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with four wide-tireds wheels. The
station has a horse, which is used to
help pull out the boat. When outside
the breakers the men go through q
variety of evolutions, as starting, stop
ping, changing seats suddenly. Then
the boat is brought in or lifted upon
the wagon and taken back to the
house.
Another interesting drill takes place
on Thursday. It is called the "beach
apparatus drill" The beach appara-
tus is cart, on which is a mortar, q
short line, a whip line and hawser,
and other things used in taking ship
wrecked persons from stranded Ves-
sell
As it would not be practical to have
q vessel to practice on, the crews OF
each station have structure known
as a drill pole erected neaF the sta-
tion. This pole is about thirty feet
high and looks like place of observa-
ton, but it is made to do duty as q
wrecked vessel in the drills. Each
man takes his place at the cart con-
tanning the beach apparatus, and when
all are in place the captain says, "Men
will repeat charges-Number one -
and No. relates exactly what he will
do. No. 2 is called. He repeats his
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THE END OF DAY.
BY SHIRLEY WYNNE.

Past away
The long and changeful day
The glory Of the azure dawn,
The dewdrops shining on the lawn.
The sunrise, when heav'n's gate
Stands open, and the state
OF morn is companied by angel choirsi
The Moons unclouded fires,
When the rose dropped for very light op-
And song birds sought their nest. -
Past away - a;,;
The rain-clouds chill and grayf
The tempest, lightning-winged,
BY red horizon ringed,
That tore the blossoms sweet
And bruised them meath its feeti
The pallid sunset fame
That grew and overcame,
Till, in the golden pageant OF the West
The last cloud sunk to rest
Past away.
The burden Of the day;
Gone are the gold and red,
The sunset colors fed.
The dark'ning, deep'ning sky
Holds one pure star on high,
A silver OF heavily fame to Light
The watches Of the night;
DINNER and DINNER yet grow wood and
hill,
And all Is huSneQ ana SCllL
Past away y & : *.
The changes Of the days
Hours dark and bright have run
Their course. All work Is done;
Or good or bad, its DER,
And we can work no moro.
Joys, fears and pains
Are done, and only remains "a
Rest, sweeter far than tongue can tell -.
II We have 1abored well!
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duty; and so on thl ough the list.
Then they run the cart out of the sta
tion, take position about seven yards
from the drill pole, and before you
know what they are really doing the
man you have seen climb the drill
pole comes sailing toward you in the
breeches buoy.
The minute the cart arrives at the
place of action each man, without say
ing word or interfering with any
body else, proceeds to do what he said
in the house he was to do. A con
trivance made by two planks six feet
long and a foot wide, fastened to-
gether at right angles, and known as
an anchor, is buried in the sand. The
anchor has fast to it set of powerful
blocks. While the anchor is being
buried the mortar is being placed,
aimed and fred. The shot, to which
the small line known as the the shot
line is attached, has fallen on the drill
pole, where man who represents the
shipwrecked crew pulls out the shot
line, to which has been attached what
is known as the whip line. The whip
line is endless, and goes out with the
block, to which is attached tag con-
tanning instructions to those on the
vessel what to do with it when they
get it. These instructions are in
several languages, SO as to be under
stood by men of different national
tiles. They are told to make the block
fast near the middle of the ship, 30
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in the performance of their duty by

numbers.
From No. q and from every station
on the coast at sunset two men start
out to patrol the beach. The Jersey
coast line is north and south, so from
No. 2 one man goes north and the
other south. After walking one and
one.half miles each meets the man
from the other station. They exchange
brass checks, which are so marked
that when they return to their re-
spective stations the captain knows
that they have done their duty.
These two men who start out at sun
set get back at 8 o'clock. Then two
other men start out, who patrol in the
same manner, but who do not return
until midnight. The next two go out
and return at o'clock, and then the
two who had the first watch beginning
at sunset start out, and return at sun
rise. So that six men each do four
hours patrol duty. The seventh man
cooks, but has duty to perform in
common with the rest of the crew dur
ing drills and in time of shipwreck.
These men while they patrol the
beach carry kind of knapsack filed
with what are called coast signals,
which are simply long-burning boxes
of red fire, which fit into O handle.
These signals are burned by surfmen
when they see ships too near the shore
to warn them off. Upon the discovery
of a vessel which has struck the beach,
or which is in distress, the surfman
burns signals, which are understood
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COMING ASHORE.

| Shlpwrecked. Ihere 1S enough OF tnls
to furnish country store. There are
suits of clothes for men and boys,
socks, drawers, undershirts, cardigan
Jackets, hats and boots. Women can
find everything from shoes and stock
ines to hats--nothing is missing
combs and brushes, hairpins, towels
and handkerchiefs. If thirty people
came ashore naked at station they
could be landed at the Battery and
walk up Broadway in the outfit fur
nished, and they would not excite any
curiosity.
The past winter was very mild and
the men of Station No. 2 had no
wreck, but they were always on hand,
no matter how hard the wind blew,
nor how much sand, hail or snow was
flying. 1t was about II o'clock on the
morning of the day when the writer
Was intending to leave, when ding-a-
ling-a-ling, ding-s-ling-a-ling went
the telephone bell-"Hello" says
Captain Jack, "We are to use the long
range target to-day. At l o'clock the
firing will begin and ten shots will be
fired. The crew in Station No. 2 are
ordered to vacate.
If the writer was not anxious to
leave before, he certainly did conclude
to get out of the way of Uncle sam,sl
ordnance, and after dinner, at ~ clock
sharp, was driving toward Highland
Beach as fast as possible. Such orders
come to the station frequently, and
the men either have to vacate or take
chances. They generally go over on
the river side and pass away the time
until the shooting is over. The target
is never used except on clear, line
DAYS, SO that when they do have to
yacate the weather is always favor
able. Captain Jack said that each day
the cook had made up a big batch OF
bread and was going to bake IN the
afternoon. An order came to get out,
and he volunteered to stay and bake
the bread. He built up big fire and
rushed it through. The big shells
whistled by 100 feet or SO away, but
he got his baking done safely. No one
has as yet been killed by these balls
from the testing grounds, for q sharp
lookout is kept, but the big shells
sometimes change their course byE
striking the sand, and a schooner was
sunk about year ago by such run
away. So the men in Station No. 2
are always in danger of the same kind
of accident New York Recorder.
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THE FARMER AND THE SALOON.


An Oklahoma letter to the Farm, Field
and Stoekman said.
Our home has always been In the country,
and while total sbstainer all through life
and Prohibftionist In principle, We have
not 80 much come In contact with the saloon
as. those "a the cities and towns, and have
always supposed their main support came
from the residents o. those places. But two
recent letters IRON ono whose work Is Tor
farmers. but presumably resident Of q
town, gives US an insight to the patronage Of
the saloon which, If true, is startling to u.s.
We present extracts from these letters.
1--WE have three saloons in our town that are
kept up, by our farmers, men that need every
cent they have TO- place on their farms.
These saloons pay an enormous license and.
farmer. have kept careful watch at times,
and find that nine-tenths of fthe trade comes
from the country"
In another letter he says that an asd-
ditionM saloon has been added, one for each
500 Inhabitants Of the town. The expenses,
licenses and rents of the places amount to
$64O0 per year before there is any money
coming in, and yet they seem to do 90 well,
and they all say they are making money OF
the farmers" "Once In awhile they will
have an opening and give glass OF beer to
any that apply and then these places are
crowded with people that need every cent
und that never read the papers, belong to no
agricultural or horticultural society, often
need good clothes, yet are the most blatant
retormers we have
ITO hear farmer bowling Of hard times
and know that when he gets dollar he
must put half Of It in the till Of the man that
keeps the saloon, and to 20 to his home, find
tools over the fields rotting In the open air,
lot of poor dunghill fowls roosting In the
stunted trees, his haff-starved cows sheltered
by the bleak side OF a wire fence, this makes
me excessively weaf%
1--WE got fifteen farmers out to the last
meeting OF the horticultural society. Last
night there was q boxing match at an old
saloon at fifty cents sight, and there was
scarcely standing room, and ''snide' auo-
tion will draw q crowd OF farmers, like the
smell OF honey attracts some OF the bee
family. Is it not hard to explain these
anomalies?"
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in the ocean on the east, and in the
river to the west there are thousands
of crows flying about all the time and
roosting in the cedars every night In
fine weather there is fishing and clam
ming. .." ....r-
The men are mostly married, and
save their money to make comfortable
homes for others. The Government
furnishes the stations with their coal,
but the men furnish their own mess,
buying provisions. in quantity and
dividing the expenses. /. ~. =. 4.
The "exchange of the watch" was
photographed when two surfmen came
in and two others were about ready to
start out. Captain Jack is looking
over the morning paper, which has just
been brought in by one of the SURF
men, who got it from the man he met
on his watch, who had brought it from
Station No. /. The cook is pouring
out coffee for the men. The big cof-!!
feepot, with plenty in it, stands on.
the stove all night, with plate of
hard bread, 80 that the men who are
out can always find a bite to eat and
something hot to drink.
The captain has to, keep q journal,
and he writes it up from slate every
night. The slate is kept by different
man each day, and on it at night will:
be found record Of every vessel that
has passed the station. So also is there
a record of the state of the barometer,
thermometer and the direction of the
wind, taken at midnight, sunrise, noon
and sunset, and signed by the man
whose duty it was to keep the record
for that day. The captain has . room
to himself, and the crew sleep in hunks.
The captains room No. 2 is on the
ground floor, while the men have their
quarters in the big room upstairs. The
biggest part of the ground floor is
taken up by the room which contains
the life saving apparatus, The eating
and cooking are done in a small room
cut off for the purpose. ,,- 80
Besides the big ifeboat on wheels,
the cart with the beach apparatus,, the
life-car and the box containing shot
lines, the stations outfit includes q big
box of signals and rockets, the box OF
signal flags and the big medicine
chest, filed with remedies for those
who are shipwrecked. There is also
case of books which comes from the
Christian Endeavor Society; they are
good books, too-books of travel by
the best authors, books of history,
humorous works by Mark Twain and
others, books by Dickens, and . few
religious works. But the most inter
esting outfit is the clothing for the
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

The Protestant ministers Of St. Louis are
organizing for crusade on the liquor sa-
looms.
Have you ever noticed how long II takes q
moderate drinker to find out that he has any
bad habits?
In 1891 the legalized liquor traffic gave
this country 800, 900 criminals, 100000 pau
pers and 100000 idiots
According to the Brewers Journal, seven
ty-Aye times as much beer is consumed In
high license Nebraska as there is in prohibl-
tion Kansas.
In foty-four States and Territories 13,oOO,-
900 children now receive scientific lnstruc.
ton on tho physical and mental enects Oh
the use of alcoholic liquors.
Ihaye long been OF the conviction that
there is DO greater cause of evil, norul and
physical, in this country than the use Of al
coholic beverages.-Dr. Stephen Smith.
The De Beers Diamond Mining Company,
which employs many thousands OF South
African natives. has adopted stringent rules
for the exclusion OF Intoxicating liquors from
their mines.
Alcohol is q poison. It kills in large
doses. and half kills in smaller ones. 1t pro-
duces insanity, delirium. fits. It poisons
the blood and wastes the man.-Professor
James Miller. NJ. D.
Hollister, Col. has an ordinance forolt-
ding children being on the streets after eight
o'clock in the evening without proper
guardian. In response TO petition OF tue
". C. T. e. the town trustees have mate
provision for its enforcement.
Frances E. Willard says I'VE are here
not to float the float OF fnith, but 10 fight the
fignt OF faith The attitude OF the Christian
should be aggressive. Determined and def
mite attacks on the enemy must takethe pIhce
OF our too long helpless passiyeness.
So many disasters OF the Trans-Andes line
OF the Chilian railways have been traced 70
The inebriety of employees, that the directors
have decided 10 discharge every conductor,
engineer and telegraph operator who shall
be found under the influence of liquor
Teaching the children temperance should
be an important department OF school work.
There are encouraging signs OIL the excellent
work done for the good cause in the instruc-
ton in regard to the effect Of alcohol on the
human system, which is in practice in an
| State schools, and all States and Territories,
except six.-Plttsburg Catholic.
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by sailors to mean: "You are dis
covered and assistance will be given
as soon as possible" The surfman
who discovers vessel IN distress must
report at the station, and in heavy
weather it is hard and slow work
through the sand aud against the
storm. There is telephone connection
between the stations, and Captain Ed
wards suggests that if small houses
were constructed and placed between
stations, each containing telephone,
a man could 60 to the nearest point
telephone to either both or oil stations,
saving much time. When the two men
get in at sunrise breakfast is ready,
and after breakfast some of the men
who need it go to sleep, but by ID
3. m. everybody is up and about and
ready for the business of the day.
The boat drill takes place every
Tuesday. The men put on their long
legged rubber boots and run the life
boat out. The boat is on wagon
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small affair, and looks like two small
boats fastened together. The car is
padded on the inside, so that even If
the waves turn it upside down no one
is injured.
On other days the men have flag
drills, which mean rehearsal OF tele-
graphy by means of flags, and then
there is the resuscitation drill, when
they go through the work OF revlvlng
those who are nearly dead from drown
ing. Saturday is housecleaning day,
and so it goes; no lazy man stays IN
the service. On stormy or thick days,
when it is necessary to patrol the
beach, the drills of the day are omit
ted; but in fine weather the duties OF
the day do not take SO many hours but
that the men have time for amuse-
ment.
Captain Jack has fine flock of
chickens and two splendid hounds be-
low at the station, and in the season
the men now and then have rabbit
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the line can be run free. The minute
this block is made fast the life savers
by it haul hawser off to the ship.
Instructions go off with this hawser
telling those aboard ship to make it
fast to the mainmast, near the cross
trees. When this is done, and the
whip is again made to run free by
being loosened from the hswser, it is
Immediately in use again in running
out the breeches buoy. In the drill
the men of No. 2 bring the man OF
the drill pole in four minutes.
In actual cases of wreck the breeches
buoy is almost always used, but in
cases where the seas are extremely
high or where there are invalids and
children the life-car is used. This ls
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THE LIFE SAVERS.
DAILY ROUTINE OF LIFE AT ONE
OF THE STATIONS.
The Drill With the BoaGs-How g
"Shipwrecked Crew. is Taken
OFF q Pole and Put
Up on Shore.

~ ETWEEN Sandy Hook Point
x and Cape May there are
thirty-nine live-saving sta
6 tions. The stations are about
three miles apart and ere open tbs
year round. Between September and
May they are manned each with cap
tain and seven men, while during the
summer months the captain is in
charge alone. The captains of these
stations receive 5000 per year and the
surfmen $65 per month for their SER
vices 80 '.
Every one knows the shape Of Sandy
Hook-that strip of sand beginning
about North Long Branch and ending
at Sandy Hook Point, distance of
about ten miles. During the past few
years most of the stations on the Jersey
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TEMPERANCE.

THE MOANING OF THE BAR.
Young Lijah was likely lad;
Upon farm he grew.
He stood beside the bars at eve
And watched the COWS come through.
The farm became too slow for him;
he sought the town afar, ......
And soon again, we grieye to see,
Is standing by the bar.
There gathered round him "jolly friends"
As still such friends there are. go.
He soon assumed the next degree
"The prisoner at the bar" .-...
He hears no more the low Of kline,
Nor sees the evening stars, a
A sadder and wiser youth 9-...s. e.
He stands behind the bars.
The Voice.
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coast have been rebuilt, and are at
tractive-looking structures, but No. 2
on Sandy Hook is of the old style. It
is warm and comfortable (if the weather
is not too cold). It is painted red,
and not by any means a "thing OF
beauty" Captain John W. Edwards,
who is in charge, is almost 300.
'pounder, but he is strong and very &C.
tive, in spite of his size. He was born
on the "'Hook, boated, fshed and was
pilot for number of years. Finally,
in 1876 he took position as surfman
in Station No. 8, near Seabright, and
after serving there three years was ap-
pointed captain of No. 2, and he has
been there ever since.
The crew of No. 2 consists of cap
tain and seven surfmen, who are known
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! WORKING PEOPLE AND DR1NK. /.

The Wine and Spirit Gazette, discussing
the present distress Of the unemployed, says !:
"Give them employment and they are no
beggars. Give them work and their families
wifTnot suffer-" Being now out Of employ
ment, however, If heretofore, the working
people referred to, while at work and In re-
ceipt OF wages, had put by In the savings
bank what they, many OF them, paid out IN
the saloons for drink, they and their families
would have avoided actual suffering and
while out Of work. The saloon is perpetual
drain upon their resources while In receipt
OF wages, 80 that when the mills and factor
les stop, and the wages stop, almost immedi-
ately they are confronted with distress, ex-
cept as relieved BY charity. National Tenn
perance Advocate - - T.@
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THE CHILDREN OF pRUNKARps.

A man became a drunkard after middle
life children born to him before his degra-
dation remained free from the. vice OF drunk
enness, while those born afterward became
drunkards.5 a. .ss. ~ E-f,
Erasmus Darwin states that diseases in
herited from drunkards descend to the third
and fourth generations, until, finally the
family dies out.
Another observer says that OF ninety-seven
children Of drunkards only fourteen re-
mained free from some defect.
Still another maintains that fifty per cent.
OF the idiots and fmbeciles of cities are the
children of drunkards. -
The childran of drinkers inherit the same
or greater pre-disposition to nervous dis
orders than those OF nervous or really insane
parents. They suffer most frequently In In
fancy from commissions and epileptiform DIS
eases. ..
Districts known as "drinkers' districts" In
Europe furnish far fewer good recruits for
military service.
A;law waspassed In Sweden against drunk
enness, hte., making 1t Q punishable Of
fence, and since then the number OF persons
unfit for military service on account Of un-
dersize and general weakness has grown
much less
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CHAPTER XXXIy.

. The time for opening the package left
IN Ethel's charge by Mrs. NevergaN was
now fast approaching, it being the first
of October, and consequently she began
to feel exceedingly anxious in regard to
the unknown parent, who was to present
himself upon the fifth.
What sort of person should she find
in him, and would he be satisfied with
; her attainments and appearances?
4 These questions were continually pre-
sentfng themselves to the mind OF
poor girl. 49, = ~ '.. 4
On the morning Of the second, letter
was placed in her hand by one Of the
servants, and as private" was written
on the outside. she at once repaired to
her room. in order to read it while alone.
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heart returned to her early love, cllnging
ever to his memory, only to shed tears
over his sorrowful fate and devotion to
herself, tears of unavailing regret.
So she had lived and so at last she
died. Just two years after she left the
Hall she breathed her sad life away, and
her last words were:
Arthur, Arthur, my only love, come
to thee now, nevermore to be parted"
THE END.
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MORE DEADLY TRAN SHOT on gnHLi.

MORE DEADLY TRAN BLOT Oh BHELIs
lido not overstate It when I say that the
200, 900 saloons in this country have been In.
strumental in destroying more human lives
In the last five years than the 2,000, 900 armed
War. Whisky is more deadly weapon than
shot or shell or any Of the implements Of our
modern warfare.-Hon.. William Window.
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Fifty thousand Socialists joined in
the services commemorative of thd
rioters killed in Vienna in March, 1S4Sl
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The Income Tax.

The primary objection to an income
tax is inspired by the spirit of avarice
and reflects an indisposition to part with
the money the assessment would in
volve. A secondary objection is that it
suggests the means of lessening the bur
den Of taxation upon the masses of the
people now imposed to favor princely
monopolists under the false plea Of pro-
tecting American labor The objections
are sordid and partisan.
Both the old parties in the north At
lantic and central western states will,
through their senators and representa-
tives in congress, oppose an income tax
in the interest of the wealthy class, upon
which it will chiefly fall, since they are
both controlled by that class. It is safe
to assume that the Republican party
generally will oppose it on strictly par
tisan grounds, since any form of direct
taxation conflicts with the idea of tax
ing commodities, which is essential to
the theory of protecting labor by taxing
the laborer upon everything he con-
sumes.-Denver News.