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NOTEB OF INTEREST TO THE
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Ha is * dreamer, let him be.
Be la a dreamer; an the day
Blast visions And him,on bis way,
Bast tbs tar sunset and tbs light.
Beyond tbs darkness and the night.
He Is a dreamer; God! to be
Apostle of Infinity,
And mirror truth’s translucent clean;
He Is a dreamer, let Mat dream.
Be Is a dreamer; for an time
His mind Is marrlsd unto rhyme,
Ucbt that ne'er was on land or sea
iftittLsariu'ssa. „
Close to his heart a hope, a thought.
A hops Os Immortality;
Be la a dreamer; tet him he.
Be Is a dreamer, to! with thee
Bis soul doth weep In sympathy;
He Is a dreamer, and doth lone
To clad the world with merry soar
Be to a dreamer; In a breath . • ■ •
He dreams of love, and nfe. and death.
Oh. man! Oh, woman! lad and lass,
He Is a dreamer, let Mm pass.
—T. 2*. O'Connor's London Bom
The Towth'e Companion cays: In the
constitution of the American Associa
tion for the Study and Core for Inebrie
ty, an association whom purpose to
explained by its title, to embodied this
statement; “Inebriety to a disease—
it is curable in the same sense that oth
er diseases are curable." The state
ment to based, upon an immense num
ber of Chets which have been collected
erase various quarters—from asylums,
from specialists in mental diseases, and
from ether sources. Two things seem
to be proved conclusively:
First, It we Include tn one clam all
cases of habitual drunkenness, the
average ratio of ernes to forty per cent,
a percentage which ranges higher as
the condition and environment of the
patient are Improved.
Success would hardly he expected
when the Inebriate to completely brok
en down by a long course of dissipa
tion. in such cases there to usually
seas dtoOMO of the heart or other or
gan sufficiently grave to be beyond the
power of drugs, even though all traces
of alcoholic poison should be eventu
ally eliminated, and the will power re
■HOffKL
It to undoubtedly advisable, no mat
ter hew unfortunate the inebriate may
he,, tn eater upon treatment at some
mietaUy selected asylum or sanitarium.
No amount of contriving can offer the
patient the saoe care at home that to
to be bad at an asylum, white the moral
•Seek of being somewhat under- re
straint to not without benefit The In
ebriate to deserving of the same treat
ment ha would receive were he suf
fering from any other dangerous dto-
Secondly, other things being equal,
sueesee in the treatment of the ine
briety hears a fixed relation to the
time at which treatment to begun, and
more especially to the length of the
- period of treatment.
The aleohoite poison works insidi
ously. The final breaking down of the
nervous and physical strength to the
result of years es dissipation. It Is rea
sonable to suppose that time will be
needed to nuke good this lost vitality.
The oueeamfei treatment of inebriety
)e torgsty a question of restoring a per
son’s wIH power.
show that the great ma
jority of inebriates have unevenly bal
anced naiads They are always on the
■ verge es Insanity, and not Infrequently
peas pvur the line.
‘WK’mrnm ratefl We *t..a —■
■VUI vrIwHJNI wrj AICgIIOL
The evils wrought by aloohoi are
dreadfnl. There to no other element
fa the material world equalling it to
evtt-dotng. There are potoons mors po
tent. hat they kill quickly, while aloo
hot gnaws away life slowly, so ae mean
while to pile apoo its victim the full
weight of sorrow and sin. Observe its
sacurasd work, tearing up by the roots
aQ virtues; bringing Into action the
latent passions, breathing particular
via* Into the vilest and most beastly;
sstov not- heaven's light from the
toSndTwfttoh expires is intense dark
aaee and heaven's grace from the soul,
which lpnea an ssmbtonoe with its Cre
ator. it reaches eat aver the body lie
demmy hsfid,wresting from it strength
ml grmnms. planting deeply to the
Mood channel Urn seeds of disease and
flwa o. spirit of win*, be thy name
demon, for demon thou art! This the
first tonteltTssM sf alcohol's havoc.
Tho drummed becomes for it an vo
trenobjn oamp. from which Ig conceit
rSwMwhrorta. an Vat desnlte them
B to a dreamer, let
him paasi
Ha reads the writ
ing to the
gram; >
Hto seeing soul la
rapture goes
Beyond the beau
ty oT the rose.
He to a dreamer,
and doth know
To sound the fur
thest depth or
Hls*teys are calm.
selves, brought under its vengeance.—
Archbishop Ireland. '
Opveadi to* Genas es Death.
The Mood to incessantly in move
ment; It passes through the millions of
little arteries and veins of our Ijody;
It thus irrigates all the organa Alco
hol accompanies it to to** continual
voyaging, and while the one carries life
everywhere the other destroys this no
tion and spreads the germs of death.
All the viscera of drinkers feel the of
fset of this. Among them will be al
ways found one, of which the resist
ance to lass, and which changes the
first Lem lit to resist, it la more deep
ly affected than the others, and causes
a disease which may carry off tho
drinker ten years, more or teas, sooner
than ho ought to die, Much of the al
cohol goes out of tho body by the kid
neys and the lungs just as it had en
tered by the mouth, without having
been subjected to any change, without
having been “burned" like the other
ailments, and this toot proves the opin
ion Is erroneous which says that alco
hol nourishes.—Dr. A. Btonfalt, of
Liege, Belgium.
———
Alcohol tad
At the recent International congress
of psychology. Dr. Muller gave an In
teresting historical sketch of the eti
ology of self-murder, and, by means of
an elaborate series of statistics, traced
to aloohoi the primary cause of its
marked increase of tote years. The au
thor estimates the number of suicides
to Europe at 60,000 a year, thus show
ing that the evil to increasing at a
greater rate than the population. The
fkvorlte months for suicides to June,
the least December. Early morning to
chosen In preference to the night, while
the mechanic elate furnishes the larg
est number of subjects, and the pheas
ant the least Dr. Muller considers
brandy the most pernicious form of al
oohoi and traces to its influence the
blunting of those weapons which, in
the struggle for life, are the most ne
cessary to sustain the conflictr-Weet
minster Gazette.
The Government's Treeehery.
Prohibition lata of Ontario, by mass
meeting and otherwise, are expressing
their indignation at what is denounced
as the government's treachery regard
ing the new license bill. It seems that
In November last a strong deputation
of temperance people waited upon the
provincial government, laid before it
a program of desired legislation and
received the assurance that careful at
tention would be given to their re
quests. Tbs government measure In
troduced into the legislature, however,
tolls far short of tho legislation hoped
for. While granting two of the twen
three changes asked tor by the deputa
tion, the new license bill distinctly and
directly favors the Honor party, and
this to fact of tho plebiscite of *94 —an
expression of public opinion which, de
clared the premier, “no government
would be justified In disregarding."
A Stadtait MO.
A steadfast faith is necessary to
steadfast conduct. According to tho
faith is the life. U that Is uncertain
and unsettled, fixed at no point, the re
sult win be an unsteadiness in reli
gious duty and discordant tones In the
spiritual llfa A lack of purpose In
the man at the helm will make the
course of the ship at saa very erratto
and perhaps result In its ultimate d»>
straotton. The only safety for the soul,
the only safety tor the church, to to
be found in accepting the true doctrine
of salvation and continuing steadfastly
to it, aa did the New Testament Chris
tians, doing the work of the Lord.
Ikm Day to Day.
The trouble which wo have to unden
go to tho course of the year may M
compared to * groat bundle of faggots
far too large for no to lift. But God
does not require us to carry the whole
at ones! Be mercifully unties the bun
dle and gives us fin* one stick, which
we are to carry to-day, then soother
which we are to carry to-morrow and
so on. This we might easily manage
if we oould only take the burden ap
pointed tor us each day, hut we choose
to tnerease onr troubles by carrying
yesterday’s stick over again to-day, and
edd*»g to-morrow's burden to our toad
baton we are required to bear 1L
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BriUlaV Or—t—t Ones.
In Great Britain the annual cost of
the liquor traffic to mere money to
lIdMOOAOt, no light aum to be with
drawn unproductively from the nation
al resources, even if It were all spent
on each legitimate nee aa only leads to
harmless enjoyment But the mere
waste es money sinka Into comparative
Insignificance compared with the ham
and loti inflicted on the community by
that portion es it which ministers to.
abuse and leads to widespread misery
and degradation, poverty, Insanity, dis
ease and d— Morton, M. D.
The Salt wt toe IMk.
The souls of the eene es Ood are
greater than their business; and they
aye thrown out Into life, not to do a cur
tala work, but to be a eartate
thing; to have some sacred linea
ments. to show some divine tint es the
Parent wms from which they caaaa.-
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FOR BOYS AND GIRLS.
SOME QOOD BTORIRS FOR OUR
JUNIOR READERS.
JMfcU Boot*erase, Or tfeo Wary of a |
issue Doe Wfca Was Too Pood *f j
nsrlag Trtefca—BaPs a Brick —Some
Ml— of Peril.
Am Rv—lag GoraS.
F In the silence of
this lonely eve.
With the street
lamp pal*,
flickering on
1 the wall,.
An aaxel were to
vrhtoper me—
" Believ—
e shall be given
thee. Call!"
whom should I
can?
And thorn I were to
a— thee gliding In
dad in known garments, that with
empty fold
lie in my keeping, and my fingers,
thin
As thine were once, to fee! In thy
safe held;
I should fan weeping on thy neck and
"I have so suffered since—since” —But
Would stop, remembering how thou I
. count’st thy day,
A day that to with Ood a thousand
years.
Then what sue the— d days, months,
years of mine.
To thine eternity of full delight?
whole Ufa when myriad Uvea
each leading to a higher
I lose myself—T faint. Beloved, best,
Let me still dream thy dear humanity
•its with me here, my head upon thy
breast.
And then I will go back to haaven
with then.
Jack's Boo—»&g.
Aunt Flora waa making some wal
nut oroams that tost afternoon in
March. Bhe had to crack the nuts very
carefully to get them out whole, and
some halvas of ahelv— were not brok
en at all. Jack's sharp eyes discovered
them in the coal-hod.
"Oh, goody!" cried he, "they'll be
Just the thing to' tool Teddy with to
morrow, Aunt Flo. rn stick them to
gether and he’ll think they're regular
walnuts."
"I wouldn't" said Aunt Fla "He
to safih a little boy, and he will be
disappointed. I wouldn’t, Jack.”
But Jack would. He picked out shells
enough to-make three walnuts, then he
gat the glue-bottle-and stuck them to
gether so carefully you wouldn't have
known they wen ever cracked.
“Don't they look just good enough
to —tr laughed ha “New, wheu they
get dry I’ll put them in a paper bag
and give them to Teddy in the morn
ing."
Then he ran out to hto play, whist
ling; and he played so long and hard
that he didn’t think of the walnuts
again until he came home from school
next day, at noon. Aunt Flora had
put them away tor him, however. She
told him where to find them.
■“On the second shelf of the dining
room closet, in a paper bag,” said ehe.
Jack’s face had a sober look. He
thought perhaps Aunt Flo. didn’t like
hto joke.
“Maybe I hadn't bast fool Teddy,"
•aid he. "Guess ni take them oat and
tool Johnny Wilson. I haven’t been
fooled today. Aunt Flo.'’ .
But Aunt Flo did not answer, and
when Jack got to the dining room he
touhd Teddy there. It did seem too
good a chance to be lost. Jack took
the bag of walnuts from the closet
shelf.
"Hello, Teddy 1” said he; "have some
nutaf
"Oh, yes! 1 ’ cried Teddy, running to
get the tack hammer. He liked wal
nuts almost better than anything else.
"You’re the bestcet boy, Jack," he
•aid.
At which Jack looked sober again. I
think he felt a little bit ashamed.
Alter ail. it wasn't the beet of fun to
toed a Uttto fire-year-old boy, and hto
own brother, too. But he gave Teddy
the bag.
In lose than two seconds down came
the hammer on the first walnut It
cracked very easily, indeed, and It had
tha funniest kernel you ever sfMrfn
a nut—a bright new dime! it didn’t
take kmg to crack the other tWtfc'Jjfai.
may be sore; and there were thfety
cento—enough to buy two whole
pounds of walnuts.
"Oh, oh!" cried Teddy. aotcmNhed
beyond measure. “Are they * mine?
Where did 'em come fromT
Jack's face was rod as a rose. ’ He
wm almost ready to feel cross about
It; but looking up, he —w Auat Flo
smiling in the doorway, and toughed
instead, a little Ih-ptohly.
“1 gua— I’m like the stof? you told
about the man that throw the boom
erang, Aunt Flo, and tt eanto beck end
hit him“ said-he. “But ftp/glad of
H just the seme."—Touthle fofgpffiUiM
i:'/ ■ I J / ■v •
«d»
m—curing tha worth of a boy. There
is surely nothing very wonderful or
tine ajout a brick. But, like a groflt
many other sayings that do not appear
to have much sense, we shall And, by
locking up the origin of the expression,
that it started out with a vary sensible
meaning. In order to get at lie be
ginning, we have to go back into an
cient history tor a distance of nine
hundred yearn before Christ—all the
Way back to tha time of Lycurgns, the
gnat Spartan rotor. Plutarch tails us
that Lycurgus had a gnat many wise
and curious notions aa to bow people
should live and how the affairs of 'As
country should be managed. One of hto
ideas w— that there wm no necessity
tor building a wall about a town if tha ,
soldiers were properly trained to pro
tect the place, On one occasion an am
bassador tram a neighboring country
came to see Lycurgus, and he asked
how it wm that he had no walla
around the town. “But we have walla,”
replied Lycurgua, “and if you will oome
with me I will show them to you.*’
Thereupon he took hto guest out upon
the plains where the army waa drawn
up tn battle array, and, pointing to
the ranks of the soldiers, he said:
“These are the walla of Sparta, and
every man is a brick.” Bo you see
when the expression was first used It
had a great deal more sense than It has
now.
Mira of TerO.
While three men were bunting In
Idaho, one gave a shout, and the others
ran to hto assistance. They found him
clinging to some vines, that grow on
tha edge of a great hole in the ground,
at toast thirty led in diameter. After
hauling him out, he explained that he
had walked Into the hole while looking
ahead for game, and only saved himself
by the merest chance. The hunters
came back the next day with ropes and
lowered a man Into the pit He report
ed that it wm nearly sixty feet deep,
and half-way down wm narrowed in
like an hour glass, so that any living
thing falling Into tha pit could never
get out without assistance. Aa % proof,
tha floor of the pit wm streUffi With
tha carcasses of bear, deer and leaser
game The luckless animals at differ
ent times had evidently fallen into the
pit, perhaps while being chased, and,
of course, were unable to climb the
walls, which inclined toward the nar
row opening. Nobody of any tense ev
er hunts for a grizzly, but when one
cornea in sight hardly any one can re
frain from firing at him. This wm the
case with two men In Montana, who
were going over the mountains on e
narrow trail, when they saw a grizzly i
on the rocks above. Both men prompt
ly took to shelter and consulted. The
grizzly waa evidently coming to a
spring nearby to drink, and wm mind
ing Its own business, but one of the
mqn thought he saw a chance, and
fired. The bullet hit the bear in the
neck. This merely Irritated him enough
to make him look around for hto tor
mentors, and presently he wm in full
chase. They ran at a lively pace, but
would have been canght had they not
scrambled up the rocks. The grtoxly
scrambled up. too, but presently all
Bounds of pursuit ceased. Looking
back, they saw the bear jammed be
tween two rocks. Before he could back
out, one of the men rsn back and put
a ball In the grtosly’s ear, and the chase
wm over. It wm such a narrow es
cape, however, that the hunters rs
eolved to svold grizzlies in future.
In Los Angeles, a resident exhibits
the skin of a mountain lion, got In a
peculiar Way. He was riding leisurely
among the foot faille when a mountain
lion crossed hto path, and wm slink
ing away, m it generally doee, when he
rashly fired Wt it with a light shot
gun he carried. The lion, slightly
wounded, came hack in a rags and
made a dash at him. The horse shied
and the man wm thrown, striking hto
head against a rock, and causing In
sensibility. When he cams to bis
senses hie bone wm standing over
him, and a dead lion lay a little dis
tance away. He examined the beast,
and found Its skull crushed like an
eggshell. The horse bad got a fair
crack at him With hto beets, and made
an sad of him.
Cera*UMt*l lew of M races.
In a recent lecture on “Primitive Re
ligious Expression” in New Haven,
Goon., Professor D. G. Brlnton said *hat
ceremonial law to found to exist In ev
ery tribe, and is obeyed with surprising
punctuality. It to often absurd and ri
diculous, but to obeyed just the seme.
Among certain tribes it is against this
Jaw to roast a pig, only balling of that
animal being allowed; with other
trite* no fuel from two different
sped so of trees may be used for the
saps fire; and in Kamtehatka a cer
tain tribe has a ceremonial law which
prohibits the scraping of enow from the
boots with n metal knife, and another
Jaw which threatens with bolls anyone
who kills a very young duck. It to be
lieved that punishment tor the infrac
tion of any of these laws fails not upon
the Individual, but upon hto tribe. Dar
win found vary little religion among
the Patagonians, bnt tha severest cere
monial taws la voguA
The strikers at the Phoenix mills,
Patterson, N. J., have ignored the or*
torsi eervtoM of tha state board oi
arbitration They have no qrgantoa
tion, and President Sherwood says or
daatoed wocktosn are much sealer to
deal with and mdro intslllgsnt
HOUSEHOLD AVPAIB&
OK# (Mi WiJPi HUWI A . PROFBSSIOIf.
According to Miss Talbot, of Oh!*
•ago University, housekeeping to not
drudgery, but one of the most com
plicated and difficult of professions;
involving the most intricate problems
in economics. She is of the opinion
that tow woman know anything about
the cbemioal principle* involved in
the proper preparation of ioeds; end
the resent discoveries along this line
have been mad* by men, when they
should have oome from women.
bow to swan an nrvaun’e boom.
Ws all know hour untidy a sick room
’beoomea and how annoying the dust Os
the sweeping to to the patient “To
remedy this,” said a trsine&and capa
ble nurse reoently, “I put a little am
monia in a pail of warm water and
with my mop wrung dry as possible go
all over the carpet first This takes np
all the dust and much, of the loose
dirt A broom will take what is too
large to adhere to the mop aud raise
no dust With my dust doth well
S tinkled Igo over the furniture and
s room la fairly elean. ”
a noun-kuna boo.
Have your blacksmith bend two
heavy wires in the shape of a hairpin,
twenty-four inches long and two
inches between the prongs. On these
wind woolen rage out half an inch
wide; winding them in and out as you
erunp your hair. Prepare a foundation
—a piece of old ingrain carpet or a
coffee seek answers well, the carpet
being the best Lay one of the filled
pins on one end of the foundation end
stitch down through the oenker on the
machine. Pull out the pin and toy,
the other, similarly filled, in place, 1
pressing book the loops from which
you pulled the wires; so mto bring,
the next row doee to them. The rows
of etltohing abonld not be more than
three-quarters of an inoh apart Tha
loops may be out or left whole. Two
persona oan work at this advantageous
ly, one winding the pins, tho other
doing the stitching. The rug thus
mads to very durable. Dark colors
are preferable; hit and min gives
a good effect—Detroit Free Press.
POj* Off van BEPBicunuTon.
Keep the refrigerator w a 0001, dry
place, near a window if possible. Heat
and moisture oause rapid melting of
ice and decomposition of food.
Flood eeversl times a week with
eool, dry, outdoor air.
i Wipe shelve#, floor and oeiling of
food chamber with s dry doth daily.
Ones a week elean thoroughly with,
strong soda.
Tho ioe-psn and wsete-pipe require
epeoial ears. Wash the letter with a
swab, and flood with strong solution
of bicarbonate of soda
Bines every comportment with hot.
end add water ones a week, and then
air st least an hour. '
Never attach drain-p'po to sewer or
drain.
A few few pieoee es charcoal in the
food chamber aids in freeing it from
odors. Cleanse the eharoosl two or
three times a week by drying In the
oven; the odors peas off in vapor.
Put only odd food in refrigerator.
Keep milk sod butter on floor of
food compartment, and well covered,
as they readily absorb odors.
HUOXFSX.
Pineapple Shortoake—Made the
wftmfl as strawberry shortcake. Bake
in two layers, and spread the chopped
pineapple between the layers after (he
oaks to cold.
Breaded Potatoes—Feel small pota
toes and boil them in salted water. Do
not let them boil soft. Dip in beaten
egg and fine eraoker crumbs, and fry
in hot fat, tuning frequently, that the
color may be a uniform one.
Peach 'Meringue Pie—SHos good
peaches into deep pto plate
lined with rich crust. Sogpr well and
stir into the juioe a heaping teaspoon
eornetaroh. ' Beke slowly. Make
meringue of three egg whites for a
large pie, flavoring with lemon* Serve
cold with cream.
Bioe Mltonais* —Chop fine n good
sized onion and fry in butter until a
golden oolor, then odd a capful of rio*
and half a dozen, minoed mushrooms,
Stir for two minutes, and odd a quart
of boiling broth. Stir lightly onae. .
Oook for twenty-five minutes. Season
with one tsaapooufa! of sell, one*
fourth of a tsaspoonfal of pepper and
half a cup of grated Swiss cheese.
Lettnoe and drape Fruit Baled—
Tom a head of washed aud drained
i lettnoe into pieoee. Para and divide
into oarpela one grope -fruit. With ft
penknife, slit the white skin that en
i velops each carpel, take hold of the
two ends; bend It book and the fruit
i will fell oat In little pieoee, when tha
seeds may be easily removed. Pour
fruit end juioe over the lettuce and
i serve with a French dressing eontoin-
I one
half capful of ries in one pint es stock,
and let it boil gently for one hour j
then odd two tablespooatoto of butter
, and simmer it till quite dry ohd soft J
when oold, make it info Aftlto, hollow
I out the inside and fUh with missed
fowl delicately seasoned} cover esur
, with rise, dip the bolls into hasten
, egg. thsn into bread crumb*; fry them
carefully to a nie* brown *nd serve