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'mftkiD^proKresT'l^l HSS^Bireat Britain. Facilities for incinera SHition have now been provided at Man* SBKBchester and Glasgow, as well a? at Hg^WVoking, ond every rear the number of bodies disposed of by that process is increasing. There is a Boston church where the contribution bos has a small bell conW' cealed in it, which rings only when a deposit is made. The collection is taken during the sermon, and the stingy churchgoers are thus easily deI [ The Shah of Persia is going to semi an embassy extraordinary to visit successively St. Petersburg, Vienna, Ber lin,Paris ami London. Xaseeret Moult, son of the former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the late Shah, will be at the i head of it. He is said to be an intelligent man, quite familiar with Euro' pe&n affairs. . Cre#M nod Increase. An elephant wears more creases to his trousers than any other animal. They seem to be sort of a kilt pleat with a bias slope. He is not very fashionable, but is up to date In taking care of himself. Some sudden. Ml violent pains crease, twist or contract the muscles or tendons, and this is the nature of a bad sprain. If neglected, the creases inH crease, and so does the pain, until sometimes it is very difficult to stratfcbten them our, W but by the prompt use of St. Jacobs Oil, the > B friction or rubbing in its application aud the p curative qualities of the oil will smooth out I r the worst twist or crea.e and get the muscle i in natural chann where it will remain, re- ! Btored. strengthened, cured. Promptness in using it insures prompt cure, and when the sprain is cured, it is cured for good. There is said to have been very much less enow in Maine at the beginning of March than ever before at that season in forty-five years. . ^ '.) N'o-To-Bac for Fifty Cents. Over 400,000 cureJ. Why not let No-To-Bac SB regulate or remove your desire for tobacco? Saves money, makes health and manhood. Cure guaranteed. 50 cents and $L00. at all m druggists. ? Horses have been offered at Oxford, Me., I lately in open market at "$5 and take your pick." i Deafness Cannot bo Cured l UIAMI nM..1tAAtiAne oa rAlf.n thfl diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inI flamed condition cf the raucous lining of the i Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets In. i J flamed you have a ruinbJing sound or imper/ feet hearing, and when it is entirely closed ! ( Deafness is the result, and unless the inflam matioa can be taken out and this tube rei etored toi.s normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever. Nine cases out of ten are caused by catarrh. which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollnrs for any case of De'ifness (caused by catarrh) that can. not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. j Sold by Druggists, 75c. i Hall's Family Pills ore the bfat. Mrs. Winslow's Southing Syrup for children AAthinc* enftpns thft rams, rednces inflamma- 1 tion, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c.a bottle cascaiiets stimulate liver, kidneys and bowels. Never sicken, weaken or gripe; 10c. FITSstopped freeand permanentlycured* No fits after first day's use of dr. kline's great nekve restored. FreeS2trialbottleandtreatise. Send to Dr. Kline. 931 Arch St., Phila.,Pa I I can recommend Piso's Cure for Consumption to sufferers from Asthma.?e. d. town8end, Ft. Howard, Wis., May i 1894. when bilious or costive, eat a Cascaret, candy cathartic: cure guaranteed; 10c., 25c. If afflicted with soreeyesuseDr. Isaac Thompeon'sEye-water. Druggists sell at 25c.per bottle. Sit. Vitus' Dance. One bottle Dr. Fenner's Specific cures. Circular, Fredonia, N. Y. 'just try a 10c. box of Cascarats, the finest i liver and bowel regulator ever made. Almost Blind j Was my little girl, owing to scrofula trouble. She was treated by physicians and sent to a \ hospital without being cured. We resorted to j Hood's Sarsaparilla, and in a week we could | eee a change. We continued giving her this I medicine, and to-day her eyes are perfectly well; there is not a blemish on her skin, and. she is the picture of health." B. C. Ai.T.r.y, j 221 West 01st Street. New York, N. Y. Hood's Sarsaparilla j Is sold by all druggists. Price $1. six for $5. d:iu are prompt, efficient and IIUUU J rllia easy in effect, cents. Dad way's i ft Pills Always Reliable Purely Vegetable Perfectly tasteless, elepantly coated, regulate, purify,cleanse and strengthen. RADWAY'S PILLS I lor the cure of all disorders of the Stomach, Bowels, t Kidneys, Bladder, Nervous Diseases, Dizziness, Vertigo, Costiveaess, Hies, SICK HEADACHE, FEMALE COMPLAINTS, BILIOUSNESS, 1 INDIGESTION, DYSPEPSIA, LuuiN oxir axiuw i and all Disorders of the Liver. ( Observe the following symptoms, resulting from ' diseases of the digestive organs: Constipation, In- 1 ward piles, fullness of bloou in the head, acidity of | the stomach, nausea, heartburn, disgust of food, i fullness of weight of the stomach, sour eructations, linkup or fluttering of the heart, choking or suflo- : eating sensations -when in a lying posture, dunnesa i of vision, dots or webs before the sight, fever and rdall pain in the head, denciency of perspiration, . yellowness of tho fckin and eyes, pam in the side, chest, limbs, and sudden flushes of heat, burning In the flesh. A few doses of RADWAY'S PILLS will free the system of all the above-named disorders. Price 2oc. a Box. Sold by Draggbto, or sent by mull. RADWAY & CO.. Elm Street. New York. $ I .OO A YEAR 5K accident insurance policy. Big inducements to gents. U. S. Rkgistkt Co.. 166 5th Ave., Hew York. AC1EXTS wanted. Hepburn k Co.. Plainfle?d. N. J. Fvn^^x fpfiMiim , iff y" and health making < are deluded ' XlllSHy niaking of HIRES >\\'$%/ Rootbeer. The prepa\<:y ration of this great temperance drink is an event J? ^'importance in a million wrajj well regulated homes. I HIRES fmjk Rootbeer ifU'i II! i&? *s S00<1 health. L |b'v i Invigorating, appetizHI Wll'i? ^nS> satisfying. Put jj!!.;.;!1 |g{! some up to-day and : .j,{ Ji'i have it ready to put :J down whenever you're r um thirsty. I Made only by The Charles E. Hires Co., . fi^?i Philadelphia. A packgljtf 'We age makes 5 gallons. Sold everywhere. REV. DR. TALMAGE SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: "Our Debt to the Greeks." Text: "I am debtor both to the Greeks and to tbe barbarians."?Romans i., 14. At this time, when that behemoth of abominations. Mohammedanism, after hiving ported itself on the carcasses of 100,000 Armenians, is trvini? to put its paws upon one of the fairest of all nations, that of the li.-eeks, 1 preach this sermon of sympathy and protest, for every intelligent perbon on this side, like Paul, who wrote the text, is debtor to the Greeks. The present crisis is emphasized by tbe cruns of the Allied Powers of Europe, ready to be unlimbered against Hellenes, and I am asked to soeak out. Paul, with a master intellect of the ages, sat in brilliant Corinth, the went AcroCorinthus fortress frowning from the height of 16S6 feet, and in the house of Gaius, where he was a guest, a big pile of money near him, which he was taking to Jerusalem for the poor. In this letter to the Romans, which Chrysostom admired so much that he had it read to him twict a week. Paul practically says: "I, the apostle, am bankrupt. I owe what I cannot pav, but I will pay as large a percentage as I can. It is an obligation for what Greek literature and Greek sculpture and Greek architecture and Greek prowess have done for me. 1 will pay all I can in installments of evangelism. 1 am insolvent to the Greeks." Hellas, as the inhabitants call it,or Greece, as we call it, is insignificant in size, about a third as large as the State of New York, but what it lacks in breadtti it makes up in height, with its mountains Cylene and Eta and Taygetus and Tymphrestus, sach over 7000 feet in elevation, and Its Parnassus, over 8000. Just the lountry for mighty men to be born in, for in all lands the most of the intellectual and moral giants' were not born on the plain, t>ut had for cradle the valley between two mountains. That country, nc part of which Is more than forty miles from the sea, has Jiiiue us rniproa upvu IUO ?vnu ao uv w.uui aation, nn<i it to-dav holds a first mortcasje 1 Df obligation upon all civilized people. J IVhile we must leave to statesmanship and ' liplomacy the settlement of the intricate J questions whjch now involve all Eurbpe and ' indirectly at! nations, it is time for all the 1 jhurches, all schools, all universities, all I irts. all literatures, to sound out in the aost emphatic way the declaration, "I am ' Jebtor to the Greeks." In the first place, we owe to their lan^uase ' ?ur New Testament. All of it was first writ- ' ten in Greet, except the book of Matthew, indthat, written in the Aramcean lannuasre, R-as soon put into Greek by our * Saviour's J brother James. To the Greek language we j jwe the best sermon ever preached, the best letters ever written, the best visions ever iindled. All ttte parables in Greek. All the 1 nirucles in Greek. The sermon on the nount in Greek. The story of Bethlehem, wd Golgotha. and Olivet, and Jordan banks, md Galilean beaches, and Pauline embarkation, and Pentecostal tongues, and seven trumpets that sounded over Patmos, have some to the world in liquid, symmetric, picturesque, philosophic, unrivaled Greek, nstead of the gibberish language in which nany of the nations of the earth at hat time jabbered. Who can forget ,t, and who can exaggerate its thrilling importance, that Christ and heaven ivere introduced to us in the language >f the Greeks, the language in which Homer )ad sung, and Sophocles dramatized, PlotrtHiQlAmiO'? on/1 SnnrnfparlictfVmrcAri ind Lycurgus legislated, and Demosthenes :hundered his oration on "The CrownV" Everlasting thanks to God that the waters ol ife were not handed to the world in the unwashed cup of corrupt languages from which lations had been drinking, but in the clean, jright, golden lipped, emerald handled :halice of the Hellenes. Learned Curtius wrote a whole volume about the Greek verb. Philologists century after century have been neasuring the symmetry of that language, aden with elegy and philippic drama and :omedy, "Odyssey" and "Iliad," but the ^auvtcsi luiu^ kuuii uicoa o?oi ov:omplished was to give to the world the benediction, the comfort, the irradiation, he salvation, of the gospel of the Son of 3od. For that we are debtors to the Greeks. from the Greeks the world learned how to nake history. Had there been no Herodotus md Thucydides there would have been no klacaulay or Bancroft. Had there been no 5ophocles in tragedy there would have been 10 Shakespeare. Had there been no Homer, here would have bsen no Milton. The modsrn wit?, who are now or have been out on he divine mission of making the world augb at the right time, can be traced back :o Aristophanes, the Athenian, aDd many of V? a I A/ina f Vi n f ova n /-v ttt f o l*on O a nonr V* a /-I 1 i?v> iuqi aio u<j r* innou <u uon uau ? ? heir suggestions 2300 years ago in the flfty'our comedies of that master of merriment, jrecian mythology has been the richest nine from which orators and essayists lave drawn their illustrations and paint>rs the themes for their canvas, and, alhough now an exhausted mine, Grecian nythology has done a work that notbng else could have accomplished. Boeas, representing the north wind; Sisy>hus. rolling the stone up the hill, only o have the sami thing to do over again; Cantalus, with fruits above him that he :ould not reach; Achilles*with his arrows; icarus, with his waxen wings, flying too lear the sun; the Centaurs, half-man and ialf-be:ist: Orpheus, with his lyre; Atlas, vith the world on his back?all these and nore have helped literature, from the gradlate's speech on commencement day to Ruus Choate's eulogium on Daniel Webster at Dartmouth. Tragedy nnd comedy were )orn in the festivals of Dionysius at Athens. Hie lyric and elegiac and euic poetry of Greece 500 years before Christ has its echoes n the Tennysons. Lonnfellows and Bryants of i860 and 1900 years after Christ. There is sot au effective pulpit or editorial chnir or professor's room or cultured parlor or icteligent farmhouse to-day in America or 2urope that could not appropriately employ Paul s ejaculation and saw "I am debtor to he Greek?." The lact is this?Paul bad got much of his oratorical power of expression from the 3reefcs. That he had stuaied their literature urns evident when, standing in the presence 3f an audience of Greet s3holars on Mars' lill, which overlooks Athens, he dared to juote from oue ofiheir own Greek poets. ;ither Cii-anthus or Aratus, declaring, "As wrtain also of your own poets have said. For we are also his ofTspring.'" And he nade accurate quotation, Cleanthus, one of he poets, having written: For we thine offspring are. All things that croep fcre but the echo of the voice divine. And Aratus, one of their own poets, had written: Doth cape perplex? Is lowering danger nigh? We are his offspring, and to Jove we fly. It was rather a risky thing for Paul to attempt to quote extemporaneously from a poem in a language foreign to his and before Greek ssholars, but Paul did it without stammering and then acknowledged before he most distinguished audience on the jlanet his indebtedness to the Greeks, cryng out in his oration, l,As one of your own poets has said." Furthermore, all the civilized world, like Paul, is iudebte 1 to the Gre-ks for architecure. The world before the time of the Greeks had built monoliths, obelisks, cromlicbs, sphinxes and pyramids, but they were nostly monumental, to the d-ad whom th -y ailed to memor.alize. We are not certaiu. jven, of the names of those in whose comnemoration the pyramids were built, lint Sreek architecture did most for the liviug. Ignoring Egyptian precedents and borrowng uothing Iroin other nations, Greek archiecture carved its own columns, set its own ledimerits, adjusted its own entablatures, oun ><l its own moldings and carrie i out is never before the thre? qualities of right milding. cal ed by an old author "flrmitas, itilitas, venustas"?namely, firmness, useulness, beauty. But there is another art in my mind?the Most fascinating, elevating and inspiring of ill arts and the nearest to thp divine?for vhich all the world owes a debt to the He!enes that will n?-ver be paid. I mean sculpup'. At least <i30 years before Christ the ireeks perpetuated the human l'ac? and orrn in terra cotta and marble. What a , lessing to tlie human family that men and vntnet!, mightily useful, who could live only .vitiiin a century may be perpetuated for live six or ten eeuturies? flow J wish that some sculptor contemporaneous with Christ :ould have put ifis matchless form in mar- i :?le! 13iit lor everv grand aud exquisite [ i jtutue jf Martin Lutlier, of John Knox, of t William Penn. of Thomas Cunimerr. Wallinmnn r\t l.afavoffo r?f nnv r?f t (Treat statesmen or emancipators or co querors who adorn your parks or fill t niches of your academies, you are debtors the Greeks. They covered the Acropol thev glorified the'templ^s, they adornod t cemeteries with statues, some in cedar, sor in ivory, some in silver, some in gold. sot in size diminutive and some in size colossi Thanks to Phidias, who worked in stone; Clearchus, who worke 1 in bronze; to Doutf who worked in gold, and to all ancle chisels of commemoration! Do you n realize that for many of the wonders sculpture we are debtors to the Greeks? Yea. for the science ot medicine, the gre art of healing, we must thank the Greek There is the immortal Greek doctor. Hippi crates, who first opened the door for disea to go out and health to come^in. He first s forth the importance of cleaulim ss andslee making the patient before treatment to 1 washed and tase s'.umbsr. on the hide of sacrifice beiist. He first discovered the Id portance of thorough prognosis and diai nosis. He formulated the famous oath i Hippocrates which is taken by ptysicians i our day. He emancipated medicine froi superstition, empiricism and priestcraft. J3 was the father of all the infirmaries, hospi als aud medical colleges of the iast twent; three centuries. Furthermore, all the world Is obligated 1 Hellas more than It can ever pay for 1 heroics in the cause of liberty and righ United Europe to-day had not better thin that the Greeks will not fight. There ma be fallings back and vacillations and tempoi ary defeat, but if Greece Is right all Europ cannot put her down. The other natioi before they open the portholes of their met of-war against that small kingdom ha better read of the battle of Maratnon, whei 10,000 Athenians, led on by Miltiade triumphed over 100,000 of their enemies. 2 thnf time in Gr,-ek council of war. fl\ creneruls were for beginning the battle an 3vo were against it. Callimachus preside at the council of war, had the deciding vot and Mlltiades addressed him, saying: "It now rests with you, Callimachus, eith( to enslave Athens, or, by insuring her fret dom, to win yourself an immortality of fami for never since the Athenians were a peopl were they in such danger as they are in i this moment. If they bow the knee to thes Medes, they are to be given up to Hippiai und you know what they will then have t suffer, but if Athens comes victorious out < this contest she has it in her power to becona the first city of Greece. Your vote is to d< :ide whether we are to join battle or noh ] sve do not bring on a battle presently, som factious intrigue will disunite the Athenian; tnd the city will be betrayed to the Medei uut If we fleht before there is anything rol :en In the state of Athens I believe that7prc rided the goas will give fair field and n favor, we are able to got the best of it in th judgement." But now comes the practical questioi EIow can we pay that debt or a part of il For we cannot pay more thnn ten per ceni >f that debt in which Paul acknowledge nimself a bankrupt. By praying Almight Sod that He help Greece in its present ws ivith Mohammedanism and the concerte impires of Europe. I know her queen, loble, Christian woman, her face the thron )f all beneficence and loveliness, her life a sxample of noble wifehood and motherbooc 3od help those palaces in these days of aw :'ul exigency! Our American Senate did we! he other day when in the qapitol buildin ivhich owes to Greece its columnar impre's iivenetT- they passed a hearty resolution c tympathy for that nation. Would that a ivho have potent words that can be heard i Europe would utter them now, when the ire so much needed! Let us repeat to thee n English what they centuries ago declare :o the world in Greek, "Blessed are thos ivho are persecuted for righteousness' sak< ror theirs is the kingdom of heaven." Another way of partly paying our debt t :he Greeks is by higher appreciation of th earning and self sacrifice or the men who 1 >ur own land stand for all that the anciec Greeks stood. While here and there on somes to public approval and reward, th nost of them live in privation or on salar lisgracefully small. The scholars, th irchreologists, the artists, the literati?mos >f them live up three or four flights of stair ind by small windows that do not let in th 'ull sunlight. You pass them every dayl rour streets without any recognition. Th vorld calls them "bookworms" or "Di Dryasdust," but if there had been no book vorms or dry doctors of law and soience an heology there would have been no Apoca yptic angeL They are the Greeks of ou sountry and time, and your obligation t hem is infinite. But there is a better way to pay them, an hat is by their personal Balvatlon, whio vill never come to them through books o hrough learned presentation, because t iterature and intolleotaal realms tbey ar nasters. Ttiey can outargue, outquote, ou1 logmatize you. Not through the gate of th lead, but through the gate of the heart, yo' nay capture them. When men of learnin md might are brought to God, they ar >rought by simplest story of what rellgio: :an do for a soul. They have lost children Dh, tell them how Christ comforted yoi vhen you lost your bright boy or blue eye :irl! They have found life a struggle )h, tell them how Christ has helped you a] he way through! They are in bewildei nent. Oh, tell them with how many hand )f joy heaven beckons you upward! "Whe Jreek meets Greek, then comes the tug c var," but when a warm hearted Christia neets a man who needs pardon and sym jathy and comtort and eternal life the lomas victory. If you can, by some inciden >f self sacrifice, bring to such scholarly me ind women what Christ has done for thei sternal rescue, you may bring them it iv here Demosthenic eloquence and Homeri magery would fail, a kindly Heart t&roD ma tucceed. A gentleman of this city sends m he statement of what occurred a few day igo among the mines of British Coluinbit tt seems that Frank Conson and /er smith were down in the narrow shal >f a mine. They had loaded an lro racket with coal, and Jim Hemswortt landing above ground, was haulin he bucket up by windlass, when th windlass broke, and the loaded bucket wo lescending upon the two miners. Tben Jir Eemsworth, seeing wbat must be certai ieath to the miners beneath, threw himse! igainst the ogs of the whirling windlass iiud, though his flesh was torn and his bone were broken, he stopped the whirling wine lass and arrested the descending bucket an ?aved the lives o' the miners beneath. Th superintendent of the mine flew to the res ;ue and blocked the machinery. When Jlr Semsworth's bleeding and broken body wa 3Ut on a litter and carried homeward an some one exclaimed, "Jim, this i9 awful! 3e replied, "Ob, what's the difference s one as-1 saved the boys?" What an illustration it was of suffering fo others, and what a text from which to illus .rate the behavior of our Christ, limpln tnd lacerated and broken and torn an rushed in the work of stoppiug the descend ng ruin that would have destroyed ou souls! Try such a scene of vicarious sufferin is this on that man capable of overthrowin ill your arguments for the truth, ana he wl sit down and weep. Draw your illustration rom the classics, and it is to him an ol< >tory, but Leyden jars and electric batterie ind telescopes and Greek drama will all sur render to the 6tory of Jim Hemsworth's "Ob ivhat's the difference so long as I saved th >oys?" Then, if your illustration of Christ's sell !acriflce, drawn from some scene of to-da} md your story of what Christ has done fo fou do not quite fetch him into the righ tvay, just say to him, "Professor?doctorjudge, why was it that Paul declared he wn i debtor to the Greeks?" And ask you earned friend to take the Greek Testamer md translate for you. iu his own way, froi jrreek into English, the splendid peroratio: )f Paul's sermon on Mars' hill, ur ier the power of which the scholarl Dionysius surrendered ? nimely. "Th :*rnes of this ignorauce God winked ai jut now commaudeth all meu evorywher ,u repent, because Ho hath appointed a da n which He will judge the world in righ! iousnt'ss, by that man whom he hath 01 lained, whereof He iiath given assuranc unro ail m>-n. in that He hath raised hir From the dead." By the time he has gc through th" translation from the Greek think you will seo his lip tremble, and thei ivlll come a pallor on his lace like the pallc jn the sky at daybreak. By the eterrn salvation of that scholar, that threat ttiinkei that splendid man, you will have done some :hing to help pay your indebtedness to th Greeks. And now to God the Father, Go the Son and God the Holy Ghost be lionc tind glory and dominion ami victory an song, world without end. Amen. Affriculture In Spain. The business of farming in Spain is si much depressed that the Government i nbout to devote $1,200,000 to the relief c that iodustiy. d TEMPERANCE | he ( (0 THE WILL AND THE WAY. y is, Farewell, wild companions, past follies and ] he joys. ( ne Farewell, sly encbanter the bowl; j ne Farewell, ye deceitful and sinful decoys, il. The light has just dawned on my soul. 19, Ye promised me pleasure, while laughter t at weDt round, < ot Till ye led me to ruin'u dark brink, x of I believed, I partock, I enjoyed and I found . * The road to misfortune was drink, at ^ s. Bat now I'm resolved, with the succor of i o- grace, se To arise, and do all that I can et My life to reform, my steps to retrace, p, And become quito a temperate man. 39 < a I feir no relapse, though the old habits are < a" strong, 5" If for help I bu(: fervently pray; ( I believe in the marim too old to be wrong ? That. Where there'fi a will them's a wav m ' " 1 [a t. A PCBLICAN S ENTERTAINMENT FOK CHILDREN. jT- Tie following letter wbloh appearod in the English Alliance News, is worth a very wide to circulation, as it shows the advantage of ts teaching temrerance songs to popular tunes: t. "Sir?A publican in my neighborhood ik (Mike End), at ChristaiivJ thought it would ,y bo cheaper to eive the children of his cusr tomers (costermonsrer3 ahd laborers) an en>e tertainment in lieu of Christmas boxea, so is engaged the services of a local proprietor i- of a Punch and Judy show to give an exhl,d bltion of his puppets in hia large billiard ft room, whieh was cleared out for the pur9, pose, and packed as full as it woutd hold of it the youngstei-s. At the conclusion of the re show a friend of the landlord, who had been d acting as M. C. during the evening, made a d speech to the children, in which he greatly 9, extolled the virtues of his friend Bung, and told the youngsters how thankful they oucht >r to be that he was such a good, kind gentleman to give them sucl a splendid treat as they had had that evening. When he flnle ished talking the pianist struck up the tune, u iutuoauiiuuy urooa reuow, expneunR >] ie Ihe youngsters would nil join In singing the , 3, same; but the children associated with the * o tune another ditty, with which the East c )f Enders' youngsters are more familiar, which g ie is as follow?: Shut up your public houses, y 11 Shut up your public houses, 0 Shut up your public houses, e '? For we want noiie of your beer. C ^ And they commenced to shout this with all the strength of their young lungs. The c 0 landlord's friend in viin shouted to thfm . 0 above the din to hold their noise, as that was not thn riprht song, saying, 'Shut up, you c , young devils,1 and the children hearing the r ip wor Is 'Shut up,' thought he intended them c j to shout louder and longer (especially as he (j was gesticulating violently), aad this they P y did, and kept it up until t^ey were uncere- t ^ moniously bundled inlo the street, the pub- c ? lican's M. C. calling tlnm the most ungrate a iui nine wreicnes ne aaa ever seen. my e informant, who was the showman himself. F Q told me it was a comical sight to see the ex- p I 3ited stnte Bung1? friend was in at the unex- f pected turn things had taken. Straws show t [j which way tho win 1 blows, and it is evident * ? that Bands of Hope in this district are c r teaching the children that beer is not the 1 j necessity of life it was once supposed to be, c ii but harmful. W. Boxneb." I 7 the captain was a tee-totaleb. n . . . . . . .... a v it is tuncn-time on a latnous trnns-atianttc ''flier," a ship well nigh 600 feet Ion/?, with ' angines of 20,000 horse power and 1500 voy- P , agers, writes Frances I!. Willard: "Here are your table tickets," smiil the steward, and a minute later I found myself seated at the _ captain's right hand. The distinction surt prised me, for it was usually given to some famous politician, not ad capitalist, or bocitfty leader. A tee-totaler and temperance reformer is the last one to be thus honored, y for the captain generally takes a glass of . wine at dlDner, and if he does not his guests i' are likely to do so. But this time our cap- a tain was a strict total aostainer. We talked ? of his career. He had risen from "before the masf'.until he bad now been for year* cap- ? tain of a first-class "ocean greyhound," and a ;* he told me that he owed it all to his olean "7 habita When he first began to rise the ship on which he was an officer put into the port ? of 8an Francisco, and as it was "a great aay, an me men were drinking tne captain leading and asking him to "celebrate." "I & did not know but it would cost me my d chance," he told me, "but I could not go i: h back upon my training, and I sail, 'Captain, I r I never touched a drop in my life, and I can't a n begin now.' " Upon this the captain clapped e him on the shoulder and said, "I wish that ? > the same was true of me." ^ e I g THE DEMON OF THE HOME. t 0 YVUUU VUO UtJLLIULi Ul Urillh. UUierS ILIO UULUtJ " Q <he angel of peace departs; poverty follows c u in the demon's waka, for drink is "a spend- E ^ thrift vice. It is terrible to ruin the home, q d but it is more terrible to ruin the soul, that 1 ^ spark of God's intelligence. We despise the a II thief; we shrink in horror from the murderer, c ^ but they are men. But the drunkard?who s will say that thi3 unloving, unthinking, una reasoning thing is a man? God made man little less than the angel3, but the drunkard a makes himself little less than the brute. The L? demon of drink goes up to high heaven and n defies the mercy of God, for no drunkard can ,t snter the kingdom of neaven. The lower a side oi! the drunkard's grave empties into r hell. There are seventy-flve thousand drunku ards going down to their graves every year. q If this is what drink will do. what will you y do? We cannot sit down and fold our hands. 8 e If we have a heart that loves humanity we fc s must do something, aud there is one thing wu utui uu; wn uau auMtuu IIUJU IUC uso ui a intoxicating liquors. The way to 9traighten F ft a crooked stick is to bend it in the opposite I q direction. If you are strong, give to your ^ , neighbor of ycur strength if he is weak.? g Rev. A. P. Doyle. e a BROUGHT CP OX THE BOTTLE. n A Lowiston man, who was a politician in n Portland, Me., when General Neal Dow was a If Mayor of that city, in 1854, tells of a man A 3, whom he brought before Mayor Dow for E 3 abusing his wife while drunk. The Mayoi I- ordered that the man be brought before v d him with his whisky bottle. He put the b e bottle on the table in the court room and ^ }- ihe prisoner Ilxed his eyes on it and admitted n that he had drunk out of it. When the man s was *ent up to the jail Mayor Dow look the 1: d bottle along himself and requested the turn- u " key to place the flask just outside the cell 8 0 door, where the prisoner could see it, and it stood there two mouths. He begged to have r the bottle broker, or re-noved. Once when t (- the door was opened he made a dash witb * g his foot to break it, but did not succeed. i d When that man was released ho hated the . I- -light of a whisky bottle, and never tasted a r drop of liquor afterward. E g a g VIRTUE REWARDED. " The temperance socicty of an Ohio town s recently purchased the only saloon in the 1 town limits aud burned all of the fixtures 3 with appropriate ceremonies. The owner was recently converted at a revival meeting, ind the prohibitionists are now booming n 0 him for Mayor.?Chicago Chronicle. I WOMEN OPPOSE TREATING. lt Vigorous action against the treating habit C _ is being taken up by the W. C. T. U. in the ^ ^ States of New York an:l Pennsylvania. An g r nnti-treatini* bill has been introduced into jj lt the New York State Senate providing that n whoever treats or offers to treat any person a to an intoxicating driu.f or beverage in a tl public place shall be flced $5 for the first tl y offence, and not less than live days, or more e than twenty for the second offence. The t White Ribboners are circulating a petition in Y ,q relating to this treating habit. Mrs. Rebecca b ? B. Chambers is pushing the movement in Is * Pennsylvania with the aid of the State President. e n iiamished the wnoxo one lt Louis XII. of Fran.:e llrst gave* permisj sion to distill spiriis on a large scale. So e terrilic were the effects twenty-two years >r afterward that Francis, his successor, was obliged for the sa'ety of his subjects to enr act a law that the drunkard who remained incorrigible alter severe monitory punisli0 ment should suffer amputation of the ears d and be banished from the kingdom. r How much more wisely would Francis have acted if instead of banishing the drunkard he had banished t he pernicious material of drunkenness! Yet in this nineteenth century of our Government to-day act* as unwisely as did Francis. It imprison* the drunkard, whereas ? it should imprison the drunkard's drink? a that which makes the drunkard.?National >f Temperance Advocate. _ i ' Mexico's Greatest General. The Republic of Mexico has lo6t hi greatest eoldier in the person < jlnadelnpe Lopez, who died fro jneumonia after five days' illnes General Lopez was known a? tl greatest Indian fighter in the Repnbli Ls a full-blood Indian he was able ' soje with the Fcvages with their os acucB. ne was regarnea as tne ue )fficer in the army, and, owing to b miversal kindness, was known all ovi he Eepnblio as "Uncle Lupe." I yas sixty-five years old, and leaves x amily. Talne of Corn for Fuel. The press bulletin of the Universi )f Nebraska Agricaltural Experime Station eays: The present abundan )f corn ana its low price have occ lioned much speculation as to its fn ralu'e. There is such a diversity >pinion and so little actual knowledi regarding the profitableness of buyii sorn instead of coal, that it teem< leBirable to conduct a comparati' ;est that would show the relawe hea ng power of the two material Whether it would pay to raise coi or a fuel is a question not contempl ed in this investigation, but the i ;erests of the large number of peop iving in the region of cheap corn cb or the determination of its most pr itable u?e after it is upon the marke To make the test, a good, grade mellow Dent corn, on the ear, of th rear's crop, and not thoroughly dr vas burned under the boiler us6d upply power for the department jractical mechanics, and the amoui ?f water evaporated by the burnic if a known quantity of corn was note< rhe test lasted nine and one-ha loure, and 5,232 pounds of corn an 10b were consumed. The next day tl ame boiler wsi heated with screenc -?nr>lr Snrinfrn Tint cnnl fnr (iua Vinnr r%~ ? ? mrning 1888 pounds of coal, and tl .mount ol water evaporated was r< iorded. The data thas obtained show tha ine pound of coal evaporated 1. imes as much water as one pound < orn. In other words, 1.9 times i auch heat was liberated in burnin ne pound of coal as in burning on tound of corn. Several calorimett esis were made, which agreed ver losely with these results. The coal used cost at Lincoln $G.6 er ton. With coal pelling at thi rice, and worth 1.9 times as muc or fuel as an equal weight of cori he fuel value of the latter would b 3.50 per ton, or 12.25c. per bushe !'he following table shows how muc r\ol i a rrn ?f K fnn nrlinn ifo V? n o i n lower is the 6ame as that used in tb xperiment, and when corn is sellin ,t a oertain price per bushel : Corn Coal. ierbush.o4? per toi 9 cents.,.. 94 I ftwafc# 5 ! 1 5 ' :{?entj,., 6 .. 7 leeoia..^ 7 I Scents. S It will thus be seen that if this qua ty of coal were selling at less tha IB.50 and corn were bringing 12o., rould pay to tarn corn, while co oust sell as low as $5.41 per ton to t a cheap as fnel at 10c. per bushel. A Naval Pigeou Post. It is satisfactory to hear that H Ldmiralty have sanctioned the buil ng of a loft for carrier pigeons i )evonport, so that now we eith ,eta ally have, or are shortly to hav tigeons stationed at Portsmout iheerness and Dovonport. In tl ''rench Navy the carrier pigeon h >een recognized for some years, ai here are well established lines ommunication between the Frent laval ports, Toulon, Corsica, ar ?unis. It may further be news fi ome people that French societies a onstantly flying their birds fro ^rtemouth and Plymouth across tl Channel, and that no precautions a aken by our Government to preve: oreign birds from being brought ini hese towns and kept there. Englif . J -11 J UrUB UIO ttliUWCU IV UD icicaocu France, but Btringent measures a: aken to prevent their being kept he country. In Germany, Italy, Ru ia, Denmark, Spain and Portug here are carefully organized pigec ervices to aid in coast defence, at ligeons are regularly employed m tl taiian naval manoeuvres.?Westmin er Budget. He Guessed the Sex. TVio ntVior writfls a enrrflfinn: lent, I was told a Btory about the ne Lrchbiehop of Canterbury which I ha^ lot Been in print. As my informal ras a clergyman, it mast, of cours to trae. A certain youthful curai ras taken to task by his lordship f< eading the lessons or the service in a aauchble tone. Whereupon the youi nan replied: "I am surprise that yc hould rind fault with my reading, i i friend of mine in the congregatic old me that I was beautifully heard, 'Did she?" snapped the bishop, ar he fair young curate collapsed. 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