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TEMPERANCE.
TRY HIM ONCE MORE.

Poisoned by alcohol, blear-eyed and lily clad
Cursing his fate as he shuffles along.
Crushed and bereft Of the once earnest will
he had,
Penniless, homeless, and jeered by the
throng.
Friends have assisted him, pastors have
prayed with him
He has been rescued and lost DER and DER.
But do not give him up-pull from his lips
Speak to him kindly and try him once
more.
though tits disheartening never to thrive
with him,
Sad his relapses from virture to shame;
live MIN not hopelessly up ifyou strive with
Some spark of good may be famed to a
flame.
Some potent memory-haply mothers
voice,
Teaching him virtue and wisdom of yore
May be recalled to his ear by another's voice.
Speak to him kindly and try him once
more.
Christ in His charity taught those who came
to Him,
Ill deeds should be pardoned seventy times
Succor the least here and you do the same to
These are His precepts in earth and in
heaven.
Oh, then, when laboring hard for humanity,
Never believe that you labor in vain,
Kindness will conquer the drunkard's insan-
ity,
Speak to him gently and Try him again.
-Francis S. Smith, in N',0 York Weekly.
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In the House.

102D DAY.-In committee of the whole on
the Legislative Appropriation bill, the ques-
ton of the Civil Service was debated at
length.
103D DAY.-The House in COMMITTEES Of
the Whole took up the Legislative Appro.
priation bill, and continued the discussion Of
the Civil Service Commission. Several
New York importers protested against the
Dingley WorStei bill. Mr.. Bland intro
duced bill to reduce taxes by placing on the
free list all imported goods exchanged in for
eign countries for farm products.
104TH DAY-By appointment of the Speak
er, Mr.. Burrows acted as Speaker. The
House then went into Committee of thu
Whole tMr. Payson, of Illinois, in the Chair
on the Legislative Appropriation bill Mr..
Bland introduced bill to admit free Of duty
goods, wares and merchandise purchased in
foreign countries with the proceeds of farm
products of the United States.
105TH DAY.--The Speaker laid before the
House the message of the President return
ing without his approval the bill to allow Os-
den, Utah, to increase its Indebtedness. Re
ferrsd to the Committee on Territories.
The Legislative Executive and Judicial Ap-
preparation bill was passed. The bill to
create Rock Greek PARK, in the District OF
Columbia, was defeated.
1O6TH DAY-In Committee of the Whole
the bill providing for classification of worsted
cloths as woolens was discussed and reported;
no action was taken by the House. -. The
Senate resolution was concurred in concern
ing the irrigation of the arid lands in the
valley of the Rio Grande, and the construc-
ton of dam across that river, at or near
Ell Paso, Texas, for the storage of its waste
waters. The House then proceeded to con-
slider bill removing the charge Of desertion
from William Dawson The bill was passed
yeas, 1877; nays, SO. "A bill was passed in
creasng to S100a month the pension of the
widow of Rear Admiral Nicholson. . Mr..
Bingham reported the PostofFice Appropria-
ton bill.
1O6TH -DAY.-The Senate Service Pen,
sion bill was amended and passed. -. The
Worsted biz was passed.
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Washington.

THE President nominated John P. Jackson
to be Assistant Unitsl States Treasurer at
San Francisco, Cal.
THE President signed the joint resolution
of Congress appropriating $50, C9) for tue
relief Of the sufferers by the Mississippi
flood and also the Worlds Fair bill
PRESIDENT HARRISON has issued instruc-
tions that no obstructions shall be offered in
Florida to the work Of Federal officers.
MRS. JAMES A. GARFIELD and Mr.. and
Mrs. J. Stanley Brown, the latter of whom
is Mrs. Garfield's daughter, visited the White
House for the first time since the death OF
President Garfield, and were received in the
red parlor by President and Mrs. Harrison
and Mrs. Mckee.
PRESIDENT HARRISON has appointed ex-
Governor David H. jerome, of Saginaw,
Mich, to be Chairman of the Cherokee
Indian Commission, vice Angus Cameron,
resigned.
EDWARD o. LEEcH, the Director of the
Mint, has submitted to Congress report on
the production of the precious metals for
the calendar year, 1889.
THE United States Supreme Court de-
cidei that the law of Iowa providing for
seizure of liquor in original packages" was
unconstitutional.
REPRESENTATIVES of nine Of the American
Republics-namely, the United States of
America, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Salvador,
Honduras, Bolivia, Ecuador, Hayti and the
United States of Brazil--signed the formal
treaty of arbitration in Secretary Blaine's
office. Ten of the seventeen nations partici-
pating in the Pan-American Congress have
now signed the document.
PRESIDENT HARRISON sent to the House
message vetoiug the bill to provide for the
erection of public building at Dallas, Texas.
A DELEGATION Of twenty young colored
men called on the President and urged the
appointment Of Edward P. McCabe, OF
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INTEMpERA NCE HEADS THE LIST.

Ths Thti3sst report Of the British Commis-
N sloners OF ;la;t Lunae >sSified by the medical
officers Of the institution, in the u i1 into
47S patients who have beer admitteAN,
public and private asylums since 1887. TEss
causes are classified as moral and ''physi-
CAL" Asmight be expected, ''iutemperancs
in drink' heads the list Of single causes with
Is, 300 cases. Of moral causes" domestic
trouble" adverse circumstances" and
mental anxiety and worry, and overwork,"
are. collectively held responsible for 25, S97
cases. OF other moral causes, religious e1-
citement" is credited with 1859 cases, 'love
affairs with 1924, and fright and nervous
shock" with 1858. or physical causes, lover
e1ertion" is credited with 761 cases. 'sun-
stroke" with 1886, accident or injury" with
4199 diseases OF women" with 11,3l5, ''old
age" with 5773, 'priyation and starvation"
with 2607, "fevers" with $780, puberty" with
5S2, and ''other bodily diseases or disorders
with IA, 7l9. Previous attacks had occurred
in %, 7O3 cases. Hereditary influence was as
certained in S,063, and congenital defect in
5Sei. AS between the sexes, 66,9l8 were of
tie male and SO, $50 Of the female SEX
Popular Science Monthly.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

Fifty members have been recently added
to the w. C. T. q. Of Mason City, Ill.
In New York, last year, 1434 husbands
nrocured divorces from their wives on the
Ground of drunkenness. During the same
year 12, 432 wives procured divorces from
their husbands on the same charge.
Baron Liebig the great German chemist,
says that las much flour as can lie on the
point of table knife contains as much
nutritive constituents as eight pnts Oh the
best and most nutritious beer that Is maue.'
The saloon managers of California, ate
late meeting of the horticultural CommiS-
sion, complained of the fact that 2o,oo GAL
Ions of anilins dye disguised as cherry juice,
to flavor the Wines had been shippeu lnlo tue
State within the year.
1t is estimated that ten per cent OF the
cases of insanity are caused by tuberculosis,
and three per cent. by contagious diseases;
the habitual and incorporate use or alconol;
opium and other narcotics causes about
nine per cent. Of all cases.
A temperance editor, of Lincoln, Nebraska,
recently found coffin on his doorstep, placed
there by the liquor men to indicate his fate
if he continued to "persecute" them, where
upon the editor sold the coffin for seven dol
lars and presented the money to the VIC.
T. U.
About four hundred and thirty soldiers
inmates Of the soldiers home and prisoners
in the military prison, at LeavenWortn,
Kansas-have signed the pledge of the W. c.
T. u, as O result Of the work Of the State
Superintendent of the department OF work
among soldiers.
An Englishman who insulated his bedstead
BY placing underneath each post broken-oh
bottle, saysh he had not been free from rheu-
matism or gout for fifteen years, and that ne
began to improve immediately after the ap-
plication of the insulators Apaper, quoting
this, wisely adds: "Ther's manya fellow
who could cure his gout if he would break or
the bottom of his glass bottlesi in time"
A maker of shoppers for beer bottles, with
a suit for infringement before the United
States Court gave some notion OF the i'm
mense business done in bottled beer, by stat
ing that there were 30, 600, 600 OF his shoppers
alone in use in the United States. They are
Of course used over and over again, though It
b. be T for OF one reason or another, out of coutinu-
GUS use,
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THE LABOR WORLD.

The labor agitation increases.
The first local union Of printers was or
|anized in 1881.
THE labor situation in France, Germany
Ind England, is serious.
THE convention of working-girls has closed
Is sessions in New York city.
A GENERAL strike among the cigarmakerS
New York city is threatened.
THE largest iron coal-breaker ever erected
being put up at Drifton. Penn.
IT is estimated that 1908, 900 men are now
hut of work in the United States.
In Sheffield, England, there are about six
hundred artisans who play the violin.
The strike fund Of the United Brother
bod of Carpenters and Joiners is over $780,
DO.
THERE are three men in the State Prison In
oregon each of whom cut of hand to avoid
kork.
A STOVE molder in Rochester N. ~
bundry recently found a $50 gold piece In
is sand pile.
AMONG the II, 900, 900 wage workers in the
United States, only 5000 600 belong to labor
fganizati ons.
THE Kentucky Legislature has passed a
w giving married women the control OF
beir own wages
FEMALE BARRIERS have opened shops in
kery large city, and have generally failed
ithin month.
tTHE Reading Railroad is adopting eco
bmical measures, and at least 7O0O men are
bit Of employment
THE increase since 1886 in carpenters
ages alone caused by the eight-hour sys-
Im amounts to fully 100000.
6E brown-stone cutters have had the
St-hour workday for fifteen years. They
$500 strong and earn So day.
lTHE Knights of Labor, as body, are op-
bsed to the eight-hour movement, but they
Ave tacitly agreed not to oppose 1t.
TIE Russian Imperial Council has passed
bill prohibiting children under. twelve
bars of age from working in factories.
4Co-opERArivE stores and dwellings for
krkinx people have been started In North
Italy, and they are meeting with remark
70 success. --..-.--.-
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THE ALCOHOLIC CONSTITUTION.

1t is ono of the most distinctive effects Of
alcohol that when the taste for it has once
been acquired it makes for itself special
constitution which may most faithfully be
designated the alcoholic constitution. When
this constitution has once been formed it
renders everything else subordinate to itself,
according to the degree Of alcoholic inau-
ence that has been established. Thus the
person really temperate in the use of alco-
hol holds by his temperate habit as firmly as
he who has established in himself the more
dangerous habit of inebriety. These effects
are purely physical, and they can be induced
in animals inferior to man, by training, just
as easily as in man himself. They are de-
pendent on the affinity which alcohol has for
the matter of the brain and the other nervous
centres: in which centres it forms a habitat
for itself. from which it can only be re-
moved by long-continued total abstinence
Voice.
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KILLED HER HUSBAND.

Lizzie ckerman's Crowning Act in
a Career of lnfamy and Disgrace.
A sensational shooting occurred in the
Police Court at Memphis, Tenn, resulting in
the death of Jake Alderman, well-known
thief, highwayman and train robber. Acker-
man was arrested on a charge of wife
beating. When the case was called in the
Police Court the prisoner and his wife
were standing side by side. Alderman spoke
Ito her and at the same time handed her
written reGaest for some clean clothes.
The woman bent her head for an instant to
hear what he had to say. and then, without
warning, drew revolver from beneath her
cloak. and presenting it within few inches
|of Ackernan's abdomen, pulled the trigger.
Before any one could realize what had
happened, she fired two more shots at Acker
man, who had fallen to the floor and was
fwrithing in agony. An hour later he was
dead. Alderman was notorious crook.
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NUGGETS OF NEWS.
A Selected Budget of the --latest
Dispatches.
Great Damage and Suffering In.
ficted by Floods in Texas.

The most destructive flood ever known
in the history of North Texas has just passed
through the Trinity River at Dallas, Texas
The great rain raised every tributary of it
far out of their banks. During the night it
rose rapidly. and at 10 o'clock In the morn.
ing passed the highest water-mark in fifty
years. In front Of Dallas, Texas, it was two
miles wide extending to the foot of
Flanders Height west and to Oak Cliff
south of the city. On the north all resi-.
dences from hundred yards beyond Cochran
street were submerged, some to the second
floor and others to the attic. No one had
been reporte! drowned.
Back water extended far up on the north
side of the city, while OH the south houses
were submerged as far up as Ward street
north. South and in front OF the city there
was one vast ocean of water thirty and forty
feet deep. Its like has not been seen.
Trains on all the railroads. the Texas
Paciiinie;,, the Missouri Pacific, tho Santa Fe
and the Gree. liz; IL, were not running west,
north or south Of the city. Wa shouts were re-
ported all along their lines, but the worst were
immediately around t!le city. Gangs of Tnen
were watching the bridges over the Trinity
River and keeping off the drift The crest
of the waves lacked sly feet of
the flooring of the bridges in
the rity, but the Santa Fe Ceutral's
bridges below town were reported
submerged. News from the surrounding
country is bad. Small bridges have been
destroyed by the deluge. Indeed, few are
left. The destruction Of crops will amount
to little or nothing, for as soon as the water
goes down they will grow again.
The storm of Friday will be memorable
one. 1t extended from the Indian Territory
to the Gulf, from Marshall to Abilene There
was not stream, however small or great.
that was not raised high above its high water
mark. At many points were hurricanes and
one genuine cyclone. Many houses were
blown down, but so far not single life has
been reported lost. A norther was blowing,
and fires were quite comfortable.
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TASTED FORTY DAYS.
Signor Succi's Remarkable Absti-
nence From Food.

Succi completed his forty days fast In
London, England, in the presence OF thou
sands of spectators. At the commencement
of his fast he weighed 176 poupas, and ninety
two at its conclusion, and had lost ope inch
in height. He broke his fast in public on the
stare. At the conclusion of his first meal he
vas presented with a gold medal AMI the
nr IS gave him another. Succi declared that
he never would fast again.
Sirnor Succi has done similar fasts before
this, He is rival of Dr.. Tanner, but alleges
That he works on system that will be OF
benefit to humanity in the future. He has
been experimenting in the animal and vege-
table Kingdoms for years. and claims that he
has at last found vegetable from which he
compounds an Ingredient which is to displace
the necessity for all substantial food, and yet
sustain the germs Of life to its allotted num-
ber of days. 49,. -,
Succi claims that his elixir will eventually
be used by doctors in cases where abstention
from solid food is desired, also for soldiers on
the march when food is scarce. English
physicians we tched the course OF Succrs fast
day by day.
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A HUGE PRINTING JOB.
The Enormous Quantity of Blanks
Prepared for the Census Bureau.

The Enormous quantity Oh biahhs
Prepared for the Census Bureau.
The Government Printing Office at Wash
ington has just finished the largest single JOB
ever undertaken, in printing for the Census
Bureau 20, 600, 900 enumeration blanks. The
paper required to print this number of blanks
amounted to II. ass reams, each sheet meas.
uring a2x3O inches When printed and cut
these made 10000, 600 sheets, 18, O0o OO0 OF
which were 11x15 inches and 2,OOO,OOO OF
which were 15x22 inches in size.
The thickness Of each ream measured lS
inches: therefore if it were possible to stack
ali these blanks they would make pile 65lo
feet high. equal to one and one-quarter
miles. This would make solid column OF
paper over eleven times as high as the WASH, a.
ington Monument. If laid end to end these
blanks would form continuous line of paper
1855 miles in length, or as far as from San
Francisco, CAL, to New York city, and from
there to New Orleans. The paper would cover
25, ,2OS, 333 square feet. Its total weight was
45S, 336 pounds; or over 2SS TONS
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Exterior Colors: All clapboards and
shingles on side walls and gables gray all
trim, white roof shingles, oiled veranda
floor and ceiling, oiled.
Interior Finish: Rough brown plaster
tinted and yellow pine trim.
Accommodations: All the rooms and their
Sizes closets, etc., are shown by the plans
given herewith. Besides these there Is
cellar under the whole house and Storage
room in the attic. All house convenien>es
are provided.
Special Features: Style of exterior, colo.
NAL Open timber ceiling in hall and dining
ROOM A more descriptive name for the hall
would be living room. Egery room may
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Fatal Fire in q Mine.

Fire started in the North Tamarack shaft
at Hancock, Mich, near the surface pump,
a hoy being in the mine at the time.
The flames reached the shaft house., but We're
soon extinguishel. Captain Joseph Roberts,
John Thomas and John Rowe were
affected By the gas; Roberts was brought up
fatally burned, and Rowe was dead. The
pump boy, John Williams, was found
drowned at the bottom of the shaft 800 feet
from the surface. The fire is supposed to
have caught from the boys candle.
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HarrisOn's First Veto.

President Harrison sent his first veto 10 the
House. In his message, returning without
approval the bill Ito authorize the city Of
Ogden, Utah, to assume increased indebted.
ness" He says:
The general law fixes the limit Of four per
cent on the last assessment for taxation
as the limit of indebtedness which a mu.
ncpal corporation in the Territories
may assume. This bill extends this limit
as to Ogden to eight per cent. l do not
doubt that the citizens of Ogden will ulti-
mately realize that the creation of a NUM-
cipal debt of over half million dollars by
city Of $1,000 population, being about $37
per capita, is unwiSe.
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A VERY ingenious electrical device
has lately been patented by which the
hands of O clock set to certain hour
are made to complete an electric cur
rent connected with the kitchen stove,
80 that the fire is started when the
given hour arrives.
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BARNEY MCGUIRE, aged IS, who has
been in prison thirty-five years of his
life, pleaded guilty, in Rochester, to
larceny, saving he had no home or
friends, and wanted to go to prison for
life. The Judge gave the old man o
fourteen months sentence 10 Auburn.
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Foreign.

FOrelSu.
The oil refinery Of Sir W. A. Rose &c Co,
at Bankside, London, has been damaged by
fire to the extent Of $500, 600.
MEXICAN forces under General Hernandez
attacked the Yaqui Indians at the Canonez
de Jubsibenps and La Coma, and after
several hours Of fighting routed them. The
Mexicans lost one officer and two soldiers and
Ave soldiers were wounded. The Indian loss
was heavy.
FIVE sisters named Domovierof, the
Youngest nineteen years old, committed sui.
eide al N0<cow, Russia 1t is believed that
fear Of arrest as Nihii;sts led to the commls-
sion yG Lhe Iced.
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SECOND FLOOR.

have the most thorough ventilation.
Cost: With 'plank" frame, 5000; with
balloon frame, $500 "Plank" frame re-
uuires somewhat less material and labor; in
appearance it is quite equal to ballon frame.
As usually built small frame house will
bear twenty times the weight that is usually
required of it. Plank framing sacrifices
some of this unnecessary strength.
R. W. SHOPPELL, Architect
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PERSPECTIVE VIEW.

weather. Viewed 'broadside on this cot
tage presents quite an imposing appearance.
Below will be found condensed description:
Size CT Structure: Front width It #. 9
in, not including veranda; depth, Sc it. in,
including yeranda.
Height of Stories: Cellar #. in. first
story. S it, in: second story, s ft.
Materials for Exterior Walls Founda-
tions, stone first story, clapboards second
story and gables, square butt shingles;
roof, shingles.
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CLOUD BURST IN TEXAS.
Gainesville Flooded and Forty
80 Dwellings Swept Away.

A terrific storm Of rain and hail visited
Gainesville, Texas, deluging the streets to the
depth Of three feet and destroying over S5O,-
boo worth of property. There was a
cloud burst after the storm had been
raging for four hours. A creek which
hows through the town overaowei and
swept away forty dwellings, but the whole
town came to the rescue, and only one life
was lost. Mrs Gestman died Of fright in
DEns of man while being carried from
me. The streets were knee deep in
for two hours, and an immense amount
bperty was swept away OF destroyed
ports from the country show that the
have suffered, and many farms were
sos aer water.
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Terrible Accident Pleasure Party

While returning from trip to Lafayette,
party of young people met with a
shocking accident near Lima, Ohio.
Their horses became frightened and ran
into a stone wall, killing both of
them, and dashing the occupants against the
stone abutment of bridge Minnie and Ger.
tie Pierce were instantly killed, and Ella
Hawkins and Cliff Church were fatally i'll
iurel
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FREAK OF 4 MADMAN.
A Canadian Farmer browns His Three
Children in a Rain-Barrel.

A well-to-do farmer named Marion, living
about two miles from Shelburne Ontario,
Canada, drowned three Of his children IN a
barrel of rain water, and then attempted to
drown himself in a creek. He was found on
tbe bank of the creek by neighbors in critl.
cal condition and there was no possibility OF
his recovery. No reason is known for the
rash act.
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a Village Blown Away b,

a Village Blown Away by a Storm.
Yorkvine, Ark, a village few mile:
southeast of Cotton Plant, in Woodruff
County. was entirely blown away during
heavy wind and rain storm Hundreds oi
cattle and stock were reported killed, but
there was no loss of life, 50 far as could be
learned
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ELEVEN OF THE MOB KILLED

Troops Fire on Anti-Semftic Rioters
With Terrible Results.
An anti-Semitic mob, numbering 1000 per-
sons, after invading the town OF Biala in
the Government Of Siedlee, Galicia, sacked
the shops and dwellings Of the Hebrew in
habitants.
The troops were called out and eleven per-
sons we're Killed and many wounded.