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TEMPERANCE TOPICS. NOTES OF INTEREST TO THB ANTI-LIQUOR LKAGUERS. -- * % W —o4*' •( Mm Uw *H« •mm «f Ifeit OMnMr-U4Mr oiv«e • ;T ; :' Vkt (NS (MkM NiM. Stow tar to nr tarl or* the scenes of »q childhood "tolieo food recollection prearoU Una to ▼taw. Tho orchard, tin neodow. Uw dcep-tao lied Wildwood Awl tvfry tored «pot Which my Infancy kaowl Ttw WMo-apraadlar pond, the mill that taood by It. The bride* and Uw rodt where the cat aract fell; The cot of my father. Uw dairy house n%h it. And e’en Uw rode bucket that buna In tbe weU. The rocket, tbe iron-bound The now covered bucket Uwt bun# in the The nose turned bucket I balled aa a How often at noon when returned from the field. X found It Uw source of ah exoatette Tb* potest and sweetest that nature eaa tats til How ardent I seised it, with hands that And quick to ths white pebbled bottom It feu. Than soon with the emblem of trutfi trrer- And dropplo* with coolness it rose from the welt How sweet from the ima. mossy tin to ■ receive it, A% poised on the curb, it tnettned to my Wot a MY, bluahlny goblet could tempt me to leave It Ttxf Wed wttM the nectar that Jupiter And now far removed from the loved slt- The tsar of regret wot Intrusively swell. As finer reverts to my father's plantation. And sighs for Uw bucket which hung In the welL ■ demnet Woodworth. A. Japanese writer makes the state ment that too rapid civilisation baa natfaeod great numbers of workmen In Jnpnn to a condition in which “ wretch edness, misery, senator, poverty end hnspr, premature dkcay, bent and dwnrfed forms, pinched cheeks, sunk en area and early death are ths re wards." • Commenting on this, the Tribune says: “This mods of expressing it is only a delicate way of saying Japanese workmen have adopted the European and American practice of fuddling their Mains with tbe tames of whis ky, squandering their earnings In get ting drank and accumulating all the 411 effects and consequences which re sult from placing themselves, bodies and souls, in the grasp of ths monster alcohol/* Wo do not belisvi. tbe Japanese wrltsr ever Intended to imply whs: the Trbnne Impales to his words. First: The Japanese character, habits and customs are contradictory to the use of whisky or klndrod drinks. Second: The wages paid to a Japanese work man in his own country are not sufll ctont to buy enough whisky to get him drunk. Os all the so-called civilised coun tries, ind Japan must ho included in . the list, there Is none In which there to no little drunkenness aa In Japan. Said, the native drink of Japan, to drank ag tea to drunk in this country, aryl U to not much more Intoxicating than some tea to be found on supper tables of the tee-totatora. It to sup pod hot from n small cup tbe also of on ordinary after-dinner coffee cup. Men. women and children drink It daily. There are, of course, togtances of a Jap drinking sakl till he M drank, bot anies* Mb strength of the sakl of today has boon materially Increased daring the tost few yean the Jap moat have the capacity es a barrel. Vhtoky In Japaa sells over the bon frequently by sailors for 10 silver cents a glass and it to bad whisky, toe. In hotels, dabs and other places hab ited by naval officers and other for eigners of good position or of moans, whisky costs from if to h and .60 ' cents a glass. Neither class of re sorts to frequented by natives, except they he officials or having to do so cially or commercially with foreigners. Bo far as we know there Is not a na tive saloon from Hakodate to Naga saki where whisky to sold. Wages In Japan an not enough to enable a workmen to get one drink of whisky a day unless bo go without food, raiment and bouse. Where, then, to be to get enough to bring on nil tbe horror* which the Tribune attrib utes to his wholly unnatural and un heard of habit? fn time the Jap may have the jlmjams, but they will not bo brought nhsnt by whisky.-Chicago . That the driak trade glees pleasure no oae denies. Viewed with a partial . eye It gloito with beauty and brilli ance To many It to unhappily more delightful than home or wife hr child, than religion or honor. It stretshoe cloudy sky. When nothing else can lift them from the slough of despond, the trade can lift them Into rapture— shooting, singing, cursing raptors, see bow It to invested in light—how the liquors shine! There are radiant mirrors and gilded chambers and mer ry barmaids. How the ruby and gold en rays flash from the brimming wine cups upon the snowy banquetlng-ta hie. How, too, It quickens human na tural Men drink, and wit begins to flow. Women drink, and become vi vacious. The barriers of repression are burst with a tough, and the scene to flooded With life. And yet—and yet! The beauty Is but a- mask; behind it grins the death’s head. Devito peer ftam the rooy vintages. Behind the gay wit to the tout wantannen that burns the soul as molten lava barns tbe flesh. Flowers es speech cannot beautify the horrible profanity that to flung out with them. Lust leers through toe drink-brightened faces. The brewer to pleased, but he treads his way to fortune through the blood of souls. The publican smiles aa his bar fills, but ht smiles upon wrecks end wrecking. The drinker sipe and Jokes and tanghs. but as he toughs he draws on to the drunkard's hell—Rev. James Dunk. nowktas eu Aula. “A trade which, flourishes upon the ruin of Its supporters; which derives Its revenues from the plunder of homes,, from the defrauding of help less childhood and hum the degrada tion of manhood; which requites for Us prosperity the Injury of the com munity; which ministers to every rile and vicious passion and propensity which makes drunkards and thieves and embezzlers and gamblers, and wife beaters' sad murderers; which brutalizes, and degrades all who are brought in contact with it; cannot claim the respect, and teauredly ought not to be able to claim the en couragement of the community.—Ne w York Tribune. A Cwl "AA** The following "ad** of s grocery firm of KJrksrille, Mo., to a very good tem perance sermon. "Any man who drinks two . drachms of whiskey per day for a year, and pays ten cents a driak for it, can have at our store 30 seeks of flour, 216 pounds of granu lated sugar, and 72 pounds of good green ooffe* for the same money, and get $2.60 premium for making the change in hto expenditures." Said by Total Abstain or*. How idle a boast, after all, to the im mortality of a name! Time to ever silently turning over hto pages; we are too much engrossed In the story of tbe present to think of tbe characters and anecdotes that give Interest to tbe past; and each age to a volume thrown aside to be speedily forgotten. The Idol of today pusbea the bare of yesterday out of onr recollection, and will In turn be supplanted by hto successor of tomor row,—Washington Irving. The noblest thing in the universe is honest labor. It to the preservative principle of tbe world. Labor raises cities, adorns the earth, and beautifies with works of art; whitens the sea with wings of commerce; binds continents together by means of the telegraph; ex tinguishes barbarism and plants civil ization upon its ruins. Thank God for a nation of workingmen.—Rev. G. O. Bacchoa. Do not look on the trials of life only with the eyes of the world. Reflect how poor and minute a segment to the vast circle of eternity, existence to at the best Its sorrow and Its shame aro but moments. Always in my brightest and youngest hours. I have wrapped my heart in the contempla tion of no august futurity.—Lytton. Ws make for ourselves our own spir itual world, onr own monsters, chim eras, angels. All to marvelous tor tbe poet, all to divine for tbe saint, all to gnat tor the hero, all to' wretched, miserable, ugly, and bad for the base and sordid soul. We are all visionaries and what we see to our soul In things. —Am lei. We often distress ourselves greatly in tbe apprehension of misfortune which, after all, never happens at all We should do our beet, and wait calm ly tho result. We often hoar of people breaking dovgn from overwork; but m nine eases out of tea they art really suffering from worry or anxiety.—Sir John Lubbock. The mind is largely dependent for its strength and clears cm of vision on die parity' of the life. It to trne that the man should know what to right In or der to do right; but It to also true thr.i he must he In the habit of doing right la order to make such knowledge of any practical value.—Henryson. Tho study of literature nourishes youth, entertains old age, adorns proa ' parity, solaces adversity, to delightful at boms, unobtrusive abroad, deserts ns not by day or by night, In-Journey ing nor in retirement.—Cicero. Imprudence, ellly talk, foolish vanity, end vain curiaAty aro closely allied; they ere children of oae family.—La Fontaine. The Mart, and not tho laurel, ms km tho hero. Sympathy to aa open sesame to ell treasures. Du tv to a nobler master than dv ' LEFT UNDONE, ft tout tbe thing you do, dsort It’s tbo thing you’ve kft undone Which gives you a bit of « heartache At tbe eetttng ot the son. Tbs tender wont forgotten, The letter you did not write, Tbe flower you aright have tent, dear. Are your luasttog ghosts tonight. The None you might hare lined Out of a brother's way, Tbe bit of henrtsome counsel You were hurried too much to say; Tbe loving touoh of the hand, dear, Tbs gentle end winsome tons That you bad no time or thought for. With troubles enough of your own. lor life in all too short, dwr, And sorrow Is all too grout To suffer our alow compassion That tarries until too late; And It’s not the thing you do, dear. It’s too thing you leave undone Which gives you a bit of a hourtaoh* At the sotting ot tho sun. f The Brakeman and f f . . the Squaw. f m itch, wjjuux. f Here’s the story of the building of n branch line on a mountain railroad. Conductor McGuire,being a new man, wee in charge of tho construction train, with Engineer Westcott in charge of the engine. N. GL Greeds, afterwards famous ne the founder of -Creeds camp, had located the Madonna mine at Monarch comp, and created a necessity for the branch road. They had rushed the work, but the first snow caught them still three miles from the booming nilver camp. A wandering bond of Indiana, hearing of the excitement, and not understanding it, hod strayed into the Monarch county, and down the galch aa far go Mayeville, then e wild and thriving village at the edge of the Arkansas valley. One day, when it was storming, an old squaw came to McGuire, and wanted a ride up the hill. It wee e cruel day, and the kind-hearted conductor carried the Indian to the end of the track. It was a month later when one of McGuire’s brakemen, named Bowen, who had been hunting in the bills, rushed into the caboose with tbe start ling announcement that his partner, the head, brakeman, had been captured by the Indians, “Look here, Jack,” said McGuire, ’“ere you lying!" 1 “Honest Injun,” said Jack, "if there’s one there’s a million; and they've got Mickey tied to a stake. We hod become separated. I was standing on a precipice, looking for Miekey, when 1 saw the Indians sur round him.*’ How, Jack Bowen had lied so frequent ly and luminously to the conductor that the latter was slow to believe this wild tale; but finally he was persuaded that it wae true. Returning to Mays ville with the engine, he gave the alarm, and the sheriff of Chaffee county made np a posse and set out in search of the brakeman. The sun woe going down behind the range when the engine and the caboose full of amateur Indian fighters returned to the end of the track. Tak ing Bowen as golds, the sheriff xeoured the hills, but found no truce of the missing man. The storm in creased with the darkness, and the sheriff’s posse was forced to return to oamp. It were useless to put oat again in the face of each a storm, and the sheriff was aboat to return to Mays ville, when the old squaw, whom Me- Qnire had helped up the hill, pat her heed in at the door of the way car and eigaeted McGuire to come oat. She oonld scarcely speak a word of Eng lish, but, pulling at the conductor’s sleeve,she started as though she would lead h m into tho hills, As often as McGuire would stop the squaw would stop. He tried to persuade her into the bar, but she would not. How the sheriff came out, and when he saw the signals of the squew he guessed that she would lead them to the captive, and when MoGnire hod. told how he hod helped, this Indian on her way np the hill in a storm, he knew that the Indian wfla tryiug to repay the con J doctor loir hie kindness. The unfor tunate brakeman, McGuire explained, had given the Indian tobacco and whiskey; therefore, she would not see him die without making an effort to save him. The sheriff called his deputies, and taking a half-dozen volunteers from Garfield oamp, made sigh to the In dian and followed her away into the wilderness of snow-hung pine and oedar. How and then the eqac,w would Knee to get her bearings. Tho enow d ceased felling and the stars were out. After tramping for an boor or more, the Indian signed to the sheriff to stay, and then disappeared into a cedar grove. Presently she returned and led them to the edge of a prod pice. Just below them, in a little basin, they, oonld see a pine firo burn ing end Indiana dancing in the light of it Sitting u|»ou the snow herd by, they saw the brakeman with hto fet tered hands over hto knees end hto head bant forward like a mas nodding in a paw. The sheriff asked the In dian to lead them on and she made siga that they most go far around for the blnffwna steep, and they followed her. They had been a half hoar oat of eight of the Indian estop, but always going down and down, no they knew nop they most be near. 'When they hw gone within 100 yards of the Inoianq *ho had not heard them walk ing upon the muffled earth, they stopped to discuss the work that was beforcthem. Tho Indian, putting her hand on the sheriff’s rifle pushed it to the ground end shook her head, mean ing that she would not have them kill the Indians, whom they outnumbered two to one. The sheriff was at a Jose to understand how he wes to capture this band without firing, for he bad no donbt the Indians would fire upon him the moment they caught sight of him. But the squaw was equal to the emer gency. She began to form the men in two lines. Taking hold of their coate she would place a man on the tight flank and another on the left, until the had divided tho sheriff’s poses. She then placed the sheriff at the heed of one oolumn and tho con ductor, whom she regarded as a sort of captain, at the other, end then made sign to them to go forward, one -half to the right and the other to the left. Then she made it plain to them that she would have them surround the Indians. , She brought her two bony hands together slowly, with the fingers spread oat, end when they were quite together she closed her fists. So the sheriff nude out she would have them steel upon the In diana end disarm them or ewe them into surrendering at the muzzles of their gone, and he gave * instruction* to the men accordingly. Os course each individual must now use his judgment, end so the little bond sur rounded the Indians. In the meantime the sqnaw stole into the comp and squatted near the fire. As the sheriff’s men dosed in upon the Indians the squaw leaped to her feet and put out a head a* a signal for the band to be still -The Indians listened, bat the sheriffs men seeing it all, stood still in the snow. How the sqnaw spoke to the Indians, say ing that she had seen a great many soldiers coming down the hill that evening end giving it as her opinion that the camp would be surrounded and that if the Indians resisted they wonld all be killed. When she had snooeeded in persuading them that it weald be beet to surrender in case the soldiers should come, she set down again. This, the sheriff concluded, was a signal for the men to advance, and tbe posse moved forward. When they were quite near, the Indians were made aware of their presence by the snapping of a dry cedar bough, and the sheriff knowing that delay would be dangerous, shouted to his posse to advance. At the sound of his voice the Indians sprang for their rifles, but when they had got them end got to their feet again, the sheriff’ll posse, coming out of the woods from every direction, -held the glittering steel barrels of their rifles in the glare of the campfire and the Indians laid down their arms. The brakeman, who hod concluded that he wae to be butchered ot roasted, wee almost wild with joy. When asked by the sheriff why they held the brakeman, the leader said the white man was lost, they . found him and were only waiting for daylight, when they would take him book to hto peo ple on(l get "heap rum.” The sheriff pointed to the white man’s fettered heads end asked the Indian to explain, end the Indian said that the man was “heap mad,” and they were afraid that if they left his bends loose he would like their guns and kill them while they slept, end if they left' hie feet unfettered he would wander aw;y in the storm and be lost. After consulting the conductor and the more- important members of the the concluded, os it was manifest that the Indians were only holding the brakeman for ransom,that lie would allow them'to go their way, of|pr exacting a promise that they wonld return at once to their reserva tion on the other side of the range. TtaSaiyßo. Dr. Watte was right The bee is really a vary baey insect in spite of recent attacks mode upon its character. A plodding statistician lies fonnd out that each pound of honey secreted in volves tbe necessity of the bee visiting 218,750 flowers. This in itself is no mean labor. That the bee is not gluttonous and does notconsumemore time it earns is proved by the faeithat 184,000,000 pounds of honey ere ou nually sold throughout the world far the.enjuyment of the human race. The United States stands at ths head of the list of bonoy producers with 61,- 000,000-ponnde, and Germany comes next with 40,000,000 pounds. Eng land’s production is so small that the statistician hoe not taken any notice of it, but somehow or other the best from all otber countries finds its way to the London market. ' It was long supposed that tries col lected tbe was direct from the flowers. How it is known that if they are kent from plants and fed on sugar only they will form wax.—Atlanta Journal. His Helpmate. Neighbor—What’s, the matter. Where yer going? ~ Jink*—Burglars I Going for a po liceman. Neighbor—JDid yer If are your wife alone? < Jinks—Ho, she’s holding the bur glee.—Harper's Weekly. Asphalt pavement Is slippery only when U is not kept eipao. BMI TURNEO ™» tables. The XufeMd’i Impressive loslow for HU Wlfo Wae LMt It seemed to him -an excellent Umo to impress tbe lesson upon her, so aw he started for hto hat he said to her: “Suppose you lutd wanted me to spend the evening with you before we were married end I had planned to do something else." “Suppose I had.” she returned. "What of it?" “You wouldn't have sulked, would you?” he asked. “Xo-o, I suppose not,” she replied - hesitatingly. “You wouldn’t hare got cross and been disagreeable about it, f yonf 1 ’ i “Probably not." “Yon would have been just as nice and sweet end cl«v«r as yon possibly ooald be,” he assarted. “You would have been both lovable and loving and would have trisd to coax me to give np my other places. Isn’t that so?” “Perhaps it to," shsfaltersd, “but” , “Nevermind the ‘bats’" be inter rupted, feeling that he wee gaining Ids point. “What lam trying to im press upon you is that a woman doesn’t seem to think it worth while to try tho earns arts on a husband that she does on a lover. That'* where you’re both foolish and unjust. How, you admit that before marriage’’— “Before marriage,” she broke in. “if you bed spoken of going any where and I bod pouted just the least little bit what would you have ooneV” “Uni—ah—well, I suppose” “If you had notioed what seemed to be even the merest trace of steer what would have happened!” “Why, my dear, I” “If I had merely looked at you pleadingly what would bavs happened to that other engagement?” “Really, you don’t give me time to answer. I must confess that ‘in all. probability I would have”— “Given it up, of course,” she prompted. “Isn’t it worth while to moke tbe same sacrifices for a wile that you do for a sweetheart?” ,‘ Somehow he couldn’t help feeling that hto little leßuon was lost on, her, hut it is Worthy of note that hel told a business associate the next day that any man who want on theriheory that a woman oan’t reason aselearly as a man was laying np a large store of trunble for himself. —Chicago Posh r . ” t Adulteration* of tho Frodaeta es Row. With the products of flour, such os bread, buns, cake, macaroni, vermi celli, etc., the adulteration, while' more frequent, ie likewise not very' pronounced. Bread is said to be odaL derated with alum, sulphate of copper, ammonia, flours other than wheat,, and inferior grade of floor. It ie ■ ques tionable if these adulterations ora practiced to any extent in the United States. In England and on the Conti* nent a number of rases sre on record in which the above adulterations wore found, and the offenders prosecuted. Where coloring principles are a de sideratum, the adulteration of bread, coke, eta, while uot frequent has been very marked. Possibly ell of my hearen may remember the flagrant adulteration of buns and noodles with chrome yellow, which was brought so' prominently to the notice of the Phil adelphia community several years ego. Dr. Henry Leffmann ot that time found eight groins of lead ohromate iu a pound of a sample of soap placed there to give an imitation egg color, and two grains of the issme poi son in each of tbe tea buns tested by him. Seventy-eight cases of lead poi soning were reported by Dr. Stewart from eating chrome ysliow pound bans, sixty-four of which were directly traced to the use of chrome yellow by two bakers, in the family of one of whom six deaths occurred, and he himself wae made seriously ill. Bo sides this coloring, macaroni has been found to contain saffron, tnrmenio (wliieh is considered injurious to health,) and Martin’s pipe clay and kaolin nave been found as adulterat ing constituents. -—The Sanitarian. taipit Feu eo in Cm World. The longest fence in the world in, probably that which has just been flu**- ishod by the Erie -Cattle company . along the Mexican border- It to 75 miles in length and separates exactly, for its entire the two repub lics of North Amorios. The fence was built to keep the cattle from running across tho border and falling easy, prey to the Mexican cow punchers. AJV. though it cost a great deal of moncrix , - it is estimated that cattle enough wflV . be saved iu one year to pay for it. *lf is a barbed wire fsnoe, with mesquito and cottonwood poles, and for tbe ens. tire length of it runs as straight as A orow flies. I . British Worship. The new British warship Cenbpus, • io «o armed that In fix* minutes' coni'; seeutive fire she is able to poor forth nine tons’ weight of projectiles ahead or astern,' without sxpoeiugber broad side. But tho great feature of thd vessel to har ram bow, winch I* plooed > muck higher than in any other ship, being only seven or tight feet Mow. the surface of the wator. It to 1 sheathed with a two-inch (thkprttoss of nickel-steel armor over the ordinary ironclad skin.
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