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THE SOURCE OF STRENGTH.

We may be very weak, our talents very
few, our oppori unities seemingly still fewer,
but our success does not depend upon our
own force or genius or influence. 1t is Gods
blessing that gives the increase. Without 1t,
the mighty demonstrations Of Paul and the
burning eloquence Of Apollos would have
been in vain. With it, the simplest child IN
the school of Christ can overturn citadels OF
error and build up the waste places Of many
generations Compared with each other,
some men may appear great and the rest
small: but compared with God, as He looks
down from the height that knows no mea-
sure, and compared with the immense diM-
culties in the way Of His cause, all are worms
Of the dust whose strength is that OF the
moth. ...-.,...s.
God does not need our strength to accom-
plish his purposes, though he Is pleased gra-
.ciously to employ US in his service. The,
united church could not Of itself make sin
gle blade Of grass to grow, much less convert
single soul. Omnipotence Is needed to DO
either and omnipotence is his own, and was
his own before ever human heart beat, q
human sinew was stretched, or a human
mind thought. The strongest among US Is
utterly impotent for any good work, but the
weakest among us IS mighty If he work with
God. .,
'sWithout me ye can do nothing" saith the
Saviour. II can do all THINGS through
Christ strengthening me" said His apostle.
If we think to be efficient causes of good
ourselves, we shall be disappointed; Il we
are willing to be Instruments in the hands OF
God, we can accomplish anything he pleaseS
for the power will be His, not ours. The
weaker then, we feel ourselves TO-. be, the
better for our success, il we try to do good;
because God will put His strength in US only
as we put reliance upon our own strength
out of us.--G. W. Bethune, D. D.
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A CHARITABLE WOMAN.

The Duchess of Galliera, who died at Par
il last December, was remarkable woman.
Highly cultured, familiar with courts en-
dowed with enormous wealth, Of which her
husbands death left her uudisputed control,
her life was one of unceasing benevolence.
Though Roman Catholic, she was no bigot;
actions. She had one son, but he preferred
to live the life Of a scholar and refusing to
take any money from his mother he. Is now
living on his salary Of 81, 300 as professor Of
science in the Merge school. His mother
during her life gave away more than s6Q,-
100000 of personal property, and decided
thirty-two million dollars worth Of real es-
tate for benevolent purposes. AT her death
not more than a million dollsrs' worth Of
personal properly was lefr, Of which her
will made the Empress Frederick executrix
and residuary legatee. It has been her
plan to end her days in an almshouse should
She live to be eighty, but death prevented:
A mother and son Of equal self-denial and
benevolence the world has seldom seen.
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Fires Added Horrors.

Of all the frightful occurrences the most
terrible was the fire, in which Supervisor
Hays of the Pennsylvania Railroad esti-
mated that from 1000 to 1000 unfortunate be-
ings were burned to death. The sight was so
heartrending that the bravest turned palea
sickened. Over three hundred frame houses
were jammed together in heap forty feet
high against the massive viaduct of the Penn
sylyania Railroad at JohnStown. All the
houses were destroyed and the majority of the
inmates crushed to death before the terrible
fire began. Men, women and children, with
their limbs piniOned between the timbers their
life's blood slowly ebbing away, begged plte-
ously for relief. One unfortunate woman
asked a man on the bank for Gods sake to
cut her legs off. A man was caught by the
arm and pleaded piteously for knife to sever
the member Others were literally smashed
and squeezed to death beneath the grinding
timbers and surging waters. Some were
pressed deep into the water, and the tocd
soon ended their misery.
But to add to the horror of this scene hre
broke out in the mass of timbers, and nobody
escaped The flames soon devoured the peo.
pie, and nothing remained but the charred
and scattered corpses floating about on the
water. Supervisor Hays stood on the bank
watching the fire, powerless to render the vic
TINS any assistance. The cries of suffering
and pain only doubled the horror Of the great
! disaster. Long after dark the flames Of tire
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KING ALCOHOL woy.

Two young men, Tim Sullivan, eighteen
years old, and Tom Curry, nineteen years Of
with fatal results Young Sullivan's brother
is saloon keeper, who engaged the boys to
move whisky barrel into the cellar. They
found bucketful of liquor in the barrel and
Immediately proceeded to make themselves
comfortable They emptied the bucket be-
tween them, and were soon in paralyzed
state of drunkenness
This gave way to stupor and later on to
convulsions. The two boys were found some
time later lying insensible on the ground, and
their features in horribly distorted shape.
Sullivan died two hours after taking the first
drink. Curry was in such critical condition
that his death was expected at nnv time
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Measures for Relief.

From every part Of the country, from the
National Government and from the Govern
ors of States have come offers of relief to
the people Of the desolated region: In New New
Boston, Atlanta, and other cities, subscrip..
tions were opened to aid the homeless and
helpless. Philadelphia sent the biggest re-
lief train ever forwarded over the line. A
relief train filed with clothing and ne
cessities OF life was also sent out
from Pittsburg. The proclamations of the
Mayors of many towns brought q generous
response, and the movement to aid the peo-
pie who have suffered by the greatest disas-
ter in our country's history, has been warnl-
hearted and widespread as the nations con-
fines.
A correspondent who was among the first
to reach Johnstown after the floods sub
sidence had permitted entrance into the city
estimated the number Of dead at from 5000
to 10000, and the financial loss at $4,000 600.
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" C.. T. u. BULLETIN.

A National German-American Prohibition
League has been established in Chicago.
Canon Wilberforce calls Infdelity, lmpur, :
ity and Intemperance the Trinity OF Evil'"
The first official act of woman Mayor OF
Kansas is reported to have been nnlns man
.ts5 for plain drunk" On the same day she
made two gingham aprons, set hen andre
turned five calls"
San Francisco, with it's one criminal to every
twenty-three citizens, one liquor saloon to
every sixteen voters, four thousand grog
shops. and ten thousand women Of i'll repute.
is a sorry advertisement of the wine and liquor
business.
If we take the products Of all of the me-
chanical industries Of the country, the liquor
industry included lbs, 369, sig, 1917, we find
that nearly one-ifth ts947, 95S, 1850, goes to- the
laborer as wages, while taking the liquor In
dustry alone, we find that only about one
tenth of its products goes to the laborer as
wages.
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TEMPERANCE.
LITTLE BEER.

LII 36l1 o66n.
Gurgle, gurgle, little beer,
In your meek and lowly sphere,
Many thirsty neck you wet,
Drowning many a vain regret,
In your song there's lots Of cheer,
Little beer!
Gurgle, gurgle, little beer,
Place nv name on record here,
That Of all the liquids known,
From temperate to Incorporate zone,
Standest thou without peer,
Little beer!
Gurgle, gurgle, little beer,
do love thee. Yea, I fear
My affections too intense,
Cling around thee, deep and dense,
Loved not wisely. but too dear,
Little beer!
Gurgle, gurgle, little beer,
Stream Of amber, bright and clear;
10 you mind the days that I
Tried to drink the brewery dry?
Oft you got me on my ear,
Little beer!
Gurgle, gurgle, little beer,
Ahl How many bitter tear
Sparkles in thy shining foam
Many a desolated home
Many sorrow, dark and drear,
Little beer!
Gurgle, gurgle, little beer,
You may think it rather queer,
But feel that must shun
You, or give the job up, one.
No more schooners will I steer,
Little beer!
III. II. Folsom, IN Atlanta Constitution.
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Robbers Of the Dead Lynched.

A Hungarian laborer was lynched at Johns
town and six others were shot, as lesson to
the ghouls who have been despoil-
the dead and plundering the liv-
ing. The ghoul who was lynched
was caught in the act of cutting off the finger
of dead woman to possess himself of the
ring. An infuriated mob seized him and
promptly strung him up to telegraph pole.
The lesson had salutary effect.
The Hungarians got hold of a number Of
barrels Of whisky, and the liquor was served
out to the mob in buckets. The result was
pandemonium let loose. The liquor quickly
told on empty stomachs and excited brains,
aid every man of them was set crazy drunk.
The drunken horde of Huns started out to
loot the houses and to plunder the dead. They
seized everything that came in their way, and
in their frenzied haste to possess themselves
of valuables mutilated the dead.
They made a raid on the First National
Bank little after midnight, and would have
succeeded in getting considerable booty if q
party Of armed citizens, apprised of their evil
doings, had not come upon them In the nick
of time. The citizens poured a volley in upon
them and six of them were laid low. The rest
were either captured or put to fight.
Another incident of even greater moment
was brought to notice. At $3.50 o'clock A. NJ.
an old railroader, who had walked from Sang
were congregated on the platform
station at Curranville, and said: 'Gentle-
men, had I shotgun with me half an hour
ago would now be a murderer, yet with no
fear of ever having to suffer for my crime.
Two miles below here I watched three men
going along the banks stealing the jewels from
the bodies of the dead wives aud daugh-
ters Of men who have been robbed Of all they
held dear on earth" He had no sooner FIN
ished the last sentence than five burly men
with looks of terrible determination written
on their faces were on their way to the scene of
plunder, one with coil Of rope over his shoul-
der and another with a revolver in his
hand. In twenty minutes, so it is stated
they had overtaken two of their victims,
who were then in the act Of cutting
pieces from the ears and fingers from
the hands of the bodies of two
dead women. With revolver leveled at the
scoundrels the leader of the posse shouted:
''Throw up your hands or I'll blow your
heads off,"
With blanched faces and trembling forms
they obeyed the order and begged for
mercy. They were searched, and as
their pockets were emptied of their
finds the indignation of the crowd
intensified, and when bloody finger of amin
FAINT, encircled with two tiny gold rings, was
found among the plunder in the leaders pocket
a cry went up: stIynch themw Without mo-
mont's delay ropes were thrown around their
necks and they were dangling to the limbs of a
tree in the branches of which an hour be-
fore were entangled the bodies Of a dead
father and son. After half an hour theropes
were cut and the bodies lowered and carried
to a pile of rocks in the forest on the hill
above,
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A Pitiful Sight,

The stream of human beings that was swept
before the angry foods was something most
pitiful to behold. Men, women and children
were carried along frantically shrieking for
help, but their cries availed them nothing
Rescue was impossible. Husbands were swept
past their wives, and children were borne rap
idly along at a terrible speed to certain death
before the eyes of their terrorized and frantic
parents. Houses, outbuildings, trees and
barns were carried on the angry food Of
waters as so much chaff. Cattle standing in
the fields were overwhelmed, and their car
casses strewed the tide. The railroad tracks
converging on the town were washed out,
and wires in all directions were proStrated.
Clinging to improvised RATS, constructed
in the death-battle from floating boards and
timbers, were agonized men, women and
children, their heartrending shrieks for help
striking horror to the breasts Of the onlook-
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-06-19
THE ANCHOR oF TIE SOUL.

How many noble ships there are which sail
from popt in strength and beauty and are
never heard of again. Some incoming YES
sci may report signal Of distress heard In
the darkness, and a fruitless search for It or
a letter may be found in bottle, but that u
all that is ever known. upon some Ieacn - y
broken wreck, the sport and playthlng OF
the breakers all that Is left Of the stately
ship which sailed away so gallantly. ~.
But what is q wreck on the beach to
wreck on the shores of eternityf The ship
NAV 90 down with all hands on board, and
vet it may be well with them. The ocean
may be for them the gate into the heavenly
city where they shall 60 out no more, but
this wreck of the soul is hopeless thing, and
yet so easily accomplished. It seems only
necessary to let soul alone and let 1t drift
and by some terrible tendency in itself 1t
will dash upon the rocks. You need not
ouch the tiller, but some magnetic attraction
will draw it swiftly into danger. If you add
the winds of temptation and sin to accelerate
is speed, it seems to fly on its destructive
course. Surely amidst these perils we need
sure and steadfast anchor, and we have In
nope. l.
As the huge anchor goes down into the
GREAT deep and faStens its iron 10th upon
fhe movei.ss rocks holding the ship iks a
Giant arm, so the Chri .tian's ancho- of hope
goes I'D into the heavenly sanctuary and
fastens itself upon Jesus, and we are held
safely forever. sure and steadfaSt Hope Is
desire and expectation, and If we are hoping
for some great earthly good or pleasure IN
the near future, it helps us greatly to bear
present pain OF evil. All pain that is not
perpetual is attended with consolation in the
thought that some time it will be over, SO VIZ
can see the cheering power OF hope. mus
the Christian hope acts. 1t reaches up 20
heaven and whispers to the SOUL this hgn1
affliction is bul for a moment, then comes
the great good. heaven will atone 1or an
sorrow here. Gods people meet adversl
with courage, one trial after another, snocK
succeeding sLock, because they are anchored
safely. and have trust in God, and suollme
hope in his present favor and his 1uture
BILE sing. -.
the soul, but we must not expect wrong, OF
impossible things from its use. For one thing
we must not fasten it to visible things. Inaa
floating log the world will not hold. YOU
must not throw it on the deck Of any passing
vessel or together you will go to shlpwreck-
Our anchor must fasten upon the invisible
things of God. Hope that is seen is not hope,
but tho unseen things are eternal. Let us
hope in God, in Christ in heaven, and never
fasten ur soul to the passing things OF time
and sense. Let go the anchor, let out the
chain far out of sight down to the mmov-
able rock, believing in him whrm we have
not seen. and this hope he will nave as an
anchor Of the soul both sure and steadtast
,,bich entereth into that within the veil -
Christian at Work..
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RELIGIOUS READING.
HEAVEN AND EARTH.

There are no shadows where there Is no sun:
There is no beauty where, there is no
shade;
And all things in two lines Of glory run.
Darkness and light, ebon and gold inlatd.
God comes among us through the sMouds OF
air;
And his dim track Is like the dlvery wake
Left by yon pinnace on the mountain Lake,
Fading and reappearing here and there.
The lamps and wells through heav'n and
earth that move, -..
Go in and cut, as jealous Of their light,
Like sailing stars upon misty night
Death is the shade Of coming life; and Love
Yearns for her dear ones in the holy tomb,
Because bright things are better seen in
gloom! f. ". Fdber.
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Recovering Dead Bodies.

All along the river between the Allegheny
River and Johnstown dead bodies were picked
up. In a ten-acre field at Ninevah seventy-hve
bodies were taken out within half mile Of
each other. Of this number only five were
men. The rest were women and children.
Many beautiful young girls, refined in feat
ures and handsomely dressed, were found,
and women and young mothers, with their
hair matted with roots and leaves are
crew who took out these bodies were
confident that $50 bodies were buried
in the sand and under the de-
bris on these low-lying bottom lands.
Some of the bodies were horribly
mangled and the features twisted and dis
torted, as if they died in the most e1cruciating
agony, and others al efound lying in stretched
out positions with calm faces. Many tear was
dropped by the men as they worked away re-
moving the bodies. An old lady with fine gray
hair was picked up alive although nearly
every bone in her body was broken. Judg-
ing from the number of women and children
found in the swamps of Nineveh the female
portion Of the population suffered most.
Mr.. O'Connor was at Sang Hollow,
a few miles west of Johnstown, when
the flood began. He remained there
through the afternoon and night, and
he says that there was fatal tree on
an island against which a number of per-
sons were dashed and instantly killed. Their
bodies were almost tied in knot doubled over
the tree by the force of the current. Mr..
OConnor says that the first man who
came down had his brains knocked out
against this obstruction; in fact, all those who
hit the tree met the same fate and were in
stantly killed. He could give no estimate of
the number lost at this point, but he makes
the figures large. Mr.. OConnor says he
never saw such an awful spectacle. The
poor people in the raging food cried out
in terror for aid that never came. Gladly
would the brave men standing upon the banks
have helped them out, but this was impossible.
More than one brave man risked his life III
trying to save those in the flood.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-06-19
BABY MCKEE CHRISTENED
President Harrison's sGrandchild Bap'
tised in the Blue Room.

The President had pleasant little surprise
in store for the members Of his Cabinet the
other day. Shortly before the meeting ad-
iourned he announced that the infant OF his
daughter, Mrs. Mckee, would be christened in
the blue room after the meeting. Secretary
Blaine had some business to attend to and
could not wait, but the other members pres
ent-Messrs. Tracy, Window, Noble, Wana-
maker and Miller-remained for the cere.
mony. Besides these and the President and
Mrs. Harrison, there were present Mr. and
Mrs. Mckee, Private Secretary Halford,
sBaby" Mckee and few attendants.
DR.. Scott, the great grandfather of the
child, performed the ceremony. There were
four generations present, DIR. Scott, Mrs
Harrison, Mrs. Mckee and her children.
The christening was entirely informal, and
was not performed according to
any particular church ritual. The
baby was called after her mother, Mary,
with the addition Of Lodge" family name:
The ceremony was conducted quietly, and
the President and Mrs. Harrison expressed
the wish that as little attention as possible be
given toit
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Get out Of SELF and get into Christ.
Patient waiting is often the highest way OF
doing Gods will
Man originally fell by losing his confdence
in God, and can only be raised by the res
toration of his confidence; in other words
unbelief was his ruin, and he now stands bY
faith.
o Christian. the God whom you serve is SO
excellent that no good can be added to Him.
and so infinite hat no good can be dlmin-
ished in Hin! He makei happy, and yet is
not the less happy: He shows mercy to the
full, and yet remains full of mercy.
Upon me lies burden which Icannot shift
upon any other human creaure-:he burden
OF duties untitled; words unspoken, orspokeD
violently and untimely; of holy relationship
neglected; of days wasted forever; of evil
thoughts oncs cherished, which are ever
appearing as fresh as when they were first
admitted into the heart: of talents cast away:
of affections in myself, or in others, iriaed
with; of light within turned to darkness.
So speaks the conscience, so speaks, or has
spoken, the conscience of each man and
woman.-Naurice.
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THE YOUNG MEMS WHEREABOUTS.

'sWhere are the young men~ Some
startling facts in answer to this question
were recently presented in the Christian
Standard. There are about $4,000 young
men in the nations capital. Of these not
quite ten per cent. are communicable In
1853 young men, all told, attended religious
service in ten leading churches and ten Of the
larger young peoples meetings. The same
evening 365 young men were seen entering
ten Of the 1000 saloons during single hour.
S1swere present at two of the lowest theatres,
at one Of which there was an estimated at
tendance of 100 boys under sixteen.
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The fair and beautiful valley Of the Cone
maugh River, in Cambria County, Penn, has
become horrifying scene of devastation.
ruin and death.
The wrecks of houses, stores and factories
are strewn along the banks Of the river for a
distance Of many miles. The city of Johns
town, with its $4,000 population, and numer-
Gus villages along theroute of the raging tor
rent, are literally in ruins.
The loss of life is tremendous, thousands of
people having been destroyed in the food
caused by the breaking of the
greatest reservoir in the world.
The dam of this reservoir gave way at its
base at o'clock in the afternoon, emptying
the water of Conemaugh Lake, three miles
long, three-quarters Of a mile wide, and more
than one hundred feet deep in places, into
the valley.
Conemaugh Lake has been damned by the
South Fork Fishing and Hunting Club, COM
posed Of wealthy gentlemen of Pittsburg. It
was more than $50 feet above the Johns
town level, on the side of the Allegheny
Mountains and the dam was 1000 wide ITO
feet high and 80 feet in thickness at the base.
The top Of the dam was over twenty feet
wide.
Recognizing the danger to the valley below
the company had the dam inspected every
month by the Pennsylvania Railroad engi-
neers, and their report was that nothing less
than a convulsion of natures forces could
tear the barrier away.
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THE German Emperor gave to Prince
Bismarck, on the latter's birthday On
niversary, a fine old engraved portrait
of his ancestor, the Provost George
frederick Won Bismarck, born iu 1897.
1t is framed in oak, ornamented with
the Princes coat-of-arms, and bears q
dedication written by the Emperor.
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THOUSANDS DEAD.
"A Frightful Loss Of Life in
! Pennsylvania.
The Bursting Of Huge Dam Suhmergss
|. PopuIous District.
The Most Terrible Disaster in
the Country's History.

Men, Women and Children Engulfed
in a Massive Wall of Water-Towns
! and Villages Wiped Out-Fire Adds
! Its Horrors to the Flood-The FL
nancial Loss Estimated at $40, 900
: OO0-Lynching Robbers ofthe Dead.