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German Carp is Unpopular.

If fish dealer depended upon the
sale of German carp for livelihoodhe
would starve in double-quick time.
That particular member of the fish
family is several hundred thousands of
miles away from the pinnacle of popu-
larity, and there is nothing these days
to indicate that it is going to decrease
the distance. German carp are quoted,
wholesale price, ut a penny o pound.
"How in the world do you manage
to make anything out of them?" asked
the inquisitive buyer of the South
Water street fish dealer the other day;
II don't see where it pays to handle
them"
cit really doesn't pay to handle
them, nor does the fisherman who
catches them make a fortune out of
his business" said the fish dealer.
"Just imagine what the fisherman
makes when we are supposed to sell at
q profit at a penny pound. He
wouldn't do right we'll even if he had
q good business. German carp are far
from being entitled to recognition as
fine fish. They are coarse in flesh,
and it is an impossible matter to refine
them. I handle them because there
are some people who buy them from
me. It is not that I sell them for a
reasonable profit, but merely as an ac-
commodation. Chicago Record.
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Temperance News and Notes.


When wine is in, wit is out.
Pots OF beer cost many tear.
The more you think the less you'll drink.
Cultivate your roses, but not your noses.
Those who are often drunk and seldom
sober fall like leaves in October.
Alcoholic drinks have no power to pre-
vent any disease, but they have the power
to cause many.
Through drink said Father Mathew,
"I have seen the stars OF heaven fall and
the cedars of Lebanon brought low"
During Queen Victoria's reign war has
cost 5000, ,465 1923. In one year drink and
its products cost almost double this sum-
1t isn't the drop in tho wages that hurts q
man so much as the drop he takes after
getting his wages. That's what drops him.
Malt liquors render the blood shy and
unfit for circulation, hence proceed OBJ
structiOns and intlammations OF the lungs.
Men who hahitually use Intoxicating
spirits arc more difficult to cure. If bitten by
Il mail dog, than temperate mcn.-Thc late
NJ pastcur.
You pay big money to insure your house
against the fire lleni. Why not put little
money in n eau 81 to insure your son against
the drink ilend?
What's whisky brnging?" inquired q
dealer in the vile stuff. Bringing men to
tho gallows and women and children to-
want" was the truthful reply, ;
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Seek for the Bright Things.

If we would learn the lesson of joy we
must train ourselves to look more at the
blessings of life and less at its trials. Many
persons make gloomy world Of their own
and stay in it. They build the walls Of their
soul house out Of the black stones OF their
troubles and sorrows. They put dark
colored panes in the windows, shutting out
the light. They have no cheerful fire on
the hearth and no bright lamps shining In
the apartments. The only pictures on their
walls are the pictures Of their lost joys.
They never forget their troubles. and can
give you long lists OF their losses and trials,
but they keep no record Of their blessings,
nor do they remember Gods benefits. They
live in gloom in their dark house, simply be-
cause they will not let in Gods glorious
sunshine. They forget that their Father
ever made q flower, star, sunbeam, or
chi!d's sweet face. or even did kindly or
gentle thing for them. Such persons never
can be rejoicing Christians until they re-
verse this habit. learning to forget the un-
pleasant things, as the waters forget the
kcrl's rude cleaving when it is past. or as
the fields in summer forget the frosts OF
winter when the flowers have come again.
There is enough of divine goodness in the
darkest hours Of the Christian life. If we but
have eyes to see il, to keep our heart ever
full of Joy. The secret lies in training our
selves to find tha bright things, and to get
from them the JOY they are meant to give
j. r. Miller D. D.
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The World an Inn.

In the anecdotc books Of our boyhood used
to be told the story Of an Indian fakir, who
entered an Eastern palace and spread his
bed in one of it's antechambers, pretending
he had mistaken the building for caravan
sary or inn. The prince, amused by the
oddity of the circumstancS ordered, so ran
the tale, the man to be brought before him,
and asked how he came to make such
q mistake. What is an inn?" the
fakir asked. "A place where travellers
rest little before proceeding on their
journey" was the reply. who dwelt
here before you?' again asked the fakir.
"NIy father" was the reply OF the p rince.
"And did he remain here?' NO, he died
and went away" And who dwelt here be-
fore him p His ancestors" And did
they remain here then?" mo, they also
died and went away" "Then, rejoined
the fakir, 81 have made no mistake, for
your palace is but an inn, after all. The
fakir was right. Our homes are but inns,
and the whole world a caravansary.
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A PRAYER for Stability.

We are wayward and changeful, o Christ;
our feelings ebb and flow like the tide.
Sometimes We think we could die with thee,
then We are on the point of denying. Help
us to dwell apart from the life OF mere
emotion. Enable us to live in our will,
inspired and energized by thy spirit working
in us to will and do Of thy good pleasure.
Take US as we present ourselves to thee
soiled and dusty with the sin OF the day.
Cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
Let thy grace pervade our hearts
as the scent Of Marv's ointment
filed the chamber. Calm our feverish haste,
hush our complaining murmurs. Smooth
out the lines which have gathered on our
careworn faces. Wipe away the traces OF
our tears. Bend over us rs mothers do over
children that are fretful because they are
tired. Go over the days work. Make per-
feet It's imperfecton. Undo its mistak kes, ,un-
twina its tangles Strike the true chord OF
it's broken notes. Make up to us what we
need, but fail to ask, since we plead for thy
names sake. Amen.
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AS one walks in Yokohama and To-
kio through a multitude of narrow
streets lined with tiny buildings,
writes a correspondent of the San
Francisco Chronicle, the foreign and
characteristic air lent to the scenes
presented comes from the fact that in
each separate little open shop some
single workman, like bee in his cell,
in a way so different from our Western
method, is busily plying his trade.
When I had dissembled my wonder
at seeing the dressmaker holding one
end of his seam with his toes; had re-
turned the polite bow of a young
cooper who was skillfully utilizing the
same members in his binding of tubs
with vegetable withes instead of
metallic hoops, and had watched with
admiration the wondrous way in which
basket-maker was helped out by his
ingenious combination of ambi and
pedal dexterity, I suddenly felt new
wish. I wanted to see these quiet
and clever working people at home in
their houses as they actually live.
Then it was explained that all the
little shells of open shops lining the
narrow streets and roadways were
likewise the veritahle habitations Of
the humanity about me. I soon saw
that this was true, and was ever
thereafter fascinated by the endless
glimpses of interiors and studies Of the
home life of the common people.
There may be one room or two in
the small domicile; commonly a second
room exists behind the first. A very
small separate kitchen may or may
not be a part of the establishment.
The culinary operations are so simple
in character and the utensils so
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Common Blessings Remind Us of God.


We need to keep an opener eye and ear
to earnestly set ourselves to do SOTO ua;ch
the lights Of higher meaning and bear the
tones Of finer and diviner harmonies in life
and nature. 1t is not hard to do. 1t does
not mean any straining Of the mind. though
it does mean earnest, quiet thought. Life
is so full of things in which the tender
mercfulness OF God comes near us: in
which our little stroke OF effort brings
blessing out of all proportion, telling Of u
larger Will than ours at work in things.
What is your part in this wonderful sleep?
Have you caused this to be2 What have
you done towards this daily bread-these
commonest mercies OF our household life?
The most that you have done has been
some final touch to gracious secret forces
that have been working with scope which,
when you think Of it. seems intlrite. This
eye with all the wonderful machinery OF
sight; this ear. with its marvellous sus-
ceptibility to sound {; this mind and life to
which eye and ear are but avenues OF that
thought which Is the crowning mystery OF
all will you use these from day to day with
out any tender, grateful thought of that
deep, gracious life and meaning in the
world which causes them to be? Our wis
dom is to try that more and more Of lifes
common blessings may thus touch us as re-
mindings Of God. A thankful heart, which
once begins to think this way, will feel that
Divine mercifulness touching life with its
subtle vsitations score of times day
Brooke Herford, D. D., in sermons OF
Courage and Cheer"
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limited that but few feet of space at

limited that but few feet of space at
best are needed to contain them.
The partitions being in the form of
sliding panels, all may be thrown into
the shop during the day or otherwise,
as elected. So in this country the
worker is still at home to great ex-
tent while he plies his trade, and
factory, stock of goods and shop, as
we'll as dwelling place, are all under
one roof and appertain to one man.
Down at the hatoba, or dock, in Yo-
kohama gangs of japanese coolies load
and unload the steamers in leisurely,
semi-desultory, casual and happy man
ner all their own. Not bag or bale
could they lift without their accom-
panying song Of:
Yoi-toe cor-ah sai-ya,
Hoi-toe cor-ah sai-ya.
For just when the heavy emphasis
comes two men sling the weight on to
the shoulders of third, who trots off
with it, and the next two wait for the
chorus to come around again to the
right syllable before they proceed as
before. 1t is jolly, musical and quaint
in the extreme. If the back of the
overseer is turned for moment all the
Industrious laborers will sink on their
heels and light their pipes, which look
like penholder with an infnitesimal
thimble bowl at the end.
At the other side of town are the
great tea-firing go-downs, redolent,
blocks away, of the subtitle herb. In
side, in rows, are the big firing caul-
drons, with charcoal fires beneath, and
filling the place all up and down are
the lines of women with towels wrapped
about their heads, swaying, bending,
sometimes rhythmically, sometimes
spasmodica!ly, stirring vigorously with
hands and arms among the hot tea
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Liuuor Retards Dicestfon.

Many physicians agree that heav5
thinkers eat but little. In those accus1
toned to the use of fermented drinks dfi
gestion is slower. II we habitually drink
water we are always hungry in three or fou1
hours after eating. Some reason from this
that alcoholic drinks are nourishing, while
water is not. The truth seems to be that
the system impregnated with alcohol is Id
morbid condition. Obesity, gravel
rheumatism and other ailments often rel
suit. Messrs. Chittenden and Mendel, Of
Yale University, have demonstrated BY
test tube experiments that fermented
drinks retard the chemical processes of d.
gestion. Experiments have also conclu.
sively proved that in twenty days the same
number of men can do much more WORK
when drinking water than when they drink
vine, beer and brandy. For the first six
lays they accomplish more with the strong
liquors, showing its stimulating first eff
fects, but 1t has been conclusively proved
that in the longer time the man fed with
water gives out more energy. Water is the
natural drink, while wines, under the ad.
vice of q competent physician, are very
valuable additions to the pharmacopeia.I
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
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DeHectinp a Thief by Smell.

Abyssinia, the oldest monarchy in
the world, had much the same govern
ment, laws and customs three thou
sand years ago that it has now. One
of the most curious of these is that Of
"thief-snelling."
When a robbery has been committed
and is reported to the Lebashi, who
answers to the Chief Of Detectives in
New York, he compels one Of his sub
.ordinates to drink decoction made
from plant which throws him into q
state of something like that produced
by hashish or opium-smoking before
the stupor While thus intoxicated
the detective is supposed to have
supernatural power of smelling
thieves. The method of utilizing this
power, described by the Abyssinian
traveller, DR.. Knapp, consists of tying
stout rope around the detectives
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their chopsticks in small lacquered
bowls and square wooden boxes of
cooked rice, and drinking tea from cups
like good-sized thimbles. Besides the
dressmaker and tailor, the cooper and
the basket-maker are other artisans
pursuing their avocations in quite as
queer ways. The carpenter hacks at
his boards with sort of rough adze or
stands on them and saws them with
what looks like q notched butchers
knife set in long handle, or planes
them carefully toward him. The man
in the rice mill ignores belts and
wheels and machinery generally, and
jumps all day on the end of
a plank, a cog or weight in the other
end of which pounds away at the
grains. The lantern-makar and the
umbrella maker sit patiently tying and
pasting their frail wares, the stock in
trade slowly piling up, day by day, be-
hind them. Lonely men, each in his
little booth, make the thick straw mats
or sections of flooring for the native
houses. Boys work deity, tossing
shuttles back and forth that weave or
tie the bamboo window blinds.
watched an actual boy with warts
on his hands, at work alone in an
open doorway, on a great square of
pale blue silk on which he was en-
broidering without model or copy the
most exquisitely shaded pink roses.
Little girls sitting on the floor hem
stitched silk handkerchiefs and made
the fragilely beautiful drawn and en-
broidered grass-linen work. A couple
of blue men, with hawk noses and
severe countenances, like American
red men gone wrong color, bobbing
about among their indigo watts, will be
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all are slowly and steadily increasing,
and the explanation is that the wants
of life are on the increase, meat is be-
ginning to be eaten, wool is coming to
be liked for clothing, some simple lux
uries are now understood and desired,
and so the time is to come when the
workingman of Japan is to have rather
more of the conveniences and neces-
saries of life to buy, and considerably
more money with which to purchase
them. At least that is considered the
trend of affairs at present.
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leaves. Scattered here and there among
them is man or boy. Presently a
song starts up, and titfully pulsating
throughout the great buildingit echoes
in sort of primitive or elemental wild
harmony from all the jerking figures,
tightening aud facilitating labor.
All workers, at whatever trade, are
given III the middle of forenoon, and
afternoons ,as at noon, an interval for
resting and eating, and many babies
on the backs of small brothers and sis
ters wait about the ea-tiring places
that at the regular hour, they, too. may
partake of relreShmeut.
This interval of res: is so elastic in
its application that there seems hardly
On hour of the day when one group or
smother OF 'ricksha men hy the road
side, of boatmeu in the canal, of coolies
in the go-down compounds OF of crafts
men in the shops may not be seen
gathered, seated on their heels about
the little charcoal freboxes, r.. \g
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SntIrp EMIL of Life.

The woods at first convey the impression
Of profound rep0se. and yet. If you watch
their ways with open ear. you find the life
which is in them is restless and nervous as
that Of Il woman. the little twigs are cross.
ing and twining and separating like slender
fingers that cannot be still: the stray leaf
is to be llattencd into its place like truant
curl; the limbs sway and twist, impatient
of their constrained attitude: and the
rounded ma. scs Of foliage swell upward
and outside from time to time with long.
soft signs. and. it may be, the falling Of
few rain-drops which had lain hidden
among the deeper shadows.-O. w. Holmes
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No Tipping in the Pension Bureau,

Hon. II. Clay Evans, United States Com.
missioner Of Patents, has issued an order
requiring employees Of the Pension Bureau
to abstain from the use of Intoxicating
liquors, not only during Office hours, but al
all other times, under penalty Of dismissal
from the service. Commissioner Evans
holds that the man who takes into1icants
at night is not in q fit condition to do any.
thing requiring intelligent brain work the
next day. This example may be followed
by other departments and governments.
It would injure no one but the saloonkeeper,
who thrives on the patronage Of civil SER
vice employees.
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GODS MESSAGE TO MAN.
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS.

70 Bear Thee Ever in It's Sight. on
blessings Are Great Reminders Seek
for the Right Things Prayer for Stp
bility-WorId an Inn Full of Life.
HOW every tempting form Of sin,
Shamed in thy presence. disappears
And all the glowing, raptured soul
The likeness it conteluplates wears!
o, ever conscious to my heart,
Witness to its supreme desire,
Behold, it presseth on to thee,
For it hath caught the heavenly fire!
This one petition would it urge
TO bear thee ever.in its sight,
In life, in death, in worlds unknown,
Its only portion and delight!
-Doddridge.
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waist and allowing him to crawl up
and down the village street, the free
end of the rope being held in the hand
of the Lebashi.
Whenever the thief-smeller enters a
house it's master is at once convicted
of the theft without further evidence.
The person who has been robbed is
sent for and made to swear to the
value of the stolen property, and this
value must be paid at once by the
owner of the house to which the scent
has led the able detective.
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Enlisted Strength OF the Army.

According to officers Of the War Dc
partment, the present enlisted strength of
tho army is now nearly up to the full num-
Der allowed by law and can be easily
maintained without any unusual activity
on the part of the recruiting officers. The
material now secured is of higher stand
ard than tho army has ever had and owing
to the regulations designed for the CON-
fort and happiness Of enlisted men, tho
Department predicts that this year will
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A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.

Inventory of a Drunkard-Hospital Rec
ords in New York City Show That tho
People Are Learning the Folly and
Danger Of Using Alcoholic Beverages.
hut Of logs without door,
Minus a roof and ditto floor,
clapboard cupboard without crooks,
Nine children without shoes or frocks,
wife that has not any bonnet
With ribbon bows and strings upon it,
Scolding and wishing to be dead,
Because she has not any bread.
A teakettle without spout,
A meat cask with the bottom out,
"comfort" with the cotton gone
And not a bed to put 1t on;
handle without an axe, i
A hackle without wool or fax,
A pot lid and wagon hub,
And two ears Of q washing tub.
Three broken plates Of different kinds,
Some mackerel tails and bacon rinds;
A table without leaves or legs,
One chair, and half a dozen pegs,
One oaken keg with hoops Of brass,
One tumbler made OF dark green glass,
A fiddle without any strings,
A gunstock, and two turkey wings.
readers OF this inventory,
Take warning by It's graphic story;
For little any man expects, ~.
Who wears good shirts with buttons on EN-
Ever to put on cotton or checks, ..-
And only have brass pins to pin 'em.
'Tis, remember, little stitches VI
Keep the rent from growing great;
When you can't tell beds from bitches,
Warning words will be too late. '.... +,
Alice Carey.
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The Self Satisfied without Zest.

Life has no zest when it has no realization
of the unattained. The man who knows all,
who has all, and who is entirely self-suff-
cient has never had the satisfaction Of COM
ing into ideal possession of the splendnr of
the Infinite he has never reached out and
taken hold of the beyond. Let us praise
God for the unmeasured and unclaimed.
In this is our stimulus to activity. our
promise of growth and our sufficient reason
for ing.--Churchmnn.
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Sale OF IN Educated Horse.

Jim Key, Il marvelously we'll educated
iorse, owned by DR.. William Key, Il highly
respected colored man Of Shelhyville, Tenn,
and which is Oh exhibition at the Centcn-
aial Exposition for two months, has been
,oId to U. G. Duffleld, of New York, for
s1O, 900 and shipped to thnt city. Dir. Key
devoted seven years to teaching and train
ing the horse,
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T don't see how

various avocations. T don't see how
one of these men can have any secrets
from his wife or escape her society on
the plea that business will detain him
at the store. If business did, he would
probably find her there before him, as
much at home as in the kitchen or
nursery, which apartments, in truth,
seem to be pretty well done away with;
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Hundred Dollars Apiece For Walnut Trees

James A. Anderson made the largest
purchase of walnut timber last Wednes-
day ever made in this section Of the
State. He bought of j. G. Hamilton,
on Flat Greek, 100 choice trees out Of
about ITS trees on his farm for S1100.
This timber will be exported to Eu'
rope.-Owingsville (Ky.) Democrat.
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NATIONS POPULATION 77,ooo,oes.
Official Estimate is Made by tho Actuary
of the Treasury.

Official Estimate Is Made by tho Actuary
of the Treasury.
The latest official estimates Of the popu-
lation Of the United States is 77,000,066.
This is made by the Actuary Of the
Treasury, an officer whose duty it is, at
fixed intervals, to report on the per capita
circulation Of money in the, United States.
He estimates that the present holdings Of
money arc 522.53 for every man, woman
and child in the United States.
His estimate of the population is made
by the use Of the census reports for the
preceding decade. Certain fixed rules OF
increase by birth and immigration and
provision for deaths and other losses are
made, and the resultant estimate is &C
cepted as official.
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EDO you think you can accustom
yourself to Klondike cooking?"
"Why not? My wife took the first
prize at Vassar for her paper-weight
biscuits. ."-Cleveland Plain Dealer.