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Quinine's Popular Rival.

"There never was such large demand
for cocoa as there is now," chatted .
wholesaler as he discussed the advisa-
bility of raising the price.
"Why," said he, ''people who have
for years used quinine wine as q tonic
have taken to cocoa instead recently.
They say that it stimulates like quinine
wine, but unlike the latter, leaves no
subsequent depression. There is no
getting away from the fact that cocoa is
much richer in flesh forming and muscle
producing compounds than people gen.
orally suppose: 1t is astonishing how
the original high grade article is adul-
terated with starch and sugar in order
to enable sales at low prices, but regular
consumers soon detect the fraud. 1t is
of the same taste as the unadulterated,
but there is no stimulating effect felt
after using it."-Msp York Mail and Er-
press. '.u-....
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The Promise of His Presence.

We are not afraid to 60 alone on q jour-
ney for strange place where we are sure
that friend will meet US at the end Of the
Journey. The husband in distant city tele-
graphs to his wife to come to him, and he
will be at the station to receive her. She
has faith in him. She sits amid strangers In
the cars all day. She enters the depot filed
wi tn strangers at night. But there Is one
familiar face. there are the outstretched
arms of love; the loneliness that faith cheered
during the journey now ends in joyous
fruition. But our blessed Saviour does not
ask us to 20 far away In the spirit world
with the assurance that he will meet Us bye
and-bye. He comes down to the starting
point of the strange journey. he takes Us
to himself the moment we enter the chariot
of death. That terror Of the unbelievtng
soul Is the charioteer Of Jesus for those who
trust in him, so there is no loneliness In this
trying hour. 1t is as when bridegroom
comes for his bride, takes her In his arms,
as she leaves the threshold Of her old home,
and bears her to the new home Re has pre-
pared for her. There Is nothing sweeter in
all the revelation of Gods love than that
promise Of his presence which removes the
loneliness Of death, h,-[Interior. .-.-
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A Lazy Yagabond's Rich Find.

Three years ago Frank Martin was aS
worthless and lazy q vagsbond as could
vel be produced-one of those who
never missed meal or paid cent. He
resided at place called Era, in Alturas
County, Idaho Territory, had no occu-
patton, and sponged his living from
his brother, who had small ranch and
kent fhe most o9ffce by the roadsid .One
day'bis brothers wife requested Frank
~ cnt some wood he refnsed. where's
mon ~ she heat him out Of the house with
q roll;no.nin and forbade him to ever
enter her doora aoain.. Sad and iIe-'
iected az the condition Of affairs. Frank
walked nm the hill in the rear az his onca
bannv home until within a abort dir.
tanrc ps a. ita enmm;t when he sat down
,,non r a f7at rock At the same fine streteh-
;In pon ont To- b;s 10, Iara - and I | hrsn;ns @ b;s fsst
sg aags;rst os small @ Sou1der I IN % f,ont of Of him
r. haS not heen there lono when the
ho,,id". M M 80 liz % fsat Ssya wsS arJ
p nont ro,,ina down 81 tbs , hi, Tranl
,o;.od We" h;naoif onS I;ot,osolv foilowed aftar
tSsc tSa lii " = Staaa M ~ ;rst Lara we niIi
see ioinus s'ono auI u's ';. ns.: ~ ~.
o,gsess alo say .nas nis eApe.iea.J seNs,,;n aA
pioueu -, iuo apnOl nNoosa,, sas and n;,L;on
stone ga.nels no ,pos: poA -
up, was surPliseu aG iss welgI' anu ssu-
era. sfser snd tbss
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Views of Hon. PIT. Barnum.

have lived nearly seventy-eight years In
this world, and as the result Of an experience
larger than comes to most men, have ar
rived at certain conclusions on the question
OF how to attain long life and happiness. MY
ideas are not probably new, Others may have
written in similar strain, but they should
possess some value from the fact that they
have come to me at first hand and as the re-
suit Of living.
If man expects to attain length Of years
he must live life according to the laws Of
his being. You cannot coquette, you cannot
play fast and loose with old Dame Nature.
She will not be bribed, she refuses to be
coaxed, she cannot be scared into gratifying
your improper desires. She is forever din
ming into your ears the fact that there is an
eternal, immutable law, Cause and Effect.
A man, then, had better make up his mind
in very early period Of his career, that he
will not eat too much, and, according to my
strict notions, he should never use intoxicat-
ing liquors or tobacco, particularly the
former. A man should keep good hours
The CAV fellows who sit up till 2 and 3o'clock
in the morning, drinking wine and lager
beer" probably think ink they are are have @ lots f OF
enjoyment. In believing that they are get
ting full measure Of enjoyment, they are
the victims Of an illusion; they see life
through jaundiced eyes. By and by the
scales will be taken off, life will be seen as it
really is, the truth of the common sense, "old
fogyn ideas about moderation will be demon
strated, possibly too late to do them any
good. As it is written in the Scriptures: II
have seen the wicked in great power, and
spreading himself like green bay tree: Yet
be passed away, and, 10, he was not; yea, I
sought him, but he could not be found" It
is fact that 1.-THE way Of the transgressor"
Of Natures laws Is always "hard." And one
of the old philosophers has said: Sensual
pleasure Is pain covered with the mask Of
happiness. She strips it from her face and
reveals the features Of disease, disquietude
and remorse.n
I say nothing more on the subject Of the
personal habits Of the man who wants to at
tain q long life. The sum and substance Of
all the advice that can be given on that point
is that man must avoid e1cesses: he must
live nationally, according to the laws Of his
being. You cannot get two quarts Of milk in
a quart jug. You can only secure certain
amount Of happiness in this world, and you
can only secure it according to good old
fashioned notions, founded on common sense,
1irtue and morality. Millions have tried
their own foolish and vicious ways Of reach
ing the goal, but the world has never re-
ported that they have been successful--
Epoch.
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TEMPERANCE.
New Departments, W. O. r. q.

Two departments Of work have been added
to the Worlds w. G. T. U, the department
Of scientific temperance instruction, and the
department. Of prison and police work. Mrs.
Mary e. Hunt, Of Boston, Mass, has been
appointed Worlds Superintendent Of the
first, and Mrs J. K. Barney, Of Providence,
R L, Worlds Superintendent of the second,
both these ladies being already Superinten.
dents Of the same departments in the National
w. c. T. o: Of America, and both having
done excellent and most successful work in
their respective departments.
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CURIOUS FACTS.

Hatchets were first made in 1904.
Printing was introduced into England
by Caxton in 1477.
The first complete sewing machine was
patented by Elias Howe, Jr., in 1s46.
After they have wound the silk from
the cocoon the Chinese eat the chrysalis
of the silk-worm.
The Gauchos of the Argentine Re-
public are in the habit of hunting
skunks for the sake of thair flesh.
A New England constable, who had
great experience with tramps, says that
he has never yet seen one with q bald
head.
The power of burning glass and Of
concave mirrors was known to Archim-
edes, and it is even asserted that by
their aid he burned feet.
Jumbo was the heaviest elephant ever
brought to this country. His live weight
was ten tons. An average elephant
weighs from four to five tons.
Frank Epstein, a Chicago boy of six
teen, smoked sixty cigars in one day on
bet, and three days thereafter he was
sept to the hospital nervous wreck.
Europe signifies a country of white
complexion; so named because the in
habitants there were of lighter COM
plexion than those OF either Asia or
Africa.
A British shipmaster at New Orleans
reports that while off the coast of Pata-
gonia butterflies were blown aboard his
vessel at distance of 150 miles from
the land.
Annie Owens, a nine year old girl at
Chester, Penn, jumped the rope 202
times at one trial. In few hours after
she was seized with convulsions and
died in great agony the next day.
A Philadelphia doctor went hunting
over in Jersey, got mixed in the swamp,
and in struggling to free himself re-
ceived scratches, which, by poisoning
him and producing erysipelas, brought
him to deaths door.
A Minnesota man who lost his wife
one year ago, lately made bonfire of all
his money and vsluables-some $1,000 in
all-and claims that it was by direction
of his wife's spirit, who further advised
him to burn their two children and kill
himself.
A lemon was picked at Los Angeles,
CAL, the other day, that weighed ST
pounds, was 81 inches long and S inches
in diameter. The tree on which it grew
had but half dozen lemons on its
branches, but the weight of the fruit
bent them almost to the ground.
A slight suspension bridge was built
at Niagara Falls in 1S4S and removed in
1854. A new suspenspion bridge, then
the finest in the world, having span of
s2l feet, was completed in 1856. The
great suspension bridge across Niagara
River, from Niagara Falls to Clifton,
Canada, was opened in 1869.
A young lady and gentleman were
married on the top of the Blue Noun
tains in Pennsylvania the her day.
They had q marriage license from the
Court of schuylkill County and were in
Berks County. The nearest point where
the license was valid was the top of the
mountains between the two counties.
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RELIGIOUS READING
Star Of the Cross.

Dark grows my way, my spirit dark
But still the Cross shines on;
The havened lights that led my bark
Are gone.
I drift upon an unknown sea,
But still the Star shines on for ms,
Jesus, my Star,
My souls bright Star,
Shines on!
Peace, soul, the shade Of self forsake,
For thee the Cross shines on.
Upon the skies divine shall break
The dawn. -.-...
Above the darkness Of life's sea
The Cross still lifts its Star for thee.
Jesus, thy Star,
b.. Thy souls bright Star,
Shines on!
o Voice upon the Sea Of Peace!
Star Of the Cross, shine onl
o Light when earthly beacons cease,
Shine onl
Nv Guide, my Hope, my Surety,
Star of the Cross, ri follow Thee;
Jesus, my Star,
My soul's bright Star,
Shines on!
The new creation fills my view,
Star Of the Cross, shine on;
So fills the sun drop Of dew 81
Shine on.
Icannot know the ways afar,
But eyermore I'll trust the Star;
Jesus, my Star, e..
My SOULS bright Star,
Shines on!
-[Golden Ruls
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A Novel Temperance Society.

A little over year ago a commercial
traveller, realizing that the drink habit"
was the curse of his class, as Of all business
men, and having read DR.. E. E. Hale's book,
mercial Temperance League" adopting for
its motto LEND a Hand" Each member
wears button badge bearing the letters G.
T. L., and there are two pledges: /. To
drink no intoxicating liquors 2. To get ten
others to join the League. This organization
has ready grown until it numbers several
thousand. Leagues have been started In
Boston, with DR.. E. E. Hale as its leader,
Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, East Saginaw:
st. Louis, Indianapolis, and are being formed
in many plac s. A system of correspondence
has been begun whereby each branch re-
ports monthly to the Cabinet Ten, located in
this city.-New York Tribune.
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Prefers the Summer.
There's f;ln in courting

There's fun in courting
Midst the winters sporting,
When the sleigh's flying over the crusted snow
And the tel's are jingling
And the ears are tingling
And the mercury's at zero or one below.
But think I'd rather
Wait for warmer weather
And sit in the woods on grassy knoll,
Where the flowers are springing
And the birds are singing,
ind court her under her parasoL
- Boston Conrier.
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Says an imaginative statistician: I'll
Texas were o circular lake and France a
circular island, the island could be
anchored centrally in the lake out of sight
of land, twenty-five miles from any
point on the encircling shore"
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Whilst you are upon earth, enjoy the good
things that are here ito that end were they
given), and be not melancholy, and wish
Yourself in heaven. II king should give
you the keeping of a castle, with all things
belonging to it, orchards, gardens, ETC., and
bid you use them; withal promise you, after
twenty years to remove you to the court, and
should al % neglect Your castle, and refuse to eat
of those fruits, and sit down, and whine, and
wish YOU were Privy Councillor, do you
think the king would be pleased with you'll
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Liquor-Drinkine Baseball Players.

Ferguson, the veteran umpire, player, and
manager, was full of "reminiscences and base
ball reform yesterday. Among other things
he said: II have watched closely the devel.
opment Of the baseball phenomenons, and
some OF the men deserved the success they
made, while others are out Of their occupa-
tion except when carrying the hod or de-
for instance; there is wonderful player, and
yet Of what account is he to himself or to
baseball? There is one of the greatest, If not
the best inf1elder in the country. He cannot
control his abominable taste for liquor, and
consequently he is useless The club owners
have forgiven his tricks until they have lost
all patience with him. He has been fined again
and again, and yet be will 60 right of and do
the same thing again. Now he appears to have
been shelved at last, and in the interest Of
the game he ought not to be taken back
again. Such practices cast reflection upon
every other player in the country. You read
in the papers Of another Of Burdock's es-
capades, and people say: oh, he's ball
player as If all ball players did such things.
l have always been in favor Of retiring men
from the profession who cannot conduct
of the field. was always opposed to rein.
stating those unfortunate players, Hall and
Devlin, and although they had powerful
friends, and every effort was made to have
them taken back, better counsel prevailed
and it was not DONE Base ball is the sport
Of the people, and we must keep 1t clean and
wholesome, or the foundation viii be knocked
from under it, Players are now paid good
salaries, and young men Of intelligence and
social position are daily entering the ranks.
Let the loafers 60, say, and so will say
every other true friend of the game.
Returning to Burdock what do you sup
pose il that great second baseman would take
care Of himself be could he drawing as q
salary to-daya Look at Dunlap with his
S45OO, and Johnny Ward demanding $4,000:
Burdock could get those figures with ease il
he had only taken care Of himself, and not
muddled his brain with that manhood
destroying tanglefoot. "-Nep York Sun.
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In recent interview with reporter,
leading New York liquor dealer said that
whisky was the most dangerous liquor in the
than any other spirits, and that it usually
contained seven different substances, all dam
gerous TO the health and life Of the consumer.
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hoped, will do away with hand labor.
The dial is made on copper plate,
the enamel or porcelain being filled in,
the dial plate then being semitic the fur
mace and submitted to very high degree
of heat, which melts the enamel, runs it
over the plate and burns it in. 1t is then
sent to the printer. A great many
people have an idea that the figures and
desfg fgns on dial are painted with a
brush. Such presumption is very far
from the fact. The paint is put on in
rough dabs around the edge, or where
the figures will strike. This is then
placed in a machine, perfected within
the last six months, which stamps the
figures and heavy part of the boroer,
marking the hours exactly, and work
ing automatically. All the ink then
left on is on the figures and borders, but
instead of the open blocks representing
minutes, the paint adheres in solid
black block. This machine works out
about 1000 dials a day, though its ca
pacity could be increased.
The plate then goes to second
machine, called the minute machine,
which marks out the minutes in blocks,
taking out the surplus black. The very
light lines, such as the cross of X and
the end lines of the letters are then
drawn by hand, and the plate goes to
the furnace, where the letters and figures
are enameled into the porcelain and be-
come part of it. Even after the black
is stamped and dried on it can be wiped
off with slight brush of the finger, but
after coming from the furnace the only
way to get it off is to cut it out and take
the porcelain with it. A great many
dials are ornamented with figures com.
pairing artistically with many steel en-.
cravings, costing all the way from S. to
$10O for the ornamentation alone.
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her own sin turned to wormwood and has
fallen.
Hundred-gated Thebes-for all time to b*
the study Of antiquarian and hieroglyphist
her stupendous ruin spread over twenty
seven miles, her sculptures presenting In
with which the now forgotten kings OF Egypt
shook the nations; her obelisks and columns
Carnac and Luxor, the stupendous temples
| Of her pride. Who can imagine the greatness
Of Thebes in those days, when the hippodrome
rang with her sports and foreign royalty
bowed at her shrines and her avenues roared
with the wheels Of professions in the wake Of
returning conauerorsi What dashed down
the vision Of chariots and temples and
shronss' What sS hands hand, I9llsd Isst upon the
defaced the sculptured wall and broke obelsks
and left her indescribable temples great
skeletons of granitel What spirit Of de-
struction spread the lair Of wild beasts in her
royal sepulchers, and taught the miserable
cottagers OF to-day to build huts in the courts
of her temples, and sent desolation and ruin
| skulking behind the obelisks and dodging
among the sarcophagi and leaning against
the columns and STOPPING under the arches
| and weeping in the waters which 60 mourn.
fully by, as though they were carrying the
tears Of all agesl Let the mummies break
their long silence and come up to shtver In
the desolation, and point to fallen gates and
shattered statues and defaced sculpture. re-
spending: "Thebes built not one temple to
| God. Thebes hated Righteousness and loved
sin. Thebes was star, but she turned to
| wormwood and has fallen"
Babylon-with her ESQ towers and her
brazen gates and her embattled walls, the
splendor Of the earth gathered within her
palaces, her hanging gardens built by
Nebuchadnezzar to plelse his bride Amyittas,
who had been brought up in mountainous
country and could not endure the flat country
round Babylon, those hanging gardens built,
ssrracs above terrace, till at the height OF
Le MeschaceÌbeÌ. [volume] ([Lucy] La.) 1853-1942, 1888-06-23
BUREAU: RIVE GAUCHE,
un mill. ct .i.,ni au sous de rEs,e ST. Pierre

Au point do vue alimentaire Ia rose est
beaucoup MONS employee auiourd'hui qu'au-
trefois. Les apcens, en- etfet, on usalent
dams lsyrs repas ordinares. Non seulement
les Grecs en- ornaient leurs bullets. mais lis
sen servaient pour parfumer leurs wins. AT
dire de Xenophon, lorsque les I.sc6demo-
mems current ravage Ia campagno do Cyrrha,
lis pousserent 81 loin Ia sensualitc qu'ils no
voulaient hoire que du vim parfgme.
Quand Horace invitait Harpinus, il melait
les roses son excellent vim de Falerne.
Aujourd'hui Oh sen seft pour faire uno
eau qui donne du gott 4 certains NETS On
en- fait aussi une conserve qui est fort agrea-
bic en- meme temps que stomachique. Cest
sous cette forme que la rose est surtout en-
ployee.
La conserve do roses qu'on prepare Il
Strasbourg ct Colrnar est sucree. legere-
ment acide ct de saveur for. agreeable; on
fotfre au dessert CONNIE les autres confitures
de fruits. En- AllemaSne, on In pange avec
les siandes, on en- fait anssi des gateaux, ct
.lpy en- ,het dams ie ~ r., ssk rpept
:. Les p6tales lie roses rouSes peuSeXe Sire
prises 4 'intGrieur. ST on cn avAle quelqu@s-
unes, elies cxctent generalement rapp6tit,
.or;iient festomac, facilitent In digestion, OF,
en- raison du tanuin qu'el!es reAferment, res
serrent lie ventre.
. Entin 10 fruit de II rose salvage connue
sous lie nom de cyHorhodoH ct qui est consti-
tue par une ba;e presentant, a retat de
maturte. cette belle couleur de coral
que tout 10 monde connait pour l'avor vue i
la campagne sur les eglantiers, sert faire
une confture rougeatre qui possede un OK
ceilent godt, ct qui es'. par consequent, tres
agreeable q manger. On on fait de grandes
quantities en- Suisse ct en- France. Le cynov-
rho'io" etant astringent, il est evident que
les personnes qui sont d'habitude un peu
resserrees dovent s'abstsnir de cette conftu
re, ou du mons ne pas en- faire un usage re-
gulier. Au contraire, les personnes sujettss
aux diarrhees chroniques sen trouveront 4
merveille.
Mais In rose est surtout tres utile en- me-
decline. On Ia volt, en- etfet, snter dams uu
tres grand nombre de compositions assez
energi4ues.
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LES AN NONCES.

Les annonccs ne sont pas &C Gull a dc moins in
teressnt dams un journal Les trois quarts ct plus
de Ia population ont besoin dc guelquc chose ont
quelque chose vendrc ou i louer. GU dc perdu ou
dc trouve gu demsndcnt dc rcmploi on des en-
ploycs, etc ct trois quarts lscnt les annonccs
avec autant dntertt cue rautrc quart lit les nou-
vellcs on le feuillcton.
part celia, ne trOuve-t on pas dams les annOnccs
de lamusement ct de rinstructiou? IL ny a ricn
dams un journal qni demandc autant de soin que les
annonces Aussi. 'voit-on dcs gnndcs masons qui
emploicnt un hommc EXPIRES ct gros xalarc uni
qucment pour pr6parcr leurs annonces Ia couse-
quence est quellss sont, regc generate DIES mOdecs
de concision piquantes attrayantcs ct souvent tres
spirtuecs OF anusantes. Files sont misses dams les
journaux dams 10 seul but de fairc dc largcnt pour
rannonceur e, il en- fat une Gtudc spGciae atm dc
rvUssir.
III est depense des sommcs Gnormcs tous les ans
pour les annonccs dams les journaux. Les hommcs
qui suivent bien eurs afircs ct qui reussissent
deboursent pas ces grands montants d'argent pour
rien. lis ont quclque chose de valcur a farc con-
naitre au public, ct est clair que le public lit cnrs
annonces ct en- profile car autrement cctte enorme
depcnse ne scrait pas continuec dune aimee fau-
tire. telle qu'clc Pest.
COmme In rcdaction des annonces de journaux
est un departcment compile. ct distinct dc tterature
ceux qui negligent dc les lire pcrent une grande
parte de Ia matiere Ia plus intGrcssantc ct Ia plus
instructive dun Journal ct qui est dc In plus bautc
importance dams rin,ertt commun.
Les meilleures maisons dc csmmcrre annoncent
continueliement; eles ont tonjours quclquc chose
d'attnyant ofrrir comme bon marche i fairc, par
&C que rencrgie qu'ellcs dcplcicnt ct lcur
prit d'entreprise les tennent toujours aux
aguets pour ,trcuver les marches plus avantageux
Ill ~. ~
s'ensuit que ron pcut sauvcr plus fargcnt "a,
quelque information puiscc dams unc annoncc un
lnatin, quen iiSsnt tout 10 rcste dun journal du
rant un mois.
Que celui qui ne lit PAS les annonces 80 m~ttc
les lire ct il scra surpris du nonveau champ dins-
tructicn qui s'ouyrira devant ses ycux. Eexpe-
riencc en- vaut In peinc; essaycz-la