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walked along toward the lights which
were cleaning through the woods from
the village.
Where have you been a. this hour,
Dorothea2" the minister asked; fol, al
though inwardly trembling, he did not
fear nu attack, and WAS disposed to treat
tie girl with the manner becoming her
pastor. He was a good man, as have
said, and even while he believed Dorothea
to be bound TO the devil, would do any
thing to release her from her bondage.
Il have been down the creek TO Mr..
Johnson's, whose wife is i'll. It is late,
but she needs DR.. LennoY' services, and
tSsre was no one else who would 20 after
him."
Child, child, what do you want Of that
poor woman's soul?"
Dorothea started.
Il do not understand you
But the minister did not reply. Just
then they came to little stream which,
flowing southwark. joined Sagnauk creek
few rods below the village. With the
simple words, Il am thirsty. Dorothea
knet down by the running brook to
drink. So quickly was IL done shet che
had touched the running water with her
lips, when the minister cried out:
Stop, child of evil! Would you drink
in the evil spirits which float upon un-
covered water this night? Or are you in
deed proof against all such dangers2"
Sir, / do not know what you mean,
answered Dorothea, as she ceased drink
ing and arose to her feet.
DO not know what I mean! Child,
perhaps you would also advise me to
drink Of that stream?"
And why not, reverend Sir, If you are
thirsty"
why not? Because this is Tuesday
night, and while. one may drink from IN.
covered water six nights in the week, he
may not do SO on Tuesday evening IN
less he wishes to receive into him those
evil sprites called musikans, which sport
upon the waters this eve and are fain to
enter mans body. hoping that they may
reach his head or his heart
Reverend Sir" said Dorothea. You
are very learned, but am ignorant and
know not of this. thank you that you
warned me. No more will I drink Of
water on this Tuesday eve, unless 1t has
been closely covered"
The two then proceeded on their way
to the village. But in the minister's
mind two things had been made certain:
tlat Dorothea was abroad in the woods
that night to marshal the powers Of the
mir against him, and that, foiled in her
plans by the cabalistic psalm, she had
knelt by the running brook to commune
with those sprites which superstition
told him invaded all uncovered water on
Tuesday night"
sThere is an old Jewish legend to this elect
fro BE CONTINUED
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THE EQUINE APOLLO.
WHAT DOES THE IDEAL HORSE
RESEMBLE?
Type and Beauties Of the Arabian
Characteristics Of the Thorough
bred, Trotter and Draught
Horse-The Famous Sunol.

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tention is given to the
physical proportions Of the horse from
either an artistic or scientific point
of view. The animal, which, next to
man, is the noblest work of creation,
is worthy of attention on other lines
than those of records, of purses won,
of progeny begotten, of pedigrees that
determine the quality of blood and of
methods of breeding best calculated to
result in new records on the race track.
These and related topics are the texts
of the columns of turf gossip that
daily assail all eyes and seem to prove
that the equine is next to the human
population of the world in its import
ance. . .... t
The ideal horse and the physical
characteristics of different types. OF
horses are subjects that invite inter
ested study, not only on the part of in
telligent horsemen, but from many
not informed about horse lineage. The
ideal horse has never been fashioned
in marble and generally accepted as
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TEMPERANCE.

nix
-~.. THE GRAND CRUSADE.
We have the power. have we the will
To join the grand crusade?
Can we let noble works be still,
See crushed what God has nader
Look forth and with the Christian eyea
Mark the wide ruin spread
Where cities stand, where country lies,
And count the drunken dead.
Fathers and mothers, friends have sunk
Before the loathsome pest,
Gone to their God, in frenzy drunk
Unto hopeless rest.
Oh. by the tender words OF Him,
Whose lips were touched with fire,
Whose draught ofsorrow touched the brim
Whose love can never tire.
By the poor crib Of Bethlehem's height,
By Mary watching there,
Resolve within your hearts tonight
Tnat you can do and dare.
Unto Gods consecrated Priest
Bend close your willing soul,
He is the chosen from the East
He makes the broken whole.
One simple word in earnest meant,
One pledge in honor given,
Will be your Christian testament,
Yoar title clear to heaven.
Sacred Heart Review.
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sparkling. In his disposition he has
great energy, courage and yet gentle

sparkling. In his disposition he has
great energy, courage and yet gentle
ness.
The Arabs have the rule of pro-
portion in constant use. They measure
the number of hands from the root OF
the name at the middle of the wlthers
backward to the end of the dock, or
tailbones, and then forward between
the ears to the upper lip. If the
latter distance is greater he has great
qualities, if it is less he is an ordinary
beast.
Such is the horse which for so many
centuries the Arab has cherished while
subjecting him to wonderful feats Of
effort and endurance, and such is the
horse which, through sires imported
into Europe during the last two CEN
.uries, has transmitted to the thorough
bred of to-day the qualities that dis
tinguish him. The Barb, native OF
Barbary, Morocco, and Tripoli and
the Turk or Turkish horse, both OF
which resemble the Arabian in all i'm
port,At characteristics, have joined
with the Arabian in producing tie
thoroughbred, which to be OF un-
doubted quality, must have lineage
traced back to the Godolphin Arabian,
Tie Byerly Turk or some other sire OF
pure blood and great qualities that
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Afraid to Travel Save on Foot.

The ticket agent and telegraph ope-
rator at one of the stations on the
Adirondack Railway has an unquench-
able horror of travel in any way save
on foot. He fears that horses will bolt
and that engines will jump the track,
and the perils of navigation nothing
would induce him to encounter. When
business calls him to Saratoga-so far
the limit of his journeyings since birth
-Le bids his family solemn farewell,
and rejoices greatly on a safe return.
He is a we'll read, thoroughly sensible
man, but try as he will he cannot over
come his dread of all forms of rapid
t.aMsit.
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adapted the ARABIAN to it's conditions
and environment. The characteristics
of the typical modern thoroughbred
which not everybody can tell on.sight
like the greyhound and is in perfect
physical condition. He is tall, slim,
long coupled, has small pannch,
q long, slim neck, depth from
shoulders to chest, small muz.
zle, large nostrils and wide
forehead. His muscles stand out in
bold relief, his coat is silky and his
skin fine. He is intelligent, nervous
in disposition and has great endurance.
He is short lived, as rule, partly,
perhaps, because he is worked hard
early in life. He is at his prime at
four years and at six is generally ready
to be retired. ,iz
''The trotting horse is shorter
coupled, is heavier through the flank
and has heavier paunch and wider
chest. The neck is heavier and shorter,
the limbs are heavier and the pasterns
shorter. He needs and receives twice
as much care as the thoroughbred. His
conformation is necessarily different,
for he uses different set of muscles.
Trotting is an unnatural and cultivated
gait for horse at high speed, and ne
needs q strong frame to stand the
shock of the 10, 0O0-pound blows which
his feet give every time they strike the
ground. :"
So the draught horse has still diff.
ferent characteristics, and other types
might be discussed. Sir Modred, the
$40, 900 stallion imported from Aus
tralia by J. B. Haggin, is thorough.
bred with far less of the Arabian In
his form than Salvador, as may be seen
form the picture of Salvador taken
from painting for Outing. He Is
beauty though, and is by many horse
men said to be the handsomest horse
in the State. Stamboul may be taken as
a fine illustration of the trotting type.
The proportions of the famous Sunol
are interesting because she is trotter
with very marked tnorouSnpreu cna.
acteristics and is the most notable IL
lustration of Senator Stanford's orig
inal plan of breeding thoroughbreds
to trotters to give the latter the Ell.
durance, energy, "gamey" spirit of the
former, theory not yet generally ac-
cepted by breeders. Sunols very
strong strain of the thoroughbred is
marked in nearly every point.
The thoroughbred, as result OF
long and careful breeding and train
ing, is undoubtedly to-day the finest
horse the world has seen, and in him
the best qualities of his oriental ances-
tors have been developed far beyond
those of the Arabian, Barb or Turk,
though the beauty of the type may
have suffered. San Francisco Chron-
icle.
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heyed. Many famous veterinary sur
geons and turf authorities have tried
it, only to be disputed by other au-
thorities equally great. Abou-Bekr,
early in the fourteenth century, IN
cluded measurements and proportions
in work on the science of the Arabian
horse, and was the first one to do 30.
Others tried it and in more recent
times Bourgelat, Frenchman, worked
out an elaborate system and q theoret1-
cal type. st. Bel, another noted au-
thority, took that famous and extraor-
dinary horse Eclipse as the best type
of the beautiful horse, and a number
of others have added to the clashing
tables. But little attention to meas
urement is given by breeders in Cali
fornia and elsewhere. Young men and
women are being measured by thou
sands these days that scientific gener-
alizations may be made and composite
figures drawn and modelled, but they
are yet doing everything else for the
speedy horse but comparing him with
an average. ). Z;
In the absence of standard measure
ments and proportions the character
istics of the most important types Of
horsesinyi discussion. It isnot known
to everybody outside of horse circles
that the Arabian horse, which has been
kept so pure Of blood that pedigrees
may be traced into centuries before
Christ, has given to the thoroughbred,
or running horse, Of the modern turf,
his chief physical characteristics, his
nature, powers Of endurance, energy
and tendency to speed. The Arabian
horse is the greyhound of the race.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

TEMPERANCE NEWS IND MULES.
Every moderate drinker is helping to put
in chains an army OF boys.
The w. C. I. u, Of Hartman, Tenn. has
built temperance temple at cost OF S90O0.
Roanoke. w., was carried tor local pro-
hibition by a ma jority OF 142, in u total vote
OF 3509.
France now has 44S. 900 places for the sale
OF liquor. an increase Of nearly t0:G0J N
twenty years.
Pullman, H.. population 1900. prohibits
the liquor traffic, has no lookup and only
one policeman. no paupers and no crime.
The American Temperance University
has been inaugurated at Hartman. Ienn.
About one hundred students were enrolled.
Through the agency of the Missions to Sea-
men Society. over 5000 sailors have been eE-
rolled as lotai-abstainers in Cork harbor
alone.
Temperance societies are being formed
among the MujiEs Of Russia, the members
undertaking TO abstain from vodka !ortWelVe
months.
The churches OF Aberdeen, South Dakota.
have organized an anti-saloon army. with a
GOOD membership and encouraging prospects
of success.
Hon. Albert Griffin, ESQ.,. Of Manhattan,
Kansas. is organizing the ''Phalanx. an as
sociation for pledging persons Tor lille or ior
q term OF years.
Two thousand, four hundred bottles OF
beer. seized in q cellar. were recently poured
into a ravine at Osborne, in the presence OF
1000 spectators.
OF 1000 criminals who have passed through
the E!mira IN. Y.) Retormatory, statistics
snow drunkenness TO have existed in the
parents of 33.7 per cent.
The Census Bureau figures show that in
257 American cities there are 1876, 167 peo-
pe. and 81 1886 saloons en- average OF one
s;;loon for every sixty families.
Sir Andrew Clark, the general physician in
! the largest hospital in London, says that
seven out OF every ten persons treated there
owe their ill-health 70 drink.
Among the many failures reported
throughout the country. not one saloon Int or
brewery is found among the list. Tne
s.workincman' will not deny himself glass
OF beer. even if his family are starving.
The ". c. r. U. coffee house at Mcnomi-
nee. Wis, is now the Cnly public eating place
in the city without q bar attachment. II Is
gaining favor and doing 4 good business.
An illustration OF the lengths people will
| 60 TO satisfy their craving for drink was
furnished in New Zealand where man
tried to trade an admission order to the nos
| pital for liquor.
Awell-known authority on nervous men-
tai diseases. says that these disorders are in
creasing at a terrible rate in France, and at-
tributes the fact to the increase ln peer
drinking, absinthe drinking and bars.
At the recent International Temperance
Congress at Hague, Holland, thirty cXcel,
lent Dutch women assembled under the lead
of Mrs. Selmer, of Copenhagen, Yice-Press-
DEBT for Denmark Of the Worlds W. c. !. u,
and formed National W. c. I. Y. for Hol-
! land go
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YE SAD AND soRRoWFUL
By LOUIS n. GRILL, JR.

Go bury your gloom and your SORROW
Away from the world and our sight,
And strive meath the sun Of tomorrow
To gather the beaccns Of light.
Go mingle your tears with the waters,
And drift Them away with the tide;
Be one Of proud joys lovely daughters
That laugh at vain Grief's lonely chda
The load js so heavy you carry.
Tis all that misfortune can bear;
Throw of the dull weights and be merry
Away with your trouble and care.
Go sink in the depths Of creation
Your grievinG, your heartaches and pain
Endeavor in LIES busy station
For happiness, glory, and gain.
Come out from gloom cells Of the fearful,
And bask in the sunshine Of JOY;
Come breathe the pure air OF the cheerful
And strive in ContenJment's employ.
Come gaze at the fow'rets now blooming
Along the bright pathway like gold;
Come sip the sweet nectar pefumlng
The earth with it's sweetness untold.
Ye sad and ye sorrowful stricken,
Misfortune's lone victims OF grief,
The throb Of your heart seems to 9uioken-
Come share the sweet balm Of relief.
Come dwell with the happy who measure
The. worth Of this life by it's mtrth;
Come drink fron the fountain OF pleasure
That thrills with its comfort all earth
RlcHLAND, S. D.
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TESTIMONY OLA SHARP SHOOTER.

at a recent shooting match Of English e1-
pert soldiers, one OF the London papers had
we make the following extracts The cham
pion said, "It is not easy to hit the bulls eye
at distance of nine hundred yards, but 90
in for long distance shooting, and am glad
tohave succeeded" "You seem to take mat
tiers easily enough" said the reporter, allud.
ing TO his style Of shooting" Yes" replied
the champion. ''As soon as find the bulls
eye am all right. " $40 what do you owe
your successw asked the reporter. and the
answer which all those who covert NERVES
of steel" should heed. is this ITO quiet, regu-
lar habits OF living have been teetotaller
for twenty years drinking breaks the nerves,
and I keep clear Of it"
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with o companion, cut directly south te
the river, and laid in wait.
A boat appears in the middle of the
stream. The constable calls to the soli-
tary boatman to halt. The only reply is
o quick motion of the occupant of the
boat, and the fugitive is in the water. A
moment more and ne rises. A rifle shot
and he sinks again. The boat drifts on
and the swift waters flow swiftly to the
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CHAPTER ~.

ON TO THE FREE SEA.
They are calling me, calling me, calling mo,
Tie waters so deep and swift.
That long to plunge into their embrace
And out on their bosom drift
stand by the rolling ocean
And watch the billows beat,
Or stand by the rushing river
Swift flowing at my feeti
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the new day, onward 10 tho great fseo sea.
The sea, tie sea, the opeu zoe,
Tho blue, the fresh, the evsr free.
A terrible monster is it. nevertheless,
| to all who bow not TO its majesty, yet
flee is it, and free it crowns each one who
comes to it. With me.oiless calmnssE 1t
rolls its long hillows up upon tho Sho:o,
bearing Its yeaTeed and fragments OF
wrecks, and with roieasloss fluy it dashes
the ship 10 pieces. beats with rage upon
tho rocky coasts and tells man What's
mine is mine, and will keep!' And
yet, whether long green billows roll OF
mad whitecaps fly, the sea ia free and
does as it wills, and receives all who cast
their lot with 1t as free also.
And the fugitive doated onward to the
free sea.
The dawn had come and gone, the sun
had arisen and was beginning his stately
march across the heavens, and with his
rays obliterating the sparkling stars OF
night which the nightingale sang to, and
which, mayhap, though far away, were
brighter and more glorious suns than he.
GRAY light and dawn aud sunrise
passed away. The river had just made a
sharp turn to the left, and after struggling
with the bank on the right. had regained
its freedom also, and was flowing swiftly
onward. A long stretch Of water. but
the curve had brought it circling south
ward below Sagnauck. It was flowing
onward to the free sea. but what of the
fugitive upon its bosom?
Atlee, the constable, waking early
from his slumber, and desiring 10 glost
upon his captive enemy, had long ere
dawn or the gray light stumbled his way
to the cabin at the edge of the forest.
Severed cords and All open door was all
that lie found.
Eager to track his prey, the alarm was
at once given, and scouts were sent out
one this way, one that. Atlee himself,
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witchcraft had familiarized him with all
forms of smulets and charms.
Dorothea wore the badge Of the devil.
FIom this time on, Dorothea bore
double character. To those around her,
and with whom she associated, she was
pure, high M inded, lovable girl. But the
minister's convictions of necessity had
their weight with his parishioners, and
while he made no charge against her the
report that she was a witch was soon
circulated. The simple min ded pioneers
treated her as il she were one OF their
own flesh and blood. yet they could not
help watching her with fear. She might
not be what she az emed, and they were
on the alert to detect anything which
might SAVIOR of tie evil one.
That it was hard life and difficult
path for one so young to tread is clear
The least outbreak of temper, the small
est act which might appear queer, even
her deeds of kindness. were looked upon
with suspicion. Yet none could quite
believe her evil, so open was her disposi-
tion, and she continued to live IN the
settlement befriended by all. But there
was that suspicion lowering over her!
One evening the minister was returning
rather late from visit to small village
several miles away, and was repeating IN
Hebrew the l23d psalm, which was sup
| posed to contain certain caballst1c words
10 protect one from evil spirits when
travelling lonely road after nightfall.
| He had Just finished it and was about to
begin again with the first verse. when he
heard light footsteps near. and, looking
into the forest, saw Dorothea approach
ing. 1t was an luminous meeting for the
girl.
| The poor minister could not, il he had
| wished, disconnect her presence with the
evil spirits be was exercising. Had he
| not repeated the cabalistic words, he be-
lieved the girl would not have joined
him, but would have loft the powers OF
the air to exercise their influence upon
him. But they being barred from injur-
ing, she. their mistress, came. They
The Portland daily press., 1893-01-19
Boston Produce Market

BOSTON Jan. 1S. 1893-The following are
uo-dav's quotations of Provisions. Produce. etc.
Pork-Long cuts % $4,000 90: short cuts at
% $4,000 00: backs at % 10000 90; lean lends
at 90 00@22 90; pork tongues l9 so; butt pork
18 SO.
Hams 141ac; small do 141sc; pressed hams
12Ac.
Lard-Choice 114c Il tb in tierces and tabs
1o-fb pals in cs 12Ac.
Hogs4Choice city dressed 914c % fb; country
do Ss4e. p,
Butter Western extra creamery at 32@33c:
fancy higher: tirsts and extra DrSts at 30G31
extra imitation creamrv 26,a27c: FACTORY choice
24E025c: Northern creamery. choice at 32933c:
New York ana Vermont dairy, good TO cnolce
2S@30c; Eastern creamery. good to choice at
30@33c. The above ouotaJlons are receivers
prices for strictly wholesale lots Jobbing
prices 1a2c higher.
Cheese-Nortnern choice full creams 11s4 G9
12c; fancy twins at 12012iac; fair to good at
7011c; ;Western choice = (9111sc; sage at 129
121ac
fggs-Eastern extras at a7a3sc: vt and N H
extras at 37938c; Michigan extra at 35a36c;
western irsts 35@36c: fair to good 32d33.
Poultry--N NOrthn fresh-killed chickens, choice
at 1S@20c: fowls 149l DC; Wes5era 'i1s5 ''ack-
et turkeys at 1o@17c; air to good at 12@1bc;
Beans-New York handsicssd Hss pea at ica
2 15 marrow pea at --dgl 95; choice screen pea
at GOAL TO: hand-pclSed med at 90; choice
screened coal 20; choice yellow eyes, 2 35
92 40: California pea beans 1892 30.
Seed-Tlmothy.I1 SOAP 90: Western red top
S2d2 25: clover, 124121ac; Hungarian. 20Q
/ SO.
Hay--Choice. at SIT 0o@17 50:fair 20 to good
15 OO9$16 90: Eastern choice at $17@l7 SO /;
poor to ordinary. S129$16.
Potatoes-Choice Aroostook Hebrons 9n095c
per bush ,Houlton Hebrons 95c0$1 90 ;Houlton
Rose S3@85c; York state white stars at 85c;
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