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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE
NOTED DIVINE.
Subject: "Reformation of Habits."
Text: ,;When shall I awake? I will seek
It yet again."
wuu an msight into nunan nature such
as no other man ever reached, Solomon, in
my text, sketches the mental operations of
one who, having stepped aside from the
path of rectitude, desires to return. With
a wish for something better he says: ''When
shall I awake? When shall I come out of
this horrid nightmare of iniquity?" But
seized upon by uneradicated habit, and
forced down hill by his passions, he cries
out: "''I will seek it yet again. I will try it
once more."
Our libraries are adorned with an eleprant
literature pointing out all the dangers and
perils of life?complete maps of the voyage,
showing all the rocks, the quicksands, the
shoals. But suppose a maa has already made
shipwreck; suppose he is already off the
track; suppose he has already gone astray,
how is he to sret back? That is a field comparatively
untoached. I propose to address
myself this evening to such. There are those
in this audience who, with every passion of
fhftir ?mil krA rflaHv M hAflf thla !
discussion. They compare themselves with
what they were "ten years ago, ami cry out
from the bondage in which they are incarcerated.
Habit is a task master. As long as we
obey it it does not chastise us; but let U3 resist,
and we And we are to be lashed with
scorpion whips aud bound with ship cable,
and thrown into the trask of bone-breaking
Juggernauts. During the war of 1812 there
I tPQ j o chin cof r?ri firo incf oVmva Vi n ?-ti
Falls, and thvn, cut loose from its mooriugs,
it came on down through the night, and
tossed over the falls. It was said to have
been a scen? brilliant beyond all description.
Well, there are thousands of men on
fire of evil habit, comins down through the
rapids, and through the awful night of
temptation; toward the eternal plunge. Oh,
how hard it is to arrest them! God only can
arrest them.
Suppose a man. after Ave, or ten, or twenty
years of evil doing resolves to do risht.
Why, all the forces of darkness are allied
against him. He cannot sleep- nights. He
gets down on his knees in the midnight, and
cries, "God help me!" He bites hi9 lip; he
grinds his teeth; he clenches his flst in a
determination to keep his purpose. He dare
not look at the bottles in the windows of a
wine store. It Is one lon?, bitter, exhaustive,
hand-to-hand fight with an inflamed,
tantalizing and merciless habit. When he
thinks he is entirely free the old inclinations
pounoe upon him likea pack of hounds, with
their muzzles tearing; away at the flanks of
one poor reindeer. In Paris there is a sculptured
representation of Bacchus, the god of
reve.ry. He is riding on a panther at full
leap. Oh, how suggestive! Let every one
who la speeding on bad ways understand he
is not riding a docile and well broken steed,
but he is riding a monster, wild and bloodthirsty.
eoine at a death leaD.
How many there are who resolve on a better
life, anci say, "When shall I awake?" but,
seized on by their old habits, cry, "I will
try it once more. I will spek it yet again."
Tears asjo there were some Princeton students
who were skating, and the ice wa3
very thin, and some one warned the company
back from the air hole, and finally
warned them entirely to leave the place.
But one young man, with bravado, after all
the rest had stopped, cried out. "One round
more!" He swept around and went down,
and was brought out a corpse. My friends,
ttare are thousands and tens of thousands
I of men losing their souls in that way. It is
the "one round more."
If a man wants to return from evil practices,
society repulses him. Desiring to reform
he says, "Now I will shake off my old
associates and I will find Christian companionship."
And he appears at the church
door some Sabbath day and the usher greets
him with a look as much as to say, "Why,
you here! You are the last man 1 ever expected
to see at church! Come, take this
seat right down by the door," instead of saying,
"Good morning! I am glad you are
here. Come. I will srivavou a first-rate seat
right ud by the pulpit." Well, the prodigal,
not yet discouraged, enters a prayer meeting,
and some Christian man, with more zeal than
common sense, says, "Glad to see you; the
dying thief was saved and I suppose there is
mercy for you." The young man, disgusted,
ihilled. throws himself on his dignity, resolved
he will never enter the house of God
S again.
Perhaps not quite fully discouraged about
reformation, he sidles up by some highly respectable
man he used to know, coing down
the street, and immediately the respectable
man has an errand down some other street.
Well, the prodigal, wishing to return, takes
some member of a Christian association by
the hand, or tries to. The Christian young
man looks at him, looks at the faded apparel
and the marks of dissipation; instead of crivinc
him a warm grip of the hand, he offers
him the tip ends of the long fingers of the
ieft hand, which is equal to striking a man
<n the face. Oh! how few Christian people
anderstand how much force and gospel
there is in a good honest handshaking.
Sometimes, when you have felt the need of
encouragement, and some Christian man has
taken you heartily by the band, have you
not felt thrilling through every fibre of your
jodv. mind and soul sin encouragement that
iwas just wbat you needed? You do not know
anything at all about this unless you know
when a man tries to return from evil courses
ie runs against repulsions innumerable.
We say of some man, he lives a block or
two from the church, or half a mile from the
ahurch. There are people in our crowded
cities who Uveathousand miles from church.
Vast deseris of indifference betweem them
and the house of God. The fact is, we must
keep our respectability, though thousands
and tens of thousands perish. Christ sat
with publicans and sinners. But if there
comes to the house of God a man with marks
of dissipation upon him, the people almost
throw up their hands in horror, as much as
to say. "Isn't It shocking!" How these
dainty, fastidious Christians in all our
churches are going to get into heaven I don't
know, unless they have an especial train of
cars, cushioned and upholstered, each one a
car to himself. They cannot go with publicans
an 1 sinners.
Oh! ye who curl your lip of scorn at the
falleu, I tell your plainly, if you had been
surrounded by the same influences, instead
of sitting to-day amid the cultured, and the
refined and the Christian, you would have
been a crouching wretch, covered with filth
and abomination. It is not because you are
any better, but because the mercy of God hia
protected you. Who are you that, brought
up in Christian circles and watched by Christian
parentage, you should be so hard on the
fallen?
First of ^11, my brother, throw yourself on
God. Go to Him frankly and earnestly ami
tell Himthese habits you have, and ask Him
if there is anv heln in all the resources of
I omnipotent love to give it to you. Do not
go with a long rigmarole people call prayer,
made up of "ohs" and "ahs" and "forever
And ever, amens!" Go to God and cry for
help! help! help! and if you cannot 3ry for
help, just look and live.
1 remember in the late war, I was at
Antietam, and I went into the hospitals after
the battle and said to a man: "Where
are you hurt?" He made no answer, but
held up his arm, swollen and splintered. I
saw where he was hurt. The simple fact Is,
when a man has a wounded soul, all he ha;
to do is to hold it up before a sympathetic
Lord and get it healed. It does not take any
long prayer. Just hold up the wound. Oh,
it is no small thins when a man is nervous
and weak and exhausted, coming from his
evi! ways, to feel that God puts two omnipotent
arms around him and says: "Younjj
man, I will stand by you. The mountains
may depart, and the hilis bo removed, but I
will never fall you."
Rlassnd he fl-od for such a posnol as this.
I "Cut the slices thin," said the wife to the
husband, "or there will not bo enough to
so all around for the children; cut the slices
thin." Blessed be God there is a full loaf
foreverv one that wants it. Bread enough
and to spare. So thin slices at the Lord's
table. I remember when the Msister Street
Hospital in Philadelphia was opened during
the war, a telegram came saying, "There
will be three hundred wounded men to-night;
be ready to take care of them;" and from
my church there went in some twenty or
thirty men and women to look after these
poor wounded fellows. As they came, some
from one pyt of the land, some from another,
no one asked whether this man was
from Oregon, or from Massachusetts, or from
Minnesota, or from New York. There was a
wounded soldier, and the only question was
bow to take off the rags the most gently,
knd pat on the bandage, ana administer the
cordial. And when a soul comes to Ch*. Ha
does not ask where ycu came from, or what
your ancestry was. Healing for nil your
wounds. Pardon for all your guilt. Comfort
for all your trouble.1!.
Then, also, I counsel you if you want to
set back to quit all your bad associations.
One unholy intimacy"will All your soul with
moral distemper. In all the ages of the
church there has not been an instance whero
a man kept one evil associate and was reformed.
When a man deliberately chooses bad association
because he likes it, that man has
started on tho road down. Oh, I do not care
what you call it, that association will desEoil
your soul. After you are destroyed,
ody, mind and soul, what will they do for
vouV what will they do for your family? They
will not give on* cent to support yoar children
after you are dead. Tti^y will"not weep
one tear at your burial. They will chuckle
over your damnation.
T hnH a pfirn frienrl nfr W/?af TTo ttaq
full of welcome when I went there to live. I
Hh had splendid personal appearance. There
is not a grander looking person in this house
to-day than he was; and to this grand personal
appearance he added all geniality and
all kindness of soul?tender as a child,
a beautiful and loving nature, and I loved
him as a brother; but I saw evil people coming
up around him, evil men coming up
from bad places of amusement, and they
seized hold of his social and genial nature,
and they began to drag him down, and he
went further and further.
I used to say to him, "Now, why don't you
stop these bad habits and become a Christian?"
for I talked with him just as I would
talk with a brother, and he understood me,
and I understood him. I said, "Why don't
you give up these things and become a Christian?"
"Oh." he said to me one day, loaning
over his counter?just after I had assed
him for a hundred dollars to help educate a
young man for the ministry, and he had
given me the money before I had the story
half told?"if it will do the young man any
good, here is a hundred dollars." Right
alter mat conversation i. sum, -now, yvu
are a splendid fellow; why don't you give
up your bad habits and bo a Christian?"
"Oh," he said, as the tears ran down his
cheek?, "I can't. I should like to be a Christian.
You see, I have got these habits on me
so. sir. I cun't get rid of them. I have been
coins wrong longer than you would think
for, and I can't stop."
Sometimes, in the moments of repentance,
he would go to his home and embrace his
little girl of eight years convulsively to his
heart, and he would cover her with adornments
and strew toys and pictures all about
ner, aoa taon iruiu uot ucaumui jJimvuw?
the beautful presence of his little child?he
would go to the intoxicating cup, and to the
house of shame, as a fool to the correction
stocks; and there these bad men kept pushing
him on, a ship, full-winged, crashing
into tbe breakers.
I was called to his deathbed. I hastened,
and when I got into the room I was surprised
to find him in full everyday dress, lying
on the top of the couch. I put out my
hand and he greeted me very cordially. He
said: "Now, Mr. Talmage, sit down right
there." I sat down and he said: "Last
night, just where you sit now, I saw my
mother, though she has been dead twenty
years?yes, air; just where you sit now she
sat. I couldn't have been mistaken. I was
? ?I j- 1.? T ?? ?v,<? ;,,Q?
QO WIU?5 nwatvo an x am uwn, oun jui juji
where you ait. Wife, I wish you would take
these strings off that they are weaving
around me; I wish you would take them off;
they annoy me very mucn in this conversation."
I saw he was in delirium. His wife
said: "There is nothing there, my dear; there
i3 nothing there."
Then he resumed the conversation, and
said: "Yes, my mother sat just where you
sit now. I knew her. She had the same
spectacles, and the same cap and the same
apron, and the same dress. It must have
been her, just as she looked, twenty years
ago?she has been dead now twenty > ears.
And sitting there she said to me, 'Roswell, 1
wish you would do better;' and I got up out
of bed, and I knelt beside her and said,
Mother, I wish I could?I wish I could do
better; I would like to do better. Won't you
help me? You used to help me. Why can't
jjou help me now, mother?' But soon I
said. "Now we will pray." I knelt to pray.
He did not realize anything I said, I suppose.
Then I got up and said "Good-by!
irood-bv!" That aitrht he went to God.
Arrangements for the obsequies were beins?
made, and they said, "Ob. it won't do to
bring him to the onurch; tie has been so dissolute."
I said, "Bring him, bring him; he
stood by me when he was alive, and I'll
stand by him when he is dead. Bring him
into the 3hurch." The Sabbath came. As I
stood in the pulpit and saw his body coming
up the aisle, I felt as if I could weep tears of
blood. I stood there that day and I said,
':This man had his v.rtues, and a good many
of them; he had his faults, and a good many
of them; but let that man in this assembly
who is without sin cast the first stone on this
coffin lid." i
On the one side of the pulpit sat the beautiful
child, as radiant and sweet faced as any i
child that sat at your table this morning. I
She knew not the sorrows of an orphan I
child; she was not old enough to realize
them. Sometimes when I think of that awful
scene, her face haunts me like a beautiful
face through a horrid dream. On the other
side ot the pulpit sat the man who had destroyed
him. They had put the wormwood
and the gall into "that orphan's cup. They
pushed him off the precipice. I stood tnere
and told them that there was a God and a
judcment and a hell for those who destroyed
their fellows. Did they weep? Oh, no, not
ouetear. Did thev sigh repentingly? Not one
sigh. Did they say, "What a pity that we
destroyed him?" Oh, no. They sat and
gazed at the coffin as vultures at the carcass
of a lamb whose heart they had ripped out.
That night,though ray friend lay in Oakwood
Cemetery, I heard afterward that these men
went rifjht on with their iniquities, destroying
themselves and destroying others.
Gather up all the energies ot body, mind
and soul, and appealing to God for success,
declare this day everlasting war against all
drinking habits, all framing practices, all
houses of sin. Half-and-half work will
amount to nothing. It must be a Waterloo.
Shrink back now, and you are lost! Push
on, and you are saved! A Spartan General
fell at the very moment of victory, but he
dipped his finger in his blood and wrote on
a rock, near which he was dying. "Sparta
has conquered." Though your struggle to
get rid of sin may seem to be almost a death
struggle, you can dip your finger In
vour own blood and write on the Rock of
Ages "Victory through our Lord Jesus
Christ!"
Some one said to a Grecian General:
"What was the proudest moment of your
life?" He thought a moment, and said:
"The proudest moment of my life was when
I sent word home to my parents that I had
gained the victory." And the proudest and
most brilliant moment in your life will be
the moment when you can send word to
your parents in the country that you have
conquered your ovil habits by the grace of
God, and become eternal victor.
Oh! despise not paternal anxiety. The
time will come when you have neither
father nor mother, and you will go around
the place where they used to watch you, aud
find them gone from the house, and gone
from the field, and gone from the neighborhood.
Cry as loud for forgiveness as vou
may over the mound in the church yard they
will not answer. Dead! Dead! And then
you will take out the white lock of hair that
was cut from your mother's brow just before
they buried her, and you will take the
cane witn which your father used to walk,
and you will think and think, and wish that
you had done just as then wanted you to,
and would Rive the world if you had nover
thrust a pang through tlieir do.ir old hearts.
God pity the young man who has brought
disgrace on his father's name! God pity the
young man who has brokeu his mother's
heart! Bettor if he had never been born?
better if. in the first hour of his life, instead
of being laid again?t the warm bosom of maternal
tenderness, he bad been coffined and
sepulchred! There is no balai powerful
enough to heal the heart of one who has
brought parents to a sorrowful grave, and
who wanders about through th ; dismal cemeterv,
rendinsr the hair and wringing the
??.l nh
that to-lay, by all the memories of the prist,
and by all the hopes of the future, you
would yield your heart to God! May your
father's God ami your mother's God be
your God forever!
Carrier Pigeon Itegulntlons.
Fear of the treasonable use of carrier
pigeons in France led to the promulgation
of most stringent regulations. The Paris
Government's decree stipulates that every
person wishing to possess carrier pigeons
must obtain the authority of the Precept;
and every person receiving pigeons must,
within two days, make declaration to the
municipal authorities. The police oommisoarv
mnut alwn.v? he nrtiient whrtnthonlcr.
J eoos are freed. J
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THE NEWS EPITOMSZED1
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VTashlngrton Itemi.
The mystery surrounding the death of A.
H. Pile, Secretary of the National Committee
of the Silver partv, whoso body was c
found floating in the Potomac River near o
Washington, has not beeu solved. v
At the supreestion of Commandant Sicard, ?
of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, acting Secretary r
McAdoo appointed a court of inquiry to e
meet at the Navv Yard to investigate and re- v
port upon the accident to the dry dock. I(
The Italian Mlnistor applied to the State ii
Department for information concerning the C
lynching of three Italians in Louisiaua. r
An appeal to the United States Supreme 0
Court has been tnken in the Lincoln gold
bond Injunction case, in which William J.
Brvau, Democratic candidate for President,
is the principal plaintiff.
Jud^eSamuel Shellbarger. Member of Concress
for several terms, <?x-Mmister to Por* '
1 *r*nr\v v.?rtro ft nrnm inonf In re.
lUljlli nuu wi j
yer of Washington, i9 daad. He was born in
Ohio in 1817.
President Cleveland has pardoned John
Lyons, sentenced in Arizona to three and a
half years' imprisonment for robbing a postofflce.
Dijubt as to the prisoner's guilt led
to the President's action.
Postmaster-General Wilson has decided
not io take any part in the coming campaign.
He will sail for Europe on October
12, accompanied by bis wife, and will remain
for about two mouths.
Dome* tic.
BECOBD OF THE LEAGUE CLUBS.
Per Per
Cltibi. Won. Lout. ct. I Clubs. Won. I/ML ct.
Baltimore.63 28 .692 Brooklyn.42 50 .457
Oiueinnati65 30 ,684 Philadel. .41 50 .451
Cleveland 58 34 .030 New York40 54 .426
Chicago.. 57 40 .588 WTshint:'n35 55 .389
Pltt.?bure.52 41 .559 St. Louis.29 64 .312 "
Boston....50 42 .643 Louisville23 67 .256 *
Albert Bacon, at Sheffield, Mas9., shot and f<
killed a colored boy who had assaulted his o
little daughter, thus forestalling his neigh- v
bors, who were hunting the assaulter down, c1
Celia Rose, daughter of an Ohio farmer, E
confessed to poisoning her father, mother ?
and brother. a
At Columbus, Ohio, Miss Minnio Rhode ?(
committed suicide in the presence of her
fiance, J. \V. Fritz, an insurance agent. They '
had a misunderstanding, and she came to his r
office to talk it over. After exchanging a ^
few words, she produced a bottle containing ,(
carbolic acid and swallowed the contents. Q
Judge Wilborn, of the United States Circuit
Court, handed down, at Los Angeles,
Cal., au important decision bearing on the
relations o! the Government to the railroads, t
He decided that the land grant roads cannot
charge the Government full rates.
TTnhArt A MATxrfnn r.mfpcjcnr of mn.t'hA
maticsat Yale, died in New Havon, Conn.
An incendiary Are destroyed the dwelling '
house and buildings on Spring Hill farm, in e
Somerset, Mass., and caused a loss of $15,- q
000. The place is owned by William Perry _
Hood, President of the Somerset Foundry.
Ten cows, seventy-flve tons of hay, five
horses and about 175 chickens were burned.
It was the revenge of a discharged employe.
The Sonora portion of Nogales, Arizona,
was attacked by a party of sixty Yaqui Indians,
religious fanatics, A battle followed,
lasting four hours, during which seven Indians
were killed, one wounded, and one
taken prisoner. Four Mexicans were killed.
It has developed that Harry K. Brown, exchange
clerk of the Bullion and Exchange
Bank of Carson, Not., who left San Francisco,
Oal., suddenly aoout two months ago, is
a defaulter to the extent of nearly $75,000.
Ahftiif flffr inmotoa r\f fha Ullmlm V %
Reformatory attacked two keepers in a futile
attempt to escape.
Four workmen were suffocated by sulphmric
acid gas at the chemical works of
More I'failiips, in the outskirts of Camden,
N. J. The victims were Joseph Devlin,
James Mullen, An ire w Adler and George
Garrison. i '
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Mrs. Mary E. Lease, of Kansas, spoke to- a <
large audience, in Cooper Union, New York
City, on the silver question.
Mrs. Amelia Knoctig, of West Manchester,
N. H., forty-Ave years old, hanged herself.
She was despondent because of lack of work.
Her husband is in Germany.
Walter Price, aged twenty-one, a tinner,
and his brother Lawrence, aged twenty-five,
a clerk, fought at their home in St. Louis, (
Mo., about the favor of a young woman.
Walter struck Lawrence with his fist and c
killed him instantly. I
Secretary Herbert, of the Navy Depart- J
ment, made an address before the Naval ?
War College in Newport, R. I. 1
In two sessions of the Christian Alliance J
camp meeting at thfi camp grounds, Old
Orchard, Me.,$101.324 was raised for foreign
missions, and nearly 100 persons volunteered
their services as missionaries to be sent to j
foreign fields.
Miss Marion Burnham, aged fourteen
rears, daughter of William A. Burnham, of
Boston, was drowned in Lake Champlnin, (
near Westport, N. Y. Miss Maggie Moulder, j
i nurse, who accompanied the young lady,
and who went to her assistance, also E
irowned. t
Stanley White, the sovonteen-year-old son ?
Di John J. White, ol Jefferson avenue, Brook- '
frn ,1 ?,1 ~l.il,,, Knnflnnn I '
ryu, n uium uoh in iu uui uuauuu^ via
*ake Kiamisha, near Fallsbursr, N. Y., in
; Jain sight of nearly a hundred spectators v
?n the shore. A fool rooked his boat.
An Executive Committee of nine was ap- v
pointed at Indianapolis, Ind.. to aid in pushins
the campaign of the "National Demo- v
cratic party." W. D. Bynum, of Indiana, (
was elected Chairman. 0
Highwaymen held up and robbed a stago S
aear Port J ervis, N. Y.
Soldiers on duty at the Brown Works, in ^
Cleveland, Ohio, where a strike is in pro>?- J1
ress, revolted, and several were locked up in 0
the guardhouse awaiting court martial.
Citizens complain of outrages by the militiamen.
The floating grain elevator Ceres was sunk j
in New York Harbor by collision with the
Cunard Steamship Etruria, outward bound
for Liverpool.
Much excitement prevailed in the New b
York cotton market owing to a heavy drop t
in prices after there had been a big rise.
There was also a hmvy fall in railway securities.
n
Walter Scott, a Chicago business man, was g
instantly killed by lightning while riding ?
home on his bicycle. v
Walter L. Chamberlain, a business man ol e
Jacksonville, Fia., disguised himself and at- 3
tempted to rob a bank by threatening the t
cashier, A. S. Hubbard, with vitriol. Hub- j
bard shot and mortally wounded Chamberlain.
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New Jersey Gold Democrats held a meet- t
ing in Jersey City nnd took steps toward t
lorming un organization to take part-in the i
third ticket movement.
Several death.? have resulted from the excessive
heat in New York City and Brooklyn.
By the falling of a scaffold at Covington, t
Ohio. Emanuel Fox was killed and Hamer j
Maddox was futally injured.
Boyle, Hartley <fc Co., Philadelphia carpet i
dealers, have failed for about $250,000.
Rev. J. C. Hall, a prominent Methodist
preacher of St. Paul. Minn., was arrested on
the charge of poisoning his wife.
Trenton, N. J., has had a disastrous flre, <
which resulted in the death of two firemen,
severe injuries to several others and the de
pirucuuu ui um uitku |imui ui iuo neuiuu
Fire C!ay ami Porcelain Works.
Ex-Governor George T. Anthony died at f
Topeka, Itansns. Ho was born at Matfleld,
N. Y., in 1824, and was the seventh Governor ,
of Kansas. \
In a collision between Cleveland (Ohio) '
militiamen and strikers whc were stoning a i
house occupied by non-union men sQots
were exchanged, and Private Perkins received
an ugly bullet wound in the leg. ,
The American National Bank, of New
Orleans, has closed its doors.
Foreisn Note*. <
The Sultan ot Turkey has conferred the
Order of Nichau-i-Chefakat (second class) '
upcn Miss Clara Barton. 1
The British House of Commons rejected
some amendments to the Irish Land bill and
sent it back to the Lords. J
The Porte refused to make any concessions
to Crete bovond those extended to the Island '
people by the Halepa Convention. 1
Li Huug Chani? has accepted the invitation
of the Dominion Government to visit
Canada. I
It is reported from Mexico that a British
warship has seized Clarion, of the BevillaQigedo
group, as a coaling station.
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LI HUNG CHANG COMING.
China's Viceroy to Vlult the United State*
In September.
LI Hung Chang, the Viceroy of China, is
o visit America! The representative of the
ildest civilization in the world, the man
?ho, in fact, though not in name, is the real
overelgn of his kingdom, is to meet the repesontatlves
of the youngest civilization,
ach one a sororeigQ in his own right. Hf
rill come here in September from Eng.
und. He has been in France, in Germany,
n Russia. All the great Governments of th?
)ld World have put themselves in gala ar
ay to do him honor. They have vied with
ne another to astonish him by displaying
LI HUNO CHANO.
II possible evidences of their puissance, of
ielr potentialities" for defence and ofJnce.
This appeal to the admiration of the
id man has not been made merely through
anity. Li Hung Chang is a prospective
listomer of the most meritorious calibre,
[e is all powerful in China. *And as China
i anxious to renew its armaments of war so
s to put itself on an equality with the
ounger A at ions, ne is an odjbci 01 luisrcai
> the great manufacturers of guns and pro>
sctiles, to ship builders, to all dealers in exlosives
and other destructive agencies. It
s not every day that a country is honored
y such a wouid-be purchaser. Good reaan,
therefore, why we should put ourselves
n our mettle as other Nations have done.
ALABAMA'S NEW GOVERNOR.
ater Return* Swell the Majority of Jo*
seph F. Johnston.
With all the districts now officially heard
rom reports from Alabama give Joseph P.
ohnston, Democratic candidate for Govrnor,
a majority of more than 40,000 over
k>odwyn, the Populist-Republican fusion
JOSEPH T. JOHNSTON.
Just elected for .Governor of Alabama.)
andidate. The Legislature is also heavily
)emoeratie. The fusion ticket was weak in
he districts, as well as on State offices, and
he Republicans and Populists together will
>e able to count scarcely forty votes out ol
33 on a joint ballot. The fusionists charge
nat tney were -counteu uui.
THREE ITALIANS LYNCHED.
*oalsiaua Mob Hangs the Mea Together
and Then Riddles Their Bodies.
A mob of about fifty persons attacked the
Jounty Jail at Hahnville, La , and took out
hree Italians, accused of murdor. The
irisoners cried and begged for mercy, but
he crowd took them to a stable a short dis*
ance away, gave them two minutes in
Phich to pray, and then strung all three of
hem up by their necks to the rafters.
The lynchers stood around a few minutes
intii the bodies ceased to struggle and then
opened Are from their Winchester rifles on
he dangling forms, literally riddling them
vith bullets.
One of the men lynched, Lorenzo Saladlno,
ras known to have a grudge against Jule?
xueymand, who was killed while standing
in his front porch in Saint Charles Parish,
laladino was arrested.
The other two were brothers, Deceno and
tngelo Merceiso, who were confined in the
nil tor the murder of an aged Spaniard oo
me of the plantations.
RACE WAR COSTS LIVES.
.hree Colored Men tviuea ana many
Wounded by White Railroad Laborers.
The race war ia Polk County, Arkansas,
Las broken out in earnest, and as a result of
he first battle, three colored men are dead,
Ight wounded, and many have beon run out
if the county by the whites. The trouble
3 between white and colored laborers
imployed on the grading works of
he Kansas City, Pittsburg aud Gulf RaiU
ray, near Horation, Ark. The white labor;rs
are determined that the colored people
hall not work on the road, and are being
>acked up by citizens of the couuty, who
lave armed tnemselvos.
Thursday night a lot of whites, composed
ol Italian, Swede and Hungarian laborers,
ogether with a number of natives, made a
aid on a camp occupied by colored laborer?
vlth the results stated.
Four Drovrned in Lake Michigan.
At Benton Harbor, Mich., Frank Yerring
on, James Butrlck, W. M. Moneke and
Hartin Manning were drowned while bathing
n the lake. Yerrington's wife was bathing
vlth him.
Fatal Trolley Accident.
A fatal trolley accident occurred on the
Columbia and Donegal Electric Railroad
jne mlli outside of Columbia, Penn. A
:rowded car was returning from Chickies
Park when a gear wheel broke and the
:ar was thrown over a twenty-foot
ambankraent, fallincr into a creek*. Five
passengers were killed outright and two
score injured, many of them very seriously.
The dead are: Chief Burgess. H. 31.
Heiss, of Columbia; Adam Foehlingor,
mutorman, Columbia; James Ludlow, Sea
flirt, N. J.; Henry Smith, Columbia; William
Fiukerson, Columbia. Twenty-nine passengers
were seriously injureu.
Out of tiio Coimiion Kun, |
A borax combine is announced between I
Chicago and English companies.
Vincent Ray, a Chippewa Indian, who died
Jhe other day in Superior, Wis., lelt an estate
A $75,000.
The pan-American medical congress is to
ae hela in the City of Mexico on November
16 to 19 inclusive.
The French have proclaimed a state of
ilege in Madagascar in all districts occupied
jy the insurgents.
The fisheries of Canada yield annually
B20,000,000, of which one-half comes from
:ho deep fisheries.
Twj thousand Latter Day Saints missioniries
are sold to be on a orusade in England.
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FOUR-FIFTHS OF A COTTON CROP.
Government Report Shows Prospect* Have
Fallen 12 Points.
The August returns to the Statistician to
the Department of Agriculture show a reduction
in the condition of cotton during
the month of July from 92.5 to 80.1, or 12.4
points. The condition same time last year
was 77.9, which was the lowest average for
A.u?ujt ever given.
Thff averages of the States are: Virginia.
86; North Carolina, 93; South Carolina, 88;
Georgia, 92; Florida, 84; Alabama, 93; Mississippi,
78; Louisiana, 70; Texas, 69; Arkansas,
65; Tennessee. 89. Heavy rains in
July damaged the crop, especially on bottom
iands in Virginia, North and South Car*
olina. Florida and seme portions of Georgia
Over a large area in Georgia the crop is in
fine condition and promises a full yield, A
drought which extended over Alabama,
Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas
for several weeks produced more or less
damage, and in many counties complaints
are made of rapid shedding ar?d premature
ripening inn oioominsr ut the top. borne
counties in Mississippi and Arkansas report
the crop as irreparably damaged from
xrougni anu excessive near.
Some counties in Texas report the crop In
good condition, fruiting well, and promising
an average yield. But over the dronzhtjtricken
district where rain has tallen it has
jome too late to be ot benefit. The continued
drought and hot, dry winds have done considerable
damage in some counties. There'
is complaint or too much dry weather in
Tennessee. Otherwise the crop is doing
"airly well.
The crop over almost the entire cotton
5elt is maturing rapidly and is earlier than
'or many years, partly from early planting
ind partly from premature ripening.
REPORT ON CEREALS AND POTATOES.
Agriculture Department Notes Improve'
ment in Corn Only.
The report of the Statistician for the Department
of Agriculture for August indicates
au improvement in the condition of corn
over that reported last month of 4.4 points,
or from 92.4 to 96. The average of the prinjipai
States are: Ohio, 105; Kentuoky, 102;
Indiana. 105; Illinois, 106; Iowa, 103; Missouri,
85; Kansas, 109; Nebraska. 108.
Condition of spring wheat has fallen since
Inly report from 93.3 to 78.9. a decline of
14.4 points. The conditions by States are as
follows: Michigan. 83; Illinois, 83: Wisconsin,
32; Minnesota, 80; Iowa, 84: Kansas, 55; Nejraska,
55; South Dakota, 89; North Dakota,
10; Washington, 90: Oregon, 90; California,
109.
Condition of oats has fallen slnco last report
19 points, or from 95.8 to 77.3.
Spring rye condition is 88, against 98.6 in
July.
Barlev has fallen from 88.1 in July to 82.9
tor August. ?
The average of buckwheat la given as 99.5
per cent, of last year's area. Conditions of
tame, 96.
Condition of Irish potatoes 94.8, against
>9 in July.
Condition of tobacco, 86.5, against 91.5
Tuly 1.
Beports on the European grain crops are
tenerally favorable, 'i'he wheat crop protn368
to be up to the average. Forage crops
vlll be short in Great Britain if drought coninues.
GERMAN SILVERITES.
Cher Show Kenewed Activity and Will
Take a Cenaaa Id the Reichitag.
Several SDeoial disDatchea from different
>oints In Germany show that the bimetallists
here are about to begin an active moveannt
They intend to take a census on the sub*
ect in the Reichstag. Emperor William's
ecent study of the financial question has
iau3ed most of the activity.
The Imperial Chancellor, Van Hohenlohe,
md the other high officials express a destre
o reopen negotiations with England next
pripg. But the strong views of Sir Michael
licks-Beach, the English Chancellor of the
Exchequer, and the apathy of even Mr. Balour
when bimetallism becomes a question
if public policy, shows that the German upiroachea
stand a smy.ll chance of success.
BOLT KILLS HER LOVES.
The T.ady Was Sitting by His Side, Bnt
Was Uninjured by the Lightning.
Dr. W. L. Pressey, of Bangor, Me., was intanlly
killed by lightning while sitting on a
rerandah with his arm around his fiancee's
vaist. The accident occurred at the summer
:ottage of Dr. Pressey's family at a picturiami
a hnt mHrflrl snot near Isleshoro. on the
ilaine coast.
Miss Brown, the dead physician's sweotleart,
lived in Eoston and has been spendng
a part of the summer in Maine. The
:ouple were sitting on a verandah of the
lottage watching the tremendous thunder
[term which swept over a part of the coast,
vhen a bolt of lightning struck the cottage
ind killed him instantly.
Miss Brown was uninjured by the lightling,
but was prostrated by the shook to her
lervous .system.
Bryan'* Itinerary.
The second dav of the Bryan trip to New
fork closed with the candidate's arrival in
Chicago, where he received a noisy recepion.
Greetings all along the route from
)es Moines, Iowa, elicited many speeches
torn Mr, Bryan. When Chicago was reached
tfr. Bryan addressed twelve thousand perions
from the veranda of the Clifton House,
eiteratlng his silver views. Great enthusiism
was manifested. The next day, Sunday,
Candidate Bryan received many callers in
Chicago, attended church at Engiewood and
eft for the East at 11.30 p. m.
Good View of the Eclipie.
Miss Mary Proctor, of New York, daughter
jf the late Professor Richard A. Proctor, the
veil-known astronomer, telegraphed from
Prnn/ih?lm Nnrwav. that a fine view was
lad ot the total eollpse of the sun from the
ieck of the American line steamer Ohio,
which wwi then off the island of Stot, Norway.
The sky was absolutely olourlless and
:he atmosphere clear. The duration of the
?clipse wa3 one minute and thirty-five secmds.
A Bold Charge of Treachery.
The Executive Committee of McKlnley
League of New York sent a long letter to
Mark Hanna charging Thomas C. Piatt and
Fred S. Gibbs with plotting treachery to the
.National ticket in the interest of the State
machine.
Lasker the Chess Champion.
Lasker, by winning his game with Tarrasch.
clinched his hold on first place and
the world's choss championship in the
Nuremberg (Germany) tournament.
Boat Overturn* anil Five Drown.
Five persons were drowned in the Delaware
River, near Bridesburg. a suburb of
Philadelphia, by the overturning of n rowboat
during a i;a';e. The victims are: Rose
Breinen^er, Rosie Breiuens?er. Amelia Hoiman,
Charles Minnick, Cincinnati, visitins?
friend? in Bridesburg; Jolin Treusler. With
the exception of Miuniek, the dead were
residents of Philadelphia.
Dlil Not See the Eclippe.
observations of the totai eclipse of
the miii made in Europe were not satisfactory
owing to cloudy weather
Uaomfflg Burnt Larnli.
A Duluth railroad line which is booming
the town of Matchwood oilers forty acres of
land near there to each family that will
clear and cultivate such a plot, besides half
rates to go and examine the place. The land
has recently been burned over, and the clearing
is rather nasty and yields no protltablo
lumber.
An original rtncn,
There is a mysterious individual operating
In Phoenix, Arizania, known aa "Jack the
Slitter,'' who slits the ears of helpleas Intoxicated
men whom ha flcda waofiacLmi
around.
W'?
HORRORS OF THE HEAT.
People Died as If a Plague Was Sweeping
the Land.
All records of deaths from heat were
broken in New York City on the eighth day
of the hot spell. The list of those who in
that day gave up the struggle with life because
of the high temperature was 122. In
Brooklyn twenty-one were reported; in
Jersey City, N. J., and Its environs eighteen
died.
The sun killed nearly one hundred persons
in New York City and laid low 350 more by
heat prostration and thermic fever. The
dead bodies of the stricken ones lay without
care for hours, and when the overworked
Coroners' physicians arrived to grant the re
movai permit tney were a menace to noaitn.
The hospitals were taxed to thoir fullest caEacity
to care for the sick and dying. Cabs,
uckster wagons and push cart3 were
converted into temporary ambulances
to meet the needs of the hour. Bodies
of dead horses were strewn in every I
block, where they were left for hours
before the vans arrived to remove them.
Three days of the hot term elapsed before
men began to die. In Ave days over 300 died.
The hospitals have saved thousands who
were stricken.
New fork City was not alone in Its suffering.
Men died at Long Branch and at Bath
Beach, at Coney Island, and the lists of dead
in Jersey City. Staten Island and Brooklyn
were appallingly long. When men die at
the seashore from the effects of the weather
It is little wonder that Coroners are overworked.
jsvery city in tne country sunereairom mo
intense heat. Boston's official temperature
was not above ninety degrees, yet the weakening
effects of the two previous scorchers
has shown itself in a larger mortality list
than on any day of the year. The dead
number ten. The possibly fatal cases are as
many more, while the number of prostrations
are hard to estimate, but will run well
toward fifty.
From all over New England the same story
of intense heat comes. The Waltham (Mass.)
mfin in tViA Rnflton
Subway were forced to stop work. The letter
carriers iu Mllford could not deliver the
noon mail, for the mercury touched ninetyeight.
At Marlboro, Mas3.. ten horses in th?
water works basin died from effects of the
heat.
The excessive heat at Terre Haute, Ind.,
caused a number of prostrations. For the
fifth day the 100 mark was reached.
Mr. J. G-. Joyce, joint olerk of the Norfolk
and Western Railroad and Bay Line Steamship
Company, died at his desk in the Bay
Line office In Norfolk. Va., overcome by
,heat. William C. Cosgrove, of the United
8tates Navy, fell in the navy yard at Norfolk,
Va., while proceeding aboard the
Maine, and died in a halt hour.
I The temperature in New Haven, Conn.,
was ninety-three degrees and three deaths
resulting from prostration by the heat and
sunstroke ocourred.
Three deaths from the heat were reported
at Philadelphia. The thermometer reached
ninety-eight degrees.
The heat at Montreal, Canada, was intense,
and business was almost wholly suspended
In consequence.
ANDREE'S BALLOON SICHTED.
It Was About a Thousand Mile* North*
west of Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Indian Superintendent Yowell, of British
Columbia, wired the Dominion Government |
that creditable information had been re- 1
ceived from two Indian parties, separated '
by a considerable distance at the time of observation,
that the Andree balloon had been
sighted in latitude 55.15 N.. longitude 127.10 j
W., pursuing a nearly northerly course.
Dr. S. A. Andree Is the chief engineer in
the Boyal Swedish Patent Department, who
conceived the project of reaching the North
Pole by balloon. Accompanied by Nils
Ekstrom. Andree started from Spitsbergen
some time in June. On
July 1 a balloon passed westward
over Winntoeg. Manitoba, at a great height, f
and it was" presumed that it was Andree's.
The point at which the Ottawa despatch reports
it as bavin? been seen is about 1000
miles northwest of Winnipeg.
' < Death in a Fire Trap.
A disaster, appalling in every detail, was
the burning of the six-story building at No.
465 Greenwich street, New York City, which (
caught fire at a time when every floor was i
crowded with workers. Beginning at the
basement, the flames swept swiftlv upward,
overtaking many in their flight to the
escapes. Of these three lost their lives, and
nine or ten others were seriously, if not
mortally, injured. The dead are: William
Gray, thirty-five years old, Superintendent,
succumbed in a heroio effort to save the
lives of his subordinates; Phoenix Hass,
seventeen years old, jumped from second
storv and fractured his spine; J. Muller,
thirty-three years old, found beside that of
Gray, <?n fifth floor.
Michigan Visited by Destructive Winds,
Four distinct storms visited Michigan during
twenty-four hours and they carried widespread
destruction of property and a large
loss of life in their wake. In the Detroit River
four people are known to have been drowned.
The yacht Corsair capsized off Belle Isle and
One of the crew was drowned. A boat
containing throe people was swamped by the
high waves off Wind Mill Point, and only j
one of them escaped. At Benton Harbor j
four men were drowned while attempting to
swim ashore, and all along the east coast
line are reports of casualties on the water,
and the number of deaths will no doubt exceed
twenty. The property damaged by the
four storms will be over $250,000.
Bryan In New York Citv.
W. J. Bryan, Mrs. Bryan and the party
which accompanied them from the West, arrived
at Jerse" City over the Pennsylvania
Railroad on ? evening before the notification.
The Democratic candidate for President
was warmly greeted by a crowd in the
station. After making their way to the
ferryboat, hard pressed by the crowds which
surrounded them, Mr. Bryan and his friends
were oonveyed across the river to Desbrosses
street. New York City. Here carriages were
in waiting, and the party were driven to the
home of W. P. St. John, Treasurer of the
National Committee. Mr. Bryan was cheered
by people in front of the house, but declined
to make a speech.
New York City liank Shut.
The Murray Hill bank, a Stute bank in
New York City, was closed by the State Superintendent
ot Banking, F. D. Kllburn.
There is little prospect that the bank will resume
business. Bad loans had cut dow n the
surplus and slow investments made the
prospects of gettiDg in cash remote.
Had Hiccoughs Six Days and D^ed.
Alfred B. Potter, a prominent citizen of
Fairport, N. Y., died from hiccoughs. Four
physicians had been in constant attendance
lor six days but were unable to relieve him.
Silver Talk Close* a Bank.
The Security Bani?, 01 jjuium, minn.,
failed to open its floors and Is now in the
hands oi the State Banlt Examiner. The unexpected
withdrawals of deposits, believed
to have been p red pita ied by the free silver
sentiment in Duluth and the fear that sold
would command it premium, are given as
the cause. The d?oosits are approximately
half a million dollars
Bli; Contract for Brick.
A brick concern in Epping, N. II., recently
received an order for 4G,0i}0,000 brick from j
a Boston :irm, the contract to be finished in
three years.
Absolute Anarchy l'revalls tu Crete.
It is stated that the r -volutionary assembly
which has been established in Crete, under
the Presidency of Gerokostaros, now
ninety-two years old, will issue a proclamation
shortly, which will be a signal for a
general uprising in the Island of Crete. A
state of absolute anarchy now prevails in the
district of Leraklion, where the Mussulmans
have burned four m::r) villages.
Saw lli* >oni} IJiovvii.
George and Isaac Ferguson, aged ten and
eight years respectively, wre drowned while
wading in Swift Wallkill River, Middletown,
N. Y. Their father was unable to swim and
saw both of them dro waBd.
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TEMPERANCE.
JACK SPBAT.
Jack Sprat was very fat,
His wife wan very lean,
Aud not a bone for pussy cat
Was ever to be seen.
Jack Sprat bad got no hat,
His wife had got no money,
Aud not a single little Sprat
Had ever tasted honey.
But Jack Sprat soon altered that,
And gave up being beery;
Then Mrs. Sprat got wull and fat,
And looked so bright and oheery*
Then Jack sat with Mrs. Sprat
Within their pew on Sunday,
And little feet went pit-a-pat
To school upon the Monday.
?Youth s Temperance Banner.
LET THE BAB-B00&I3 A.5SWEB.
Under this caption, the Patriot Phalanx
Jays:
We do not wish to assail the bar-rooms unjustly.
We would not make an unfair charge
against them. We want to give them credit
tor all the erood thev do. We will Draiaethem
tor all the benefit they confer upon society.
A3 we are totally uniformed concerning
the blessings the - saloon gives to the world,
tve must make a few inquires, and we beg
the bar-rooms to come forward with an hoa
eat answer. "
How has the saloon helped civilization?
What has the bar-room done to protect
the households and homes of our people?
When and how has it shielded our daughters?
What has it done to ennoble our sons?
What has tho dramshop done to promote
social order?
When has the saloon posed as the upholder
of the laws of the State?
Hew has the publlo drinking place added
to the activity of legitimate trade?
When did the liquor traffic ever defend the
weak against the strong?
What aid has the saloon given in building
ap the grocery or drygooda or furniture
rtore?
How has the bar-room helped the laborer
to obtain a competence? , A iaS
What useful purpose has the whisky busl- y
ness served in promoting public enterprises?Does
it help to establish mills? or to opea .: JS
mines.'' or to bulla factories? .
k Does tho saloon crown man with honor? V,
Does it send solace to sorrowing hearts?
Has It promoted woman's happiness?
Has it scattered dowers in childhood's
path?
Does it put food in the workingman's cupboard?
Has it ever filled a mother's soul with.
holier hope for her son's future?
Has it ever lifted a shadow from the heart
of a wife or sister?
Does the bar-room lndace the study of the
Bible, attendance at Sunday-school, or sympathy
with the church?
Does It teach a high code of morals?
Is it an insplrition to noble deeds?
Does it repress evil passions?
Does it cultivate the best tendencies of the
human heart?
Does it make its patrons purer and bet*
ter? v
Has the saloon introduced cleaner methods
Into politics?
Has it made candidates less corruptible?
Has it put purity, and patriotism, and
principle into the hearts of voters?
Dnftd it- molrfl {fa nntmna wnrfMar nf nnH.
Uc trusts?
Does It create a?truer and more efficient
class of public servants?
Does it help legislators to enact better
laws?
Does it cause courts and juries to act more
justly and impartially? *
Does it make oar lives and property mora
secure?
Does it lessen the population of the prisons,
poorhouses and insane asylums?
Who can tell us of just one heaven-approved
deed done by the dram shop?
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A WOMAN 8 MOAK. .
Hear the despairing cry that one of the
women of San Francisco addressed to the,
editor of the Examiner: 4
"Liquor keeps *s where we are. The gin
holes, curse them! Their keepers, God for-i
give. Tne laws which make them possible,}
curse them! curse them!! curse them!!! Be- form
us? How, when rum makes three
Bvflrv wflfllrV RAfnrm 11a? Hrtfnnr vnnr
laws! How I laugh?laugh with a despairing
shriek at the attempts of some kindhearted
and well-meaning people to reform,
as without reforming and informing themselves!
Reform, when the greatest enemy to
moral reform is standing open day and
night in thousands ol places in San Francisco?
What colossal nonsense! The law
smiles and Christian law-makers wonder.
Heaven is impoverished; hell is enriched.
My hot head is against the window pane;
my aching heart is bursting."
TO BECLAIM DRUNKARDS.
The League of Love, a branch of the
Salvation Army, will put into operation in
New York City a new plan for saving of
drunkards. It is proposed to patrol certain
parts of the city at night with ambulances
driven by a Salvation Army lassie. There
will be two members of the army besides the
driver in eaoh ambulance and whenever
drunken men and women are found on thu
streets they will be bundled into the
ambulance and taken to the Salvation Army
Shelter, where they will be allowed to sober
up. Of course, no one will be restrained and
taken against their will. The patients will,
li they wish, be allowed to pay lor tneir
lodging and breakfast after they have become
sober.
The ambulances will be painted red and
and white and drawn by white horses.
I 8A.VE THE CHILDREN.
The Journal of Hygiene publishes a suggestive
article entitled "The Greater Temperance,"
bv Charles H. Shepard, M. D., In
which he says: "Judging from the past experience,
there seems but little hope for the
adult inebriate, but we may at least save
some of the vounger generation." He adds:
"When children shall have been taught and
thoroughly indoctrinated with the right
principles on the subject there will be a regenerated
mankind.' Doctor Shepard thus
Indicates what should impress more fully the
friends of temperance everywhere, the fundamental
importance of juvenile temperance
work.
NEVER TJSEFCTj.
Doctor Frank Hamilton, one of the moat
competent army surgeons in his day, once
said: "In my own mind the conviction is
fully established by experience and observation
that the regular use of alcoholic stimulants
by man in health is never useful.. I
make no exception in favor of cold or heat
or exposure and fatigue, nor in favor of old
drinkers, when considered as soldiers."
THE DOWNWARD START.
Raid Mrs. Lake in one of her late lectures:
"Every man starts out to be a moderate
driftkajc, 'a man anions: men,' as he puts it.
He enters-i?2.the social custom of drinking.
He takes it oncls twice, thrice. Gradually
he creates an appetite and he awakens to
find that he has a tersibia^burning thirst
which even drink itself can noFS&Uafy."
TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES.
Fill man with whisky and he can give the
pig points.
It is only those who are in the power of
rum that cannot see its harm.
The man who has not decided that he will
never drink, has more than half decided
that he will drink.
The Indians of Eastern Washington are
iai.l to have taken steDs to Drevent the sale
of liquor anions them by unprincipled white
mcu.
According to the National Temperance Almanac
there are eighty-flve papers published
in this country that are devoted to the temperance
cause.
Doctor Norman Kerr warns medical practitioners
against employing alcohol or auti-.
pyrin in the treatment of influenza.
Why is it that a town, when giving a
"writeup" of its industries, never boasts of
the number of its saloons and the genial
laloon keeper?
The notion prevails among a great numbee
of otherwise sensible people that alcohol in
the form of wine and whisky is a "cure-alL"
And this despite the testimony of the agea
11 1 ' - - L 1 ? i-i .1 ,\l monfnl
mat aicouoi m nay lurm is uouilu?ui.u ?<
the health of the body, 30 much so that it
may <rell be termed a "kill-all."
Ball Temai Stallion.
A Peru (Ind.) man is out about $1000, tlM
, value of a stallion and a bull, whloh fought
I to the death on his farm. The ball died first*
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