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THE SAVIOUR'S BOYHOOD

By Dr. TnJmatw oa theBoy Ji

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Ia a raceat sermoa at Brooklvu Dr. Tnl-snag- e'srabject was "Christ theVillsge

Lad." He took for his tart Lake ii. 40:"And the child grow, aad waxed strongla spirit, filled with wisdom; aad the(race of God was upoa Him." The preach-er said:

About Christ as a Tillage lad 1 speak.There is for the most partasileace morethaa eighteen centuries long about Christbetween infancy and manhood. Whatload of a boy was Hcf Was He a genuine

oy at all or did there settle upon Himfrom the start all the intensities of mar-tyrdom? We have oa this subject only alittle guessing, a few surmises, and hereand there an unimportant "perhaps."Concerning what bounded that boyhoodoa both sides we hare whole libraries ofhooks and wools galleries of canvas andsculpture. Before the infant child inMary's arms, or taking His first sleep inthe rough outhouse, all the painters bow,and we have Paul Veronese's ''Holy Fam-ily." and Perugino's "Nativity," and An-geli- co

da Fiesole's 'Infant Christ," and--Batons' "Adoration of the Magi," andTtatoret's "Adoration of the Magi," andChirlandojo's "Adoration of the Magi."

--and Raphael's "Madonna," aad Orcagna's''Madonna," and Murillo's "Madonna,"aad Madonnas by all the schools of paint-- dme in all lights and shades and with allstyles of attractive feature and impressivesurroundings, but pen and pencil andchisel have with few exceptions passedby Christ the villaga lad. Yet by threeconjoined evidences I think we can cometo as accurate an idea of what Christ wasas a boy as we can of what Christ was asa man.

First, we have the brief Bible accountThen we have the prolonged account ofwhat Christ was at thirty years of age..Jiowyou have only to minify that accountsomewhat and you find what He wasat ten years of age. Temperaments neverchange. A sanguine temperament neverbecomes a phlegmatic temperament. Anervous temperament never becomes alymphatic temperament. Religion changesone's affections and ambitions, but it isthe same old temperament acting in a dif-ferent direction. As Christ had no relig-ious change. He was at a lad what He wasas a man, only on not so large a scale.When all tradition and all art and all his-tory represent Him as a blonde with gol-den hair I know He was in boyhood ablonde.

We have, beside, an uninspired bookthat was for the first three or four cen-turies after Christ's appearance receivedby many as inspired and which gives pro-longed account of Christ's boyhood. Someof it may be true, most of it may be true,'none of it may b true. It may be partlyAuilt on facts, or by the passage of theages, some real facts may have been dis-torted. But because a book is uot divine-ly inspired we are not therefore to con-clude that there are not true things in it.Frescott's "Conquest of Mexico" wasnot inspired, but we believe it,although it may contain mistakes.Macaulay's "History of England" wasnot inspired, but we belisve it, although itmay have been marred with many errors.The ed apocryphal gospel in whichthe boyhood of Christ is dwelt upoa I douot believe to be divinely inspired, andyet it may present facts worthy of consid-eration. Because it represents tin boy

'Christ as performing miracles some haveoverthrown that whole apocryphal book.But what right have you to say that Christlid not perform miracles at tea years of

as wall as at thirty? He was in boy-Jin- odas certainly d viae-a- s in manhood

While I do not believe that any of theapocryphal New Testament is

iupiied, I believe much of it is true; justa I believe a thousand books, none ofwhich are divinely inspired. Much of itwas jurt like Christ. Just as certain asthe man Christ was the most of the timegetting the men out of trouble, I thinkthat the boy Christ was the most of the

-- time getting boys out of trouble. I havedeclared to you this day a boy '4 Christ.Aad the world wants such a one. He didnot sit arou-i- moping over what was tobe or what was. From the way ia whichnatural objects enwreathed themselvesinto His sermons after He had become aman, 1 conclude there was not a rock or ahill or a cavern or a tree for miles aroundthat He was not familiar with in child-hood. He had cautiously felt his waydown into the caves and had with litheaad agile limb gained a poise on many ahigh tree top. His boyhood was passedamong grand scenery, as most all the greatnatures have pasted early life among themountains. They may live now oa theflats, but they passed the receptive daysof ladhood among the hills, among themountains of New Hampshire or themountains of Virginia or thnmountains of Kentucky or themountains of Switzerland or Italy orAustria or Scotland. Oa mountains as highaad rugged at they, many of the world'sthrilling biographies began. Our Lord'sboyhood was passed in a neighborhoodtwelve hundred feet above the level of the:sea aad surrounded by mountains five orsix hundred feet atill higher. Before itcould shine on the village where this boyalepttbesun had to climb far enough upto look over the hills that held their headsfar aloft. Authors have taken paias tosay that Christ was aot affected by thesesurroundings, and that He from withinlived outward and independent of circum-stances. So far from that being true. He--was the most sensitive being that overwalked the earth, aad if a pale invalid'sweak finger could not touch His robs

--without strength going oat from Himthese mountains aad seat could aot haveCoached His ays without lrradlatiag His

--entire nature with their magaiflcenoe Iwarrant that Hs had mounted aad ed

sll the fifteen hills around Naza-reth, among them Heraxoa with its crystalcoronet of perpetual saow, and Carmelaad Tabor aad Gilbos, aad they all hadtheir sublime echo ia after time from theOHvetic pulpit

And then itwssaot uncultivated grand--su- e.These hills carried in tnsirarsasor

oa their backs gardeas, groves, orchards,terraces, vineyards cactus, sycamores.Those outbiaacaiag foliages did aot havevo wait for the foods before their sUeaee

broken, for through thorn sad oversad ia circles rouad these aad under

-- them were pelicsas, were thrushes, weresparrows, were aigBsmgsies, were larks,ware quail, were blackbirds, were part-singe- s,

wars balbals, Yoader the whiteOf sneep noma ever suei leads. Aad yonaer tae Brook re--

to the pebbles its aavsataresthe rocky satirise. Yoader

the oriental homes, the housewife withpitcher oa the shoulder entering the door,and dowa the lawa ia front childrenreveling among the flaming flora. Aadall this spring aad song aad grass sadsaashiae aad shadow wovea lata tho mostexquisite aatsrs that ever breathed orwept or sung or suffered. Through study-ing ths sky betweea tho hills Christ hadaoticed tho weather signs, aad that acrimson sky at alght mesat dry weathernext day, aad that a crimson sky ia themorning msaat wst weather before nightAad how beautifully Hs mads use of it iaafter years at He drove dowa upoa thepestiferous Pharisee aad Badaucee oycrying out: "Whoa it is oveaing yo sayit will be fair weather, for the sky is rod.and ia ths morning it will be foal weatherto-da- y, for the, sky is rod aad lowering.O, ye hypocrites, ye an discern the sigas ofthe times." By day, as every boy hasdone, He watched the barnyard fowl atsight of overswinging hawk, cluck herchickens under wing, aad ia after yearsHe said: "O, Jerusalem, Jerusalem! Howoften would I have sataered thee as a hengathereth her chickens under her wing!"By night He bal noticed His .mother bythe plain candlelight which, as ever andanoa it was snuffed aad tho removed wickput down oa the candlestick, beamedbrightly through all the family sitting-roo- m

as His mother was mending His gar-ments that bad been torn during the day'swanderings among the rocks or bushes,and years afterward it all came out in thesimile of the greatest sermon everpreached: "Neither do men light a candleand put it under a bushel but in a candle-stick and it givetb light to all who are inthe house. Let your light so shine."

Yes, from the naturalness. the simplicity,the freshnes s of His parables and similesand metaphors in manhood discourse, Iknow that He had been a boy of the fieldsand bad bathed in the streams and beardthe nightingale's call, broken through theflowery hedge and looked out of the em-brasures of the fortress, and drank fromthe wells and chased the butterflies, whichtravelers say have always been one of theflitting beauties of that landscape, andtalked with the strange people from Da-mascus and Egypt and Sapphoris andSyria, who in caravans or on foot passedthrough His neighborhood, the dogs bark-ing at their approach at sundown. Asafterward He was a perfect man, in thetime of which I sp;ak He was a perfectboy, with the spring of a boy's foot, thesparkle of a boy's eye, the rebound of aboy's life and just the opposite of thosejuveniles who sit around morbid snd an-elast- ic,

old men at ten.- - I warrant He wasable to take His own part and to take thepart of others.

Let the world look out bow it treads ona boy. for that very moment it treads onChrist You strike a boy. yon strikeChrist; you insult a boy, you insult Christ;you chata boy, you cheat Christ It isan awful aad infinite mistake to come asfar as manhood without a Christ whenhere is a boy Christ That was one reason.I suppose, that Jonathan Edwards, after-ward the greatest American logician andpreacher of his time, became a Christianat seven years of age; and Robert Hall,who afterward shook Christendom withhis sacred eloquence became a Christianat twelve years of age; and Isaac Watts,who divided with Charles Wesley the do-minion of holy song, became a Christianat nine years of age; and if in any largereligious assemblage it were asked that allthe men and women who learned to loveChrist before they were fifteen years ofage would please lift their right band,there would be enough hands lifted towave a coronation. What is true in re-ligious sense is trne in a secular sense.Themistocles amazed his school fellowswith talents which ia after years madethe world stare Isaac Newton, the boy,by driving pegs in the side of a house tomark the decline of the sun, evidenced adisposition toward tin experiments whichafterward showed the nations how thethe worlds swing. Robert Btephenson,the boy, with his kite on the commons ex-perimented with electric currents andprophesied work which should yet makehim immortal. "Get out of my way I"said a rough man to a boy, "get out of myway ! what are you good for, anyhow?"They boy answered: "They make men outof such things as we are."

But having shown you the divine lad inthe fields, I must show you Him ia themechanic's shop. Joseph, His father, diedvery early, immediately after the fa-mous trip to the temple, and this lad hadnot only to support Himself, but to sup-port His mother, and whst that is some ofyou know. There is a royal race of boyson earth now doing the same thing. Theywear no crown. They have no purplerobe adroop from their shoulders. Theplain chair on which they sit is as muchunlike a throne as any thingyou can imag-ine, but God knows what they are doingand through what sacrifices they no, andthrough all eternity Ood will keep payingthem for their filial behavior. They shallget mil measure of reward, the measurepressed down, shaken together and run-ning over. They have their example inthis toy Christ taking care of His mother.

But having seen Christ the boy of thefiel Is r.nd the boy in the mechanic's shop.1 shjw you a more marvelous scene,Christ the smooth-browe- d lad, among thelong-bearde- d, white-haire- d, high-fore-head- ed

ecclesiastics of the temple. Hun-dreds of thousands of strangers bad cometo Jerusalem to keep a great religious fes-tival. After the hospitable homes werecrowded with visitors, the teats werespread all around the city to shelter im-mense throngs of strangers. It was veryeasy among the vast throngs coming andgoing to lose a child. More than twomillion people have been knowa to gatherat Jerusalem for that national feast Youmust not think of those regions as sparse-ly settled. Ths ancient historian, Jo-seph- us,

says there were ia Galilee twohundred cities, the smallest of them containing 15,000 people. No wonder thatamid the crowds at the time spokea ofJesus, tho boy, was lost. His .parents,knowing that Ho was mature enough aadagile .enough to take cars of Himself, areoa their way homo without say anxiety,supposing that their boy is coming withsome of tho groups. Bat after awhile theysuspect Ho is lost and with flushed cheekaad a terrorised look they rath this wayaad that flags "Have yoa seen aaythiagofmyboy? He is twelve years of age,of fair complexion, aad has bias syss sadauburn hair. Have yoa seea Him siaeswo left tho city?" Back they go la hothaste, ia aad oat ths streets, ia aad oattho private houses aad among tho sur-rounding bills. For throe days theysearch aad taqaire, wondering it He hasbeen trampled under foot of ssme of thothroags or has vaatured oa the cliffs orfallen off a precipioe Bond through allthe streets aad lanes of tho city aadamong the surrouadisg hills that mostdismal souad: "A lost child! A lostchild!" Aad le, after, throe days theydiscover Him ia groat temple, seatedasaoag tho mightiest religionists ofall theworld. Tho walls of ao other buildingever looked dowa oa each a soeae Achild twelve yean old surrounded by I

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septasgeaariaia. He asking His owa ques-tions aad answering theirs.

I am aot so much interested ia tho ones-tio- ssthey ssked Him as ia ths questions

He asked them. He asked the questionsnot to get iafcrmatioa from tho doctors,for He knew it already, but to humblethem by showing them the height aaddepth aad length aad breadth of theirowa ignorance. While the radiaat boythrusts these self -- conceited philosopherswith tho interrogation point they put theforeflnger of the right hand to the templeas though to start their thoughts iatomore vigor, aad they would look upwardand then they would wrinkle their brows" " !words confess their incapacity to answerthe interrogators--. With any one of ahundred questions about theology, about'philosophy, about astronomy, about time.about eternity. He may have balked tnem,disconcerted them, flung them flat Be-hold

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tho boy Christ asking questions andlUtsn when your child asks questions. Hehas the right to ask them. The more heasks the better. Alas for the stupidity ofthe child without inquisittveness! It isChristlike to ask questions. Answerthem if you can. Do not say: "I can'tbs bothered now." It is your place tobe botnered with questions. If you arenot able to answer, surrender and confessyour incapacity, as I have no d ubt didKabbin Simeon andHillel andShammaiand the sons of Betirah when that splendidboy, sitting or standing there with a gar-ment reaching from neck to ankle, andgirdled at tto waist put them to theirvery wit's end. It is no disgrace to Bay:"I don't know." The learned doctorswho environed Christ that day in thetemple did not know or they would nothave atked Him any questions. The onlybeing in the universe who uever needs tosay, "I do not know," is the LordAlmighty. The fact that they did notknow seutKeppIer and Cuvier and Colum-bus and Humboldt and Herschel andMorse and Sir Wiliam Hamilton and allthe other of the world's mightiest naturesinto their life-lon- g explorations. Telescopeand microscope and stethoscope andelectric battery and all the scientific ap-paratus of ail the age are only questionsasked at the door of mystery. Behold thoNazarene lad asking questions givingeverlasting dignity to earnest interroga-tion.

But while I see thi old theologiansstanding around the boy Christ I am im-pressed as never before with the fact thatwhat theology most wants is more ofchildish simplicity. The world and theChurch have built up immense systems oftheology. Half of them try to tell whatGod thought what God planned, whatGod did five hundred million years beforethe small star on which we live was cre-ated. I have bad many a sound sleep un-der sermons about the decrees of God andthe eternal generation of the Son and dis-courses showing who Melchisedek wasn'tand I give a fair warning that if any min-ister ever begins a sermon on such a sub-ject in my presence I will put my beaddown on the pew in front and go into thedeepest slumber I can reach. Wickedwaste of time, this trying to scale theunscalable and fathom the unfathomablewhile the nations want the breadof life and to be told how they can get ridof their sins and their sorrows. Whyshould you and I perplex ourselves aboutthe decrees of God? Mind your own busi-ness and God will take care of His. Inthe conduct of the universe I think Hewill somehow manage to get along with-out us. It you want to love and serveGod, and be good and useful and get toHeaven, I warrant thit nothing which oc-curred eight hundred quintillioa of yearsago will hinder you a minute. It is notthe decrees of God that do us any harm,it is our own decrees of sin and folly.You need not go any further back in his-tory than about 1,856 years. You see thisis tbe year 1889. Christ died about thirty-thre- e

years of age. You subtract 33 from1889 and that makes it only 1.836 years.That is as far back as you need to go.Something occurred on that day un-der an eclipsed sun that sets us allforever free if with our whole heart andlife we accept tbe tremendous proffer.Do not let the Presbyterian Church or theMethodist Church or the Lutheran Churchor tbe Baptist Church or any of the Evan-gelical Churches spend any time in tryingto fix up old creeds, all of tbem imperfectas 1very thing man does is imperfect Imove a new creed for all the EvangelicalChurches of Christendom, only three ar-ticles in the creed and no need of anymore. If I had all the consecrated peopleof all denominations of the earth on onegreat plain, and I had voice loud enoughto put it to a vote that creed of three ar-ticles would be adopted with a unanimousvote and a thundering aye that wouldmake the earth quake and the heavensring with bosanna. This is tbe creed Ipropose for all Christendom:

Article 1. "God so loved the world thathe gave His only begotten Son that who-soever beli eveth in Him should not perishbut have everlastinc life."

Article 2. "This is a faithful saying andworthy of all acceptation that Jesus Christcame into the world to save sinners, eventbe chief."

Article 3. "Worthy is tbe Lamb that wstslain to receive blessing and riches andhonor and glory and power, world withoutend. Amen."

But you go to tinkering up your oldcreeds and patching and splicing and in-terlining and annexing and subtractingand adding and explaining and yoa willlose time and make yourself a target foiearth aad hell to shoot at Let us bavscreeds not fashioned out of human ingen-uities but out of Scriptural phraseology,aad all the guns o( bombardment blazingfrom all the port holes of infidelity andperdition will not in a thousaad yearsknock off the Church of Goi a splinter ssbig ss a cambric needle What is mostneeded now is that we gather all our the-ologies around the boy ia the temple theelaborations aroaad tho simplicities aadtbe profundities aroaad the clarities, theoctogenarian of scholastic research aroaadthe ua wrinkled cheek of twelve yearsjuvenescence. "Except you become as slittle child you caa ia ao wise eater thekingdom;" aad except yoa becomeas a little child yoa caa aot aa-derst-

tho Christian religion. Thobest thing that Rabbla Simeon aad Hillelaad Baammai aad ths seas of Betirahever did was ia the temple to bead overtho led who, first made ruddy of cheek bytho breath of the Judoaa bills aad on Hisway to tho mechanic's shop where He wsssoon to be tho support of His bereavedmother, stopped long enough to grapplewith the venerable dialsctieiaaa of theOrient "both hearing them aad askingthem questions." Some, referring tcChrist have exclaimed Eeco Deas! Be-hold the God. Others have exclaimedEccs homo! Behold tho man. Bat to-da-yia conclusion of my subject I cry, Eceoadolesceas! Behold tho bay !

m e mIt is estimated that 409 natives were

killed In the recent fight at Saadani, nearZanzibar. Tho bulk of tho property destroyed hsloBgad to British Bass ladles. J

AMID Trie RUINS.sadly soarchlan for Vctfais la the Jo

tews Death Heap Carina; For tho Uvtanuna Karris tho Dead.Jobsstowb, Ps. Juae & For thirty- -i

six hours the Are oagiaos played upoa thoemoklag raws above tho bridge, but tawflames break oat afresh at freqaeat inter-vals. Nearly 2.080 mea are employed iadifferent aorta of tho valley clearing aptbe ruins aad searching for the dead. Itis estimated that apto Monday night 200bodies had been recovered altogether.

It becomes hourly more aad mors appar-o- atthat aot a single vestige will ever bo

recognised of hundreds that were roasted.". tb. bridge 8i.ee thelast sentence waa penned, searchers an- -BBBBW nnvtr'nwwkk J !PlEssT a. MlirEstAx, JrofegT ?s&&SgSAWOODVAUE

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earthed a charred and unsichily massfrom the smoldering debris withinthirty yards of the AssociatedPress headquarters. Unused to suchfrightful discoveries the leader of thegang pronounced tbe remains to be ablackened log and it required the authori-tative verdict of a physician to demon-strate that the ghastly discovery was thecharred remains of a human being. Onlythe trunk remained and it was roasted be-yond all semblanca to flesh. Five min-utes' search revealed fragments of a skullthat at once disintegrated of its ownweight when exposed to tbe air, no singlepiece being larger than a half dollar andthe whole resembling the remains of shat-tered charcoal. Within tbe last hour ahalf dozen discoveries no less horrifyinghave been made It is thought that hun-dreds mnst be fairly burnt to ashes.

Moxbam, the iron manufacturer, Ismayor pro tern, of Johnstown to-da- y.Although for days without sleep, he stiltsticks nobly to his task. Hundreds ofothers are like him. Men fall to tbe earthfrom sheer fatigue There are many whehave not closed an eye in sleep since theyawoke on Friday morning. They arehollow-eye- d, pitiful-lookin- g lot.

Some unfortunates endeavored to obtainflour from the wrecked stores in Johns-tow-n.

One dealer was charging $5 a sackfor flour and was getting it. When thecrowd heard of the occurrence severalmea went to tbe store and doled the flourgratuitously to ths homeless and stricken.

Another dealer was selliog floar at $1.50a sack. Otherwise be would not allowany one to go near it, guarding his storewith a shotgun.

Bodies were recovered in Johnstownyesterday that had been robbed by theghouls. Tbe Hungarians attacked a sap-pl- y

wagon between Morrellvilie and Cam-bria City. The drivers of the wagonsrepulsed them, bat they again returned.A second fight ensued, but after a livelyscramble tbe Hungarians were againdriven away. After that drivers aadguards of supply wagons were permittedto go armed.

Registers are being opened ia Jonns-tow- aand all survivors are requested to

register their names in order to give in-formation of their safety to inquiringfriends. Post-offlc- es were opened inKearaville and tbe Fourth ward of Johns-town. Tbe first mail got in at 9:3) yester-day morning and was enormous.

Tbe suggestion made by the physiciansseveral days ago that the bodies ia the de-bris above tbe bridge be allowed to becremated, in tho interest of public health,and which aroused such a storm of Indig-nation among the surviving populace, isviewed with more calmness to-da- y andthere is a growing sentiment that it isafter all the best solution of the problem.Weeks, months will bo required to re-move tbe stupendous mass by artificialmesas, snd meantime the rotting, putre-fying remains of poor humanity buriedtherein would be dealing pollution aaddeath to all the surrounding country.

Thomas Williams, who lost his wife aadfamily, recovered his wife's remains andtook tbem up tbe mountain where he duga grave and buried tbem himself.

Mrs. Fredericks, an aged woman, wasrescued alive from the attic in her houseThe house had floated from Vine street totbe foot of the mountains Mrs. Freder-icks' experience was terrible She sawhundreds of men, women and cbildronfloating down the torrent, some praying.Others had become raving maniacs.

Ia additioa to a large quantity of cookedfood, as well as flour and other provisionsthe relief committee brought oat 100 com-plete outfits of clothing for women and asimilar number for girls, and a miscellane-ous lot for mea and boys.

What is needed here more than anything else is grave-digger- s. Yesterdayhundreds of bodies were lying around aadthere waa no oae to dig graves.

Yesterday morning at leaat fiftyfuneral processions passed tho Asso-ciated Press headquartere It was aot aaunusual sight to see two or three eoflusgoing along oae after another, followedby a number of mourners all in the samefamily. It was an impossibility to securewagons or conveyances of aay kind, con-sequently all funeral processieas wore oafoot

Tweaty-flv- e registry otaces were openedyesterday. Up to aooa . oat of Hwere registered.

Conservative estimates pat ths aamberof lost at 7.000, sad maay mea of calmjudgment place the aamber at 19,6061 '

MlPrtsbvbsbv Pa, Juno , At three

o'clock Friday afternoon." said Electri-cian Bender, of tho Western Union, "thocirl operator at Johastawa was cheerfullytlcklBg away that she had to abandon theobbco on the flrst flsjar hocaaso tho water ofwas three feet deep there She said shewas writing from ths second story aadtho water was gaiamg steadily. 8ao wssfrightened, and said maay housesaroaad were flooded. This was evidentlybefore tho dam broke for eui man here

id something encouraging to her.aha wss talkhig hack as oily a cheerful Igirl operator can, whea tho receiver Jsauioa ear caagns a soma est toe wire 1

hv no human hsnde Ths aoaas aa .hssaiwant twayjajho flood,"

DISASTROUS CONFLAGRATION.

ttle. Wash. Terw netted By a Deetrwe--tlvenre The Leasee Beacaug Into thoSCATTLK. Wash Juao I Fire broke

out at 2:39 p. m. yesterday ia Poatias'bairdiag on Fourth street aad by 4:90 p.as. was ragtag over a district of Ave or sixblocks with tremendous fury. The wiadwas from the aerth aad tho direction oftho Are was along the water on Froststreet sad from ths latter to the big brickblock between Floyd aad Saa Franciscostreets. Tho iadicatioae were that thowhole basiaess portion of tho city wouldbe burned away. Involving a loa of sail-lioa- s,

as tho magnificent Saa Franciscostore sad other stores la a row were oafire aad tho whole big block seemeddoomed. The local firemen were helplessia tho face of tho calamity aad telegraphed ia all directions for aid.

At 4:30 tho conflagratioa waa rashiagthrough tho heart of the city. To add tothe peril a smart breeze was blowiag offthe bay. fanning the flames, and at abouttbe same time a thousand feet of hose wascaught in the sdvancing blase and de-stroyed.

The opera house block, tbe block op-posite, all tho warehouses at the foot ofColumy street and also the great group ofbaildings ia the rear of the Post-Intelligen- ce

newspaper were' then burning, andthe people in the Vester block, occupied bytbe Western Union Telegraph Companyand the Post-Intelligen- were hurriedlymoving out.

At that time the Western Union had butone wire undisturbed, over which the dis-patch waa sent

At nine p. m. thirty -- one blocks bad beenburned in the very heart of the city andthere was imminent danger oftbelossotabout twenty blocks more Tbe fire wa-not at all under control aud had reachedtbe great coal bunkers. Should these bedestroyed tbe flames were certain to becouimuni cated to a large number ofwooden buildings and the loss increasedmany told.

At ten o'clock the loss was $5,030,000and one-thi- rd of the business por-tion of the city was destroyed. The wholelower part of the city was burning. Therewas danger of a total loss of the businessportion. Flakes of flame were flying overthe city and small firs were breaking outat many points. The flames were makingtheir way down Front street toward FivePoints where tbe buildings were of woodand close together. Every bank, hoteland p!ace of amusement all the lead-inj- g

business houses, all the aewspaperoffices, tbe railroad depots aad miles ofsteamboat wharves, coal bankers andfreight warehouses and the telegraph of-fices were burned. The city is literallywiped out except tho residence portion oahigh ground.

A stiff breeze was blowing strong fromtho northwest when the fire began andsoon got the best of the firemen. Tbewater supply gave out within two hoursand then the flames bad a clean sweep.Word was telegraphed to Tacoma and atrain started with fire apparatus at 4:35p. m., reaching Seattle ia sixty-thre- eminutes. The ocean steamers Mexico, forSan Francisco, aad Ancon. for Alaska,escaped destruction by pulling out in mid-stream.

IN A BAD FIX.The Brotherhood of Locomotive Kagte-ee- m

Exeretsed Over Chief Arthur- -Chicago, Juae 7. There ia trouble in

the ranks of the Brotherhood of Locomo-tive Engineers. Chief Arthur is a candi-date for aad as such has beenmaking a quiet canvass of tbe variouslodges of the brotherhood. Last week asecret meeting for this purpose waa heldintbiacity. There were upwards of twohundred members present, representinglodges in Illinois, Michigan, Indiana,Iowa aad Wisconsin. A memberof the general grievance com-mittee got tho floor and address-ing Chief Arthur said: ''Your speechthis morning pictured our organization asimpregnable aad resistless. Now. sir, ifyoa believe that such a state of things ex-ist you have been incorrectly informed ofaffaire The truth is, a reduction of wsgesis expected to be msde before long on anumber of Western roads. Such actionwe do not propose to accept We desireto know whether ia the event of a reduc-tion being ordered you would sanction astrike" Chief Arthur replied: "Underno condition of circumstances of which Icaa conceive shall I ever sanction anotherstiike. Inth first place I am opposed tostrikes on general principles. Iu thesecond place, to strike would be suicidefor owing to the large number ofunempiorea engineers in tee coun-try, it would take bat a short time to filltheir places." Chief Arthur stopped andthe meeting adjourned. Murmurs of dis-content have been heard ever since "Weare in a bad fix aad no mistake" an en-gineer said. "Last Thursday onr chair-man. Hurley, of the Alton, was informedby a committee of firemen that should theengineers strike the firemen would taketheir places. That waa due to tbe un-friendly feeling of other labor orders to-ward our. Something must be done tochange thine. We mast ButArthur frowns oa all suggestions of fed-eration. Tbe first thing to do is to knockout Arthur, and that will be done in Octo- -

Railroad Assessment.JxrrERSOjr Crrr, Me, Juao I J.

Stephen Kaslowsky, land aad tax com-missioner of tho St. Louis, Arkansas &Texas railroad; Colonel John B. Butler,general attorney, and J. H. Best, generaltraffic manager of the Quiacy, Omaha sKansas City railway, have submitted tothe Board of Equalization statements aadarguaeats as to why tho aseessmeat andvaluatloa of their roads should not bo in-creased over last year. Reuben Fsyae,clerk of Bullivaa County, argued for ahither valuation of the Quiacy, Omaha AKansas City, tho Chicago, Milwaukee ASt Paul snd tho Chicago, Burlington AQuiacy.

The following roads have submittedstatements et tho taxes paid by them in18t: Tho Dos Meiaes A Kansas City, theChicago. Milwaukee A 8t Paul, tho St.Louis A 8an Francisco aad tho Uaioa Facific. Tho board will have several knottyproblems to deal with in tho valaation otrailroad saroperty and tho hardest of themall will ho tho assoasmoutof FaUmaa care

m eSanitary atsosarsa,

Jobbbtows, Pa,, June t Tho StateBoard of Health aad tho PennsylvaniaRailroad Company are htthe work of renwviag bodies from thedebris shove tho stone bridge Dr. Cress

tho health heard says there will ho1,099 men nt work there Tho sanitaryquestion is tho poramoaat oae olthe hoar. Tho Stats Board etHealth is looked apoa as a more poteatfactor than the militia aad civic forcescombiaed. Yesterday afternoon tho work

wasaismhsteB, Dr. Lao tak--iBgaToiay to nsmsarga with the Isten- -uea.ee estaottsams; aeswqaartors la thocity haU. There a Soros of sanJtanr in.saietsrs will ho sjtahHehed.

THE CRONIN INQUEST.

Sesao Startliasr Testimony Given Bofort.tho Coroner. Jaw

Chicago, June . All tho evidence hathe Cronin inquest yesterday was directed!towards establishing the fact that the de-cea- sei

waa firmly impressed with tbe ideathat his life wss endangered through thomachinations of Alexander Sullivan.

Maurice Morris, a member of the Clan-aa-Ga-- il,said that at tho last eonveatn

ho had heard several delegates say thattCroaia and Dr. McCahey, ot Philadelphia.ought to be gotten rid of. Cronin had.

1.1 V.M k i m.i: 1 , k I..B1iwu aim uiu at veiisiTVU jBeuwaaa, iu.Philadelphiaa, had come to Chicago at theinstigation of Alexander Bullivaa to killhim.

1. McGarry. a Lakeview boilermakeraad aa intimate friend of the dead man.gave bis evidence with so much dramaticeffect that once or twice he was ap-plauded. He testitiod that Cronin badseveral times told him that his lifewas in danger; that Alexander Sulli-van, if be waa murdered, would befound to be tho instigator, and that therewere papers in his safe which would con-nect Sallivau with tbe deed. Witnesstold how he went to Toronto and me:Lorg, the reporter, who was responsiblefor the circumstantial stories regardingCronm having been seen ia that city. Mc-Garry offered bini $'2,000 to substantiatewhat he had written, but h could not doit. Instead be said: "I sHh to God Ibad never had. any thing to do with thisbusiness."

Thocia J. Conway, of Ravenwoxl asuburb of Chicago, a member of tbe Clan-na-Ga- el,

began by testifying a to thoconduct of Peter McGeeban. tbe PuiladtI-pbia- u.

He said McUeehan told him Uiathe came west under orders from tbe chair-man of the executive emamittee of theClan-na-Ga- el. Ho saw McGeehan In thcompany of Captain Lawrence Buckley,of tbe Chicago Clan-na-Ga- el guard andheard the former say that Dr. Cronmand Dr. Cahey deserved to dia. Witnessfurther stated that he was present ut ameeting of camp SI, Clan-na-G.i- whenthe question of resolutions regretting thodeath of Dr. Cronin was being dicussetLA man, John Moss whi? has a storw onWest Lake street rose and aid he wasagainst passing the resolutions, because,perhaps, tbe executive committee hadsufficient proof to show that Dr. Croninwat a British spy and had a right to re-move him.

"In case Cronin was a British spy, hadthe executive committee any right to re-move him?" asked Foreman Critchell.

"There U nothing in the constitution tothat effect" evasively answered tb witness.

SADLY SEARCHING.

Clearing Away th Kmn With th Atil offDynamite Latest Kstimte or Che Limof Life.Johxstowv. Pa June C. The enor-

mity of the devastation wrought by thConemaugn flood is becoming more amimore apparent with effort of the laborersto resolve order out of chaos. Overonahundred men have been all day engagedin an effort to clear a narrow passagefrom the death bridge upward through tht3ea of debris that blocks the Conemaugnfor nearly half a mile Every ingenuityknown to man has been resorted to bythis crew. The power of dynamite wabrought iato requisition aad at frequentintervals the roar of explosions reverber-ated through the valley, and sticks, stonesand logs would fly high iato the air.Gradually a few of the heaviest timberwere demolished and the fragmentsmitted to float downward through .center arch. At nightfall, however")clear space above the bridge did mceed an area of 6) feet ia length byin width. Whea one reflects that fullytwenty-fiv- e acres are to be cleared in thisway the task ahead seems an intermin-able oae

THB IftntBER EfCRBaSEta.Johxstow.v. Pa, June The best esti-

mate on the loss of life based on tbe reg-istry of the living and an uaoflleial poll,puts it at from 1 000 to 15.000.

At 1:15 yesterday afternoon fifty bodieswere taken from th e debris in front of theCatholic Church in Johnstown borough.About forty ot the bodies were those ofwomen. They were imm-- d lately removedto the morgue for identification.

The work of clearing ap tbe wreck andrecovering the bodies is now being con-ducted systematically. Over 6,000 menare at work.

Yesterday morning 1,100 mea arrived incharge of Philip Flynn. Hoe WilliamFlynn arrived later aad took charge ofthe work, and by elevea o'clock they badsucceeded in doing more work at clearingaway the debris than has been done alto-gether before Mr. Flynn offered the menspecial inducements, bat will make thenwork. Seventy-fiv- e cars of provisionscame up with the laboring men.

THE JUNIATA FLOOD.

The Waters Recede aad Shew the Magni-tude of the Havoc.

HtnrriXGTO.v, Pa., June 6 The letsnews from suburban district in thiscounty just received shows that the des-truction to tbe property by the flood is in-finitely greater tban at flrst reported.The waters are receding and the Juniata,ia passable in several place.

From Bedford to Huntington on tbeRoystown branch and on to Lewistowa oathe Juniata river not a bcae is left thaAstood within reach of tbe swollenstreams and the damage to prop-erty will reach $300,000. while thoother tewas ht the coanty havesuffered correspondingly. At Mapletoatho immense tannery of L. A. Roberta wasdamaged to the extent of $300,000 and theloss to other property will reach W;O0OMmore The Powell furnace nt 8axtoa

of $309,099 and at that placeboth tho railroad aad bridges were sweptaway, leaving railroad communleatioBi 'with BedforAcat oat

Front hero to the junction of th Juniateand Seaqaehaaaa rivers tho swjop of thoJ

ood extended Hhng this once beautifolvalley with deeolatioa aad ruia. Grow- -!las; crops ia tho low loads were, destroyedaad ia shafta's valley, this scanty.farming Iaade, comprising;of twelve by two miles, have beenstripped of ovary vestige of soiL As far Ias known three haadred hoaiea hawboea destroy ed ia this county.

8 Louse, June t Tbe sensational coltGalon, which was parchnsed last fait byth Chicago stable for SJ9.999 eneh, brokedown yesterday white at work. Thismisfortune is ia lino with tho ill luck thathas boon following the Chicago stableGalea is by Faastass, and fits bred byJim Gray. His beat porter Pence wtho Coaey Islsad faturkr. whea be ranthird to Proctor aTaott and Salvator. Haraa a sails at WJeshiaztea park ia 1:40apoa these performances ho was boaahfby Haakiae He started three times thsyear and was a groat disappoiatThe ealy sfcsalitiee ho developed wasofasmUler. From the condition which 1la hs ho will never azaia fans the flnc.

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