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in tender voice: s.Alosine! AIosinein
but every thing was silent. Fleet as a
deer the young lady had fed over the
prairie, aud she never heard the affec-
Tomato call of her now lover. He
turned, mounted his pony and rode
homeward. regretting that he had
frightened the timid Alosine.
The brother Boucta called upon him
the next day for an explanation. when
Harris told of Alosine7s misapprehen-
sion of his object, and a bargain was
made for her pet horse. Not word
did Harris say of his sudden resolution
to ask the girls hand. The episode
had, however, attracted his attention to
matrimony, and few months later he
espoused GustaTine Floriel, of Bayou
Vermilion. 1t was only after his mar
riage that he told the story on himself.
which, coming to Alosine's ears, sent
her to bed sick.
Sitting on that same gallery of the
Ponpon house an old lady can still be
seen Of afternoons. but no horseman
ever alights beneath the china tree near
her home. Her one golden opportu-
nifty had gone. Charles e. Whitney, IN
~ @. Times Democrat.
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PitifuI Victims of Rum,

A sad case of restitution and neglect
was brought to the notice of the HUI
name Society yesterday. Officer Dud-
ley visited the little frame shanty at
418 South Desplaines street, and found
Mrs. Catherine Haight lying on an old
lounge in a drunken stupor, and her
eight little children were huddled to-
gether in one corner of the room. They
had not had any thing to eat since
noon the day before, and the youngest,
starved. Five of the little ones were
crying, and the oldest, little girl of
eleven years, was trying to comfort
them. When the officer found
them the children and drunken
mother were taken to the station, and
when the woman sobered up she was
brought before Justice Russell. Officer
Dudley stated that she had been sent
to the Martha Washington Home for
three months, but as soon as she was
released, two weeks ago. she resumed
her old habits and neglected her chill
dren. She was sent to the bridewell
for four months and the children were
taken to the st. Joseph Orphan Asy-
lum. One of the little ones, girl
three years old, has been neglected
and exposed to the weather so much
that she will probably die. She has
wasted away to almost skeleton and
does not weigh over eighteen pounds
sit is the worst case that ever came to
my notice. SAID the Humane Society
officer. eff those children had been
neglected very much longer nothing
could have saved the lives of at least
three of them. - Chicago Inter Ocean.
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Sin Rebuked by Satan.

The words are fair-the words of the
platform of the National convention
of Liquor-Dealers in Chicago. They
might with few erasures and altera-
tons come from thorough-going
Temperance convention. We can not
do less than quote some of them. They
say, these distillers and dealers, that
they are not enemies of society, not
opposed to morality, not in favor Of
crime and vice, not unwilling TO re-
ceive the respect and confidence of
their fellow-men. They are entitled to
be heard on this point, for, as they
justly observe, they lie under grave
imputation.
They say, these liquor-dealers, and
they say it without fiinching:
I'VE stand arra'gned by our most violent
accusers as outlaws, feeding on all that is
corrupt and criminal. and making war on all
that is manly and respectable"
This is the naked truth; they do not
overstate the case; nor do they go be-
yond the facts when they add that
their enemies Declare:
"The liquor business is National waste.
benefitng none and destroying all; burden
ing the people with enormous outlay and
contr butiDg nothing TO the prosperity of the
country
All this is so well and truly said that
nothing need be altered OF added or
subtracted. We are willing to let it
all stand. We admit it.-M Y Lpde-
41ende71t
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WHO KNOWS BEST

Ignorant B1aclsmiths who Attempt to
Improve the Work of Nature.
1t is, and long has been, our belief
that horses are too much and too con-
stantly shod. Much of the lameness in
horses is due to their wearing an in
flexible bar of iron or steel on the feet,
which prevents the parts of the foot so
admirably formed and adapted for use
from performing their functions.
A study of the structure and material
OF horses foot can but fill one with
admiration at its adaptabllity for use
under varied conditions; but when we
see how confdingly the horse owner
will turn over his faithful servant to
the manipulations of the bungling
blacksmith who knows nothing OF
what a horse needs in the way
of a foot, who sees no use in the
frog or any other part, excepting so
much of the hoof as is necessary to
nail the shoe to, who would laugh at
the idea of studying the anatomy of
horses foot for the purpose of better
understanding how best to shoe, it
would seem as though the average
horse owner thought that the average
blacksmith knew more about what
kind of feet horse needs than does
the Creator of the horse.
Man, with arrogance born of io.nor-
ance, adds to the hoof that has been
made as light as possible. consistent
with strength and durability, Il pound
o,. Of rs a. s. g.. Al. L
to lift up each time he lifts his foot
The amount of strength and vitality
used in lifting and carrying this dead
weight of four pounds through jour
ney of one hundred miles is certainly
worth considering.
In other ways does man manifest
that he thinks he knows more how a
horses foot should be than does the
Designer and Maker of that foot. The
wall of the hoof was made very strong,
but the horse sheer knows that it does
not need to be so strong, so he cuts
away part to weaken it. This wall is
made very hard, but the man, wiser
than God. softens it. by making the
horse stand in a mixture of cow dung
and clay
The Maker having provided for the
foot an elastic cushion or pad in the
frog" for the purpose of removing
the jar and keeping the horse from
slipping, man shows his super ority by
cutting away this pad and putting on
an infiexible ring of iron to catch the
horses weight solidly.
And thus does man, In his wisdom,
continue to improve on the work of the
Creator of the Universe by cutting
away the material out of which Nature
has fashioned the hoof, and put
ting in its stead other material
fashioned into shape according to
his notion; to pare, rasp and
burn the hoof i2to form which
conforms to his idea of what a horses
hoof should look like; to improve the
texture by soaking, Stopping tar
ring, etc. And yet with all his wisdom
and skill he sees that ordinarily lone
horse can wear out four sets of legs
and is more thoroughly convinced than
ever that had he had the Job in the
first place he would have done better
than did the Creator. CoLemo1s's Rural
World.
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SCIENTIFIC HYGIENE.
The Great Advantages Derived by Its Il,
plication in the Cure of Disease

The Great Advantages Derived by Its 4sp-
plication in the Cure of Disease.
The progress of hygienic medicine
in the last fifty years is the medical
fact of the present age, and the fact
will stand out in boIdcst relief when
the history of this period shall be writ
ten by some future Esculapian scholar.
But rapid aud effective as this prog
ress has been, the principles of hy-
giene arc yet in their infancy. We
have learned to appreciate the true
value Of hygienic principles in the pre-
ventlon of diseases of the epidemic
type; and the medical profession,
throwing aside all selfish recollections,
have been the first to teach the practice
of these principles and to prove their
force and vitality. The next step in
the way of advancement is to demon
strate that the same principles are as
useful and as necessary in the treat
ment of actual disease as they are in
prevention.
A great advantage in the hygienie
treatment of disease is, that it does
not, or at least need not, interfere with
sound and experience proved modes
of treatment of medical kind. The
scientific physician finds. in fact, that
there is always q consistent plan for
combining the medical and hygienic
systems. He sees that the two systems
are one; he sees further that the mere
medical plan without the hygienic is
in all cases imperfect, and in some
cases worse than imperfect.
The practical details Of hygienic
| medicine in relation to the treatment
of disease have, however, vet to be
wrought out more fully. This will be
sure work, but slow. Necessarily slow,
| because it is hard to give up old friend
ships in dogmatism while to effect a
cure in sick man by fresh air alone,
or diet, is infinitely less satisfactory to
the public than TO assume to effect the
| same cure even by bread-pill
1t is vain, it is sticking in the slough
of hopelessness, to pander to these
| popular weaknesses; for though they
must die out, and, indeed, are dying
out daily, they will go the sooner if
they are etfectually damped, and if
something real, and common sense is
put in their place Scientific fputantata,
ct nos nlutamstr IN ills. There is
time when medicines are invaluable;
but, if faith in medicines is to be re-
tanned, the times for their administra-
ton, as well as their selection, must
be learned by knowledge, not by
routine, and must be dictated by the
circumstances of the case. not by the
caprice of the patient. The executive
of medicine must be independent, if it
would keep in the path of truth and
advancement DR.. b. H Richardson,
IN Popular Science Monthly.
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Feeding Turkeys for Market.


Don't shut up the turkeys that you
intend for market, for when confined
in close quarters turkeys are more liza
bic to lose flesh than to gain. Shut up
the rest of the flock. and let those that
you desire to fatten have free range.
Feed well, all they will ea,. of warm
cooked vegetables and meal in the
morning. and p.enty of corn at noon
and night. Ii they seem inclined to
wander around too much, throw ont a
little corn between meals. Two OF
three weeks of such feeding viii put
them in prime order for market. e.
il they have Keen kept growing right
alen~ AZ fhay should have been. --IrGs.
RE Farmer.
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HUMOROUS.


The sporting department of a
newspaper generally contains some
racy reading matter. Merchant Irac-
eter.
The girls will be pleased with a
uniform marriage law il the uniform
is pretty and there is man in it. -
Pittsburgh Dispatch.
-"Why are you going into that dry :
goods store when there are SO many
pretty girls on the street," my dear
boy, find counter attractions there !"
N. 7. Herald.
Mrs. Gubbins says she never al
lows her boy, Jim, to eat any jam, for
her husband died of the jm~jams, and
she don't propose to run any chances
with the boy.
Eyes yet they see not-potatoes.
Ears yet they hear not-eorn. Mouths
yet they speak not-rivers. Hands yet
they feel notebooks Brains yet they
think not-dudes. -NeaO HdUen Meas.
The Old Mans Shoes
All, Angelina,
Your smile serene
Is dearer far than life to me,
But unto you
bid ad GU
Your dad wears number tens, you see.
-''You know something about music.
don't you, Joggins?'' "a little, Snoop-
err "Then what does this paper mean
when it speaks of the higher kinds of
music?' - Must mean upper-attic,
think. "-Pittsbargh Telegram.
Brown : II thought you hated
Jones" Smith-''So / do. Why do
you askP' Brown-s'I heard you gave
him Observation-Disclosures piano the
other day. That don't look as though
you hated him much" Smith-'sThat
shows what you know about it. His
wife thinks she can sing. IN Y.
Graphic.
-"Oh, lions don trouble me much"
remarked courageous Frenchman.
81 met one once in the desert, a splen-
did fellow, and what do you think
didP Simply whipped out my pen
knife and cut off his tail!' "And why
not his head?n .'Oh! hunter had
saved me that trouble by doing it the
day before. - French Fan.
-Grandma-"C lara. do you think
your mother would approve of your
sitting up SO late?'' Clara-"Why,
grandma, it was only half-past ten
when Frank left last evening" Grand
ma-"Clara, your grandma happened
to be awake just as Frank was leav-
ing, and didn't she hear him say:
Now, Clara, just one?' ~ Boston Bea-
con.
How are you coming on, old boy?'
I'm not coming on at all. I'm going
on. Hold up! I've got a fearful
headache. and an awful taste in my
mouth. Don't you know some remedy
for the misery Tn suffering from this
morning?n Eyes. | know a good
cure for it. Don't get drunk last
night. Goodbye Texas Si1tsngs.
At a second-class restaurant a gem
tleman was hastily called out of the
room, as an acquaintance wished to
speak to him. To keep off intruders
he placed scrap of paper over his
plate and glass of beer, with the
words: Il have touched all this with
my fingers" On returning he found
every thing as he had left it, only the
paper had these words added in pencil:
so have TN 7. Telegram.
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The Terribly Thirst.

A gentleman said to a hopeless
drunkard, whom he had once known
as q bright and promising young man;
why don't you quit this life? Don't
you see that you are running your fam
lily; that you have lost your social po-
sition, your property, your health, and
that you are going down to drunk
ards grave? This is Tie answer that
he got: ''Do you think you have told
me any thing new? Do you suppose
there is any thing in domestic happi-
ress or social position or health even
that have not thought of a hundred
times to your once, or that | do not
know the value of as well as you 10?
l have had these things held up to me
and held them up myself hundreds of
times. | have got them by heart. But
they have ceased to mean any thing to
me. l know what domestic comfort
is, but / don't want it. ] don't want
social position. don't want the re-
spect of my fellow-men. | don't want
money. / don't want health. / want
rum. 1t is the only thing | do want;
and when you offer me all these other
things you do not tempt me a bit" -
Lar and Order.
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PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

Miss Ada Sweet is spoken of as 1.-THE
leading poetess of America by foreign
papers.
james A. Garfield, Jr.. and his
brother Henry are studying law in
the Columbia Law School.-N 7.
Tribune.
Ex-senator Bruce, of Mississippi,
says he is going to prepare lecture on
MS experience in the Senate.
William Page, of Newburyport.
Mass, sends out little periodical
known as the Card, written in his own
aand.
Samuel L. Clemens Mark Twain)
goes to different hotel each time he
visits New York. He says that by do
ing this he finds that he receives better
treatment.
The Oldest boatman on the Hud-
son river is said to be Captain w. ".
Wood, of the Aida, which piles be-
tween Rondout and Troy. He has
navigated the waters or the Upper
Hudson for sixty-three years. - Troy
Times.
When Victor Hugo carried his first
manuscript OF poetry to a publisher it
was handed back to him unread, .sbe-
cause poetry was drug on the mar
ket." 1t proved to be a sorry blunder
for the publisher.
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton will
pass the winter with her daughter.
She will continue her work on the
I:Woman's Version of the Bible, = in
which she has been engaged for some
time.
Mrs. f. Groton Zelda Glenwood"),
the lecturer and serial writer, though
blind and sixty years of age, uses a
typewriter for much of her work,
equalling an ordinary person in neat
ness and accuracy of the writing
Chicago Inter Ocean.
- GlendoWer Evans Brown, of
Campobello, N. B., has not only fine
name, but fine lot of living ancestors.
His fathers father and mother and
grandfather and grandmother are
alive, and SO are his mothers father
and mother and grandmother and her
father and mother.
Senior Don Jose Manuel Balcemeda,
the new President of Chill, was born
in 1910 and belongs to one of the
highest and wealthiest families of the
republic. He has been for fifteen
years member of the Chamber of
Deputies and enjoys high reputation
as an orator and debater.
When the Boston publisher of
''Uncle Toms Cabin handed to the
late Prof. Stowe the ten thousand dol
lars which formed the first installment
of profit on the sale of the book, the
professor quantity observed that lit
was more money than he had seen in
all his life. "--Bosion Journal.
-Hawthorne's home was a shifting
one. He lived some years in Salem
and Boston, and then wandered away
to .Lenox among the Berkshire hills,
then fitted to Concord near Emerson
and Alcott, then to Europe, and then
back again to his pleasant dwelling,
'The Wayside. ''-Boston Budget.
The final number of the Siam Weekly
advertiser was published on the 9TH of
August. the issue of the paper being
stopped for the usual cause of news
paper suspension-it didn't pay. The
Aduertiser has been Published for
seventeen years. 1t was established
by the American Board of Foreign
Missions, but for the last ten years it
has been the private enterprise of an
American missionary, Mr. S. j, Smith,
a native of New Hampshire. Mr..
Smith and his wife have been hard
working and earnest missionaries and
educators in Siam for nearly thirty
years.-N 7. Tribune.
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BEYOND THE HILLS.


What's beyond the distant hill tops,
Stretching westward, far away
Bathed in golden mists at sunset,
Purple haze throughout the day?
What's beyond those mystic SUBMITS,
And that faint horizon rim2
Is there some Fair Land OF Promise
just beg ond the hilI-tops dim?
o, my Guardian Angel, tell me,
Ii climb the distant hills,
Shall find what most | long for,
What my widest dream fulfllls?
In the valley. all about me,
Fields are full of rpening grain;
But long to mount the hIlI-tops-
Unto greater he. ghts attain.
o, my fa thful Guardian Angel,
WIZ slch grave, reDroachful eyesl
i must climb those purple hill-tops;
See the star of Fame arse.
must go, and win, and conquer,
! mus wear q laurel CROWN
Aud the world shall bow before me,
And shall give me great renown.
But my faithful Guardian Angel
Whispers softly: Turn thine eyes
From those distant, purple hill-tops,
And those glowing western skies;
Look around thee, in the valley,
At the work there is to do
For the fields are white with harvest
And the laborers are lew.
You will faint upon the mountains,
And your bread VIII turn 10 stone.
LO. BIZ ckened c.oud W IL lower,
Where the star of Fame once saone.
Dare it not-the smile Elusive,
Is too oft a hidden frown:
You VIII shrink aud pale and shudder
AT the sharp thorns IN your crown.
" Do not slight the wayside flowers
And the blessings near at hand;
Pat ent working, patient waiting,
Leads unto the Prom sed Land"
Isabel HotchicisS, IN Detroit Free Press
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DID SHE 90 lT7
Was 1t the Saloon Keeper or the Mother
Who Sent the Young Man to Prison?

Was It The Saloon Keeper or the Mother
Who Sent the Young Man to Prison?
The following incident was relate by
Mrs. j. K. Barney, of Rhode Island,
at the National meeting of the
Women's Christian Union at Phila-
delphia:
There came woman to me with
the question: DO you know where
my boy tsp and gave me little clew.
For five years she had not looked into
his face; and she thought she had
traced him, under an assumed name, to
such prison, and would | find out
for her? l located that man in such
prison, to stay there sucn
time; and then came a letter asking
me if | would go to him. with the
words: Couldn't you come and see
me, aud take a mothers message to
my boy? Mothers, can you think
what message you would have sent
that boy? She was in an elegant
home. [ sat down to beautiful table
with her. She handed me picture
and told me to show it to him. | said:
This is not your pictured! Yes she
SAID that is mine before be went to
prison; and here, said she, is mine
after | had had five years of waiting
for Charley went with those two
pictures to the prison. l called at an
opportune time. He was in the dark
cell. The keeper SAID that lie had
been in there twenty-four hours; but,
in answer to my pleadings. he went
down into that dark cell, and the man
announced lady as from his
mother. But no reply Said I: Let
me step in and l did SO. There
was just a single plank from one
end to the other, and that was all the
furniture; and there the boy from Yale
College sat. Said /: Charley. am
stranger TO you, but have come from
your mother; and l shall have to 90
back and tell her that you did not
want to hear from her.. Said he:
Don't mention my mothers name
here. will do any thing if you viii
60 As he walked along the cell, |
noticed that he reeled. Said /: What
is the matter? He said he hadn't
eaten any thing in twenty-four hours.
They brought him something; and I
sat down by him and held the tin
plate on which was some coarse, brown
bread without any butter, and, Think,
a tin cup of coffee. By and by, as we
talked, I pressed into his hand his
mothers picture, and he looked at it
and said: That is my mother. [
always said she was the handsomest
woman in the world He pressed it
and held it in his hands, and l slipped
tie other picture over it. He said:
who is that?' | said: That is YOUR
mother. That my mother?' Yes
| said, that is the mother of the boy
that found in a dark cell, after she
had been waiting five years to see him.
He said: % God, have l done itr
And then he said: NO, it is the liquor
traffic that has done it. why don't
you do something to stop it?' He said:
4 began drinking at home. 1t was on
the table with my food. THE Chris.
tiGn Mirror.
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Her Idea of Soaking.

Il wish you were good and helpful
around the house ike Mrs. Jones' hus-
band, said Mrs. Smith.
"That drunken fellow Jones?"
Eyes, that drunken fellow Jones.
Hes kind to his wife any how, so he is.
He helps her on wash days ever so
much. =
.'Oh, he does, does hep
"Yes, he does. does lie. The other
day Mrs. Jones was telling me that he
didn't have any money TO get a drink
with and he took some of the clothes
and put them to soak, and that's more
than you d ever do for me so it is.
And Smith Just sat and grinned. :.
AescAaat gaacsLea.
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THE MARKS OF THE DEMON.

The Moderate Drinker Carries with Him
the Evidences of His Debasement-A
New Argument.
lone argument have never heard
made against moderate drinking"
said disciple of teetotalism, sis that
the practice induces mental laxity
which is manifested, according to nv
observation, in very peculiar way.
Why is it that those who are known to
be moderate drinkers, though COM
posed of fairly prosperous class, are
never well dressed? Not because thew
cam afford it, not because they are
Indifferent to the value of appearing to
advantage, but simply because the al
cohol habit induces a state of mind
which tends to make one forget or
ignore the duty that is due society of
always appearing neatly clad.
But can you point to any great
number of moderate drinkers and say,
as a class, they are well-dressed men?
Every fold in their garments proclaims
them drinkers There are the shiny
spots and patches about the elbows of
the coat caused by your topper resting
his elbows on the beer-stained counter;
then there are the dark stains along his
vest. his shoes are seldom well black
ened, and there is rusty air about his
hat. There are infinite gradations in
all these aspects. But no sooner can
any one of them be detected than the
victim of the habit is discerned to af-
ford physical signs showing the effect
of the liquor on his system. Should
he be OF one temperament his blood
will become affected first, and you be-
hold his nose decorated with grog-
blossoms. The brain soon loses its
elastic texture and becomes unusually
hard or of morbid softness. Apo
plexy, rental debasement and the
gradual extinction of all intellectual
powers follow. But set ont contend
ing that moderate indulgence in
spirituous liquors led to sloyenliness
in the appearance of the victim Of the
habit. That is but one effect of a
mental change which takes place.
The ether results are known only to
the expert, but they are none the less
terrible for all that, and no less sure o.
being felt sooner or later. - Chicago
AeWS.