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Well, he resigned his position, and
It was said that his enemy had hunted
him down.
Perhaps it may have been so. The
fact that he took an occasional glass
was sufficient cause for SANDER. Had
he avoided the appearance of evil, the
enemy could not have harmed him.
We all felt sorry that he had given
him cause, and hoped that the injured
man knew when to stop"
Years passed away. 1t was lovely
summer afternoon, when l stood at the
station of railroad in a country viii
lage My attention was suddenly at
tracted by the shouting of some rude
boys. l turned and saw coming down
the slope of a hill a prematurely old
man. He tottered as he walked. His
clothes hung upon him in the most
slovenly manner. He was in his shirt
sleeves, and he staggered along. while
the boys enjoyed the sport One
of the village people said to me:
THAT is Mr.. -. He has been drink
ing again! What pity! He is such
a fine musician, and once was at the
head of a school He goes into the
parlor of the hotel and gives such fine
music, and often become so enthuSed,
when he is under the influence of
liquor, that he has to be compelled to
leave the piano. He is a talented
man. 1t is SO sad to see him ridiculed
by those boys!" Alasl it was the teach
er that l knew of years before. He
might we'll have said: They that are
Younger than l have me in derision,
whose fathers l would have disdained
to have set with the dogs of my fiockw
"HE KNEW WHEN TO STOP" Did he?
In your childhood did you ever start
to run down steep hill? When you
were we'll on the way could you stop?
trow not! On, on you went, and then
you tumbled and rolled. If there had
been deep ditch at the base
you would have plunged into it
and been drowned. Why didn't
you stop? How you laughed when
you began How you frowned when
You found yourself we'll on your wayl
How you cried, yea, screamed, for help
when you found the decline too much
for you! How gladly would your com
panions have run to rescue you, but
they could not reach you! They only
saw you running, rolling screaming,
and could only say: 1--WE warned
you!" Well, you did not die, but you
were torn, bruised, perhaps injured
for life Perhaps not; but some scars
are left, are they not? And another,
who tried the hill over yonder, tum-
bled into raging waters, like certain
herd of swine of which we read.
"ilE KNOWS WHEN TO STOP! He Is NC
TOOL" The engineer who has lost his
grip, does he know when to stop
Vainly he tries, but his power has
gone. There is only one place to stop
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TEMPERANCE NOTES.
THE TIME TO STOP.
IT Is Before the Intoxicating Cup To uches
the Lips,


1t Is Before the Intoxicating Cup To uches
the Lips.
Mamma, may l have a piece of pie
'too?"
mo, Fanny. fought not to be eat
ing this"
Fanny looked wistfully at her moth
er as she saw her lift another piece to
her mouth, and then asked pleading
ly: 20 mamma, just little piece?"
mo. Fanny; it is wrong for me to De
eating this. You can not have any,"
Fanny LEANED back in her chair.
There were tears in her eyes, and a
puzzled expression of countenance
was observed. She could not under
stand why her mother ate what she
knew to be injurious and denied it to
her daughter, who thought it very en-
ijoyable.
Well, it appeared to me very incon-
sistent, yet we know the same incon.
sistency is being carried on every day.
Parents sometimes have intoxicants
upon the table. yet tell the children
they are not good for them. 1T is a
silly habit" they say. my boy, dc
not begin it. We smoke, we drink, but
it is not good for youi"
In the first case the mother said very
plainly to her daughter: 81 lack char.
acter! l have no will-power" Yet
she expected the young and undevel-
oped girl to do what she proved was
impossible for her to do.
Could the little daughter respect
herP l think not.
The parent who says by example, il
not by words, Il do a weak thing; you
must not do it," places himself in a po
sition to be sneered at by his child.
All" he says, II know when to stop
my boy may not" am not quite sure
that you are right, my friend.
Some years ago, in a certain city
there lived brilliant man who knew
when to stop" He was refined, tai
ented, intellectual; at the head of an
educational Department.; the compiler
of well-known music book that was
used in nearly all the schools of the
city. He was beloved and respected
by his assistant teachers and his
pupils, and an insinuation on the part
of any person relating to his character
or reputation was sure to arouse deer
Indignation.
A rumor was afoat. Can it be
true?" l asked. NO" was the reply,
ut is not true! 1t is circulated by q
man who is his enemy and who de sires
to work him out of his position" ''Is
he strictly temperance man?"
asked. well, | can't say that he is.
He may take a glass occasionally, but
he kDo,oS achen to stop He does not take
enough to hurt him"
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and that is before the glass touches
the lips. Emily II. Stryker, in Ma.
tional Temperance Advocate.
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FIRESlDE FRAGMENTS

Mashed Chestnuts.-Bo remove
brown skin and mash the same as POI
tatoes. Add butter or cream, sait, pep
per and serve at once.--Orange Judd
Farmer.
Baked Pears. - Take good-sized
pears, arrange them in a deep baking
dish, into which pour half pint of hot
water in which has been stirred half Il
cupful of sugar. Cover with a lid or in
verified dish and bake slowly. frequently
basting them with the sirup till they
are tender. They are excellent served
with cream.-Prairie Farmer.
Warm Ginger Calle.-Two and one
half cups of flour, one cup of molasses,
one-half cup of sugar, one-haH cup of
melted lard, one cup of boiling hot
water, one large teaspoon of ginger
and one teaspoon of soda in the water.
When thoroughly mixed add two eggs,
beat together and bake in dripping
pan.-Franees T.. Owens, in Chicago
Record.
Fruit Cookies.-Two cups of sugar,
two thirds of a cup of butter, one cup
of chopped raisins, one-half cup OF
water, one egg, three teaspoonfuls Of
baking powder. Flavor with cloves.
cinnamon and nutmeg. Cream the but
ter and sugar, add the other ingredients
and flour enough to render it stiff
enough to roll out. Bake in a quick
oven.-Boston Budget.
Boiled Okra.-Wash one quart OF
young white olira well in cold water.
put into porcelain-lined or granite
kettle ian iron kettle dscolors the
olIra( with half pint of water and Il
teaspoonful of salt. Cover the kettle
and simmer gently thirty minutes;
then add one tablespoonful of butter,
one tablespoonful of vinegar, and pep
per, and more salt if necessary. Boil
up once and serve.-Rural New Yorker.
--Deviled Eggs.-Boil number of
eggs hard and when cold cut each i'll
two lengthwise. Take out the yollls
mash them with fork, mix with but
ter and add minced ported ham and
French mustard. The followed whites
of the eggs should be filled with this
mixture. the two halves of each being
| pressed together and then each egg
wrapped in tissue paper, the ends &C
which are twisted to keep the halves in
! observation-disclosures.
! Flour GemS.-One and one-half cup
/ tuls of flour, one and one-half cupfuls of
milk, one teaspoonful of butter. one
| egg, one and one-half teaspoonfuls OF
/ baking powder. Mix the flour and bak
ing powder together, stir in the melted
! butter and the milk. and then the egg.
we'll beaten. Beat the whole until light
and foamy and with it nearly fill the
gem pans. which should be hot and well
buttered. Bake for fifteen minutes i'll
u quick oven.-Prairie Farmer.
--Haricot Pie.-Boil half pound of
haricot beans which have been soaked
all night. Grease a pie dish and line
the bottom of it with as many beans as
will cover it well. Season with pepper,
salt and dash of chopped onion. Then
add a layer of hard-boiled eggs, cut into
thick slices and seasoned. Next an
other layer of beans, and on them a few
tomatoes (tinned will do), cut into
Slices. Pour in little good thick
gravy. Cover with short crust and bake
till the pastry is cooked.-Leeds Mer-
curry.
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A PERPLExING PROBLEM.
Two Phases of Alcoholism In France-Con.
sidered by Chamber of Deputies.

Two Phases or Alcoholism In FrRnce-Cons
sidered by Chamber of Deputies.
Something very like a temperance
address was made in the French cham
Der of deputies the other day by NJ.
Lannelongue in discussing proposed
reforms in the tax on strong drinks.
Nj. Lannelongue argued against an in
crease of tax, though he cited in sup
port of his argument the same class of
facts that have been urged in favor of
high license and the suppression of the
drink traffic.
He asserts that there are two phases
in the history of alcoholism in France,
one anterior to 1855, the other since
that date. Before 1858, the annual
consumption of fruit brandies was
twelve times as great as the consump-
ton of brandies made from ma
terials other than fruits. Alco-
holism, previous to 1885, was
very rare in France There
were occasional deaths in few hours
from this cause, and there were cases
of delirium tremens, but ordinarily the
alcoholism of that period left few per-
manent traces upon its victims.
Drunkenness was frequent, but it was
temporary drunkenness. and there
were some that believed it to be good
and useful.
Then came the period after 1855,
when wine alcohol failed and alcohol
from grains began to be used ex-
tensively. The quantity drunk per
head in France more than trebled in a
few years, and at the same time crimes
and suicides greatly increased in num-
Der. With the use of the industrial
alcohols came sort of permanent
drunkenness, and imperious need to
which the indiv idual was not always
able to offer successful resistance. In
the presence of disease men offer re-
sistance, but the characteristic
of the new alcoholism is
that it renders men incapable
of resistance to infection. The
man of forty is compared to the man
of sixty in this regard, and even an old
man without organic disease offers
more resistance in the face of malady,
because his tissues are not altered as
are those of the man that has fallen
victim to the new alcoholism.
1t is not the rich classes who are in
this pitiable state, NJ. Lannelongue
said, but the poor, who, ill-nourished
and lodged in sunless rooms, add alco-
holism to their miseries. These are
the persons that pay the tax on alco-
holic drinks. 1t has been estimated
that French worl1ingmen expend an
nually 1,20O, 900, 900 francs upon alco-
holic drinks, and that English work
ingmen expend even more. NJ. Lam
nelongue quoted French statistician
as putting down alcoholism as the
chief factor in pauperism. To tax
alcoholic DRINKS at higher rate, M.
Lannelongue argued, would be to
make still greater inroads into what
the French workingman should devote
to the needs of his family.
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.

"A silk-wOrlled screen inscribed
"This screen, the work of Queen Anne
was presented by her majesty to KY
Hon. Richard Hill, ambassador to thel
court of Turin, 1908" came under the{
hammer in Shrewsbury at the sale OF
the effects of the bankrupt Viscoun1
Hill, fetching $3.50
What are said to he the two oldest
vessels in the merchant service in the
United States arrived at Calais, Me.
together few days ago. They are the
Polly, a schooner of eighty-four tons,
built in 1905, and the schooner Hiram.
built in 1919. The Polly is the vessel
that captured British brig at Machias
in the war of 1912.
A siX-year-old German boy ar
rived in Santa Cruz, Cal, recently, hav-
ing made the entire trip from Bremen
to that place alone. He wore a tag
bearing the name and address of his
California friends and had ticket to
San Francisco. He says he received
great attention and the utmost kind
ness from everybody during the jour
ney.
The story of the pheniX is a com
mon superstition in several countries.
According to the ancient and best ac-
cepted letters the world has but one
pheniX. This animal, at the end of 900
years, burns itself to death in funeral
pyre of its own erection. and as soon
as it expires another pheniX with
wings outstretched rises from the
flames.
A great many persons firmly be-
Geye that ants do not sleep. This
superstition arises from the fact that in
moonlight nights during the summer
ants have often been seen at work
about their nests. People of almost all
nations have believed that ants lay up
food for the winter. The alleged fact
is mentioned many times in ancient
and modern literatures, and is directly
stated in the Book of Proverbs. They
do no such thing. During the winter
they remain in torpid or semi-torpid
condition, reviving under the genial
warmth of the spring sun.
The bicycle has taken Holland.
and the state railroads have had ia
determine what they shall do with it.
Unpacked and accompanied by the
rider they will take it as personal bag.
gage for the sum of seventy cents
equal to twenty-eight OF ours. This
is for any distance, but you can't &C
far in Holland unless you &c
round and round. The owner
must help take it on and off
the baggage car, and transfer it from
one train to another where such is nee
essary; and the railroad will not be re-
sponsible for damage to an unpackeG
wheel
AT Alexandria the Serapeum
! where the last of the great public Ii
braries was preserved, was recently
discovered by DR.. Botti, director of the
AleXandrian museum. The column
that rose in the middle. visible from
the sea as well as from the land, ht
Identifies with Pompey's pillar. He
has found the tank of the fountain
! that stood in the central court and tn,
channels cut through the rock that let
! the water to it, Inscriptions Of the tim,
of Hadrian and Severus dedicated tt
Scraps, bull of fine workmanship
remains of gilded ornaments and few
tombs.
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HOW SHE FIXED HIM.
Hint to Girls That Have Undesirable
SuitOrs.

Hint to Girls That Have Undesirable
Suitors.
He was a theatric lover, and she didn't
like his style little bit.
He was constant in his devotion, how
ever, and that made matters worse.
She had tried gentle means TO get rid
of him, but he had disregarded them
with painful persistency.
In this moment of her desperation he
felt it incumbent upon him to propose
to her as men under similar circum-
stances often do.
Which they wouldn't if they had any
sense at all.
Dear one" he exclaimed, hurting
himself tragically at her feet, Il love
you! My life is yours. viii you take
ito"
She did not look like murderess.
Mr.. Singleton" she responded, with
aim determination, 81 will"
He gazed at her rapturously.
Don't do that" she begged, drawing
back from him as if in horror. Il have
taken your life, as you requested me to
do, and you are henceforth to all in
tents and purposes dead"
He seemed daZed.
Il do not, Mr.. Singleton" she contin-
ued, turning aside, desire to have n
dead person i'll the house, and if you do
not go away at once shall ring for an
ambulance and have you removed to the
morgue."
Then the dreadful situation in which
his own precipitSte folly had placed
him was revealed. and he removed him
self with neatness and dispatch.-N. Y.
Sun
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PURE PATRIOTISM.
French Soldier Who Was Always Read;
to DO HIS Duty.

French Soldier Who Was Always Read;
to Do HIS Duty.
Few men, not endowed with bril-.
liant ability, have left behind them a
more honorable or distinguished rec
ord than NJ. Victor Duruy, a French
statesman and scholar who died recent.
ly at the age of eighty-four His life
was an exemplification of the rewards
which may wait on the faithful obedi-
ence of the Scriptural maxim: What.
soever thy hand findeth to do, do it
with thy might"
He began, as many another young
scholar has begun, as teacher. Here,
IN the performance of his duty, he
once had occasion to turn out of his
<9lass Victorien Sardou, who afterward
became famous writer. Young Sar-
dou had failed to get some part of
lesson in Egyptian history, and had
said to NJ. Duruy that he thought he
might proftably omit it"
But l, =" said Duruy, las your teach
er, am the sole judge as to that"
"And |, since it is l who have to
learn, ought to have some choice in
the matter, Sar dou answered.
This impertinent remark earned for
Sardou the suspension which he re-
ceived. Sardou, as man and genius,
obtained early the literary distinction
which caused him to be chosen a mem
Der of the French academy-the forty
immortals," and when Duruy, in his
old age, as the crown of laborious
life, was proposed as member of the
same body, Sardou supported him cor
lH$ally and he was elected.
Duruy, as an eminent and practical
educator, was wanted by the emperor,
Napoleon Ill, as minister of public
instruction. The emperor sent for
him and proposed to him to enter the
ministry.
But, your majesty" Duruy an
swered, Il have taken very little part
in politics"
80 much the BETTER" said the en-
peror.
And what part l have taken has
been against your
mo matter" said Napoleon, you
are the man l want for minister of
| public instruction"
Duruy took the place and worked
| hard in it. still doing with all his
might the work that came to his hand.
In the war with the Germans in 1870
there was no political work for him to
do. For the time, after the surrender
of Napoleon, all who had been in the
government were discredited. So, at
the age of sixty, Duruy enlisted in the
tinnal nI1o f,1 70 CO. dior
One evening in September, 1870,
Jules Simon, then minister of public
instruction, was entering the ministry
when he thought he noticed that the
soldier on guard at the door, who pre-
scented arms to him, had familiar
face. He paused and looked steadily
at him.
"Duruy," he exclaimed, lis that
your"
1T is I-Duruy," the soldier an
swered.
"A common soldier?"
"a common soldier. One can't be a
minister always"
But see that one can always serve
as an example"
Duruy smiled, and stood at salute
while his successor entered the build
ing. 1t was not until fourteen years
after that he was elected a member o.
the academy-the highest honor, il
literature or learning, that a French
man can hope to attain. 1t is possible
that the fact that Duruy had Away.
stood ready to do his duty, no matter
in what direction it lay, had much &c
do with his elevation to this honor
Youths Companion.
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The Way to the Poorhouse.

John Reeve, the comedian, was once
accosted in the Kensington road by au
elderly female with small bottle of
gin in her hand. Pray, sir, 1 beg
your pardon, is this the way to the
poorhouse?" John gave her look of
clerical dignity, and pointing to the
bottle, gravely said: mo, ma'sm; but
that is "-Charleston Messenger.
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One WAY to Get votes.

Juckson--rd like to help she candi-
date for alderman in this district.
Jenkins-Well, don't say anything
about him, and people may forget to-
scratch him.-Puck.
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The Thermometer Hereafter.

"The spirit of John JONES' said the
medium.
"He died in arrears" replied the ed
Tor. ASK him If it's hot enough for
him ?"-Atlanta Constitution.
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strangely enough, there was nothing
Of which this crow stood SO much III
fear as crows themselves. Often they
would come perilously near and cav"
at him. Heller SHELTER he would fly to
the house. and his relief was painfully
manifested when he YVES safe inside the
kitchen. Their wild life evidently had
no charm for him. lie was in terror of
large snakes, too, but small oncs lie COB
bled up as fast as he could. 1t was a
most offectual way Of preventing them
from frightening him when they grew
bigger.
No attention was given to his educa-
ton, but at last we discovered that he
could repeat a word or phrase Of "a on
versation he had just heard. He could
laugh like a human being and initiate
the cackling Of a hen. ''Stop!'' Hell
lor' ''Hold onr' We're favorite express
sions Of his, and generally his use of
them was intelligent. He liked to perch
on top of the barn and shout out
"Stop!" at the farmers that went by in
their wagons. 1t they refined III their
horses. thinking it was some person that
had called them, the success of his lit
tie joke would cause Jim to burst into
i~mmoderate laughter.
He actually enjoyed being SNOWFALL
ed. He would stand upon an old tree
stump and look saucily at the boys, as
much as to say: Come, now, here's a
good shot! Why don't you hit me?:"
But Jim vas always too quick for them.
No boy ever could hit him. He would
dodge like lightning, laughing hoarscly
as the ball flew harmlessly past or broke
in pieces on the other side of the stump.
Then up he would hop again, with an
other challenge, ready for the next snow
ball.
He was not afraid of q gun. He would
stand close by while n vas being load
ed, and it might be fired off a number
of times without having any ~peroeptible
effect on him. But he was keenly alive
to its danger. Il the very moment the
muzzle was pointed at him he lost no
time in getting out Of the way.
Jim was a very mischievous crow in
deed. When Grace, the baby, was learn
ing to walk, he would seize her slyly
by the dress and cause her to fall. He
would peck at the toes of the barefooted
children that came for water and laugh
heartily as he drove them dismayed
from the yard. Sometimes he would
steal unnoticed down into the cellar.
The blows he could give with his beak
had the force Of of a small hammer, sc
that it was a very easy matter for him
to turn the spigot Of a barrel. One was
pretty apt to discover after such a visit
that all the vinegar had run out on the
floor. Douglas III st. Nicho-
las.
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Might or Right.

l have often asked my radical friends
what is to be done if, out of every hun
dred enlightened voters, two-thirds will
give their votes one way, but are afraid
to fight, and tho remaining third will
not only vote, Init will fight, too, if the
poll goes against them. Which has,
then, the right to rule? | can tell them
which will rule. The brave and resolute
minority will rule. Plato says that if
ono man was stronger than all the rest
OF mankind he would rule all the rest
OF mankind. 1t must be so, because
there Is no appeal. The majority must
be prepared to assert their divine right
with their right hands, or it will 20 the
way other divine rights have gone be-
fore.
will not believe the world to have
been so i'll constructed that there are
rights which cannot be enforced. 1t ap-
pears to me that the true right to rule
Ill any nation lies with those who are
best and bravest, whether their numbers
are large Or small, and three centuries
ago the best and bravest part of this
English nation had determined, though
they We're but a third of it, that pope
and Spaniard should be no masters OF
theirs .-Froude i'll Longman's Maya.
zine.
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MSS Swami. very close together and

Miss owann, very close together and
talking earnestly.
"Let them be witnesses also, if they
will, darling" 1 said bravely, and this
time / took her hand i'll mine.
But is was too dark for them to see,
and when Lois and walked by them in
the duskier shadows of the later evening
she had promised to be my wife, and
though the great sun CT the heavens had
set over the world and the earth was
full of shadows the greater sun of love
had risen in our hearts, and they were
filed with the light inextinguishable.
That was a dozen years ago, and to-
day Lois is tie proud and happy mother
Of thee CT tie prettiest and sweetest
children IL the world, except four that
I an the proud and happy father Of.
Sl4e is Mrs. Charles Verder, and Mrs.
Belden was Miss Swami. Detroit Free
Press.