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shade. Houses OF entertainment on either
side of the road for poor pilgrims. Tables
spread with feast of good things and walls
adorned with apoles of gold in pictures OF
silver. I start out on this Kings highway.
and l find harper, and l say, ""hat IN
your name" The harper makes no response,
but leaves me to guess as with his eyes to.
ward heaven and his hand upon the trem-
bling strings this tune comes ripping out up
on the air: 1.-THE Lord is my light and my sal
walton. Whom shall fear? The Lord is
the strength of my life. Of whom shall be
afraid?'
Igo little farther on the same road and
meet trumpeter Of heaven, and 1 say.
"Haven't you got some music for tired
piigrim?n And wiping his lip and taking
long breath, he puts his mouth to the trum-
ret and pours forth this strain: They shall
hunger no more, neither shall they thirst
auy more, neither .hal the sun light on
them, nor any heat, for the Lamb which ls
in the midst Of the throne shall lead them to
living fountains Of water, and God shall
wipe away all tears from their eyes,"
/ 90 little distance farther on the same
road, and meet maiden Of Israel. She
has no harp but she has cymbals. They
look as If they had rusted from sea spray,
and I say to the maiden of Israel, Have
YOU no song for tired pilgrim" And like
the clang Of victors' shields the cymbals clap
as Miriam begins to discourse, ''Sing ye to
the Lord, for He hath triumphed gloriously;
the horse and the rider hath He thrown into
thesea."
I pursue this subject only one step
farther. What Is ths terminus! I do not
care how fine road you may put me on, !
want to know where It comes out, MY text
declares it, '.The redeemed Of the Lord come
to Zion" You know what Zion was. That
was the Kings palace. twas mountain
fastuess. It was impregnable. And 80
heaven Is the fastness OF the universe.
No howitzer has long enough range to
shell those towers. Let all the batteries OF
earth and hell blaze away; they cannot break
in these gates. Gibralter was taken; Sebas-
topol was taken; Babylon fell; but those
walls Of heaven shall never surrender either
to humanity OF satanic besiegement. The
Lord God Almighty is the defense OF it:
Great capital Of the universal Terminus OF
the Kings highwayl
When my last wound is healed, when the
last heartbreak is ended, when the last tear
of earthly sorrow is wiped away, and when
the redeemed Of the Lord shall come to
Zion, then let the harpers take down their
harps, and all the trumpters take down their
trumpets, and all across heaven there be
chorus Of morning stars, chorus OF white
robed victors, chorus Of martyrs from un-
der the throne, chorus of ages chorus OF
worlds, and there be but one song sung, and
but one name. spoken, and but one throne
honored-that OF Jesus only.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
SOUL. DEFORMIT z.


Eyes have they,
But 20. they cannot see
Beyond sef's higotry and things OF clay:
Like men who blindly gropc their sunless
way
Amid the tombs OF dark uncertainty.
Ears have they,
But 10. they cannot hear
Save the loud crash of ruin and decay,
Delusion's dismal din and Doubt s stfray,
The skeptic's wavering call, the scoher's
jecr.
They cannot see the Shepherd as he stands
With outstretched hands;
They cannot hear him calling tenderly,
"Come unto me-"
They cannot see the ssviour's bleeding
wounds,
Nor hear the sounds
OF grief be uttered: they pass blindly BY
Dread Calvary.
Bid him unstop thy hearing, 10! thine ears
His blessing cheers;
Bid him but touch thine eyelids, 10! thy
way
Is perfect day.
IF. W. Hutt.
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Big Farms Of the West.

Large farms are not uncommon in the
West. In fact, in some sections they are
the rule rather than the exception. Sena-
tor Casey, of North Dakota, has 5000
acres under cultivation. The Dairymple
farm contains 20, 900 acres. It's genu-J
inc farm, under perfect cultivation, and
yields a heavy income. In the Red
River Valley lies the great Grandin farm
Here are found Is, 900 acres under cul-
tivation, and in the last ten years it has
yielded profit of $3.50, 900. Senator
Casey boasts that he can plant 25o acres
of wheat per day with his drilling
machines, and the Dairymples have .
machine which thrashes from 1000 to
1000 bushels of wheat day.-New York
Advertiser.
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mare whose record of 2:0S4 on a regu-
latlon oval track seven years ago IS IN
the minds of most impartial judges the
best trotting performance the world has
ever witnessed. Sunol's 2:OS{. made
over the time-destroying, mathematlc'
ally-ingenious, ki!e.shaped track, Is IN
ferior as regards absolute speed, MIR.
Bonner claims, to Maud SIS time, mas
much as the kite track is undoubtedly
from two to three seconds faster than the
oval. Nancy Hanks's 2:O74, though
made on an oval, he asserts is also in
ferior, because Mr.. Forbes's game little
Kentucky six.year-old dragged one Of
the wide.tired, air.greased, jarless,
pneumatic sulkies just coming into
vogue. This fact made her time, he con.
tends, at least two seconds faster than 1t
otherwise would have teen.
Maud s. having had neither the kite
track nor the "bicycle" sulkY to assist
her, and, furthermore, trotting her
2O84 back in 1885 on track poorly
planned as compared with those OF to-
day, may be judged to have made the
equivalent CT 2:04 had she been assisted
by all three of these aids. Consequently
Mr.. Bonner is emphatic in his conviction
that she is queen of the turf, though she
may have been technically dethroned.
In talking about Maud 8. and her
Younger rivals Mr.. Bonner made a pre-.
diction of great interest to lovers of the
trotting horse. ~ think" said he,
"that the time limit for trotters has
nearly been reached. I place it at
2:O5."
1.-THE great little champion of the trot-
ting turf, the peerless Nancy Hanks,
has added new honors to the fullness OF
her fame. On the kite shaped track at
Independence, Iowa, piloted by that
prince of drivers, Budd Doble, she trot-
ted from wire to wire without a break
or falter in the sensational time of 2:O5t.
This same trotting wonder also broke
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School Age in Various States.

The age at which pupils are allowed
to enter and to continue in the public
schools differs greatly. Of the forty.
eight States and Territories six admit
them at four years of age, nineteen at
five, twenty at six, three at seven and
one at eight.
The States admitting them at four are
Maine, Connecticut, Florida and Mon.
tana. The schools of Alabama and North
and South Dakota do not receive them
till they are seven, and those of Texas
exclude them till they are eight, and
only allow them to attend till they are
sixteen.
Twenty-Five OF the States aud Terri.
tories allow pupils to attend the public
schools till they arrive at the age OF
twenty-one. Of the remainder the
''school age" terminates at twenty in
nine, at eighteen in seven, at sixteen in
three and at fifteen in three. Chicago
Journal.
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sulky will restore to the regulation track
its former place. The oval has been
Judged to be slower than the kite, be-
cause it has two comparatively sharp
turns to the one and easy turn OF the
kite. But the new sulky, by taking the
turns with almost or quite the same fa-
cilitity with which it takes the stretches,
will nearly eliminate the superiority OF
the kite track as regards turns.
The matter of the actual difference IN
time between q pneumatic tired and a
steel tired sulky is one about which
horsemen disagree. Enthusiasts claim as
much as three or four seconds; conserva.
tives, very few of them, will allow
one second or thereabouts. But. accord
ing to the best judgment, based on
careful study, the difference may be said
to be from two to three seconds. In
bicycling the difference is much greater
than four seconds; but in that sport the
racer was racked much more by the old
wheel than was the trotter By the old
sulky. .,
Mr.. Bonner is occupying himself with
studying ideas in connection with the
.bicycle sulky." One gentleman has
submitted to him design for cushion
tired sulky, but of this he dlsapproves,
regarding 1t as lacking in elasticity.
Another theorist advocates stretching
fine silk screen from rim to rim to do
away with that spoke vibration caused
by air friction. This, Mr.. Bonner
thinks, would be valuable in some parts
of the track, but on Others the silk
would act as sail. Finally, the owner
of Sunol is holding back to ascertain
whether larger wheels would not be bet
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

It isn't the drop IL wages that hurts
man so much as the drop he takes after get
ting his wages.
On an average each inhabitant OF France
consumes Atty literS or quarts, OF wine IN
year. In Paris they do uotter-or worse
with an average consumption OF l03 llters.
Cabbage is said to be re nedy for intoxi-
cation. Thu ancient Egyptians always ate
it at dinpsr whsn they expected to drink
much wine. In Europs nsarly all the rem.
edies sold for into1icatioa contain cabbage
seed.
During the eleven months en- ling May 81,
over six hundred thousand gallons OF rum
were sent to Africa to evangelizs the
h,atheu. All but about thirty thousand
gallons were sent from tae New England
States where the expectation OF rum still
leads.
Mrs. Lenoro Barry-Llke. OF st. Louis,
Mo-, has formed the hrSt white ribbon so
ciety Of Catholic women OF which thsrs Is
any record. She did this with the full ap.
proval OF the Vicar-General, who enthusl
astically en- lorsed the WORK. Tnsre are
sixty members in this new union. They
wear the white ribbon attached to silver
cross.
The Interstate Convention OF the Wo
mans Christian Telnpsranc. Union. which
assembled at Mountain Lake PARK, Nd, was
q notable SUCCESS. 1t is said the ladies sun 3,
PRAYED, preached, talked, cheered and even
whisted temperance " Joseph Cooks ad'
dress on ''Rumselers as Robbers and Rul-
ers" drew large crowd and was productive
OF great good
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the worlds record for the regulation
track by going mile in 2:O7 at the State
Fair orounds st. Paul Minn-ED.

the worlds record for the regulation
track by going mile in 2:07 at the State
Fair grounds, St. Paul, Minn.-ED.
Mr. Bonner has been studying the
pneumatic sulky and does not scruple to
say that it is going to revolutionlze
trotting times. Every good trotter Is
now driven to it, he says. He ascribes
Nancy Hanks's brilliant record to it and
will buy two or three pneumatic sulkies
as soon as he decides what size is best
adapted to sunol. Then he will send
that speedy California FLY for the
worlds trotting record.
Regarding the advantages of the
pneumatic tired sulky Mr. Bonner said
TO Press man:
1.-THE ball bearings form the most i'm
portant improvement the new sulky
shows. The axle friction is less by a
good deal than that of the old wheel.
Marvin, who is training Sunol at Mead
vile, gave me au object lesson showing
this. He held up the shafts of a pneu-
matte and told his boy to press fore
finger against the slat. With even that
slight pressure the vehicle quickly
moved backward. Later on Marvin had
the sulky lifted 50 that one wheel was
free from the ground; he then started
the wheel whirliDg and it spua until l
began to think perpetual motion had
been found at last. 1t Is easily appre-
ciated that such factor as that must
help horse to finish with comparative
ease, for strength is saved-the strength
which used to be employed is overcom-
ing the greater friction of the cone bear
ings.
"Moreover, the new sulky takes the
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pulling up hill during the mile; drawing
200 pounds up grade very slight, to be
sure, but certainly worth taking into &C.
count when quarter seconds are meas.
ured. The soft cushions of the pneu-
matte tires leave hardly any trace on the
track. They are twice as broad as the
steel tires, and if thcre is any pulling up
hill it is too slight to be even imagined.
"The new sulky also passes over, peb.
bles, etc., without iarriug. A pebble is
on the track. The steel tire hits it and
an ugly jar is felt, setting the spokes to
greater vibration aud annoying nervous
driver. But when the pudding like sur
face of the pneumatic hits the pebble it
instantly gives to it, and the driver is
literally ignorant of its presence on the
track. This may seem too trivial fer
consideration, but horse owners know
that it Is not"
Mr.. Bonner is of opinion that the new
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Stray Dogs Bring Luck.

Mr.. Pung, OF the Chinese Legation, is
authority for the statement that a China
man can wish for no better luck than to
have strange dog come to the house
with the evident intention of linking his
future fortunes with those of the family.
This is especially true of Pekin, where
stray CANNES. instead of being summarily
dismissed from the doorstep, as is the
general custom elsewhere, ore taken in,
cared for and their lives henceforth sur
rounded with the comforts most appre-
ciated by their race. So great, indeed,
is the superstitious feeling that no pains
are spared to induce the stranger to re-
main permanently with the new found
friends Kate Fields Washington.
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How Guatemalans Make Tea.

Guatemalans think that there is no
better coffee raised anywhere in the
world than on their own plantations, and
when they travel abroad, to make sure of
having good coffee, they take along
store of their own. A long glass tube,
several inches in, diameter, but tapcring
to tunnel at one end, is filled with
ground coffee, and through the mass is
poured cold water. A strong solution
of coffee slowly drips from the narrow
end of the tube, and this liquid is care.
fully put in up in air-tight vessels, to be
warmed in small quantities and drunk on
the journey.-New Orleans Picayune.
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(if you can't endure the dlsagreeable
odor Of the lamp besmear it completely
with plumbago on one side of the papers
surface. Place several large books in
regular order of deere asing size on
table aud drape the strip Of smoked
paper over them with pins, as per Illus
tration, the end OF the strip resting in .
plate. The undulations of the strip
should be more accentua ted the nearear
YOU get to the smallest book. Now let
drops of water fall on the prepared
paper, aud they will roll along it, ''up
hill and down." in most surprising
manner.-St. Louis Republic.
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In the struggle OF life the hero and
the coward, the conQuerer and con-
Quered, need sympathy equally.
Often the mind which upholds others
needs itself to be upheld; the honest
hearS which seems 80 bold and true
Is fainting from secret sorrow, dying
from some little wound which
sympathy could stanch, the pain Of
which it could alleviate.
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TEMPERANCE.
BE PURE, BOYS.

Be pure! Thy very lips be pure!
Oh, stain them not with words OF wrong,
Nor soil them with the touch OF drink
That weakens all whom God made strong.
Be purel Oh, let thy hands be clean;
By touch Of sin be neer detiled.
To smite the wrong man be thou;
In innocence, be thou child.
Be pure! Thy feet be pure, aid shun
The dark and miry ways Of sin.
Take clean, bright paths that aim at heaven;
Who steadfast climbs shall enter in.
Be pure! If thou within be clean,
Thy life will shine cen as the light.
Then, Father, hear Thy children cry,
And make our souls like snowAakes white.
Rev. E. A Rand, in Temperance Banner.
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WE cannot have everything In this
world. II we have health, talent
and riches, we must have the pecul-
lar temptations which accompany
them. God always knows what is
best for us; we what is best for our
selves-seldom.
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WHY is young man courtlng girl
like suicidep Because he's her fell
low, der seer The point Of this
Joke has been brought 9 long dis
tance, and is tired. $780,.
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GODS EXISTENCE.

Calico. the most profound philosopher of
his age. when interrogated by the lnquisi-
on as to his belief of Supreme Being, re-
piled. pointing to straw on the floor of his
dungeon. that from the structure OF that
object alone, he would infer with certainty
the existence of an intelligent Creator.
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THE GREAT KNocKER-oUr,

The vanquished John L. reported to have
remarked, while the bitterness Of defeat was
yet fresh upon him, that "boozs did It," II
he did make this sorrowful observation on
the powers of old John Barleycorn to destroy
and break down everything, including brain
and muscle, he was unwittingly preaching a
most effective temperance lecture. Ger.
tainly devotion to alcoholic drinks-evsn
an occasional one-is wholly incompatible
with good physical training for display of
the best strength. II the ancient gladiators
had become fond o. '.hard drinks" like our
modern ones, We should never have hear,l
much about their prowess. lntoxication Is
the great knocker.out.-Eew York Journal.
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OPINIONS VI EaiNr.r DocTo ts.


Alcohol is ither food, nor a generator
of fore. IL the human body; and 1 have
found no case Of disease, and no emergency
arising from accident, that could not treat
more successfully without any form Of fer
mented or distilled liquor than with.-N. s.
Davis, NJ. D.
Alcohol is the one evil genus, whether in
wine or ale or whisky, and IS killing the race
OF men. Stay the ravages Of this one poi
son, alcohol, that king Of polsons, the might
lest weapon Of the devil. and the millennium
will soon dawn.-Willarl Parker, M. D.
The day is passed when. upon dietic or
medical grounds, there is any indispensable
call for the Moderate or habitual use Of al.
coholic beyerages.-Ezra NJ. Hunter, NJ. D.
Men who do not take alcoholic drinks are
always warmer, and in that respect vltally
stronger than those who take alcohol.-B.
W. Richardson NJ. D.
So long as alcohol retains placs among
sick patients, so long will there be drunk.
ards.-R. D. Mussey, II. D.
WHAT An INTOXICATED FATHER DID.
A man was arrested in Denver recently
charged with abusing his children in most
cruel manner. The tale oil drunken fathers
cruelty, told by his children, was looked into
by Lieutenant Clay, who examined the boy's
back. It was terribly lacerated and covered
his lower limbs. The boy stated that the
father came homs intoxicated the day before
the complaint was made. He demanded
money OF the boy to buy more liquor. The
little fellow earns his money selling papers,
and, the small mite 1t is, he takes home to
his sister TO purchase food for the family,
He refused the man the money and was
beaten with long strap, tied in series of
hard knots. The father finally released the
boy and he and his sister made their way
down town. The sister is seventeen years
old and large for her age. She has face
that would be pretty il 1t was not for the
marks OF pain and hardships stamped there.
The girl takes in washing whom she can get
the work, and adds her earnings to those Of
her brother toward the famlly's support
The poor girl told OF many bsatings she had
received from her father while he was drunk.
The mother Of the children is dead, and they
have to look after their father and bear his
abuse alone
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Man-like is it to fall into sin;
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein;
Saint.lke is it for sin to grieve;
ChrIst-like is it all sin to leave.
-[Theodore Culyer, D. d.
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THE man who buys the most ex'
pensive books Is often the one who
seldom reads them.
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EVERY man who has tested JOY, will
admit that finally it has a Otter
taste.
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The greatest depth of the Atlantic
Ocean is 81, 1856 feet:
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STOP THE MANUFACTURES.

While we permit the manufacture OF dis.
titled liquors we must submit to the traffic
in the same, and prepare as best we can for
the degradation and devastation as ths re.
suit OF what our Government Is pleased to
term national industry.
We might as well commence to level the
forest by clipping at the leaves and twigs OF
the trees in making ready for the grain
fields as to spend our time and substance in
battling against the methods OF the sale OF
alcoholic stimulants. We must 90 to the
rootof the matter and devote our time and
means to abolishing the manufacture Of dis.
titled liquors except for medicinal and
manufacturing purposes. We believe that
the indulgence in lager teer and malt liquors
Of every kind as beverage must eventually
lead to the indulgence in distilei liquors.
When we succeed II, ridding the country OF
all alcoholic stimulants as O beverage, niue-
tenths Of tho criminals Of our cities will be-
come valuable producing citizens. Church
Union.
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NANCY HANKS.

hicle and the driver rested on two narrow
unyieldiug strips of hard steel-that is,
some 200 pounds pressed them into the
actually the trotts: was
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stroyed. Kept by the power Of God through
faith unto complete salvation Everlasting
ly safe.
feet Christian man is to kill him, and that
is glory. In other words, the worst thing
thai can happen a child Of God is heaven.
The body is only the old slippers that he
throws aside just before putting on the
sandals Of light. His soul, you cannot hurt
it. No fires can consume It. No floods can
drown it. No devils can capture it.
His soul is safe. His reputation Is safe.
Everything is safe. "But" you say, ''sup-
DOSE his Store burns up% why, then it
viii emily BE- a change Of invest
ments from earthly to heavenly securi-
ties. "But" you say, suppose bis
name goes down under the hoof of
scorn and contemnt9' The name will be SO
much brighter in glory Suppose his phys
iccI health fails%' God will pour into him
the floods Of everlasting health. and it will
not make any difference. Earthly subtrac.
tion is heavenly addition. The tears of
earth are the crystals OF heaven. AS they
take rags and tatters and put them through
tbe naper mill and they come out beautiful
white sheets of paper. SO often the rags OF
earthly destitutiou. under the cvlln ders OF
death come out a white scroll upon which
shall be written eternal emancipation.
Still furtcer, the roa spoten Of is pleas
ant road. God gives a bond OF indemnity
against all evil to everv man that treads 1t.
"All things work together for good to those
who love God" No weapon formed against
them can prosper. That is the bond, signed,
sealed AMI delivered by the President Of the
universe. What is the use of your frettinY,
o child Of God, about fool? "Behold the
fowls Of the air, for they SOW not, neither
do they reap. nor gather into bands, yet your
heavenly Father feedeth them" And will He
take care Of the sparrow. will He take care
Of the hawk, and let you die. What is the
use of your fretting about clothess Con
slider the lilies Of the field. Shall he not
much mora cloths you o ye Of little fsith9"
Oh, this Kings highway Trees Of life on
either side bending over until their branches
interlock and drop midway their fruit and