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Temperance Notes.

A moderate drinker is worth more
10 tie devil than is i drunkard.-
American Issue.
The saloon is a parasite-1t feeds
upon prosperity, but it never produces
1.-THE Los Angeles Searchlight.
The expenditure for intoxicating
drinks Of the Australian colonies fol-
last year was E14,500,000, according to
Joseph Cook, NJ. II r. This may nc,
count TO: the large number Of the u1i
employed in these regions.
President Benton, Of Miami UnireT
sity, Oxford, Ohio. declared that nc
license would mean 100 new students
TO that institution next fall, and TIT
city thereupon voted for prohibition by
eighty-five majority.
Robert II. MaG1Nood, superintendent
of the temperance department OF tic
Massachusetts Christian Endeavo!
Union, is making 4 campaign against
the Boston department stores that sci.
whisky.
There are $4,000 liquor shops i'll
Paris.
The Order of Sons Of Temperance
England, achieved, in the past year, al
increase Of 5093 adult members.
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Hidden Riches.

This inner life is a tremendous real
ity. Its very invisibiiity emphasizes the
realness of the reality. 1t is n of the
richest heletages Of the child Of God.
The outer life is only the scafolding OF
the building; it is only the husk or
shell. The inner life is the real build
ing; it is the gern-hiding kernel.
All moral and spiritual defeats are
due to q vitiation Of the inner life. The
whitening, blasting and uprooting OF
the souls choice plants are never ac-
complished through the forces OF the
outer life; the work begins within.
How can we possess the rich, power
full inner life when body, mind and
soul are constantly exercising their
energies upon the vain, perishing
things Of earth! We must take time to
cultivate the unseen fields Of the soul.
We must constantly stand face to face
with God, drink in the strength OF His
nature and the inspiration OF His pres
ence. II We do not, the inner life must
perish. Prayer, meditation, reading
these are channels through which God
pours His golden, vitalizing streams
into the inner life.
The saGdest moment in life to man or
woman is when there is a discovery
that the inner life is gone, and only the
outer shell is left. Yet the inner life
goes gradually and secretly; no one
has ever been robbed Of it.
Let US be watchful. Let us remem-
Der that as long as God is in this inner
life there is security there, and that no
thief has ever yet been able to break
the lock of prayer and trust and divine
wisdom.-Raleigh Christian Advocate.
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Labor's Reward.

Whatever We beg of God, let us also
work for it; if the thing be matter of
duty or a consequent to industry. For
God loves to bless labor and to reward
it. And therefore u blessed Saviour
Joins watchfulness with prayer; for
Gods graces are but assistances. not
new creations Of the whole habit. in
every instant Or period CT our lives.
Read Scripture and then pray to God
for understanding. Pray against temp
tation. Ask Of God competency of
living; but you must also work with
your own hands the things that are
honest, that We may have to supply -
time Of need. We can but do u
endearor and pray for a blessing, and
then leave the success with God; and
beyond this we cannot deliberate, we
cannot take care, but so far we must.
Jeremy Taylor.
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Election Returns That Interest All Parties.
Oddities in Collectione.

Some of the odd and curious things
men make collections Of are included
in the following list of titles: Wash
lngton e~ngravings, local imprints,
transportation, portraits Of one-eyed
men, Niagara, Harvard College, for
estry, international law, Valentines,
ex-libris, almanacs, libel trials, local
views. bindings, pirates.
Each subject mentioned here was
taken at random from the order book
of a Boston print and book seller with
an international reputation.-New
York Press. e.
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The Answer to Monica's Prayer.

When Augustine, a great champion
Of the faith once delivered to the
saints, was a young man, his habits
were very dissolute. When he avowed
his purpose to go to Rome, his mother,
Monica, prayed earnestly that he might
be prevented, apprehending that i'll so
corrupt a city be might be led on by
surrounding temptation to utter ruin.
Notwithstanding all her entreaties, her
son went to Rome; and thence, on a
recommendation of a friend, he passed
on to Milan, and was there converted
to the truth under the ministry Of Am
brose. Thou, O my God" he says,
"didst give her not what she asked
then; but by refusing that, didst give
what she was always asking."-Se-
1nntn6
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When a girl at a young persons ex-
perience meeting spoke the other day
of having seer some n who was "lu-
rid with fear" she was at once takek,
to task and told tina, she meant "livid."
Two artists who were present were es-
pecialIy explicit in pointing out that
"lurid" meant gaudy. strongly colored.
But when they looked the matter up in
the dictionary they found that "lurid,"
to describe the CHASTITY, greenish coun-
enance Of fear, was exactly right.
Livid means black and blue, like con.
fused 1esh.-Philadelphia Record.
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Claim More Than 100 Years Old.

After the lapse Of more than a cen
fury the claim of James Sellock,
Eliphalet Lockwood and William Lock
wood, of Norwalk, Conn, for indem-
nifty. growing out Of the seizure and
condemnation of the schooner Wash
ington on the high seas in 1899 by the
French royal cruiser LIE Renomince,
was brought rr for trial Aug. "a be-
fore Probate Judge Gregory in Nor
walk. The Washington was owned
by the above-named trio. and their
heirs are maintaining the present pro-
ceeling.-Law Notes.
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PitIably Inadequate.

How pitiably inadequate our present
Sunday-school methods seem when the
greatness Of the textbook and the sa-
credness of the human soul are consid-
cred. Why do Jul young men leave
the Sunday-school? Because We have
not been wise enough to present to
them opportunities fer study of such
rich lives as Isaiah, Josiah and Sam
uel. Here, then, is the-man of God
perfect, thoroughly furnished unto
every good work. To make such 4
man is the supreme function Of the
Sunday-school.-Rey. Everett D. Burr,
Newton, Mass.
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Bound to Match Her Dog.

Women have bought dresses to match
their dogs ard dogs to match their
dresses, but one West Side girl has
Just had q gift of a beautiful brown
cocker spaniel and is so in love with
the color of his tresses that she not
only has ordered a velvet suit and set
of furs to match him. but she is
touching up her own brown hair to
get it the exact shade Of golden-brown
that she admires so much in doggy
New York Press.
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senior partner OF the firm OF !: j. CHENEY q
Co., doing business in the City OF Ioledo,
County and State aforesaid, and that said
firm will pay the sun Of ONE HUNDRED DOL
Lars for each and every case Of cATARRH
that cannot be cured by the use OF HALLS
CAT.pnu CURE. FRANK j. CHENEY.
Sworn to before ne and subscribed in my
-, presence, this 9th day OF Decem-
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Hall'sC atarrh Cureis taken internally and
actsdirectly on the blood and mucous sur
faces OF the system. Send for testimonials,
iroe. FL. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, D.
Sold by all Druggists, Use.
Take Halls Family Pills for o~ast1patloa.
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The True Religion.


The religion of the Bible is not Of
human origin, for it refutes the tastes
of men. Men might as well be sup
posed to invent pain or the storm as to
invent that system which at so many
points conflict with their preferences.
The attempts to amend, modify, miti-
gate and make religion easy come from
those who know not its power. They
wish something to suit them. The
Gospel stands when human preferences
are forgotten, enduring as history, firm
as the earth itself.-Rev. r. S. Storrs,
D. =.
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The DeIusive Hen.

More men have sailed to shipWreck
in the poultry business than one a
easily recall, and yet there is no other
business which, from every considera-
ton of mathematics, political econo-
my and biology ought to pay so WELL
Portland OregOnian.
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The Largest Carpet.

What will be the largest carpet in
the world is being made in London.
1t will cover $4,000 square feet n
will serve as the ground" for winter
sports in the Olympia, London. Its
cost will be $4,000.
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Gnd,a WILL.

You may be doing Gods will with
one hand consecrated to Christ and
making your own autobiography with
the other consecrated to self.-Henry
Drammond
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But what am I?
An infant crying in the night;
An infant crying for a light

Just as the child wakes in the night
and. feeling the blacknesS huge and
empty about him, cries out into the
gloom for companionship and love, and
the father comes and takes the child
in his arms and, with confident voice,
soothes away the childish fears. so Of
tentimes we children of earth feel the
darkness of life Cypress our souls and
cry out for the strong arms of a heav-
emily Father. Why should we be
ashamed to acknowledge this hunger
of the soul any more than we are
ashamed to acknowledge the hunger Of
the body? How, especially in the
midst of trouble, the heart hungers for
its Father. When the clodS fall upon
the coffin lid. how the soul cries, MY
God-my God" How, when the clouds
Of adversely gather dense-when the
cherished ambitions OF a lifetime prove
futile; when the fortune which was to
make the years Of old age bright takes
to itself wings; how, when the familiar
friend lifts up his heel against one
Ehs heart cries out, ooh, God-my
RHr&pd ever in the sunshine and
Gnwhen everything seems
moments when H. b and
meaningless and the s. Y for
God.
My memory goes back to my own
young manhood, and 1 recall a day that
was more than usually beautiful, when
I stood alone by the sea. I had every
reason to be happy. 1 had found my
place in the world; had 4 work to do
and the future seemed full Of promise.
My health was perfect, and I had not
been disappointed, even in my boyish
dreams. And yet I recall the awful
loneliness and emptiness of the hour.
T had but to walk q mile to be wei
coined by true and tried friends. But
T stood there. lonely and homesick
There flashed into my mind the dreary
words:
this lonely shore,
Born of a brainiess nature who knew not
that which she bore.
And / remember that l threw myself
on the grass there, with the sunshine
all over me and birds singing about
me. with everything, apparently, to
make me happy, in the depth of my
loneliness / felt like a child who had
lost it's mother. What more did l
want? I will tell you what / wanted
what you want, what every nan and
woman hungers for with n hunger
deeper than any physical longing. i
wanted His Spirit to bear witness
with my spirit that / was a child OF
Go, Nothing else could satisfy: moth
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Lurid and Livid.

T AMI SCRIP Takes Government Land Quickly.
lIWrite. Also progressive men changing legation
should come here. Hugo Seaberr, Ration, n. Mexico.
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When Baby Has the Group

Use Hoxsie's Group Cure. It cur 8 and prevents
and Oiphthelis. No opium: No nausea.
So cents at druggists or mailed postpaid.
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minute the slightest tinge in it is de-
tected.
No
Breakfast room is so coy as the one which
contains a well-appointed ard well-stocked
desk In the sunniest window. ready to turn
to for the Immediate answering of the
mall whicn has been perused at breakfast.
Englishwomen. who understand the art of
letter and note writing better than any
women in the world follow this plan, and
have certain other customs which come I'M
der the class of letter writing made easy.
Letter paper is bought by the quantity,
stamps are bought by the hundred and pens
by the gross. any of which outlay would be
considered an unheard-of extravaganza by
the ordinary American woman, who buys
her writing materials in dribletS that are
small and stingy as compared with her
lavish expenditures In other directions.
1t Is the wall of the drug clerk and the
post office clerk that women buy their
stamps one at time, and letter with 2
cents lying on 1t is the commonest sight
possible on the same little desk. if 1t hap
pens to be In the American breakfast room.
So deep fixed is the notion that stamps are
a thing to be invested in economically as
needed that 10 cents worth is said to be
above the average outlay The rare wo-
man, who lays down dollar. or even half
dollar, and who would not command a
glance from the crowd for any other rca-
son, is certain of at least one full, square
look fro 71neach of the feminine people near
her
1t is not SO with the English woman who
has facilities in the little breakfast room
desk for posting her letters as soon as writ
ten. Another quality of this little desk
which makes one look at it with sense of
an already lightened weight of correspond
ence. is Its order. The maid replenishes it
with paper removes its ink spots, refills its
ink well from a bottle, which, to the Ameri-
can. would look big enough for a house,
furnishes it with new blotters and lays out
fresh pens. Sane and beautiful is the life
led by the woman who has such perspective
in buying and who can command such serv-
ice. No wonder that notes from her are
an everyday courtesy, sent with slight pre-
text to friends pleasantly thought of. and
no wonder that the letters are prompt and
beautifully written.
Apropos of this, or perhaps because Of it,
the strange fact exists that the woman who
looks to furnish her desk from the stand
point of utility and convenience rather
do so in her own shopping districts. Plain
ebony, oak or metal inkstands with tightly
arranged tops and thick. easy-handng
penholders to correspond are simple little
conveniences which women who. have ac-
quired or inherited the mans idea of what
would be called working writing mate
rails, cannot procure in the shopping dis
tricts if she wants to. The stock offered to
her who ventures to look for moderately
priced and welI-designed pieces Is either
stamped with art and coStlfneSs or has gift
or souvenir written all over it. The Ameri-
can department buyer, who knows his femi-
nine world, has stamped it kopelessly diet
tante to correspondence without having
ventured upon his usual preroSative of lead
ing it in other directions
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Women of the Great West.

From Harpers Bazaar
We mentioned to some friends that Ne
had aimed to acquire little wisdom on the
simple life by studying these new countries,
but they went into spasms OF inpolite
laughter at the suggestion. II seems that
the women hold on 10 all the frills they
used to know. and acquire all the new ones
they can hear OF. as Il means Of proving
their social status and of transforming
their present place OF residence into the
nearest possible seinhlanee OF the eae they
left behind. When they move Into town.
off the ranches. and discard sunltonnets and
Mother Hubbards. they wear chiffon hats
with brims few inches wider than eastern
modes. After few years of town and club
life they become-oh, wearsomeIy Ike every
one elses One of them. herself a woman of
brains and energy said that no one lived
the simple life here, because none had the
strength of mind to follow the recipe.
And that ls?'' we asked.
Just to be yourself" she answered And
we thought she was quite right.
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Babyology-


in the great avenue palaces Is necessarily
little different from that practiced in the
apartments and IN the more modest side
streets. For instance. the ordinary baby
takes his first airing Just as soon as a car
riage has been picked out for him by his
proud father or grandfather With the Lake
Shore drive or the Fifth avenue baby who
mas nurse at his constant disposal the
carriage Is not in use unit. he is at least
two months old. The richest nelghborhoods
are the ones which most frequently afford
the sight OF the tlniest newcomers being
carred on the arm of the nurse in what
seems to be truly medieval fashion
The best professional training for Infants
nursing now teaches this, the theory being
that while the baby's bones are not easily
broken, they are most easily bent. Bounces
and hard jolts may do the spine irretriev-
able mischief. When the carriage Is used
for the first rides the greatest Importance
is attached to getting one of fine work
Inansnlp, smooth running gear and good
frame and the risk or letting the little car
out In the care OF an inexperienced or un-
trustworthy nurse girl should not be under
estimated.
A matter Of fancy rather than health is
another fashion of the most fastidious
mammas in dispensing entirely with bibs
Ot course this takes the constant Watchful-
ness OF nurse who has nothing else to do
but to be IN close and freshly groomed at
tendance on. the baby, constantly equipped
with a fresh towel.
For the mother who cannot command this
Kind Of service the best bibs are made OF
}inen. lined with cotton and flannel shrunk
pefore using, or they can. be made OF fine
cambric or nainsook. A thin layer OF wad-
ding put between st and the cotton lining
fnd quilted IN diamonds in the otd-fash-
toned way II still one of the formulas fol-
lowed In baby science If the moisture Is
excessive bib of white India rubber cloth.
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How
To keep to the artistic in the choice Of re-
ceptacles fer flowers and growing things Is
made difficult by the abundance Of things
offered. Most of these, while they may be
good from purely decorative standpoint,
are overornamental for The old nat
and straight-sded fern dish has been re-
placed by the more artistic rounding BOWL
of brass, copper or silver. This fashion al
most may be said to have originated with
the brides of the late silver dish epoch,
who have utilized the many large and non
descript pieces which have been given them
by taking them to the hardware store and
having tight-htting, perforated Innings
made, One of the most effective of fern
cries was made in this way from beauti-
fully shaped and heavily embossed silver
dish which was built with a standard. BY
this plan contour-something the original
fern dish never possessed-may be obtained,
With corresponding gain to decorative eff
feet
Color may be obtained in the brass and
copper bowls, which also have to be adapt
ed by the timer to use as jardinieres. Good
but less expensive color effects may be had
in pottery, always taking care to avoid
anything highly tinted or brilliant. and re-
mem bering that the vase or jardiniere must
always be subservient to the flowers or
plants.
maidenhair and ivies planted in green
china or pottery bowl, provided it is of
soft, fnoffensive green. To supplement this
for more elaborate decoration, tall, slender
green vases in glass that harmoniZes per-
fectly should be chosen, using chrysanthe-
NUNS as long as it is possible to get them.
For the holidays brilliant red booms-for
instance, the poinsettia-with ample sprays
of feathery asparagus fern, make q bril-
liantly beautiful showing, with the center
iardiniere balancing the whole with an
abundance of green.
One inyiolable rule of all artistic decora-
ton Is to have what to many people seems
to be a superabundance of green The most
beautiful flowers are simply worth nothing
esthetically unless they are set with fair
amount of suitable foliage.
1t is far better for instance, to fill your
vase fairly full with tree ivy or barberries,
and then to place among the leaves three or
four chrysanthemumS, white, yellow and
terra Gotta for choice, than to have a bunch
of the chrysanthemums damned up closely
together, with no softening foliage between
them. Be sure also &c. secure little of the
gray-green chrysanthemum foliage to inter-
mngle when buying these flowers.
Everything depends upon the way flowers
are put into vase. They should always be
arranged to look as If they were growing,
high enough to show certain amount of
stem, and likewise the way in which the
flower springs out Of the STEM
Metal and wire frames can be bought,
which are useful in arranging roses and
other heavy flowers, and which are help
IN seeing that the stem of even the smallest
leaf touches the water. One of the best
reasons for choosing pur white glass IS the
practical side, even greater than the artis-
tic one OF being able to see the stems.
They not only look beautiful through the
clear glass. but the water is changed the
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cut the same shape. Is worn under IL.
FRENCH mothers have altered the bib shane
from the ofd-fashoned shield shape to the
pattern OF round collar, heavily waddel
m front only. and frilled on the edge to
give the look of gay little collar Of the
dress. u 't'e
The India rubber cloth. by the way. If
bound with white silk can be cut 10 make
a feedlng napkin for older children which
Is easily washed off, and which Is several
steps improvement upon those of white OIL
cloth.
Children's-
Natural love for animals may be made 81
means OF influence and training along many
lines. One baby OF year and a half could
be influenced to go and come by being told
that she was wanted by her cat-a yooly
AFFAIR, loved as doll and cat both. which
slept with her. and went with her. like
Mary's lamb, everywhere she went In the
baby carriage.
\ move to get her cat picture book de-
veloped the fact that child art along an
imal lines is expressed chiefly in gaudy and
inartistic colorings. To supply the want
the entire collection OF the lovely Landor
cat pictures was bought from the penny
gallery, and was pasted In q cloth book
with here and there baby face inter-
spersed for variety. Another was put to-
gethsr IN the same way with dogs from
Landseer and others.
A more advanced training carried out
along the lines of teaching the care OF pets
was put into operation at Thanksgiving
time by the principal OF one of tho promf-
nent schools In Canada. An exposition was
held, at which not only manual training
and other exhibits were made, but there
was msnagerie department "a the school
basement. to which CHILDREN were allowed
TO bring all kinds and descriptions OF live
pets.
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Is the name given to little mince pies
which are made on the last day OF the year.
especially for children, In England. They
are made of the finest paste and minee
meat and cost various sums. some being
foot square and even larger. They are for
sale during the last days Of the year in
all London shop windows marked '.Coven-
try cakes" and 1t is common practice to
send them as New Year presents to chill
dren in all parts of the country. The Gus
of Old Coventry. among god-parents, who
gave them To gud-children as a New Year
gnemento