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ALCOHOLICS EFFECTS.
Fatal Nervotts Disorders Produced By
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The Breslau Deutsche Review recent
" contained suggestive article Oh the
nerves and narcotics, in which are
pointed out the deplerable results Of
alcohol as affecting the nervous system:
It says that: ''Long before delirihm
tremens or other serious brain disturb
ances appear, they are preceded by
manifold nervous disturbances, the real
cause of which is not often under.
Stood" The writer adds: II have FREE
quently found that rheumatic pains
that were ascribed to cold were moth.
ing but alcohol neutritis, a mild form
Of ihdatnmation of the nerves, resulting
from the use OF alcohol; which disap-
peared when the habit was given up;
only to return with the slightest repe.
tition of the indulgence" 1t is further
affirmed that ''most habitual drinkers,
and some of them very early, are sub
ject to changes in the vascular organs,
such as fatty degeneration of the heart
and artefio-scleriosis. which lead to
grave affections of the nervous system,
dixie apoplexy and softening of the
brain. Finally, it may be taken as
proved, that the children of drunkards, il
they are not carried of prep,aturely by
brain troubles, are frequently afflicted
with serious nervous ailments, such as
epilepsy, idiocy aud the like" This is cor
roborative testimony from scientific
authority of high standing, to which all
who are addicted to the use of alcoholic
beverages of airy kind will do we'll to
give heed.-American Analyst.
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der with his lips as she was carried up.
ward.
John, jump into the saddle
The tone was so commanding that the
man obeyed. There was a sharp blow
on the horses flank and the two were
borne almost in the teeth of the tide OF
fire northward. On and on the strong
charger raced until the flames were
outstripped. The atmosphere grew
clear and broad. Black, smoking plains
stretched off to the right, with flames
away to the northward.
"John," sobbed the woman, ibid you
think" She faltered
eyes, Mary, I thought it all. But
why did you leave to-day?'
'Leave? Abner had secured YOU q
place on the paper at Fairview and !
went there to arrange things and was
going to surprise you. He was to spend
his furlough getting us settled"
They rode into the fort at nightfall.
and we who carried the wan woman to
the guest chamber wondered what ex-
periencc she had been through since
that morning. 1t was weeks before we
knew it all.
A company of soldiers went out in the
morning. They found a blackened
heap of ruins in the midst of the black.
er plain. These were the ironwork of a
wagon, some timbers and among them
a body wrapped in charred canvas.
1t was Lieut.. Jayne. He had
met death as calmly as he would have
done on the field of battle. A small
testament was found in his clothing
In it were two photographs was
that OF a gray-haired New England
woman, his mother. The other every
man in the group recognized as that OF
the emigrant's wife, Mary Cumler.
CHARLES MOREAU HARGER
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lieutenant on his strong army horse.
Almost rs soon as they had discovered
him he was at their side. "A motion
from Mary's hand toward the flying
horses, now mere specks on the plain,
was sufficient to explain, the situation.
With quivering lips he looked the
pair in the face. He could mount his
horse and escape. He could take one
of them with him. Tibet was all.
Which would he do?
Here, John, hold this horse.'' The
ieutenaht's voice had a queer, husky
infection that made the listeners start.
There was not an instant to lose. Al
ready the fire was so close that the air
scorched the lungs.
MARY, I have no one dependent on
me. Take these things.''
The woman did not realize the sacri-
fee until sh: had had forced into her
hands the pocket ook and letter case.
''Give them to the captain" he added.
"He understands. Now, no stopping"
He put both strong hands around the
woman's waist and easily lifted her to
the horses back, sweeping her Shout
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Tobacco and Rum In England.

Last year in Great Britain was the
greatest tobacco year on record. The
gross revenue from this source amount
ed to SO, ZOO, or s503, 900 in excess of
the previous year. This the commits
sioners attribute to the improved wages
of the working class, but it is also
worth noting that the revenue has
gained and not lost by the reduction of
the duty. The consumption of rum, on
the other hand, has continued to in
crease in spite of the extra sixpence a
gallon imposed last year-a fact which
marks it out as a fit subject for another
sixpence next year. But the alcoholic
tendency of these times has not been
confined to spirits; it has asserted itself
in wine also-whence the commission
ers, who gauge mankind by the wine
and spirit test, infer that the upper
strata" also have enjoyed better pay.
Tea, coffee and cocoa suggest similar
reflections; indeed, large part of the
report is writing of contemporary his
tory by the bibulous method.-Pall Mall
Gazette
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KEEP HEART AND HOPE.

With many frown and shudder, -
With many o sigh and tear,
They'll tell you the world is out Of Joint;
But don't you believe it, dear.
The world is the old.time planet,
Kept up by the same old fires;
And the people, IL not the sel1-same lot,
Arc the types Of their ancient sires
They'll tell You that hate Is rampant,
That love is now dying out;
That the devil will conquer the sons OF men,
AMI put all their plans to rout;
But don't you believe it, daughter,
And don't you believe it, son;
For the good that exceeds the evil deeds
In lifes battle is ten to one.
Yes! love is thing electric,
That girdles the teening earth,
And love is thing unmeasured-
No length, no breadth, no girth;
1t enters the town and city,
The village and count ~ nook,
'Hons rich and poor with its mission pure
To be read like IN open book.
In the hearts OF the little children,
There are oceans of love to win;
Enough to bligh t, with it's pillows bright,
The rnnkest weeds Of sin.
There is love in the heart OF woman,
(Not she OF the brazen face,
That may lepd man to the gates OF Heaven
And bless . coming race.
Then let the grumblers grumble,
And let the croakers croak,
The world is what we make it, dear,
And love is the master-stroke.
1t will kill the wrath OF nations,
1t will soften the chas tenng rod
1t will even abide, and lead and guide
The love that was born OF God
Mrs. NJ a. kidder, in N. Y. Ledger.
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august
Flower

II have been afflicted with bilious
ness and constipation for fifteen years
and first one and then another prep
aration was suggested to me and
tried, but to no purpose. A friend
recommended August Flower and
words cannot describe the admira-
ton in which I hold it. It has given
me new lease of life, which before
was a burden. Its good qualities
and wonderful merits should be made
known to everyone suffering with
dyspepsia and biliousness." JESSE
BARKER, Printer, Humboldt, Kas. @
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Tobacco Poison.

Thousands Of men are dying Of
smokers cancer, a disease which is
found only in the most highly civilized
countries like England and the United
States. Gen. Grant is a notable ex-
ample, and it is quite probable that
"Our Fritz" of the Germans, died of
smokers cancer a little lower down
than that of Gen. Grant. There are
probably one hundred men who die of
cancer of the lips and mouth to one
woman who dies of cancer of the lips
and mouth, and there is no doubt but
smoking has something to do with the
difference. Smokers are more liable to
contract cancer by reason of the condi-
tions brought about by the pipe and the
cigar and the poisons connected with
the habit. These poisons produce
morbid condition of the parts. and in
consequence, the cells have less ability
to defend themselves against canoe,
germs than they ought to l,ave..-Fron
. lecture by DR.. j. Fl. kellogg.
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SWEEPING A ROOM.

''Whatever Is Worth Doing IL Worth
Doing Well.''
he preparation of a room for sweep.
ing and the arrangement of the furni.
ture after the room has been cleaned,
are by far the greater part of the work
The first step IS to dust all the orna-
ments and place them on firm table
in another room. Next dust all the
plain furniture, using a soft cloth, and
removing the lighter pieces from the
room. Now beat and brush all the
stuffed articles, using brush to clean
the tufting and creases When every
thing movable has been taken from the
room, and all the large pieces covered,
dust the pictures with feather buster,
or cloth; then cover the pictures.
Brush the ceiling and walls with long
feather duster, or soft cloth fastened
on broom. Brush ali dust from the
tops of the doors and windows. Have
the windows open all the while If
there be portieres and window draper
les that can be easily taken down, put
them on the clothes line and shake
them we'll. Take up all the rugs, and,
If you have grass in the yard, lay them
upon it, right side down, and beat we'll
with switch or rattan; then shake. If
you have no place where you can
spread them, hang them on the line
and beat them well. Have a good
broom, not too heavy, for the carpets.
Sweep in ons direction only, taking
short strokes Take up the dust with
q dustpan and corn-broom. When the
dust settles, go over the carpet once
more, having first freed your broom Of
all lint threads, etc. When the dust
has again settled, dust the room with a
soft cloth.
Put three quarts of warm water and
three tablespoonfuls of household am
monia in pail. Wiring piece of old
flannel out of this, and wipe every part
of the carpet, wringing the cloth as it
becomes soiled. Now wash the win
dows, and wipe off any marks there
may be on the paint Remove the COW
erings from the pictures and furniture,
being careful not to scatter the dust
Bring back the rugs and hangings, and
arrange them. Finally, put the furni-
ture and ornaments in place.
Many people cover the bed, but not
the bedstead. 1t is really quite as i'm
portant that the woodwork should be
covered as it is that the pillows and
bed are, for if dirt lodges in the grooves
and carvings, it is difficult task to re.
move it.-Ladies' Home Journal
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plains, SO far that the blue peaks of the
Rockies could be discerned, and it was a
common hating place for emigrants,
outward or hOmeward bound.
Hence it caused no surprise when a
white-toppcd ''prairie schooner" was
seen crawling out of the west. In an
hour it was not apparently nearer.
'Pretty we'll tired out, evidently" said
Lieut. Jayne, watching it through his
glass.
Another hour and the voyagers had
not arrived, but just at twilight the out
fit appeared in the barracks yard, for
lorn and dilapidated-looking object. A
woman sat alone on the front seat guild
ing the weary horses. Even jolly Cor
poral Doyle was awed into forgetting
his usual joke by her appearance.
BE you alone, ma am?' he asked.
"No, he's back in the wagon came
from the pinched, but determined lips
Of the driver as she stepped to the
ground. ''My husband was taken sick
two days ago. was alone, but did
the best 1 could for him. He needs
care"
The men, who had half expected to
lift corpse from the wagon, were re-
lieved to find it was only sick man,
though his appearance was that of one
almost dead.
Thus they came to the fort. For a
week the sick stranger fingered be-
tween life and death, and when at last
life conquered it was nearly a mouth
before strength returned sufficiently to
allow him to leave his bed. The wife,
too, was not well and the troops saw
little of their guests.
Mrs. Cumler, as she gave her name,
recovered first, and the, husband when
he awoke one day in July to a knowl-
edge of his renewed strength aroused
also to the realization of fact which
nearly threw him into relapse.
1t came about this way. There was
wide porch with many hammocks
outside the guests chamber and his bed
being near the window brought him
within hearing of Il conversation.
so we did our best for three years,
Abner, but it could not succeed"
Gunner started. 1t was his wife's
voice; but who was Abner?
''And you left New Mexico when?''
lie had heard that voice somewhere.
''Three months ago, as soon as spring
came. We had raised three crops only
to see them baked by the furnace-like
south winds, and then at the last the
baby, too, grew weary of the lonely
land of adobe huts and scorching suns.
We laid her in a pretty spot near Sig
nal mountains, and putting all we had
into the wagon started for Gods coun-
try 1t seems more like home here and
we will stop now where we can find a
way to live. John was taken sick on
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NOT THE RING.
A Story That Was Not Remarkable. hut
Simply Truthful.

A Story That Was Not Remarkable. but
Simply Truthful.
when l was a young man." said
Bodkins, II was employed in large
house in the city, and fell in love with
young woman, to whom l became
engaged. About two months before
we were to be married was sent tc
Australia on important business, occa-
stoned by the death of one of the firm
in that country. took an affection.
ate leave of my intended, and prom
Used to write to her often.
Il was detained longer than 1 ex-
pected. but just before l sailed for
home l bought valuable ring, intend.
ing it as present for my sweetheart.
''As I was nearing the shore and
reading the paper which the pilot had
brought on board saw an announce.
ment of her marriage with another, g
man knew very we'll, which so en-.
ragged me that threw the ring over.
board.
"A few days afterward as l was
dining, fish was served, and in eating q
portion bit into something hard, and
what do you suppose it wasp
1.-THE diamond ring!'' exclaimed sew
eral
No." said the merry Bodkins; Isl
was a fish bone. Jewel ers' Circular
-Conductor-''Madam, I am obliged
to ask fare for that boy; he looks olde,
than four years" Mother--"He isn't,
at all; he has his fathers head but hi,
mothers way&"-.Cloak Journal "A.
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WHAT MEMORY DOsS.

Recollections That Do Not Always In.
spire with Happiness.
Much has been written concerning
the pleasures of memory, but no one,
it seems, has cared to present the other
side OF the subject. But there is
another side to it.
Remembering when you are hall
way to the opera that you have left
your box ticket at home upon your
dressing-table, and at the same time
recollecting that the overture was
what you wished especially to hear, is
an incid ent not calculated to add to the
fppleasures of memory. After you have
| sent bouquet to your lady love with a
| note intimating that the flowers were
the finest that could be purchased, but
that you cared not a cent for expenses,
it adds nothing to your pleasure to re.
member that the florists card on which
was written twenty-five cents, col
lect, was thoughtlessly permitted tc
accompany the bouquet.
When tired papa who has walked
5, 1863 times around the room with a
restless baby finally qu:ets the child
and is himself just about to drift away
into bewitching dream land he derives
no happiness from the suddenly en-
gendered recollection that he forgot tc
lock the hall door and to put the cat
out.
When a bachelor getting out of bed
| on cold morning decides to keep on
his nightrobe till the room gets warmer
and then thoughtlessly hurries away
to breakfast, where people smile slyly
| and significantly, it does not add to his
| Joy to remember that he did not make
the change in the apparel he contem.
plated.
When we are telling some man of thu
grand and brilliant schemes we are
working whereby we are coming
| money so fast that we scarcely know
| what to do with it it is real source OF
annoyance, rather than pleasure, tc
| call to mind the fact that we are owing
him ''iver'' which we borrowed O.
him long time ago, but which we can.
not pay because we have not got tina,
much ready cash to our name.
The pleasures of memory? Bah
They are all q poetic myth. The mis-.
cries of memory come nearer hitting
the bull's-eye of truth. We remember
too much and at the most inopportune
times. Let us bury the past and &c
away and forget where we made the
grave.-Chicago Tribune
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TEMPERANCE NOTES.
yE MAY DRINK, IL We LIST.

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We may drink. II SO list,
The red sparkling wine,
From beakers that sieam Z.
With the gems OF the vino;
Ye may guam, II We will;
When the foam bends the brim.
From fiagon or goblet,
Til your eye shall grow dim;
But I've sworn on the altar,
And my soul is now free, "
Nor beaker, nor dagon,
Nor goblet for me.
Ye may light the avengeP
On ruins wild path,
Like raging volcano
In the blaze Of its wrath;
But your dre-crested waves,
All cory with blood;
Shall be kissing like serpents
And quenched in the flood;
For I've sworn on the altar,
And my soul is now free,
This hand shall neer falter
In its warfare with thee.
Then come to the altar,
And come to the shrine,
Dash down your red goblot8
And your dagons of wine;
Young heroes are thronging
Where the battles begun.
And the sheen OF their banners
Flashes bright in the sun;
When the shock OF the onset,
AS . rock meets the tiood,
Shall roll back the fountains
And rivers Of blood
3. II. Pease, in National Temperance Ad
Vocate.
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SOCIAL DRINKING.
The Thinking People Are Discardinx
Liquors.

Liquors.
No question has enlisted the attention
OF thoughtful people throughout the
length and breadth of our country as
has the temperance question. Every
one who thinks at all seriously is inter-
ested In matter which touches so
many human interests and affects the
life and happiness of so large number.
During the last twenty years a
marked change has taken place in pub
lie opinion concerning the use of wines
and liquors, but this change has come
about almost entirely in the great
middle class-thatis,i in the Industrious,
well-to-do class who do the earnest
thinking and the best work of the
world, and not among the fashionable
and wealthy class, nor vet in the labor
ing classes. At the top and bottom of
society there has been little change.
Wine is used just as freely in fashion
able clubs and at the dinner tables of
the wealthy as it ever was, and the
Woodworking day laborcr seeks just as
eagerly after his days work is done the
whisky bottle and the dram shop. The
clubs formed for the discussion of the
burning questions of the day by earnest
men who have the interests of the coun-
try at heart have almost wholly dis
carded liquors from their club tables.
1t is difficult to form an opinion as to
the relative amount of wines used now
and twenty years ago, for the reason
that with the advancing civilization
and population society is broken up
into sets and cliques, so that one can
hardly write society with capital s.
There are as many societies as there
are different interests, and the barriers
between this set and that are quite as
impregnable now rs they were in other
days.-Maxy B. Claflin. in Ladies' Home
Journal. 80
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About Himself.

Woodward-Is that man you were
talking to awhile ago an oculist?
Jefferson-No. he is q lawyer: Why
did you think he was an oculist?
Woodward Well, he had so much to
say about the l that thought he must
be a professional Detroit Free Press
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TIE lazy man aims ct nothing, and Rener.
ally hits it-Hickory Leaves.
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TVq Daily Trains to Montana and Paclf

Coast.
On and after April Sd, trains on the
Northern Pacific Railroad will run. as fol-
lows: Train Number Three will leave st.
Paul 600 a. m. daily, running through to
Spokane, Seattle Tacoma and Portland via
Butte, Montana. Train Number One will
leave st. Paul 4:15 p. m: daily, running
through to Spokane, Seattle, Tacoma and
Portland via Helena, Montana. Both trains
carry complete equipment of Pullman first
class sleePers, tourist sleeping cars: free
colonist sleepers, day coaches and dining
cars. Montana, Eastern and Western
Washington folders, "Wonderland' hook,
Sportsmen's Guide. Yellowstone Park,
Broadwater Hot Springs and Alaska folders
for the season of 1892 are now out of press.
Any Of these publications will be mailed
free on application to General or District
Passenger Agents, Northern Pacific Rail
road, Of to Chas 8. Fee, g. p. Il T. A., N.
P. r. R., st. Paul, Mimi.
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A COOK book talks of raised doughnuta
without saying where they were raised
n. @. Picavuno. -. - =,
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ONE cannot help observing how many.
of the best women in rural districts are
interested II temperance work. " rs.
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PICK 0FLAhDS;:

In order to close large New York estate is nee.
eSsary to place on the market ut low prices and
easy terms lot Of choice farm lands selected At
early day by n prominent official Of the Northern
Pacific r. r. from the celebrated wheat region in the
Eastern portion Of North Dakota These lands are in
we'll settled prosperous region the railroad and
convenient to churches, schools aud markets. and
for colonies. Immediate application will be necessary
secure any portion Of them For full particulars
address j. +. WEST. DETROIT LAKE, Ainneoo4a.
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