SHAT ol be meta Si tm HE CHINESE WAR SHIP SUNK. THE JAPANESE VICTORIOUS IN A NAVAL BATTLE. China's Second Largest War Vessel Lost, With Many Lives, and Two Crulsers Captured or Destroyed — Superidr Fighting Skill of the Japanese Statement by Japan. News has just been recelved of a desperato battle between the fleets of Chinaand Japan, in which the Chinese were defeated and the Chen Yuen, the largest battle ship but one in the Chinese service, was sunk, and two oth- sald to first. class cruisers, were captured or destroyed, The battle was hotly contested, but the Japan- ess appear to have handled their guns, ships, and torpedoes with more skill than the Chinese, The Chinese fleet engaged carried nearly a thousand men, and the latest despatches state that few il any of them escaped, Two of German officers in command of the Chen Yuen were reported to have met death with the crew of that vessel, Tae news means that an end has been put to the power of China so far ns fighting Japan upon the seas is concerned, Not one of the remaining ships of China would dare to show itsell out of port after learning that the first-class battle ship Chen Yuen has been sunk, The two Chinese cruisers, supposed to have been captured or destroved during the engagement, are the Chin Yaen and the Foo-Ching. The Chin Yuen was a protected cruiser, built at Elswick, Encland, She had a displacement of 2300 tons and attained an average speed, in her trial trips, with all weights, batteries, and crew abogpd, of 15 knots, Her armanent con- sisted of three 8){-ineh Krupps and two six- inch Armstrongs, protected by splinter-proof shields. She also carried eight six-pounder rapid-fire Hotehkiss guns, six Gatlings, and four torpedo tubes. The Foo Ching was also an English built protected cruiser, very sim- ilar to the Chin Yuen She bad a displace- ment of 2500 tons, was bullt of steel in 1590, and carried ten guns of about the same cali- bre as those carried by the Chin Yuen. er large Chinesy vessels, be A Statement by Japan. nt of the and Japan, which hostilities between Meial staten iif. China vianes there o land China was as ivice tha and a seaadvance uj The be y be made, Chiness advances was would bo regarded as a no It is conjectured that 1 nanders were instructed yr the Chin aos to ie Japanose n to he Japan Declares War, The news that the Emparor of Japan ? declared war against the Emperor of reached the British Foreign Office Japanese Government has wired lastrustions to the Japanese Minister in London to offer an apology to Great Britain for firing upon and sinking the Kow Bhing while she was flying the British flag. The Minister is noted to inform the Goverament of [dreat Britain that the commander of the Japaness cruiser was unaware uatil after the fight that the Kow Shing was a British ves sel, Captain Galeworthy, the commander of the Kow Bhing, and many others on board the transport, were saved by the boats of the Japanese war ship Naniwa, fa consequences of the declaration of war upon China, the Chiness Minister left Tokio, The Japanese flag was hauled down from the Consulate at Shanghal, The light has been removed from the mouth of the Ning-Po Hyver It was reported that eight Rassian war ships were about to sall from Viadivostoek. Advices from Yashan state that the Chi. nese are strongly intrenched there and that repeated ottempts have been made by the Japanese troops to dislodge them, In every instance, however, the attacking foroes, af. ter hard-fought engagements, were repulsed at all points with heavy losses, A portion of the Chinese soldiers engaged in these battles were the best troops of the northern army of Viceroy Li Hung Chang. The Chinese losses were small, The North China News says that the Japanese brought up for the attack every avallable man, almost denuding Seoul of troops. The successful defence made by the Chinese was directod by European officers, Fifteen hundred Japanese were killed by the Chinese at Yashan., GOVERNMENT FINANCES. A Cash Balance of 8119,005,352 Gold Reserve 845,024,303 Short. The regular monthly statement of the public debt, just issued by the United States Treasury Department, shows that the aggre. gate on July 31, 1354, was €1.644,506,240, ns against 81,632 253.638 on June 30, 1894. This apparent increase is owing to the Inerease in the issue of certificates and Treasury notes, which, however, ars offset by an equal amount of cash In the Treasury. The In. terest bearing dett amounted to #635,042,500, an increase for the month of $700, The debt bearing no interest was $379,050.470, a de- crease of $564,215. The Increase in certificates and Treasury notes, which, however, are offset by an equal amount of eash in the Treasury, was from $615,855 820 on June 30, 1894, to $616,072,329 on July 31, 1804, The cash in the Treasury is $774,201.768, against which there are demand labilities amounting to #655,136,414, leaving a cash balance of $110,065,552, of which $54,975,607 was gold reserve. The Increase In the cash balance during the month was #1,480,915, — a —— HEAT IN GERMANY. Many Soldiers Have Died From Sun- stroke-—Killed by Lightning. Although tropical heat prevailed througn- out the Geran Empire, the summer ill tary drills were carried on without any ap- preciable alteration of programme, The troops suffere! intensely, Fifteen soldiers died of suastroke at the garrison manoeu- vres round Bauotaen, Zittau and Lelsnig, Beores of others who were prostrated by the beat are convaleseing slows. From all rts of the Empire where the soldiers a n the fleld come daily stories of sunstrok and prosteations from the heat, Many soldiers of the Berlin garrison have been incapacitated for duty for the last threo days and have been sent to the hospitals, un heavy thunderstorm at Essen, Ger. many, lightning struck three electric ars, One person wis killed and twelve others were stunned. Eight maons were killed by lightning In Alm; A. IL Tre oult arising out of the theft ol valu. able paintiogs from the studio of Professor eh, in Munich, Bavaria, has become so interesting that an admission fee Is charged for reserved seats at the trinl, Two of the accused, one of them a nephow of the artist, have committed suleide, THE LABOR WORLD. Towa has 7000 K, of L. Acrous’ labor unions are the atest, Lavxprysex talk of a National union, Dernrorr, Mich., has an lea workers' union, Cuixesx miners got eighteen cents a day, Curxese brakemen got 85 to £10 a month, Tonoxro, Canada, bas a general laborers’ union, Burraro, N. Y., has a co-operative stove works, Tur bakers, United States contain 8000 union | workers, | half mile square in loss than three hours i the lumber district, | over wis bornded. { on the south, Blue Island avenue { north, and Roby street on the west, A NartioxaL jected. Joard of Arbitration Is pro. Ix Germany female servants averago $2.17 a wook, . Posrox will try to abolish the padrone | system. | NINESE fs mrming, are invading Californian fralt Parensox, N. J., has 800 union A Dexver (Col.) newsboy strike leader was fined £10. Pritapxrenmia bricklayers get forty-five {| conts an hour, Prexens of wild blackberries in a Nebraska town get fifty cents a day. Tur woolen industry of the United States | employs 225,000 operatives, Tene are 10,000 employes phone companies in the United of States, the tele Ix Australia some textile operators work from seventy-*wo to ninety hours au week, Toroxto's Wholesale Clothing Taflors Union will accept girls into the association. Axenicax laborers work on more days in a year than any other laborers save the Hun garians, Tur Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers has paid out $4,000,000 in relief to members and their families, A Parersox (N. J.) the New Zealand no for the unemployed alderman tes ethod of ofl crealing work advo Foretox laborers are barred from (N. Y.) municipal work, and eo must pay union wages. Accomrpixa to Becretary Ruights of Labor, workis urged to form themselves int panies uffalo mtractors Tae voters of Switzaland jority vote of 208.000 against the proposition that the provide work deci by ama 75,000 agains Governn ] SaLronp Governmer ground t the labor tends to re Taz ! probabl they are at present, $5,000 men who are engaged in th when times are good, or enough i popuiats a city lependents, ¢ w than pet en, or 15,000 in all, as Newark, oir trades FIRE IN CHICAGO, Half a Mile Square in the Lumber District Burned. There are in town ab trad 2 their ent at tl Flames a fow nights ago destroyed more property in a shorter space of time than any fire which has visitad Chicago sines the big conflagration in 1871 About £3,000,000 worth of lumber, electrical apparatus, cars car-wheels, castings, stoves, patterns, build. ing and other material were consumed in a The seens of tha fire was what Is known as | The territory burned | dy Ashland avenue on thy i east, the South Branch of the Chicago River on the The fire was the worst which the department has been called on to fight In the last twenty-two years There were many casualties firemen and spectators, The that of a boy who fell from a Iu into a river slip and was drowned Among the firemen injured were ant MeGann, tripped by pipe fireboat Geyser, and thrown into ing lumber, badly burned taken hospital. J.P. Phelan, burned in sar ner, removed to county hospital. Flaherty, seriously burned in the same man- ner, takea to the hospital ; Assistant Marshal Musman, blown by the gale from the fire boat Geyser into the river, cut and bruised, continusd on duty ; James Connors, assist. angengineer, blown from the lumber pile, suf and badly bruised, taken home, - —— BIG BLAZE. ry Half a Million Dollars’ Worth of Lum- ber and Railroad Property Burned. only nly Lieute thrown The third disastrous fire in the history of Mi Minn. at 3.30 p. Shevlin-Car- nneapolis, broke out ab of the eo Misais- : avenue, North, ad with remarkable rapidity and 20.000.000 foot of the gna ant of the Omaha Railroad ‘, with its roundhouse, tool-house, and turntables, nearly forty freight ears, some of them loaded, and the office building of the Sheviin-Carpenter Company The saw-mill, the planingz-mill, drying kilns and store-house for moulding and pre- pared wood, although in the very heart of the fire district, wore saved by a fortuitous change in the wind, Help was summoned from St. Paul and seven engines with fall Crews were sent over from that city. The loss is nearly $500,000 and insurance about £350,000, , At thes foot of Eighth burned manufacturing p { mp sand-h she Inmber, 180 TT ——— TIN PLATE PRODUCTION. Report of Special Agent Ayer to Seo- retary Carlisle, Bpecial Agent Ayer, of the Treasury De | partment, detailed, In connection with the tin plate industry reports, to Secretary Care | listle that daring the quarter ended March | 81 last thirty-six firms produced 38,260 411 pounds oftin and terne plate proper, against | 27,510,441 pounds by thirty-nine firms in the | previous year, Of the tin plate seventy-two rolied in the United States, tin and terne plate produced 423,300 punts, of which 80, wero blank r cent, was I classes of ted 40, - 801 pounds plate produced in the United Btates, Of the thirty-six firms making for. | mal returns, nineteen used American plate wholly, three foreign plates wholly and four. teen firms used both, Tre nighways leading eastward through Nebraska and Kansas are already thronged with disheartensd settlers, who have aban doned their homes and are hurrying towards Town and Missouri for relief from the almost unbearable heat, A similar scene has not boon witnessed since 1873, when the hot winds almost depopulated Western ——————— a —— One new house on Mamolia Avenue, hav. a delightful river ant mountain view, 1 be sold on very resonable terms. Would rent the house to arreeabls families at moderate rent if taken at once. The house is supp ied with rare well water from a large private ressrvoir, Tae experts who are delving into tne family history of Casorio Santo, the assassin of President Carnot, have discovered that four of his relatives died in insane asylums, I — - Da. Entcssox claims to have dicoversd textile | | Turkeys, ¥ Mh, Cucumbers, ¥ bushel. .. .., the bacillus of the plague which has carriod off thousands in China. A COMMA SAVED HIM, Joues Was to Be Hanged, But There Was a Flaw in the Judge's Charge, Jesse I, Jones, nineteen years old, owes his escape from the gallows at Little Rock, Ark,, to the use of a comma in the Judge's charge, Jones was chorged with the murder of two brothers named Hibdon, with whom he traveled through Arkansas, They camped one night fn an unoccupied house, The next morning the charred bones of the Hibdons were found, Jones's trial was hurried for. ward, and on April 9th he was sentenced to death, A stav was secured pending an ap- peal, The opinion of the Supreme Court points out that by the misplacement of a comma in the Judge's charge the Judge appears to have made an error, ments —————— WEIGHED 590 POUNDS, Mrs. Walters Lost 250 Three Weeks. “Big Allee," a museum freak, whose name was Mrs. Hattlo Walters, died at Camden, N. J., of blood Pounds in poisoning. Mrs, Walters | serntched her finger on a rusty nail three | weeks before, When in good health Mrs, Walters weighed 580 pounds. Her intense suffering reduced her weight until she only weighed 800 pounds at the timp of her death, The door | ofthe house in which she lived was too gmall | to allow the coffin to enter, and the body had to be carried to the hearse on a cooling board, Mrs, Walters had been a dime freak for a long while, and had been ited all over the world, en — Mozrx than 3000 Contederate veterans met at the base of the Confederate monument at Augusta, Ga. a few nights ago and passed resolutions Indorsing the speech of Senator Gordon in support of the President using Poderal troops to suppress the strike riots, —— museum exhib- URTES OL GESPAIT GIo of farmers and landowners abundant wheat harvest, great to be harvested, there was famine, GENERAL Coxey retired from the command of his army at Washington advising the Commonwenalers to get themselves arrested and cared for by the authorities THE MARKETS, Wholesale Prices of Country Produce Quoted in New York. 81 MILK REAM ng Irom nussian because of the The crops are too where two years ago Late ANI weather luring the r platform oiving sta- quarts, Ex- receipts and active n ne mn Moderate and ns was #1.17 per o shane price, 2¢. per of the week, is i als Pann, extras , extras firsts Creamery Westarr owt ern . festeorn. thirds to second Creamer » » Factory, oO firsts Summer make .....coo0c00e Roila, fresh meas cREESE, State Full cream white faney Fall cream, good to prime Bate Faotory-—Part skims, choles Part akir Full EE y prime ost «mea Routh & West BEANE AND PEAS w. 1808. choles, 3 od 0 ae ne fodiumn Pea Rad kidney 4 White Kidney #3 Hack turtle sonp, 1883 Lima, Cal, 1863, ¥ 60 Green peas, bbls, ¥ bush ol shotes hates 1A) shales 22-1 5 AS AE AO hs _. @ FRUITS AND RERRIES Blackbarries, Jersey, ¥ qt Plums, ¥ qt Watermelons, each Peaches, ¥ basket Huckleberrion, Jersey, Muskmelons, ¥ bbl Stato. 1809, 1868, common t Pacifle Const Common to prime Old odds........ 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Coun i Pr o883xc! » 2! | | 82] E38 ow «258a, I » x . . 00 Boluvunens EEE EE EEE RL EE EE 90299008 200099900 009999999399 | “saved ar by fire," A REV. DR. TALMAGE. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN- DAY SERMON. Subject: “Narrow Escapes.” Text: “Iam secaped with the skin of my Yoeth,” Job xix,, 20. Job had it hard, What with bolls and bes reavements and bankruptey and a fool of a wife he wished he was dead, and I do not blame him. His flesh was gone, and his bones were dry, His teeth wasted awny un. til nothing but the enamel seemed left, He erles out, “I am escaped with the skin of my teeth," There has been some difference of ophion about this passage, St, Jerome and Behuls tens and Dre, Good and Pools and Barnes have all tried thejr forceps on Job's teath, You deny my interpretation and say, ‘What did Job know about theenamel ofthe teeth?" He knew everything about it. Dental surgery is almost as old ns the earth, The mummies of Egypt, thousands of years old, are found to-day with gold filling In their teeth, Ovid and Horace and Solomon and Moses wrote shout these important factors of the body. To other provoking sompinints Job, 1 think, has added an exasperating | toothache, and putting his hand against the inflamed face he says, ‘1 am escaped with the skin of my teeth. ™ A very narrow escape, you say, for Job's body and soul, but there are thousands of men who make just as narrow escape for | their soul, There was a time when the par- | tition between them and ruin was no thicker than a tooth's enamel ; but, as Joh finally | escaped, so have they, Thank Gol! Thank God! | Paul expresses the same ides by a differs | ent figure when he says that some people ars vessel at sea is in | flames. You go to the stern of the vessel, The boats have shoved off, The flames ad. vance, You can endure the beat no longer on your face, You slide down on the side the vessel hold on with vour fingers un- til the forked tongue of the fire begins to liek the buck of your hand, and you feel that you must when Hiebonts comes back, and the passengers say they think they have room tor one more, The boat swings under you ; you drop into It you are saved, So some men are pursued by temptation until they are sumed, but after all get off fire.” jut I ke fl better than that of Pan! has not worn it out, snd I if God will help, that some row sscape for their souls ands “‘writh the skin of their teet! It is as easy for some oross as for you to k gentle, tractable, to become Christians store and say, "Grandos yesterday.” You “That is just what mig od.” Ho always was « In youth this person whom always good. He never broke things, never laughed when #it laugh. At seven he o erfectly quiet, looking n« [and nor to the jeft, vy. of the ister, stood the whole dis decrees. He never them. He floated int« 80 gradually that it the matter was decided, Here Is another one, with an uncontrollable spirit nursery in an uproar, His n walking on the edge of the he ff he could balance himsell, There was no horses he dared not ride, no tres he could not climb, His boyhood was a long series of pre digaments ; his manhood was reckiess ; his fo vary wayward, But now he is oon. of fall, one of the the fileure » the o sho rades say expect. uld sit but straight as th ission al ug the I» une ARTEL Total The SOS RARASY Your friends say © “It is not possible! You must be joking.” You say “No ; 1 tell you the truth, He joined the church.” Then they reply, “There is hope for any of us if old Arkwright has become a Chri ' In other words, we i more difficult for some gospel than for others I may be addressing sor loose from charches and and who have at present coming Christians themselves, soe what Is going on, And yourssl! escaping belore as “with the skin of sou expect to waste this hour go off from ( May or drop their nets and after awhile puliing in their nets without a single fish, It was; had not the right kind pect no such excurs is full of fish ; the wiz tion ; the gospel net is sir didst help Simon and Andr us to-day how to east 1h side of the ship! Some of you, In 2 10 run against skeptical p loss for people to say shar te those who reject the C I oangot say such things noi Tot YOu fo 4 LA * will have It ts uae. ng thiugs rei Wat § of temptation or trial r core to your it There are tw of the head and the gate a gate of your head Is locked wit t ts bars that an archange ald the gate of your EWings hinges, iti iy with pons, you would meet ine With weapons, it would be sword stroke for sword str and wound for wound, aad blood for blood, out If 1 come and knock at the door of you house you oper ft and give In your parior If I should day with an arfroment, vou me with an argument ; if answer me with sarcasm, blow for blow, siroke for stroke, but whens | come and knock at the door of your heart you open it and say, “Come in, my brother, and tell me all you know about Christ and heaven.” i Listen to two or thre: questions: Arsyon | as happy as you used to be when yoa halieve) | in the truth of the Christian religion? Would yon like to have your children travel on in | the road in which you are now traveling? | You had a relative who professed to be a Christian and was thoroughly consistent, | living and dying in the { of the gospel, Would you not lke to live the same quiet Hie and die the same pesceful death? 1 re ceived a letter sent me by one who has re jected the Christinn religion, It says: “I am old enough to know that the joys and pleasures of life are evanescent and to realize the fact that it must be comfortable in old Are Lo believe in something relative to the future and to have a faith in some system that proposes to save. [am free to confess that I would be happier if I could exercise the simple and beautiful faith that is by many whom I know. I am not illingly out of the shureh or out of the faith, My state of uncertainty is one of un- rest, Bometimes I doubt my immortality and look upon the deathbed as the closing scene, after which there is nothing, What shall T do that I have not done, Ab, skepti- eism is a dark and doleful land! Let me say that this Bible fs either true or Tales " ft bo false, wo are as well off as you | If ft true, then whish of us ie safer? Lot me also ask whether your trouble has not been that you confounded Christianity with the inconsistent character of some who roloss it. You are a nwyet. In your pro- easion thers are mean and dishonest men. Is that anything against the law? You are a Antor, There are unskilled and contempti- blo men In your profession, Is that anything against medicine? Yon are a merchant, There are thieves and defranders in r business, Is that anything aeninst dise? Behold, then, the unfairness of charg. ing upon Christianity the wickedness of its disciples, wou aimit some of the charges against foes raligion. Bome of the most those who pro! gigantic swindles of the present day have Ry ; gates t ot break, but a its wea and ke heart ensily ested Jour ix me the best sent Come at v 110 would answer Win sqaronsm, you been enrried on by memners of the churen, There are men in the churches who would not be trusted for #5 without goo 1 collateral security, They leave thelr business dishon. estios in the vestibule of the church as they go in and sit at the communion, Having con. cluded the sacrament, they get up, wipe the wine from thelr lips, go out and take up their sins where they let off, To serve the devil is their regular work ; to sérvs God, a sort of play spell, With a Bunday sponge they expect to wipe off from their business slate all the past weok's inconsistencies. You have no more right to take such a man's lite Sor—— . SABBATH SCHOOL INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR AUGUST 12, | Leswon Text: *“ Temptation ot Jesus,” Math. 1iv,, 1.11 -— Golden Text: Hebrews fv., 15 Commentary. as a specimen of religion than you have to | take the twisted frons and split timbers that lie on the beach at Coney Island as a speci men of an American ship, It is time that we drew a line betweerf religion and the frall- ties of those who profess it, Again, there may be some of you who, in the attempt after a Christian life, will have to run against powerful passions and ap- petites, Perhaps it is a disposition to anger that you have to contend against, and per. haps, while in a very serious mood, you hear of something that makes you feel that you must swear or die, I know of a Chris tian man who was once so exasperated that he sald to a mean castomer, ‘I cannot swear at you myself, for I am a member of the chureh, - but if you will go down stairs m partner in business will swear at you. All your good resolutions heretotors have been torn to tatters by explosions of temper, Now, there is no harm in getting mad if you only got mad at sin. You need to bridle and saddle these hot breathed passions, and with them ride down injustice and wrong. There are a thousand things in the world that we ought to be mad at, Thers is no harm in getting redhot if you only bring to the forge that which aseds hammering, A man who has no power of righteous indig- pation is an imbecile, But be sure it isa righteous indignation and not a petulancy that blurs and unravels and depletes the soul, There is a large class of persons in midlife who have still In them appetites that were aroused in early manhoo f at a time when they prided themselves on being a fast,” “high livers,” ““Iree and easy,’ fellows well met,” They are now paying in compound interest for troubles they Isot- od twenty yoars ago Bowie of you are try ing to escape, and you w yet very nar rowly, “as with the skin of your teeth. God and your own soul only know wha struggle is. Omnipotent grace has out many a soul that was looper mire than you are. They line the beach « heaven, 1 suititude whom God bas res ened from the thrall of suicidal I habits. 1 you this d n your back on the wrong “hall weakness « ont? ir it y ’ it and say they w INE AWAY again O is Inst time t misstep. favorable MY mistakes, r insts oe, § I. fo fn now iotor-—esoaped at last as with the skino tooth In the last day it will be found that Haugh Latimer and John Kaox and Huss and Rid. ley wore not the greatest martyrs, but Chris tian men who went up incorrapt from the contaminations and perplexities of Wall LSA a pal 8 : TOS street, ' street and the bourse, On earth they were called brokers or stock jobbersor retaliers or jmporters, but in heaven Christian heroes, No fagots were heaped about their feet, no demanded Ir them rec We lier aimed a spike at thei had mental torture ant art, wy ym Iya heated large class 80 lied aly ned that they have 10st Ina world where every thes 5 Ave heen so usly wr ryt! ne & can be a $ ™ 1 frenzied and ste argument to prove T { Christianity or thetruth of an aches them nowhere Hoar I preach to you no rounde ornamental discourse, sider and ins 1 gospel, Herelsa r firm, tt harder than shing its sur! clear above Do not charge upos world, As | i, God stuck secled | oY Are misanthro AEH 160, bles of the but the earth . and henoeo all wo (3 yf yours He has ne back to Him » more violen ave mon been ns pg been coaxing the t the more He have stern ave step; , Iry Him and I'ry Him and see if The flowers of spring ym 80 sweet asthe pgring of « affections. The sun bhatlif "nd warmth pared ith the glow of His heart. waters have no refreshment like the tain that will sake the thirst of thy soul the moment the reindeer stands with his lip and nostril thrust into the ¢ mountain tor. rent the hunter may be coming through the thicket, Without crackling a stick under his foot he comes close by the stag, aims his gun, draws the trigger, and the poor thing rears in its death agony and falls backward, its antiors crashing on the rocks, but the mnting beart that drinks from the water oe of God's promise shall never be fa tally wounded and shall mever die, min I Prisoners Strike. Thora wan a big strike {n the Lolt shop of tha Oilo penitentiary, at Columbus, the other day, and He will not pardon. will not save, no bl Ww of labor, that was served them, and they vowed they would do no morn work until they were bet. | ter fod, The warden made a personal inves tigation of the cause of the complaint, after | which be promised the men that thelr desire | should be granted, and they wen! to work with a will, —— Allen Laborers Must Go. New York State hae decided that alien In. borers must go, at least so far as public work ie concerned, Among the laws adopted by the Logisature this year Is one decrseing that none but oftizens of the United States may be employed on any State or municipal work, and the people of the State show a dis. position to ses that the law is enforead, The Grand Jury at Buffalo has just returned an indictment against Henry J. Warren, Sapee. intendent of the Barber Asphalt Company, for ¢ Italian laborers on the strests of the efty, whieh his company Is navine. A — — ee m—— —- Two Gallons of Water Killed Ifim, W. J. Martin, a glassbhlower, met a string death at Dankirk, ind, Onan wager dedrink two gallons of water without stopping for a moment and he died a few hours ister in awilul y, Rolling him on a barrel did no Martin was well known, baviag Solis £0 Muncie from Pittsburg to work in a . The strikors wore all convicts, | they wore not dissatisfied with thelr | wages, as thoy get none, nor with their hours | The trouble was with the food | { , 1. “Then was Jesus lod up of the Spirit | foto the wilderness to be tempted of the | dovil." He was born by the Bofrit and bape tized by the Spirit (Math 1. 20 : ii. 18), and now He is lod by the Spirit into trial, for every servant must be tried, Consider the trials of Abraham, Joseph, Moses. David and other servants of the Lord, Think also of the testings of Israel, God's son. in the wilderness those forty years, Weare tauzht to count it a blessed privilege to be tried and never to think It strange (Jas. 1., 2, 12: IPet, tv. 12), Jesus, although absolutely perfect in Himself, was made perfect through sufferings as the author of our sale vation (Heb. if., 10), and, while we are per- fected forever in Him we must suffer with Him if we would reign with Him (Heb, Xx, 14; II Tim. 11.,12), BeelCorzx., 18 2. “And when He had fasted forty days and forty nights He was afterward an hun gered.” Moses fasted forty days and nights on two different occasions (Deut, ix., 9, 18); Elijah also fasted forty days and nights on his way to and at the same Mount Horeb (1 Kings xix., 8), the mountain of God, where He appeared to Moses in the burning bush (Ex. Hii., 1, 2) and called him to deliver Is- racl, We find these three forty-day fasters on the mount of transfiguration, but w yet en | the cloud passed the disciples saw ne o save Jesus only (Math, xvii, 8). seo In it, at least, the entire the natural and the sole We m subjugation supremacy ast of of the “Aud when the tempter came to Him eald, If Thou be the Bon of God, cor that these stones made bread.” Mark and Luke calls him mes are found in our les- 8 ng an adversary, and devil This first temptation is after the manner of { n Eq 1 insinuates that God is no id not withhold anything f much less the bread necessary for the bo 4 “But He answered written, Man shall not but by every word that pro mouth birthrl of his { need » ha mand he the devil, son, satan signi An ACCUSe read ight too m1 1 Eve, with every » matter and anda of ent- sore i resists the devil, nd the body xii, 28 The rd rather r even gratify sel! (Bor fil taketh Him up into the Him on a piunacle ; e one has sald that faith erucifies the question “How?” not how this was dc t simp! and see the two in Jera®lem on part of the temple. The devil is f places; the Biirit of God teaches humility, My highest low at my Redeemer's foot, 6. “And saith unto Him, If Thor Bon of God, cast Thyself down, written, He shall give His angels nd in their h shall bear Thee up, lest at any time Thot dash Thy foot against a stone.” It is as if he said, A Son af God should appear among the people in some befitting manner—come, 88 It were, down from heaven right in their midst, he first temptation was the Just of the flesh. This looks like the lust of the eyes. In Eden the tree seemed gdod for food and then pleasant to the eyes, Listen to the devil quoting Beripture, but compars Bao A hm be dr 4 Dpars omitting an important part, 7. Jesus sald unto him, It fs written again, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord, thy God." BSeripture does not contradict Serip- ture, but explains it and instructs us how to avold its abuse. To tempt God is the op- posite of walting In the obadience and soon- fidence of trust. It Is the line of pre- sumption ‘here is presumption in going where God sends you on His service, but there would be presumption in going to or doing the same thing un- to make yoursells name the praise ’ oi Just and have 8. “Again, the devil taketh Him up into an exceedi high mo and sheweth Him all the kingd« of the world and the glory of the Luke adds that He did it in a moment of time, and again we ask not how, but simply believe, He is called the rince and the god of this world (John xiv 30; 1 Cor. iv, 4) and has more under his control than some care to believe, but only by permi for a The king doms of this world shall become the kine- dom of cur Lord and His Christ, and He shall reign forever (Rev, xi . If we will have power pow, it will probably be from the devil ; if we can walt and suffer awhile with Christ, we shall reign with Him forever. ‘And saith unto Him, All these things will I give Thee if Thou wilt fall down and worship me.” It is of satan to from men more than God ~ thus { Rev. xxil Satan's described in Rev, xill, to this when He says, “I Father's name, and ye receive Me not ; other shall come in his own name, him will receive (John v., 48 The mark of the beast may be the quickest and easiest way to honor, but it involves an eternity of tor ment with the devil and his angels (Rey, xiv,, 9-11 : Math, xxv, 41). May we be like the friends of Daniel who preterred the fiery furnace to the worship of the image (Dan. Hi, 17, 18), 10. "Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thoa hence, satan, for it is written, thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and Him only shalt thou serve Thus is the third temp- tation overcome by the sword of the Spirit, and each quotation is from Deuteronomy. Eve fell by believing satan ; Jesus overcome hy believing God, If we would love not the world with its Just of the flesh, lust of the eyes and pride of life, it must be by being filled with the word and the Spirit, 11. “Then the devil leaveth Him, and, be- hold, angels came and ministered unto Him. ™ Luke says that the devil left him for a sea son, We are to submit ourselves to God, re- sist the devil and he will flees from us (Jas, fv., 7). To this end we neal the whole armor as described in Eph, vi, 1318, Itis well to bear in mind that we ara for the present on the enemy's territory and wrestle with wicked spirits, but we need not be over. come, The angels are still administering spirits (Heb, 1, 14) and oare for the children of God. Let the stories of the angels and Elijah and Abraham, and Lot and Peter, be joidated prayerfully, ballevsd simply and eartily, and we cannot but be profited, Lasics Helper, time from Jesg am cm The Wheat Yield. The reports from the wheat-growine soe. tions of the United States indicate that the ylold will be something more than an avr nee crop, The adviess from Great Dritain are that the crop of wheat compares this year most favorably with the condition at the cor» responding in the two prees ling re, Taking 100 as the averags condition Groat Britatn, the report for England, in whieh plaedanths nt Groat Britain's cron is ratand, reports as hich ax 102. The Aran tine wheat srop which Ines Sar was seventeen Pashele por ners a paspomennl yicl lew milly expected this year 10 ADOuBL fo Lire buahale an nore, waloh is about the average srop, The acreags in Argontine this year has been Increase! over ast year aoont twenty por cent, There would ses 10 0% na reason ta believe that A neriesn ware! w il for many mouihs be sold al one dolar per bushel,
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