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ing on the powder box. Recognizing
the awful danger, she attempted to
leave the child for the moment and
carry out the powder, but in her excite
ment she caught her foot in the over
hanging bedclothes and fell to the floor,
breaking her thighbone. Unable to rise,
the brave girl painfully crawled to the
box. The mother had by this time sue
ceeded in getting out OF bed and has
tened outside the now furiously burn
ng shanty with her little boy.
The cries of Carmen "Oh, take Tom.
my out, won't your turned for time
the mothers thoughts from her daught-
er's danger. The fire had aroused some
of the neighbors, who speedily ran to
the burning shanty and lent what aid
they could. Carmen was discovered
and removed. Her rescuers found her
almost buried beneath mass of burn
ing cinders, her back frightfully burned.
Tender hands bore her to neighboring
shanty, where all that could be done to
alleviate her sufferings was eagerly be-
slowed. But human aid came too late.
The brave little spirit fingered until the
following day, and then departed for
brighter land. 1t was not known until
after she had recovered consciousness,
a short time before she died, that she
had broken her leg. Her last words
were: kiss me. Tommy, dear; I've
saved you. and I'm so happy San
Francisco Call
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HOW A BRAVE GIRL DIED.

She lived in Placer county. not far
from where the pretty town of Auburn
now stands, for it happened many years
ago, in the early '60s, and expect that
but few now residing there have any
recollection of the affair. The family.
consisting of her father, miner. her mo-
Their and little brother, dwelt in a small
shanty erected under cover of conven.
lent ledge. The shanty was a miserable
structure Of two rooms, but it held what
many grander dwelling failed to con-
tain-a loving household. The mother
lay sick with fever. and Carmen, then a
girl of twelve, performed the drudgery
Of the house. Her little brother, q
curly-headed romp of five. was Garments
great responsibility.
The father was away from early morn
ing until late at night at his work. and
30 the little hands Of twelve found plenty
to do. In common with the custom Of
miners, the father kept store Of powder
in the house. which in the present case
was contained in sack placed in a
wooden box that stood at the foot of the
bed where lay the sick mother. The
upper part of the shanty, under the
sloping board roof. was utilized as a
storage place for old dunnage.
One night the father was absent in
the mine. By some means the shanty
took fire, probably from the cracked
and defective adobe chimney. Carmen
awake to find that the roof afire and
sparks dropping down. Springing up
she loudly cried to awaken her mother
and Tommy, but the little boy became
frightened and hid his head beneath
the covers of his bed. Carmen sprang
to lift him from the bed, when
she saw the shower of sparks fall
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spiritual presence of Christ. He taught
believers to regard the prospect, not
with apprehension, but with glad antic-
ipation. 1t was the realization of the
Christian hope to loUe Christ's appear
ing.
What we understand Paul to say
in this contested passage is this: Do
not sorrow for the dead with hopeless
sorrow. The resurrection of Jesus
means the resurrection of all men. The
dead. even sooner than the living. will
see the glory of our Lord; but we also
in the earth shall see him in his glorious
power; living or dying we are the Lords
and are panoplied with his might. Live
in peaceful comfort. Exact knowledge
of times or seasons is withheld from u.s.;
but the future of Gods kingdom in the
earth is fixed fact.
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WAITING AND WORKING FOR
CHRIST.
Lesson yI.-August 8, 1897.
INTRODUCTION.
1. Thess. iv. 9.-v. 2.

Some verses of our lesson passage
are professedly descriptive of the COM
ing of the Lord. Perhaps no words of
the New Testament have been the sub.
ject of more Misrepresentation than
these. They seem to have been misap-
pretended by the Thessalonian believers
to whom they were first addressed.
They have since that day been the &C.
casion of many unsubstantiated and
harmful coniectures. About half GEN.
fury ago large sect in New England,
mainly on the testimony of this passage.
set the exact day on which they expect
ed Christ to appear in the clouds and
blow the resurrection trump; which
trumpet-blast would, as they declared,
waken all the Christian dead and raise
them, with all living Christians, to the
sky and at the same time summon de-
structive fire to annihilate all upright
eous sleepers and surviving unbelievers.
This babe soaring portent has been
again and again repeated; and of course
as often demonstrated to be delusion.
Yet the Authorization persists. The
Moody School of Evangelists, instead Of
threatening future endless punishment,
as formerly, now generally. for purposes
of excitation, threaten the coming Of
Christ as the destroyer, not only of
wickedness, but of all the wicked. There
is yet left some human appetite for un-
natural delusions.-It is therefore
of no little import that we learn what
Paul means by the coming of the Lord.
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TEACHERS HELP.

Paul. having been compelled to leave
Berea, and after months discouraging
stay at Athens, was now in Corinth. He
was here in the midst of arduous labors;
but his mind turned with solicitude to
the sorely- beset believers in Thessalon-
lea. He was prompted to write to them
an Epistle. to be read in their open as
sembly. This Epistle is peculiarly in.
teresting to US, as the earliest of the
New Testament writings.
Our lesson passage is selection from
this First Epistle of Paul to the Thes.
salonians. The selection includes GER
tain Of Paul's words which have been
the occasion OF no little harmful misap-
prehension. Our lesson must needs be
mainly one of the exposition.
For the sake of the elucidation
which will be given by another render
ing, we will reproduce our lesson pass.
age as translated by Conybeare and
Howson. who are by general concession
the most thorough Pauline scholars of
this century.
/. Live now the Heavenly
Life, vs.. 9-12.
Concerning brotherly love it is need
less that / should write to you; for ye
yourselves are taught of God to love one
another; as you show by your deeds
towards all the brethren throughout the
whole of Macedonia. exhort you only,
brethren. to abound still more. Seek
peaceful quietness, and give yourselves
to the concerns Of your private life; let
this be your ambition. Work with your
own hands las / commanded you) for
your own support; that the seemly order
of your lives may be manifest to those
without the church, and that you may
need no help from others.
This is we'll entitled "An exhortation
to love, peace. and good order" The ex.
preston, Let this be your ambition" is
said by Conybeare to be almost equiva-
lent to, "be ambitious to be unambiti-
ous." 1t is an exhortation which comes
with good grace from Paul, who had
while fulfilling his ministry to the Thes.
salonians, earned his own bread by tent.
making.
2. Hope for All who Fall
Asleep,-vs. 9-l2.
Now l desire, brethren. to remove
your ignorance concerning those who
are asleep. that you may not sorrow like
other men who have no hope. For az
surely as we believe that Jesus died and
rose again. so surely will God through
him bring back those who sleep together
with Jesus.
1t has been assumed that the query OF
the pagan converts in Thessalonica was
simply as to the state of the Christian
dead; that they had no interest in the
future state of their own pagan rela.
tives. The assumption is unwarranted;
il is even preposterous. Paul would moi
have his readers ignorant concerning
those t1ho are asleep,-namely, all the
dead. The phrase of the common yer.
sion Tvs. 14). "sleep in Jesus" is not q
correct rendering Of the original; the
true rendering is, as our authorities ex-
pressIy declare, that God will, through
him bring back those tcho sleep in
Jesus; that lie, all, pagan and Christian
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SCHOLARS, STUDY.

TIME.-About 80, not long after
Paul's arrival in Corinth.
PLA E.-Written from Corinth,
to the church at Thessalonica in Mace
donia.
UNIVERS ALIST GATE
CHISM.-XXXI. Will those in dark
ness see light? In Jesns is light for
every one that comes into the acorld.-
JOHN l: 9.
GOLDEN TEXT.-"If I 90 and
prepare place for you, 1 aciU come
again. and receiue you unto myself;
that avhere am, there ye mag be also"
JOHN IA: 3.
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Willis
Peyton's
Inheritance
THE STORY OF A CLAIM.
bly,.
EMII.Y L. SHERWOOD.
THE STORY OF A CLAIM,

CONTENTS:
CHAP.
l. Sunset.
II. Changes.
III. House-Hunting In the City.
Nv. New Scenes.
v. A Wedding.
vi. A Discovery.
VII. Complexities.
VIII, Mother and Son.
TX, Willis and His Triumph.
X. Claim on its Travels.
XII. Claude and Jessie.
XII. Claude an Explorer.
XIII. The Old Professor turns Matchmaker.
XIV. An Excursion and what Came Of It.
XIV. Claude In Peril.
XVI. Claudes Mother and Jessie.
XVII. A Little Respite.
XVIII. A Surprise.
XIX. Deep Waters.
Xxx. Wedding Bells.
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to wish her the fullest success.-Gospel Banner.
The story is told In simple and beautiful
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Needed LEGISLATION.

The Las Vegas Optic publishes the fol.
lowing among the replies received to its
inquiry as to what legislation is most
needed in New Mexico at this time:
! Albuquerque, N. NJ, Jan. IA, 1897
"ln view of the high character and great
ability of the legislature soon to as
! semble, 1t does not seem necessary to
offer suggestions concerning the work
they are so well fitted to do.
"On the other hand your enterprise is
commendable, and personal request re-
CURES courteous response.
"The public press of the territory has,
IN my opinion, indicated the most urgent
need of New Mexico at the present mo-
ment, and, therefore, the most i'm portant
work of the lawmakers. This work is to
cut down expenses and lessen the burden
OF taxes wherever practicable. Consoli-
date some offices, cut down the emolu-
ments of the others, uproot the fee sys-
tenn, and let the measure of the salary be
what is required to get efficient service
In these times of increasing value of
money it is just to cut down the pay of
Falaried officers, and, in this time of
shrinking value of property of every
kind, it is really necessary and but sim
pie justice to Tighten somewhat the bur-
den of taxes. We must, as territory,
adjust ourselves to the new order of
'hings. Respectfully,
"H. B. FERGUSON"
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'sse - ~ ass-sa. s.sz.e s. -lass;ta3I,
county commissioners pay out dollars i'll
discretionary allowances where they
spend dimes for fixed legal charges. The
conduct of the county's business is prin-
cipally i'll the hands of the commission
ers, but they are not the only Of
ticers with discretionary powers. The
sheriff, by taking the longest route
possible, can pile up the costs and
add to the general tax burden of the
people. These are only samples of the
innumereble leaks that can occur in the
management of county affairs. There
are several of the counties in New Mex.
leo that are hopelessly bankrupt, and
their conditions, one and all, can be
traced to administrative incompetence
from one election to another. There has
been too much partisan politics in
county affairs for the good of the people
We do not advocate the abolition of poli.
tics in the election of county officers but
we certainly insist that fitness for the du-
ties should be considered of more impor-
lance in the selection of candidates for
office than the question of how many
votes the particular candidate can bring
to the ticket. Bernalillo county is one of
the unfortunate counties of New Mexico,
and it is, and has been, one of the worst
ring controlled counties in the world;and
if we are correctly informed, the city
government of Albuquerque is no better,
We venture the assertion that majority
of the members Of the Commercial club, |
the leading business men of that city,
have been going into their party conn
ills, year after year, advocating the nom
nation and election of candidates for of |
ice whom they knew had nothing to rec
them except ability to get votes
We hope that the realization of the CON
ition they are in will abide with them,
nd that the reform movement will last
onger than spell of collie. Roswell
lecord.
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COUNTY REFORM AND POLITICS,

The Commercial club of Albuquerque
has taken hold of the uestion of reforms
in county and city governments in this
territory, and requests the cooperation
Of all good citizens in securing at the
hands of the Legislature such changes in
the laws as will give more efficient serv
ice by public officers at a more reason
able compensation. Applying the old
adage that sit ls never too late to do
GOOD" we think the Commercial club is
engaged in righteous cause, and shall
help it with our moral support to the last
We think, however, that this crusade of
reform is rather late in starting, and that
the Legislature, let it do its utmost, will
be far less potent in the matter OF re-
form than would the people themselves
II they would look into the thing at the
proper time. 1t is true that the legal
fees of officials are in many instances out
of proportion to the services rendered,
but they are mere bagatele compared
with the contingent charges in the dis.
erection md conscience of the officers
For instance, boards of
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AVAILABLE COMMISSION.

At the solicitation of the New MEXICAN
Secretary La Rue of the territorial sani-
tary commission yesterday gave the read
ing public q most readable column of
facts and figures respecting the cattle
raising industry, perusal of which will
convince the most skepticgl that organi-
cation such as characterizes this COM
mission is of inestimable benefit to the
people. What pity that the sheep and
wool growing industry of New Mexico
can not be raised to similar standard of
business. Why not try it? The wool
growers nre to meet shortly to consider
matters Of this sort. We commend them
to the gratifying results that have been
obtained by the live stock men working
in unison.
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DOUBTLESS the Democrat is correct in
the contention that in some of the coun-
ties the fees paid to certain officials are
far in excess of the value of the services
rendered and that these counties are suf-
fering thereby. We still maintain, how
ever, that the present loose method of
running the counties on the credit sys-
TEN, consequently paying two and three
prices for all they buy and steadily &C.
cnmuating crops of costly confessed
is the principal cause of the
condition of the counties.
Let the reform come, and let it be
thorough.
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JOHN SHERMAN was born in Lancaster,
Ohio, on May 10, 1928, and the proba-
bilities are that he will be II years old on
the 10th day of next May. He has been
continuously in public service since 1856
at a salary of $4,000 per year, with the ex-
ception of the four years he drew $4,000 a
year as secretary of the treasury under
President Hayes, and has succeeded in
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,-4na4 RrRaER makes pathetic appeal
IT, 2resident-elect Mckinley enent state
hood for New Mexico. We shall see what
we shall see. Probably Col. Berger
would be getting nearer the root of the
cause Of delay were he to work awhile on
the Hon. Tom Reed, of Maine.
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