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Notes of the Crusade.

Some men will protest loudly II the saloon
is located along their street or neighbor-
hood, but be perfectly willing that the town
should receive the license fee and locate
1t in the midst CT the poor and weak who
cannot help themselves.
A new ard dangerous departure In edu-
cational institutions Is the establishment
and endowment OF chair OF brewing and
mating at Mason College, Birmingham,
England.
According to tho State Auditor o! Ohio
the number OF saloons in that State de-
creased 2O6 during 1893.
Oae fact worthy OF mention in the recent
cicy elections was the retirement OF SIX
saloon keapers from tho City Council! OF
Chicago. Thern will now be twelve saloon
keepers instead OF eighteen in this body.
Alabama has passed an act to prohibit
tho sale Ut Iiquo- within six miles OF the
agricultural school at AlbertTllle.
We verify belie"a that great deal OF
bad company, driniienness and folly and
sin comes from mArs want Of knowledge,
from emptiness OF hend. Therefore, il lou
waEt ID keep your brain and thoughts Dit
ottaMpta:ion. ceal aud learn; get useful
knowledge.
Some surgeons will not undertake. to
perform operations upon PrrSoAs VINO nave
been addicted to drink; they value their
regulations too highly to risk failure.
Ono of the oldest temperance orsaniza.
lions in America is the Congressional
Temperance Society, which has been in
existence for siXty-!lvo years. The lats
Congressman Dlnsiey was for many years
its president.
Drinking to drown one's misery Is put
ting out firp with oil.
A Young Peoples Christian Temperance
Union will be organizeh on September 25,
Frances Wlllacu's birthday.
A clergyman has figured out that five
dollars Is spent for drink in England for
every penny and half expended on mis-
sloaary work.
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The Gospel's UnfaiIing Pertinence,'

The world does not outgrow Christianity.
Modes of expressing Its principles alter from
generation to generation, and emphasis is
put now upon one and again upon another
truth conspicuously, but its essential
principles and their fitness to human
needs remain unchanged. This Is be-:
cause 1t Is the. gift OF our Creator. It
is not to be suaposed that he who has or
dained the qualities and characteristics OF
human nature will fall to consider them
in making to men a revelation OF truth
and duty, Experience Justities this trust IN
His care and consister cy. What comes from
God we find to be, as We have reason to ex.'
pact to find 1t, apt and pertinent In all
the relations OF our life. 1t meets
the underlying, fundamental necessities
of our being. and it is adapted also* to
changing conditions and circumstances. I
deals not 80 much with detailsas with prin-
ciples. It does not require US or expect Gs
to look to it for suggestion inregard to the
minor choices which we are called upon
daily to make, but 1t supplies us with the
elemental truths, the application OF which
we must learn for ourselves, and without
learning which We should remain unfinished
in character, instead OF growing to maturity.
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The traveller In passing up the west side
OF the Hudson In the cars, goes through q
lovely country, where on every side he sees
nature in countless beautiful forms. Sud-
denly the train dashes into the dark tunnel
and seems swallowed up. So the beautiful
lives OF the friends we treasure here pass on
and seem lost in the valley OF the shadow OF
death. But beyond the tunnel the train
emerges beside the grand river, and we lind
the darkness was but temporary. and rejoice,
as we shall also in the life beyond the grave.
When we see the mountain stream dash into
cavernous depths, disappearing from our
view. none OF US believe that 1t has ceased
to exist. We know that somewhere 1. con-
tinues to flow on in its grand beauty. 30
the life of our friend we so tenderly loved
has ony passed through the darkness to live
forever in the sunshine Of Gods presence
LYMAN Abbott.
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WASHINGTON, D. c. Special. D.-Ad-
1niral Dewey will arrive at New York
about October l. This information
was received by Secretary Long few
days ago, and was Immediately an
nounced by the officers of the Navy
Department.
Two or three days before Secretary
Long cabled Admiral Dewey at Hong
Kong asking him to state about when
he would arrive in the United States.
Admiral Dewey was informed that he
was to govern himself entirely by his
own wishes in the matter of coming
home. The Department desired that
he feel no official restraint whatever.
The hero of Manila Bay was to take
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An Unsolved Problem.

The economic aspects OF the liquor
problem In this country, as reported by
the committee that was appointed few
years ngo to study the liquor question In
nll its bearings, are summarized by Profes.
sor Farnbow In the Atlantic Monthly.
Briefly, the committee finds that produc.
tion OF liquor in 1896 consumed $4,000, ,0Of
bushels Of grain and gave employment d..
rectly to 100000 persons, and that the
LIQUOR traffic yielded to the Government
more than 1882 900. 600 in revenue. On the
other hand, Of course, are familiar statis.
tics showing how the drink habit increases
pauperism and crime. What these stutls.
ties do not show. however, and what prob
ably such statistics never will be able to
show, is the effect OF immoderate drinking
IN diminishing physical and mental en-.
ergy. All drinkers do not die in the aims
house or becom criminals. The majority
OF them IRE probably self-supporting, and
never see the inside OF police court un.
less TO appear as witnesses or do jury duty.
To what extent dots drinking diminish the
power OF persons OF this class to think
clearly and toll vigorously? These are
distinctly economic aspects OF the liquor
question, and yet they are aspects on
which 1t Is impossible to obtain statistics.
It is encouraging to believe, however, that
this phase Of the liquor question Is less
serious thun 1t WIS formerly. The people
are understanding more fully, In these
days OF sharp competition In the various
se,f-control. Self-interest Is teaching
the Importance CT clear heads and firm
nerves, and this motive, commercial and
practical In character, Is contributing
greatly to lessen the evils OF the liquor
ffit
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his time, if he desired, and stop wher-
ever he wished. OF course the official
despatch to Admiral Dewey conveyed
this information very briefly, but
enough was said to let him feel that
he was to govern himself according to
his individual desires.
Soon after the Admiral cabled from
Hong Kong the announcement that he
would stop at various places on his
way home. Lieutenant Ward, of the
Navigation Bureau, then made the
following official announcements:
Admiral Dewey telegraphs that he
will stop at various places on his way
to the United States and will reach
New York about October /.
George Dewey-the man who in one
day made his bare name bigger than
all the titles that could he fastened to
it aud whose homecoming the entire
United States are now awaiting with
feverish impatience is a strictly
American product.
For nearly ten generations, cover
ing the greater part of three centuries,
the blood that feeds his cool, clear
brain has drawn it's vigo1 from Yam
kee soil.
He is an American, and that is
enough. Just as his name needs no
official fourishes, his fame has no use
for heraidic tinsel; and the pedigree
cranks who profess to trace back his
lineage through English barons and
medieval kings even to the pagan
gods, will do we'll to carry their wares
to cheaper market. George Dewey
is no proper subject for triaing Of this
sort.
The lively baby who was destined
some sixty years later to smash the
bubble of Spsin's pride was born OF
Montpelier, VT, December 26, 1887.
His father was Julius Y. Dewey, a
physician of Montpelier, and one Of
the founders of the National Life In
surance Company. He was fine,
dignified specimen OF an OLD school
New England gentleman, very scrup-
ulous about small things. He was
one of the first communicates Of
Christ Episcopal Church, in Mont
pelier.
George Dewey's mother died when
he was five years old. His 1nsepara-
BILE companion and closest confdante
from infancy was his sister. now Mrs.
Mary P. Greeley, of Montpelier.
The affection between George and
his only sister, Mary, is touching.
They are of about the same age-only
some eighteen months apart-and
were constant playmates during their
whole childhood. When George got
up "show" in his fathers barn, with
a buffalo robe for drop-curtain, Mary
was the leading lady" whose duty
it was to fall on her knees and weep
when George "shot off the pistol" 1t
was Mary who would glory when
George was victor in a fist fight. It
was Mary who would go along to bait
the hook when George went fishing in
Onion River or Dog Greek. This same
sister, now Mrs. G;aeley, a cultured
widow, is living in Montpelier
Like Nelson and Lord Give, George
Dewey was very bad boy at school.
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unfavorable conditions. This botan.
lists strer uously deny, but in the
earlier stages of it's growth, at any
rate, it so nearly resembles the wheat
plant that TIL the main stem is suf-
tciently advanced to open and detect
tho difference in the budding ear its
presence can only be surmised. AS
soon as the crop shoots, however, the
undesirable visitor at once betrays it.
self, for the head of cheat does not
bear the slightest resemblance to an
ear OF wheat. But different as is the
appearance OF the seed of the two
plants, the farmer who excites the
ridicule of the scientist by declaring
his wheat has turned to cheat has
some strong points in favor of his as
sertion. It is certain that chess sell
dom appears except in fields where
the wheat has suffered from the effects
of q hard winter, and that in this
event it frequently does 80 in locali-
ties where it has hitherto been un.
known, while though wild fescue,
which resembles it closely enough to
deceive an ordinary observer, is COM
mon almost everywhere in the tenn
pera.e zone, real chess is never found
in spots where it is improbable that
kernels of wheat might have been
carried.
The strongest argument that sci
entists who are opposed to the farm
er's theory can advance is that it is
impossible to again reproduce wheat
from cheat, no matter how much care
is taken or how favorable the condi-
tions. But the same captious critics
might find it equally hard to repro
duce either of its original progenitors
from a mule.
Many stranger things occur in plant
life than for wheat to degenerate into
an apparently useless weed. Almost
all cultivated vegetables are given to
sport more or less, and when neg
lected soon return to the wild condi'
ton from which they have been im.
proved by long years of assiduous
culture and selection. Take the pars.
nip, for instance, which, though q
wholesome and useful escu!ent when
cultivated, soon develops very poison
Gus properties when allowed to roam
at will.
Speaking OF cheat, the well.known
horticulturist, John Thorpe, says:
"Cheat or chess is, in my opinion,
based on years of careful observation,
wheat in an incipient form. It has
many of the apparent outside attri'
butes of wheat itself, but lacks the
true principles of that plant. The
organs, as far as they are developed,
resemble those of pure wheat, but the
gluten, the most valuable attribute Of
the latter, is wanting. In other
words, I regard chess as the pure
type of the wheat species as first dis
covered, in which theory am sup
ported by the fact that the wheat
plant has never been found growing
wild" But the origin of cheat is Of
little interest to the bulls or bears,
though the former will be delighted if
amateur botanists have ample oppor.
tunity of studying this peculiar plant
this coming season.
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THE SUICIDES FAvoRlTE DRUG.
Carbolic Acid Usod by a Large Proportion
of Self Murderers.

DR.. Clifford Mitchell, Of the Chicago
Homeopathic College staff, has discovered
that twenty-one per cent. OF tho persons
who committed suicide In Chicago in 1893
did 80 by drinking carbol!c acid, and that
3S4 persons In fiew York, Brooklyn aad Chi
cago killed themselves by this drug. The
figures we're submitted by d.. Mitchell to
msmbers OF the llliroIs Homeopathic Nedi-
cal Association at its annual meeting, and
on the strength OF them the society voted
to use It's influence with druggists to haro
the indlscriminate sale OF the drug re.
strictpt.
DR.. Mitchell secured his figures to corr
roborate II statement made recently by Dr..
T. NJ. Deacon in medical journal that
on.-thrd of the men and nearly one-halt
OF tho women who poisoned themselves in
1895 did SO by drinking carbolic acid. The
figures indicated that the restriction put
on tho sale Of arsenic and other poiSons had
turned persons OF Il suicidal bent to car
bolic acid, on tho sale Of which there are
no restrictions.
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God Speaks to Man Alone.

When God speaks he likes no other voice
to break the stiffness but His own.
And hence the place that has always
BEN given to solitude in all true religious
life. Il can be overdone. but it can
be grossly underdone. And there Is no les
son more worth insisting on in days
like ours than this, that when God
wants to speak with man he wants that
man to be alone Than the worship
ers who do all their religion In public there
are none more profoundly to be pitied; and
he who knows not what 1t is to go out from
the crowd sometimes and 10 alone with Cod
is stranger to the most divine experience
that comes to saLctity Christians heart
Orummond in The Ideal Life"
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A PRAYER from the Storm.

Blessed are all thy saints, my God and
King. who have Travelled over tho tempestu-
Gus seq OF mortality. aud have at last made
the desired port Of peace and felicity. o,
cast n gracious eys upon rs who are still in
our dangerous voyage Remember and sue
cor us in our distress. and think on them tnat
lie exposed to the rough storms OF troubles
and temptations. Strengthen our weakness,
that we may do valian!!y in this spiritual
war. help US against our own negligence
and cowariice, and defend US from the
treachery OF our unfaithful hearts. We ara
exceeding frail and indisposed to every
virtuous and gallant undertaking. Grant,
Lord. that We may bring orr vessel safe
to shore, unto our desired haven. Amen.
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Wrecks Around Sable Island.

Since 1902 a wreck register has been
carefully kept OF the disasters around
Sable Island which shows more than
$50 wrecks" Once entangled in the
shadows OF Sable Island, once stranded
upon the bars, and it is all over with
the hapless craft. Men-of-w and
stately friSates have been wrecked
here as we'll as steamships, barks and
frhtinr smacks.
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A Gln-Soaked Land.

Deeper and deeper runs the black cur.
rent OF the liquor traffic In "the Rivers"
b. which West Africans mean the Niger
Co&st protectorats. The Niger Delta in
cuIts the network OF creeks and channels
extending from Lagos to the Cameroos.
This vast district Is Inhabited by races Us
degraded as any on earth. The reeklng
and decaying vegetation breeds loathsome
diseases. III these Niger swamps the she'd
ding o: human blood plays leading part
in religious customs. The Dutch and Ger
man Sin, distillers here find grand field
for their horrible traffic. The gin trade
has succeeded the slave trade. Never have
the great dlstillers OF Holland been 80 busy.
There is q great boom In sin. and the
manufacturers OF "llquid dalnnation" say
they are utterly unable to execute all their
orders. High dividends have been paid to
Briti.h shareholders in tho trading CON-
panies, for the trade Is allin British hands,
though the greatest makers are German
and Dutch. Last year destruction was
dealt out to the wretched Negroes by six
million bottles OF gin, Gnd By over quar-
ter-mi.liol gallons OF rum. Most OF the
natives have become drunkards, and, In
spite Of the noble work OF missionaries like
Saker and Thomson, tue population Is
growing more and moro immoral through
the vast importation OF cheap and vile
spirits. Budget.
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A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.

uave Faith in the Boy-Liquor Drinking
Is Diminishing Because self-Interest
Is Teaching the Importance of Clear
Heads and Firm Nerves.
Have faith in the boy, not believing
That he is the worst OF his kind,
In league with the army OF Satan,
And only to evil inclined;
But daily to guide and control him
Your wisdom and patience employ,
And daily, despite disappointm mt
And SORROW, have faith In the boy.
Have faith to believe that some moment
In life's strangely checkered career,
Convicted, subdued and repentant,
The prodigal son will appear;
The gold in his nature rejecting
The dark and debasinR alloy,
Illuming your spirit with gladness,
Because you have faith In the boy.
Tho now he Is wayward and stubborn,
And keeps himself sadly aloof
From those who are anxious and fearful,
And ready with words Of reproof.
Have faith th9t the prayers Of mother
His wandering feet will arrest.
And turn him aEay from his follies
To weep out his tears on her breast.
Ali many boy has been driven
Away from the home by the thought
That no one believed in his goodness,
Or dreamed of the battle he fought.
so II you would help him to conquer
The foes that ara prone to annoy,
Encourage him often with kindness,
And show you have faith In the boy.
Have faith in his good resolutions,
Believe that at last he'll prevail.
Tho now he's for2etful and needless.
Tho day after day he may fail.
Your doubts and suspicious misgivings
His hope and his courage destroy;
So, II you'd secure n brave manhood,
IT'S we'll to have faith In the boy.
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INGREDIENTS Used in Co-nac,

The members OF the Woman's Christian
Tenn perance Union take comfort in the
published result OF the analysis recently
made Of the liquor supplied to the French
army Under the name OF cognac. Accord
ing to the report read before the Academic
de Medicine, OF Paris. the "best cognac"
consists OF castor oil. cocoanut oil and
other fatty substances treated with nitric
acid. Pure Jamaica rum" sold by al
English house. was proved on analysis to
be made up Of much the same materials.
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ADMIRAL DEWEY
HOMEWARD BOUND.
Life Story Of the Hero Of Manila.

write and multiply, he was thorn in
the flesh of any one who had the mis-
fortune to try to teach him. Teacher
after teacher left the school in dis
gust. "That Dewey boy runs the
school," was the complaint of all of
them.
But the Dewey boy found his match
and his master at last in z. X. Pang-
born, his teacher, who is now promi-
nent in the politics of New Jersey.
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Danger OF Great Light Bearers.

Some years ago went to see the light
house which, standing on Dunnet Head,
guards the mouth OF the Pentland Firth.
On ascending the tower, 1 observed the
thick plate glass windows OF the lantern
cracked-starred in a number Of places.
turned to the keeper for an explana-
tion. 1t appears that Is done by
stones flung up by the sea: The wave
on being thrown forward against the
cliff strikes 1t with such tremendous
force as to hurl the loose stones at the base
right up to the height OF three hundred teet.
So are the great light-bearers. by the expos
urs OF their position and in spite OF the
elevation OF their character, liable to be
cracked and starred by the violence OF the
Worl.-Dr. Guthrie.
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No one in all Washington was more
sought after in clubs or a. greater
favorite in society than the quiet,
kindly, gentle man of the world,
George Dewey.
He had suite of apartments in the
Metropolitan Club at Washington,
and was for years q member of the
House Committee. He was scrupul'
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$emain perfectly quiet in q sitting
position. He cannot draw up his feet
or move any part of his body. A shelf
is placed near the top for food, and
the contrivance can be hauled abont
from place to place at will. The vic
tim is confined as firmly as though he
were glued to the seat.
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What Won His Vote.

During a temperance campaign a lawyer
was discussing very learnedly the clauses
OF the proposed temperance law. An old
farmer who had been listening attentiyely
shut his knife with n snap, and said 81
don't know nuthin' about the law, but I've
got seven good reasons for volta for It,"
"What are they?" nskei the lawyer. And
the grim OLD farmer responded: -Four sons
and three daughters"
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A Town TralnDs Avoid.

The genus tramp has become an ex-
tinct animal in Oakland, Me-, since
the adoption by the town authorities
of the tramp chair, OF which Sanford
J. Baker is the inventor.
1t is simply strongly built cage in
the form OF chair on wheels. 1t IS
80 constructed that the occupant must
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Ship Saved by Wireless Telcgraphy.

Wireless te!egraphy bad its first prac-
tical demonstration few days ago on the
English coast. The Goodwin Sands light
ship was struck by passing vessel. ana
the crew, utilizing the wireless teleSraphy
apparatus, notified Soath Foreiand tnat
their ship was in sinking condition. rugs
we're thereunon dispatched to the assist
ance Of tue lightsh;p.
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Storing UP knowledge.

edith, what made you asS Mrs.
Crumpet how to make tea? You
know you don't like her tea"
Eyes, mamma; but, you see, l thlrk
I ought to know how not to make it. "
Chicago News.
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He used to be known in Montpelier
as "That naughty Dewey boy" He
was a recognized leader among the
boys of his age in the town.
He could stay under the water OF
the Winooski River longer than any
of them. He could skate and swim
and run as no other boy in Montpelier
could. But at the little old district
school where he learned to read and
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a good many numbers, was also deeply
attached to Miss Goodwin, and for a
long time all Portsmouth wondered
which of the two navy officers would
be Miss Goodwin's choice. Dewey
won and Commander Rhind sailed on
a fine old ship, the Narrangansett,
just about the time that Susie Good
win and George Dewey were married.
October "a, 1867.
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The Bitter yItten.

EiShty-four per cent. OF the destitute
saloon Keepers owe their condition to the
consumption OF their own wares. Next
come the sailors, with llfty-eigat per cent,
the butchers with ility-seven per cent, the
printers and iron and steel workers with
fifty-iye Der cent
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Now Sonndless Gun.

Tho British Admiralty has offered ,slI5,-
900 for an electric gua invented by tue son
Of Portland grocer. The gun throws an
explosive shot distance OF five and 4 hall
miles with velocity OF two seconds. Il il
noiseless and smokeless.