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son af a Wealthy Mormon.

Salt Lake. Utah.-William Hooper
Young. the alleged murderer Of Mrs.
Pulitzer In New York City. Is the son
of John w. Young. n son OF the late
Brigham Young. John W. Young Is
we'll known wealthy railroad con.
tractor. At the time Of Brigham
Young's death. In 1877. he was one OF
the formers councillors. He was tried
under the Edmunds law. charged with
polygnmy. but was acquitted on tech
nlcality. Friends and relatives OF
William Hooper Young say that the
young man had always been considered
weak minded. aud on several occasions
had shown signs Of denentia. Lately.
It Is stated. he had been addicted to
the use of morphine. Young left Salt
Lake City about 1893. but has been
back several times.
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PREACHERS DRAMATIC FAREWELL
Qaits Cloth and Church After Accusins
wife of"NagEins" Him Into III Health.


Wife of"NagEinE" Him Into Ill Health.
Keokuk. Iowa.-The case Of the Rev.
P. J. Henness before the Iowa Confer.
ence of. the Methodist Episcopal
Church came dramatically to an end.
After the trial committee had been In
session far into the night Mr.. Henness
took the stand.
He said 1t was evi,lcn, b" was not
to have a fair trial. am .ded the
parchments Of his Ordin.tiOn to the
committee. following with his resigna-
ton from membership in the church. as
well as from the ministry. Turning to
his wife. who was present. the self-un-
frOcked minister exclaimed:
woman, behold the wreck OF man
you have made" His wife broke down
ut this dramatic exhibition.
Mr.. Henness suid the reason he left
his wife was because Of her continual
..nagging." which broke down his
health and made 1t impossible for him
to do church work. The charge against
him was his separation from his wife.
whom he agreed To support. but re.
fused to live with. No question OF I'm
morality was involved.
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Thu Black Bottle.

The Macon (Ga.) Telegraph tells the fo!-
lowing true story that would fifty adorn \
Temperance lecture" Happening into 4
millinery store the reporter noticed lady
The child made herself sociable with him,
and remarked. prattling artlessly. 1--WE dot
lots o money now.
Where did you get it, my little girl?"
"Papa broke de bottle"
This called for an explanation on the
mothers part, and she finally related how
her incorporate husband had been re-
formed five years before. at the time their
Oldest boy had died. This is the tale she
told, beginning-as the story of many a re-
formed life has begun-at loved ones
death bed.
The little fellow slowly turned his eyes
toward his father and said: % I'm going to
die, papa, for l see the angels beckoning
me to come. This is Christmas morning,
papa; please let me sec what Santa Claus
put in my stocking"
Ny husband went to the mantel and
took down the little stocking. 1t was
empty! He stood still and stared at it
for minute, and God only knows the
agony OF his heart in that short time. He
turned to speak. but our boy would not
have heard him had the poor mans break.
ing heart allowed him utterance. Our boy
was dead!
The day before New Years my husband
called for the whisky bottle. May God for.
give my feelings at that minute, for |
wished that he. too, were dead. / obeyed
him mechanically.
To my surprise he took the bottle in his
hand and. pouring the whisky on the
ground. said: IL will drink no more, and
the money I would spend for whisky We
will put in this bottle and all enjoy the
contents"
You can imagine how happy ! was! He
had sworn of many times before, but l
knew he was in earnest this time. We
made calculation and estimated that
whisky cost him S. a week.
Well. it was decided to put IS week
In the bottle for Ave years, come what
would. The time was out last New Years
Day. and the big black bottle was broken
and it contained $1,000. But this was not
all. We saved enough in that time. out
,ide of the bottle to buy little home.
"But are you not afraid in breaking the
bottle that your husband will break his
resolution"
mo: because We have started another
bottle bank" said the lady with happy
smile.
The husband il a Macon mechanic. we'll
known, aud enjoys the respect and esteem
OF all. He says he never knew how much
genuine pleasure there was at home with
his loved ones until he got sober enough
to appreciate it, and to gil instead OF
empty the fat bottle.
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Labor World.

The strike in the white metal trade
at Sheffield. England. Is still on.
The Brotherhood OF Locomotive En-.
gineers will demand increased wages
January next.
About G,OOO,OOO women In the United
States are wage earners or in business
for themselves.
One thousand miners are on strike
in Athen County. Ohio. because Of tie
check-of system.
Journeymen tailors were among the
earliest craftsmen to form trade unions
In North America.
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Americana Living Longer.

In a recent statement the Census Blu.
reau SHOWS the increasing age OF the popu.
lation from decade to decade, computing
the mcd,an instead OF the average age.
hall the population beinS upder and ha',
over u. This median age OF the total
population IN 1900 was rs. AZ compared
with al.9 in 1890. The statement says
..Ihc rapid progress of medical and SAIL
ta-y science, the decrease in the relative
number OF children born and the 'nitus
OF adult immigrants increase the E1mDcr
in the older age periods
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A Homo For Inebriate Women.

The Canadian Government has been pc
titioned to establish cottage homes in OF.
tawa for inebrate women. The petition
states that in the city of Ottawa intenper.
ance among women and girl prisoners has
Increased to the alarming extent OF seven.
ty.fve per cent. and that women IN many
incarcerated for drunkenness or for
crimes committed while under the influ.
ence of drink imprisonment to check
this evil has proved an utter failure. as
there are women in a brief life OF forty
years who have spent twenty years IN Iail
New York Medical Journal.
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sixfv Tons Of Checks.

Sixty tons of blank checks aud Gratis
with revenue stamps imprinted thereon
are awaiting redemption by the Comm,s,
aioner of Internal Revenue. SO tar iss !
tons of these papers have been cancelled
and destroyed. At the last session OF Con.
gress an appropriation OF s7.OOo;ooC was
made TO redeem documents on which I'm.
printed stamps were affixed in compliance
with the War Revenue act, now repealed.
More than 400 claims under this iegisla.
tion have already been paid.
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"wanfsd. . Bartender"

The other dag We picked up a newspapc,
and glancing over the advertisements for
help read as follows:
Wanted a bartender. Must be total
abstainer. Apply. etc."
Is not that q curious advertisement?
What should We think of such an adver.
tisement in any other line Of business!
How would an advertisement like this
look?
Wanted. q barber who never has had
bis hair cut. Apply at the barber shop on
the corner" or this:
Wanted. a salesman in a shoe store.
He must 90 barefoot while on duty. Ap-
ply at Blanks shoe store"
What other business finds it necessary
or desirable to advertise for help pledged
to make no use OF the goods sold? Can it
be that the liquor traffic finds it has
wrought 50 great Generalization among its
followers that it is forced to draw upon
Temperance or total abstinence fanatics in
order to continue its business?
For some years many OF the great rail-
roads. banks and other corporations have
insisted upon partial abstinence from in.
toxicating liquor by their employees, and
liquor dealers themselves are advertising
for total abs.ainers to sell their product.
thereby confrssins the generalization
wrought by it.-Temperance Banner.
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The Sporting World.

Marcus Hurley won the four mile
novelty race at vailsburg. y. j.. In 9m.
3 3.5s.
]. G. Follansbee will race stable
of horses In California the coming
winter.
G. b. Morris declares that the new
race course 1t Buffalo. N. u. Is great
success.
The Carlisle indians have decided t.
do their preliminary football work q,
Carlisle instead Of Pine Grove. Pa. be-
cause Of the prevalence Of diphtheria
az tbs lstfos ujsaA
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In Ohio.

Under the workings OF the Beal law In
Ohio. during the last few months. fifty.four
towns have voted the sal Don out. while
thirty have voted to retain the saloons.
This is nearly two 70 one in favor OF mo-
rality and respcc,ability. In the fifty.four
which have become temperance towns
there were l73 saloons. This means that
money to spend for the necessaries Of life.
and that several hundred saloonkeepers
will have TO 60 to work in some reputable
WY tu make living and become produc.
ers instead OF mere vampires. A great ad-
vance has been made. even ii there shall DO
some unrepressible infractions OF the law
IN thass towAs.-Journal and MaaAansas- {.
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTeMPeRANce.

Poem: A Tumbler OF Claret-A Story That
Would Fisiy Adorn . Temperance
Lecture-The Method by W hich . Life
was Reformed.
"A friend" in the loneliest hours, "a com.
panion" called the red wine,
And sometimes l poetized slightly and
called it "a nectar divine
But to-day as l gazed on the claret that
sparkled and glowed in the sun.
I asked it: What have you done for me
that any true friend would have
"You have given me some pleasant feel.
ings. but they always were followed
by rain: ..
You have given me hundreds of head
aches and are ready to do it again;
You sat my blood leaping and bounding,
which, though pleasant, was hurtfui,
no doubt,
And if I keep up the acquaintance am
sure you will give me the gout.
I remember certain occasion when you
caused ,ne to act like fool,
And, yes, / remember another when you
made me fall into pool.
And where is Tom Smither? You killed
him! Will Howard yLI made poor
knave;
Both my friends. and I might count
dozen, you have sent to prison or
grave.
SIS this loyal friends treatment, and are
you deserving the name?
Say. what do you give those who love you
but poverty, sorrow and shame?
A few paltry moments OF pleasure, an
age OF trouble and grief.
No wonder you blush in the sunlight, you
robber, you liar, you thief!
I'll have nothing more to do With you
from this moment, this hour, this
day.
TO send you adrift bag and baggage know
is the only safe way"
And poured out that tumbler of claret-
poured it out and not down on the
spot,
And all this, you see, was accomplished by
Just few moments OF thought.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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WalkinR In the Lishf.

God is light. and in Him Is no darkness
at ALL" / John /: S. A Goddess life II
worse of than a sunless world; better to
miss the light of day than the light of all
life. Yet men will suppose that the only
way to live the light and happy life is TO
get a. far away from even tho thought OF
the God Of all light, sunshine and bright
ness as they possibly can. We wait till the
cloudy days are past before we 90 out on
our search for recreation and enjoyment,
but many feel they must wait till God, tSe
Sun of life, has set to their visw before
they can hope to find happiness. There can
no more be happiness without God than
there can be flowers without the sun. Men
ought to feel and do feel, when their hearts
are right, the same joy at the thought OF
Him as We feel when we step out on Q
bright summers morn for whole day Of
basking in its warmth.
Where darkness Is He cannot be. II you
are hiding yourself under the shadow. of
some great sorrow you are but dWar6ng
your life. chilling your heart and secretine
yourself from the only power able TO mako
the light shine in the darkness OF despair.
What is the cause Of dark days but the
hiding Of part OF the interests OF the hfe
from the Lord! As soon as you shut the
light out you shut the darkness in, to shut
And how can we who walk in the light
live with faces eclipsed? These brief attic
tions are but the yapors that rise from the
soil: they cannot shut out the sun over
head. In fact, God 10 not only Q light
above. He Is light within; no matter
how heavily roll these mists and fogs they
cannot make it dark where He il shining in
the heart. Men do not fear Affections %
long az they are in fellowship with unfail-
ing love. Before the clear shining Of that
eternal goodness our fears fee ike those
Of children when the light n turned on In
the dark room and they see the mothers
face. His perfect light casts out fear be.
cause it is the light Of perfect love.
make our cloudy days and they form the
black spots on our professions. They are
the recesses where sin 10 conceived and
cultured; they are silent yet eloquent ar.
guments that make all our verbal testi-
mony vain and void.
II we turned our calendars upside down
it would make no difference TO the year; II
we called the nights day they would be
just as dark. A life is known by the way
it leads and not by its label. A false life IL
a lie in itself. Men are not saved by their
words about heaven, but by their walk to-
ward heaven. The world is convinced by
the logic Of lives lived in the light, where
the finest language fails. Men may know
little Of theology, but they are quick to
recognize the shining of the divine in your
life. The only hope Of this poor world is
the light of God shining in the hearts and
faces OF men, and its greatest danger Il
that those who profess TO have this light
should be but empty and dead lamps, walk
ing in the darkness and leading others
deeper in.-Ram's Horn.
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Killed by u Terrifying Dream.

Mrs. Margaret Burke. Of Mckee 5
Rocks Pa. jumped from her bed while
sleeping alongside Of her three.year-0ld
daughter as Il result OF terrible
dream. and dropped dead on the hoor.
Mrs. Burke had been complaining OF
having terrifying dreams nightly. and
DR.. Harrington said the dream had evi-
deuliy caused her death.
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THE RELIGIOUS LIFE
READING FOR THE QUIET HOUR
WHEN THE SOUL INVITES ITSELF.

Poem: shut In with God.-Ths Horrors q
. Godiess Lifs-Msn Are Not Saved by
Their Words About Heaven hat BY
Their Deeds.
Shut in with God alone
spend the quiet hour;
His mercy and His love own,
And seek His saving power.
Shut in with God alone,
In meditation sweet
Ny spirit waits before the throne,
Bowed low at Jesus feet.
Shut in with God alone,
praise His holy name,
Who gave the Saviour to atone
For all my sin and shame.
Shut in with God alone,
And yet. | have no fear;
rest beneath the cleansing blood,
And perfect love Is here.
london Commonwealth.
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Tho Greater GIT.

BE sure OF this, the more 4 man giveth
himself to hatred in this world. the more
will he lind to hate. But let us rather give
ourselves to charity. and il we have enc.
mics. and what honest man hath them note
let them be ours. since they must but let
Us not be theirs. since we know better.--
Henry Van Dyke.
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Ruined by Drunken Rioters.

The Board of Trustees of the Chicago
drainage canal has barred from the canal
all excursion boats that carry liquor. The
canal is great object OF curiosity to sight
seers. The excursion business was profit.
able until it began to be ruined by drunken
rioters who got their liquor from the bars
on the boat Then the trustees broke up
the business.
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A. Homa With God.

Loosed from other things the thoughts
10 home to rest. In God the blessed man
finds the love that welcomes: there il the
sunny place. there care is loosed ard tod
forgotten. there is the joyous freedom, tho
happy calm. the rest and renewing OF our
strengtn-at home with God.-Mark Guy
Pearse.
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Spear Polnta.

True humility does good and is silent
Gods sympathy is not exhausted in sighs.
Father" is the keyword to oil true
PRAYER.
The light from heaven can never lead
astray.
When God closes one door, He opens an
other
PRAYER is the anchor that nolds % fast
to God.
Honor looks better on background Of
humility.
God puts consolation only where he has
FIRST put pain.
The shadow may be the price we pay for
the sunshine.
Gods patience with the sinner does not
approve the sin.
There can be no Christian meeting with
out Christ in the midst.
II the King is indeed near kin to us the
royal likeness will be recognizable.
We know not miilionth part Of what
Christ is to Us, but perhaps we even less
know what we are to Him.
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Boy or Seven . Life Saver.

Kirt Deaven. seven years old. at
Schuylkill Haven. Pa. proved himself
a hero by saving the life Of Miss Eva
Helm, whose boat upset on the Schuyl-
kill. The young woman screamed for
help and the lad. jumping ON n small
raft Doled II out to her.
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Every man has secret ambition to
crown his life with some great inven.
ton. but It never gets any further
than a hopeless tinkering with the
kitchen range In an attempt to make
Il hurp right-New York Praaa
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True Laws.

The true laws OF Christian growth IS to
look right forward dong the duties OF to-
day IN the light OF conscience and plan
better Things for the future. Rev.
DR.. Harris.
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Trained Turkeys to Hunt Grasshsppers.
A tobacco grower of Windsor. Mass.
has trained q flock Of turkeys 70 hunt
grasshoppers. Planters from far and near
hire the hos clear their fields OF grass
hoppers, anu lie owner is coming money,
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Rasrufinl Elements.

The essential elements Of spiritual mind
edness are to concede to yourself all the
powers and purposes Of God and then to
actualize them by demonstrating God in
your life.-The Rev. +. f Mason. Brook.
iyn, y. Y.
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Ritual.

A man Is greater than any form Of nit
uai The temple itself was not the link
between God and man. but only the symbol
OF the link. Christ is not merely one who
symbollzes. but one who is. Right where
you are, on the mountain or in the valley,
is the place for you to worship.-The Rev.
G. G. Morgan, New York.
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~. ro-m..dmsnts.

Christ lived up to the commandments.
hence His power, and men who have lived
M Ia them have led powerful lves.-The
Rev. DR. Van Dyke.
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s2o Fine Fer SwesrisE Ia o Telephone.
Justice Dooley. Of Chicago. recently
decided that swearing into a telephone
was disorderly conduct and fired the
offender $50. Now II u said that every
offender of this kind will be prosecuted.
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Tho Haitian Government Prodded.

The provisional government OF Haiti
Is taking aggressive measures against
the revOlutionistS. it Is thought. be-
cause Of hint of intervention by the
United States unless order Is restored.
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StsnAfassuSso.

We need stability as regards the truth,
a. ~e., as !!o;:!.y to service. It is my con.
viction that much of the looseness Of living
and the barrcnness Of Christian work u
due to lack OF conviction II il also true
that loyalty OF service and loyalty Of hfe
must depend upon loyalty to conviction
The Rev. r. Bagnell, New York.
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Cruiser Des HIoincs Launched.
The United States cruiser Ces Mo.nes
was launched at the Fore River Ship.
yard. Quincy. Mass.
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Curing Lepcrs In Havana.

The Medical Board OF Havana. Cuba. re.
ports favorable progress in the ten cases
OF leprosy now in the HOSPITAL there. which
are under the special treatment OF Drs.
Duque and Moreno, who have recently
been allotted $3.50 a month by the House
OF Representatives TO continue their IN.
yestigations for cure Of the disease.
which were begun under the military gov
ernmen,. The medicine employed BY tho
Cuban doctors is an extract from red man
grove. and Is used as l. sa!yc and tonic.
Seeking to Stop Emigration.
The Hungarian Government is taking
steps to adopt stringent measures 70 reg
ulats and restrict emigration.
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Geveramsu, Owns tho rslephons.

The telephone service Of Germany ID
carried on by the Postofice Department.
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Certainly. What Ia it?'
"You told me the other day you had
some shares In the Kangaroo mine"
and they are not worth the paper
they are written on"
Exactly. I learned to-day that the
company Is on Its last legs. will give
you f10O for your shares
"You must be mad, Culworth."
"Never more sane In my life. I look
upon 1t as good Investment. I shall
take care one or two Of Ours know I
have bought some shares. though. of
course. not how many. shall give out
] am heavily dipped. q poor man. in
TACT. and perhaps bring Maisie to her
bearings. can think Of no better
way" And the documents were signed.
The -th Lancers We're next on the
roster for foreign service. and as this
might be the last hall they would give
In Blankton. every effort was made to
score big success.
One or two youngsters. whom OF
course. Maisie knew. looked on her Gu
fiously. Kate Ogilvie. her special aver
sion. looked at her with eyes OF
triumph. and then she saw Spider cross
the room and ask Kate for dance.
For months past. ever since jim
tame into the title. Kate had throw1
herself at his head. and lost no oppor
kunity Of turning up at every party and
dance at which the good looking lancer
! was likely to be present.
4, What did Il all mean? Msiaja fell
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The slickest Rascal.


"a The late James Shakespeare is said to
have told story Of a trial where in a
weil-known politician was charged with
having tried to bribe negro voter. says
the Philadelphia Times. The negro
was taken in hand for cross examination
by the defendants lawyer, who began
"Now. repeat what the defendant
said, using his exact Words
HE dun said he'd glib me fifty dol
"Now he didn't speak in the third per-
son! Repeat his exact words. If he
said anything. he spoke to you in the
first person. interrupted the lawyer.
II doan' think 1 understands, sab, 81
said the puzzled witness.
II see you DON'T" snapped the lawyer.
impatiently. Now. did he say this :
sam, will give YOU fifty dollars ?''-
mo. sab He dun said nothin' bout
you 'cept to tell me dat j: eber got into
any trouble. yo' was the siickest rascal he
knew to fool de judge an jury an get
me outen de scrape, sab. Dat was all
he said bout you.