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Temperance in. Canada.

Whatever may be the result of the
! vote. it is quite clear that the cause
OF temperance in Ontario-and. indeed
in the whole Dominion-will not de-
viate from its onward march. Side
by side with the long-continned pro
hibition agitation have beenit success.
ful efforts in bri:sing about = greater
stringency in the license laws Strong
restrictions have been made in the
sale of liquor as it applies to certain
l. persons. hours and legal holidays.
l. The reduction of license during the
past quarter of a century has also
been most marked. In Oh tario. during
this period. tavern licenses have been
reduced from 4.793 to 2.621. shop IL
censes form 1907 to 303. wholesale IL
censes from SO to 81, and vessel H.
censes from 33 to none. This decrease
represents one license to 700 people.
as against one license to 27S people
twenty five years ago. Of the 756 Or
ganized municipalities al have no
tavern license. 435 have not more than
two, while 625 are without shop IL
cense. These facts will undoubtedly
have bearing on both sides of the
referendum contest.
They will encourage prohibitionists
to greater activity and confirm many
of those in their opinions, who believe
that the present license laws best
serve the cause of temperance. 1t may,
therefore. be concluded that if prohi-
bition be defeated. temperance will
still hold on its way: or. if successful.
there will bp for tho law n oaparaI
observation-disclosures of Reviews. o.
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Temper nee Abroad.

The history of temperance in Fin
land is tina t nation trying to es.
cape from bitter bondage. for liquor
always enSlaveS individuals and ma
tiOns alike. In the year 1888 the Raj
tiudeu Ystavst 1.-THE friends of abstin-
encel was organized Brandy was the
I objective point. and this society pub
ished and distributed many pamphlets
on the misuses of brandy. The land
owners held the right to distil brandy.
and it was not until the year 1863.
when the representatives of Finland
We're called together by the Emperor
Alexander H., that these land owners
were. led. to resign that rights in this
particular. They did it on the local
option pledge that no brandy was to
be sold in the county communities
without the consent OF those communi-
ties In 1860 there was retrograde
movement on the part OF friends of
abstinence in that they reorsanized
their society on the basis of modera.
ton and total abstinence, and later. in
1863. reorGanized it again on the basis
Of both moderation and total abstin.
ence. Janus-like, it therefore had
two faces. was doubleminded, and as
such could not be expected to do eff
feCtive work! This was recognized
and resulted in a return to the total
abstinence plan. so far as it could be
done. by not receiving any more So
cieties organized on the double basis.
+ The Moderate" societies are gradual
ly dying out. 1t is another instance of
the survival of the fittest.". "a.
The introduction of the Gnthenburg
system into all the towns of Finland
was the next. check received by, tenn
perance. Ostensibly, as in other coun-
f tries. it was introduced as temper
ance: measure; but in the; study Of
Sweden and Norway we have learned
that it was .delusion and snare.
Herr Edy. Bjorienheim, representa-,
tive of Finland, says THE exper-
fences Of Finland with TIE Gothenburg
systen do not run in a favorable di-
rection, and it is evident there is a
strong current of opinion against it in
the country. Especially is this the
case in temperance circles, that is.
among persons who, provided the svs-
tenn would answer it's professed object,
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Louisiana Sunday Law.

The statistics OF Sunday crime in
Louisiana became appalling, and that
day of rest reported more stabbingss
murders riots. etc, than all the other
SIX OF the week. These facts haze
impressed themselves on the people
in the parishes which rejected the
Sunday law, and it became more and
more patent that if the planters
wished to prevent the decentralization
OF their negro hands. they would have
to give up their opposition to the Sun,
day law. =
This idea has spread from parish to
parish. until now all but two or three
obey the Sunday law Pointe Coupee.
whose white population is nearly en-
tirely OF French descent. and which
has always enjoyed the Partisan Sun
day. gave in last week when its $50
merchants pleaded guilty of selling
liquor on Sunday. paid up fines
amounting to $3.50, and promised to
mend their ways in future '"i8
This is as far as prohibition, has. got
in southern Louisiana as yet. 1t
shows the drift, the decided change in
public sentiment. and it may lead in
time to the same prohibitory move
ment as in other parts of the South
west.
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direction on behalf of Colonel Henr,
G. De Long. His was an influence
that could not be repressed. The loca.
agency presided over by the mother.
ip-law kept the public fully informed
q TOT the movements of the captain
and his wife, +eath time Identifying the
latter as 1.-The. granddaughter Of the
late Colonel Henry G. De Long" etc
etc" One day the mother-in Law
called at the Office and demanded s
personal interview with the editor-in-
chief. as she only dealt with the heads
OF houses when she went out. To him
she confided this:
THE citizens OF Auraria remember
with pleasure the marriage of Captain
Randall Fonda and Miss Hortense
Marie MacOwen. AS the granddaugh-
ter of the late Colonel Henry G. Dc
Long. one of McGinville's most promi-
nent influential and wealthy citizens.
the bride wilt be welcomed into oar
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A Hundred Years from Now.

When a look ahead shows you nothing
but the thickest sort of gloom,
When you're worried to the center Of your
soul.
When your plans have all miscarried and
- proved CASTLES in the air,
: #And you We nothing in your pockst but
- hole. . .si Is y
Thens tine time to reason thuswise
Who can tell bit of diff rence in a hun
dred years from now"
when the pathway stretching endwise
tow'rd life's slowly setting sun
Shows the lions with their chains all
hid from view.
When it seems there's nothing doing" in
= the pfovidential line.
And when everything except the SKYE
70 looks blue.
Then is not the time to falter or turn
backward from the pillow;
Will it make bit of diff renee in a hun
dred years from now?
Yet there's one thing will make difference
ten long decades further on:
It's the way you bear your troubles day
by day;
II you keep your top-lip stiffened and a
smile upon your face
AS you stride toward the lions in the
way,
Then the worried world will carry fewer
wrinkles on its brow,
And twill really make some diff renee in
hundred years from now.
IS. w. Gillian in Los Angeles Herald.
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The Boast of a Fool,

Another dangerous and at the same
time preposterOuS creature is the be
sotted fool who boasts OF the amount
that he can drink, -......
In every barroom, in every club you
meet a poor. befuddled weakened
creature bragsing about his capacity"
This same man sneers at the respect
able human being who cannot drink
much.
1t is a fact that the drunkard who
boasts of the quantity of alcohol he
can put into his system is; actually
admired by other men. He never. :is;
compared, as he should be compared
to a hog with tuberculosis.
When You next hear man Boosting
OF, what he can drink and filing the
minds of young men with hideous
ambition to be brutes. give the hard
drinker a few facts.
Tell him that the capacity to drink
great deal simply means a weak
.nened. degenerate heart. 1t does not
mean stronc head. Take a young
man in normal health with strong
heart and a good supply of blood-his
system is at par. If you add a little
alcohol you overdrive his heart and
flood the brain tissue with alcoholic
blood. causing drunkenness. This
drunkenness proves physical superior
*ity, not inferiority.
An athlete in perfect condition is
made drunk by an extremely sulaA
amount of alcohol. The wretched out
cast drunkard on the street would take
five times as much to stop the shaking
of his hands and get himself in condi-
ton to beg. That does not mean that
the athlete is inferior to the gutter
drunkard r't
The child fifteen or sixteen years
old in the last stages of consumption
is sometimes kept alive by the use of
alcchol--such a child can absorb with,
out intoXicaton three times~as. mush
as the strongest man.
These facts may convince the man
who boasts his capacity that his boast
is simply a confession of weakness.
of physical decay.-New York Jour
nal.
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club. he took his stand ind tresolve1
to make fight for it. Thssdcg recog
Eized the man and begin exhibiting
every sign OF friendlineas.A After .
few minutes pYrsuers we're heard
in the distance. TIE dog at once trot
ted off in that direction and. Was SHORE
ly baying- and 4e4ding them over ,
fictitious trail. The prisoner pushed
ahead for half an hour ana was theR
rejoined by the dog, who kept either
close to his heels or just ahead OF
him all day and lay beside. him in the
woods at night. This position Of
guardian or companion he maintained
until toward night of the second day
when he returned to the stockade. The
prisoner was then thirty miles away
but on the fifth morning he was re
captured. When he returned the
hound met and caressed him. From
that hour to the close OF the war the
dog would not take the trail OF an
escaping prisoner
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Hats and caps,=

"My granddaughter" said the Ser
seant. asked me the other day if I.
wore hat or cap in the army. :
wore both, but just when ! wore the
one and when the other >Iscouldn't re
member at first. But / remembered .
day on the long march from Tennessee
to Louisville in 1862. when i carried
water in. my hat to battle the face OF
an exhausted comrade. I remembered
that at Stone River l slept. with my
hat over my face one night, and thai
when | came to lie down the next
night there were three holes in the
crown of the hat l wore and piece
out OF the rim, and thought some OF
the boys had taken my hat and left
a ragged one in its place
My memory was little hazy in the
matter OF hats at Chickamauga, but
remembered that while We, were at
work on the forts in front of Chatta.
nooga two days later the rebel sharp
shooters put two bullets through the
upper part of the hat | wore. without
my knowing it. and that all the boys
thereupon pushed the crowns of their
hats up to their full height l remem
Der that when the pontoon bridge at
Bridgeport broke. and l went into the
water. my hat fioated and was not two
feet from me when | came up from
my journey to the bottom. "-Chicagc
Inter Ocean. /! Ia
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;iIskeRl Ill ci2np.A III

Above the binsss the moan was slowly
The river sang below;
The dim 9ierras. far beyond. uplifting {, !.
Their minarets of snow. Y
The rearigE campfire. with rude humor'
i The Fuddy tints of heath ~ - :. =
and tainted 81 ia
In the fierce race for wealth:
Till one arose, and from his packs scant
treasure
boarded volume drew.
And cards were dropped from hands of
listless leisure
To hear the tale anew;
And then while round them shadows
gathered faster.
And as the freight fell.
He read aloud the book wherein the
Master g":g
Had writ of Little NAll"
Perhaps twas boyish Sfancy.-for the
Was youngest of them all =
But. as. he read. from clustering pine and
cedar
A silence seemed to fall:
Tie fir trees, gathering closer in the
shadows.
Listened in every spray.
While the whole camp, with "Nell' on
English meadows
Wandered and lost their way.
And 80 in mountain 'solitudes-o' ertaken
AS by some spell divine
Ihelr cares dropped from them like need
les shaken
From out the gusty pine.
Lost is that camp. and wasted all Its fire:
And he who wrought that spell?
All. towering pine and stately kentish
Spire.
Ye have one tale to TELL
Lost is that camp. But let its fragrant
story
Blend with the breath that thrills
With hop-vines' incense all the pensive
glory
That fills the Kentish hills. S..
And on that grave where English oak and
holly
And laurel wreaths intwine,
Deem 1t not all Il too preSumptuouS folly
This spray of Western pine
{! 81 Bret Harte. q
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Statues of Three Famous Men.

Statues to the memories of De Witt
Clinton, Alexander Hamilton and. J John
Jay will be erected in the New York
Chamber of Commerce, adjoining its
new home in Liberty street. The three
dead men We're associated with the
early history of the chamber, and the
three living men to perpetuate their
names and looks are Morris X. Jesup.
John s. Kennedy and William F..
Dodge, present members, who defray
the expenses. The cost of each statue
is estimated at about $4,000, and the
sculptors doing the work are Daniel
French and Philip Martiny.
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Bonds Tale Of Bloodhound.

.. An improve ment on the story of An
drocles and the lion is credited. TO
Nimrod w. Bond, Grand Army vet
eran who dives in the capital city. Mr..
Bonds narratives. says the Washing
ton Times. which refers to Michigan
man impri Soned at AnderSonville TUES
thus:
AT Andersonville the prisoners We're
allowed to go out in squads, strongly
guarded. to collect firewood. One day
it was the heros turn to go and for
the first time since his mprsonm mt
he caught sight OF Col. Catchem, the
big bloodhound.
The Michigander noticed that the
dog limped painfully on one of his
forefeet, but gave the matter no spe-
cial attention, until, after being out
for half an hour, he sat down to rest
near one OF the guards. The dog ap-
preached the guard as If to ask some
favor, but was repulsed with an oath
and threatened blow. He then Skulked
around and came near the prisoner
who saw that he had an old horseshoe
nail run into his foot. With a little
coaNirig he got the dog near and final
ly pulled out the nail and the animal
ran away. seemingly we'll pleased.
Twelve days after that. one night
about midnight, "a tuh1rei .was READY.
The prisoner was. .,4oQg times getting
clear g9f the. neighborhoad and weak
and half-starved as he ''&Xas: ne was
not more -than two miles from the
stockade when day broke and Col.
Catchem was put. on the track.
when he heard the; dog comingshe
looked for suitable tree to climb.
but failed to find one. Armed with
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Cured Of His Latin.

Grand Army men sometimes tell
stories that are not in the books, and
they are most interesting. Here is
one giving new method of curing an
offensive officer. The narrator vouches
for the truthfulness OF the army in
cident:
When the til regiment. Ohio In
fantry was stationed along the Mem
pais and Little Rock railroad in 1864,
guarding the bridges and making &C.
casional forays into the surrounding
country, they had so many men sick
with swamp fever it was found neces-
sary to have help for the regimental
surgeon, and soon there arrived a
Young doctor.ifull OF conceit and Latin
phrases, tas he was only just out of
p college. ~
Now the surgeon was one OF the old
school doctors who had a sublime CON
tempt for all that was new in the sci
ence of medicine or surgery. The
young doctor paraded his Latin terms
before him at every opportunity.+This
soon made bad breach between the
two. T
Soon after about two hundred of the.
regiment We're detailed to go into the
country south, and as the guerillas
We're in force, and had a; habit of
hanging anyone caught inside their
lines, it was considered quite a dan.
gerous expedition. ''''.'..'r' .s--.-. r--,.
The old surgeon thought this was
his opportunity to rid himself Of the
young doctor. and decided to send him
with the. expedition. in the hope that
he would get hanged or killed. =
He gave him strict orders as to how
he must treat all cases of sickness or
wounds, and even went so far as to
tell him what to do in case a man
was killed. The fourth day out they
ran into an ambuScade and had four
men killed and few wounded When
they returned from the scout the old
surgeon, Immediately demanded re-
port as to how many had been sick or
wounded, AL Of which the young doc
tor gave him intedetail. laying MUCH
empha sis on the fact that he lost only
four mem .Et
What did they"die of" demanded
the old doctor.
"Bulletus minniebus, sir; and they:
died very quickly, ,-A.t ::
How did you treat tbem?" - T.
81 gave no treatment: they died So
suddenly l had no time to give any
treatment - -; 'i?s5:-+
Well sir said the old doctor,
you may handl me- your resignation.
! have no use for you. Why, sir, you
pretend to tell me that is a fatal dis
ease. i have practiced medicine thir-
ty years and never lost case OF that
kind. 49,.
The young doctor did not resign. but
tits needless to say that he was very
careful about the use. OF his Latin in
the, presence, Of the old doctor after :.
WARD. -1;Eo @l "a vs.. Dispatch,
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Good Object Lesson.

Once upon a time. Policeman job n
j. O'Brien of New York. who recently
killed his wife while ;on a drunken
spree, believed that little whisky did
no harm.
A great many thousand men to-day
believe. as O'Brien did before he be-
came a murderer. that little whisky
does no harm.
The young man and the old man
who think that a little whisky does
no harm ought to have witnessed the
last meeting on earth of O'Brien and
his wife and their three children.
O'Brien. sobered up. whisky out of
his head. was filled with remorse and
wept constantly. His grief was so
great that it was thought he would
become insane, and the District Attor-
ney in charge of his prosecution con,
sented to his attending his wife's fun
eral.
He was taken, handcuffed, to the
house in which he lived with his fam
lily before the devils joke took
place. .-.. , -.:r
The murdered wife lay in a coffin
and her mother sobbed at the head OF
the coffin. The three young children.
all under seven years of age, stood
at the foot of the coffin as the father
and murderer. handcuffed to a detec-
tive leaned over theGcoffin, his tears
falling on his wife's face. 4
AT the edge of the grave later on
O'Brien knelt down and the detective
handcnffed to him knelt also-the
handouts compelled him to kneel. :
The dirt was thrown in. O'Brien was
taken to the prison and the children
went away in another direction.
The devils joke" had lbeen played
out to an unusually Successful end
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paragraph and. all. Strangely enough
the officiating minister omitted the
name of the old gentleman in his per-
Torrance of the ceremony. but the
Auraria Gazette next morning gave q
prominent place 10 this notice:
Married, at the Church of st. Chry-
session. Captain Randall Fonda and
Miss Hortense Marie MacOwen. The
bride is the granddaughter Of the late
Colonel Henry G. De Long, who was
one of McGinville's most prominent
influential and wealthy citizens The
couple will spend the honeymoon a,
eastern resorts.
The Auraria Gazette was by nc
means relieved from its work of res
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Two Brave Soldiers.

Maj.-Gen. David S. Stanley, U. S A.,
who died the other day, became a con-
vert to the Catholic church on the
battlefield of Shiloh and was baptized
on this sanguinary ground. He was
born in Ohio in 1928, graduated from
West Point in 1852, served in the In.
dian campaigns and all through the
civil war in the fighting in the west.
He led the cavalry, and was in COM
mand of the Fourth Corps. He saved
the day for the Union forces at the
battle of Franklin, Tenn. by his gal.
and skill. He served in the
army ELECTROMAGNETIC the de-
partme nt os@Taxas. and latterly the
National Soldiers Home in Washing.
ton. He is the second Catholic con.
vert to hold the latter post. Gen. Hen.
!ry Hunt chief of artillery, whose can
nonade at Gettysburg saved the day to
Meade, being the other.
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tt; ,ttpp ftlrtherathe interests * Temperance
and morals, would be the very first to
fail 1t as valued friend and ally"
w. G. T. y. work was organized in
Finiand in 1895. The president. Fru
Helenius. was in attendance at the
Worlds convention in. Edinburgh in
1900. i ~ ,..e ~
schools with membership of both
teachers and scholars of 17S,O6S.
Faithful temperance teaching in the
Sunday schools might capture Finland
for temperance: but alas, it has been
told us that it has not yet dawned
upon the people that Sunday schools
have anything to do with TEMPERANCE.
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A. marriage announcement attracted
my attention. ,.'i

most select society upon her return -
Front page position, madame, "
said the editor, Il shall see personally
that it gets there :. i
The couple had to return, select a
house, hold reception, and in other
ways keep before the public. There
was no escaping. the death grip OF the
old grandfather in each case, and
it was not long until every reader
took it for granted that the Colonel
Henry G. De Long was to be found
somewhere whenever Captain and Mrs.
Fonda We're mentioned. s.
The captain was proud and buoy
ant for a few days. then he began to
walk with slower tread, and the cor
dial smile had left his face.
NO" he would say, there is moth
ing the matter with me-only a little
touch of the Ganges fever 1t will
soon be over" $3.50.
Calling into the Office one night
later than usual, he was taciturn and
uneasy.
"A word with you said he. "to be
held secret. l know who Colonel
Henry G. De Long was, but for the
life of me have never been able to
locate the whereabouts of the late Mr..
MacOwen. Heaven only knows how
l can repress my curiosity"
Winter melted into spring, and sum-
smer came, giving way to autumn. As
the sere leaves. were falling into a
new made grave theE-remains of Cap
tain Fonda We're deposited therein.
He had died without having his GU
riosity enlightened.,:The Auraria Ga
zette next day printed a notice, the
manuscript of which was in the same
old handwriting: -
= The death of the late Captain
: Randall Fonda came as great blow
to his bereaved wife. Mrs. Fonda, as
the granddaughter of the late Colonel
most prominent. Influential and
wealthy citizens, has RECEIVED the deep
sympathy of those who have had the
pleasure of knowing her during her
brief married life. ''-.--.'~'~.. i,
The years have come and gone. and
silver threads have invaded raven
hair This old message from twenty,
years ago rests uneasily upon my
mind and in the effort to throw it off.
the clipping is dropped upon the floor.
and pick up the McGinville Banner.
just received by midnight mail Eager
ly tearing the wrapper I turn to the
social column. where a marriage an
nouncement attracted my attention.
Mrs. Ealoner Finchman announces the
engagement of her daughter, Miss
Frances Agnes, to Henry Arthur
Mountserrat The notice goes on: ,
This marriage will be notable AZ
fair because Of the great social prom
inence of the bride, who is the grand
daughter of the late Colonel Henry &.
De Long, one of McGinvilles most
prominent, influential ana wealthy cit
liens
The paper had dropped from my
hand. The last street car for the sub
urbs was sounding the gong, and l
fastened to leave my ghostly company
behind.
There was too much grandfather.