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OUR POLITICS.
AGAINST THE SALOON

Tho MAIL AND EXPRESS is tho recognized
National ors;an Of the great Anti-Saloon Re
pa lcan movement. 1t believes that the
liquor traffic IA it exists to-day in the United
States IL tho enemy of society, fruitful
source of coz upton In politics. tho ally of an
archy, o school of crime, and, with its avowed
purpose Of seeking to corruptly control
elections and legislation, is menace to
the public welfare and deserves the condemna-
ton of all good men.
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A GREAT NEwsPApER.

The american Rural Home, Rochester,
N. Y, is now regarded as the leading farm
ers newspaper of America. It covers every
State and Territory, and is an SPACE, IL
year-old weekly. If subscribed for within
thirty days, it can be had fifty-two weeks for
75c only! Regular price $1.00. The reports
of over ten thousand correspondents, by mail
and telegraph, are condensed in its weekly
crop news columns. Its present circulation is
$50, 000-the largest of any like weekly in the
world. No wide awake, money making far
mer can afford to be withoutit. Samples and
catalogue of books free. We may also add that
it is one of the best all round family papers
published. For from $1.00 to $1.25 it allows
one free choice of over $50 cloth bound dol
lar volumes with the paper, and has given
away over 10000 books during the past two
years. 1t is complete rural family paper.
PUB.
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THE DROP OF WATER.

You know, surely, what the microscope
is, that wonderful little glass, which
makes everything appear hundred times
larger than it really is.
1t you look at single drop of ditch
water through a microscope, you will see
a thousand odd-looking creatures, such
as you could never imagine dwelling in
water.
The appearance is not unlike that of
whole plateful Of shrimps, all jumping
and crowdmg upon each other; and SO
fierce are these little creatures that they
will tear off each others arms and legs.
without the least mercy. And yet, after
their fashion, they are merry and happy.
Now there,was once an old man, whom
his neighbors called "Oribbly Crabbly,"
"a curious name to be sure,-it meant
something like creep and crawl. He al
ways liked to make the most of every
thing; and, when he could not manage it
fairly, he tried magic.
One day, he sat looking through his
microscope, or magnifying glass, at a
drop of water brought from neighbor-
ing ditch. What scene Of scrambling
and swsrming it was, to be surel ALI the
thousands of little inps in the water
jumped and sprsng about, devouring
each other or tearing each other to bits.
"Upon my word, this is really shocking.
There must surely be some way to have
them live in peace and quiet, 80 that each
attend only to his own concerns" And
he thought and thought, but still could
not hit upon any expedient. So he must
needs have recourse to coniuring.
81 must give them color, so that they
may be seen more plainly" said he; and,
accordingly, he poured something that
looked like drop of red wine-but that
was in reality, "witch's blood"-upon the
drop of water. And now all the strange
little creatures Immediately became red
all over, and looked, for all the world
like whole townful of naked, red In
dians.
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THE YOUNG NATURALIST.

John James Audubon swas born near
New Orleans, May A, 1880, and died at
the present Audubon Park, New York
city, Jan. 81, 1851. His father, the son of
fisherman, OF La Vendee, was French
naval officer, who having become wealthy
had acquired plantation in Louisiana:
and married lady of that colony of
Spanish des sent. The son imbibed a
love of nature at an extremely early age,
which was probably strengthened by his
short residence on his fathers planta-
ton in Santo Domingo, and was not re-
pressed, but mastered the situation when
he was sent to France to be educated. 1t
is recorded of him that he was accustom-
ed to amuse himself when mere child
by trying to draw the birds he saw
around him; and that his crude efforts
not being satisfactory, he used to make
bonfire of them at each birthday. His faith
er desired him to be qualified for some
occupation connected with the navy, or
with engineering. He was sent to France,
where the father had bought an estate
near Nantes, on which his stepmother
was living. to be taught mathematics,
drawing, geography, fencing and music.
His drawing master was the celebrated
artist David, who set him to drawing
"horsee' heads and the limbs OF giants"
bat he preferred birds, and improved
such opportunities as he could get to ex-
ercise himself upon them, and spent
much of his time in excursions into the
woods, collecting specimens and making
drawings of them. The real supervision
of his operations was his indulgent step
mother, who gave him ample scope foI
the exercise of his own tastes. When
Audubon's father returned from sea, he
was asto nished at the large collection his
son had made, and then asked what
PROCESS he had made in his other
studies. The reply not being satisfacto-
ry, he took the youth in hand himself,
and kept him for year in the close study
of ma thematics. But every opportunity
for natural history rambles was still inn
proved. Audubon spent another year at
Nantes, when he went over, after having
returned to America and settled at Mill
Grove, to expose the unfaithfulness OF an
agent whom his father had entrusted with
the charge of one of his enterprises, and
to consult his parents respecting mar
riage. During one of these residences in
Nantes he is credited with having made
hundred drawings of European birds.
Popular Science Monthly.
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mile over the grass, turning in various
directions, and then bid himself. The
dog, not having seen him, of course, was
brought to the starting place. where he
at once took the trail, and followed it rap
idly and accurately until he found his
master.
The hunter then headed procession
of twelve persons walking in Indian file,
each man being careful to place his feet
in the footprints of the man preceding
him. After walking two hundred yards
the hunter turned to the right, followed
by one half of the men, and the other
half turned to the left. Each party made
q number of turns and detours, and then
concealed themselves. The dog, when
put on the trail, followed it promptly, and
at the point of separation, without mo-
ment's hesitation, turned to the right, as
his master had done.
A stranger to the. dog then put on the
masters hunting boots, and the dog fol-
lowed his tracks as quickly as he had fol-
lowed his masters. When the master
wore the boots of the stranger the dog
would not follow, nor would he follow
the trail of the stranger when he walked
with naked feet but he did follow his
master under the same conditions, though
slowly and with much hesitation.
The hunter tried wearing new boots
and the dog refused to follow. He then
resumed his hunting boots, after FASTING
paper under the soles and along the sides;
but the dog paid no attention to the trail
until a point was reached where very
small piece Of paper had fallen from the
boot; from that on the trail was followed
rapidly.
In the last experiment, the hunter,
with his hunting boots on-free of paper,
walked fifty yards, and then drew off his
boots and walked three hundred yards
barefoot, but holding his boots in his
hand, which hung down. Then, raising
his arm and still holding the boots, he
walked three hundred yards more. The
dog when placed on the trail followed
the whole distance without hesitation.
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"Why, what have you here?" asked an
other old magician, who had 60 name at
all, which made him more remarkable
than even Cribbly Crabbly.
"If you can find out what it is," re-
piled Cribbly Crabbly, II will give it to
you; but 1 warn you you will not do it SO
easily"
And now the conjurer, without word
looked through the microscope. 1t real
ly seemed to him that the scene before
him was a whole town, where the people
ran about naked, in the widest way. 1t
was quite shocking, but still more horri-
BILE was it, to see how they kicked and
cuffed, struggled and fought, pecked and
tore and swallowed each his neighbor.
Those that were under wanted to be at
the top, while those that CHANGED to be at
the top must needs thrust themselves un-
derneath.
"And now look, his leg is longer than
mine. So off with it'll" one seemed to be
saying. Another had little lump be-
hind his ear Gan innocent little lump
enough, but it panied him; and, there
fore, the others seemed determined it
should pain him more. So they hacked
at it, and dragged the poor little thing
about, and at the last ate her up, all on
account of the lump. One only of the
creatures was quiet,-a modest little
maid, evidently, who sat by herself, wish
ing for nothing but peace and quietness.
But the others would not have it 80.
They soon pulled the little damsel for
ward, cuffed and tore her, and then ate
her up.
"This is uncommonly droll and anus
ing" said the nameless magician.
$40 you think SO! But what do you
think it is?' asked Cribbly Crabbly. "Can
you find it out?"
sit is easy enough to guess, to be sure"
was the reply of the nameless magician.
"Easy enough. It is either Paris or Co
penhagen, or some other large city. do
not know which, for they are all alike. 1t
is some large city, of course"
SIT is drop of water from puddle"
said Cribbly Crabbly.-Hams Andersen.
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5onished to see real tears drop from his

tonished to see real tears drop from his
eyes.
"Go on, Prince" said Mr.. Phelps kind
ly, but he did not stir until taken by the
nose and led out of DOORS Then he
walked slowly down the path toward the
meadow, the whole group watching him
in silence.
"He seems to miss the spectacles," said
Mr.. Bragdon, after moment.
eyes," replied Mr.. Phelps, "that's just
the way it seems to me-"
Look at him nowp cried the boys.
"He's coming back!' and, sure enough,
Prince had turned and was on his way
back to the barn. Slowly he came, went
straight by the boys, never stopping for
sugar or caress, to the barn door which
had been closed, and there he stood
whinnying softly.
"He's asking FOR those spectacles,
papa," said Tom eagerly. "Do put them
on"
eyes," said Mr.. Bragdon, "why not see
what he will dor
So the bride was put on, bit and all,
but Prince did not seem to mind the bit.
Just as soon as the spectacles were on
and fastened he rubbed his nose lovingly
against Mr.. Phelps's arm as if to say
''Thank you," and then kicked up his
heels and pranced away down to the
pasture in the happiest possible manner.
swell, I declared exclaimed Mr.. Brag-
don, "that was what he wanted; and he
and Mr.. Phelps talked it all over while
the boys ran away to the meadow to have
romp with their four-footed friend.
This is true story. The horse who
wears the spectacles is now living and
I'm sure you will all join with me in hop
ing that he may live to wear them many
years.-NeaU York Advocate.
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Our Youm9 .People.
GOLDEN KEYS.

A bunch of golden keys is mine,
To make each day with gladness shine.
"Good Morning. that's the golden key
That unlocks every day for me.
when evening comes, GOOD Night" say,
And close the door of each glad day.
when at the table, IF you please"
take from Off my bunch of keys.
When friends give anything to me,
I'll use the little 'thank you" key.
EXCUSE me-" "Beg your pardon" too,
When by mistake some harm do.
Or If unkiHdly harm I've given,
With Forgive me" key I'll be forgiven.
On golden ring these keys I'll bind,
This is its motto: "Be ye kind"
I'll often use each golden key,
And so happy child I'll be.
Scattered Seeds.
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HOW A DOG FOLLOWS.

We dare say many of our boy readers
often wonder how dogs can trace their
masters when the latter are out of sight
and hearing. OF course we all know that
it is done by the sense of smell, but
whether it is the man himself or his cloth
ing that forms the magnet has not been
so clear to us.
Some very interesting experiments,
says the Boston Advertiser, we're recently
made in England, to determine how it is
that the dog is enabled to follow the trail
of his master. A gentleman used for a
series of tests pointer with which he
had hunted for several years.
Every precsution was taken to prevent
the dog being guided by anything but
the sense of smell. The hunter, with his
hunting boots on, first walked about a
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THE TRAPPER OF The NO RTH
WEST,

WEST.
The trappers Of the far West and
Northwest were among the earliest pi-
oneers of civilization on the American
continent. The gathering of furs to sup
ply the markets of the world was one Of
the first industries to become established
among the colonists of the New World;
and 1t the time when only narrow strip
of land along the Atlantic coast had
been settled and civilized, brave hunters
were pushing their way far into the in
terror through forests, mountains and
prairie. and Drawing all the perils of the
unknown land and it's savage inhabit-
ants.
1t was these trappers who first revealed
the existence of the great Western coun-
try now covered with wealthy and pros
porous States. They were the scouts
who showed the way to the advancing
hosts of immigrants. They were the first
to cross the Allegheny Mountains into
the "dark and bloody ground" of Ken
lucky; to traverse the wide prairies west
of the Mississippi, and to reach the lofty
mountain range beyond them, and the
forests and rivers of the Pacific coast be-
yond that again.
The Oldest and most famous of the
companies established to engage in the
American fur trade is the Hudson Bay
Company, which received a charter from
Charles H., of England, in 1910, and still
exists, though it is now shorn OF the terri
torial rights which it originally possessed.
This charter placed vast empire under
the company's control. The whole con-
tinent between Hudson Bay and the Pa
cific ocean was formally granted, and its
operations extended over the whole of
that region. It's prosperity caused a
rival organization, the Northwest Com
pany, to appear in the field. but in 1921
the Hudson Bay absorbed its competitor.
Meanwhile there has been celebrated
fur company in the United States, con-
trolled by the brothers Choutesu, and
having its headquarters at st. Louis.
John Jacob Astor also embarked in the
business on a large scale. He made a
speciality of supplying the Chinese mar
ket, and establishing at Astoria, Oregon.
depot which he hoped to make a center
of vast trade; but his projects were
broken up by the war of 1912.
These companies established trading
posts throughout the West and Northwest,
and sent out large bodies of men to gath
or furs, and to procure them from other
trappers and from the Indians. The
"peltry," as the undressed skins are call
ed, were then dispatched eastward in
large Quantities to Europe principally to
London, the great center of the worlds
fur trade.
The life of the trappers is hard one
indeed. Singly, or in small parties, they
ply their srduous and venturesome voca-
ton, moving about from one camping
ground to another during the heat of
summer, or finding shelter in dug out
or rude log hut through the Arctic win
ter They seek out the loneliest and
widest districts where for whole season
or longer they may never see he face OF
man-except perhaps that of dreaded
Indian foe. And yet there is a romance
and fascination about this phase of ex,
istence that makes it dear to the sons Of
the forest and prairie.
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RIDDLES.
Here is a riddle by Canning:

Here is riddle by Canning:
"There is a word of plural number,
A foe to peace and human slumber;
Now any word you chance to take,
By adding s, you plural make;
But if you add an S to this,
How strange the metamorphosis!
Plural is plural then no more,
And sweet what bitter was before"
Cares--Oaress.
Shakespeare refers to book of riddles
in the Merry Wives of Windsor" In
this book, published about 1869, is the
following riddle:
81 have tree of great honor,
Which tree bsareth both fruit and flower;
Twelve branches this tree doth take;
Fifty-two nests therein we make;
And every nest hath birds seven;
Thanked be the King of heaven;
And every bird hath diverse name
How many all these together frame?"
The Year.
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NOTHING is KNOWN TO SCIENCE AT
~ all comparable to the CUTICURA REMEDIES
in their marvellous properties of cleansing
purifying and identifying the skin and in
curing tortuIing, dishguring, itching, scaly
and pimply diseases of the skin. scalp and
blood, with loss of hair.
CUTICURA the great Skin Cure, and CUrI
CURA SOAR, an exquisite Skin Beautifier, pre-
pared from IL. externally, and CUTICURA lie
sOIyENT. the new Blood Purifier, internally,
are positive cure for every form of skin and
blood disease, from pimples TO scrofula. CUT
ICURA REMEDIES are absolutely pure and the
ihers.
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Seek relief in vain, until they begin to
use Ayers Sarsaparilla. Then they re-
greet the years of suffering they might
have escaped had they tried this remedy
earlier. The trouble was constitutional
not local; and, until Ayers Sarsapa-
rilla did its effective work as an
Alternative and Blood Purifier, they were
compelled to suffer.
The wife of Samuel Page, q Austin
ST., Lowell, Mass, was, for a long time,
subject to severe headaches, the result
of stomach and liver disorders. A per-
feet cure has been effected by Ayers
Sarsaparilla.
Frank Roberts, 727 Washington ST.,
Boston, says that he formerly had ter
rible headaches, and until he took
Ayers Sarsaparilla, never found any
medicine that would give
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Permanent Relief.

Every Spring, for years." writes
Lizzie W. DeVeau, 262 Fifteenth St,
Brooklyn, N. Y, 81 have had intoler-
able headaches. | commenced the use
of Ayers Sarsaparila last March, and
have not had headache since that
time"
81 suffered from headache, indiges-
ton, and debility, and was hardly able
to drag myself about the house," writes
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Lewis, of A ST., Lowell,
Mass ayers Sarsaparilla has worked
a marvellous change in my case. / now
feel strong and well as ever
Jonas Garman, Esq, of Lykins, Pa,
writes: For wears / have suffered
dreadfully, every Spring, from headache,
caused by impurity of the blood and
bilousness. 1t seemed for days and
weeks that my head would split open.
Nothing relieved me till | took Ayers
Sarsaparilla. This medicine has cured
me completely"
When Mrs. Geneva Belanger, of "a
Bridge ST., Springfield Mass, began to
use Ayers Sarsaparilla, she had suffered
for some years from serious affection
of the kidneys. Every Spring, also, she
was afflicted with headache, loss of
appetite, and Indigestion. A friend per-
suaded her to use Ayers Sarsaparil IA,
which benefited her wonderfully. Her
health is now perfect. Martyrs to head
ache should try
Ayers SarsapariIIa,
Prepared by DIR. j. G. Aver & Co, Lowell. Mass.
Price 81; six bottles So. Worth s5 bottle.
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The only true method of reaching catarrh
is through the blood. Hoods SarsapariIla,
by purifying the blood, removes the cause of
the disease, and permanently cgres catarrh.
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WHO Is uNAcouAlNTED WITH THE GEOGRAPHY OF TIL
COUNTRY WILL SEE by EXAMINING THIS MAP THAT THE
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1888-05-11

YLLIG & BRO, w. J,
! Fresh Groceries and Country Produce
No 345 Dolorosa street, near San Pedro creek.
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rarsIug ana towering rnelr feet alternately
at the word of command, fright" cleft"
as though at squad drill. AS the Juice
flows, and the fruit Is reduced to q pulp,
ivelier movement follows. A fiddler
seated on the edge Of the lagare saws
away at some merry tune, while some of
the treaders Join in with fife, drum and
guitar, playing and treading simultane-
ously. Songs and shouts swell the up
roar. 1t is a difficult task, despite these
ebullitions Of enthusiasm, and frequent
nips OF brandy are served out by the over
seerS to keep the laZier and weaker at the
task, which is wearisome in the extreme.
Women looking in at the windows ex-
change jokes and laughter with the men.
THE FIRST TREApTNG.
The "sovar vinho," or first treading,
is kept up with occasional halts and re-
lays Of fresh men for about eighteen
hours. After long interval the treading
is resumed. The fiddle strikes up anew,
the drum rattles, the fife squeaks, the
guitar twangs, the overseers drowsily up
braid. BY this time the grapes are pretty
well trodden, and the men, being nearly
worn out, listlessly lift one purple dyed
leg after another far into the watches of
the night. In testing the quality of the
mash a large white convex saucer is used.
One of the treaders balancing himself on
one brawny leg and holding up the other
allows the liquid to drip from off his heel
into the saucer. This is tasted and the
amount of sugar determined by the saccha-
rometer. This instrument also indicates,
after the treading is completed and the
juice is left to ferment, when the latter
process has gone far enough The
stalks and skins of the grapes
form a thick crust on the top of
the must, which is then drawn Off
into large tonels holding from ten to
thirty pipes each; the superintendent
mass of stalks and skins is heaped up in.
the center of the lagare, and the juice re-
naming in them is squeezed out by the
leverage of a huge beam of wood, usually
the trunk Of a tree weighted with large
stone. The wine thus obtained is sepa-
rately casked and kept by itself, as it's
quality is not up to the average mark.
Until the end of December the wine re-
mains undisturbed. By that time it has
cleared and has deep purple tint. 1t is
then drawn off its lees into other tonels,
when some pure grape brandy is added to
it. Empty pipes are sent up from Oporto
in the ensuing spring to the quintas,
where the wine is duly racked under the
eyes of the shippers agents. These pipes
are transported by bullock carts to the
Douro, where fiat bottomed crafts carry
them down the stream, which is swift
and difficult of navigation, and rendered
still more dangerous by numerous rapids.
Their destination is the wine shippers
lodges or stores at Villa Nova de Gaia,
transporting suburb of Oporto.-New
York Press.
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Lips OF Lending Lawyers.

1t is remarkable physiognomical fact
that the leading lawyers of the world
have great preponderance of lip. A
close examination of numerous portraits
of the noted advocates of the past and
personal inspection of the lips of the most
noted lawyers at Washington show that
this lip growth is most extraordinary in
that part of the mouth nearest the chin,
and, in fact, the under lips of our great
lawyers look as though they had been
stung by so many bees. How this comes
/ am not able to state. 1t may be in the
pursuing up of the lips in the endeavor
to appear wise. 1t may be in the tightly
closed mouth, supposed to keep in the
great knowledge of the law until the
owner receives a $4,000 fee, or it may
be in the development of the under lip
in the arguing Of cases before a jury.
At any rate there is no doubt that this
extraordinary development exists, as a
look at the sketches Of the lips of noted
men will show.-Frank G. Carpenter in
New York World.