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To be continued
Az to Goldfish.

There are ONE creatures apparently
born to have q bad time, says the
Ladies' Pictorial, and goldfish are GER
tainly Of the unlucky number. Some
times hundreds of the poor things,
fresh from the Steam-heated %millponds.
where their breeding is often quite an
industry, get violently douched by 4
fshmonger's hose, by icy-cold water
dashing into the glass tank, or, still
worse, into the little globes in which
they are stuffed by dozens. Light is
not q fsh's idea Of satisfaction; the
calm green twilight at the bottom OF
a pond is what he chooses.
Most of the goldfish bought and kept
for q time in little globes die, because
people think they can live on the ami
malculae in tap water-a fatal mistake.
l would not pay it the compliment OF
DENYING the existence Of microbes. but
they will not sustain any fish in q glass.
Crumbs make the water sour, and then
changing it bruises and worries the
fish. 1t is kind not to keep fish at all
unless they can have Il good-sizeu
aquarium with a thick layer OF loan
at the bottom in which v~allisneria-
best of water weeds-should be planted
weeks before the fish arc put in; on the
loan an inch or two of gravel, and then
filtered rainwater, never to be changed,
but to be added TO 10Y and again as 1t
wastes. Gnat larvae are, in their sea-
son, the best goldfish food; failing
these, ants cocoonS, or small meat
worms, always procurable from bird
shops, are tempting to the :iSly palate.
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V.

There arrived another letter from Mr.
Wilmot, conveying the welcome intel
ligence that he would he with us in
the course Of the ensuing week.
Now" I said, joyfully, to my wife,
"our troubles are coming to an end"
l expected that she would respond
in q like manner, and it surprised me
to see q grave look in her eyes.
Il am not II to meet troubles half
way" she said, in explanation; but it
is well to be prepared"
Yes, my love- l said. What are
you about to speak Of"
"Of your uncle and Mr.. Mortlock,"
replied my wife. Il should ike TO say
what is in my mind concerning tnem."
Speak freely" l said. "TIere have
never been any concealments between
us, and there should be none now when
Il happy event is approachins."
1T has been il my mind for scmc
little time past, but | was not sure, and.
indeed, nm not sure now. Your uncle
says nothing i'll either OF his letters OF
Eunice'S engagement"
He cannot be aware of it. My letter
to him, written on the day the engage
ment was entered into. remains. ! am
afraid, unopened in his lawyers office
in London"
There appears to be a close init
macy between him and Mr.. MortlocE.'
Yes, my dear, and l am sorry to
think So"
1t would not surprise me to learn
that it is an atfectioDate intimacy.
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WHEN SHE LOVES;
A True Test For Any Young Girl to Apply
to HersRlf.

A True Test For Any Young Girl to Apply
to Herself.
q The first test that q girl should ap-
ply 10 herself in determining whether
the liking she feels for q man is genu-
inc love or not is the important n Of
companionship. More love is bored to
death than is killed in any other way.
Unless you can dream in q crowd
all day on an absent face that has
fixed you, then never say you love-
declares q poet. That is very easy;
anybody can. 1t is no trouble to be
sentimental about n person who is alb
sent. The real question is whether
you can listen all day to the person
who is by your side and still want to
hear more. And that does not apply
to love making; all of us can hang en-
raptured Oh the words Of the one who
is singing OH praises.
1t is when We come to listening to Il
person in prose that love counts, and
if 4 girl finds that she is taking a gcnu-
inc heart interest in a mans account Of
his grocery business, and that she can
laugh when he tells q joke over the
second time, she may be sure that she
has the real article, and that her affec-
ton will stand the wear anu tear Of
daily intercourse.
One of the comm0ncst errors that
girls make is in thinking themselves in
love with the first NAN they meet wlo
resembles the hero OF their romantic
dreams. All Of their lives they have
been imagining the man with whom
they would fail III love when they are
grown up. He would be an AdoniS,
with large. dark, soulful eyes. a sweep
ing moustache. which lie would ;;naw
savagely. q melancholy expression, and
he would make love in beautiful Ian
guage.
During this short and violent hectic
flush, however, it leads a girl to do
things that she bushes to remember
ever afterwards. More often than not
tie object OF it is some matinee hero,
and she spends her money going to see
him play, and buying his photographs.
before which she burns candles and
keeps violets. and if she has got tie
disease very bad she writes him silly
love letters that lie laughs over with
his H-ife.-Weekly Welcome.
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TeInpcrancc Notes.

You cannot take the sting out OF the
saloon by cutting off its rattles.-Rams
Horn.
I can no more accept alcohol as fooc
than l can chloroform or e~ther.-Janes
Edmunds, NJ. D.
A little real resolution against evl
would do much moro good than man!
written resolutions.-Eam's Horn.
The issue Of brandy and beer as par
of the army ration will. it is said, be
abolished throughout the whole Ger
NAH Empire i'll the Fear future.
Statistics show that prohibition il
Kansas is an annual saving to tie peo
ME of $4,000, 900. FOrty-four out OF
los counties are without a pauper
and in thirty-seven counties there is
not a single occupant in the jailS.
4 remarkable feature Of tic New
York Ghetto, one that puts to shame
the "Ch.:stianizad' districts OF the city
is the paucity of saloons. No gauGy
and enticins establishments for drink
are found there, and, although saloon:
do exist. they are far apart and sc
poor in appearance rs to indicate thai
they have little OF no custom. Eye1
these saloons occur on streets wher
many people. other than jews, pass.
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Tho Grace of Content.

One Of the rarest gems Of Christi
character is the sweet grace of led
tentment. 1t may not have the ariel
i've splendor Of Righteousness. d
hush US with the subduing of purf1
but it is an exquisite ornament OF ID
der grace, and its sweetness fills eHd
room of the house Of life. Like I'D
modest violet, it reveals its presan
and fragrance by an atmosphere
is laden with tile sweet spirit of
fulness and peace. 1t Is the delica
flower Of trust and submission to
perfect will Of God, and its beauty
the smile upon a soul which kn0j
that in the hand of our Lord eyeI
good thing is completely guaranteed
Life is not without its limitations.
has bitter deprivations and pathes
disabilities; the bleak wind whist
sometimes through. its desolations q
sudden and starless dark settles upI
everything, but the eye catches
vision of the hand of God, the he'd
His voice, and the whole afe2rests
self in the unerriES wisdom and
boundless love. And so life is Liberal
from carefulness and anxiety, the he4
Is at leisure from its own load, 81
distills the gracious sweetness of
beautiful content through every bit
life.
Are not the blessedness and the M
lstry of life to be found perhaps
tempers and places which we have i
always suspected! We have given q
wants q loose rein and they have q
ried us wheresoever they would. al
many Of us spend firing days and re
less nights III trying to overtake
capricious wants. Simplicity is
Of the srrest marks Of a great
Wants have to be disciplined and hi
In strong and remorseless che
Cares have to be carefully sifted,a
anxieties scrutinized, and multitudesI
them banished to the dark land of
needless. Then there will be r04
in life to live deeply because simp
blessedly because trustfuijy, and
peaceful serenity OF our life shall
The power which VIC contribute to-
world 10 aid it's sanity, to re-enforce1
uuietness and to re-establlsh its b
mony.
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Els Mothers Prayers,

o, the saving power Of mothe
prayers! It cannot be estimated. CT
dren may grow up apparently indif]
ent to their home training; they nd
even. become vile and profigate; |
the memory of the family altar, 4
fathers Bible and the mothers pray
will cling to them. These thougl
should encourage Christian parents
live consistently in the presence
their children. and to persist in md
tanning the family altar.
DR.. ]. Wilbur Chapman relates
following incident, which is in pd
right here:
lone of my dearest friends wal
profigate until he was'a man sr01
In q great Western city he had del
mined to take his life, threw himi
down on his bed just to collect him3
before the awful deed, and Jared al
tie book from Off q shelf just abb
bis bed, and it struck him in the I'd
With an oath, be threw IT from d
and. then it Gawned upon him thai
was his mothers Bible. given him
read. He walked across the room1
pick il up, just to show her some m
Of respect, and read upon the iylj
written in her own hand: Dear
you Il never get away from 81
mothers prayers Instead Of bec|
ing O self-murderer, he became ond
the couEtry's greatest preachers. /
20. for Z revival of the old custom
having Il family altar in the he.
where the father acts as priest,
the mother as a saint; we could
the whole country for Christ. IN
that we might dig again the we'll
our fathers digged before us.
make homes Observation-Disclosures
escopc.
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Drinking Men Mt a Discount.

81 will hazard the statement" said
President Joseph Ramsay. of the wa
bash Railroad, in ar address recently,
that every railroad represented upon
this platform has strict rules prohibit
ing drinking on or off duty. and some
forbid their train and engine men
boarding in houses where liquor is sold,
and their rules are enforced by the
discharge Of those violating lem."
Yet there are young mel who say
they see no harm in it. If they want
to drink, they argue, what business is
it of anyone else? 1t is the most inl-
portant business Of any interest that IS
imperiled. The young man who drinks
makes himself unreliable. Society has
q right to demand of him the most EN-
cient service he can render. Hc has
no ri ght wilfully to diminish that efh'
cheney.
Employers are coming to realize that
the public has a right to expect from
them not merely good machinery but
the service of good men. So the rail-
roads will not employ drinking men
if they can helm it. The banks want
sober clerks. Great buildings exclude
drinking :iaintors and elevator men.
Even saloonkeeDers prefer bartenCers
who do not drink.
The young man who drinks is Ill
minishing his value to society. BY the
same course he is diminishing his mar.
ket value to Eimself.-Forward.
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TO Obtain Fresh. Blown Flowers.

Choose some of the most perfect
buds latest i'll blowing and ready to
open. Cut them, leaving to each a
piece of stem about three inches long.
Cover the end of the stem Immediately
with sealing wax anG wrap each bud,
which must be perfectly dry, separate
~ in paper. Put them in 4 box. wien
YOU wish the flowers to bloom, cut the
stems at night. and place them in some
water in which 4 little nitro OF salt
has been dissolved, and the following
day you will have q display OF fresh
blown flowers.
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4 't'aU 4tose i;ush.

V. Il. Strobe has at bis residence, H.
South Portland, what is probably the
oldest and largest rose tree in oregon
and perhaps in the Northwest. The
tree stands eleven feet three inches i'll
height, has L spread across its boughs
of ten feet ten inches and measures
ten and a half inches around the trunk
below the first branch. The first Dough
is three feet six inches from TIC
ground. and the tree is seventeen years
Or more Of age.
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Fest Plane Dt All,

When tired, 90 home. When yen
want consolation, 90 houie. When you
want fun. go home. When you wait 10
show others that you have reformed go
home and let your family get acq"aiEt-
ed with the fact. When you want to
show yourself at The very best. 70
home and do the act there. When yG1
feel like being extra liberal, go HON"
ard practice on your wife and chill
dfsen first. When you want u shine
with more brilliancy than usual. 20
home and light the whole household.
Home is the best place CT all.--St. Paul
Journal.
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~GhgG1- !
WukdW
, Rrehkhn
!lGnbIo
UNTIL THE DAY BREAK.

I often wondered, when at night.
The curtaininS lids had shut from sigh
Those eyes so ever-brimmed with light
How ]. could sleep the long hours thror
As even the northumberland do,
Nor have their violet once in view.
Sometimes. as love late vigil kept,
Hearing her stir, I've closer stepped,
Half-ninded, if she lightly slept,
To test her with a Whispered vile,
Meant my W reason to beguilt,
To see if she would turn and su;ile.
Then I would lush my heart and maxi
Myself ashamed that I should break
Such sleep, -f~orllove's own. kelhsh sake.
Wait till the morning. would say;
Wait till the slYmber driftsS away;
Then where are eyes 30 bright rs they
I wonder now, as, with my mead
Bowed on my knees uncontrolled,
my heart keeps watch above my head.l
How can I live and meet the sum
Of years that stretch, a martyrdoR
Of yearning, till the dawn shall coI7el
Yet IN this Vigil of my woe Ns
Starts forth the thought that shamedm me
Beside her cradle long ago.
20 aching, angulshed soul! I say,
Until the day break watching stay, /
Until the shadows flee away.
"And thou shalt find that God has kepj
TIE eyes whose closing thou hast wept3
All heaven the happier that they slept4
Margaret J. Preston|
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE:

An Object Lesson From Knnsas-Bless.
ings Instead of "B Calamity"
Followed the Closing of q Brewery
Liquor Traffic Restricts Industry.
Walruff's brewery in Lawrence.
Kan, was a valuable piece of property.
Prohibition made it useless for that
purpose, and the owner sold the build
ing and left the State. This turned
the twelve men de had employed o.
of that into some other industry. Some
people called it 20 business calamity"
to lose that brewery and the wages Of
the twelve men it. had employed. But
soon the big building was put to use
again as a shoe factory, and now, with
about the same capital that the brew
cry had, it employs n hundred sober
operatives.
Surprising the brewers twelve men
to have been all sober citizens, let us
compare the business record of the
brewery and the shoe factory. allow
ing that the men have the same wages,
which we:will put at an average of ten
dollars q week.
The brewers men had their S120 q.
week, or $0540 a year to expend in
house rent or homes, food, clothing
and household needs. The one hun
dred shoemakers have $1,000 a week,
or $50, 900 a year to expend in the same
way. The brewery men rented at most
twelve cottages. The factory men
must have one hundred cottages or
lodgings.
Under the new system the builders,
bakers, grocers, clothiers, etc, of the
town have one hundred customers
gained in place of the twelve they
have lost, besides a large amount OF
money from other customers that for
merly went for beer. More than eighty
times rs much money goes, from that
factory alone, into the tills Of the trad
ers and workers of that town as used
| to 20 there from the brewery.
The shoes that are turned out harm
no one. They serve q useful purpose.
preserve health, and give comfort and
pleasure. They are among the neces-
sites Of civilized life.
It was not so with the beer. That
hurt, more or less, all who used il.
Every barrel had in it curses. blights,
diseases, lies, abuse and crimes. II
UuduCt UOu uCDlS, LIN
created pauperism, filth and rags whcT'
ever it went. 1t turned good citizens
into tramps and thieves, and made a
business Of seducing and debauchlng
innocent boys and girls.
The brewery needed q jail, q police
court, poorhouse, lunatic asylum and
watchmen. Not ever twenty shoe fac
tories would ever need any one OF
these where there is no brewery nor
grog shop.
From official figures we learn that
there are in the United States lS45
breweries with $4,000 employees. If
converted into factories they would
probably give employment to ten times
as many persons and would pay an
nually in wages about $1S0,000, 600 to
the S,OOO,O 900 now paid by the brew
cries.
The liquor traffic restricts industry
and brings poverty. Temperance pro-
notes business and brings prosperity.
Which will you have?
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What We Cannot Estimate.

Not unit, We know all that
knows can we estimate to the full
power and the sacredIess Of some
life which may seem the humblei
the verdi John Rusiin.
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Italian ,Iudfcial ScandaY.

A singular judicial scandal
broken out in Naples and the surro
ing district, where no fewer than
900 public prosecutions, great
small. have during the last few
been allowed to lapse and disap
from the lists, owing to magist
neglect and corruption.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-26
The Highest Post.

The man who occupies literally the
highest position in the world is Il
whose remuneration is less than S125
a veal. He is agent at Il railway sta
ton in Eastern Germany. The station
is about 10000 feet above the level Of
the sea.
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Sermons in Erlef.

Praying lips cannot square up
profane living.
A crusty tongue seldom has a eli;
to get rusty.
You cannot do God's work and Y
yOur own way.
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The list of minerals known to exist
II Madagascar is short, and includes
gold, iron, copper. coal and tin, of i'm
,ortance in the order named. The chief
interest centres in gold, which is mined
entirely from placers i'll the sandstone
formations, evidently the source OF the
gold.
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Clever Eats.

st Sligo. Ireland. Tic other day q
crowd watched nearly lao rats cross
high above the ground Oh an electric
wire from the Town Hall to Il -four
mill over 200 yards away. The rats
used their tails as the professional
walker on the lofty wire uses his bal
ancing pole, and not one made q mis-
cfon
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-26

il novel apparatus has recently been
presented to tie Department of Con-
oarative Anatomy of Brown Univer-
sity. by the medical friends of the
department. in Providence and other
cities. 1t is a projection lantern known
as the kaleidoscope. made by Carl Zeiss,
Of Jena. The popularity of this ap-
paratus is that it is capable of pro-
iectirg Opaque objects upon the screen
directly.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1905-07-26
An Artificial Bait.

A Frcnchman named Gefhot hai
vented an artificial bait consiStil
a gelatinous paste for use in the
foundland fisheries.
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A report. has been presented to the
French Academy of Sciences by NJ. j.
Wolfe ION the action of hail cannons.'
In this report is given for the first
time some trustworthy information
covering q wide area and for an ex-
tended period. thereby supplying con-
elusive evidence as to the utility OF
this means of avoiding or mitigating
damage in the vineyards from hail
storms. NJ. Violle's report refers to
the district of Beauioiais, where there
are established t~wenty-eight societies
for dispensing in this manner the hail
storms common to that region.
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A rubber film glove, the feature OF
which is antiseptic qualities, has been
devised for surgeons. The idea con-
sists of immersing the hands in q weak
solution of gutta-percha in benzine or
a%cetone. or applying the solution to
the skin Of the patient. The purpose
of the film is to seal the surfaces Of
either the hands or skin with al III
soluble. i%mpervious. and practically
imperceptible pellicle, which will not
allow the secretions OF the skin to es'
cape, and will not admit blood, pus OF
secretions into the crevices CT tie
skin.
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Tie Secretary of the Treasury has
Instructed the collectors Of customs
that the astronomical instruments eX
ported from this country for use by
various astronomical expeditions fol
observing the coming eclipse are to be
readmitted free Of duty. The order
was the result Of q long correspondence
between the director OF the Lick OBJ
servatory in California and the Score
tary of the Treasury. w. ". Camp
bell. director of the Lick Observatory.
contended that the astronomical in
Struments which will be used for oh
serving the eclipse should be readmit
ted into this country free Of duty
Sir Frank Younghusband. the leader
of the recent British expedition tc
Lassa. the sacred city of Tibet. brushes
away in an address. the delusion that
Tibet is 4 rainless country. After
marching over the elevated plateau in
the face of bitter winds and billiards.
the expedition reached the valley CT
Gyantse, where willows and poplars
were bursting into foliage before the
middle Of April. and the banks Of the
river were covered with masses of
purple iris plants. On resuming the
march for Lassa. July 18th, heavy rain
fell. and frequent rains were expert
enced until September, and the size OF
the rivers showed that this part Of
Tibet has q good rainfall.
Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-25
FOR SALE,

The Committee on Buildings and
Grounds Of the Board or Education. Sail
Lake city. Utah, will receive scaled bidi
for tho sale OF the following described
frying school Property: North half Of
lot s, block ID plat a, being ten hy
ten rods on the corner OF Second West
aud Fourth North Streets.
Q block %. plat u, being ten by ter
rods on the corner of and First Streets
Whittier School Property. Beginning al
the southwest corner OF LOT l,bloch u,pld
A, running thence east fve rods. themes
north ten rods thence west Ave rods
thence south ten rods 10 place ~ begin.
ming; also beginning az tho southeast
corner OF lot 2, block Al, plat A. and run.
ns iEsS. w ss t fs RsRSS sS9
rods 10 place " beginning north side
Fifth South between West Temple and
First West streets
Thirteenth School Property; North side
Of Second South, just east Of Grand Thea.
ter. beginning % feet east OF the SOUTH
west corner Tot l. block H. plat A, run.
Ming thence east 5S1 feet thence north
10 rods thence west 5Sb feet thence south
ninS ' "a foet west Of The southeast Corr Corr
noi lot q block n, plat A. ana running
thence west GGh feet, thence north II
rods, thence east 66it ieet thence south
parcel Of land is subject to a right OF was
or 10 feet
Aprl Srd 1905. at the board rooms, lr
CIV and County Building.
Certified check OF per cent Of amount
OF bid must accompany each bid balance
OF payment 10 be made when sale Is ratb
ned by the BOard OF Education.
The Board Of Education reserves the
right 70 reject any or all bids,
ARNOLD @, GIAUQUE,
Hartman Committee on Buildings and
Grounds