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r l t WOBLD’S FOOD SUPPLY. SABBATH SCHOOL i RELIGIOUS READING. / An Exhaustire Study of Eu rope’s BreadstufT Shortasre. ffEWSY GLEANINGS. Otstbrmest report a hi 5 crop. India publishes 600 newspapers. The situation in China is serious. Wyoming's wealth is fG2,532,672. The Iowa potato crop is enormous. Influenza is epidemic at tSadajos, Spain. I'^fejBtE fires are raging in the North- Connt'5 • icut’s 130,000,000. tobacco crop is worth Rdssix will not toloraxe for?t!!|lrW4r sTuns in the Black Sea. A plague of locusts is feared in the Argentine Republic. Allerton has lowerep the world’s stal lion record to 2:093^. Belgium proposes to make the Congo State a penal colony. Large numbers of Italians are emigratinz to the United States. Philadelphia is undergoing an epidemic of suicide by laudanum. Phylloxera is ravaging the vines in some parts of Austria. The “Holy Coat” at Treves, Prance, has been viewed by 3,000,000 persons. Polygamy is dying out in Utah under the operation of the law against it. The damage to the cereal crops in Canada by insects has been estimated at $38,000,000. A New York sherifT has seized a tomb stone in Greenwood Cemetery to satisfy a lien. Our copper output this vear fell short of the usual amount by more than 100,000 tons. During the year ending with last June, 25.798 immigrants were landed in Philadel phia. Potatoes are so abundant in Southern California that they can hardly be disposed of at any price. The recent heavy crops of wheat and corn i are already showing their effect upon the | stocks and markets. A Uonticello fill.) Justice of the Peace has been sentenced to two years in the pen itentiary lor burglary. It is reported that Canadian vessels have captured about twelve thousand seals in Bc-rhing Sea this season. Successful experiments at Spezzia make it probable that petroleum will be used as fuel on the Italian war vessels. English capitalists recently purchased $150,000 worth of railroad machines in Philadelphia for Brazilian railroads. Maine has 165 prisoners in its State pris- lon, five of which are femaies. Of these tforty-one are serving a life sentence. 1 Proposals will he submitted to the Up* ! per Chamber in New Zealan i for a legislative body to be composed entirely of women. A pamphlet issued by the Massachusetts Board of Agriculture show^that 860 farms have been abandoned in "hat common wealth. The distress in the Volga provinces of Russia is intense. At Penza women and children wander exhausted shrieking for food in the market places. The population of Alsace-Lorraine has de creased 3S,(>(V.> during the last live years, al- Itbouch the births durinz that period have largely exceeded the deaths. The Rev. Howard McQaeary, whose trial at Cleveland. Ohio, for alleged heresy last . January created such a sensation, has \vith- idrawn from the Episcopal Church and be come a Universalist. INTERNATIONAL LESSON OCTOBER 11. FOR ! r Deficit of 200,000,000 Bushels of Wheat and Bye. An exhaustive study of the world’s food supply in the forthcoming number of the American Agriculturist emphasizes facts of grave importance to both America and Europe. It declares that the half has not been told about the European shortage in breadstuffs, which not even a bountiful crop this year would have relieved. Continental powers, especially Russia, suppress the facts as far as possible. In many Russian prov inces the scarcity of food tiecame pronounced as far back as February last. In the Kon- stantinovka district many families have not cooked a meal since Easter, but, subsist on bread, soake rye, grain, etc., bestowed in chanty. The prohibition of rye exports is followed by.a ukase forbiding the shipment of bran and other cereal cattle foods. The as tounding shortage in Russia’s yield of rye, announced a month ago by the Ministry of Finance, proves even greater than the most extravagant estimates, and effectually ob literates all possibility of Russia exporting any of her scant wheat crops. That eastern Germany is in practically the same plight admits of no doubt. The European reserves that have heretofore eked out insufficient harvests are everywhere exhausted. The parade made by Russia of the existence of such stores in the Baltic provinces is done for effect, to convey the impression that military stores are abundant. Such reserves are of small importance. Indeed, the danger of famine is destined to spare Europe the horrors of war for folly a twelvemonth hence. Accepting the largest estimates of produc tion, both at home and abroad, and even as suming that the United States and Canada can export 225,000,000 bushels, the Agricul turist still finds a deficit in the world’s food supply of at least 200,000,000 bushels of wheat and rye, with a possibility of the shortage being twice as great. Added to this is the almost total failure o' the potato crop m Ireland, and a serious curtailment in the yie d of potatoes on the Continent. Even with the utmost economy of distribution and an unheard of consumption of American maize, grave distress is before the masses of Europe. The Agriculturist says the enormous ex- Jiorts of wheat and flour trom the United btates in August proves that Europe re gards the situation as worse than it has yet been painted. Otherwise, why should she buy in a single month close upon the harvest nearly half as much wheat as* she took from the United Btates during the entire first eight months of the year following one of cur largest wheat crops and a period of bed rock prices? Indeed, August wheat exports were almost treble tljoso ot the same month last year and over tour times as much as the average exports at this season of late years. For the first time in years wueat bran and middlings are being exported to Europe thus early in the season. The Agriculturist accepts these circumstances as the strongest possible reason for believing that prices of wheat are to-day unnaturally low. It looks for a sharp advance in all cereals as soon as the demand realizes the limited extent of the world’s actual supply. Although noted for its conservatism, toe Agriculturist re news its judgment that every bushel of high grade wheat is to-day worth fully one dollar on the farm where it grew. Lesson Text: “Christ Foretelling His Death’*—John xil., 20-36— Golden Text: John xib, 32—Commentary. THE NATION’S DOMAIN. Mr. Carter’s Report Showing the Eu- , tries on Public Lands. The report of Comtnissiouer Carter of the operations of tho Gen''~al Land Ofiica dur ing the tisc-l year, ended June 30, 1S91, has been made public at Washington. The cash sales of public lan Is amounted to 2,143,090 acres. Of this a mount 1.391.413 acres were preemption cish entries, 259.913 acres were timber and stone land entries. 490,433 acres were desert land entries, 33,691 acres were mineral and 30,955 acres were private entries. Of the miscellaneous land entries (not cash) 5,040,393 acres were homesteaded; 1*39.006 acres were entered under the Timber Culture law. The railroad selections amounted to 1,857,572 acres, the State selections to 174,404 acres, the Indian allotments to 117,485 and the original swamp selections to 23,167 acres. The total area of public land entries and selections made during the year is given at 10,357.231 acres, exclusive of 120,469 acres of Indian Sands. The total cash receipts during the year were $5,429,220. Filings were 'made during the year to the number of 20,241, lees on which amounted to $77,069. The num ber of final entries made during the vear way £1,934, representing an acreage of 7,359,905. 20. “And then there were certain Greeks among them that came up to worship at the feast.” A special prayer for such of these •is should come from a far country for His Name’s sake is recorded in I Kings viii., 41- 43. The least spoken of was the passover (verse 1), that one concerning which Jesus said that He greatly desired it (Luke vii. , 15). These Greeks were either Grecian Jews (Actsvi., l),or proselytes to the Jewish faith (Acts xi., 10). who had come up to at tend this great annual festival. 21. “Thesame came therefore to Philip, which was of Bethsaida of Galilee, and de- -ired him. saying, Sir, we would see Jesus.” l uey shall not be disappointed who sincere ly desire to see Jesus. 22. "Philip cometh and telleth Andrew, and again Andrew and Philip tell Jesus.” It seems a round-about way to come to Jesus even through the best of people. There is no necessity for any one to come between Jesus and even the worst of sinners, for He says “Come unto Me all ye;” and those wuose sins are as scarlet are entreated to “Come, now. and let us reason together’ (Matt, xi., 28; Isa. L, 18); and to all the as surance is given that no one shall on any consideration be turned away (John vi., 37). ' 23. “And Jesus answered them, saying, The hour is come that the Son of Man should be glorified.” The middle wall of partition between Jew and Gentile is about to be broken down by His death so soon to be accomplished (Eph. iL, 14), and then would the Geutiles be fellow heirs, and of the same body and partakers of His promise in Christ by the Gospel (Eph. iii, 6). 24. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, ex cept a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideh alone; but if it die, it oringeth forth much fruit.” Any child can understand the illustration, and knows well that a grain of corn will remaiu only a sin gle grain unless it is planted in the earth, but if planted, and there is a harvest, see the many ears and the hundreds of grains on. each ear. 25. “He that loveth his life shall lose it; end he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it into life eternal.” Self-renun ciation is the only scriptural rule of life. Jesus emptied Himself; made Himself of no reputation; pleased not Himself; sought not His own will; though rich became poor for us, and was content to bo off and have noth ing, that in resurrection power and glory He might have all things. Only those who •re willing to follow Him, denying self and daily taking up His cross, can expect to share His glory with Him. 26. “If any man serve Me, let him follow Me; and where I am, there shall also My servant be; If any man serves Me, him will My Father honor.” If we follow Him in His humiliatiou we shall in due time share His glory. “If we suffer with Him, we shall reign with Him” (II Tim. ii., 12.) 27. “Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father save me from this hour, * * * but for this cause came 1 unto this hour.” He realized the agonies that were before Him; not so much the physical suffer ing did He dread as the soui agony which no mortal can conceive, yet He goes res olutely forward. He will finish His work, and “He shall se? the travail of His soui and be satisfied (Isa. liii., 11). 28. “Father, glorify Thy name. Then came there a voice from heaven saying, I have both glorified it, and will glorify it again.” This is the third time that a voice from heaven spake with Him (Math, iii., 17; xvi:., 5). He always pleased the Father, and the Father always heard Him (chapter viii. , 29; xi., 42). *Vlien we seek in all things only the glory of God, then we may have the consciousness of pleasing God and know that He always hears us (chapter xv., 7-9; xvi., 26, 27, lieb. xiii., 15, 16). 29. “The people therefor that stood by and heard it, said that it thundered; and others said. An angel spake to Him.” The people heard a noise, hut not the won is. The voice of God is to multitudes nothing more than au indistinct rumbling sound, with no ^ Lificenee. -Kvetrtcr many who prulgSTtb be His people the plain words of His book seem to have no meaning. 80. “Jesus answered and said, This voice came not because of Me. but for your sakes.” So also at the grave of Lazarus He prayed for f_» sake of those who stood by, that they might believe that the Father sent Him (chapter xi, 42). In our daily life there are always some standing or sitting bv, or look ing on, to whom we may by word and deed testify of Jesus, and that He sent us. Are we careful so to do? 31. “Now is the judgment of this world; now shall the prince of this world be cast sut.” The devil is called the prince, and the fod of this world, and the whole world is said to lie in the wicked one (chapter xiv., 80; vxi., 11; II Cor. iv., 4. John, v., 19, R. V.). He wasonce in the truth (viii., 44), but fell; he is now the prince of the power of the air (Eph. ii., 2); soon he shall be cast down to the earth, then shut up in the bottomless pit for 1000 years, after which he will be cast into the lake of fire prepared for him and his angels (Rev. xii., S; xx., 2, 3, 10; Math, xxv., 41). Judgment has been passed upon him; it is only the execution of the sen tence that is delayed. But the time is set and it shall come. 32. “And I, if I be lifted up from the earth, will draw all men unto Me.” The next verse says that this refers to the man ner of His death. "As Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Sou of Man be lifted up, that whosoever be- lieveth in Him should not perish but have eternal life” (chapter ilu, 14). It is not His life to be imitated, but His death in our stead that draws us to Him; then by His Spirit in us we are able in some measure to live His life. 33. “This He said, signifying what death He should die.*' That He was not to be stoned to death, but should die by crucifix ion, was foreshown in the ritual of the pass- over lamb, not a bone of which was to be broken (Ex. xii., 46), and was foretold in Ps. xxii., 16, “They pierced My hands and My feet.” 34. “The people answered Him, We have beard out of the law that Christ abi'deth forever, and how sayest Thou, The Son of Man must be lifted up? Who is this Son of Man?” They evidently understood the Son of Man to lie the Christ, and they also seem to have understood that being lifted up meant death, but they had not received the truths concerning the dea th and resurrection of their Messiah which they might have road in their law in the story of Isaac, or in the j typical two birds used at the cleansing of 1 the leper, or in Cue plain statements of Ps xvi., 9, 1ft; Isa. liii., 10. 35. “Then Jesus said unto them. Yet a lit tle while is the light with you. Walk while ye have the light lest darkness come upon you, for he that walketh in darkness know- | eta not whither he goeth.” Light is our first and last and constant need, and that Light is Jesus Himself. But "The god of this world bath blinded the minds or them | which believe not, lest the light or the gior- 1 ious gospel of Christ, who is the ima^e of > God, should shine unto them ’ (II Cor. iv., I 4». 36. “While ye have light believe in the light, that ye may be the cuildreu of light. These things spake Jesus and departed, and | did hide Himself from them.” Children ol darkness and children of light aro the twe classes in the whole world. Gen. i., 2, do scnlies the condition of every soul outside ol Christ—“Without form aud void, aui lying in darkness,” but when the word of God finds an entrance then there is light and life, and no need of any further darkness.— Lesson Helper. THE KING IN HIS BEAUTY. I wandered, ore r.iirht. in spirit To the land that is far away. The earth was sleeping in darkness, But my path was as light as day. I passed through the pearly portals. And entered the heavenly fold, ’Mid a host of angel welcomes I stood on the street of gold. I took my place in glory With the happy white-robed throng, While the golden bells of Heaven Kane out the glad new song. But fairer than all the brightness I saw in that radiant place, Was the sight of “the Kingmd His beauty,” As I saw Him face to face. And sweeter than all the music That angel choirs could sing, Wa* the well-known voice of Jesus, My own Redeemer, King. Bring the great of every nation All treasure rich and’rare, Heaven would not be heaven Without my Jesus there. —[Katie A. Clarke. WHAT PRAYER CAN DO. * There was once a colored woman who used to sit in one corner of the gallery on the Sab bath and single out some young man as he came in at the door, and pray lor him till she saw him come forward* to join the church. Then she dropped him and singled out another, and prayed for him in like man ner till she witnessed a similar result. Then shedropped him and took a third, and so on, till at the end of twenty years she had seen twenty young men join themselves to the Lord in a perpetual covenant; young men with whom she had no personal acquaint ance whatever. This fact was disclosed to her pastor on her death bed. TEMPERA*. HEAVY BEER-DRINKERS SHlyKD. It is said that disease of tbo is very prevalent in Munich, where thumption of beer amounts, on the averafitfS litres per head annually, and in tme place the duration of life among the ng trade is short rr than that of tue g( popula tion. Whereas the averagt attained among the latter is 53.5 yeant of ale house keepers is 51.35 years, a brewers 42.33 years. The same note that for the whole of Germany the amonsump- tion of beer per head amounts! litres, but for Bavaria it is 299 litres. “THE INTEMPERANCE'.” The United States has beead by Dr. Beard “The Intemperance 1 Here is the birthplace of the disease>riety, as distinct from the habit of ikenness. Here this malady has developoner and more rapidly than elsewhere*re it was first stu iied. Here inebriaUums were first established. Here total >ience so cieties started, tor it was seer here, at last, no half way treatment iled. No moderate use of liquor is wise 'i climatic influences have so intensified feverish rush of lite to which racial, suud polit ical factors contribute. GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD. “He certainy is a most generous man. He has given twenty thousand dollars to the work of foreign missions. It’s one of the most magnificent gifts ever received.” “Not quite so,’’ was the answer. “I know of at least one more generous giver.” “Really? Well, I was looKing through the reports of the last few years, and 1 saw nothnig like that on the donation list.” “No; the gift to which I allude has not appeared in print, and will be known by very few except the Lord. The other day I was calling on a friend of mine, a very aged man. who told me. with tears running’down his cheeks, that his only son was about to leave him for missionary work in a far-away land. The father had discovered that the young man felt called of God to such service, but was tarrying at home for his sake. ‘How could I keep him back?’ said the old man. T had prayed nearly ail my life, “Thy king dom come;” “.Send forth laborers into Thy harvest;” and with all the pain of parting with my boy, in the certainty I should never see him again on earth, there is a deep joy in giving him up for Christ’s sake.’ ” THE MYSTERIES OF LIFE. The great human duties are prayer and work: Prayer for every needed blessing, and work to realize it; prayer, as though God must do the whole, and work as though we must do it all ourselves. These are the two poles of the great galvanic battery. But who that waits to know the philosophy of answered prayer will ever pray? And who that waits to be sure there shall be no mis take, will ever work? The hand that beckons us to glory waves at us out of impenetrable clouds. AVe walk in a way we know not. We labor for our Master,’ but never know beforehand which shall prosper, whether this or that. AVe lay wise plans, and they miscarry. AVe commit grosfc blunders, anil they are overruled for good. AVe run towards the light, and it goes out in dark ness. AVe sink shivering into the darkness, and find it light. We pray for joys, and they mildew into griefs. AV r e accept the griefs, and they blossom into ioys. Today the apple turns to ashes, and tomorrow the stones are bread. AVe exult in some pros perity, and get leanness with it. We mur- mur at some adversity, and find it big with blessing. A\ r e run towards open doors, and ibnow- Iifeiid-againa a gwaits Asa.lL— move against that wall at the call of duty, and it opens to let us through. The lines of our lives are all in God’s hands. What shall befall us, we cannot know. AA’hat is expedient, we cannot tell Only this we know, that God would shape us to himself, whether it would be by dis cipline of joy or the discipline of sorrow. To make us perfect as he is perfect, this is the end of all his reA’elations: while everything not helpful to this he hides awav out of our light. Verily, “the secret thiifgs belong unto the Lord our God; but those things which are revealed belong unto qs and to our children forever, that we may do as the words of this law.” Partial revelation,tbeu, is the method, and obedience to the end.— [Roswell D. Hitchcock, D.D., LL.D. It seems as though many of the re cently pnblished stories of Rnssian cruelty toward the unhappy Jews ol that country must be exaggerated, as it hardly seems possible that even a semi-civilize i nation would permit such atrociries. Of course it is well known that the Russian Government has been guilty of great cruelty and inhumanity in dealing with those peo ple, but that it would be a party to such barbarities as recently reported from Boston is almost too much to be lieve. If there is any snch thing as retributive justice, the brutal Roman offs should be made to feel it, and in the fullest measure. THE PARTING OF THE TAVO WAYS. Through the prophet Jeremiah the Lord spoke to his people, saying, Behold, I set be fore you the way of Life and the way of Death. They had their choice between the two. Christ tells us that wide is the gate and broad is the way that Jeadeth unto death and many there be that go iu thereat. The way is made alluring by all the pleasures that Satan can invent, to entice travellers to enter, and at first, tbe traveller is be guiled, and gives himself up to the pleasures the way affords, stopping here and there to take a sip of the sweets which are found therein, but, alas! they turn to bitter dregs, and he begins to grow tired of the way. He is saturated with his allure ments. The enjoyments are unsatisfactory, and he longs for something more lasting, something more solid upon which to feed, something which shall supply the wants of the higher nature which God has implanted within him, and whicti refuses to be satis fied. Happy then the traveller who shall retrace his steps ere it be too late, and enter the oilier gate, which Christ tells us is straight, and the way narrow, and few there be that find it. At the entrance of this gate stands the cross, and whosoever enters must accept the cross by faith in him who bore their sins in his own body upon it, and whose blood has washed their garments white; then may tliey enter in and travel to the celestial city, for through no other way can the city be reached. The traveller in this narrow way is greeted by different sights from those that lay belore him in the broad way. Crosses rise up before him as he travels along, but assistance is always near to help him bear them. «nd the unseen guide is always near to aid in every time of need. Sufferinsr he sees on either hand, and opportunities are given him to help others and do them good, by which he brings a blessing unto his own soul, both lasting and satisfying; fir different from what the other way brought. These two ways part at the cross, anil we are compelled to make our own choice: we must travel one way or the other. But let us ever remember that if we choo>e the broad, and to human eyes the mo-t alluring way, we are in danger of reaching that point where we cannot return if we would. There is a boundary, unseen by mort I eye. fixed by the Creator himself, which, when passed, makes it impossible for us to return; and we are compelled to go on, down, down, down, until we shall come to the end aud find eternal death. Let us see to it that we have entered through the new and living way which Christ conse- ’rated for us, and that the cross is our guide of entrance. But if we have been enthvd by tbe ailurins; schemes of Satan and hi-fol lowers. and are travel ing the broad and un satisfactory way, let u? turn about, make our way to the cro-s. and enter tbe path which leadeth unto the tree of life t' at we may eater in through the gates into the city. — [RelLious Herald. RUM ON THE RA The Locomotive Engineers'thly Jour- na! contains the followingjfficers of many of our most important ms ot late have issued very stringent ru jth regard to the use of intoxicating liqu Employes who use intoxicants to excess, twhen off duty, must impair their abilityiroperly discharge their duty, and when service the company may, with absolubpriety, decline to continue to emplovn. The rule against the employes of rail) compa nies drinking intoxicating liq at all when on duty is one the justif which cannot be reasonably questionedthere is scarcely another class of men brains sbomd be so clear or nerves so - y as the class whose duty makes them mutable tor the sate operation of a great m trans portation system. All railroa u should ue absolutely free from the *- s 0 ( the drinking habit. The railroad toye must have at all times, when on d absolute control of his thought and hanoth must be steady, alert, sure. It is only good for the security of the travelinblic; it is equally good for employes wb vocation in many branches of the sei> exposes them to the danger of seriou fatal in jury . It is worthy of notice tthe Broth erhood of Locomotive Engiuemade the sobriety of its members the-y corner stone of its principles, and shoits wisdom by so doing.” GIN AS A CIVILIZE Gin is the great agent .loved for spreading white influence ije' Congo country, and the only succei one. It composes four-fifths ot the ent mports of the basin, being made espec^ for the traffic in Holland, at a cost obout five cents a bottle. Trade gin it failed, and with it are purchased nearly af the pro ducts of that region brought European markets. It will go ten timiurther in barter than an equal value in b. A na tive will often sell a lump of per as big as he can carry and worth sy cents a pound for one bottle of gin. “Cloth is not always negotia. taat im ported for trading purposes of coarse quality and altogether inferioo the fab ric—resembling linen in finenesivliich the savages make themselves by plug grass. Traders often return to the coavith their goods unsold, because the black.jli not ac cept cloth, demanding gin. A tie of gin pays for two days’ work. The tives are much addicted to intoxicationnd they find that gin makes them drunk cker than the beverage they compose tlxselves by fermenting palm sap. Rum goesually well with them and enormous quanta of it are brought in ships from Boston, lea is the main source of supply, together tn Testa ments and hymn books from t.Bible So cieties.—Washington Star. THE WORLD’S TEMPERANC3 C1R3S3. The Glasgow (Scotland) Refoer. refer ring to the action of the Natio: Temper ance Society in calling a AVoi 3 Temper- _anga Congress, tobc held ii time of the Columbiah “The American Temperance done a notable thing. - It has callj Congress of temperance men for has asked, and will doubtless hearty and extensive response to tion. There have been Congre less world-wide in their character,! vals in the history of the temperai ment, and they have proved of immi fit to the cause in many ways, help thinking, however, that the projected by our American brethi various accounts, prove of deeper I and more beneficial in its results, th! its predecessors. It may seem a Ij ahead to 1893, but it indicates a dj^mna- tion to secure the fullest possible Jhresenta- tion of every nationality and ,.-6vet organi zation on the entire globe. Many ho have to consider the question qi travelig thou sands of miles, and being absent ft.n home for possibly two or three months at r^etch, require to lay their plans and makTfdr ar rangements fa,r in advance, and jHl not consider tue date as unnecessarilvrfctant. There will be much to discuss beaxg on all the asp&ets of the question, and b$.he best intellect that the movement hasenlisted. Without doubt the influence of sui a gath ering will be fruitful in results to le whole world. AVe venture to express a earnest hope that Scotland will be well rwesented on the occasion. It has always >orne a worthy part in the great tempera i» enter prise, and it will not, we are sure, f behind on this great occasion.” At a meeting of the Executive Coimittee of Friends’s Union for Pniianth 'op- Labor, held at Sea Girt, N. J., the fobovng was unanimously adopted.- “I. Frien’ds’ Union for Philanthiolc La bor, representing New York, Bitimore, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois Yearly Metings, heartily approves the holding of a VVorld’s Temperance Congress in Chicago, at the tinje of the Columbian Exposition as ar ranged by the National Temperance ociety, in connection with the World's Ongress Auxiliary, and will appoint dlegates thereto. “II. AVe observe with much reget and apprehension the still widely prevaent use of intoxicants, the increased and inceasing production of distilled and fermented iquors, the many and ominous combinations ol dis tillers, brewers, and saloon-keepers in Na tional, State, and local organ izatio|S, and we would urge united and vigorous qfort on the part of all friends of temper a tic to dis courage injurious social drinking usaes, an i for the entire suppression of the mnutac- ture and sale of all alcoholic liqu rs for beverage purposes.” Milk in a Paper Baj. A merry-hearted lad,who is often sent on errands of household needs aud neces sities, discovers a new method of “briti"- in" home groceries and sich.” “Here are two pounds of chops, good scant : weight,” said the grocer to the young man of the family who had brought in an order from his wife; “now for your milk—where’s your can? The young man of the family protested that he hadn’t read the order, and had not been equipped with a can. “Never mind,’^ said the grocer; “here, hold on to it, and he dexterously slipped one paper bag inside of another and filliped the corners into place. The two quarts of milk were poured into the inner hag. “The grease in the milk prevents its go ing through the paper, as water would, explained the grocer. “Ihad hard work to get people to believe that they could carry milk in a bag at first, and let it go at my own risk. I've sent it so half a mile by slow transit; still, I’d advise you not to stop to tell long stories on the way home.”—American Dairyman. The Man-Faced Crab. One of the most singular-looking creatures that ever walked the or “swam the waters under the earth is tbe world-famous man-faced crab of Japan. Its body is hardly an inch in length, yet the head is fitted with a face which is the perfect counterpart of that a Chinese coolie; a veritable missing link, with eyes, nose and mouth all clearly de fine.!. Tliis curious and uncanny crea ture, besides the great likeness it bears to a human being in the mitter of facial features,is provided with two legs,which seem to grow from the top of its head and hang down over the sides of its face. Besides these legs, two “feelers,” each about an inch in length, gro # w from the “chin” of the animal, looking for all the world like a Colonel’s forked beard. These man-faced crabs fairly swarm in the inland seas of Japan.—St.Louis lie- puUic. Grasshoppers In California. Professor Coquillet of the Entomo logical Section of the Agricultural De partment of the Government, who has been investigating the grasshopper in vasion in California, is credited with the statement that the most effective remedy for the grasshopper plague would be to burn over the breeding places. To do this before tbe little hoppers swarm in the early summer could hardly do any good, as the females deposit their eggs nearly an inch below the surface of the ground, where fire would not reach them. The pests might be destroyed by fire be fore they are able to fly, but in the foot hill aud Valley sections of California this procedure would be full of danger, as fires could not well be controlled in tho dry grass. It is true that plowing around the fields might render it safe to start fires, and if all farmers would do this in the locality where the hoppers are known to breed, the young ones might be de stroyed. It is a noticeable fact that \ v Nothing can be said in favor of the best medicine in the world that may not be said of the most worthless. In one case, it’s true; in the other, it isn’t;—but how can you distinguish ? Judge by what is done. There’* only one blood-purifier that’s guar- antecd. It’s Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery—and this is what fore, if the virgin plains in the eastern portion of tbe country were torn up oc casionally by the plow and harrow, thus exposing the eggs, the grasshopper nuisance in this section might be dis posed of. San Francisco’s cable system is greater by fifty miles than that of any other city. J.S. Parker. Fredonia, V Y„ Baye: Shall not call on vou for the $100 reward, for 1 be lieve Hall’s Catarrh Cure will cure any case of catarrh. Was very bad.’ Write him tor Sold by Druggists, <5c. particular^ The supply of natural gas Penn., is becoming exhausted. at Pittsburg, Bismarck’s Gallantry. In spite of his old age, Prince Bis- marck has lost none of his gallantry. To a young lady who lately asked to be al lowed To kiss his hand, he replied, “Oh, no! That is not good enough for so charming a damsel 1” Whereupon His Excellency, without further ado, gave the young lady a kiss. Th3 Prince is very active in business matters when at home on his estate. In his brick-kilns at Friedrichsruhe he is producing a new kind of brick and tile. In place of his saw-mills, which were burned down not long ago, he has erected new ones,which are busily engaged in executing some large orders for wood pavement. The Prince's income from his mills and other industrial works reported to be up ward of $50,000 a year.—flew York 2'ribune. Young mothers, who regain strength but slowlv, should bear in mind that natures greatest assistant is Lydia E. Pinkbani s V ege- table Compound. It has no rival as thousands testify. ^ Its Excellent Qnnlltiea Commend to public approval the California liquid fruit remedy Syrup of Figs. It is pleasing to the eye and to the taste, and by gently act ing on the kidneys,liver and bowelsjt cleanses the system effectually, thereby promoting the health and comfort of all who use it. A11 Oddity In Painting. The provincial cities of France are just now being entertained by a remarkable artist, one who displays wonderful skill in her own peculiar style of painting. With plates of various colored sand before her, she takes the sand in her right hand and causes it to fall in beauti ful designs upon a table. A bunch of grapes is deftly pictured with violet sand, a leaf with green sand and relief and dnrj by those led away jtof roses rith g’-eat ithe fic. sand, ail lade with an redwood trees, growing Rde, support the timbers and if a railroad in Sonoma County, The limbs have been sawed off seventy-five feet above the surface of a creek, and at this height the railroad crosses a ravine. Cal. The Elixir Of life. Is what my wife and I call Hooi’s Sarsv parllla. She was In delicate healta two yean, at last confined to her bed, canted oy dyspepsia ant neuralgia. She has taken three bottles of Hood's Sarsaparilla, and has regained her health end strength, can eat anything without distress. S. Stotek, Ex.-U. S. Marshall, Charlestown, JeTerson County. W. Va. N. B. Be sure to get Hood’s Sarsaparilla The best blood purifier the best nerve helper, the best strength builder. HOOD’S* I’ll, I S—Invigorate the liver, regu late the bowls. Effective, but pen Ue. Price HSc. CREAM BALM CATARHH “Catar^; A Boston combine has pnt up the price of kindling wood forty cents a bundle. The first effect of this will be that the coal-oil can, the kitchen stove, and the lighted match will com bine to put up the hired girl oftenei than ever before. The Sheriff who seized the costumes of au “Evangeline' company to satisfy a judgment would be a good man foi the sharpers who operate in bogus building aud loan associations to tackle He evidently believes in the possibility of getting something for nothing. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTE . The Helena (Mont.) AV. C. T. U. las put up a fountain costing $16J, witii Miss irancas Willard s name on it. In Nauvoo, III., a \Y. C. T. L. vas re cently organiz?J, uni the mother si.oerior of the Catholic convent joined aui pir on a white ribbon. Consumption of b3er is on the iucriase all over Franc?, especially in Baris. It has a teadenev to m »ue the or liuary gar and lively Frenchman dull and heavy. Miss Frances Willard regar is the pi .nting of scientific t? nperanee educatio 1 n the public schools of tae United States ts the gran lest achieve.naut yet effected b/ the temperance crusaders. Brewers in Philadelphia have noticed that when there is a prolific yield of fruit tLere is a great falling off in the consu npinn of beer. This is partieuiary th? case when there is an abundant supply oi wateraie.ons. Rev. Sam Jones says: “I an lerstanl that by ac'ua! matfiexatics it ha* oeea saown that we sea I to the h.-athen countries 13.000 barrels ot wuis-cy to one missionary. The devil doesn't car? how maiy missionaries you send, if you send mat am rant of wtnssy along with the n. The enforcement ol the recent order of the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railroad, prohibiting railroad men from frequenting saloons, has had the effect to close one sa loon in E.khart, In 1., waere the Lake njhore shops are located, and others complain o* a greatly reduced custom. The Local Option Learue of New Sputb Wales states that of the 141 memtws farm ing tae new parliament seventy-fi ve, had pledged themselves to support local option without compensation, wade a large Dum ber declared tnemse.ves favorable iu rjefer ence to local option, but had given no with regard to compensation. when applied into the nostrils will be ab sorbed, effectually cleansing the head of catarrhal virus, caus ing healthy secretions. It allays inflammation, j r elects the mem brane from additional colds, completely heals the sor -s and re stores sense of taste and smell. r HAY FEVER] IV 50 c I able. ELY New Yorlt. J ■dg® ADWAY PILLS Its Great Liier aiid Stamacli Remedy For the cur* of all disorders of the Stomach, Liver, Bowel?, Kidneys, Bladder, .Nervous Diseases, Los- ot Ajpetde. Headache, Coiistipaiion, Costive ness, In- Qlge-tion. Biliousness, rever. Inflammation of th * B *we s. Bile-' and a 1 derail/♦*me;it- of trie lut rnal Viseera. Purety v vefuble. e.mtaiuiug no mercury, minerals, or de.eterious drug.'. PERFECT DI3ESTI3N way’s Pill- every morning, about *ea o'clock, as a dinner pii . By so doing SICK HEADACHE Dyspepsia, Pi ail Stomach, Biliousness, will beavoided and the P od that is eaten c ntrii.ute its uourishin. pro. ertjes tor the support of the natural waste of tne body. Observe the following symptoms resulting fr-ru DiseAe of the Digestive Organs ; constipation, I..ward Plies, ru.lne-s < f the Blood In the Heal, Acidity of the Stomach. Nausea, Heartburn, Disgust of Food, Fu!lne--s or Weight In the Stomach, Sour Eructations, Stating or Fluttering of the Heart, (/hosing or Suffocating Sensations when in a lying to ture. Dimness or Vi-i.in, Dots or Webs before the fclght. Fe*er and Dull Pain in the Head, Deficiency of Perspiration, Yellowness of the Skin and Eye-, Pain in the Side, Chest, Limbs, and Sudden Flushes Of Heat. Burning In the Flesh. A few doses or RA I>\\'A Y*' PI 1,1.81 will free the system of all the above named d sorders. Prce 25 eta. per lex. Sold by all druggists. Send a letter stamp to OR. RADAVA * A. CO.. No. 32 Warren street, New lork. ?W~ Informa tion worth thousands will be sent to you. TO THE PUBLIC. Be sure and oak for RADWAY’S and see that the name “ RADWAY “ la on what you buy. It is expected that 500,000 bushels of wheat will be harvested from the DaK rymple farm, near Casseltown, North Dakota. Preventa Pneumonia. Dr. Hoxsie’s Certain Croup Cure positively prevents pneumonia, diphtueria and mem braneous croup. It has no rival. S"'>UI by drug- cists or will be mailed on receipt ot 50 cia. Ad dress A. B. Hoxsie, Buffalo, N. Y. The Convenience ol f-olld Trains. The Erie is the only railway rnnmne solid trains over its own tracks between New York and Chicago. No change ot care for any class of passengers. Rates lower man via. any other first-elass line. FITS stopped free by Da. Kline’s Great Nekve Restoker. No nts after arst day’s usa. Marvelous cares. Treatise and &i trial battle tree. Dr. Kline, U31 Arch St.. Pin La., Ba. For a 2c. stamp, sent with address to Lydia E. Binkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass., ladies will receive free, a beautiful iilustrateu book, ’Guide to Health and Etiquette.” or cure, in every case, you get your money back. Isn’t it likely to the best? All tbe year round, as well at one time as another, it cleanses and pur ifies the system. All blood-poisone must go. For Dyspepsia, Bilious ness, Scrofula, Salt-rheum, Tetter, Erysipelas, or any blood-taint or die- order, it is an unequalcd remeiy. It’s the cheapest, too. With this, you pay only for the good you get. And nothing else is “just as good.** It may be better—for the dealer. But he isn’t the one that’s to be helped. EvervMo tHER Should Have I* in The House. Dropped on Sugar, Children iovc to take Johnson’s Anodyne Liniment tor Crou p, Colds. Sore Throat. Tonsilitls, Colic. Cramps anuP&tas. Re lieves all Summer Complaints, Cuts and Bruises Ilka magic. Sold everywhere. Price 85c. hy mail; 6 bottlei Express paid. SALS. JOHNSON A CO.. Boston. Maw. | — ' * ' I To cure costiveness the medicine must do more than a purgative; it niust contain tonic, alterative aud cathartic properties. Tirti’s possess these qualities, and speedily re- Store to the bowel* their natural peristaltic motion, ho essential to regularity# _ VV# T. Fasisnllt Washington, l>. O* 40-pagre boo«i Irn®# PATENTS __ WANTED. L alary ana ixpense* paid. BROWN BROS. CO. Rochester. N Y. 100 PE2 CXNT win r 18 CASH F riem ■ ■Hi* ot x-r Corwt*. Belt*. Irnihei and MtdletMB Sac.oli. l.rr.torv Or •rldmman, 313 B*w«y,N.X sal k ? man mm » “SacldIl fr*. HOW TO ge:t well is a question of vital importance, but it is equally important that you use some harmless remedy; many people completely Avreck their health by taking mercury and potash mixtures, for^mples and J^lotchesT dr some' trivial disease. S. is pur/} v vegetable containing no mercury And is at the same time an infallible cure for skin diseases. Treatise on Blood and Skin diseases free. THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Atlanta, 6a. or poison of any kind. 55 “German Syrup We have selected two or Croup. three lines from letters freshly received from pa rents who have given German Syrup to their chiMren in the emergencies of Croup. You will credit these, because they come from good, sub stantial people, happy in finding what so many families lack—a med icine containing no evil drug, which mother can administer with con fidence to the little ones in their most critical hours, safe and sure that it will carry them through. Ed. L. Willits, of Mrs. Jas.AV. Kirk. Alma, Neb. I give it Daughters’ College, pnTOBiAs UNEXCELLED l AlM’Mbl) KXTKKNAl-lsV you Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Pains in the Limbs, Bad or oinst, Mumps, Sara Throat, Colds, Sprains, Bruises, Sticks oi insects, Mosquito Bites. to my children when troubled with Croup and never saw any preparation act like iL It is simply mi raculous. Fully one-half Harrodsburg, Ky. I have depended upon it in attacks of Croup with my little daugh ter. and find it an in- vrduable remedy.. of our customers are mothers who use Boschee’s Ger man Syrup among their children. A medicine to be successful Avith the little folks must be a treatment for the rudden and terrible foes of child- i hood, whooping cough, croup, diph- ! .“I TAKEN INTERNA 1.1.Y Ii nct« like a charm (or Cholera Ilorbas, Dlnrrliu-u, Dywcntery, Colic, Cram#', Naa» sea, s*icu MeaUuclic, Occ. W arranted pcrloctly hariiile,,. oteeqatk nccompunyinK each bottle, alno direction* lor unc. Its SOOT It INI. and 1’ENETRA- TIM; qualities are .e»t unmccliutcH. Try i it and lie convinced. Brice 'Ao *uu *>u cents. Soiit l»y all dray* ; c ist». I DEBOT. 40 Mt'KKAY tT., NEAV YORK I Y$' theria and the dangerous inflamma- 50 Trj ill. c-nr., HAY FEVER A particle Ip applied Into each nostril and ;s agree* Price 5u cents at or tjy m-dl. i BROTHERS. 56 Warren Street. New tionsof delicate throats and lungs. @ i a 3 2.50 Zoo iW' EWIS’ 98 ^ in Powdered and a-erfumed. (PATENTED.) Strongest andpu rest Lye made .Makes the hest perfumed Hard 'Soap in 20 minutes without boil ing. It is the l>t-stfor softening water, cleansing waste pipes, disinfecting sinks. Tlosets.v. asli ing bottles, paints. creoA etc. PtNNA., SAi.: rtf-6, CO., Gen. Agents, Bhila.. Ba. 2.25 ZA F0R U 'V.Ul# LADIES . ^ooa'bs £0R B9Y3 I75i HAY FEVER c tired to Stay Cured & ASTHMA lil V.'E want ihe r:r.n:c and addre of every st fferer in the U.S. .uid la. Address B. Harold M. 1)., Buffalo. X. Y. Iff STU I) V, BooK-!cr.i:t-fNn, iJuginess horm', IS i'mmanMhiit. AntU uCtiC, ■. ' Honor G hi. v Iati.ht «v HA 11.. Circular; f re j. iiryant’h College, 4-»7 Main -t.. I'ultaio. X. V. U,!, ro* \ W. L. DOUGLAS i S3 SHOE GENTLEMEN. The iEST fcEOZ ;n the V.'crM for tho Money. IIENTI.E.ll) X arc I.Ailli.S, save your dol- I tars by wcariiiM V, - . L. Dou.las S::ocs. They meet th# ’ «aut> ot ail datse.. and are Hie most «.-*(,uoiaical ) loot-wear ever olio;to lor ii e .coney. Beware of ; deai.-rs woo oil-.r other makes a be.a;: just aa 1 rood, end lx* .-ur,* yet: have W. L. Douiffas -.hoe*; I With Dame at/*: j.rtae slani!x"i oil bottom. \l. L. Duu^las, B-r'K'fctoK, Mass. IJT TA Iv K >« M llsTITi: I’E. .^3 Insist on ioeal advettised *.e.‘tiers supplying you. X V a I—;iu RCPTURE CURED! PositrvetvHoKs Rupture, worr* xitiiT ait da*. I Hi s *a Vtari wklcL ear } be made fargeror •jaallertoflolt cLitBgliiy coodltleR rupture. Illustrate* CaUlufM *ml m- eurciy vealed G. V House Mro- Co (PiTENT OltaOWkP.) BMOAOWAV. N- V Cl TV AG WEAVF71S SHOULD SEXD AT ONCE FOB OL’It CAROE CATALOGUE o» Plti.no- r' a O OCT* hoous 'Vehav* Srtrr rLr O PS ri " C. I POO tcn:raoai»H id 25 sworn dTdavit' inat EXCEED IffY YARDS PER DAY. Addrer; C. N. NEWCOMB, L>a.V£..;?-jkt. Iowa. >v_> ia.si.i LOOM. ELASTIC TRUSS W AN'I Ell. Bappr tiunitcr-. I’uiutei'H. la tact hio ./o :y that Il'A.YT'.S M'OHJi 01 tv* malto Ad :res*to oary, to ftud rosta. card with lull CAmY. :i0.» lllc-ft .“rovid .'<e*.r- a -L. SiOK free. •v'«ax. -vcarje*. »v aieroaia g«; woa ..at teey \tml iicxtii Helper tea* i>*r. taat. 1 .•otr. vajapu cop/ Mr. J. 11. H Y K. dll tor du.tato. X. i. PISO Best Cough Medicine. Recommended by Physicians •es where all else fails. Pleasant and agreeable to the Cores taste. Children take it without objection. By druggists. si