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The Nitrate King.

Colonel North John Thomas he wa
christenea) is now many times million
aire, but fifty years ago he was almost a.
poor boy as was 20 be found in the
neighborhood of Leeds. His father was
a mechanic, and his son had the advan-
tage of the ordinary schools until he was
fifteen, when he was apprentced to q
firm of wheelwrights and engineers.
Later he was in the employ of the great
steam-plow builders the Fowlers, of
Leeds, and there he became a kind of
sub-foreman. When he had married
girl in a higher social station than his
own-social station was regulated in
Iced then, as it is now, by ones personal
possessions-and his father had died, the
young man sought his fortune In South
America. This was in 1866. When he
arrived in Chill he found employment as
a railway engineer. For eighteen months
he retained this position, and then went
to Peru, where the nitrate beds had
already began to attract attention.
From small beginnings and purchases
before the 'boom". set in, North, 10 the,
course of few years, became the most
considerable owner Of nitrate properties
in the territory of Tarapaca. BE was
masterful and resourceful man, and each
success led to another. So, after q
while, he had a controlling interest I'M
pretty nearly all that was valuable in the
territory in which his special interests
were. he owned the africa Water Com
pany, he owned the railways into tho
nitrate beds, and he had such favorable
contracts with the steamship companies
that the business of gathering and ship
ping nitrates was monopoly in his hands.
Having firmly fixed his hold on these
rich South American properties, he went
back to England. It was not long be- I
fore he secured the popular title of
Nitrate King, and not long after that he !
was made the Honorary Colonel of the
Tower Hamlet Regiment of Volu unteers. ],
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like covering of jet frame work or woven
straw. This she bends ruthlessly to suit
her own face. Next, she ties a little
ribbon of gilt velvet, yellow, pink,
green or lavender around it in tight,
little bowknot; but which, after it leaves
her fingers, is as buoyant as a butterfly.
Then in front, behind. or perhaps at
the side, she plants bunch OF flowers
with their foliage, and makes them look
as if rooted beneath.
Never were flowers more effectively
used than this season. The design ID
that they shall show the peculisrities OF
growth, and the art of concealing art Is
az difficult of achievement in bonnets as
elsewhere.
Feathers are used on hats where the
forms are stiff and prescribed. They are
a handsome addition to the sailor hat,
adding feminine grace to its mannish at
tractiveness. Rolling brims, both in
felt and straw, are greatly admired
The trimming is wide band of velvet or
satin ribbon, fastened with a fancy
buckle in front; piece of white lace
plainly folded over the brim, and a
pompon of feathers on one side.
These should not be too high. Be-
yond a certain height hat decoration, the
exaggerated forms of hat decoration be-
come bad style.
The straight brim of moderate size
shown in the center OF the illustration Is
the most popular form at present. The
fat bow and floral mass in the center are
its distinguishing features.-New York
Sup
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LIQUOR Oh BREAD.

In connection with the temperance agita-
ton. now making . serious impression on
Germany, some curious statistics have been
compiled, as follows: The production of ma
terisl manufactured into beer, wine and
spirits in Germany occupied in 1SS9-90 just
about one.fifteenth Of the cultivated land of
the whole country, territory somewhat
larger than the kingdom Of SsIony. or the
grand duchy of Baden, and somewhat smaller
than the kingdom Of Wurtemberg. If this
immense field, thus devoted to the liquor
traffic, were diverted 10 the production Of
food, there might be raised on it in year 1887
millions of kilogrsmmes Of rye, q quantity
sufficient to make 3272 millions Of pounds Of
the bread on which the poorer class chiefly
live. The fifty millions of people Of Germany
would bo able to have Of this bread 6515
pounds apiece, or = family Of eight persons,
o4 pounds, enough TO give them their entire
food for six or seven weeks. In the direct
service of the liquor trafac-agriculture. man
ufacture and retailing-about one and half
millions Of men are engaged, ont OF the
twenty and one-hslf millions occupied in all
the industries OF the land. In other words,
about one.qusrter of the productive energy Of
the country is devoted to this business. -
Picay,ne.
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COLONEL NORTH.

He came out as sportsman-a yachts
man, and racing man with both dogs
and horses. Meantime he began the
building of palace, at Ethan, in the
County of Kent. This kind of activity
attracted the attention of no less per-
son than the Prince of Wales, and they
soon became friends, land thus he secured
a certain kind of social vogue. 4
In person Colonel John Thomas North
is of medium height and only moderately
stout, not weighing perhaps more than
$50 pounds. His hair is of yellowish-
red, while his whiskers and mustaches
are somewhat lighter and streaked with
gray. His chin is shaven as is the Eng
lish fashion. His complexion is ruddy,
as becomes Yorkshireman. In dress he
would be called quiet were it not for
his diamonds and jewelry. In manner
he is bluff and hearty when in good
humor, but when crossed in his purposes
be is not so smooth.
Such is the most conspicuous and I'M
portant man owning those English in
terests in Chill of which we have lately
heard so much.-Harper's Weekly.
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THE DRINK EVIL IN SCOTLAND.

A writer in the Chicago Adrance who is
travelling in Scotland, writes:
Edinburgh is the most religious city, one
Of the most drunken, in the world. When .
Scotchman sins, he sins against greater Light
than the Frenchman does. He must put more
will-power into it TO go to the bad. and so the
intensity OF his evil is in direct ratio to the re-
,istancs OF conscience which he must overcome.
The fact is, when he is bad he is very bad, but
/ good Scothman is one Of the best men in the
world.
"This ia Saturday afternoon. All Edinburgh
s enjoying its half-holiday. Along toward
evening picnic parties are returning in all
sorts of vehicles in all degrees Of hilarity.
The streets are full of people. The dram
shops are doing roaring business, and in the
back streets. far into the night are rough
brawls and drunken rows. Twice to-day on
the open streets have seen women quarrel
ling. The crowd gathered about and made .
ring as they would at dog fight. There was
40 mora stir about it than if it were an every
holiday occurrence, which it probably was.
And yet somebody is making brave fight
against this disgraceful state Of things. Within
Iblock Of where am staying can count at
least dozen temperance hotels"
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EVILS OF CIDER DRINKING.

The last year, in most parts of the country,
yielded an abundance Of apples. One result
making. and 1t is to be feared cider-drinking.
A recent number Of the Farm, Journal gives q
caution concerning cider as follows: "lf the
great abundance of fruit has caused barrels Of
cider to be stored in the farm cellars for win.
ter drinking, it will prove more curse than
blessing. Empty every barrel Of it into the
road that You may not regret the ruin of your
SONS" Acorrrespondent Of that journal, Jo-
siah W. Leeds. Of Philadelphia, cites eeveral
illustrations Of suffering and ruin which owed
their origin to hard-cider drinking. The ap-
pies themselves are great blessing, but the
fermented, alcoholic applet Is replete with
danger when INDUCED in ~ beverage. Let
there be total abstinence from cider, as well
AZ beer, wine, and the stronger liquors. -
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HOW TO READ THE BIBLE.

You cannot be holy unless you do in secret
live upon the blessed Word Of God. and you
will not live on it unless it comes to you as
the sacred word of His mouth. The Bible is
not book only, but speaking trumpet
through which God speaks from afar to you,
so that you may catch thu very tones OF His
voice. You must read the Word of God to
this end. for it is while reading, meditating
and studying, and seeking to dip yourself
into its spirit, that it seems suddenly to
change frol2 written book into talking
book or phonograph; 1t whispers to
you or thunders at you as though God had
hidden Himself among its leaves and spoke
to your condition; as though Jesus, who
feedeth among the lilies, had made the chap.
ter to be lily beds, and had come to feed
there. Ask Jesus to cause His word to come
fresh from His own mouth to your soul, and
II it be so, and you thus live in daily COM
munion with a personal Christ, you will
then with your feet take hold upon His
steps; then you will keep His way; then
you will never decline to 60 back from His
commandments. but you will make good
speed in your pilgrim way 10 the eternal
city--[Spurgeon.
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Sleuo Mou eq IelsId sqa pus Gaq5!mTv
poD plot eq4 10 uos Pus lsl
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.mpIoun uremeI Iluqs GIoT5 teIpeqlso aeq1
Up 10 euols euo lou pus 'ueII1J seq elosuu!o
about those who shove of from this world
under Christly pilotage. Don't let us oe so
agitated about our going of this little barge
or sloop or canal boat OF world to get on
some Great Eastern Of the heavens. Don't
let us persist in wanting to stay In this barn.
this shed. this clubhouse of world wnen all
the Kings palaces already occupied by many
OF our best friends are swinging WIDE open
their gates to let US In.
When read, "In Ny Fathers house are
many mansions" I do not know but that
each world IS a room. and as many rooms as
there are worlds, stellar stairs, stellar gai-
leries stellar Railways, stellar windows.
stellar domes. How our departed friends
must ply US, SnuG up III tuSoo III PoA
apartments tired If we walk fifteen miles.
when they some morning, by one stroke OF
wing. can make circuit Of the whole stella..
system and be back in time for mathis
Perhaps yonder twinkling constellation 10
the residence Of the martyrs; that group OF
twelve luminaries is the celestial home OF
the apostles. Perhaps that steep OF light is
the dwelling place Of angels cherubic. sera-
phic, archangelic. A mansion with as many
rooms as worlds and all their windows illu-
minated for fessivity.
Oh, how this widens AMI lifts and stimu-
lates our expectationsl How little it makes
the present and how stupendous it makes
the futurei How it consoles US about our
pious dead, who, instead Of being boxed up
and under the ground, have the range OF as
many rooms as there are worlds, and wei
come everywhere, for it is the Fathers
house, in which there are many mansions!
Oh, Lord God Of the Seven Stars and Orion,
how can endure the transport, the ecstasy
Of such a visionl must obey my text and
seek Him. Twill seek Him. seek Him now.
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Where SpO0Is and Shoe Pegs Are Made.

"Oxford County, Maine, turns out
nearly all the spools on which the thread
of this country is wound" said a whole.
sale notion dealer. 1.-The spools are
made from white birch timber, and they
are produced by the million in Oxford
County. There are many other points in
Western Maine, also, where the industry
is important. There are many saw
mills in that part of the State which are
kept busy the year round saving white
birch logs into strips four feet long and
from one to two inches wide and of the
same thickness. These strips are sent to
the spool factories, where they are
quickly worked into spools by most in
genious labor-saving machinery. The
strips of white birch are fed into one
machine. and they are not touched, in
fact hardly seen again, until the spools,
all finished for market except polishing,
drop out by the bushel from another ma
chine several rods away from where the
strips started in. The spools get their
gloss by being rapidly revolved in barrels
by machinery, the polish resulting from
the contact of the spools in the barrel.
''In the backwoods villages of Oxford
County one sees scarcely any other indus.
try but spool making, and every one is
in some way interested in the business.
The factories have been eating into the
Maine birch forests for years, but there
seems to be enough left yet to feed them
we'll for years to come. Hundreds of
thousands of feet of logs are cut and
sawed into spool timber annually.
"Shoe-peg factories are also an impor-
liant branch of business once peculiar to
Maine, although it has of late been fol-
lowed to some extent in other Eastern
States, and IS spreading to the hard.
wood forests of Northern Pennsylvania.
Maple is used largely in the manufacture
of shoe pegs, although white birch is used
at some factories. Shoe pegs are sold by
the bushel, and are worth all the way
from three 'shillings to one dollar a
bushel, according to quality. More than
$3.50, 900 was received by Maine shoe
peg factories last year for goods.
ga curious and profitable business has
grown up in the Maine woods about the
sawmllls, in the utilizing of the immense
quantities of sawdust by compression.
Thousands of tons of sawdust are pressed
into compact blocks and bales, and in
this form is finding ready market for
kindling and fuel in the Eastern cities. "
New York Sun.
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yAIyE OF PHYSICAL HEALTH.

Christ, starting on the campaign of the
worlds conquest. first selected His staff
officers. There were plenty Of students with
high foreheads and white hands, and intel.
lectual faces, and refined tastes, in Rome and
Jerusalem. Christ might have called in the
apostleship twelve book-worms, or twelve
rhetoricians, or twelve artists. Instead. He
takes group of men who had never made a
speech. never taken lesson in belles-lettres,
never been sick enough to make them look
deicate-ther hands broad, clumsy and
hard-knuckled. He chose fishermen, among
other reasons think, because they were
physically hardy. Rowing makes strong
arms and stout chests. Much climbing
of ratlines makes ones head steady.
A Galilee tempest wrestled men
into gymnasts. The opening work of the
church was rough work. Christ did not want
twelve inval;ds hanging about Him, com.
planning all the time how badly they felt He
leaves the delicate students at Jerusalem and
Rome for their mothers and aunts to take
care of, and goes down to the seashore, and
ont of the toughest material makes an apos-
tleship. The ministry need more corporeal
vigor than any other class. Fine minds and
good intentions are important, but there
must be physical force to back them. The
intellectual mill-wheel may be built and the
grist ground, but there must be enough
blood in the mill-race to turn the one and to
grind the otheT.-lTalmage.
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CARDINAL MANsISa AND THE LIQUOR QUESTION.
The best efforts and the last few years of
Cardinal Manning's life were spent in the in
terests OF the poor Of London. and 1t was while
working for them and endeayoring to rescue
them from the extreme poverty which sur
rounded them that he saw that the first great
evil he had to overcome was the drink habit.
Among all the squalid dens Of vice and misery
OF Ratcliffe highway, down among the vile
haunts Of crime and dissipation Of decsyed
old stairs, in the rank and fetid atmosphere
Of st. Giles, whera the rays Of the sun scarce
penetrate, and where the nights were made
hideous with blasphemy and cursing, and the
gin palace loomed with brllliance and lustre
that made the miserable surroundings all the
more pitiable by the contrast, he was not
afraid 10 penetrate. Side by side with the
gin palace hang the three brass balls, the
pawnbroker's sign, the symbol of penury and
want, the trade mark Of the human vulture
that deals in the life blood of his fellow beings
It was in these dark, vile haupts of sin and
shame that Cardinal Manning frstcommenced
bis temperance crusade. 1t WAS here that
the League Of the Cross, the strongest and
grandest temperance organization the world
has ever seen, and of which he was the foun-
tain head, waged a pitilcss warfare on the
liquor traffic, and although thousands have
been rescued from the dread embrace Of that
modern Moloch OF iniquity that was grinding
them in the dust, and have sought service
under the banner which rescued them, the
dread fight still goes on and will continue un-
til the authorities destroy forever these cess
pools of iniquity and vice.
Writing of his temperance work reminds me
Of how he came to take the pledge, for al
though preaching total abstinence ne was not
total abstainer himself until some time after
he had identified himself with the temperance
movement. It was at meeting Of some school
children whom he was gong to enroll under
the temperance banner, and after speaking to
them OF the evils Of the drink habit, and the
force Of good example, he said: ''Now, let us
all kneel down and take the pledge" The
children knelt down, the cardinal among them,
and repeated the pledge after him, and when
they got up little girl who was nearest the
cardinal, in that precocious manner peculiar to
children, said to him: "Now we are all temper
ance, just ike you" His Eminence often used
to speak of this, how lie had come to take the
pledge unintentionally, and he said having
taken it surrounded by children whose souls
were unstained By sin, 1t made his pledge
doubly binding, and he would keep it until the
day of his death.-Sac,ed Heart Reuie@.
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PERSONAL HOLINESS.

Every individual should feel, that while
his influence over other mems hearts and
characters is very bounded, bis power over
bis own heart is great and constant, and
that his zeal for extending Christianity is to
appear chiefly in extending it through his
own mind and life. Let him remember
that he as truly ealarges God s kingdom by
invigorating bis own moral and religious
principles. as by communicating them to
others. Our first concern is at home, our
chief work is in our own breasts. 1t is lille
to talk of our anxiety for other. mems souls.
if we neglect our own. Without personal
virtue and religion, we cannot, even II we
would, do much for the cause Of Christ It
Is only by purifying our own conceptions of
God and duty. that we can give clear and
useful views to others. We must first feel
the power of religion, or we cannot recon-
mend it with an unaffected and prevalent
zeal.-lChanniug.
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RELIGIOUS READING.

OUR HOME.
Beloved. when we pass away
From this familiar SPOT
l wonder who will come and stay
In the deserted cot.
Beneath these elm trees who will stand
And think that homo is sweet,
When we have gone into that land
Where parted households meet?
oh, who will walk beside the stream,
Or sit beneath the pine.
To dream again life's little dream,
When tits not yours, nor mine?
Will some one fell my favorite tree,
Pull down the mossy wall:
The things so dear to you and me,
Will they destroy them all?
Whose name will be on yorder door?
Whose pictures deck the walls?
Whose feet press roughly on the floor
Where your dear footstep fallsf
And when the years to centuries swing,
Till all we love are dead,
Will any echo backward bring
The words that VIC have said?
hope the brook down there will miss
An old familiar tune,
When in happier home than this
We talk with all our own.
For oh, this little home is sweet,
Each corner is 30 dear;
Can Heaven without it be completea
would that Heaven were here.
almost think that from the skies,
II this dome can see,
shall watch those with envious eyes
Who live here after me.
"Hush! hush we shall not care" you say
Dear heart it may be true;
We shall Lot then, but oh, today
Ny life is here, with you.
Julia q. Dlay.
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TEMPERANCE.
STRONG DRINK FILLS DUB PRISONS.

at is estimated that the cost Of maintaining
the some 100 900 inmates Of the various penal
institutions in this country exceeds Sis, ,000 900
annually Chicago Tribune.
:. is safe to assume that three-fourths of the
100, 900 Of these inmates Of American prisons
are such, either directly or indirectly, on ac-
count Of strong drink. In an economic point
Of view the burden Of maintaining them Is
heavy and the millions paid out an unayoid-
able outlay. Yet the Tribune is an advocate
of licensed Equor-selling, one Of the inevitable
results Of which is q large and continually in
creasiug crop of Inexpensive criminals. Nation-
al Temperance Advocate.
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Lifetime of SaloOnists.

The average lifetime for proprie,
tors Of beer saloons is 51.35; proprie-
tresses of beer saloons, 51.95; brew
ers, 42.33. Inquiry has shown that
the male proprietors Of wine rooms
live but forty-nine years, and women
who keep wine rooms but forty-seven.
Medical Record.
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FAITHS OFFICE.

Faith Is truly light in soul, but it is a
light which shines only upon duties and
is now to be done, hut it does not eel US
what is to follow and accordingly it guides us
but a single step at time; and when
We take that step under the guidance Of
faith, we advance directly into o
land of surrounding shadows and darkness.
Like the patriarch Abraham, we 60, not
knowing whittier we go, but only that God
is with us. In mans darkness we never
theless walk and live in Gods light, way
OF living blessed and glorious, however mys-
terious it may be to human vision.-[Thomas
c. IJDham
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More MIlsoegnation.

One OF Albuquerque's IN. N.Y. pub
lie school teachers is about to marry
an Indian now attending the Govern
ment Indian School there. The
brave Is said to be very bright, and
one who on his return home will
probably be elected chief Of the tribe.