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Such spirit will teach us the duties we owe
in all the various relations of life it will
make us better parents and better children,
better friends and better citizens. 1t win in
culcate the duty of benevolence no less than
that of self-culturc; of mercy and charity no
less than of justice. 1t will bind us to others
by indissoluble ties, and cherish within us
that love which is the foundation of all social
good. 1t is principle which needs to be
firmly established in our hearts, that the best
good of the whole community is most fully
promoted by the highest good of each indi-
vidual 1t is not as if happiness were meas
ured out to us, and where one obtained more.
others must have less. This may be the case
with inferior pleasures, but the best happiness
grows by being shared
There is implanted in every breast an in
stinctive thirst for happiness. To seek it in
its lower forms satisfies but small portion of
the souls cravings and often brings bitter
disappointment but to cultivate our highest
aspirations to aim at nothing less than the
full and active exercise of all the faculties
with which we are endowed, lifts us up to
higher realms and reveals our connection
with what is spiritual and eternal Not
happiness alone, not even virtue alone is the
chief end for man, but rather a condition that
springs from both combined Each in its
highest forms includes the other, and they
are as inseparable as the sun from the light
with which he blesses the world.
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E.dRMING IN THE MOON.

A farmers club in Central Illinois, as we
learn from the Secretary, has been discussing
the subject of the influence of the moon upon
vegetation. The particular point in the dis
cussion was in regard to the proper time to
sow wheat ID order to gain the greatest "a
mount of good from the influence of the
moon. As is usual when this subject comes
up there are some who deny that the moon
exerts any influence ON the growing crops
while others affirm that it did exert power
full influence, and one which farmers should
avail themselves of.
No intelligent person possessed OF very
large share of common sense, we think, be-
lieves that the moon exerts any occult influ-
ence on vegetation in any stage of its develop
ment. There is, however, some reason for be-
lieving that the moons rays do influence the
growth of vegetation, and observation seems
to confirm the idea that established plants do
make a more rapid growth during the period
of the moons greatest obscurity--all Tie cir
cumsiances being equally favorable. 1t is
also claimed to lie a fact, and there is some
reason for the belief, that very tender plants,
for example, young wheat plants, do best if al
lowed a period Of rest during the night, il
which they recupcrate as babies and young
ducks do ; while hardy young plants like the
sprouts of potatoes. and other bulbs, which,
have sometime " feed upon directly, do bet
ter if their growth is pushed during the whole
of the day and night.
Admitting both of these premises to be true,
the conclusion would be this: If we could
regulate the weather in respect to warmth and
dryness, or could be reasonably assured that
they would be favorable during the whole of
the season, when planting and sowing must
be done to insure a crop, we would SOW their
seeds when plants are very tender at the start,
so that they would break ground during the
dark of the NOON" to the end that they
might have the nights rest so essential to all
work. On the other hand, we would, every
thing being favorable, the good weather being
insured, plant potatoes and some other crops
which are hardy at the start that they might
come up in the eight of the moon,' in order
that they might make the fastest growth pos
sible. But there so many "ifs " in the
way that we do not believe it is practicable to
take advantage of the favorable action of the
moon, if indeed it exerts Influence especially
favorable or unfavorable and our convictions
are that the farmer who puts off seeding when
the land is in good condition in order to plant
or sow during the full of the moon, will be
quite likely to "beg in harvest and have
wise people to laugh at him for his folly
Prairie Farmer.
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A STR1KINe AND BEAUTIFUL CusroM-ln
the whole Of Spanish Ameriei, but especially
in the larger towns, Che moment Of the Angel
us has a strange attraction for The stranger
As the usage requires every one to halt, no
matter where he may be, Mt the first stroke Of
the bell, to interrupt his conversation however
Important and listen without stirring until
the conclusion of the chime, the singulaiity Of
a whole population surprised IN a moment as
it comes and goes, held in state Of petiifac
ton, and paralyzed as ifby an enchanter may
be imagined. On every side You see gestures
interrupted, mouths half opened for the ar
rested remark smiles oddly lingering or pas
sing into an expression of prayer. You would
fancy a nation Of statues. A town in South
America, at the tinlsle of the Angelus resem-
bles the city i'll the dra6ian Nights whose in
habtants were turned into stones. The ma
gician here is the bell-ringer. But hardly has
the vibration ceased when u universal MUIR
muir arises from these thousands of oppressed
lungs. Hand meets hand. question seeks
answer, conversations resume their course I;
horses feel the loosened bride and paw the
ground dogs bark, babies cry, the fathers
swear and the mothers chatter. The accident
al turns thus given to conversation are many,
and sometimes striking. "---Lippincotfs Ma9a-
zine.
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EYEsIeHT or ANIMALS. Horses and cattle
have excellent eyesisht, even TO very advan-
ced age. Dogs in a wild state preserve then
vision nnimpared to the extreme period Of
their life limitation, while domesiicated dogs
see very impcrlectly in the course Of ten years,
if they live so long. The reason seems 20 be
owing to looking at fires in tile house, OK
posed to candle or gas lights, and being about
dwellings where the sphere Of vision is limited
by the Intervention Of fences, edllces, etc. A
free range always in open air also tends to the
preservation of the vision Of wild animals and
birds. Another circumstance contributes to
the preservation Of the yisi) of wild animals
Perpetual vigilance contributes 10 a free cir
culation in the optic apparatus and uniform
convexity Of the cornea.
Were it not for white writing paper, arti-
fetal light, stimulating drinks which quicken
the circulation to the engagement Of minute
vessels III the interior of the organs and pass
ing much of our time in the midst Of reflect
ing lights from surrounding objects, our eyes
would he about as good at threescore and ten
as in the early days of childhood.
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Fudkins thought himself smart man.
He was good at a trade, and his conscience
was not apt 70 stand in his way when he was
working Cor self. lie happened in one day at
Whitney j auction room, and saw walnut
sideboard that pleased him. lie had promise
ed his wife that she should have one. This
would not only answer every purpose. but it
was really an elegant aifsir and Is good as
new. He asked Whitney the price Of it.
II think that is sold, Nj. Fudkins. Or.
at least, a party has the refusal Of it,
Then it is not really soldg"
No.--not---'
If not Sold" broke in Fudlsins, "why
may not have chance What do you ask
for it ~
The party spoke of has the refusal Of il
at fifty dollars.
s'Ill give you sixty said Fudkins, who
has1 that very morning priced one exact
ly like it at the furniture store at eighty-iive
dollars.
Whitney shook his head. He did not thinl
it would be hardly fair.
F" Why not ~ demanded Fudkins. g
trades trade. | suppose You have THU
thing here to sell. Ten dollars is something
When t'other man comes, tell him you had
customer you had entirely forgotten. Good
ness gracious ! he cant want the articl,
very bad, If he didn't know whether or not K
take Il at that price. Come now-what sa,
you?'
The ten dollars appeared to be tempting
AT all events Whitney finally told him ht
might have it and the bargain was conolu-
ded and the money paid over.
az thought I'd fetch him I" whispered Fud
kins to a friend at his elbow "We're all a
little too sharp in behalf of No. to stick at
trifes'
Meantime Whitney had opened one of the
doors of the sideboard, and was removing a
card which had been tackled upon the inside
thereof.
"Eh cried Fudkins, as he saw it,
What's that?'
cit is the card Of the lady who had enga-
ged the sideboard, sir.
aMercy on me sold l-TuAr'a MY
WIFE =
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JAPANESE DrsrrsrnY.-An American dent

JAPANESE DENTIsTRy.--An Americandent-
list living in Yokohama sends to the Dental
I Cosmos hn account OF the Japanese habits in
regard to their teeth. He says that as the
young women have very fine teeth, it is re-
markable that they should keep up the prac-
tice of backing them after marriage The
japanese, as a race, possess good teeth, but
they lose them very early in life.
"1'heir tooth brushes consist of tough
wood, pounded at one end to loosen the iibres
they resemble paint brushes, and owing to
their shape it is impossible to get one behind
the teeth AS might be expoo I'd there is an
accumulation of tartar which frequently draws
the teeth of old people Their process of
manufacturing false teeth is very crude. The
plates are made of wood, and the teeth con-
sist of tacks driven up from the under side
piece of wax is heated and pressed into the
roof of the mouth. 1t is then taken out and
hardened by putting it into cold water
Another piece of heated wax is applied to the
impresson and, after being pressedinto shape,
is hardened. A piece of wood is then rough
ly cut into the desired form, and the model,
piled to it. When they touch each other a
mark if left by the paint This is cut away
till they touch evenly all over. Sharks teeth
bits of ivory on stone, for teeth, are set into
the wood and retained in position by being
strung on thread, which is secured on each
end by peg driven into the hole where the
thread makes its exit from the base. Iron or
copper tacks are driven into the ridge to serve
for masticating purposes, the unequal wear of
the wood and metal keeping up the desired
roughness. Their full sets answer admirably
for the mastication of food, but. as they do
not improve the looks, they are worn but lit
tie for ornament. The ordinary service Of a
set of teeth is about five years, but they fire.
quently last much longer. All full upper sets
are retained by atmospheric pressure. The
principle is coeval with the art In Japan
dentistry exists only rs a mechanical trade
and the status of those who practice it is not
very high. 1t is, in fact, graded with carpen-
ters-their word hadythfsar meaning tooth
carpenter"
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MILK As A REM EDY.

Considerable has been lately said in medical
Journals concerning tile value Of milk as a
remedial agent in certain diseases. An inter-
esting article on this subject lately appeared
in the London MIR Journal, in which it is
stated, on the authority of Dr. Benjamin
Clark, that in the East Ifidias warm milk is
used toa great extent asa specific for diarrilea.
A pint every four hours viii check the most
violent diarrhna, stomach-ache, incipient chole-
ia and dysentery. The milk should never be
boiled, but only heated sufficient to be agreea-
bly, warm, not too hot to drink. Milk which
has been boiled is unfit for use. The writer
gives several instances in arresting the disease,
among which is the following: The writer
says: cit has never failed in curing in six
think, fifty times.
g ] have also given it to dying man who
had been subject to dysentery eight months,
latterly accompanied by one continual diar-
rh@a, and it acted on him like a charm. In
two days his diarrhma was gone, in three
nothing that may hereafter occur will ever
shake his faith in hot milk"
A writer also communicates to the Medical
Times md Gazette, statement of the value
of milk in twenty-six cases of typhoid fever
in every one of which its great value was
apparent. 1t checks diarlhea, and noufishes
and coos the body. People suffering from
disease need food quite as much as those in
health, and much more so in diseases where
there is rapid waste of the system. Frequent
ly all ordinary food in certain diseases is re-
jected by the stomach, and even loathed by
the patients but nature, ever beneiicent, has
furnished food that in all diseases is benefit
cal-in some directly curative. Such food is
milk.
The writer in the journal last quoted, Dr.
Alexander Yale, after giving particular OBJ
servations upon the points above mentioned
its action in checking diarrhma its nourishing
properties, and its action il cooling the blood,
says g We believe that milk nourshes in
fever, promotes sleep, wards off delifinm,
soothes the intestines, and, in fine, is the sine
qaa non in typhoid fever We have lately
tested the value of milk in scarlet fever, and
learn that it is now recommended by the
medical faculty in all cases of tins often very
distressing childlen's disease. Give all the
milk the patient will take, even during the
period of greatest fever. 1t keeps up the
strength of the patient, acts well upon the
stomach, and is III every way blessed thing
in this sickness.
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MrLK's THE OpJEcT.--A doctor called to see
patient whose drink was wliiskey. Water
was prescribed as the only cure. Pat said IT
was out Of the question, HE never could drink
it. Then milk was proposed, and Pat agreed
to get well on milk. The doctor was soon
summoned again. Near the bed on which
the sick man lay was table, and ON that
table a large bowl and in that bowl was milk,
strongly Favored with whiskey.
S" What have you herey''' said the doctor.
4" Milk, doctor; just what you ordered"
" But there's whiskey in it. smell it.
"Well, doctor, sighed the patient, z there
may be whiskey in it, but milk's my objecti =
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THE LUMBER TRADE.--Statistics show
that there is a scarcity Of timber both IN the
United States and Canada. In Michigan and
Wisconsin there is, as was expected, great
falling off in the supply, while the stock in
New York and Pennsylvania is unusually
small. Canada will not have more than fair
stock, Including old and new logs, and Maine
is far behind its ordinary standard 1t is
generally expected by dealers that the prices
of lumber will take sudden jump, and re-
main at a high figure henceforth. The recent
report Of the United States Bureau upon this
subject states that the consumption and waste
of lumber during the past five years have
been abnormally large, and that as conse-
quence, the forests are becoming rapidly de-
pleted The enormous tracts Of timber land
in Michigan and Northern Wisconsin have
been run over with unsparing axes. The
Mmbermen have been working as though the
supply were inexhaustible, and the authori-
ties have neglected to impose restrictions OF
any kind. The increase in the price of lum-
Der during the past twenty years has been at
the rate Of 28 per cent per annum.
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MIX FREsH FRoMTHE TREEs.--Tlhe cele-
brated 'sscow-tree ;, Of South America has
lately been imported into Europe in the hope
that the young plants may be aeclimatized.a
This wonderful tree yields y good quality Of
milk. It flows freely from ineisions made in
the trunk, and is commonly used as an article
Of foodby the inhabitants OF districts where
the treeis abundant. The tree grows upwards
Of hundred feet high, with smooth trunk
branches for the FIRST sixty or seventy feet of
its height. If it would only grow in the open
air in this climate, what a blessing it would
prove totlose who are dependent upon uncon-
scicntons milkmen
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ADYICE no TRAyELERs.

Walking brings out the true character of a
man. The devil never yet asked his victims
to take walk with him. You will not be
long in finding your companion out. All dis
guises will fall away from him, Ashs pores
open his character is laid bare His deepest
and most private self will come to the top
1t matters little whom you ride with, SO he
be not pickpocket; for both of you will,
very likely, settle down closer, firmer in your
reserve, shaken down like measure Of corn
by the jolting as the journey proceeds. But
walking is more vital co-partnership the
relation is closer and sympathetic one, and
you do not feel like walking ten PAGES with a
stranger without speaking to him.
Hence the fastidiousness Of the professional
walker in choosing or admitting a companion,
and hence the truth of the remark of Emer-
son, that you generally fare better to take
your dog than to invite your neighbor. Your
cur-dog is true pedestrian, and your neigh
Dor is very likely a small politician. The dog
enters thoroughly into the spirit of the enter
prise he is not Indifferent or preoccupied, he
is constantly shifting adventure, laps at every
spring. looks upon every field and wood as a
new world to be explored, as ever on some
fresh trail, knows something important will
happen little further on, gazes with the true
wonder-seeing eyes, whatever the road, finds
it good to be therein short, just that happy,
delicious exclusive vagabond that touches one
at so many points, and whose human proto-
type in companion robs miles and leagues
of half their fatigue.
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The heshy owner Of crow-bait span was
complaining to some by-standers that he did
not know what was the matter with his horses.
He had tried everything he could think Of
condition powders and all other specidcs--but
to no purposes. They would not improve in
flesh. A stable-boy of Irish persuasion, whose
sympathies were aroused by the story, COM
pretended the situation, and modsstly asked
" Did yees iver try corn ~
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BEER AND ALE.--From the statistics furn-,
ished the Brewers Convention, lately in SEES
sion at Cleveland, Ohio, il appears the man
ufacture Of fermented liquors is carried OH in
every State ofthe Union. New York is far
ahead in the quantity brewed, having pro-
duced, last year, 2,6G2,505 barrels, out Of u
totalof !, 009,969 barrels for the whole coun-
try. The business, we are further told, en,-
ploys fA,0s3 hands, pays "a, 1922 in wages,
and yields % produce value ut 61,723, 15S.
These arc suggestive figures, and we are not
surprisetto be- next informed that the quanti-
ty OF beer consumed in the United States is
twenty-five quarts per head per annum for
every man, woman, and child, while in North-I
ern Germany the consumption is only twenty
one quarts per ditto, dittos The United
States, according to these figures, beats tile
countries that invented lager beer and ale, in
their consumption. IL should be mentioned
also, that in the United States the beer and
ale is drugged ffightiully, and with the daily
beverage there Is poison enough consumed to-
deeimate city like New York every day, if
it were coniiiied to one locality. e'
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DRuNKENNEss In SwEbEN.--In Sweden,
the first time that a man. appears intoxicated
in public place he is condemned to a fine of
about twelve sbllings.
the second time to u fine Of twenty-five
shillngs.
The third and fourth times the punishment
is mach more rigorous; not only does the Of
fender pay larger sum in the shape of fine,
but he loses his rights as an elector, and ON
the Sunday after the offence he is compelled
to stand in the pillory in front Of his parish
church.
The fifth time the punishment issix months
I Imprisonment With hard labor.
Any person convicted Of having induced a.
mother to drink to excess is fined twelve shil-
lings; or II the person so intoxicated is under
age, the tempter Is fined twenty-five shillings.
"A priest or minister Of religion found in
state of drunkenness is immediately depriv-
ed of his cure.
| In no case is drunkenness. admitted as an
excuse for the commission of crime, (as it
is too frequently itlour law courts.) 81
Lastly, man who dies when drunk is not
permitted 10 be buried in consecrated ground,
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NO. AZ.
cHRTsTrdN CHARITY.

As life advances, a more modest more toler-
ant spirit, begins to infuse itself into man $
mind. He begins to attach less importance
to the points which divide sects and churches
from each other to think that few Of them
are worth a breach of charity at any rate to
he convinced that it il not Oh these that the re-
lation Of the sonl 70 g od and eternity depends.
Seeing in All chnlches men whose sweet and
sanity lives breathe the very spirit ii Christ,
and whom Y Il impossible II doubt that to
Christ they arg dear, shall lie refuse TO re-
csive, or to turn away with unchaistia,I hard
ness and exeliisiveness from men, whom, Iii
may soon have TO meet III Heaven? No -
Whenever In the heat Of party feeling, amid
the weary strifes Of rivaliies Of scots and
OF theological or ecclesiastical exclusiveness.
or to feel for intellectual error the indignation
and hostility that should he reserved for sin,
there is one Thought that may well bring US
to the bettermind. Let MS recall to mind tile
good and holy men Of different sects and
churches who once were with us and are now
IN the presence of Christ, and ask whether
1 VIC pViitS fNiicH ulNluc tiicll mere ana ABOUT
which it may be, they contendcd and wrang-
/ led 50 hetly, can keep them asunder there, in
that deeper, dividing life into which they
! have entered. Let us think, too, ii it he ours
to join one day their .blissful society, whether
we shall carry with us much of orr ecclesias-
tical partnership or our theological jealousies
into the still sweet rest Of Heaven.
| Travellers as we are, amidst the mists
and shades eff life, it is not wonderful, per-
haps, that in this dim and deceptive light we
should sometimes mistake friend for foe,
or turn away brother rs il he were strang-
er or an alien. But the night is far spent, the
day is at hand, not distant is the hour when
the son of our souls shall rise full-orbed on
our waiting eyes, aud the mists shall dispersc
and the.sliadows flee away forever and then
then at last, If not now, we shall recognize
i'll every soul that has ever lived for Christ
the face of a brother and friend
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The Boston Transcript says that persons
who send poetry to the newspapers should al
ways retain copies. The New York Times
suggests that they should also retain the
originals. si
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6 If you wish to be miserable, says Cl.as.
Kingsley, "you must think about yourself;
about what you want, what you like, what
respect people ought to pay you, what people
think OF you; and then to you nothing will
be pure. You win spoil everything You touch;
you will make sin and misery for yourself out
Of everything God sends yoa; you will be as
wretched as you ehoose.o
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Strength increases, means multiply. ways
open, as soon as we turn to the right work in
the right spirit.
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We can do more good by being good, than
in any other way.
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A German peddler is the innocent author Of
problem of which we beg the solution.--
He was asked if it was not heavy work carry
ing big pack around day after day. Oh,
yes, . lie replied, at vas heavy. z 8 Well, :"
said the querist, g do yon make much T? ~
..Vell, dunno some days make noting
and oder days twice as much"