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4 Fighting Fox.

Harry Quimby, of Raugsley, Me-, set
a trap for fox about aquarter OF mile
from his fathers house, aud while Mr.
Reward was smelling around the bait be
suddenly got one of his feet into the
trap. The fox then started toward the
house, trap and clog hanging to him,
and when near the house he stopped to
take look at the farm buildings. Some
of Deck Quimby's children. out to play
saw his foxship and gave a yell that
brought Deck to the door in his stocking
feet. Deck called his dog and started
for the fox in his stocking feet. The fox
went just below Mr.. Quimby's house,
near the shore Of Quimby's pond, with
Deck and the dog after him. While try
ing to climb over fallen log the log
caught and held the fox, and Quimby
and the dog went at him, but they did
not stand much show. for in less than
FIVE minutes the fox had whipped the
dog and Deck, too. Deck says the fox
was the greatest fighter he ever saw.
But by and by he got hold of a club aud
as he supposed had the fox killed: de
then took him by the hind legs and car.
ried him up to the house and there threw
him down into the dooryard and went
into the house to dress his feet. He had
got them almost dressed when he heard
an awful noise, and on going to the door
there was that same fox fighting the dog.
Deck ran up to him and gave him an.
other pounding, and this time he thought
be had killed him sure, and he hung hum
up on a post and again left him. But
AGAIN the fox came to life aud went for
the dog, and Deck had to go and cut him
up with an axe. New York Telegram.
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TEMPERANCE.
IT'S TRUE AS TRUTH.

IhOh 40 lnO liz
NV BOYS, come listen while / teach
A lesson true as truth,
l. lesson that you all should learn
By heart in early youth.
Tis this, there's naught upon the earth
That hapless home can cheer,
Where but five cents is spent for bread
To fifty cents for beer.
The wife and mother, though she he
AS patient as the bsst,
Wears on her face look that tells
or nights unknown to rest.
The children shiver oft with cold,
And tremble oft with fear,
Where but five cents is spent for bread
To fifty cents for beer.
The holidays bring but fresh grief,
Fresh want and added care.
Aud while, around it, happy songs
And laughter fill the air,
The sound Of curses, sighs and sobs
Is all that one can hear
Where but flve cents Is spent for brea1
To fifty spent for beer.
And boys, I beg you, let my words
On fruitful soil be sown,
So when you've left your boyhood's days
And are to manhood grown,
No one can speak Of home you've mo'e
As places poor and drear,
Where but five cents is spent for bread
To fifty spent for beer.
Sacred Heart Review.
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FOR MOTHERS.

The following are some resolutions made
by an earnest Christian mother. Would
that every mother in the land would copy
them, and read and think OF them every
Resolved, That the first duty Of the day
performed by me shall be prayer to GOD,
especially for strength and wisdom to prop
erly instruct. guide and govern my child.
Resolved, That I will never permit my
child to wilfully disobey me, or treat me
with disrespect.
Resolved, That I will earnestly strive never
to act from an impulse of passion or resent
ment, but will e1deavor to preserve my
Judgment cool and my feelings calm, that
may clearly see and truly perform my duty
to my child. !,
Resolved, That will devote portion Of
nv time each day to oself-instruction, In order
to be able to properly instruct my child.
Resolved, That will watch over my own
temper at all times. cultivate habit OF cheer.
fulness, and interest myself in the matters OF
nv child, that may thereby gain bis love.
Resolved, That will devote my time es-
pecialy to those pursuits which will increase
the comfort and happiness OF my home and
forward the hest interests of my child.
Resolved, That will study the health OF
nv child, reading on the subject and asking
the advice of those who are more expert
enced than myself.
Resolved. That will not yield to discour-
agements from failure, but will perseyere
putting faith in the promise OF God TO all
those who earnestly and faithfully strive 70
do their y.-[Selected.
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Mail. Through Pneumatic Tubes.

The tubes are laid under ground
between the branch postoffices and
the main office; they are OF brass,
covered with various materials to
protect them in the ground, and in
laying them care is taken to avoid
sharp corners and curves At the
starting point machinery Is placed,
by which air is compressed and Kept
stored under a number of pounds
pressure. The mail matter is put
into leather boxes, which tit the in
terror of the tubes; these are placed
70 the receiving tuEes, which are
closed with heavy doors. The coR
pressed air is then turned into the re-
ceiving tube. 1t can expand in only
one direction, that is, in the dlrec.
tion of the tube, and in expanding 1t
drives the leather box with its ecu
tents before 1t until ut the main office
the box is discharged into the recsiv-
ing tube, and the liberated air fol-
lows it with slight explosion. The
system is in use in many newspaper
offices and between telegraph offices.
The shorter the distance to he
traversed the less pressure need be ap-
piled to the air. Brass is used as the
material of the tubes because it is
self-lubricating and becomes and re-
mains smooth easily, and therefore
offers the least resistance to the ras
sage or the boxes.
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A New Theory Of An@sthetics.

A new theory in anesthetics is report
ed from Vienna, Austria. DR.. Schleich,
the discoverer, secures absolute immuni-
ty from pain by local action only, the
consciousness of the patient being main
tanned. The process, subcu.aneous
injection Of salt or sugar, Of plain dis.
titled water, even, appears most simple.
It offers none of the objections 70 be
raised against the use of narcotics, and
numerous experiments have proved its
success. The immunity from pain is
obtained by temporary paralysis OF the
nerve caused by the action Of the cold
injectiou.-New York Commercial Ad-
vertlser.
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PANCAKES FOR SPRING.


Rice Pancakes-Boil half pound of the
best rice to Jelly in little water;
when cold mix with it pint of cream,
eight we'll beaten eggs, a dash OF nut.
meg and pinch OF salt; stir into thus
six ounces of butter, just heated, and
enough dry, warm flour to make it into
smooth batter. Grease the inside of
pan with butter, then fry the pancakes
golden brown. Send them to table
rolled, a few at time; lay them on an
ornamental paper, dust over little
caster sugar and serve with red currant
jelly.
Novel Rich Pancakes-Mix two table.
spoonfuls of ground rice into a pint OF
cream. Set it high over slow fire and
stir we'll until it thickens. Pour into
the LIQUID six ounces of butter melted,
add half nutmeg grated and pour the
whole into an earthen pan. When it is
cold stir in two tablespoonfuls of dry
-four, a pinch OF salt, two ounces OF
caster sugar and six we'll beaten eggs.
Mix all thoroughly together and fry the
pancakes good color. When milk Is
used instead of cream allow one mere
tablespoonful of ground rice. Only
small quantities should be poured into
the pan at one time on account OF Its
lightness.
.Ladylove Pancakes-Mix the yolks OF
two we'll beaten eggs with a dessert
spoonful of ground rice and a gill OF
cream. Add two ounces of caster sugar,
small piece of powdered cinnamon, a
blade of mace, pounded, and dash OF
nutmeg. Rub perfectly clean frying
pan with a piece OF butter tied in a
cloth. Fry the pancakes a light golden
color and as thin as possible. Roll them
and lay not more than five at once on a
hot dish screened with an ornamental
paper. Dust over each little caster
sugar. Garnish with green sprigs OF
myrtle and serve quickly. If too many
pancakes are piled upon the dish they
become sodden and heavy.
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RELIGIOUS READING,
MEETING AGAIN.

MEETING AGAIN.
When for nae the silent oar
Parts the silent river,
And I stand upon the shore
OF the strange For Ever,
Shall miss the loved and known
Shall vainly seek mine own?
Mid the crowd that come to meet
Spirits sin-forgiYen,
Listening to their echoing feet
Down the streets of heaven
Shall know footstsp near
That listen, wait for here2
Then will one approach the brink
With q hand extended,
One whose thoughts loved to think
Ere the veil was rended,
Saying, "Welcome! we have died
And again are side by side.'
Saying, "I will 60 with thee
That thou be not lonely,
To yon hills of mystery;
have waited only
Until now to climb with thee
Yonder hills of mystery"
Can the bonds that make US hero
Know ourselves immortal,
Drop away like foliage eere
At life's inner portal? -s.-
What Is holiest below
Must for ever live and grow.
= Lucy Larconn.
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CHRISTIAN UNITY.


Free, yet in chains. the mountains stand,
The valleys linked run through the land;
In fellowship the forests thrive,
And streams from streams their strength
derive.
The cstt'e craze in hocks and herds,
In choirs and concerts sing the birds,
Insects by millions ply the wing.
And flowers in peaceful armies spring.
All Nature is society,
All Natures voice is harmony.
All colors blend to form pure light
why then should Christians not unite?
Thus to the Father prayed the Son:
sOne may they be, as we are one,
That in them, and thou in me,
They one with US may ever be-
Chi i'dren Of God, combine your plans;
Brethren in Christ, join hearts and hands
And pray-for 80 the Father willed
That the Sons prayers may be fulfilled.
Fulfilled in you- fulfilled in all
That on the name Of Jesus call,
And every covenant Of love
Ye bind on earth, be bound above.
-[Janet Montgomery.
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! expectations excited in regard to them.
said that children brought up in Christian
households though they might make a
wide curve, were very apt to come back to
the straight path. Have you not been
curving out long enough, and is it not most
time for you to begin to curve in?
"Oh," you say, "they were too rigid"
Well now, my brother, think you have
pretty good character considering what you
say your parents were. Do not boast too
much about the style in which your parents
brought you up. Might it not be possible
that you would be an exception to the gen
eral rule laid down, and that you might
spend your eternity in different world
from that in which your parents are spend
ing theirs?
| I feel anxious about you; you feel anxious
| about yourself. Oh, cross over into the right
path. II your parents prayed for you twies
| day, each Of them twice day for 90 years,
that would make 80, 600 praye:s for you.
| Think Of them!
By the memory Of the cradle in which
your childhood was rocked with the foot
| chat long ago ceased to move, by the crib in
| which your own children slumber night by
two graves in which sleep those two old
hearts that beat with love so long for your
welfare, and by the two graves In which
you, now the living father and mother Will
lind your last repose, I urge you to the dis
charge Of your outy.
Though parents may 10 covenant DO
And hsve their heaven Ia view,
They are not happy TIL they So
Their children happy too.
Oh, you departed Christian ancestry,
fathers and mothers in glory, bend from the
skies to-day and give new emphasis to what
you told us on earth with many tears aud
anxieties! Keep a place for US by your
blisstul side, for to-day, in the presence Of
sarth and heaven and hell, and by the help
| Of the cross and amid overwhelming and
gracious memories, we resolve, each one for
himself, "As for me and my house we will
| serve the Lord"
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

There are 13, S46 Juveniles in the reforms
tories Of the United States.
There are 44O, 900 places in Franco where
liquor is sold, 27,J0o Of walcn are located In
Paris.
Russia's daily drink bill is said to amount
to s., 900, LO), and Russia ID confronted with
famine.
The Edinburgh School Board have agreed
to introduce temperance teaching into their
schools.
The wife OF Francis Murphy, the temper.
auce lecturer, is all enthusiastic in her nus
bands work and Is almost constantly with
him on his travels.
The polyglot petition Of the W. c. 7. u.
asking the rulers of thu world to proLioit
the liquor traffic, has l, ~, 735 signatures and
is twelve miles long.
Says Prohibition paper "Thers are So
loonSeepers who have made hun lreds OF
widows. No such terrible iniict nsnt eau
ever be drawn against temperance man"
In Lon iou, the arrests for drunkenness are
at the rate OF one for every LIS inhabitants;
in Birningher, ons for lJ3; IN Manchester.
ons tor seyenty-two, aud in Liverpool, one
for fifty.
The Sailors, Temperate, Hom,, Scanli-
nevion. Brooklyn has entertained since its
established six years ago O,?70 sailors. Tho
socety's huilding lund now reaches the sum
Of s24Sa .33.
The New York Bartenders' Union has
fined several of its members Tor getting
drunk. These craftsmen are evidently
among the class of doctors who do not be-
Ieve in taking their own msdIclne.
L,dv Henry Somerset declares that not
even John s. Cough or Dwight L. Moody
was received in England with greater en-
thusiasm than Miss Francis Il. WIZARD,
President Of the Wo mans Christian Temper
ance Union of the United States.
Temperance puts coal on tho fire, meal in
the barrel, -four in the tub, money in the
purse, credit in the country, contentment in
The house, clothes on thu children, vigor IN
the body, intelligence in the brain, and
spirit in the whole constitution Poor
Richard.
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A SOLEMN WARNING.

Take the advice Of one who has seen some
OF the playmates of his youth make their
selection follow their pattern and land in
drunkard's grave, while others shuned the
vile stuff in all its forms and are now occupy
ing positions of honor and trust. What
ever you do, or don't dc, my boy. swear by
all that's good, true and noble. that so long
as you draw breath it shall not be tainted
with that which will eventually rob you Of
mind, money, body and soul, and leave you
a stranded wreck on the shoreless ocean of
eternity, beyond the reach Of a mothers
prayers or fathers adyice.-Dansvills
IN " Rreeza
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"A SENSIBLE BISHOP.

The Catholic Club in Columbus, Ohio,
went to the wall because Bishop Watterson
could not consent to the existence Of bar
or buffet. ~ sincerely regret" said the
Bishop in public sermon, that ths project
has fallen through, but If the sail Of liquor
was essential to the success Of the club re-
joice at the failure. A buffet would or
would not pay. II it did not pay, too little
LIQUOR would be sold to make it worth hav.
ina. II it did pay, too much liquor would
be sold to make it safe place for tue
young."
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PHYSICIANS should always take
their business to a pellet court
Pittsburgh Chronicle. We have an
idea that the Chronicle pil-fered that
Joke.
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THL real meaning Of reform Is try
ing to make tiger behave itself.
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@PoL1TE LITERATURE" must consist
Of that class of books which we never
meet without an introduction.
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BEWARE of the man whose wife Is
always saying he has no faults
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A BAD man hates the things that
can do him good.
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TIE AWFUL DRINK TRAGEDY.

President Gerry, of the New York
Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Children, in his annual address, which ap.
pears in the society's eighteenth report.
gives the following pathetic case as an
Illustration Of the bensAcient work Of his
society, and it Is also striking illustration
of the degradation and suffering involved
Ia the drink habit:
'lt was a cold, bleas night tust before
Thanksgiving Day. A woman, meanly
clad, and bearing the marks Of dissipation
noon her face, wandered into a saloon in
Elizabeth street in this city. with small
boy clinging to her hand. Sne had known
better days, had struggled against poverty,
had sacrificed herself In order to support
her child. And she turned in out Of the
cold with the boy, into the only place Of
refuge she knew, to try and find either some
friend who would give her the means to
sleep with her child in cheap lodging
house, or else find out what might be done
for him. Down the Bowery, in the bitter
cold they had walked for hours, seeking
shelter, and she had only that morning
taken the child to the police court, and told
her pitiful tale to the justice. Her husband
had died four years previously. and she was
a widow with two children, the boy and a
girl. This society had cared for the girl
and placed her in a home. Johnny aud l
are starving. Your Honor she said, and l
warm.' The usual order was made on this
society and given her. She put it In her
pocker, went back to the saloon with the
Child, sat down, turned to the bystandars
and said: Ny boy is safe; am going TO
put him in a home, and little Johnny will be
taken care Of now Then she'fell back In
her chair and diedm
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HLIOUrD BREAD"

w s. Caine, NJ. 2, In recent temperance
address at Basingstoke. England, referred
as follows to thu subject OF liquid bread:
remember once seeing over public house
door in Liverpool -"Good ale is liquid
bread.n I went into the house. and said.
''Get me quart of liquid bread" lLaghter1
The landlord said. "a first rate sign, isn't
it," "Yes," said |, ''if it's true" 100. it's
true enough, my beer is all right We'll,
give me a bottle to take home" He gave
me bottle Of liquid breai. took it to DR..
Samuelson, an analy tical chemist, and said
TO him, II want YOU to tell me how much
bread there is in this bottle" he sm,,t it
LIQUID bread" "Weu," he said, III you
come again in a week. I'll tell you all about
it." He charged me three guineas. CLaugh.
teri In weeks time went to know all
about the liquid bread. The first thing about
it was that there was 80 per cent. OF water.
[Laughter.] ATS liquii, anyhow" said.
well pass that Renewed Laughter. ]
"Now let's 20 on to the bread" alcohol,
five per cent" whats alcohol@ said.
There's the dictionary, you can turn it up
for yourself" l turned it up and found
alcohol described as powerful narcotic
poison" "Well," thought, ''this is the
my life" [Laughter.l Then he gave me
number OF small percentages OF curious
things which he had pu5 carefully down on
each corner Of q piecs Of white paper, and
which amounted to about quarter Of a
thimbleful of dirty looking powder. That
was the bread-rgreat iaughterl-two per
cent. And there would not be 80 much as
that" said Dr.. 8 ,muelson, "lf it were BASIS
or Allsop's. Tnis is bad beer" 80 the
better the beer the less bread there is in it?'
Certainly it Is the business OF the brewer to
-, Of 70 hra
It" This is the simple scientihce truth with
regard to beer, and the case Is stronger with
regard to wine and spirits. There is no
nourishment in it all. Science tells you so.
Experience tells you so. 1t has no use for
the human body either as food or me1icine.
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There is bro. o.herhood Of error a5 close as
the brotherhood OF TRUTH Argyll.
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Oh, that family Bible! The New Testa.
ment in small type Is not worthy OF being
called by that name. Have O whole Bible in
large type, vito the family record OF mar
riages and births aud deaths. What il the
curious should turn over tns leaves to see
how old you ares You are younger now
than you will ever be again. The curious
will mud out from those with whom you
have played in your childhood how old you
are. Have a family Bible. 1t will go down
from generation TO generation, full Of holy
memories. A hundred years after you are
dead it will be bensdictiou to those who
come after you. Other books, worn out or
fallen apart, will be flung to the garret or
the cellar, but this will be inviolate, and 1t
will be your protest for centuries against
iniquitY and in behalf Of righteousness.
Oh, when we see what family religion did
for our fathers household, do we not want
it to come into the dining-room to break the
bread, into the nursery to bless the young.
into the parlor to purify the soclalltles, into
the library to control the reading, into the
bedroom to hallow the slumber, into the hall
to watch our going out and our coming In
Ave, there are hundreds Of voices in this
house ready to CRY out: Yes! Yes! AS
for me- and my house. we will serve the
Lord"
There are two arms to this subject. The
one arm puts its hand on all parents. 1t
SAYS to them: Don't interfere with your
childrens welfare, don't interfere with their
eternal happiness, don't you by anything
you do nut out your foot aud trip them into
ruin. Start them under the shelter. the in
surance. the everlasting help Of Christian
parentage. Catechisms will not have them,
though catechisms are good. The rod will
not save them, though the rod may be neces-
sary. Lessons Of virtue will not save them,
though they are very important. Becoming
a through and through. up and down, out
and out Christian yourself will make them
Christians"
The other arm OF this subject puts it's
hand upon those who had a pious bringing
up but who as yet have disappointed tho