Sb es I, So NS NSO, FRIGHTFUL COLLISION, West Accident on the Shore Railroad. Fatal Half a Score of Italians Killed and Many Injured, The Chicago and St. Louis limited passon- ger train on the West Shore Railroad was wrecked at the Montezuma station, n few miles west of Port Byron, N. Y., at 2:4 o'clock on a recent morning. Ten Italians who were in the smoking car were killed, and about as many more were wounded None of the regular passengers wore killed, but two or three of them were more or less seriously injured. The passenger engine and train are a complete wreck. The Chicago and St. Louis Nmited leaves New York at 5 p. M, and passes Syracuse on Hts way west at 1:58 A, a. It is one of the fastest trains on the road, stopping ouly at Newark, bet een Syracuse and Rochester, On this night it consisted of two express pars, one baggage car, a smoking car, a day poach and the four Wagner sleepers, Mars thon, Pocassett, New Foundland and San. tingo, made up in the order named. The train left Syracuse on time, and was prac tieally on time when the accident occurred, running at the rate of forty-five miles an bour on a good track, Montezuma station is on the eastern border of the Montezuma swamp, which is crossed by a causeway built on stone piers. Only lo cal trains stop at the station. A freight train is due to be side tracked on the Monte suma switch at the time this great passenger train passes that point, The freight train which caused the asei- dent consisted of forty cars, and was bound for the West. It was to let the “flyer” pass it, by drawing over on the Moatezuma side track, It had started to leave the main track, and was half-way upon the switch when a coupling broke in the middle of the train. Realizing that there was no time to lose, the conductor, Thomas Tobin of the freight tran, seat Edward Connolly up the track with a jantern to check the “flyer” but whether he did not get far enough up the road, or his signal was not seen, is not known, A new coupling had been made and the freight was slowly starting. Ina minute more it would have been out of the way and the disaster would not have occurred. The freight train was in charge of Thomas Tobin, conductor, and Thomas Whitcomb, engineer, The former was on top of the train and was thrown violently to the ground by the con cussion. Beyond serious injuries caused by the conductor's fall, no one on the t train was hurt The engine was hurled from the track down a slight embankment, and was fol Jowed by the cars of the fore part of the train Fire I reight started almost immediately in the wreck. It eaught from the burning coals of the engine, which were sonttered in every direction upon the inflammable material of which the wrecked cars were constructed, All the passengers in the sleepers which re mained on the track got out safely, but it was impossible to save all the sleeping cars from the spreading flames. By the utmost exertion the three sleepers were detached and pushed back by trainmen out of reach of the fire. The other was destroyed. As soon as possible help was telegraphed for from Syracuse. A wrecking train, with coaches for the dead and wounded, was promptly sent to the sogne of the wreck, 1t carriad a , .2orps of physicians and hospital stores for ‘the comfor: and treatment of the dead and wounded The entire fatality was confined to the oo. supants of the smoking-ear and locomotive, fa the former was a party, consisting of twenty-one Italian laborers in charge of an interpreter, Saverio Scomsavavs, who Was taking them from Tompkins Cove to Niag- ara Falls, where they were to be worked on the new railroad tunnel. Only one member of this party escaped death or serious in- jury. The fireman, Michael Bergen, was found to have been instantly killed at his sost on the locomotive, and the engineer, atrick Ryan, seriously injured The death-list began to be appalling as | body after body was removed, until tem were laid along the tracks in a row. The injured were twice as many, and their sup- plications for aid were heart-rending. The jead and injured were all taken from the pars before the fire reached them On board the relief train were put the bexiies of the ten men who were dead, and the injured were disposed of as comfortably as the cramped seats of the day-coaches would allow, When Port Byron was reached the dead were taken off and laid in the freight house, MONEY IN CIRCULATION, An Increase of $10.00 per Capita in Thirty Years A statement has been prepared at the United States Treasury Department in Washington in regard to the amounts of money in circulation on the first of July ot the venrs 1800, 1845 1885 1580 and 1501 from which it appears that the assertion that there has been since the war a great recue tion of the amount of money in circulation is without foundation. The statement is as follows All the statements furnished are made upon precisaly the sa ne basis. the amount of each kind of money in the Treasury and the | remainder is given as the amount in circuls. tion. There I» nothing omitted irom the statement which should appear thers except minor coins (niceels and pennies and they are Jeft out of all the reports because of the difficulty in sstimating the amount of them in use. As the amount at the present time is certainly greater than in the eariler years, their omnis ston will not be unfavorably criticise! by thoss who contend that there is now a searcity of wvmey he amount of in circulation in 1860 was about $425,000.00, and the amount | wr capita was $1385 In 1865 there wore TE O0 00 in cireniation, and the per capita amount was $30.83. Twenty years fater the circulation was over #1 090. 0000, and the per wapita was HIE. 08: while on January 1. 1801, amount was nearly S1LAM.GO0000, with ta aliowanocs, the high- of the United Btates. January 1, 1891, not ota amount but in the August 1, not withstanding the outflow of the total amount was 4 81,500,000, - $0. and the amount per capita was £33.57. BOILED HIM ALIVE. Slow the Shah of Persia Panished a Thieviog Tax Gatherer, Advices from Teheran, Persia, bring a queer report to the effect that the Shab, in the por capita elreulation. On | Mileh Cows, com, to good. . | Btrawe REs..oansiss 05 4 i er Tn Tk em @& tas | | Chesoo—Htate NEWSY GLEANINGS, ALABKRA contains six voloanors, NEvana has only 12,000 voters, EMALLPOX is raging in Honduras, Trung is a case of leprosy in Chicago, Disastrous floods are reported in India, Vesuvius is again in a state of eruption. Pirr-nox lids circulate as money in Chili, GRASSHOPPERS are damaging crops in Ohio, Tue Alabama worms KANSAS had the coldest and wettest July in twenty years, Britis money is said to be fighting Bal. siton is being damaged by | maceda in Chill, Tue wheat crop of Oklahoma is pro- nounced a fallare, Durovanr and bags have done great harm to crops in Wisconsin, Tue settlement of Hebrews on unoccupied { and in Italy is proposed, Tue Farmers’ Alliance people of Kansas urs to hold camp meetings Customs receipts in July were 15,465,153, against £28, 954, 356 last year Tue corn and cotton crops in. Mississippl have been damaged by flo ds, Fany property in Kansas has doubled in value since the wheat harvest, Macox (Ga.) dealers have been shipping | watermslons direct to Liverpool, Tie new Weather Bureau chiel proposes to appoint twenty local forcasters, MiLiioxs of worms are destroying the hemlock trees in Potter County, Penn CovLorep men in the South are flocking into the Alliance fold by the thousands ARIvars from Newfoundland report that actual starvation exists along the west Ooast CiestxUTs may be expected in abund- ance this fall, as the trees are laden with blossoms, Ture exports from gunly to the United States for the year ending June 30 amounted to B13, 850, 000 Mormon missionaires fornia have made sions in polygamy Southern Cali- notable conver in several ACCORDING to latest reporis the present year will be the most prosperous ever known 0 Kansas farmers, Bur 3232 miles of railroad have been buiit since January 1, a heavy decrease from the figures of last year Tue Health Commissionsr at Milwankes, Wis, reports that the city was never so dirty wind never so healthy as at present Tue fourth centennial of the discovery of Amerioa is to be celebrated at Genoa Italy, be birthplace of Columbus, with many fes HVities A COLOXY of 108 citizens of other States are settled at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, to ake advantage of the easy divoree laws of hat State Wirth the next two months it is expected that the large crops will use up every avail thle freight car, thus causing a famine of mrs, especially for the transportation of soul A COMPETENT authority has computed that the present indications point to the argest yield of cotton on record, ons of the actors in New Orleans placing it at 9,000,. 0 bales, Taz fifth effort to intersst the colored peo. sle of the South in a schemes to colonize Jberia is being made, and an agent is trav. ding in this country making speechss in re- gard to it Tur battle sword of General Sill, who fell st Murfreesboro, has been returnsd to his ‘amily in Chillicothe, Ohbijo, For twenty. dght years it was in the possession of a jouthern officer THE new constitution of the State of hota it js said, has cut down the col. ' wed vote of the State about ninety thous and, that number failing to register. More than three-fourths of the colored Pople ony failed to ited to vote have declined to or INDIA HUNGRY, egiater, Famine Extending in Two Districts of the Madras Presidency. There bas been no rainfall in the Chingle put and North Arcot districts in the Presi. Jency of Madras, India, and all hopes of averting a famine bave been abandoned The heat is unprecadeated. The standing grain and other crops have succumbed to the long drought, and all are withered and turned Many deaths from starvation have been reported, Horses, cows, donkeys and other live stock we dying in large numbers everywhere in the districts It is not only the poorer clases of the population that are suffering. Many natives of the high castes are making application to the authorities for relief to keep themselves and their families from starvation. THR great number of Americans who at tended the Bayreuth Wagner festval has been the subject of much remark on the part of the German press. It seems to be gener ally admitted that the floancial succes of TREY, DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN. DAY SERMON, Subject: “A Poor Investment,” (Preached at Topeka, Kan) Text: “Ye have sold yourselves for naught; and ye shall Le redeemed without money," —Isatal iif, The Lord's people had gone headlong into sin, and as a punishment they had been car- ried captive to Babylon, They found that iniquity did not pay. Cyrus seized Babylon and felt so sorry for these poor castives that, without a dollar of compensation, he let them go home. Bo that, literally, my text was fulfilled, “Ye have sold yourselves for naught; and ye shall be redocmad without | money." There is enough Gospel in this text for fifty sermons, There are persons here who | have, like the people of the text, sold out. | You do not sepm to belong either to your- | selves or to God, The title deeds have beon | passed over to “the world, the flesh, and the | devil" but the purcasser never paid up, y “Yo have sold yourse ves for nauzhe.” When a man passes himself over to the | | world he expects to get some adequate come. pensation. He has heard the great things | that the world does for a man, and he be- + Heves it. | domestic enjoyment, the undertaking was practically due to the | great American patronage. THE MARKETS, n NEW YORK. 33 “> 3% 2 1-3 3 1 Calves, common to prime... La): Hoge—ldve......coivernsene B LE So o TLE EE [rose Flour—-City Mill Extrs..... Patents, .....coouee0 B15 Wheat—No, 2 Red. ....co000 1 BD 5 F3AL8EE x Hag Fair 10 Good. ..vuses = SLE54685888040008 phan a Lead i Forhna=-LAgh , oss. Egge—Stateand Penn. BUFFALO. SEAR EREINS 2 ® 5 ad wane ew EF +1 Fit 134 oem F88Ees - Th Ahh id En Ha i AM ® to Prime, ,... -— te DRA esnset SEEERERN a EEE EE BES REE u88CEs a 1 hd Yhvonams] peamery Tn pe | ie | Ita font in honor of Charles Lamb; but ‘5 | ing | am happy | the roll, an | Johnson, the learns! | afraid I shall some day get crazy | mm Hazlitt, He wants two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, That vill be horses and | houses, and a summer resort and Jolly come | panionship. i physical To got health by with his conscience, it he parts with his overwork, He parts He parts with much He parts with oppor tunities for literary culture, He parts with his soul. And so he makes over his entire | nature to the world He does it in four instaiiments. He pays down the first installment, and onefourth of tis nature is gone. He pays down the second installment, and one-half of his nature is gone. He pays down the third installment, and three-quarters of his nature are gone, ind after many years have gone by he pays down the fourth installment, and lo! his ene fire nature is gone. Then be comes up to the world and says: “Good morning. | have delivered to vou the goods, 1 have pamsed over to you my body, my mind and my soul, and I have come now to collect the two hun- ired and fifty thous:nd dollars.” “Two hundred and fifty thousand dollars? says the world, “What do youmean”™ “Well® you say, “I come to collect the money you swe me, and I expect you to fulfill your part of the contract.” “But” says the hae 4 bi bave failed. am bankrupt. 1 cannot pos sibly pay that debt. I have not for a long dme expected to pay it." “Well” you then my, "give me back the gooda” "Ob, po” #iys the world, “they are all gone. 1 cannot give them back to you." And there you stand on the confines of eternity, your spirit. eal charscter gone, staggering under the songideration that “vou bave sold yourself {or naught.’ 3 I tell you the world is a liar, prom lees It is a cheat, and is Aoeves ¢ verything it can put its hands on tisa bogus world, Itis a six-thousand- your-old swindle, Even Jf it pays the two hundred and fifty thousand dollars for which you contracted, it pays them in bonds that will not be worth anything in a little while, Just as a man may pay down ten thousand dollars in hard cash and get for it worthless scrips the world passes over to you the two hundred and Sfty thousand dollars in that shape which will not bes worth a farthing to you a thousandth part of a sec ond after you are dead, “Ob" you say, *'it will help to bury me, anyhow” Oh my brother! you need not worry about that, The world will bury you soon enough from mnitary oonsiderations Post mortem emoluments are of no use to you. The treasures of this world will pot pass current in the future world, and if ll the wealth of the Bank of England were pat in the pooket of yom shuowd BB you Io see midst of the Jordan of death were asked to pay three cents for your ferriage, you could not do it. There comes a moment in your existence beyond which all earthly values fail, and many a man bas wakensd up in such a tions to find that be has wold out for eternity ant has nothing to show for it. 1 It does not keop ite {| should as soon think of going to Chatham street to bay sik pocket bandkerchisfs with BO cotton in them, as to go to this world ox ponng to find any permanent happiness. It as decrived and deluded every man who has every put his trust in it History tells us of one who rewlived that he would have all his senses gratified at one and the same time, and be expended thou mode of dollars on each sense, He ontered a room, and there were the first musicians of the land pleasing his ear, and there wore fine pictures fascinating his eye, and there wars costly aromatics regaling his nostrils, and there were the richest meats and wines and | fruits and confections pleasing the appstits, and there was a soft couch of sinful indul- gence on which he reclined, and the man de. clared afterward that he would give ten | times what he had given if he could have one week of such enjoy even though he lost his soul by it! AR! thi was the rub! He did Jose his soul by it! thought for a little while that he was mak. ing a fine thing out of this world, aad yet before he came to his grave he wrote out this pitiful epitaph for bis monument: “I am Lyrus, occupied the Persan empirs I was king over Asia. Begrudge me not this monument.” But the world in alter years plowed up his sepulcher, The world clapped its bands and stamped does he say? “1 walk up and down, think. t feeling 1 am not” Haopy® “No lam Win the great eseayvie:’ “No. I have bon for two hours and a half going up and down Paternoster row with a | | voleano in my breast” | author! | mad blame, and | wish to God that Saollet, ths witty I am sek of y has had such circumstances around me tha: | cond throw my pen into oblivion” Bachaasn, the world renowned writer, exiled fron hie Happy?! “Nao I wont to wee a worldling dis. As | went into the hall I saw its floor was tessellate and its wall was a ploturs gallery, 1 ound death chamber adorned with it seemed as if the clrads of the ssttin had sottied in the roon, The man y yours to the world-his wit, his gonlus, his talent, bis woul, Did the to stand b deathbod and Th if 3 } i : H it i A————— J ass I SE - Cyrus the conqueror | bu Call | be quick aboutit. Samuel | Happy! ] AR AM ! jonsctence went. Your hope went. Your Bible went, Your heaven went, Your God went. When a sheriff under a writ from ihe courts sells a man out the officer gener- ally loaves a fow chairs and a bed, and a few | maps and knives; but io this awful vendus in which you have been engaged ths auction. ser's mallet has come down uson body, mind ind soul-—zoing! gone! “Ye have sold | yourselves for naught,” | How could you do so? Did you think that your soul wasa mere trinket which for a fow | pennies you could buy in a toy shop? Did jou think that your soul, if once Jost, might be found again If you went out with torches and lanterns? Did you think that your soul was short lived, and that panting, you would soon lie down for extinction? Op you no idea what your sou! was worth? Did you ever put your forefingers on its { eternal pulses? Have you not felt the quiver of its peurless wing? Have you not known | thatafter leaving the body, the first step of your soul reaches to the stars, and the next step to the farthest outposts of God's uni- verse, and that it will not die until ths day | when the everlasting Jehovah expires Oh, my brother, what possessed you that you should part with your soul so cheap? “Ye have sold yourselves for naught” But I have some god news to tell you, 1% want to engage in a litigation for the recov. wy of that soul of yours, | want to show | that you have been cheated out of it. | want to prove, as I will, that vou ware Crazy on that subject, and that the world, under such tircumstances, had no right to take the title deed from you; and if you will join me | shall got a decres from the High Chancery Court of Heaven reinstating you in the possession of your soul. “Oh” you say, “I am afraid of lawsuits; they ars so expensive, and | can. uot pay the cost.” Then have you forgotten the last half of my text? “Ye have sold yourselves for naught: and ye shall be re Joemed without money.” Money is good for a great many things, but it cannot do anything in the matter of the soul. You eannot buy your way through Dollars and pounds sterling inean nothing at the gate of mercy. If you could buy your salvation, heaven would be a great speculs- tion, an extension of Wall street. Bal men would go up and buy out the place ani leave us to shift for ourselves But as money is pot a lawful tender, what is? 1 will answer, Blood! Whose! Are we to go through the slaughter? Oh, no; It wants richer blood than ours. It wants a king's blood. It must be poured from roval arteries, It must be a sinlew torrent. Hut where is the king? 180% & great many thrones and a great many occupants, yet none sesm 0 bs oom ing down to the rescus. But atter awhile the clock of night in Bethlehem strikes 12 and the silver pendulum of a star swidgs aoros thesky, and I ses the King of Heaven risin z up, and He descends and stops down fr star to star, and from cloud to eload, k and lower, until He toucnes t ered hilly, and then on to anot last skull shapsd, and thers at the sharp stroke of perssculion, a Hil Incsrasdins trickles down, and we who could sot be redecmiad bry money are redesmoed by precious and imparial hiool We have in this day professes | who are 0 rarefied anl eth they do not want a religion of blood What do you want? You seem to want a relizon of brains hs Bib “ia the bln i the Ha No atogsment with»t blond Ought not the aposide 0 know What 444 he say? “Ye are rodesnsl no! with cor raptible things, such as silver and gold, bat by the precious blood of Cuarist.,” You put your lancsiet into the arm of our holy relig on and withdraw the blood ani you leave it a mere corps, fit only for the grave. Why did God command the priests of old to strike the knife into the kid, and the goat, and the pigeon, and the bullock, and the lamb It was 50 that when the blood rashed out from theses animals on the floor of he ancient tabornacie the people should be compelie! to think of the coming carsage of the Son of God. No blood, no atonement I think that Gol intsnled to impress us with a vividooss of that color, The gresn of the grass, the blus of the sky, would pot bave startled ani aroused us like this deep erimson. It is ax if God had mid: “Now, sinner, wake up and see what the Saviour | endured for you, This is not water. This Ent wine This is blosd It &s the blood of My Son. [It is the blond of the imuscu late. It is the blood of God” Without the shedding of blood & no remission. Thers has been many a man wha, in courts of law, has op “not guilty.” who nevertheless has boat? con dermnne | because thers was bloo | found on his bands or blood found ia hie room, and what shall we do in the Inst day if it it be found that we have recrucifiel the Lord of Glory and have never repented of it? You must believe in the biood die No escape. Unless you let the ssorifics of Jesus £0 in your stead yom yvoursel! must suffer, It is either Christ's blood or your | blood Oh" says some one blood dekens me” Good God intended it 10 sicven you with your sin. Do not act as though you had nothing to do with that Cal- varias massacre. You had. Your sins were the implamsnts of torture. Those ime | plenents were not made of steel and iron and wood so much as out of your sine Guilty of this homicide, and this regicids and this deicide, confess your guilt to da | Ten thousand voioss of heaven bring in the | verdict against you of guilty, gulity! Pre | pare todie or believe in that hiood. Stretch yourself out for the sacrifices or accept the viour's sacrifice. Do not fling away your one chance, It sooms to me se if all heaven ware try. ing to bid fn your soul, The fret bid it makes is the tears of Christ at the tomb of Lua | rus, bat that is not a high eoough price The next bid heaven makes is the sweat of Gethsemane, but it is 200 cheap a price. The next bid heaven makes sseam 10 bo the whi 1 back of Miste’s hall, but it ls not » high enough price. Can it be possible that heaven cannot buy you in? loaven trios | ones more, It says: “1 bid this time for that man's soul the tortura of Christ's mar tyrdom, the blood on His templs, the blood on His cheek, the blood on His chin, the blood on His hand, the blood on His side, the biood on His knee, the blood on His fos! «ihe blood in drops, the bloo | in Fills, the blosl in wile comguinted bansath the eros; the blood t wot the tips of the soldiers’ spears, the bio that plashed warm ia the face of His enemies” Glory to God, that bid wins it! The high ald for anything he sheep oov ser hill, thi Christians sronlized that SAYA or “the thought of not burst into tears at the thought that for thee He shel ft—for thee the hard hearte! [iid Hit: y iaispeenit mi ii i ii es the divine ( enptivity, ould you not like to be free? Hers is the price of your libsration-=a0t money, but blood, I tremble from heal to foot, not be cause 1 fear your presencs but because | four that you will mise your chance for jm- mortal rescus This is the alteraative divinely put, “Ha that believeth on the Bon shall have everiasting life; aod he that be- Hoveth not on the Bon shall not wis Jife, but the wreath of God abideth on him.” In the last day, if you now reject Christ, every drop of that sacrificial blood, instead of pleading for your relense as it would have pleaded If you had repented, will pleas Against you O Lord God of the ju Igment day! avert that calamity! Lot us ses the quick flash of the seimetor that slays the sin but saves the sinner. Btrike, omuipotent God, for the soul's deliverance! Bea', O eternal sea’ with all thy waves against the barren beach of that rosky soul and make it tremble, Oh, the opprossivensss of the hour, the minute, the second on which the soul's destiny quivers, and this is that hour, that minute, ‘yrus, loosening your Babylonish | that second | | the breakers and was going to pleces, Home years ago there came down a fierce storm on the seacoast, and a vessel got in ‘hey throw up some signal of distress and the peo- sla on shore saw them, They put out in a ifebont, They come on, and they saw the poor sailors, almost exhausted, clinging to a raft; and so afraid were the boatmen that | the men would give up before they got to them they gave them threes rounds of cheers, and eried: “Hold on, there! hold on! We'll save you!" After awhile the boat came up, | Une man was saved by having the boathook shops of the put in the collar of bis coat, and some in one way and some in another; but they all got into the boat. “Now.” says the captain, “for the shore, Pull away now, pull The people on the land wers afrsid the lifeboat had gone down, They said: “How long the boat stays. Why, It must have been swamped and they have all perished together And there were men and wo. men on the pier head sand on the beach wring. ing their hands; and while they waited and watched they saw sonsthing looming up through the mist, and it taraed outt) be the lifeboat. As soon as it came within speak ing distancs the people on the shora cried out: “Did you save any of them? Did you save any of them And as boat swept through the bolling surf and came to the pier hoad the captain waved his hand over the exhausted sailors that lay flat on the bot tomof the boat snd eried: “All saved! Thank God! All saved” Bo it may be to-day. The wavs of your sin run high, the storm is on you, but I cheer you with this Gospel hope God grant that within the next ten minules we may row with you into the harbor of God's meroy And when these Christian men gather around soe the result of this service, and the gathering on the pier heads of heaven to watch and to Heten, may we be able to report all saved Young and old good and bad All saved! Saved for time. Saved for eternity. “And so it came to pass that they all ssoape i safe to nnd.” nn —— SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. ths * glorified An ele Electricians pred of the future will all be electrical. The first plant electric welding f« astablished, tnt organ is new, t that the fireworks in Chicago to employ ir pipes bas just been mine re boring » An electric drill in an Idaho cently performed the of two-inch hole through tweaty feet of solid granite in four hours. A Portland (Me.) man has discovered 8 process for utilizing sawdust by con. verting it into wood pulp, which makes au excellent imatation of wood. feat An electric transfer table, seventy fect long, and with a capacity of 223,000 pounds, is now in in the Denver Railroad. If photographic prints sre immersed in a mixture of four parts of methylated spirits and one part water, between ton- ing and fixing, blisters will pre- nee a wa Pacific ba | vented, Ia AQ bas An it Erie is grape-basket kets are made of pieces, and an cxpert can finish sbout fifty an hour dustry along making. The important Ball beariags for machinery are rap- idly growing into favor, the savings in lubricants alone being considered, while the diminution in friction is said to be | extraordinary. i An automatic sprinkler plant can be | too delicate in its action, ss was shown | recently at Falls River, Mass, where fusible plugs melted on a very hot day, causing some damage to property. Information has been received at the | United States Navy Department that the | cessful test at Annapolis, new Driggs Schroeder rapid-fire six- pound rifled gun has just passed a suc. This is & new | American gun intended to form part of | the secondary battery of a man-of-war. C. A. Casperon, a Swedish ironworker, | has discovered a method of determining | the hardness of iron and steel. It is by | means of an electric current run through | the metal, the harder the metal the long- | er it takes to fuse it. By the use of an amperemeter the degree of resistance is determined. The substitution of camel's hair, cot. ton, paint and chemicals for leather in machinery belting is said to be meeting with some sacoess in this country. It was first juvented in Eogland, and it is claimed for the new material that it is stronger than any other belting, more durabie, more efficient and as low. The new bureau of the Department of ture for the microscopic exami. pation of hog products for ex was on into o recently by usk. force thirty mi. croscopists, but it will be i until it is large enough to examine, under the piece of the dia. killed. Those found to be diseased be condemned, a aa HUW sg saai™s the Mist WHO ofan | pince and rest awhile,” | ship privately, to crom the sen to 8 desert | place belonging to the oy of Bethssids | (Luke ix., 10 ’ | ran afoot « | mountain that the devil | (Math. iv. ® | mks windows In basswood, of eight | . | was one of the first to follow Jesus and he SABBATH SCHOOL. | INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOB AUGUST 16, ———— Lesson Text, “The Five Thousand Fed,” John vi, 1-14 --tiolden Text: John vi, 4% Commentary. 1. “After theses things Jesus went over the sea of Galilee, which is the ses of Tiber ine.” According to Matthew, Mark and Luke this was shortly after the beheading of John the Baptist, and also the return of the twelve aposties from their missionary tour. The disciples of John, having buried his body went and told Jesus, The spostios, having returned, gathered these ves to. gether unto Jesus and told Him all things, oth what they bad done and what they had taught (Math, xiv,, 12; Mark vi, 30; Luke ix., 10). 2. “And a great multitude followed Him, | because they saw His miracles which He did | ‘on them | 80 many coming and going that Jesus and | His apostles had no time to sat, therefore He that were diseased.” There wers said to them, “Come apart into a desert 0 they departed by But the people knew it and tof all the cities and outwent them (Mark vi, 51.88), They followed Him because they saw His miracies, 3. “And Jesus went up into a mountain, aod there He sat with His dis iples.” The mountain scenes in the life of Jesus are full of the deepest interest and most practical teaching. It was from en exceeding high showed Him the kingdoms of this world and tempted Him It was after spending all night upon a mountain in prayer that He chose the twelve apostles (Lake vi, 18. After the miracle of this lesson, when He saw that they would take Him by force to make Him a king, He departed slone into a mountain to pray (see verss 15 and Math, giv, 28, Then there are the two great dis. courses upon the different mountains, one aear the beginning and the other at the closes of His ministry (Math, v,, 1: will, 1: xxiv. 5. And greatest of all the manifestations of His glory while He tabernscied among us was the Transfiguration upon a high moun. ain (Math, xvii, 1), while from the Mount of Olives He visibly sscended, forty days after His resurrection, to return no more till He shall come tothe air for His bride. the shurch (Acts i. 11. 12 4 “And the Passover Jews, was nigh” It sot a feast of the most interesting to ive that His teaching in the fifth, sixth ind seventh chapters of this Gospel is asso. uated with three different feasts of the Jews chapters v., 1; vi, 4; vil, 3. When they were frat instituted they were called “Feasts of the Lord Lev, xxiii, 2 4 37. 46. but sow the Lord is so completely loft out that hey are only “Feasts of the Jews” Jesus Himself, who stood in their midst, was the ue Passover, the living bread and the lve water, but they knew Him not “When Jesus then lifted up His eves, thd saw a great company come unto Him.” The testimony of the other three Gospels is that He was moved with compassion toward hem, because they were as sheep not have ng a shepherd; that He healed their sick, wd that He received them and spake unto hem of the Kingdom of God (Math. xiv. 4; Mark vi, 34; Loke ix. 11 6 * And this He said to prove Him for He Himwelf knew what He would do.” Having hosen us to be His, He lovingly tests or tries or proves us day by day to it us for better rYIoe i. “Philip answered Him, Two hundred penny worth of bread is not sufficient for them, that every one of them may take a lit. He.” Jesus graciously took Philip into trans. swotion. saying, *'Whenoeshall we buy bread ™ Philip, sensing the apparent impossibility of man's doing anything in the matter, might save unbeliovingly said, “If the Lord would heaven might this thing Kings vil, 2), or be might believingly mid, “Lord, there is nothing too hard for thee” (Jer. xxxii.. 17). But on the principle so commonly held that our «forts are essen tial, and we must somehow raise the money, Phuip, who was just as slow to learn cs many are today John xiv, B, made answer as be a8 8 “Uine « Peter's by hig : he f His disciples, Andrew, Simon ther, sath unto Him." Andrew was alwo of the city of Bethsaida John i, 0 44 ¥. “There isa lad here, which bath five barley loaves and two small fishes, but what are they among the many? After beail ¢ and teaching the multitudes, the day bei far spent, His disciples asked Him to send | therm away into the villages round about that they might buy themselves bread; upon which He said, “They need not depart, give J hie to ent.” Then He asked bow many ves they tad, and told them to go and see (Matt, xiv. 15 16; Mark vi, 35.4 It was after that Andrew reported the amount on hand, with the remark, “What are they among so many” Imposable' was evidently the thought of each disciple 0. “And Jesus said, “Make the men sit down." Now there was much grass in the piace. Fo the men sat down in number about five thousand.” Mark says they sat upon the green grass in ranks by hundreds and by fifties 11. “And Jesus took the loaves” He had said, “Bring them hither to Me™ (Matt. xiv, 1%, reminding ws of “Come unto Me™ “Bring him bither to Me.” and of Elisha's “Let him come pow to me” (Matt, =i 98, xvii, 17; 1 Kb v. %. Wahout Him we can do nothing Joba xv. B. “And when He had given thanks.” The as there sat, and have had each one help himself, or bave bad 3000 angels appear 1 Pr 11 i i il
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