now Chinese) Paper Their ITon.
The Cliinrae t Amny lo not puper
their walls mnoh, Vint they often paper
oeiliuRU, pnrtitinnn, etc., bo llint
lorpe quantity of paper is rontmined
in that district. This papr, besides
being nsetl for artificial flowers, is
nseil for clothing the human effigies
that are lmrnp1 at funerals, nnl this
practice being genernl throughout
China, the amount of it consumed is
considerable. This paper is also used
for covering cardboard boxes for toys,
jewels, medicines, buttons and sun
dries. Chicago Sunday Chrouiclc.
A Town Without a Mayor.
According to the St. James Gazette,
at Hnry St. ICdmunds Town Council
the deputy mayor said he had to an
nounce with regret that np to the pre
sent no suitable inhabitant of the
borough had been found willing to
undertake the important duties of
Mayor for the ensning year. The
meeting would therefore be adjourned
for a month in the hope that some one
would be forthcoming during that
time.
KgB That Don't Hutch.
"I have been experimenting lately
on the eggs from certain liens, to find
out if there is any great difference in
the way they hatch, their vitality, etc.,
aud have been greatly interested in
the discoveries. The eggs from the
Abnormally fat hens seldom hatch.
The chicken usually dies on or about
the twelfth day of incubation. When
an egg hatches a day or two in advance
of time, one usually concludes that it
was quite fresh when put in, but I
now find that it is the eggs from the
active and most healthy hens that
break the shells first.
"Five eggs from a little game hen,
which were all over five flays old,
were the first to hatch. Invariably
the egg from the sleepy, lazy hen
hatches late. . Out of twenty-seven
hens whose eggs I experimented with
I found two qnite sterile. They both
lay fine, large eggs of good shape and
shell, but though I must have tried
a dozen of their eggs, not one has
ever had a sign of a chicken. I have
even mated them with different roost
ers, but without avail; and, strange
to say, they are the worBt tempered
hers in the yard, always quarreling
and beating the others." Fanciers'
Gazette.
Never Awake.
Some people will never wnke np till the
last horn blows, and then they'll ask if
that's the horn (or dinner. Delays are dan
gerous and ruinous. Thousands ean say If
they hadn't pnt oft" an opportunity, they
would have Own rich and happy. Borne
never know they have rheumatism until
crippled bv it, and all the while in pain,
thinking it" will pass off. But Rt. Jacobs
Oil ncverdclavs, and is always wideawake.
It goes straight to its work ot cure In n
business way, and cures rheumatism In any
form and at Its worst stage. It's a live
remedy.
The jewels belonging to the British Crown
are supposed to be worth three millions of
money.
Florida.
Florida literature secured free npon appli
cation to J. J. Fsrnfworth, East'n Pass. As't.
Plant System, Broadway, N." Y.
In ten years school attendance in Buffalo,
N. ., has more than doubled, although the
population bos not Increased in such pro
portion. Ta Cure A Cold la On Day.
Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. AU
Druggists refund money it it fails to cure. 25a,
tDgusumen artnk uye times as mucn too
as coffee; Americans eight times as muet
coffee as tea.
How's This T
We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward foi
any case of Catarrh that cauuot be cured b)
Uall'B Catarrh Cure.
K. J. Chunky & Co.. Toledo. O.
We, the undersigned, haveknowD F. J. Che
ney for the last 15 years, and believe him per.
fectly honorable in all business transaction
and financially able to carry out any obliga
tion made by their firm.
West Tkuax, Wholesale DrnggistsToledo,
Ohio.
Waluino. Kinxax & Marvin, Wholesale
Druggists, Toledo. Ohio.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, act
ing directly ujon the blood aud ruueotis sur.
faces of the system. Testimonials sent free.
Price, toe. jier bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Hall's Family Pills are the best.
It takes about three seconds for a mes
sage to go from oue end of the Atlantic
cable to the other.
MotherGray's Sweet Powders for Children
Successfully used by Mother Oray, for years a
nurse in the ('hilrlren's Home, New York,
will make a sickly child strung and healthy.
A certain cure for Stomach Troubles, Head
ache and Feverishnesa in Children. They
move the bowels, cure Teething Disorders,
destroy Worms and itrm- tut!. At all drug
gists'. 25 cts. Sample sent FHKE. Address
Allen S. Olmsted. Li-Hoy. X. Y.
The hair on the head of most of the dolls
in this country is made from thahalr of the
Angora gout.
Fits permanently cured. No fits or nervous
ness after tlrst day's use of Dr. Kline's Great
Nerve Restorer. J-itrial bottle and treatise free
D. K. H. Kline, LU1..1M1 Arch St.,Puila.,Pa.
Oljservntlons have shown that short
sightedness is far more common with llglif
than with dark eyes.
Mrs. Winslow'sSootlim-r Syrup for children
trethinir. softens tlie untie-, reduces iudamma
tiou, allays pain, curt-- w itel colic, 26c.a bottle.
The swiftest fish is the dolphin. It can
swim for short dlMuii'-cs at tho rate of
twenty-live miles an hour.
Chew Star Tobacco The Best.
Smoke Sledge Cigarettes.
Every adult male Mohammedan is liabln
to military service, except those who were
toru in Constantinople.
I'iso's Cure for Consumption has no equal '
asa lough medicine.-- F. II. Ahkiitt, itsJbeu- I
oca c-b., nunaio, .-. i ., may V, isih.
The Boston and Maiue Railroad bus been
overBix years in changing the color of its
pas-seugcr cars, which number ltii).
Ked, angry, sluep-dest roylng eruptions yield
to act ion of 4i lenn's Sul phii r Soap. Of druggists
Hill's Hair A Whisker De, oluc or brow n, 5uc.
One pound of cork is sufficient to support
a man of ordinary size iu the water.
Scrofula and
AU other blood
Diseases are promptly
And Permanently Cureii
By Hood's Sarsaparilla.
If you Buffer from
Any form of Blood
Disorder, you should
Take Hood's and
Only Hood's.
DflTFMT 1fUiT!' liuid frtw. r I Hi A It TATK
iM wn Iwk I'D. Vat em ..li.iil.r..'J4fjUwi.y,N. V.
XV A N Tfc !. Persona 6flrlt,g employment or
Burnt, la tb Koutn tu send tut ur list of
out itiouMuu tiisvnuitwtureis, BiercbttiU,
i:-, wna are aipiu.Tiiijf lb en iua wuiuea
, Southern Mate ; Uu tww to vbuia
f ' " Irs. 11.
i tit fcl Butit b. and v t bur vahiabla tu
utUui ; wut tK.m i!id fr ts rit. Ilvtr
UB.ni. ftoimiRKN lMMUiilATlOtf
CO. Jv.luilu, ft.
The Brut Celery. Tf
Oood celery or we may say first
class celery cannot bo obtained with
out an abundance of water, for the
plnut is naturally a citizen of swamps.
It is always best, therefore, to set the
plants in shallow ditches, so that wa
ter can be more easily collected; and
it is also very fond of high living,
consequently no well prepared manure
is too rich for it. The quality of mar
ket celery has fallen off somewhat of
late years, chiefly through the culti
vators treating it to surface culture.
When planted in the latter way there
is not the same Advantage for blanch
ing as when set in trenches. It is
much easier to let down earth thau if
is to raise it. The Silver Knight.
Millet Hay Oood For Horses.
I am surprised to learn of Professor
Hinebangh's adverse experience with
millet as horse feed noted in American
Agriculturist of Novenber 13, as mine
is just the opposite. I fed three
horses millet from October, 189G, till
about the last of June, 18!)7, together
with grain ration. I must say I never
had my horses do better. In fact
they rather lost flesh after feeding
timothy hay with the same amount of
grain. I am now feeding the same
horses millet and grain and expect to
do ho as long as the millet lasts, which
will be all winter at least. I have
seen and talked with ouo man in this
county who has fed millet longer than
I have. He raises more and more of
it every year and feeds it to all kinds
of stock. I have cut the millet qnite
green, before it is all headed out.
William Dougall, Schenectady County,
N. Y., in New England Homestead.
The Old Farm.
The following beautiful composition
is from the pen of Jean O. Wiley, in
the National Stockman and Farmer:
"What a cherished spot in the
memory of vast multitudes is the old
farm! Meu who have climbed to the
topmost ronud of the great ladder of
fame; men who have achieved by in
dustry, self-reliance and perseverauce,
success iu life; many of these look
backward o'er the long years to the
happy days of childhood spent on the
old farm.
"A memory lingers o'er this
cherished spot, the loving face of a
good mother, the cheerful countenance
of a kiud father, the bright faces of
brothers and sisters gathered round
the old fireside, soften the heart and
bring tears to the eyes of the strong
est men.
"A sweet influence of such a home
is like a flower that never dies, but
sheds its sweet perfume nil through
life, aud rehlossonis anew in eternity
"It is said that in order to be suc
cessful in anv pursuit oue must first
learn to overcome difficulties. It was
on the farm where most statesmen en
countered and overcame difficulties.
A b tb , j f ,
. " , .. . . f , Ft""
tunity to learn this important lesson
withont meeting many of the tempta
tions incident to the life of a city boy. As
we live iu an age of progress, the farm
of to-duy bears but little resemblance
to the farm of fifty years ago. It now
requires an educated man to make a
prosperous farmer.
"One who has spent his happy
childhood on the old farm, received
an education and went abroad, plunged
into cares and bustle of city life, in
after years revisits the old farm. All
the old familiar spots, as the meadow,
orchard aud old-fashioned well, with
its moss-covered bucket, recall scenes
which seemed long BirTce forgotten
"Pictured on memory's wall are the
faces of loved ones those of father,
mother, brother, sister and dearest
friend, as they were in boyhood's
days. They are all gone. Some are
dead, others are toiling or roaming in
c'litlerent parts of the world; and as he
sits and meditates upon the past, he
longs once more to be that free-from
care, light-hearted boy, roaming over
the meadows and woodlands of the old
farm, that lie once was. no now
realizes, more fully than ever, how
vain are the hopes of life.
"The old farm house is filled with
strangers, aud he, feeling wiser and
better by his visit to the old farm
returns to the toils and cares of city
life."
Fanu and t.arrien Notes
The goose lays a score or two of egji
in a year.
From thirty-five to forty ducks aud
drakes arc allowed m a pen
Eleven dozen eggs a year is tin
average estiruute given as the produc
tio:i of I je U:a.
Du-'kliugs. are marketed at 11
pounds weight, which they should at
tain iu ten weeks.
lue secret ot largo uouey crops is,
strong colonies aud plenty of room fo
the bees to store honey
Each frame of coinb iu a hive should
occupy one aud a half inches of space,
and iu spacing the frames it should be
done with exactness.
In 100 purts of the yolk, fifty-two
per cent, is water, forty-live per cent,
is oil and fut, aud one per cent, each
of ulbiimiuoids, coloring and mineral
matter.
l'eaeli trees may be examined for
borers as late us the weather holds
good, and if not yet attended to should
not be neglected longer. Do not per
mit these grubs to winter iu the trees.
If two or more swarms cluster to
gether, do not hive them thus, but
hunt out the tieeun and divide them,
especially if they ure first swanns ami
lui ge ones. Vuliiablu queens are thus
saved by so doing.
If properly kept and judiciously ap
plied to laud, poultry manure is worth
pne-hulf the cost of the food the fowl
gets, mi. I yet little account is tukeu of
the droppings when un i-Htiiimte is
made of the profit.
A very profitable field of investiga
tion for farmers the coming winter
will be to leal u all they call about the
luboct and other enemies of the vati
ons plants which they cultivate and
the remedies therefor.
Robbing frequently occurs nt the
end of the honey season, ns in swarm
ing colonies frequently become queen
less, and sooner or Inter they will fall
prey to robbers. If colonies are in
proper condition in every respect rob
bing seldom occurs.
Beeswax is a valnnble product, and
every particle of eomb should be saved
and rendered into wax. The price of
beeswax has not fallen below twenty
five cents per ponud for the last twenty
years. The solar wax extractor, which
an be made very cheaply, should
land in every apiary.
In the planting of windbreaks the
Nebraska station has found that tho
western grower needs protection chief
ly on the south aud west, since it is
from that directum that the most
damaging winds come. The eastern
grower needs protection on the west
and north for like reasons.
If obliged to keep apples and pota
toes in tho same apartment, store the
apples in the cooler and the potatoes
in the warmer portions of the cellnr.
Very many apples are lost every year
by being kept too warm. They are
best preserved in a temperature main
tained close to the freezing point
TAUCHT BY TOUCH.
Little Ullnil Ctrl' Wonderful Ability to
Uu Many Things.
Deprived of her sight, hearing and
ability to speak, little Ruby Rice is
nbleto do many things that other chil
dren do, and she extraots much enjoy
ment out of life. She is ten years old,
and lives with her mother in the vil
lage of AVyatt, Ellis County, Texas.
She owes her unfortunate condition to
an attack of cerebro-spinal meningitis,
complicated with spotted fever, which
nearly took her life when she was two
years old. Ihe same epidemic- ot
fever made her mother a widow and
carried away oue of her brothers.
As is usual with blind people, the
child has a wonderful sense of touch.
She also seems to have a sixth sense
which enables her to know a stranger
is in the house, or when any one is
about to depnrt. She cau find things
readily and moves about the premises
with ease.
Ruby cau thread a needle almost as
rapidly as a seamstress whose sight is
good. She is fond of children and
dolls, and makes her own doll-clothes.
She not only cuts them and stitche
them together, but she sews on the
buttous and makes the buttonholes.
She will examine the clothing and
trimmings of lady visitors, and shows
wonderful faculty of copying the
style when making apparel for her
family of dolls.
Ruby cau also run a sewing machine
with skill, aud she delights in thus
helping her mother. She can pick
cotton in the field, and though she
works slowly, she picks the cotton
clean. She is very fond of chickens
aud cau catch them without any
trouble. She takes care of her own
clothes, and quickly discovers if any
one else disarranges them or places
anything iu her trunk that does not
not belong there. New York World.
l.arget Fountain In the World.
The Anaconda Mining Company has
acquired rights to all the water iu
Hearst (Julcli aud Lake, at Anaconda,
Montana, which are fed by the melt
ing snows that exist there the entire
year. This lake lies up against Mount
Haggiu, 2900 feet above the level of
the street iu front of the Montaua
Hotel. The company will raise the
bank about Lake Hearst so as to make
it a reservoir with a capacity of nearly
a billion gallons and giving a daily
flow of four million gallons down a
slope of 3000 feet into the city.
A steel pipe line will carry this
water dowu six miles to Anuconda,
where another immense reservoir will
b built to receive it. This reservoir
will be 320 feet higher than the busi
ness centre of tho city and a qnarter
of a mile long. Its short line will be
irregular, lying against the hills, and
it will be a beautiful eheet of water.
Asa further means of adding to the
beauty of the spot, the supply main
from Luke Hearst will terminate in a
fountain in the centre of the reservoir.
Only a portion of the enormous pres
sure will be used, but a solid jet of
water over three inches iu diameter
will be thrown 220 feet vertically iu
the air, while around, the base of the
fountain will be a fringe of sprays,
consisting of rows of jets rising to
varying heights aud at different angles.
The fountuiu, when completed, will
be, without exception, the largebt in
the world.
Burning a Bequest.
Under an old bequest half a guiuea
n left for an annual sermon at Ter-
riugtou, in Norfolk, England. Ac
cording to the London Christian
World, nobody went to hear it lust
year uud the vicar took the sermon
home nnpreaehed. The trustees
refused thereon to pay him the hulf
guiuea. This year the sermon was
duly preached, but the trustees still
held back, professing fear lest, tho
vicar himself being a trustee, the pay
ment might be illegal. The vicar
sued for u guiuea, both for last year's
sermon and this, iu the King's Lynn
County Court, aud the Judge ordered
the money to be paid. He only al
lowed half a guiuea costs, however,
ou the ground tout the vieur ought to
have preached last year, whether
there m us uuybody to hear the sermon
or not.
Japauese liirllt Trees.
At the birth of a Jupuuese buby a
tree is planted, which must remain
untouched until the marriage day of
the child. When the nuptial hour ar
rives the tree in cut down, uuil a
skilled cabinetmaker transforms the
wood iuto furniture, which is cousid
ered by the young couple as the most
beautiful of all oruuiuentsof (ho house,
Meehuu's Monthly, ,
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
Iteclpe For Milk Ronp.
A good recipe for milk soup is:
Take a cnpfnl of mashed potatoes sea
soned with pepper and Bait, the rr''
of two hard-boiled eggs creamed t
half a cupful of butter, one quart of
hot (not boiling) milk into which n
tablespoonful of flour has beou sifted;
stir well and strain.
Charlotte de Basse.
Four eggs, three pints of cream, one
box of gelatine, nix onnces of sugar,
half a pint of fresh milk, flavor with,
vanilla. Pnt the gclaliue to soak in the
milk, and when ready to make tho
Charlotte de Russe, put it on the back
of the stove where it will dissolve and
keep milk-warm. Then whip your
cream aud set it to drain, beat the
eggs separately, add the sugar to tho
yolks and beat well, stir in the whites
aud add the vanilla. Now as rapidly
as possible ponr in the gelatine, stir
ring all the time, and dash in the
whites, still stirring. Tour at once
into a mold, as it sets rapidly. When
ready to serve, deoorate with whipped
cream. The secret of success lies iu
the rapid mixing.
Tlrolled Smelt.
Solect large smelts; they are the
best. Have them split down the
backs and well cleaned. Then remove
the backbone. Rub each fish with a
little pure olive oil or a little sweet,
melted butter. Sprinkle them with
salt and a very little pepper. Then
broil them in a double broiler for two
or three minutes on eaoh side. Lay
each smelt on a nicely browned slice
of toast; put a little fleck of butter on
each one. Garnish the platter on
which they are served with a wreath
of parsley and serve the smelts while
very hot with a tartar sauce, which
is a thick mayonnaise with some
chopped capers, a little grated onion
and a dash of rod pepper stirred
through it.
Chicken Frlraaseo.
Cut a fine well-oleaned young chick
en of two and a half or three pounds'
into ten pieces. Put them into large
Baucepan of boiling water for three
minutes; then drain in a colander and
instantly plnnge iuto cold water. Let
them remain five minutes.
Take out the chicken, place the
pieces iu a clean saucepan over the
fire; cover with boiliug water. Add one
tablespoonful salt, two white onions
aud a bouquet. Cover and boil slow
ly till tender, then drain off the broth
and strain it. Melt two ounces of but
ter in a saucepan, add two heaping
tablespoonfals flour, stir and cook two
minutes. Add the chickeu broth,
cook fifteen minntes, remove all the
fat from the sauoe. Mix tho yolk of
three eggs with half pint cream, add
ing it slowly to the gravy, and lastly
the juice of half a lemon. Arrange
the chicken on a hot dish, ponr over
the snuce aud arrange with small
croutons in a circle around the dish,
with sprigs of curled parsley between
them.
Household Hints.
Never boil anything that cau be
cooked by steaming.
Never wash poultry or meat. Wipe
them clean with a damp towel.
To remove the smell of fish from the
hands, put a little turpentine in with
the water and soap.
To remove all the grease from the
top of soup after having skimmed it
with a skimmer lay a piece of porous
brown paper on top. It will absorb
every particle of grease.
After gas has been burning in a
room for some time, change the air by
opening a door or wiudow for a few
moments. Scientists say that au
ordinary gas jet consumes as much
oxygen in a given time as four iiunian
beings.
Tincture of rnyrrli dropped into
water is ono of the best things to use
as a mouth or throat wash. It hardens
the gums, leaves 'a cleau taste in the
mouth and a pleasant odor in the
breath. Ten drops of myrrh may bo
allowed to a glass of water.
Boiling is the most abused branch
of cookery; tho average cook boils
things that sh mid be prepared other
wise, just through laziuess. It is too
much trouble to learn how to cook any
other way. Never boil anything fast,
and use as little water as possible.
Feather dusters are only for orna
ment. Never use them. Use soft,
old cloths for dusters, and begin at
the top of the piece of furnitnre and
dust down. If the furniture will per
uiit, use a cloth slightly damp. A cloth
with a little kerosene oil on it is good
for all wood furniture.
Children should be encouraged to
gather and press wild flowers, ferns
and grasses, learning bolu the com
uion and scientific names, thus train
ing them to an acquaintance and love
of nature. They should also become
acquainted with the birds they see in
summer, Iearniug their names, notes
ano habits.
A hot bath is usually decried, as
provocative of colds and other evils.
Every one knows of cases of severe
illness occurring from exposure to the
outer air soon after such ablutious.
And yet nothing is more refreshing,
as nothing is more harmless, if pro
perly taken. This meaus that one
should use the hot bath as one does
that of very cold water, merely as a
plunge, followed by quick and thor
ough rubbings and massage.
After using the wringer the screw
should be loosened, that the cylinders
may not become flattened, the cogs
wiped dry and then wiped over with a
cloth wet ia kerosene. This will
cleau them. If the machine works
hard, pour a little kerosene over the
cog wheels and turn the machine
several times, then wipe the cogs with
a clean cloth. After this put a few
drops of machine oil on the cogs and
work the wringer for a few moments.
Object to the Study or 1'hyilologjr.
" Christian Scientists in Racine, Wis.,
object to the teaching of physiology iu
the public, schools, on the ground that
lihysiology is a study iu the science of
life, aud that iu rase their childreu
were tukeu sick, it would prevent, in
a large measure, their recovery.
ISirmiimham. England, turns out
every week SOO.OOO.UOO cut nails, 100,
000,000 buttons, 4000 miles of wire ol
different sizes, five tons of hair pius,
600 tons of nuts and 20,000 pairs oi
spectacles.
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE
DRINK
IN
EVIL MADE MANIFEST
MANY WAYS.
flow to II eln Alcohol AppetltfrThy
Are Not Canned by Natural Cravlnira
lint Iteanlt Prom an Kd neat Ion Which
la Abnormal and Knrts In Dlaaatei"
Yon say you enn't talk about temperanoe,
But to help It one way may bo found;
Vou can close your ilps liud keep them
closed
When the (tins goes 'round.
Yon say you have no time for doing
Half na much as vour nelehhnrs can dot
But cloxInR your Hps, and by keeping them
closed.
Then wo'll know you are true.
You say you don't think your examplo
Is potent for good or for harm;
But one day you may find that the lip?
Which were closed
Hold a magical charm.
And we know that the throne, of thotemptor
ttouiu hi onoo do mined down aud lie
low.
If only nil Ilps that now open would eloso.
Aud eaoh voico would sav, "Nol"
Faith Chlltern.
Alcoholic Appetites.
Tho desire for alnohollo stimulants is
commonly spoken of as appetite, but we
leny tnnt its nature is tho same as the
cravliiRs of a hunfrry man for food. The
latter comes alike to every henlthy man,
as one evidence of health, but the former
must have other provocation than the calls
of nature, and It represents disease. Wo
do not deny that liquor cravings may come
by Inheritance, but tho example of a drink
ing father gives a snfflnlout explanation of
tho son's drink hnblt without touching the
question of heredity.
witnout denying the theory of hereditary
appetite, many years of observation and
study have convinced us that we must look
to other causes than that for explanation
of most of theenses of slavery to drink.
wniio we uo not otiject to tno expression
"drink appetite." wo insist that in most
rases the drink habit represents not a nor
mal, nut an educated appetite, and, there
fore, we attack the educators, and ssy that
euch disastrous education ought to be sup
pressed. 1 uese educators are emeu v In two classes.
ris,, first, thoso who educate vounsr men
Into the path ot death for tho sake of the
money that can be gill nod thereby, and.
eoond, the devotees of fashionable drink-
ng, aud tho cowards who dare not resist
or antagonize such fashion. .
At to the first named class, no sensible
m.in can believe that the elegant snloon,
resplendent with paintings and mirrors. Is
called for by tho slave appetite. A jug
and tin dipper answers his claims, and he
will not even Insist upon the dipper. The
aloon is created as an educator, and ex
ists iu that capacity. Oo where the saloon
Is unknown, and the young men give little
evidence of alcoholic appetite. The saloon
system is n humbug, as well as an ontrngo.
As to fashion as an educator Iuto the
drink appetite, as wo have snld before. It
Is the worst obstacle to public sobriety and
nou 1,1 no Held responsible accordingly.
I'ho men of Influence who defend It rest
under n fearful responsibility.
J.et us not oo deluded v tho current
sophistry about natural or Inherited ap
petite for alcohol; these causes aro but as
drops iu the oceau.
Ihe causes of drink appetite are mniulv
controllable, and therefore ought to be
suppressed. Thev have been practically
suppressed la many localities, and by pa
tient attention to duty ean be largely re
duced overywhere. National Temperance
Advocate.
The Mnse, the lioya and
the Saloons.
says: "The
The Lutheran Observer
church will never reach the masses until it
II rat reaches tho saloons. " This Is as true
rs it Is pithy and pointed. Before "the
masses ' ean be brought to Christ they
must be brought away from the saloons;
nml the only way to galu that point Is to
destroy the' snioons. You can no more
keep the boys and young men out of tho
licensed aad legalized suloon than you can
keep flies out of an open molassos barrel on
ihe street In August. Close the barrel and
roll it iuto the cellar, and then the flies will
keep out of It. Ho close the saloons and
keep them closed, or a certain number ot
your hoys and young men are as surely
doomed each year to be lured by them Into
a drunkard's gravo and a drunkard's hell
r.s nro Hies certain to be lured to their
ilenth bv the rpeu molassos bnrrol. Hun-
cay-schools and young people's societies.
sua 1. M. u. A.'s uud ehuroues, may no ail
Ihey can to draw tho boys and keep them
away from tho saloons, but it will be of
little or no avuli so long as the legalised
saloons exist. Into them the boys will go,
despite the tears nnd prayers ot parents
and tho efforts ot Christian people. How
f.o we know? By having watched the drift
of thing? in that direction forty years. In
nil tliooo year a regular t renin of boys
have been going out of Christian homes,
out of elm relies and out of Hnuday-sabools
lato tho saloous, down to drunkards'
(raves, and the same stream ia going ou
still, bigger and stronger than ever. Yes,
Christian people, If you would save- your
boys aud reach the maasea, first reach and
close the saloons. Religious Telesoope.
A Good Stimulant.
Yes. I admit that whisky Is a stimulant.
It stimulates abnormal and vicious appe
tite. It stlmulntes unholy passion.
It stimulates the death dyed trufflo In
human virtue.
It stimulutes poverty.
It btitnulatos disease.
It stimulates depravity.
It si i in u lutes crime.
It stimulates divorce.
It stimulates the scarlet life of the social
pitfall.
It stimulates Idleness.
It stimulates indifference to wretched
surroundings.
It stimulates profanity.
It stimulates barbarity.
It stimulates assassination.
It stimulates Incendiarism.
It stimulates the animal and strangles
the human.
It stimulates the coarse and smothers the
fine.
It stimulates insanity.
O, Ituinl thou art a traitor,
A vlilatu foul and black,
T li ut smiles upon the victim's face,
Then stabs him la the back.
W. K. Htaiey, In Christian Uoldler.
One Causa For Thankfulness.
A teacher at one of the schools handed to
her scholars little slips of paper on which
was priuted the question, "What have I to
be thankful for?" Among the replies that
were given on the following day was this
pathetic sentence, written by a little girl
who had learaed by bitter experience,
probably, the painful tiuths it implied, "1
am thankful there la no drunkenness In
heaven."
Temperance Work In Great Urltain.
The British MedlcalJournul, In an artlolo
on tho growth of temperance iu Ureat
Britain, says: "Ktlll more remarkable has
beeu tho enormous development of the
most hopeful form of the tern perauee prop
Uganda the assoclnted work of Juvenile
societies. These societies of young people
now uutn nor more tnuu zj.uuu, wuu a mem
bership of probably about 3.000,000 ehil
dren. Oue issue of the temperuuee move
ment has been of special interest to physi
claus -tho rise and progress of the United
Kingdom temperance provident institution,
whose praetiee has been followed with as
successful results by other insurance cor
porations." Aleohol'a Deadly Work.
Many burkeepers lu Yuma and l'hoenlx,
Ari.ona, refuse to sell any whisky or braudy
to hard drinkers whoa the mercury Is rang
ing from 110 to 115 degrees In the shade.
Lust buuiiuer half u dozen minors went ou
a spree when the mercury was at about 1 IS
degrees; three ot them died as they lay
asleep u the broiling sun, aud one of the
others has beeu demented ever sluoe,
'What Keats a Uood Wlfa.
A eukr onoo huMtng fortli lu favor ol
i t?ono.liKlod uln remarks wltu tue ful-
K'ruihia (urnrruii: "O uiy lieurers,
!uti it, uutuiuK lieats atuou wile,
i yuur iarluu," txluliutjil oue of
i Jlstcm-ra. "u druukeu liuslxiuu
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Apple Itrvaki a Tterord.
Dr. E. J. ruckett, of Mtiucie, In.l.,
has in his possession an apple that
was plucked by him thirty years ago.
Before the doctor went into the nrniy
he planted an apple tree on the grave
of 'his mother, in the cemetery at
Teetorsbnrg, Tipton Comity, this
State. Fonr years later, when ho re
turned home from the war, the tree
was bearing fruit, nnd he pullod off
ono of the apples and tins preserved it
ever since. Cincinnati Enquirer.
Dimrtilt Navigation.
It wns a vexed qnestiou in 1890
whether the Filnomnyo River, which
flows for hundreds of miles from the
Bolivian Andes to tho Tnt-anay,
might be used as a commercial high
way from Bolivia to the ocean, says a
writor in Harper's Round Table. Our
countryman, Captain Pa;re, sotlled
this quenliiu so conclusively that no
ftirMi.-v effort to ntiliza the Fileomayo
is likoly to be male; nnd iu this work,
that cost him his lifa, for he died of
his privations after being hemmed in
for months by hostile Indians, he de
vised a plan for stoaming np river
-when the wntwr was so low that his
vessel was stuck in the mud. He was
determined to go still further, though
his little steamer, which drew only
eighteen iuehes, rested on the river
bottom; so behind the bont he threw
up nil ctnbnukmeut of earth olear
across the c'lanuol, backed it with
palm trunks and brushwood and be
fore loujr the water had risen a couple
of. feet and tho littlo Bolivia was able
to go on her way four miles before she
stuck again. Then another dam was
built, and this process was repeated
seveu times, aud with the aid of the
dams tho vessel advauced about
thirty-five miles above the highest
point she could reach at the natural
low water stage.
Topnlar Justice In ltavarla.
A debate in the Bavarian Diet re
cently shows that in some parts of
Bavaria a kind of popular justice, a
relio of the Middle Ages, is still exer
cised by the peoplo in the caso of
offences which do not fall within the
pale of the ordiuary law, such as usu
ry, flagrant immorality, arbitrary con
duct of officials, and the like. This
method of procedure, which is called
"Haberfeld-treiben," is practised by
people, who assemblo with blackened
or masked faces before the offender's
house, and there create a horrible din,
howling, firing rifles, and beating pots
aud kettles. Then a mock sermon,
in doggerel verse setting forth the
offence of the person concerned is re
cited in the hearing of the misde
meanant. Neither person nor properly
is, however, injured.
The Largest In tho World.
The largest power plant iu the world,
says the American Engineer, will be
erected by the Metropolitan Street
Railway Company of New York for the
purpose of furnishing power for the
218 miles of its street railroads. The
plant will comprise eleven croBS-com-pouud
condensing engines of GG00
horse-power eaoii, nnd eighty-seven
water-tube boilers of 800 horse-power
each.
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"Did yon say that this in to be
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salesman in tho jeweler's shop.
''No, I didu't say anything of the
kind," replied the man who was mak
ing the purchase. "And I don't Bee
that it makes any difference to you."
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"I merely thought that you might like
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Rome Famous Klsara.
The kiss, wo aro told, wns a formula
of good will among the. ancient
Romans and was adopted by the early
Christians, whose "holy kiss" and
"kiss of charity" carried tho weight
of apostolio sanction.
Kisses admit' of a great variety of
chavactor and thero aie fight diversi-.
ties mentioned in the Scripture. It is
a sign of reverence and in order to set
a snored seal npon their vows the
witnesses in a conrt of law, when
they are called upon to speak "the
truth, the whole truth aud nothing
but ifO truth," are required to touch
the Biblo with their lips, as also are
soldiors when they enlist and make
the oath of allegianeo to Queen Vio
toria. Mon in uncivilized regions kiss the
feet of a superior or the ground in
front of him, nnd in ancient times to
press the lips to the knee or the hem
of a garment was to humbly implore
protection. The Maoris have adopted
the custom of kissing, but the natives
of West Africa refuse to do so, and ap
parently that which is a medium of so
much pleasure to many nations fills
them with dislike.
The pleasant old Christmas custom
of a kiss under tho mistletoe is a relio
of Norse mythology. Baldur, the
beautir'nl god of light, was slain by a
spear whose shaft was a mistletoe
twig. This was bewitched by Ijoki,
the malevolent god of tire, until it
swelled to the requisite size nud was
given by him to Hodtir; who throw it
and unintentionally struck Baldur
when the gods wore nt rlay. Friga
had m a do everything iu heaven aud .
earth swear not to harm Baldur, but
had left out the mistletoe as being too
slight and weak to bo of harm. Bal
dur, however, was restored to lifo nnd
Friga gnarded tho mistletoe, wuicu
the cods determined should not
again have powor to do any misohief
unless it touched the earth. For this
reason it is always huug from the ceil
ing and the vigilant goddess propitiat
ed by the kiss, a sign of B0J will.
Chicago News.
Largest Leaves In the World.
Dr. Jackson, otter a world-wide
travel, says that tho largest loaves iu
the world are those of tho Inaji palm,
which grows on tho banks of the
Amazon. Tho leaves of tho Tali Kit
palm, a native of Ceylon, are often
twenty feet iu longth nnd eighteen
feet broad, and those of tho double
cocoanut palm aro gonerally thirty
feet long and six feet wide. But Dr.
Jackson says he found leaves of the
Inaji palm which were fifty feet long
and twelve feet in breadth.
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