THE BOLD SEEKERS. The panting steamer slowlj drops For those there be who will come again, Away from the crowded pier; All broken and worn and wan. The blackened decks recede from TieW While others left in the Arotio snows And leave me musing here. Will slumber forever on. Away where the gold so warm and red, And some will empty-handed come. Lies hid in the dark earth's breast; Who have missed the golden goal, Little they reck of danger and oold, And some with gold too dear, alus ! Aglow with the golden quest. The price of u sinless soul. The rosy youth with kindling eye, And those at home will sit at night— In his manhood's early dawn, And the wind sweeps where it wills— The pale man with the student's BtoOft With hearts away in a shambling shaok The stalwart man of brawn. In the wild Alaskan hills. All. each and all, with fevered gaze 'Tis thus I muse oh the lonely quay, Fixed on the ilelds of gold; Whence the hurrying crowd is gone— Ah, well-a-day ! for a faith that's firm While far away for the froze* north And a heart that Is brave and bold. A flag of smoke trails on. —Carrie Shaw Bice, in Overland Monthly. PTHE COMING OF THE WHITE OWL.| BY 31 AltY SPRAdUE. j| The soft whir of a spinning wheel t-arae through an open window, min gling pleasantly with the singing of birds and the "hum of bees. Within the room a slim, round figure stepped gracefully to and fro. Without, watch ing the pretty scene with a smile of admiration, not unmixed with mischief, an his handsome, ruddy face, stood a tall young continental soldier, cocked hat in hand. His horse was close beside him,nib bling, unrebuked, the clover which grew in abundance near the weather beaten house. Presently the crunching of his strong white teeth on the luscious mouthfuls caught the maiden's ear. Like a flash she turned and saw the silent onlooker. "Well done, William Foskitt!" she aried, tartly. " 'Tis the act of a brave man, no doubt, to spy upon his neighbors! Ip it from the redcoats you have learned such ways? Me thinks they have apt pupils!" A vivid flush mounted to the young man's forehead. After an instant's hesitation he vaulted over the window sill and approached the fair spinner, whose look of pretended indignation jhanged to one of great demureness and whose cheeks grew rosy red. "We've scarcely seen the redcoats snough yet to learn anything from them, sweetheart, but the chance is near at hand. General Washington is determined to lie idle behind his trenches no longer. Within a few days—" "Oh, William!" Her voice was trembling now and as loving as he could wish. Her win some blue eyes were full of tears. The thread, no longer truly held, broke with a snap. "Nay, now, sweetheart," he said, caressing the sunny hair which lay against his shoulder, "calm these foolish fears. Likely enough we shall »tay these next three months as the last. Let us not borrow trouble. See! I am come with a message to you from Anna Btedinau. Here it is. Come out under the trees and read it. I know already something of its con tents, I doubt not." He drew a scrap of paper from liis big-flapped pocket and led the way to a bench under an old elm in the door yard. "Dear Tolly—My brother and some Mher young men who are at home from camp on two or three days' leave are goiug to give a ball here, at my father's tavern, next Thursday night. 'Twill be quite a grand affair. "I wish you to come over Wednes lay and spend the night. Bring your finest gown. I shall wear my pink gauze and the gold beads Aunt Mercy gave me. "Milly Brewster and Priscilla Nick srson will be here. Milly left Boston just before the siege began, and she knows the latest styles of dressing hair. She learned it from on English lady her aunt knows. Nothiug like it has ever b?eu seen in this neighbor hood* 'Twill be most becoming to your pretty head. "William Foskitt stopped hero on in errand, and I make use of him to bring this to you. I have no fear that his coming will anger yon. "Yoi>r true friend, "Anna Stedman." The blue eyes and the gray ones met in a smile of perfect understand ing as the last words were reached. The next Wednesday afternoon Polly set forth on horseback for Sted nian's tavern, accompanied by her younger brother, a lad of 15. Tied to their saddles were several large bundles containing her ball costume. They met few travelers on the three miles of their ride until within a short distance of their destination, when half a dozen horsemen were seen ap proachiug at a rapid pace. "Be not afraid, Polly," suid Daniel, with an air of protection. "We will reiu our horses to one side till they pass." "But who can they b", Dan?" whis pered Polly. "Very likely one of the expresses General Washington sends all through the colonies to carry and bring tidings. I have heard my father say they ride swiftly and in small companies." There was time for no further ex jliatige of words. The galloping riders were close by. The lad took off his oap, and Polly, blushing,involuntarily bowed in response as every man of the aompany raised his cocked hat,and one of them,the youngestand handsomest, spoke a word of respectful greeting. Daniel turned in his saddle to look after them. His hazel eyes were glowing. "I r'ish I was a man!" he cried. "I'll be a soldier the minute father thiuks-i'm big enough!" " 'Tis a brave life indeed," answered his siste>. The silence seemed deeper than ever idler the sound of quick hoof-beats died away, but soon they began to as oeu4 the long kill leading to Sted man's tavern. As they approached the great rambling gray house with its protecting row of elms three girls ran out to meet them, laughing and chid ing Polly for her late coming. "We thought some accident had be fallen," said Anna, the tallest and most buxom of the group. She mounted the broad horse-block and assisted Polly in untyiug the parcels. "Here, girls, do you take these inside. Daniel, you can help. Timothy will see to the horses. What! You can't stay, Daniel?" "No, Anna. My father said he would need me in the field tomorrow." "Be sure you come tomorrow night with your brothers, then. 'Twill be a merrymaking long to be remem bered. What do you think of this, Poll-y? Two officers from General Washington's own colony, who lately came onto join the continental army, are staying at Isaac Merrick's and have promised my brother to be here. They say that open war will soon begin,and we'd better make the most of this ball. There! the last knot is untied! Come right in! Supper is all ready. You, too, Daniel. 'Tis moonlight now, and the road will be all the lighter an hour hence." So, well laden with Polly's finery, they disappeared within the hospitable tavern. Two hours later, Daniel being well on his homeward way and the house hold tasks disposed of, the four maid ens bade the family good night and repaired to the large double bedded chamber where they were to sleep. Several candles were lighted and placed on the high, narrow mantel piece, whence they threw fantastic shadows over the spindle-legged fur niture and the opposite wall. "Now, Milly," began Anna in her brisk fashion, "you do my hair, and let Polly and Priscilla see how we do ours. 'Tis all with rolls and cushions, which we made today, and with puffs and curls wonderful to behold. I've a full supply of powde", too." So saying she brought forth from a cupboard a large paper bandbox piled with numerous articles ready for use, at which the girls looked with spark ling eyes. Auna soon had her beauti ful dark hair unbound, and when she had seated herself in a low chair, with an apron tied around her plump shoulders, Milly began operations. Very deftly her slender fingers flew like white birds in and out among the long, shining tre3se*, smoothing,part ing, weaving, rolling, curling, pow dering,until a tall,elaborate structure, truly marvellous to the sight, arose in stately grace upon Anna's head. She sat quite patienth- during the pro tracted ordeal, encouraged now and then by glimpses of her growing adornment in a bit of broken looking glass held before her eyes by one or the other of the admiring girls. "I'm sure I can never do that in the world," sighed Polly, envious of Milly's skillful touch. "How did you ever learn, Milly?" Milly's thin, dark face glowed with satisfaction. "Oh, 'tis not so hard when once you have tried it!" she responded, as suming an air of indifference. "My Aunt Bethia has a dear friend in Mis tress Alice Montford, wife to an Eng lish merchant. Her maid taught me how to do Aunt Bethia's hair. There! Is that not truly becoming to our Anna's face? Rise,fair maid, and view thy charms!" Laughing, they le 1 her to the long, narrow mirror hanging against the wall, iu which, by dint of turning this way and that, she was able to see her mass of white puffs and curls. "Now, Polly, it is your turn next," said Milly. "Why, I thought—"began Polly. "Oh, I'd just as lieve do them all as not,interrupted Milly,good natured ly. "I love to see what new ways I can discover." Polly took her place in the chintz covered chair without further ado. Her golden locks received a different treatment from Anna's dark ones, but indue time she, too, emerged from Milly's hands with a triumph of archi tecture nicely balauced on her pretty head. "How shall we ever be able togo to bed?" she suddeulv asked,while cran ing her neck to view her newly ac quired possession. "I feel as though this would all fall off if I don't keep very straight and stiff." "You'll soon get used to that," re plied Anna, with a confidence born of experience. "But, of course, as for going to bed,that is not to bo thought of. Come, Prissy!" Blank astonishmeut looked from Polly's blue eyes. "Not goto bedl Who ever heard ,of such a thing?" she cried in wonder. "How will we look tomorrow night if we don't get any sleep?" "Oh, that is another thing! We «au I sleep well enoHgh sitting up and lean- I ing back in our chairs. Ladies of fashion often do tbat. I'H show jam how my Aunt Bethia does." Folly made no answer. Her neek was already aching from her continued efforts to ba'auce her "tower" prop erly. For a few minutes she wished Bhe had not come, but very soon her naturally sweet temper reasserted it self, and she made the best of an un comfortable prospect. "We might have waited until to morrow afternoon," said Anna, "but there'll be so many things to do. W« can manage to sleep somehow." By the time Priscilla's auburn hail was dressed she had tardy qualms o: conscience. "What think you, girls?" she in quired, with au anxious wrinkle in her white forehead. "Is it altogethei seemly for us to ape the fashions ol our country's enemies? How will oui continental soldiers like to see ut thus?" "Have done with such foolish no tions, Priscilla Nickerson !"commanded Milly with more than her usual de cision. "You will learn, some of thes« days, that men know nothing of fash ion. If we only look to their pleasing that is all they care. And I'll warrant there'll be no finer appearing girls at the ball than we four. There's small con nection, to my thinking, between the way we do our Lair and this unchris tian war. So put away your sillj fears, Prissy, and be sensible." Milly was older than the others. She lived in Boston. Her sharp,posi tive way aud words had a great deal of weight with her companions. So Prissy dropped the matter and was soon engrossed in trying on her new blue satin slippers. Not so Polly. "Whut will William Foskitt think?" she kept asking herself over and over again, until her heart grew so heavy that but for the shame of self-betrayal she wonld have torn the mass of rolls aud ribbons from her head and braided her soft hair in its accustomed bands. At Inst each head was dressed. Then the girls sought comfortable shairs against whose high backs they could lean propped up with cushions aud pillows. The candles wer-4 extin guished. Wrapped in blankets they established themselves and for a time talked of the morrow's gaieties. But finally wearied nature claimed her due. The moon peeping in through the opeu window at tho mild August midnight saw four sleeping beauties. High in an elm tree opposite this same window sat a great white owl. For a long while he had been keenly observant of all that was going on within the chamber. What he thought of the proceedings can never be known, but true it is that he slowly descended from his perch aud with noiseless movements stepped inside the window. Gravely scanning each bedecked top knot he selected Polly's as the most to his liking. With a flut tering whir of his big wings he made swift and sudden descent upon it,div ing his strong claws sharply within it and, after careful balancing, settling down iuto a stendy position. And poor little Polly! Alas! her light slumber, already disturbed by uneasy thoughts of possible disloyalty to her lover, hud a rude awakening. A confused sense came over her of being carried off by the top of her head; a stab, apaiu; a startled con sciousness of the near presence of some awful thiug, some heuvy weight. Then she gave piercing shrieks which brought the terrified girls to their feet, the household to the room. Candles being hastily lighted re vealed to the incredulous eyes of all the huge white owl sittiug on Polly's head, blinking wisely and evidently in no mind to leave his dainty resting place. Muscular hands carefully dislodged liim. Polly's golden hair was soon combed smoothly out and laid in a long;, glistening braid over the pillow on the bed to which they carried her. For hours she sufl'ered severely from the nervous shock, and it was several days before she was able togo to he> home. She did not feel entirely hersell again until she had told the whole story to William Foskittand had hear<? him say that he forgave her. "I will say the words to please you, sweetheart, but I do not consider that you did grievous wrony," the stalwart young continental replied to his in sistent petitioner. " 'Twas only a trifling matter. Yon charge yourself too heavily, my Polly." "No, William," she made answer, smiling up at him with happy eves. " 'Tis the part of a woman to be true even in very little filings."—Waverley Magazine. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. There is at Werda in Dahomey a temple in which 1000 snakes are fdtl by the priests. Squatters who have recently pene trated the interior of New Zealand report the discovery of a tribe of aborig inal dwarfs. Florida housewives use oranges in s'.ead of soap in scrubbing floors. They cut the fruit in two and rub the pulp on the floor- It is found to be very cleansing. Far away from civilization gesture language is still extant in Australia. Some of the tribes possess such an excellent code that it is almost as effi cient as the spoken language. A queer exhibition was recently held in Berlin, Germany—that of the Vege tariau society—in which sixty chil dren were shown who have nevei touched other nutriment than vege tables. A man who was convicted of seven highway robberies in Cotania, Sicily, was lucky enough to be tried before a tender-hearted judge, who thought a life senteuoe too severe. He therefore was easy with him, lettiug him off with onlv 180 rears' imprisonment IFOR FARM AND GARDEN^ Keeping op Fertility. To keep up the fertility of a farm while cultivating is something that comes about as near to agricultural science as anything of which there is knowledge, and the farmers that un derstand this the best and practice it the closest are the most successful and prosperous, for the proper mauuring and enriching of the soil is the foun dation of successful farming—no mat ter what branch of farming it may be —and it is a matter that demands the farmer's most careful and earnest at tention. Important Point* in Potato Culture. Potato rot aud blight have been ef fectively treated at the Michigan sta tion, by the use of a spray of bordeaux mixture. The crop was successfully carried through a severe drouth by continuous cultivation of the surfnee soil. The corrosive sublimate treat ment of the seed controlled the potato scab. It was found that potatoes de teriorate rapidly from year to year unless well selected and carefully grown. Selected seed increased the size aud appearance of the tubers of several varieties. The potatoes which were stored in a potato basement lost 11 1-2 per cent, in weight from Sep tember to May. Potatoes which had sprouted yielded less than sound seed. Starting a Sitter. To get the best results, have a sep arate house lor the sitters. Let them get fully determined to incubate, then prepare a fresh, cleau nest and remove them carefully after uight. Put nest eggs (or the small gourd which every poultryman should raise) under them until they are reconciled to the change. A lath coop, one foot wide, two feet long and fifteen inches high, is set before the uest aud the heu eats, drinks and dusts iu this coop until accustomed togo back to her nest. A house for the sitters with the south side made to open, the opening screeeued with two-inch mesh chicken wi' e, is a fine place on sunny days to opeu up and let the sitters come out to sun and ilust themselves. At other times it has been found that three weeks' confinement in the small coops often caused diarrhea aud weakness which this freedom of the henhouse every few days obviated. Do not for get to see them back to their proper nests with the coops in front and the house shut up, for a hen ueeds seclu sion when sitting. Fowl* for Confinement. Probably more mistakes are ma/le iu selecting the breeds of ponltry to be kept than in any other part of the work. The large, heavy breeds like Bralunas, Cochins and Plymouth Rocks, have been bred for generations to confinement and rarely make an effort to escape from small yards, while the lighter, more nervous breeds like Leghorns aud Minorcas, resent being deprived of their liberty. Iu the se lection of a breed care must be taken iu this direction as well as in the proper selection to meet the demands of the market. It does not follow, however, that Leghorns cauuot be kept iu small yards, but simply that if such is the case they must be kept busy at all times. Never permit them when confined iu small yards to have more than one meal a day that they do not earn by had scratching. Like humane, the busy hen is the contented one, aud if not kept busy they are apt to get iuto mischief. In the case of the hen this mischief consists iu feather pulling and egg eating, both almost impossible to break off. If one is not so situated that fowls kept iu small yards can be kept busy at all times, then the heavier breeds should by all means be selected.—Atlanta Journal. Corn Cobs for Stock Lots. Every stock raiser knows how muddy it becomes around feed troughs at certain times in the year, especially if the ground is a rich, black soil. It may be impossible to put stone around the troughs, or if not, the expense of iloing so may be too great. One of the cheapest and best methods of pro tecting ngainst mud is to throw corn sobs around the troughs. The cobs which are left in the troughs, if the sorn is fod in the ear, will not be suf ficient. The oobs should be apread on the ground to a depth of six inches. They Bhould not be thrown ou tho mud, but on dry or frozen ground. The cobs will rot, but they will become pretty well packed into the ground. Before the rotting cobs can become a slush, a fresh supply should be spread on. If this is well done, there need be no complaint because of the mud around the troughs. It will not be necessary to move the troughs to avoid the mud, which must be done if there is nothing to prevent it. The farmer will do well if he fills up with corn cobs all of the mud holes which he may find on his farm. The cobs make good paths across muddy lots, and are useful wherever the mud becomes deep and disagreeable. Of course, most of tbern rot finally, but they serve an ex cellent purpose whilo they last.—New England Homestead. Stop the Wa.te of Fruit. In the fruit industry the waste often eonsumes the profits. An iuoppotune rain or wind at the time when the fruit is just ripening often ruins the hopes and anticipations of a whole year. The failure to use the right kind of a package and to make the fruit look its best in it often degrades the quality in the estimetion of the bnyer from first to second class with U>6 corresponding reduction of priee. The crowded market of Saturday oftea leaves on hand of the grower a few crates of berries which are worthless when the market opens the following week. The insects somehow find their way to the fruit and just at the time when it should ripen we find that it is ruined. Nine cases out of ten of fail ure in the fruit business cornea through loss due to waste. The successful fruit grower mnst learn early in his career that his prod ucts are at all times tender and quick ly perishable. He must, so far as he is able, prevent the contact of any agent that destroys or reduces the value of his fruit. This is not some thing that is beyond his power. By a vigilant warfare against insects he can greatly increase the quantity and im prove the quality of the crop which he is to receive. Cold storage affords one of the most practical means of preventing waste in the fruit crop that we have. Apples that fall from the tree when almost ripe, and are lost, are frequently ripe enough to be picked aud placed in cold storage. The fact that apples for cold storage should be picked while solid is valuable information to those who realize that their fruit is dropping badly while in that state. An ice and cold storage house on the fruit farm is of immense value in preventing the waste in summer fruit that comes nat urally through rapid decay. Berries, cherries, plums aud peaches can be kept a number of days, even weeks, and there is thus afforded ample op portunity for using or disposing of them. Let the farmer aud fruit grower be as painstaking to prevent waste in their products as the packers and the manufacturers are to prevent waste in their large commercial estab lishments. —W. L. Hall in Farm, Field and Fireside. Choosing tlie Might Breed. Many dairymen who grasp the cor rect idea that improved methods of breeding benefit their milch herds feel disappointed at results. This is be cause they do not acquire the breed best adapted to their needs and loca tion. As a truthful illustration of what I mean, I wish to cite an instauce of which I was personally cognizuntsome little time ago. A New York dairy man bred iuto Holsteins under tho supposition that because of their copious milk-yielding qualities, they were the best cows for him. Two thirds of this inau's farm was low lying laud, aud the pasturage neces sarily of a watery nature; that is, the luxuriant grass growing from a pro verbially moist soil contained far more water than does highland herbage. Now, Holsteiu cows are known to leau toward the production of watery milk, and iu this instance, stimulated by the character of their feed, they held good their reputation to the ex tent of yielding milk that did not con tain the legal per cent, of solids. The mau was disappoiuted with the breed without recognizing the fact that his inferior pasturage had more to do with the failure than anything else. Beside-! this, I know of a num ber of other prominent dairymen liv ing on river-bottom land, who, with Holsteiu cows, find it difficult to pro duce milk possessing a legal standard. In some cases they have supplemented graiu rations to help them out, and in others gradually introduced other breeds of cows. Do not infer from this that I am saying anything agaiust Holsteins, for in their proper place I am a great ad mirer of the breed, but a breed must be adapted to its surroundings aud the requirements of the dairyman. If a dairyman is not quite sure what kind of milch stock will meet his best ueeds, he had better go experimentally befort acquiring a whole herd of new bloods. Also always take into'accouut the quality of your soil aud pasturage,and the adaptability of the prospective breed of cows for the conditions you have under control. To new breeders, grades, I think, will prove more generally satisfactory than full bloods. By judiciously se lecting the dams— cows or heifers of naturally good milch strain—and using a thoroughbred bull, firstclass grades can be secured at a nominal price. This looks easy enough, but yet it requires skill and careful study on the part of the breeder to breed success fully. It can be said as a general rule a successful dairyman will make a good breeder. One must be au accu rate judge of the points of a good milch cow, and of the sire that is to be father of her calf. This is the main essential, and the side issues are sure to be taken care of by one who has the right principles at heart. —George E. Newell in Americau Cul tivator. Poultry Notes. Feed liberally, but feed right; and you will have no overfat hens. Have a curtain of oiled muslin to shut off the run in stormy weather. A healthy hen will lay and consume a great deal of food without getting fat. Many fail with poultry because ti.ey try not to get their hens too fat—they starve them. Opeu the doors and windows of the poultry house on all clear days and you will not be troubled with damp walls. It has been demonstrated that stand ard bred fowls can be made to lay from 150 to 200 eggs per year under X>roper treatment and care. The gizzard is made to grind the food in. It cannot grind food that is already ground, thus, iu order to keep it in normal condition it must perforir the work nature intended it to. Some of the expert pickers of poul try can take the feathers off a fowl so quickly as to astonish one who does not understand the operation. It is done by dipping eaeh carcass in cold water and allowing it to drip. A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.- THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST, IN MANY WAYS. The Drunkard—Liquor Shop* Ar» Not tha Poor Slan'a ,Club—Are a Sorry Make ■hlft When Recreation I* the Object— Urunkenneu ii a Dlneate. On feeble and unsteady lags He walks as it be trod on eg£3. Wliene'r he has to give or take His bands, as with the palsy, shake. To maet your gaze he vainly tries With dull and bleared and bloodshot Compelled to bear the sign, he shows A swollen, coarse und crimson nose. His pimpled, blue and bloated race Or manliness has not a trace. All people near him shun like death His permeating, sickening breath. With ruined health and shattered nerves He suiters tortures he deserves. Sad children and heart-broken wlfo Through him endure a wretched life. Abhorred and shunned by friends once known He wanders through the world aloue. Soon losing self respect, he goes In seedy, torn and dirty clothes. With raging, hot. Increasing thirst Which can't he quenched he's ever cursed,' In vain he takes the pledge to stop; With all power gone he has no prop. Down, down he sinks, until in time He In the gutter reeks with slime. From borrowing he begs until For drink he'd steal or even kill. Delirium tremens' horrid sights He sees. With imps and snakes he fights. At last with tramps hi* doom is sealed, t Au then he goes to Potter's Field. And after that? Alas, who knows Where any slave of liquor goes? Saloons Not a Social Necessity, The nrgument that liquor saloons are a ".-"oaial neoessity" to the poor mau, or, in deed, to uny one, is too specious to hold water. At any rate, In this country there is but little of the "poor man's club" per taining to them. At its best the liquor sa loon is but a sorry makeshift when recrea tion Is the object, and the instruction a worklngman Is likely to gain injlt is scarce ly calculated to elevate or Improve bl9 mind. So long as he has money and will spend it with alacrity his company Is wel come, hut when his pockets are empty his society is no longer regarded with favor by the proprietor. The saloon keeper is not a. nmn of sentiment, but invariably keeps his eye on the main chance. This being so, the question must be faced as it really Is and not judged from an optimlstio and lmagina | tive point of view. The truth is that tha | liquor saloon In America is not a "poor man's club," a place in which he can giva his "recreative Instincts" fair play, but 1 simply and solely a house for the sale ot | strong drinks at a large profit to the pro ] priotor. I If the liquor saloon does satisfy the work ingman's "recreative instinct," all wo can say Is that If he does not possess the bibu lous instinct we are sorry for the intelli gence of the workingman. The great ma jority of medical men nowadays are qulte( agreed that alcohol does no good to a healthy man, and, taking into consideration the incalculable amount of harm that ha 9 been wrought by Its agency, It is best that the matter should be judged on its merits, and that the ignorant and careless should' I t<e warned of their danger. It Is right and | just that the workingman should be af lorded the opportunities of mixing In con genial society which the rich man enjoys, but ho must not look for in the liquor sa loon. From a consideration of the social side of the saloon question to that of the abuse of drink is but a step. Where, then, is the ; remedy to be sought in order to abolish or | counteract an ovil which Is acknowledged j on all sides to be widespread and extreme ily pernicious? The view that habitual drunkenness is a disease and should be treated as such is the one most generally held in theso days. Dr. Norman Kerr, the best known British authority on the mat ter, says: "Deal with the inebriate as you have successfully dea'.t with the maniac. Frown not on blm as a hardened criminal. Remember he has fallen by the power of a physical agency which has crushed to earth some of the noblest and most gifted. Treat him as a patient laboring under a baffling and Inveterate disease and amid many dis couragements. Such a measure of success will follow your true curative treatment as will gladden Jyour hearts as men, while it Will attest your skill as physicians." An Intellectual Poison. Alcohol is an intellectual poison. Nor , could it be otherwise, for the bra'n, which j Is the seat of memory, of thought, aud of i all the Intellectual faculties, is altected by ! alcohol, and by reason of the extreme I sensitiveness of its tissue is even partic ularly'sensitive thereto. Henoe it soon becomes subject to change under the in fluence of liquor, aud quickly deteriorates. , Tho power of thinking is affected, the In tellectual faculties are obsoured, judgment ! disappears and the final result is that many alcoholic subjects develop madness, i For that matter, drunkenness itself— i that temporary poisoning—is really an j pphemeral madness which, by force of i repetition, becomes oouverted Into com-i | pleto madness. It is a statistical fact,' which shows at a glance how alcohol nf-j fonts tho/ >d, that the Increase of mad ncs is rect proportion to the con sumption Intoxicating liquors in the dif ferent countries. Bad For Our Soldiers. The whisky and beer manufacturers and dealers who are trying to make the poople believe that nothing will preserve our sol- I diers' health and increase their strength so much us tho product of their breweries and: distilleries, are well answered by tie ex perience ot tho great explorer, Paul du Challlu, who, in a 'aiter written to a young soldier, said: "I will tell you my experience while d traveling in v. arm countries. I abstained « ' from strong drinks because I found they I did not help me—on the contrary, I felt weaker lialf an hour after, so I gave them ; op." J Note! About The Drink Evil. While ttie saloon exists your own son if never snfe. A champagne trust with capital of $50,- 000,000 is reported. The House of the Utah Legislature de- , feated by a vote of 20 to 19 a bill to provida local option upon the liquor question. The man who deliberately destroys his health and shortens bis life by drlqkinpr commits suicide as surely as if he blew out bis brains or took poisou. 1 If you have got the love nnd taste oS drink In your mouth, it will dog you and hound you through life, and your only safety Is, renounce drink altogether. The House of Keys ot the Isle of Maa shelved a bill designed to open the saloons on Sundays. Sunday closing has been thai law ot that little Island tor forty years. The Legislature ot South Dakota has ad journed without enacting legislation to carry out the will of the people expressed' by their vote for the dispensary system at, the last election. J
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