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One of the Joys OF Cycling in Persia.

IT hope you will sleep we'll" said
my host, as he led me to my night
quarters, looking out upon the noun.
tain peaks Just above us and cleaning
white in the moonlight. '.By the way,
I forgot to tell you We usually have an
earthquake about sunrise, but don't
let it disturb you. The shocks have
been very slight lately. and it's sure
not to last long," he added, as he
calmly closed the door and left me to
my slumbers.
Z am not particularly nervous, but
to be suddenly aroused from sleep BY
q loud crash, as if tho house were fsu-
ing about ones ears; to see, in the
gray dawn, brick walls bending to and
fro like reeds, floors heaving like the
deck of a ship, windows rafting,
doors banging, with an accompani-
ment of women and children scream
ing as if the end of the world had
come, is calculated to arouse IN the
boldest man little uneasiness. !
must confess to feeling of that kind
when, about 6 a. m. the following
morning, the foregoing phenonena
took place. As prophesied, it did not
last long-eight or ten seconds at
most, which seemed to me an hour. A
low, rumbling noise, like distant
thunder, accompanied the shock. It
seemed to come from the very bowels
of the earth.
1--WE have them every day." said
my host at breakfast, placidly, "but
one gets used to them" He was
obliged to acknowledge. however,
that the mornings shock was "a little
sharper than usual. Outing. o..
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African Climate.

As for the climate, writes Henry N.
Stanley, describing the development
of Africa, in the Century, it is no
worse than that found elsewhere. In
tropic lands. The heat is not so great
as in India or as it is sometimes in New
York in summer. Fortunately. the
coast-belt on both sides of Africa,
where the heat is greatest, and where
the climate is most unhealthy, is mar
row. In four hours railway train at
ordinary speed would enable us to
cross it, and so avoid the debilitating
temperature. Ascending the sides of
the coast range by the same means OF
CONVEYANCE, we should in two hours
reach a rolling plain which gradually
rises in height from $500 to $500 feet
above the sea. Here the climate IS
sensibly cooler, and the white man
can safely work six hours OF the day
in the open without fear OF sunstroke,
though he must not count on i'm
munity from fever. In some ten to
twelve hours the traveller by train
would meet another steep rise, and
would find himself from 5000 to 5000
feet above the sea, on the broad CEN
trail plateau of the continent, which
varies from 600 to 1000 miles across
1t is in this section that the great
lakes, snowy mountains and tallest
bills are found. Here we have cold
nights and hot sun when the skies
are not clouded, though the air in the
shade is frequently cool enough for an
overcoat; and it ls on the immense up
land that the white man, when COM
PEELED by circumstances, may find q
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Manufacturing Cottonseed OH.

The manufacture of cottonseed-oI
is a recent industry in this country
but it has attained mammoth proper
tions in the brief time IL has been III
existence. The process by which the
oil is extracted is simple, and 1t ls
wonder TINT the method Of making 1t
was not found out many years ago.
The seeds of the cotton when taken to
the mill for oil extraction are soft and
white, and as they lay piled up in the
seed room they resemble discolored
snow banks. From this room, the
small round seeds are drawn by sue
tion through long trough to the mill
proper. As they emerge from the
trough they fall upon iron screens
which separates the dust and dirt
from them. The seeds are covered
with small particles of cotton fiber,
which must be taken of before the oil
can be made, and the next process Of
removing these is called "inting."
These small fibers are saved, and make
"linters' cotton" valuable for certain
kinds of manufacture. It is excellent
for stufing and packing upholstered
articles, and also for cheap grades OF
cloth. On each ton of cotton seeds
about sixty cents are made from the
cotton fiber. After the 'tlinting pro-
cess" the seeds ore carried to another
set of machinery where they are
RAPIDLY hulled. The remainder OF
the seeds are then carried to large
iron ovens where they are steam
cooked for q few minutes. At the
same time pressure of forty to sew
enty pounds to the square inch is
turned upon the mass of seeds. The
work here must be done according to
strict rules, for too much heat might
iniure the seeds permanently. The
huge oil presses then extract the oil, =
pressure from three to five thousand
pounds to the square inch being nec-
essary to get all of the oil out. The
oil gushes out and runs into the
troughs on all sides, and is led away
! by the Ipipes. It is left in the fset-
tling" tanks for five hours, and then
pumped into the tank cars waiting on
the siding. Most Of the mills produce
the oil only in the crude state, and
send it elsewhere to be refined. In
this crude condition it is clear, red.
dish-brown liquid, and has peculiar
oil taste, and distinctive oily odor.
New York Independent. 70. .,.-
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FAINT BESEATH THE CROSS.

The difficulty with average Christians is,
that they faint beneath the cross on the via
dolorosa, the way of grief, and never reach
their Calvary. They do not by faith grid on
strength for the hour when they must be
stretched upon the cross. They shrink from
the torturing spike, and from the spear
aimed at the heart of their self-life. This
betokens weakness OF faith. But when the
promise is graspsd with the grip
of a giant, no terrors, no agontes. can
daunt the soul. In confidence that there
will be after the cruciflxion glorious resur-
reclion to spiritual life and blessedness, the
believer yields his hand to nail, and his head
to the thorn crown. That finty centre OF
the personality, the will, which has up to
this hour stood forth In resistance to the
complete will OF God, suddenly flows down, a
molten stream under the furnace blast OF
divine love, melted into oneness with "the
sweet will of God" After such death
there is always q resurrection unto ne r..
Daniel Steele, D. D., In "Half Hours whilst.
Paul
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THE RESULTS OF no LICENSE.

Brockton. Mass, has built magnificent
CITY Hall at a cost OF $4,000. At its dedi-
cation, Hon. z. C. Keith said:
1.-THE cost Of this building has been more
than saved to the people OF this city during
the seven years last past by the banishment
OF the saloon and the licensed places. by
your votes, supplemented by the action OF
the several boards OF aldermen; and ere this
debt Is paid, four-fold its cost will have been
saved in this direction alone. Is this ail'
This is dealing with the financial aspect only.
How about the physical. moral, and intel.
lsctual interests involved2 Can the value OF
these be computed? Which is the better,
this legacy OF bonds 10 be paid to some ex-
tent by future generation, or the bondage
of ruined lives, besotted parents, and beg
CARED children which otherwise would have
baen entailed9 This building Is to be. the
home Of your representatives who have IN
charge the sacred interests OF this hourish-
ING people. You have conceived, completed
and furnished it as fit temple for noble and
true men, who, in the administration OF
affairs, have it In their power to so promote
the prosperity OF its people that What az
present seem to be burdens shall prove
blessings in disguise"
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LIKE THE SHIP AT SEA.

The most beautiful ship Of the ocean is not
the one of freshest paint, or whitest sails, or
heaviest anchor that has never fuked the
oceans bed; but rather 1t is that monster,
resting at the end Of the stormy voyage,
whose paint has been scraped by the Ice 1t
has tossed back; whose sails have been
stretched and blackened by tempests;
whose decks have been swept by the hurri-
cane that could not engulf its freight of
thousand souls; whose anchor bears signs
of the immense grip it held against hurri-
came and angry seas, below where deep-sea
fishes swim. Every one like that ship, Is
measured by what he endures alone: The
agonies OF Gethsemane were met by the
divinely given strength; ; but even more than
in this angelic ministry the divine character
breathes in those utterly desolate words: my
God, my God, why hast Thou forsaken me?'
No one can give comfort who cannot stand
without it, If necessary. Though all men for
sock Paul, the Lord stood with hind: U.
Mears, u. D., in Inspired Through Suffer-
Ing"
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TEMPERANCE.

WHERE THERE'S DRINK, THERE 5 DANoEh'
Write 1t on the liquor store,
Write II on the prison door,
Write it on the gin shop fine,
Write, aye write. this truthful line: ..
where there's drink, there's Danger.
Write it on the workhouse gate,
Write it on the school boys slate,
Write 1t in the copy book,
That the young may at 1t LOOK:
"Where there's drink, there's danger.
Write it on the churchyard mound
Where the drink-slatn dead are rounu,
Write 1t on the gallows high,
Write 1t for all passers by:
"Where there's drink, there's Danger.
Writeit underneath your feet,
Up and down the busy street,
Write it for the great and small
In the mansion, cot and hall:
"Where there's drink, there's danger"
Write 1t on your ships which sail,
Borne along by steam and gale.
Write It in large letters-plain
Ger our land and past the main:
"Where there's drink. there's danger" !"
Write 1t In the Christians home,
Sixty thousand drunkards roam
Year by year from God and right,
Proving with resistless might ~.
"Where there's drink, there's danger. u"
National Temperance Advocate.
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TWO MIGHTY REASONS.


Tn Giving reasons for his adherence to to-
tai abstinence, Californian lately advanced
these two powerful arguments IN support OF
his course. OF the numerous occasions OF
sin. said he, intemperance is by iar Inc
Greatest. It Is head and shoulders over
Them all. We can make this statement even
stronger. for we are told In no uncertain
tones ~ our Prison Chaplalns, our judges.
and by those In position to know, that
nineteen-twentieths OF the crime Drought 10
their notice Is the direct result OF 1ntemper-
ance. Upon this point that eminent preiate,
Cardinal Manning. says: "lf drunkenness IS
comes all manner of sin. So long as man
Is sober, so long will he resist temptation;
but when he has lost his sense and his Will
there Is nothing he will not do" And with
the full realization these words give US OF
the extent and power Of this greatest OF all
temptations, is 1t not the sensible course 10
steer as clear Of 1t as possible? Have we nor
heard the warning. she that loves danger
shall perish therein" However,, connnent
of our own moral strength, we heed II NOT,
We see not the dreadful examples OF our
brothers who, like US, went forth In the
pride of their strength, and the result Is that
we fall. I am total abstainer because
fully appreciate my own moral weakness
when in the strong arms OF temptation.
Therefore, place the temptation from me,
and the self denial makes ne all the stronger.
Inasmuch as the family Is the unit OF the
social structure, the relation OF intemper-
ance to the family becomes important.
Unfortunately that relation. Is but too we'll
known. Intemperance has been aptly
termed the destroyer Of the family" Who
has not seen the happy home, the peaceful
areside, devastated and laid bare by this
demon Of drink? Will We do nothing to pre-
vent this curse from sapping the very life OF
society-the family? Weigh the question
we'll. On the one side the peaceful home,
the happy family, economy and consequently
the modest bank account On the other,
ruin, despair, shame, poverty the toll OF
lifetime for the benefit OF the saloon keeper.
I have weighed it well-1 an total ao-
cfoiDar
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TO BE RELIGIOUS.

To be religious is not to be seer Of visions
and dreamer of dreams. 1t Is not to be q
dweller on the Mount OF TRANSPORTATION. 1t
is not to be rapt In sweet and serene medita-
ton. 1t Is to be yourself; and, being your
self, to take the nature which God has given
you, and use 1t in his service by using 1t for
your fellow-men. she that hath My COM
mandments. and keepeth them, he it is that
loveth Me-" We all know the Twenty
third Psalm: "Tce Lord Is my
Shepherd; I shall not want;" and he
that can sing it with glistening eyes counts
himself religious. But the Oath Psalm we 40
not know so we'll -
"Who shall. ascend into the hill OF the Lord,
Or who shall stand in His holy place?
He that hath clean hands and pure heart
Who hath not lifted up hissoul into vanity.
Or sworn deceitfully."
But it is more difficult to live the Oath
Psalm than to sing the 23rd ;and 1t just as re-
ligious.-Lyman Abbott, ID.
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THE ST. PAUL FLoATED.
Pulled Out of Her Sandy Cradle on the
Jersey Shore UniDjured.

Pulled Out OF Her SANDY Craoio Oh ehe
Jersey Shore Uninjured.
The good ship St. Paul, all but lost through
winning her race with the big Campania,
was rocked from her cradle Of sand and mud
on the Long Branch CN. J.) beach and went
up the bay to her pier at New York
CITY under her own steam, saluted
on every hand by voc.ferous crafts.
The nine long days On the sand-n1ne DAYS
and nights of strain and rug and haui-left
no marks upon the splendid Steamship
marvel of strength and stability. She was
Examined and declared to be in as fine con-
dition as when she started on her maiden
trip.
She presented magnificent sight just be-
fore she 1oated, as she rolled tmpatlentiy IN
her bed, lurching. rolling and struggling TO
free herself. At this time she had alreaoy
begun to work her propellers. and churned
a muddy, foaming sea about her.
In less than two hours OF hard WORK the
wreckers drew her to the northeast almost
her entire length. Then suddenly tugged
strongly to the east. the big steamer electri-
fed the spectators ashore by swinging grand
Iy around OF an angle into deep water, with
her bow straight toward the oeacn ana nef
stern pointing oceanward.
Enthusiastic cheers rose from the crown
OF watchers who had been waiting IN tfe
sleet and gale to see her pulled of.
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GRAND ARMY COLONY GROWING.
Several Thousand Well-to-Do People al
Fitzgerald, Ga.

There are now between COCO and 1000 per-
SONS at Fitzgerald. Ca, and the Grand Army
colony is growing rapidly. The Georgia and
Alabama Railway brought in one day in Jan
uary more than 500 colonistS. and Mr.. Fitz-
gerald, the organizer OF the movement,
States that there will bo between $4,000 and
10000 people there within the next twelve
months.
The colony already includes persons from
every State in the Union except two. Can
ada also being we'll represented. A careful
investigation shows that many Of the col
onists, all of whom have gone into that Sec
tion within the last five months, are well-to-
do people financially, and that quite num-
Der of them are worth from $50, 600 to $780,
600 each. In this respect it is probably diff
ferent from any great colonization work ever
seen.
Three banks are already organized. and
buildings are under construction for them.
Two local papers have also been established.
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PUBLIC WORSHIP.

Do not allow public worship to degenerate
into a mere saying of your private prayers In
church. Set yourselves against this selfish
and narrowing tendency. Think of the manI
others who are around you at public worship
OF their sins, trials, wants. wishes, mercies,
trying to throw yourself into their case. Too
many Christians 90 to church with this idea
working in their minds. II go to
ask for what 1 myself want and to
give thanks for what l myself have
received. and do not busy myself with other
people" Then you might as we'll stay ut
home. The closet is the place for pouring
out the heart to God and laying down the
secret burdens at the throne of grace. The
church is tho place for the inter communion
of saints with one another and OF all with
God.--E. NJ. Goulburn.
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EXPERIENCE.

There is nothing on Gods earth that grows
rank sooner than an experience 1t Is
principle, universally true. that the more
delicate thing is and the more finely organ,
lied, the more directly it will decay and fall
to pieces when once it is parted from the root
from which it sprang. The perfume will
eyaporate from a rose and its fragrance
turn into offence almost as soon as 1t has left
the stalk. There is no limit to the meaning
contained in all this, and it lies
down closely at the level OF our need.
Good things require to be made over aud
over and everlastingly reduplicated. The
fresh river must incessantly draw on the
young rivulets that incessantly trickle from
the hillside. Christian JOY that we call ours,
but that does not bear the stamp OF today,
Is not an experience, but relic and an an
tiquity; and no more our own personal pos
session than though it had occurred in a
prior generation.-C. H. Parkhurst. D. D.
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ADVERTISED AND GOT A WIFE.
The Newspaper Grew Old Under Carpet
TIL the Bride Found 1t Cleaning House.

AS the result Of an advertisement published
in paper at New Brunswick, n. j., nearly
a wear ago, w. /. Smith, a farmer, living at
SpainvilIe, Nottoway County, Va, gained
wife few weeks ago.
Last April Robert Carson, Postmaster s',n eroI ot
New Brunswick, received letter iroln
smith ASKING him to publish ip some paper
an enclosed advertisement for wife.
A family named Simmons. who had LIVED
for many years on Georges road. near Nsw Uo.
Brunswick ,movedto Newark In the fail OF 1879.
With them they took a number of old papers,
which they used to place under the carpets;
About New Years Day servant girl named
Annie Norton took up the carpet and hap
pened to see the advertisement. In spirit
of fun she wrote to Smith, admitting that
she had no money, but would like com
Portable home. Smith telegraphed her 70
send on her photograph and references.
After seeing these Smith came on, met the
girl and decided that she would do. he IN,
duced her to return with him, and be ana
she, married and happy, are now living on u
small iarm near Spainyille.
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sTUyrED BY SALOONS.

A recent press despatch from Des Moines,
Iowa, states:
''The return of the saloon has been disas.
trous TO prosperity. There are hundreds OF
empty houses here, business is stagnant,, e1-
cept in the dram shops, and the population,
instead OF reaching 10000, as was expected.
and as doubtless would have been the case
had prohibition continued. is shown by the
State census to be lowering In the neighbor-
hood of 81, 900. an increase OF about 1000 in
the last five years, as against an increase i oi
1900 In the preceding five years OF solid
nrohibition. business men. who clamored
for saloons as the best method Of making
city Of Des Moines. see the sudden stoppage
Of immigration OF the best classes from the
small towns OF the State. and from other
parts of the country, yet are apparently
ioath TO admit the error which led them into
the great mistake OF lowering the civic tone
OF our municipality. You may looNor IAN an
uprising against the saloon, as soon as the
leayen OF ad2er<ity permeals the community,
and brings 1t to the point OF action"
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A crystal Is sometimes formed in the en-
brace Of bowlder of granite. TO clear 1t OF
Its rough enclosure and to brin e its beautiful
fncets to the light, nature submerges 1t in
deep waters. skaters it by tempests. ani
abrades it by contact with stones and mud
and the rubbish of the sea. Thus redeemed
soul Is, by the plan OF God. Immersed IN the
c,r.s trials. an usefulness Of world OF
sin. 50 that b. sheer resistance o! evil, and
abrasion with depravity. it may b, polished
to the transparent image OF Him who made
IL -Austin Phelps,
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TT MAKES A DIFFERENCE.

The mortality experience OF the United
Kingdom and General Provident Institution,
of London, from 1866 to 1898, inclusive,
shows the following comparative aggregate
results: o.
Total Abstinence Glass, Expected Claims
Policies, 68ll. Sums assured, s6:a4aoOV'
AclIal C!aims-Policies, 4l3l. sums as
General Glass, Expected Clains-Policies,
s4A;. Sums assured, Ss,9l2,29S. Actual
Clat ns-Pollcies. 1906. Sums assured Ss'-
74O, 200.
A. .tual claims in total abstinence class,
onl, seventy per cent. of the expected. while
In the general class they amount to ninety
eight per cens. of the expected.
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STRAY SHOTS AT THE SALOON.

Lend 4 hand to close the bar-rooms
The saloon Is an open gate to perdition.
Beer is never as fat as the man who
drinks it.
Whisky has been called the dynamite OF
civilization"
The bottle slays infinitely more people
than the battle.
Drink first dims, then darkens. ssen dead
ans, then damns.
No man Is strictly sober who has taken in
toxioating liquors.
What young man earns in the daytime
goes into bis pocket. what hespends at night
goes into his character.
The natural effect OF one glass OF grog Ia to
create q desire for more.
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The Bethlehem (Penn.) Iron Company mas
Just completed feat In steel manufacture
which No other works in this country can
equal 1t Is the turning out and delivering
within two weeks Of a steel conneeting ROD
of intricate design, weighing ten thousand
pounds. The rod is for thu Saale, Of the
North German Lloyd Line, which broke ner
connecting rod on the last eastward passage.
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retary of Agriculture J. Sterling Morton
takes an optimistic view Of the outlook Tor
agriculture during the present year. In his
opinion normal crops for 1886 may be ex-
pected.
possibilities OF farm production during
the year 1885," he said, ''must depend very
largely, of course, upon the amount OF hu-
midity In the soil Of the great agricultural
sections OF the Union.
"It is, perhaps. not generally known that;
the rainfall Of the United States, as wnole,
for the past five years, and IN some local
tiles for longer period: has been deheien..
In some sections OF the Union this deficiency
has been continuous. In others 1t has been
broken by one or more years Of average or
excessive rainfall.
"There was a wet period extending from
1881 to 1885. It was followed by four years
of scarcely normal rainfall-1s86 to 1889, and
one year (1s90) Of deficient rainfall. Thus
we have total Of five years below normal.
Deficient rainfall for the five years end
Ing with 1890 extended over tine States Of
North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Wis
consin. Iowa, 1llinois, Indiana; Northern
Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi,
Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, Kansas, Mis-
soun and other States to the westward.
"Denudation of the forest lands OF the
country Is no doubt one Of the principal
causes of drought. The State Of New York,
II it permits the destruction of the forests OF
the Adirondacks or fails to conserve Its wood
lands generally, will be In state OF drought
compared to which all former droughts WILL
appear mild and inconsequential.
MISREPRESENTATION should prompt every
good citizen In each State to conserve trees
and to plant them. Agriculture and hort1'