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illness of the husband. They ore both
we'll educated, and speak English and
several other languages as we'll as they
do their mother tongues.
One Of the most picturesque scenes,
and one that attracts the largest crowd
of East Side children and grown boys
and girls, is "The Two Sisters" rs they
have come to be called. They are young
and pretty-prettier than the ordinary
italian maiden of twenty summers-and
are bellies much sought after in the So
ciety of their section of the city. They
have been in this country very short
time, and their knowledge of the English
language is very limited. One carries q
large bird cage inhabited by half dozen
bright yellow canaries. Aplainly printed
sign attached to the top of the cage in
forms the curious onlooker that the
owner is fortune teller, and that, if you
have dime to spare, you can, by the as
sistance of some peculiar knowledge the
birds are supposed to possess, read the
story of your fortune. If you hand the
maiden the required amount she will
touch one of the birds with thin wand,
whereupon it will Immediately pick out
an envelope containing an account of the
good or bad things in store for you.
The other girl is very accomplished
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FROZEN IN HIS CABIN.

A few weeks ago the body Of Frank Clifford
was found in his cabin at Whisky Flat, New,
partly naked and frozen stiff. A demiiohnl
with small quantity of whisky In it was
near the body, while little dog lay upon tho
bosom of it's dead master. and fought
savasely when dislodged. It is believed that
Clifford reached his cabin while intoxicated,
and that he was unable to disrobe and go to
bed but fell asleep on the floor, and as the
night was bitterly cold, froze to death. At
the coronors inquest it was testified that
Clifford was native of New Bedford, Mass,
aged about IS years. The finding was that
the deceased came to his death by ex-
posure. Is
The Walker Lake Bulletin says: There
is bit Of romance connected with Frank
Gifford's life. he belongs to wealthy
family, and went to California in the early
flfties in his fathers ship. On the death OF
relatives he fell heir to $780, 900, but as he
was cursed with an uncomfortable appetite
for drink, the courts appointed his sister as
his guardian. and he was unable to obtain
possession OF his money. He again went to the
Pacific coast and finally isolated himself on
a cattle range in Esmeralda County, Nevada.
His death was most miserable one, there
being no human being within many miles,
and while the owner OF thousands he died In
poverty. BE was buried at Hawthorne,
New s.s.y.--
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RELIGIOUS READING.
I'm THE CROSS OF CHRIST I GLORY.

INTHE CROSS OF CHRIST GLORY.
"In the Cross of Christ glory"
Sweetly sung with 1isping tongue,
Caught his lips the sacred story
Loved ones DER his cradle sung;
Caught his ear the tuneful measure,
Ere his heart saw in the rhyme
Mortals' hope of heavens treasure,
"Tow'ring DER the wrecks of time"
stIn the Cross of Christ I glory"
Sang bis youths maturer years,
Sang as bIithely, promissory,
AS the lark when Summer nears;
"When the woes of life o'ertake me,
Rose as bubbles children toss,
"Never shall the Cross fOrsake me-"
All, would he fOrsake the Cross2
"In the Cross of Christ glory"
Proudly sang his manhood's prime,
Tho his soul swept transitory
AS the whispering wings of time;
"When the sun of bliss is beaming,"
Ah, so blindingly it shone, -,
From the Cross tre radiance streaming"
Lighted up his lips alone.
"In the Cross of Christ glory"
Sang trusting child again.
Bowed the head with SORROWS hoary,
Now as humble, meek as then.
"Bane and blessing, pain and pleasure"
And al these his soul had tried;
Hearts and lips poured forth the measure,
'By the Cross are sanctified."
"In the Cross of Christ I glory"
Toled the bells in measures slow;
SIN the Cross of Christ glory"
Sang the singers sweet and low;
Spake the pastor Of the glory
TOW ring FER the wrecks Of time,"
Over there Is heard the story,
"Gathered round its head sublime"
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TEMPERANCE.
FRoNTING THE ZOE.

FRONT1N9 THE tOE.
Wherever we look are scenes that appaM Us:
The Drink Fiend goes forth on his mission
Of i'll; 4
In pitiful tones his victims still call US
To fight the good fight with earnest strong
will; sss
Well never desist till the struggle Is Der;
Well never desist till the foe Is no more.
No laurels that tell Of red carnage we crave;
The weapons we use are supplied us by
Truth;
IT'S our mission to warn, to teach, and to
And we overlook none from old age to
youth. -...s.sEt 4
We'll never desist till the struggle is DER;
Well never desist till the foe Is no more.
No parley we hold with foe so tremendous;
We court not bis smile, we fear not his
frown;
The courage we need our duty will lend US
And the arms we have taken we'll never
lay down. 20
Well never desist till the struggle Is DER;
Well never desist till the foe Is no moro.
Talk not Of his wealth--of his Il-gotten gain,
Talk not Of the right which the law has
conferred;
Upon wealth 50 obtained there rests black
stain,
Upon it the curse of the orphan Is heard.
Well never desist till the struggle Is DER:
Well never desist till the foe Is no more
Too long has the nation this tyrant endured;
Too long has its head meath its yoke beon
bent low; =
And never-oh! never can right be secured,
Till down in the dust lies this terrible foe.
Well never desist till the struggle Is DER;
Well never desist till the foe IS no moro.
National Advocate.
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At Trubia the Government has erected
an immense concern for the production
of heavy guns, and is now about to put
in S;emens furnaces for the casting of
high grade steel for new ordnance.
Among the guns lately turned out at
Trubia are four which form part of the
armament OF the new Spanish cruiser
Pelayo. Of these two are 49 ton II
inch guns and two are II inch guns. One
of the 40 ton guns, shown in our cngrav-
ing, was lately proved. The projectile
ueed was OF steel, weight $50 pounds,
fired with a charge of 44O pounds pris.
matte powder, which gave an initial
velocity of 1000 feet per second and a
pressure near 10000 pounds per square
inch.
The guns are built on the Hontoria
system. The penetrating power at short
range is 80 inches of wrought iron.
Length of gun about 40 feet.-SeientW
american.
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10 BE SAVED FIRST IN CASE or PrRK.

Such was the inscription on a strong,
Well-built cabinet, which stood near the
main entrance-hall to a nobleman's man
sim. After his death the chest was opened,
and found to contain all the toys, clothing,
etc., of an Only child, who had long been
dead. Such was the fathers love, that he
had preserved and cherished every memento
of the departed one, as the choicest of his
treasures.
If, then, these perishable relics were so
dear to him, how sacred to us, who are par
ents, ought the living originals to be! We
should inscribe on them q choicer motto
than to be Saved first in case Of fire"
Saved first for time and eternityp' Saved
before wealth, honor or ease; saved from the
thousand vicious influences which surround
them; saved from the pitfalls Of sin and
Satan; saved from the false sentiment, the
skepticism, the infdelity Of the age; saved
from the fawning sycopbancy which is paid
to birth and wealth, at the expense of true
worth saved from tie moral cowardice
which is too often manifested in high places,
filled by men who dare not advocate q just
and righteous cause, unless it is popular.
Our sons and daughters must be saved from
all these things, and many others, if we
would have them become blessings to the
world.-Aothers assistant.
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EVIL SPEAKING.

Is it part, wonder, of the fruit of that
forbidden tree which brought death into
the world and all our Woe" that so many
of lis are too ready to say ofothers the things
which are unkind. to attribute the wrong
motive to our fellow-beings, to Jndge un-
fairly? Is it not, in truth, one of its worst
effects, since no one can think OF Eden,
peace, and beauty in world where it is pos
sible for one person to speak with anything
but gentcness and sincerity of "a neighbor.
"Charity thinketh no evil" says the best of
books, linking the sweet declaration iI 2
golden chain, On which the seytral descrip-
tiors Of charity. or love, are strung like
gems which glitter and flash at every turn.
"a lie tt at is half truth, is ever the
worst of lies" is the conclusion of 9 poet
who sees deeply into the heart Of things.
Do we remember this when we permit in
ourselves the license to speak doubtingly OF
some friend whose good fame should be
sacred trust when we listen to the innuendo,
or fail to resent the slur cast upon the
character Of the abscut; whe4 We
happen to know something con-
cerning an acquaintance, which
be left to silence and whispered In conf
Dental corner, thence presently TO be
bruted on the house-tops2 Should there
not be cultivated in every child delicate
sense of honor, which should act as guard
on the door of the lips, barring the way for
censorious, evil, or untrue speech2 by
thy words shalt thou be justified" "By
thy words-condemned."
Would not society be better, our home
life happier, our friendships stronger, our
own souls nubler if we were God helping
us, determined hereafter to speak in kind
ness only of the absert, and therefore, the
defenceless? And, in cases where such
speech is unfortunately impossible, Is it not
Christian duty to bear in mind that silence
is golden?
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not LUCK.

A barque was wrecked on the New jersey
coast one wild winter night, anu the only
persons saved were two boys who gosstRs
Shore over the terrible billows Oh broken
pieces Of timber.
It was a sad sight when next day four
hearses were driven to the village cemetery.
with bodies Of seamen, washed ashore IN the
night. The boys were the only mourners
who followed the funeral managed by town
officials. Their homes were far away and
they were soon to be sent back to the port
from which they had sailed. :
The dozen men Of the crew OF the doomed
bark could not be saved, although the life
saving crew of neighborlng station dld
everything in human power to get lines or
boats out to the ship when she went to pieces
scarcely thousand yards from shore,
''It's boys luck" said one Of the He-sav-
ing crew, when the drenched boys came
safely through the roaring surf on their
piece of timber; ''let boy alone to get
ashore, If there is a scrap OF shaving or
hen-coop to hang to-"
Especially if fellows got sense enough
left in his head to stick to his piece OF tim
ber," said one of the rescued boys. -
Then it came out that the Captain and his
crow were all under the influence OF liquor
when the gale began, and that the greater
the danger became, the more they drank TO
lessen their sense Of the peril.
''It was pretty tough to see such sailing,
and not dare to open our mouths, said the
other boy. "Wed never have gone to pieces
if they'd had their heads enough to hold her
steady and off the shore
What's lust it," said his companion.
.sThey didn't have their heads. A fellows
got to be all there if he wants to make
port in storm" -
Isn't it a good thing to be sure that one
has ones head at all times? Many young
man has made shipwreck Of his whole Life,
because in time Of danger and perp!exlt}y u},
---kL tnat which hSCealH
he has put into nls nlvuu- '.
the brains away" 1t is not luck but p!uck
which wins, and it is the truest sort OF pluck
to refuse any truce with such an enemy
Youths Companion.
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THE ORGAN t;AN AND HIS MUSICAL WIFE.
ers are supposed to drop their spare pen
hes.
Further down Oh the east side you can
find any day tall, consumptive Italian
organ grinder whose semi-respectable
SLOUGH hat, neatly trimmed and glossy
black curly hair and beard, and clean
but somewhat the worse-for-wear suit of
cast off summer clothes, testify to his
having seen better days. He is one of
the living opponents of woman suffrage.
He is always accompanied by his wife,
who displays some talent m blowing upon
the coronet, and great ingenuity in COL
lectiug pennies, nickles and even dimes
from the storekeepers and residents in the
vicinity. She is very comely woman OF
thirty-fve years, a pronounced blonde,
and as Enthusiastically German as her
husband is an Italian. She is neatly at
tired in a checked calico dress, with a
white apron and a black shawl.
1t is said that this oddly assorted
couple were few years ago the Joint
proprietors of one of the most fourishing
table d'hote restaurants on the East Side,
but went under owing to the prolonged
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

The "moneyed men" of Camden, Me-, have
organized to shut up all the saloons In tho
town.
The Massachusetts, Home for lnebriata
Women is about completed, and will accom-
modate one hundred aud fifty inmates
Bright colored silk handkerchiefs adorned
with representations of wine-glasses and
whisky-bottles are now sent into the Congo
States by the liquor men for free distribution
among the natives who buy their liquor
Baltimoreans are alarmed over the recent
large increase in the number OF saloons In
that city A. committee Of influential citizens
appeared before the State Legislature and
advocated the speedy passage OF high
license bill.
The Nashville Issue claims that the money
that Tennessee pays annually to the whisky
shops S15, ,000, ,0OW would meet all the regular
expenses of the State for ten years. Nash
vile saloon receipts alone would carry on the
Government.
The names of twenty-eight habitual drunk.
ards have been communicated by the police
authorities of Erfurt, Germany, to every
saloon-keeper and retail iquor-dealer in that
city, the latter being by Government ordi.
nance forbidden to sell them anything.
A Battle Creek (Mich.) man requested the
City Recorder to order all the saloons in the
town not to sell him anything 10 drink. lno
Recorder took the sensible druniard around
to all the ginmills told the proprietors to
take good look at him and to not sell him
liquor on pain of prosecution.
The Rev. B. f. Kephart, missionary in
Liberia, writes letter to the Voice, in
which he gives the following as part of the
cargo of the steamer that carried him: 1000
casks Of rum, II cases of gin, 400 tons Of gum
powder and IA missionaries-all on their way
to Africa. Missionaries, rum. gin and gun
powder-what a mixture!
A statement to the effect that total alb
stainers are shorter lived, on the average,
than any class except immoderate drinkers,
has been given wide publicity, as it was at
tributed to reputable British scientific So
ciety Some one who has taken the trouble
to look into the matter, however, asserts that
the ratio is gained only by counting among
the total abstainers III WHO die In Infancy. j
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"Mr. Williams" as he is called, is one
of the most unique and best known char
acters on the East Side. He is known
everywhere he goes and Is as popular as
he is famous. He is an expert on the
banjo and good singer, too. His old
plantation melodies will hold street au-
dience as long as he chooses to entertain
it. He has numerous accomplishments in
other lines, such as putting the lighted
end of cigar in his mouth and with it
there playing jig on small mouth
organ. 1t is said that he once graced
the variety stage, but fell out Of that
line in consequence of irregular habits.
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player on the viola, and performs classical

playeron the viola, and performs classical
melodies for the purpose of keeping a
crowd around the fortune telling canaries.
An italian fruit vender, who has been
in this country long enough to become
inspired with the true American principle
of enterprise, is making good thing out
of his uncommon ingenuity. He ia the
proprietor of corner fruit stand (where
everything in the line of fruits, candies,
nuts, ETC., can be bought, and in con-
nectlon with it runs bootblacking chair.
To advertise his wares and entertain his
customers while they are having the COW
erings of their pedal extremeties put into
presentable condition, he hires small
boy to turn the crank of music box.
This is industriously kept going, and the
proprietor says it pays handsome profit
in the way of attracting trade.
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SENATOR coLQU1rT DENouNcEs RUN.

United States Senator A. b. Colquitt, Of
Georgia, addressed the meeting Of the Ameri-
can Temperance Union yesterday afternoon
at the Union Tabernacle Church, Thirty
fifth street, near Broadway. BE was intro
duced by General Clinton B. Fisk. he said:
1.-THE rumshop, with all its ramifcations OF,
evil, threatens the American home; and here
we find foe in suppressing which all should
unite, irrespective Of party and Of faith. We.
say to ourselves when we hear Of q case Of
drunkenness: It's somebody else's boy:
somebody else's daughter. 1t Is anothef's
home that is wrecked. It is not mine. This
evil cannot touch me- tell you it strikess
blow at the heart Of everyone Of you to have
one home out of the many In this great city
of New York wrecked. Politicians and
statesmen tell us that the perpetuity Of this
country, the freedom and welCbeing Of all,
is dependent upon the ballot-box. Itell you
that it depends upon the purity and sanctif-
cation Of the American home. It is a pure.
father and pure mother that makes true
and noble American citizen. ."-NeU York
Mail and Erpress. .. ss..
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STREET MUSICIANS.
A PICTURESQUE PHASE OF NEW
YORK LIFE.
The Italian Sisters and Their Fortune
Telling Birds and Viola-A Com
bination of Music. Peanuts
and Bootblacks.

Since the New York Board of Alder
men rescinded its famous order prohibit.
ing the little German band and the
Italian organ grinders, the big city's
colony of street musicians has taken on
much more artistic appearance than it
used to have. The 300 licenses which
Mayor Grant recently issued were given
to those physically unable TO win their
daily bread in any other manner, so that
the street musician of to-day is, as a
general rule, much more decrepit look
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THE BLIND MAN AND HIS DOG.
ing individual than he was before the
question of street music prohibition was
brought up.
A Press artist, in his wanderings of
single day in the streets of New York,
saw characters as oddly assorted and as
unique as can be found in any of the for
eign countries that American travellers
and especially artists love to rave about.
Even on that very aristocratic thorough
fare, in the very aristocratic neighbor-
hood of Fifty-seventh street, can be
found every day, rain or shine, de-
crepit looking old man, whose nationality
it would be hard to determine, who in
dustriously puts in his time grinding out
questionable melody from an unknown
instrument which resembles concertina
more than anything else. This blind old
gentleman-for he is blind-;sits there
with his legs crossed from morning until
night, while the sharp eyes of his little
dog-whose species is as much mystery
as the nationality of his master or the
name of his musical Acknowledgements
the tin box into which sympathetic pass
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She took his hand, and, still ho.dme
it, sat down beside him.
"You bring strange news, she said.
"Yet it is true" he replied.
@The General has just told me what
you said to him."
II supposed he would"
sThere is much back of that??'
"There is, Lola"
"And you will tell it to me?'
aYes, if you desire it"
IT do desire it,"
"Then I shall Bot begin to enact a
new role by keeping 3 secret from you.
You are still good, faithful member
of our order?"
"As I understand the order-yes."
I'VE understand it in the same way,
though others do not. Hear me-"
Without anv useless words, Ivan
Berger told all that had befallen him
since he had seen Lola before, and in
this narrative was included the whole
plot for the assassination of the Czar OF
sll the Russias.
He concluded by saying: .
"The Gear is depressing you and
Yours let us use this knowledge to
compel him to do you justice"
"Justicel In what way?" she asked.
els not your father very sick?"
aYes, Ivan, even unto DEATH
sand by order of the Gear ne must
be out of Russia before second sur
rises'"
aYes.'
Should he be found here, then he
goes to the grave.
Cor Siberia" she said.
at is the same thing, except my
choice should be the grave. Now the
Gear holds our destiny in his hands. :
ALAS! Ivan, that is too true"
"And his life is in our hands?"
II fear not; other plots have fallen
through" 5,
aBu. this one cannot fail. I speak
with knowledge of the men behind it.
Maux, Lance, George Neyski and
others are desperate and determined
The Cars doom is sealed, yet he can
be saved, if he will only stay his cruel
hand"
"How?"
"By telling him the truth"
"But who is to tell him."
"Il"
"You, Ivan?"
eyes, L I have ceased to fear the
Gar"
"He would treat you as conspiratoi
and lunatic."
"Au the worse for him then"
"No, Ivan, you must leave this tc
me-"
aAnd you will see the Czar, Lola?'
ayes, I can, for I know the court.
You could not succeed if you tried"
"And when will you do it?"
"To-morrow."
"Without fail?"
ayes, without fail"
"And you will insist on the eordi
tions?"
"Ishall."
"Good. Now can leave you with 8
light heart"
Ivan rose, pressed her dainty little
hand to his lips. and left the room be-
fore she could utter the words that
rose to her lips to stay him.
"Oh, God!" she cried, when alone.
as there to be no end to this life Of
torture?"
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Every one knows that Daltonism col

Every one knows that Daltonism con-
sists in blindness in regard to GER
tain hues. According to the researches
of DR.. Albertinl, this Daltonism is &C
companied by corresponding deafness
toward certain musical notes. Those
persons who have not the sensation of rcd
can not distinguish The note sol; those
blind to green can not recognize re;
and to this lack of perception in hearing
is added the incapacity to produce the
noise made by means of the vocal ap-
paratus.