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Passaic City record., 1893-12-23
The Missouri Court of Appeals has

The Missouri Court of Appeals has
sustained a verdict for damages
against st. Louis hotel for the loss
of coat and hat which guest left in
charge of an attendant at the dining
room door. The coat and hat were
stolen or delivered in mistake to an
other guest while the owner was at
dinner. The hotel proprietors pleaded
that they had provided a courtroom,
where checks were given for personal
apparel, and the guest knowing this,
should have availed himself of it, and
his negligence to do so relieved them
of responsibility. The court held that
the fact that defendant had prepared a
place for safe keeping of the over
coats of its guests did not negative the
fact that it had prepared other places
for that purpose likewise.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23
Unnecessary Noise.

A medical paper has taken up the
cudgels against unnecessary city
noises. 1t declares steam whistles,
factory bells, the shouts of the hawk.
ers and the rest to be disease produc.
ing, and it presents some startling
figures to prove it. 1t argues that as
an environment these noises must
breed race mentally stupid or
hyperasthetically morbid" How
ever that may be, everybody knows
that the noises of a great city are a
nuisance, and that the greater part
of them are unnecessary. There is
not the slightest occasion for all the
steam whistles on all the factories to
screech four times day. The cry
of the hawker is an impertinence
and breach OF the peace. If none
of the hawkers were permitted to
yell, each would sell as much as he
does now. Nine-tenths of all the
piano pounding done In any city
ought to be suppressed by society
for the prevention of cruelty to
everybody. The love of noise is a
savage instinct. With every step in
civilization we more and more object
to harsh, strong, unnecessary sound.
But while we subdue our voices and
muffle our floors with padded carpets,
we have done next to nothing toward
protecting ourselves against the un.
necessary noises made by other peo.
pie. In this matter there is great
work for the City improvement So
ciety to do. It will secure the abo-
lition of bells and steam whistles
and put gag into the mouth of the
street vendor, and it will render a
blessed service to all sorts and con-
ditions of civilized men. If it will
reduce the sum total of pianoforte
playing that must go over for
the millennium.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23
PERSONAL.

Bear in mind one thing, that if busi-
ness, pleasure or necessity calls you
away from home at any time be particu-
lar to have your route arranged before
starting.
Many things should be taken into con-
siderarion, especially the inducements
offered by the Wisconsin Central COM
pany to those who want to visit st. Paul,
Minneapolis. Ashland, West Superior,
Duluth or any point in Wisconsin.
Their trains leave Chicago at conven-
lent hours. Their equipmet is unsur-
passed by any line in the Northwest.
Close connections are made at St. Paul
and Minneapolis, with the various lines
running to all California and Pacific
Coast Points.
Ask your nearest ticket agent for full
information, and be particular to see
that your tickets read via the !" Wlscon-
sin Central Lines"
Jas. C. PoND, Gen1 Pass. Agent,
Milwaukee, Wis.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23
The latest statistics show that ther,

The latest statistics show that there
are 82l, 400 men engaged in the opera
ton of railroads in the United States.
This implies force three-fourths as
large as the army of France, almost as
large as that of Germany, six times as
large as that of Great Britain, and more
than thirty times as large as that of our
own country. cit is undeniably the most
intelligent and effective labor element
in the world" AYERS the st. Louis
Globe-Democrat. s'and it is also, as it
deserves to be, the best paid, its an
nual wages being twice as great as
those of the same class of workmen,
or in fact any other class of workmen
anywhere else under the sun.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23
rEMpERANcE NEWS AND NOTES.

Drink upsets the emotions and makes
devils of naturally good-tempered people.
One-flfth of the annual increase of the
wealth of the Nation is devoured by the sa-
loon.
Bishop Taylor tells OF a distillery in Africa
called Bon Jesus-Good Jesus-so associated
are rum and Christianity in the miads of the
natives.
Count Leo Tolstoi, who spent his time and
fortune year ago in allevIating the suffer
ings of the starving Russians, now asserts
that drunkenness was one OF the great
causes of the famine.
A writer in .he Leeds (England) Times
says 1T is calculated that the people OF
Leeds spend at least one million pounds per
annum on intoxicating liquors, half OF which
belongs to the working classes.
Forty-fve counties in Prohibition Kansas
possessing poor-houses and farms, are with
out single pauper, and in thirty seven
counties at the last term of the District Court
there were no criminals for trial.
The thirty-ftth report of the Reforma.cry
and Refuge Union states that in Great Brit
ain and Ireland 145.000 persons are every
year committed to prison as drunkards, oil
whom 112, 900 are men and the rest women.
The British Home Secretary, the Hon. H..
II. Asquith, speaking recently in reference 10
the Gladstone Government and the liquor
question, said ''We mean, gentlemen, TO
strike a blow, and trust and believe 1t will
be an effective blow, at that whichis, alter
all, the greatest of the plaques and curses
which affiict US as a social community
mean the curse OF intemperance.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23
ALCOHOLISM AND CRIME.

The relation between alcoholism and crime
has been repeatedly observed, and statistics
sufficiently confirm the conclusions of popu.
lar opinion. Wherever these are appealed to
at home and abroad, we find the same high
percentage of crimes and misdemeanors per
petrated, either under the influence of liquor
or by notorious drunkards. OF course, as a
physician know very well that the relation
between drunkards and crime is often misap.
pretended. that the former is frequently
pointed to as the cause of the latter, while in
reality they are more frequently the inevitable
coordinate consequences of an inherited alb.
normal mental condition. physcopatliic de
generacy. Nevertheless in reality this patho-
logical condition is not of such extreme sig
nificance in this regard. By making dis
tinction between occasional and habitual
drunkards, it is found that by far the great
majority of offenders belong to the former
class. To cite only one example: OF 113C
persons convicted in Germany in 1892 fof
offenses against the person, $50 were drinkers
of these 600 were occasional drinkers, and
only 15O confirmed drunkards.-Dr. Adolpb
Strumpell.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23

The Czar of all the Russias understands
how to propitiate popular favor when
he travels abroad, obseves Frank
Leslie's Weekly. On his recent visit
to Denmark his baggage, which filled
about fourteen cars, consisted of three
hundred large trunks, one of which
contained nothing but imperial pres
ents, which were distributed with Law
ish hand. Danish functionaries of all
sorts and grades were decorated with
crosses and ribbons; the assiduous at
tentions of the police were rewarded
by diamond rings; gold watches and
chains were bestowed on the tele-
graphers and station-masters, and a
special largess of ten thousand francs
was distributed among the servants OF
the palace in which the Gar Temporal
rily resided. The poor, too, were re-
membered in gifts in large sums o!
money. All this is delightful for the
recipients of the imperial bounty, but
possibly these extraordinary displays
of generosity would not be necessary
to overcome popular dislike if the
Czar were little more liberal in his
methods of government and in his
conceptions of individual rights.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23

A peculiar optical illusion may be
noticed in crossing the Brooklyn
Bridge by a cable car, notes the New
York Sun. The grades are somewhat
steep and passengers usually uncon-
sciously shift slightly in their seats as
the car passes the middle of the bridge
and tips from the up grade to the down
grade. Should the passenger, 40
sometimes happens, not to do this, but
remain leaning back in the seat, with
the body thus at the same slight angle
from the perpendicular as is the car,
it will appear, upon approaching either
station, that the buildings all around
are out of plumb. This illusion 10
especially observable in case of the
lall chimneys and towers to be seen on
the south side of the New York ap-
proach, which sometimes appear to
lean like the famous tower of Pisa.
Even an old traveller on the bridge,
getting this strange effect for the first
time, will lean forward in half-startled
way to find out what has made some
familiar chimney or tower tip out OF
plumb, while strangers often call at
tention to the circumstance. AS soon
as one sits upright to better observe
the strange phenomena it instantly
vanishes
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23
WORLDS FAIR AWARD.

The Educational Exhibits at the Worlds
Fair were 80 extended that the Judges have
only recently had time to report upon the
largest group, Group 149. No single ex-
hibit in that group nor in all the Educa.
tional display at the White City attracted
more attention or excited more interest
than that of Scientific Temperance Instruc-
tion in the Public School. The Exhibitor,
Mrs. Mary H. Hunt, of Boston, has just been
informed that this exhibit has been assigned
five highest awards.
/. For legislation requiring physiologi.
cal temperance instruction in public schools
in forty-four States and Territories in the
United States and in Canada and in Sweden
2. For graded series of textbooks on this
subject in the English language.
3. For translations Of these books, now IN
use in FIVE different languages.
4. For methods of pupil or school-room
study in this science.
5. For exhibit of pupil-work in this
branch, from various States in the United
States.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23

Piracy in the far eastern seas is not
thing of the past by any means. The
Peninsular and the Oriental, the Mes
sageries and other China-bound great
lines all stipulate in their charters and
bills of lading and agreements with
passengers that they shall not be held
responsible for losses by fire, pillage
or piracy, and serious cases are of fire.
quent occurrence.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23
A Drummer Boy in 1912.

William H. Graham. who died the
other day in Newcastle County, Del,
at the age of 90, was drummer boy
in the war of 1912, and as a black
smith he helped to put together the
parts of the first locomotive engine
used on the old Newcastle and French
town Railroad, one OF the earliest
railways in the United States. The
locomotive was imported in pieces
from England add put together at
Newcastle under the eye of skilled
machiniSt.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23

New Jersey growers evidently have
faith in the future of peach growing
in that state, concludes the Chicago
Times. In Sussex county alone over
15O,O0 trees are said to have been
planted the last spring.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23

Ambitious and enthusiastic Califor-
MIA is rushing through preparations
for her midwinter fair at great rate.
A name for the aggregation of fair
buildings that meets with much favor is
'The City of Palms,"
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23

Wrecks in Southern waters are less
fatal than others, because, explains
the New York Telegram, owing to
their temperature nearly all who can
swim or hold on finally reach the
shore.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23

Says the Atlanta Constitution: II
is predicted that in thirty years the
South's railroad mileage will be equal
to that of the United States today.
These new roads will increase our
population, develop the country and
raise the price of farming lands. Set
tiers and towns are sure to follow the
iron horse.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23

According to the senate committees
on immigration the Italians in the
United States send home $40. 900, 900
every year. And yet Italy complains
of scarcity of money! King Hum
bert ought to encourage emigration.
He gets more out of the immigrants
than he does out of the stay -at-homes,
taking man for man.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23
NEAL pow's BIRTHDAY.

The temperance people of this country,
arrangements for the observance of Neal
Dow's ninetieth birthday, March 20, 1894, in
the interests of temperance reform. Temper.
ance societies in all parts of the world are
asked to CO. operate, each one conducting the
celebration according to its own Judgment
and opportunity, but all to send cengratula-
tions to General Dow.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23

A Texas jury struck for fees which
amounted to fifty cents apiece. The
Court ordered the fees paid and then
fined the jurors $3.50 each for con-
tempt. The jurors really seemed to
come out losers, but possibly, suggests
the San Francisco Examiner, the salts
faction they acquired was cheap at 50.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23

In order to prevent "rear-end" coll
isions Western railroad has issued
an order that every passenger train
must have fagman on the rear plat
form constantly, and this fagman
must not leave his post to eat or sleep
until he is relieved by some one capa-
BILE of standing watch.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23
SPECIAL SERVICE, MID-WIN
TER FAIR.

Commencing October 23d, the great
Rock Island Route inaugurated Daily
Through Tourist Car Line between Chi
cago and Los Angeles, via the Chicago.
Rock Island & Pacific TO Kansas City
and Ft. Worth, and thence by the Texas
Pacific to El Paso and Southern Pacific
to Los Ange>es.
BETTER YET.
Arrangement has been concluded to
run this car on to San Francisco by this
Southern route, which is an excellent one
in winter season. Remember. this car
leaves Chicago daily at 6 p. m. by the
Rock Island Route.
The above mentioned Tourist Line is
in addition to the double weekly service
from Chicago. Tuesdays and Thursdays
via Rock Island Route, Denver and Rio
Grande and Southern Pacific through
Pueblo. Salt Lake, Ogden and San
Francisco to Los Angeles.
Low rates and excellent service, coup
led with the fast time made by passen-
gers on these Tourist Cars, make them
as they deserve, very popular.
Any Coupon Ticket Agent can give
facts as to rates. and remember second
class tickets are accepted on these cars.
Address tor full. particulars,
JNO. SEBASTIAN, G. T. A.,
tjuI c.R &p, RY., Chicago.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23

The A United States owe, collec-
lively, 1924, 000,0 and they pay to
the holders of state securities $10,-
900, 900 year as interest.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23

DR.. Allen McLane Hamilton says
there are thousands of cranks, and
that if their friends do not take care
of them and place them under careful
restraint and treatment they should be
taken care of by the state, on motion
of some public officer.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23

A mountain elk was recently shot at
Bucyrus, Kan, although there are no
mountains in the state, and elk were
never plenty there.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23
A pRUNKARD's APPEAL.

A young man entered the barroom of vii
lage tavern and called for drink.
mo" said the landlord 'you have had
the delirium tremens once, and I can't sell
you any more"
He stepped aside to make room for a
couple of young men who had just entered,
ndthe landlord waited on them very politely.
The other had stood silent and sullen, and
when they had finished he walked up to the
landlord and thus addressed him:
s'Six years ago, at their age, stood where
those two men are now. / was man OF fair
prospects. Now, at the age of twenty-eight,
am a wreck-body and mind. You led me
to drink. In this room 1 formed the habit
that has been my ruin. Now sell me few
more glasses and your work will be done
shall soon be out of the way there is no hope
for me. But they can be saved. Do not sell
1t to them. Sell it to me and let me die, and
the world will be rid of me but for heaven g
sake sell no more to them"
The landlord listened pale and trembling
Setting down his decanter, he exclaimed
"God help me, it is the last drop will sellto
any oneI' And he kept his word.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23
TEMPERANCE.
rHE RUM TRAFFIC IN AFRICA.

The rum traffic is frightful source OF crime
In Africa. In an illustrated lecture by DIR.
Roy, the Chairman of the African Congress.
q pyramid of rum bottles, empty OF course
was shown, before which in profound wor.
ship were PROSTATE scores of the unhappy
natives. They made God OF the rum bot
tie which was devilizing themselves.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23
The value of the annual product
from cotton seed is estimated at about
$50, 100000.

Since the beginning of the century
France has fallen from the second to
the fourth placein point of population
among European countries.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23

THE whistling of the wind and the
whistling of woman are very much
alike In one respect. Neither can
stop street car.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23

There are fewer farm mortgages fs-
iatively in Utah than in any other
state.
Passaic City record., 1893-12-23
DON'T TOUCH LIQUOR.

If YOU are the father of family. do not
touch intoxicating drinks. Why? Because
your example may be the means of causing
misery here and hereafter to those who look
up to you as their guide and example. Ii
you are mother, do not use it yourself moi
allow its use in your home If you value the
manhood of your sons or the womanhood oi
your daughters. II you are young woman
do not offer it to your gentleman friends
and II tempted to do so just think for mo
ment of the terrible responsibility you as.
sumo. The glass you offer may be the means
of starting the young man on the downward
road to ruin and death. He may know his
weakness, but from anxiety to appear well ir
your ewes. or from lack of moral courage tc
refuse anything proffered by the hand o!
youth and beauty, takes that which, under
other circumstances. he would shun.
MANY a young man dates his downfall
from the social glass taken under the par.
entail roof or in the house of some friend OF
the family. Do not try to induce the man
who, from sad experience knows his weak
ness, to break his pledge or resolution to alb
stain. This is often done thoughtlessly
from a mistaken idea of friendship or socia.
bility. and without thought of the possible
consequences that may follow.
Do not, however, fall into the error OF
assuming that every man who takes pledge
is necessarily a reformed drunkard, or one
who needs any special restraint on his appe-
tite for liquor. On the contrary, many re
strain themselves in that way simply a:
example for others to follow, hoping thereby
to save some weaker brother.
Do not keep liquor in your house on the
specious plea of necessity for use in case o.
sickness that necessity is rarely experienced
and but too often is merely an excuse fol
over-indulgence. Do not imagine you will
be unable to sleep without "night-cap" OF
awake without an "eye-opener. SACRED
Heart Review.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20

My wife was confined to her bed
for over two months with u severe
attack of rheumatism. We could get
nothing that would afford her any
relief, and as a last resort gave Cham
berlain's Pain Balm a trial. To our
great surprise she began to improve
after the first application, and by
using it regularly she was soon able
to get up and attend to her house
work. u. II. Johnson, of G. j. Knut-
son & Co., Kensington, MINI. sc
cent bottles for sale by Jenney &
Warehouse, Druggists.
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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20

The Boston Traveller in an article
on moderate Drinking" says. owe
feel it our duty to say distinctly that
no agency is so effectually battling
the efforts to save the young men OF
our land from moral and physical
death as is fashionable drinking, as
sumed to be moderate.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20
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The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20

The moral pest houses feed upon
boys and young men! The saloons
of this country must ensnare not less
than 100, 600 boys each year in order
to keep full their ranks which are de-
pleted by the death and damnation of
100, 900 drunkards every year,
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20

The following is question from a
letter written by John G.. Whittier
not long before his death: ~ feel a
great interest in any effort to check
the pernicious habit of tobacco using
1t is not only nuisance, but NOR
al and physical evil, and shame to
our boosted refinement and civil
zation.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20
$4,000 in Premiums.

offered by Liggett & Myers To-
bacco Co. of st. Louis, Mo. The
one guessing nearest the number
of people who will attend the
Worlds Fair gets $1,000, the sec
ond $1,000, etc. Ten Star tobacco
tags entitle you to guess. Ask
your dealer for particulars or send
for circular. 10
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20

Mothers, instruct, your boys not to
pass saloon in going to and from
home more often than is absolutely
necessary and never to stand before
the door and look in.
The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1893-04-20

clad it not been for drink that
man would have been worth hun
dred thousand dollars today said a
business man the other day as he
pointed to a physical and moral wreck
who was passing by. OF how many
more could the same be said Young
man if you desire to prosper in bust
ness let all kinds of Intoxicating
liquors severely alonel
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sTooK-GROWERs, ASSOCIATION

Meets at Ogden, April 10th. The
Union Pacific offers rate of one
fare for round trip. Selling dates,
April 10Th and goth Return limited
to the 2Sth. A. f. Roberts, Agt.
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TEMPERANCE COLUMN

Our MORO: "God speed the day ac1ien
no Intoxicating liquors shall be made.
sold or drank in all our land"