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DOWN BY THE SEA.
The Old Man Waits His Boy That Will
Never Return.

The Old Man Waits His Boy That VIII
Never Return.
When the morning was breaking and
the first level shafts of sunlight danced
again over the big cities, and sparkled
and irradiated on the waters like
FURNISHED gold, the old man was out
on the bridge, his eyes set in the direc-
ton of the tides that run down to the
sea.
When high nool came and the swarms
OF life were at their highest, as the
toilers came and went at their midday
meal, the old man was still there, aim
lessly drifting thither AMI Wonder, al
ways watching the far-down sea and
the ships that were coming in from over
the ocean.
When the evening stole on, Just be-.
tween the twilight and the deep night,
in the crowd there on the bridge the
weary watcher still paced slowly to
and fro, still watching the dusk-en-
circled sea.
If you should meet the old man to-
morrow in your rambles, pass on heed
less, for his case is beyond all help or
need of it now.
The bark Golden Star was wrecked
fifteen years ago off the Cape of Good
Hope and all were lost.
He will never know the sad truth
that his boy will never return. Robbed
of his reason, he drifts about the shore
and PAGES the bridge, with it's com.
handing view of the gate to the ocean,
waiting for the ship which will never
return.
One day he, too, will go down with
the tide; and only then will he find
peace and rest at last-Once a Week.
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~ sheir homes. said ono 81 them, 8
be came ID full IN hour earlier than
he was In the habit Of doing, and met
tha surprised look Of his wife, who sat
wearily sewing sewing TO make up for
Whist he spent Ia drink:
Jane, / saw : sight Just now that
hope I shall never see again.
What was it?'' asked the tired
woman.
"A little thing, not so old a our
jenny, all drenchsd with rain-iust
think what night it SHOCKING for
her father in = gin-shop! It made the
tears como into my eyes when he
caught her mp in his arms and ran ont
with her held tightly to his bosom. /
think it must have sobered him Instant
II. It sobered me. at least. And.
Jane. he added, with strong feeling
In his tones, '..this one thing is settled:
Our Jenny shall never search for her
father In = gin-shop on any night, fair
or foul! I'll stop now, while have
little strength left, and take the pledge
Tomorrow
And he kept his word. He stepped
ont of the dangerous path In which his
feet had boon treading, and, by Gods
grace, which he prayed for, walked
llenceforth Id the ways of sobriety.
And so there was 10y in another
home. because of the love of the drink.
Ing mans child.-N. y. Witness
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made of hard bricks laid in cement.
The size may be four by two feet for q
small building, and larger in pro-
portion for others. The main point
is to have it large enough to pass the
water and avoid overflow. The water
enters from leader at A. 1t passes to
Ihe space under the filter at b, and ris-
ing through it enters the chamber C,
and flows into the cistern by the
tcreencd pipe D. The cistern has q
door preferably of fagstone or slate,
perforated by sufficient holes to pass
the water. or it NAV be of spruce or
hemlock plank, which give no taste to
the water. Or it may be made of bricks
laid with one inch openings, or larger
ones, between them. and covered by q
sheet or galvanized wire net with half
inch mesh.
On this support is laid few inches
in depth of clean, coarse gravel, only
large enough not to pass through the
meshes. This is covered with smaller
gravel as large as peas. On this is laid
two inches of broken and washed char.
coal. and this is covered with fine,
sharp, clean sand. The water passe.
upwards through these layers. and is
not only freed from all suspended mat.
ter, but also purified of much dissolved
matter, and is the safest water for do.
nestle use as drink. Water that is
boiled is quite free from dangerous
germs; it is the raw water that is to be
feared. But it is quite possible to take
infection from the washing water, es.
pecially if the skin be wounded in any
manner; and therefore it is advisa BILE
to filter even this, especially for the
use of infants and children-so that
the filter is desirable even for this do.
nestle use alone.
The cover of this filter should be OF
something that may be removed for the
purpose of cleaning the cistern. A
plank cover that may be lifted off will
Ike as good as anything else. but il
should be we'll painted. If the filter is
made of wooden planks it should be
painted and finished with the enamel
used for such purposes. Or it may be
built up of cement, which is as good
and durable as stone. 1t is better ia
paint the inside, even If 1t is of brick,
and the enamel mentioned gives no
taste to the water, and makes surface
like porcelain. Gentleman.
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SNAKES IN HIS BOOTS.
How Humorous Traveller Persuaded HI
Friend to Swear or .-.-.!,.

HOW Humorous Traveller Persuaded HI
Friend to Swear on. y :
~ am thinking of setting up snake.
charming Establishment. / have a
chum who. until quite recently. per-
sisted in looking on the wine when it
wore the red shoes. He got in pretty
bad way, and was afraid he was 20
ing TO corral the monkeys. One night
he came home with an Eiffel tower jag
ON. put his hat to bed and lay down
on the floor. Early next morning
slipped down into the garden and cap
tured three good-sized garter snakes,
which 1>sipped into his pockets. Then
l went to q drug store and borrowed q
stuffed owl, kiln-dried centipede and
rattler as big as your leg l disposed
these about the room and awaited de.
velopments. About noon he woke IN
with his hair pulling. But it did not
pull long. Each individual birsute ap.
pendage arose and stood on end like
quilts upon the fretful porcupine.. Did
you ever hear the heart-breal<ing roar
OF a bull calf when yanked from the
parent stem before it is ripe? Well, it.
was nothing to the racket that came
from my menagerie. l went in and
found the miserable wretch astride the
headboard, with snake hanging from
each pocket. I couldn see q snake
nor an owl. persuaded him that he
had EN-, and coaxed him into the
open air, while 1 surreptitiously sent .
servant to remove the menagerie. Then
sat down and gave him a talk with
whiskers on it. He thought that he
had gone about far enough, and now
drinks nothing stronger than Missis-
sippi river water that has been run
through a gravel screen."-St. Louis
Globe-DemOcrat.
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A CHlLD'S ACTING.
An %,fant's Imitation OF . Drunken
Fathers Actions.

An %,fant's Imitation OF . Drunken
Fathers Actions.
Use blind drunk to-day"
She was only u baby-three years old
at most. The little blue skirt fiuttered
around her plump legs, and the bright
clocked stockings had fallen around
the dimpled ankles. Her eyes looked
out from a tangle of brown curls. and
the baby face was disto ted like that
of drunken man.
Again she screamed: "I'se blind
drunk to-day"
1t was wonderful acting, and the
men came out from the saloons to
watch her. The child staggered to the
edge of the gutter laugh with shrill,
maudlin scream, and turned her blink
ing eyes toward the men, A stranger
stopped to watch her. 1t was not his
baby, but he groaned and said: God
help u.s." while the baby's father looked
on and laughed with the rest. Then
the child fell in the gutter. her face
turned up to the bright sun. The
strange man hurried away. He looked
back and saw the CLINT of the blue
skirt in the street A block away he
could hear the baby screaming: Use
blind drunk -day."-Chicago Times.
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THE FARMING WORLD,
SIMPLE WATER FILTER.

y 10 Si0plo In .Conatrootl0n and Dooo IL
Work Well.
The best and pnrest water is supplied
oy the rain. At first this brings some
Impurities down from. the mir, which 10
always more or less charged with
myriads Of unwhoiesome germs that
appear to rs in the form Of dust This
dust is washed out of the air and
brought to the ground BY the first por-
ton of q shower, and then the water 10
so pure that If properly collected it
may be used even for chemical pur-
poses in place of distilled water
which. in fact, it is. But during the
dry weather vast quantity of these
injurious matters and much filth. %
droppings Of birds, pollen of plants.
dead insects, leaves and other waste
stun collect on the roofs and in the
cutters, and thus find their way into
cisterns, or the streams and springs
that are mostly the washings of the
soil. .$z-.-r-. -,-..5. =
The enormous quantities of such
matters may be estimated BY every
person who has cleaned q cistern, and
the character of it is easily realized by
the foul odor of the settings that are
taken out It is not difficult to prevent
this, and to insure perfectly pure sup
ply by the use of a simple filter. But
1t is advisable before the water from .
roof enters q cistern that the first run
of it should be diverted, and only that
from the washed roof and cutters be
allowed to enter. This is quite. easy
to be done by; having shut of valve
In the leader, by which the water is
turned into waste pipe, and after
few minutes this is turned and the wa
ter let into the cistern. 1t is not diff
cult to make this device automatic, but
1T is only the work of moment to make
the change in the leader pipe.
Then comes the filter, and this is
simple matter. The illustration shows
how this may be constructed. It is
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bad Weather.

Travellers are seldom without TOPICS
for complaint. If everything else fails
they can at least fall back upon bad
food and bad weather.
Mr.. Elson, in his European Rem
iniscences," mentions Il man who de-
claimed against Pisa as the wette st of
cities.
Why" said he, twenty years ago 1
left Pisa and it was raining. 1 come
back, and it is raining still!'' r.
MIR. Elson is sarcastic; but he is not
beyond little fault-fnding on his own
account. His great trouble was at Rot.
terdam. lst7@: s.z..rs
''The weather reminded me of home, -
he says. If ever a meteorological
bureau is started in Holland, its reports
will run about as follows:
''Cold and clear, followed by warm
and rainy, interspersed with thunder
showers, followed by light frosts, after
which the weather will become change.
able. youths Companion.
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4 LAWYERS sTRATEcEM.

He Ate Poisoned Cake Ia Court and
Cleared HIS Client.
A well-known Kansas Cityan tells
this story: @
Fifteen years ago Judge Insolvency.
was . famous criminal lawyer OF south
ern Michigan. He was called upon to
defend . young woman from the charge
OF having poisoned her old husband. It
was q question Of whether or not she
had placed poison in cake, Of which
the old man had eaten. A portion of
the cake had been analysed BY chem
st and found to contain q great deal of
deadly poison. The chemist testified to
this in court Other witnesses succeed.
ed in making q chain of damaging evil
dence against the pretty young widow.
The time came for the summing up
speeches Of the attorneys. The prose.
cution began and finished and all
looked hopeless for the prisoner at the
bar. Judge McSweeney, the only
speaker for the defense, arose amid
breathless silence. The room was
crowded, and all were listening. One
could almost hear the quiet, it was SO
intense. He began in low tone to
sum up the evidence in defense of the
prisoner. He had been allowed an
hour in which to plead his side of the
case. He dealt with everything but
the cake. 1t rested upon the table just
at his right hand, where it had stood
during all the weary trial. Thirty min
utes passed, and the people were still
motionless, charmed by the sweet elo.
quence of the gruff old lawyer. Three.
quarters of an hour passed by, then
another ten minutes When the clerk
over the big desk told him there were
but five minutes left, he reached his
hand out to the cake, half of which
stood upon the table. and broke off
ragged chunk. He held this in his
hand and between sentences took
great nouthfuls of it. The chemist
had declared that there was enough
poison in it to kill fifty men. The
good people looked at him in amazement
and the jurors turned to each other
and whispered. McSweeney wound up
his speech, took another chunk of cake,
and walked quietly from the court
room eating it. He closed the door be-
hind him, ran into a small room close
by and locked the door. Two physi-
clans stood ready with a stomach pump,
and in ten minutes the cake was all in
the slop jar. The jury returned a ver-
dict of mot guilty" without leaving
the court~ro ON. kansas City Times.
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put in. the trap B, which is by by
IL. and moves on bolt, moves toward
c, and then falls back to its place, and
the bar cannot get out. Fig. 2 shows q
door bar for keeping out stock. H H
are door posts. The bar d, which il
secured by half-inch bolt, is raised up
out of the way when not in use. It
should be or s inches wide. When the
bar descends it pushes b toward C. and
when the bar enters D, the trap falls
into its place. K shows edge view of
E. have used these traps for yeara
They are always in place, never get out
of order, and never are opened by ami
mails
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Fresh Water for Fowls,

A constant supply If cool. fresh wa
ter is an essential in hot weather as ap
propriate food. Our fowls suffer more
from the lack of this than anything.
We fill up the pans or drinking troughs
once day, and make that last them
for twenty-four hours. But the water
gets hot and dirty before night, and
the chickens will not drink it unless
forced to from sheer thirst. If run
ming brook is not at hand for them, re.
plenish the drinking bowls several
times day, morning, noon and night.
Drinking water soon becomes contain
mated and it soils the pan, SO that this
will need washing out frequently with
water and q few drops of carbolic acid.
If there are any stagnant pools or
ponds of water from the manure heap
they should be fenced in, SO that the
birds cannot get at Observation-Disclosures.
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Vice In the Saloon,

What is there that is vile that is not
found in the lowest saloons? Vice of
all kinds resorts there, lodges there,
stalks there every hour. Houses of ill
fame are intimately associated with
them; all crimes and all forms of cri.n-
inals are harbored there. There you
may find the thief, the murderer, the
pander, the assassin. the anarchist, the
p!otter against the home. No form of
infamy, no sort Of vice can be found
that does not frequent the saloon. It
breeds all kinds of sin. it is fraugHt
with all forms Of iniquities, it hatcfies
out every day q vile brood of mon
strous offenses against the home, pub
lie health, peace, law, order, morals
md righteousness. Its progeny is
fraught with peril to all the interests of
society. Profanity, indecency, Sab
bath dissertation, in6delity, murder,
theft. disease. fraud, assailment Of
public or,ler, and scores Of other Of
lenses are the vile spawn of the saloon.
II is fertile IN evil things, prolific il
vileness. it teens with vice! Especial.
II in view of the influence of the saloon
In municipal government the motto 81
nll men and women. regardless oi
party affiliations, should be-down
with the saloon!-CsntralC hristisn. AA.
1oeats, So 81.
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tn THE MORNING.

'3rind your AZ in the morning, my boy"
Twas gray old woodcutter spoke,
Beneath whose arm, on his backwoods farm,
Had fallen the elm and the oak;
Inc hickory rough and the hornbeam tough
Had yielded to wheat and corn,
TIL his children played meath the apple trees
shade, - .-- :.a ~
by the cabin where they were born
'Grird your Ak in the morning, my boy
He said TO his lusty son. ~ H..
"Or the hearts Of oak will weary your strpke
Long ere the day is done. p
The shagb.rk's shell and the hcmlock knot
Defy II dull blunt tool; =: q
And maui as you may you will waste your day
If your strength is the strength Of . fool. y
't;rind your AK ii the morning, my bow.
Bring tho hard, bright steel to an edge:
The bit like BARRIERS razor KEEN.
TIE head like blacksmith's sledge; -
Ana then through maple and ironwood, and ash,
Your stroke rcsistlesS shall drive, 49,.
TIL the forest monarchs around you crash,
And their rugged hbers rive.
'd;rird your ak ere the sunrise shine &c.
With long ard patient care, Ill
~ nd whe- with oi]stone sharp and fine,
TIL the edge will clip hair, Il - j.
And what though you reel DER tho stubborn
TIL the toll your right arm racks,
Tray, how could you cut tho white oak butt,
II you had but ? pewter AZ
'Gtnd yourax ind be ready, my lad:
Then afar In the forest glen,
Mia y, steady swing. your stroke shall ring
Keeping time with the stalwart men;
But il you miss your grinding at dawn, W.
8tYouW never know manhocd's Joys; v4, q
No. trtumphs for you, The long day througa;
sRssYou must hack tho brush with the boys ~ =
''Grind your Ak in the morning." heard
Life 10 h,,<o 11 ~
And my soul was stirred ut tho homely word
e OF the backwoods sage ahu seer!
0youth, whose long day lies before,
Heed! heed the woodman's warning!
Would you fell LIES OAKS with manly strokes
You must grind your Ak in the morning.
And he who dawdles and plays the fool,
Nor longs for virtue or knowledge:
Who shirks ut work. plays tluant from school
Or "cuts" and ponies ut college:
. Whose soul no noble ambition fires,
; No hero purpose employs,
=. He must hoe LIES fence-row among tho briers,
Or hack the brush with the boys
George Lansing Taylor, in N. W. Christian
Advocate.
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STABLE FASTENlNGS.

Devices and Convo'.tences Needed In
Every First. Glass Stable.
Mr.. w. II. Black. Flora Dale. Pa,
sends to the Practical Farmer this de.
scription of devices for securing bars
between horse stalls and at stable
doors, needed in every stable:''
A, Fig. l, is made of bit of plank,
. by 8 by Is inches, and is nailed or
bolted to partition. When the bar il
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ross and ne we'd ny lass sieep:u., PARE,
nor. Perhaps not
II was pun adder, one 81 Africa's
deadHest serpentA and It's bite would
have proved fatal In half an hour. -.
w. Edmunds, In Detroit Free Press.
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TO DESTROY THlSTLES.

Various Methods Which Have Been En-
ployed Successfully.
The Canada thistle differs from the
common bull thistle, having a more
slender stem and smaller flower heads
which are about one-half inch in di-
ameter. 1t is also more difficult to de.
stroy as it is a perennial, spreading by
long underground stems, which pene-
trate deeply into the soil, often below
the reach of the plow. Frequent deep
blowing will, in shallow, dry soils,
nearly always destroy the thistle,
though in light, rich, moist soils even
this method fails.
Care should be had in blowing. or
otherwise stirring the soil, not to allow
any leaves or roots to remain, or the
blowing acts only to spread the weed.
Other methods of destruction are hoe
ing, sailing, burning or enriching the
land and forming strong grass soil.
Moving when the thistle is coming
into bloom does not destroy but merely
checks the growth of the plant, al
though applying kerosene oil to the
roots after cutting may prove effectual.
The seed will resist everything but q
hot fire and wherever practicable this
method should be used. Burn everv
yestige of the plant.
The common bull thistle is not as
hard to deal with. 1t can be distin-
guished from the Canada thistle by the
larger flower heads and larger stem
and leaves. 1t delights in a rich soil
and is common by roadsides and in pas
lures 1t is easily destroyed by keep
ing it cut just below the surface Of the
ground. the plant dying of exhaustion.
IN. E. Homestead.
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ONE ENJOYS
Both the method and results when
Syrup Of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acta
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys.
tenn efectual!y, dispels colds, head.
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Syrup Of Figs is the
only remedy Of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and &C.
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial in it,
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances, it.
many excellent qualities commend it
to all and have made it the most
popular remedy known.
Syrup Of Figs is for sale in Soc
and 81 bottles by all leading drug
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any ono who
wishes to try it. Do not accept any
substitute.
CALIFORNIA re SXRUP co!
....... gay keAHotsco. cAL
l0Ut0HHiE. ~. kEM N0hH. 49,
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Solids In MILK.

The solids in milk vary from IL to
1871 per cent, and after the water has
been removed from the milk there will
still be no uniformity in the solids, as
they vary in their relative proportions
of fat caseine, sugar and mineral mat
ter. There Is probably no substance
20 lacking in uniformity rs the milk
from different cows in herd, so far ~
quality IS concerned. To adopt nni-
form standard for milk b very dill.
oulA 0atAor.
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BITS AND BREVtTlES,

WHEN the devil can succeed in get.
ting man to become topper he feels
sure that he can get him to become al.
most anything else.-Ra,n's Horn.
ONE OF. the rules of the Homestead
mills, rule No. Z, is rs follows: ''The
use of Intoxicating liquors by any en-
ploye while on duty is absolutely for.
hidden, under penalty of immediate
discharge"
The English Young Abstainers' union,
the object of which is the promotion of
total abstinence from Intoxicating
liquors among the sons and daughters
of the upper and middle classes, has
now eighty branches and a membership
of over eight thousand.
In one of the towns of Illinois a
banker put his private mark on the
money he paid out one Saturday night
to the wageworlkers of the town who
patronized his bank. OF the seven hun.
dred dol Lars thus paid out over three
hundred dollars came back to him on
the Monday from drinking saloons in
the districts.
The facts relating to the liquor traf.
fic in Kansas have recently been in
vestigated by q representative Of the
New York Times. He gives as his be-
lief resulting from this investigation
first, that prohibition is a fixture in
Kansas; second, it is reasonably en-
forced, for there is not an open saloon
in the state outside of four of the large
cities. In Topeka the law is absolutely
enforced.
4 The state. Legislature of kentucky
voted handsome sum for the worlds
far. and then added the following con-
dition: THE headquarters building at
Chicago shall contain the necessary
restaurant and refreshment accommo-
dations, but no Intoxicating liquors
shall be sold or kept therein, or upon
the grounds set apart to the state of
Kentucky, and said headquarters build
ing. including restaurant rooms, shall
be closed during the whole of every
SUNDAY" %.~.