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Temperance at Indianapolis.

Francis Murphy and his son Edward the
tenn erance evangelistS, recently closed their
meetings in indianapolis. The elder Murphy
began there three weeks ago, and was Joined
by his son week later; they have set on
foot the most successful Gospel temperance
movement ever inaugurated in that city,
addressing forty-fve large meetings. The
result of their labors is something over 650O
signers to the total-absrinence pledges and
several Gospel conventions. The press and
people of indianapolis regard their work
with great satisfaction. They went there
at the invitation of j. Z. Shatfer, President
of the indianapolis Street Railroad Company,
and they were greatly assisted by the leading
ministers.
The last nights meeting at Tomlinson Hall
was one of the largest, fully 5U00 persons be-
ing present. On the crowded stage with Mr..
Shatfer was Samuel w. Allerton, the we'll
known Chicago millionaire, who made
short address, wherein he urged the Murphys
to come to Chicago, where he believed q
greut work awaited them. He said they
were fighting dynamiters and hanging Anar-
chists, but he believed the real cure for this
spreading evil was to send such men among
them as Francis and Edward Murphy to
preach their gospel and pull these misguided
Socialists out from under the baleful influence
of the ordispensing element. He de-
clared he should return to Chicago with q
determination to inaugurate movement
that would bring tho Murphys and other
evangelists into that field, and he would take
part in the meetings.
Among the Indianapolis conversions are
two saloon.keepers and about three score Of
the hardest drinkers in the city.
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(iOlOsheS.

Goloshes formerly called galoshes),
from galoche, q word through the
French derived from galocha, the
Spanish for a pattcn, clog or wooden
shoe. The French applied the term at
first to shoes partly Of leather and wood,
the soles being wood and the uppers
leather. The term was introduced into
England as a cordwainer's technicality
to signify method of repairing old
boots and shoes by putting narrow
strip of leather above the sole So as to
surround the lower part of the upper
leather. 1t was also adopted by the
patten aad clog makers to distinguish
what were also called French clogs from
ordinary clogs and psttens. Clogs were
mere soles of wood, with straps across
the instep to keep them on. Pattens
were the same, with iron rings to raise
them from the ground, but the galoshes
were wooden soles, usually with joint
at the part where the trend of the foot
came, and with upper leather like very
low shoes. By the term goloshes is now
generally meant the india-rubber over
shoes which are generally so called In
England. d.-Dry Goods Chronicle.
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TEMPERANCE.
I Know a Bank.


There's bank that 1 hear about now and
then,
Which takes deposits from workingmen;
It has glaring mirrors and faring gas,
And it's drafts are drawn in a jug or glass.
The customer there Tor his saving shows
A shaky hand and a blazing nose.
Keep out of its books, for I've come to
learn
The Gin Palace Bank is queer concern.
There's bank that hear about now and
then
Which takes deposits from workingmen;
It's clerks are never too proud or fine
To enter trifie of yours or mine.
And the pence mount up, as l hear folks say,
To nice little sum for a rainy day.
Get one of its books, for I've come to
learn
The savings bank is safe concern.
There's bank that I hear about now and
then,
Which takes deposits from workingmen,
A shake of the nand, smile, look,
Is entered fair in an angels book.
Good words are its silver good deeds its gold,
And its riches ne'er fail. nor its bags wax old.
Oh, think OF that bank, tor I've come to
learn
To have treasure above is our chief con-
Germ.
-F. Langridge.
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Town-Life rs a Cause Of Degeneracy.

The general unftness and incapability
of the dwellers in our large hives of in
dustry to undergo continued violent
exertion, or to sustain long endurance
of fatigue, is fact requiring little evil
dence to establish; nor can they tolerate
the withdrawal of food under sustained
physical effort for any prolonged period
as compared with the dwellers in rural
districts. It may be affirmed also that
through the various factors at work
night and day upon the constitution of
the poorer class of town-dwellers, various
forms of disease are developed, of which
pulmonary consumption is the most
familiar, and which is doing its fatal
work in lavish and unerring fashion.
Thus it may be conceded as an estab-
lished fact that the townsman is, on the
whole, constitutioually dwarfed in tone
and his life, man for man, shorter, weaker,
and more uncertain than the country
mans. hold the opinion that the de-
terioratlon is more in physique, as i'm
piled in the loss of physical or muscular
power of the body, the attenuation OF
muscular fiber, the loss of Integrity of
cell.structure, and consequent liability
to the invasion of disease, rather than in
actual stature of inch-measurement. The
true causes of this deterioration are
neither very obscure nor far to seek.
They are bad air and bad habits. To
these may be added prolific factor
operating largely to produce degenera-
tion of race, and that is, frequent in
termarriage, often necessitated by rel:g-
ious afiuities. Popular seisnes NoatAIy.
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Temperance News and Notes.

Temperance News ana Notes.
The church, constructive; the saloon, de-
tructive.
Temperance is the moderate uss of good
things and total abstinence from bad things
1t is stated that the Emperor William Of
Germany has entirely given up alcoholic
liquors.
The rum.power is too colossal to be ig-
uored, too cyclonic to be regulated, too inso.
lent to be endured.
Not a newspaper in Kansas is advocating
The stabishment of the saloon, while two
years ago there were fifty.
Absolute prohibition of the liquor traffic is
law throughout the 2,5UO, 900 square miles i'll
the Northern Territories, Canada.
What list of horrible crimes now burden
the telegraph wires daily: And intemper-
ance stands out as the chiefest among the
causes for these terrible affairs
The brandy cigarette is the latest thing from
Boston. 1t is made of tobacco that has been
soaked in brandy, and the smoker is enabled
to keep mildly intoxicated without touching
drop Of liquor.
Robert W. Page, of Atlanta, Ga, an en-
ploye at Weller's slaughter house, while
drunk, fell into the large kettle full OF hot
water in which hogs were scalded. He had
been in the kettle over an hour when found,
and his body was boiled almost into jelly.
Sing soug of sixpence, you fellow full OF
rye,
With not cent to bury you tomorrow
should you die.
The keepers in the barroom counting out his
money;
His wife is in the parlor with well-dressed
sis and sonny;
Your wife has gone out working and wash.
ing peoples clothes,
To pay for old rye whisky to color up your
nose.
"Pretty Boy" an Indian OF the Yankton
Sioux tribe, at Fort Peck Agency, crazed
with rum, killed his squaw in most brutal
manner, murdered two policemen, fatally
wounded third and then killed himself.
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Bible Scenes Still Enacted.

In writing from Fayal, one of the
Azores Islands, correspondent of the
Boston Transcript says: "On the coun-
try roads and near the wind mills you
will see circular threshing floors made Of
hardened pumice stone. When cows
and oxen are driven over the grain,
crossing and recrossing it, these are a
distinct and frequent feature in the
landscape, and reminds one of Bible
scenes. 'What is that strange noise
I hear from afarI' say to my native
companion. 'Why, it is an OK cart
coming along the lane with a load of
grain.S watch and wait and within
half m hour it passes, with its two or
three yoke of oxen dragging this un-
couth cart with its high encircling
wicker front and sides. Its great solid
wooden wheels creak and groan. One
is impelled to be merciful and beseech
the owner to oil his wheels. But no, I
must not, and am told that this noise is
a part of the equipage, and no farmer Is
satisfied unless his wheels have the
proper amount of squeak. A law was
once made by the Portuguese Govern
ment that no creaking cart should be
allowed to enter a city, but the people
rebelled and the law was repealed"
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Known by Their F.'uits.

The following forcible remarks are from
an article in the North American Review by
Frederic R. Condert, a Roman Catholic.
The men Of today need to learn what
Christianity has done and is doing for the
human race. They must be asked to refrain
for a moment from laughing at the bright
sallies of brilliant declaimers. And to in
quire into the possible results Of a successful
campaign against the system Of belief that
has been interviewer with the growth,
strength and progress Of the world for the
last eighteen hundred years. None more
wisely and eloquent!y than MIR: Gladstone
could have warned society Of the dangers
and evils which reckless eagerness for un-
tried systems and an impatient sufferance Of
time in the history Of our modern life, the
law looks on in silence and leaves mems
tongues and pens free to malign and car
feature the religion which was, and still is
part of the law Of the land. The fear Of pun
ishment being removed nothing Is left but
self-imposed restraint Of him who decries
sacred things to fix the measure and violence
of his attacks. Whether DR.. Field and Mr..
Gladstone may or may not outshine Colonel
Ingersoll in debate, is not. after all, so i'm
portant. The question remains whether the
Lords prayer may be abolished, and the
sermon on the mount derided into general
contempt, without changing the whole struc-
ture Of our moral and social world.
After all we fall back on the Saviours
word, "By their fruits ye shall know them"
Ingersolrs infidelity means some large audi
ences at so much head. 1t does not mean
anybody's good or anybody's benefit outside
of Ingersoll Christianity takes the world
for its field, and is ever at work seeking to
make thu world better. As to arguing with
the blasphemer. we have only to say, they
waste their labor who enter into conflict
with him. Though dogs bay at the moon to
their hearts content, they cannot bay away
one moon beam. Let blasphemers howl, and
shrek their curses to the worlds great moral
sunshine the religion of the Lord Jesus,
they cannot dim its lustre, nor stay its help
full, healing beams.
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shivered, ,outlive the gale? Oh, how many there
have been who, postponing the religion OF
Jesus Christ. have plunged into mistakes they
nevercouldcorrect although they lived eighty
years after, and like serpents crushed under
cart-wheels, dragging their mauled bodies
under the rocks to die; 80 these men have
fallen under the wheel OF awful calamity.
crushed here, destroyed forever, while a vast
multitude Of others have taken the religion
Of Jesus Christ into everyday life, and first,
in practical business affairs, and secondly,
on the throne Of heavenly triumph, have il
lustrated, while angels looked on and uni
verse approved, the glorious truth that
"Godiness is profitable unto all things, hav-
ing the promise of the life which now is as
we'll as OF that which is to come"
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The Pure Heart.

Rev. James Caughey once said in a SER
mon on blessed are the pure in heart, " that
it was impossible to sully sunbeam. "And
while the sunbeam" he said, may dart
down into the darkest hole of filth, and illu-
inmate it, it will soil nothing, and yet not be
soiled itself. So the ray Of heavenly life and
love, existing in the perfect believers heart,
goes into ard comes out into contact with
the dark dwelling-places of iniquity and
filth, and cheers, and enlivens and en-
courages by its presence, but is always kept
unspotted from the stains Of the world. 1t
is God who gives to the pure in heart this
great gift and distinction. 1t is He only
who can keep the heart in perfect peace"
This thought is beautifully illustrated by
the scripture: Though ye have lien among
the pots, yet shall ye be as the wings OF a
dove covered with silver. and her feathers
with yellow gold. Christian Witness.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
New Every Morning.


Every day Is a fresh beginning,
Every morn Is the world made new;
You who are weary Of sorrow and SHINING.
Here is a beautiful hope for you
A hope for me and hope for you.
All the past things are past and over.
The tasks are done and the tears are shed;
Yesterdays errors let yesterday cover;
Yesterdays wounds, which smarted and
bled,
Are healed with the healing which night
has shed.
Yesterday is a part Of forever
Bound up in sheaf, which God holds
With glad days, and sad days, and bad days,
which never
Shall visit us more with their bloom and
their blight,
Their fulness Of sunshine or sorrowful
night.
Let them go, eince we cannot relieve them,
Cannot III d and cannot atone;
God in His mercy receive. forgive them;
Only the new days are our own,
Today is ours, and today alone.
Here are the skies all FURNISHED brightly,
Here is the spent earth all reborn;
Here are the tired limbs springing lightly
To face the sun, and to share with the
In the chrism Of dew and the cool Of dawn.
Every day is fresh beginning;
Listen, my soul, to the glad refrain,
And, spite Of old sorrow and older SHINING,
And puzzle forecasted, and possible pain,
Take heart with the day, and begin again!
-[London Sunday-School Times.
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Gratitude.


"Good morning, SIR"
81 glanced from my desk at tall, ca.
daverous looking individual, clad in q
faded brown ulster"
II hope 1 don't disturb you2"
"You haven't yet" I observed.
'Thank you, very much. If it isn't
troubling you, would you be kind
enough to permit me to show you the
advance sheets of our new work on cart
in the Middle Agesi"
81 don't want it."
"Thank you; but I don't ask you to
buy it. but merely to look at it."
am of a very obliging disposition. l
turned over few pages hastily, without
giving him an opportunity to recite his
usual lecture.
eyes," I said, as I handed the book
to him, "it seems to be a pretty good
book, but I'm not able to buy it,"
"I'm very much obliged to you for the
opportunity of showing it to you."
"Not at all, I replied, turning to my
balance sheet.
"Couldn't offer you some induce.
ment in the way of easy terms3"
II can't afford it on any terms at
present."
81 am sorry" he said, as he started re-
luctantly toward the door: "but, as tits,
1 owe you debt of gratitude for per-
mitting me to talk to you about it. The
life of book agent, sir, is hard; and it
is like an oasis in desert to meet man
who will permit an agent to describe his
book. Good morning, SIR"
was halfway down q column of
figures, when he came back and re-
marked, over my shoulder, insinuatingly.
"Would fifty cents month bring it
within your meansl"
mo" said. with touch of impa.
tience; 81 can't buy it at any price. I'm
too busy to talk about it now, anyhow"
"Well, good morning, sir. I'm sorry
to have disturbed you; but I'm more
than obliged to you for the opportunity
of showing you the work and letting you
know what it u.s."
Istarted down the column of figures
again, and had reached total of 257,
when voice remarked, apologetically,
close to my ear:
"Excuse me. sir; but would you OBJ.
ject to my lnquiring when you think tits
possible that you will be likely to have
leisure to examine the work little more
thoroughly"
I could bear no more. I arose from
my desk, and calmly but firmly took my
visitor by the collar, and led HIM out into
the hall and to the head of the stairs.
Then, with a skill derived from long
practice. kicked him downstairs.
I stood and watched his abrupt and
somewhat undigni6ed descent. The
sound of breaking bones came up the
hallway. A moment later the book
agent picked himself up, slowly and
painfully, and called back to me in
broken but grateful voice, as he limped
away:
"Thank you, sir; I am ever so much
obliged to you for letting me off alive"
-PucE.
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Thought Him a Collector.

Clerical Caller-"Is Mrs. Paynothing
at home?"
Door Attendant-"Are you the man
who's come to collect on the wringer?"
G.. CT am notw
D. A.-"Or the sewing machine
man"
&. C.--"No!"
D. Ado you come from the place
where she got her furniturel'
C. CT did notm
D. A.-"Did you sell her the Bible on
instalments2"
&C. C.-"No, did not, and cannot
understand this questioning. I am her
pastor. Is she at home2"
D. A.-''Faith, feared you were a
collector of some kind. and 1 was towld
to tell any of thin that she was out.
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Fighting q Bear and Three Cubs.

'The morning I met the bears, " said
Spruce Williams (of White Camp,
w. Va.), 81 started down the creek
to my corn-feld, about quartef
of mile below the house. I took
nothing with me, except big hickory
stick, not expecting to see anything at
that late hour in the morning. I had
entered the field, but had not passed 9
dozen corn shocks before heard loud
sport and a grunt of some animals,
which I instantly recognized as BEARS
not twenty feet away. While was
looking around for the bears half
grown cub ran out of a shock OF fodder
close to my side. Without stopping to
think ran up to the cub and hit it 8
welt with the club. The bear tumbled
over on its back and began to cry and
whine. Before I could hit it again the
old she-bear came tearing up, followed
by the other two cubs, and then had
my hands full. There was more fight in
those three bears than I ever saw before.
They were in dead earnest from the
start, and gave me no chance to back
out or run off. The old bear came up,
and when within q few feet of me she
reared herself on her two hind feet and
tried to catch me in her arms. gave
her welt over the nose which settled
her back on all fours for q second; but
before could hit her again one of the
cussed cubs had slipped up behind me
and gave me fearful rip with its sharp
claws on the right leg. The claws tore
my trousers and hide into ribbons and
penetrated the flesh almost half an inch.
Then it was hot work. All three came
at me at once. I leveled one of the
small ones. but got ripper from behind
again, and just then the old she-beal
got close enough to strike me with her
claws. She raked me, as you see, from
my chest clear down to my waist, and
would probably have killed me then
and there if I had not been lucky enough
to punch her in one of her eyes. The
blow must have hurt terribly, for she
laid down and rolled and whined, but !
did not have chance to finish her be-
fore the two biggest cubs came at me
from both sides. l rained blows on theiI
heads and bodies, but didn't succeed in
getting in real good one before they
had about torn my hide and clothes into
ribbons.
"Just at this time my foot struck q
stone, which I saw was big boulder
weighing about eight or ten pounds. ]
dropped the stick and picked up the
rock in a second, and let the big one
have it between the eyes. That settled
her. now had more time to devote to
the cubs, and although I was mighty
sore, and bleeding from dozens of
wounds I succeeded in finishing them.
After the fight dragged myself to the
creek and jumped in. The cool water !.
revived me somewhat, and I finally got
out and managed to get to the house.
when the old woman put me to bed and
went to work to stick me together again.
I am getting along well enough, I sup
pose, but you'll never catch Old Spruce
while he lives in these mountains going
out again very far without gun or some
other weapon. Cincinnati Enquirer.
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EurOpe's Crowned Heads.

The present Emperor of Germany is
William II. He is twenty mine years Of
age.
The Emperor of Austria, Francis:
Joseph, is tifty-eight years of age, and
has worn the imperial crown for forty
years.
The reigning Prince of Montenegro is
Nicholas l., who is forty-seven years
old, and has reigned for tweuty-eight
years.
The King of Portugal, Luis l., is fifty
years old, and is man of enterprise and
progress. He has been for twenty years
King.
The Emperor of Russia, Alexande,
ILL.,, in forty-three years Of age, and as
icendetl the throne after the murder Of
his father, seven years ago. ..
The President of the French Repub-
lie, NJ. Carnot, is tifty-one years of age,
and was elected to Office in December
1887, as successor to N. Grevy.
The Sovereign or Sultan of Turkey,
Abdul Hamid H., is forty six years old,
and succeeded to the throne twelve years
ago, when the Sultan who preceded him
was deposed.
The King of servia, Milan l., is forty
four, and was crowned only six years
ago, but before that he had held the
throne for fourteen years by election as
Prince Milan Obenovich Nv.
The King of Sweden and Norway,
Oscar l., is in his sixtieth year, and has
regued for sixteen years. He is fairly
liberal monarch. aud has favored some
reforms during his reign.
The King of Roumania, Carol l., is
forty.nine years Of age, and was pro-
claimed King only seven years ago, but
for fourteen years before that time he
had been chief of the Roumanians.
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His First Experience.

The Anarchist hau just come home
with clean shirt on.
"Good heavens, Barlowiski" ex-
claimed his wife, sinking into chair,
shave you become blood sucking capl-
talist and ari.tocrat2"
"No,"h he said, this shirt was pres
ent."
"How does it happen that you haven't
traded it for whisky2"
ut was the saloon-keeper who gave
it to me-" he replied bitterly. - Chicago
Tribune.
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UnhaceinS Interest.

"What is the matter with you?" asked
a travelling man of seedy looking fell
low, who was asking assistance. "Iou
look as if you are able to work."
Il am. but I can't get it. Host my
job about month ago."
discharged for failure to attend to
your duties, no doubt?"
II Idon't know about that. The boss
said that attended to them with un-
tagging interest"
"What was your occupation2"
sI was station master at small town
and let seventeen passengers get left."-
Merchant 7rareler.
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Step into the parlor, sir, and I'll tell her
you are there. ."-Boston Budget.
The Duel OF the Future,
,cena-At q te1ephone

The Duel OF the Future.
scene-At telephone.
Ding-a-ling.a.ling.
First Citizen-"Hello, exchange;
give me seventeen thousand and ten.
Hello, is this seventeen thousand and
ten2 Is Blanky in2 Tell him to step to
telephone, please. Is this Blanky? Well,
l called you up, Mr.. Blanky, to tell you
that know what you have been saying
about me, and I wish to remark right
here to your face that you are liar"
Second Citizen lat the other end of
the wire)-"Under those circumstances
I will be compelled to challenge you.
Will name Gatllng guns as weapons, and
will request your attendance on the roof
of the club house at / 80 this afternoon.
I will add, however, that you are much
mistaken; am not liar"
First citizen-"Will you give me your
word as a gentleman that you are not2"
Second citizen-'I will"
First citizen-"Then, of course, I
cannot do otherwise than accept the ex-
PLANTATION, and withdraw the challenge"
Second citizen-"That will be entirely
satisfactory. Call around and see me
when you get time. Goodbye"
First citizen-"Good-bye."
Ding.a-ling straightforward Trao-
eler.