Tonr "Annoyed 8lpi.' 'Wliat," auks nn exchange, "is yonr 'annoyed sign'?" Most, people hove, it eoma, some charaotcriRtio goRtnre to xrtroaa that the limit of toleration is approaching. The Prince of Wales whon annoyed winks his left rye rapidly, tho Emperor of Austria pnfi'a out his checks, tho Czar lays his hand flat on the top of his hend, Mr. Glad stone turns swiftly on his heels, as if executing a rolte face, and the Sultan of Turkey grasps his throat tightly with his hand. New York Times. The General Theological Seminary of tho Trotestant Episcopal Church has como into possession of the largest collection of Latin Bibles in tho world, consisting of 543 editions in 1364 vol umes. Pr. KHmor's Rwamt-Root cures all Kidney ami BlaiMw tronhlos. ramphlci ami Consultation fme. Laboratory Bingham tot). N. Y, Tim emerald has long been regarded as a poclflo tor sore eyes. Iadlnttnlahlr. Why upond II for a bottle of medicine for a complaint when one box of Hrerham'ft PHW, routine only 25 etc. will euro nearly all known UfMaAr This Is because eonstlpatlnn lathe eanae of newly all atlmcnb, nnl lleeeham's 1111a cure constipation. A valuable book of fcnowloriife mailen free, on request, by li. F, Allen Co.. iv t'anal Htn-et. New York. T C'leanse the Syitpm ElTectnally yet gently, when ooatlve or billons, or when the blood Is lmpnro or sluKglsh.to per manently core habitual oonstlpatlon, to awak en the kidneys and liver to a healthy activlt f without Irritating or weakening them, to dis pel headaches, colds or fevers, use Syrup of Sins. Iryonwnnt to be enred of a cough useHnle'f Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike's Toothache lrow Cure In one minute Hall'n Catarrh Cure la a liquid and Is taken Internally, and acts directly on the hltod and mucous surface of the system. Write for tes timonials, free. Manufactured by F. J. CnnwicT ft Co.. Toledo, O. nr. Ilaxale's Cert at a t'raaa Care Paves the expense of a physician In severest oaae of oroup. bronchitis and congestive eolila. A. V. lioxsle. Buffalo. N. Y.. M'f'r. ishllok'a Care Is sold on a (roarantee. It cures Incipient Con sumption; it Is the Beet Cough Cure: 3ic., flue., SI If afflicted with soreeyes use Ir. IsaaoThomp. eon's K ye-water. Druwrists sell at c per bott le Chronic Indigestion Kept me In very poor health for five years, I began to take Hood's Sarsnparllla and my digestion was helped by the first three doses. Mood's Sar8a- I 1 parilla I have now taken over Xr f tC CT four bottles and I firm- 1 14. 1 C2) ly believs It has cured me, and also saved my ' life. Has. K. E. Pbikcs, Bushvllle, N. Y. Hood's Pills are purely vegetable. PADVAY'S W PILLS, Purely Tftgetable, mild and re liable. Canae Pep foot Dlfrettlou, complete absorption and healthful regularity. For the cur of all disorder! of the Btomach, Uver, Bowels, Kidney. Bladder, fiervous LOSS OF APPETITE, SICK HEADACHE, INDIGESTION, DIZZY FEELINGS, FEMALE COMPLAINTS, BILIOUSNESS, DYSPEPSIA, PERFECT DIOB-4TIOM will bs aeoompllshed by taking Badway't Pills. By their AN1MUL10US (properties they stimulate the liver lu the secretion of the biie and lie diaohartre through the biliary duct. Theee pills In doses from two to four will quickly regulate the action of the liver aud free the patient from these disorders. Ouo or two of Had way's PUls, taken dally by those nubjeot to blllou Kins and torpidity u the liver, will keep the sy in regular and seaure heuluiy digestion. Price. 45c. er Box. Hold by all Draggiata. RADWAY St CO.. NEW YORK. V cures auu rrwuu itueuuiiai-Wm, luUL -sitou, M Uysuepsia, lleartuuru, Cabarra and AiUima. A T Uawtiul lu Malaria and Fever. Cleanses the r A Teeto and Vrumute the Appeilte. sweeten A f the Breath. Cures the Tobaoou Habit, fcndoned f by the Medical Faculty. Heod for lu, 14 or A cent package. Silver. Stamp or bsfoi Hot. A f UttO. H. HAIJU, lioWest uit Mt.,NfW Yor.. f REORTHERN PACIFIC I IV CHEAP n. 11. and 4 1 TDCC GOVERNMENT LANDS I 1 I IlLU II Ml loss of 1 I ATHLd Minnesota. North lnkoia. Mon- nt. Idaho, Wsabtntflon and Oretton. PUBLICA TIONB.witn Maps, describing line farmliu: fruit. nop, r.ilutf and Uuiher Isnds Mailed 1111K, P. B GROAT rat! Fnt-rUa Asrut t W VVben wntlutf mntlen thtu paper. No. I?u. anythluit one person In your town van ltarn lnw l mke (Hlr pav ut honic by atllr-HHliiK fti A l T h It N PKKMfi r( IIAM.K, HrWIu fperl. I'uim. 2 A.M.LEGG &CO. JlV! i Ulr.l at.. Wash- luU.n. 1). C AT'IOKSKVM KIIH l. V ENTOKN, Pn'ure botu Auierlcuu and Korelvti Pji-nt. Buy and kdl Patents lu nil claMMMiof luvuutlon. tin ploy ten is every where and pay HHi 8A1.AK1KS. Correpou denote fnun liivenUirttanl live auenUi hold-Ht!. ! CAKED UDDER AND GARQET Is positively Cured by tho use of CrnTT'i lo.aiiH Disrr I duce t lie rt..w of nulk. hunt br uinil tt 'is MT re.-eti.' of i.rtr.-. Ih . : 1 lb f I 00. 1U1NTIII). Will not scatter or re. "Y-'bw9 -and KAT. Price ft 1 .110. fo.u s T I'jisi f 1J i'asiti Co., AivcuesLur. H. V Ny.su- 4 mK!. HI TIIKHAN., W years' exH.rlfm lu inlUwIfery, tnkt-K lall before aitil durliiK iimttufiiieut; nklltful UruuiuMili cutlth ntlal. lnfauu svIooUmI. Kt imilf complfilutH. 1'i jvaU Iji die' Hpiu, In kaat slut Sirt-vl, New York Cliy. Uoasasspttves and people E i who have weak Iuuki or Atth- r ' dj a. sboBld use Piso sCure for E Consusupiion. It baa cored litMi. It has notm)ur I ed oiim. li is not tisd to m ll is mo best oougu tyrup. f sold evrr where. SA. f ' .:T:irr:;:u'; ir ya HERBS FOR MEDICAL USE. OTn-FA8HtONED P0I.K9 WHO TRUST TO 8IMPLH REMEDIES. rianta Which Bring Healing and Res toration to tho Sick Without the Doctor'i Prescription; yr EVERAL largo wholesale drnff w honscs down town find it worth jJ while to keep in stook a large assortment of herbs for medi cal nsr, and at least one such house, more than fifty years in existence, deals in such articles alone. These honscs supply druggists all OTer the East with the raw materials of which many standard medioines are made, and with the traditional herbs, roots and barks of onr grandmothers. The trade in these thiugs even in this city is large, and they are sold wherever household remedios still hare s plaee of honor. One of these wholesale houses issues a catalogue that is in some sort a rongh guide to the art and mystery of herb doctoring. It is these remedies that are compounded by the so-called bo tanio druggists, or "botanists," as they are sometimes styled. Many of these remedies are woll-reoognized medicines, unhesitatingly prescribed by physioians of seieutiflo education, and some snoh physicians still cling to inherited formulas aud traditional herbs. Nearly five hundred herbs, roots, seeds, flowers and barks are kept in etcck by the largest botanic druggists, and new remedies are still from time to time added to the list. The plants thus kept are not only those known to the pharmacoposa as containing the active principles of standard drags, nearly every familiar flower and plant, wild or cultivated. Not only the dan delion, May applo, bonesct and pepsis eway of our grandmothers and the liquorice root, slippery elm and gin sing of the orthodox materia medica must be kept on hand, but as well hun dreds of others known to those deeply read in the science of simples. Favorite flowers and famous plants take roles strangely unfamiliar to those unlearned in herbs and drugs. The bark of the tulip tree, according to the catalogue, cures hysterics and dyspepsia. Thistlo tea "strengthens the system and excites perspiration." Water lilies of one sort or another are good for pectoral complaints and scrofula. Watermelon seed is "ex cellent for dropsy," doubtless on the homosopathio prinoiple. The white willow is a substitute for Peruvian bark. The wild sunflower is set down as "invaluable in bilious eolio" and like complaints. Sweet clover is for swellings. The strawberry, no longer a table delicacy, furnishes in its leaves a remedy for sore throat, and in its wandering stem a cure for jaundice and fovera. Seven kinds of snake root furnish remedies for rheumatism, scrofula, hives, croup, fevers and some complaints of the stomach. The Irish shamrock, losing its em blematio significance, is used to make an infusion for scurvy. The familiar skunk cabbage, earliest and most ill-smelling of blossoms, is good for hemorrhage of the lungs, coughs and asthma. Rosemary and rue figure in this materia medica, the former not for remembrance as according to Ophelia, but for nervous and hysteri cal affections. Ophelia's rue, called "herb of grace o' Sundays," lays the nnpoetio part of a cure for epilepsy, hysterics, hiccough and disorders of the stomach. Galen, aooording to the commentators of Shakespeare, asoribed somewhat different ourative properties to rue. Ophelia's pansies, under the name of heart's ease, are not "for thoughts," but are "excellent for asthma, and good in colds and fevers. " Man plants are enumerated as hav ing the properties of quinine in great er or less degree ; there are several substitutes for opium and like doubles for other familiar drugs. The num ber of plants that cure rheumatism is marvelous, and there are more than two dozen remedies for inoipient con sumption of the lungs. Boxwood bark is "nearly equal to quinine." Cedar apples, which Walt Whitman discourses upon as cedar plums, are useful in a common complaint of chil dren, and cedar berries, the aromatio and slightly sweet little blue fruit of the cedar tree, are reoommended in tincture or infusion for dropsy. Four parts of varieties of the dogwood are enumerated as of medioinal value, and as many ferns are named. The male fern is a remedy for tapeworm, and the female fern is good for lumbago and coughs. All the old-fashioned flowers and several table vegetables find place in the list of remedies. The lady slip per is for the nerves, especially in hysteria, and the larkspur seed is for dropty. Lettuce is for colics and coughs, and asparagus root for the kidneys. The blossom of the ox-eyed daisy is reoommended for asthma, con sumption and dropsical complaints. The peony is for weak nerves and the red rose is for "hassik hemorrhages and catarrhs. Most of the patent medioines are represented in the stock of the botanic druggist by their original elements. The makers of such remedies deal largely with the wholesale houses, and so do the makers of drugs, tinc tures, ointments and embrocations. Forty or fifty herbs, plants and flow ers indigenous to California and Aus tralia are among the new additions to the stook of botanio druggists. There is an extensive importing business oonnected with the trade in medicinal herbs, and the druggists keep, aside from the dried herbs in their natural state, a quantity of freshly powdered roots, herbs, barks and flowers, domeatio and foreign. All these articles are sold by the pound or ounce, ana received by tho whole salers in bales, bags aud boxes, great and small. There is a small army of men, womon aud children the world over gathering herbs, roots and plants lor the botanio UruggiHts, and there is much care and expense put upon the culture of such things. Trices vary from season to season, and quotations cannot long be depended upon. Many ot tnese raw materials are expensive. Larkspur seed sells at $2 per ounce, and uaosafrua pith, quaintly recoin lueuded in an iufiuioa of rose water for bore eyes, fetches $1 au ouuee. Many of the herbs that go to make familiar patent medioines seem very cheap, botanio (UuggiaU keep Uo maay extracts worth from 1 to 50 per pound, and scores of easontial oils, aa of anise, of catnip, of golden rod, of horseradish, of rue, of sago, of cala mus, of parsley and of pennyroyal. The art of extracting those oils is part of the herb doctors' knowledge, and as well of the manufacturing drug gists'. New York Bun. WISE WORDS. It is often a good thing that men do not practice what they preaoh. There are aome folks who always foci like speeding the coming guest. A coat of arms is a good thing to trade on if yon have no other capital. Many people wonld be moro truth ful bnt for their uncontrollable desire to talk. Modern civilization has done more for machinery than it has done for morals. The more deeply man thinks the more entertainingly and clearer he should write. The man with only one idea is much more dangerous that tho man without any idea at all. Every woman has an idea that it onght to be a pleasure for a man to work for money for her to spend. Let your ambition ever be to do all the good you can in order to make the world every day wiser and better. Time is infinitely long, and each day is a vessel in which a great deal may be poured if we actually fill it up. The best flatterer is the man or wo man who conoeals defects without re sorting to positive and palpable false hood. Thefts is nothing which marks more decidedly the character of men and of nations than the manner inwhioh they treat women. Leisure will always be found by persons who know how to employ their time; those who want time are the people who do nothing. Liok upon the bright side of yonr condition ; then your discontents will disperse. Pore not over your losses, but reoount your meroies. The man whose return from dinner you have to wait for before going to your own, never has poor hoalth as the result of eating too rapidly. Mankind would be much happier were less time given to the borrowing of trouble and to the searching for things that one does not want to find. Made Him Raise the Fine. A man from Troy told this story the other day to a small company of friends about a police justioe in a little town in Bensselaer County : It was the law of the village that all showmen, itinerants and organ grind ers must get a license before doing business there. One day a fat police man, who had boen on the force about six months without doing anything, concluded that it was time he arrested somebody. Soon afterward along came an Italian with a performing bear. "Hev yez got yer license? asked the policeman. 'No, aaid the exhibitor of the bear. "Then yer my priz'ners," said the policeman, and he triumphantly marched off with them to the village station house, he leading the Italian and the Italian leading the bear. Arraigned before the police justice the Italian pleaded guiltv, and the judge officiously gave him a most severe and soorehing lecture on the enormity of his offense, ending by fining him $10, the full extent of the law. The culprit had a lot of small change in his pooket, but being mostly pennies and nickels it only counted up to $7.60. For a very few moments the judge was in a quandary. lis didn't like to send the fellow to jail, nor yet lose the $10. Presently a bright idea struck him a happy solu tion of the problem and he said : "Here, officer I Take this fellow out to the market plaoe and let him perform with his bear until he makoa up the balanoe, and when he gets it drive him out of town." Buffalo News. Subterranean Heat. The following is a record of the temperature of the earth at different depths, from 100 to 2100 feet, as taken at the great Foreman Shaft, Virginia City, Nev. The record was obtained by drilling holes out into the sides of the shaft and inserting a Negretti & Zambra slow-acting thermometer into the drill-hole aud leaving it there for not less than twelve hours : Depth. Temperature. jDeptn. Temperature. feet. 200... 800... 400... W0... 600 .. . 700... BOO... ooo... Dogreas. Feet. Deirrees. 6S 62 60 6H 1,200.. ... 8U!f ... tl'H ... 96 ... 101 ... 103 1,300 1,400 1.500 71'( 1,600 1,700 1.HO0 74 7S 105 l.ooo ioa l.ooo... 1,103... 81X 2,000 Ill (2,100 113 It will be seen from the above table that, although there is, upon the whole, a steady increase of tempera ture as depth is attained, the rate of increase is not uniform and regular. There is no way of telling why this is so, although it has been suggested that in the case where the temperature actually decreases two degrees in the desoent of a hundred feet (as was the case between the 300 aud 400 levels), the difference was due to the charac ter of the rock in which the recording instrument was inserted one level being of limestone formation, the other of cold, blaok trap rock. St. Louis Republic. Influence ot Color ou Diseases. Experiments have been tried with a view to ascertain if color has an effect on certain forms of disease. In mak ing this test, a number of small-pox patients were placed in a room to which only red light was admitted. The patients were for the most part those Buffering from unusually severe attacks, and about half of them being nnvaooinated childred. In spite of the violent form of the malady, they all made speedy and safe recoveries, with very little fever and but few soars. There has been but little enthusiasm about oolored glass since the famous blue-glaus exoiteuient of some years a0. But that certainly did beuufit certain coses, and at intervals ever since there htve been revivals of in terest in tho Buujeot, Now York Letyw, ; HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. TO BTtNOTATB A mtATH-RTt PKT. To renovate old foathers, pnt the bed out on the grass in the rain and let it got good and wet. Then let it dry in the sun, but keep working it Avery little while, so that the damp feathers will get the benefit of the heat. Do not leave the bed in the sun a moment after the feathers have dried well, for the heat draws the oil out of the feathers aud will make them smell strong. New York World. rKTCT,INO OHTONS. When preparing onions for cooking hold them below tho surface of the water in a deep pan and your eyes will not be affected, though you should pare and slice a largo quantity. This method is used in piokling establish ments, where bushels of them are put tip daily ; but, remember, the hands, knife and onions must be kept under the water. It is a good plan to have two pans of water when the onions are to be sliced, so that they may be pared in one pan and then thrown into the other one for slicing. Drain through a colander before cooking. New York World. POINTS ABOVT MEAT. In selecting the meat in respoct to cost, the lower round averages from thirteon to fifteen cents a pound, while the upper oost from fifteen to twenty-five cents. If the steak is wished for broiling, purchase the up per round, but for Hamburg steaks, bouillon, anything in whioh tne meat is to be chopped before using, the lower round will do as well at a much less oost. The aitch-bone costs from eight to ten cents a pound and makes a very good pot roast, when treated properly, as tender and well flavored as the round. The middle out of the shin is usually more a pound than the rest of the leg, but that at five cents a pound makes as good soup stock as that at seven cents. In buying a roast of beef it is nsnally eaonomy to get a good-sized one. The meat is better, and mado-ovor dishes oost far less than a roast each day. New York World. BEEF STEWED WITHOUT WATER, Take three or four pounds of the found of beef. Put three slices of salt pork in a sauoepan and as soon as it is crisp take it out and put ono onion and half a small carrot cut fine. Stir all the while till brown. Then add one cup of canned tomatoes, two sprigs of parsley, a. bay leaf, three or four cloves, a teaspoonful of sweet marjo ram, one-half teaspoonful celery salt, salt and pepper. Put in the meat and oover tightly, and cook in a moderate oven five hours. When about half done turn the meat. The cover must be perfeotly air tight, and the oven moderate. When done plaoe the meat on a hot platter, strain the gravy ; thioken with a litt'.e cornstarch wet up in cold water, add a tablespoonfnl ot sauce, let it boil up a few minutes and pour around the moat. Any tough piece of beefsteak may be made very palatable, cooked according to the above directions. Home and Farm. ro BUST A ROOM. Soft cloths make the best of duBt. ers. In dusting any piece of furni ture begin at the top and dust down, wiping carefully with the oloth, which can be frequently shaken. A good many people seem to have no idea what dusting is intended to accom plish, and instead of wiping off and removing the dust, it is simply flirted off into the air and soon settles down upon the articles dusted again. If carefully taken up by the cloth it can be shaken off out of the window into the open air. If the furniture will permit the use of a damp oloth, that will more easily take up the dust, and it oan be washed out in a pail of soapsuds. It is far easier to save work by cov ering up nice furniture while sweep ing than to clear the dust out, besides leaving the furniture looking far bet ter in the long run. The blessing of plainness in decoration is appreciated by the thorough housekeeper who does hor own work while dusting New York Journal. RECIPE3. , Steak Boast Take a round of steak, pound, pepper and salt it well. Take dry bread crumbs, and make a dress ing ot them and spread over the top of the steak. Boll it up and tie it with a string, put it in a pan and roast forty minutes. Apple Tapioca Pudding Soak a cup of pearl tapioca in one pint of water for two hours; stir into it three quarters ot a cup ot white sugar, a oup ot thin sweet cream, and half a teaspoonful of salt. Pare and quar ter eight large Greening apples, put them in a pudding dish, turn the tapiooa over them, grate a little nut meg over the top aud bake an hour and a quarter in a slow oven. Serve with whipped cream. Chicken With Mushrooms Have ready one pound of cold ohioken ohopped fine and one-half pint ot mushrooms out in small pieces. Cover these with water and boil five min utes. Skim out the mushrooms into a hot dish. There should be left a coffee-oupful of liquid. If not enough add milk to the hot liquid. Thicken this with a tableupoonful of flour, same amount of butter and season. Three minutes boiling will thioken it Add the chicken and mushrooms and cook two minutes, stirring constantly. Serve on hot platter. Strawberry Cream Cake Make a light sponge cake and bake in jelly tins. Soak a quarter of a box of gela tine in half a cup of cold water. Whip a pint of cream and put it in a granite pan, standing this iuside of another containing cracked ice. Add to the cream half a cup of powdered sugar and a teaspoonful of vanilla sugar. Stir the gelatine over boiling water un til it is dissolved, add it to the cream, and stir at once until it begins to thicken. When the cakes are oold put a thick layer of this cream over each and stand strawberries thiokly on ; pile one on top of another and let the top layer be cream and strawberries. This is not so costly a desert as it seems, as, being very rich, only a small quantity is required. One traiued rooster in Belgium baa erewvd 237 timet ia aa hour, t TEMPERANCE. wbat in wist. rm. Unm will seoroh anrt sear tha I rnln, Hum will mad tha hnart with pnln Hum will Moat tltn fliwh with II ro And eternal thirst Inspire. Rum will clothe with rair jrour laok, Make yon walk a crooked truck ; ('hanira rotir meat to naked hones And to wrath your (rent lo tones. Hum will rob yon ot all sense. Hum will rob the puree of pence , Hum will rob tho mouth of food And the sonl of hnaronly good. Rum the lalls with men will fill, And the ilunijeon'a gloomy cell ; It rouflea pAAHlon's deadly hate And ponrs Its curses oe'r tho Htxto, Hum the Christian's love will pool, Make him drunk the golden rule llllnd his sonl to error's hand And to evil turn his hands. F. S. Williams, In Home and Country. A rat7xARi'a will. The following Is a will by a drnnknrd o. Oswogo, N. T. 1 "I leave to aoMety a ruined character and a wretched example. I leave to my parents aa much sorrow a they can In their feeble state bear. 1 leave to my brothers and sisters as munh shame an I moHIDoatlon as I could bring on them. 1 leave to my wife a broken heart a life of shame. 1 teave to snh of my children pov erty, Ignornnoe, a low character, and a ra memhrancethnt their fnther lllle I a drunk' ard's grave." Christian Inquirer. MtAKDY mors roa caiLnastt. M. I. Arnould, a candy mann fadTirer, wns brought before tho Hoard of Heaath, of New York City, to make explanation con cerning brandy drops, which he had manu factured nnd sold to school children. Com plaint wns made agntnst him by the Gerry Society. A chemical analysis showed thnt six of the randies contained as much br.indy ns an ordinary 'cocktail." Mr. Arnould stated that he had given up the manufacture of the drops, but that others were manufac turing thnm. The Commissioners will do all they oan to prevent tho manufacture of those intoxicating drops. New York Wit ness. T1WT1MONT or DTK AOS. Thou Shalt not drink wlno or anything that may intoxicate. Budhiet Command ment. Temperance la a tree which baa content ment for its root and peaoe for Its fruit. Arabian Maxim. Houily enjoyment depends on health aud health depends ou emperanoe. Thares, of Greece, 60 B. C. Strength of mind depends upon sobriety, for this keeps reason nnolonded by passion. FythagoriM, ol Greece, 5H0 11. C. Far from me be the gift of Bacchus per nlcioua, Inflaming wine, thnt weakens both body and mind. Homer, ot Greece, 900 B. C. Look not upon the wine when It la red, for at Inst it biteth like a serpent and sting oth like nn adder. King Solomon, 101511. tl. It Is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine, nor anything whereby thy brother Btumbleth or Is made weak. Paul the Apos tle. 60 A. I). While the intemperate man inflicts evil upon his friends, be brings far more evil up on ulms'ilf. Not only to ruin his family, but also to briug ruin on his own body and soul, Is the greatest wrong thnt nay man oan commit. Socrates, B. C. The man who drinks Intoxicating Hqnnt ulls up his own root, even In this world, lg up thirst by the roots, that the temptei may not crush you again and ngaln, as tlio stream crushes the woede. Bukha Sakya, Hindoo, born G27 B. 0. THE POllKEtl JltSUKBNAtrr. Commander Ualllngton Booth, In a recent number of tho War Cry, referring to tha licensed liquor traffic and tha saloon, writes ' it has long been n mystery to me. both in my private and official rapacity, how any municipal or Htnte government can hope to regulate the city or commonwealth with any decree of advantage or prosperity or any an ticlpation ot Inculcating morality, chastity, or justice, while the Miloou and the opeu traffic, ot liquor Is allowed fuHswny and pro tection. Tlioir work Is avowedly banoful and destructive. It has been proved Incon teatnbly that the business of flvo eiiloons in any locality will occasion more real perma nent harm than the fervent efforts or live churches will accomplish good. While the sale and use of liquor Is encourage,!, nut homes will oontinueto be blighted, our yotiin. debased, our civil bapplnuea robbed, and our public prosperity thwarted. Haa not tin argument 'IJrinktag In moderation,' luug since proved weak and threadbare In tho light of tho devastation, misery, and scourge brought through the nery cup to multitudes in our midst V "Ami accused of speaking strongly J I will speak leu so If any one reading these lines van tell me that no relative or acquaint ance of his has ever been brought under the shadow of this curse. Oh, aa men among men. as stewards of do 1, aud as Soldier of the Cross, there is bnt one thing left for us to do in this matter, and tnat Is to vow present and eternal abandonment, and war against, this modern Juggernaut." . TIIE COST Or ORE DRrHI. Rome men are so made that the mere taste or liquor will kindle la them a raging thirst for more. A doctor and his friend were onae talking together in front ot a saloon when a master mechanic, a man ot amiable and excellent character, a llrst-clnsa workman, full ot business, with nn Interesting fumily, re spected l y hverybo ly and bidding fair to be one of the leading men ot tho olty oame Up lo tliem and laughingly mil " tVell, I have just done what I never did before In my life." . "Ah, what was that." "Why, Mi. hu owed me a hill for work for n long time nnd I dunned l.im for the money till I was tire I, but a mluute ago I caught him out here, ant asket him for the money 'Well,' he said, 'I'll pay It to you If you'll step lu here, and get a drink with me.' '.No,' ontd I, 'I never drink never dr.ink in my life.' 'Well.' be replied, '.lo us you please; If you won't drink with me, I won't p.iy your bill that's all !' But I told htm I could not do that. However, flu ling he would not pay the bill, rather than lose the money. I jut went in and got the drink." And he laughed at the strange occurrence as he concluded. As soon as he had finished the stonr, the phyaicinn's companion, an old, discreet, shrewd man. turned to him, and in a most impress'vu toue, suld "Sir, that was tho dearest r"rlnk that ever crossed your lips, aud the worst bill you t-ver collected." And terribly did time verify that predic tion. In lues than twelve months he was a continued, disgr.toed ant, a vagabond in so ciety, a curse to those who loved him, a loathing and a shame wherever he went. At last he died a horrible d-wlh In nn infirmary from a ctiseast) produced solely by Intoxica tion. EVPEIUKCE KKWS AMU NOTE. Lord Hramwell says : "Saturday Is pay day, drink-day, crime-day.'" Eght per cent, of the Welsh members ot Parliament are teetotalers. Even a brewer one hundred years ngo wrote; "Through drink there nre half a million homes to which happiness nevot comes." Uf the fill paupers In the Edinburgh poot bouse not one was nn ab9taluer, and 407 ad mitted tiiat their poverty was due entirely to lutumpurauoe. Four million four hundred and twenty eijfht thou.tnd have been convicted ol drunkenness and disorderliueas In London In a quarter of a oentury. Dr. Clara Hhnw, of the Chicago Central W. C. T. U., bus begun a aerie of scientific temperance lectures in the Christian En deavor Societies of Illinois. The statement was recently made In the German Ueionstug thnt there lire 11,000 per sons in hospitals in Uermany who are suf fering with delirium tremeus. That whirlwind of the Lord, of twenty years ago, bos not yet spent Its force but U still sweeping ou. A part of It Is embodied In the Yuuug People's Hociety of Christian Eudeavor. Let us thauk God and taku new courage. Mrs. U. H. Head. According to an estimate made by a prom inent liquor dealer, the United States Hen t ate, it it extends the bonding period, is ' practically givmg the liquor men f 1.S7 en every gallon uf wlil.ky upon whiou the bond ing puriud Is exleiidei to eight yean, Do You Wish the Finest Bread and Cake? Jt Is conceded that the Royal Baking Powder ia the purest and strongest of all the baking powders. The purest baking powder makes the finest, sweet est, most delicious food. The strongest baking pow der makes the lightest food. That baking powder which is both purest and strongest makes the most digestible and wholesome food. Why should not every housekeeper avail herself of the baking powder which will give her the best food with the least trouble ? Avoid all baking powders sold with a gift or prize, or at a lower price than the Royal, as they invariably contain alum, lime or sul phuric acid, and render the food unwholesome. Certain protection from alum baking powders can be had by declining to accept any substitute for the Royal, which is absolutely pure. Flowers Affect the Singer's Throat. In ono of the Parisian journals a long discussion haa boon going on with re gard to the effoot, injurious or other wise, that flowers have upon a ainger'a throat. The consensus of opinion among the opera singers seems to be that certain flowers, notably tuborosos and mimosa, are particularly danger ous. Mme. Christine Nilsson, in her let ter on this subjoct, montions the case of a celebrated woman singer with whom she was appearing in concert some years ago. As they stood in the wings waiting for the first number on the programme to be announced, a friend sent a huge wreath to the singer, which was made of tuberoses. Tho singer buried her nose in the flowers for a moment, and three minutes later when she went npon tho stage to aing she found that she could not raise a note. The vocal chord had been tem porarily paralyzed. A doctor was called, the flowers were thrown out of a window and the dinger, after her throat had boen treated, was ablo to aing later in the evening. Mile. Em ma Calve in this article also upholds Mme. Nilsson's opinion. "The only flowers that I ever admit into my living apartments," write Calve, ''are rosea and violets. The tuberose is my particular abhorrenoe, not alone because it suggests death, but on account of its injurious effect on the voice. Upon entering a room where lilies are 1 always have an ir resistible desire to throw the windows open. They always irritate my throat. In my mind there is no doubt about all flowers being injurious to the throat except roses. Personally I can also exempt the violet, but other sing ers have told me that it hod an in jurious effect upon their vocal chords. " New York Sun. There are said to be large tracts of country in Cuba still unexplored. 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