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These indicate that the balloon season
has arrived and that the aeronaut and
parachutist is preparing for his seasons
work.
Few people who witness balloon
ascension comprehend its Vaccinations,
its perils or its methods, and only those
who have made the trip into the clouds
can accurately describe its accompanying
sensations. Professor Mortimer McKim,
an aeronaut of experience, gives it as
his opinion that the aeronaut lives life
time in the few brief moments of bis
voyage. To those interested in aerial
navigation, a description of the airship
is necessary. The material employed in
the construction consists of superior
quality of sheeting, the breadths being
stitched together firmly, with the edges
felled. The average balloon, being $50
feet in circumference and seventy five
feet in height, requires eight hundred or
more yards of cloth. At the mouth OF
the balloon hoop the size Of a wagon
wheel, and made of wood, is attached to
keep the mouth open while the hot air
is being forced into it, and this orlfice
remains open during the ascension. The
inside of the fire balloon is coated with
a sizing of glue, whiting, alum and
other on-combustibles, as precaution
against sparks, which, with the hot air,
arise frequently to height of thirty
feet during the imitation.
On being released, the balloon rises at
first slowly until at about height OF
fifty feet, when its velocity is at the rate
of forty-6ve miles an hour. At the ex-
piration of two minutes the balloon has
attained an altitude of mile and half,
then it commences to sail with the air
current which strikes it. This drifting
about continues for a period Of four min
utes, when the escaping hot air causes u
gradual shrinking Of the balloon and its
consequent descent. The unique sensa-
tions of the ae1onaut begin with the
moment he mounts the trapeze bar at
tached to the balloon. Grasping the
ropes, the feeling is much like that OF
being seated in swing. For the first
100 feet there is realization Of the as
cent; objects below appear smaller and
smaller until gradually they fade from
view. At height of 200 feet in the air,
rushing past with tremendous velocity,
gives one the impression of leaning out
Of the car window of limited express,
the sounds of earth die away in muir :
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The Island of TAMIL.

Tahiti, with its adjacent islands, was
on June 80, 1880, formally annexed to
France. The king, Pomare v, who
accomplished the act by his own free will
retained the honorary title of king. He
had been the nominal ruler of the islands
since 1877, when he succeeded. as the
nearest relation of royal blood, Queen
Pomare, who, in 1842, signed the con-
vention with the French Admiral Du-
petit Thomas about the establishment OF
a French protectorate over the islands.
Tahiti is about 10S miles in circumfer-
ence and thirty-two miles long, and is
in the form of two peninsulas, connected
by an isthmus about three miles broad.
The larger of these is Tahiti proper,
while the smaller is named Tairaboo and
both are surrounded by coral reefs. The
highest summit in the island is a noun.
tain in the northern part, $500 feet
above the sea level. The fertile part of
the island lies in the valleys, which are
OF small extent, and in the plain, which
stretch from the seashore to the spurs of
the mountains. These produce tropical
plants in great abundance and luxur-
lance. The climate is agreeable, being
warm, but not enervating. The natives
have teen converted to Christianity by
the labors of missionaries, and there are
few of them who cannot read and write.
The island is divided into seven districts
and is the seat of Supreme Court, con-
sisting of seven judges. Most of the
vessels that visit Tahiti are whalers,
though until lately they only averaged
less than 100 annually. lbs principal
town and port is Papiete. and its .esti-
mated population is ,mewhat over s0oo.
Detroit Free Press.
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rrupeeANcE NEWS AND NOTES.


An exchange inquiries, What does horse
known He knows more than some men be
knows enough to let whisky alone.
.sNo member saall be permitted to drink
the white mans grog' is the pertinent r.,u'
lation OF a newly formed Zulu church IN
Africa.
The directors Of the Columbian Exposition
have refused to grant space to the Worlds
Womans Christian Temperance Union 1or
the erection OF a building IN which 10 e4-
hibit the work and progress OF the temper
ance reform.
Eleven gentlemen met at lunch IN Shaas-
hal and IL came out that they had all been
Ife.long abstainsrs. They had each lived IN
the irving temperature OF North China Tor
PERIODS ranging from twenty-four TO tnirty-
live years, and not one OF them hao Deem
once slci from climatic causes
Neal Dow has written to the head OF W.
G. T. U. in Maine that he will oequeatn, MS
scrap-oook to the archives OF the ne" Ie'u-
perance Temple III Chicago There are
twenty-three volumes now. very large ana
thick and halt-bound in strong morocco.
Neal Dow's scrap-books must contain greaI
deal OF matter of value to the temperance
cause.
The Mississippi Legislature has just passed
q scientific temperance instructlon Dill, oy
which every grade OF the public schools ls
now compelled to teach the subject under
exactly the same regulations which govern
every other study in the schools. The sams
Legislature has also passed law forbidding
the sale Of tobacco in any form to boys under
eighteen years OF age.
Mr.. Charles Booth has made very care
full study of poverty and its causes in Eng
land. and Of 1900 Gases analysed, finds
twenty seven per cent. attributable to III
ness, large families and other -mistortunes;
ffty-fiye per cent. to LACK OF employment,
and only fourteen per cent. TO drink.
Probably drink has muca to DO "ita 5ne
other causes mentioned...
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THE ryua OF IyTEMPERANCE.

In his sermon before the Springfield Z. L
A. Union Convention, Rev. John +. Leon
arc: sets forth the evils OF intemperance H.
the following clear and convincing manner !
In all causes which have banetul and
. evil effect in the great battle Of life, and
which tend to wreck the future hopes of
success, and to blight the brightest prospect's
for good: there is none, not one more to %
dreaded than the evil Of drunkenness. Thil
evil has made such inroads among all classe;
of people in our day, and its ,pernlcous ei +
fects are so far-reaching and wide spread,
that it is time to stem this torrent or de-
struction.
It has swept over this fair land like q pes.
tilence marking its course by wrecked and
ruined homes; filling the poor houses, tie or.
phanages, the insane asylums, the Jalls and
the prisons.
God Himself commands us to guard and
protect with care our strength and health.
He even renounces the rignt He has OF our
services. when We cannot serve Him, with
out the danger of injuring it, And yet, U
precious health! 80 useful and valuable to
man, so precious in the sight OF God, now
many are they who wrecklessly ruin and
destroy thees
All! but how? By frequent and excessive
drinking, The life that is so precious, and
that would not otherwise be exposed to dan
ger by any one, is willingly and deliberately
shortened and brought to premature end:
Nearly all diseases come from ill-digested
humors in the stomach, and these humors
must necessarily and frequently arise IN a
stomach charged with beer and strong drink
which heat the blood and retard digestion.
Hence the dumb brute will not drink unless
it is thirsty; and poor people as class, have
not the diseases of the rich who drink
liquors. ...
All sorts of fevers, diseases Of the chest
and lungs, dropsy. consumption, palsy,
apoplexy, gout, trembling OF ths limbs and
impurity OF the blood, come, for the most
part, from excessive drink, and are not apt
to be found in temperate men.
The providence Of God has wisely ordained
that excessive drinking should bring its own
punishment and should cause all those evils,
to those who are addicted to 1t. in order that,
if they are still capable OF using toelr rea-
son, and following its dictates, they may be
deferred from this evil and ruin GUS habit OF
intoxicating drink.
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muir. and it is then that the balloon
seems stationary, the earth falling away
from it. -,
Looking downward from the height,
all surfaces appear level, mountains and
valleys are alike, and the world looks as
if spread out and fattened by rolling
min. Roads and rivers resolve them
selves into narrow ribbons; forests,
fields and meadows are clumps of green,
red and black, with green as the domi-
naut color. At two miles earth is lost to
view, as in a fog. Presently the balloon
begins to sail, driven by an air current.
There is now no apparent motion. The
aeronaut experiences a'feeling Of oppfes-
sion. the air, deprived Of its vltal.prln-
ciple, exhausts at each inspiration; ring
ing rounds are heard in ears, and one can;
so to speak, hear the stiffness. the
breath comes in quick, successive gasps
that do not satisfy the lungs. 1t is like
going to ones death.
Looking upward. the horizon Is
bounded by the big black ball-the BAL
loon-dark against the milky opaqueness
of the atmosphere. The airship Is sway
inc and swinging. while the clouds,
floating in contrary direction, produce
a vague giddiness. There IS, how
ever, no time for tremors. Seconds
seem hours. the mind and memory
travelling with electric flight. Conjec'
lures. recollections and retrospections
flash across the bewildered brain as one
reels through space. Suddenly the top
of the balloon comes in contact with
cloud, there is slight jar, and the next
instant all is enveloped in fog, from
which the aeronaut cmerges soaked with
spray. And now for the spectacle 4!
Sublime, dazzling. Mountains OF irides.
cence, heecy white clouds tinged with
creamy pink, like the plumage OF the
cockstoo. Swirling combinations OF
color, blending and shifting as in a
gigantic bubble. Golden greens, that
melt into purple and bronze and crimson
with the sun dissolving and overho"lns
upon their tops. Wonderful tinrs, such
as artist never dreamed Of. To compre-
hend color it is necessary to have seen
the magic canvasses of the clouds. The
balloon sails on and drops slowly away
from this panorama once more into the
colorless atmosphere.
With the descent, earth appears to rise
and the balloon to remain fixed; aud no"
the operator is occupied with one idea -,
aneculation as to where and how he will
reach earth, for distance is incalculable
and perspective myth. The balloon
is the sport of chance. and is liable to
deposit its passenger anywhere from the
TOP of a church sreeple to the bottom OF
a ditch. The aeronaut takes his life in
his own hands when he asceuds with the
airshlp. Should it take fire, burst in mid
af or cool of too suddenly in striking a
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All About Toes.

A new and great German Anatomy
Art book tells about toes: "Some au-
thorities insist that the great toe ought
to project furthest, others that it should
not project quite 80 far as the second
toe; while others, again, maintain that
the two should be Of equal length. 1t
is we'll known that in antique statues the
second toe is usually the longer of the
two, while the frat is longer ia living
men. Some persons are of opinion that
the latter condition is a consequence of
wearing boots and shoes, while Others
hold that the longer second toe in the
antique is an artistic fgment. Both are
in the wrong" To prove this, the author
then gives the exact measurements of the
foot of an old man in whom the second
toe was obviously longer thaa the first,
and yet the man had worn ordinary
footgear from his earliest youth. To
show that in addition to external infu-
ences personal and racial characteristics
must be considered, he next instances an
Egyptian fellah girl. in whom the great
toe was conspicuously longer than the
second, although she had certainly never
worn shoes Of the European patteru, and
probably not any at all. That it is not
an artistic fiction is clear from the stata-
ment of an Italian sculptor, that though
in Italy it is the exception for the second
toe to exceed the first in length, yet this
is not insrequently to be met with.
Hence Professor Brucke concludes that
an artist is justified in representing the
feet on the type which he regards as the
most beautiful among the forms actually
observed by him. and not necessarily as
in his model.--New York Sun.
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A SHINING couNrENANCE.

That is a pleasant story which comes
from the mission field, how Japanese civil
officer who was feeling depressed and per-
picked with his religion saw a Christian
lady whose face wore such an expression
of peace and Joy that he argued her religion
must make her happy. He decided to in
quire into the doctrines Of Christianity and
was finally led to embrace it. The religion
Of Christ is calculated to make itself known
faces of the Christian women of Syria are
far more intelligent and beautiful than the
faces of their Mohammedan sisters. They
are of the same race; it is different religion
that makes the difference. Christianity Is
cheerful religion. Jesus said. "Be mot Of
,ad countenance." Better than his precept
was the truth be taught, which transforms
tue face OF him who receives it into his
heart
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RELIGIOUS READING.
NOISES FROM AN OLD MASsE.


The minister's wife had finished her chores,
By calling on all the church people.
And some she found open as both the church
doors.
And some she'd found stiff as the stceple.
For while all the deacons had slept on the
wall,
A committee had ccm like lion;
And by giving her husband generous call,
Had shaken the bulwarks Of Zion.
For years they had paid him who taught
them the Word,
About six hundred dollars or seven;
For they felt that preacher should trust
in the Lord"
And grow fat on the "manna from
Heaven"
And the cash question often had come to
annoy:
Which so many ministers rankles:
For the lord had sent children-three girls
and boy,
And the bSy-hollow down to his ankles.
Sister Blodgett, the wife of "a pillar bad
cried.
(They supported carriage and horses)
Beware lest you sin against God,' she had
sighed;
"a rolling stone gathers no moses"
The preacher looked up from The book which
he read,
And his merry eyes twinkled with laughter
why didn't you tell sister Blodgett." he
said.
THAT moss isn't what we are after
--[G. 7. Bowling. New York Independent.
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A Great Wheel to Bun Blk Cables.

Many people have looked into the
deep excavation made by the Third Ave-
nue. Cable Railroad Company for Its new
power house, at Bayard street and the
Bowery, and wondered why it is necess-
arv to make such big hole. After .
glance at the accompanying illustration
they will know the reason.
The picture shows one OF the greas
driye.wheeIs which will be used there to
turn the cable. Four of these are being
made for the work at Cleveland, Ohio.
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The Economical widows Joint.

"R. N" wants to marry an economi-
cal widow with whom he is acquainted,
says the New York Journal. Her week
runs this way:
On Sunday morn simple joint,
On Monday fricasee;
On Tuesday eve as curried veal
We have it served at tea;
Then daily, punctually at two.
~. The joint comes up as Irish stew. =:
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A Colossal fian0.

Becker, the manufacturer of pia nos for
the Imperial Court of Russia, has received
from the Court Chamberlain, famous
millionaire, Nestchj jeff -Maltzen, an or
der to make at a cost of $4,000 lHe, a
piauo-forte which will truly be colossal
1t will he supported on six legs, bound
to one another by garlands OF sculptured
wood, richly gilded, from designs bY the
architect Benois; and its power OF tone
will be triple that of an ordinary piano.
st. Louis Republic.
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LIQUOR IN GERMANY.

Whatever the mistakes made by Emperor
William Of Germany. he is not mistaken in
the deep interest he feels in the drink ques-
ton. Whether from the social. the military,
or the Industrial point of view, he discerns
the vital bearings Of this question. A ma
ton whose defenders are sodden with drink
leans on an unreliable support. A country
whose work-people are besotted with alcohol
and who waste their wages on that which
does them no good, il liable to get into the
lurch in the sharp, eager. unresting compe-
ritions OF industrial manufacture and COM
merce. As Leading military journal In
Germany declares, unless Germany redeems
herself from the saloon, she will look in vain
for competent defenders when the test of
war is to be met. In Great Britain the ex-
penditure for drink the past year was con-
uderably over seven hundred million dol,
lars; twice as large as the total national
revenue. It is blind and fatuous states
manship which would ignore such facts as
these-The Witness.
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11oUoR.sELL1Sa AT TIE WORLDS FAIR.

143SOSnohhAANS ~ AA~-
The Christian at Work publishes the Ma
tional Temperance Society's memorial to the
Worlds Fair Commissioners against liquor.
selling in connection with the Fair, and
makes vigorous editorial protest against
the preliminary action Of the Board OF. Con-
troll in granting, for a money consideration,
concessions to iquor-sellers. 1t says:
THE haste with which the local manage
ment came to decision on the liquor ques-
ton is in striking contrast with the dilatory
manner with which the requests OF tLe
friends of Sunday closing have been treated.
The latter have been trying now for nearly
a year to secure some decision on this point,
but no decisive action has been taken. The
question of the sale of liquor, however, was
decided, so far as the local directory could
decide it, without any delay. The local di-
rectory has, perhaps, taken this way OF Civ
ing notice to the world at large that it has
no sympathy, as one OF our daily papers has
expressed it, with 'Sabbatarians and tenn.
perance cranks.' 1t could hardly have taken
a more direct way to express that sentiment.
But these tSabbatarians and temperance
cranks' compose very large and influential
portion of the people Of the United States,
and it may be- found in the end that it IS
neither wise nor safe to ignore them en-
tirely."
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DR.. Phillips Brooks once said. Blessed is
tho old man who has the tire of twenty and
the peace Of seventy, dwelling harmonious
iy in his SOUL" Why should we become
isss ~ valuable and less attractive rs we ad-
van vance in years? The ripe fruit and the
mature grain. are more desirable and attrac.
tive at that stage than at any other. 1t
should be equally true with human charac'
ter. Mellowed by varied experiences ecu,
Gated in so many schools of life. with more
knowledge and wider experience; we should
be as happy aud fresh. useful and attractive
when our heads are siIvere,l with advancing
wears. as when we first began the journey OF
life with buoyant hearts and Frightening
nrosnects. We are nearer Cod. nearer
Heaven, and whv should We not be holier,
happier and brighter in new experience
Which old age brings to the servants of God?
Happy is the man who never seems to grow
old but who looks brighter and works al
the harder. as he ncrrs his Fathers House.
-rThe Central Baptist
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The seventeen railroads of Minnesota
made one and seven tenths per cent. on
their capital stock last year. Seven
earned dividends, seven made deficits
and five more than earned the obligatorr
charges.
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TEMPERANCE.
THE DRUNKARp'S POSITION.

At the hall of the Central Temperance
Association in London last month. Mrs. An
ME Besant delivered a notable temperance
address, in the course of which she said that
instead Of the drunkard's being mo mans
enemy but his own" he is "a focus of poison
to the community in which he has a physical
presence;" and It ID the views which she
holds of the relationship of ons ma to an
other, and the influence which he eIerts up.
on another, that have made her total
abstainer,
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There are those who tel! US there must be
a larger liberty. But these balloons are apt
to come to grief. The man that swin:s tue
farthest of is counted the broadeSt. Planets
are at discount; meteors at premium
The meteor goes out OF sl!ht anu tneh re.
turns, and brings CONSERVATION. or used to;
hut we come to understand that its too
thin.-lDr. P. $. Henson.
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A BOSTON lady writes TO one OF the
naners Of that city: will some OF
YOUR readers be kind enough to tell
me what to do for a canary bird that
has lost it's voice." Keep it, dear
madam, care for it tenderly, and be
th,p l.fIll
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WARD MCALLIsTER favored the
readers of New York Sunday paper
with an article on "How to Get Into
Society" II society Is what he has
described it to be, one would think a
more popular article would be one
telling how to get out. ..u
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UP In A BALLOON.
PERILS OF AERONAUTS AND
PARACHUTE JUMPERS.
no Trip Ever Made That is Not Aw-
full With Danger-How the
World Looks From Aigh
Above in the Clouds.

T this time every
year the managers
of county fairs and
circuses may be
sure that they will
receive letters with
gorgeous printed
headings, together
with Autographed
posters exhibiting
men and women in
the act of plunging
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10 mSeC JOIN huOA anu JOnn wesley duu
Hannah More and Francis Havergal. Gone
to meet the kindred who preceded theml
Why should not wonder il they had
larger family group there than they ever
had here. Oh, how many of them have got
together again. Your father and mother
went years apart, but they have got to-
gether and their children that went
years ago got together again. Cont
where they have more room! Conc
where they have more jubilant So
cety! Gone where they have mightier
capacity to love you than when they were
here! Gone out Of hindrances into un-
June! Gone where they talk about you as
we always talk about absent friends and
say: II wonder when they will come up here
to join US. Hark the outside door Of heaven
swings open. Hark! there are feet ON the
golden stairs. Perhars they are coming"
was told at Johustown after tho food
that many people who had been for months
and years bereft for the first time got com.
fort when the awful food came to think that
the catastrophe. AS the people were float
ing down on the housetops they said: "Oa.
how glad am that father and mother are
not here, or How glad am that the chill
dren are not alive to see this horror" AND
ought not we who are down here amid the
upturnings Of this life be glad that none Of
the troubles which submerge us can ever
alright our friends ascendeds
Before this I warrant our departed ones
have been introduced to oil the celebrities Of
heaven. Some one has said to them: Let
me introduce you to Joshua, the man who
by prayer stopped two worlds for several
hours. Let me make you acquainted with
this group Of three heroes-John Huss,
Philip Melancthon and Martin Luther.
Aha! here is Fenelon! Here is Archbishop
Leightoni Here are Latimer and Ridleyl
Here is Matthew Simpson! Here is poets
row--Janries Montgomery and Anna Bar
baud and Horatius Bonac and PhQbe
Palmer and Lowell Mason" =.