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TEMPERANCE.
What Are We Going to Do?

What are we going to do, sweet friends,
In the year that Is to come,
To battle that frightful fiend of death
Whose messenger is rum!
Shall we fold our hands and bid him pass
As he has passed before,
Leaving his deadly poisoned draught
At every unbarred door!
What are we going to do, sweet friends,
Still wait for crime and pain,
Then bind the bruises, and heal the wound,
And soothe the woe again!
Let the fiend still torture the weary wife,
Still poison the coming child,
Still break the suffering mothers heart,
Still drive the sister wild!
Still bring to the grave the gray-haired sire,
Still martyr the brave young soul,
Till the waters of death, like burning
stream,
Ger the whole great nation roll:
And poverty take the place of wealth,
And sin and crime and shame
Drag down to the very depths of hell
The highest and proudest name!
Is this our mission on earth, sweet friends,
In the years that are to come!
If not, let us rouse and do the work
Against this spirit of rum.
There is not a soul SO poor and weak,
In all this goodly land,
But against this evil word may speak,
And lift warning hand.
And lift a warning hand sweet friends,
With cry for home and hearth. -,
Adding voice to voice, till the sound shall
sweep,
Like runs death -knell, DER the earth
And the weak and wavering shall hear,
And the faint grow brave and strong,
And the true and good and great and wise
Join hands to right this wrong.
Good Times.
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Temperance IN the Senate.

Correct information is the basis OF all
valuable legislation. 1t has long been evil
dent that the temperance cause would make
more rapid progress if the facts relating tc
the use and sale Of liquor could be authorita.
lively ascertained and put before the people
If liquor selling and liquor drinking are the
cause of all our crime, and the taxes that re-
suit therefrom, the court costs, the peniten.
tiary and Jail expenses, ETC., If our insane
are compelled thereby to build additional and
larger ones, and yearly increase the already
enormous expense: if our pauperism, with
all its attendant misery and taxes IS mainly
traceable to liquor, then the common-sense
people of this country have only to have
these facts clearly put before them, from un-
disputed authority, and they will rise in their
might and abolish the saloonas surely and
ir1evocably as they abolished slavery.
The move in the United States Senate IS,
therefore in the right direction. A tele-
gram states that after listening to an angu..
Tant from Mr. A. NJ. Powell, President of
the National Temperance Society, the SEN
ate Committee on Education, by a unani.
NOUS vote, instructed Senator Wilson, OF
Iowa, to report favorably the bill providing
for the appointment of commission OF
five persons, all Of whom shall not be advo-
Gates of total abstinence, to investigate the
alcoholic LIQUOR traffic, its relation to revenue
and taxation, and its general economic. GRIM
inal moral and scientific aspects in connec-
ton with pauperism, crime, social vice, the
public health and general welfare OF the peo-
pie; and also to inquire and take testimony
as to the practical result Of license and pro,
hibitory legislation for the prevention OF in
temperance in the several States Of the
I'm on.
This will lay the foundation for effective
work, or shall we say a successful campaign,
or annihlating war OH the liquor tratilc.-
Farm, Field and Stockman.
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How 20 Answer Them.

1t is bright suggestion of Archdeacon
Farrar's to meet the questions of infdelity
with harder questions. To most Of the points
raised by skeptics Christendom frankly re-
spends, II do not know" Nowlet the tables
be turned. "Where did the matter come
Where % did motion come fromi Where
life came from save the fnger-tip
of Omnipotencel Whence came the e1-
quisite order of design of naturea II cne
told you that millions Of printers types
should fortuitously shape themselves into the
divine comedy Of Dante, or the plays OF
Shakespeare, would you not think him a mad
MANI Whence came consciousness Who
gave you free willa Whence came con-
scienceT DR.. Farrar truly says: "He
who denies the existence of God in the face
of such questions as these, talks simply STU
pendous nonsense" To concede that we can
not comprehend infnity can never weaken
the position Of Christian. Clearly appre-
bend it, and the belief in Gods power and his
providence logically follow.-[New York
Advocate,
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James Brainard Taylor.

He was graduate of Princeton, and only
twenty eight when he died, yet he did work
that any man might envy. He got hold OF
the idea that there was something in this
doctrine of the enduement Of the Spirit
s stHdag bag th5 tbs HS bo he s9
him as upon the original disciples. So ne
prayed, and his prayers were answered.
Whenever he went out he stirred all with
whom he came in contact Sinners used to
fall before his preaching as grass before the
scythe. 1t was spontaneous. He could not
help speaking to men, and his words were
mighty. There is one very beautiful incl
dent in his life. One day. he was
out driving, and he drew his
horse up to a watering-trough. 1t so hap
pened that another young man was doing the
same thing. While the horses heads met in
the trough, he turned to the young man and
said, II hope you love the Lord: Il you
don't 1 want TO commend Him TO you as your
best friend Seek Him with all your heart" !"
That was all; they turned and went their
ways But what was the resulta The young
man thus spoken to was converted, was edu-
Gated for the ministry and went as
missionary to Africa. Said this missionary
afterwards: "Over and over again 1 wished
l knew who that man was who spoke
TO me at the watering-trough. But
l never knew till some one sent to
me in Africa a box of books. I opened them,
saw a little black-covered book, opened it,
turned to the title page, and there | saw a
portrait-a beautiful face. 'Ah,' said /,
that is the man. That is the man who
preached the gospel to me at the watering
trough; to him L owe my salvation" and
that of how many more on the dark con.
tnent. What we want to-day is to be filled
with the Spirit. We are filled with 50 many
vain glory. May the Lord enable us to
empty our hearts and have them filled as by
a mighty rushing wind.-lDr. A. ]. Gordon.
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times sets ajar the door Of heaven, and
passage of rapture greets our ears. The
minstrels Of heaven strike such tremendous
strain, the walls of jasper cannot hold it:
I wonder, will you sing that song Will |
sing it Not unless our sins are pardoned.
and we learn now to sing the praise of Christ,
will we ever sing it there. The first great
concert that I ever attended was in New
York, when Julien, in the Crystal Palace,
stood before hundreds of singers and hundreds
of players upon instruments. Some Of you
may remember the occasion; it was the first
one of that kind at which was present, and
I shall never forget it. l saw that one man
standing, and with the hand and foot WELD
that great harmony, beating the time. 1t was
scene when they shall come from the east,
and from the west, and from the north,
and from the south, "a great multitude that
no man can number" into the temple of the
skies. host beyond host, rank beyond rank,
gallery above gallery, and Jesus shall stand
before that great host to conduct the har-
mony, with his wounded hands and his
wounded feet. Like the voice Of many
watei s. like the voice Of mighty thunderings,
they shall cry: worthy is the Lamb that
was slain to receive blessings, and riches, and
honor, and glory, and power. world without
end Amen and amen!" Oh, if my ear shall
hear no other sweet sounds, may hear that!
If I join no other glad assemblage, may I
Join that.
was reading of the battle of Agincourt,
in which Henry V figured and it is said
after the battle was won, gloriously won. the
King wanted to acknowledge the divine in
terposition, and he ordered the chaplain to
read the Psalm of David; and when he came
to the words: "Not unto US, o Lord, but
unto Thy name be praise" the king dis
mounted, and all the cavalry dismounted
and all the great host officers and men,
threw themselves on their faces. o, at the
story of the Savior's love and the Savior's
deliverance, shall we not PROSTATE ourselves
before him now, hosts Of earth and hosts of
heaven falling upon our faces, and crying:
"Not unto us, not unto u.s. but unto thy
name be the glory!n
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Preparatfon for Church.

The value of the services of the Lords
house depends, to large extent, upon the
frame of mind in which one participates in
them.
Take two men who have come to church,
the one from secret prayer, or the family
altar, or the morning prayer meeting, the
other from miscellaneous occupations, from
miscellaneous thoughts furnished by the Sun
day newspaper, or from hurried preparation.
Will there be no difference between the two
in the benz fits derived from the Lords housel
IT'S true, it's better to come from hurry and
worry than not to come at all; but how
much more philosophical to prepare the
heart and mind for hearing by period OF
prayer! What think you Of the farm who
sows the seed without first preparing the
soila Such is the man who without prayer
comes into the sanctuary to hear the gospel.
While some Of the good seed may possibly
take root, so far at least as he is concerned, a
part Of it will be wasted.-lGolden Rule.
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A FATAL Feast of SauSageS.

Trichiniasis is making terrible on
slaught on the population Of Cunewaide,
near Loeban, Saxcny. The fire brigade
of the city gave a ball, at which llt5ls
sausages were served, and every one who
partook of them was Frustrated with
trichiuiasis. The butcher who supplied
them maintained that every hog ne
slaughtered was duly examined, and he
paid the penalty for the mishap by suf-
fcrinc severe attack of tie disease upon
his own person. In some houses ten
persons were laid up, and altogether two
hundred were stricken, ten of whom
have already died. The government has
delegated a commission of doctors to
assist the sick and find out the canse OF
the visitation. -Chiraqo Herald. =.
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A Horse that Draws Drinking Water.

The sagacity exhibited by some OF the
horses employed by the fire department
in New York is very remarkable, and
their exploits have been frequently de.
scribed in our daily newspapers. But
for the first time we read in one OF our
evening contemporaries of horse in the
service of our ambulance corps, which
is not far behind any t1re engine horse we
have read of in point of intelligence.
The horse pulls the ambulance in search
of patients for the New York Hospital,
and during the whole period OF his
philanthropic career as an ambulance
horse he has never once been given
drink by any of the stable hands. he
believes in the maxim that God helps
those who help themselves, and helps
himself accordingly.
A Telegram reporter went down TO see
how he ouenched his thirst, and was
edited by the intellectual behavior OF
the animal, which he describes as follows:
There is an ordinary faucet with the
nail under it in tie stable, and to this
faucet the horse made bee line.
First he dipped his nose in the pail to
sec if there was any water there, but
finding there was none, he proceeded to
open the valve by turning the handle
with his nose. He did not turn it on
quite enough at the first attempt, so he
gave it another nudge, and held his nose
under the spigot while the water poured
over it to his apparent immense satisfac-
ton. "But what lot of water will be
wasted when he leaves it running the
moment he has had enough" CALCULATED
the reporter.
"Wait and sec.' answered the driver.
And there was no water wasted, for the
moment the horse had concluded his
drink, he went at the faucet again with
his nose and shut off the flow COM
"Does he always do that?" again
oucried the newspaper man:
Certainly" answered the driver, as
he matted his four-footed friend on the
shoulder. Gas long as I've known him,
that horse has never had drink that he
did not draw from the tap for himself,
lust as you have seen him do tks
time. ."-Stieneifc american.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
The Cnceasing Melody.

The Unceasing Melody.
Like some pink shell, that will not cease
Its murmur=of the sea,
My heart sings on without release,
This anthem full and sree:
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
Whose mind is stayed on Thee"
The music of the melody
Has foated down the years,
A soul-subduing harmony,
Tt elevates and cheers;
And like the voice of deity,
It dissipates all fears.
Beyond the sounds Of early strife,
Beyond the frown and sigh,
Beyond the world with discord rife,
1t lifts the soul on high
To find calm and restful life,
By faith in Christ brought nigh.
There perfect peace surrounds the soul
Whose trust on God Is stayed;
While pressing onward to the goal,
It hears, all undismayed,
The deep notes Of the music roll
Through sunlight and through shade.
And this is why, without release,
My heart sings full and free,
The anthem that will never cease
Through oil eternity;
"Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace
Whose mind is stayed on Thee"
Parrish Record.
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Bad Substitutes.

It is the theory of not few opponents Of
the saloon that the way to diminish the evil
effects Of intemperance is to substitute beer
and wine for alcoholic beverages. We have
never had any faith in this theory. In the
first place, the tendency of both wine ant
beer is to promote the appetite for the
stronger drinks, as is clearly demonstrated
by several facts For example, to name
few, the number of saloons licensed to sell
beer and wine only is very small in pro-
portion to the number licensed to sell
both distilled and fermented drinxs; ab-
sinthe, destructive alcoholic liquor, is tax
ing the place Of wine in France, the land OF
champagne; the alcoholic evil became so
great in wine-producing Switzerland as to
compel the Republic to take stringent meas
ures for the repression Of the traffic; and the
greatest beer couhttry in the world has not
been able to prevent increased consumption
of spirits. It was only few weeks ago that
Bismarck, in making his great speech before
the Reichstag, refreshed himself at ire
quent intervals, not with the ma
tional drink, but with brandy. In the
second place there is plenty of drunkenness
in beer, and it is question whether it is not
quite as deadly a foe to the physical and
mental man as rum. In the third place, the
beer theory has been asundantly proved q
delusion. The English Beer Act Of 1880 was
expected to do wonders in the way OF driving
out the stronger drinks and furnishing the
people with wholesome beverage" The
Duke Of Wellington, who was special adVo-
cate of it, declared 1t greater achievement
than any of his military victories. And so
it was, in one sense. 1t destroyed more peo-
pie than the Dukes armies ever destroyed.
Sidney Smith was also supporter of the bill;
but subsequently he lost confidence in it:
:'The New Beer Bill" he wrote, !" has
begun its operations. Everybody IS
drunk; those who are not singing
are sprawling. The sovereign people are in
a beastly state" If there are any reputable
people in England to-day who have conf.
dence in the beer theory they do not assert
their confidence. Wenoticee, on the contrary,
in the Contemporary Reuie'U, in al article
by Francis Peek, author of ''Social Wreck
age" and other studies, this incidental refer.
ence to the beer act: "The establishment of
beer-shops, intended to stay the consumption
Of spirits and drunkenness, in the end vastly
increased both" The writer Of these words
is not classed among the temperance fanatics
in England. It is disinterested testimony
IndeDendent.
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The Big Hats Of COrea.

"What signifies such wide brimsf"
Asked correspondent of Mrs. Allen,
who has spent much time in Corea:
"Surcly the Corcans are not Quakers:'
Thereby hangs talc," she said.
NIong years ago the King ordered his
subjects to wear hats with enormous
brims, three or four feet in width. The
object was to prevent conspiracy. The
rooms in Corea are small, and with such
hats on not more than four men could
get into the same room at once. But
with the passing of generations the brims
of the Corean hats have been growing
gradually smaller until they have reached
their present dimensions
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The Gunner's Cottage,

The story is told, in French news
paper, of Pierre Barlat, humble
iaborer, who lived at Sevres, near Paris,
with his wife Jeanne and their three
children. Industrious, frugal, knowing
nothing of the way to the wine shop,
Pierre saved his spare money, working
harder and harder, and at last bought
the tiny cottage in which he and his
wife lived. II was tiny cottage, in
deed; built of stones, however, with
tiled roof, standing amid shrubs, and
covered with clematis. It always at.
tracted the eye of the traveller, on the
left, as he crossed the Sevres bridge. "
Pierre and Jeanne scrimped and saved
until the little cottage was paid for, and
made feast, when It vas all done, to
celebrate their ownership. A landed
proprietor, to be sure, does not mind an
occasional expenditure to entertain his
friends! +
All this Pierre and Jeanne had accom-
plished just before the war of 1870 with
Germany broke out. The conscription
fell upon Pierre, who, moreover, was an
old soldier, and belonged to the re-
serves. A gunner he had been, famous
for his skill in hitting mark with .
shell. ~.
Sevres had fallen into the hands Of
the Germans, but the French guns were
pounding away at them from the fort on
Mount Valerian. Pierre Barlat was
gunner at that fort, and was standing
one wintry day by his gun, when General
Noel, the commander, came up, and
leveled his feld-glass at the Sevres
bridge.
"Gunner!" said he, sharply, without
looking at Pierre. .a
"General" said Pierre, respectfully,
giving the military salute.
a"Do you see the sevres bridge over
there2"
II see it very well, SIR"
"And that little cottage there, in 8
thicket of shrubs at the left9" -
II see it, sir" said Pierre, turning
pale. .
'Tt is nest of Prussians. Try it with
shell, my man." .s.,
Pierre turned paler still, and, in spite
of the cold wind that made the officers
shiver in their great coats, one mlght
have seen big drops of sweat standing
out on his forehead; but nobody noticed
the gunner's emotion. He sighted his
piece deliberately, carefully-then. fred
it. -'~ =!
The officers, with their glasses marked
the effect of the shot, after the smoke
had cleared away. .,
"Well hit, my maxwell hitP ex-
claimed the General, looking at Pierre
with a smile. "The cottage couldn't
have been very solid. 1t is completely
smashed now."
He was surprised to see great tear
running down each of the gunner's
cheeks.
"What's the matter, man9" the Gen.
eral asked, rather roughly.
"Pardon me, General" said Pierre,
recovering himself. 'It was my house
everything I had in the world"
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LIQUOR ana wage.Earners.

A public. spirited preacher in Troy, n. ",
Mr.. Henry L. Lamb, has been gathering STA
tistics as to how the self-imposed liquor !aa
aficts and keeps down the laborlnS classes
in that manufacturing centre. He estimate:
that there were, perhaps, 1000 who earned
all average Of slO per week for forty weeks
in the year, a total of $1,000, 600. Employers
said that many of these men expended 'O
per cent. of their wages for liquor AMI to.
bacco. while the average amount spent ny
this class Of men was found to be about
% per cent, or S44S, 900: And 1t was esti
mated that the laborers who averaged s. par
week spent at least 20 per cent in the same
way
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1t is hard TO say whether God discovers
more love in preparing heavenly mansions
for the soul than in preparing the soul for
heavenly mansions. ns.-[Seeker.
That you may be weanel from the world
which fasc:nates your heart, pray for the
love of God, that the light and paltry, things
of the world will be tasteless and irksome.
What do our heavy hearts prove but that
other things are sweeter to us than his WIZ,
that we have not attained to the full mastery
of our freedom, that our sonship is still but
family realized, and its blessedness not yet
proved and knownl Our consent would turn
all our trials into obedience. By consenting
we make them our own, and offer them with
ourselves again to Him.-(Dr. Manning.
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The amount of liquors consumed for thir.
teen years in the United States from 1851 20
1872 inclusive, was two billion seven hundred
and sixty.two millions nine hundred p1 ano
COST cost to 9TH the Consumer was S. 7YO, Isl, sos II
put in wagons-ten barrels to the wagon
would extend 45,5s0 miles-nearly twice
around the earth. or half way to the moon.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-05-17

Alexander Mcleod of Bellows Falls,
a Scotchman, A, fell down an embank-
ment Friday night and was killed.
Fire damaged the wheel room and
machine shop of the Vermont Novelty
works at Springfield $1,000 worth Sat
urday morning.
A. Blake, a boy IA years old, from
Strafford, was killed instantly Friday
forenoon while playing with some mill
logs in Carr's saw-mill.
French Catholics of Vermont will
make pilgrimage to the shrine of St.
Anne de Beaupre, near Quebec, about
the middle of next month.
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Accidents.

William Nourse met with shocking G
accident at the scale works Saturday
that very nearly cost him his life.
While engaged in shifting a belt his
frOck caught in the cogs at his right
shoulder. Before the machine could
be stopped the cogs had caught into
his neck, making a CHASTITY wound that
tore open one half of the circumference
of his neck, tearing into the large
muscle and giving the appearance
of an attempt to cut the throat with a
dull butcher knife. Mr.. Nourse refus-
ed to go home until his wounds had
been dressed, and bore the ride from
the scale works to DR.. Browns and the
painful operation heroically. He is
about 30 years of age and married. If
nothing unforeseen intervenes he will
come out all right.
Fred Carr, foreman of the saw shop
at the scale works, sawed off the ends
of two fingers on his right hand last
week, accomplishing the feat in some
way that he cannot explain.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1888-05-17
Worth Knowing

Mr.. w FL. Morgan, merchant. Lake City Fla
was taken with a severe Cold. attended with dis
tressing Cough and running into Consumption in its
first stages He tried many so-called popular cough
remedies and steadily grew Was reduced
in flesh had difficulty in breathing and was unable
to sleep. Finally tried DIR. Kings New Discovery
for Consumption and found immediate relief and
after using about half dozen bottles found him
self well and has had return of the disease No
other remedy can show so grand a record of eures
as Dr. Kings New Discovery for Consumption.
Guaranteed to do just what is claimed for it-Trial
bottle free at Flint Bros ch e W dec l6 IS