ lot the paragraph read simply “fresh fish” (free), Messrs Hoar and Frye opposed it. After a long debate fresh fish was strack off the free list of the Tariff bill and made dutiable at one-half cent a pound 230 DAY, Consideration of the Tariff bill was resumed Quite a number of amendments were adopted After the read ire bill was completed, the Sen ate, in Committees of the Whole, went back to the provisions which had been informally passed over A number of verbal amend ments intended to make clear portions of the Lill were made to the administration sections, 80 ns 10 minor The House rn Day. — Immediately after the reading of the Journal the contest over the proposed | change of ru'es abolishing the call of States | on suspension Mondays was resumed; Mr. Reed calling up the resolution from the Committee on Bu'es. The pending question being on ordering the previous question, the Clerk proceaded to call the roll, Dilatory tactics were resorted to Ly both sides, and the filibusters succeded in postponing action for another day 2181 Day. ~The contest over the proposed change of rules abolishing the call of States on suspension Mondays was resumed and oo cupied the entire session. The filibusters again won on a motion to recommit the res. olution to change the rules. The vote was 120 yems to 117 nave, 220 DAY. —The entire day was consumed in filibustering, nothing whatever being ac comp shed, p DAY. ~The entire day was consumed in filibostering over the Oklahoma bill, the con sideration of which was deferred. 24 Day Chairman Dibble, of the Pad lie Buildings Committee, sucorveded in offer ing the conference report on the Milwaukes Juilding bill, and it was adopted, as also was & report on the Omaha Building bil". Then Mr. Dibble tried to offer a third conference but Mr. Weaver moved that the House adjourn, and fikbustering was on gaged in over this motion until both the day and night sessions were consumed without accompiishing anything SN DAY. «~The dead maintained through ten days by bustering tactics of Mr. Weaver broken The Pension bill Academy and Diplomats has been the fli has been the Military and Consulate Ap In Commit. tee of the Whole a Hill to revive the grade of Lieutenant General was reported favorably from the Committee on Military Affairs, TRACHEOTOMY. Two Snecesaful Cases of a Difficult Sargical Operation. One of the mot remarkable accidents on record occurred afew days since at Greens. boro, N, C. A young lad named Orrell, in running through a fleld, ran against a cuckle- burr bush, and, as be was drawing in his breath at the time, one of the burrs was in- haled into the lary x, producing great pain "hy seians were summoned and found it neoes- sary to perform tracheotomy so the patient could breathe, At last accounts the boy was doing well Little Annie Riley, Chiklren's Hospital, Phi ock which four, olphia, in as com- fortable a condition as a child can be who | had a three inch shawl pin with a large brass bead on the inside of her throat for eleven days. Anmie swallowed the shawl pin on Christmas Day. She did not say anything about it for fear of punishment by her mother, Sos was this fear that when the doctor was calied into her father's house she said it was only a little pin she bad swal- Spasms of coughing contin and the little pr | was taken to There, as she grew no bewter, tracheotomy was poriormed point of the pin then revealed itself to the astonished doctors and the child will soon be out of the hospital SHE FOUGHT WILDCATS. A Plucky Little Woman's Single Handed Struggle. On a farm ten miles west of Mandan, Dak, | pc ver 3, | tives here | timent question for In all | fx at the ' | dry land and gave ! [edervad Daniel and his companions from lowed, and that it no longer troubled ber, ' being however, | hospital, | and a vio ent fit of coughing | supervening, the tube which had been in- sorted after the operation was removed. The | it was easly taken out, | SABBATH SCHOOL EE aa aa Lesson Text: “Healing of the Leper," Mark i, 85-45-Golden Text: Mark 1, 42-Commentary. comer 5. “And in the morning, rising upa great while before day, He ning out, A) a into a solitary place, and there prayed.” An so we find Him in at the close of this | lesson, after healing the leper; “He withdrew | Himself into the wilderness and prayed.” | (Luke w,, 16, Luke speaks of seven | different occasions on which He is found praying (Luke fil, 21: wv. 16; : yh, 12) ix., 18 29; xi. 1; xxii, 41, 44, | but if ever man prayed without ceasing it was this Man, and if ever man needed not to | I we would think it was this Man, for | was God manifest in the flash. Now if | found it : to be alone and in com- | munion with His Father in ven zo mush, | deemed it more important than rest for ¥, what conclusion can we coms to, | wo are wonderfully unlike Him and | ble of our need nor v ntimately | Lod with our Father in ven! A | supreme und all consuming desire to know the love ahd power of God and walk in Pod | Jowship with Him as His faithful represents | «arth would surely send us to our knees and on our faces before God more often and more garnestly, &5, “Simon, ahd hey that were with Him, followed alr Him.” Not to pray with Him, but tolind Him for those who were seeking Him, is a practical and per, hose who have fo Jesus and are saved by Him: sook Him and walk with Him that I m happy, or that I may learn throug win others to Him that blessed 1° The last is surely but the self in us is more apt blessing than to be a blessing t 37. “When they had found BH unto Him, all seek for Thee” J He had power over devils and disease, that He healed all freely and spoke such wonder- ful words and with such authority, they were irresistibly drawn to Him; but if they had only known who He really was, does it not soem as if they would have worshipped Him in truth? The disciples, not finding Him in the house when they rose in the morning, went out and sought till they found Him. Do we thus seek Him in the early morning, and do we through the day bring Him to the many who are needing Him! 88, “And He said unto them, Jot us go into the next towns that | may preach there also, for therefore came | forth.” The time being fulfilled, He had come to set up the kingdom spoken of in Daniel iL, 44, and elsewhere these miracles which He wrought were His crodentinis, as the prophets had Isaiah xxxv., 5.6; xi, 1). It is now the basiness of all who believe 1n Him to earry the giad tidings of a crucified, risen, ascended, interosding and returning Saviour and King into all the world, for, therefore, does He send us forth, But so many, not understand ing His purposs nor what they are saved for, are content to live their quiet religious life in their own little corner, without doing any thing to carry the glad tidings to other towns or viliages or districts 34 “And He preached in their syna- gogues. throughout all Galilee, and cast out deviln” Matthew says that He proached the gospel of the kingdom and bealed all man ner of sickness and disease (Matt iv., 25. What a kingdom it will be when the devil foretold i and all his demons are cast out forever, when the inhabitant shall nomoresay “I am sick,” when there shall be no more death, nor pain, nor sorrow for He, ths same Jesus. shall have subdued ali things unto Hinsel!, and the inheritance lost through Adam's sin sba’l be more than restored through Jesus Christ 40 And there came a leper to Him, be soeching Him, and kneeling down to Him.” Matthew says that it was when He came down from the mountain that this leper came to Him (Matt, vill, 1-2. Luke says that the man was full of leprosy. and that he fell on his face and besought Him (Jake v., Ie A poor outcast, shut away from home and kindred, full of this most Joath- scune of all lisoases that sinful Lesh seems heir to, an utterly Lope ess case as far as buman belp is concerned, doomed to a ingering death by a slow but sure decay of the whole bady: he makes boid to come near to this Mun with the wonderful power, for whether it was by hearing the sermon on the Mount or by seeing or hear ng of some of th miracies of healing which Jesus had wrought, be has some way becoane possessed of such faith in Him that be cries: “Jord. if Thou wilt, Thon canst make me clean™ (Matt vill, 2; luke v,, 12) He is sure that Jesus has the power to cleanse hima; be bas firm faith as bo that matter, and so be just oas's himself at Jesus's feet, virtoslly saying “Lord, if 1 rs up again a leper, it is because You refuse to beal me, for 1 believe You are more than man, and can heal me if You only will; so I cast myself on Your mercy.” 41. “And Jesus, moved with compassion, | put forth His band an! touched him, and saith unto him, 1 will; be thou clean.” Five times in the Psalms the Lord is said to be full of compassion, Ps. Ixxviii., 55; Ixxxvi, 15; exi., 4; exii, 4 exiv, 5 the sams word being transiatad “merciful®™ In eight other places, the first of which is Ex, xxxiv 6 where we learn thellame of the Lord; and He being full of compassion, could not help saving compassion on this leper. He even puts forth Hs band and touches him, for He is not afraid; but best of all. He says “I will, O what a thrill of joy inde- scribable must have gone through and through this poor man. Try and fancy Lif you ean, 41 “Assoon as He had spoken, immedi. ately the leprosy departed from him and he was cleansed.” With the word came the bealth, and instantly the man was whole Even this most fearful of ail diseases floss before Him, The same Almighty word from the same Almighty person broaght ihe world into existence, destroyed it with a deluge, re- peopled it, called out Abram, preserved his descendants in Fgvpt, delivered them from it, brought them through the wilderness, plying all their needs for forty years: brought | them through the Red Sea and the Jordan on | the land of promise: in the least hurt by the lions or the flery furnace. and today says to 0 reader: Wilt thou be made whole! thon be cleansed from all sin! wilt thou be filled “If yo sek anything in My name | will iL" John xiv, 14) Just think of the bless. | _ ge £008, rt nts Bim, Thee, O Tord, Let me be Thy servant. -- Lesson Helper. Uspen the First Empirs only two female nominations were made to the Legion of Honor, and these were both for military achievements, The one was given to Virginie Chesquiere, who had dressed beéreelf as a man and taken the place of her brother, who was not strong enough to stand a soldier's life, Fonrolled in the Twenty-seventh Regi- ment of the Line, she displayed great | bravery, and obtained the rank of ser- geant, her sex not being discovered | until she was wounded in the breast while rescuing her Colonel from the en- eniy, The second was given to Marie Schelling, a Belgian woman, who en- | listed out of liking for a military ca reer, who fought ay’ Jemappes, where she received six saber cuts, at Auster- litz and aBena, where she was wound- ed twicg In 1806 she was appointed to of sub-Lieutenant, and Na decorated her with his own in 1808, granting her at the same » 8 pension of 700 The vird woman decorated was a Sister of Charity, Baur Marthe, in 1815, while francs. the only decoration given to a woman 1816 and 1801 was that as porded to a cantoniere named Perrot, Hetween From 1851 to 1865 eight ribbons were to among them being that which the Emperor Napoleon fixed t of Hosa and the Legion of Honor has given women brea Bonheur, 6 ly distributed, one of being Lady Pigot, in recognition of the ambulance work she did in Altogether women h been decorated for their the battlefield, but fower than twenty of the thirty-four he red pent ’ 1870-71. seven AVE ; fgervices on no the total number decorated) have been Sisters of Charity, while the only art- ist has been Rosa Bonheur, One of the last recipients of the red ribbon has been Mme, Dieulafoy, the intrepid wife of the explorer in North Africa. - r—- Iris no light thing to disturb a re- The other evening while prayer was being offered | : : ¢ » gious meeting in Lreorgia, in the Oconee Chnreh the sharp snap of the songregation, bene- match disturbed Just before the diction was pronounced the preacher : “If the young man who struck that match will forward after ervices and acknowledge it, or say it was accidental, we will excuse him; but if he does not there is a man in this house who will sift it out, and it will cost him more than one thousand * After the benediction a young man and a young woman walked forward, and the youth said it young woman had done the deed. “How did it happen, my sister?” asked the parson, She said: “Well, sir, I had the match in my hand and was rabbiocg it on the bench, not thinkisg of what I was doing, and before I knew it the thing went off.” She was excused. It is said that several years ago in a church in Athens, Ga.,, a young man was fined $500 for doing just what the sister did. igniting an said come boxes of matches at wholesale. was the who awful rm —————— Evecrriciry has been introduced es a motor in the Comstock mines. By conveying water in flumes to the month of a shaft on the Comstock and then letting it fall to the level of the Sutro Tunnel a force equal to a pressare of 680 pounds to the square inch was gon- erated. Electric motors convey the power, with a loss of only 40 per cent., from a point 1,650 feet below the sur face of the ground to the mill on the surface, and when the power reaches the stam; s it is found to be equivalent {to 435-horse power, which would run any stamp mill in the world. If the experiment proves successful, low jgrade ores, which are not profitable to {work with steam power, will become valuable, 4 Propanry the only man in Portland, Oregon, who found enodgh in his Thanksgiving turkey to pay for it was Dan J. Moore, of the Pioneer Wood Yard. He paid $2.50 for a nice big turkey, and when the Chinaman was dressing it ho remarked: “Turkey | heap rich,” and exhibited a $5 piece bis belpless- | which he had found in its gizzard. The coin was worn rather thin from the friction with the gravel which all wells regulated turkeys use as a specific for indigestion. Xt is better to be bom
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