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THE CITY OF PROVIDENCE.

CHAPTER 7S7.
An Ordinance Adding the Sum OF Thirty
Thousand Dollars 10 the Appropriation
for Contingencies.
lApproved May Z. 1897
II is-DrdSined by the City Council of the City
of Providence as follows:
SECTION l. The sum of thirty thousand
dollars $4,000 il hereby added TO the appro-
priation for contingencies ~ made by Chapter
1iSs OF the City Ordinances entitled IAN Or
dinance making appropriations for the sup.
port OF the city government for the financial
year ending September 30, 1897, said sum 20
assessments
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Book on Dreams and Superstition mailed
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TEACHING POINTS.

a. V. l. Those who are pulled up
rather than built up are the ones who
always "know it all, =" and feel no need of
inquiring further.
ca V. 2. One may, in sense, know
God, yet not love him; to both know him
and love him, is also to be known of him
this is building on the Rock.
(3) V. 3-6. The conceited are in dan
ger of delusion by knowing great many
things that amt so.' A man may think
the use of stimulants beneficial, while it
is in reality sending him steadily to ruin.
a. V. Z. The strong taking on them
selves the burdens of the weak, through
love of the brother, is fulflment of the
Christian law.
(5.) V. s. Mere externalities, the par
ticular kind of meat we eat, the fashion
of the clothes we wear, the style of the
house we live in, are not the real things
of the Christian life. The mere externali-
ties are to be subordinated to the reali
ties Of the inner life.
e. V. 9-10. To live in the endeavor
to make the world better, te try to reduce
the sum of human wretchedness, to make
ones life be nediction, is the Christian
ambition.
~ V. lib. For the Christian to see
a brother of Christ even in the outcast
drunkard, is to make abstinence for the
sake of others" far easier than selfish in
diligence.
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SCHOLARS STUDY.

TIME AND PLACE.-The First
Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians was
written early A. D. 81, from Ephesue,
toward the close of his three years. stay
in that city Il Cor. Is: 81
GOLDEN TEXT.-"For none of
as hveth to himself. IA: 7.
ERSALIST GATE
CHISM.-XXXII. Will any sinner be
saved against his will? While no one
can sdve himself, neither can dny man
be saved against has oaon choice.-JoHN
5: 40.
CONNECTING LINKS. - T b 9
story of the founding of the Church in
Corinth by Paul is related in Acts 18:
lis. The story of his work in Ephesus,
where he was when he wrote this Letter,
is told in Acts 10 to 20:1
THE EPISTLE TO THE
CORINTHIANS.-It was written in
answer to a letter received from the
Christians in Corinth q: y, and with
reference to reports Paul had received
through visitors Is: ~. The Christians
in Corinth were surrounded by the COR
ruptions of the most corrupt city of the
age. They were in need of the plain and
searching counsels which this Epistle
contains. Even the most sincere of the
converts" says Farrar. had terrible
battle to fight against two temptations,
the temptation to dishonesty in their
means of obtaining their daily liveli-
hood, and the temptation to sensuality
which was eutangled with the very fbres
of their individual and social life." The
Epistle is said by Farrar to be dominated
by three main lessons; ~ practical unity
amid divergent opinions; ~ little details
decided by great principles; ~ life in
the world but not of it. This Epistle is
made distinctive by two magnificent
passages, one on charity (ch. 13) and that
on the resurrection (ch. 15,.
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ABSTAINING FOR THE SAKE OF
OTHERS.
Lesson vII.-August 10, 1897.
INTRODUCTION.

The Christian spirit was eaven in
the mass of heather and Jewish ideas.
1t threw them into a violent fermenta-
ton. The spiritual equality of all man.
kind was proclaimed in the midst of a
civilization Of which slavery was funda-
mental institution. The pure sentiment
Of Christian love, sense of the union of
all spirits in holy relation to one Heaven
ly Father, penetrated the bosom of
heather families, separating welded
hearts from partners who still revelled
in the worship and license of idolatry
The very household usages of the pagan
people were determined by the daily
sacrifices to the gods, and interviewer
with all the observances of polytheism.
To stand aloof from all idolatry was to
renounce the world.-It increases
the reality with which we conceive of
Christianity coming as new influence
into the world, when we thus find it en-
gagged in collision with the modes of
common life created by spirit 30 differ
emit from its own. How, amid such pic
lures of its workings, can we doubt the
reality of the force which was introduced
from on high into the affairs Of menP
1t is in the Epistles that we especially
find the decisive evidence of the new
spiritual impulse which was given
through the Person of Christ to the
common heart of the world.-J. H.
THoN
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TEACHERS HELP.

1. The Liberty of knowledge,
VS.. 1-6.
The same danger from idol-consecrat-
ed meats existed for the Christians in
Corinth, that existed las we saw in our
Temperance Lesson last quarter) among
the Christians in Rome.
1t is difficult for US to realize the dan
ger Of which Paul is speaking, because
we cannot readily uu derstand how faith
in idols can be sincere. But faith in the
pagan idols was undou btedly in many
case sincere.
The vine clings with its feelers to the
best support it can find; it runs on the
ground only when it can find no help for
its aspiration. The human soul clings
to the best support within its reach. 1t
blindly gropes when it has no support by
which to rise.
We can easily demonstrate the unrea-
sonableness of propitiatory sacrifices to
Apollo, or Neptune. or Ceres. or Bacchus,
or Minerva, or Venus, or Jove. But the
sincerity of such offerings, and the hui
man need which prompted them. we can
not reasonably doubt.
1t was impossible for the Christians
in Corinth, or in any pagan city, to avoid
a certain degree OF contact with poIythe-
ism. Instead of idol consecrated meats
being alone offered for sale by the poor
or niggardly, as some commentators
surmise, it is more credible to infer that
the temples we're, in great measure. the
common markets of the heather world.
The sincere pagan naturally caused the
meat Of his lamb or bullock to be con-
secrated, that thereby it might be eaten
as an act of worship or Precipitation.
Feasts in the pagan temples. festivals
and carousals within the groves or shady
precincts Of the temple enclosures, were
of frequent occurrence. At these ban
quets the meats which had been offered
to an idol would be esteemed as having
some eucharistic or propitistory quality.
But the pagan who accepted the
Christian faith knew that no idol is
anything in the loorld. He knew that
the idol-consecrated meat was, for that
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Mejia and Miramoir, Macmillan was
shot, his last words being for Mexico's
happiness.
She will Revisit the Country

She will Revisit the Country
And now the poor, widowed, childless
Empress, after years of madness. is said
to be regaining her mind and to long to
visit Mexico, the scene of her brief
triumph and deathless suffering. Prince
Revenholler has been in Mexico to OBJ.
tain permission for Csrlotta to revisit
the country, and it is understood that
the request has been granted. Every
honor and attention is to be paid her by
the Mexican Government. and her ply
sicians say they think that she will be
greatly benefited by the journey.
She is yet bitter and unforgiving to-
ward the brother whose sympathy and
aid were withheld from her in her su-
preme hour of need. but the once
clouded brain is rapidly clearing; the
queenly woman seems gliding back to-
ward the shadow of the brief splendor
Of her youth, and perhaps the pilgrim
age to the shrine where her husband
fell may restore the proud mind to the
imperious brilliancy Of its youth.-NsaU
York Tribune.
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1.-THE Kingdom of the World is become the
of Our Lord and of His Christ"
Evening star., 1897-03-30
CONFERENCE STATISTICS.
Important Figures Submitted to the
StnuntOn Gathering.

Special Dispatch to The Evening Star.
STAUNTON, Va, March 3o.-The Balti-
more annual conference of the Methodist
Episcopal Church South today took upon it
self the task of raising money to lift the
debt on Wesleyan Female Institute of this
place. Today nearly $500 was subscribed.
with $1,000 conditional upon raising all the
amount of the debt Other subscriptions
and collections will be taken in the
churches. Statistics Of the conference are
follows:
Local preachers, 90; white members. 5O.
49, colored members, 33; total, 5o,714; in
crease. 12t3: infants baptised, 1,5So; adults
baptised, 1869: Epworth Leagues, 165; in
crease. 81: Epworth League members. 100;
increase, 1856; Sunday schools. 5S1: Sunday
school teachers. 5,tsD; Sunday school pupils,
t40.351; contributions-church extensions,
sl.y;6; American Bible Society, $'6l; num-
ber of congregations, $50; church edifices,
52i; value, 81 IS6, ,W5; number of charges,
100; parsonages. 1885, values, $22O,ooo; dis
trct parsonages, ), value, 10000. Educa-
tional statistics: Randolph Macon College
value, $116,UO: endowments, S1260oo;. pro-
fessors %: pupils, 132 Randolph Macon
Academy Bedford, Na.-value $@.Gn; pro-
fessors 8; pupils, 12o, Randolph Macon
Academy Front Royal, Fa.-value. Slo2, 900;
professors, g; pupils, 81; Randolph Macon
Woman's College. Lynchburg. Na.-value,
$124,GOo; endownentS, S1U3,ooo; professors,
20; pupils IT.: Wesleyan Female Institute,
Stanton Va.-value, S300t0: professors, IL (:
pupils, IS.
Evening star., 1897-03-30
Another Crevasse in the Mississippi
River Levee.
LIVESTOCK DROWNED IN NUMBERS
People Are Fleeing to the Railway
Embankments.
EXCITE M ENT P REV A1LS

JACKSON, Miss, March 30.-Telegrams
to the Associated Press from Greenville,
Miss, say:
At 3 o'clock this morning anoth er
crevssse occurred above Mounds Landing,
about fifteen miles north of this city, and
at O'Clock yesterday evening a break
occurred near Australia, Miss, about
twelve miles north of Rosedale, Bolivar
county.
This. with the crevasse at Lake Lee. ten
miles below Greenville, will deluge the en-
tire great Mississippi delta
Nearly all of Bolivar and Washington
counties will go under in the next two
days. All of Issaquena and parts of Sun
flower and Sharkey will also be flooded
Live stock are drowning in great num-
bers and people are fleeing to the railroad
embankments and levees for safety.
1t is impossible to estimate the amount
of property which will be destroyed by the
water, and suffering throughout this region
will be intense. Greenvile, Rosedale
Stonevile. Arcola, and in fact all the delta
towns south of Rosedale to Vcksburg will
be under water soon.
The greatest excitement prevails all along
the line. The Greenville levees are still
holding, but are getting mushy. Thousands
of men line the embankments north and
south of Greenyille, and are working like
lemons All business is suspended, and
the people are fighting for their lives.
Greenvile lies in the center of a crescent,
surrounded on two sides by the river, and
is twelve feet below the level OF the EN-
bankments. Should the huge ridge give
way here the loss of life and property will
be frightful and will rival the Johnstown
disaster
The men along the levee are exhausted
by lorg vigil, and many of them have not
tasted food for twenty-four hours, and
sleep is almost unknown.
MEMPHIS Tenn. March 3O-The steam
tug FL Rio Rey, chartered by the ST l. lis
Republic as d flood relief boat, sum- in
forty feet of water in front of Mem phis
this morning. The crew lost all their be-
longings.
A private dispatch 10 a cotton firm in this
city frCm Capt Mark Cheek of the steamer
Kate Adams reports a break in the levee
on the Akansas side at Laconia Circle. La
coma Circle is about 40 miles below Mem
phis. and the levee at that point protects
some of the best plantations in the state.
VICKSBURG. Miss, March 3O.-Last
night a serious break occurred in the levee
at Stop Landing, Miss, seven miles north
of Arkansas City. This makes the third
break in the Mississippi.
NEW ORLEANS, La, March 30.-The
city gauges are eight-tenths of a foot above
the revised danger mark, but a few weak
spots have developed in the levees, and
these have been promptly repaired
ARKANSAS CITY. March a0.-The gauge
registers 5l.9, a slight rise. The water
which comes through the Amos bayou is
creeping into the back of this CITY.
white man named Smiley was drowned at
Cayers Landing. He and another were
thrown from the skiff, and as he could
not swim he was drowned
Evening star., 1897-03-30
TO PROTECT INVENTORS.
Act Introduced in the Senate by Mr..
HansbrOuEh.


Senator Haps5rough of North Dakota
has introduced bill to prevent inventors
and others from being deceived and de-
frauded by alleged patent attorneys. The
text follows
That hereafter it shall be unlawful! for
any person or persons, firm or corpora
ton, engaged in procuring and prosecuting
patent claims to offer or award to tneir
business correspondents or clients my
Gift prize or chance to win one, medal OF
lonor certificate of Stock or any othef
article or thing of real or supposed value,
intrinsic or otherwise; and any person or
persons violating the provisions OF TINS
act shall be deemed guilty Of misde-
meancr and on conviction thereof shall Tor
each offense be punished by fine of not
less than $3.50 and not more than SloT). or
by imprisonment at hard labor for not less
than six mon.~-s more than one year.
Section = That all applications for pat
ents which may hereafter be filed by or
through an attorney, or any person repre-
senting himself such shall be accom-
panied by an affidavit of such attorney or
person that he has not violated the pro-
visions of the first section of this act, and
that false swearing thereto shall constitute
perjury.
Section g. That in all cases where the
government has heretofore or may here
after receive fees for OF on account of de-
vices already patented in the United States
the amounts thereof shall be promptly re-
funded to the respective payees.
Section 4. That the commissioner of pat
ents shall. as early as practicable, prescribe
and promulgate rules for the admission and
disbarment of attorneys practicing before
the patent office, said rules to be subject
to the approval OF the Secretary of the
Interior,
Evening star., 1897-03-30
RAILWAY LAWYERS TO MEET
Conference Of Legal Representatives of the
Big Eastern Roads.
The Meeting VIII Be n Secret One
Consultation of Southwestern
Trnmc OmciaIs,

NEW YORK. March 3O.-Among railroad
men the greatest interest attaches to the
conference to be held in this city today of
the legal representatives of the roads in the
Joint Traffic Association. The meeting
which is specially called to discuss the de-
cision of the United States Supreme Court
in the case of the TraEs- Missouri Traffic
Association, will be conducted in secret.
prominent railroad lawyer who repre-
sents one of the thirty odd roads in the as
sociation was seen shortly before the time
appointed for today's meeting.
II cannot say whether or not our road
will be represented at the meeting" said
he. land to be frank, don't think it's any
body's business. Things are in a snarl just
now. and 1 don't see what we have to gain
by taking the public into our confidence"
ST. LOUIS, Mo-, March 3O.-An informal
conference of traffic officials and railroad
organizations representing ST. Louis lines
was held yesterday in the office of the
Southwestern Traffic Association to dis
cuss the recent ruling of the Supreme
Court. 1t was suggested that it might
be we'll to continue the existing organiza-
TORS for the purpose of classifying freight
and to serve a clearing house for regu-
lating joint rates.
committee was appointed to formulate
plan of action to be presented at some
future day. The committee Is composed
of Vice Presidents Yoakum Of the Frisco,
Ramsey of the Wabash and Miller of the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas.
AUSTIN, Tex, March 30.-Texas railway
circles are considerably agitated at pres
ent over the fact that the Texas railway
commission is preparing a big sensation.
The interstate commerce commission will
come to this city in April to hear several
Texas cases. In the meantime the Texas
commission has summoned nearly 200 job
bers, cotton men and lumber men to be
present. 1t has been intimated that Texas
roads have been violating both state and
interstate rights in the matter of discrimi-
nation.