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taken from home. Take only tin dishes
and tin cups, with iron spoons and
forks. If necessary, dishes can be made
from bark-cups from bark or large
shells, spoons from small shells to
which wooden handles are attached,
and forks from prOnged sticks. Sharp
pointed clip blade hunting knives
are, next to a good Ratchet, the most
useful articles one can take. With a
five-inch blade and leather sheath they
cost sixty cents.
Every one in the party should be pro-
vided with one rubber and two wooden
blankets. Take old clothes and a SLOUGH
hat. Canned food, fresh vegetables
and bread can be got. 1t is better to
carry condensed milk than to depend
on getting it fresh. And do not, as some
boys did last summer, forget to take
salt and sugar.
Locate the camp on an elevation, so
that when rain comes the water will
not wash in. If the ground slopes, dig
a trench around the camp or the upper
side to carry off the water. Have a
good supply of wood and matches in a
dry place, for nothing is 50 dismal as a
camp without fire on a rainy day
Every boy in camp should know how
to cook simple dishes, and take turns
of a day at time as chef. This ar
rangement divides the work equally,
and the duties of cook do not become
irkSOme.-N. y. Recorder.
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FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.
SUCH MANNERS.

Misses Arabella Juliet and Mabel Caroline
Were taken out some little friends TO see;
They were very glad to CO. for the afternoon
was fine,
And they were kindly urged to stay to tea
They wore their very best-al with puffs and
ruf1ies, too
And sashes, one of blue and one Of pink,
Their hair was nicely frizzled and their button
boots were new
They must have looked extremely well, I
think
Now, such dainty little lassies, you would nat
urally say,
Would try to be quite proper and polite
And say: Good afternoon, ma am, I hope
you're we'll to-day"
And Good evening, ma'sm." when they
went home at night
And when they were at supper, of course you
would suppose
They'd bow and say: "A little, If you
please"
Or: mo, thank you, madam" for everybody
knows
1t is well behaved to say such things as
these.
But if you will believe me, they never said
word
But sat as il they both were deaf and dumb!
Now tell me, little girls if you ever, eUer heard
or dolls who acted so-away from homei
Sydney Dayre, in Youths Companion
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NOTES BY THE WAY.

THE example of the genteel tipple,
i kills more souls than that of the drunk
! ard
\ An ordinance in Waldect, Germany,
forbids the granting of a marriage Ii.
cense to a person addicted to the liauor
1 habit.
An English syndicate is reported to
have agreed to pay fifty million lire an
nually to Italy for the monopoly of its
! traffic in alcohol.
THE London Times says: Drink baf-
, aes us, confounds us, shames us and
mocks us at every point. the public
4 house holds its triumphant course
A PROMINENT English physician of
J long experience with drunkards saws
that he can recall hundreds of recoy-
cries among men, but only five among
women.
We say to the young. Do not touch
} strong; drink it is poison to the BODY
and the soul. The danger of the drink
habit is far greater than you can know.
You may see no danger in the drink
/ habit, We do, and earnestly warn YOU
OF it. The path you propose to travel
seems smooth and fair to you, but YOU
|, MAY find it, as millions of men and
women have, treacherous as the quick
- as rRpn the seashore, which swal-
IN all who tread upon them, leav-
- n trace behind.
mi ~ MARY II. HUNT, national w. C.
>, Esuperintendent of scientific tenn
n nee instruction in the public
y. DIS, says: 1--WE have only six more
8 Ns to win before the whole United
, tes and territories will be under
is Wplsory temperance education, with
~, 65, 000, 900 inha bitants and $4,000
, school children. Already in A
u, ~, and territories the law says that
l., M Is, 900, 900 school children should
nd Mught as part of their regular
: 6o education Gods law of alb
-, 6hce from alcohol and all narcotics,
~, Mother laws of health"
~. ELL-KNowN authority at Paris on
-, bus and mental diseases, NJ. Charles
NJ IL who is specialist in this direc-
!, ~ 6ays that these diseases are fright
ILL., on the increase in France. He
,,lnIs this is due to the increase of
!, e1 drinking absinthe, and drinking
. rs. He says there was hardly such
;, ing as a bartender twenty years
Nc and that one sees them now all
Jer the town, and always crowded.
notes as connected with this alco-
= PIC consumption, the increase OF
:; Inc and brain diseases in young chill
en He also attributes to drink and
nH xenness the tendency to- race DE-
:, rioration and depopulation
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more simple the outfit the more ingen-
uity required in making comfortable
camp.
The first thing to think of is a suit
able shelter. Tents with poles, guy
ropes, pegs and everything necessary
: for putting up cost from S. to $50. For
| 50 wedge" tent nine feet square and
nine feet high may be bought, and
for S14 a United States army hospital
tent.
While tent is always best when OBJ
tainable, it is not absolutely necessary.
A very comfortable hut may be built
by securely fastening four saplings in
the ground as corner posts, leaving the
stubs of the branches when trimming
down. On these stubs lay cross-pieces
reaching from one corner-post to the
other. Fill in the intervening space
by matching closely with well-leaved
branches.
Canvas couches which fold into
very small space cost but 81. Beds,
however, may be made of fine branches
on a framework of sticks. The
branches should be covered with a
| layer foot thick OF leaves or PIN nee
dies, or, better, hemlocll boughs. This
| kind of bed should always be covered
with rubber blanket the rubber side
| down to prevent dampness coming
! through.
| Portable stoves with a full set of
cooking utensils cost from Sc to S12,
and are convenient. The camp kettle,
swinging from its tripod of poles, was
in use long before portable stoves
We're invented, and, if money is an OBJ
ject, may be chung to still. A good
oven may be built from fiat stones.
Build three walls foot high with
| them, and cover the top with n large
stone slab, leaving space at the back
for the smoke to escape. The front
must be kept open to keep up the fire
and to create draught.
Two skillets with covers), good
sized iron pan and coffee pot can be
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1t is said that the people of New
Zealand look down upon copper coins,
and will never use them if they can
help it. An English Clergyman, who
had one day taken the place of another
preacher in Auckland, says that in the
collection of something over eight
pounds sterling there were two hun
bred and tifty-six threepenny pieces and
only four coppers. 1t is so well under
stood that these smaller silver coins
will be used in church collections that
the threepenny pieces have received a
name. One day a young lady wanted
some small change from Chinaman,
who was the family grocer, and he
drew ont handful of coppers 80,
no, don't want that" she said "Ah,
| see what missy wants." said he
"churchy money!" And he handed over
quantity of thrcepenny pieces
Golden DAYS.
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From Samson. who slew so many of
his enemies with the jaw bone of an
ass, to the strong man of to-day, who
holds piano on his back, the world
has known many giant of strength.
Among these there lived in France at
one time a certain Gen Favrat. who
was probably the strongest man of his
time. Even in his old age his strength
did not desert him, as illustrated in a
rather amusing story told concerning
him and his family physician. Feeling
i'll one day he sent for the doctor. As
the latter was sitting by the bedside
the old warrior began to lament: AN,
dear doctor, am not the man I was;
you can't imagine how weak | am get
ting; look here" and with these
words he grasped with his right hand
one of the legs Of the chair on which
the doctor was sitting, and lifted both
the chair and its occupant a couple of
feet from the ground. You see II
ta|ees quite an effort"
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WELL SMILE.
caught that he made up his mind never
to take unnecessary risks again.
He had been visiting farmyard
that quite way from his burrow,
and when he came home again he found
that the burrow had been filled up with
earth. At first Reynard thought that
it was done by the badger who had
lived in the hole before Reynard drove
him out; but soon he saw the marks of
a spade, and knew that man had been
there.
While he was examining the burrow,
suddenly he heard the cry of the
hounds, and he knew that the hunt
was out and was after him. He
dropped the fat hen he was carrying
and trotted away from the dogs, mean
ing to slip out along little ravine he
knew of. But no sooner had he
reached the edge of the wood than he
heard man shout. Then he knew he
would have. to run for it.
Away he shot, his long brush sweep
ing the ground. The hounds came
straight after him, and he had to in
crease his speed But, tired from his
long journey, he found the hounds
gaining upon him and saw that he
would not be able to reach the little
ravine in which he had so often puz-
lied the keenest hounds.
Still at full speed he looked right
and left, and saw thick row of bushes
on one side. Turning sharply he ran
toward them, for he knew there was a
railway cutting behind them, and
hoped to cross it In time to reach the
further bank before the dogs. Once
hidden from the huntsmen he knew of
twenty tricks by which to throw off
the dogs and get away to safe cover.
Unfortunately as he leaped through
the row of bushes his hind legs caught
between two springy shoots that held
him like a trap. Nearer came the dogs;
harder poor Reynard struggled; but
try as he would he could not pull his
legs through between the stems. He
was about to give up the struggle
when he heard the rattlety-bang of a
freight train coming along the track.
This scared the fox more than ever, for
he thought that it might keep him
from crossing the track even if he
should free himself
He struggled desperately, and. at
last, by quick push Of his fore legs.
threw his body back from between the
sticks. He was at iberty-but lust
then the hounds were upon him!
Reynard made one long leap half
way down the bank, and at that mo-
ment the train came opposite him SO he
couldn't cross the track. But Reward
then showed what bright old fox he
was, for, giving another jump, with the
foremost hounds at his very heels, he
caught the rear end of platform car
the last car of The moving train.
Then, feeling quite safe, Reynard
turned his head and gave the baffled
hounds a farewell smile
Reynard, after this close shave, made
up his mind to find home not quite
SO near the foX-hounds. He remained
on the train until he was well out of
reach, and he never went back to his
old quarters, This was unfortunate
for the poor little rabbit whose bur
row Reynard stole when he took new
home.
The huntsmen often wondered how
the fox got away, but the dogs never
told.-Benjamin Webster, in st. Mich
olas.
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Dibbs who has been waiting in his
friends studio)-Ah, here you are at
last. Your dog has been paying a
good compliment to that bit of scenic
painting. | had to drive the little beg
gar off
Dauber Cagreeably surpriseo)-What
was he doing?
80. he mistooll that river for real
,vgater, and he started tapping it, By
lhe-by, what river does it represent"
lSavagely)-"River be hanged. That
,snt a river it's prairie fire! Where's
that dog?'-Tit Bits.
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on oa, sc oh, the misery which o.1a-----
sinauee physician little knows nI bos.
bP as and m orsf his patient, both
w vaS drifted into the '8 S,b Mia IN, a man
man i has Ss. of bis physician anA fh rns
fo ,s lips: NY doctor sad the, the words on
has ar goo good drinks day ya0 M Make three
We gi prescribed ,' by phys sieinenS from
e GO patients the evil inG eTdotp point out
when pl and and never prescr f%ei ct &c Of al
clans no net temperance is that great wa draw
y Sne little boy who ~ %roin I am ike
mans piiS s.. saying pins had say composition
fa Is BY n not swallowing FG tSem how; he +,
hin WHO TO cause physicians l to sure but p'
eb ga aed5 hSy are doing be 5e s'1p p apd
PMS Medical MONTH, N' W. d., "F
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Drink Laws in SwitzorIa

q Nl'~erIand has stringent rules fo,
is Il repression of drunkenness which
somewhat to the orderliness of H.
trs where public houses are sitn-
The regulations vary in the diff
, lt cantons. The UNEMPLOYED ia
guy OF family dare not loiter ahon+
II public house in Ticino. Bvrne,s
llnfial laws are that drunken and dis
.f5hArly persons may be excluded from
~ loons for two years, and abettors
u pauPerism' drinking and gambling
are subject to a sentence of sixty DAYS,
hard labor. Homes for inebriates are
provided in Zurich. Saloon-keepers
are bound to maintain good order and
are responsible for the behavior of
their servants. These laws are based
upon present enlightenment on the
drink evil and must eventually be dis
placed by the liberty by which all are
made free-the removal of the tempta.
ton which weakens and debases.-
Union Signal
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RULES FOR CAMPING.
It's a Great Way to Spend One or Tw
Summer Months.

summer Months.
All things considered, there is no
more healthful way of spending a va
cation than camping out. Boys in par
ticular enjoy the freedom of camp life.
Four make a good camping party.
One of the number should be chosen
captain. This is a responsible position,
and the person elected to fill it must
have good common sense and plenty of
tact. If he possesses knowledge of
camp life all the better. The boys may
act as captain in rotation.
The outfit need not be expensive.
The writer has camped out when his
entire outfit, strapped on his saddle,
consisted of a rubber and an army
blanket, Ratchet, hunting knife, gun,
ammunition, a tin cup and a tightly
corked bottle filled with ma tches. The
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REWARDS ESCAPE.
How a Sly Old Fox Fooled Entire Pack
of Hounds.

How a Sly Old Fox Fooled an Entire Pack
of Hounds.
A clever old fox lived in the edge of
8 wood near a town. And he wouldn't
have been an old fox if he hadn't been
clever, for not far away was the house
of the master of the fox hounds, who
often did his best to catch the sly old
fellow who poached upon his poultry.
Many a narrow escape Reynard re-
membered, and he became very bold.
He began to think that no pack of dogs
were sagacious enough to run him
down, and so he was often careless.
Sometimes he would even break cover
when he was well hidden, so that he
might have the fun of running away
from the whole pack in full cry. But
one morning he came SO near to being
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rARlSIAN DRUNkAone


Ig as a Result of cn
5Tba ~ incompetence. lowing
4tu,a as medical officer of H..
Saier Poilce of Paris is ~. n g
xAsA ca. man of wide re,,,,ts'
can observer, a tvnica,
8Fxoss@sa close student of Parisia,l
nna me- and of the causes co1,t,.;,-
ys Uolo. In a recent statement as
matterot fact, and not from anv SEN
iment altagonistic to the social cus.
IONS OF his city, he says:
lie Pogress of alcoholic INSANITY
pas been % rapid that the evil is now
EWlce as prevalent as it was fifteen
years ago Almost a third of the I1nac,,
cases oosered at the depot infirmary
are due to this disease. Every d.,r =
hectares itslf more violently. and ,y;+b
more married )micidal tendenc, ~
icconpllce II two-thirds of the crimes
upon whom the criminals
'neihSelves throw the responsibility of
nelr evll leeds, is alcohol. If visi+s
lpon the d1ild the sins of the fa+bau
AZ ehgend'rs in the following Uenara,
LOT homiciial instincts. Since 7 how.
requent the haunts of misery, 90
ice IN Pans | have observed ontter
unoren blythe hundreds who are ONLY
WfiC!ng tlelr opportunity to become
sfsslns-tae children of drunkards
14eoVer' there is terrible flaw in these
'phg Wretches, flaw which doctors
To- observe but which the pyscholo-
sees clearly and notes with an,,,.o
nslon-the absence of affectidnato ,
eiohs' and as matter of fact if t
r. CRIMINALS are neither anmsthet. .
nor Iunatics, their characters. !
are msensibility and pitilessness " d
|Purnal Of Inebrietv. - 90 -
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Favored with Cologne.

1t is no secret that the French culin-
airy expert employs eau de cologne to
produce with other essences that sub
tie, mysterious, but delicious flavor
often tasted in fruit salads and other
cookery confections. In the genuine
cologne there is compressed extract
of rosemary and lemon thyme, Here
is a real French dessert: Put N a salad
bowl layer of chopped ice well pow
dered with sugar, and upon this a layer
of bananas; again handful of chopped
ice and sugar, and after this
bananas, repeating till the bowl is
as full as required. Pour upon the
fruit a wine glass of white wine and
one of water, in which you have dipped
| a lump of sugar that has absorbed three
drops of almond essence, and another
that has absorbed three drops of genu'
! inc eau de cologne.-Brooklyn Eagle.
The free press., 1894-09-13
Great Scottr wnat a BreaKI

Physicians are sometimes slightly
put to their wits to and a suitable
excuse for neglecting an office pa
tient when wishing to devote a few
minutes to something else, but a
Philadelphia specialist quite distin-
vuished himself in this line with one
Of his lady patients, the other day.
He was about to treat her foot with
electricity and she had just removed
her stocking in preparation, when
the mail arrived. DESTROYS OF read
ing one of the letters Immediately,
the diplomat gracefully secured time
by saying, in his most professional
tones: "Just expose your foot to the
atmosphere for little while"
The free press., 1894-09-13
RIRps WITHOUT NESTS.

The cuckoo, though making use OF
q nest for it's eggs, ne ever itself builds
one but invariably deposits its egg
in the nest of some other bird. The
ooatsuckers and stone-curlews build
no nest, but merely lay their eggs
on the ground, moving them when
necessary from place to place. The
same plan of doing without any nest
and laying the eggs On the ground or
rocks is practiced by many of the
sea-swallows. the common skua,
many of the puffins, the black
throated diver and the guillemot.
The starting will occasionally de-
posit an egg ON the lawn, from which
She will remove it to her nest, but if
interrupted will frequently leave it
and forget all about it. A number
of birds deposit their eggs in holes in
trees or in the ground, sometimes
providing a lining of moss or other
soft substance, and sometimes not.
New York Recorder.
The free press., 1894-09-13
TRAVELLING SPIDERS.

There is certain species of spider
which is moved by instinct at certain
seasons of the year to travel, and to
travel distances that no one would
suspect him desirous of covering
What, then, is their method? The
spider selects the right kind of a
day, one on which there is almost a
calm in the air, or rather one when
there is just the slightest breeze.
He crawls up tree or a Flagstaff or
a bulrush, or anything that will
give him free position. He then
begins to emit the free end of a web
from his filament bag, and this is Sc
light and fresh that it floats away in
the air and is carried along by the
light breeze. He may emit 100 OF
200 yards, and every now and then
he tries whether there is enough out
and floating to buoy him if he lets
go his grip on the tree or other ele-
walton. By nice system OF calcu.
lation he ascertains just what will
buoy him, and then letting go his
hold, the filament is borne off by
the wind and he himself at the end
of it, and in this way he can travel
miles and miles. Detroit Free
Press.
The free press., 1894-09-13
WHY A NETTLE STINGS.

The leaf and stem of a nettle are
literally clothed with erect hollow
hairs. If one of these hairs is viewed
under a microscope it will be seen
that it's free end, after tapering to a
very fine degree Of slinness, finishes
at a little knob; while in the other
direction, after gradually becoming
more robust, it suddenly expands
into large bulb corresponding with
the poison gland of the adder. The
point of the hair is very brittle, and
contact with the hand causes the
end to snap off, leaving hollow
needle point which readily pierces
the kin, and, pressing upon the
bulbsat the other end, the poison is
forced through the central channel
and inflames the blood. The terder-
handed who stroke the nettle are
stung for their pains, because their
eentleness has only served to break
the brittle points and render them
fit for piercing; but the rough
handed break the hairs at their
thickest parts, where they are too
stout to prick.-[Detroit Free Press.
The free press., 1894-09-13
Weird Talk from "R,ach Su

Three and a half miles va,. :,
Aldie, Loudoun County. Va | IL w.
locally famous "black swamp and ,l' y
strange story has been current tho,.
abouts for the better part ot S tsI,
century. Jesse McVeigh lived ,o,' ~.'
ago in an old stone house on the ed,, us
of the swamp, and there came to him IN
once stranger asking shelter. Ths
stranger was taken in, and he Lived
there for five years. He never vsn,
beyond the pond for exercise. And H. i.
took elaborate precautions at nIoh.
to guard against surprise. When hs
died a stranger from a neiQbboriDo
village came and claimed the bodv
protesting to recognize the dead man
as an acquaintance. The stranger
who claimed the body was the dea
mans son, and he afterward becams
Chief Justice Of the United States
Supreme Court. The father a
wealthy and well-educated Maryland
er, but man of ungovernabe teu
per, had slain a guest at his own a.
BILE by breaking his skull with de.
canter. The homicide's place Of bid.
ing was hardly more than fifty miles
from the scene Of his crime.
The free press., 1894-09-13
AN APPLE.

Jerry and Frank were two horses
hitched to a yellow car. All the
morning they had gone back and
forth, patiently, with only rest
now and then, but now Jerry was be-
ginning to feel rebellious; he was
tired, and it was getting hotter every
square. Jerry was not by nature
such meek horse as was Frank, but
then, too, he had not been city car
horse as long as Frank had been.
Frank knew the only way to do was
to go on and on, whether you were
tired or not; the driver had it all to
say.
BY the time Jerry had made up
his mind to be stubborn, the driver
stopped the horses on switch to
wait until the car square away had
passed.
Right there on the curbstone sat a
little bootblack. On the pavement
lay his torn cap, and he let people
90 by unnoticed as he rubbed an
apple on his jacket to make it shiny
A sweet lady had given it to him,
and he was just over his surprise
and getting ready to eat it, when he
looked up and saw Jerry standing
near and looking at the apple long
ingly with his pitiful eyes,
The little bootblack understood.
| There was not much time to think,
| the other car was not far away, but
he wondered how he would feel il
he was that horse; and quick as q
fash he broke the apple in two, and
put one piece in Jerry's mouth and
the other in Franks. 1t was de-
| liciOus.
Jerry forgot about being stubborn
as they started on, and Frank forgot
his aching bones, while the little
ragged bootblack ran away, calling
after man with dusty shoes, ''Have
a shine, mister?"-[ Youths CON-
| panion.
The free press., 1894-09-13

A well-known lawyer on the circuit
in the North of England, curious to
know how certain juryman arrived
at his verdict, meeting him one day,
yentured to ask. "Well," replied he,
~I'm a plain man, and l like to be
fair to every one. I don't 60 by what
the witnesses say, and don'tRo by
what the Judge says; but l looks at
the man In the dock, and l says, He
must have done something or he
wouldn't be there, 80 l brings 'em
all In guilty"