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tions awaiting enforced transportation
from home and friends, They look
more like convicts on the way to jail
than recruits for the army of the EN-
pire, and as they are surrounded 6y
throngs of weeping and walllng rela
tives the cruelty of the system forces
itself on the mind of the observer
Just now these conscripts are being
driven to the military depots in droves
from all parts of Germany, and sad
ness reigns in every village and ham
let.
Itdoes not give US any more conf
dence in the moral influence of war
and military training to learn that the
two principal and responsible mana
gers of the louisina Lottery are Gene
rails Beauregard and Early of Confed'
crate fame. A New Orleans gentle
man assures us that their names are q
guarantee of honest executive manage
ment. That may be true. But what
about the honesty of tempting. poor
men and young men to gamble-to
nav millions of dollars for lottery tick
cts to managers who distribute only
thousands The whole thing is at its
heart fraud. 1t takes solid earnings
and returns small chance of obtain
ing part of what is thus stolen.
The police of Amesbury, Mass,
have recently unearthed plot to as.
sassinate Thos. E. Leider, the eX-
Cathoic priest. The door of the room
of the ex-priest had the lock fixed so
that any one could enter. On the
night of the 29th ult., alarms were to
have been rung at midnight calling
the citizens to some out-of-the-way
place, which would have given the
plotters chance to do their murder
Gus work. The plot was discovered in
time to spirit Mr.. Leider away, and
disappoint his would-be-murderers.
1t is not vet safe, even in this free Re-
public, for priest to renounce Roman
ism, and it is easy to believe that the
inauisition would be resorted to, to
suppress heretics, if the temporal pow
er of Rome were restored.-Paclhc
Methodist.
The "arid West" has become so in
: name only, for, according to the re-
ports on artesian wells, an abundant
supply of water may be had almost
anywhere. In Costilla County, Col,
farmers have obtained water for irri-
CATION by digging holes Is feet deep to
the CLAW formation, when the water
rises to the surface. At Pueblo COM
pany proposes to furnish for city pur-
poses, a million gallons day, from ar
tesian wells. Near Colorado Springs,
the farmers sink pipes to the gravel
beds, and at once secure plenty OF wa
ter; and so on, the reports come from
all parts of the plains once deemed un-
inhabitable because of their aridity.
River water was substituted for
spring water in one Of the quarters OF
Paris several times last summer. In
eyery instance an increase of typhoid
fever was observed. The quantity OF
: spring water brought to Paris being in
sufficient for the demand, the council
of public hygiene and health has de-
termined to expedite the labors for the
new supply from springs recently
bought by the city, and to insist that
the use Of the present spring waters
be limited to food purposes.-From Sc
maine Medicale.
One of the sharpest things, and the
truest ever said by Dean Swift or any
one else, is: "There is, indeed, no
wild beast more to be dreaded than
the communicative man having moth
ing to communicate" And the terror
increases when such man is in the
pulpit, for the chains of etiquette
hold the unwilling hearer fast in his
seat.-New York Advocate.
g It Is said that the Sioux indians who
have been to Washington, are not al
all satisfied. Young-Man-A fraid-of'
his.Horse said to reporter: 1--WE
!. had some promises, but they are like
all other promises of the Great Father.
!, We are not fooled, and We 60 home
with heavy hearts. We wanted Gen
eral Miles, but he did not come. We
shall tell our people we have got more
promises. They will laugh at us and
call us old men,"
It Is curious fact revealed by the
figures of the recent census, that
while there are in the United States
three cities of more than 100000 in
fants each one Of between 500, ,OOt
"A 9O0,O three of between, 400, ,OOt
hid 100000 each, and nine Of between
200, 900 and 100000 each, there is not 8
single one having between 100000 and
I 100000 inhabitants. In 1860 we had
but nine cities with a population o
over 100000 each.
Robert Southey asks "Whence is
1t that wars still disgrace the SELF;
styled Christian world? 1t is owing
to the doctrine of eXpediency. i
Christians had boldly looked in the
face of their duty, as developed in the
New Testament, this senseless and lin
7 fernal system Of wholesale butcherJ
I. must long ago have ceased"
Jars and divisions, wranglings ant
prejudices, eat out the growth if moi
the life of religion. There are thos'
: waters of Marah that embltter 0u
spirits and quench the spirit of God
Unity and peace are said to be like tn
dew Of heaven, and as dew that de
scended upon Zion when the Lore
promised His blessing-life for ever
( more. When men are divided the.
seldom speak the truth in love.
It is little we can really do for on
another in the march of life. We ar
all under marching orders, and hav
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