AI — eur TERRIFIC TORNADO. Many Lives Destroyed in a Mis- souri Storm. ' Houses Demolished and the Ine mates Killed, A terrific tornado passed three miles north. east of Mexico, Mo., at 8 o'clock on a recent afternoon in the vicinity of Bean Creek, Fifteen houses in the vicinity of that place were destroyed, some ten or twelve persons killed, an equal number fatally injured, and a large number badly hurt. At the house of a farmer named Duffy, John Dorger and family were living. Jamos Dorger, aged six, was killed outright. Lizzie Dorger was fatally hurt and died ina few minutes, Her skull was crushed and a large lece of timber penetrated her side, Mrs, Jorger was orushal to death by falling tim. bers, and Mr. Dorger was fatally injured, The house was entirely swept away Noth ing has been heard of Mr. Duffy, and it was supposad that his body was carried away The Duffy barn was blown down and two horses were killed At the house of William Stranberg, Will fam Yostrander and family wera visiting The house was swept bodily away. William Yostrander was killed, his wife was badly injured, and his little girl was fatally hurt William Stranberg was also fatally hurt At the home of Edward Norris, Gertrude Fletcher, a daughter of R. 8. Fletcher, was instantly killed. E. B. Norris was fatally in- jured. Caleb Norris was badly hurt and his wife seriously injured. William Fletcher and his sister Kate were instantly killed, and their bodies terribly ey At the same piace Mrs. Emily Seal, a widow, aged sixty, was fatally hurt, and Mrs. Norris, the mother of E. B. Norris, was killed. F. 8. Norris was badly hurt. The house of Valentine Erdle caught fire during the first gale and was completely destroyed, The inmates had vacated the place and no body was hurt. The houses of T, B, Hall was blown down, but ths fam- ily escaped, A horse stinding in the road at that plac was picked ap by the wind, carried half a mile and dashed to death on the ground. The houw of Boston Kunkel was swept away, and Mr. Kunkel was instantly killel A farmer samed Rogers was also killed at that place, also a farmer named Crane, Several farm hands in vicinity of the Kunkel and Rogers farns were believed to have been killed v oseph the Kendall's house andl barn blown d Kendall had a narrow es He had just left the house and gone to the barn as the barn was blown down or lifted ap, leaving him unharmed. The mules in the stable were not hurt. The barn was scattered all over the flelde. James Millard's house was blown down A mowing ma- chine was carried abouts 190 yards and liter ally blown to shreds A iron roller weighing 1200 pounds was taken up and blown to pieces. A calf was lifted from the ground and carried over a quarter of a mile Savor were killed and tw chickens were plucked clean of Spokes of wagon-wheels were twisted broken The tornado passed on to the east, passing Rush Hill, one mile north of Mexico carry lng destruction everywhere, Ureat destruo- tion of property and life occurred further east. Great trees ware taken un by the roots and blown off The scene at these places is pitiable in the exirems E. B. Merry, Sr, sald: “When I first poticad the storm the wind blew a gale, | was holding my baby in my arms wher struck the house was dashed against house and the baby was carried 10 an! dashed against a tree. | picked ip and went back to the hous to flad my fawn. fly scattered in every direction The width of the tornado was about 3% yards and about tweive miles Joug. The low will be about $5), 000, i wn Le Arges horses MX PLUCKY QUEEN NATALIE. she is Dragged From Her Home by the Servian Government The Prefect of Belgrade, who was charged by the Regents with the duty Nervia, of expelling ex-Queen Natalie from Servian | territory, went to the latter's residence the other day, and, in spite of her earnest tests compelierdd ber to enter a carriage, which drove toward the quay on the Danube where the royal yacht was moored The news that the ex-Queen was really to | be expelled from Servia had, in the mean time, spread throughout Belgrade and had reached the students’ quarters. The later promptly turned out In force, and wm» the carriage containing the unbappy | indy was being driven toward the Danube, it was surrounded | by a crowd of students who seized the horses’ heads, brought the vehicle io a stand. still and loudly cheered the royal prisoner Tbe students then detacked the horses from | the carriage and dragged the ex Queen, who remained seated in the Prefect’s conveyanos, back to her residence, cheering loudly as | they passed through the streets | The Prefect, assisted by a foree of gene darmes, tried in vain to regain possession of the ex-Queen, but the students escorted her to her residence in spite of all the efforts made | to prevent them, On their way there, how. ever, several collisions took place between the gendarmes and the students, but the lat. ter came off victorious The citizens and merchants generally side with the ex-Queen. The residence of Natalie is defended by students. Intense sxcitoment prevaiis. A conflict occurred that afternoon, the troops firing upon the Queen's support | ers, killing two and wounding many others. pr : PLEASURE SEEKERS DROWN Eight Go Salling on the Schuylkill Only Vive Return, Three lives were lost by the upsetting of a | sailboat on the Bchuylkill River, off Gitson's | Point, in the Jower section of Philadelphia, | The victims were Mrs. Susan Pascoe and her infant son and Mis Mary Carr. There were also in the party Fred Tidman, Samual Peltz, Robert Chamberlain and Mrs. Mary Jones, a twin sister of Mrs. Pascoe, and her four-year-old son William, The party started out for a sail down the river, Tidman, the owner of the boat, acts ing as sailing-master. In an attempt to “go about” the ropes beeame tangled around Chamberlain's feet and the boat upset. The three men are all good swimmers and they the women and children ] afterward, In her arom, he hold her obild tightly clasped cc —— de the an institute to am Ries 1 will be devoted to g | ais HH £ it | Georgia THE NATIONAL GAME, pS LASICOUR is Xow York's best saorifics i ter, {A prremen without speed is of no use this season, ALREADY the usual summer hunt for pitchers is in full cry, THE Association team Is more Cincinnati than the League. Tax Louisville and St. Louls teams are said to be luckiest in the profession. ALLEX, the Philadelphia League stop, ranks with Glasscock and Long Goverxon Hiri, of New York, oconsion- ally attends ths games of the Albany Club, JOE GERHARDT, released by Louisville, has signed with the Albany (N. Y.) “ub, Ir looks as though Bassett would be a fix ture at Now York's third base fastead of Denny. popular in short ~ PITTSRURG carries seventeen men—includ- { Ing four catchers and six pitchers —on the pay-roll, of late, and is now regarded as an important | factor in the League race. MoKeax, of Cleveland, oan untis his shoo. | strings, when ho wants to rest a pitcher, with { asmuch skill as any man in the business SEERY, Andrews Johnston, Whitney | Crane, Mains and Kelly, of the Cincin Association team, are oid League players THE heavy batting still continues i PITTsnunc has taken a big Jump upward | i that week with successes we are haopy | week, | Is not a pile of 1 major | | league circles, but as the weather becomes | | hotter the pitchers will gradually have their | inning, JAKE Vint, Cleveland's crack | man, refused an offer from a Lev | two years ago, believing that be was not fast | enough for League company. | DURING a game of bassball at Nashville, Ohio, Philip Harden, aged eighteen, com | pleted a run and, seating himself ou a st ne, | said: and fell dead t~ base. “Tally one for me, STEALING second isalmost an impos with Galvin, of Pittsburg, in the box. He watches first as no other pitcher in the country watches it, and it is suicidal to take 6 big lead off the bag Wooncock., Brown University’ ¢ Hitcher, has signed with Boston play with the college nine up to co ment, and after that “ vices with the Boston clu famous Hoe will HNEnoe will begin his ser {| James G. Fooarry, the well-known bass ball player died at Philadelphia, Penn. a few days ago of consumption. Hee mtracted a heavy cold on his return from California in Felruary last, and bad since that time been confined to his bed. He was twonty-six years of age and his home was in "An geles, Cal, Los CnrLocco Indian school south of Arkan- sas City, Kan., has a baseball nine composed of Indian pupils. They have beaten all the amataur ball clubs in” vicinity They play ball like machinery, never kick. talk or coach. Their idea is to catch the ball, bat it and make runs. They display n " y enthusiasm, and it is impossible to rattle Ose of the most remarkable baseball games on record was played recently at Ta coma, Washington, between the Seattle and Tacoma clubs of the Pacifi Northwest League. It took twenty-two inniogs to cide the game, which was by by a score of six to five. In the ninth inning the score stood three to th in the fifteenth each club scored one run, and each again scored one run in the eighteenth, making the score five to five. until the twenty-second, when Tacoma scored one run, winning the game. NATIONAL LEAGUE RECORD Fer Won, Lost 4 won ree; T20. Philadal 5%) New York. il Heveland 319 Brookivn..i0 18 loston 13 13 300, Cincin'ati.. 10 18 AR ASSRIATION RECORD Per Won Lost, of Boston.... "5 10 Ti4 Baltimore. 23 10 St. Lous. 21 16 568 Athletic 15 15 411 4 13 AMR RIC Cineinnat ouisvilie.. |] olum bus $90 Wasl'gt'n MONEY FOR MILITIA. Allotments to the Various States by the Secretary of War, a gue club | | work as well in th REV. DR. TALMAGE, THE BROOKLYN DIVINES DAY SERMON, a Subject: “One Week's Work.” SUN- Text: “And the evening and the morn- ing were the sixth day." Genesis {., 31. From Monday morning to Saturday nicht gives us a week's work, If woe have filled Hut I am going to tell you what God did in one Cosmogony, geology, astronomy, or orthology, ichthyology, botany, anatomy are such vast subjects that no human life {s long enough to expiore or comprehend any one of then, But I have thought [ might in an unusual way tell you a little nf what God did in one weok. And whether you make it a woek of days or a wask of ages, | care not, for | shall reach the sams practi eal result of reverence and worship, The first Monday morning found swinginz in spaca the piled up lumbar of rocks and metal and soll and water from waich the earth was to be builded, God made up his mind to create a human family, and they must have a house to live in. But Not a roof, not a wall, not a door, not a room was fit for human o cupancy There black basalt in Yellowstone Park or an extinot volcano in Honolulu so Inappropriate for human residences ns was this globe at that early period Moreover, there was no human architect to draw a plan, no quarryman to blast the foundation stones, no carpenter to hew out a beam, and no mason to trowel a wall The first thing needed was light, It not needed for God to work by, for He can darkness But light may where! was | be necessary, for angelic intelligences are to | ing. the candelab sibility | | reach the earth | moon | ereated their light will not | tor some time yet | Jooked upon the {| whether facoma | | now to work No more runs were made | | ment | | snd tremendous undertaking is set apart ] pended reser The Secretary of War, with the approval | of the President, has made the following al- | lotments of money to the various States and | | Territories for arming and equipping the | militia on the basis of representation in Con- | Eres nia, §5371; S28 Colorado Delaware, #11057: Tinods, $704; lows. $11,975; Kansas 85002: Kon tucky, S11.905; Louisiana, #7371: $5525; Maryland, #7971: Massachusetts 12,000; Michigan, £11,978; Minnescta, $6450; Mississippl, 88279; Missouri, $14 742; tana, RIT; Nebrasks, 84007 New Hampshire, #23795. New York, $82.171: North Dakota, $2984; Ohio, $21,198; Orezon, $2784; Peansyivania, $27.02; Rhode Island, $3485; South Carolina, $8202: South Dakota, £3585; Tennessee, $11,057. Texas, $11,973: 82704; Ee afl; 20 Idaho, Nevada, 82704; Now Jersey, $8000; Alabama, #0214; Arkansas, $6450; Califor. Connecticut, | $2704 Norida, $3085; | Maine, | Mon | North Carolina, $10,135; | Vermont, $3685: Virginia, #11 57; Washing | ton, $3704; West Virzinia, 8552%: Wiscon- sin, $10,135; New Mexico, $0000; Oklahoma, $3000; District of Columbia, 84090: Arizons, F000, These funds will be avaliable on the first of July next LS THE MARKETS, st NEW YORK. Calves, common to prime, | Sheep. ..oovernsvrsceninnes | Lambs ELLE Dressed... Flour—-City Mill E Wheat--No. 4 Red. . Rye—State sir abee Barley —Two.rowed Ntate. .. Corn—Ungraded Mixed, ,... Oats~No, | White. ......... Mixed Western... .... Hay—Fair to Good ......... Btraw--Long Rye.......... lard—Oity Steam .......... Butter — State Creamery... Dairy, fair to good, West, Im. Creamery NAGOLY .0u0ss000v Choesso—State Factory. ..... Bkims— Light ...... Western hoe Egge—Stateand Pean........ BUFFALO, Btoers— Western. ........ Shosp~Modium to Good... Lamba~Fair to Good, .,.... Hogs—Good to Choles Yorks Flour Winter Patent. ..... Wheat—No, | Northern. ,... Corn—No, 4, Yellow,....... Oats No, 2, White, ll iL Barley No, § Canada, Egg—~Near-hy peo Hoods Time Northern,, 2 0 Clover, Northern, .. 15 Bay=Falr ....c..0oiiinesnsdB 00 Straw Good to Prime, ,... 17 80 Butter«Firets. ...oo..oco0en WATERTOWN (MASS CATTLE MARKEY Beef —Drossed weight. ...... 4 Live 9% La LADLE Hi BS td. 88 GA8GS8ESS S8353588s8 ~83 ggastgssi a a al 1 RS AEE] oi | Fe BEER ARRAN LLL soo in ite full glory ths process of world build. But where are whare the candies whor A is the chandelier rising sun will roll in the morning, for if the sun is already created its light will not yet in three days. N nor stars can brighten this darsne aud stars are not born re A reach t i uf OL ime But Where there is ne ne from think that, standing mediate light, shall it o The record makes ma over this earth that } IW morning aarkness that palled heights of this world, and the chasms and the awful reaches of It, and utters Hetrew of earth or language celestial 1 know not, that which stands for the sm and all pervading fl thr i garlands an touches all the then ER ninet spr in the One Nan undul triiiions ir witers.L, And ir mer, and the tt and there tions and ff dence, i northward, son and a radiance Bllsd the cot bold no more of by while supernatural . the first wer al ng ui sheots It at ard intelli genoces Joe hapter the first d the « that ever touched the of the A i covers Himsell on eniurios numan « ye Inemsed lig was the Hrs thing lack of it the body stumt of Lights, give us light Now it is Tuesday morning. A delicate fom 10 His this day. There dance of water band, this morn was a great by the ng gathers part of iL in suse ire, and pargol it He orders rivers and lakes and sons H to Lang whole Atlantic in th el 8 without their spilling over except in right quantities and at rignt times was an inGertasing tat n 8 | ald have dared, B as you would Ht a glass « hota two « 3 th f tmiasnces the OOS Ana spr SUP LET wave oO down into the low TADS acd one oul Umnipotenoe 12 God does it as easly of water, [hers Hl. tiles w and Here m nie, ea ty and Frogs CF eal whit ive miles hb He 'ifts wt in gr banks as tt had beeti snowing hemven. And u ro strats is in J parallel ling "0 straig i know an infinite geometor has drawn u them ara Armory rom which thunder storms get their bayo- ts of fir ids which are wing No wonder, long after this first Tuesday of a eation week, Kiiha confounded y with the question, "Dost thou know the noing of the cswotds™ f of this loesday work done. the other WE of compelling the waters 0 in their destined paces. No God i) the solid ground and packs it up ine he five elevations, which are the conti With his finger he makes Joop de pressions In them, amd these are the lakes, while at the piling up of the Alleghanies and Sierra Nevadas and Pyrenees and Alps and Himalayas the rest of the waters siart by the law of gravitation to the lower places, and in their run down hill me the rivers, and then all around the sarth these Fivers come into convention and "woe beneath, as the clouds are cosans the ng ofeAns on sthe wn ie dowry pecks be hee OF ol Is Alive Now it is Wadnesday workd's first week. Gardening and horticul ture will be born today. How queer the hills Jook, snd so unattractive they seem bardly worth haviag been made. But now all the surfaces are changing color, Somer thing beautiful is creeping all over them. | bas the color of emerald, Avy, it is herbage, Hail to the green guest! God's favorite onlor and God's favorite plant, as | judge from the fact that he ro. a larger number of them than of anything eles. But look yon- morniag of the der! Bomething starts out of the ground | and goes higher up, higher and higher. and sreads out broad leaves. It is a palm tree onder is another growth, and its leaves hang far down, and it is a willow tree. And © a growth with a mighty sweep of | ea foes And here they come—ths pear, and the apple, and the peach, and the pome- granate, and groves, and orchards and for. esta, their shadows and their fruit girdiug the earth, Now it is Thursday morning of the world's first week, Nothing will be erste! today, The hours will ba pases In soattoring £924 and mists and vapors The aturph ses must ba swant clean, Other worlds ars to | heave In sight, has seomed to mensity to itaslf, be hailed to-day on the higa seas of spac), First, the moon's white wall appsars ani doss very well until the sun burs: up ths scons, The light that on the previous three mornings was struc from an esp sisal word now gathers in the sun, moon and stars Ons for the day, the other for thanight. And the sun now appears, afterward 5 by found eight hundred and sightyesight thon. sand miles lo diam ster, and, put in astro nomioal scales, to bs found to wala nearly four hundred thousand tims heavier than our earth; a mighty furnaces, ita heat kept up by meteors poaring into it as (asl, a world devouring otnsr worlds wilh tf awe of flame. And the stars ons on’ thoes steast lamps of heaven, thoes kare of paar’, upon which (God's fingers play thy made of the spheres. How biright thay 1a4% in this Ark ental evening! Constellations! Galaxies! What a twenty-four hours of thie first wask «solar, lunar, stellar asnmransw! All this Thurslay snd the adjoining nightsensinved In pulling aside the curtain of vapor from theses flushed or oalafacel worlds, | Now it is Friday morning in the first wos’ world's history, Water, but aot a fin not a wing fiving is Can ithe that if wae 4 But hast ! Thare Fists little ship of the earth have all the ocean of im But mightier eraft ars to t | ravians, who originated it, seem to de and others quiet in dark pools like shadows, Everything, from spotted trout to behemoth, all eolorsd, all shaped, the anocsstors of finnv tribes that shall by thelr wonders of eomstruction confound tho Azassizes, the Cuviers and the Linnmuss and the lehthyo. lozists of the more than six thousnd years followinz this Friday of the first wesk And while I stand on the banks of thas Paradisaleal pivers, watching thess finay tribes, I hoar a whirr in the air anil lookup | and bshold wings-—wings of larks, robin, | doves, eagles, flamingoos, albatrosas, hrowa thrashors, Creatures of all eolor—blus, ay {If dipoasd in the skies; flary, as if thy ha! flown out of the sunests; el lag, ax if they had takan thelr moraing bath in battarenns, And while I am stalying the eslors thay bs. gin to carol and chirp and con and twitter and rua up and down the seales of a musie that thay must hav: hoar! at heaven's gate, Yeu I find them in Para lise on this the first Friday afternoon of the world’ « existences, And [sit down oq the bank of the Eaphe rates, und the murmur of the river, to- , gother with the chantof hirisin thasky, puts me into a state of somnolence, “And the evening and the morning wers tha fifth dav) Now it is Saturday morning of the world's flest woek and with this day the woeek closer, Put, oh, what a climacteric day! The ate has its nonulation and the water its pooula. tion, Yot the land has not one inhabitant But here they come. by the voles of God cre ated! Horses grander than those which in after time Job will deseribs as having neek clothed with thun ler Cattle snough to cover a thousand hills Nhaen shephorded by Him who made for them the pas. tures. Cattle ior to the Al « and Avershires and Davoashiios of times Loopar 1s 37 hay ars 21a 1 they can. not chang» thei yt Jonx without thelr flor con: ivdrupel world gentle, so sleok, But the wan Muck 1 ean Lorn alt 1 SEIN w) Paradise and mh \ urday afternoon. Because a doer upon Adam, and by divine surges tion of his kde was removed for of another creation, it that perhaps days and tween the masculine and fem But no! Adam was nated God breath { Uns not t & man thw» brent! the ave wit pr and the great God the ms the bsnadiction of al afterward woman the do you think o I review it not for 11 have vou MAryYe aus | w has because | want know hoy will look Christ shall have restored #1 twoen two Edens realizesometiingol w and the utter folly Him: because | with this Cale! of who mediates between off ended Omnipote and human redweilion kuow bow fearfully and nderful Are mane, Your ody as well as v Umnipotent achievement: because | you to realize that order rv thr the universe, and that God's hes to the moond, and that His clocks strike regularly, though they sirike once in a thousand Teuy i to when swinging now waul you ata mighty God Hels fe war agains again be because | 0 of Irving want you to the make pene miverse, the Christ because | want you ir son igns gt wat years —— Ix the Revue "Hygiene, M. Bourri- er, inspector of meat for the city of Paris, describes his experience with meat impregnated with tobacco smoke Some thin slices of Yeef were exposed for a considerable time to the fumes of tobacco, and afterward offered to a dog which had been deprived of food for twelve hours. The dog, after smelling the meat, refused to eat it. Bome of the meat was then cut into small pieces and concealed within bread. This the dog ate with avidity, but in twenty minutes commenced to display the most distressing symptoms and soon died in great agony. All sorts of meat, both raw and cooked, some grilled, roasted and broiled, were ex- posed to tobacco smoke and then given | to animals, in all eases producing symptoms of acute poisoning. Even the process of boiling could not extract from the meat the nicotine poison. - ——— - Tur “pigskin” which is used in South | American conutries for holding the flu. | ids, is usually the skin of a living sheep | ~~that is, it is stripped from the animal before the animal is killed! This eruel process is thus deseribed. The sheep | is tied to a stake, and a careful slit is | made down the middle and around the | neck, without entting the flesh. Hooks are then fastened to the loosened skin, and it is slowly drawn off to the tail. The poor animal's eries of agony during | this atrocious proceeding would touch the heart of oven a savage, but the Pe light in it, They assert that the skin taken from a living animal is more durable and flexible than if the poo: beast wore first moraifully killed, Ax athlete named Cummings, at Milwaukee, has been betting and win ning his bots that he could board any train passing a station without halting, He did it five or six times at suburban stations, but the other day he grabbed, missed, and now has only one leg left. The railroad will down any man io timo. - aI — a UERMARYS mercnahit manae oom: | three in Judah and one in Israel, | through the instruction of Jeholada, | priest (II Kings xii, 2 | after it was dedicated | This is suggestive of | true Temple) | During the reigns of Abija, | Athallah reigned chap | house or ten | of the nation's life, and their treatment of it, | or rather of Him who manifested His pres | XXR | like God's way, and | up the great temple, the ¢ SABBATH SCHOOL. MAY 8i. Yon Lesson Text: “The Temple Repaired,” Chronicles, xxiv, 4-14 Golden Text: 2 Cor, ix, TCommentary, 4. "And it enme to pass after this that | Joash was minded to repair the house of the Lord,” We now go backward in the history to a period about a hundred years earlier than the last lesson, Joush was the seventh | king of the two tribes, and began to reign | mbout & hundred years after the death | Bolomon, 4 Oi Only seven years old when he be 1. a. ga to reign, be reigned forty years (vs nly four kings reigned longer than Joash was one of the eight kines of Judah of whom it is written that "he did right in the sight of the Lord.” Butitis written that he did right Lhe The temple was first plundered in the fifth year of Renoboam, about thirty-four vears II Chron, xii., 2. 9 the death of Christ (the thirty-fourth year Jehoram and Ahaziah the temple was much neglected and in His | during the six years immediately preceding the reign of Joash, while the wicked queen xxi, wick. edness must have prevailed exesedingly. The we of the Lord was thy center ence in it, indicated the health of the nation or otherwise, The purpose of Joash to re ir or renew the house points 10 bless ing about 10 come on the peopis 5. “And he gathered togethv priests and the Levites.” The whole of Levi was set apart by God for the special services of the sanctuary iil, 38. Of this tribe Aaron and his descendants were to be the priests, while all the rest of the was given 10 him for special service (Num i, 9 10 ‘Go out into the of Judah, ather of all Israel money io repair [ f your God from yesi 0 year, and see that ve hasten the matter 1 his wonid have been a sort of compulsory taxation for the house of ( and was contrary to the principle laid down in Ex. xxv, 2° every man that giveth it willingly with his beart ye shall take My offering.” 6. “And the king called for Jehorada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the ut « bring in Judal and Jerusale collection?” priest the 1 ably under stood busi beter than 1 0 thelr oommiss but it the tritw - Sum Sani} [Rai | and Cities Onl, Of Jaovitos un the and Vile thelr king did. It was: go out collecting wan that the | offerings according xvi, 16, 17; Ma wWheni 8 wor arcand collecting his for the Lord's work Was in their Deut, ped hould bring their ability Door Mats xi has YO go MIArY, or when money has to be wrung from of affair Wer unwilling beart 7. "For the sons of Athaliah, that wicked woman ad broken up the house of God.” This was the woinan who counseled her son Abaziah (the last king) to do wickedly, and ‘who, after his death, reigned six years ichap, 2 3 12 See her miserable end In chap. xxii * And also all the dedicated things of the house of the Lord did they bestow upon Bas. lim If we are children of God by faith in Christ Jesus, then we are no longer our own, but bought with a price (the blood of Christy that we may glorify God {1 Cor. vi, 18, 2 5 “And at the king's commandment they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the houssof the Lord There was a hole in the Jid of the chest, and it was set beside the altar on the right side as one cometh in to the house of the Lord (11 Kings xii. 9. Things are looking better now, this is more there will surely be a blessing #f “And they made a proclamation through Judah and Jerusalem, to bring into the Lord the collection that Moses, the serv. ant of God laid upon Jerasl in the wilder. mess.” This is more fully stated in 11 Kings, xi, & 5 and carries ws back Wo Ex, xxx 11-16, where all who were numbered were to ive a ball shekel as an offering unte the Ord to make an stosement for their souls the rich not giving more and the poor not giving los than hall a shekel. This sliver, tke the sacrifice. was a svmbol of stone ment 1 And all the prinos and all the peo ple rejolond, and brought in, and cast int the chest until they had made an end ¥ This pleased the Lord, for “God loveth a cheerful giver.” and "il there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that be hath not (11 Cor. Ix, 7; vill, 123 11. “Thus they did, day by day, and gath. ered woney In abundance.” As the chest was filled it was shaptied, counted, put up in bags and set in ite place again (11 Kings xh. 10 12. “And the king and Jehoiada gave it to such as did the wou's of the service of the bouse of the Lord." And they laid it out to the carpenters and builders, and to masons and hewers of stone, and to buy timber and hewed stone to repair the heaaches of the house of the Lord (11 Kings x8. 11, 120 They did not, like many nowadays, get the work done first and then look for the money to pay for it, but they first saw the whore witha! on hand and then went forward with the work 18. “So the workmen wrought, work was perfected.” King, priest, people and workmen all laborers toesther Nao now every preacher, teacher, missionary, evangelist, or the humblest scholar who gives a penny to help send the to others, are all laborers Joguthar in build urch or body Christ, which shall in due time be perfects” (Eph. i, 19-22; I Cor. Hi. ®. ‘And they set the house of God in His state and strengthenod it." In the of the R. V. "His state” Is “mocording to the proportion thereof.” The Spirit had ven David the ns for the a ron, xxviii, 12-10, and they now re mired it according to the design of the Dirt “And when they had finished it t and the 4 brought the rest of the money before king and Jeholada.” Why did they not use up all the money, or put in a bill for extras! What fools they would be in the eyes of many today! How easy 10 say that the work oost more than t expected! Bat vee thelr faithfulness oe sarplus was made into vessels of gold and silver for the | house of the Lord Let the surplus of wealthy Christians be devoted to send forth vesssls of mercy to the unmved, a what joy such faithfulness would bring forth in heaven and on earth’ “They offered burnt offerings in the house of the Lord continually all the days of Jehotada.® This § {lant lid to She ut traordinary 150 years, w died there has a ad . in Judah, both of the king the . fr isi ii | magnet { sectional area of the entire maguetic cir- be arranged to light a 4 ar SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. Ea ! i Excellent wool has been made from the fibre of the fir tree by means of elec | tricity. In Europe stecl-tired wheels for lil. road cars are used more generally than in the United Staies. The great majority of eases of deaf- ness are hereditary and due to the | too close consanguinity of the parents, The maximum power of an electro is proportional to the least cuits, With an electro-magpet mechanical *| actions are produced at a distance vader | control by the agency rents, of electric cur- The magneto-motive force equals the product of the number of spirats and the | number of amperes of current muitiplied | by 1257. A comparatively small dyvamo may greater numoer of lamps by the use of an accumulator ' A than can be obtained from the direct, nach Professor Elihu Thompson wears a ii chain, the links of which by electricity the chain links of alternate Other links ar tions of these metals. unique watcl are welded gol goid into not Asphalt favor for volatile, as pr manent character of the mas mint ironwo Aare VArious 421 | tar ar con the secret of its value. system canal. bost haulage hs oY satisfactory in Gert : bein Cars those > now IRNY., 80 £ made in " of drawn heavy towing similar to i '¥ locomotives used In mines was ¢ x hibite i ul at Calcutta of the Asiatic So- A most singular relic [ a piece of which had he . - "or "4 covering of reed by a blade of grass piercing was so complete, and the con- tact with the copper wacy oore so periect, was de- that the efi of the cable slroye ie Indian recent! A great event in the annals of telegraphy was the completion per wire between Calcutta av, slong the | the Ben. The total length uit is nearly 1300 miles, and can now boast ine of re raliway, an Department ut in gest aerial cure n in the Alps recedes from year to year Alpine roses were at one at an altitude of 7600 feet; now they are seldom found higher than ws 1 are stunned st that, Var. ious species of small {ruit which used to be gathered at 7500 feet above the level time found 6500 fest. pow are rarely found beyond two-thirds that height Russian scientists are about going te Northern Africa to make a study of the methods employed by the natives in re. sisting the inroads of quicksands. This inquiry result of ineffectual efforts on of Russian engineers to counterac effect of quicksands in tans. Caspian seotions, where the usands of acres of the best soil are an nually used up. is the the part : » the arable Something About Siberia. Since the building of the trans. Siberian railroad was resolved upon, and Siberia has attracted general notice, the world has become interested in the origin and meaning of the word Siberia. V. M. Florinsky, in a paper published at the University of Tomsk, holds that the word is of Slavic derivation. It occurs for the first time in the writings of the Persian historian, Rashid.Eddina (1247- 1318), as the name of what is now called western Siberia, for in connection with it the historian speaks about the River Irtysh and the steppes of Kirghose and the Bashkir. The Russians have known the country since the latter part of the fittecnth century, and official mention of the “Siberian land” is made in docu ments dated in 1554 and 1556. The word is supposed to have originated with a tribe of Huns which was known by the name of Sabirs or Sebirs, and first lived ia the Ural Mountains and subsequently settled down in the regions of the Don and the Volga. The city of Sivar, which existed in Bulgaria in the tenth century, was a monument of the wanderings of this tribe. The Sabirs were also men. tioned among the Slavonian tribes on the Volga enumerated by J the King of the Khosars. Now, ing these ace counts into considerstion, it that the Hans were of Slavic origin, and that the name of Sibars was wwumed by or applied to that tribe of the Huns which has wandered from the north (Sever) into the southeastern
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