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The Crusude I'm Brief.

The statement is made on medical au
thority that more deaths are due in Eng
land to alcoholism than to diphtheria OF
typhoid fever.
A hundred dollars is not much to get
for cutting out booze for year" but
the workman who gets it from Millionaire
Schwab will be more than hundred
ahead in twelve months.
Mrs. Vina Peeters, of Upton, Ind, has
been given q judgment for $500 against
W. S. Cough, saloon keeper, who sold
her husband liquor while he was in state
of intoxication. Mrs. Peetefs has four
similar cases pending against other saloon
men.
The saloon is a legalized drunkard fac.
tory. -
The majority of people in GalesburS,
ILL.,, have twice voted to abolish saloons,
but each time have been thwarted. This
year the vote in the City Council stood
seven for the passage of the ordinance
and six against, and as it takes eight
votes to pass an ordinance, the Mayor
decided the ordinance lost.
The Duluth (Minn.) Council has placed
itself on record as opposed to the estab.
lishment of more saloons in Duluth till the
number is reduced to q saloon for every
500 persons in the city. An ordinance to
that effect has had its first reading, and il
the wishes of the vast majority of business
men and citizens are respected it will be-
come law and be 30 raaarded-
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A Mark Twain Story.

Mark Twain tells thus the story Of
bis first great LONDON banquet, at
which, by the way, there were 800 or
600 guests. He admits that, not hay
ing been used to that kind of dinner,
he felt somewhat lonesome. THE lord
InayoI. or somebody, read out list of
the chief guests before we began to
cat. Wien he came to prominent
names the other guests would ap-
plaud.
4 found the man next me rather a
good talker. Just as we got to an in
tcresting subject there was q tremen-
dous clapping of hands. I had hardly
ever heard such applause before. 1
Strengthened up and set to clappinS
with the rest, and 1 noticed q good
many people round about me fixing
their attention on ne, and some or
them laughing in a friendly and en-
couraging way. I moved about in my
chair and clapped louder than ever.
WHO is it?' I asked the gentleman
on my right.
samuel Clemens, better known In
England as Mark Twain he replied.
Il stopped clapping. The life seemed
to go out Of me. 1 never was in such
8 fix in all my days."-M. A. P.
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CHAPTER XIII.

THE NOTE THAT DowNED TILE RUSSIAN
The facts are soon made plain, and
every one understands the game that
Mr.. Grimes and Mynheer Joe have
hatched up between them. 1t is SIM
pie and yet seems to have the neces-
sary qualities to insure success.
AS Mr.. Grimes predicted to his com.
panion, the young American girl Is
ready to join in the game. She knows
the risk and dares to undertake 1t for
the good of the little company. The
case has at any rate reached a point
when heroic treatment is necessary in
order to accomplish a cure. Such In
stances arrive in the affairs Of men
as we'll Gs in surgery.
When all has been arranged, each
one of the company is satisfied, and
the game goes on. The baron has not
been seen since Mr.. Grimes pointed
him out, but he can easily be found
when wanted.
1t is now we'll on toward noon, and
the balance of the drama must be
played within twelve hours, for Cap
tain Ben hopes to sail long ere an
other morning breaks upon Bombay.
Each goes to the appointed task.
Within the hour messenger is search
ing for the baron, bearing note with
out signature, but which is couched
in language calculated to cause the
Russian to smack his lips with pride
and satisfaction, confident that his
conquest is nearly completed, the beau
tiful American girl almost within mis-
grasp, being unable to resist the
charms Of q title.
These foreigners have come to the
conclusion that any American beauty
or heiress will give up even the man
q few glaring instances Of this kin:l
she loves to grasp a coronet. Perhaps
have made them believe that wav.
They need taking down, and Molly
Tanner Is just the one to champion her
sex, and teach the aristocracy les
son. All American girls are not for
sale. Those whom these foreigners
buy do not represent the true element
OF Yankee lassies, but are in them
selves tainted with that abject rever-
ence for titles so noticeable in Eng
land and other foreign countries.
| 1t was just ten minutes Of two when
the baron receives this scented billet
ldoux. He is in a fashionable club, to
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The Only Remedy.

What is to be done to counteract the
enormous amount of disease and misery
attributed to- strong drinks? Ever since
humanity has been acquainted with these
liquors people have been preaching moder-
alton, and that has had no effect. In
proof of that, look at the increasing con-
sumption of spirituous drinks, especially
beer, among al classes of society. There
never has been any real success except
where total abstinence has been the
watchword of the masses, for every drink
er considers himself moderate. Only those
who avoid the first glass are secure from
the second and all that might follow. The
total abstainer with. his drinks that con-
tain no alcohol is perpetual demonstra-
ton against. the drink customs, an unan-
swerable argument against the. popular
prejudice that q man must drink alcohol
to keep well. Let nobody declare his in
ability to get along without alcoholic
liquors.; people have no right to express
an opinion on this question who have not
tested the experience for considerable
time.
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Gold in Scotland.

A few weeks ago the report OF the
discovery of gold at Leith was an
nounced. Now the further news Is
afforded that gold has been found al
Turbeckhill, near Amman, in DUN
friesshire. 1t appears that this --latest
discovery relates to q find of the pre-
cious metal in q cave which, curious
ly enough, is s:id to have been worked
by Germans in the eighteenth century
Expert evidence is said to be at hanc
demonstrating that the AMMAN de-
posits yield four pennyweights OF
gold and ten ounces Of silver to the
tnn-London Chronicle.
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Tho Road to Prison.

Alcoholic injury to the brain does not
always lead to the insane sylum. Very
often it becomes the road to prison. Seven
to eight-tenths of all the unlawful trans
actions, from breaking windows to break
ing heads. conscientious officials attribute
to the influence of alcohol. Countless ac-
cidents, especially on Mondays, are also
nothing but the after effects of alcohol,
making people foolhardy and blind to dan
ger of every sort.
The very worst effect of alcohol upon
the brain is the change of character it
produces Sometimes people of the very
best disposition are permanently changed
through alcohol and become irritable, vul-
gar, abusive ard quarrelsome. Thousands
on thousands of marriages have become a
hell for both husband and wife on account
of the drinking habits of the man. In
such cases the children suffer most, are
badly brought up, neglected, treated with
cruelty.
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GODS MESSAGE TO MAN.
PREGNANT THOUGHTS FROM THE
WORLDS GREATEST PROPHETS

Children and Flowers - Answering the
Call of Christ - Reverence for sacreo
things - A Life Of Love and Peace -
A Joyful Answering Love - Prayers
II we planned for lovely garden,
That the buds and the blossoms falr
Might gladden. our eyes as we WaiKea
therein,
While their fragrance filed the air,
Should we suffer the weeds, unnouced,
To flourish there day by day,
With never q thought that thelr
strength might draw
The strength of the flowers away!
If we planted smooth, straight sap-
ling,
And longed for the tree to grow
That its cooling shade in the summer
time
Might shelter the sward below,
Should we give no heed to the whlrl-
wind
That twisted it's trunk awry,
Till only a crooked, unsightly thing
1t lifted its head to the sky?
Oh, no; We should pluck from our gar
den
Each weed as it came in sight;
We should carefully shield our precious
flowers
From insect and frost and blight;
We should give to the tender sapling
Something to hold it fast
Against the weight Of the winter SHOWS,
Or the strength Of the wintry blast.
Do we give to our little children
The same kind care and thought
That we give to the perishing trees and
flowers,
That we know will come to naught?
We clothe them with dainty garments,
We joy in each childish grace
Do we strive as hard for a beautiful
soul
As We do for a beautiful face?
e E. Brown.
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Drink and the Brain.

The fact is really moderate quantities
of spirituous drinks diminish the work
power of the brain, fact that has been
demonstrated by modern scientific appa-
ratus. Alcohol never makes O man wiser,
it only lowers mans demands on himself
until at last nothing is too silly or boorish
to satisfy him. This temporary injury to
the brain, if the use of alcohol is contin.
ned, leads innumerable people into perma-
nent brain disease. Alcohol is to-day one
of the most influential sources of mental
disease. 1t has come to such a pass that
in some years more than half of the men
who go to the State insane asylums of
Southern Austria owe their insanity to the
use of alcohol. And this enumeration
does not even include the insane by rea-
son of the drinking habits of their ances-
tors. Neither does it take into account
the epileptlcs, idiotic and defective chill
dren Obliged to suffer for the want of un-
derstanding and the crime of drunken
parents.
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Reverence for Sacred Things.

A noble quality indeed is reverence.
and one which young people should
carefully foster. But it is to be distin-
guished from it's counterfeit present.
ment. The savage prostrates himself
before a painted idol, the nominal
Christian man mumbles a creed IN
church while his mind is busy forecast
ing tomorrow's shifts in the stock
market. There Is no more real rever-
ence in the one case than in the other.
A man is not necessarily reyerent be-
cause he refrains from conundr:ms IN
which Biblical characters and events
figure. A sufficient reason for not put
ting Biblical conuudrums is the fact
that there hasn't been new one IN
vented for the last fifty years. Nor is
one necessarily reverent because ne
keeps a handsomely bound copy OF the
Bible unopened on his parlor table.
Reverence goes far deeper than ex-
ternal display Of sanctimoniousness or
passing emotion of awesomeness.-Rev.
q. A. Bridgman, in Congregationalist.
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ansverlnr tho Call Of Christ.

So many bells ring out in our lives.
The morning awakening bell, and the
school bell; the work bell for the me-
chanic, and the shop bell for the assist
ant; the visitors bell on one side Of the
door, and the tradesman's on the other;
the wedding bells with their merry peal,
and the funeral bells with their sorrow-
full monotone; the bicyclist's bell warn
ing the foot passenger on to the pave
ment, and the bells on the sleigh horses,
as they draw the vehicle over the frozen
snow. To many Of these, in times past,
we have given lethargic, listless. and
indolent response; we have resented
their intrusion on our slumbers and
plans; we have chafed against their
peremptory summons. But enough Of
this. Henceforth, let US hear in their
clangor or chime the call Of God to the
tasks to which He summons us; let Us
obey with alacrity, looking to Him tor
grace and strength to do whatever He
would have US do, and realizing that on
each the inscription Of Aaron's frontal-
piece is engraven: Holiness unto the
Lord."-Rev. F. B. Meyer.
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE-
Pledge For the IntomPerate-A Burlesqus
Declaration Which Shows the Pen
alties q Man Pays Who Becomes Sol
"A Double-Barreled Card.

Pledge For the IntOmPerate-A Burlesqus
Declaration Which Shows the Pen
alties a Man Pays Who Becomes Sol
"A Double-Barreled Card.
We suggest that double -barreled pledge
card, to be kept in the pocket for distrl,
button, says the editor of the brotherhood
Star, having the regular total-abstlnence
declaration on one side and the following
inscription on the reverse:
hereby agree to drink all the beer and
liquor can get by cash or credit or treat.
| agree to drink in all hours and weather.
! also agree to keep this pledge if in SO
doing my brain, stomach, liver and KID
neys arc permanently injured, my ,repu,,
tation lost, my family impoverished and
I myself damned forever.
also pledge that will not murmur as
I look upon the palaces of the liquor deal
ers, their fashionably-clothed families
and superb "turn-opts," OF when / make
the comparison with my dirty, squalid
quarters, my rag-covered family and my
frequent "turn-outs" on the street for non
payment of rent.
/ further pledge myself to advocate rum
and beer, and always to vote as my mas
ters direct. This 1 subscribe to with
clear view of all the penalties that come
to q man who makes himself sct to sup
hard times in the billions of dollars used
to supply the drink habits of its custom
ers, the expenses of lawsuits, supporting
paupers and criminals than all other
trusts combined.
Signed. d.....................
Witness.
When signed please hand over to the
nearest saloon-keeper and pass it on to
the brewer.
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Joyfu1 Answering Love.

Most loving God, who by the name OF
Father calest US to dwell with Thee il
filial affection and unity of will, grant
us, we beseech Thee, strength and grace
to do our part nobly in this present
world. Thou hast planned our life and
sustained us day by day. Thou hast so
loved us as to give thy Son for our re-
demption. Thou hast pardoned our in
iquities. Help us to love Thee with.
joyful answering love that shall become
our strength for duty. make US more
helpful to our friends and neighbors
and more patient with the trials of our
lot. And thine shall be our hearts
praise evermore. Amen.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1901-08-14
Industrial Growth Of the South.

During the past twenty years, while
The manufacturing interests have been
growing SO steadily and in such crafty
ing manner the increase in railroad mile
aye in the South has been keeping pace.
In 1880 there were 1910 miles of track
in the South. In 1900 there were 49,627
miles of track. In the former year the
South produced about 375,000 tons of pig
iron; in the latter year the production Of
pig iron was more than 100000 tons.
twenty years ago Birmingham was un.
known; to-day is is great iron and steel.
centre.
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The Nevspsper as an Educator.

Professor w. H. Lynch, of Mountain
Grove Academy, at Mountain Grove, Mo,
is, credited with reading more paid-for
newspapers than any other man in the
United States. He subscribes for fifty
eight newspapers, six of them dailies. The
professor says: II use the newspapers in
NV classes. They are the best instrument
in the world for teaching current history
and geography. The real drama of life in
its varied forms of commercial, political
and social relations must be seen and
learned through the mirror of the world,
the newspaper. Every Friday morning IN
the academy is devoted to the reading OF
newspapers"
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or Course, He Never Does.

"I never tell q pretty girl she's pret'
ty," he remarked sententiously; "its
unnecessary, 1t goes without saying
She's knows she's pretty just as wei
as I do, and to tell her SO Is simply
piling on the agony. reserve ny
compliments for the poor things whe
need them. BY the way, Miss -
YOU look awfully we'll in that gray
frock with that little touch Of cherry
truly you do-positively pretty, don''
you know."-New York Sun.
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Mastodons' Remains + ound.

Members of committees on history, eth
nology and authropology, with Secretary
W. b. Stevens, of the Louisiana Purchase
Exposition, have just visited an extensive
deposit of mastodon remains near Kimms-
wick, on the Mississippi River, twenty
miles below st. Louis, Mo. The deposit
is said to be one of the most important
yet found, because of the great number of
almost perfectly preserved bones. Whole
heads. with upper and lower jaws, and
also femurs five feet in length, are in ex-
cclcnt condition. Professor Beeler be-
iicvcs he has enough bones to build up
several skslctons Of the mastadons. It
has been proposed to make suitable ex-
nIDit of these remains at The coming fair.
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ALjfe OF Love and Peace.

Men do not 60 to church to hear the
music, for better music can be found at
the concert halls. Men do not 90 to
church because of the club attractions,
for there are more entertaining clubs
elsewhere. Men do not so to church to
listen to an oratorical address, for
there are few orators in the pulpit, and
no man can be an orator ffty-two times
q year. People do not go to church to
while away an hour. They 60 because
they want to know about God and an
invisible world. What they are seeking
is a life Of love and peace. You minis
ters must give it to them, must show
them the way, or you have no business
in the pulpit.-Lyman Abbott.
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Dies of Alcoholic Diseases.

Ability to endure much liquor does not
indicate that the organs of the body are
protected against injury from alcohol, but
only the power to conceal it's effect on the
brain. Men employed in the manufacture
and sale of liquor are seldom seen drunk,
but the statistics of mutual benefit asso-
Citations show that greater majority of
such people die of alcoholic diseases than
people in other employments.
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Drunkenness in England.

If I were asked to say in one word
what was the matter with England !
should reply drunkenness" What causes
this drunkenness? I will not venture tc
declare, but from it spring practically all
the ills to which the British social organ.
ism is heir.-London Interview with Miss
Mcdowell, OF Chicago.
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PRAYER for Spiritual Guidance.

Lord, guide and direct me. Teach me
what l should do. Show ME Thy will.
II it so please Thee to give me work, en-
able me to do all that comes in my way
with a single eye to Thy glory. Lord,
let me learn that which Thou seest best,
TO prepare me for any work Thou may
est yet call me to. Enable me to grow
in the knowledge Of what may helr
others, but, above all, in the knowledge
of Thee, my Saviour. from whom comes
the will to work for Thee. Amen.
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Directed Against Alcohol.

It is not from France that legislation
looking toward the restriction or the pro-
hibition of trade in intoxicants is expect
ed. The Chamber Of Deputies, however,
has adopted unanimously a resolution
calling upon the Government to prohibit
the manufacture and sale of all alcoholic
liquors pronounced dangerous by the
Academy of Medicine. The resolution
was directed against absinthe, that demor-
alzing distillation of wormwood, the con-
sumption of which has increased so alarm
ingly in France. Since 1894 the quantity
has doubled. Admittedly the use of ab-
sinthe has done much to increase insanity
in the republic, until it is recognized that
something must be done to stop it's raw
ages. For a country such as France,
where wine.drinking is as common as the
drinking of water with us, to enact a
measure prohibitory Of the use of even one
liquor is almost as radical as general pro-
hibitive legislation would be in the United
States, where the whole traffic stands in
doubtful relation to public welfare and
public sentiment.
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Acknowledgement of the goodness u
God is a part of every, true prayer, and
as we utter our thanksgiving. both foI
what we have always known as bless.
ines. and for what we did not once
realize to be such but are now under
standing more completely, the gratitude
for the past brings with it a calm and
loving committal of the future to Hin
who has guided us all the way from the
beginning. Timothy Dwight.
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Number Of Farms In Vermont.

For Vermont the enumerators report
8,l09 farms; in 1880 there were 1882,
md in 1890, 32,573. The number of farms
in 1900 is 536 in excess of that of 1890,
md 24l3 Tess than in 1880.
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God is a great God and therefore be
will be sought: he is good God and
therefore he will be found.-John Ma
son.
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-S &Nv

Torpedo tubes made Of aluminium
instead of steel have been placed on
board two destroyers at Portsmouth.
The use of these tubes at present Is
experimental, but so considerable will
be the saving in weight-an important
matter in connection with light craft
like destroyers-that if successful alu-
minium tubes will be generally used
in place of steel tubes.
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go. WltQeSS.
When signed please hand over to the
nearest saloon-keeper and pass it on to
the brewer.
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In Hawaii enormous quantities OF
ducks are raised by the Chinese upon
the edges Of the ocean. Twice a day.
within restricted areas, they are per-
mitted to eat the young fish which
swim in the inclosed coves. Fish are
reported to be growing scarcer every
year, and by some this diminution is
attributed to the wholesale destruc-
tion of the young fry by the Chinese.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-11-10
STATE INSTITUTIONS

L.. 0. Henderson. Warden State Prison
Jos. E. Stubs, President State University
DR. Patterson, Supt. Hosp Mental Discs
JOS. Josephs, Supt., of Orphans Home
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HOW is YOUR WfFEp

Las she lost her beauty? Il SO, Consultation
Indigestion, Sick Headache are the principt
tor half century. Price IS cts and SO cts. Mnnep
eed0nkd results era not satisfactory
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-11-10

JUSTICES SUPREME COURT:
W. 4. Massey, c. P, c. H. Belknap.
A. L. Fitzgerald.
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DO 100 KNOW

Consumption is preventable science has proven
that, ard also that neglect is suicidal, The worst
and Consumption Cure Sold GA pcsitiv- a.arantee
for over fifty years.
Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1901-11-10

!. n. Evans, w. w. Beoller
H. S. Starrett.