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English Hadicals ore asking for the appointment of pulilio defender to oppose the public proacontors. Modagasear has Important mineral wrolth, not only iron, graphite, took nalt. coal, nitro and other things, but probably workablo gold. As the result of the existence of a chrijo trust in Belgium, the New Or losns'Fioayune averts that the hum bler clnsfoe of the population there are forced to purobnse horseflesh as a sub ttitute for beef.' . The manufacturing product of Eng land exceeds that of "any other Euro pean Notion. It is more than equal to the product of Germany, Italy and Spain corubiued and very nearly equal to the total manufacturing product of France and Bnssia. j A lair against "unfair competition in trade" hag oomo into foroe In Ger many. It is aimed against false- de scriptions and othor forms ot swind ling by advertisements. Not only the advertiser, but the newspaper pub lishing the advertisement, may be prosecuted. At tho last regular school elootion held in Fhnlps Upcra House, Greon ville, Mich., Dr. A. W. Niohols was eleotod director, in plaoe of L. W. Kprague, and O. 0. Miller, a member cf the board, eucceods himself. There never bod been as exciting a school election thore. Hacks and buses were running all day enrrying womon to the polio. The issue was the exolusion of musio, drawing and fairy tales and substitution of shorthnnd.typowritiug nud lecture course.'. The educational roform party won and useful instruc tion will suoooed fairytalo cntertain uiont. With tho exception of Texas, whioh is a much larger State in oxtent of ter ritory, Georgia ranks first among the States of the South in tho mileage of Lor electrical railways. Tho rooord is as follows : District of Columbia, fifty niuo milos; Maryland, 233 miles; Virgiu-a, 1M miles; Wost Virginia, twenty six miles; Kentucky,- 1GT miles; North Curolino, thirty-nine miles; South Carolina, ton miles; Georgia. 235 milos; Florida, thir ty eeveu miles; Alabama, ceventy ix miles; Mississippi, four miles; Tennessee, 203 milos; Louisiana, 15C miles; Arkansas, thirty-eight miles; and Texan, 254 milos. Tho English statistician, Mulholl, recently published an estimate of the wealth of all the loading Nations. HU information was gatherod from the most reliable sources and there is uvery reason to believe that it is ap proximately correot, Mr. Mnlhall fchows that the wealth of the United States far exooods that of any other Nation. Hero are some of his figures : United States G4. 129,1100,000 Gn-at Britain 47,000,000,000 FrBnuu- 42,800,000,000 aorninuy 81,183,000,000 EuaiB 85,445,000,000 Austria 19,275,000,000 I,nly- 14,815,000,000 fil,ln 12,680,000,000 Australia 6,895,000,000 Belgium 5,035,000,000 Holland,..., 4,900,000,000 Canada 4,180,000,000 Argentina 2,645,000,000 Hwodon 8,641.000,000 jUiuinnuia. 8,180,000,003 It is further shown by Mr, Malhalj that the average earning capaoity of the A met icon workingraao is muoU greater than that of the workingman in any other country. From 1880. to 1890 the State of Kan sas enjoyed a continuous boom. Its papulation inoreased at a great rate and it was confidently predicted that Kansas would soon beoome one of the wealthiest and most populous States of the West. The history of Kansas for the past fivu yearn presents a sad commentary on these high expecta tions. It is estimated that the popu lation is fully 1(10,000 loss now than it was when the oensus of 1890 was taken, and the exodus continues. A large part of the State is a semi arid region and utterly unreliable for agricultural purposes. Crops there have been al most a total failure in two of the last five years. Thousands of Kansas far mers moved last yeur to more favorable regions and thousands more are pre paring to leave. The Atlanta Journal looks for a very lurge movement of farmers from Kansas and other parts of the Northwest to Georgia. Good luudu can be had in this State at low prices and the "seasons" never fail. There is always a sure return for in telligent and industrious effort. It is a groat thing for people who have en dured the hardships ot the Northwest to find themselves in a land where ex tremes oC heat and cold are unknown, where neither blizzards nor drought! do cotue aud where all the eonditiom cf lifo are pleasant. THS WAY OF LOVE, "Come," said Love, upon a dayi "Come, nnd fare my rosy way; If perchance tho thorns wo meet They Blmll maks the roses sweet." Bo with IjDVO I passed along, All the world whs swoot with song; Nevor thorn wasmlno, for ho Hid them to his heart from met V. L. Stanton, In Atlanta Constitution. AT THE END OF Til R ROAD. BY MARY CLATIKB IXUNTINGTON. HEY aVt to know a thing about it unless they mis trust. It's to be a real surprise," said Lou liarlow, poising herself, like one about to take flight, in the doorway of Mrs. Green's kitohen. "You must come, Mis' Green. Twill do you pood to got out. You're too muoh shut up. Barell will miss you if yon don't oomo, She'll want to see her near neighbors, if nobody else is there. Got 'Bastus to bring yon down." Mrs. Green set tho toopot further book ou the stove and murmured an indofluite "AI'm." The milk house door ope nod with a rattle of pails. Lou's eyes turned slightly in that di rection as she talked on persistently. "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 tions, I know ; but it's all boon planned tn 8uou a hurry that we are out and out flustered. I thought, too, that I might stir yon up to coming better 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 somethiug beside refreshments, you know. I've tho cutest little oat meal cookor that I got at the five-oent store in the city, and I shall take that Well, I won't hinder you any longer about your supper. Good-by. Now I do corns if you can. Good by." The kitchen door timed its closing with mathematical accuracy to the issuing of a young man from tho milk bouse. Through the window Mrs. Green saw Lou's innocently surprised btart aud cordial bow, but the bit of talk that followed was iuftvuhbltfifo" her. Slis-foit-ocrtoin, however, that 11 Was about the surprise party. "If those Harlowa a'n't managin' 1" was her mental comment. "But it'll take more'u a protty pnttiu' on to mako Lou one mite engagin' to 'Bas- tui, 1 guess." 'Baetus came in presently, and,after washing at the sink, sat down to sup per. He was thin and not over tall, with a vivid boyish complexion and a chin like his mother's, marked by a deoision that almost severe ooldness of gray-blno eyes accentuated. It was only when 'Bastus smiled that one know how winning his faoe could be. "Lou Harlow stopped ia to ask us to a tin wedding surprise at her brother Will's, Probably she men tioned it to you," said Mrs. Green, as she poured the tea, "I shall have to carry something iu the shape ot tin. I wonder if the dipper 1 got of that pedler lust week won't do. I took it for rags. They do pay so little for rags now, I doolaro 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 they won't have more'n seven dippers," said 'Bastus, helping himself to a seoood dish of apple sauce. Mrs. Green 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 be got but has a weakness in the solder in'. I don't know what's more provokin than to bavo a dipper ful ol water oomo splashiu' onto the floor and leave nothin' but a handle in your fingers." The quick, bright smile flashed over 'Bastns's face. "Better carry a pan or something of that kind." His mother took the suggestion as profoundly serious. "I haveu't one I could spare. Can't we stop for the Blake girls, 'Bastus? They like to get out, and it's rather for for 'em to walk now they're failin. I dcolare it goes to my heart to see poor Miss Betsoy so meeohin' lately. She doesn't seem to know whether hur things is on straight or not. Last Sunday 'twos all I could do to keep my mind on the sermon for wontin' to straighten her false front. Ttras twisted so the partin' was over one eye. And it's real pathetic to see Miss Harriet hoverin' about her sister and fussiu' to make her comfortable, when all the time Miss Harriet's the oldest. Miss Betsoy ain't but sixty-eight. I shouldn't wonder if 'twould chiok 'em up oonsid'able to go to the surprise party this evenin'." "Well, you can take 'em ; I'll walk. 'Twould be too crowding in the buggy for us all, and 1 don't wout to get out the business wagon. There's a spoke loose." Mrs. Green looked narrowly at him; the repose of his face indioated noth ing. "But, 'Bastus, I oan't hitch old Nell. You know how she acts the minute we get out a cuperiu' and pullin'." "I'll be on hand to look out for you." 'Bastus pushed away his ohuir aud the door dosed after him. His mother watched as he went across the yard, with slender shoulders well thrown back. Even iu overalls and colored shirt ho had not the slouohi ness of many farmers. She recognized the fact with a thrill of pride ; but an other foot was present to hur also. The boy who used to sob out bis little grief upon hor sympathetic bosom had reached man's estate, how entirely was told by some trick of manner, by occasional tone of voice or lift of even. He thought that she did not know, and therein lay part of the stiDg. It seemed to put her far from him, and sho felt a chillies: presoience of tho time when her place in the house would be taken "by some one else. Re gret that a boy must ever grow beyond boyhood filled her now for a moment. She would have liked to call him back and say sharply that if he oonld not ride down to the Harlowe' with her and the Missos 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, its only natural. I wish, though, that (littering little Holland girl had stayed iu Bhode Island." 'Bastus was not lourr in finishing the chores. When he bad harnessed old Noll to tho Concord buggy and hitched her to a post by the back door, be came in to shave. Mrs. Greeu was sit ting by the kitohen window, dressed iu her best gown a blaok alpaca, with fashionable large sleeves. It had just been made over, and the size of the sloeves was supposed to offset the soantness of the skirt. At any rate, as she told tho noighbor dressmaker, "there wasn't any more pieces, and 'twas better the scrimpin' should come In the skirt; for one's skirt didn't show in one's coflio, and if she was to die sudden before styles ohanged, why, the waist would do nioely for her to be laid out in. " I'm real glad I've got this to wear to-night," slie said. Not that thore was much consolation in saying such a thing to 'Bastus ; but she must say it to somebody, Ho hoard, however, and answered "yes" in an absent way, as he tilted bis ohin before the small mirror that hung between the win dows. With a curiously aggrieved feeling his mother noticed how carefully- he avoided shaving the down from his upper lip, and that he loft a suspioion of side whiskers. "Seems to me you're prinkin' more'n usual," she ventured. He colored. He had a trick of blushing like a girl. ' I haven't shaved since Sunday, and here 'tis Friday. Getting hard to suit, a'n't you, mother?" " Mobbe," she said, laconically. A moon in its seoond quarter was showing above the eastern horizon as 'Bastus walked across, the' lots after helpiughU raether off. A few crick "ctS Ylurated from the grass; sweet ness born of the first October frosts lent to the air a subtle exhilarating Quality which cave him an added bnoyanoy. Lifo scorned on this even iaa to open before him radiant with hope. When ha leapt a wall he was in a wheel-worn lane leading from tho main road to the Harlow House, whose windows were hospitably alight. Be yond, at the end of the lane, was an other hoiiBe, old-fashioned and yellow- painted. Tnere lived Mr, and Mrs. English, two childless, middle-aged people. They wore coming up from their house now. As he waited by the fence in the shadow of a lilao bush he could see them distinctly in the clear moonlight two somewhat bent fig ures, stepping irregularly. Between them walked another figure, with youthful poise of head and shoulders, ana his heart gave a queor little jump at the sound of a girl's laugh. " If I haven't stove my thumb into this cake," Mrs. English was saying. "Never mind, ma. Turn it 'tother side to when you hand it in, and nobody'll notice," suggested her bus band. The musioal girl laugh sounded again. "Let me carry it, Aunt Martha." With a thrill of satisfaction 'Bastus saw the napkin-oovered plate change hands. The slim, quick stepping figuro was ahead of the others now. As she reached the gate he seized the coveted opportunity, aud moved for ward, awkwardly snatohingoll his hat. "Good evenirfg, Miss Holland. Let me open the gate for yon." Never did gate latch so long refuse to lift ; and when she had passed through was it not to pause and turn baok with a pretty "Oh dear I" How he blessed the rose branoh that caught her skirt, and so held her for his re leasing. "Thank you," she said, dj muroly, looking at him with the moon light in her eyes. Old Nell oome up at a brisk trot, but his mother was alone, sitting very ereot and holding the reins far apart. . "The Blake girls couldn't come. Miss Betsey had a bod turn last night, and Miss Harriet didn't want to leave her. So you see yon could have rode down well enough. I know you've spoiled your new shoes a-trottin' through the wet grass 'cross lots. " "Well, you won't have to ride home alone," said 'Bastns, happily, as he helped her out. What wore new shoes in comparison with that interchange of glanoe from a girl's eyes? "I don't believe the Hurlows were very muoh surprised after all, mother. When I got here every window was lighted. We're early, too." One by one, in twos and threes, and merry family loads, the guests arrived ; and there was talk and laugh and in tarchange of kisies among the women ; an awkward standing aloof or scraps of neighborly ohatl among the men, until the elder masouline element drifted to the kitchen, the younger to the loug hall and the sitting-room circle was strictly feminiue. With the first clutter of cups and plates, heralding oomiug refreshment, tho company's attitude of constraint lessened; biscuits aud proserves and as many kinds of cake as there were housewives present, proved a wonder ful impetus to sociability; aud whon coffee was served, steaming hot and de lioiously fragraut, tho last stiffness was swept away. Some of the niirried men oveu waudered iuto the sitting room and looked respectfully at the tableful of such tin articles as go to fill the sholvcs of a well-stocked pan try; the younger people intermingled freely ; gamos started ; a girl with an untrained, linnet-like voice seated her self at tho atshmatio melodeon and sang from the "Gospol Hymns." The liarlow a "tin wedding surf rise was a social success. Lou Harlow, bustling about among the guests, was more busily hostess like than Mrs. Harlow herself. "Sarell never mistrusted until the last min ute," she was telling everyone. "When wesnggested her fixing more n usunl for the evening, she said she just knew something was up." "Yes, it was a real surprise until then," corroborated Sarell Harlow, her usually quiet face very animated. "I didn t suppose anyone would re member that Will and I had been mar ried ten years to-day. It's real pleas ant to have one's friends so remembsr ing." Mrs. Green, taking inventory of the tin things on the table, smiled beuig Dantly upon the speaker. She had found but one dipper among the pile, and naturally felt the prestige of be ing the only person who had given an undnplicateci article. Mrs. Dodgson, the local merchant's wife, bogan talk ing at her elbow. "How moo Lou Harlow looks to night. That lace at her throat is very becoming. I hear something about her aud your 'Bastus. How's that?" Mrs. Greon drew herself up stiffly. "Folks can hear a good deal," she said. " 'Bastus looks rather young to think of marrying. And Lou why, she's let me see." Mrs. Dodgson screwed her face into arithmetical puckers. "She three years older 'n 'Bastus 1 I remember she was born the saae year as my Amerot." "Oh well, it's the fashion nowadays for men to marry older'n themselves," Mrs. Green answered, with a bland ness born of remembrance that Mrs. Dodgson's own son had wedded a woman ton years his senior a widow with an overgrown daughter just en tering hor teens and that the affair was very displeasing to his people. - But her neighbor's friendly inquisi tivenoss set her into a new train of thought. What if Lou Harlow had been the one whom 'Bastus bad fan cied? Before her rose a vision of heavy bread, cake smelling ot saler atus, careless housekeeping whioh she knew to be the rule at the Harlow homestead; she thought of what it would be to live day after day with Lou's giggling laugh, her persistent chatter and good-natured offioious ness! Looking across the room at one who but a few hours ago she had characterized as "that fiitterin' little Holland girl, "she noted with a stirring ot pride akin to what she felt in 'Bas tus the trimness ot the blaok gowned figure, the quiet manner, the delioate contour of a faoe whose prettiness did not conceal deoision aud capability. 'Bastus was talking with her now, his attitude marked by that new dignity which his mother had notioed of late. Something in the turn of his head re minded her of his fathor when he had come courting out Femigewasset way, where she had lived as a girl. When came a homeward movement among the guests Mrs. Greeu paused, talking in the open door on her way out. Her quick eyes bad recognized two young figures at the gate, and she turned her baok npon them, barring the progress of Mr. and Mrs. English. "I have enjoyed it all so muoh; haven't yon, Mis' English ? I do think a surprise tin weddin' the best way of rememberin' the anniversary it don't make so muoh work for the folks of the house. Seems to mo it's a pretty long while sinoe you and your hus band have been up to tea with me. Now, why can't you be a mito more neighborly and come soon? Say Wednesday. Nothiu' to hinder? Well, I'm real glad. And you are to bring your nieoe. Not'haviu' any girl of my own I like to eoe a bright faoe like hers 'round once in a while. I guess 'Bastus must have got the horse un hitched by this time. Good-night." 'Bastus was patting Nell'6 noso as he stood by her when 'his mother came out. Betta Holland was still at tho gate; waiting for her aunt and unole, and Mrs. Green smiled at her as she passed. Mother and son drove along the bush-fringed lane at a plodding gait ; for old Nell seemed in an indol ent mood, 'Bastus loth to urge her on. The moonlight lay white and beauti ful over everything. "I've asked Mr. and Mrs. English to tea next Wednesday," said Mrs. Green. She cleared hor throat at the eager in terest on 'Bastus's faoe, and added what she knew would establish perfect ou dorstauding between herself and him. 'And I've asked the nieoe, too." "Have you?" In 'Bastus's voice was a thrill of such gladuess as oomes when one is twenty-three and iu love for the first time. "Have you?" How much the bey looked like his father in spite of having her eyes and chin I Mrs, Greeu felt a sudden all embraoing motherliness that let the girl of his love into the depths of her heart. But she only said, in a matter of faot way : "I should ttink 'twould be real lonesome for the Englishes bein' as their house is where there a'n't never auy passin'. I should hate to live so fur from folks. I wouldn't for any thing." 'Bastus turned and looked baok toward the old yellow house. To him it seemed that under some circum stances he could live his whole lifo at tho end of the road. The Indepen dent. For a blberiau Lake. A b'ael twiu-sorew steamer for Lake Baikal, iu Siberia, has just started from Glasgow for its destination. It is-115 feet long and draws only threo feet of wutti. It will go through the Kara Sea to the Yenisei, up that river to tho Au'ura, and over tho rapids into the luko. SCIENTIFIC AXD INDUSTRIAL. Eighty-five per cent, of the people who are lame are affected on the left side. Sea water contains silver in some quantity, . It is often found deposited on the copper sheathing of ships. The ordinary speed of a house-fly is twenty-five feet a second ; but when chased it often attains a speed of 1G0 feet a seoond. An observatory for terrestrial mag natism has been established in con nection with the astronomical observ atory in Munich, and Dr. Franz von Schwarz has been ma le director. A chair of ichthyology has recently been established at Muuiob in connec tion with the Tierarztliohe Hochschle of that place. This seems to bo the first professorship of the kind ever established. Boentgen rays have been used to take pictures pi flowers. They show the ovules inside the overy in an un opened bud, the seeds within a seed vessel, and even the veins upon the white petals of a flower. Dr. F. Eldridgo Brown, a well known authority on color blindness, says that women have a muoh better perception of color than men. For the whole population he estimates the percentage of color-blind persons is 3.5, while Dr. Wilson puts it at 6.5. There are many authenticated ex amples of inoroased power of mind during sleop. One of tho best known is that in which the great naturalist Agossiz successfully reconstructed from certain aemalns of. the skeleton of a fossil fish at which he had been working unsuccessfully in his waking moments for several weeks. By actual count a naturalist took two thousand tiny feathers from the lining of a single bird's nest, while in the construction of another 482 twigs were found to have been employed. In building the bird works from the inside, sitting among the material and twisting and weaving it into shape. The mother bird assumes the respon sibility for the nest, tho father follow ing her about and helping her when she will permit it. Deadly Duel With Pills. An extraordinary duel, which at the time created an immense sensation, was one in which the deoision was ar rived at, not by swords or pistols, but by meaus of a deadly poison. The men who, it is hardly necessary to say, had fallen out over a lady had left the arrangement ot details to their eeoonds, and until they faced each other they did not know by what method they were to settle their dif ferences. One of the seoonds was a doctor, and made up for the occasion four blaok pellets, all identioal in size and shape. "In one of these," he said, "I have placed a sufficient quantity oi prussio aoid to oause the almost instan taneous death of any one who swal lows it We will decide, by the toss ol a coin which of you is to have first choioe, and yon will alternately draw and swallow a pill until the poison shows its effects." Two of the pellets were then taken as the toss had de cided, but without effect in either case. "This time," said the doctor, Bpeaking of the two pellets remaining, "You must both swallow the pill at the same instant." The choice was again made, and iu a few seconds one of the men lay dead an the grass. Gentleman's Magazine. (Queerest Bicycle Made. Now, here is the queerest, cheapest bicycle that is made anywhere in this or any other country. That there is s fall lu the price of bioyoles is undeni able. But nobody ever thought that in this year of graoe 1890 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 machine is Fred Dodsou, a fourteen-year-old lad, who lives at Fishing Creek, Fenn. Little Dodson worked for two months constructing bis old wheol, whioh bears about the same relation to the moderu bioyole that the Spanish caravels did to one of the White Squadron. He made his frame and wheels of the best boards ho could find, built a comfortable saddle on a hickory spring, and used a strip of perforated leather in place of a chain. His pedals, oranksand braces are marvels. When he discovered that his won derful product would go, he was the gladdest boy in the Keystone State, and when some one offered him a quarter for it he suappod at tho bar gain. New York Journal. Beggars in China. A Chinaman can live well npon five cents a day, yet thore are more teggars in China than in any other country, They travel in great companies, men, women and children. The women suf fer on this tramp, beoause their feet are bandaged. Crowds of young beg gars follow oarriagers for miles, howl ing for gifts. Frofessionals often multilute their children so they may exoito sympathy. These swarms of beggars are the result of there not be ing enough work for them all. Each family takes care of its own poor to a great extent aud the Chinese are not lazy, so it is the foroe of circumstances more than anything else that con tributes to this state. Bobbed Whilo His Leg Was Asleep. P. Elliott sat reading a paper yes terday afternoon in front ot his tes store at Eighteenth and Stato otreets. Soon he was fast asleep. Ho was sud denly awakened, however, by feeling a baud iu his pocket. He saw a col ored mau put his watch aud chaiu iu his (pocket aud wulk away. Elliott tried to arise, but his left lug was be numbed by the position he had been in aud ho was unable to do so. The thief escaped. Chicago luter-Ooeau. DEBT 11 TWO COSTUMES. Wbon Debt Is dressed up In Its best, With linen line and purple raiment, With Jowels rare and haughty air Why, creditors don't aik for payment) But when arrayed In garments frayed Debt walks the street with aspect humble-Without a friend; the men who lend Must have their money quick, or tfrumblo. Ward Levotte Wilson, In Life. HUMOR OP THE DAY. Always put oQ till to-morrow business that does not concern yon." Truth. Magoozlomon "There's a curious thing about water it expands in freezing." Gigman "3o does the price." Puck. "At this point she broke down aud wept scalding tears." "Dear met Sho must have been boiling over with rage." Cincinnati Enquirer. Mr. Youngly "They say that there is no fool like an old fool." Miss Newville "But that saying originated before you were born." Truth. Man is never full out of reach of a dominating power. When he's big enough to defy his father, then he gets married. Adams Freeman. Bicbard "What makes yon so sure she will marry you?" Harry "Well, yon see, her mother and I have en gendered a mortal hatred of each other." Boston Transcript. , Cloverton "Yon don't mean to tell me that you passed tho night with Plankington and don't mind the mos quitoes?" Do'howay "I do. After the first one bit mo I lost conscious ness." Life. "People don't think I amount to muoh in this concern," said the ouloe boy, as he filed away tho paid bills; "but they'd think different if they knew I handled all the receipts." Boxbury Gazette. Bill the Biffer "What's d' object of dis organization uv yours, mister?" Mission Worker "To resono the fallen, my man." Bill the Biffor "Well, don't talk to me ; I'm no bi oylist." Boxbury Gazette. Chawley Golrocks "My dearest Margaret, I love yon tenderly, de votedly. Your smilos would shed" Margaret "Never mind the wood shed. How about a residence built for two?" Washington Times. "One of the hardest things in mak ing a speech'" said the old campaign er, "is to say just what yon mean." "Yes," was the reply, "that's pretty hard. But once iu a while it's good doal harder to mean jnst what yon say." Washington Star. "Ah, for a lame back, I presume?" inquired the drnggist, suavely. "No," replied the callow poet, who had asked for a porous plaster, "for writ er's cramp." "Pardon me, but how can yon apply it to your wrist?" "It isn't in my wrist ; it's in my stomach." Now York Truth. Mr. Hardnutt "I admit, sir, that my lifo has not beou what it should be; but I truly and unselfishly love your daughter, and if ever I give her a moment's pain I hope I'll be made to suffer torture for it." Old Gentle man (warmly) "Ob, you will. You don't know her." Tit -Bits. A Sympathetic Crowd. That much ridouled instinct which leads a orowd to collect wilbont a clear idea of the reason for gathering, worked an unusual good at Taojma, Wash., the other day. Somebody saw, early in the morning, a grief-strioken man walking toward the rivor with a small coffin. With him were his wifo and a stranger who bore the coffin box. Without knowing just why a man foil in behind them, another aud another followed until there was a good com pany. At the river side strangers put the coffin into tho box and placed it aboard the boot. A Uower boy, who had just landed and j-iinod the crowd, laid a wreath on the casket. All was done silently, and the father, as ho embarked, turned and in tears returned thanks fcr having found friends in a city of strangers. New York Sun. A Huudred Milllou Suns. A peep into the heavens through a modern teloscope is a peep into the very depths of mystery. With suoh an instrument one may gaze upon 100,000,000 stars, eaob of them a burning, blazing sun ! From what lit tle we know of creation we cannot but believe that each of these suns is giv ing light and heat to a train of plan ets, just in the same manner that our sun gives light and life to bis own lit tle flock of worlds. Beyond those 100,. 000,000 suns there may be hundreds ol millions more. Thus they may con tinue "system aftor system and worlds without end." Verily, we may say with Bichter's dream man who was taken ou a voyage by an angel through the depths of space : "End there ia none, neither was tho-e a beginning." St. Louis Republic. A Fortunntt) loreulur. Nowton F. Hurst, twenty-fonr years old, is a grooer's clerk in BuQalo, N. V., and gets $5 a week wages. Some time since he invented a cur-coupler, and a few weeks ago he received a let ter from a manufacturing firm offer ing $30,1)00 in cash aud a royalty or all couplers sold of his invention, tie hasn't dooided to aeoept the offe; yet, and iu the incautiine holds on to his $5 a week. Revival of a Uatlows Bird. Au Arab named Mohammed Ben Aidlel Benzorti was hanged reocutly in Tunis, Algeria, for killing four other Arabs. After the usual time the body was taken dowu and given to hie relutives, who were prepuriug to bury him, when ho remarked; "Be'ore burying me, give wo something to drink." They took bun to a hospital and he u likely to recover. TEMPERANCE. COI.D-WiTER CRANKS. The modest vlolots, white end blue. That qnenoh thc'.r thirst with morning doW( The cowslips noddlncr nt the sun Down where the laughing brooklets run; The bloodroot blossoms, pure and white. That keep tho bubbling Borings in sight; The water-lilies, tall nnd rank. Each one a brave oold-wator "crank;" Yea, flowers of every form and huo Are to the laws of nature true: They sip the nectar God has (riven. Most gratoful for this gift of Heaven! They meet His smt!and own Mis powet In every welcome summer shower: They thrive on ralu and mist and dew And all intoxicants eschew. Sweet Dowers, I wish all men would hoed Vour mute roproof, your simple oreed! A doctobs's OPIKIOlf. RpflftkliiR on the subject lately, before the Anthropologioal Soeloty of Munich, Bavaria, Dr. llrendel, who said that the present time, referring to his own land, might be called the alcoholic period of man, because of the prevalence of the use of aloonolio drinks, added: "Alcohol, which apparently brings so muoh pleasure to Its partakers, acts as poison, it even consumed in small doses dally, by means of Its onmulatlve active action, as Is strikingly shown here In Munieb, the centre of beer consumption, by the frequent suddon eases of donth of apparently healthy men. Fatty, enfeebled hearts, shriveled kidneys, fatty or hardened livere, changes In the tex ture of blood vessels, which cause paralytic) strokes and softening of the brain by burst ing in the bruin, cbronlo catnrrhs of the stomach and bronchial tuDes, etc., trembling ot the limbs, aberrations and diseases ot the mental faculties, delirium tremens, ote. these are some ot the consequences of an Immoderate drinking of alcoholio stimulants. Professor Dr. Bollinger, of this city (Mu nieb), has in the same manner proved the prevalence of vnrlous 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 nlah. This state of affairs also Injures the progeny In a mast serious manner. Dr. Demme found that of the children of non drinkers eighty-two per cent, were sound, while of those of drinkers only seventeen per cent, were sound. Although large quantities of beverages were drunk formerly, still only in the last century, and more es pecially onlv la the Inst decades, In whioh the brewer's art was perfeoted, has 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 thorongh degenera tion of the human raeo if the evil is not checked before It Is too late. Although It la contended that beer contains 1- alaabeU than either wine or whisky. It is, neverthe less, as injurious as either of thom. while Its vaunted nutritive value stands In no propor tion to Its price. When a man Is required to perform the greatest feat of corporeal exer tion in battle, sport, exploration, etc., the baneful effect ot alcohol Is most strikingly shown. In spite of the marvelous advantage of our present age a retrogression In an ethical sense Is undeniable, the chief oause of which U principally due to the in creaso of drunkenness because thobeer saloon has beeoms the centre and foous of soola' life." THE TOPEU S MOBIL RESPONSIBILITY. "Why do men drink?" Is an old question npon whioh some savants are soeking to throw new light. The London Society for the Study of Inebriety has been recently dis cussing tho problem, though with no very harmonious results of opinion. Dr. Norman Kerr for one declares that little progress will bo made in the way of decreasing drunken ness until it is recognized as a disease, and not merely as a moral weakness. It is be cause this fact has not been realized, he says, that no results of all labors in the line ot legislation have accrued. Evidently Dr. Kerr begs the question in this statement. Legislation cannot do everything to offset the rum evil, but that it has, where Invoked, accomplished something iu the way of the diminution of this social curse. Is evident to every candid observer. If tho question be asked, "Why do men drink?" of course tho readiest reply Is: "Because thev want to!" But why should they wish toV As the result of an appetite, all would agree, and at the dictation of a depraved nad diseased ap petite must be admittod, as Dr. Kerr con tends Bum Is an Intruder lu the phystoal frame, and lnduouean abnormal state, both morally and physically. But because the toper becomes at length a wulkluir Incarna tion ot disease, wo are not warranted in ex cusing blui from moral responsibility for the taking of '-the first glass" and of all the auo oeeelve potions that have proved so madden ing and destructive. Htlil, there Is a pathol ogy of driuk, which may well be studied la eonaaetlou with the systematic prosecution of temperance efforts. New York lndepeu tuut. THET DON'T BUT BUB,. The Toronto (Ontario) hotel keepers say bicycling hurts their business, If the follow ing extract from the Toronto World In to be believed: "The bicycle continues on its way, revolu tionising our modem lite la many of Its re spects. The saloon keepers and cigar dealers are the latest to oonipluta of the new order of things. The dispensers of liquid refresh ments are the chief sufferers, by their own accounts, for thousands ot young men who formerly patronized the downtown bars, spending, many of them, fifty oeulaa day on an average, have taken to the wheel, and their erstwhile haunts know them no more. The country hotel keeper, ou the olher band. Is much benefited by the cyole revolution. His onoe almost-desorted house, if It nifordsgood accommodation, is visited eaily by dozen of Wheolmeu, whose loobe ouunge, given lu ex ohuuge for ineala aud "soft stulT," replen ishes bb coffers nnd causes a broudnuiug of the smile on his rubicund countenauae." roVKHTY AND DUINK. Destitution and want lu this country, In the vast majorily ot cases, are the result of nrolligute palrouago of iliu saloon-keeper. business. If o many toilers of the luudstiu ply camp lu the wlldurues of grout tene ment structures unit drug out I heir lives In helpless poverty, the lamentable fact Is to au alarming extent tho result of paying a too generous putroitaite to the Itqitor-si'llertt' trade. Ths practical problem fur the Auier. cau workmau to solve is not the aiuouut he may be fortunate iu ruiulug, but the sum l.e may prudently suvu to pruvblu fur happiness aud plenty In a eonientul home. Excessivo drinking is uot the ouly cause of dependence and poverty, but it fur outstrips all other Kourcug ot luesi- m Is foil uuea. Sacred II our lie view. ALCOUOUSU IN HUH. Furls Is alarmed over the ravages of aloo holism. Frmu investigations recently eon ducted, Paul Itayuaud has learned that the Victims of the drink habit in Parts tboso borloubly Injured by It iu health, souie to the point ot disablement now number 10,000 annually. Ainbulauces carried to hospitals 300,000 poisons lust yeur sulferiug fruiu alcoholism In some form. This represents, say L'lllus tiatlou, uu expense of 1M0,(KM for tioutlug diseases due to the effects of iuteiuperuui' lu drinking. It Is sad fuet that the pro portion of womeu aiuxig these drunks uimI 'Utieuts is uuurly tquul tj tuut of imu.
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