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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
French brandy is the most dangerous drink
In Paris.
In races, it has been found that the men
who do not use stimulants do by far the best
work.
If drinking men could only see the effect
that whisky has on the stomach, they would
never drink another drop.
The Chief of Police Of Baltimore says that
he never found boys in the saloons until Lager
beer was introduced and games prepared to
entice them in.
In one Of the great Paris hospitals, 1t was
found that Of eighty-three patients who
suffered from epilepsy, sixty were children OF
drunken parents.
Men in foundries, who used to drink
great deal of liquor and beer, now very gener-
ally drink oatmeal and water and find that
they work much better.
General Booth, OF the Salvation Army says
that nine-tenths OF the evil that he has to
fight against in the social department OF bis
work IS caused by drink.
People make great mistake in using
liquor in case Of sickness. The use OF liquor
in sickness has been known to make men
drunkards for the rest OF their lives.
Mildura, q town Of New South Wales, was
founded by the Chaffey brothers in 1888. By
means Of irrigation it has been transformed
from desert to beautiful garden. By the
terms OF the "Mildura Irrigation Act" no
LIQUOR is allowed to be sold in the settlement,
and IN consequence every one appears happy
md prosperous.
II liauor could be kept from the Indians
of the plains we should seldom hear OF any
bloodshed between them and the whites.
The pity Of 1t is that the men who sell the
LIQUOR seldom suffer for their misdeeds, while
the loss nearly always falls upon Innocent
persons. A few exceptionally severe SEN
tences dealt out to men convicted OF selling
LIQUOR to Indians would do great good.
Miss Frances E. Willard was given o great
reception recently by the English Methodists
City Road Wesleyan Chapel. 1.-The Cathedral
OF British Methodism." was crowded to over
flowing. The gathering represented about
600 London congregations, and speeches were
cordial in the extreme. Miss Willard was
presented with IN illustrated edition OF
s'Wesleys Journal" and copy OF John and
Charles Wesley'5 Hymns.
The Womun's Temperance Hospital. pro-
iected in 1883 at the Detroit National W. G.
T. U. Convention. and opened on the south
side OF Chicago in 1886, was removed last
June to greatly improved quarters In hand
some building on the North Side just outside
Lincoln Park. The hospital has accommo-
dation for sixty patients. ascore OF physicians
representing all the organized schools, and
alcoholics In medication.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
THOUGHTFUL PRAYER.

The whole tendency Of the age is to Z
religion of forms, and formality even in the
true modes of worship. With exceptions
quite too few, the prayers Of the sanctuary,
the family, and the social circle, are cold in
the utterance; and the tones and labored
periods show that the mind of the suppliant
is trying to lift itself up to the spiri. of de-
yotiol. It is not the junction from the
holy One" apparent in the humble. fervent
oratory of effectua supplication. 1t is not
the praying in the spirit-not that abun-
dance of the heart out of which the mouth
speaketh. And what can the utmost elo-
quence of the mouth do at the throne OF
God. If the heart be far from Him? Formal
prayer is delusive: is offensive, unheard, un.
answered, except in the increase of spiritual
barrenness.-When again shall the Spirit
help the infirmities Of the saints, making
intercession for them with groanings that
preacher WELD the sword Of the Spirit, the
Word Of God-the Word in its essential dis
tinctive. subduing truths brought down
with direct aim and undivided energy upon
the conscience of the hearer? Alas for thee,
daughter of Zion, thy rowers have brought
thee into great waters!
But the formal prayer of the church, at
present 30 emerged IN the world, on which
aIassing word has been bestowed. Is not
that which have denominated thoughtless
prayer, and which Is 80 universally preva-
lent. I mem chiefly and specially, that
kind of prayer by which, as saith the pro-
phet, ,'sthe land mourneth ;the pleasant places
of the wilderness are dried up, and their
course is evil, and their force is not right"
In this form of supplication we have. as
nation, become rapidly and extremely pro-
minent. The fancy gentleman, and the
fashionable lady are punctual In ejaculatory
petitions, which also pass over into the
form Of imprecation. How frequent the
short prayers arc heard, Good Lord, Lord
bless me, etc. But with what levity and ab-
sence Of thought these habitual supplications
are uttered! And from the so-called polish
ed circle down to the lowest dregs OF human
ity. the mingling voices of the crowd are
heard In almost unbroken prayers through
all the dav. and far into the stiffness Of the
night. The sacred names Of the Trinity,
and the most awful forms Of imprecations
are used in thoughtless leyity; while in
every street and on every playground, the
tattered and well dressed urchin throws OF
these wicked prayers as fast as the interven-
ing puffs of the cigar will allow. BY swear
ing the land mourneth. And how awfully
prevalent the "swearer's prayer" has be-
come. Passing by the p.ofanely praying
adult closes, the obscenity and .profaneness
OF the juvenile population shocks every
moral sense. Into what hands are our civil
and religious institutions descending II
the vain use of Gods name Is national
trait of character: what eau avert from us
national judgments! "Shall not visit for
these things2 saith the Lord : and shall not
nv so,l be avenged on such nation as
this?'
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THE GRACE DARLING.

rocks of Farne Island, September 6
and 7, 1888, was bought in 1873 by
Colonel John Joicey, M. P, for South
Durham, of Newton Hall, Stocksfeld-
on-Tyne, from Grace Darling's brother,
George Darling (who is still living in
Northumberland, and was with the
utmost kindness placed at the societys
disposal by Mrs. Joicey for the Tyne
mouth Maritime Exhibition (Septens-
Der and October, 1882 where it was
eagerly visited by about %, 700 per
sons The little boat has reached
Chicago and is one of the many inter
esting exhibits in the Transportation
building. Chicago Tribune.
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Threading a Hair Through A Walnut.

To pass q hair through walnut with
out boring hole seems an lmDosslon-
ity, but the seat has often been done.
The hull of the walnut, when examined.
with strong glass, is seen to have IN.
Vulnerable small openings, some OF
which lead entirely through the NUT
The trick consists in using very hne
hair and an infinite amount OF patience.
Pn,s the hair into one Of *hese minute
crevices and urge it gently along. Some
times it will appear on the other side
ut the first trial, but if it comes out at
the hundred and first you will be very
lzcky.-St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
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pcpULAR SCIENCE.
Obsidian ia q lava glass.

Obsidian is lava glass:
Two per cent. of sea water Is COM
mon salt. '''
At the equator the average annual,
rainfall is 100 inches.
The cost Of one-msn sea diving ap-
paratus for depth of 200 feet is $575.
The coolest place in the United
States is the interior Of Alaska, eighty
degrees below zero. ~.
At depth of more than four miles
the ocean is without life. without veg
citation and without light.
To escape from daa4ers WITCH men,
ace them,. star fishes commit suicide.
This instinct of self destruction is
found only in the highest and lowest
scales of animal life. 3
Carnegie Music Hall, New York City,
is probably the only building Of the
sort which is ventilated by introducing
fresh air at the roof and removing foul
air through the floor.
Comfort for the fat and lean can be
derived from some recent medical sta
tistics, which show that at the age Of
thirty-six lean men generally become
fatter and fat men leaner.
A prominent physician says that the
average cook is absolutely ignorant OF
sanitary cause and effect, and that the
kitchen processes are sources Of illness
more often than is imagined.
Fishes are without eyeids, properly
so-called, and as the eye is at all times
washed by the surrounding water that
gland which supplies moisture to the
eye is not required, and therefore does
not exist.
The new waterworks ID Havana,
Cuba, which have been building these
afty-eight years, and which were: finally
opened on January 23 Of this year,
have proved immensely successful in
reducing the high mortality Of tho
city. So. :, = s
An iron meteorite, weighing nearly
q ton, and measuring four feet two
inches in length, two feet three inches
in width, twenty inches thick, was re-
Gently found at Youndegin, Western
Australia, and has been forwarded to
London.
All the species OF shelltsh draw the
carbonate Of lime Of which their shells
are formed from the sea. After the
death of the animals the shells accu.
mulate at the bottom Of the ocean,
forming lofty mountains and vast beds
of chalk. ~
The position of the hmprey cells has
been reviewed by Professor Howes,
who thinks that instead Of being prim.
tive forms they are sberrant ash-like
forms which have lost their lower jaw,
their sucking mouth having been Sec
ondariiy acquired. -. -
By simple rule the length Of the
day and night, any time OF the year,
may be ascertained by simply doubling
the time of the suns rising, which
will give the length Of the night, and
double the time of setting win give
the length of the day. Z
Doctor Haffkine, the bacteriologist,
who has been investigating cholera,
writes from India to the Russian papers
that he has conquered the disease by
an inoculstive method which he viii
give to the world. He regards bis
tests in India as conclusive.
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Dairy Of the Prince Of Wales.

The dairy of the Prince Of Wales at
sandringham, England, is stocked with
Jersey COWS, and is very handsomely
furnished with marble tables and china
and glass milk pans. The buttcr is
used by the household and is not sold.
The amount made so far as known hos
never been made public. The public
and private social duties of the Pria-
cess probably prevent her from milk.
ing her cows and making her own but
ter. But it is said that the lady keeps
close supervision over this as all other
parts of her domestic arrangements
New York Times.
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DEATH IN THE CUT.

The number Of deaths from the use OF
strong drink has been varlously estimated In
the United States to be from $4,000 to 100000
year. DR.. Norman Kerr, an eminent
scientist Of England. has for some fifteen
years been pursuing On inquiry into the
matter In connection with several medical
experts, and. according to their deductions,
the latest estimate Of deaths OF adults annu-
ally caused by intemperance is: In Great
Britain, 120 .000s in France. $4,000, and In
the United States $4,000, or nearly half a
million in an aggregate of $4,000, 900 of
people. If yellow fever and cholera, which
carry of few thousand each year, are 80
feared and Stunned, what shall be done with
the drink which slaYs its half millions?
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WHERE "DocroRs DISAGREE. "

When one tells you to put toads, lizards,
snakes, etc., in bottles filed with alcohol 50
as to preserve the flesh from dissolving and
keep fresh for term Of years, another tells
you to put alcohol in your stomach where
good meal OF fresh meat has gone, for the
purpose of dissolying 1t and '.siding diges-
ton" The man who takes alcohol to help
digest his food must first throw of the alco-
hol before his stomach can commence the
operation. National Temperance Advocate.
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Lockjaw in Horses Caused by Docking.

1t is stated upon good authority that
last year 102 well-defned cases of lock-
jaw were reported to the Royal s. P.
G. Animals, England, with certificate
in each case from the attending veter-
mary that the malady resulted from
docking, and one single veterinary
stated that out OF thirty-one cases of
tetanus which nc hes been called to at
tend within year. twenty-seven of
these cases resulted from this same
brutal custom. - American Home
Breeder. /
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SCIENCE AND RELIGION.

1t has been said that science is opposed to
revelation. But the history Of the former
shows, that the greater its progress, the
deeper its investigations, and the more &C.
curate its results, the more plainly it is ever
seen, not only to clash with the latter but In
sill things to confirm it. In every instance,
the very science from which objections have
been drawn against religion, have by their
own progress, entirely removed these OBJ
jections, and even furnished the strongest
confirmation of the truth.
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bring Us back again. I should be scared
with infinite fright If thought must stay in
the grave, II even the body were to stay in
the grave But Christ will come with glorious
iconoclasm and split and grind up the rocks
Snd let us all come forth. The Christ of the
mancer is the Christ Of the throne.
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TEMPERANCE.
WHAT 1MpAIRs CIrIzENsHIp.

The presence Of many working people, in
dustrious, sober, honest Is valuable help to
any business but by as much as any OF them
patronize the dram-snop, by so much their
value as citizens will be impaired, the com.
munities pauperized, and every interest OF
the people demoralized. .-Demorest's Family
Magazine
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Grace Darling's Boat,

The story of Grace Darling Is fami-
liar all around the world. 1t has been
told in verse and heroic prose and put
on canvas. The little craft in which
the heroine went to the rescue OF the
passenger steamer Forfarshire on the
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IN Missouri vagrants are put up at
auction. OF course there is senti-
mental objection to this system. The
sentiment is so strong in fact that If
the vagrants would refrain from in
dorsing it so loudly it would probably
kill the imitation of slavery days.
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ONE GREAT CAUSE OF FAMINE.

Count Leo Tols.oi declares that drunken
ness was one Of the great causes Of the recent
awful famine In Russia We begin to won
der If there is any really widespread disaster
nowadays to the human family in which the
alcoholic fiend Is not present as contrib
uting cause or to increase the resulting
misery The Voice.
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AN Eastern journal refers to
Omaha as the center of culture.
Omaha may not exactly resent this,
but to have been called the center Of
the hog-raising industry and the
home Of the corn.fed steer would
have illumined the city with glow
Of pride.
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ANY one Gun readily tell the diff
ference between custom-made clothes
and ready-made clothes by simply
looking at the bill
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An Earthquake tr0phet.

DR.. Falb is native of Styria, in AUS
tris, the son Of German miller, and
is now about fifty years of age. He re-
ceived his first scientific training in
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to US. He goes up step above step, height
above height until He reaches the apex. Then
He turns around and faces all the Nations
and we all see who 1t Is. It ts Christ, the
God, and all earth, and all heaven, and all
hell kneel, crying: "It Is a God |! It is q God r'
We must all appear before the judgment seat
Of Christ
Oh, am 80 glad that 1t is Divine being
who comes to pardon all our sins, to COM
fort oil our sorrows. Sometimes our griefs
are 80 great they are beyond any human,
sympathy, and we want Almighty sympathy.
Oh, ye who cried all last night because oi
bereavement or loneliness, want to tell you
it Is an omnipotent Christ who iS come.
When the children are in the house and
the mother is dead, the father has to be moro
gentle in the home, and he has to take the
office Of father and mother, and 1t seems to
me Christ looks out upon your helplessness.
and He proposes to be father and mother to
your soul. He comes In the strength OF one,
in the tenderness OF the other. He says with
one breath, LAS father pitieth his children.
so the Lord pitieth them that fear Him." and
then with the next breath He says, "As one
whom his mother comforteth, so will COM
fort YOU" Do you not feel the hush Of the
divine lullaby?
Oh, put your tired head down on the heav-
ing bosom of divine compassion, while He
puts His arms around you and says 80
widowed soul, I will be thy God. o Or
phaned soul, I will be thy protector. Do not
cry" Then He touches your eyelids with His
fingers and sweeps His fingers down your
cheek and wipes away all the tears Of lonli-
ness and bereavement. Oh, what o tender
and sympathetic God has come for usi do
not ask you to lay hold OF Him. Perhaps you
are not strong enough for that. I do not ask
YOU to pray. Perhaps you are too bewild-
cred for that. only ask you to let go and
fall back into the arms Of everlasting love.
Soon you and will hear the click of the
latch of the door of the sepulcher. Strong
men will take us in their arms and carry US
down and lay us In the dust, and they cannot
The free press., 1893-12-28
STATISTICS are said to show that

STATISTICS are said to show that
young men do not, on the average,
attain full physical maturity until
they arrive at the age OF % years.
Prof. Scheiller, of Harvard, asserts,
as the result of his observations, that
Young men do not attain to the full
measure of their mental faculties be-
fore % years of age. A shrewd OBJ
server has said that most men. are
boys until they are 30, and little
BOYS dntil they are 25;" and this ac-
cords with the standard of manhood,
which was fixed at 30 among the an
cient Hebrews and other races.
The free press., 1893-12-28

Butter statistics are surprising.
The census returned show the euor
mous aggregate or 60tyJoo tons, o.
4 200, 600, 600 pounds, manufactures
dn the United States in 1890; and the
quantity has probably increased
since. How much Of all this war
oleomargarine, sold under the nam'
of butter, it is now getting a little
late In the day to inquire. But th'
the returns are professedly all OF gen
uine butter, and this may be the fact
1t is said that the 1890 product IN
this country would require 1,0Ot
freight trains Of 30 cars each, and
each carrying 20 tons, to transport it.
Iowa seems to be the largest butter
producer-her return, three years
ago, being a hundred million pounds
QeO. 900, 000), worth s2l ,00o, 900. Hill
nois stood next. with 5000, O0t
worth 500, 900, 900. Wisconsin's pro-
duct was As, 900, 900 pounds, worth
20. 900, 900, and Minnesota's nearly as
HTeat-hers being worth $1,000, 600,
while Michigan's was worth 81, 500,-
900. In 1885 the assessed value Of
cows was s70O, 000 000-or more than
the capital of all the national banks,
at that time Incredible as it may
seem, it appears that the annual
dairy butter product Of the United
States exceeds in value that Of all Of
the lumber, wheat and iron COM
bined. That, at any rate, is the
statement of a statistician who pub
fishes the results Of his figuring.
Other dairy statistics, milk, cream,
and cheese, also make big Showing.
one way oI~Aeep1ng Up.
at is quite fatal to appear stupid ana
Iuninterested when you are out in So
ciety, you know, said the pretty girl
to an amused listener to her prattleJ
~and l have discovered capital recipe
against looking dull which l will give
to you gratis. At Mrs. AS, the other
day, | found myself at big luncheon
with lot Of older people present; and
on taking If places at the table was
dismayed to find that one OF my neigh
bors was an elderly woman and total
stranger, who turned her shoulder to
me during greater part of the repast,
tuu tue OIuGf was IIIly D WHO Is
q dear girl. but has not an idea in her
head. After the first few minutes had
passed in total silence, a bright idea
struck me, 'Milly,' l said, suddenly,
let's count; we will look just as if we
were talking, and it's ever so much
easier. When | leave off, you begin
And l began in my most vivaciOus man
ler: One, two, three, four five, six,
ing her little white teeth with bona
ide merriment, went on: Eight, nine,
.en, eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen,
fifteen, and we both ended with a burst
If genuine laughter
what good time those girls are
having !! | heard our vis-a-vis saying
o her neighbor, rather enviously, I
hought. I wonder what they are
q alkinU ahnut -
The free press., 1893-12-28
Deafness. cannot be Cured

by local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There Is only one
way to cure Deafness, and that Is by constitu-
tional remedies. Deafness is caused by an in
famed condition OF the mucous lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets in
famed you have q rumbling sound or imper-
feet hearing, and when it is entirely closed
Deafness is the result, and unless the intlam-
nation can be taken out and this tube re-
stored to its normal condition, hearing VIII be
destroyed forever; nine cases out ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an in
famed condition of the mucous surfaces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of Deafness caused by catarrh) that can
not be cured by Halls Catarrh Cure. Send for
circulars, free.
f. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, o.
~ Sold by Druggists, 75c.
The free press., 1893-12-28

Syrup

JUDGE J. B. HILL, OF the Superior
Court, Walker county, Georgia,
thinks enough of German Syrup to
send us voluntarily a strong letter
endorsing it. When men of rank
and education thus use and recon-
mend an article, what they say is
worth the attention of the. public.
1t is above suspicion. q have used
your German Syrup" he says, for
my Coughs and Colds on the Throat
and Lungs. can recommend it for
them as a first-class medicine. -
Take no substitute. ~
The free press., 1893-12-28
Cheaper SfIyerma.

Some solid silver tableware !,
wholesaling as low as 81 pe, y 100 %
and there are manufactures r., :, ouae "
who expect, as an outcome :, :. sll
present silver situation, that y
and spoons and other simnla NJ la'l |!
will yet sell at a much lows, rsas| ~
Some pro, 'hesy that plated W. w., Y I
small ar oicles will give placa IVY !
ling in the homes Of person, y,
ately well-to-do, and that N
cheapening of silver will colos,,s
wider use Of the metal in tha =
The free press., 1893-12-28
Garbage Destrueto,a

By the introduction of garb,,. !
structors, the refuse of cities m,' |
turned into a source of yerv o,.a,
erable profit. A destructor i 10y Y
town of Widnes, England, gens,,'
heat for an electric plant canah,.
lighting the town hall, market 4
library, technical schools, and :, !,
of the Strect IamnS.
The free press., 1893-12-28

The pleasant flavor, gentle action and soothing
effects of Syrup of Figs, when in need of lax
ative, and if the father or mother be costive or
bilious, the most gratifying results follow its
use; so that it is the best family remedy known
nd every family should have bottle.
The free press., 1893-12-28

In Hillsborough County, n. H.,
there is a solid rock with a channel
seventy feet deep andthirty feet wide
cut through its side. A light of rude
natural steps leads TO the top, where
there is a natural, pulpit and pool
for baptism.
The free press., 1893-12-28

Many persons are orot.en down from over,
work or household cares. Browns Iron Bit
ters rebuilds the system, aids digestion, re-
moves excess OF bile, and cures malaria. 4
splendld tonic for Mnmen and children.