. Christian herald and signs of our times . s six thousanditants four thousand seven hundredilled and five hundred were wound-ler the ruins of the houses. Aboutvillages were swept away. As touse of the disaster several opinions[pressed. The one that is generally•y Japanese scientists is that thereIn eruption of a submarine by the fact that quanti-deep-sea shell fish were found onlis visited by the big waves, plainlyng that water from the bottomi sea had been thrown up in enormousfitfcs to swell the bulk of the colossallfs. Such disasters are among therries of our present lif


. Christian herald and signs of our times . s six thousanditants four thousand seven hundredilled and five hundred were wound-ler the ruins of the houses. Aboutvillages were swept away. As touse of the disaster several opinions[pressed. The one that is generally•y Japanese scientists is that thereIn eruption of a submarine by the fact that quanti-deep-sea shell fish were found onlis visited by the big waves, plainlyng that water from the bottomi sea had been thrown up in enormousfitfcs to swell the bulk of the colossallfs. Such disasters are among therries of our present life. We have toastour faith in the love and wisdomand wait for the light of his pres-pc efore we can understand the reasonft ch destructive phenomena. Why heBps them to come is as unknown to us-filthe ancient patriarch, who wrote : fT! came u>:>n as a wide breaking in of «a-, Ml* <»e desolation thev rolled themselves uponf6- I* 30 : i4. ^anhappy Adventure. ijo Newark school-boys who have ?^eading novels have had an adven-. —>>>>>> >aAND THE v WSPAPERV <<<<<<<*<< y ture which will probably have a fatal ter-mination. They determined to run awayfrom their home at Newark, N. J., to seethe great world. They were not rrovidedwith funds, so they stole on board a freighttrain and hid themselves. At the close ofthe first day, they had not travelled be-yond New Brunswick, N. J., and theywere thoroughly tired out. They werehungry, too, and homesick. At the firstopportunity they left the train and waitedbeside the track for the coming of a trainthat would take them homeward. Theywaited a long time, but at last a freighttrain came along which was going so slow-ly that they thought they couldboard it. One of them succeededin climbing aboard, but the othermissed his footing and fell withone of his legs across the companion saw his peril andjumped off to rescue him ; but hewas too late. He dragged the poor,bleeding lad


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