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WOMAN'S WORLD. With many a trim my stops I toka* In man . a crook oud crevice, And many a biscuit 1 mast b&ke For Maud and me and Levis. I sweep, I dust, I cook, I rise Up in tbo morning oarly, I wash the breilcfust dishes, and I churn, and dress tho baby; 3 make the dust and dry leaves fiy Against my new broom fairly, 1 chatter, chattsr as I go, Because I rost so rarely; "For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever, ever, lgo on forever." 1 movo about and in auu o:?t, While here the chickens feed in?, And here and there at a hawk to ehont, But little they are heeding. I walk, I run, I skip, I hop From one thing to another; 1 stop to dress a bruise or cut, For the children run to mother. Thon to tho garden 1 must go To seo what work is needed, ^ For plants must bo set out, you know, And then they must be weeded. For men can't stop, for they must go, But we work on forever, ever, W'e v. ork on forever. I scrape the tray and "put to rights* The dining-room ana Kiicncn, 1 then go in my room to sew And try to do Bome stitching. 1 wonder if there is on earth No respite from our labors, No timo to go and gossip some With pleasant, friendly neighbors. Before I end this piece of work, And try to think a little, I throw it down and run and make A fire, und put on the kettle. For men must eat and go. you know, But womon can go, never. Yes, men will come, and men wfl! ga, But wo work on forever, ever, We work on forever. Lost Lina; ? OR,? ' THE BITTER AND THE SWEET. A Tale of Two Continents, BY MRS. NDfA LAWSGJT. CHAPTER XII. The telegram which was sent by tTie unknown to Captain Hutchinson at Leadville, Colo., was answered in the affirmative, and on the stated date the men were closely closeted in a room in one of the hotels in Lincoln, Neb. "" W en, XU.IJ, mull liiio ?ci J irujJUAtant matter that you have had the cheek to call me here to meet jou for?" "Ah, Hall, I thought yon -were always the man on hand for a haul." "Well, sol am; and now out with the whole affair." "All right; you know who I have been with since I last saw you?" "Yes. Jim the Desperate." "Just bo; and now he has played the little on me and I intend to be even." The unknown then related in full everything concerning this strange affair, with which we are already acquainted. "Ah, ha! Tan, you have Jim in a tight box indeed. He played me a email game once, about five years ago, and now I will cancel that old debt when I have a good chance. "You say the girl shall not be hurt nor swindled out of her money ?" "Yes, I said so, and that must ba r\?rf nf fho Imrrrnin " rMJ w- ?~ ?"All right. A man must be confoundedly small when he will attempt to cheat a poor, helpless, innocent woman." "That is the truth, Hall. I had not thought of it just that way before, but as sure as thunder and lightning that is the chief point in the game that Jim is trying to play." "So much the wor?e for him. I am right with you. And now for our plans ofaction." "I had thought it best to work it in something of this manner, in order not to compromise ourselves. About the last of this month we intended to make a haul on the First National Bank of Springfield, Illinois. I was to go there from Jouesboro, and investigate, get everything ready to just step in and get the money, and then I was to wire for mw* ?"? * " " n - _ A _ 1- - -3 ? 3.3 1.. Jim. rue uoome wasxo oeamaea ue* tween us, and I suppose I would get about one-eighth, while he would have the rest. I told him I would wire him when I was ready for him, and so I will. I like to see fair play, even in this kind of work, but when ho is too Bmart for that he must look out for number one, and then take the consequences. I intend to go back to Springfield, look the matter up, and on the night I expect Jim I will give the police a key to the plan. Of course you may be assured that I shall be careful to be out of sight if they should want _ J) me. "That will work all right so far; but will r.*n innmcm olirmf t)ir> rr 1 i*l orwl b* * "i,v* that Italian woman that he has there ?" "Well, now, that's just the thing? that is just what I want you to see to, and if you do as I say there will be no harm done to any one but the man who deserves it." "All right, partner; I am willing to agree to anything you suggest that is anywhere near fair and won't compromise me too much. ? "You will get into no trouble whatever." "All right; I am willing then." "I tvill return to Springfield, and you go with me. We will investigate matters there a little, and then you go to Chicago to watch Jim's house; watch it closely and get ^everything ready foi the final act. "Now, about that lovely farmei girl. What do you intend to do with her? Romember, she must have those papers that belong to her, and you know where her home was. Jim said he had fixed it all right with the mail carrier, and she would never get any mail to hei ancle's. Hard telling what they may think of her Bilence." ""NVell, never mind about the f^irl just now. I Lave already decided what I shall do witJt her?but, the Italian P "Well, I told you where her old home was, and only the other day I heard that her mother was still searching for her, bat to no purpose. Don't suppose the girl knows anything at all about it. What I want is fair play and revenge on Jim. I hope after he is caught at Springfield that he may never see either of them again, and Xtever be a free man." "Hold, hold, Tanl I know iusl :what I want and just what I shall do for both the girls. Trust that Chicago affair to me and we will come out all right." "Very well, we understand each other now ?" "Perfectly. I see what you want and know just what I want." "Hello! Well, we have just time enough to eat a little supper and catch lhat east-bound train. You seo we have no time to lose, for I want to gel Jim down to Springfield about the time he returns from Milwaukee." * m m * "Ah, Hall is mighty punctual; I -fenev he would be just the fellow foi W*r * - . ?.; c this game. I -will see what lie has tc Bay/' The unknown held a letter in his hand addressed to Stephen Douglass, Esq., Spriugfield, 111., 15ox 859. He did not open the letter until aftei ho had entered his room and securely fastened the door, when he tore open the envelope and read: Pacific Hotel, Chicago, Nov. 25.1875. 0. K. all through. S. E. N. still at M. W. Bijr party at the house tho 29th. S.E.N, will be there. Saw Italian, but not the other; will watch night of party. Wire S. E. N. nieht of 29th. Have papers of the girls, but don't know what thoy say. Not mine you know, but a helpless woman's. H. A. "Ah, yes. And so Jim won't be bach until the night of the party. He hasn't seen the girl very much, then, I should think. I do hope she won't be a little fool and take up with him after all. 3 would treat to know what Hall is going to do with her, but no matter. I will bet my last cent she won't be hurt iu any way^ for he is as good as his word. And so I am to wire Jim the evening oJ the 29th. Yes, I see. It won't be unti] the morning of the 30th, and then Ha! Ha! I see, Hall, old boy. Jin; 1 ? Wnn/lflr llOTt IliUHl CO'm? XLUJ-UL-Uiaicij'. ii uuui? ?v.. he found out all of those things, but ii does not make any difference to me, foi I am ready for S. E. N. any time." Tlie unknown then threw the lettei into the grate and watched it burn into ashes. The next few days passed wearilj enough for the unknown, for he had his work all done, except informing th< police. On the evening of the 29th he leisurely strolled out of the hotel, down street, until he came to the office of the Chiei of Police. He found the officer in, and as he entered he handed him a card on which was printed his name and business. "Very well, Mr. Douglass; is there anything I can do for you?" "Yes, sir, there is. You see, I hart spent considerable time on this case, which, of course, you do not know very much about as yet. "Of course you arc always on the lookout for 'Jim the Desperate,' and ii is he that I have been shadowing foj the last two or three months. "I have found out that on the night oi the thirty-first of this month he in tends to make a raid on tlie JFirst JSa tional Bank of this city, and I have everything so arranged that you can easily catch him in the very act Of course, we detectives never entei into full particulars as to how we know of these things; but nevertheless you know we do, and I want you to be sure and be on time and ready to enter the back door of the bank at one o'clock the morning of December 1." "Very well; I will be there fend secure the man. You are right when you say we have been on the lookou( for that character, and when we once get him in a cell we will keep him there or give him some 'rope.' Is that all you want?" "Not quite. I have a special favoi that I want to ask of you and it must be granted." ?L lb 13 YY1 tLLLLi 111 J yv/TfCl jv/u uuui4 have it." "I guess it is, and you can very easily do as I wish. There are two beautiful girls in Chicago at Jim'i home whom he has very much wronged, and one is kept there as his prisoner. I have sent a party on to the city to release the girl and let her go to hei home. Now, what I want is this: That after the trial you take this maD back to Chicago and to his own home. He will want to go, for, of course, he will want to see the girls. Those girls will not be there, and his home will be forsaken; of course you will have to go with him, and after you get him there, convince him that that beautiful young girl that he was going to force into a marriage with him is now entirely out of his power. Will you and can you do this, Captain?" "Yea, I will do it, but that is a little out of our line. No matter, though, it is worth a good deal to have such a prisoner in our power." "Very well, sir, that is all I want. Good-night." Anil the unknown left the office to return to the hotel, knowing that most : of his work was done. CHAPTER XIII. The morning of November 30tb | dawned clear and crisp. All who had j been at the party had been dreaming j of Lenora's beautiful face, and the ! sweet songs she had suns. ane master err the cottage was awakened from his sleeping dream of his daily thought, the little prisoner, by a sharp, quick knock on his door. "Hallo, what's wanting?" "A message for you, master." "Very well, bring it in, Henry." The message was the much-lookedfor telegram that ordered him to | Spriugtield immediately. He glanced at his watch and saw that it was nine o'clock. "Henry, order me some breakfast immediately, and go and tell your mistress that I would like to see her in the library at a quarter past ten." The breakfast was ordered and the messatre delivered to Lenora's maid. "She is not well this morning, Henry, and has slept hut very little all night. I do not know whether she will be able to go down or not this morning, but I will tell her when she awakes." Gertana had heard Henry come up the stairs and wrap on Lenora's door. She stopped to the door of her own room that then stood slightly ajar, and heard what Henry had said. "Yes, Sylvester Noll, you want hei ^o go to the library, that you may torment her still more.' Very veil; Iwillb# there also, but behind the curtains, in my old hiding place." Lenora's faithful friend was dressed and ready to go down to her hiding plaoe at the appointed time, but the weary little prisoner was still asleep. As she had slept so little during the night, her maid would not awaken her, so it was long past the time before that gentle, timid tap waa heard on the door that Noll was so impatiently waiting fr\T It was then almost time for him to Btart to the train, but he was determined to see Lenora before he went. As he heard Lenora's gentle tap at the door he instantly opened it and reached out his arms as if to draw hex gentle, shrinking form to his bosom, but she ntepDcd back out of hi-j reach. "Good-morning, Miss Lenora. I was afraid that you were going to disappoint me. Have a chair; I want to talk to you a few moments." But Lenora would not sifc down, and stood up against the wall while her great, durk, beautiful eyes stared him directly in the face. "I had no particular reason to decline your request for an interview, but you are aware that your presence is very repugnant to me, and I wish to repeat again, that whatever may happen, I shall never retract my first etafe: ment. No; you may kill me, but 1 shall be firm while I breathe." Her face was radiant with an angry flush as she turned to leave the room. "Hold! my beauty. You are partially mistaken; yon cannot, get out of that door, for it is looked. Be seated, I have considerable to say to you, and it is tiresome standing." "Don't you dare come near me. I positively refuse to accept that chair while you are in this room." She'had stepped back in one corner as far as she could; the wall only prc^ vented her from fleeing, she cared not where. "Miss Churchill, have you not punished me enough by your aversion against me ? God only knows how hard it is for me to keep from drawing yon to my heart, and holding you there forever. The very 6ight of you makes rao wild. Oh, Lenora, for heaven's sake, don't look at me like that. You will kill me or set me crazy. "Do pity me a little?do have a little mercy on me 1 If you will only consent in ha mv wife in the future, to love m'e a little, I will be content, and the happiest man in the world. Don't you Bee I am burning up with the fever of love that you have sent through every vein in my body? You looked bo beautiful last night, and this morning bo fair; oh, never?never did any one see such loveliness. Can't you, in your heart of hearts, have a little pity on my misery ?" As he ceased speaking his lovely features were drawn with pain. He was a master at controlling his feelings except in the presence of this girl. He knew tliat he had no power over . her, and that now, since he could not persuade her to be his wife, his only recourse was stratagem or force. Lenora stood looking at him without a shadow of pity crossing her face. When Noll ceased speaking, she replied: "You have no one to blame for your misery but yourself, Mr. Noll. You understand, I do not consider you a gentleman, and any rational person who knew how you have stolen me away from all my happiness and imprisoned me here, when I prefer death to your nrMnnna Trrvnlrl trinw Vfm WflTfl flfttinC JliWUVU, ? .. j O wrong, and not the part of a gentleman. I entreat you to act thoughtfully and right. I wrote to my uncle some time ago to come for me, and when he does you shall be proparly punished; but now redeem yourself a little in the estimation of those who really know you, by letting me go?by giving me my freedom. "O, precious freedom, I pray you to givo me, sir, and let me go back to those who really love.me." "Ha, ha! Your home, you fair temptress; your home is here, the only one you now have, and I am the only one who rightly loves you. For your own Bake you had best yield and ba mine. I will take you away from all this?away off, in fair, beautiful lands, where you shall want for nothing that money can buy. O, yield, I beg oi jou, for this is your last chance. I will give you just three minutes to say yes or no, and then, if it be no, I Bhall place you in a little cell, just off my room, and you shall be kept there under lock and key until I return, when I shall carry you off, as I brought you here. Now, remember, just three minutes." And he drew out his watch to count the minutes. One minute had gone, and Lenora stood pressed against *the wall, trembling, and as pale as death, while her parched, pale lips were moving in prayer to heaven for protection. Two minutes had gone, and yet no help came to the little sufferer; three minutes, and the time was up. Noll closed his watch, and the little click of the spring startled Lenora. He looked at her with a cold, strange ?? ? ? - ^ ^ ~ !? * atw ill rt4- Vi av r> v> gazt?, UtS 11 11U n.nt; rr muv uci would not be what he wanted. "What is your answer?" "No; never." Just then Henry opened the door of the library. "Master, here is a letter for the mistress; thi isn't in her room, and, too, it is time to start if you want to catch that train. The carriage is waiting at the gate." Lenora quickly sprang to Henry's side, despite the weakness of her body. Her little remaining strength was renewed by the hope that aid would soon reach her in her hour of greatest trial. [to be continued.] What She Told Jack. She was a little bit of a bluc-eved woman with the innocent face of a child. The horse-car in which sh? sat with a female companion stopped suddenly, but the mild-faced little woman went right on talking in hei natural key, so that everybody heard her say: * 11 Til.. 1.1. "Tiie man never wniKeu mo em iu who could boss me, and J just told Jack f.o. and lie hasn't, peeped once since. 1 didn't marry to have any man lead m? wound by the nose?I guess not!" It is iold in the Kausas City Timet that Mr. Charles Francis Adams is now reviewing and destroying the diary which, like Lis forefathers, lie has faithfully kept for many years. When his wife, who is deeply interested in the record of the days before the marriage ?a record which, by the w av, she hanever scon?remonstrated with him foi burning up the diary, he replied: "I didn't know what a colossal fool I was a quarter of a century ago." The othei evening as President Adams sat by the open fireplace tossing the white pages of the diary into the flames, one by one, he read to a party of friends an account of an interview a qiiarter of a century a.^o. It was something like this: "Jteacheil Washing.on eariy una morning. One of the first persons that I met there was Senator Sherman, of Ohio. Had a long talk with him, but the characteristic statement made by the Senator was this: *1 agree with my party in large things an a matter of principle, in small things as a matter of conveniens;" What Enoch Pratt of Baltimore says h "worth hearkening to: "My advice to young men who are anxious to advance in life has always been that when they can earn live dollars they should save and put out at interest one dollar of it. Money at interest i.s like a calf of which an honest old German once told me. JJc said that the purchase of that call' was the best thing he ever did, for the calf grew just the same whether her owner was asleep or awake, and almost be fore he knew it she had grown to a full-bizcd cow, worth many times what he had paid for her." . r * v. A DOLLAR BILL.' PROCESSES IN THE MAKING OF TAPER MONEY. Engraving the Plates?Printing anil Numbering Notes?Precautions Against Counterfeiting Eml in the Pulp Kettle. "What volumes of history one of Unrlc Sam's greenbacks could relate if it only had the power of speech ! Whether their life be long or short, in the interval that elapses from the moment that they are turned out fresh, crisp and bright -from the Government presses, until they straggle back sr> dirty and mutilated that even their denominations are scarcely decipherable, they havo passed through hundreds, perhaps thousands of hands, figured in innumerable transactions, been thumbed by millionaires and hod-carriers?in u word, have played an active part in busy human life. There is much of interest, however, to be told about them before they are sent out on their career of usefulness. MACERATOJt ($570,000 ON THE TABLE). Take the work in the engraving division of the Government Bureau of Engraving and Printing, for instance, aa this is where the manufacture of paper money begins. No one engraver ever cuts the entire plate from which a bank note is printed. For instance; one man engraves the portrait, another does the lettering of the inscription; a third the counters that indicate the denomination of the note; another a section of the ornamental border, for this is never en graved in full; still another is engaged on the seal, and finally the work of all must be carefully scrutinized and the finishing touches added before the plate can be sent to the printer. The reason why so much care is necessary is to guard against counterfeiting,for the more perfect the plate is in every part, the more difficult it is for one or any number of persons to imitate it. It sometimes takes the engraver six weeks to finish up a portrait, and after tliof >11. must nut. in the background. ... , a , which consists of a close network of the finest spider web lines, made by a ruling machine with a diamond point. / y HAND PRINTING PREPS. This may be seen on the dollar certificate bearing the head of Martha "Washington. Oq the same bill it will be observed that the counter on the right hand side, the centre piece containing the words "One silver dollar," and the counters and border around the centre piece on the back, are composed of peculiarly curved lines. These machines are very expensive, and are very complicated in their construction. They work slowly, but with great exactness, and it is impossible for a i ounterfeiter to reproduce the lines exactly. All the rest of the plate i? engraved by hand. After the plate lor a special series of notes is completed it is taken tc the transfer press, where any number ol reproductions can be made, which is reni dered necessary in order to print the notes in large quantities. _ _ I // NUMEEllING MACHINE. This, however, is by no means a sim 1 ]ile operation. The different dies whicl make up the complete plate must first bi transferred to a cylindrical steel rol separately. They must then be lai< down, or "assembled" upou a singli steel plate or bed-pioce. Vpon this bed piece the various parts of the note up ' pears in intaglio, lrom which the im pressiou is transferred to steel rolls ol proper width, which is usually sufficiem to contain four notes. The plates ar< ... -i r i n 1 ?? lettered J rum J\. 1<J JJ., nuu ima auothcr check upon counterfeiting as th( numbers must correspond to these letters. The last operation to which the plates arc subjected before they go to the print iug room is the hardening process. Tuis is done in various ways by an application of heat and chemicals. The plates arc then cleaned, waxed and laid away till they arc needed by the printer. The paper used by the Treasury Department for its bills and noics is manufactured by a private concern, and upon its delivery is counted twice and packed away in sections of from four to fort) tshcets after it has becu damped. Several different kind of presses arc used in the printing division. The oldfashioued hand-plate press and steam presses of the latest and most improved patterns are employed. Each press is I provided with a register, which records . ; ' automatically every impression that is made. Each impression calls for a sheet of paper; so that all the clerk who makes his examination at the end of the day has to do is to see whether the number of printed sheets returned correspond with , the number of the register. This must | also correspond with the record in the wetting-room. These precautions were necessary to prevent dishonesty, for otherwise itmight be easy for a printer to smuggle in a blank sheet of paper and fill it with impressions of $11)0 notes, and no one would be the wiser. The numbering division is the last room through which the printed sheets have to pass. Ilcre the blue numbers and letters are stamped upon the notes, in accordance with a system which has been devised in order to make it easier for experts to detect spurious notes. When it is considered how large a variety of bank notes, Treasury notes, silver certificates, bonds, revenue and postage stamps are printed at the Govern- j ment Bureau, it will at once be seen of how vast a magnitude the work of this Department is. I*. nnrenna rnn. lb Al'Cj/3 IiUUUlbUO VA j/kiwv**.* w.. stantly employed, from artists and skilled mechanics down to the girls who sort over and counts the sheets of paper. In 1802 the Superintendent of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing had only one male and four female assistants. The Department now employs more than one thousand persons. The face value of the securities printed by the Bureau from July, 1869. to July, 1888, aggregated 413,108,606,634, and the amount previously produced would probably bring the total up to $20,000,J00,000. Wheu bank notes have outlived their period of usefulness they are redeemed by the various sub-treasuries of the Government and sent back in bulk to the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. They ?re then dumped into big cylinders as large as locomotive boilers, which are called macerators. Lime and soda ash is then added and the cylinders put in motion. When the mass has been reduced to a pulp it is drawn off in semi-liquid form, and pumped into the paper room, where it is manufactured into thick sheets of paper. Some of it is cast into various forms, including little statuettes, which are sold by the Washington stationers and fancy-store keepers to visitors as mementos of the National Capital.? New York Press. A Kablye Woman's Cnrious Jewelry. The principal jewels of a Kabyle woman .1?tnrrnfVior Arc uuuuie sjiuuiui-i jsma ju>uv? ?vgv.Uv. by .i chain?sometimes with an amulet in the middle, used for fastening the dress on the shoulders. Her dress owes very little to the art of the dressmaker. The bodice is formed anew each morning by being secured on the shoulders by these pins, which are generally alike. W^:;: V A KAETLE W0MAX. Brooches arc of many different forms and sizes. The large round brooch with hanging chains and ball pendants is only worn after a woman has borne a child, and even then with a difference. Thus the mother of a daughter wears hers in a bodice: but the proud mother of a son sets hers in the middle of her forehead, with the balls falling over her eyebrows. From this honored position it is sometimes torn and flung in rage and defiance at the feet of the husband when some domestic difference of opinion has in! duced him unduly to chastise the wearer, ( says the Jewelers' Weekly. Earrings as shown in our illustration are made of different patterns. Some are small, to hang from the lobe o? the X' ear*, some are very * < large to hook over ?s '^.iv . ^ J the ear and are supported l?y strings tied at the top of y VWs/VYfr. the head beneath s I the headdress. The |.8ffi?.g.8fll 1 o n g, d a n g 1 i n g chains which always /-/'/pvfijmf! hang from these (/j 'fift ff large ear-rings are 1 Ml/A Kkffw decorated at inter- z. vals with lots of rough coral and with colored glass besds. The diadems worn, as may be seen by our picture of a Kabyle beauty, are very handsome and original. They are usually made of three plaqnes of metal joined together by hemispheres of bright metal which have a very striking effect. The plaques are always enameled and enriched wim rouna picccs 01 corai set , in rows, such as arc seen in a Jewish high * priest's breastplate. The diadem is placed around Hie turban-shaped headdress and is supported in its place by means of small hooks, which fasten on e the top of the turban. A row of varied pendants dangles over the eyebrows. Tcry Frank. , Prison Visitor?"You seem an honest fellow and I feel an interest iu you. Could anything he done to make you 1 more comfortable?" Convict?"You bet!" Visitor?"What?" ( Convict?4 'Lemme out.'!?Puck. 5' ? :/ 1- . I-.' .. /'> 4 .: ++ 'Zf-. ' ' . -V. TEMPERANCE, * SWALLOWS. We say the spring is coming, when We near the blue-bird sing. But when the swallows skim the pond, We know that now is spring. There's other kind of swallows, though, Not feathered ones at all, That do not indicate a'spring, But often bring a fall. ?Edward Carswell, in Youth's Banner. TEMPERANCE LEGISLATION. The committee of the Presbyterian General Assembly at Saratoga appointed to prepare a memorial to Congress, in regard to the liqour traffic, through its Chairman, I. N. Hays, presented the following report: ' Your committee met at Harrisburg, Penn.,on February 14,1890, all being present but one, and with great deliberation and care prepared the accompanying memorial, and directed its Chairman, either in person or by his representative, to present it to both houses of Congress. Your committee was most hearty and unanimous in the action taken, and joined in the earnest hope and prayer that it might result in great good to both the church and nation. It was thought best to present this memorial through the agency of the Hon. John A. Anderson, of Kansas, -who was not only a member of the committee having charge of this matter, but is also a minister of Christ in our own denomination, and thoroughly interested in the success of the movement, and he promised to do all he could to care for the matter intrusted to his management. "Your committee is happy to report that the Committee of Congress has reported a bill, with but one dissenting voice, which is as broad and comprehensive as could be desired. It provides for the appointmeut of a Commission, which shall consist of five persons, to be appointed by the President, who shall investigate the alcoholic, fermented and vinous liquor trade in all its phases, its relation to revenue and taxation, its effect upon labor, agriculture, manufacturing and other industries, and its general economic, criminal, moral and scientific aspects, its connection with pauperism, crime, social vice, the public health, and also to inquire into the practical result of license, prohibitory legislation and the various methods of restraint and taxation relied upon for the prevention of intemperance. The truth is that the most ardent friends of temperance could not wish for more, and its bitterest enemies should not be satisfied with less. It is iust as fair to one side as it is to the other. What is wanted is to have the full light of day thrown upon this whole subject?facts and statistics which do not lie?to which all must appeal and before which all must bow. "The great danger now is that, in the hurry of business aud through the adverse influence constantly at work at Washington, this admirable bill, so favorably reported by the committee, may not be acted on by Con grass, or, if acted on, defeated tbrougn tne apathy of its friends. '"Your committee would, therefore; recommend that the Assembly would, in some suitable way, express its hearty appreciation of the work done by this committee in Washington, nnd urge upon Congress the importance of speedy and favorable action upon this great question, which so deeply concerns the welfare of this whole country. It is believed that prompt and earnest action on the part of this Assembly, just at this moment, will have groat weight in deciding this matter." The memorial to Congress referred to in the report of the committee was appended. The report and memorial were received, and the motion then being on the adoption of the report and memorial, the Rev. Dr. M. Patterson 6aid: "I move that the Assembly express it* hearty appreciation of what has been don? bv the committee, and refer these papers 'tc the Committee on Temperance, witu instructions to prepare some paper, to be sent from this Assembly to Congress in accordance with the requestof the committee." The report and the memorial were adopted, after which the motion of Dr. Patterson was carried. The report of the Committee on Temperance was* next in order, and Elder Robert E. Flickinger, of the Fort Dodge Presbytery, offered the following resolution : "Whereas, The reccnt decision of the Sn preme Court of the United States, reversing the judgment of the Iowa State Court, and known as 'the Original Package Decision,' has made it apparent that the several States, in the exercise of their police powers, are crippled and greatly hindered in theii effort to control the sale or prohibit the traffic in intoxicating liquors, therefore, "Resolved, That this Assembly, in the interest of temperance, morality and religion, does hereby respectfully and earnestly petition the Congress of the United States speedily to enact a law or an amendment tc the Interstate Commerce law that will allow the States and Territories to prohibit the importation of intoxicating liquors." On motion of the Rev. Herrick Johnson, the resolution was referred to the Standing Committee on Temneranca. facts unearthed bv the anti-alcoholic CONGRESS. The Anti-Alcoholic Congress in Paris brought out many serious facts, one of which is that the dram-shop? in Paris have risen since 1880 from 24,000 to 29,000. In thirty years the consumption of alcohol has been trebled, and as much as 36,000^)00 gallons has been manufactured out of potatoes for the French market. This shows au average yearly consumption of over twelve quarts peradult man. Th8 consumption of alcohol doubled between 1875 and 1833. It attaius its maximum in the colliery districts of the Nord, while strangely enough in the wine countries of Southern France the consumption is lowest. However, deaths from alcoholism are much fewer in tho north of France than either in England or Russia. The Congress voted a resolution to the effect that iuebriates should be treated as mad, and that prison-hospitals should be created for them.? Oncea- Week. TJIE STIMULANT FALL ACT. ""r Most of the favorite arguments of our lager beer sophists postulate the assumption that stimulants?in other words, poisons of some sort or other, are indispensable to the organic welfare of human beings, and that the prohibition of popular tipples will compel their votaries to resort to other and worse tonics?ODiuin. absinthe or chloral. The origin of that very prevalent fallacy is the circnmstanca that all poison habits are progressive, and that a toper, once initiated m the worship of any drastic stimulant, will either increase the dose oE his wanted tonic or resort to more potent?and naturally more deleterious?clings. Those facts,however, are wholly compatible with the equally important truth that lougcvity, health and abundant vigor of body and mind may be enjoyed by total abstainers from all artificial stimulants whatever,and that children, exhibiting evidences of exuberant vitality, may grow up without betraying as much as an incidental appetency for tea, coffee, tobacco or any kind of alcoholic beverages.? Voice. TEMPERANCE NXWS AND NOTES. The Indians at Syracuse, N. Y., have started a Good Templars' lodge with eighty! five members. It was stated at the convention of the W, C. T. U. held in Ontario, that ninety-three per cent, of the young who joined the Band of Hope remained faithful. The great Whiskey Trust, representing a * * - J AOA AA/\ AAA 1- ~ J?,1 capital or more man ^ov,wu,una ueuum to dissolve, and reincorporata as a plain stock company, uuder the liberal laws of Illinois. The Rev. Peter Thompson, London East end Mission, has resolved, both for the sak< of converted inebriates and young converts, "to keep the Lord's table clean from intoxicating wine." The decline of drinking is again attested by the declaration in the Loudon Telegraph that., "for one club lifty years ago London now has ten, yet the drinking within them lias steadily diminished." Tii? Mississippi Whitc-Ribboner* tells of f "palace of justice" in New Orleans, which i"arranged with due regard to the fitnass oi tilings": tin lower story occupied by saloons; the upper story by the criminal court. "Sunday closing" has now been in effeel in Minneapolis for nine months. The number of Sunday arrests during that time has been 40i>. During t he same period previous to the enactment of this law, there were 72( Suuday arrest?. An Oneonta (N. Y.) pap?r saystbata partj of Delhi young men had Jive gallons of liquoi set out to their disposal recently. A young mau, by the name of Henry Cunningham, took a hand iu getting on the outside of the whisky, and iu a few hours was dead, hi.1 stomacn being so distended by liquids as t< cause death by paralysis of the heart. . U. '-Vv' . - is. "4. -J-" ,' ^9 ??mm? ?m- . 9 VORDS OF WISDOM. I Second thoughts are the adopted cS>, | drcn of experience. 9 The error of a moment may become 9 the sorrow of a whole life. 9 Flattery is a sort of bad money, which vanity gives currency. Life is like a flower, which is no soon-*' cr blown than it begins to wither. ~;i| 9 Good will, like a good name, is got bTj 9 many good actions, and lost by none. H 9 If you promise at all, take care that ^ 9 be so that nobody may suffer by trusting, 9 The only thing which every one can, 9 do, and the only thing which any one 9 need do, is his duty. (j .:H It is a sign of wisdom to be willing to. 9 receive instruction; the most intelligent 9 sometimes stand in need of it. I 1 - v9 Fidelity, good humor and complacency B of temper outlive all the charms of a fiite 9 face, and make the decays of it invisible. 9 He that cannot forgive others breaks 9 the bridge over which he must pass him?j 9 self; for every man has need to be for-! 9 given. r&9 Talking politics is like the man who. 9 "? a1/^ rtirnno Tnnrr in tV?P dark 1UIIU W CU QU U1U V,lltuo iAUg am *mw I.... thinking he was on the path toward home. fl If one wish3l to take things easy when fl one is old, it will be necessary to take| . fl many things that are not easy when one. fl is young. ,f| There is no more virtue in a ballot fl which is cast by a man instructed how to| fl vote, than there is in repeating the words fl of another. 9 Kind words are the brightest flowers fl of earth's existence; they make a very; -fl paradise of the humblest home that the ,"*fl world can show. Persons who fear their enemies by Icfr^Bfll ing them, will become so entangled obligations that a condition of servitude ~fl will be their reward. <fl Absence of Italian Farm Homes. \ uM The abscnce of homes, and especially of farm houses, in all Apulia, intensifies' the sadness of the landscape. There is -dfl not a farm-house, as we know it, in ;fl Italy. There are, miles apart, huge,lowj' fl prison-like stone structures called fl "masserie," where the landowner's ;^H superintendent, an ignorant, illy-paid? fl bestial fellow himself, cares for a numj fl ber of the animals needed in the field? I and where the "massara" (literally, flelclri fl house women) cooks the little needed for fl the laborers. These 'masserie" are the; fl ugliest one-story stone buildings iigjj > fl aginable. They are invariably set on an fl elevation to escape as much as possible fl universal malaria. QuadrilaterSw fl stone walls perhaps thirty feet squaJe B rise seven or eight feet high. A portiopl fl of the front will be covered with ~ aS I almost fat metal or slate roof. Then! H from the rear w.-tfl vaulted arches exteffd! toward the front. These usually contalS three compartments. One, the bestjS I all, is provided with stone mangers en B tending all around it for oxen, horses of B i donkeys; in another, the "massariS 9 warms the slop given the laborers; and ujj the last are stone benches on which Ifio B laborers take their mid-day siesta anc fl sleep at night. These swarm with vermiifi H are filthier and more desolate than am . prison known to man; and stand unj relieved by vine, shrub or tree, repulsiw and forbidding silhouettes of 'stoi$ iB against a blue Italian sky. JtI B Five other characteristic features~o| fl southern Italian pastoral scenery sug^e^tS I :4,U ^ ~ " VinmQTI O nflVlflS 'JW US W1111 tuc uaooauvt mvumwm mV?, . and contiguity to human habitations? only to emphasize the saddening lone1|| 1 ness of Italian country scenes. These are ! the "aja," or raised earthern or stone threshing floor, shaped like a hollow truncated cone, where the grain is troa ; out by blindfolded oxen; the cisterna, on ' cistern, for collecting rain water for th}> flocks for use in time of summer drought ?huge structures sunken fully ten feefi beneath the surface, with exposed walls as high as one's head, averaging fifty feet; in width and 20U in length, with an ana cient windlass in the peak of one endjil the low roof; the rcugh, white stoEfc1 walls which divide fields like endlessbai^ ricades; the "casselle," mortarless ciicti< lar huts of stone, surmounted by rude crosses, in which the field-guards ana watchers find shelter,recalling the ghost? ly sentry-houses among the bleach-greens in the north of Ireland; and the "trsfi . - - 4 turo," a broad grass-grown highways which for 2000 years has served in differ* 9 ent localities, like the vast stocktrailS B leading "from grass to grass" when west* I em herds are driven northward, for tlij yearly exodus of Apulian herds to raoUnS ain summer pastures.? Commercial Ai- flj vert iter. - > 9 Enginemcn's Snperstltions. The Pennsylvania Railroad CompaSjfl will be compelled to abandon Engine 1313, now in use on that road, "it garded by the road men as unlucky! " 9 There is not an engineer or fireman" on I the road that has not a superstitious I dread of the huge monster that during I the past year has figured in more diaas^ ters than any other. In the first placeTiS I plunged over the bridge at Latrobe lasn summer, wrecking the whole train and) V firpmnn .*md ten IB KIllIUl^ U1C j V?.MM others, and seriously injuring about" a) dozen persons. About a month aft&Pj ward it collided with a train near Manorj seriously injuring the fireman and wreck;! ing a number of cars. Again, in a fewj ! weeks, while ascending the mountains} ; its boiler burst, and the fireman"wojr blown through the cab window and badlyj hurt. It was repaired and once more put on the road, aud all went well until! about six weeks ago, when it again ran} , into a freight at Manor station, smashing ten or twelve cars and slightly injuring, the fireman. Lastly, while running neatj Sang IIollow it got into another scrape^ . This time its oil can exploded and segj J verely burned both engineer and fireman,^ ; It is said that the employes of the roadj intend to ask the company to discontinue [ its use.?Philadelphia Press. '' ~ ' Two Voices. Sj TITE GROWLKrt. 9 \ I do not like to bs a man, ? ra fcate to bo a woman; 9 I do not like vile nature's plan, V I'm sorry I am human. I'd hate like time to be a beast, fl ' Despise the fish's lot; H In fact, I'd care not in the least, , If I were not. ) THE HAITY MAN". I'm really glad I'm what I am, V r Though I should never growl, If I'd been born a silent clam, ; A noisy beast or fowl: 9| , Life suits me to a very T, H t It seems one joyous psalm? S| 5 I simply overflow with gloe, jfl ) Because?I am. L\f s I