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TIONESTA, PA., WEDNESDAY, OCT. 7, 1890. $1.00 PER ANNUM. 8 English Hndicols oro asking for the appointment of pnblio defenders to oppose tbo pnblio prosoontors. Madagascar has important mineral wcolth, not only irou, grophito, rook Bolt, coal, nitre aud other things, but )robably workable gold. As tho result of the existence of a chUio trust in Belgium, tho New Or leansFiooyiine asserts that the bum blor clasFos of tho population there are forced" to purchase horseflesh, as a sub stitute for bcof. The manufacturing product of Eng laud exceeds that of "any other Euro pean Natiou. It is more than equal to tho product of Gorinony, Italy and Bpaiu corubiued and Tory noorly equal to the total irnnufacttiring products of Frauce and Russia. A law against "unfair competition in trade" has conio into foroo in Ger many. It is niined against fulso- de scriptions and othor forms of swind ling by advertisements. Not ouly the advertiser, bnt the nowapaper pub lishing tho advertisement, may be prosecuted. At tho last regular school election held in Phelps Opera House, Greon villo, Mich., Dr. A. W. Nichols was clcctod director, in place of L. W. Bprague, and O. C. Millor, a member of the board, eucoocds himself. Thore never had been oi exciting a school election thore. Hacks and busos were running all day carrying women to tho poll. The issue was the exolusion if music, drawing and fairy tulos and substitution of shorthand, typewriting nud lertnre course. Tho educational roform parly wou aud useful instruc tion will succeed fuiry-tolo entertain ment With tho exception of Texas, whioh is a muoh larger State iu oxtent of ter ritory, Georgia ranks first among the Statos of tho South in tho mileage of Lcr electrical railways. Tho record is ns follows: district of Columbia, fifty uiuo miles; Maryland, 233 miles; Virgiu!o, 1G1 miles; West Virginia, twenty six miles,; Kentucky, - Z7 miles; North Carolina, thirty-nine miles; South Curoiiua, ten miles; .Georgia. 235 milos; Florida, thir sty seven miles; Alabama, ccvonty six milos; Mississippi, four miles; Teuueseee, 208 miles; Louisiana, 15C miles; Arkansas, thirty-eight miles; and Texan, 251 milos. Tho English statistician, Mulhall, recently published an ottituate of the wealth of ull tho leading Nations. His information was gathered from the most reliable sources and tlere is every reason to believe that it is ap proximately correct Mr. Mulhall fcbows that the wealth of the United States far exceeds that of any other Nation. Hero are some of his figures : Uuitod States fct. 120,000,000 Great Xirltutu 47,000,000,000 France 42,000,000,000 aormiiny 81,185,000,000 Huaxia 25,445,000,000 Austria 19,275,000,000 -"y 14,815,000,000 tipuiu 12,680,000,000 Australia 6,895,000,000 natrium 6,035,000,000 Hollnud 4.900,000,000 Canada 4,18O,OOO,0X A will I uu 2,545,000,000 Sweden 8.041.000,000 ltJumnuiu 3,180,000,000 It is further tdiown by Mr. Mulhall that the average earning capacity of the Arueiican workiuguaan is much erenttrtban that of the workingman in oDy other country. From 1880. to 18'JO tho State of Kau nas enjoyed a continuous boom. Its papulation inoreased at a great rate aud it was confidently predicted that Kansas would soon become one of the wealthiest and most populous Statos of the West. The history of Kansas fur tho past five years presents a sad commentary on these high expecta tions. It is estimated that the popu lation is fully 100,000 loss now than it was when the census of 1800 was taken, and the exodus continues. A large part of the State is a semi arid region uud utterly unreliable for agricultural purposes. Crops there have been al most a total failure in two of the last five yours. Thousands of Kansas far mers moved lust yeur to more f avorablo regions aud thousands more are pre paring to leave. The Atlanta Journal looks for a very large movement of farmers from Kausua and other parts of the Northwest to Goorgia. Good luuds can be bad in this State at low prices aud the "seasons" never fail. There is always a sure return for in telligent aud iuduttrious effort. It le a gruut thing for people who have en dured the hardships of the Northwest to tin J themselves iu a laud whore ex tremes .' heat aud oold are uuknown, where neither blizzards nor drought! do come aud where all the aonditioni cf life are idoasuuL THE WAY OF LOVE, "Coin''," said Love, upon a dayi "Come, and fare my rosy way; If porehaneotho thorni wo moot They Bhall muki tho roses sweet." Bo with Lovo I passed alone, AH the world wus sweet with song; Kever thorn was mine, for ho Mid them In his heart from mo! -F. L. Stanton, in Atlnntu Constitution. AT THE ENDOFTIIR ROAD. UY MARY CL-AItKI! HUMINtiTON. HEY a'n't to know a thing about it unless they mis trust. It's to be a real surprise," said Lou Harlow, poising horsolf, like one about to take llight, in the doorway of Mrs. Urocn's kitchen. "You mast come, Mis' Green. Twill do you good to got out. You'ro too much shnt up. Bur ell will miss you if yon don't come. She'll want to see her near neighbors, if nobody else is there. Got 'Bostus to bring yon down." Mrs. Green set tbo teapot further back on the stove and murmured an indoftuite "Al'm." The milk house door openod with a rattlo of pails. Lou's eyes turned slightly in that di rection as sho talked on porsistontly. "Brother Ed was going to stop yes terday and invite you, but he had to go another way, so I stopped in new. It's rather late to be giving invita- tiouB, 1 know ; but it's all boon planned in such a hurry that we are out and out ilustered. I thought, too, that I might stir yon up to coming hotter than Ed could. It does seem too bad not to have a lot of folks at a tin wed ding surprise party. Everybody's to bring something beside refreshments, you know. 1 ve too cutest littlo oat meal cooker that I got at the five-cent store in the city, and I shall take that. Well, 1 won't hinder you any longer about your supper. Good-by. Now do come if you con. Good-by." The kitchen door timed its closing with mathematical accuracy to the issuing of a young man from tho milk house. Through the window Airs. Green saw Lou's inuocontly surprised ttart aud cordial bow, but tho bit of talk that followed was iuftudibis her. SliO-Wk 'certain, however, that it was about the surprise party, "if those Harlows a'n't managin' I" was her meutal commout, "But it'll take more'n a pretty puttiu' on to make Lou one mite engagm' to lias tuf, 1 eucss." 'Jiaetus came in presently, and, after washing at the siuk, sat down to sup per. He was thin and not over tail, with a vivid boyish complexion uud chin like his mother's, marked by decision that almost severe coldness of gray-bluo eyes accentuated. It was ouly when 'liustus smiled that ono knew bow winning his face could be. "Lou Harlow stopped in to ask us to a tin wedding surprise at her brother Will's, l'robahly she men tioned it to you," said Mrs. Green, as she poured the tea, "I shall have to carry something iu the shape of tin. I wonder if the dipper I got of that pedler lust week wou't do. 1 took it for rags. They do pay bo little for rags now, I declare it's hardly worth savin' 'em. If it hadn't been for them old overalls of yours I shouldn't made out enough to get this dipper." "Likely thoy won't have more'n seven dippers," said 'Hastus, helping himself to a second dish of apple sauce. Mrs. Groen looked disturbed, "Well, dippers is handy. Every housekeeper needs two, and they use up quick. Dippers nowadays ain't what dippers used to be. There's hard ly one to bo got but has a weakness in the soldcrin. I don't know what's more provokin' than to bavo a dipper ful ol water como splashiu' outo the floor and leave nothin' but a handle in your fingers." The quick, bright smile flashed over 'Rustns's face. "Better carry a pan or something of that kind." His mother took tho suggestion as profoundly serious. "I haveu'tone I could spure. Can't we stop for the Blake girls, 'llastus? They like to get out, and it's rather far lor "em to wulk now they're failiu. I declare it goes to my heart to see poor Mies Betsey so meechin lately. She doesn't soum to know whether her things is on straight or not. Last Sunday 'twas ull I could do to keep my mind on the sermon for wantin' to straighten her false front. Twas twisted so tho partiu' was over one oye. Aud it's real pathetio to see Miss Harriet hoverin about her sister and fusBiu' to make her comfortable, when all the time Miss Harriet s tho oldest. Miss Betsey ain't but sixty-eight. shouldn't wonder if 'twould chick 'em up oonsid'ublo to go to the surprise party this evenin . "Well, you can take 'cm ; I'll walk. 'Twould be too crowding in the buggy for us ull, and I don't waut to get out the business wagon. There's a spake loose." Mrs. Green looked narrowly at him; the repose of his face indicated noth ing. "But, 'Bustus, I can't hi toh old Noll. You know how sho acts the miuute we get out a cuperiu' and pnlliu'." "I'll be on bund to look out for you." 'liustus pushed away his ohair aud tho door closed after him. His mother watehed as bo went across the yurd, with slender shoulders well thrown back. Even iu overalls and colored shirt ho had not the slouclii ness of muny farmers. She ruooguued the fuot with a thrill of pride ; but uu other fact was present to her ulao. The ffepas boy who nsed to sob out bis little grief upon nor sympatuctio uosoui uaa reached man's estate, bow entirely was told by some trick of manner, by occasional tono of voice or lift of eyes. Ho thought that she did not know, and therein lay part of the sting. It seemed to put her far from him, and sho felt a chilling prescience of tho time when her place in the house would bo taken 'by some ouo else. Bo gret that a boy must over grow beyond boyhood filled her now for a moment. She would have likod to call him back and say sharply that if he could not rido down to tho Hariows witu ner and tho Misses Blake be should not attend the party at all. But a softness grew in her eyes as his lithe figure disappeared through tho barn door. 'Well, it s only natural. 1 wish, though, that flitteriDg little Holland girl had stayed in Bbode Island. Castus won not long in finishing the chores. When he had harnessed old Noll to tbo Concord buggy and bitohed her to a post by the back door, be came in to shave. Mrs. Green was sit ting by the kitchen wiudow, dressed in her best gown a black alpaca, with fashionablo largo sleeves. It had just been made over, and tho size of tho sloevos was supposed to offset the scantness of the skirt. At any rate, as she told tbo neighbor dressmaker, "thore wasn't any more pieces, and 'twas better the scrimpiu' should como in tho Bkirt; for one's skirt didn't show in one's coffin, and if sho was to die sudden before styles changed, why, tho waist would do niooly for her to bo laid out in. " I'm real glad I'vo got this to wear to night," she said. Not that thore was much consolation iu laying such a thing to 'Bastus ; but sho must say it to somebody, Ho hoarJ, however, and answered "yes" in an absent way, as he tilted bis chin bofore the small mirror that hung botwoon the win dow". With a curiously aggrieved feeling his mother noticed how carefully- he avoided shaving the down from his npper lip, and that ho left a suspioion of side whiskers. "Seems to me you're prinkin' moro'n nsnol." she ventured. He colored. Ho had a trick of blushing like a girl. 'I haven't shaved since Sunday, and hero 'tis Friday. Getting hard to suit, a'n't you, mothor?" " Mobbe," she said, laconically. A moon in its seoond quarter was showing above the eastern horizon as 'Bnstus walked across taO' lots after helping his mother off. A few crick oTetS Titrated from the (trass ; sweot neaa born of the first October frosts lent to the air a subtle exhilarating aualitv which cave him an added buovaucv. Life seemed on this even in if to open before him radiant with hopo. When hd leapt a wall be was in a wheel-worn lane leading lrom tuo main road to the Harlow House, whose windows wore hospitably alight. Bo yond, at the end of the lane, was an other bouse, old-lasnionea anayeiiow paiuted. Tnere lived Mr, and Mrs. Ens-lish, two childless, middle-aged people. Thoy wore coming up from their house now. As he waited by the fence in the shadow of a ulao bush he could see thorn distinctly in tho cloar moonlight two somowhat bent tig ures. stepping irreguiariy. uetweeu them walked another figure, with youthful poise of head and shoulders, and his heart gave a queer little jump at the sound of a girl s laugh. " If I bavon t stove my thumb into this cake," Mrs. Lnghsh was saying, "Never mind, ma. Turn it tother side to when vou bond it in, aud nobody'll notice," suggested her bus band. The musical girl laugh soundod again. "Let me oarry it, Aunt Martha. With a thrill of satisfaction 'liustus saw the napkin-oovered plate change bonds. The slim, quick stopping fiauro was ahead of the others now. As she reaobod the gate he seized the ooveted opportunity, and moved lor ward, awkwardly snatohingott nis nat. "Good evening, Miss Holland. Let me ooen the cote for you." Never did gate latoh so long refuse to lift ; and when she bad passed through was it not to pause and turn back with a protty Uu dear I now he blessed the rose branch that caught her skirt, and so held her for bis re leasing. "Thank you," she said, de murolv. looking at him with the moon light iu her eyes. Old Nell oame up at a brisk trot, but bis mother was alouo, sitting very erect aud holding the reins far apart. "The Blake girls coulJu t came, Miss Betsey had a bad turn last night, aud Miss Harriet didn't want to leave her. So you see you oould have rode down well enough. I know you've snoiled vour new shoes a-trottin' through the wet crass 'cross lots." "Well, you won't have to ride homo alone," said "Hastus, happily, as be helped her out. What were new shoes in comparison with that interchange of elauoe lrom a girl s eyesr --i oou believe the Horlows were very much surprised after ull, mother. Whon got hore every wiudow was lighted We're eorlv. too." One by one, in twos and threes, and merrv family loads, tho guests arrived and there was talk and laugh and iu t-rchunuo of kisses among the women an awkward standing aloof or scrap of neighborly ohutt among the men until the elder masouline element drifted to tho kitchen, tho younger to the loug ball and the sitting-room circle was strictly femiuiue. With the first clutter of cups and plates, borulding coming refreshment, tho oompuuy's uttitudo of constraint lessened ; biscuits aud preserves aud as muny kinds of cuke as there were housewives present, proved a wonder ful impetus to sociability ; and whou coffee wus served, steaming hot aud do liuiously fragrant, tho laU stiffness was swept away. Some of the uiirried men cveu wandered into the sitting room uud looked re&puctfully at the tableful of such tin articles as go to fill the sholvcs of a well-stocked pan try; the youngor people intermingled freely; games startod ; a girl with an untrained, linnet-like voioe seated her self at the atshmatia molo.lcon and sang from the "GoRpol Hymns." The Harlow's "tin wedding surprise" was a social success. Lou Harlow, bustling about among tho guests, was moro busily hostoss like than Mrs. Harlow herself. "Sarell never mistrusted until tho last min ute," eho was tolling everyono. "When we suggested her fixing more'n usunl for the ovening, she said she just knew something was up." "Yes, it was a real surprise until then," corroborated Sarell Harlow, her usually quiet face very animatod. "I didn't suppose anyone would re member that Will and I had been mar ried ton years to-day. It's real pleas ant to have one's frionds so remctnbar- ing. Mre. Green, taking inventory of the tin things on the table, smiled benig- nantly upon tbo speaker. ue had fouud but ono dipper among tho pilo, nd naturally felt the prestige of be ing the only person who had given an unduplicated article. Mrs. Hodgson, tho local merchant's wife, began talk ing at her elbow. How moo Lou Harlow looks to night. That laco at her throat is vory becoming. I bear something about her and vour 'Hastus. How's that?" Mrs. Greon drew herself up stiffly. "Folks can hear a good deal," she said. " 'Hastus looks rather young to think of marrying. And Lou why, she's lot me see." Mrs. Dodgsou screwed her face into arithmetical puckers. "She three years older 'n Kastusl I remember sho was born tho saaio year as my Amerot." "Oh well, it b the fashion nowadays for men to marry older'n themselves," Mrs. Green answered, with a blond noss born of remembrance that Mrs. Hodgson's own eon had woddod a woman ten years his senior a widow with an overgrown daughter lust en tering her teous and that the affair was very displeasing to his people. But her neighbor d friendly mquisi- tivenoss set her into a new train of thought. What if Lou Harlow bad been the one whom 'Hastus had fan cied? Bofore her rose a vision of heavy bread, cake Binelling of saler- atus, careless housekeeping which slie knew to be the rule at tbo Harlow homestead ; she thought of what it would be to live day after day with Lou's giggling laugh, her persistont chatter and good-natured omoious ness I Looking across tho room at one who but a fow hours ago she bad characterized as "that fiitterin' little Holland girl, "she noted with a stirring of pride akin to what she felt in lias tus the tnmness of the blaoK gowned figure, the quiet maunor, the dolioote contour of a faoe whose prettinoss did not conceal decision aud capability, 'Bastus was talking with ber now, his attitudo marked by that new dignity whioh his mother had notioed of late, Something in tho turn of his head re minded her of his fathor when he bad come courting out Pemigewasset way, where she had lived as a girl. When came a homeward movement among the guests Mrs. Green paused, talking in the open door on nor way out. Her quiok eyes had recognized two young figures at the gate, and she turned her buck upon them, barring the progress of Mr. and Mrs. English, "I have enjoyed it all so much ; haven't you, Mis' English ? I do think a Burpriso tin weddiu' tho best way of rememberin the anniversary it don t make so much work for the folks of the house. Seoms to mo it' a pretty long while Binoo you and your hus band have been up to tea with mo, Now, why can't you bo a mito more neighborly and come soon? bay Wednoslay. Nothiu to binder? Well, I'm real glud. And you are to bring your niece. Not'hoviu' any girl of niy own 1 like to eoo a bright faoe like hers 'rouud once in a while. I guess 'Bastus must have got the horse un hitched by this time. Good-night. 'Bastus wus patting Nell's, noso as he stood by ber when his mothor came out. Betta Holland was still at tho gate; waiting for her aunt and uncle, and Mrs. Green smiled at her as she passed. Mother aud son drovo along the bush-fringed lane at a plodding gait; for old Nell seemed in an indol ent mood, 'Bastus loth to urge ber on. The moonlight lay whito and beauti ful over everything. "I've asked Mr. and Mrs. English to tea next Wednesday," said Mrs. Green. She cleured her throat at the eager in terest on 'Bastus's faoe, and added whut she knew would establish perfect un derstanding between herself and him. 'And I'vo asked the nieoe, too." "Have you?" Iu 'Bistus's voice was a thrill of such gladness as comes when one is twenty-three and iu love for the first time. "Have you?" How much the bey looked like bis father in spite of having her eyes and chin! Mrs. Groen felt a sudden all embracing motherliuess that let the girl of his love into tho depths of her heart. But sho only said, in a matter of fact way : "I should ttiuk 'twould be real lonesome for the Englishes beiu' as their house id where there a'n't never auy pussiu'. I should hate to live so lur lrom folks. I wouldn't for any thing." 'Bustus turned and looked buck toward tho old yellow house. To him it seemed that uudor soino ciroum stuuoes ho could live bis whole lifo ut tho end of tho roud. The Indepen dent. For a Siberian Lake. A fctjol twin-screw steamer for Luke Baikal, iu Siberia, bus just started from Glasgow for its destiuution. It is-115 feet ioug and druws ouly three feet of wutui. It will go through tho Karu Sea to tho Yenisei, up thut river to the Angina, and over tho rapids into the lake, SCIEN'TIFIO A3D INDUSTRIAL. Eighty-five per cent, of the pooplo who are lame are nffected on tho loft side. Sea water contains Bilver in some quantity. It is often found deposited on tho coppor sheathing of ships. The ordinary speed of a bonse-fly is twonty-five feet a second ; but when chased it often attains a speed oi iou feet a seoond. An observatory for terrestrial mag- natism has been established in con nection with tho astronomical observ atory in Munich, and Dr. Fronz von Schwarz has been made director. A chair of ichthyology has recently been established at Munich iu connec tion with the Tierarztliche Hochschle of that place. This seems to be tho first professorship of tho kind ever established. Boentgon rays havo been used to take picturos of flowers. They show tho ovules insido the overy in an un opened bud. tho soeds within a seed vessel, and even the veius upon the white petols of a flower. Dr. F. Eldridge Brown, a well- known authority on color blindness, says that women have a much better perception of color than men. For the whole population he estimates tne percentage of color-blind persons is 3.5, whilo Dr. Wilson puts it at 5.5. There aro many authenticated ex amples of inoroased power of mind during sleop. One of tho best known is that in which the groat naturalist Agassiz sucoossfully reconstructed from certain aemalns of the skeleton of a fosal flsh at whioh he had been working unsuooessfully in his waking momonts for several weeks. By actual oount a naturalist took two thousand tiny foothers from tho lining of a single bird's nost, while in the construction of another 4S2 twigs wore found to have boon employed. In building tho bird worki from tho inside, sitting among the material and twisting and weaving it into shape. The mother bird assumes tho respon sibility for tho nest, tho father follow ing her about and helping her when she will permit it. Dradlr Duel With J'ills. An extraordinary duol, which at the time created an immense sensation, was one in which the decision was ar rived at, not by swords or pistols, but by moans of a deadly poison, The men who, it is hardly neoossary to say, hod fallen out over a lady had loft tho arrangement of dotails to their seconds, and until they faced eaoh other they did not know by what method they were to sottle their dif ferences. One of the seconds was a doctor, and made up for the occasiou four blaok pellets, all identical in size and shape. "In one of those," he said, "I have placed a sufficient quantity ol pruBsio aoid to cause the almost instan taneous death of uny ono who swal lows it. Wo will docido by tho toss ol a coin which of you is to huvo firsl choioo, and you will alternately draw and swallow a pill uutil tho poison shows its effects." Two of tho pellets were then taken as the toss had de cided, but without effect in either case. "This time," said the dootor, speaking of tho two pellets remaining, "You must both swallow the pill at the same instant." The choice was again made, and iu a few seconds ono of tbo mon lay dead on tho grass. Gentleman's Magazine. Queerest Hicyclo ilailo. Now, hero is the queerest, cheapest bicycle that is made anywhere in thie or any other country. That there is a fall iu tho price of bicycles is undoni ablo. But nobody ever thought that in this year of graoo 18'JO a wheel could be made aud sold for a quartet of a dollar, and both maker and seller have a profit. .The author and finisher of the in genious machino is Fred Dodsou, a fourteen-year-old la I, who lives at Fishiug Creek, Penn. Littlo Dodsou worked for two months coustrnoting bis old wheel, which hours about tho same relation to tho modcru bicycle that the Spanish caravels did to ono of the White Squadron. He made his frame and wheels of the best boards ho could find, built a oomfortuble suddlo on a hickory spring, uud used a strip of perforated leather in placo of a oliaiu. His pedals, cranks and bruces aro marvels. When he disooverod that his won dorful product would go, ho was the gladdest boy in the Keystone State, and whon somo oue offered him a quarter for it he suuppod at tbo bar gain. Now York Journal. ltcgjjurs iu L'hiiiu. A Chinaman can live well npon five couts a day, yet there are more leggars iu China than in any other country, They travel iu great oompanios, men, women and childreu. The women Buf fer on this tramp, because their feet are baudugod. Crowds of young beg gars follow carriugors for miles, howl ing for gifts. Professionals often multilute their childreu bo thoy may excite sympathy. These swarms of beggars are tho result of there not be ing euough work for them ull. Each family takes cuie of its own poor to a great extent uud the Chinese aro not luzy, so it is the force of circumstances more than auythiug else thut con tributes to this btute. Bobbed While His Leg Was Asleep. P. Elliott but reuding a puper yes torday afternoon iu front ot bis tea storo at Eighteenth uud Stato etreets. Soon he wus fust asleep. Ho wus sud denly uwukeued, however, by feeling a bund iu his pocket. Ho how a col ored muu put his wutou uud ehuiu iu his Jpoeket uud wulk away. Elliot) tried to arise, but bis loft leg wus be numbed by tho position ho hud beou iu uud ho wus uuubio to do so. The thief i-ttcupud. Chicago lutoi-Occuu. DEBT 11 TWO COSTUME.S. When Debt Is dressed up In Its bo.it, With llnon fine end purple rnlment, With Jewels rare and hnnghty nlr Why, creditors don't ok for payment; But when arrayed lu garments frnyed Debt walks the street with aspoct hum He Without a friend; their.en who lend Must hove their money quick, or grumble. Ward I.cvotte Wilson, iu Life. HUMOR OF THE DAY. Alwaysputofl till to-morrow business that does not concern you." Truth. Magoozleman "There's a curious thing abont water it expands iu freezing." Gigman "3o does tbo price." Puck. "At this point sho broke down aud wept scolding toarB." "Dear me I Sho must have been boiling over with rage." Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr. Youngly "They say that there is no fool like bu old fool." Miss Nowville "Butthat saying originated before you were born." Truth. Man is never full out of reach of a dominating power. When bo's big euough to defy bis father, then he gets married. Adams Freomou. Bichard "What mokes you bo snro she will marry yon?" Harry "Well, you see, her mother and I havo en gendered a mortal batrod of each other." Boston Trouscript. , Clevcrton "You don't mean to tell mo that you passed tho night with Plankington ond don't mind the mos quitoes?" Da'haway "I do. After the first ono bit mo I lost conscious ness." Life. "People don't think I amount to much in this concern," eoid tho odlco boy, as he filed away tho paid bills; "but thoy d think ditlerent lr tuoy knew I handled all tho receipts." Roxbury Gazette. Bill the Biflfor "What's d' object of dis organization uv yours, mister?" Mission Worker "To resono tho fallen, my man." Bill tho Biffer "Well, don't talk to me ; I'm no bi oylist." Boxbury Gazette. Chawley Golrocks "My tleorest Margaret, I love you tenderly, de votedly. Your smiles would Bhod " Margaret "Never mind the wood shed. How about a residence built for two?" Washington Times. "One of the bordont things in mak ing a speech'" said tho old campaign er, "is to say just what you mean." "Yes," was the reply, "that's protty hard. But onoe iu a whilo it's good doal harder to mean just what you Bay." Washington Star. "Ah, for a lame back, I presume?" inonired the druggist, suavely. "No," reulied the callow poet, who bod asked for a porous plaster, "for writ er's cramp." "Purdou mo, but how can yon apply it to your wrist?" "It isn't in my wrist; it's in my Btomaoh." Now York Truth. Mr. Harduutt "I admit, sir, that my lifo bus uot been what it should be; but I truly aud unaellishly lovo vour daughter, and if ever l give nor a moment's poiu I hope I'll be niodo to suffer torture for it." Old Goutlo man (warmly! "Oh, you will. You don't know her." Tit -Bits. A Sympathetic Crowd. That much ridoulod instinct which leads a crowd to collect without a clear idea of the reason for gathering, worked an unusual good at Taoma, Wash., the othor day. Somebody saw, early in the morning, a griof-strioken inau walking toward tho river with a email coffin. With hiin were his wife and a stranger who boro the eollin box. Without knowiug just why a man foil in behind thorn, auothcr and another followed until there was a good com pany. At the rivor sido strangers put the coffin into the box aud placed it aboard the boat. A tlower boy, who had just landed and joined the crowd, laid a wreath on the casket. All was done silently, and tho futhor, as ho embarked, turned and in tears returned thanks fcr having found frieuda iu a city of strangers. Now York Suu. A Hundred Milllou Suns. A peep into tbo heavens through a modern telescope is a peep into tho very depths of mystery. With suoh au instrument oue may gaze upon 100,000,000 stars, cuoh of thorn a burning, blazing suu ! From whut lit tlo wo know of creation wecuuuot but believe thut each of those suns is giv ing light uud heut to a train of pluu- cts, just in the same manner thut our sun gives light aud lifo to his own lit tle flock of worlds. Boyond those 100, 000,00(1 situs there may be hundreds ol millions moro. Thus they may cou tinuo "system after system and worlds without end." Verily, we may say with Biehter's dream muu who wus tukeu on a voyage by an augel through tho depths of upaeo : "End there is none, neither wus there a beginning." St. Louis Bopublio. A Fort ii nut 0 fuvculur. Nowton F. Hurst, twenty-four years old, is a grooer's clerk iu Butlulo, N. Y., and gets 5 a week wugos. Some time since be iuveutod a cur-coupler, and a few weeks ugo he rocoived a let tor from a muuiifucturiug firm offer ing $30,000 in cash aud a royalty or ull couplers Boli of his invention, lie hasn't decided to accept the olio: yet, and iu the meuutime holds on to his $o a week. Kevivul or a (jallows Bird. Au Arab named Mohumiucd Ben Aidlel Beuzertl was bunged recently in Tuuif, Algeria, for killing four other Arubs. After tho usual time the body wus tukeu down and given to hie relutives, who were preparing to bury him, when ho remarked: "llefore burying mo, givo mo something to drink." They took him to u hospital uud be is likely to recover. TEMPERANCE. COI.D-WATER THANK. The modest vlol.'ts, whits and blue, That quench the'.r tlilrnt with mnruiui; JoW Tho cowslips nodding nt the nun Down where the laughing brooklots run; Tho btnodroot Wnssnrns, pure and white. That keep the bubbling springs in sight; The wator-tillns, tBll and rank, Each one a brnve oold-wntcr --oranK; Yen, flowers of every form and huo Are to tho laws of nature true: They sip the noetar Ood has given. aiost gnuoiui lor tnis gut oi itoaveni They moot Ills smllerand own His powot In every welcome sunimor shower: They thrive on ralu and mist and dew Aud all Intoxicants eschew. Sweet flowors, 1 wlidi nil men would heed iour muto reproof, your simple creed! A DOCTOBS'S OPIKIOK. Speaking on the subject lnlely, before the Anthropological Society of Munich, liavarlu, Dr. llrondel, who said tbnt the present time, referrlugto bin own land, might be called the aleohollo period of man, because of the prevalanco of tho use of alcoholic, drinks. added : "Alcohol, which apparently brings so much pleasure to its partakers, acts as poison, if oven consumed in small doses dally, by means of Its cumulative nctive action, as la strikingly shown here In Munich, tho centra of beer consumption, by the frequent sudden eases of death of apparently healthy men. Fatty, enfeebled hearts, shrlvelod kidneys, fatty or hardened llverv changes In the tex ture of blood vessels, which cause pnralvtto strokes and softening of tho brain by burst ing In tho bruin, cbronlo catarrhs of th stomach nnd bronchial tunes, etc., trembling of the limbs, aberrations nud diseases of the mental faculties, delirium tremens, oto. these are some ot the consequences of nn Immoderate drinking of alcoholio stimulants. Professor Dr. Dolllngcr, of this city (Mu nich), has In the same munner proved the prevalence of vnrious diseases of a definite nature of the Internal organs caused by the universal drinking of beer. A normal heart or kidney is the exception only here la Mu nich. This Btnte of affairs also injtir-os the progeny in a most serious manner. Dr. Demme found that of tho children of non drinkers eighty-two per cent, woro sound, while of those of drinkers only seventeen per cent, were sound. Although large quantities of beverages were drunk formerly, still only iu the Inst century, and more es pecially only In the last decades, In whioh the brewer's art was perfected, tins drinking become universal. It has spread everywhere and increased to a frightful, most alarming, extent. It has been introduced even into country communities, and the only Inevitable consequence will be the thorough degenera tion of the human raeo If the evil l not checked before It is too late. Although it la cnnteniieil thut beer contains leKA- aloabftl- than either wine or whisky, it Is. neverthe- let-'S, as injurious ns either of thorn, while Its vaunted nutritive value stands In no propor tion to Its price. When a man Is required to portorm the greatest feat of corporeal exer tion in buttle, gport, exploration, eto., the baneful effect of alcohol Is most strikingly shown. In spite of ibe marvelous advantage of our present age a ret rogrosslou in au ethical sense Is undeniable, the chief cause of which is principally due to the In crease of drunkenness because thubeer saloon has become the centre aud foeus of soulu' life." THIS TOPKB'S MORAL HE8PONS1BII.ITT. "Why do men drinkV" is au old question upon which some savants are seeking to throw now light. The London Society for tho Study of Inobrtety has been recently dis cussing tbo problem, though with uo very harmonious results of opinion. Dr. Norman Kerr for one declares that little progress will bo made In the way of decreasing drunken. ness uutil it is recognized as a disease, and Dot merely as n moral weakness. It la be cause this fact has not been realized, he says, that no results of all labors In the Hue of legislation have acarued. Evidently Dr. Kerr begs the question in this statement. Leghdution cannot do everything to offxat the rum evil, but that It has, where invoked, accomplished something iu the way of tbo diminution of this social curse. Is ovideut to every candid observer. If tho question b asked, "Wbv do mon drink?" of course tho readiest reply Is; "Because thev want to!" liut why should they wish to? As the result of an appetite, all would agree, and at tho dictation of a depraved uud diseased ap petite must bo admitted, as Dr. Kerr con tends, lium Is an intrudor lu the physical frame, and Indiiotwan abuormal state, both morally and physically, liut because tho toper becomes ut leugth a walking iucarnu tton of disease, wo aro not warranted iu ex cusing lit in from moral responsibility for tho taking of "I bo llrst glass" and of all the suo ooseive potions that have proved so madden Ing and destructive. Hllll, there Is a pathol ogy of driuk, which may well be studied la connection with the syntematto proseoutiou of tomporunce efforts. Now York ludepeu leut. THEY DON I EL'Y BKKB. The Toronto (Ontario) hotel keepers say bicycling hurts their buslueM.1, It the follow ing exiract from the Toronto World Is to bo believed : "The bicycle continue on its way, revolu tloni'dug our modem life iu many ol Its re spects. The saloon keepursnud cigar dealers nre the latest to eompluln of the new order of things. The dispensers of liquid retrusb nieuts are the chief sufferers, Ly their own accounts, for thousands of young men who formerly patronized the dowutowu bars, spendlug, uiuiiy of them, fifty oeuls-a day ou uu average, have tukeu to the wheul.and their erstwhile haunts know them uo more. The country hotel keeper, ou the olher hnnd. is muoh bcticllteil by the cycle revolution. His once almost-deserted house, if It affords good acuoumiodaUon, is visited dally by dozens of wheelmeu, whoM) looou change, given lu ex change (or munis Mud Msolt stuff," replen ishes bis voffors nml causes a broadening o' the smile on his rubieund countenance." I-OVKUTY ANO DUINK. Destitution uud want lu this country, In the vast niujoiiiy ot cases, urn tho result of irolligale palrouuge of the pulooii-keepers' 'U.sinufS. If so many toilers tit the luudsiiu ply cuiup lu the wllderuur-s of gruut teuo mont structures uud drug out their lives lu helpless poverty, the lamentable fuct U toau alarming extent the result i,f ruyiug a too generous patronui;o to tho liquor-sellers' tiade. The practical problem for the Amer. eau workman to solve is uot the aiuouut he may be fortunate iu euiuim;. but the sum he may prudently tuvo to provi-io for happiness uii-l plenty iu a coim-nto! home. Kxeestvo drinking is uot the only euu.-e of dependence Bu t poverty, but it (ur out-trips all other sources ot lues. misfortunes. -uered Hour licWcvi'. ALCOHOLISM IN 1'AUIS. r.iris is nbirieed over the ravages of alco holism. From iuvcsilgatlous roceutly con ducted, Paul Itayiiuud has burned that the victim of thoilrink huWt in Pari tbo- bxrlout-lv injured by It in h--n.it li . some to the point ol disablement uow number 10,000 uumiullv. Amhuluuccs curried to hospitals S00.000 persons last year suilering from ulcolioli.-m In some form. This reprewnts, uy L'lllu truttou, uu ex en.su of H.s;l,noo for tiuutlug dinouse duo to tbeerT.H-1 ol inteiupi-rau.-o lu drinking, ll Is u Mi l fad thut tlie pio portiou ot women among ihesti druuk and pulleuts I ueurly iquul tJ that of uu-u.
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