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day be received by you as you have received
me, who am no more anything"
1t seems very modest in the Prince to
ascribe his eminence in the world to luck
Or fortune and the world in general will
be disposed to agree with him that if born
at different period of German history his
might never have proved the name to conjure
with that it has been. But in what sense
can any one event of our lives be more a
matter of fortune or luck or chance than
any other, every event being but link in
the chain of causes reachiug up to the
Causa Causans, and every cause being nee
essarily proportioned, and precisely pro-
portioned, to the event? If it was luck
that made the Prince "A prominent instru-
ment in the unitication of Germany, and
which clothed him with the robes of chan
cellor OF the empire, what but the same
blind goddess has made him. in his own
language, 'no more anything"? The
triumph of the German arms at Sedan had
no more to do with covering him with
imperial honors than with stripping him Of
them.
Historians have dwelt upon the first
Napoeon's good fortune in coming to
maturity at a moment when France had
been distracted by revolution; but when, a
young officer of twenty-seven years. he
persuaded his barefooted legion to follow
him over the Alps by telling them that
there was an abundance of shoes in Italy,
was he not just as definitely on His way to
st. Helena as to Austerlitz or to Lodi ?
His nephew no doubt thought himself
child of Fortune when he felt the imperial
crown settling on his head. Would he
have taken the same view had he fOreseen
Sedan and Wilhelmshohe, and the place
reserved for his name in history? Bacon
was thought most lucky by his contem-
poraries in being elevated to the highest
honors to which British subject can
aspire. Did they think so when the cir
cumstances under which he was deprived
of them TRANSFERRED?
In each of the cases that seemed luck
upon Prince Bismarck's theory led to
humiliation and disaster. ANY biograph-
zeal dictionary swarms with similar cases,
and the explanation of which cannot be
found in any of the attributes of Prince
Rismarck's goddess of Fortune. - From
'What is Gambling?' by John Bigelow,
in IIarper's Magazine for February.
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CHRIST'S KINGDOM.

"To be connected with ChriSt's great
kingdom is to be connected with that
which is not only great and good, but ever
lasting, and of the increase of which there
will be no end And to be connected with
it in thiS very way of extending it's human
ling saving influences among whole races
and communities of men who heretofore
were not a people, and had not obtained
mercy though it be attended with many
privations and hardships and much self.
denial, is yet work which the sons and
daughters of the Church should esteem as a
privilege exceedingly great and precious. y
DR. William Goodell in Congregationist
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SELF-CONTROL.

Every observing man, as he goes through
that the most important acquisition in life is
elf-control; he finds himself admiring, not
the reposc that comes from inaction, but
that which comes from fulness of vitality
and faith controlled, held in bonds of rea-
son and good manners This is store
house of power. Not only in public effort
but in the privacy of the home and the
superficial Intercourse of society, the Gle
ment that figures most cffectually to peace
and success is self control. Vitality is Of
ten wasted in acquiring habits that detract
from personal appearance, or even come
under the head of bad manners Voice, feet
and hands, when uncontrolled, have been the
bars that have keot many men out of de
sired fields of enjoyment: so with the mind
il it has been ungovcrnch. The mind that
will not harness itself in maturity has nc
Vuired its uncomfortable freedom in the
first years in the home and school room
llS altaSOnlSnl TO Ofuel ana oDeulcncc mas
been acquired in childhoon No matter
how richly man may he endowed by
nature, If the training Of home and school
has not made him master of his own body
and mind, he fails to leave after him Il work
that makes him as above the average. En-
dowments unframed, uncontrolled, I'M
guided are no more valuable to Il man than
the power of speed would be to Il horse
which had never known harness.
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RETARDING PHYSICAL DECAY.

Without eating and drinking there is no
life: but we may select cel tain kinds of food
containing minimum amount Of the ele-
mentS which cause the osSiiic blOckagcs in
the system. An English physician, DIR. c.
/ +. Deiacy Evans, who made many re-
searches in regard to our food, comes to the
conclusion that more fruit should be eaten,
especially apples, grapes and bananas, they
being rich in nutritious elements. Being
deficient in nitrogen, they are best for
elderly people, as they keep the blood i'll
better condition than flesh
FlourcnS in his well-known work on
"iIuman Longevity" cites the case of the
Italian centrnarian Cornaro, whose recipe for
health and long life was extreme modera-
ZION in all things. Flourens himself insists
that Il century is the normal lile but that
fifty years beyond, and even two hundred
years, are human possibilities undcl advan-
tageuus conditions. Iiufeland also believed
in two hundred years as an extreme limit.
Sir James Critchton Browne NJ D., con-
cedcS, in Il late address, that Flomens was
right Duration Of growth gives the length
Of life. Iufeland held that the human
body grows till the aye of twenty-five, and
that eight times the growth period was the
utmost limit of man. But if twenty years
be taken as the time Of growth, even five
times that will give us "A century. Accord
ing to Flourens and CuYer man is of the
frugivorous, or fruit and Indicating class
of animals, like the gorilla and other apes
and monkeys. Man has not teeth like the
lions and carnivorous beasts neither has he
teeth like the cows and herbivorous ones
Intestines in the man are seven or eight
times the length of his body. Icrbivorous
animals, like the COW, have intestines forty
eight times the length of the body.
SO, judging man by his teeth his stom-
ach, and his intestines, he is naturally and
primitively frugivorous, and was not in
tended to eat flesh. Fruit is aperient, and
apples act on the liver and are good brain
food also, as they contain much phosphoric
acid. As to the effect of certain climates,
perhaps too much stress has been laid upon
that. We find that Thomas Parr, who
lived in England, died in his 153d year,
and was dissected by the celebrated discov-
ever of the circulation of the blood DR..
William Harvey (who expressed no doubt
of his age, was never out OF his native
country. Accounts of men who have lived
to extreme age in Ecuador and Mexico
indicate possibilities. A climate that
allows much outdoor living is best for
health. More depends on food than on any
climate Exercise, fresh air to live in and
to sleep in, daily bathing and freedom
from medicine are the important things.
In July, 1893, the Courier-Journal, of
Louisville, published a long account of
James McMullin, who died in Carlisle
county, Kentucky, at III years of age.
When Duffon, Hufeland, Flourens, and
others of that class, who had studied the
subject believed in the possibility of $50
or 200 years of life the subject is not to be
laughed at.-Harper's Weekly.
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GE<, f@FaalSSa S1@sG96S
|YsM'sI1 REEGleJ 1S
THE FUTURE LIFE.

christianity makes future state of
being of central and paramount interest for
every individual. The Importance of the
present life holds mainly in its being a
preparation for that future state. Although
this is often caricatured and ridiculed, vet
does it not approve itself to the plainest
common sense. For, whilst great import
ance may be attached to the general life of
the world in the present stage of being,
because it is comparatively permanent, it
lasts. through all time and all generations,
and upon it depends largely the earthly
condition of individual life, yetina worldly
sense how little comparatively depends
upon the earthly condition of the individ-
ual. '-Reformed Church Messenger.
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Electric BitterS.

This remedy is becoming so well known
and so popular as to need no special men
ton. All who have used Electric Betters
sing the same song of praise.-A purer med
icine does not exist and it is guaranteed to
do all that is claimed Electric Bitters
will cure all diseases of the Liver and Kid
neys, Will remove Pimples, Boils Salt
Rheum and other affections caused by i'm
pure blood.-Will drive Malaria from the
system and prevent as well as cure all Ma
laria fever-For cure of Headache, Con-
stipation and Indigestion try Electric Bit
ters--Entire satisfaction guaranteed, OF
money refunded Price SO cts. and 81. 90.
per bottle at r. B. Frazer's Drug Store.
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Judge Gaynor.
BEL.LEPoRr. L. Z

BEI.LEPoRT. l.. +.
G. W. THOMPSON. ESQ.
DEAR SHIT is time that we began
to send to the legislature men who
think, even though we may not always
go as far as they do: or entirely agree
with them. Mr.. Baker has devoted
much time to questions of taxation,
and, as a legislator, would provoke
thought ana discussion upon that all
important subject in the Legislature.
Out of such discussion would come the
best results, and | need not mention
the confusion the tax laws Of this state
are in.
About all the world has in the way
of improvement in government we w
to thought and discussion. always be-
gun by those whom ] call the forerun-
ners of human thought and advance
ment. 1t is only miserable little. mar
row-minded people in this age of the
world, who are afraid to listen to sug-
gestions of change for improvement,
for, as Mill says: 1T often happens
that the universal belief of age Of
mankind-a belief from which no one
was, nor without an extraordinary eff
fort of genius and courage. could at
that time be free-becomes to a SUISSE
quent age SC palpable ar absurdity,
that the only difficulty then is to mag
inc how such a thing can ever have APP
peared creditable." Yours very truly,
WN, J, CAYSoR,
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Water Supply for Sheep.

Sheep can subsist longer without wa
ter than any of our other domesticated
animals, but even in their case an
abundant supply of the pure and
wholesome fluid is desirable. In the
case of ewes rearing lambs, and sheep
being fattened by the aid of grain and
other ''artifciaIs." access to water is
of special Importance. and failure to
provide 1t p~rejudicially affects both
sheep and sheep owner-injuring the
health of the one and c~urtailing the
profits of the other. Free access to
water, in addition to preventing out
breaks of certain troubles. also enables
the shepherd in many cases to detect
the presence of one fell disorder liver
rot-at an early stage of its existence.
If sheep are observed to be very fire.
quently slipping water, one may rest
assured that that trouble is in exist
ence. Farmers. Voice.
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Only the Right Kind Paws.

A great many people think the
creamery is not an economic institu.
ton. We are certain, however, says
Hoard.s Dairyman. that the way the
average farmer makes, handles and
sells butter is the worst kind of econ.
omy in the world. Of the 800 patrons
VINO support the Hoard creameries, no!
more than fifty would become expert
private dairymen. The creamery has
taken milk that once made butter that
sold for the year at an average of six
teen cents and from that milk pro-
duces butter that sells for an average
of over twenty-five cents. IT the dairy
man wishes to get every dollar posi-
BILE out of the cows, by way Of butter,
he can double discount his profits at
the creamery by making up his milk
at home. provided he makes the right
ind of butter.
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REGARDING DRY cows.
Why 1t Does Not Pay to Let Them Ran
Down in Flesh.

Why 1t Does Not Pay to Let Them Rur
Down in Flesh.
A Gov that is dry should be fed with
such food as will furnish an abundance
of nutrition without largely increas-
ing the proportion of fat. 1t lis the
poorest kind of economy to le! a dry
COW run down in flesh, and it isalmost
as bad to make her fat. She should
be kept in a good. thrifty condition
and as healthy as possible. for not
only the health of her offspring and its
future value of beef or milk depend
on these things, but the value of the
ow as a mixer is affected for good OF
bad by her condition during the period
of CESSATION. If the COW is skin poor
at the time the calf is dropped she
will mo- give as much milk Us she
would if in good condition. nor can
she be fed so as to increase her flow to
what it would have been if she had
been properly cared for. 1t is quite a
common thing to have cows come in
in the fall for winter mixers, and these
are drying during that part of the
year when pasturage is at it's poorest
and insects are most numerous, and
from these two causes dairy cattle are
likely to become reduced in flesh. II
dry cows are lot attended to at this
time and given a supplementary ration
they often become thin aud out of con-
dition, and when once this happens it
is hard to bring them back. 1t follows
that the best course is to prevent this
from occurring, for upon attention to
this matter depends the profit from
keeping the cow.-Prairie Farmer:
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Good Way to Pack Butter.

Our way of packing butter for,our
w use is to have a perfectly clean
jar. if possible a new one. Then we
use salt and graduated sugar. half
and half, to put between the layers.
which we make about three inches
thick, to make nice pieces when cut
ting for use. In making butter eve
use a barrel churn and make granu-
lated butter. Wash it in the churn
until the water runs off clear: salt it
to taste (Which with us is not very
salt; drain it and take it up into the
batter bowl and let it stalid over
night. Then work it just enough to
make the granules stick together, and
then pack. Do not fill the jar quite
full. Put a white cloth on top and
about half-an-inch of salt on top of
that. Cover well and keep in a cool
clean place. If every stage of pro-
cedure from the COW to the jar has
been clean and sweet. the butter ought
to keep a reasonable time.--Mrs. l..
Waugh, in Farm and Home.
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Tnxes on Dissemination.

Since the motive of ostentation IN
the use of wealth is simply to show
the ability to expend wealth, and since
this can be shown as well in the abil-
ity to pay a tax, taxes on ostentation
pure and simple. while not checking
the production of wealth, do not even
restrain the enjoyment of wealth.
But such taxes, while they have a
place in the theory Of taxation, are OF
no practical importance. Some trivial
amount is raised in England from
taxes on footmen wearing powdered
wigs. taxes on armorial bearings, etc,
but such taxes are not resorted to IN
this country. and are incapable any
where of yielding any considerable
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JUTLAND COW.

herd. the average will 90 as high as
$500 pounds. for COWS in good cordi,
ton. One of the best COWS of the
breed, which is shown in the accom-,
panFing illustration, has, in the years
1869 inclusive, given respectively o.
23 pounds, 0,4ss, 1919. and $50.
pounds ayoirdupois: but this is an ex.
ceptional animal. On the farm where
she belongs. the average for the same
years was GIG, 6. 799, 1911 and 1884
pounds per COW. One Of the best herds
of this breed, ranging from l22 to 145
cows, has averaged from 500 pounds
up to $3.50 pounds during the period
of 1880 to 1890 inclusive. The last
year 142 COWS averaged $3.50 pounds,
and 43 cows of the herd exceeded 6,6Gt
pounds.
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A Cry From Australia.
"a QUEEN STREET.
MELBOURNE, Australia,

Sept. &c, 1894.
Secretary n. Y. Tax Reform Associa-
ton, New York, L. $. A.:
Dear Sir-A financial reform league
has been founded by me to advocate
Economy, not taxation" The result
of our boom followed by the fall
in all our staple products has been to
land the public finances in a mess, and
the cry is for more and more taxation.
Therefore a few of us have started to
give life to the demand for more econ
omy in state expenditure before fresh
taxation be imposed. The ministry has
just been defeated at the general cleo
ton for many reasons, and the new
government will probably introduce
the property tax SO vehemently de-
nounced by Mr.. Bolton Hall, secretary
of your Association. in 1892.
Might I beg that you will kindly
furnish me with whatever literature
you can spare to enable me to prose-
cute our reform work on the lines
adopted by your Association?
Faithfully yours,
GEORGE ID. MEUDFLL.
We need not say that the literature
was sent.-ED.
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QUERIES FOR CITIZENS.


n'hoIy Ask the Following Questions
LIS it unjust to tax a MAJ more 10,
improving his land than FOR keenino il
in idleness?
should a man be taxed for i'm.
proving his property. for giving en-.
pfoymcnt to w~orklnen, and thus add.
ing to the prosperity Of the commu-
nifty?
3'-Does the taxation of improve
mehts discourage honest industry and
encourage speculation?
lis it right to coura men Ia
hold land vacant. and thus keep men
III lolen'ss. and also compel MS to build
more streets. sidewalks and establish
o'her services past the vacant land tc
reach the outskirts?
'-sho"ld any municipality iravcthc
power to remove all taxes that discour-
age industry, which is a benefit and
"hlch encourage speculation. which is
not good for the community?
6.-is it a wise and iudicious policy
10 exempt new manufacturing con-
Gems from taxation on their buildings.
personality and land. for a period of
years. thus encouraging industry
Whlic we tax those men who have been
tong established and who arc a benefit
to any community?
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DANISH DAIRY COWS.
Deecript'on OF q Breed Indigenous 10 thu
Peninsula of .Jutland.

vi utlnhd
These cattle are black and white,
n the dairy qualities are not quite
SO we'll developed as those of the red
cattle OF the islands. They have been
handled more as a half breed. until
the dairy industry became most profit
able. Their origin is unknown. They
are native to the location, and have
been very slightly modified by the in
PRODUCTION of foreign blood. The
majority resemble the IIolsteins in
color. The head is usually black and
legs and tail white. They are a little
smaller than the red COWS. and are
very hardy and thrive well on Lloder-
ate feed. The milk yield is also
what less than that given for the red
cattle. On many farms the average
yield Of all ages will not much exceed
$500 pounds per year. and on other
farms the average reaches 1890
pounds. This is for common, uniln-
proved stock. In some exceptional
cases. where special attention has
been given to the selection of the
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lax REFORM STUDIES
LIFTED by BOLTON uA1.I.
An Open Column

~ any one has an impression tina
u.;n to these s.stndiasS
tho a 1;' DC published unle"s they echo
'"s eoltors IDEAS, he is mistaken,
Articles on any side of Tho n,a,;~
WI always be welcome. SO tbev a.,
ueeent, we'll written. within rc,s as
tbat ..h'ts and to the point, excent
''ae we do not discuss the tariff.
.aho owners especially SHOULD b.,
.".efestea' as the principle benefit ~.
a's improvement or social adva,.a
goes TO them in the increase Of vs1,,o
even TO land. Address this office -.
f'o Box S., Buffalo, N. Y.
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Highest of all in Leavening Pouer-Latest Us. Govt Report
RRs skiI2&
ABSOzUTEzY PURE

READY TO 60 WITH MorHER.-At Franks
house they had ounce jam for supper, but
frankie had been i'll, SO his mother said to
him: Prank, You cannot have any jam; it
Frank took this like all-leman until he saw
his mother help herself to Jam a second
time. Then he pushed his plate slowly to-
ward the forbidden dish and said, with de-
liberation: well. if you arc going to die, |
might rs well die, too. Gimme some of it"
-HarnEr'S BaZlr.
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Mortsaee Rates on Real Estate in Phiia
delphia.

Gilt edge loans 4 40 per cent, net
ting investor 1 per cent. as the stare
tax of t-1o per cent. has been uct
On good loans the rate is 8 40 per
cent. where the property only IS con-
sidered.
In many instances the investor re-
ouires the mortgagor to pay h state
tar of 4-1O per cent. q mills.ecircuiar
IL the Real Estate Trust Co. of New
York.
[Of course the four and one-tentn
per cent. added to the interest IS just
the tax collected.-ED.
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x-Ea at work.

A writer in the American Architect
shows, by giving figures. that govern
ment buildings cost between 60 and &c
per cent. more than the anne class of
private work, and that the average time
taken upon government buildings is
more than three times as long.
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rs NJ hat in your way" inquired the
sweet girl IN the parql,et seat. as she turned
around and spoke to the man behind. Not
ut ali" said theman behind, grumpily. as he
surveyed her big hat and grabbed up his
ovcrcoat; my way lies towards the box
office to get my scat changed Chicago
Record.
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NO Tighten the Ia. on the Farm.

'Slch study as ] have been able to
CIV to the subject of taxation has con-
sl1sed me Of the utter ~fntility Of all at
telfpts to tax the products of labor to
an. 'one. except the for no
matter in whose hands they are found
tie tax charges will ultimately be
shifted upon the final holder or con.
sumner. This makes the burden OF tax
alton fall upon those least able to bear
it, since it is the poor who are in the
aggregate the heaviest consumers. At
the same time the source Of all wealth
is the land, " the benefits of location
which attach to the land. These adj
vantages are for the most part held by
the rich. since it is the rich who own
the most valuable lands. If. then. all
taxation were removed from the prod
ucts of labor and put upon the oppor-
tunities Or labor which are measured
by Land values. the burdens Of govern
ment would be removed from the me-
cessities Of the people and placed upon
their opportunities. The only logical
and just system of taxation, it seems
to me, then. is q tax on land values.
irrespective of improvements. and from
such 4 tax. would raise all needed rev
nue. for all purposes.
Moreover, since both the need Of pub
lie revenue and the value of land are
caused by the presence of population.
the demand and supply would by such
q tax be automatically adjusted, SC that
there could be no failure or discord in
its application. 1t is evident too that
this system would take the burden off
from the farm. where population is
sparse, and put it on the city lands.
where population is concentrated and
land values high.-James B%allengee,
Populist Candidate for State Auditor in
Iowa.
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what Caused the Uuset

Prior to the French revolution both
the nobility and the clergy of that
country were exempt from taxation.
ana less than one-half the land had to
bear the whole burden ct taxation.
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MAKING the most of it-inhatine balloon

MoIHER-"Johnny! On your way home
from school stop at tho store and get nc a
stick OF candy and i bar Of soap" Father
what do you want of & stick of randv."
Mother = That's so he'll remember the
soap.''-N.Y Y. Weekly.
The Opelousas courier., 1895-01-12

TEACHER flames, You arc late this morn.
ing. Have youany excuse" ~Pupil-"Yes'm m.
Maws gone downtown 'lectioneerin' an
the hired girls on d strike an paw burnt
lis fingers coollin' the pancakes an l had to
sew on nay 'spender buttons myself. Sees"
-Chicaeo Tribune.