“five years WIMAN SENTENCED. To Serve Five Years and Six Months in State Prison. ERASTUS WIMAN, Erastus Wiman, thequondam philanthrop- | {st and millionaire of Staten Island, convicted of forgery in the second degree, was son- FIFTY-THIRD CONGZ SS, The Senate, 131sr Dar. Several amendments to the wool schedule of the Tariff bill were defeated by small majorities : Messrs, Dolph, Carey and Proctor spoke against free wool, and Mr, Kyle in favor of It, 1892p Day.—The Senate disposed of the woolen schedule and nearly all of the silk schedule of the Tariff bill, 1330 Day, The last two gohedules of the Tariff bill proper were passad During the discussion Mr. Hill, of New York, moved to piace con! on the free list, It was defeated, only seven votes being cast for it, 134 Day.—Rapid progress was made with the free list of the Tariff bill, twenty pages being disposed of, I'he Finanoee Com- mittee sustained its first defeat, It came at the close of the day's session, when thers were more absentees on the Democratic side of the chamber than was consistent with ns. sured victory on that side. The subject of it was quicksilver, which the committees had placed on the free list On motion of Mr. Perkins, it was placed on the dutiable list at seven cents a poun A. 18511 Day. —Mr. Jones moved that twenty- six paragraphs of the Tariff measure as re- ported from the Finance Co nmittee be elimi- nated, and in the absence of objections this was agreed to, These twenty-six par wgraphs walled administrative features comprise the so- 4 onsiders of the Gorman compromise, —--- tenced to five years and six months in State Prison, by Justice Ingraham, in the Court of Oyer and Terminer, New York City. Good behavior will reduce his actual sentence to three years, eleven months, fifteen days, General Tracy and Lawyer Boardman, of Mr. Wiman's counsel, wera in the room when the prisoner and his sons entered, and a whispered conversation between the con- vieted man and his lawyers followed. As soon as the court officer had called the court to order, General Tracy arose and moved for a new trial. He said that his mo- tion was based on three grounds: First, that the court had mischargel the jury second, that the verdict was contrary to law, and, third, that the verdict was contrary t the evidence, The motion and General Tracy then argued for a light sentence. He called attention to the verdict of the jury recommending the prisonerto the mercy of the court, and also to the fact that Mr, Wiman had made as complete restitution as possible, by turning over not only his own property, but that of his wife, to the firm of R. G. Dun & Co. Last] General Tracy asked that Justice Ingral consider Mr. Wiman's former good character, and also his family. At the conelusion of General speech the clerk of the court called “Erastus Wiman to the bar Mr. Wiman arose and the clerk asked : “Have you anything to say why th tence of the court should not be lawfully passed upon you?" For answer Mr Justice Ingraham prisoner “The duty I have to perform is extremely and one I would be glad to be rid he law does not punish for vengeance It is not to gratify R. G. Dun or ates, but the very that certain acts si this case there is of misdoing For a long § ated the fun and after that 80 trusted y was denied, Tracy's sents : iis head, addressed ook } Wiman then the existence of goed Il not be o ler some great tempt wl you constantly app is noOney it letters proda od here that you kne 3 bad no right t money you On the othe have strongly recommended m always glad to have the assistance jury in cases of this sort. 1am also asked to consider your age, your former good br Bepied I have taken all hop. Xia Auutanse ga. Abat you imprisonad for and six months in State Prison.” At the conclusion of the sentences Mr. Wi- man was taken back to the Tombs. TRIES TO KILL CRISPL Anarchist “Marat” Fires at Italy's Premier in Rome the ju wey, an i Premier Cris; { ¥. was sot at while to the arriage w YiaGre | goriana 0 k wi the sidewalk Grew sr almost uj : arriage his revolver, took and Signor Cris anne » prag H at 1.3 ring on breast stroet fOARA pp utiy ioe han fashed “ nto He a short alm at the fired was uninj ArT pred Ale with * Asanaalr | New Yori Thera he , and said he y Xaown a8 “Marat.” ——— PEARY RELIEF PARTY. he Departure of the Expedition for | theAretie Reglon. ! the aux P ge North ar eAry party who w Greenland to bring back the Arctic explorer and h family as sociates, after their year in Intitodes salled from Brooklyn by the Rad steamer Fortia for Newfoundland members of the party, uater the charge of Henry G. Bryant, of Philadelphia, went aboard the vessel at Robinson's stores The only Brooklyn member of the party Is Herbert L. Bridgman, a personal friend of Lieutenant Pear; His wile, Mrs. Helen Jartiett Bridgman, accompanies him as far as Bt, Johns, Newlonadiand, From that poiut Mr. Bryant's party will proceed by the mailing steamer Faleon to Bowdoin Bay, North Greenland, where the Peary expedi. tion passed the winter, where Mrs, Peary and some other members of the party, it Is ex pected, will be found, The party is equipped with snowshoes, a whalebont, sleeping-bags, floeaxes, and other articles nesdod for Aretie travel and somiort, and the pee weanone ——— THREE THIEVES LYNOHED. | Farmers' Vengeance Wreaked Upon Horse Stealers In Kentucky fa high Crom Fhe six "Rag ry Beventy-five Rentusky farmers of Mason County, hanged Archie, Burt and William seed, ware sald to have boon stealing horses and shesp. wo of the colored men lived at Gallipolis, Ohlo, Later, 1t was reported that the vietims had besn terrorizing tue viclnity, They were Aeon stealing by several stockmen, who were compelled to move on at the muzsies of ree volvers, This sarazed the poopie of the nvighborhood, and they concluded to organ ize a lynching mob, with the sbovs result, SH — Tur Health Board census, transmitted to the Tenement-House Commission, showed that 1,842,773 parsons live in 59,198 tsnoment - houses in Now York City, Halos, co who A COLOWIZATION som Jroposes - tie between 490 and 500 fax Re hd River, near the mouth of Fifteen ils + Wyoming, this summer, of the | } Mr. re of the free list was fnishe Allison introduced a joint resolution questing the President negotiate a troaty with the Government ¢ Britain pro- viding that for a perio i of twenty-five years | all differences or disputes between the Gov- | ernments of the two countries that cannot adjusted by diplomatic means sha I be farrad to 136 Day Tariff bill was t Higgins and Hoar spoke votad to limit the operat t day of January, 10 } s tAX WA ected, -J ust befor | jon ent the rast were H res ot > air re | The House, I'he Indian Approg fion ie arbitration The income tax section { Messrs skeen up na Hil, against it, T sen nate 1; on re yf the Sagar sption. Anti t 1568 Day we debate on Discussion of the measure lasts nt — THE NATIONAL GAME. Opt Leis leads the Leagu Mi y aredited to ton Jost twenty games straight one Latuax has been relloved of the captainey | of the Cincinnati team, Just where one player gains by trying to maim the other is a mystery. Creveraxp was the fiest Western team to win a game from Baltimore, Tamry-rwo home runs have ff Boston pitchers this yoar Prregen Earner, of the Pittsburgs, nake a single ran in thirteen games been made fniind ! opixsox has caught in every chamj ship game for the Baltimores thus far th been 114 1 No third baseman in doing better than Shin ! ountry has s, of Brooklyn Wann, of New York, Is not stealing bases as he did last year, nor is he playing | mer game . I¥ a recent flalder, struck home run four i= fo Stage, the Yale men and made game out eight No outfielder in the League is putting better game at present than Keeler, Baltimores Brooxs, the eo been chosen for next Arrex, of at little short he Princeton 1 ever sptain Year : {el his che He may Philadelphia, had bone broken by a pitched ba piay again this year Vaniovs League clubs are searching earth for pitching talent and yet Keele is still waiting for a ail Oxe of the greatest Lisa py rooters” is the fa outfield to hit the ball ~N HOLA batsman's wee the ball AD omes in hand ’ . w hav 1] nN ir league training are not i at once sufMe piace on 8 Leagae team . I v had the ly to deve Fux veteran, eatehing when and when of again Koenan, wi AGSOn Was a young on the bounces was out, donning the mask STRIKE outs are not near so numer as they ware number ut Rusie, usthis Nine Is the in a single holds that season Kroatest wame record strugek of New York, Tux Brookiyns are playing good ball and the team Is working well together. The pitchers are pitching and the batsmen are batting. They have a good flelding and a groat utility man in Shoeh, Canren, of the Yale nine, playad a phe- nomenal game against Prinecton, He strask out nine men, lineal out a three bag gor in the third inning and made a home | run in the first on Mackeosie's misjudgment of a long fly to left, So far ns the League moo has been ran #t has been demonstrated that the strength of the Eastorn clubs, barring Baltimore, has been overestimated by the winter eritios, while that of the Western teams has bien correspondingly underestimated, Ir is one of the idiosynerasies of the Na tional sport, and one for which there is ap parently no explanation, that certain clubs ars far more successful against clubs by which they ace outclassed on form than they are against clubs with which they are sup. posed to be evenly matehed, Goon Judges say that the attempt to eopy the style of play used by the Bostons has greatly impaired the batting of the New York team. Better lot the players hit the bail io their own way than to have thelr attention taken from the piteher by watehing signais that do not work, says an expert, ARCORD OF THE LEAGUE CLUB Vor ad Clubs, Won, Toast, #0] Clube fot, = Won, J New York. 20 22 542 B60!8L, Louls, .21 98 420 S12 Olneinnati, 16 50 948 Ohioago, .. 16 31 840 005 Wash'ne'n, 15 34,506 502 Louisville 12 85 285 EE — IxrorMaTION reoslved at the State Depart. ment, Washington, from our Minister st Athens shows that in fifty-six towns 251 were killed and 148 wounded, and uses destroyed or Injured by the recsst earthquakes, The valus of the property de. stroyed was about $1,000,000, Pittaburg..29 20 s DEATH OF JUDGE PHELPS. Fatal End of the Malady Which Baflled His Physicians WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS, Jd tha | nine | to Germany, died after a lingering iliness a fow mornings ago at his home at Teaneck, near Englewood, N. J. The exact nature of Judge Phelpa’s aliment was nover definitely | stated by his physicians, It was generally believed that he was suffering from pulmon- { ary trouble, compiieated by typhoid fever, He never enjoyed a robust constitution and it was known that he inherited pulmonary weakness, William Walter Phelps York City August 24, 1839 His earliest an eestor in this country was William Phelps, a brother of the John Phelps who was pri vate secretary to Oliver Cromwe John J Phelps, the father of William titer, made rtune in busin . or ganizer and first president of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Rallroad Con pany Phelps was graduated from Wiliinm Walter Yale College in 1860, and three vears ater re ] of LL.B. at the Cols Entering he became counsel for the RB the Delaware, Lackawanna Raliroads, the 1 pany and other eorporations, was thirty years old. He was tie Republicas had consfu ‘ 3! Istor's fnther-in-la William E. odg ry } A seat in the in 1872 he was ele Fifth New Jersey sided, His opp« independencs the next C triet in wi had 2 4) t y 17156 majority che his o ment ten In 1881 President Gart Stats was born in New nlarge f was the | ealved the Leo bin Law Boh i ol, nective practios Island » nited Niates an hewn is noted contest for and the f Representatives ongress frog of, in which he re Woodraff, Mr. iis defont at The dis Phelps " mngressional sh he ao by seven vi t as United 8 Minister 1 rin, wre he was very poj Char fleld’s Con greas con tinuing to sery soomnd yo terms He wy Har rison in Mare one of three Come with t} tar, death £ we 0 hte {to from Presi the missioners 10 adjust ve German Gove ernment the the Ramoan by the Prince mmission Bismarck treaty which Mr, his returr In the appointed Minister voy Extraordinary Mr. Phelps was appointed by in February, 1888, one of New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals Soon after his graduation at Yale married a dsughter of Joseph E. Sheffield, the founder of the Sheffield , 8 New Haven, consisted of his wife, two sons and daughter. The elder son ia Captain John Jay Phelps, who was named for his grand- father and received from him $100,000 as a special gift, Sheflleld Phelps, the second son, has fine talents, and among his othet sgromplishments is that of powt He hat adopted journalism as a parsalt, The daueh- ter, Marian, was ine 1, 1883 to Dr Franz von KR Berlin, Imperie Under Becretary of the Interior. Mme, Vou Rotienburg resides iu Berlin an vernor Werts the judges of the ( A I— SCOURGED BY FLAMES. Jersey City’s Extensive Abattoir and Stock Yards Burned, Not fire in many years has such a destructive warred in Jersey Clty, N. J., ss that which destroved the abattoir and id stor. age warehouse of the Central Sto Yard Rixth Morae irs and Transit Company, street on the Hudson River, Is satimated as approaching 000, The structure destroyed eo aren of five acres, So rapidly did the fire spread t man J AMM M artt YY. wh alarm, heard ther he was three | st the entire t at the foot Mie jose t iat saw it and rar give the ar ofthe } flames wher A lene was i ve rive nd un s the fire started Its width on the rf and it ran hack S00 More than [000 sheep were The pinintive Istresaing n ] t Was A i affair Or was foot lost royed by the lames, ries of the poor I animals were But their torture was not of long duration The fire ] with A rush that everything seen go up Hie a fas) One of the pleasing was the wieasing by some vidual of a hundred or more pen quite near the abattolr, The frightened animals did not walt for a leader, but In Minctively sought to pot as far as possibile from the clement which had destroyed their mates, In addition to the five thousand sheep which were desteayed there were $30 head of dressed sheep in the refrigerator and 739 head killed and ready for shipment to Ea rope, Besides this stock thers was an im menses quantity of hides, fat tallow and oll for oleomargerine, The Stock Yards Company estimate the loss at about §1 500 000, consisting of bulld Ings, slaughter house machinery, jas and re frigerating machinery, cattle hoats and dock all totally destroyed, The Pennsylvania Rall road Company and the Berwind White Coal Company, loss to coal barge and trestle, nearly $100,000, The Central Stook Yard and Transit Com pany constructed their yards and bulldings In January, 1574, Sines that time thers have been seven fires in the premises, but all were extinguished with comparative slight Joss, The yard covered about five sores and was next to the largest of the small stookyards in the United States, the only larger one be Ing that of Baffalo, N. YX. The principal stock handled was sheep, sch wl incidents of the fire thoughtial indi sheap from a EE —— cunt FAIR EDIFICE GONE. The Delaware Bullding Towed Away on the Lake, The Delaware Ballding at the World Fale Grounds, Chieago, has been moved to Wolt Lake, Ind, wheres it Is used as a club house, It han parohased by the Wolf Lake Hunting and Fishing Club, It was placed on rollers and moved down to the lake shore at Jaoke son Park, where large sows wees anchored 30 tagalvs It, i y means of great skids the building was rolisd down on the ssows, was thea firmiy Iasiial in place, nad two tugs towed its destination, the [tide o! Daelawars to twolve miles away, Judge Willlam Walter Phelps, ex-Minister | Holentite | and his family | ful in Pennsylvania sand New Jersey THE LABOR WORLD. Fuonoreax navies employ 300,000 men, Cuixese are commencing to crowd into the California fruit trade, A caLL bas been issued for a National con voution of letter earriers, Tue ond of the miners’ strike will cause a resumption of business, Marx servants are taxed in Groat Britain and several other countries, Taxng are 10,000 employes of the telephone companies in the United States, Tre American Railway Union will act with the Knights of Labor in the future, Tux Brotherhood of Machinery Moulders suspended publication of its official organ. Immionaxts are debarred from employ- ment on public works in Vietoria, Australia, Tux first annual convention of the Ameri. ean Rallroad Union was recently held in Chi- CARO. PEX¥SYLYANIA operators are importing colored miners to take the places of the striking Huns, Tux Bupreme Court of Nebrasks has de. olared the elght-hour-a-day labor law un constitutional, Tux International Furniture Workers will hold their annual convention In New York Beptember 24th, Boxe of the big ocean steamship compan. fos employ more men than are enlisted in the | second-class navies of Europe, Tare annual convention of Saddle and Har ness Makers’ Nationa! Association will held in Evansville, Ind., June 17. Tue National convention of the National Association of Iron and Bteel Workers will be held in Youngstown, Ohio, August 4. Tux wages of gripmes on the Broadway eable road, New York Clty, has boon raised t« 82.40 per dfem. Their pay had boen $2.28 daily, on Tax American Rallway Union delegates at Chicago defeated the prop to admit colored men to the organization by a vote of 118t0 102 Tue mere cost of product volumes of books contain! given at the English labor almost $200,000 Ir is reported that the Fairbanks Beale Company, of 8t. Johusbury, ¥t., will make » ten per cont, reduction In wages in all de partments of their business msition he sixty-for the nmission ir evidenos was Joux A. Lexz, master mechanio of the Le high Valley, has elected President of the Master Car Buitlders' Association, whose convention has just closed at Saratoga, N. ¥ Ir hastranspired that Western Union Tele graph operators have formed a seoret ization and recently votes of ordering a strike to Rnoes heen EAL failed rodress griev Ir has that strike of the miners, which extended frem the Rocky Mountains to the J cost at least #20 000.000 loss alone amounting to $12,600,000 been figured up the recent ronl Ueghenies in wages the Ir is said that the Krupp cannon foundry has more orders for big guns than It ean pos sibly Bll. In the works at Ease thers are 10.000 } average dally wages cents, men employe pala are Crry Taergvnegn Nxrs wick, says that Miss Margaret oversaor of his extensive gftone tha common sense, physioal end fores of chameter of the best mer he is perfectly satisfied wit} Ax eativiet labor in the instituted hy the Hou at Washington as a preliminary to drawing a bill to prevent competition bet ween pris made goods and the products of free labor Tur Granite Manufacturers’ Association the Granite Cutters’ Union, at Barre t.. are making an effort to come to an Agreement by which the association shal hire none but union men, and union shall work for no firms that is nota n of the association her w sffort to Presiovext Dene Union, announend iaken to an Knights of Labor. the American Union and Farmers alliance thus formed will contro about 1 500 000 men Taz female collar workers at’ took the Initiatory step for the an international association objects the maintenance of thelr wages at Aa high standard, the preservation of their moral condition, and the guarding of social and industrial rights, i —— NEWSY GLEANIN Caxapa baa n of the American Ballway that steps wild alliances bot won soon Tw the Railway form the thelr 10 G8. gold coins Farir prospects are § Cartronxia has forty Ch Tux peach crop will § Tuear are 40,000 5 n Wisconsin Tur population 842% low than in 14 Ix this legos of vario TrLernoxe the business depr Tax Distriet of ( more women thar of I'uxe Missour! 8 Inlling firm may prefer Tax total wh acres, against 38 501 000 Su pre redite af area this yaar Aas Yor A swann ofsevonton ar locusts broke up a pienie near Ir is probable that considerably reduced t Imxionariox has turn in the tide of has appointed a in tt Tux Russian Government Court of Honor to regulate arms Fisprames say that lores dueling now so pienti make good fish bait, Tux Swiss Government introlaensd mid European time at all rallway an 1 telegraph stations on June | Tue number of registered Chines» in this country is 107,000, and it is said that 30 | have not registers) } Tramway Co for 4000 hors Ture Hasgow (Scotland pany has placed an order with Casadian buyers Tux Mississipp! Valley is suffering fron | the most prolonged drought ever known at this season of tae year Tur graduating olass at Yale this year numbered 200 and fAfty.one worked thelr | own way through the university, Brrrisn yacht bull ders admit, after seeing the Vigilant, that designers over there hav. much to learn from designers hore Tux United States Treasury holds about £500,000 of arrears of pay and bounty dae colored soldiers whose heirs cannot be found. Jovor Lirrie, of Newfoundland, has un. sented nine memoers of the provincial legis lature for procuring their election by unlaw ful moans, Iris reported that the Mississippi River un the channel of tse Looss Hatohle, and will hereafter pass Momphis, Tenn, In a now channel, Dun are very plentiful about Greenviile, Me, hardly a aay passing without from one to a dosen seen on some of the farms near the villaga, A lurge moose got into a wire tence within hall a mile of the Green. afew days ago. He pulled up drew every staple irom one barbs of the wire covered Bie ad the grouad covered with Le | men | ember | r } | | i | PROMINENT PEOPLE. AT Washington, ex-United States Senator Bishop W. Perkin, of Kansas, expired sui denly a few days ago. Du. J. B. Piopa, Secretary of the Bwiss Le- gation in Rome, bas been promoted to the post of Minister at Washington, Bexaron Hann, of Tennessos, is sald to know more about Parliamentary law than any other Senator on the Democractie side, Tue oldest ex-Governor in the United Btates is Alphoas Feloh, of Michigan, He lives In Aun Arbor and is ninety years of age. "Baron Jor" Breraxrr, who was recsutly promoted to the post of Rear Admiral, is said to be the Lest navigator in the American navy. Wirriam Deenixo, the harvest machine manufacturer of Chicago, has given $050,000 to the Medical Bohool of the Northwestern University. Wirriaxe Hany, N. A, the well-known landscape artist, died at his residence, Mount Vornon, N. Y., n tew days since, in his soven- ty-socond year, Extrznon WrLriam, of Germany, bas had suitable apparatus rigged up in the palace at Berlin and practises the movements of row. ing every morning. Jaxces Brogws, of Now York Clty, was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor by the French Government, for his services In estab- lishing the ¥. M. C. A. in Paris, Jomux F. Axpurws, of Rome, NX. Y,, now in his ninety-first year, claims to bo the oldest living ex-Oongressman, He represented the Steuben District from 1887 to 1880, I'ne honorary degres of D. C. L. was con ferrod apon Captain Alfred T. Mahan, of the United States cruiser Chieago, by the Univer sity of Oxford at its commemoration fosti- vil Heur are the ages of four notable New York men toswell P. Flower, fifty-nine years : David B. Hill fifty-one ; Edward Mar phy, fifty-six, and Grover Cle i, fifty seven veian Tre Emperor of Germany ha carriage that is lighted by with the harness studded with The carriage Is nls yvered lamps. Mu Gravsroxx is finding a solace In ulet and darkness necessitated by his » sight, in transisting, with the ald ree Sx Joux Doxz Corxn: Justices of England, who | § xl, bas been for many years one of the most promi- pont men in England, His father was a Rate neither read nor torical prize at weeks sinoe It is expected that D will receive $10,000 for his of Gladstone's Moreovs oortain me the of Lond« be made a aye Hoenn fash and it is pot ur baronet Covvxsra Deiaxo, who was sent to Con Major McKinley was Interior un- f slghiveix his farn 1844 the yor ] gros 1 and was Secretary of er Grant, is able at the yours take saddl ut Vern & exer px W ih of » Lexow Investi talked of an the rder Frederick salesman in a clothing his aduoation at Cooper Unik ness hours, Goveaxon Garrsnaton, of Massachusetts who was for several years President of the Lowell Humane Society, tried to buy a hos in Boston the cther day, but was every place he visited that t was next Dons | obtain an animal with forked” tall Then.” sald 0 “1 will walk W. C, Freres, the Demoeratic nominees Attorney-General In Alabama, big Jeflarsonian (or Kolb) are both jess than thirty years of age They ware born within two days of each entered the Btate University on the same day and got thelr law diplomas on the same day They are sald to be personally the friends, that oasor of RB He re started and obinalr ni between wt +1 SE wos ihie 10 an hie he other, best of Sn aI — BAYNE A SUICIDE. Ex-Representative Crazed Fears of a Lingering Death, I'he “x - og resent mas M Penn od pistol t Bayne, o Eyivania, piace he right aen the war ! Hi ft his Je iader the | and 18562 ar Co 10 yi pany tonsy N, folne , inteers he w in and led it inthe Fredericksbure and Chane was admitted to the Bar in was elected Distriot At- ieghony County, and held the INTL He was elected 10 the Forty-sixth, Forty-seventh, Forty-cighth and Forty-ninth Congresses, He refused another nomination He was married in May, 1878, to Mis Ella R Smith, of Pittsburg, His tastes aud habits were those of a student to a degree unasusi in a man of affairs, He was a man of Inrge pecuniary moans, and early in his Congress. ional career purchased a fine country place a Bolievue, near Washington, uring nmand men vier as ions H 1570 he toruney of A office until Foriy«fifth, YOUNG PEOPLE DROWNED. Terrible Disaster to a Holliday Party in Samara, Russia, A dlspatoh from Samara, the aapital of the Russian Government of that name, says that while a party of young people ware re. turning from a fete on the River Jek forty. flys wera drownad by the sinking of the farrvhoat which was carrying them across the water The boat was leaking and overarowdad, fully seventy people basing on board, The passengers, alarmed at the rapidly rising water within the ferryboat, bsoams panie stricken, causing the boat to take in more water, and then sommensel a terrible straggle for Ie, The drown'ng peoples, few of whom econld swim, olatohsl frantically at msaoh other in their efforts to Keep themselves above water, but forty-five out of the seventy wore drowned, Ir in stated that there has bean in the last few years a won lerful increase in the num ber of cotton mills in Japan, As illustrating this fast it is said that toe Imports of raw cotton into Japan for 1886 were 4,400 000 and have Mow inoreasad to 104,000, pounds a year, | doth socording to His will in the | connection with the birt! | time was come {i Yon the 0 | even as it was told me’ 1 Jesus : had said, When near Duzaime the farrybost sank, i SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON JULY 1. FOIE Lesson Text: Luke il., 1, 16-Goldem Text: Luke il, 11-Commentary. 1-8. “Theres went out a decres from Cmsar Augmstus that all the world should be oh rolled.” Bee BR. V. Thisenrollment and the journeying of each to the proper city to be eurolied fs the first fact In our lesson, We see a worldwide dominion, the fourth of Dan. i, and vil,, but the ruler of this empire, like Belshazzar of the first, does not glorify God in whose hand bis breath is and whose are all his ways (Dan, v., 28), vet God uses him 10 necomplish His pleasure 4-5, "And Joseph also went up from Gall. les unto the wity of David, whish fs ealled Bethlehem, with Mary, his espoused wife,” Here Is the reson of Caesar's decrees, though Coser knew it pot. The time had for the Christ to be born, and he must be born st Dethlebemn, in Judms, in order to fulfill CON | the words of the prophet fn Mie. v., 2. But Mary Uved at Nazareth, in Galilee several days’ journey north of Bethishem, so He who army of of the rid in heaven and earth (Dan smong the iv.. 35) nn inbhna rvs tants all the w of Hin yet be king over all the earth ( 7« 6. “And so it was that while | there the days were noc should be The f 1 sent delivered , and G made of 8 woman, made un redeem them that wers un law iv.,, 4,5). To every event there is w an appointed time, even to lay and month and year (Rey and the clock of His pr vider or slow, hut strikes correctly ¢ “And vrought forth id laid Was nor y the reception 1 world gave } at His first comin » humiliation He sha Israel rth Jer th fer tha GT Lhe tha ix alia and anag in power and glo: the IB Version shepherds abi ver their Boeck by night.” all probable in December, as Jerusalem said to un event and not the t wont Lmportant %. “And, lo, the angel o upon them, and the glory round about them, and they were s« Time was when man was not i of v but as 8200 as sin entered man was afraid and hid himself (Gen, ill., 10), Since them all y nature children of wrath, Boz : hine as the sun (Math, xiii ‘And the angel sald us not, for behold | bring you great joy, which be “Fear not” was als Zachariah and to Mary Consider the firs! Pear no 1, and the last tn Rev, §, 17 among those that come bet ween appreciate Isa. xii, 10, 13: xii 45 Mark v.. 3. Noticetl ings must come to us personally al through us pass on t shephurds hoard and saw then made it know: 11 city of 1 Lord.” In « the Lord. He man, that He has truly said wrist in ves in s recently i is the . f a 5 ’ of the hat is the yoar ord came ord shone eafrald.” { 4 afral alra 4 shall hae redec:y Though corn if He's not bors in thee, thy son! ts sti Bethlehem 3 thousand times be | foriorg religious teachers try how to get ved, bat Jesus } BRAVE Un he uttermost Heb, vil Other religions and {0 tell pie saves and is all wh ne Fa 12 And this st ] Yeo shall find the babe wrapped io swaddling clothes, Iving in a manger Ye Enow the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that, though He was rich nr sakes He became poor, that we throught His poverty might be rich (II Cor. vill, 9). Consider His humill- sation unto the manger st Bethlehem, uato the humble home and the oarpenter’'s shop at Nazareth, unto Gethsemane and Calvary, and jet the same mind be in us 3. “And suddenly there was with the | a muititude of the heavenly host prals- 1 and saying, “One angel only hed appeared thus far, but now a multitude are visible.” In Rev. v., 11, they are said to be ‘Ten thousand times ten thousand and thou. ssands,” and sil are heard prals- ur lesson they praise Him in ation, while in Revelation they praise Him because sits of His ilo and death and resurrection 14 (vlory to God he highest earth peace will toward came to glorify and before He said to His Fathe [have g om the xvii He never songht His own wil r His own glory (John vi, vill, 50), bu all things made mani fest that He represent it was the Father wh we 10) atl Him we pence (Rog 15 “Lau Bethlehem and see this thing which is ne t ) Pass, which the Lord bath made known unto us,’ . as t ab cols Lhis is win shenh baft thon v1 went away into hea The ange ered message A farned quie they do Hix » rex God ’ yet for In f the res and men." on He He was slain rified Thoe earth coh 1 maght It He we nooept r He is our rds said agnir their mmandments, the voles of His word, It do His pleasure (Pe. oll, 20, a1 I'he shepherds did not doudt nor ques. wi tidings brought to them, but believing implicitly went at once to see the obild, Their mind was like that of Paul whey he said, “1 believe God that it shall be Acts xxvil., 25), or the man who believed the word that bad spoken unto him and went his way (John tv. 10 19. “And they came with haste and found Mary and Joseph, and the babe iying in a manger.” So they found it just as the angels All that was ever spoken belore- hand concerning the humilistion of Christ was fulfilled to the letter, and all that has wen written by the Holy Spirit concerning His Poturn in glory will be fulfilled to the jetter. The time will come when we shall say. “Not one thing hath ialled ;: all are come to pass” (Joshua xxiii, 14). Lesson Helper, hearkenmng ja thelr Hk» -— cn — Largest ope in the World The Lambert Rope Company of New Dade ford, Mass, has reosived aa order from a Ohieage firm for a rops which will be the Jargast over made. It isto be used on the driving wheel in the engine room of the Chis eago Cable Ratlroad Company. It will be three inches in diameter and eleven ‘noha Aa olroumference. There will be twelve of these ro on the whesl, each of them will bo 1260 feet Flag, and the combined lencth ot the twelve ropes will be throe miles, The cost will be & ens sven ——— fn Apples Fifty Dollars a Barrel. What few good apples thers are in Chicago are held at 50 a barrel, . rine beyond all precedent, An there are 400 apples in & bare rol, this makes the price 121] conts sach, One Bouth Water street firm has all the stook there is In the olty, and Is holdiag the precious frait anh ft wii be practioally worth its weightin gold. Prehistoric Graves, mound tomb has besn unsoveral at , South Dakota, lusd win os neat, In bleh were found t dws male shales foot in height. A rales were axhumed.
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