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that sincerely wishes for health will tone up
with our BEEF, IRON AND WINE WITH
'ELEKY, which is 6 mild tonic, gently slim
ulating and very %palatable. lie will find
how quickly strength returns and he will
soon have the necessary "bsck bone" TO re-
turn to business with. This remedy, which
is prepared by US as carefully as a preScrip-
ton would be, we specially recommend for
persons whose powers of digestion are weak
and who suffer from nervousness.
E. S. LEADBEATER & SONS.
Druggists, Established 1872
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MEETINGS.

AN ADJOURNED MEETING of the
IA stockholders of the ALEXANDRIA IN
SURANCE COMPANY will be held on
TUESDAY, February IA, 1899, at T:50 p.
M. in the rooms of the Business Mems
League. Business of importance.
feh9 3t GEORGE WISE, Secretary.
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FRIDAY EVENING. FEB. 10, 1899.
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"a l.. JOHNSON & CO.,
EHCIE5ALE dRN ERs,
GESLRAL COMMISSION SERCHANTs,
and Dealorz "a
LII KINDS OF LIQUOBS.
Fave on SUD Gibscn's Xxx, XXX, xxx
and pure Old Rye, Old Cabinet and Monogram
Whiskios also Bakers and Thompson's Pure
Rye Whistles, to which they invite tie atten,
ton of the trade.
Order5 from the country for mercantile
shall receive prompt attention.
C~onsignments Of Flour, Grain and Country
Produce solicited, for which they guarantees
the highest market prices and prompt returns.
n. E. corner Cameron and Royal streets.
W. a. SHOOT. G. s. yRENGE.
WA. sMooT, JR.
w a. sMOOT & co,
o0AL, aALT AID PLASTER,
AsxandTi2, We.
O-Gdcs-srnoo.'s wharf.
Special aSsenIon paid 70 forwarding.
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near, the town in a meadow probably
by the stream, and live in and under
the wagon during the Nachtmaal,
cooking for themselves the food they
have brought along. The congrega-
ton gathers, during this time, day
and evening. Their neighbors meet
between whiles and gossip and per-
haps transact little business. They
would not belong to the human family
if, of course, the lads and lasses did
not walk and talk and court and e1-
change vows. These are the great
outings, the picnics, of the year, and
small tradesmen and peddlers are on
hand with knickknacks and trumpery
to sell to the young folks, so that,
outside the services, the meeting is a
kind of fair Sometimes also there
may be a wrestling match or jumping
match between young men, in which
all, old and young, will take deep
interest.
So the Boer farmer and hunter rur-
sues his even way, as his people have
ever done, and if what he considers
the accursed gold had never been
found in his land, he might so pursue
it to the end of the chapter. 1t is to
be feared, however, that foreign
capital and railroads and telegraphs
and lightning-rod agents have broken
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The Boys Got Scared.

As a result OF the recent visit OF DR..
Crothers (edltor Of the Journal OF Inebrl-
ety. to Butte, Mont, whittier he was called
to give expert testimony In case before
the courts, the saloon keepers OF that city
report perceptible decrease in their cash
receipts. So says leading liquor organ.
The doctor, 1t Is stated, drew such dis
nal picture OF the dangers OF alcoholism,
declaring that ,every man who had once
been drunk Is never afterward perfectly
sane, that the boys have got scared and
have been thinking In double shifts" The
anti liquor forces would make much more
rapid strides toward victory II there were
more such specialists as DR.. Crothers IN
the field to testify by voice and pen to the
true nature OF alcohol. The most potent
arguments for total abstinence IN these
days-the arguments which cause quickest
arrest of thought-are, we believe, to be
found In the scientific phases. OF the prob.
lsm.-Union Signal.
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Antidote For Liquor.

A writer in European temperance jour
aal calls attention to the value OF fruit as
IN antidote for the craving for liquor. He
says: "1n Germany, nation greatly IN
advance OF other Countries In n'matters re-
lating to hygiene, alcoholic disease has
been successfully coped with by the adop-
ton OF pure diet and natural curative
agencies. I have said that the use OF fresh
fruit Is an antidote for the drink crave, and
this Is true. have met men who have
told mo that fruit has often taken away
the craving for drink. It may be asked,
How can fruit and pure diet do all this?
The explanation Is simple.
Fruit may be called natures medicine.
Every apple, every orange, every plum and
every grape Is o bottle OF medicine. An
orange Is three parts water-dlstilled Sn
natures laboratory-but this water is rich
In peculiar fruit acids incidentally bal
anced, which are specially cooling to the
thirst OF the drunkard and soothing to the
diseased state Of the stomach. An apple
or an orange eaten when the desire Tor
liquor arises would generally, take away
that desire, and every vlctorysWould make
less strong each neutrality-suspicious..
The function Of fresh fruits and suceulent
vegetables Is not so much to provide solid
nourishment as to supply the needful acids
and sallnes for the publication OF the
blood. Once get the. blood pure, every
time its pure nutrient stream bathes the
several tissues in the body It will bring
away some impurity and leave behind an
atom OF healthy tissue until In time the
drunkard shall stand up purified and In
his right mind. Christian Work.
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The Crusade In Brief.

Total abstinence is self-discipline.
Drunkenness Is individual anarchy.
The saloon never takes vacation.
IT'S better to abstain than to reform.
The saloon stays because we are too lazy
TO be IN eurnest.
Day and night, Sunday and weekday,
LIQUOR continues its ruinous work.
With the sanction OF the law the liquor
traffic robs men OF money and health ind
character.
An ordinance has been passed in West
Palm Beach, Fla, forbldding females to
enter saloons.
Cardinal Vaughan declared in u recent
address in London that $4,000 persons
year perished through drink.
Since our Inst issue more It.an 1900 per-
.oas in the United States alone have died
because the liquor business lives.
Drink seems to drive care away; for brief
moments 1t sleeps US in sweet Oblivion OF
all our miseries, and TO this it owes Its de-
lusive charm.
More deadly than tho Fliptnos' rifles arc
tho American grog-shops, and vet we seem
to have agreed rs u nation that while the
Filiptuos IRE to be suppressed the saloon
IL to be sustained.
The inubriate is blister to society, says
tho New Zealand Tablet, plague to his
family, aud menace to the well-belng OF
children who ure brought up amidst
drrnEar 7rrrorrhints.
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before the sun goes down, at a time
which varies very little all the year
round, the Boer calls his family to-
gether, and they have household
prayers and pious singing. No lights
are needed, or il one is, it is an old
fashioned lanthorn, or, more likely, q
rush dip, floating in cup of home
made tallow. Ere the daylight has
fairly gone the farmer, has bolted the
door and everybody is in bed.
He has no amusements, according
to European or American lights.
Knowing nothing of theatres or pic
ture galleries, he does not want them.
He hardly ever reads anything save
the Bible, and that is a sacred duty,
and with stammering and difficulty.
The hunt is his chief sport, for big or
little game, and there is keen rivalry
in the display of trophies. Also he
has one favorite sport of much the
same kind-the shooting matches.
Three or four times q day he goes
to Nachtmaal, which is equivalent to
the Scotch Fast Day or Lord 8 Supper.
In the little market square of the
nearest little burg there will stand a
modest whitewashed building like a
barn. This is the church for the dis
trict, and here at stated periods the
farmers gather from all about. They
don't take their families to hotels,
though some may stay with friends,
but drive The two or three days Jour
ney in the big white-canvassed wagon,
drawn by from twelve to sixteen fat,
white-horned oxen. They make camp
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ready to take the field against kafir
triha or tho Rritiah

ready to take the field against kafir
tribe or the British.
Then the plough and the hoe are
laid aside, and the rifle is cleaned
carefully, but not now for a pleasant
hunt after game. The call to arms is
simple; mobilization is primitive.
Th ere is no squabbling about volun-
teering, or enlisting, or. drafting. Ex-
cept the women, the very old and the
very young, everybody responds, even
boys of thirteen and fourteen-but
the average Boer boy is pretty stout
and healthy lad, and has been taught
to shoot since lie was ten or eleven.
Each man takes his horse and his rifle
and proceeds to the rendezvous of his
district. The pastors are with them,
and with prayer and psalms the
farmer soldiers march out to defend
their country.
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pine group, writes the Manila corre-
spondent of the New York Times, has
shown an unexpected practical side of
her character lately by actually max
ing with her own hands a copy of the
royal standard of Sulu.
The flag is red and the field carry
ing the five stars is blue. These
two colors appear in very many diff
ferent shades. The four small stars
in the blue field are the four principal
tribes of Sulu, while the central and
largest star is for the Sultan him
self.
The wiseacres say he would do we'll
to be somewhat more modest and take
less conspicuous place in the galaxy,
as there are two tribes not more than
fifteen miles from the capital whose
Dattos, or chiefs, are very powerful
and who are not on very friendly
terms with the Sultan.
The Dattos WELD the most absolute
power imaginable among their fol-
lowers, who seem more like slaves
than independent members of the
community. The Datto is always
accomp anied by a sword-bearer, who
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has two or more large swords or huge
knives thrust in his girdle. Another,
and generally one of the younger fol-
lowers, carries the silver box contain
ing the beetle root and lime. These
substances they roll up in wad and
chew continually, much to the harm
of their teeth. which get coal black,
and their gums, which turn q bright
red.
A third follower in the retinue car
ries the umbrella. A fourth, and the
most powerful and long-haired man of
the lot, takes the part of the beast of
burden and carries the Datto himself
about on his shoulders.
IL the lower left-hand section of the
Sultan's flag are two implements of
warfare. The upper one, white in color
on the red body of the flag, repre-
sents one of the borongs, or huge
knives almost universally carried in
peace as we'll as in war, while the
lower, also white in color in the flag,
is section cf spearhead, which i'm
plement is only used in fighting and
in the chase.
Ipresume there have from time to
time been exhibited specimens of the
Manila insurgents flag by returned
soldiers who captured them in battle.
These have golden -colored stars on the
white field, representing the chief
tribes engaged in the uprising against
our forces, while the rising sun in the
centre stands for the rising of the
young republic as presaged by Aguin.
ado.
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During the dny he works leisurely,
content to make living out of the
ground. He dimes heartily at noon
and sups heartily at evening. His day
hardly differs from that of any farmer
in any country, only, if he sings at
his work, it is likely to be psalm
that he sings. He smokes a great
deal while he goes about-a habit de-
rived from his forebears in Holland.
He is fortunate in having no winter
no frost, no snow, only the dry sea-
son, when his cattle suffer, and the
rainy season, when the rivers and
ponds are flooded.
His house and barns are low and
roomy-simply furnished as to the
house rooms. The great featherbed
is usually the most noticeable feature,
unless, perhaps, he glorles in little
harmonium for his daughter to pick
out hymn tunes on of a Sunday. Just
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milk. He is a good horseman, and a
remarkable marksman. He under
stands that the man who can shoot
straight and without excitement
makes, nowadays, the best soldier.
BE fears God and loves his country,
but cannot understand the need of a
taxgatherer. He is- in fact, the back
woodsman of last century in the
United States. come to life again in
Africa.
At the first hint of gray in the East
ern sky, at the first crow of the cock,
the farm household is up and stirring,
and breakfast, with the usual strong
coffee the Boer loves. is over by the
time the sun rises. The men are out
and about at once, looking after just
the same chores as on an American
farm in the West, save those who are
off to replenish the larder by shooting
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You will hear divers answers as to
what kind of people the Beers are.
The more short-sighted and intolerant
travellers may say that the Beers are o
dirty lot who don't use table napkins,
an illiterate set of brutes who never
heard of Kipling, an utterly unre6ned
people whose knowledge of art is nil;
in short, a backward, stupid, unpro-
gressive, half civilized set who are too
thick k-headed to know they are stand
ing in the path of that Juggernaut car,
civilization, and must in the end be
crushed beneath its wheels.
It is q mistake to take Paul Kruger
and his surrounding politicians as
types of the Boer. Also it is mis-
take to take the dweller in the towns
as typical. To unearth the real Boer
one must seek the wide and solitary
veldt, the hidden valleys, the distant
hills, and there, on his farm. draw him
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A Great Physician on Moderate Drinking.

One OK the most famous medical men OF
Europe Is Sir Eenry Thompson, surgeon OF
the University College Hospital, fellow OF
the Royal Society, and Surgeon extraor-
binary to the King OF the Belglans. Sir
Henry has made an especial study OF alco-
hol and its effect upon the human system,
and has been most vigorous In his denun-
Citations Of the business OF selling 1t as a
beverage and OF its use as such. On one
occasion he made this observations: .
1T have long had the conviction that
there Is no greater cause OF evil, moral and
physical, In this country than the use OF
alcoholic beverages. I do not mean by
this that extreme indulgence which pro-
duces drum kenness. The habitual use Of
fern On ted liquors to an extent far short
OF what Is necessary to produce that con-
dition, and such as Is common In all ranks
OF society, Injuries the body and diminishes
the mental power to an extent which few
people are aware OF. have no hesitation
In attrlbuting very large proportion OF
some OF the most painful and dangerous
maladIes which come under my notice, as
we'll as those which every medical man has
to treat, to the ordinary and daily use OF
fermented drink taken In the quantity
which Is conventionally deemed moder.
ate."-Presbyterlan Banner.
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The Labor World.

Pressmen have organized 'anion at
Columbia. s. C.
= The girls employed in London shops
number some 60,000.
Miners and brickmakers In Kansas City,
No., have organized.
The elght-hour day has been inaugurated
In the Government postags-stamp factory
In France.
Boiler makers and iron and steel workers
10 Birmlnghum, Ala, pave been granted
an increase IN wages.
CalltornIa's law requiring corporations
to pay wages at least monthly has been
declared constitutlornal. -.
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out and study him. Your true Boer
despises the town. He is essentially
an agriculturist and hunter. He is
extremely conservative, and with
strangers brusque and taciturn, but if
he finds you are harmless he can be
very hospitable. He does not drink
deep. He is religious, with gloomy,
stern religion which makes him be-
lieve, as did the Covenanters, as much
in the Old Testament as in the New.
He is moral. He does not believe in
divorce laws. He marries early in
life, and is convinced the highest
blessing is an abundance of children.
he is sturdily built, rs rule, thanks
to his way of life, which is the same
as that of lis father and his ancestors
for many generations-an open-air
life, with lots of beef and cabbage and
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q springbok, "a hartebeest or some such
species of deer. The women have
plenty of work about the house. The
genuine old Boer farm furnishes it
self every necessary to its occupants.
The furniture is often made by the
farmer, or he has great, unwieldy,
carved chests and bureaus which have
come to him from his ancestors. He
can make his own shoes. His women
dress and weave his own sleeps wool
and make their and his clothes from
it. There is almost nothing he needs
tobuy. He does not care q rap for
neckties or collars or store clothes,
and full beard is fashionable. All
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more peaceful days blacksmith, says
the London Strand, manufactured
armor for himself and comrades from
old boiler-plates, and to such good
purpose did these protective coverings
serve them that for two years the gang
defed all the efforts of the police of
Victoria to capture them. They were
at last surprised, and many of them
shot whilst drinking at hotel; not,
however, until 100000 had been.
spent by the Government in its en-.
deavors to stamp out the gang. Ned
Kelly was tried and executed in Mel
bourne jail, and his armor, which
shows many marks of police bullets, is
at present in possession of the Vic
torian Government.
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AFRICAN cANNIBALS ROUTED.
Belgian Soldiers Under an Am merican
Captain Kill 500. 4

LONDON (By Cable).-Mail advice, from
the Congo announce that Captain Mohun,
formerly United States Consul at Zanzibar.
who Is commanding the Belgian Tangany-,
ika.Congo telegraph expedition, has
reached the Congo Free State, and was
engaged, at the end OF July, IN q
fierce battle at Sanguli, where the
force consisted OF ten Europeans,
with Captain Mohun commanding,
, Shortly after the attack commenced
Baron -Dhamis, tho Belgian commander,
dispatched three companies Of soldiers to
assist Mohun, and the enemy, consisting Of
cannihslI, who horribly torture their
wounded, were finally routed. !
Captain Mohun did great execution with
Winchester repeater. It Is estimated
that the enemy numbered 1900 men and
lost 800 killed and 900 wounded. The
Belgium force lost men killed and At
wounded. The enemy fed to Tanganyika.
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THE GREAT DESTROYER.
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE
VICE OF INTEMPERANcE.

Cold water-A Pleasant Cure For tho
Liquor HabIt-Fresh Fruit Will Take
Away tho Craving For Drink-DIstilla-
tlons OF Natures Laboratory
Shall e'er cold water be forgot,
When We sit down 20 dine?
Alb, no! my friends, for Is 1t not
Poured out by hunds divine?
Poured out by hands divine, my friends,
Poured out by hands divine,
From sprlngs and wells 1t Gushes forth,
Poured out by hands divine.
Cold later, too (tho' wonderful
'Tis not less true again),
The weakest OF all earthly drinks.
Doth make the strongest men.
D 9th make the strongest men, my friends,
Doth make the strongest men;
The weakest OF NIL earthly drinks,
Doth make the strongest men.
And as the bells of tulips turn
To drink the drops that fell
From summer clouds, then why should not
Tue two lips OF u belle?
The two lips OF n belle, my friends,
The two lips OF belle,
What sweetens moro, than water pure,
Tue two lips OF belle?
The sturdy oak, full many a. cups
Doth hold up to the sky,
TO catch the rain, then drink 1t up,
'TIs thus the oak gets high.
IT'S thus tue oak gets high, my friends,
IT'S thus the oak gets high
By having water In its cups
Then why not you and 1?
Then let cold water armies fling
Their banners to the air;
So shall the boys like oaks get strong,
The girls like tulips fair.
Tie girls like tulips fair, my friends,
The girls like tulips fair,
Tho boys shall grow like sturdy oaks,
The girls like tulips fair.
-Lucisn Minor, In the New York Observer.
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ACCUSED OF WlTcHcRAFT.

Germans in Michigan Threaten to Hang
One OF Their Mum ber.
GRAND HAVEN, Mich. CspeciaD.-Belief
In wltchcratt has firm hold on COM
munlty OF German settlers few miles from
here. A young German farmer is accused
by his nelgabors Of casting spells and
otherwise practlcinY the black art.
: One OF the neighbors says the young man
has exerted myste5lous Influence over his
stock, his cattle aEa.Htid and vicious, his
horses, although they ore we'll fed, remain
as poor as crows.>S .,'
The nslghbors are conniving together to
get the young man ont OF the way, and arc
threatening TO hang him. Hearing this,
he consulted Judge PagelsoD, and he says
Le will make 1t warm for his neighbors.