ry ROASTED ALIVE A Train Caught in a Pennsyl. vania Forest Fire. Disaster Overtakes a Crew of Seventy Men, A dispatch from Condersport, Penn., says: The pretty little lumber and farming towns of Austin, Costello, Galeton, and Moore's Run are on the verge of a panic, two especial ly being threatened with annihilation from fires that seem to form an impenetraoie wall on every side, For several days and nights the skies have been lighted with fires in almost every direc tion. Farmers and lumber camps have suf. fered most heretofore, but now the fierce and snaky lines of flame have crept steadily toward the towns until they are in great danger, and every possible effort is being made to save them. At Moore's Run, on tue picturesque Sinne mahoning road, a train load of seventy-five milling men sent from Austin had been fighting back the fire with every means at their command. They made trenches, piled up earth, and lighted back fires, but were flually obliged to retreat, The men bastily boarded the train and started to make a run to another point, when it was found they were med in by the forest on one side and a huge skidway of logs on the other, the burning skidway, and the enginesr and fireman with faces covered with dampened cloths, and their hands and arms wrapped in wool, mounted the little en. | oe, and putled out through the wall of fire. | men gathered in | groups oun the flat cars for protection, or lay | ‘he seventy-five exhauste on their faces on the floor. As the blazing furnace of logs was approached the heat be | came unbearable and the smoke so blinding and stifling that the men were obliged to | cover their faces with cloths. The engineer had forgotten that such great heat would spread the rails, and he pulled the throttle wide open in the hope of sooner escaping from the torments of heat and smoke, There was a Jurch, an ominous heaving, | and a shriek as the train toppled over into the fire. The cars caught fire as so many cigar boxes would, and the mean within then, half blinded and scarcely realizing anything except that they were being slow] roasted to death, struggled desperately bac upon the track, where only for the time at least safely lay. Those uninjured from the wreck and only | smarting from the pain of intense heat turned their burned bands to aid their more unfortunate fellows, Superintendent Badger, of the Sinnema- honing Valley road, was in charge of the re lef train that bad worked the hardest of all When the train was ditched he must have | been injured so as to be unable to help him- | self. Owing to the smoke and panic he was not found until too late—fastened down in the wreck he had evidently slowly roasted to death. Six others also perished, and thirty others of the party were badly burned, many prob ably fatally, owing to their inhaling the flames. Seven others are missing, and their | fate is yet unknown, though their bodies are probably among the charred remnants of the train and logs Halief parties started for the scene as soos as the news was known, many relatives of the missing men insisting upon accompany: ing the train, Owing to the great devaste tion, communication is badly interrupted, As to the damage, it is known that 40,000, 000 feet of hemlock and timber and 25. O00 cords of valuable k have already been destroyed, and the fr are still raging with- out any appreciable diminution. A million beacon lights seem burning from every mountain and hillside and the air is 80 oppressive that many workers faint from exhaustion, and bave to be dragged away The fires have been raging for forty-=ight hours, and twelve miles of lumber territory bave already beets burned. PROMINENT PEOPLE, Kossuri. the Hungarian patriot is nearly blind. Tie Prince of Wales’ life is $800,000, TroMas A. Ep1sox is sald to three millions. Ex-Exriazss Evouxie $150,000 per annum Hexny M. Srasiey's profits on Darkest Africa” are estimated at £100.00 be worth an income of In Kino Cuazies, of Portugal, has offered to | give up his income from national sources un- til sue to pay BINATOR STEWA.. , of No ada, left College in 1%0 to join the Argonauts believes that the gold-hunters have seen tiie best days Tur Sultan, of Turkey, looks much like Jay Gould, except that he is somowihat taller | than the Wall street wizard and his a trifle more prominent Lonb Texsysox, wetry, grows milk and sells it. Many of the | of Wight milk carts on the west side bear the name Alfred Lord Tennyson Kiva Lrororp, of Belgium, is said to noses is be expedition to Central Africa, and the great explorer is reported as being willing to 20 Parton, at Now THE venerable historian, James WOrks six hours a day at his home buryport, Mass. His desk is his pa and recreation, for that is what literary oo cupation means to him XE of the richest men in Nevada Charles Kavver, who sixteen vears Ago was in the direst poverty. ' He now owns 16,000) ncres snd has 20,000 sheep, Hise mortgages cover threedourths of Churchill County THE Rev. Dr. Joseph D. Wickham, Yale's oldest graduate (1815, who died in Manches ter, Vi, recently, aged ninety-five, formerly taught a private school in New York and preached in New Rochelle and West Farms Faruen loxamos the barefoot Anglican monk, comes of a good English family named Lynes. He is lean and ascetic in a nee and weighs perhaps 120 pounds, is oratory is magnetic, his ressoning plausible, and he speaks with great volubility James Lane ALLex, the Kentucky novel. fst, is a profesor. of Latif in Bethany Col lege. @ lives at Laxin and has a house in Cincinnati also, dividing his time Let ween the two cities. He his | gan, to losco County, on insured for | | ears were burned at Lilley Junction. At time as Portugal will be better able ] { smith shop, and nearly all the dwellings went Yale | He | | that rain | thought to be over, in addition to writing | s of rest | 8. | Lambs LL O0ZAREVITOH ATTACKED. Russia's Crown-I'rince Wounded in Japan, CEAREVITCH OF RUSSIA. A dispatch received from Tokio, the capi tal of Japan, announces that an atte:upt has comrades, and te most of the | hands hard from fishing tackle i been made on the life of the Czarevitch, the | heir to the Russian throne, Although he was seriously wounded, he is considered to be out of danger. I'he scene of “western capital” the former capital of | Japan, on the island of Hondo, twenty-seven | | miles by rail northeast of Osaka and about two hundred and fifty miles southwest of Tokio. i The Czarevitch had gone to a pictur. esque resort known as Otsu, on Lake Biwaumi, six miles from Kioto, There a pative policeman, named Tsuda Sanzo, struck the Caarevitch on the head with a sword with intent to murder him, but owing to the toughness and thick ness of the Cgarevitech's sun helmet the wound inflicted by the sword was not seri- ous. The injury is described as & sword cut | on the side of the forehead, The Czarevitch and party immediately returnsd to Kioto, and there obtained skilful surgical assistance, It is belisved that the culprit is insane, or that brooding over fancied wrongs he was temptad to commit the deed by the presence of the illustrious guest, The Emperor and Minis ters hurried to Kioto to expres their con cern and sympathy. The Czareviteh, who was born in 1568 had been traveling in India and China for some time, and had recently returned to Hong Kong from Canton, and started for Foo Chow and Han Kow., After leaving China the Caareviteh started for Japan and ex. 1, according to the route mapped out for fm, to reach Viadivostock at the end of | May. a s———I—— ts FIERCE FOREST FIRES, The Lower Peninsula of Michigan All Ablaze. Meagre reports from the vast district in the central part of Michigan show that that section was the scene of devastating forest fires for three days These reports more than confirm the worst fears, and show a widespread line of disaster not equalled since the greas wood fires of 18571. The fires burned down the tele graph lines, made railroading dangerous, and wiped out barns houses, stores, churches, and mills, with millions upon mil Hons of feet of lumber and logs. A smart gale swept the Hamesabout at will The line of fames reached almost without a break from Macon County, on Lake Micki. ake Huron, with the forests of Lake Osceola, Clare, Gladwin, Ogemaw and Alcona, where General Alger owns large interests, all ablaze Another fire of scarcely less magnitude ex. Isted in the Upper Peninsula. eo incline of the Duluth, South Shore and Atlantic Railroad through Marquette. Houghton, Baraga and Ontanagon Counties was in the path of the flares. Two railroad bridges | were burned on that line, and the telegraph : Hoes are in bad shape, The flames swept into Oscora and burned out $200,000 worth of property. Two houses and 7,000,000 feet of lumber wore burned, The Chioage and West Michigan station at Bhields, Mich., was destroyed by forest fires. Eighteen Chicago and West Michigan freight Brightley, on the Chicago and West Michi fe road, 2.000.000 feet of jogs owned Sy Junshem, Bolinder & Co. of Muskegon, were destroved Walkerville, a small town in Oceana Coun- ty, the terminus of Butter's and Peters's log. | ng road, was totally destroyed by fire, The el, livery stable, stores, saloons, bisck- up in smoke, with 500,000 hard.-wood logs. The inbabitants of Bear Lake, Manistee County, were burned out and compelled to | wade into the lake upto their necks to save | | their lives. The long raliroad bridge at Bturgeon River was burned Late despatches from several points said bad fallen and the worst was | LL —— TEX years ago Tennessee potatoss wars unknown in the Northen markets, while | now the crop brings into Middle Tennessee | from $1,500,000 to $2,000,000 per apnum. anxious tosend Henry M. Stanley on another | * THE MARKETS, NEW YORK, Beoven li rr Mileh Cows, com, to good Calves, common to prime... 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TALMAGE. - —————— THE BROOKLYN DIVINES DAY SERMON, SUN: Subject: “Mend the Nog Text: “James the son of John his brother, in o ship their father, mending their thew jv, 91 “I go a Hashing," Zelwdee, cand with Zebedees nely," --Mat- eriod Blmon Peter to bis aposties had The Ash cries of the world have a.wavs attracts attention, In the Third century the quesn of Egypt had for pin money four huudred and seventy thousand dotlars the fisheries of lake Moers And if the time should ever come when the immensity of the wor d's population could pot be fel by the vegetables and meats of the land, the sen has an amount of animal life that would | food all the populations of the earth, and | fatten them with a food that Ly its phos saorus would make a generation brainy sad ntellectual beyond anything that the world has ever imagined, My text takes ws among the Galilean fishermen One day, Walter Beott, while hunting in an old drawer found among some old fishing tackle the manuscript of his immortal book “Waver ley,” which he had put away there as of no worth, and who knows but that to-day we | may find some unknown wealth of thought | while looking at | text? the attempted assassination | § % ie o y |] Saiki It was decided to dash past | T™ at Kioto (now officially called Saikio) or the fishing tackle in the It is not a good day for fishing, and three repairing the broken fishing nets. If you are fishing with a hook and line and the fish will not bite it is a good time to put the angler's apparatus into better condition. Perhaps the last fish you hauled in was so large that something snapped, Or if you were fishing with a net there was a | mighty floundering of the scales, or an ex | posed nail on the side of the boat which broke | some of the threads and let part or all of | captives of the deep escape into their natural | element, And hardly anything is more pro voking than to nearly land s score or a hus dred of trophies from the deep and when you hauling in the spotted treasures through some imperfection of the net they splash back into the wave This is too much of a trial of patience for most fishermen to sadure, and many a man ordinarily correct of speech in such circum stances comes 0 an intensity of utterance unjustifiable. Therefore no good fisherman considers the time wasted that is spent in mending his net, Now the Bible again and again represents Christian workers as fish ers of men, and we are all sweeping thr the sea of humanity some kind of a net ge dead, there have been enough nets out and enough fshermen busy to have landed the whole human race in the kingdom of God long before this What is the matter? The iis all Might, and it has good time for catching souls for thousands of years, Why, then, the failures’ trou bie is with the neta, and most of then pead to be mended. | propose yw you what is the matter with most of the nets and how to mend them. In the text oud Zebedee and his two boys, James and John, were doing a gol thing when they sat in the boat mend. nigh fn i Gospe beens a 8 10 sh | ing their nots 1 be Srouble with many of our nets is that the meshes are too large, If a fish oan get his gills and half his body through the net work, be tears and reads and works his way out and leaves the place through which he squirmed a tangle of broken threads. The Bible wenves faith and works right together, the law and the . PIE htew and forgive Naor ar nets have meshes #0 wide that the sinner floats in and ont and is pot at any moment caught for the heavenly mnding. In our desire to make evervyis 0 PREY, We relax, wo loosen, we widen t men after they are onoe in the Gos Cape into Lhe All swan all ales thea ng We of met world and go inte induigences arvan ! Galilee, from nor to south side and from: east side to wast expecting that they will come bach We ought to make it easy for into the kingdom of God, and Gan, make 11 img The poor advi j side st de again hen to get at Iara: we waible for them to get out ® nowadays to many is "Ho and do just as you did before oaptured for God an | heaves The net was nol intended to be any restraint or any hiadrance What you did before you were 8 Christian, now, Go to all vies of amuseent, read all the style of books, en gage n all the styles of behavior as before YOu Were « And so through these { permission and laxity they wriggle out through this opening and that opeaing, tearing the net as they go. and soon all the soils that we expected to land in heaven be. in the deep sea of the world, Oh, when we go a-Gospel fishing ot us make it as aay as possible for souls to 7! in, and as hard as possible to got out There should no rivalry between chnrnvhes. Each one does a work peculiar to itae!f There shontid bv no rivalry between ministers. God never repeats Himself, and He neve makes two ministers alike and each one has » work that no other man in the If fishermen are wise, they will not allow their nets to en tangle, « if they acvidentally get inter. twisted the work of extrieation should bs What o glad when on our ministers of all de platform and i were do wi verted theshes o : recent dedication day ninations ood on his | wished for enact other widest prosperity and nseiuiness, but there are cities 10 this coun try where there is now going on an awful ripping and rending and tearing of fishing nets, y Jor one all over Christendom at this | time there is a great war going on between | fishermen, ministers against ministers Now | have noticed a man cannot fish and fight at the same time. He either neglects hisnet or hs musket It ks amazing how much time some of the fishermen have to | look after other fishermen. It is more than 1 can do to take care of my own net #on the wind is Just right, and it is such & good time for fishing, and the fish are com. Ing in so rapidly that I have to keep my aye and hand busy. There are about two hun | hook and line dred million souls wanting to get inte the | kingdom of God, and it will require all the nets and all the boats and all the flsherosn our time My frienas, nn the text that James, the son of | Ati Bg: § T i HH Li i it it 1 | wa~ don't | pot? | of at thy prow of the boat, an | they task un | the thread and ths needle, and ths ropes and | throug the | | taking the advice of Talleyrand 5 a | of You | Bible in spots; the man who thinks he can. not persaade others; the man who halts, doubting about this and about that, willbe a failure in Christian work. Show ms ths man who rather thinks that the garden of Eden may have boon an allegory, and is not quite certain but that thers may bs another shance after death, and doss not know whether or not the Bible is inspired, and 1 tall you that man for soul saving is a poor stick. ¥aith in Gol and in Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, and ths absolute necessity of sregenerated heart in order to see God in peace, is one thread vou must hava in your mended net or you will never be a sucoessful fisher for men. Why, how can you doubt? The hundreds of millions of men and woe men now standing in the church on earth, and the hundreds of millions in heaven, attest the power of the Gospel to save. With mors | Sian a certainty of a mathematical demon. i stration, let us start out to redesm all nations, received from The rottenest thread you are to tear out of your net is unbelief, and the most important thread vou ares to put in it is faith, Faith in God, triumphant faith, everlasting faith, If you cannot trust the infinite, the holy, the omnipotent Jehovah, who can you trast? Oh, this important work of mending our nets! If wo could get our nots right we | would accomplish more In soulsaving in the | poxt year than we have In the | years | mended? | his two boys mended their nebs--whers | are | in Lake Galiles, or holst your sail and lant | at Capornaam or Tiberias or Gardara and Inst twanty But whers shall we get them Just wihers the old Zebedees and you “James, why don't you put your oar soatel on the bank mend your net? John, you go ne ws snd mend your No, they sat on tas guards of ths boat, ths wooden blosks, and went to work: saw- ing, sewing: tying, tying: weaving, weaving; pounding, pounding, until, the net mended, they push it off into the sea and drop paddie and hoist sail, and the catwater wont y amid th shoals of fish, some of the descondants of which we had for breakfast ons morning while we wars encampsd on the beach of beaatiful Galller. Jamas and John had no time to go ashore. They ware not fishing for fun, as you and I do in summer time, It was their lvelihool and that of their families, They mendad their nots where they ware, in the ship “Oh” wavs some one, Vl mean to get my net mended, and I will go down to the public library, and I will see waat the scientists say about evolution and about ‘the survival of the fittest ani I will read up what the theologians say about ‘advanced thought! J will leave the ship awhile, and will go ashore and stay there until my net is mended.” Do that, my brother, and you will have no net left, Instead of their helping you mend your net, they will steal the pieces that re. main, Better stay in the Gospal boat you have all the means for mending your net. What are they, do younsk?! 1 answer all you need you have where you are, namely, a Bible and a piace to pray. The more you study evolution, and adopt what is called advanos] thought, the bigger fool you will “. Stay in the ship and mind your net, hat is where James the son Zobwdes and John hits brother staid. That where all who get their nets mended stay These dear brethren of all denominations, afflicted with theologioal fdgeta had better £0 to mending nets instead of Iv enking them Before they break up the old religion and try to fois on us a new religion Jot them go through some great sacri for God that will prove them worthy for such a where is work, an who wanted to upset the religion of Jesus Christ and start a new one, when he said “Go and be crucified and then raise yourself from the grave the third day Those who propose to mend their nets Ly secular skep- tional books are just like a man who has just one week for fishing, and six of t days he spends in reading Isaak Walton's “Complete Angler." and Whemtiey's “Rod and Line” and Soott's “Fishing in Northern Waters” and Pullman's ““Vade Mocun of Fly Fishing for Trout” and then on Saturday morning, his last day oul, goes to the river to ply his art, but that day the fish wili not bite, and late on Saturday night be goss home with PE] empty basket and a disappointed heart manwhile a man who pever saw a big library in all his life, has that week caught with an old fishing tackle, enough to supply his own table and the table of all his neigh bors, and enough to mit down in barrels for the long winter that will soon come in. Alas’ Alas! If, when the Saturday night of our life drops on us it shall be found that we have spent our time in the libraries of workily philosophy, trying to mend our neta, | and we have ooly a few souls to report as brought to God through our instrumental ty, while some humble Goapasl fisherman, his Hbrary made up of a Bible and an aimanac, shall come home laden with the results, his trophies the souls within fifteen miles of his log cabin meeting house in the time of great disturbance in Naples in 1640 Massaniello, a bare footed fishing boy, dropped his fishing rod and by strange magnetism took command of that city of six hundred thousand souls. He took off his fish- | Ing jacket and put on a robs of gold in the | presence of howling mobs He put his band on fils Hp ae a signal, and they ware rent, He waved his hand away from him, and they retired to their homes, Armies passad in re. view before him. He became the nation's idol. The rapid rise and complete supremacy of that young fisherman, Massaniello, has no paralisl in all history. Bat something equal to that and better than that is an everyday oorurrence in heaven God takes some of those, who in this world wore fishers of men, and who tolled very bumbly, but because of the way they mended their nets and employed their nets after they were mended, and suddenly hoists them and {| robes them and scepters them and crowns them and makes them rulers over cities, and He marches armios of saved ones bafors them in review, Massaniellos unhonored on ea but radiated in heaven. The fisher boy «¢ Naples soon Jost his power, bat thos jeovia dod who kept their nets mended and rightly swuag them stall never lose their ex- alted piace, but shall reign forever and ever | and ever, Keep that reward in sight, Bat do not speed your time fishing Why did not Jams, of Zebadea, sit on the whar! at Cana, his feet with hanging over the lake and with a long pole | and a worm on the hook dipped into the wave, wait for some mullet to swim up and be caught? Why did not Zebedee spend his afternoon trying to catch one eel’ No; the nations be born in a day, and the hemispheres fun with the tread of a rausoming God > you know what will be the two most tremendous hours in our heavenly existencs? Ed SL E rE i i Bi: : g i : : 3 sxe i : £ d H : f 2 gis : i i i i 1 h 3 : if z son | Pit Hi | "SABBATH SCHOOL, INTERNATIONAL: LUSSON MAY 24, yon Lesson Text: “Captivity of Israel’ 2 Kings, xvii. 6-18 Golden Text: 2 Chronicles, xxiv, 20-~Commentary, €. “In the ninth year of Hoshes, the King away into Awyrin.” Having spent several weeks with the servants of God, the prophets, SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. i ——-—— It has been shown that if the sun was a burnicg sphere of solid coal it could not last 6 years, The price of platicam has advanced fully 100 per cent., owing to its in~ creased use for electrical purposes, When the Minneapolis suspension { bridge was removed recently, the anchor- | age irons, although they had been care { fully imbedded in cement, were found to ' be deeply corroded. of Awmyria took Bamaria, snd carried leras] | One million tubes for Koch's lymph is | the work which is at present engaging and listened to them pleading with leas! to | return to the Lord, we now turn back to the actual history, nnd this lesson brings before us the end of the ten tribes as a nation, until they shall be regathered in the last days to any more (Ezek, xxxvi,, 21, 22; Amos ix. 14, 15), After more than 250 years of con. tinued rebellion against God, during which time nineteen Kings reigned over them, not one of whom did right in the sight of the Lord, Shalmanezer, King of Assyria, be sloged Samaria, the capital of israel (1 Kings xvi, 24) in the sixth year of Hoshea, and after three years took it and carried Israel into captivity (ve. 13) 7. “Forso it was, that the children of Israel had sinned agamst the Lord their God, which had brought them up out of the land of Egypt," ete. God, ‘Srough Mcses, and the attention of a German glass works, { The tubes are made of a fine quality of | glass, and are closed with a glass stop- | per. form with the two tribes one nation in their | own land never to be divided nor pulled up ! through His servants Hosen, Amos and Jere. | miiah, makes frequent reference to His bring. ing them out of Egypt as a reason why they should obey Him, When He gave the ten commandments at Binal, speaking to the people out of the midst of the fire (Deut. v., 4-22), as Ho never did to any other nation, He began by saying, “I am the Lord thy God, which bave brought thes out of land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.” Then Ho gave them His commandments that they might keep them and live (Ex. xx, 1 2; Deut. fv, §&; xxxii, 46 47) 5. “And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel” Not only did He de- liver them from Egypt and take care of the | them all through the wilderness, in spite of | their murmurings, but He cast out nations before them, and gave them a good land, with every good thing in it, entreating them to make no covenant with the nations or their gods, but to walk in His ways, and thus He might through them prove to all other nations the difference between the true God and the idol gods of the nations ¥. “And the children of Israel did secretly th we things that were not right against the iord their God.” Not only publicly but secretly were they “mingled among the beathen and learned their works” (Pe. evi, 85. Inthe dark they did wickedly, saying, “The Lord seoth us not; the Lord hath for. saken the earth” (Eaek. vill, 12 10, “And they set them up images and groves in every high bill and under every green tree.” Even Judah did this also in the days of the son of Solomon (I Kings xiv. and then followed the plundering of the templeof the King of Egypt, only thirty- four years after its dedication (I Kings vi. 38: xiv, oh When we consider the plain commands of Goa not only not to set up these places, but to destroy all such things and pisces which the heathen had set up (Deut, xvi, 21, 22; xii, 3, we areapt to ask “How could they thus iy in the face of God?" 11. “And there they burnt the incense in all the high places, as did the heathen whom the Lord osrried away before them: and wrought wicked thingsto provoke the Lord to anger.” The people of the only Living and True God, the Almighty, the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israsl, the Most High God, possessor of heaven and earth, who alone re deemed them and cared for them, fturnd from Him to worship and rely upon idols ¢ wood and stone, which can ih fom see, DOr bear, nor talk! It seems impossible 12. “For they served idols, whereof the Lord had said unto them, You shall not do this thing Besides the second command ment recorded in Ex. xx, and Deut, v., listen to Lev, xvi “Ye shall make you BO Mole nor graven image, * * * to bow down unto i* for | am the Lord your God” Jehovah their creator and covenant keep ing God desired to be their portion. He oso wanted then all for Himself, and He would | be thelr | be wholly for them He would shield and their exceeding great reward, as He maid to Abram. And they should have said, “The Lord is my portion, saith my soul, therefore will 1 hope fa Him.” 18 “Yet the Lord testified against Israel and against Judab, by all the prophets, and all the seers, saying, Turn ye from your evil wave” See sone of His pleading with them in lea. 1,16 17: dv. 7; Jer. Hi, 12; Esek xxxiil, 11, Hos xiv, 1 the Lord God, the Holy One of lsrael, In re turning end rest shall ye be saved; in quiet ness and in confidence shall be your strength; and ve wogld not” (Isa. =2x., 16 did He urge them to return, but them bow to return, and even put the very words iu their mouths which they might say see Jer. iil, 18; Hosen xiv, 3 14, * Notwithstanding they would not bear, but hardensd their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not believe in the Lord, their God” On the last verse we quoted from Isaiah the sad words, “And ye would not. It was the same all through their bistory, till Jesus Himself uttered the | same words shortly befoie they crucified Him (Matt, xxiii, 37) 15. “And they re 1 His statutes, and His covenant and they followed vanity and became vain.” He is wisdom, and wisdoia is the principal thing, better than rubies or gol or silver; but fools despise wisdom ; it is too high for them. In Jer, x. 8 14 15 idols n° atry are called lies and vanity When the je of Lystra took Paul and Barnabas for Gods and would have wor shiped them, Paul exhorted them to turn from these vanities unto the living God who | made all things (Acts xiv, 15, | might be some excuse for the Gentiles of Lystra, but mone for 155 who had the knowledge of the true God, and yet turned away from Him. 16. “And they loft all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them " The enlves at Dan and iy. Foe fi ix si : HH xxv. 5:1 Thus saith (1! " {| jes, as well as by the fomil remains Not only ! He told | " very | kind,” pp. 187, 138, we have the follow- | ing: A sugar, fifteen times swecter than sanesugar, and twenty times sweeter than beet-sugar, is reported by a German chemist from cottonseed meal, It can. aot be scld to compets with the ordinary srticie, M. Damoiseau, of France, has in- vented a camera to take panoramic It is made to turn on its axis so truly that the picture oa the entire strip Views, | of sensitive paper is said to be perfect! pay I clear in its details, The four most common causes of boil- er explosions are external corrosion, overheating, overpressure and weakness of flue. The four least common causes ure absence of safety valve, bad material, wenk manhole and deposit, The principle of the compressed paper car wheele, which are so widely used hroughout the world, is applied in France to the manufacture of pulleys for power transmission. The pulleys sre said to be very light, cheap sod service- thie in every respect. A Swedish metallurgist, C. A. Casper- son, tests the hardness cf iron or steel in process of manufacture by electrically melting a sample of certain size and com- paring the strength of current necessary with that known to be required to fuse standard pieces of metal of determined hardness, A firm of stone cutters in Berlin have ntroduced a poeumstic chisel into their stablishment., The workman holds the iyringe-like apparatus with both hands, wad, as he slides it over the surface of the stone or metal, the chisel, making 10,000 or 12,000 revolutions i minute, thips ofl particles. A German electrician, Herr Guicher, 1s made a thermo-electric battery giv- ng electric power equivalent to 1.08 per sent. of the heat employed, and hopes 0 exhibit st Frankfort s battery which will yield at least five per cent. net effect. With an economical source of heat, he believes that his thermo-electric battery will even excel the dynamo machine in ficiency. A gallon pail filled with fine sand placed within easy reach of each work- man employed where oiling and finish. ing is going on is strongly recommended ws an essential part of the equipment for fire protection in wood-working estab- tishments. This practice can be followed with advantage wherever there is & pos- sibility of fire starting in oil or oil-sonked materials. It bas been found that noth ing will subdue an oil-fed fire so quickly snd effectually as sand, and the subse. quent freedom from water damage is a trong point in its use. Ancient Man in the Mississippi Valley, Let us now take the astiquity of clas- sical lore and see how it compares with that of the American continent, as evi- denced by our mysterious mounds, and the indications of a great and glorious past set forth by our lost and ruined cit- brought to light through the researches of Agassiz and others eminent in science and archmology. In the “Types of Man. “In digging for the gas-works at New Orleans, sixteen feet below the surface, boneath the fourth forest-level, burnt wood was found and the skeleton of a wan,” Dr. Bennet Dowler, in his **Tableaux of New Orleans,” goes into a calculation which proves it correct, that the fourth cypress forest level must have been ! formed 57,000 years ago, and that con- sequently the skeleton had been reposing where it was fouud for that period of time. Such of the mounds of the Mis- sissippl Valley as have been explored have clothed us with a prehistoric past the most mysterious and overwhelming. They reveal another page in the history and chronology of the world-—a strange civilization of a great people that had passed away thousands of years before had *“‘walked about io 4] | Fi SE
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