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..EMpERAScE NEWS AND NOTES.

In one year over a million dollars worth
Of property was destroyed by the failures OF
beer-drinking engineers and switchmen.
Twenty-one temperance associations have
been formed in Inuia during the pnst winter.
with an enrolment Of a000 new members.
I cannot consent. rs your Queen. 10 take
revenue from that which destroys the souls
and bodies OF my bjects.-Qucen OF NADIA
gascar.
For every dollar paid the school to cult
vate the intellect Of this country, 80 are paid
the saloon to blight this intellect. George
w. Bair.
The W. C. T. U. OF Fremont, Neb., are
said to have paid in full for their Temper
auce Temple, which was built at cost Of
$4,000.
Drinking is like dreadful plague bring.
ing misery and ruin to whole Nations and de-
stroying countless men and women in body
and soul.
My indignation at the havoc made by the
drink trade and my sorrow over the miseries
Of our people are deeper as grow older
Cardinal Manning.
believe the liquor traffic to be tie direct
or indirect cause Of very large part OF the
pauperism, crime and insanity Of the coun-
try.-Hon. Elijah A. Morse.
An Ohio man says that peeled raw Irisi,
potato, dipped into ice walter and sucked
when one feels inclined to take drink. vii,
cuce the most confirmed dipsonaniac. --
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A TRUMPET CALL.

On O bright September day traveller en-
tered Scottish city. 1t was tbronged with
people who surged along the sidewalks, and
were only kept from trampling on each other
BY the effects OF a detachment OF soldiers
from Highland regiment.
In front Of a large hotel stood two trum-
peters, waiting for the signal to sound their
trumpets. Men in long black robes moved
hither and thither others watched the hands
of the clock rs they crept toward the hour OF
eleven. The traveller asked a spectator the
meaning of all this. He replied: This is
the autumn circuit court day. The judges
are in that hotel. The hour of judgment Is
approaching; when it comes, the trumpets
will sound and the judges will move to their
seats"
The looked-for hour arrived-the long,
loud trumpet blast rang through the city;
the busy throng started at the solemn sound: {:
the hour OF Judgment had come. No doubt
that trumpet peal startled the prisoners In
their cells, for it told them that the time had
arrived when they must face the judge, and
stand their trial. and receive acquittal or con-
demnation. The circuit court day was
solemn day to them; day of hopes and
fears, of dread forebodings to the guilty and
of cheerful expectations to the innocent.
There is another judgment scene which you
and shall behold, another dread tribunal
which shall be established, another solemn
summons which shall be issued to the sons
of men, another trumpet call which we
must hear. For "God now commandeth all
men everywhere to repent because he
hath appointed day IN which he will
Judge the world in righteousness, by that
man whom He hath ordained; whereof He
hath given assurance unto all men that He
hath raised him from the dead." And when
the day comes. and Jesus Of Nazareth, the
Babe of Bethlehem and the Man of Calvary,
shall be seated on the judgment throne, be-
fore Him shall be gathered all nations, and
He shall separate them as a shepherd d.
videth the sheep from the goats.
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CURIOUS FACTS.

The width of the Suez Canal is 825
feet.
The worlds railroads reach 4O6, 466
miles.
The modern system of fortifcation
was adopted about 1900.
Women are not permitted to be
photographed in China.
Immersion in sand, mud or water
preserves wood for many centuries.
Every true Mohsumedan endeavors
to make at least one journey to Mecca.
A Minnesota man has sued barber
for $500 damages for running his
beard.
The length of the adult American
wildcat is about three feet, of the tail
seven inches.
There's an eighty -seven-year-old
man in Eastport, Me-, who is learning
to ride q bicycle.
Tobacco seems to grow everywhere
in this country. 1t is produced in for
ty-two States and Territories.
At Fort Yuma, Arizona, the ther-
mometer frequently stands at 115,
and when it drops to 100 the people
put on their winter fannels.
A man in Unionville, Mo-, claims
that saltpetre is an infallible cure for
snake bite, and cites personal expert
snce in support of his claim.
About 1641 the apron was IN indis-
pensable part of every lady's dress.
It was made of all sorts of costly ma
terials and was generally bordered
with fine lace.
A girl baby born the other day in
Kokomo, Ind, is the fourteenth daugh-
ter of fourteenth daughter of four
teenth daughter, record which Is
thought to be unprecedented.
In South China the chopsticks are
taxed, and man who can prove that
he has no chopsticks-that is, no re-
liable means of subsistence-may plead
exempt from the capitation tax.
A piece of the Charter Oak Tree Of
Hartford, Conn.,, is to be made into a
table, on which it is proposed to have
the Governor of Utah sign the first
bill passed by the Utah Legislature.
Japanese stockings are made with q
separate compartment for the big toe.
as the fastening of the sandal comes
between that and the next. Few
working people wear stockings at all.
Count Paul Chandon de Briailles,
who died recently at Epernay, France,
organized at his own expense an am
bulance service of 600 beds during the
war of 1870, thus saving Epernay from
the seventies of the German invasion.
A rattlesnake FIVE feet long and hav-
ing fourteen rattles was killed on
Mount Washington, in the Berkshire
Hills the other week. The man who
killed it claims he has killed twenty.
six other rattlesnakes in that vicinity
recently.
Ex-President Harrison has a double
in one of his personal friends, General
A. d. Beech, of Wheeling, W. Va.
His figure and features, even to his
eyes and the color of his hair, make
him almost the counterpart of MIR.
Harrison.
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RELIGIOUS READING.
"TuERE SHALL DE NO NIdHT THERE.

SHALL BE No SltaI IhEnE.
SIT is heaven becauseit it is beyond the reach
Of thought. When 1 say, There shall be no
night there can your utmost effort grasp
such q condition Of things? When I add.
There shall be no tears there have you the
dimmest apprehension OF what the words
mean? Human language has no terms In
which to convey the truth about 1t; and
human thought has no appliance by which it
can be comprehended. We have certain
hints, but nothing more.
There is an old rabbinical legend, and it
runs thus When Joseph was prime minister
to Pharaoh, during the period Of the famine,
he empted the chaff of his granaries into the
Nile. 1t floated far away on the moving cur
rent, and the people on the bank at dis
tance saw it. 1t was only chaff. but it meant
that there was corn in plenty somewhere.
Chaff always means corn; and yet the chaff
Is worthless. You could not persuade these
people that they were mistaken. They were
suffering the pangs Of hunger, and supposed
that the famine extended throughout the
country, and that everybody was as hungry as
themselves. But that floating chaff was
revelation. They were sure that If their
strength would enable them to reach the
point at which it had been thrown into the
river, they would find plenty for themselves
and their famishing families. The parallel
ism is faulty in many respects but imperfect
as it is. it serves my purpose"
''You mean" said, somewhat hastily, for
I saw the DRIFT of his argument, "that the
thought Of heaven implies the existence OF
heaven"
Somewhat more even than that, my son."
he replied; .'the existence of heaven is fact
conceded. What it is, and what will be our
occupation there-we get glimpse of these
things in strange ways. Adown the stream OF
time come floating TO our hearts doors GER
tain dreams of bliss-reunion with those we
loved and lost the longing for rest; the in
stinctive assurance that when We are freed
from the handicap Of flesh and disease We
can develop dormant faculties and satisfy
ungratihed desires for holiness. The race, as
a race, has enjoyed these hopes since it first
began to struggle. They are the chaff; but
the corn, which is higher up the stream. in
the granaries of God, will be ours In the by
and by.-Rev. George 4. Nepworth.
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MISTAKES ABOUT DRINK.

T want to speak to YOU about this drink
and to point out to you the mistakes you and
others are apt to make.
First. You say 1T does you good" This
is a decided mistake. Calculate honestly,
by the month Of the year, all the good and
all the evil 1t has done you, and you will find
that. instead OF really doing you good, it has
done you q great deal Of harm.
Second. But you say, That arises from
the abuse and not the proper use Of the
article" Here again you are mistaken. The
abuse arises out Of the use. from Its peculiar
influence upon the human body. Its use al
ways has led and always will lead to abuse.
If thoughtless boys play with gunpowder,
danger is always near, and II men drink
liquids containing spirits they get more
thirsty, become highly stimulated and are
almost sure to get more or less intoxicated.
Third. But you reply, "Whv did God send
these liquors If they were not to be drunk
On this point you are again mistaken. God
never did send them, any more that He sent
gunpowder. swords, Gannons or cannon
balls. Neither barley nor barley-water,
malt nor malt-watcr, the juice OF the grape
nor the Juice of the sugar-cane will produce
the least intoxication in its natural state.
But men take these substances and by
chemical process manufacture them into in
toxicating liquor, and in this state ignorant
people have generally conceived that they
were Gods gifts.
Fourth. You say, "If doctors recommend
these drinks. they must be good" I reply,
not necessarily. Doctors are not always
right. But if they recommend them for
medicine this is pretty clear proof that
they ought not to be taken as beverage.
Reader. in abstaining you are quite safe. and
be assured that the favorable opinion enter
tanned by many of intoxicating liquor Is
great error.-Rev. E. 4. Hall.
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THE EFFECTS OF DRUNKENNESS.

Drunkenness deprives man Of Gods pre-
clous gift Of reason. Reason in man is
spark of Gods intelligence. 1t establishes
the bond of union between man rs creature
and God as his Creator. Drunkenness de-
thrones the reason. and leaves man q prey to
his viiest passions. God made man little
less than the angels: the drunkard makes
himself little less than the bruteS.
Moreover. this horrid vice extends its
bighting curse over man in his other rela-
tions. It is ruin in prosperity, and despair
in adversely. Cowardice. hypocrisy, theft,
cruelty, murder, contempt OF God. and ha-
tired OF man so along with it and follow after
it. Disease of body and imbecility Of mind
are notorious results of drunkenness. Who
ever loves humanity hates drunkenness. -
Rev. Walter Elliott.
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Queen yictoria's EOudoir.

Specially favored visitors were recently
allowed to penetrate Queen Vtctorias bou-
doir at Windsor Castle. Its state has re-
mained unaltered since her Majesty widow
hood On the door is inscribed:
every article in this room my deeply Ia
mented husband selected for me in tho
'twenty-fourth year OF my reign.
The Queens bridal wreath with the first
BOUQUET Prince Albert presented to her, lies
withered within glass case and on every
side are evidences OF the thoughtful devo-
aon Of the Prince Consort to her Majesty
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THEIR OWN GRAVES.

The punishment which follows wrong do
ing is sometimes so evidently just and ap-
propriate that it is natural to speak OF it as
'poetic Justice" The penalty is not only
deserved, but it is so neatly adapted to the
offense as to seem almost ideal, or poetical
In its fitness. Under this head comes an
order OF General Scott's. lately printed in
The Magazine of American History.
General Scott was In command at Rock
Island when the cholera broke out there,
and altar various iljunctions in this order
as to sobriety and cleanliness, he adds this
curious paragraph
I'm addition to the foregoing, the senior
Surgeon present recommends the use OF
flannel shirts, flannel drawers, and woolen
stockings, but the Commanding General
who has seen much Of disease, knows that
it is intemperance which, in the present state
of the atmosphere, generates and spreads
the calamity. and that when once spread.
good and temperate men are likely to take
the infection.
HE, therefore. peremptorily commands
that every soldier or ranger who shall be
found drunk or sensibly intoxicated after
the publication Of this order. be compelled.
as soon as his strength will permit, to dig q
grave at a suitable burying place large
enough for his own reception, as such grave
cannot fail soon TO be wanted for the
drunken man himself or some drunken COM
panion. The order is given as we'll TO serve
for the punishment Of drunkenness as to
spare good and temperate men the labor OF
digging graves for their worthless eompan-
IONS
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THE CAUSE OF CRIME AND PAUPER1sM.

The careful investigation OF the Bureau OF
Labor, in Boston, results in the declaration
that eighty-four per cent. OF all crime brought
before its tribunals was the direct or indirect
fruits of alcohol. Recently grand jury
made this ominous declaration: I'VE find
that in every case of murder or man.
slaughter, except one, the cause, leading 10
the crime, came direct from the saloon"
All studies Of American political economy
force upon US the conclusion that poverty
would scarcely exist, were It not for drink,
and yet our relief societies are over-burdened
with demands. our charitable institutions
are crowded. and our tramps number legions.
Physicians speak with alarm of the numer-
Gus alcoholic cases brought up for treat-
ment, and OF the yet more numerous cases.
in which disease, whatever the form, is made
difficult because Of the alcoholic poison per-
meating the patients frame.
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YOUTH.

Youth is not merely lovely phase Of the
transient years: it is a pervadng quality OF
character: a light in itself. and an inspira-
ton to all surrounding lives. 1t is peren-
nial freshness at the roots OF being: and It's
glow of contagious life shines out often most
radiantly bereath gray hairs and wrinkled
forehead. The tree that has ripened its fruit
through many seasons bursts into spring.
blossoming just as fresh and fragrant as that
which unfoids from the half-grown saplinS
at its side. There are infinite beginnings
bourgeoning out continually from what
seems to us the end. While we live in the
inspiration Of these, wherever and whatever
else we may be, we are young How can
mortals age or youth disturb the thoughts OF
AN inhubitant of the kingdom Of heaven. In
the presence OF Him who is at once the Chllo
that is born to us and the Ancient Of Days;
the Root and the Offspring; the Beginning
and the End the Morning-Star OF every soul?
Lucy LARcoM, in AS 1t Is in Heaven
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The American Cotton Crop.

On June /, the visible supply of cotton in
this country for 1895 was 9,52O,Os5 bales.
This is 2,2l2, 1920 bales more than were indi-
Gated BY the crop at this time last year.
These figures indicate that the entire crop
this season will be no less than $500, 900
bales, an amount that has never, heretofore,
been approached
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Campos In Battle.

While Captain-General Martinez Campos
was en- route in Cuba from Manzanillo to
Buyamo, escorted by detachment o:
troops. large force Of insurgents was mel
with. The rebels comprised the bands o.
Antonio and Jose Maceo and other leaders.
severe battle took place, and the loss on
both sides was heavy. General Santociides
ol the Government lorce, was killed.
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A Drunkard's Series of Crimes.

Joseph hickman, OF PIeasanton, Mo-, shot
his divorced wife through the heart, shot
neiyhbor In tfe arm, and then ran to brush
heap near by and cut his throat from ear
to ear. he was temporarily insane from
t.iuk.
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TEMPERANCE.
4 LITTLE SONG.

4 LITTLE SONG.
Sing song Of siXpence.
You fellow full Of rye;
With not cent to bury YOU
Tomorrow, should you die.
Saloonist in the barroom
Counting out his money;
His wife is In the parlor
With we'll dressed sis and sonny.
Your wife has gone out working
And washing peoples clothes,
To pay for old rye whisky
To color your red nose.
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silver Service for 7

silver Service for Thei- CIty's NaInesake.
A silver service valued at $4,000 WAS pre-
scntcd to the United States cruiser Cincin-
uati, now at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, by Il
delegation of citizens Of Cincinnati.
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Americans Ahroad.

Americans have focked to Europe this
summer in larger numbers than ever before,
and it was difficult to secure return accom-
modations for any time between August !
and September l.
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Furniture Trades Bright Outlook.

The outlook for the furniture trade Is SAL
70 ba brighter now than st any other tims
Turing the past three years.
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You might as we'll try to find the fleece that
Gideon watched, or take in your hand the
dew that came down on the locks OF the
Bethlehem shepherds. or TO find the plume of
the first robin that went across paradise. 1t
is gone-it is gone forever. When an oppor-
tunity for personal repsntalcA or Of doing
good passes away, You may hunt Tor it; you
cannot find it. You may fish for it; 1t will
not take ths hook. YoI may dig for it; you
cannot bring it up. Remsnbsr that there
are wrongs al sins tina: can never be cor
rectei; that our privileges fly not in circles,
but in straight line; that the lightnings
haveaot as swift feet Us our privileges when
they are gone, I'm let IN opportunity Of SAL
vation go by lis au inch-the one-hundreth
part Of an inch, the thou5andth part Of an
inch. the millionth part o: an inch-and no
man can overtake 1t. Fire winged seraphim
cannot come up with it. The eternal Goa
himself cannot catch 1t.
I stand before tlo5o who have glorious
birthright. Esau'S was not 80 rich rs yours.
Sell it once, and you sell 1t forever. l re-
member the story Of the lad on thu Arctic
some years ago-.he lad Stewart Holland.
A vessel crashed into the Arctic in the time
OF a fog, and it was found that the ship
must go down. Some OF the passengers
got off In the life5oats, some got of on
RATS, but 300 went to the bottom. During
all those hours Of calamity Stewart Hol-
land stood at the signal gun and 1t sounded
across the sea-boom, boom! The helms
man forsook his place; the engineer was
gone, and some tainted, and some prayed
and some blasphemeI, and the powder wa:
gone, and they could no more set off the sig
nal gun. The lad broke in the magazine and
brought out more powder, and again the gun
doomed over the sea. Oh, my friends, tossed
on the rough seas Of life, some have taken
the warning, have gone of in the lifeboat,
and they are safe, but others are not making
any attempt to escape. So I stand at this sig
nal gun Of the gospel. sounding the alarm
beware, beware! Now Is the accepted tune
Now is the day of salvation" Hear 1t that
your soul may live.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1895-12-27

prejuiolo y la duds, tienen & vece'
taz6n de ser, y no esposibie venc T
los desde luego, pero al fin la vr
dad sale victorlosa.
In enfermedAd de dicha sefora
era 10 indigestion y dispepsia, Ia
cual lleva tras si dlversas conse-
cuenciss que dejsn perplejos tsnto
& los eIfermos como a los m6dteo os.
Esto 10 eomprendi6 bien, sin m
barge, la buena y saba sonora que
Erepsr6 ell Jarabe que lleya su CO.
nocido = sespetsdo nombre. En-
otras pala1ras, couocia perfscta-
mente qus "enfermedad" signiflca
"mala dlgest!6n," y por consignien-
te, ell poner ei estomago en- debIdo
0rden es poner todo ca ordsp.
La "mala hora de sufrimieU q"
de Ia seforita Msteos no volvit, Y
con ell Jarabe de la Msdre Seige 4
Ia mano, estamos seguros de Cue
no volver5 janas.
BoletiÌn mercantil de Puerto Rico. (San Juan, P.R.) 18??-1918, 1895-12-27

TENEDURLA DE LlBR0S, pei
CAstafoS.
LEY DE ExrRoPIAOI0E
FORzOSA.
OODIeO DE CoMEECIo, "ai.
soa",
gUEvo ooOIao DR JUsTI-
GA MIITAR, AaotadO pOg el
Doctor e. s&nciles do GcAha, re-
c&atoT De Ia "keylntm 90 les TEt-
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OODIGO DE CoMKRCIo, adj,
ol6n De bolsillO.
CODIaO PENAL DE CUBA 7
PUERTO-RIOO.
CODI9O PEN Ill DE CUBA z
PUEBTO-R1CO, por Ia Bibiicseca
Judicial.
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