A CHILD'S LAUGHTER. All the bolls of heaven may ring, One thing yet there is, th.it none. All the birds of heaven may sing. Hearing ere its chimes be done, All the wells on earth may spring, Knows not well the sweetest one All the winds on earth may bring Heurd of man beneath the sun, All sweet sounds together; Hoped in heaven hereafter; Sweeter far than all things heard. Soft and strong and loud aud light. Hand of harper, tone of bird. Very sound of very light, Sound of wood at sundown stirred. Heard from morning's rosiest height, Welling water's winsome word, When the soul of all delight Wind in warm wau weather. Fills a child's clear laughter. —Algernon Charles Swinburne. L Mated by a Pawn. When a man is about to entertain a very charming girl whom he is anx ious to impress and suddenly finds that with the exception of a few coppers, he has no money In his pocket, he may surely be forgiven the use or a few strong ejaculations. Such was the plight of Everard Hamlyn at 10 minutes to 1 on a certain Saturday af ternoon. He had been so absorbed in reading the brief of an important case which was to be heard in the courts on Monday that he had forgotten the emptiness of his pocket. At 1 o'clock Alice Valentine, an American girl with whom he had formed a deep friend ship, was coining to see what a bar rister's chambers in the Temple looked like, and she was also to be taken out to lunch. The worst was that there were only 10 minutes to rectify the mistake. He wrote out a cheek hurriedly, and then remembered that time would not per mit togo to the bank to cash it. His clerk was gone aud the Temple was wrapped in its usual Saturday after noon peacefulness. Without a hat he rushed over to Har court buildings to see if his friend Anderson was in his chambers. He could rely upon him for a couple of pounds. But the fates were against Hamlyn. Anderson was out and the doors were locked. Realizing that there was nothing for it but togo to the bank he hurried along up the court into Fleet street, meaning to hail a hansom. But as he arrlveu there the clock struck 1 and he knew that he could not get to the bank and back under 20 minutes. Alice would never forgive him if he was not at his rooms to receive her. Suddenly his eye was caught T>y the three brass balls hanging over a shop almost opposite. The sight suggested a new idea to his mind, and he prompt ly acted upon it. In another moment he rushed across the road, aud enter ing the shop handed his 80-guinea hun ter over the counter. "How much?" said the clerk eyeing the hatless and breathless Hamlyn somewhat suspiciously. "Oil, 1 only wanted a fiver," replied Everard hurriedly. "Have you got a card on you?" asked the clerk, thinking he was on the track of a swell mobsman. Unversed in the ways of pawnbrok ers, Hamlyn pulled out his case and handed him a card. "All right, sir," seeing the name and address and noticing it corre sponded with the initials on the watch. "1 beg your pardon, sir," and he hastily filled up a ticket and counted out five pounds. "Have you a penny for the ticket, please?" Hamlyn impatiently threw down a copper and fairly bolted out of the shop. The people in Fleet street stared at him with amazement, and a gutter nrab with whom he had collided, shouted, "Who are yer shovin of?" as he crossed the road. Now it happened that Alice Valen tine was just at that moment passing down Fleet street on her way to the Temple. She had arrived somewhat earlier than she had intended, for she upheld the traditions of womanhood with regard to unpunctuality. "It would never do," she said to her self, "to be quite punctual. He would think 1 was too impatient." So, timing herself to arrive at the Temple about 1.15 o'clock, she was strolling leisurely along when she caught sight of Hamlyn rushing wild ly out of a pawnbroker's shop. For a moment the ludicrous side of the situ ation struck her very forcibly, and she laughed softly to herself. But gradually as she realized the full sig nificance of the action, her amusement gave place to pity. "Poor boy," she murmured, "I had not the faintest idea that he was hard up. And to think that I have let him spend such a lot of money in taking me about 1 must get even with him somehow." There was a very tender spot in her heart for the tall, clever young barris ter who had shown so plainly his pref erence for her above all other women. Alice Valentine and her aunt, Miss Safford. were making a tour of Eu rope, and had met Hamlyn first of all at a hotel in Geneva. He had ren dered them a number of civilities, aud as he happened to be doing the same round of Switzerland as they, for a month he was their almost daily com panion. With the frankness of Ameri can women, they accepted his atten tions graciously, and, finding him a pleasant attendant, enrolled hiin in their services without further ado. Miss Safford generally accompanied Alice wherever she went, and showed quite as much eagerness to "do" every place thoroughly as her niece. It was only on rare occasions, when the elder ly lady was obliged to admit that she was "too tired for anything," that Hamlyn had a chance of taking Miss Valentine out alone. The constant companionship, how ever. had brought at>out the usual re sult. Hamlyn was not an inflammable man. He had reached the mature age of 30—not unsought after—without baving succumbed to feminine charms. But there was something about the fair American that fascinated him in spite of himself. Today, as she came into his room, a perfect vision -of freshness and love liness in the gloomy atmosphere of the Temple, Hamlyn was conscious of a certain shyness and reserve in her manner that he had not noticed before. "I don't believe I ought to come here by myself," she said as she closed the door. "I wonder what Aunt Catherine would say to It" "You are late," said Hamlyn. "1 have been waiting impatiently foryou." "Am I really?" replied Alice. "What is the time, then?" He pulled at his watch chain me chanically, forgetful of his escapade, and disclosed the bare swivel. He col ored slightly as he realized his mis take, and felt her eyes upon him, but answered lightly: "About 20 minutes past 1, I fancy." She was walking round the room glancing at the ponderous-looking books and the papers tied with pink tape, getting, as she expressed it, the "atmosphere" of the place. "It must be just lovely to work here," she said. "Everything seems so old and historic. I believe 1 should only have to sit here a few hours a day and I should become a lawyer by breathing the air." "Which reminds me." said Hamlyn, "that I have been breathing air quite long enough and want lunch. Where shall we go?" Alice Valentine hesitated. "Look here," she said at last "1 want to say something to you. Von have bsen taking me about such a lot and 1 have done nothing for you. 1 feel real mean. 1 want you to let me stand you a lunch today." He shook his head laughingly. "You forget," he said, "that you are my guest; but 1 want you to say where you would like to go." He named a well-known restaurant in Piccadilly, where slid knew the prices were ruinous. "No," she said, "don't let us go there. Will you take me to one of those little bohemian places you told me of where you get a table d'hote lunch for IS pence. 1 should love to go. It would be a new experience. "You look too smart" he replied, glancing at her admiringly, "but I tell you what I will do. We will split the difference and goto a kind of semi fashionable place where you shall see all sorts and conditions of people and hear a band." Once or twice during lunch, when conversation dragged. Hamlyn noticeo again the thoughtful expression on her face. At last he took the matter up. "Tell me," he said, "what you are thinking of." "I was thinking," she replied slowly, "of how I could help some one who lias been very good to me." "Not a difficult matter, surely—for you?" "It is very difficult," she said, "un der the circumstances. The person I want to help is poor aud, very prcuJ." She was looking down at the table cloth and studiously avoiding liis eyes. "Can 1 be of any assistance?" he said. "You—why—" she laughed. "Yes, perhaps you can. I will think about it and let you know." There was a new sympathy in her voice and manner, and Hamlyn felt a mad desire to take her there and then in his arms and cover her face with kisses. But there was no opportunity to tell her of his love. Immediately after lunch they were obliged to hurry off to meet Miss Safford at a matinee, aud Hamlyn had no further chance of a tete-a-tete with Alice, but he arranged satisfactorily a meeting for Monday afternoon, when he determined to put his fate to the test. "You will not forget," he said at part ing, "to let me help you in the matter you mentioned?" "No," she replied with a singular look on her face. "I will not forget." As Everard walked home he recalled her tones, her face, the fair, flushed cheeks, sweet mouth, earuest brows and eyes of softest fire. There was that in her look which satisfied him. He was awakened from his reverie by an urchin inquiring what o'ciocK it was. For the second time that day he mechanically tugged at his watch chain. "Confound it!" he exclaimed as he realized his loss. "1 never knew tuat it was such a nuisance to be without a watch. I must get it out first thing on Monday morning." The urchin grasping the situation ran away grinning. On Sunday Hamlyn again bethought himself to the watch. "I had l»etter study the ticket," he said, "and see what I shall have to pay." He fumbled in his waistcoat pocket; it was not there. He tried the others with the same result. With growing uneasiness be searched in every pocket of the clothes he had worn on the Sat urday, but the pawn ticket was not to be found. "I must have left It l«l my cham bers," he declared at last. "It is very careless of me. I hope my clerk won't find it." On Monday morning he got up ear lier than usual and drove down to the Temple in a hansom. His clerk baa already arrived. I-laiulyn searched all over the table carefully, then in all the drawers, but could not find the ticket. Finally he summoned the clerk. "Have you moved any papers?" he asked rather Irritably. "No, sir. I haven't touched a thing." "You haven't by any chance found a ticket, I suppose?" pursued Hamiyn. "No sir. What kind of a ticket have you lost?" "It doesn't matter," he replied impa tiently, "it is of no importance." Putting on his hat Hamiyn hurried into Fleet street to the pawn shop. "I want to redeem the watch I left here on Saturday," he announced. "Where is your ticket, sir?" said the man. " I have mislaid it," replied Hamiyn, "but it is all right, you remember me, I expect. The watch belongs to me and I want it now." " I am very sorry, sir, but you can't have it without the ticket." Hamiyn muttered an exclamation of impatience. "But suppose I have lost it, what then ?" "1 will give you a form of declaration to be made before a magistrate." "Is there no other way?" said Ilain lyn, realizing the trouble and annoyance this would cause. "No, sir," said the pawnbroker, "1 am afraid there is not." There was no time to waste he had to be in court early, as his case was among the first on the lists. It was no use stopping to argue the matter, j He must go before a magistrate and sign the declaration as soon as possible. Returning to his chambers, he put on his robes and was soon lost in contemplation of the business in hand. About an hour after his visit to the j pawnshop Alice Valentine drove up in a cab to the same door. She had found the pawn ticket lying on Hamlyn's table on the Saturday afternoon and had appropriated it, meaning to re deem the watch and send it back to him as soon as possible. She was rather nervous at going into the shop, hut she was not the kind of a girl to allow her feelings to stand in the way of any project she wished to carry through; so, putting on an air of un usual hnughtiness.sheenteredthelittle compartment and handed in the ticket. "I want the watch, please," she said. The pawnbroker's assistant looked her up and down carefully. When he had, as It were, sized her completely, he inquired dryly, "Where did you get this?" Alice flared up Indignantly. "That is no business of yours, tell me what I have to pay and give me the watch." "Not so fast," said the young man, "you must answer one or two ques tions first." He went away, and after a whispered consultation returned with a gray bearded old man, who was polite but firm. "I am sorry, madam, but 1 cannot allow you to redeem this pledge TT7TTH you inform me how this ticket came into your possession." "I found it," said Alice. "Allow me to inform you, then," said the pawnbroker, sternly, that you are committing a very grave offense. B,v attempting to obtain the watch you lay yourself open to criminal proceedings." "But," said Alice, "I am a friend or the gentleman to whom the watch be longs." "Come, come, that won't do at all. A gentleman who called himself Mr. llamlyn was here about an hour ago endeavoring to get the watch himself." "Mr. Hamiyn been here this morn ing!" cried Alice. She had never ex pected that he would be able to re deem his watch so soon. "Better send for a policeman," sug gested the assistant "Hold your tongue," said his master. Then, turning to Alice Valentine, he said: "I do not wish to be hard upon you, but 1 insist upon an explanation. 1 will send over to the address on the ticket, and if your story is true Mr. Hamiyn will corrobate it. Harvey, send the boy over to Queen's Bench Walk and ask Mr. Hamiyn to come here immediately." "Mr. Hamiyn coming here," cried Alice unguardedly. "Oh, I must go at once." "I cannot allow it," said the pawn broker. "You must wait. If you re fuse I have no option but to call a po liceman." If looks could kill the pawnbroker would have died on the spot, as Alice, with the air of a tragedy queen, suii mltted to the indignity of being es corted to the back parlor, while Harvey kept watch and ward over her. A quarter of an hour later lCverara Hamiyn jumped out of a hansom ana hurried into the shop. He was an im petuous person and he had not waited to change his robes, but had come straight away In wig and gown from the law courts. He was met in the passage by Harvey, who had been awaiting his arrival with keen inter est. "There's a woman in here." he said, pointing to the parlor, "who says she's a friend of yours, and has found your pawn ticket, but I suspect " "Out of the way," cried Hamiyn, thrusting the officious young man one side and rushing into the room. Alice, by all that's wonderful!" he exclaimed, and then seeing that her bosom was heaving convulsively, he put his arm around her nud inquired tenderly what had happened. "They have been so rude and Insult ing she sobbed. Hamiyn waited for no further ex planation, but, seizing Harvey by tbe throat, he shook hiui until the unfortu nnte youth hail not a breath in his r>ody. Then, turning to the elder man, he cried sternly: "What do you mean by insulting this lady?" "The pawnbroker, discovering his mistake, was all apologies, but Ham lyu'B temper was still up. Nothing could Justify rudeness to a lady, he said, and he insisted on an i-.bject apology from the crestfallen assistant. Then he took Alice back to his rooms in the Temple. When they were alone he put his arm around her and said impulsively: "Oh, my darling, how sweet of you to try to get my watch back for me. Did you do it because you care? Tell me darling—l love you!" "It was very silly of me, I know," she said, softly and slyly, "but 1 thought you were poor, and—oh—l -wanted to help you." "I am not poor," he said, smilingly, "at least, not very poor. I have a thousand a year, and we might man age on that." "It would not have mattered," she whispered, if you had been a poor num." He took out the watch and held it before her eyes. "I shall never look at it,"he said, "without thinking that I won you through it."—A. K. Manning Foster, in the lioyal Magazine. AT LAST SHE SPOKE- Drummer'* Sad Experience with the Pret tiest Giri He Ev«r >aw. "Anything wrong?" asked the hotel clerk of the New York drummer who had just got home from the West. "1 was thinking," was the reply. "1 rode from Toledo to Buffalo with the prettiest girl I ever saw." "But that didn't hurt you. Who was she?" "Can't tell." "You didn't introduce yourself ami get her card in return?" "No." "No particular trouble, eh?" solicit ously insisted the clerk. "Well, it was this way," replied the traveler, as lie braced up for the ex planation. "She sat opposite me, you know, and I tried for an hour to catch her eye. She simply ignored me and gazed out of the window. Then 1 rose and handed her a magazine, but she declined with thanks. Ten min utes later I houglit the latest novel out, liut she said she didn't care to read. Then I bought some fruit, but she would accept none. She also ig nored me when 1 tried to draw her oul on music." "But you persisted?" "Oh, yes. That is. I was about " make another attempt to enter into conversation when the train came tc a halt at a town, and the giri beckoned me over. I was there in an instant, and with the sweetest smile you ever saw she asked me if I would do her a slight favor." "With all my heart." 1 hastened to say. " 'Well, she said, smiling even more sweetly, 'suppose you leave the train here and take the next one that fol lows. for you have made me dead tired, and 1 feel like taking a nap.' " "Good gracious!" whispered the clerk. "Yes, sir," said the drummer, as 1)2 reached for a cigar, "and 1 want to go up to my room and sit and th'.nk and try to figure it out. Perhaps it's time 1 left the road and settled down at home." QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Before the French revolution un paid peasants were compelled to flog the ponds all night to prevent the sleep of tiie seigneurie from being dis turbed by the croaking of frogs. The "stinging tree" is a luxurious shrub of Queensland, Australia, and is pleasing to the eye, but dangerous to the touch. It grows from two or three Inches to ten or 15 feet in height, and sends forth a very disagreeable odor. A marked peculiarity of the Indiana coal fields is the slight depth at which coal is found. An area of 05'KJ square miles, or nearly one-liftli of tli total area of the state. Is Known to l>e undermined witli coal at an aver age of 80 feet below the surface. Waggon nill, at Ladysmith, South Africa, takes its name from the pecu liar formation of a clump of trees on the top, which so closely resembles a wagon at a little distance as to de ceive anybody but an expert. The bill extends for about a mile in length, and is about 500 feet high. Ernest Kruger, a compositor em ployed in a printing office in Leipzig, Germany, lias Just completed his ROtl year of service, and has been occupied In setting type for one book nearly all that time. The book is Grimm's Ger man dictionary, and the first batch of manuscript was turned over to the compositor in 1851. Thus far 3".<KK) pages have been printed, and thi work is not yet half done. Quotations from an English medical work published a century ago show how marvelous is the advance which has been made in the knowledge of practitioners. One sovereign remedy of olden times was that of "blood let ting" In cases of hemorrhage of the lungs. Another plan was to make consumptive patients live for a few months in a stable with cows, tiie supposition being that the exhalations from the animals would cure those affected with pulmonary diseases. People of rank and educatiou fub mitted to such treatment. SCIENCE AND INDUSTKT. Two French chemists have discovered a process by which rubber may ho obtained from a vine known as landoi lia, wliii li grows wild and luxuriantly In nearly all parts of Africa. In view of natiVH eopnerus near Montpelia. the discovery has a high commercial importance. Copperas is rarely found naturally formed in the rocks, but In a recent number of the American Geologist l>r. Otto Kunzte describes the occurrence of native coppers near Montpelier, lowa. This is formed by the oxidation of iron pyrites, and is found under an overhanging cliff, but only at a dry season of the year, as the ease with which copperas dissolves in water would cause it to be readily carrl.d away at other times. If a load of coal is left out of floors, exposed to the weather, say a month, it loses one-third of its heating quality. If a ton of coal is placed on the ground and left there .and another ton is placed under a shed, the latter loses about -o per cent, of its heating power and the former about 47 per cent. Hence it is a great saving of coal to have it in a dry place, covered over and on all sides. The softer the coal tiie more heating power it loses, because the volatile and valuable constituents undergo a slow combustion. A highly interesting find of remains of prehistoric man was made, says a German journal of anthropology, on the banks of the Krapina, a small stream in Northern C'rotia. It consists of pieces of the human jaw bone with teeth, isolated teeth, parietal and oc cipital fragments etc., and chipped instruments of stone, associated with rhinoceros tichorlnus, bos prlmigenlus, Ursus spelneus, sus. Castor fiber, etc. The thickness of the entire deposit measures nearly 30 feet. Charcoal, ashes, burnt sand, stone implements and bone fragments, a relatively larga proportion of the remains being human, are found throughout the deposit, ex cept in its lowermost layer. A detailed and illustrated account of the find is to be published. Professor Itaoul l'ictet of Geneva, Switzerland, has devised a simple ap paratus for decanting oxygen from a.r. .V stream of air at ordinary pressure i-s passed througti a tube of liquid air into a receiver, where the oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide at once separate according to their specific gravities, and are drawn off accordingly. The carbon dioxide comes off as a liquid: the nitrogen is con verted by a subse quent process into nitric acid. The oxy gen. which is the most valuable of the products, is retained in gaseous form. It can be used with great economy either alone or mixed with air furnaces. Pro fessor Pietet is one of the two scien tists who first succeeded independently in obtaining liquid air, as long ago as ISTB, though only in a vaporous form. SEARCH-LIGHTS. New York Firemen Use Tliem to Suve Uve* ou Dark Nights. The new portuble search-light that the lire department in New Vork lias adopted for saving life on dark nights, and when smoke obscures the vision of the firemen, has already had its trial, and proved its servlceableness. The searcli-llghts are placed on either side of the driver's seat, and, with 18-inch barrels and 0000 candle-power each, they throw such a powerful glare upon a burning building that nothing except brick walls and wood en partitions can stop it. The light* penetrate the deepest smoke that rolls lip from a burning building, and the firemen have all the light they need to work by. By the old method tire men engaged on dark nights in res cuing people in burning buildings had to depend upon the feeble glare of the lanterns they carried. More than jnce a brave fireman has uselessly sacrificed his life in searching rooms in the dark that contained no one* but rather than risk losing one life every room of a burning building must be searched. By means of the new elec tric lights the whole Interior or a burning building is made as plain as daylight, and firemen can tell at a glance from the window-ledge wheth er their presence is needed inside. The lights are made detachable, so they can be taken from the engine and set up on standards. They are also provided with 200 feet of flexible con ducting-cables, which enables the fire men to run the search-lights out on a pier, or even into a building. One of the great fields for usefulness ot this new apparatus is in lighting mi the interior of boats when on file. When a ship at the pier gets oil tilt the darkness In the hold makes it difficult for the firemen to control the flames. Dense volumes of smoke fur ther obscure the point where the tire is burning, and sometimes ship and cargo are lost simply because the fire men are unable to locate the exa-t place of the fire. The portable search light, which will soon be re-enforced by similar incandescent lights tor carrying in the hand, will make liie figlitiug at night a much easier matter than in the past. Heretofore fire safeguards have been considered chiefly for the public; It is a wise move now to consider the firemen. Har per's Weekly. Telephone Service In the Unlteil State*. There are 1.200,000 miles of copper wire used in telephone service in the T?nited States, and 4,000,000 calls are received dally In the telephone ex changes of the country. The wire would girdle the earth at the equator 48 times, or reach from the cr.rth to the moon five times. THE GEEAT DESTROYEB. SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. The Poor Man's Temptation—Some False hood* Told by the Saloonkeeper—Why His Lunol. la "Free" lteasons Why You should Avoid the Liar. Easy for those fenced safely round from birth With the best blessings of this fallen earth, A happy home, religious parents' care, Firm, watchful training, sacraments and prayer, Fure pleasure that from filthy pleasure weans, Good education, tastes refined, fair means Congenial work (well paid) to fill the day,' And books to while a leisure hour away; So circumstanced a man through life might pass Without the solace of the glittering glass. He whom a well-cooked dinner waits at home May s>afe through streets cf public houses roam; But the poor man, whose lot is full of gloom. His home at best one shabby, stuffy room, Not overstocked with furniture or food— "Lome in here, Jack, a drop will do you good—" How can poor Jack refuse such respite pleasant From hopeless future and from sordid present? The liumteller's Lie*. "I do not invite any person into my Elace to drink," is a remark you frequently ear from the saloon-keeper when he is spoken to about selling liquors. That is a he. When the groceryman makes a fine dis play in front of his store, whether he has the price marked thereon or not. he is honest enough to tell you he does it to in duce people to buy. That is the truth. The dry goods merchant uts in his win dow all sorts and kinds of wearing appar el, for the sole purpose of attracting the ladies and selling his goods. He tells the truth. And so it is with all classes of trade, but the "rumseller." He says he does not invite any one in—in to drink. Let's see. Kiret, in the sign, "Free lunch from 10 to 12 a. m." Ib it free? Go in and try to partake of it without buying some of his t-um and see how quick he or his dressed np bartender will tell you to get out. That is a lie! Does he want you to eat his free (?) lunch, or is it free? Again. He hires the finest cabinet mak .>r to erect in his place what he calls fix tures, consisting of elegantly carved hard tvood, often trimmed with marble and hacked with as large mirrors ns his room will permit of. In front of this he places highly polished glasses—all for what pur pose? To ask you in! And in inviting you in, does he invite you just to see the fine fixeures? No. No! But to drink his miserable, health-destroying, soul-damning stuff. Again he lies! In front of the place you will see ele gant gold and sometimes glass signs, fur nished by the wholesale whisky man, or the brewer, gratis to the rumseller for his trade. Do they have them made just to adorn his place? No. but to invite you in. Therefore, it is another lie! The retail rum-dealer lies, and snys he does not invite you in. The wholesaler and brewer help him to lie, and take mortgages on his place to help him lie to the poor fools who are enticed into his place by all this display of elegance. Another final lie: Vou drink with him. He says, "Here's to your good health." What a lie! You can't have good health if you partake of the vile stuff. Does burn ing the lining out of your stomach bring "good health?" Does muddling your brain cause "good health?" One more big lie: The rum-seller knows he cannot stand up and drink with every one, so he (some of them) have a bottle of tea to take for whisky, or clear water to take for gin, and he makes you believe he is drinking the same vile stuff that you are pouring down your throat, only he takes his from another bottle. A big lie! Young men, resolve now not to help h m to lie any more. Everv time you are tempted togo into one of these lying shops say, "No, I will not help anyone to lie and ruin mankind." Avoid the liar!— Presbyterian Banner. Baby Saved Blm, A poor, disconsolate mother, lue wife of a drunkard, had a home barren of every thing but a little blue-eved two-vcar-old girl in rags, 'the father abused the little one and its mother, and in his quest for liquor had pawned every article of furni ture in the house. A few weeks ago the worried mother went into a public house, where she found the recreant husband. The little girl in her mother's arms recognized her father, and gave him one of those little child smiles of recognition which every father covets. The mother walked over to the bar, where her drunken husband' stood, and, as the tears coursed down her cheeks, said: "T'apa, lyss Ella and bid her good-bye; I am going to give her to the innkeeper. Drink up her value, and when she is gone everything we ever possessed is gone. There is nothing in the house to eat, and 1 am going out to work." The little one understood the meaning of the words, "Kiss papa," as they fell from the quivering lips of the mother, and she leaned forward to do as she had been told. "Give me Ella!" the father ex claimed, as he became sensible of what his (Vife said, "I have taken my last drink." A new promise, strong and binding as their wedding vow, was made in the grim :onier of the inn. and the two went home to lead a brighter .-:u happier life. What Made lllm I'oor. An old man rapped nt a door, and when it was opened bv the gentleman c.f the house he said he was hungry, and begged something for his breakfast! He said he ivould willingly do some work to pay for it. A meal was given him. which' he ate as if he was really very hungry. When he was about togo he stood with his old hat in his uand, his thin, gray hair blown by the wind. His face was thin, and wore rather a piteous expression. .Said he: "I thank you sincerely for this food. I was hungry. And, while I thank you, I want to warn you against coming into the condition I am in. When I was young 1 worked hard and made money. I spent it in the saloons. I put hundreds of dollars there. Now I am too old to work. I must wear rags for clothes, and beg for a living. The saloons drive me out and give me nothing. Last night I was . liven from one. and would have t>een in that terrible storm but for the kindness of a man who let me sleep in his shop." He is only one of many made poor by the use of strong drink. It is. indeed, a de ceiver, and no respecter of persons. The Cruspde In Brier. A man has no right to cloth the pubii can'B wife in silks and his own in rags. Switzerland has three institutions 112 the cure of drunkards which record pt manent cures in one-half the cases treate. Nearly thirty per cent, of the patients in Paris hospitals have been found to be persons who were addicted to the exces sive use of alcohol. According to the report of the (oston Police Commissioners, covering the work of the department for the oast year, the number of arrests for drunkenness aver age sixty-five for each day during the twelve months.
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