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"A wAAr!" sHR1EKED AUNT HANNAH.
she yielded graciously when she saw
that further resistance was useless, and
gained her ends in other ways. Now
after moments breathless silence she
said, placidly: "Bery we'll, Samuel; dey
chillun's yourn ez well ez mine, an eff
you say dey shall keep dere Sunday on
Sat day wy so dey shall. Now, chillun,
put on you things an run out an hab a
good time playin'. An yo needn' come
in tell dinner-time, cause yer mammy's
goin' to church."
There was wild whoop and a
scramble for the outer air that made
Aunt Hannah's lips tighten ominously
for moment.
The ten-acre lot lay well down ont of
sight behind the breezy slope of
meadow land, but the children Mr..
Baxter had not counted upon, and the
sober, church-going deacons were hor-
rified to behold Brother Samuel Bax-
ter's delighted family having glorious
game of tag that Sunday morning in
the front yard, and before night every
good brother and sister in the settle
ment knew of his change of religion.
All the morning Mr.. Baxter plowed
Sturdily on, watching the threatening
clouds meanwhile, and by dinner.time
heowas unusually hungry and thought
OF the usual Sunday dinner with a
smack Of his lips.
Aunt Hannah didn't call him, but at
the regular time Mr.. Baxter opened
the door and entered. Aunt Hannah
sat rlacidly before the fire reading her
Bible while the children stood around
the window in disconnected but silent
group,
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"Wha-whar's dinner, Hannah?" he
asked, apprehensively.
I'm de pantry" replied Ap1t Hannah,
without looking up.
when be yo' goin' to get it, Hannah?''
samuel Baxter" said she, with
severity, ''all de dinner you'se goin' to
get is in de pantry an you kin jes' go
an hep youse'f. Eff Use got to keep
Sunday fer de hull family, ain goin'
to do no wo'k dis day. Git long, now,
an eat yo' dinner, an dom 'sturb dis
season oh contemplution!'
And with rueful faces Mr.. Baxter and
his family were obliged to make their
Sunday dinner off bread and cheese and
cold boiled parsnips which they found
laid out on the pantry shelf.
For some reason the afternoon seemed
dull and dreary to Mr.. Baxter. Just as
he finished his blowing the rain began
to drizzle down in a way that meant it
had come to stay, and he ate his cold
supper and crept to bed cross and COM
fortress.
The next morning he was waited
upon by solemn deputation of digni-
fed elders, dressed in Sunday splendor
and feeling righteously indignant with
the man who caused them to lose a
whole halliday of fall blowing.
What had been a mere Pha-isaical
compromise between Mr.. Baxter and
his conscience now hardened into dog
ged resolution to stick to the colors he
had SO suddenly adopted, and the elders
left, angrily threatening to "church''
him if he did not appear in his acc,,sr
toned pew on the following Sunday.
''Dey kin church an be hanged to
'em!' said Mr.. Baxter, angrily, as the
door closed upon their retreating fig
ures. docs dey think Use goin' to glib
up my 'ligion what Use jes' got lax
dat? No, sab! Eff Use got to suffeh
fer my 'ligion, I'll jes' show 'em deg
cayn't make me backslide"
Aunt Hannah replied not word. II
a certain inscrutable smile broadened
her firm lips for a moment, Mr.. Baxter
did not see it.
The week went by in perfect domes-
tic harmony; yet for some reason Mr..
Baxter did not seem to be quite easv in
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TEMPERANCE NOTES.
A FOE TO The WINE

You may smile at my subject, and think It
But, II you'll be patient, I'll try to arrange,
In prose or in rhyme. though not over nice,
few simple thoughts as q piece of advice.
And il they're too pointed to suit all your
views
hope you will listen and try to excuse,
For, as you all know, I'm a foe to the wine,
And the lips that touch liquor shall never
touch mine.''
The tales of deep sorrow how often we've
read,
Of heart broken woman awaiting tho tread
~ him who promised to love and protect
When few months before as his bride she
was decked
But who now has damped all the joys Of her
life
BY terrible bnght-a drunkards wife
Which she would not have been had sho said
this In time,
1.-The lips that touch liquor shall never touch
mine"
There are hundreds of mothers all over the
Who are pleading to-day, with 'penniless hand,
For help to support the children they love,
Whose fathers have left home beggars to
rove
Although it seems hard to censure or blame,
Yet 'twould have been better to all tits quito
plain,
Had they said this when young: I'm a foe to
the wine,
And the lips that touch liquor shall never
touch miner
There is many one who has worked long and
we'll
This terrible fiend OF intemperance to quell;
But what can they do-young ladies will wed
Drunkards in spite of all that is said
Tho n Sn <I1se @{~vS-~
Say: "The lips that touch liquor shall never
touch mine!'
Oh, take this advice. young lady, from me-
No matter how wealthy young man may be;
No matter how handsome how gay, or how
nice;%
No matter how grand be his station in life;
No matter how seldom q glass he may take
If he takes it at all, for your happiness sake,
Say. when you are wooed: I'm foe to the
wine,
And the lips that touch liquor shall never touch
mine.''
You may say it's all nonsense; my heart is a
stone;
And If act thus, will spend life alone;
care not for that; my mind is made up
To do what can 'gainst the poisonous cup;
And II must wed a drunlsard or none,
or the two great evils I'll choose the less one.
Yes. I'll live an old maid to the end of my
time,
Ere the clips that touch liquor shall ever touch
mine!'
Ida W. Ballinger, in Toledo Blade
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INTERESTING RREVlTlES.

A DRUNKEN wretch in Chicago so
abused and starved his wife that she
died, when he sold her body to medi.
cal college and had a protracted spree
on the proceeds.-Union Signal.
THE average age of the members OF
the Society of Friends who died in Great
Britain and Ireland in the year just
closed was little over sixty and one.
quarter years, or considerably above
that of the general public. The Friends
are almost all total abstainers.
SOUTH AMERICA has but one regularly
organized w. c. T. U. 1t is in Con.
ception, and does good work Within
a few months forty men have been in
duced to sign the total abstinence
pledge. A Loyal Temperance Legion.
numbering thirty-five, meets every two
weeks.-W. C. T. U. Bulletin.
No MATTER how paralytically inc
briated man may be when picked up
by the St. Louis police, they always ex-
tract from him his name and address
"by pinching the sinew that runs on
the inside of the knee" It is better
recipe than that of clubbing the soles Of
a PROSTATE citizens shoes.-Albany
Argus.
The Austie's limit of health was two
ounces of alcohol a day. This quantity
would increase the pulsations of the
heart five thousand beats, and diminish
the exhalation of carbonic acid from
the lungs twelve per cent. The people
of England, according to statistics, are
using on an average over three ounces
daily of alcohol. of Inebriety.
Now IT turns out that all the blame
for the recent mine horror in Pennsyl-
vania rests upon the shoulders of a
drunken fre-boss who was too maudlln
to look after his duties. Men in whose
hands are intrusted the lives of others
can not be allowed to get drunk, and
fre-bosses will have to be added to
railroad engineers on the teetotal list.
Inter Ocean.
The following is, says the Australian
Sunday-School Teacher, from a boys
essay on total abstinence: Il abstain
from alcoholic drinks, because, if I
would excel as a criclzcter, Grace says,
'abstain;' as walker, Weston says,
'abstain;' as an oarsman, Hanlon says,
'abstain;' as swimmer, Webb says,
'abstain;' as an orator, Bright says, alb
STAIN as missionary, Livingstone says,
'abstain;' as doctor, Clark says
abstain as a preacher, Farrar says,
abstain Asylums, prisons and work.
houses repeat the cry, 'abstainr" We
have heard q long speech with lsss In t.
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At THE END OF THE JOURNEY.

Fold the hands gently, press tho eyes closely.
Tenderly pillow the head
Hands that are pulseloss, eyes that orc sight
weary wayfarer is dead.
Ears dull Of hearing, lips cold and voicelcss
The tongue its last message has said;
Feet that were weary are resting forever
An earthly sojourner is dead.
Pause. then, as We come to the end OF the
journey,
Whence n soul-life forever has fled;
Speak softly, tread lightly, where Infinite
Presence
Enwraps and embraces our dead.
Then fold the hands gently. press the eyes
closely,
And tenderly pillow the head;
Last words have been spoken, last messages
given,
And last adieus waved to our dead
John Wentworth, In Good Housekeeping
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claimed to himself. Suddenly broad
smile broke over his face, and, after a
few moments of deep thought, he
climbed slowly down from the fence
and walked toward the little hut that
he dignified by the name of home. He
was still smiling as he opened the door,
but it was countenance of preternat-
ural gravity that he presented to Aunt
Hannah's complaints as they sat down
to supper.
Hannah, chile" he said at last
"don' 'sturb me. Use ruminatin' on
serious subjec's. Hannah, you member
was to dem meetin's over in de grove
dis summer? Well, Use ben t'inkin'
seriously bout dem meetins, an Use
bout made up my min dat Use a
Nadventis'.'
"A w'at' shrieked Aunt Hannah, in
dismay.
"A Nadventls'," resumed Samuel, un-
moved. "A Seben Day Nadventis'. An
we'll begin right off dis berry night.
Chillun. stop you starin' an get down
on you knees goin' TO pray
Mr.. Baxter had undoubtedly the best
of it, for, having finished his supper
and showed back his chair he dropped
on his knees on the sanded floor and
began an unctious and loud-voiced
prayer, in which he begged the Lord to
have mercy on his family and redeem
them from the sinfulness of their ways
This ended, he beat sudden retreat
to bed, practically victorious without a
shot having been fred by the enemy.
But the struggle was yet to come.
The next morning Mr.. Baxter arose
and dressed himself with purpose in
every movement. Aunt Hannah could
stand it no longer.
Samuel Baxter" she exclaimed at
length: What yo' mean by gettin' into
your wo'k-day clos on Sunday!''
Hannah" replied Mr.. Baxter Sc
verely, II tole yo' las night dat I was
a Nadventis', an Nadventisses dom
pay no 'tention to Sunday. Dey set an
do nothin' all day Sat'day, an den on
Sunday dey wo'k hahd all day.
''Yo' darst ter tole me, Sam Baxter"
cried Aunt Hannah, dat you'se goin'
ter wo'k terday lax it was Monday?'
Eyes is, Hannah" said Mr.. Baxter,
doggedly. Use goin' ter plow dat ten
acre lot, en- don yo' argy weth me!'
Aunt Hannah said never a word. but
the breakfast dishes spoke a language
that struck terror to her partners soul.
''Chillun," she said, as she cleared the
table, ''you'se 60 an get on yer t'ings.
You'se goin' ter church long O. me, lax
yer ort, stead O. stayin' home like shift
less heathens."
Mr.. Baxter had not considered the
children in his sudden conversion, but
at this sharp fling at his conscience his
spirit arose and he asserted his author
ity.
Lat dem chillun lone, Hannah" he
commanded, sharply. ''Dere daddy's
ligion is dere 'ligion, an dey shall go
out n play, stead O. goin' to church.
You min what say, now. amt goin'
to be trihed weth in my own family no
longer"
Aunt Hannah was wise woman.
When Mr.. Baxter put his foot down on
a subject, she knew that it was not safe
for her to offer any objection to his au-
thority. But, being a born diplomat,
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WINTER PINEAPPLE.
New MuskmelOn That Will No Doubt
BecOme Very POPULAR.

Il New Muskmelon That Will No Doubt
Become Very Popular.
In the latter part of November last
we received, by express from California,
large, heavy melon, without any in
dication of its sender. Its appearance
and flavor were so strikingly different
from any melon we had ever seen be-
fore that we had an accurate drawing
made of it, after which our illustration
has been engraved. We have since
learned that this melon was grown in
Napa County, CAL, from seed received
from the Sandwich Islands,. 1t is in
troduced under the name of Winter
Pineapple Muskmelon.
The outer skin of this variety is dis.
tinctly and peculiarly corrugated-not
netted-of light green color, striped
and blotched with bright yellow. In
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Let's reason together.

Here's a firm, one Of the
largest the country over, the
world over; it has grown, step
by step, through the years to
greatness it sells patent
medicines ugh!
"That's enough -
Wait a little
This firm pays the news
papers good money (expen-
sive work, this advertising y
to tell the people that they
have faith in what they sell,
50 much faith that if they can't
benefit or cure they don't want
your money. Their guarantee
is not indefinite and relative,
but 6e1fvzte and a6solute-if
the medicine doesn't help,
your money is son 6aA."
Suppose every sick man
and every feeble woman tried
these medicines and found
them worthless, who would be
the loser, you or they?
The medicines are Doctor
Pierce's "Golden Medical Dis
covery," for blood diseases,
and his Favorite Prescrip-
tion," for woman's peculiar ills.
If they help toward health,
they cost $500 a bottle
eachl If they don't, they
cost nothing !
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THE FARMING WORLD,
NOTES ON cORN-LlsT,No,
A Device to Keep tho Plants from Being

A Device to Keep tho Plants from Being
Covered Up.
We list the corn in rows three feet
apart; hills one foot apart, one kernel
to the hill. This is quite thick, but
some will get covered up in cultivating,
which is begun when the corn gets
weedy. We use a common shoveled
cultivator, sometimes taking the inside
shovels off and at other times using
them. To keep from covering up the
corn first time through, we use an in
verified V-trough attached as shown in
the illustration herewith. To make it,
take 9x4 inch scantling six feet long,
chamfer off one edge on each side until
the boards fit snug, leaving about six
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RELIGIOUS AND EDUCATIONAL

-Parsee girls are crowding in as can
didates for entrano examinations ut
Bombay University.
The printing press which voltaire
set up in Fernay to demolish Christiani-
ty is now used to print Bibles in &C.
neva.
On Lake Nyassa the Scottish Free
Church has, At Bandawe, one thousand
one hundred and eighty pupils and
thirty-eight native teachers in its
schools.
The latest report Of the Illinois
Superintendent of Education brings on
the fact that there are still in that
State one hundred and fourteen log
school-houses.
Two hundred thousand dollars q
year are spent by the London school
board in forcing the attendance of chill
dren. They are advised to try the French
plan of getting children to school by
good lunches.
The Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton of Chicago is to erect magnificent
building at cost of 81, 400, 900. The
building will have fourteen stories,
three of which will be devoted en-
tirely to the work of the association.
John Robb, Of Kingston, suggests
to the Ontario Minister of Education
that all public school children of Canada
should wear outer garments of the same
material, thus securing uniformity, and
checking the disparity between the rich
and the poor.
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HEREDITARY lNTEMPERANCE,
An Interesting Investigation Of the Effects
of Alcoholism.

Prof. Demme, of Berne, at the re;
cent International Alcohol Congress at
Christiania, presented an interesting
report of an investigation which he had
made as to the influence of alcohol
upon children. Having unusual oppor-
tunities for this study from his position
as superintendent of hospital for
children, he selected two groups of ten
families each, under similar external
environment. One group Of fifty.
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AN artistic work of about one hundred
pages with Illuminated covers, colored plates
and hundreds Of illustrations, many Of them
made from photographs, is the catalogue of
and is by far the most beautiful and in
tructive yet sent out by this thoroughly
nterprising and reliable house. The
Vaughan Potato is introduced by this house
this season. All garden supplies are car
ried in stock. Catalogue sent free to all
who desire to purchase.
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For Coughs and throat troubles use
Browns BRONCHIAL TRoCHEs "-''They
stop an attack of my asthma cough very
p,omptly"-C. Falch, MEANWHILE, Ohio.
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To THE uninitiatcd It Is hard to under.
stand how game OF whist can be honest
and still be won by trick.-Binghamton
Republican.
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Any article that has outlived "a rears OF
competition and imitation, and sells more
and more each year, must have merit. Dob
bins Electric Soap first made in 1865 is Just
that article. Ask your grocer for it. He
has it. or will get it.
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You hardly realize thatitis medicine, when
taking Carriers Little Liver Pills; they are
very small; no bad effects; all troubles from
torpid liver are relieved by their use
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Do NOT purge nor weaken the bowels, but
act specially on the liver and bile A perfect
liver corrector. Carter's Little Liver Pills.
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A PROSPEROUS butcher is always able to
meat his indebtedness.-Pit Chron~
iclc- Telegraph
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= ASA ~ I'LL OZA "A
TER sat on the
fence with his
hands in his
pockets, S u r.
veying his days
work. 1t was
Saturday night
and time for
S upper, but
Samuel looked
anxiously at the
clouds and did
movo to obey
Aunt Hannah's
call.
EFF I don
get this yere
fall pl ow i n
done befO' de
fall rains sets
in, Use a gonah,
Suah!" he ex-
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OF health and strength renewed and Of ease
and comfort follows the use of Syrup of
Figs as itacts in harmony with nature to
effectually cleanse the system when costive
or bilious For sale in soc and 81 90 bottles
hv all leading druggists.
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SM1LA1-"So Wantrox didn't marry for
beanty9" Brodix-''No; be married for
booty. "-Epoch
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AN empty larder ought TO be enough to
keep the wolf from the door.-Texas Sift
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GOOD text for baseball sermon
where are the Observation-Disclosures Free
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The girl at the boat race Is always look
ing around for beau trace.-Washingto
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If You want to be cured Of cough use
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar.
Pike Toothache Drops Cure in one minute.
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BEST, easiest to use and cheapest Piso's
Remedy for Catarrh. BY druggists. Csc.
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A Pleasing Sense

The reason most poets think to no pur
pose is that their thoughts are idyl thoughts
philadelphia Press.
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The expenses OF an electric company may
be summed up in current expenses.-Law-
renee American
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shape it is almost globular, as seen in
our illustration. Its flesh is of dull,
light green color, melting, and of a
rich, very pleasant, decided pineapple
flavor; and so thick as to occupy fully
three-fourths of the bulk of the fruit.
A special advantage claimed for this
variety is it's long keeping quality. BY
gathering the melons before they are
fully ripe and storing them in a dry,
cool place. secure against frost, they
are said to keep in good condition for
several months, and may be ripened
at any time by bringing them into a
warm room.-American Agriculturist.
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Constitutional Defects.


No calf ought to be reared from a
COW of weak constitution or from one
suspected of organic disease. am as
Stunning that no one need be told that
the same rule applies to bull. 1t
seems, however, necessary to insist
more on the COW, because it frequently
happens that milking powers of high
order exist in animals from which it is
not wise to breed. Any COW liable to
garget, swelling in the throat, or other
tuberculous symptoms is unfit to pro-
create her species. Scientists are not
agreed whether or not the bacillus OF
tuberculosis can actually be handed
down from parent to child by the
process of heredity. But it is at least
a matter of common agreement that a
sound body does not so easily receive
as it's guest any floating germ as does
an unsound body. No hospital for con-
sumptive patients amongst our domes-
tic animals should ever be established.
Whether tuberculosis be hereditary or
not, an animal which is subject to it
should never be allowed to furnish in
the bodies of its offspring willing hosts
ready to receive and foster it.--f;ol.
mans Rural World.
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HIS CONVERSION.
How and Why Samuel Baxter Be-
came a "Nadventist."

Written for This Paper.1
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THEY DO not "set 'em up" in Boston: they
"set 'em down."-W ashington Star
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The Faults and Follies OF the Ago

bow SAD it makes man feel to observe 4
five dollar straw hat on q seven cent head.
-Kearnev ENTERPRISE
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KoCh's Discovery and

I. Under Kochs treatment many have improved.
q. It can only be used in the early stages Of Con-
sumption.
8. It IL dangerous, and sometimes fatal.
4. Only few can obtain the lymph.
3. Physicians only can use it, even with great care
g. It is said that by its disease il sometimes
transferred to sound org ans.
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n Genuine FtUntleTOy.
Little Son-I let two poor little boys
ride with me on my sled all the after
noon. We beat every one on the hill.
Fond Mammal am delighted to
learn that my little son is so generous.
Little Son-The more there is on a
sled the faster it goes.-Good News.