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Temperance Notes.

A little tipping Is a dangerous
thing.
The heavy candy eater is not likely
to be the person who has a strong
liking for whisky, beer or wine.
Cincinnati, one Of the three wet
test" large cities in the country, is an
other beautiful example of the way
regulation and license helps the poor
taxpayer. In just ten years, from
1899 to 1909, the tax rate in the Ohio
metropolis has risen from $25.74 to
$31.11.
Lebanon, Tenn, the seat of Cum
berland University, has had no sa-
looms for several years. Lebanon has
had a wonderful growth ever since
saloons went out. Business has i'm
proved all the while.
It is no uncommon thing to go into
the office of a business man, the
leader Of law or finance, who is con-
stantly dealing with problems involv-
ing the outlay Of a big sum Of money.
and find on his desk a box of bonbons
or chocolates. These he will offer to
a visitor much in the same way that
he used to think it proper courtesy
to offer a cigar or invite his guest out
to have a drink with him.
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THE CRUSADE AGAINST DRINK
PROGRESS MADE BY CHAMPIONS
FIGHTING THE RUN DEMON.
Not q Harmless Luxury.


In concluding his address to the
German Abstaining Physicians, Pro-
fessor Kraepelin said:
whoever understands the action
of alcohol will certainly not look upon
it as a harmless luxury (Genussmit-
tell. That is the conclusion to which
the unbiased examination of its action
2pSn the mental life constantly leads.
It must be admitted that there are
still many gaps in our knowledge of
the subject yet to be filled. Our pres
ent means of investigation extend so
far, however, that there would be
little difficulty in completing u
knowledge. This much is established
to-day by means of modern investi-
cation: That alcohol seriously in
jures the perception Of external inn
pressions and the association Of ideas:
that it temporarily promotes the i'm
pulse to movement, but that it d.
minishes the strength of muscular
work. in proportion to the exertion de-
manded; it also increases the sus-
ceptibility to fatigue. The effect Of a
single large dose lasts at least twen-
ty-four hours, and under some cir
cumstances even forty-eight hours;
the regular use of such doses pro-
duces a continual diminution of ex-
ecutive ability, which Is only very
gradually restored and which leaves
behind for a long time afterward an
increased susceptibility to the effects
Of alcohol. That is.a clear scientific
knowledge. 1t alone furnishes us a
standard with which to judge of the
influence which alcohol exerts upon
the mental life Of u people"
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They Don't Chew Gum.

I have passed a summer in Europe
without flies or mosquitoes, and with
out seeing rows of pasty faced girls
waiting their turn to ruin their stom-
achs at soda water fountains. In
Berlin, Paris and London and the rest
of Europe a druggists is a pharmacy.
When people drink soda it is poured
out of bottles in a cafe, and there are
other beverages and I have passed a
summe out of sight of that everlast-
ing oscillation of the jaws that accom-
panies the everlasting chewing of
gum, in the street cars, on the ele-
waited, in the parks, in the restau-
rants, everywhere you turn. If I
were asked if in any respect Europe
excels the United States, I would say
at once, Eyes. the people do not chew
gum."-London Letter to New York
Sum-
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h is Heather?

At an important gathering in New
York City, the editor OF a Chinese
newspaper in San Francisco made an
eloquent address, in which he pro-
tested against Jul un-American ex-
clusion of his countrymen from rights
and privileges which other national
tiles enjoyed within our boundaries.
He said: "You have singled out my
people from all human creation as
unworthy Of your hospitality. You
let in the Italian, you let in the Hun,
the Turk, the Jew and the Russian,
you let in the underworld of Europe
and Asia-the idle, the Ignorant and
criminal, and you shut out the peace
able and Industrious Chinese, be-
cause, you say, we are heather and
smoke opium. You say the truth;
we are heather and we do smoke
opium; but you are Christian and you
drink whisky. And IL I were a woman
I would rather my husband smoke
opium every time than drink your
Christian whisky. Opium puts him
asleep; opium makes him harmless
like a corpse; whisky makes him wild
beast; whisky wakes up devil and
makes him brute. Mclean man
bones home full whisky-kicks wife;
Chinaman comes home full opium
wife kick him. You be Christian, we
be heather. With my knowledge Of
your American saloon, If I were to re-
turn to my country, and the issue
were a choice between the opium den.
of my heather China and the saloon
of your Christian America, I would
choose for my people opium rather
than whisky.
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Waiting For the Vision.

H. Isabel Graham has written q
beautiful story In he form of a le-
gend of q monk who knelt continually
in his cell and prayed to be fashioned
into the likeness of the cross. He
had made a vow that none should see
his face until he had looked upon the
face of Christ. So his devotions were
unbroken. The birds sang by his
cell window and the children played
without. but the monk needed not
either the children or the birds-in
the absorption of his soul in its pas
sion for the Christ, he was oblivious
to all earthly things. One morning
he seemed to hear a spirit-voice say
ing that his prayer to see the Blessed
One should be answered that day. He
was very glad. and made special pre-
parations for the coming of the Wis
ion. There was q gentle knocking at
his door by and by, and the voice of q
child was heard pleading to be fed
and taken in. Her feet were cold, her
clothing was thin. But the monk
was so intent on the coming of the
vision that he could not pause to min-
lister to any human needs. Evening
drew on, the place became dreary, the
tapers burned low. Why was the
vision so long in appearing? Then
with bitter grief he heard the answer.
that the vision had already come, had
fingered at his door, and then, un-
welcomed, had sobbed and turned
away. Jesus had come in the little;
child, cold and hungry, had Knocked;
and called, and waited, and grieved.
had gone. The monk had been ex-
pecting some shining splendor,< like
the burning bush, or the transfigur-
alton. The vision had come as a lit
tie child in need, seeking help, and
he had not recognized it. and re-
fused to receive it.
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A Place to Play.

"Then Jonah prayed unto the Lord
his God out Of the fsh's belly, Pc
culiar prayer-room this. but better "a
is to have a strange sanctuary than
no sanctuary.
Many experiences had come to this
wayward-hearted prophet during the
preceding days, but prayer war not
recorded in one of them. But now,
within the great sea monster, in dark
hess and in sore straits, his hard heart
was broken, and he learned to pray.
Thank God for the belly of the fish,
the Bedford Jail, the shut-in village
of Aberdeen, the lonely forest OF
America, where Jonah, Bunyan, Ruth.
erford and Brainard bowed their
heads and hearts submissively to
God, and learned to pray, and kept
at prayer. 20.
Brother, art thou a wilful, prayer.
less man? Thine only hope is that the
God of Jonah will bring thee low
into the depths, where thine own
strength will flee away, and, shut In
from the path of thine own choosing,
thou wilt call upon thy God.
Sister, are the waters now com
passing thee around about: are the
weeds wrapped about thy head; art
thou saying: "All Thy pillows and
Thy waves pass over me?" All, thou
art in a good place if these expert
ences of anguish will teach thee how
to truly say, '"Thy will be done"
Thank God, and let all the people
solemnly say, Amen, as thou dost
humbly and sincerely pray unto the
Lord thy God out of the darkness OF
thy trihulations.-Gospel Message.
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ga BROOM FOR THE STOMACH"
So the French Call Parsley-Pump-
Kin Rich in Phosphorus.

The French have a saying that
parsley is a broom to sweep the
stomach" Lettuce is e nerve food.
Radishes build tissue and are rich IN
phosphorus. also in iron.
H~orseradisn contains a higher per-
centage of sulphur than all the other
vegetable roots, spinach ranking next
in value. Spinach also contains a
large proportion of iron.
A ~mayonnaise dressing with let
tuce is especially desirable for thin
people, but for the overplunip French
dressing is to be recommended. The
action of vinegar on the digestive Or
gans, however, is not to be consid-
cred. The acid of lemon juice is
preferable.
While apples are a most excellent
fruit for brain building, which phos-
phorus aids in, the humble pumpkin.
desecrated to the uses of pie and
iack-o'-lanterns, holds the prize.
Pumpkin rates 2.79 in phosphorus.
while apple is but AS.
When in search for this special ele-
ment take UP a pumpkin diet. But
as winter squash would stand the
same analysis it can be used as a veg
etable in many varieties and thus the
needed phosphorus supplied. Cucrm-
beers rank next in phosphorus value
to pumpkin, being 2.0S.-Vegetarian
Magazine.
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"My S~hepherd."

Gay It over and over, to-day, He
is my Shepherd; He is my Shepherd.
This little word will make a paradise
of earth, and fill with glory tho home
where you live and the place where
you work; in a word. it will lift you
I'D to where the Heaven lies.
The water-spider forms a sac-like
cottage and fills it with air; then
shuts herself in and sinks into the
sea. She then anchors it and there
brings forth her young. She practi-
cally lives in an upper world, al
though surrounded by all the dangers
of the great deep. This is your priv
ilege, for this day and every day to
live in the very atmosphere of Heav-
en-, while working down here in the
sdn-tainted atmosphere of this world:
j. Wilbur Chapman.
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Oiled Roads in Kansas.

The Standard Oil Company offers
to donate $500 worth of crude oil to
use on a mile Of road in different
counties. State Engineer Gearhart, of
the Kansas Agricultural College, says
it will cost between S4G0 and $500
to prepare a mile of road for the use
of oil. In Jackson County an effort
is being made to raise the money nee
essary to prepare the road for the
oil.
It is claimed for the oil roads that
the process is permanent and that
when properly graded the roads shed
water and never become muddy
Topeka Capital.
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A Thirty-Four Inch Soldier.

cullen Touchard de Mauves. lie
plus petit conscrit de France" Such
was the announcement p1acarded up
on the windows of a. shop on a fete
day in the town of Argentan in
France during last summer. BY pay
ing a small charge one might enter
and look upon this extraordinary lit
tie man.
BY English calculations he is thir-
ty-four and a half inches in height
and weighs forty-four pounds. AL
though he appears like a child of
four, yet he is over twenty years of
age. On the latter account he has
necessarily to respond to the call of
his country.-Strand.
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Wedding Dance Kills Suitor.

DR.. H. G.. w. Reinhart, coroner's
physician, at Chicago, decided to
make a pathological examination Of
the body of John Tyka, to determine
definitely that grief broke his heart
after he danced at the wedding of the
girl he had loved since childhood.
Tyka, who was twenty-one years old.
had been engaged to Bertha Kowal-
ski, who recently accepted marriage
from John Kiupa. She asked Tyka
to the wedding. He appeared. danced
with her. and dropped dead. Broken
heart" was given BY a physician as
cause of death.
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Tourists Drink Less.

The use of liquor by tourists on
board ocean steamships is decreasing,
according to testimony of men en-
gagged in the transportation business.
Sir Thomas Sutherland, chairman at
the annual meeting Of the Peninsular
and Oriental Steam Navigation Com
pany, held at London, declared that
though their ships carried more pas
sengers than they carried ten years
ago, the consumption of wine, beer
and spirits had fallen by fifty per
cent" while at the. same time there
has been a notable increase in the
consumption of mineral water, which
was unknown Oh board ships in the
tropics a few years ago"
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tive and deadly engines of warfare

tive and deadly engines of warfare
in existence. The monster sixteen
inch rife, the only n built so far,
is now at the Sandy Hook Proving
Grounds, and has only been fired a
few times. The huge shell of steel
can be hurled a distance Of twenty
miles, or more, and weighs 24O0
pounds. The powder charge is nearly
500 pounds. The cost Of firing one
shot reaches in the neighborhood of
$1,000. 1t is not probable that this
type of gun will be used, but rather
the fourteen-inch, for the main coast
defenses of the Panama Canal and
possibly the Philippines. This for
midable and long range weapon
though capable of firing so tremen-
dous a projectile is too costly and
fires too slowly for modern warfare.
Scientific American.
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A Holy Cause and a Most Unholy
Traffic.

Every sincere follower of Jesus
Christ daily prays: "Thy kingdom
come" There are two things con-
corning which all true disciples of the
Son of God are a unit. They believe
that the cause Of Christian missions
is a holy cause. They believe that the
liquor traffic is a most unholy traffic.
From their lips there neve drops a
word disparaging the aus Of. Chris
tian missions nor a syllable uphold
ing the liquor traffic. They are con-
yinced that their most earnest efforts
should b.. given for the Christianiza-
ton of tie entire human race and
they are thoroughly satisfied that
their most determined efforts should
be employed for the destruction Of
the foe that "biteth like a serpent,
and stingeth like an adder"
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In a Nice Cool Sewer.

1t was a hot evening following a
regular scorcher of a day, and Casey
and the family were sitting out on the
front porch trying to keep cool.
Sure, twas an awful day in the
Kitchen" said Mrs. Casey.
II have t smile when l hear We
complainin' about the heat. for as a
matther Nv fact, We don't know what
heat is" said Casey.
"Oh, don't I, now?" said Mrs. Ca
sey. "Sure I'd change places with
you any day, for while I'm workin'
over a hot cook stove all day. I'm
thinkin' iv tn fine picnic you're hav-
in ~orkin' down there in that nice
cool sewer."-National Monthly.
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the Buns.

A few days ago a convention of bar
tenders was held at Euclid Beach
Park, one of the very few "dry"
pleasure resorts in Cleveland. There
were several hundred of the liquor
dispensers present. An attache Of the
park, being afflicted with curiosity,
asked n of them:
"Why did you fellows pick out
Euclid Beach Park, a temperance re-
sort, for your convention"
The reply was:
Because we are up against the
buns every working day o. our lives.
and when we take a day off we want
to get clear of the crowd"
Any man who can read English can
Bee the moral in that reply without
having it pointed out to him.-Cleve-
land Press.
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Mosquitoes Stop Sawmills.

Lake Charles has been suffering
from the worst mosquito plague
known in the last twenty-five years.
The mosquitoes were brought up
from the marshes by strong south
winds and hindered outdoor work,
operations being practically suspend
ed at some of the sawmills because Of
their presence. Live stock is suffer-
ing greatly, and travel in the country
is practically impossible. The same
plague RACES at Grand Lake and
blackberry, south Of here, but CAM
eron at the south of the river is re-
ported to be almost free of the pests.
New Orleans Picayune.
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ing section fits around the calf, and it

ing section fits around the calf, and it
might not hold above the knee. A
double band, with the lower part at
tached to the stocking at opposite
points, acts as the supporter. This
band fits around the calf, and when
stretched up it takes a firm grip on
the leg, supporting the stocking as
well as any garter. For use with
knee-length drawers a supporter Of
this kind is unusually desirable, as it
is much more comfortable than a rub
Der or leather garter which has metal
joints. Many men who would other
wise wear this cool type of under gar
ment are deferred from so doing be-
cause they do not like the feel Of the
old-style garter on the bare leg.
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Realizing Editors Ideals.

When a man pays down his dollar
for a years subscription to his home
paper, or for advertising in it's col
umns, he is at the same time adver-
Using his home town to the outlying
country and neighboring cities. The
more a newspapers subscription and
advertising increase, the more fea-
lures the publisher can add, the
faster he can improve his mechanical
equipment, the more nearly can he
come to realize his ideals Of news
paper making.
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The Only Compelling Ideal.

The one ideal that is pure and per.
manent and satisfying, the one ideal,
that actually has had power to keep
itself alive and prove itself victorious
over the disintegrating forces of sin
and death is the ideal in Jesus Christ.
The men and women who have built
upon that foundation have been the
best men and women, and have left
behind them the most enduring and
glorious work. even in the very do
main where the human ideals have
been erected as supreme. Henry
Van Dyke.
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A Successful Life.

A successful life is the right use Of
each day, each hour, each moment,
learning it's lessons, Selling its OPP
portunities, utilizing its privileges,
fighting its battles, garnering its
wealth, and clarifying the God who
gave it. If this is done, there will be
70 need for regrets that We part COM
pany with each. day forever. Better
days ara coming-better, because we
have made the past ones stepping
stones to higher attitudes Of wisdom
md goodness.
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"THOU ART

Raging the conAict-Death doomed ahead;
Weakened by battle-faintins through,
dread;
Gasping for mercy-gasping for life;
Steiner the conaict-more awful the strife.
Ebbing the life-blood-forsaken I seemed.
Spake the Eternal, "Thou Art Redeemed"
Faith took my place in the struggle with
Death;
Hope filled my soul with the life-giving
breath;
Love healed the wounds, and my agony
fed;
Peace filled my Iife-now redeemed from
the dead.
Faith fighting for me-victory was sure;
Hope dwelling in me-life became pure.
Now when the Tempter hurls doubt at my
''Thou Art Redeemed" and eternities roll
Out from the Lamb on the blood-sprinkled
throne.
Demons of He'll have f~ed-doubts have all
gone;
Son Of God only these poor lips shall
praise,
Adoring the Lamb of the Ancient of Days..
IS. E. Paxson, Moo;,.y Bible Institute. ,
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The Great Business Question.

Mark Hopkins once put to his class
our Lords question, What is a man
profted If he gain the whole world
and lose his own soul?" in this way:l
"You would like to have the world,
as much of it at least as you want?.
Would you be willing to have the
world. all of it that you want, and be
deaf, or be deaf and dumb; or, worst
Of all, be deaf and dumb and blinda
Perhaps you would, but I doubt it,
for that is the difference between be-
ing and havipg."-A. T. Pie-son.
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Carry Your Own Burden.

Sufficient unto most people is thelI
own burden. Do not pile your load
upop others. Do not distress Shem
with your aches and pains, your
doubts and fears and forebodings.
Do not tell them of your mental and
moral infrmities. They will find
them out soon enough without your
help, and possibly will see them more
clearly than you do yourself. II e
is a cloud in your heart do not let 1t
appear in your face. Bear your own
burden bravely. Yon can Tighten it
by giving others a lift. Great
Thoughts.
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Good Resolutions.

Resolved. to live with all M might
while l do live.
Resolved, never to lose n mo-
ment of time, but improve it in the
most profitable way I possibly can.
Resolved, never to do anything
which I should despise or think mean.
ly Of In another.
Resolved. never to do anything out
of revenge.
Resolved, never to do anything
I should be afraid to do if it were the
last hour of my life.-Jonathan Ed.
wards.
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A Willing Heart.

Not rigid purpose, but plant affec-
ton; not kingly command, but docile
submission; not ven any passion for
far-off excellence, but q willing heart
for the duty that is near. The spirit
Of highest heroism before men stands
as q little child before the face OF
Cod
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Hold fast to the Bible as the sheet
anchor to your liberties. Write its
~precepts on your hearts and practice
them in your lives. To the influence
of this Book we are indebted for the
progress made in true civilization.
and to this we must look as our guide
in future.-Ulysses S. Grant.
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King Albert, the new monarch Of
Belgium, devotes two hours every
day to the study of mechanical en-
cheering. He drives his own auto
mobile, and, what is more, he can re-
pair it when anything gets out of
order.
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BEGINNING and End.

Let our prayers, like the ancient
sacrifices, ascend morning and even
ing. Let our days begin and end with
C-l.-Chanring.
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Stocking Stays Up.

A self-supporting stocking that wiz
stay up without the use of a garter
has been devised by a New York a
Thus far the principle has been ap-
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walk slowly, Eat less" are DR.,
Osler's directions for middle-aged
persons who want to live long.
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Largest Projectile in the World.
The accompanying illustration is of
more than ordinary interest from the
fact that it shows the largest and
heaviest p~rojectile in the world, being
the huge fve-foot armor-piercing
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RABBIT SHOOTING FOR The TYRO: FIRING AT A METAL DRUMMING RhE.
EFT" At AN aECQLE De CHASE" NEAR PARIS.

It is claimed that, with the aid of this metal rabbit, which runs along
rails O wheels by it's W momentum, 1t is possible fol- my n to become
a practiced rabbit shot in a very short time. Realism is added to the move
xnents of the rabbit il life" by the fact that during its u it disappears
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shell fired from the United States
Governments great sixteen-inch rifle.
This giant shell and powerful gun are
considered two of the most destruc-