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Notes.

Eleven breweries control more
than four thousand of the saloons
of Manhattan Island.
There ought to be some place tne
laborine man, aid especially the ior-
eigner, can spend his leisure rather
than in the saloon.
1.-THE saloon is the greatest ag'
gravation of the immigrant problem
Foreigners naturally drift there dur
ing their spare time. and little pro.
gress can be expected in the WORK OF
uplifting them with it present.
The Legislature Of Wyoming a
passed a law absolutely prohibiting
the sale of liquor outside OF lncorpor.
ated cities and increasing the license
fee to $1,000. 1t IS estimated thai
200 saloons will be affected.
According to a recent report OF
Excise Commissioner Clements, Of
New York, there has been a net IN.
crease of three in the NUMBER OF
license towns in that State since 1896
The women in the Finnish Diet
have, it is said, exerted an influence
for temperance out Of all proportion
to their small numbers. The Diet has
accented a law of prohibition which
will practically Danish alcohol from
the country.
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On Laziness.

DR.. Charles A. Eaton OF the Mad
ison Avenue Baptist Church said IN
the course of a brilliant after-dinner
speech in Cleveland:
"Laziness is responsible for TOO
much OF the misery we see about us
It is all very we'll to blame alcohoi
for this misery, to blame oppression
and Injustice; but to what heights
might we not all have climbed Dui
for our laziness?"
He paused and smiled.
1--WE are too much like the super
numerary in the DRAMA" he went on,
"who had to enter from the right and
say, MY lord, the carriage waits
"Look here, super, said the stage
manager one night, I want you to
come on from the left instead of the
right after this, and I want you tc
t%ranspose your speech. Make it run
hereafter, The carriage waits, my
lord."'
"The super pressed his hand to hiS
brow.
"'More study! More study &c
groaned."-New York Times.
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Moody's Testimony.

Two months before his death, Mr..
Moody, while at Central Church, at
Brooklyn, gave the following testi-
mony:
IT know If I should be asked to be
q witness in a court my testimony
would be taken; and I want you to
take my testimony as to what 1t is to
be filled with the Spirit. There are
Two epochs in my life which stand
put clear. One is when I was be-
tween sixteen and seventeen, I was
born of the Spirit. There can never
come a greater blessing to any man
On this earth than to be born again
born from 'above-to have the God
nature planted in him. God has been
good to me. He has showered bless
ing after blessing upon me, but the
greatest blessing-next to being born
IF the Spirit-came sixteen years af-
forwards, when I was filled with the
Spirit; and He has never left me to
this day. He is for all-women as
we'll as men. When Pentecost was
fully come, the whole church was
qualified for work in Gods cause"
r. A. Torrey.
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Why He Was Lost.

AS Lawyer Bryant vas sitting near
his open window n morning he OBJ.
served a poverty-stricken young man,
whose face was thin and drawn, beg.
ging from the people in the street,
who passed him by, unheeding his So
licitations for help. Happening to
glance upward he saw the lawyer at
the window, and instantly the young
man raised his hat, saying: please
help me; I'm hungry and in sore
need" Being rather charitably in.
clined, MI. Brown said, wait a min
ute," and, putting on his hat, he hur.
ried down to the street where the
man stood waiting, hat in hand.
"Give me a penny, please, and I'll re.
peat a chapter in the Gospel. I'm
starving"
Mr.. Brown looked at the speaker
In establishment as he said: LET me
hear you" The twenty-seventh chap.
ter of St. Matthew was recited word
for word. Come with me-" said the
lawyer, as the young man repeated
the last verse. Taking him into a
restaurant near by he ordered a gen.
erous meal for the young man, and
while he watched him devour 1t Gag
erly he listened to the poor mans
story, which was as follows:
IT am the son of a clergyman, with
a happy childhood and merry school
days. After that I went to college,
and, being vain and proud Of my sue
cess, I fell in with wicked compan.
ions. I was found at wine parties,
and frequently drank to excess, and
once, when intoxicated, I committed
an act which resulted in my being
expelled from the college. l could
not go home after what had hap.
pened. I tried one kind Of work at.
ter another, but my taste for strong
drink grew as I sank lower. and now
no one will employ me. My charac'
ter, my health and strength are gone.
I am a wreck and content to be so.
It Is too late to help me."-National
Advocate.
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Minds Recesses Sacred.

It Is said that nothing is Eve real,
ly lost to memory. Once the. record
of a scene, a sound or a thought Is
made it remains with US as long as
the mind lasts. It may be crowded
aside or overshadowed by something
more recent in point Of order, but it
is there and whenever there Is an oc-
casion that will sufficiently stir the
senses it will come to the surface.
How careful then ought we to be
to store the sacred recesses Of the
mind with things Of value and beauty
and to deny ourselves those impress
sions that are essentially evil. The
photographer allows an exposure OF
nothing before his camera but that
of which he wishes an image. Any
thing else would be costly and use
less.-Western Methodist.
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Tke6A
9UkdW
RreAkh<M
3lIGnble
RICH IN THE LORD.

God draws a cloud over each cleaning
Would you ask why?
It is because all noblest things are born
In agony.
Only upon some cross of pain and woe
Gods Son may lie;
Each soul, redeemed from self and SIN,
must know
Its Calvary.
Yet we should crave neither for joy nor
God chooses best.
He only knows our sick SOULS best Keller,
And gives Us rest.
More than our feeble hearts can ever pine
For holiness,
That Father, in His tenderness divine,
Yearneth to bless.
He never sends a joy not meant in love,
Still less a pain.
Our gratitude the sunlight fails to prove;
Our faith, the rain.
In His hands we are safe. We falter IN
Through storm and mire; t
Alone, beside, around us, there is One
Will never tire.
What though we fall, and bruised and
wounded lie,
Our lips in dust?
Gods arm shall Lift US up to victory
In Him we trust.
For neither life, nor death, nor things
below,
Nor things above,
Shall ever sever us, that we should 60
From His great love.
Frances Power .Cobbs.
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Home Herald Aphorisms.

The Christian who feels no interest
In fallen men soon falls himself.
Hold fast that which Is good and
then get some more Of the same kind.
Getting out Of bed backward isn't
half as unlucky as getting off a NOV
ing car that way.
The pocket which contains a bad
mans pistol is utilized by a gentle
man for a notebook.
The Bible is so plain that every.
body understands it but a fool, and
he need not err therein. but somehow
he always does.
Some mel are bachelors because
they think marriage is a failure, and
some because their attempt to get
married was a failure.
It is a mean man who after stick.
Ing his head out Of the coach window
wants to sue the railroad company
for getting a cinder in his eye.
The rich hustle to get richer-or,
to get away from where they are,
The poor hustle just as much to keep
from getting poorer-or, stay where
they are.
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Weir MitchelI's Bore.

DR.. Weir Mitchell, whose brilliant
medical career is only exceeded by
his brilliance in literature, is noted
in Philadelphia for the detestation
that he has for bores.
Only a bore a ruffle the gracious
and gentle suavity Of Dr.. Weir Nit
chell's manner, and even with bores
his r~eproofs are delicate rather than
rough.
They say at the Franklin Inn, Phil
adelphia's literary club, that a bore
accosted DR.. Weir Mitchell n day
on Chestnut street and insisted on
walking with him to the Philadelphia
Library. During the walk the bore's
flow of talk was incessant. DR.. Weir
Mitchell walked on amid the deluge,
frowning silently.
But as they turned down Juniper
street, a man across the way
stretched out his arms and yawned
as if to dislocate his jaw.
DR.. Weir Mitchell took the bore's
arm and nodded toward the yawning
Ian.
HUSH" he said. Don't speak so
loud. People can hear you"
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The Golden Rule.

~
The very thing i do not want Is to
have my life measured out to me BY
the Golden Rule, for the simple rea-
son that what others want done unto
them are the very things very Likely.
I do not want done unto me.
My own individuality calls for p
special measure. A yard rule may be
used for measuring the fustfan OF the
peasant and the fine linens of the
prince, but what is desirable for one
Individual cannot be measured by
what seems desirable to another.
There is no common way in which
our lives run in exact parallels. ID.
vergent paths of opportunity and
duty are many, and we may not meas.
ure others lives by our own.
One woman, for instance, is only
happy in continual companionshfp.
She is lonely and really miserable
unless some one is near, responsive
to almost hourly demands. }a
Another lives within herself, reach.
ing out only at seasons for comapan.
ionship. 3sA
Each of these in striving to live out
the Golden Rule may make the other
unhappy. The distance between wild
ems rather than ;narrows by use Of
this rule; irritation, impatience and
probable loss of friendship are the re.
suit. Each feels aggrieVed, the one
feeling that her Golden Rule services
are unappreciated, the one receiving
a bitter sense of being misunderstood
and cherishing a very strong wish TO
be let alone and allowed to live out
her own life in her own way.
The Golden Rule Is a good one, but
it needs a diamond point-that point
being "Put yourself in his place
before measuring out to some one.
else even the best things that the
most loving heart has to give to an
other. Self-sacrifice otherwise may
be the most intense and inordinate.
selishness.
Only when we can say, "Not as T
would have others do unto me, but
as others would have me do unto
them" have we reached the heart OF
the Golden Rule. - Alice Hamilton
Peck, in The Interior.
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Three Great Principles.

There are three great principles
in life which weave. its warp and
wool, apparently Incompatible with
each other, yet they harmonic, n
in their blending create this strange
life of ours. The first Is, our fate is
in our W hands, and u blessed.
ness and misery the exact result OF
our own acts. The second is, There
is a divinity that shapes our ends,
rough-hew them how we Will Inc
third is, "The rae is not to the sWlrt'
nor the battle to the strong; but time
and chance happeneth to them all"
Accident, human will, the shaping
will of Deity-these things make up
ufe.-Frederick w. Robertson.
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The CRUSADE AGAINST DRINK
PROGRESS MADE BY CHAMPIONS
FIGHTING THE RUM DEMON.
The Two Glasses.

The Two Glasses.
There sat. two glasses filled to the brlm.
On q rich mans table, rim to rim.
One was rudy and red as BLOOD,
And one was clear rs the crystal Hood.
Said the Glass Of Wine to his paler brother,
LET us,tell tales of the past to each other;
I can tell of banquet, and revel, and mlrth,
Where 1 was king, for I ruled in might;
For the proudest and grandest souls on
earth ,
Fell under ny touch, as though struck
From the heads Of kings l have torn the
crown; -,
From the heights of fame I have hurled
men down.
I have blasted many an honored name;
I have taken virtue and gwen shame.
I have tempted the youth with a sip, a
taste,
That has made his future a barren waste.
Far greater than any king am l.,
Or than any army beneath the sky.
I have made the arm of the driver fail,
And sent the train from the iron rall.
I have made good ships go down at sea,
And the shrieks of the lost were sweet to
Fame, strength, wealth, genius before me
fall;
And my might and power are over all!
Ho, no, pale brother" said the Wine,
"Can you boast of deeds as great as
mine?"
Said the Water Glass: II cannot boast
Of a king dethroned, or a murdered host,
But I can tell of hearts that were sad
BY my crystal drops made bright and glad;
OF thirsts I have quenched, and brows l
have laved;
Of hands I have cooled and souls I have
I have leaped through the valley, dashed
down the mountain,
Slept in the sunshine, and dripped from
the fountain.
I have burst my cloud letters, and dropped
from the sky,
And everywhere gladdened the prospect
I have eased the hot forehead of fever and
PAIN;
1 have made the parched meadows grow
fertile with grain.
I can tell of the powerful wheel of the mill,
That ground out the -four, and turned at
I can tell of manhood debased by you
That I have uplifted and crowned anew;
I cheer, I help, I strengthen and aid;
/ gladden. the heart of man and maid;
I set the wine-chained captive free,
And all are better for knowing me-"
These are the tales they told each other,
The Glass of Wine and its paler brother,
As they sat together, filled to the brim,
On a rich mans table, rim to rim.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
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A Notable Conversion.

The Memphis Commercial Appeal
which strenuously opposed prohibit
ton all through the recent fight in
Tennessee, has had to admit IN Its
editorial columns that the prospect OF
complete prohibition has changed the
value of all property in the vicinity
of saloons and that the whole real
estate situation is more rosy, because
of the promised change. Here Is a
notable conversion, indeed.
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A King Who Abstains.

King Ferdinand of Bulgaria, 1s
said to be a total abstainer, forsWear'
ing not only intoxicants, but coffee az
we'll. His mother advised this course
The result is said to have been a great
power of self-restraint and eVenness
of temper, traits of great Importance
In his dealings with the imprisoned
races of southeastern Europe.
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Unconscious Deterioration.

First the mining, then the explo
sion! First the moral muscles grow
fabby, then the helpless weakness be
fore temptation. First the gray hairi
here and there sprinkled upon him
and he knows it not; finally the spir
itual senility and swift oblivion. Thii
is the course of unconscious deterior
ation.-Rev. Charles F. Aked.
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Framing God.

God is too big to be shut up in any
set of definitions; for definition nee
essarily means limitation. The mo
ment you define you conine. No ont
can frame Godfrey. Geo. Thomas
Bowling.
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any Task Has Potentially.

Any honest task is capable OF be-
ing so largely conceived that he who
enters into it may see, stretching be-
fore him. the promise of things to DO
and be that will stir his enthusiasm
and satisfy his best desires.-Phiiilps
Brooks.
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Every Gift is Good.

Every gift of God Is good, ana
given for our happiness; and we sin
r. We abuse it. To use our fancy to
our own misery is to abuse 1t, and TO
sin. The realm Of the possible was
given to man to hope, and not to rear
it.-Charles Kingsley.
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The last available statistics show
that in one year in Germany the
sum of about s30,O0O,O 900 was paid to
invalid workmen to the number Of
$4,000, in the form of old age pen.
sions. :,
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Adjustment.

If the strings of a piano were tunet
exactly right you could only play II
one key. Only by dropping a little
the perfect pitch Of every cop"ictior
can you get along with folks.-Rev'
Frank Crane.
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HELPS Some.

There's one good thing about .
college YELL observed the man on
his way to the football game, "and
that is that while they're giving e
they can't sing a college song"
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n DOubterS,

Thomas was an honest doubter!
therefore the Master was anxious tt
help him. Honest doubters are
treated in like name to-day.-Rev
Orville A. Petty.
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No License and a Lower Tax Rate.

The average tax rate was lower ID
the n~o-license cities of Massachusetts
than in the license cities during eacn
of the five years 1903-1907, accord
ing to statistics recently compiled By
the Massachusetts No-License League
The average tax rate Of license com.
munities for the five years was S16.79
per $1,000; of the no-license towns
and cities, $3.50. The Scientlne
Temperance Federation.
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The Fortunate.

The fortunate peopie-the truly
forrunate-are not so much those who
succeed in life as those who succeed
in liYiug.-Edward S. Martin.
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How He Lost.

"Pa's just lost his first spring arsu-
ment with ma"
What was it,"
"Pa advocated leaving the stove
up all summer and"
"Well?"
Ma has made arrangements for
pa to begin taking it down next Mon
dav."-Detroit Free Press.
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The Worldly Man

The man who permits himself tt
be the victim of his sense is what the
Scriptures truly ~denominate the
worldly man.-Rev. E. L. Powell.
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Eight medals awarded to Major c.
Stuart, including the small gold
medal for the battle of Roleia and
the army of India medal with f7e
clasps, realized Sl?E2 3 ..":::i:.l =:
S?Raon.
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~ImDOSSible Ideals.

Impossible Ideals MAKE for lawless
ness rather than for Righteousness
and the betterment of life.-Rev. H
Martin.
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Many are trying to modernize a
Christianity that has never changed
and is as Interchangeable as the ever-
lasting hills.
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CHAPTER XVII.
Danger.

Cervais, thinking Enid tired, did
not offer to converse with her ulueh
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BrickyaIrd.

Having ssEAbaibkoa Bvlckynxa ii MAN0-
EER MILLS. 0oEr EeQnaratpWns bog - 40
fu<ntaA Bricks fia.l 3kado4 Is The f4lloMsnf
eaeh prleess 81 ~ Aua 9Aa pez ~. Wei
~ enxAz zz.[,
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GreenWelTs Mill.

FLOUR, Meal and Feed on hand
for sale ali the time cheap for CASH.
Hereafter, In order 70 avoid hav-
ing 10 keep mill books, ell orders
munA be accompanied BY the cash.
r. n. GREENWELL.
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Nd. Del. q Va. Ry. Co.
pATuxzNT RlvzR ROUTE.
-

nave beon made.
Leave Baltimore. Pier 8 Light Street
wharf, lweather psrmitting,) Tuesday,
ct ia noon for
Fair Hayen, Pm Point, Dare,a. Gov
esADz.s Bun mini. Milestone.
solomon's Island, Hrencsr'e, 81, CIkh-
bert, Sellers, Parksr's, Forests,
Dukes.
Reforming steamer win leave Dukes,
weather permitting,) Wednesday. 9 a.
M, stopping at
Williams, Forests, Parker's, Jones',
eotterIey, Sellers, st. Leonard's, st.
| Cuthbert'a, Gpencer'e, solomon Island,
$50, Milestone, 10, Cove Point, Govern
ora Rum, IA noon, Dare's, Plum Point,
p. m, Fair Haven, 2 p. IN.
Leave Baltimore. Pier 8, Light St.,
| lweather permitting) Thursday, at 4 p.
m, for the following points.
| Fair Haven, Plum Point, DAre's, Gov
ernor's Run, Cove Point, Milestone,
| E0lomon'n Island, Hpencsr,e. 81. Leon
ards, Sellers, St. Outhbeft's, Hotterley,
Jones, Parker'n. Forests. Williams,
Dukes, Trent Hall, Holland Point,
Benedict.
1 nLeW&AAAMt 0NHEH5N4&N w IA 1&G8I0 D1f&&UtAt
| weather permittinW.) Friday. "a noon
| stopping "a ioilows:
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ps.aal.A $500 ar.,,e,sss, r ps,;,,t
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f'and,ns tn,,- r'ana;.r Ncttinsh am 4
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Foxwell u johnson. prcprietors
Of Hotel Lawrence. Leonardtown.
are prepared 10 look alter the COM
forts Of their friends and she public
in general. Give us q call when In
our town and We win do our best 10
make you happy. Special rates per
weak.
FoxwKFh q JOHNSON.
IannnraznMn. Nd.
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With an elegant new Hearse and
q full stock Of Collins and Caskets I
an prepared 10 serve funerals al the
shortest nosice and upon the most
reasonable terms.
In conneotlon with this | designate
especial attention 70 my Blacksmith
and Wheelwriehf department..
All orders quickly and neatly a.
tended 70.
a. q. WEIGH
Tune l--Y. Chapiico.
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Blacksnnithing.

HAVING erected new Blaeknmith HhoF
on nay lot on Fonwiek Street. Leonardtown,
and having secured the eervices Of an expert
workman from Waehington CITY, nn pre-
with care end promptness. Satisfaction gura-
anteed.
VIZ. .. KATEINaLy.
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Fgrasss TAINTED.

O0n FARMS to 60 n new catalogue
1OUwhich goes over the World and
win give Sc. Mays County 9 boom.
Want descriptions st ones as new cata-
logue goes 20 Printer, March i. All con-
iidential Drop postal Ter blanks,
J. G. HOWARD,
LeonArdtoWn. Md.
Can also furnish best Life, Accident
and Health InsuFance.
Feb. z. '07-4tg