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A PHYSIOLOGICAL VIEW o. 1NrEArzRANcE.

A PHYSIOLOGICAL. VIEW o" INTEaPzRANcE.
1t is cia;nlej by high authority, says the
writer OF an annual report OF home for
insbriates, that physiology has in no way
settled the Question between abstinence
versus mo leraGiou. in rs5arl to til, use OF
alcohol. But it is a mistake to suppose that
nothing is settled on physiological ground
about the use Of intoxicating liquors. Within
the last few years many Inquiries researches
and exp p,rimsnt' havs bom made. with oil
the contrivances o. mo lccn s'isncs more in
tricaSe, perhaps, anl more Important, Ger.
tainly, in their bearings upon this inquiry
than tho world has seen before. and tha re-
suits, which are already incontestable, ara
not inconsiderable, an / [ bsiisvs it must bs
admitted that they gifs to the temperance
argument strength, on physiological
! ~ ound, which it has never been aole TO use
before.
I have foun | it T., D, true, from my OWN
observation, that til, i'nbioing OF even small
quantities OF alcoao, o. what is dsemed
small quantity by tia USER will degenerate
ths nerys and muscular tissue by hardening
them. and interfere with the functions, do.
velopng diseas,, O.. rendering accltental or
zymotic dieaseas less likely to be cured. Of
course, with such interference with nerve
structure the mental manifestations u!ust De
changed. The effect of this agent IS always
to strike at tho higher tacultleS Oh ING mMu.
It batters the keen edge OF high senslbilty,
and the man is shorn OF those high qualities
which make him sensible to the duties he
owes to his family, his country aud his GOO.
Science has also revealed to US another
fact bearing upon this subject. If sciencs Is
still ia doubt in the matter OF total abstl.
neuce, it is clear ami positive in its afirma-
ton that, beyond certain desree-a degree
as vet unknown, and yet degree when
science has of late years been steadily show
ing to be less and lsss-what we call alco.
holic stimulants do not stimulate at all, but
thew para!yz, the structure in which they
work. The liquor which has intoxicated tho
man has simply paralyzsi him, ami every
step Of intoNication is not merely step
towards, but stag, Of increasing nervous
paralysis, stage Of what Psychologists call
LIBERALIZATION Of the nervous systsm. In
other words alcohol is al an@' 'thetlc, AMI
its constant use, in it; secondary actlon, pro-
duces the condition [ have before described,
paralysis in its various stages.
[ only mention these facts to show that We
have to deal with subtle disease, deep down
in th, human structure anil with condi-
tion which, in spite OF law. will continue %
reproduce and perpetate itself.
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CLEARING LAND OF ROCKS,

The easiest way to clear land of rocks
is to dig close to them and turn them
over into the holes and bury them. Care
is tc be taken not to dig too near them
in loose ground. If the stone is worth
the cost for any use the rocks may be
broken up with dynamite cartridges ex-
ploded under them, by punching holes
with steel bar so as to bring the explo-
sive as near to the centre as possible.
The dynamite is procured in rolls one
and one-quarter inches thick and ten in
ches long, and be cut like cheese with o
knife. A piece three inches long will
break rock of half q ton or more If
skillfully used. It is best to employ
some person who understands it and
who will we'll save his wages in the more
effective work done. The dynamite IS
exploded by means of Illuminating cap
and common fuse attached 10 it and fired
in the usual manner.-New York Times.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND VOTES.

The alcohol habit aud tho sunstroke 60
hand III had.
Mayor Hemphill, of Atlanta, GA, has
vetoed ail the beer licenses i'll that city.
The Indiana Grand Lodge of tie Kui ights
Of Pythias has declared liquor dealers lneli-
gible to membership
The Irish temperance League has issuaI a
pledge car,l in Arabic, which it is believed
is the first temperance pledge card sent out
in that language.
Walter Besant formerly approve OF hav-
inc LIQUOR sold at the Peoples Palace, East
London; now he says it has bean proved that
no one there wants it.
That the United States is beer-drinking
ration is evilencel by tue fact that for tho
year ending Apri! -, 1891, they consumed
81. 00O, GC) barrels Of tho amber fluid.
Professor Oslor r,rites to the New York
Nedicni Journal, tnat in all the large hos
pita.s OF Germany. cases OF diseases OF the
heart coming directly from excessive use OF
beer are common.
Mrs. Chariu Of South Carolina, writes
that she has had very prosperous CAM
paign in Georgia and Alabama. At La
Grange she plelged l35 ladies to total abst:-
nence and to use their Influence 20 prevent
social drinking. At Macon College she
aided thirty-five to tho "Ys" aud organized
a union of sixty in the suburbs. During the
three weeks trip she took over 500 pledges
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FEEDING HORSES.

A great many farm horses are injured,
and some of them are utterly spoiled, by
improper feeding. In many cases the
material used is not especially adapted to
the needs of the animals, while in others
it is actually injurious. Many cases of
the "heaves" are caused by feeding musty
hay, and even more serious ailments may
be traced to the use of damaged grain.
There are also many cases of disease re-
sulting from the improper use of good
materials. While few farmers feed too
little hay, there are many who give their
horses altogether too large a quantity.
They fill the managers or racks and when
the animals have disposed of what they
received new supply is given. In this
way, when the horses are in the barn
most of the time they are, as far az
quantity is concerned, greatly overfed.
When these horses are required for work
and really need food more than when
they arc comparatively idle they receive
a much smaller quantity. The safe way
to do in the matter is to feed the horse
regularly, giving him au abundant
quantity, net overfeeding him. When
work is required, grain should be added
to the hay in proportion to the work re-
quired. Even when the horse is idle,
small quantities of grain fed with his hay
will be better for him and will be more
profitable for the owner than the use OF
hay alone. But, even if the grain is
omitted, regular feeding with proper
limitations as to quantity of hay supplied
will be great deal better than the con-
slant stulfing to which so many farm
horses are sub C0haan's Rural
HorH.
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THE NEWS EPITOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.


APLAGUE of caterpillars is injecting the
northern part of the town of Burke, Frank
lin County, Y. Y, devouring everything
green in their path. The insects are travel
ing eastward, cutting swath nearly mile
in width
A TORNADO swept over Aroostook County,
Me- One house and eight barns were
demolished and miles of fences destroyed.
BACcALAUREATE sermons were delivered
at Bowdoin College by President Hyde; at
Williams. by President Carter; at Smith. by
President See!ye: at Dartmouth, by Pres!-
dent Bartlett: at the University of Yer
mont by President Bucham, and at Yale by
President Dwight.
On their first Sun lay at Cape May, y. j.,
the President and Mrs General Williams
ing services at Beadle Memorial Church,
while Mrs. Harrison and Mrs Dimick re-
mained at TIE cottage. The family are to
remain late III the tall, it is understood.
PROFESSOR GEORGE NJ Now BRAY, widely
known as the inventor OF nitroglycerine,
died at North Adams, Mass, after a pro-
tracted illness, aged si1ty-S1.
TIE fleet of Gloucester (Mass.) fishing YES
seis report that the fishing along the Grand
Banks and at the Flemish Cape was never so
bad as at present.
WHILE bathing in the artificial lake at
poak's Park. Washington, Penn, Walter
Jones' John McKeown and Harry Shanlis
aged fourteen, nine and seven years respec-
lively, were drowned.
ALLEY BROTHERS Sc PLACE, leather deal
efS at Boston, Mass, have assigned. The
Liabilities are estimated at $500, ,0O0
COMMENCEMENT exercises were held in
many colleges including Yale Harvard,
Wellesley, Amherst and Dartmouth.
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

ELECTRICIAN Edison is worth S, ,000, 600.
GENERAL HANcocKs grave is unmarked.
GLADSTONE has recovered his usual state
of heath
MAJoR-GE=ERAL ScaoFIELD's salary is
$13,DW lear.
THE Duke vi Fife is one of the richest
peers Of Gng;an'.
President HAGsTAFF, of the Brooklyn
Bridge, is SIX feet six.
{ P. T. BARNUM'S estate has been appraised
AMI :ha value is set at s4,279,532.
Ex-$xHAToR E ARTS fee for saying
''yes' in recent case was $3.50, COO
The ii: e Of Portland pays out $1,000 q
year i'll - 1scriptions to newspapers.
TIE i Canadian Premier is seventy
years Of age and has spent half Of his life in
public work.
KAISER WILHELM, of Germany, has un-
dertaSen to erect statue to Wagner out Of
his own purse.
RUDYARD KIPLING's real name is John
Trader. and his father wasa regimental con-
tractor and sutler in India.
TIE Car has presented Senator Leland
Stanford with a collection Of Russian and
Siberian minerals worth S35, 000
GOVERNOR RUSSELL, OF Massachusetts,, at
the recent State encampment, proved him
sell to be great shot with the rifle.
The total costs to Sir William Gordon
Cumming Of his baccarat suit against Mr..
and Mrs. Arthur Wilson aud others amount
to Sl2,5Oo.
NINA VAN ZANDT, who married. by proxy,
August Spies the Chicago Anarchist, is go
ing to wed Salvador Stefano Mslato, an
Italian newspaper man.
The marriage Of Miss Elaine Goodale to
DR.. Eastraan, the wel.-known Sioux Indian
who was graduated from Dartmouth College
in 1887 and the Boston University School Of
Medicine, recently took place in New York
City.
ALEXANDER Il. MCGUEFEy, the author of
the famous spelling book that has brought
knowledge and woe to millions of children,
tsyet living, in Cincinnati, Ohio, and declares
that the work brought him but $500 when
published fifty-four years ago.
THE O'Gorman Mahon, Member of Parlia-
ment, is dead He was born in lSu3, and was
known as ''the Grand Old Man" of the Irish
party. He entered the British Parliament
IN 1880, and was follower of Daniel OCon.
nell. His full name was Captain James
Patrick Manon.
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srrecr OF DRINKING on WongMEN.

A big Cincinnati manufacturer thus do
scribes the effect of the drinking habit on
workingmen: "a drinking man will turn
out ten to twenty per cent. less work than
non-drinker, and in addition it is apt to be
defective and require overhauling. This Is
especially true OF heavy beer drinkers. A
workingman may tampef with whisky toa
very considerable extent and still be capable
of bright idea or suggestion; but not 80
with beer drinkers: they become heavy, sod.
den, lack ambition AMI seldom vary the lnodo
of doing their work. When one workman
drinks too much it affects the work OF Others,
on the principle that a little leaven leavens
the whole lump; The workmen OF a shop
are parts of a great machine, and the ina
bility Of a part to perform it's functions will
derange the whole. The amount OF tho de-
rangement will be in exact proportion to
the number of parts effected. The employer
paws for what hs gets. II drink decreases
mans output ten to twenty per cent. he Will
receive that much less or tho employer will
retire from business, unless ho can command
sufficient sober help to make up the shortage
of the drinkers. Arbitration OF labor d1-
fculties would be an exceedingly easy mat.
ter and long strikes would be unheard OF, II
saloons were closed. All the trouble we ever
had with our hands could be traced directly
to saloon Influences"
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four acres each but it is not necessary to
fence it, except the four acres where the
house and barn stand. This plat should
divide up in the following way: Two
acres for house, small lawn, kitchen gar
den, barnyard, etc. This is rather large,
I think, and less would do if the house
and barn are in the right position; but
call it two acres. Then one acre for
fiuit-blackberries, raspberries, currants,
and Strawberries. One acre for poultry;
this acre should be set to pear, ounce
and peach trees, and plum can be added
if thought best; this affords good shade
for the fowls; find that the trees do
much better where the poultry run than
those where they do not. On this acre
I would have four poultry houses, with
yards for runs of one-fourth acre each,
and should keep twenty five in each yard
-one yard of either buff, white or par
fridge Cochins for sitters, one yard Of
Plymouth rocks or Wyandottes and two
of Leghorns-the Cochins for sitters, the
Plymouth rocks for early broilers and the
Leghorns Tor eggs.
The remaining twelve acres should
use as follows: Four acres for clover,
four acres for soiling crops and the re-
naming four acres for corn and potatoes.
On so small place wheat and oats do
not pay. The twelve acres should be ro-
tated with clover, roots, millet, fodder
corn and anything that will do for feed.
On the place four COWS land they must
be good ones, not necessarily Of long
pedigrees, but for individual merit) can
be kept for the first two or three years;
after that more can be added. The ma
nure from the four COWS, one horse and
100 hens will 60 far toward enriching
the land. Apply the hen manure, we'll
saved, to the hill, as the best results are
obtained in this way; utilize every corner
with something that will either sell,
make fodder for the COWS or food for the
hens, and my word for it the young man
with sixteen acres will have profitable
business enough at home; with ''his little
farm we'll filed and his little wife we'll
willed," he will be as contented as those
who roam their hundred acres over.
One thing I will mention, and that is
this. Put in patch of early potatoes.
I found that nearly every season half an
acre or more of early potatoes are as pro-
ftable as any patch of ground on the
place. Study the wants OF your nearest
village aud town, and supply the people
with the choicest and earliest of fruits
and vegetables.-Obl Furmer.
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A SUBSTITUTE FOR HAY.

A crop which will grow in a dry
season is what farmers want to help out
a light hay crop. Hungarian grass,
German or golden millet will grow we'll
in quite dry soil and yield a good crop.
Do not expect, though, to get something
for nothing, for while millet will grow
in dry season, it will not do well on q
poor soil. 1t requires a light, dry,
warm soil, but must have pleaty Of fer
tility. If the land is not in good heart
give it good dressing of stable manure
or commercial fertilizer. Millet will do
on either sod or plowed land, and may
be sowed quite late. Sod should be
plowed now and we'll cultivated and har-
rowed. From the middle to the last OF
June SOW bushel of the seed to the acre,
or a little less if drilled in. Do not
cover too deeply. In six or seven weeks
it will be it to cut. If the seed is sowed
too thinly the stalks will be large and
coarse and stock will not relish it so
well. When the heads begin to appear
pretty thickly over the field it is time
to cut it. If left to etripe the seeds are
said to cause kidney trouble with horses,
and it gets tough and wiry. Millet may
be cut and handled the same as hay.
When cut it parts with its moisture
slowly and does not make hay rapidly.
On good soil millet grows from two to
four feet tall and will yield from three
to six tons of fodder per acre. MilIet
is worth about as much as clover hay to
feed, but is fat-forming and should be
fed with linseed or cottonscea meal to
make good ration.-New England
Homestead.
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SEVEN PICKERS DROWNED.

One OF Them was Drunk and Upset a
Rowboat by Stepping on Its Edge.
A party OF co.orel pickers went from the
Chairs farm to Baltimore, Nd, in tho bug
eye Thomas B. Bowen.
Upon their return, while tho buyeye was
beating up Curtis Geek, Samuel Barnes and
Waiter CASTOR, colorel, met it in midstream
in a rowboat anl callel - tis pic.iers to
jump into the latter.
Nine of the party di 81. The tenth. who
attempted to leave the buseye, was 81 drunk
that be slipped upon tao siIe OF tue row5oat,
which upset
The strong breeze hal meantime carried
the bugeye quite a distance. The tug Mo-
hawk, which happened to be near by, res
cued Isaac and Richard Titus and Samuel
Barnes
Georgiana Titus, Al r easter, Lulu Mason,
John Houston, Walter Castor, a man nick
named "Gidney" and an unknown man were
drownad
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LATER NEWS,

TIE statue to Henry Ward Beecher In
Brooklyn, N Y, and that Of Archbishop
Hughes at Fordham College, New York
City, were unveiled.
The jury Of the Court of Oyer and Ter
miner, New York City, found verdict of
mot guilty" in the trial Of President Clark,
Chauncey M. Depew and ten other directors
Of the New Haven road who were charged
with responsibility for the fatal tunnel acci-
dent on February 70 last.
COLUMBIA won the triangular freshman
race from Yale and Harvard at New Lon
don, Conn.,, in the record-brealing time Of
nine minutes and forty-one seconds.
GOVERNOR HORACE BorEs, Of Iowa, was
renominated by the Democratic State Con-
vention at Ottumwa.
JOHN AND FRANK MAXWELL, Of Franklin
County, Iowa, caught rabies from skinning
a steer that had died from the bite of mad
dog. The former is deal and the latter is
chained in his cellar, a raving maniac.
WILLIAM 81. Cook, recently Polics Clerk
bezz'ement Of $4,000 Of the city funds and
was sentenced to five years in tho peniten-
tiary and to pay fine OF $4,000.
The President respited until July % Ed
ward Belden, Of Kansas, who was sentenced
to be hanged on June %.
SECRETARY TRACY directed that Captain
William A. Kirkland, the Supervisor Of the
Harbor Of New York, be detached and sent
to the command Of the League Island Navy
Yard. Captain H. B. Robson was ordered
to succeed Captain Kirkland at New York.
The Chief Quartermaster of tho Depart
ment of the Platte has been ordered to cut
down the civilian force Of employees in his
department twenty five per cent. There are
about ono hundred and sixty employees in
the department, and forty Of them will be
obliged to seek other employment.
The Hon. Charles Emory Smith, United
States Minister to Russia, was the Presi-
dents guest at luncheon.
LIGHTNING struck shed near Oldenburg,
Germany, in which sixteen haymakers had
taken refuge from tho storm and two were
killed.
A BRITISH force Of police has been de.
featcd by natives near Sierra Leone, Africa.
IT is reported that the vintages of tho
Rhine, Moselle and the Palatinate, in Ger
many, are complete failures, owing to the
and long frosts which prevailed during tho
earlier part Of the season.
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HAvoC IN THE FLrnERLAaD.

An article on Intemperance in Germany.
translated by A. F. Hofor, gives these sta
tistics as brought out in the debate in the
Reichstag and su3stantiated by Herr Rem
dali, at ono time the most intimate adviser
Of Bismarck. There are at present II, 600
persons in hospitals and insane asylums who
are suffering with deliriun tremens. There
are 81, 00O persons in jails and State Prisons,
IA, 600 Of whom are arrested for crimes com.
mltted under the influence Of intoxicating
drink. That means forty.thres per cent. Of
all prisoners. Crimes committed under in
Auence of liquor range as follows: Murder
in the first degree, forty-three; in second
degree, sixty-three; arson, forty-seven; lar
ceny, tifty-one; highway and other robbery,
sixty-eight; bodily injuries. seventy -four
per cent. If we add to the ! |, 900 and IA, 600,
500 more annually who, under the influence
Of liquor, commit suicide, or ara accidently
killed, we arrive at the sum Of 25,S0O per-
sons.
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CORN FERTILIZERS.

Bulletin No. 33, from the Kentucky
Station, gives continuation of expert
ments begun two years ago with fertill-
zers on corn with the results that in
those plots where potash was one of the
ingredients of the fertilizer used, thcrc
was marked increased yield in both
corn and fodder. Where q fertilizer
was used without potash, there was
scarcely any increase over those contain
ing no fertilizer. The greatest increased
yield was made by q combination of pot
ash and nitrogen. There was profit in
the use of fertilizers in every instance
when potash was one OF the ingredients.
There was loss when potash was not
one of the ingredients. So far potash
fertilizers have shown their effect the
third season after their application.
The soil of the Kentucky Experiment
Station Farm is what is termed blue
grass soil. and is derived from the lower
siiuriaa limestone, rich in phosphoric
acid, and so far as known, no stable ma
nure or other fertilizers were applied be-
fore the farm was purchased by the
station. The same results, therefore,
might not be found in other geological
formations in the State.
As has been heretofore stated in these
columns, on account of the difference in
soils, no rule can be given by which to
tell what fertilizer is best for any par
ticuar crop, and this question must be
decided by actual trial. Hence it is not
strange to find different results as to the
use of commercial fertilizers on corn Gad
other crops, especially when financially
considered, reported from different Stale
stations. York World.
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The Lake Front Abandoned.

No part of the Worlds Fair, Chicago, H..
will be held on the lake front. BY vote OF
fifteen to twelve tho Directors OF the Expo.
sition decided the fine arts exhibition should
bs held at Jackson Park. 1t is now believed
that the last fight for the lake front has
been made, and that no further attempts
will be made TO get even the fine arts display
down town.
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TWO CONVICTS ESCAPED.
But the Lives of Five Men Were
Lost in the Attempt.

Fuller details from Coal City, the Georgia
convict camp where the uprising occurred
ON a recent morning, record one of the most
daring breaks for liberty ever attempted in
Georgia. At six O'Clock Captain J. II.
Moreland, Assistant Warden at Slope Camp.
and Jesse Rankin went into the stockade
where two hundred con,icts were confined.
Seven asked to remain behind in order to
be furnished with overalls, saying that they
had been working in wet place in the
mines. The seven were j. NJ. I.anslowne,
8. H. Lansdowne father and son; Sam
Green, Wilson Palmer. john Rutherford,
Abe Wavmaa and George Ward.
As1ne Assistant War.icn started for the
gate, Wilson Palmer, bur- wiita convict
serving his term tov safe blowing, drew a
revolver and ordered the laiier's hands up.
After relieving the warden OF his pistol
Palmer fred his pisto! within q foot Of his
face, irfiicting a fatal wound. Rankin, in
the meantime, had been overpowerei, but,
struggling to his feet. managed to escape by
knocking down a convict
The seven desperate men made a rush for
Captain Moreland's Office, where they knew
arms were kept. They secured double bar
relied shotgun and barricaded the door.
this time the guards were arouSe0 and
- fusillade en>ued, resulting in the
~ -Rawln ana Jack Rankin,
kis.a Green, Wilson Pal