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with the wrecks of trains and wagons, with

with the wrecks of trains and wagons, with
'killcd or injured men and horses.
East St. Louis suffered probably more than
fSt. Louis. Messengers came at p. N. from
There. asking for physicians and nurses.
The steamer D. II. Pike, with thirty pas
'.sen2ers on board. bound for Peoria, was
blown bottom side up In the middle OF the
river and number OF persons were killed.
The steamer Delaphin. with crew Of six
and twenty lady passengers on board was
blown against bridge pier and broke in
two. The ladies and two Of the crew clunS
y to the bridge Stonewnrk, nnS Mcre rescued.
The steamer Libbie Conger, with only
Captain seaman, his vile, and three Of the
crew aboard, went adrift. The wreck OF q
boat opposite Carondelet is supposed to be
the steamer Conger.
Ottened's furniture store, at Broadway
and Soulard, was demolished and six men
are reported killed. saloon at GOA South
Seventh street fell with nine men in the
ruins.
St. Patrick's Church, at Sixth and B;dd.e
streets, fell, and the debris fills the streets.
The electric railway line is burned out, as
we'll as electric plant.
Fourteen fire alarms were sounded With
in an hour, and three alarms were sent In
from the poorhouse, which building has 1900
inmates. The roof Of the poorhouse was
<4,sJwn off and the fatalities are great:
: During the last race at the Fair Grounds
the roof was blown off the grand stand. The
Crowd had gone to the open fields for safety.
and only four men we're killed The armory
at Seventeenth and Pine streets was used as
a hospital.
At '7.SO p. m. the rain, which had ceased
for time, began afresh, and fell in torrents.
at o'clock the eastern sky was aaame with
the light of fires In East st. Louis. The
metal roof OF the Merchants Exchange was
rolled up like scroll and fell into the
streets.
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THE BIOGRAPHY OF CHRIST.

Very few readers OF the New Testament
probably ever stop to think how brief the BIZ
0graphy of Christ Is, and how much must
have been ommitted from the narrative.
There must have been another history of the
Divine Teacher, written not by the hands OF
His disciples, but in the hearts of those
whom he had cheered and helped and
healed by the way. There must have been
a beautiful unwritten gospel passed from
mouth to mouth for many generations,
tho light of which faded very slowly
as the night of barbarism and wandering
came on. For a personality like Christ's,
filled with divine compassion and love,
must have poured itself out In thousand
unseen rivulets as we'll as In the great chan
nels so definitely marked in the New Testa-
ment story. There must have been thou
sands to whom He spoke words which were
not recorded there must have been multi
tudes whose lives were renewed by His
power Of whom no mention is made.
Allthis was true OF tine diyinest personality
known to men, so 1t is also true OF every hu-
man personality. The most searching and
influential power that issues from any hu-
man life Is that Of which the person himself
is largely unconscious. It flows from him
in every form of occupation, in every
relationship, in rest or In work,
in silence or in speech, at home or
abroad. There are hosts Of men and women
who are healers and teachers and helpers
almost without consciousness of the fact.
Light shines from them and help flows from
them ut times when they are utterly uncon-
scious that the hem Of the garment ia being
touched. The real test OF the possession OF
the highest power of character and the
most perfect devotion to the noblest things
in life Is not the quality Of the direct touch
IL is the presence of the virtue even In the
hem OF the garment.-The Outlook.
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with his regiment to Virginia. At the battle
of Winchester, in June. 1868, while caring
for the wounded, he was taken prisoner and
sent to Libby Prison. Before the war closed
he was asked for by the Christian Commits.
sion, and made the tour Of the great cities OF
the Republic pleading for that great cause.
In 1865 he was stationed ut Portsmouth, Ohio.
In 1866 he was made Centenary Agent OF his
conference and then Of the State. In 1868
the Board OF Church Extension called him
into their service. They were In debt and
crippled for want of means. For sixteen
wears he gave his time and strength to
this work, and during that time nearly 5000
houses OF worship were aided into existence
by the Board. The loan fund grew to halt
million and the annual income to over $780,
900. In 1884 the General Conference elected
him Missionary Secretary, in which position
he did most effective work. In 1883 he was
elected Senior Secretary Of the Missionary
Society.
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MURDERED SIX PERSONS.
James DunhamTKills All the Adults in His
Father-in-law's House.

James Dunham-Kills All the Adults in His
Father-in-law's House.
Colonel r. P. McGlincy and vito, their
daughter. Mrs. James Durham; James Wells,
q son of Mrs. McGlincy; Il hired woman,
Minnie Sheeler, and E. hired man, James
Brscoe, we're killed by Jlmes Durham, @
son-in-aw of Color?. Neg .incy, at Camp.
bell, Cal. A neighbnr r'.'ned Page heard
shots in the direction o. -" McGlincy home.
Entering the house, hn found the bodies
OF James Wells. who had been shot; Mrs.
McGlincy and her daughter, who had been
stabbed to death, and the hired man and
girl, who been hacked to death with a
hatchet. There was every evidence to show
that the dead had made desperate strug-
gle for their lives.
No one seems to know the motive for the
fearful crime. Colonel McGlincy and Dun
ham we're supposed to be on amicable terms.
The murdered family was one OF the best
known In the valley, being members OF the
San Jose Grange and prominently identified
with the fruit business.
The only inmate of the house who escaped
alive was baby one month old, the child OF
Mrs. Durham and the murderer.
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II, LOUIS AUDITORIUM.

Dawes, q driver, was blown from his wagon
in the vicinity and instantly killed. The
middle span of the roadway above the rail-
road tracks on the Eads Bridge was blown
completely away.
The Plant -four mills and the works Of the
st. Louis Iron and Steel Company were do
stroyed, and the big Cupples block of build
ings was partially dem oished.
The Waters-Pierce oil works were destroyed
By FIRE, and buildings In several parts OF the
city burned all night.
81. @. Rice, the manager of the Western
Union at tho Relay Depot on the east side,
reports a wreck of terrible proportions. He
said the National Hotel, fremont House,
Market House, De Wolfe's cafe, Hazel Mill
ing Company's mill, Horns cooper shop.
and large number OF dwellings west OF
that section were swept into wrecka9e.
The Baltimore and Ohio and Vandalia
roundhouses, the Standard OIL Works, East
st. Louis and Crescent elevators. and a dozen
freight houses we're caught in the vortex OF
the cyclone and reduced to debris. Five
hundred freight cars are said to have been
blownt into the river.
The great Fades ,bridge was twisted all
out of shape and made an utter ruin. Freight
cars were tossed to and fro, tumbled into
bitches, driven sometimes into the fields
many rods from where they stood. The
great Vandalia freight house fell in heap
of utter ruin, and thirty-ave men who had
taken refuge in It were buried beneath the
ruins and their lives crushed out. Some OF
the bodies have been got out, torn and
mangled beyond the powers of description.
Lggett and Meyers big tobacco manufac-
tory, the largest in the West, according to
the latest report was wrecked totally and the
loss of life there was great. Twenty dead
bodies and many wounded have been recov-
cred from this building
The scene in the river opposite st. Louis
was appalling. Steamboats, moored at their
landings were torn away, turned over and
sunk, drowning all on board. Many people
were seen clinging TO floating wreckage and
pitiously appealing for help.
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q tornado had demolished the village CT
Rush Hill, No.. twelve miles from Mexico,
in Audrian County. The tornado struck the
town few minutes before 4 o'clock. and
blew down the schoolhouse, crushing its in
mates. The report was to the effect that
fifty pupils had been killed and number
injured.
STURGEON, No., May tornado passed
five miles north of Sturgeon about 8 o'clock
p. m. At Renick three men were seriously
injured and Il family of colored people were
carried over a mile, two children being fa-
tally hurt. Friendship Church, north of
town. was demolished. The funnel-shaped
cloud was seen by half the people Of Stur-
geon. Bridges and fences are torn up for
miles.
KANSAS CITY, Mo-, May 2s.-Renick, Ran
do!ph County. Mo-. was blown away this
afternoon and several persons were killed.
Labadie, Mo-, was also destroyed. Ten per-
sons were killed at the latter place.
RooDHorsE, ILL.,, May 2S.-1t is reported
that eighty children were killed i'll school
house in Drake, near this city, by the
cyclone.
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The Louisville and Nashville east-bound
local passenger train had just reached East
st. Louis when the storm struck the city.
The train was overturned. but miraculously
only few passengers were injured.
The Chicago and Alton east-bourd local
passenger train which left st. Louis at
o'clock was on the east span OF the bridge,
when the wind picked the cars up and turned
them over on their sides. The iron spans
and trusses held the cars from topping into
the river, 100 feet below. The passengers
were thrown into confused mass. The net
work of wires made rescue difficult and dan
Serous. The east span of the east bridge is
so badly wrecked that it Will take three days
to allow trains to pass.
lightning struck the Standard OH Works
and flames were soon pouring from dozen
buildings. The East st. Louis Fire Depart
ment was utterly powerless to cope with the
fires, and 1t was feared that nearly the entire
business and great portion of the residence
section would be destroyed by flames, If not
already ruined by the wind. Among tee
principal buildings already In ruins are the
National Hotel, tho Standard Oil We--s,
East St. Louis Wire Nall Works, the Crescent
Elevator, Hesel Elevator, oil ireight oePotS
and stores and residences on ST. Clalr afe-
nuc.
The damage to the property in 81. tou,sis
estimated at 81 600 ,OOO. ana tne losS H. go
St. Louis S3,O0O,OO0. There were really TWO
tornadoes. One came from the northwest
and the other from the direct east. Both
met on the Illinois shore Of the MISSISSIPPI
River and joined in whirling cloud OF death
and destruction. The list OF dead In 81.
Louis Is beyond present computatlon.
A startling report reached Police Head.
quarters that 2O9 girls were in the ruins OF
Light e. Meyers cigarette factory at Tower
Grove Park. There was greatloss OF life IN the
southern portion Of St. Louis from railroad
tracks to Carondolet. The wind swept away
the roof of the Exposition Building and that
structure is badly damaged by the food OF
water.
The levee was packed with people while
the storm ragged 1ercest, cropping through
the darkness and eagerly imploring infor-
nation from loved ones on the river.
The Annunciation Church at Sixth and
Lasalle streets was totally destroyed. Father
Read, the pastor, was fatally injured. Michael
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Earthquake were shaking the earth beneath
it. 1t came from the south, where 1t
scourged vast extent Of country and it
wrought unprecedented havoc in this city.
! Two tornadoes. one sweeping down from
Moberly, Mo-, toward the southeast and the
other sweeping up from the southeast, met
over the Mississippi River at st. Louis. The
storms seemed to join forces and dealt death
and destruction. East st. Louis, on the Illi-
nois side of the river. Jared the worse, a swath
several blocks wide being cut through the
heart of that city. The lower part Of st.
Louis, on the western bank OF the river, was
swept through and great buildings were
levelled as though they were built OF straw.
! In East st. Louis the loss Of life was
greatest. It Is variously placed at from two
hundred to three hundred. In st. Louis 1t
lis known that many were killed.
Late at night 1t was said that 1900 persons
were killed or wounded in st. Louis. In
East St. Louis and environments 1t Is esti-
mated that there are 500 dead and wounded.
The latest reports compiled from the scene
| OF destruction in the three States point to the
loss OF over 700 human lives. According to
places, the death roll is divided as follows:
| In st. Louis, 800; East st. Louis. 800; Drake,
| ILL.,, 81; Rush Hill. Mo-, 10; Rennick, Mo, s.;
| Labadie, Mo-. 10. The disaster appears to
be the greatest the country has known since
1.-THE Jehnstown food.
The property loss runs into millions. It
Is placed, from cyclone, fire and food, in
East St. Louis, Ill, at two millions and q
half of dollars. In St Louis it will be a
million more.
Factories and asylums were razed. One
cigarette factory, which was blown down,
contained at least two hundred working
girls, many Of whom were buried in the
ruins Fifty school children are said to have
been killed in one school house. A large
hotel. full of guests. was blown down and
only two persons are believed to have es-
capped.
Despite the food Of rain which followed
the gyration of the winds. the electric light
wires ignited the ruins everywhere and the
destruction was increased. The streets were
Iso Uttered with debris that the flremen we're
unable to render assistance In any direction.
even If the water works had not already been
destroyed by the cyclone.
The great Eads Bridge, spanning the Mis-
sissippi, was partially wrecked and is Uttered
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RELIGIOUS READING,
"CoNsIpER CHRIST LEsrs."

1. 1t Is worth while to look at that word
"consider." What does it mean? Just this
to sit down with" SO. then. the ex-
hortatlon is to sit down with Jesus Christ;
stay awhile in His company talk to Him,
and listen while He speaks to you.
into the quiet" which means just this; and
who that has looked into the peaceful face
of Quaker has not felt that here was rest
of soul which such communion brings?
JOHN In the opening of his Gospel tells Of
his Introduction to Jesus Christ. He. and
Andrew were with John the Baptist when,
Jesus passing by, the Baptist gave his testi-
mony: behold the Lamb of God" The
two disciples, aroused to keenest interest,
followed the stranger, and when He turned
and asked, "What seek ye?" they said, Just
as We would nowadays when we wish to
have an introduction blossom into an ac-
quaintance "Where do you live?" He an
swered, "Come and see." They went with
Him and sat down with Him and stayed the
rest Of that day. What the visit was about
we do not know, but it was so impressed on
Johns memory that, writing about 1t many
years after when an old man, he remembered
the very hour when he went to visit with
Jesus Christ. He records that 1t was about
four o'clock In the afternoon.
A jeweler was showing some fine dia-
.H' 'hd Ile uISt IuluS Ao oiu Woo w
Shut In the jewels with q white rejecting
surface. Because" he said, If you want to
see precious diamond to know its value,
you must shut out all distracting color and
have only white light"
An II we would know the preciousness Of
our Christ. we must shut out other attrac-
lions and view Him in the white light of a
pure hoart.
Ihe Persian baZaarS at the Worlds Fair
sold little blocks Of scented clay to be used
in linen closets as we use lavender leaves A
Persian poet very prettily makes use Of this.
He says he took up in his hand piece Of
scented clay and said to it % clay whence
hast thou thy perfume?" And the clay said
Il was once piece Of common clay but
they laid me for time in company with
rose, and I drank in Its fragrance and have
now become scented clay"
If you have been with Christ it will be
known. Far louder than your spoken declar-
alton will be the sweetness and attraction
which come even to our common clay when
1t has been in company with the Rose OF
Sharon
The old monks had q superstitious notion
that if they would gaze continually and in
tensely on the figure of Ch rist on the cross
. which hung upon their ceiling wall the marks
of the wounds would appear in their own
bodies-the print of the nails In their hands
and feet. and the scar Of the spear-gash In
their side. This Is gross representation OF
the spiritual truth which lies under 1t.
Looking upon Him with steady, loving gaze,
the glorious vision that our eyes behold
prints itself deep in our hearts, and the
beauty of the Lord shines in our faces. We
are changed into the same image"
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The Rev. Earl Cranston, A. IL, D. D., Is a
native of Athens, Ohio, and q classical grad
uate of the Ohio University. He had an hon
orable service In the Union Army, and for
twenty-one years labored in the itinerant
ministry, six years Of which period ne gave
fore his election to the agency of the Cincin-
natl Methodist publishing house. He has
had much to do with planting the educa-
tional work Of the church IN his Conference,
and the cause for Methodism in Its noun
tains and its plains.
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SEEK THE SUNLIGHT OF DIVINE TRUTH.

The fact is stated that Verestchagin, the
Russian artist, has glass studio in his
home near Paris which revolves on wheels,
the movement being effected by means OF
windlass conveniently placed beside the
artists easel, by which ingenious contrtv-
ancs he is enabled to paint the whole day
with the sunlight falling in one direction on
models and drapery. There Is suggestion
there for the carver Of character. In order
to successful moral development the divine
light must be admitted freely and invari-
ably along its own true lines. The sun above
us does not really change but the alteration
of terrestrial modes and seasons may require
the frequent readjustment of earthly objects
and relations with reference to the undevi-
ating play upon them OF heavens illumi-
mating beams He who arranges to always
have the sunlight of divine truth and grace
falling in one direction on his work will be
apt to evolve the most beautiful and well
proportioned moral effects.-N. Y. Observer
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SOUND MONEY IN VERMONT.
Democratic State Convention Declares
Against Free Silver.

Democratic State Convention Declares
Against Free Silver.
The Vermont Democratic State Convention
for the nomination Of delegates-at-large to
the National Convention at Chicago was
held at Montpelier. Mention of the names
OF Cleveland. Whitney and Russell by the
Chairman and the Endorsement Of President
Cleveland by the resolutions awakened con-
siderable enthusiasm.
Both the Chairman and the Committee on
Resolutions declared In favor Of gold
standard and denounced protection and the
free coinage of silver
Nominations for State officers were made
as follows: For Governor, DR.. ]. Henry jack
son, Barre; Lieutenant-G Governor, DR.. Ralph
Sherwood, St. Adams; Treasurer, James H.
Williams. Bellows Falls; Secretary of State,
William W. Rider: Bristol; Auditor, E. T.
Seayer North Troy.
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LIVE woRrH1LY AND DIE REGRETTED.

81 have desired" says King Alfred the
Great .to live worthilv while have lived,
and after my life to leave the men that
should be after me remembrance in good
works" How lofty the simple words are
DUTY, not romantic achievement, is the aim
of his life: not to do some great thing but
the right thing-the right thing being sim
DIV what God gave him to do. He seems to
have felt in his inmost being that each man
was sent into the world, not to live like some
one else but to do his own work and bear
his own burden-precisely the one work
which God has given him, and which can
never be given to or done by another
Elizabeth Charles.
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"oEr THEE BEHIND ME SATAN"

There are men who are always carrying
on a guerilla warefare with their evil pas
sions. Ifaman finds foe to his spiritual
well-being. he should exterminate 1t and
have done with it. We keep in chronic war
fare with our pride, our vanity, our appe-
tites. because we are afraid OF hurting our
selves. '.Crucify" the old man is Pauls
manly advice. DO not parley with him; do
not make war on him gently. Kill him, tor
ture him If ueed be get him under six feet
of sod and so be at peace with yourself
LYMAN Abbott, D.D.
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CHRIST Is SUFFICIENT.

A test-surely one of the best tests-of the
truth and reality and vigor of our Christian
lif. lies in this-that when we anticipate the
great life to come, however far speculation
may endeavor to trace its course in the
province of that mysterious land, we return
t. this thought. which satisfies completely
all the deepest and best desires Of our hearts
that where Christ is we are to be Also
r. W. Dale.
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JAPANESE NoBLEMEN AT ANNAPOLIS.
An Application for Eight to Enter the
Naval Academy.

Word has been received In Washington un-
officially from an attache OF the United
States Legation at Toxic that the Japanese
Minister Of Marine, by command Of the En-
peror, will make formal application for the
admission OF eight young japanese noble
men as students at the United States Naval
Academy. In the list is a son OF Field Mar
shall General Matsushima, commanding the
army OF Japan; son OF Vice-Admira! Ito,
who is himself graduate Of the Naval Acad-
envy Of the class Of 1872, and nephew OF
the Emperor. Already eleven japanese Of
fcers have been graduated at the Naval
Academy, including Vice Admiral Ito and
Rear Admiral Matsushima, who was reputed
to be one OF the best mathematiciars at the
institution. II is said at the Navy Depart
ment that in case the alleged application Is
made it will undoubtedly be granted. The
policy of the present Emperor OF Japan Is
to have his military officers educated at st.
Cyr and his naval officers at Annapolis.
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Killed by a Falling Baseball.

Stewart Wear, the eleven-year-old son OF
Walter II. Wear, of Rockaway, n. j., was
killed by baseball. He was playing with
two companions One threw the ball into
the air. Wear ran under it and put up his
hands. The sail passed through them and
struck over his heart, and he fell deal.
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White Buffalo Wants 0 Pension.

White Buffalo, Captain of Indian police,
Cheyenne reservation, has applied for pen
sion on account OF injuries sustained while
member of the Third United States Cavalry,
and Examining Physician Hurley says the
Injuries are such as would give white man
n pension. White Buffalo Is Il son OF Sitting
Bull, and has always been loyal to the whites
as q policeman or soldier.
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Republican Convention Halls Danger.

CARoNDELET, Mo-, May 28-There was an
unconflrmed report that the new Auditorium
had been blown down by the tornado. This
building, which was erected by the Citizens
Committee of st. Louis to accommodate
the Republican National Convention.
stood on Olive street. about five
blocks beyond the Planters Hotel. the largest
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Fortune Smiles on a Minister.

Rev. Mr.. Rhodes, living twelve miles east
of Timpson, Texas, while plowing his field.
unearthed $4,000 Mexican dollars. 1t ap-
pears that the money was buried in leather
satchels. Mr.. Rhodes bought the place two
years ago, AMI for several years there has
been digging in that community BY unknown
parties ut night