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RELIGIOUS READING.
TOUCHING INCIDENT.

We heard a story the other day that made
our eyes moistcn. We have determined to
tell it, Just as We heard it, to our little ones:
A company of pQcr children, who had been
gathered out of the alleys and carrots OF tho
city, were preparing fo- their departure to
new and distant homes i'll the West. just
before the time of starting of tho cars ono OF
the bows was noticed aside from the others,
and apparently very busy with cast-off gar
ment. Tho superintendent stepped up to
him, and found tl.at he was cutting Il small
piece out Of the patched liuitSs. 1t proved
to be his old jacket, which having been re-
placed by n new one. had been thrown away
There was no time to be lost.
Come. John, come," said the suporintend-
ent, ''what are you going to do with that old
piece of calico!
p ease. sir" said John. II am cutting it
to take with ne Ny dead mother put the
lining in this old jacket. This was piece
of hor dress, and it is all have to remember
her by
And as the poor boy thought Of that dead
mothers love. and the sad death scene in the
Garret where she died. he covered his face
with his hands and sobbed rs II his heart
would break. But tho train was about leav-
ing. and John thrust his little piece of calcio
into mis- bosom to remember his mother by,
hurried into the car, and was soon far away
from the place where he had known so much
sorrow. We know many au eye will moisten
as the story is told and retold throughout tho
country, and many prayer will 60 up to
God for the fatherlcss and motherlesS in all
the great cities and in all places. Little read
ers. arc your mothers still spared to you2
Will you not show your love b. obedience?
That little boy who loved so well. .wo are
sure, obeyed. Bear this in mind, that if you
should one day have to look upon tho face
of dead mother, no thought would be SO
bitter as to remember that you hal given her
pain by YOUR willfulness or disohadience.-
The Preshy tcrian.
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Inoculated Against Consumption.

s'It would not be surprising if all
the inhabitants of every civilized
country twenty years hence would BE
inoculated against consumption in in
fancy, just as they are vacclnated now
adays to assure them immunity from
smallpox contagion,"' says DR.. Henry
O'Neill, of New York, at the Shoreham.
"The Investigations and experiments
Of the Board of Health OF New York,
which have been extended over 3
period OF six years, have resulted in
such way as to cause that body to
authoritatlvely announce that consump.
tion is contagious and preventable,
and it has decided to secure an out
of-town hospital for tn, treatment, OK
new cases, instead of sending them to
special wards in city or nearby subar-
ban institutions. 1t is also the lnten-
tion, l am informed. to segrogate
hopeless consumptives in the near
future so they may be kept comfort
ably and prevented from eudangcriDs
the rest of the community. Some
species of incubation is sure to come,
however. Koch's lymph has been
found exceedingly eticacious in keep
ing cattle free from the contagion OF
Suberculous cows, and I am convinced
something equally as good will soon
be discovered for use among human
animals on a scale Of magnitude thst
will permit it's blessings to be shared
in by every one. "-WashiuRton Star.
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Value OF Our Cereal Crops.

The report Of the statistician Of the
Agricultural Department concerning
the area, product and value OF the
cereal crops for 1894, which has re-
Gently been published, contains some
very significant figures. The report
states that the corn crop of the year
is one Of the lowest on record, tina
yield per acre being but 1874 bushels.'
The area harvested in the corn pro.
ducing States has been reduced by Sc
we're drought and dry winds to e.
5S2, 900 acres from the 10000, 600
acres planted. The crop has been
about 1915, ,77O,O bushels, and the
estimated value is fixed at 1854, 49,
| 900. The wheat crop is slightly above
the average. . The entire product OF
the country is 460, ,267, 4l6 bushels,
which is valued at 1925, ,9O2,025 This
represents the entire product of 34,-
585, 1856 acres. The rate of yield has
been 1879 bushels per acre, and tho
average value per bushel 49.l cents.
The estimates of the area, product
and value of the other crops ore as
follows: -. .-
The estimates for oats are: Area,
81, O23, 533 acres; product, 662. .os6.-
92S bushels; value, $2l4, ,S46, 920;
yield per acre, z4.5 bushels.
Rye-Area, 1914, $50 acres; pro-
duct, 26. 727, ,615 bushels; value, $13,-
394, ,476. ..
+ Barley-Area, 3,17O, ,6O2 acres; pro-
duct, 81, 400, 463 bushels; value. ST.
1874, 127. 49,
Buckwheat-Area, 7S9,232 acres;
product, 1868, 200 bushels; valne,
s7,O4O, 23s.
Potatocs-Area, 2,737,973 acresi
product, ITO, ,33s bushels; value,
SOL, spots -,
Hay-Area, 4s,321,272 acres; pro-
duct, 54,S74, 40S tons; value, S4SS.-
57s,321.
Tobacco-Area, 523. .1OS acres pro-
duct, 4O6, CTS, 1856 pounds; value, s27,-
760, 739. Scientific American.
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TLTAI, FRIENDSHIP.

At 4 recent meeting Of Mr.. Hammouds
the following touching incident was rotated:
SIN Aberdeen o young man was passing
through the university. His father and
mother desired to have him become "a minis
tor. but he had no desire for anything Of
the kind. and before finishing his course no
ran away to America. In st. Louis he fell
in with 4 young man who led a fast lie. One
evening they attended church meeting
where the spirit of God WAS manifested aud
mauy were seeking TO be saved. John Law
rences friend camo homo impressed. aud said.
II wish could become Christian, hut
Lawrence laughed at the idea and told him
that there was time enough for that farther
on" Thus his friend baniSEed all anxiety
from his mind and fell into sin deeper than
ever.
one night after that he did not come home
IS usual. The next morning Lawrence went
10 one of his old haunts, aud going into the
back yard found his friend, who few weeks
before was asking the way OF salvation, a
li.elesS corpsc weltcring in his own blood.
John Lawrence said: Il am his murderer,
body and soul" He fed away to the Rocky
Noun aims. and came to Denver, Colorado,
where MIR. Hammond was holding meetings.
and was brought under conviction Of sin and
he saw the Lord Jesus rs the end Of tho law
for righteousness. He vas born again, and
began at once to work for Christ Ho
accompanied Mr.. Hammond to . meet
ing in Gaol, and stated his experience With
suchpowcr that he was askcdtu continue the
meetings in Gaol, which no did, and a
wealthy Frenchman was converted. who said
TO him, God has given me both money and
brains. Complete your studies for the mtn-
istry. and I will pay I'LL expenses. ana John
Lawrence soon became useful preacher OF
the Gospel. He is also an earnest advocate OF
the cause 0; Temperance, and begs young
men. to touch not, taste not, handle NOT. the
accur.pd s:utf.
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personal CHRISTIAN EFToEr.

The godly Baxtc, says Of himself, Il con-
fess, TO my shame, that remember no one
sin that my conscience doth 20 much accuse
and Judge me for. as for doing so little for
the salvation Of men souls. and dealing 40
more earnestly and ferventiy with them Tor
their convef sion. confess that when Ral
alone. and think Of the ease Of the poor, ig-
norant. worldly, earthly, unconverted sim
ners, that live not to God nor set their hearts
on the life to come, my conscience telleth mo
that should 60 to as many Of them rs [ can,
and tell them plainly what will be-
come of them if they do not turn, and
beseech them. with all the earnestness that
can. to come to Christ. and change their
course and make no delay And though
have many excuses, from other busaess anu
fron. disability and want Of time, yet noue OF
them all do sati-Iy my own conscience when
l consider what heaven and he'll arc which
will one Of them bc the end Of every mans
life. NJ conscience teilcth me that should
follow them with all possible earnpstness
night and day. and take NO denial till they
return to God
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PROMINENT PEOPLE.
ToLsroI learned Hebrew after he was hft,

ToLsToI learned Hebrew after he was fifty.
EUGENE ABAM is member Of the California
Senate.
THE German Kaiser is showering favors
upon the Bismarcks.
THE poet William Morris Is also q socialist,
a sbopkeeper and cooperative manufac-
turer.
TEE late Oliver Wendell Holmes, the To-
nous poet and prose writer, left an estate OF
s72.l17.
THE Duchess of Leinster. one of the great
est beauties Of the day, is dying In England
of consumption.
COLONEL HAMILTON ROBERTSON. now
eighty-tive years Of age, is the Oldest Odd
Fellow in Indiana.
GOVERNOR JAMES H. BUDD, OF California,
walks in his sleep. He has been somnam-
bulist since boyhood.
JOIN WALTER, Of the London Times, who
died recently, loft personal estate OF ST.
500, 900, in which all his children share.
President FAuRE, OF France, in an address
to the Diplomatic Corps, said that he would
devote his efforts to maintain international
peace.
SECRETARY OF THE NAVY HERBERT extolled
Lincoln, the martyred President, in speech
at Philadelphia.
SENIOR LUIS SAESz PENA, who has just re-
signed the Presidency of the Argentine Re-
public, 1s seventy-three years old, lawyer
and wealthy man.
KING HUMBERT, Of Italy, said recently to
q company Of editors: "Geptienaen, have
often said that should wish to be journal
ist were I not i king"
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL next to the
younger Pitt, became Chancellor OF the Brit
ish Exchequer at an earlier age, than any
other statesman Of the present century.
SENATOR MASDEasoN corroborates the re-
port that he will become the general solic-
itor for tho Burlington Il Missouri River sys-
tenn after his retirement from the Senate.
DWIGHT L. MOODY, the evangelist, celebrat-
ed his flfty-eighth birthday recently in San
Antonio, Texas. On the same day his
mother, Mrs. Betsey Holton Moody, celebrat-
ed her ninetieth birthday.
E. A ABBEY, the American artist. has ar
rived In New York. his fourth trip to the
United States in the last sixteen years. He
comes to finish contract made in 1890 to
paint the ceiling pieces for the Boston Pub
lie Library.
GILBERT, the librettist, is big athletic fel-
low hasty in movement. quick In speech and
violent in temper. He has detective eye
and smokes cigar at full speed. For twenty
years, at least. one of his works was perpetu-
ally on the London stage.
A NEWSPAPER opposed to Gladstone not
long ago set ehoat the story that he had cut
off ono OF his fingers while indulSng In his
healthy practice OF chopping down trees.
This is now denied, and Gladstone says that
he lost the finger fifty years ago, while care
lessly loading gun.
The late Isaac P. Gray, who died while
Minister to DIexico seemingly had pre-
monltion Of his death. Two weeks before he
was in Union City. Ind. While there he had
his lot in the cemetery changed for larger
one. He superintendent the work personally.
and gave minute directions for the grading,
ETC., and marked the site of his own grave
for central monument. He appeared seri-
Gus, and his conduct and actions inspired
great uneasiness among his friends.
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CO Old SECElIrY.

:.Uncle Oliver" said the pustor OF coun-
try church. to an elderly farmer Of his flock,
II wish you would carry Il load Of wood to
old Mrs. W., the willow OF our Christian
brother, who lived SO long, just beyond you
on the road to D.
II will try to do it." said the farmer; 'but
to whom shall look for the pay?"
Read said the pastor. "when you so
home. the first three verses Of the 4lst Psalm.
and then if you want any better security fer
payment, call on me-"
1t was but'a few days after the old gontle-
men met his pastor ahd said, Il like that &C.
surity YOU mentioned and have NO fear that
it will fail ME in tho time Of need-for my
heart SO felt the assurance when reading il
that could scarce clCsc my eyes for tie
night
Thus it is often found that the ''word Of
truth is most precious. when with !. child
like trust it is received into the mind ami
heart. We do not need to wait for the time
in which the promise is fulfilled, for the
''earnrst'' is given by the Holy Spirit, when
the word is taken rs IA practical truth aud
obeyed cheerfUl!y.
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The home Is mudo desoAte by it. How
sacred th: home: It is Gods appointed
treasury of pure and sweet love. There hap
riness bubbles forth from everything springs;
virtue ccrniuatcs and blooms in native soil,
watcrDd by propisioIis dows from the skies.
Tho homes Of the land are the social units OF
which the aggregate is the Nation. Tine
Nation in it's wider sphere Of action is the
reflection OF its holGca The poisonous
breath Of alcohol passes over the home; it is
The passage Of death. The drunkards soul
exhalcs hatred and sin; hearts Of wife and
mother break in anguish; the ceasaless tear
drop OF sorrow glistens on tho eyclid. and
the veil Of gloom and despair darIens their
faces. Archbishop Ireland.
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TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.

\ modcrnte drinker is sure to 50 on less
cnins the water and increasing the brandy.
The number OF harl drinkers living to-day
in the United States is estimated to be 2.5O0.-
600.
Tac latest census returns show that Eng
land spends every year Tor drink about SI20.-
900, ,O0Oand only $50 900 for books.
The Absurdity Of Intoxcation--If man
could only look at himself with Il sober eye
when. he is drunk, Ire would never drink
again.
Joseph Hartley. Winnipeg labo,er. three
months ago came into possession Of fortune
of O,00O He died In the hospital few
days ago from excessi ve drinking.
We all need the p,edge--som" for one
reason. others for another. The total ah-
atainer is above aIl dan ger. Ha has great
advantage over the mail who driIks.
It il said that BaDjam min franklin, while
workin. as a printer among LDndon beer
drinkers. WIS Known ~ the "AIncr:can
auuutic, because ho drank only water.
American breweres ROW make thirty-four
million barrels Of !;iGr.. bcer every year ana
yiya employment to m immense army oil
work neil, sslooa-H~e,n:rS, and Specialists III
kidney disease.
According to the statistical apstract .! tue
limited States the total COST Of liquors con-
sunad in this country annually is over SIG
per capita, twice As mich Us the total
amount oi the Federal revenue.
According to Il recent report OF the Belgian
ministry of finance, The consumption OF
alcohol per inhabitant III th" i'arious coun-
tries of tho world IL rs follows: Germany, IL
quarts pe. inhabtans: Great Britain. 2.45 !,
Austria Au ngary, 639 Belgium. S.36: United
States. S; France, 8.O7; Italy. 1.97: Holland,
Q; Russia, 6.3; Switzerland,
When Miss Frances Willard began work in
the temperance crusade. hsr mother said:
"Be uuiet, my dear; We are not born to
reign, but to Wrestls." But TO them who
Wrestle the relgning is assured, and while
the wrestling Is but for q season the reignins
shall be without end.
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A Lady Deputy Sheriff.

Sheriff White astonished the politicians Of
Alameda County, California, by appoint
ing lady as one of his Deputy Sheriffs.
Mrs. W. F. Aram, who took an active interest
In the Populist cause during the last
campaign, received the appointment in re-
cognttlon Of her valuable campaign services.
Mrs. Aram contributed to the success of the
local Populist ticket by distributing printed
campaign matter On the trains.
Sheriff White does not intend to assign his
new Deputy to any Of the courts, nor will she
be subjected to the embarrassing work OF
making arrests throughout the county. 1t
will be her sole province to act as an escort
to insane women being taken from Oakland
to the Asylum for the Insane.
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POPULAa

Paris. Paris: 5;::s,'.' II, !. :; MAD. :
leather.
There are fve Sinds Of stiugleae
bees in Central America.
Cold iron has been rolled in Eng
land to an eighteen-hundredth part Oh
an inch, in sheets.
A muchine perfected by John Wenn-
strom drills, through sspphires, dis-
monds and rubies, holes one one
thousandth of an inch in diameter,
The Clark sheep ranch OF MontauS
is conducted by a system of tele.
phones, there being six stations slI
connected with central point.
Attempts have been made lately t9
establish submarine telephone con-
nection between London and Brussels
The results we're not specially en-
couraging.
It is suggested that sounds too higR
for our ears would be recorded by thu
photograph, and might be madd
audible by reproducing at q lower
speed OF the instrument. ;, '''!E"t' tt..
At depth of one thousand feet, Of
the coast of Maine, two strange, fish
have been taken in g trawl net. One
was tho lampris, large sunfsh ofsky
blue, scarlet and snow white the other
the scolar of the Canary islands, e
=
A London inventor has patented .
device for enabling coachmenpr or
drivers to open or close the hoods Of
| victorias, landaus or similar vehicles!
without leaving their seats. Itcon-
| sists of series of link motions CON-
nected by cords running over pulleys.
Few localities are 80 barren OF
fossils as Northeastern New England .
The rocks mainly consist of the old
est strata, 80 netamorphosed by heat,
and pressure that if they ever con-
! tanned any fossils they have been de-
| stroyed. Trilobites OF the Siluriaa
age can, however, be obtained at
Baintree, Mass. . .;,..,4.
The London fogs are very fatal to
the monkeys, which are, without ex-
ception, the most delicate Of all the
creatures in the zoo. Last year.
being free from fog, was not fatal TO
the more delicate monkeys. The pre-
ceding year killed sixty. It seems.
indeed, almost useless cruelty to take
Brazilian and Guianese monkeys to
England. ....,.....
The deepest or gravest tone that it,
is possible for US to hear has thirty
two vibrations per second: the high
est, the shrillest, has about 70,
Mans voice can scarcely 80 below .
sound that gives 164 vibrations per
second, nor woman's voice higher
than 20SS vibrations per second; but
children 60 much higher than that in
rhe shrill cries they sometimes utter.
Iron bolts exposed to the action Of
rain water in bridges over the Thames
have, in twenty-five years, been eaten
away from ON original diameter OF
fve.eighths to one of fye-sixteenths
of an inch, which is reduction In
area of Cross section of seventy-fiva
per cent. President Cochrane, Of the
British Institution Of Mechanical
Engineers, thinks this largely due to
sulphurous acid, as well as csrbonic
acid, washed out of the air by rain.
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Saved the Steamer With Blankets.

The Alabama River steamer Nettie Quill,
for Montgomery. returned to Mobile with
hole in her starboard lide, four by ten feet.
caused by striking snag at Gables Landing,
225 miles above Mobile. A high wind blew
her on to snag, the presence Of which waa
known to tho pilot. The boats nose was
run on tho bank and the cargo and passor.
gers taken ashore. Blankets were stuffed
into the hole, and a bulkhead built, the yes
sci in tho meantime filling and going down
to within eighteen inches OF tho deck. The
weather was very cold, ice forming on the
men engaged in building the bulkhead IN
the water that filled the hold. But for their
efforts thu boat would have been total loss.
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After Fourteen Yeara.

Fourteen years ago the steamboat james
Howard caught fire at tho foot OF Olive
street, st. Louis, Mo-, and sunk III the river
carrying with it safe, which at the time
was said to contain valuables amounting to
$50, 600. A few days ago Captain Joseph l..
John, submarine diver and wracIrr. 10
catsd the wreck and found the sute. IL was
found to contain Il large quantity OF coin,
which had been melted by the fire, aud also
a gold watch. with the name Lena Peters ea-
grsyed on the case.
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TEMPERANCE.
LITTLE DROPS.

LITTLE DROPS
Little drops Of porter. little sips Of stout,
Make the breathing shorter. and will aid the
SOut;
And these slight arrangements Ctrifins
though they bc)
Prompt on other ailments. or some maiady.
I.ittl" dr"ir' Of liquor, little sips Of 'tle;
"r!er' haatins quicker, faces grim and
pale:
axtmrrs a!'rnnlic. W. they what YOU
pir,l2e
Viii iGcr..lo. Il colt, or II iicart disease
Little drops nf Burton. little sips of wine,
Ar" {; SUR. and certain henlth -s!estro yi:lS
sign.
Little drops OF hiIsopp. little drops Of Lass.
TAX" away the senses, aud make I man m
a-:.
Medical Pioneer.
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WANT MEN HANDY WITH GUNS.

The Peculiar Requirements fo- Fedora,
En- ployes in Southern Texas.
Civil Service Commissioner Lyman has
made report to the Commission on his re-
cent Inspection of the Eagle Pass Texas
Customs District the inspection having been
made for the purpose Of making an appllcar
ton of the civil service system to the pecu.
liar requirements Of that district, whore pre-
vention OF smuggling is almost the main
purpose o. Federal employees. He says that
written examinations are not practicable in
this district, and recommends that the Gov
ernment, in selecting employees. should sc.
cure mon o! intelligence. integrity. moral
and physical courage. sufficient knowledge
OF Spanish to converse therein and exper.
ience in the use of firearms and the hanllinG
of cattle
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A yyoman's Novel Stratc.em

Miss Daisy Woolgamst. teacher in the
High School. Millsburg, OHIO, who hns been
dangerously i'll with lung trouble the past
month, adopted novel plan for conciliatins
her father 80 that he would consent to her
marriage with the husband OF her choice,
She refused to take medicine from any one
but this young man, and her father, fearing
that otherwise she would die, finally yielded
She was married to Thomas Leonard while
lying on her bed at the residence OF her
father, the Rev. J. P. Mills.
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TIL OFFICERS PROTESTED.

Tnc TweEty-third Regiment OF Brooklyn
.,mently h"id n fair. ami the beer-brewers OF
thaE city donated" three or four thousand
dollars worth of beer to be sold by the glass
and the proceeds to be given to the reG
ment. It was expected that many young
men would get their first taste OF beor, ind
thrls it would be a good Investment for the
brewers. The officers OF the regiment pro-
sestod that the regiment would have nothing
20 do with it, and declared they would re-
fuse to accept the money that came from tho
sale
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INDIANS PROHIBITED.

The Government OF Canada has prohibited
tnn sale of iDtoxicants = rCng the Indians NJ
HIri,on Bay Territory. and Furnishes severely
acy violation OF this law. For instance. one
vendor had his illicit goods conflscated. and
Wa; imprisoned for three years. The Gov.
e-nmcn. is determined to prevent :hc de-
Gaseman! Of the Indians in its care.
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I.nst NJ the S:1ucElerX,

A man named SlinSsby, the last @; the
s.nusglers, died lately at nearly ninety. in a
worshouse in Kent, England. f.e belonged
to the old race of half piratical smugglers we
read of in Marryat and G. P. r. James. and
figured in the trial ofthe Addington band In
1927, when he escaped prison by turning
State's evidence,