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vi- ' ' A Grand Army Post of Priests. There has recently been mustered in a Grand Army post in Notre Dame, Indiana, of which every member is it either a brother or a priest of tne Order of the Holy Cross. The Commander is the Very Rev. "William L. Corby, a famous fighting chaplain in the War and now* Provincial of the Order for the United States. The Vice-Commander is Brother Leander. There are bnt twelve members, of rwhom one is General "William A. Olmstead, who is soon to become a priest. ?New York World. Killed by Railway*. The proportion of killed to the number of railway travelers is: France, one in nineteen million; Great Britain, one in twenty-eight million, and in the United States, one in two million four hundred thousand. ^xv*- r<iha VJ I'IUIIICIOP * wi Cyclometers are in use in cabs in Berlin, Leipsic and Dresden. They record the exact amount of miles traveled and the legal fare of tile occupants. i Qnlen Sabe ? Qulen Sabe?who knows?Is a phrase In very common use among the Spaniards, and helps over many, many difficulties. It Ib expressive. What the weather may be the coming Winter, who knows? It may be snowy. wet. stormy, cold, freezing, and full of sickness and pain, who knows? Borne of us to-day, hale and hearty, may lie on beds of torture or bobble about on crutohes. who knows. Before the Autumn merges into Winter many may have symptoms of approaching trouble: of the old rheumatism coming on. or of first attacks fcegun; who knows? Who knows? That's a conundrum. But there is one thing everybody knows, the best thing to do istc i be ready for the weather^ coming and to take hold or what is. jevervoouj knows what Is best. With St. Jacobs Oil in K ' the house, everybody knows they have 8 sure cnre for rheumatism, acute or chronic. It is likewise known that in any stage oi it, the arreat remedy does its work of cure perfectly. If we suffer, we need not ask who knows, when it Is so well known what Is best. 8ix hundred ceese were driven through the streets of Mortranfleld, Kv.. the other morning on their way to market. What SJLOO Will Buy. Rnios. course in Wood's New York School of Bnslness and Phortbard.Tuition.Books.Board. The unlimited risibilities of securing eood positions. F. E. Wood, 5th Ave. and ]25th St. Second crops of srrapes have been raised at Bellevlew, Fla., this season. Catarrh Cannot be Cured With local applications, asthev cannot reach tne seat or tne usease. ^atarrn is h uiuuu ?r constitutional disease, and in order to cure it you must take internal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, and acts directly on tbe Wood and mncons surface. Hall's Catarrh Core is not a onack medicine. It was prescribed by one of the best physicians in this country for years, and is a regular prescription. Jt is composed of the best tonics known, combined with the best blood purifiers, acting directly on the mucous surfaces. Tbe perfect combination of tbe two ingredients is what produces such wonderful results in curing catarrh. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. Cheney & Co.. Props., Toledo, O. Sold by Drnegists. price. 75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best There is a Class of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called Grain-O.made of pnre grains, ihat takes the place of coffee. The mo?t delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over one-quarter as much. Children may drink it with irreat benefit 15 cte. and 25 cts- per package. Try it Ask for J Grain-O. Quail Shooting in Carolina*, The Southern Railway Passenger Department issued a circular to all agents making L inquiries regarding game for the coming [ season. The reports from all parts are that game is more plentiful now than it has been in many years. Parties desiring information retrardine the a nHll o nnlrr fn JJIIIJU1.UK KiUUUU V* VUV k'Wuiw, ?.!* vw Alex. S. Thweatt. E*stern Paseeneer Atrent, Southern Railway, 271 Broadway, New York. Cleanliness, Promptness, Parity And Ecpnomy?That's what Dreydoppel'e, the real and only genuine borax soap, is. Your storekeeper can get it for von. Full pound bars; over 31 years in use. Dreydoppel's 6oap. Prevent Diphtheria By using Hoxsie's C. C. C. It checks inflammation and prevents formation of the white membrane. 50c. A.P.Hoxgle, Buffalo,N.Y., Mfr. Fits nermanentl? cured. No fits or nervousness after first day's use of Dr. Kline's Great %. T> 4. i^OfVC XVC9W1 CX< vW CI i Chi uv/bup nuu wt cnwoc ax to Db. R. H. Kline, Ltd.. 931 Arch St.,Phila.,Pa. Mrs. "Winslow's Soothing Syrup for children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, allays pain, cures wind colic. 25c.a bottle. Piso's Cure cured me of a Throat and Lung trouble of three years' standing.?E. Cady, Huntington, Ind., Nov. 12.18&4. If afflicted with soreeyesu6e Dr.IsaacThompeon'sEye-water.Druggistssell at25c.per bottle. SCROFULOUS HUMOR Sore* Healed by Hood's Sarsaparlila and Havfe Never Returned. "I was a sufferer with scrofulous humor, Ko/? o rArr lorcrA cnrA nnrlAP mv f?hin. It caused mo much pain. I also felt tired and despondent, but after taking a few bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla my sores were healed and have never returned." Mrs. C. N. Rockwell, White's Store, N. Y. Hood's Sarsaparilla Is the best?in fact the One True Blood Purifier' H**ilU Dill* assist Digestion and cure H000 9 r IMS Constipation. 25 cents. The Cat Was Foiled. In the yard of a Pennsylvania:! recently 6ome partridges took up their abode and built their nest. Pretty little birds were hatched out after their arrival, and the mother partridge was * i m 1 .1 _1 proua 01 ner progeny uuu iuuh pieuoure in caring for them. A" Maltese cat belonging to a neighbor made its appearance in the yard not long since on a foraging expedition, and, -watching its opportunity, made a dash at the mother bird, caught it and was taking it prisoner to his own domain. The noise made in the struggle was heard by the bird's mate, who came to the rescue, and a regular battle ensued. The male bird made a vicious attack upon the cat, pecking with the beak and striking at it with tho -TOinorH nntil he forced the cat to re lease his prisoner. The two birds then flew upon the fence and watched the retreating form of the cat with evident signs of pleasure and satisfaction, and no doubt congratulated each other in bird lingo.?New York Press. Jul l"l *C Vegetable" $ a llAwL J .Sicilian Ihairrenewer ) K Prevents the hair from fall- VI 1 I ing outf and makes a new SI Ih growth, come in. You JK save what you have MM ^anj get more* No^j J&? > t; *. ^ y - -> - r - - ? I Sweetbrlar For the Garden. The sweetbriar is a delightful bush to have in the garden. Its foliage is invaluable in bouquet making. The new sweet briars, produced by crossing and hybridizing, give flowers that are larger and of finer color than the parent plant, and among them none is j more lovely than the Austrian copper I brier, that has blossoms whose petals are like scarlet velvet, almost the hue of a vivid scarlet geranium. Tbe Lettuce Seed Crop. Always in saving lettuce seed, choose that which has Most leaves, and which has grown without interruption from the seed. The practice in many families is to pluck the leaves three or four times, and when at last the leaves begin to be tough, let the plant send up its seed stalks. Usually the largest crop of seed will come from the plant that has fewest leaves. But it will not be worth planting. Grown as lettuce for seed should be without disturbing a leaf, each plant will produce very few/seed. Yet Beed from this nearly seedless lettuce is worth any amount of the seed which is produced in the usual way. Nesting Material. \t' ^ an lV? a naato nra 1 f ir? T\A?_ ITTUCU kUC UCOID OX C iUUOlDU 1U _ fectly dry situations, there is nothing | better for a foundation than that cheapest of material, dry earth. A little tobacco dust added never comes amiss. For the upper layer, lawn clippings, hay or straw, excelsior, or moss may be used. The least desirable of all these is hay, as the presence of small seeds constantly tempts the hens to scratch it from the nest. If the owner considers it too much trouble to wash the eggs which may be soiled, the slight precaution of keeping tlje nest clean and dry will add at least one-half to the attractiveness of his basket of eggs.?New England Homestead. An Ideal Hedge Plant. mis is wnat rroiessor Aiassey 01 the North California Experiment Station calls the Citrus trifoliatn. The belief is general that none of the tree oranges is hardy at the north, but, according to the professor, there are few places where this delicious orange , is not completely hardy. He says It passed through last winter in , Michigan safely. Its compact dwarf , habit makes this plant easy to keep in good shape without hard pruning. Its , complete armament of the strongest ( and sharpest spines pointing in every ; direction makes it a better defense than even the honey locust. It makes no suckers and its roots spread but a short distance and are not exhaustive , of a broad strip of soil, as the other plants used for farm hedges are. It , bears a great profusion of the sweetest of orange flowers, and loads itself with little sour, seedy oranges, like limes, wmcn ripen in uciODer. w nen ine entire hardiness of this plant is fully realized the question of the best hedge plant will, I think, be finally settled. The plants are now so cheap in the Southern nurseries that it will be easy for the experiment stations and individuals in the extreme north to test their hardiness. To Preveut a Horse Kicking:. The illustration shows a device to be used where a horse kicks his stable companion. It is made from one-inch galvanized iron tubing. The two corners are screwed together with a re HOLDBACK IN STABLE. turn coupler. Pins go through holes in the upper ends and are attached to the woodwork of the stall. A cord iB fastened to the device for raising or lowering as required. When not in ase it is raised and is well out of the way of everything. In use, it does not interfere at all with the animal's' movements, except to prevent his being too free with his feet and legs. \ To prevent thieves taking horses out of the stable place a bar of iron across the doorway, as shown in cut, one end (a) entering far enough through the doorpost to allow the other end (b} to lit into a socket. An iron key is put : into a hole in tUo bar near (a) and padlocked there. These two devices are not patented and they are effective.? 1 Orange Judd Farmer. The Private Dairyman's Opportunity. Creauiery butter is the standard in ] the markets because it is uniform and can be bad in quantities sufficient to supply the retail trade, saysF. W. Mossmau, of Massachusetts. The creameryman, however, has his trials. The I impossibility of overseeing the production and first handling of the milk is a serious difficulty, often causing a lower grade product. Unless a firstclass buttermaker can be obtained, much loss will result in many ways. It is because of these drawbacks that there is still an opportunity for expert private dairymen to make a butter far superior in quality to the average creamery product. There are people in almost every village and town who are glad to obtain for family use a strictly gilt-edged article at its true value. To a limited extent this demand has been met, but I am led to m ... believe that the field is by no means fully occupied. To succeed in this it will often be necessary to lay aside preconceived ideas. Tempering cream by the sense of feeling or determining acidity by taste, will not answer. Butter owes its good qualities very largely to its treatment in the ripening vat and only to a small degree to the worker. The essential features of good butter making are, a pure, sweet cream of proper consistency ripened rather slowly at a temperature of 58 to 62 degrees, or a little higher with or without a starter. The acidity at churning time should not be far from 0.7 per cent., preferably under than over, though the writer has recently made a sample of butter which scored ninety nine points in a possible one hundred from cream which at churning time showed 0.745 per cent. Churning temperature is governed by the per cent, of butter fat and degree of ripeness of the cream, also-the character of the herd and period of lactation. The temperature should be such that from thirty to sixty minutes is required for churning. Cream ought never to be churned when it breaks in from five to ten minutes, as such treatment is ruinous in point of quality and eoonomy. Excessive washing of buttery is always at the expense of the flavor. If in just the right condition, it requires very little washing. Some prefer a washing of brine at a temperature of fifty-four to fifty-eight degrees. Good results are obtained in this way. The flavor is supposed to be removed in a less degree than by the use of pure water. Color and salt of the best quality are to be used in quantities to suit the trade. "Working is important, i. e., it is important to do just as little of it as will answer the purpose of evenly incorporating th$ salt and removing moisture. nlaofilinaoa i'a IA V\O rirri/lltf AV\_ uviiuv ttcauuucoo 10 wv vo iigiuij vw served with every implement and in every operation from beginning to end, not one day in seven only, but every day in the year so long as the business continues.?American Agriculturist. SabaollJng Explained. Testimony in favor of subsoiling, especially as an antidote to drought, keeps pouring in from almost every quarter. It should be clearly understood that good subsoiling does not mean turning down the surface soil and turning up the subsoil on top of it. That would do a good deal of harm. The crude material so brought up has hot had enough air to prepare it as plant food, and may be in itself very deficient in some essential food elements. to sqdsoh tor oest results, as nttie as possible of the surface soil should be turned under. It should, however, be clean-turned once and the layer below it well stirred to a greater or less depth, as is found practicable, and left so. The main interest and chief benefit of this sort of subsoiling is to open up the more or less impervious stratum that lies below the reach of ordinary plowing in such a way that by the action of air and moisture and frosts it may be brought into a condition that will enable it to hold the greatest quantity of moisture and at the same time permit the free.circulation of air around the roots of the plant. In the growth of trees, for example, the repeated movement of the soil caused by the leverage of the roots under the action of the wind may be aoan rflirr mn rVh tliA a am a AflpAr?f an rA. suits from subsoiling. There is no transposition of the different layers of the soil, only a loosening proportioned to the amount of wind power that is brought to bear on the branches and leaves of the tree. The decaying vegetable matter, a leading ingredient in the food of the tree, always stays on the surface aud the small fibers of the roots come up to feed upon it. But mother set of roots reaches down deeper and deeper, mainly to bring up moisture, without which as a diluting agent food cannot readily be made Available. The work done by the leverage of the tree is of very much the same sort as is done by good subsoiling. What the tree keeps doing, it may be for centuries, subsoiling will flo by on& process for the plants which must produce their full growth and perfection in a single season. There is a wide range in the character of soils and some soils are such a happy combination of sand and loam as to be readily pervious to both air and moisture. If there is excessive rainfall, it is slowly but surely drained off through the lower layers, and in protracted drought moisture comes back to the surface in the same way. nArrtVvinoliAn 10 nnf nAmmnri UUl tilio iO UVll VULU1UVU) and the leading advantage of subsoiling has been its power to protect crops from the effects of extreme and protracted droughts. It is the remarkable sonsensus of experience in this direction that emphasizes the importance Df a fuller attention to the effect of subsoiling and the best way of doing it than it has ever before had. The best season for subsoiling is evidently the fall; once stirred by the subsoil plow the'moisture and frost together will reduce the soil bo stirred Ana norti^loq fhrrmrrli ivhioh tlifl ! air and moisture and the roots to be benefited <?an freely pass. Some plants have in their roots much greater penetrating power than others, but subsoiling will do at one process and more effectually what is only partially and slowly done even by the most penetrating kind of roots. The best way is to send round an ordinary plow and turn over an ordinary furrow at the ordinary depth, following in the same furrow with a sub>oil | plow of some sort that will stir a few | inches of the next stratum of soil and j leave it in the same position. An ordinary plow without the moldboard mill tliic fftirlv well.? NewEnclcnd i Homestead. American pottery -was recently shipped to Liverpool and Edinburgh from Kokomo, Ind., the first sens from the United States to the British Isles, j A KITTEN IN A HORSE'S THROAT. The Carnivorous Taste of the Latter Animal Almost Causes Its Death. Pulver Michel is, or was, the name of a big bay horse belonging to the Krueger Brewing Company, in Newark, that tried to swallow a l;ve 1 kitten and was nearly strangled i operation. The stablemen now e?. the horse "Katzenfresser." Pulver Michel, or "Powder Michael," so named because of his disposition, is a peculiar animal. He has carnivorous tastes, and will eat taeat with as much gusto as the average horse devours hay or oats. One day, while standing hitched to a wagon in Jersey City, he ate a large quantity of beefsteak from a butcher's stand, and the driver had to pay $2 for the animal's extraordinary meal. There is a cat with several kittens in the Kruger Brewing Company's stable. The litter is four weeks old. Last Satnrday the mother cat took a fancy to remove her progeny from the place where she had hidden them to the manger of Pulver Michel's stall. She knew the horse, and had established friendly relations with him. So the cat leaped into the manger with a kitten in her mouth, dropped her burden in the hay of the manger, and departed to bring a second kitten. Pulver Michel had never seen a kitten, and, sniffing it it, recognized in it a pieoe of fresh and tender meat. His great mouth opened and gathered in the kitten, and then trouble began. The kitten stuck in his throat and need its claws. Pulver Michel stamped and .kicked,'and the commotion aronsed the other horses in the stable, which stamped and squealed. The old cat returned to the manger and ran abont searching for her first kitten. A stableman ran into Pulver Michel's stall, and, seeing blood run* ning from the horse's month, called a veterinary surgeon, who found that Pulver Michel was choking. His eyes were dilated, and there was a large lump in his throat. The tongue was scratched and bleeding from the kitten's olaws. The surgeon thrust his hand into the horse's mouth to try to extract the object, but could not reach it. Looking around, the stableman saw the mother cat mewing in the manger, and said: "I'll be I it's one of the kittens." He hunted up the litter and found that one was gone. The kitten was evidently still alive- in Pulver Michel's j throat, and, as it could not be extractI a/1 manmnlof.A/1 if Kr Vila CU, IUO AJLl(?uJi^u*i?vvvft ?v wj u?w hands, and forced it down the throat into the stomaoh. Then he gave Pulver Michel some pepsin and mnriatio acid, to help digestion. . Pulvei Michel has been siok since Saturday, but is getting over his experience, and will be ?t work in a few days.?Nev York Tribune. IhePart Machinery Plays In Farming* The smallest implement upon a big wheat farm is a plough. And from the plough to the elevator?from the first operation in wheat-farming to the last--one is forced to realized how the spirit of the age has made itself felt here, and has reduced the amount of human labor to the minimum. The - man who ploughs uses his muscle only incidentally in guiding the machine. The man who operates the harrow has half a dozen levers to lighten his labor. The "sower who goeth forth to sow," walks leisurely ltaViind o drill QTirl wnrlra hrftkfifl. Thfi reaper needs a quick brain and a quick hand?but not necessarily a strong arm, nor a powerful back. He works sitting down. The threshers are merely assistants to a machine, and the men who heave the wheat into the bins only press buttons. The most desirable farm-hand is not the fellow who can pound the "mauling machine" most lustily at the county fair. He is the man with cunning brain who can get the most work out of a machine without breaking it. The farm laborer in the West to-day, where machinery is employed, finds himself advanced to the ranks of skilled labor, and enjoys a position not widely different from that of the mill-hand in the East. Each is a tender of a machine.?Scribner's. The Figure-Head of the "Con*tltntion." In 1834 Captain Elliot, who had been second in command at Lake Erie un-, der Oliver Perry, excited a violent political and partisan demonstration by decorating, at the Boston Navy Yard, the bow of the Constitution with a figure-head of President Jackson. One 'stormy night his Excellency was decapitated as neatly and deftly as if the best tools had with patient labor enlisted the brightest sunshine in the desecration. Marines and bluejackets were held under dark suspicion, and the country seethed in a ferment of keen contention. Rewards were offered, but in vain, and for yearB the secret was well kept. It is now said that a seaman named Dewey was the culprit, not for any political motive, but beoause of a cherished antipathy tc the full-length image of a landlubber at the bow while three fine old sailors were compelled, with inadequate busts, to smile grimly at the stern. However, another head was secured to the trunk with copper bolts so tremendous that for many years age could not wither it nor custom stale the unshaken fortitude with which Old Hickory de fied the breezes and the brine.?Harper's "Weekly. He Loved Truthfulness A careless mason dropped a brick from the second story of a building on which he was at work. Leaning over the wall and glancing downward, he discovered a respectable citizen with hie silk hat jammed over his eyes and ears, rising from a recumbent posture. The mason, in tones of apprehension, inquired "Did that brick hit any one' down there?" The citizen with great difficulty extricating himself from the extinguisher into which liis lint had been converted. reDlied. with considerable wrath, "Yea, sir, it did. It bit me." "That's right," exclaimed the mason, in tones of undisguised admiration; "noble man, I would rather have wasted a thousand bricks than have you tell me a lie" about it." Newfoundland Stamps. Newfoundland exhibits much originality in its stamp designs. It has on .various issues a seal, a codfish, a New- : (foundland dog's head, Her Majesty, {in a widow's cap, tne JPrince of Wales fin uniform and a whaler in fuli sail. v vi o >7 / A TEMPEKANCE COLUMN, THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. A Talisman?The Liquor Traffic in Alaska ?Many Saloons in Full Blast In Oui Great Northwestern Territory? Breweries in Full Blast?Natives Ruined. Take Temperance to thy breast While yet is the hour of choosing, As arbitress exquisite Of all that shall thee betide. For better than fortune's best Is mastery in the using, And sweeter than anything sweet The art to lay it aside! ?Louise Imogen Guiney, 1861. Liquor Traffic In Alaska. Miss Belle Kearney, who recently visited Alaska in the interests of the W. C. T. U., IkA mm a# \%Am /nKaaottAflAnfl g 1 V CO tu? OUUlLUIUj^ up VI UUl UU3C1 V UUvliO In a communication to the Union Signal, from which we cull the following passages: "The supreme question among the people of Alaska now is, What shall be done with the liquor truffle? A perfect wail oi despair is going up from the friends ol temperance and prohibition while tbe saloon men laugh them to scorn and push their trade unmolested. The condition ol this great northwestern territory strikingly presents the inconsistency of our national Government in its relation to tbe liquor traffic. Congress has declared that no liquor shall be shipped into Alaska except for mechanical, medicinal and scientific purposes; but the whole country is flooded with it. Any man, by paying a small fee to the revenue agent; can establish a grogshop in any place that suits his convenience, put out his sign and fling wide his doors. There are twenty open saloons in Juneau and just as many in proportion tov the population In Wrangel, Douglas City'and Sitka, and in three of these towns breweries are in full blast and thousands of gallons of liquor are smuggled in constantly by the boats and sold illicitly. Low dance houses flourish, and impurity, like a foul vulture, feeds upon the people." At Wrangel she had an interview with a saloon-keeper, to whom she said: "Have you a license to run your saloon?" "Certainlyl we get it from tbe Government. You see it is tacked up on the side of the wall'," turning his thumb in the direction of the bar. "How muoh did you pay for tfOI) I'Tnrnnfv.flvo /Inllavfi " *'Unor ora these licenses procured?" "From the main Government office in Portland, Or., or directly from the revenue agents who come up to Issue them to us." "Do you sell much liquor?" "Yes, indeed!" "Do you sell to Indians?" "No, no," was the excited reply, muttered between closed teeth, and, turning around, he walked off. <So did I, with a sovereign' contempt in my soul for a Government that could so dishonor itself. A missionary at Wrangel told her that tbe white men brought the liquor in bottles and jugs, then sold it privately to the natives, who were constantly debauched by it. It isalmost impossible to Indict a man for violating the law, because no one will testify in court against him, and if he did, no jury would And a true bill. The Indians, who are the chief -victims of the white man's greed, maintain an unbroken silence, because they want the whisky and are not conscious-smitten as to the way it is obtained. Neal Dow'i First Temperance Work. Neal Dow was twenty-flve years old when he delivered his first temperance speech. It was at an anniversary supper of a fire company to which he belonged, and his strenuous opposition to the use of liquor was effective to that degree that the fire company adopted temperance as a principle. Later he prevailed upon the Maine Mechanics' Charitable Association to forego the use of wine at its annual dinner. At that time liquor was almost universally used In Maine. One of the curious customs of Portland in those days was the ringing of th? town bell at 11 and at 4 o'clock, by way of warning to mechanics that it was time to leave work and get a drink. Tbis custom tne young reformer succeeded in having abolished. Then he fiersuaded most of the Portland employers o discontinue supplying their men with liquor. After his first successes, Neal Dow felt that Temperance was the most important cause of the age. It was owing largely to his efforts that the Young Men's Total Abstinence Society of Portland was organized. Its first meeting, it is said, was held.In the counting-room of a distillery.?Harper's Weekly. "Purer Morals." Very significant is the comment of the editor of the New York Mali and Express upon the falling off in the sale of liquor as shown by the revenue returns. "It means better health, purer morals, happier fam Hies and larger comfort for thousands of deserving persons." If words mean anything, these words mean that the more liquor is sold and drank the more the health of the nation will be sapped, the moral life contaminated, the family circle broken into and the homes of the people robbed of the comforts of life. This is a terrible impeachment of a traffic licensed by law, supported by the votes of Christian men and defended by statesmen. "How long, 0 Lord, how long!" A Religious Virtue. In his address at the rally held in connection with the State convention of the Connecticut Total Abstlnenco Union, Rev. A. P. Doyle said: "Total abstinence is a religious virtue, as it belongs to the sanctuary. and when it is bereft of the sanctuary it becomes a heresy, and the hand that tears it away from there is a ruthless hand. In the National union there are 80,000 total abstainers, 40,000 of whom never abused nor touched intoxicants. Twenty-flve per cent, of this National organization never knew what it was to touch an intoxicating drink." Socletv's Drinking Customs. The drinking customs of society are the hardest of all things to fight. Why do people who ought to know better, and who really do know bettei, but who do not act according to their knowledge, persist in remaining slavishly subservient to the old justom of serving wine at weddings and other social alTairs? It is well to be hospitable; but when, in the sacred name of hospitality, young men are made drunk, it is time to at least give the matter of banishing wine serious consideration. Poisonous in Larue or Small Doses. We have frequently stated in this column that whisky, when taken in large quantises, is really poisonous, and often causes the death of the un fortunate one who drinks it to excess. Here is a case of a recent date which confirms our statement. 'George iMollinari, a laborer living with bis daughter at 2 Cherry street, New York City, drank two flasks of whiskv, one after the other, and then fell on the floor dead.' ?Sacred Heart Review. Bright For Temperance. America is becoming a nation of teetotalers, says a writer in the Index. An observer says that if one does not believe it let him look at the list of States where the citizens have formaMy voted that way. We find this list quoted from the bill of fare of a Fullman dining ear. A note on the card says: "Wines and liquors will not be sold in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Iowa, Indian Territory, Kansas, Maine, Mississippi, New Jersey, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Wyoming. No wines or liquors to be sold on Sunday In any States having the prohibitory Sunday laws." Help 1 he Cause. would that people could be impressed with the importance of total abstinence! Too many look upon the temperance movement as a huge joke. This should not be so. If you are convinced of the harm wrought by drink, don't stand by and smile nt the temperance workers' efforts to alleviate the misery. "Come over an^ help us." Temperance News ?ntl Notes. The way of mm is tho way of ruin. When drink comes in through the winlow, love flies out at the door. The latest figures show that the Catholic Total Abstinence Union has a membership of 77,254 " ' 1 >' ' Protected From th? Vicdmi. Glyder?"What a terribly discordant orchestra there is at this dance!" Wurler?"Awful, isn't it? I suppose that's why they hid it behind those potted palms."?Roxbury Gazette. i Lose S3,500,000 a Year. Ail upiwj UI IU? U1UBC9U CDpuuotjg, the diamond mining companies of Sonth Africa have stolen from them during the year $5,000,000, of -which they recover about one-half. Daring Skill of a Parachutist. Recently a parachutist gave several exhibitions of his daring skill at GlasI /vs><nr Ana ?Wa?nnnr a afrnncf TCind carried hie balloon rapidly away, and [ it was some time before he could make a descent. He tpnched mother earth > at a moorland spot near a farm house, and an old man stood close by staring in blank amazement. He had seen the gandily dressed being drop down | from the clouds. "What place is | this?", asked the parachutist, in an authoritative tone. The old man reverently knelt down and clasped his hands together, and his voice trem| bled with fervent emotion as he anwered: "Good Lord, this is the parish of Carawath."?Harper's Bound Table. P7S A TA] nay, i* five hundred?haa perfectly heal to the stern necessity of helping one's s< to be on the wane. 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