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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

According to o recent statement, there arc
in Sweden alone 800, 900 total abstainers.
In 1892 the city OF New York paid for its.
school bill 1000. 900, for its amusement
bill 81 200, 900 and for its drink bill $50, ,oOC,-
900.
A law in Denmark provides that alt
drunken persons shall be taken to their
homes in carriages atthe expense OF the pub
ican who supplied them with liquor.
In tho Argentine Republic, instead Of fin
ins drunkarI. they sentence him to sweep
tho streets for eight days; and a similar
punishment exists in st. Petersburg.
In tho recent report Of the Massachusetts,
State Board Of Charities 1t is stated that the
proportion of crime traceable 10 intemper-
ance mist be set down, as heretofore, at not
less than sour-afths.
Temperance is at once 4 principle. mo-
tive. and q practice. Its principle is pur!fy,
for tho sake OF the highest uses Of life It's
motive is abstinence for the sake OF good.
It's practice is chastity for the sake o. tne
noblest ideal ends OF being
The diseases o: wine drinkers, says DR..
William 4. Alcott, are apt to be more acutoi
and to tend more rapidly to putridlty than;
those OF persons who drink nothing but
water. So it is with those who use anlmati
food compared with those who uss a diett
exclusively vegetable and well selected. j
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WHICH WILT THOU CHOOSE?

Behold. sinners, we are sent as the messea
gers of the Lord, to set before you Life OF
Death! What say you-which OF them viii
YOU choose? Christ standeth, as it were
by thee, with heaven in 1.-THE one hand anc
hell in the other, and offers thee thy choice
Which wilt thou choose? The voice OF the
Lord maketh the rocks to tremble. And is il
nothing to hear him threaten thee, If thou
wilt not turn? Dost thou not understand anc
feel his voice Turn ye, turn We, why
will We die?" IT is the voice OF love, oi
infinite love, OF thy best and kindest
friend, as thou mightest easily per-
ceive by the motion; and yet cans't thou ne
glect it? 1t is the voice of, pity and CON-
passion. The Lord seeth whittier thou art
going better than thou dost which makes
him call after thee. Turn. turn" He seeth
what will become of thee il thou turn not,
He thinketh with himself, "Ah, this poor sim
ner will cast himself into endless torment il
he do not turn. must in justice dcal with
him according to my righteous law" And
therefore he caleth after thee, Turn, turn
o sinner! if thou didst but know the thous.
andth part rs we'll rs God doth the danger
that is near you. ana the misery that you
are running into, we should have no more
ueed to call after you to turn.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
MANS SOBLEST ACT.

I have said, that in works Of benevolence
human exertion produces tho greatest and
most permanent effect. History is filed with
illustrations of the truth of this re-
mark. The world has for nearly two thou
sand years been filed with the fame o. julius
Caesar. He was the master spirit OF his age;
and strongly was that age agitated by, the
workings OF his genius. But what traces hath
he left upon the ages that have come
after him? In what is the world
now the better. or the worse. for his having
lived? You and would have been as wise
and rs happy, though his fame and achieve
ments had never passed the limits Of Brund-
usiun. But it is not so with the labors OF the
apostle of the Gentiles. The effect OF his life
is seen in the revolution Of world from Pa
ganism to Christianity. Everything We behold
around US, which distinguishes us from the
savage Britons. bears witness to the changes
which, through the power Of the gospel. he has
wrought in the destinieS Of man. OF Charles
V. have read much, but I see nothing on
the face of society that reminds me OF his
existence. But this solemn temple, the
liberty to worship God within its conSe-
Grated walls, the civil freedom OF our COM
monwealth, and Of our country, and
all that career of improvement on which the
age hath entered, all, all Of itdoes homage to
the name of Martin Luther. Such examples
as these-and history is full Of them-teach
US. that in the work Of benevolence, man
may act most worthily Of his high de5tina-
ton. They teach US moreover that this is the
cause and the only cause, to the success OF
which the Omnipotence Of God is pledged,
and which therefore, though every other
should fail, shall infallibiy succeed. But we
are not left to conjecture on this subject.
Jehovah himself hath promised that vice and
misery shall yet be done away from our
world, and that it shall be done awayby hu-
man effort and, planting on Calvary the
cross of his we'll beloved Son, he hath left to
the universe the all-sufficient guarantee, that
the work shall yet be fully and triumphantly
accomplished.
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THE problem or manufacturing q

TIE problem OF manufacturing a
non-corrosive paint for the bottoms
of steel and iron warships, which has
been vexing the navy officials for
long time, has just been satisfacto-
rily settled. A paint was invented in
Germany, several years ago, which
had the desired properties; but, as
the government requires American
made paint on American warships, it
could not be used. Now, however,
the German paint plant has been re-
moved to this country and United
States cruisers will now have nom
corrosive bottoms. The question Of
suitable paint for use in salt water
has troubled all countries, the Japan
ese alone having had non-corrosive
article. This is a lacquer whose COM
position they keep secret.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

In Japan a farmer with more than ten
acres is considered monopolist.
TAILoRs held National Convention at st.
Paul the organization has added $4,000 q
year to their wages.
Coal owners in England have resolved not
to accept the offers of the strikers to return
to work at their old wages.
COMMISSIONER FAIRcHILD says that garden
ers and coachmen are domestic servants and
may be brought into this country under con-
tract.
THE big industries all over the country are
rapidly resuming work. They shut down for
only few weeks, and some OF them for
only q few days
The manufacturers of Fall River, Mass,
decided to reduce wages from ten to fifteen
per cent, the cut down to go into effect the
second Monday in September.
TUE full plant of the Mercimaek Mills, at
Lowell, Mass, print works and all, employ
ing 1000 operatives. has started up on full
time, and will run permanently.
THE mines of the Monongahela Valley,
Pennsylvania. are being deserted by the
Hungarians, Poles and Italians who came to
this country to work there last year.
The Boiler makers and iron ship builders
OF Brooklyn have given up their fight for
nine hours for the present, as their employ
ers stated that during the general depression
they would be compelled to close il the nine
hour day we're insisted upon.
FRANK L. RoNEMUs, successor to 8. Keliher
as Grand Secretary OF the Brotherhood OF
Railway Carmen. was one Of the founders OF
that organization. He has served two years
as Recorder of Emmett County, Iowa, and
was for several years member OF the Broth
erhood's General Executive Board.
ALL local unions OF the Journeymen
Tailors' Union Of America have been advised
by their General Executive Board to avoid
strikes during the present industrial crisis.
rs there is hurdly any chance Of winning
under present conditions. Reductions Of
wages have been reported from all parts Of
the country. and if the members were to
strike in all these places the Union would 80
to pieces in less chan no time
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FIim.Flam" Of a New Kind.

A very neat method of operating the
fim-ham game was exposed the other
day when Samuel Ash, James 81. No
Glinsey, Jr., Newton A. Moore and
Henry T. Wallace were put Or trial
before Judge Wilson in the Quarter
Sessions Court, charged with con-
spiracy and the larceny of sums Of
money ranging from S. to $40 from
the proprietors of number of small
stores in the upper section of the city.
Ash, who is the youngest of the quar-
tette, pleaded guilty on one of the
bills and described the mode of opera
tion. The four travelled together
about town, and when they came to
store one of them would take off his
coat and hat and give it to the others
to hold for him while he went into the
store and asked the proprietor to give
him $40 bill for ten 81 notes, as he
wished to send it away in letter, at
the same time holding an envelope in
his hand. Upon obtaining the $40
bill he would hand the notes of
smaller denomination to the store
keeper and busy himself in sealing the
letter. Upon counting the money the
storekeeper would find that there was
only 50 and would Immediately call
his attention to it. The conspirator
would then feign surprise and count
the money over himself. Upon being
assured that there was only 50 he
would gracefully apologize, saying his
mother must have made a mistake and
if the storekeeper would hold the let
ter in which he had sealed the $40 bill
he would run across the street and get
the extra one dollar. Invariably the
scheme worked to perfection, and after
waiting patiently for the return Of the
young man the storekeeper would tear
open the envelope to find that it con-
tanned blank sheet of paper. Ash
testified that the other defendants
;Sere parties to the fraud and shared
the money. The others denied ali
knowledge of the conspiracy. disclaim-
Jag any connection with it whatever.
Philadelphia Times.
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Da1sK1so ON OCEAN STEAMERS.

The consumption Of intoxicants on board
our great ocean steamers, though not sup,
posed to be as extensive as formerly, and.
there are certainly many abstaining voyagers,i
still assumes large proportions. In Late
number of the Leisure Hour Mr.. W. ]. Cor,
don writes of "Our Floating Hotels" an ar
ticle giving many interesting details con-
cerning such magnificent modern steamernl
as the Majestic, Csmpania and others. In
speaking OF the extensive supplies Of food
and drink provided by these great steamers,
he gives, among other items, the average per
vessel per year of about fifty thousand bot
ties Of beer, twenty thousand bottles OF min
eral waters, three thousand bottles OF spirits
and five thousand bottles of wine. In view
of the many passengers who do not drink
intoxicants at all on shipboard, many OF
those who do drink, in the light OF MIR. Cor
dons figures, must he accounted hard
drinkers. The use of fntoxicants is deplof-
able and dangerousi In the extreme. National
Temperance Advocate.
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grazing, with the clover up to its eyes, like
the bird picking the worm out Of the furrow
never thinking to thank God, who makes
the grass grow and who gives life to every
living thing from the animalculB in the sod
to the seraph on the throne. Thanksgiving
on the 9th OF November, In the autumn OF
the year. but blessings hour by hour and day
by day and no thanks ut all.
Icompared our Indifference to the brute,
but perhaps I wronged the brute. do not
know but that among its other instincts it
may have an instinct by which 1t recognizes
the divine hand that feeds 1t. do not know
but that God Is through it holding commu-
nication with what we call Irrational crea-
tion." The COW that stands. under the will
low by the water course chewing its cud
looks very thankful, and who can tell how
much bird means by its song? The aroma
of the flowers smell like incense. and the
mist arising from the river looks like the
smoke Of a morning sacrifice. Oh, that we
were as responsive!
If you were thirsty and asked ME for q
drink and gave you this glass OF water, your
common instinct would reply, "Thank you. "
And yet, how many chalices of mercy we get
hour by hour from the hand Of the Lord, our
Father and our King, and we do not even
think to say, "Thank YOU" More just to
men than we are just to God.
Who thinks of thanking God for the water
gushing up in the well, toaming in the cas-
cade, laughing over the rocks, pattering in
the shower. clapping its hands in the sea?
Who thinks to thank God for that? Who
thinks to thank God for the air, the fountain
OF life, the bridge OF sunbeams, the path OF
sound, the great fan on hot summer day?
Who thinks to thank God for this wonderful
physical organism. this sweep Of vision. this
cnIme or harmony struck into the ear,
this crimson tide rolling through arteries and
veins, this drumming OF the heart on the
march Of Immortality?
convict myself and I convict everyone
OF you while say these things, that we
are unappreciative of the common mercies
of life. And yet If they were withdrawn, the
heavens would withhold their rain and the
earth would crack open under our feet, and
desolation and sickness and woe would stalk
across the earth, and the whole earth would
become place of skulls.
Oh, my friends, let us wake up to an ap-
probation Of the common mercies of life. Let
every day be Sabbath, every meal sacra-
ment, every room holy OF holies. We all
have burdens to bear let us cheerfuly bear
them. We all have battles to fight let us
courageously fight them.
five want to die right. we must live right.
You 60 home and attend to your little sphere
of duties. will go home and attend to my
little sphere of duties. You cannot do my
work !; T cannot do your work. Negligence
and Incidence will win the hiss of everlast-
ing scorn, while fathfulness will gather its
garlands and wave its sceptre and sit upon
It's throne long after the world has put on
ashes and eternal ages have begun their
march.
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THE CURSE OF 1NTEMPERANcE.

In passing along one of the streets Of our
city to-day, says q letter to the New York
Morning Journal, saw man trying to
steady himself against lamp-post; his
head, swaying from side to side, hung until
his chin rested upon his breast ; he emitted
unintelligible sounds, his clothing was
covered with the filth In which he had
grovelled. and on near approach to him one
was greeted with q sckening odor.
His condition was brought about by that
which the Government permits to be yended
ask you, Mr.. Editor, if the highwayman
who throttles you and takes away your
purse is not less harmful to society than tho
man who dispenses intoxicants or the Gov
ernment that permits the sale OF them? In
the one case you lose but your property, In
the other the man loses not only property,
but good character. self-respect and all else
that honorable men hold dear. Nor is this
all. Think OF the misery entailed on the
family OF the drunkard. the transmission to
the offspring OF q desire, thirst, for the
dsmning liquid that Is the cause OF their de-
graduation so that the drunkard Is not only
a curse in the present, but his baneful in
fuence reaches, through his children, to tho
future.
Should we, Mr.. Editor, not endeavor to
root out the cause Of this evil. 1t Is our
duty to do so. AS simple and effective
means. to this end, propose that every
woman. girl. man and boy reader OF the
Journal who abhors drunkenness and desires
to see 1t corrected refuse to enter house or
store where alcoholic stimulants are dis
pensed or sold; that they cut the acquaint-.
ance O; those who render themselves OBJ
noxlous by the drink curse, and, further,
that they refuse to live over saloon.
No formal organization Is necessary. Leg
each person simply resolve to do as suggested!
and be faithful and persistent, and the be-'
diamonded rum-seller and his drirelling VIC
tim, il not altogether driven out, WILL cef-'
tainly not be go obtrusive.
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ONCE WAS ENOUGH.

A speaker at a meeting recently said hoi
drunk himself, one day took it into his head
he would make his dog drunk. He poured
wine down the dogs throat, and fairly ac-
complished his purpose. Their way homeI
lay over wooden footbrldge. which crossed
stream and though the dog had two leg8;
more than his master, yet he could not keep
on the bridge, so he fell over, and was near
being drowned. Next day, when they werot
both sober, the man and bis old companioni
started off together to the public house.
When they got there, however, Pincher satI
himself down at very respectable distance!
from the entrance, and not all the whisthn&I
and coaxins OF his master could induce him
to try another drop. .., r-j,<
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THREE BLACK SPOTS.

The great Scientific Temperance Instruc-
ton map in the educational exhibit at the
Worlds Fair has three black spots covering
the States OF Indiana, New Jersey, Tennes-
see, Georgia and South Carolina. All the
other States and the territories provide By
law for the instruction OF the children In,
their public schools. In temperance princa-
pies based on scientific truth. This legisla-
ton in the interests Of temperance educa-
ton has been secured within little more thnns
decade under the leadership of Mrs. Nary
Fl. Hunt, National Superintendent Of such.
work for the w. G. T. q.
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Some people fancy they can make chem.
selves reformers by first making themselves
critics; but critics are the shaky timber out OF
which the devil makes cynics. No man is
made great by voting everybody else small.
No man is champion of freedom who is his
own slave. No man is free whose chief con-
Germ is his own freedom.
do not wish that sorrow touch me not,
Or storms ne'er steal the calmness Of life's sea,
If, Father. Thou wilt come, when sad my lot.
To comfort me.
M. Johnson.
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HE-I often tnlnK-at least some
times wunder-I mean wish | knew
if you cared for me, don't you know?
She-Oh, but they've got clairyoy-
ant in the next town. Couldn't you
find out?--Boston Budget.
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1NEpRlErY AS A CAUSE OF CRIME.


Lord Chief Justice Hale was perhaps tha
first to call attention to inebriety as causd
of crime, requiring special study and atten-
tion. In 1870 he Is reported ds saying: III
the murders and manslaughters, the bur
glaries and robberies, the riots and tumults,t
and other enormities committed during tha
last twenty years. were divided into five
parts, four Of them would be found to have
been the issue and product Of drinking"
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The marks of recent stroke OF lightning
on James Gillespie, of Nodaway County, Mis-
souri,, who still lives, start from the fingers
of the right hand, pass to the elbow and
there jump for the body, beginning just be-
low the sixth rib; then passing to the hips
the scar divides and goes down each leg and
to the big toe OF each foot.
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TEMPERANCE.
PLENTY OF opPoRTuNIT1ls.

PLENTY OF OPPORTUNITIES.
II Is reported that man in Buffalo, N. r.
is going to build liquor saloon that is to
cost s107, 900. and the walls are to be dooor-
ated with $40 and $40 gold pieces. There
will be plenty OF opportunities for nim 70
hand over some of those pieces to the wild
ows and orphans of his victims, from which
will be enough of tears flow to wash the
walls OF the said building. Media (Penn.g
Ledger. ....
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". Johnson.

The last. best fruit which comes to late per-
fection. even in the kindliest zona,. is tender
n " toward tho hard, sorbearance toward the
unforbearing. warmth of heart toward the
cold, philanthropy toward the misanthropic.
-llichter.
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aHE is flippant. He can't be seri-
Gus if he tries" "Yes, he can. He Is
very serious when he tries to be fun
ny."-BrOoklyn Life. e.
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ALTHOUGH as a rule the girls are
no admirers Of stingincSS, when the
right fellow comes along few OF the
fair ones object to a certain degree OF
c,oseness. Buffalo Courier.
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RoBBINs-Tm just back from Chi
cago. Dobbins-Really, old fellow,
I'm sorry, but I'm so tied up inan-
cially that 1 can't lend you cent
Philadelphia Record.
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The active dog-Catchcr often
catches it most severely when the
woman who owns the dog catches
him at his little game. Swansea Ga
Zette.
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The fly that the spider wove a web
for was not 80 very fly after all. He
was curious about the weaving, and
got taken nin.-Picayune.
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NONE than one handred persons at Sheles-
novodez, O summer resort In the Caucasus,
have been poisoned by koumiss. The rest OF
the summer visitors have left In panic.
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proclamation. and We are called together in
our churches to give thanks to God for His
goodness But every day ought to bethauks-
giving day. We take most OF the blessings
OF life as a matter of course. We have had
ten thousand blessings this morning 70;
which We have not thanked God. Before the
night comes We will have q thousand more
blessings you will never think OF mentioning
before God.
We must see blind man led along by his
dog before We learn what "a grand thing it is
to have ones eyesight. We must see a man
with ST. VituS's dance before we learn what a
grand thing it is 70 have the use OF our physi-
cal energies. We must see some soldier
crippled, limpiny along on his crutch or his
empty coatsleeve pinned up, before we learn
what grand thing it is to have the use Of
all our physical faculties. In other words.
we are so stupid that nothing but the misfor-
tunes OF others can wake us up to an appre-
citation OF our common blessings.
We get on bolrl Il train and start for Bos-
ton ani come 10 Norwalk bridge. and the
draw IS OF and crash GOES the train.
Fifty lives dashed out. We escape. We
come home i'll great excitement and call our
frienis around us. AMI they congratulate us,
AMI We al knall down and thank God for OR
escape while so many perished. But to-
morrow morning you get on train OF cars
for Boston. You cross that bridge at Nor
walk y9u cross all the other bridges you
get to Boston in safety. Then yoa return
home. Not an accident, not an alarm. No
thanks.
In other words, you seem to be more CRATE
ful when 50 people lose their lives and you
get Off than you are grateful to God when
you all get of and you have no alarm at all.
Now. you ought to be thankful when you es-
cape from accident, but more thankful when
they all escape. In the one case your graft
tude Is somewhat selfish In the other it is
more like what it ought to be.
Oh. these common mercies, these common
blessings, how little we appreciate them and
how soon we forget them! Like the OK