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SELECT SIFTINGS. The Corcan alphabet is phonetic.' j A carat is nearly four grains Troy. . f Steamboats will soon be running on Ike Sea of Galilee. 11 The theory goes that American women ue the best treated in the world. 1 The claret vintage of the year in France is said to be an unusually good one. i The father of Tecumseh was Pucke- ihinwa, a member of the Kisconoke tribe. I There is a reference to engraving in Exodus xxviii., 2. It is probable the Earliest. ‘ The deepest coal mine in the world is laid to be near Tourney, in Belgium; 8642 feet. { There are in use neatly 60,000 gas Itoves which arc let on hire by the gas companies who supply the Berlin me tropolis. ! Santa Monica, Cal. ,has a new industry, tt is that of putting up mussels in glass jars by a process that makes them very palatable. » The British Museum, London, contains several specimens of well preserved wood sf an antiquity varying from 2000 to 8800 years. A defendant in a New York Court con fessed that ho was the “most notorious liar in the world. I can’t help it. I would rather tell a lie than not.” A prehistoric smelting furnace has been discovered in New Mexico. Near by a bar of pure silver was found. The furnace had been filled with ore and never Ircd. 1 A piano was exhibited at Edinburgh {Scotland) Exhibition with two sets of Itrings and two sounding-boards. Each key, therefore, strikes six strings instead it three, and a pedal makes it possible to )lay on three only. If Among some music lately received by the Boston Traumripi was a Spanish lance by an Italian composer, with a French title-page, engraved and printed A Germany and published in London, with a Boston imprint added. ^ At Altenbcrg, Germany, recently a tattle dealer was committed to jail for a week and sentenced to pay a fine of $75. tie had sold a cow as perfect, although »e was aware that she was switching off lies with an artificial tail he had provided •or her. 1 The wild cockatoos of Queensland, when plundering a corn field, post senti- tela to give an alarm. If one bird is ibot, the others, instead of at ones tak ing to flight, hover screaming over their lead companion until many of them share Us fate. \ ; At Lincoln, Ohio, Edward Criswell was found dead within 100 yards of hii lome, his gun lying near. Ho was re turning from hunting, and is supposed lo have met his death by accident. His bird dog went home and brought the lamily to his body. Tho large-brained horses are the clever- ist. In the British Household Cavalry She horses with broad foreheads learn their drill more quickly than the others. k gentleman measured the heads of all bis hunters and found that their intelli- jenco and good sense were in proportion to tho width of their foreheads. , Roofs and Chimneys. People who meditate house building will do well to note the following from the Analytt, for what can more effectual y upset the comfort of a household than t chimney without draught) “The form if a roof often has much to do with th« irgught of a chimney. The flat roof of- era no resistance to the passage of air, nit as the pitch is increased the current a more disturbed, until with a high Utched and many gabled roof it ii sroken into innumerable edies, some of which #fc sure to curl down and fores the smoke and gases in the flue into’thj rooms below. Chimneys on such rooft should be built higher than ordinarily,* In Philadelphia the public charities during last year amounted to about $),- 800.000. Cause of Rheumatism An acid which exista in sour milk and cider, called lactic acid, is believed by physicians to be the cause of rheumatism. Accumulating in the blood, it at tacks the fibrous tissues in the joints, and causes agonising pains. What is needed is a remedy to neutralize the add, and to ao invigorate the kidneys and liver that all waste will be carried eft. We can honestly recommend Hood's Sarsaparilla for these purposes. It has cured others of rheumatism and it will cure you. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Kold bjf *11 druggist*. (1; rix fur gt. Prepend onl, t>, C. 1. Boon a CO, Apotbeurlw, Lowed, Mass. 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Critleisms on two recent Memory Systems. Ready aWmt. April 1st. Full Tables of Contents forwarded onlr to those who send stamped directed envelope. A180 Prospectn* POST FREE of the Lotsettlan An Of Never Forgetting. Address rrofAojfoajB TOtL*-*., New York. THE MERRY SIDE OF LI® ST0RI1I8 THAT are told by the WNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. * 1 * Fatman andThlnman—Asocial Duty Performed—The Philosophy Perseverance, Etc, Etc. Said Thinman to Fatman, "There doesn’t live that man Who envies you more than do I, a poor flat man.” Said Fatman to Thinman, "If I were a akin man Td like it far better; I envy a thin man.* Let fat men and lean men And all the between men— < That is. the extremes, and between them the mean men— Take counsel of wise men, And sagely advise men Not for fleeh or its absence to prize or de spise men. —Warren (Ohio) Tribune. A SOCIAL DUTY PERFORMED. “Ellen, did Miss Gadd say anything when you told her I wasn't home?” “Yes, ma’am, she said how glad she was she had caMzi."—Philadelphia Time. master the new Te Deum the other night at the church rehearsal, the organ sud- daaly stopped, and we found the boy who had been blowing it flat on his back, unconscious.” She—“What did you do, send for a doctor?” “No. We stopped Singing.”— THE PHILOSOPHY OF PERSEVERANCE. Parrott—“It’s no use, Jack, for you to kick against the inevitable!” Borrowit—“But how are you to know that it is the inevitable until your kick is made?” FOLLOWING THE PRECEDENT. “Cousin Ethel, I want you to be my wife.” “Family history establishes quite an other precedent, Henry; my mother was a sister to your father. I think we’ll follow.tho precedent.”—Baear. PREPARED FOR EMERGENCY. “Good gracious, Freddy, where have you been?” “I tell into a canal, papa.” “And with your new trousers onl” “No; I had just time to take them off before I fell in.”—Chicago Neiet. HE HAS LARGE COLLECTIONS, TOO. Ticks—“It’s getting so now that all truly great men have fads. Some have two. Take Gould for instance.” Dix—“What arc his hobbies?" Ticks—“He is a collector of orchids »nd railroads.”—Muntey't Weekly. WILL KEEP HIS WORD. “What did he say when you lent him the money?” “Said he never could repay me." “You’ll find hc*ll keep his word.” “And"the money?” “Oh, lie’ll keep that, too.”—Faiiira. Blade. AMATEUR HUNTING. “But why don’t you shoot, Mr. Secre tary? Don’t you see tho rabbit?” “I see him well enough, but you don’t know that this hunting dog of mine doesn't like the sound of a gun,and that he is sure to bite my legs if I fire.” —Flieqende Bluetter. JOHNNY WANTED A SNAP. Fond Parent—“Johnny, when you get to be a men, what do you think you would like to do for a living?'’ Johnny (aged seven)—“I think I should like to do just like grandfather— go around with my team and collect my rents.”—Button Trantcript. EXCELLENT ADVICE. Boarder (who has been helped to steak the third time)—“This is mighty tough steak, Mrs. Cookman. 1 can’t cut it." Landlady—“Suppose you try your ap petite on it. It seems to be pretty sharp.”—Detroit Free Frets. HIS BEST LICKS. “4 believe in a fellow keeping his head, although I’ve beea where more is done by an angry man than a cool one.” “How is that?” “Why, I notice when ray daddy is rand at me be atVvays gets in his best' licks.”—Philadelphia Timet. WHAT HE WANTED. Old Gentleman—“I have but one daughter, sir, and I can’t afford to let you take her from under my roof.” Young Man—“Exactly, sir; and I can’t afford to take her from under it. What I want is to live under your roof! with her.”—Detroit Free Press. AN AWFUL APPREHENSION. “I’m beginning to think my wife wants] to get rid of me. ’ Yesterday she made: me get my life insured.” “That’s only a sign of her womanly j prudence.” “But at the same time she bought a; new cook-book.”—jPAifoifcfpAia Prat. ALLAYING HIS FEARS. Nervous Passenger — “Conductor, aren’t we running dangerously fast?” i Conductor—“Well, you see, there’s a newspaper reporter riding in the engine —he’s getting up a piece about ‘Our Lightning Engineers,’ and McCiosky’s showing him a little speed, that’s all. ”— Puck. HIS SAFEGUARD. Mrs. Sanso—“I trust that we shall see a great deal of your friend when he come* in the city. My daughter will be back from Europe by the time he comes. She is s wonderful pianist, you know.” Mr. Rodd.—“Oh, my friend won’t mind that. He is as deaf as a post.”— Batar. CONVERSATION SUITED TO THE DAY. Mamma—“My dears, you should not talk about students on Sunday; it is not right. Ella and Carrie (in chorus)—“But, Mamma, we’re talking about theological students.” Mamma (with sigh of relief)—“Oh!” —Kate Field't WathingVjn. A DOUBTFUL COMPLIMENT. Chairman—“Brother Skinner submits his resignation as a member of thh society. What action shall be taken upon it?" Parliamentarian—“I move you, sir. that the resignation be accepted, and a vote of thanks be given to Brother Skinner.”—LoeetU CUiten. MANAGING MAMMA. Smart Boy—“Mamina, I want to go to sea.” Fond Mamma (with a jump)— “What?” Smart Boy— 1 J want to go to see—the minstrels this afternoon.” Fond Mamma (with a gasp of relief) —“Very well,dear,I’ll take you.”—Good Jfeut. HUMANITY. “Marie,” said Sciibbleton, as he awoke In the middle of the night, “do you hear that mouse rattling the paper in the waste basket?” “Yes; Is there anything that you wrote in it?” “Yea.” “Well, I’m going to get up and rescue the mouse.”—Arqoty. THE ROOT OF THE EVIL. He—“While tho choir were trying tq tHE NEW TREATMENT. Ignoramus (at a party a few yesn hence)—“What in the world is the mat- ter with Miss Beauty’s once lovely arms? They arc full of horrid red blotches and scratches.” Scientific Guest—“Oh, that’s All right. 9ho has simply been vaccinated against consumption, smallpox, typhoid fever, snd twenty or thirty other diseases.” Few York Weekly. A VALUABLE TIMEPIECE. The hands of the clock reached twelve and a dozen bells seemed to ring out the hour. “Gracious,” exclaimed Cholly, “I had no idea it was so late. Good night.” Tho girl gazed after him a moment and then turned the hands back to 10.30. ‘The man who invented this clock is a genius,” she remarked, gently. “It hasn't made a mistake yet in detecting a bore and scaring him away. Science is truly wonderful."—Mumey's Weekly. A PERSONAL REFLECTION. “When I look at our honored miest,” exclaimed the orator of the eroning, “and remember how be rose from a lumble position to be the president of his vast corporation I realize forcibly he truth of the saying that there is al ways room at the top.” The president of this vast corporation, i gentleman with a large bald spot on the iop of his head, made a memorandum in i little notebook, and the wages of that foung orator have never been raised. A DEFINITE IDEA ABOUT ART. Art Dealer—“Here, now, is a genuine Fork of art by one of the old masters. !t’s a perfect preservation.” Customer (from St. Louis)—“What’s t wutb?” “It’s cheap at $500.” “Yes, it’s cheap enough, but it ain't ixactly what I want.” “What kind of a picture are you look- ng for?” “I want one about five feet long and tree feet eleven inches wide to hang iver the pianner.”—Chicago Tribune. INGENUITY OF THE TRUE PATRIOT. A good story is told on an office-seeker, laid one of them: “A man can’t stay ode in Washington without becoming in inventor.” “Why how do you make that out? You lave been here over a mouth," said omebody, “and you hav» not invented inything.” “That’s all you know about it.” “Well, I’d jusi like to have you tell no what you have invented?” “Well, sir, I hadn't been here month lefore I invented a plan for fastening a iaper collar to an undershirt.”—Wash- nylon Hatchet. AN UNFORTUNATE MISTAKE. “Look here, young man,” said the' ately resigned conductor to the railroad iditor, ‘Tve always treated you white, iaven’t I?” “You have.” “And when I resigned the other day lidn’t I tell you I’d worked for the com- larfy twenty years?” “I believe so.” “And yet this is the kind of a sond- iff you give me.” And he laid the last ssuo of the paper on the table aud jointed to the notice of bis retirement, vhich stated that be “had worked the icmpauy for twenty years."—Chicayo Vcict. A NATURAL INQUIRY. A certain witty bishop found himself i few months ago crossing tho Bay of ‘'undy from Digby to St. John in cora- >any with a certain Mr. Caswell. The Say of Fundy has a reputation for tur- lulence only to be matched by the Eng- ish Channel or the Bay of Biscay. Mr. Saswell was struggling with a violent ittack of seasickness, but the bishop who was above such wca! a ss, was very iheerful aud inclined to conversation, do had (ailed, however, to catch Mr. "aewell’s name correctly and persisted in filing him “Mr. As well.” At last the luffercr, in a moment of ease, corrected lim, saying; “Caswell, my lord; my name is Cas well, not Aswell." “Oh!” said the bishop, eying him uitically, ns a new spasm seized upon lis unhappy acquaintance. “Well, Mr. Caswell, don't you think you would bo Lswell without the soa?”—Chicayo Nous. A Peculiarity of Russian Customs. Our St. Petersburg correspondent,says the London Newt, sends us a curious story of the opAatiou of the customs laws iu Russia. It appears that the Britist*. and American Congregational Church, to celebrate the jubilee of its foundation, resolved on getting a new organ, and at the expense of $2500 ob tained from London an instrument which duly arrived at Oronstadt. But here the difficulties began. There were forty cases and these happened to come in two ships, thirty-two in one and eight in an other. Church organs are practically unknown in Russia, where church mu sic is entirely vocal. The only instru ment known corresponding to the organ is one which is found in every trakteer or tea house and is of the nature of a musical box with a few pipes. The custom house officials claimed the duty on six organs, saying there were pipes enough for so many. After long negotiations the organ was allowed to passthrough under protest aud is now being erected under the supervision of the custom house authorities. Two of ficials, with swords, are on duty at the door and watch every one going out to see that he does not take an organ away with him. During Divine service the guards take an occasional peep to see that everything is above board. P. T. Barnnm’s Childhood Philosophy. If you would be as happy as a child, please one. Childish wonder is the first step in hu man wisdom. To best ploaso a child is the highest triumph of philosophy. To stimulate wholesome curiosity in tho rair.d of the child is to plant golden seed. I would rather be called the children’s friend than the world’s king. Amusement to children is like rain to flowers. Ho that makes knowledge most attrac tive to the young is tho king of sages. Childish laughter is the coho of heav enly music. The noblest art is that of making others happy. Wholesome recreation conquora evil thoughts. Innocent amusement transforms tea into rainbows. RELIGIOUS READING. If you have a kind word, say it; Throbbing hearts soon sink to rest. Ifyou owe a kindness, nay It! Life's sub hurries lo Ine west. (.’in you do a kind deed? Dolt, From despair s soul to save; Bless each day as you pass through it, Marching onward to the grave. If some grand thing for tomorrow Yon are dreaming, do it now; For the future do not borrow; Frost soon gsthers on the brow. Speak thy word, perform thy duty; Night is coming deep with rest; Stars will gleam in fadeless beauty, Grasses whisper o'er thy breast. Pays for deeds are few, my brother; Then today fulfll thy vow. If you mean to help another, Do not dream it—do it now. boil's PROMISKSt They are sure. God is not a man that he should lie; nor the son of man that he should repent; hath he said and shall he not do it? or hath he spokeu and shall he not make it good? A mother's babe was dead. For strength »nd comfort she fell back upon the promises ol God. And when asked by her pastor if she found support from them she replied, “What are the promises for, if not for such s season as this?'’ A poor boy when asked what he did when in sore trouble, answered, "1 fall flat on tha promises.” ARB YOU IN EARNZST? When at first you felt the load of your sini pressing heavily upon you and saw'yourself in a ruinous condition, without the pardon ing mercy of God through Christ, and finally yielded to be saved by grace and gave your heart to God, were you then in earnest? Did you then count the cost of living a life of self-denial, of faith and prayer, and of suffering hardships, bear crosses, and endure all the ridicule and contempt of friends,—to say nothing of the world? Were all these taken into the accounl? Or did you only look upon the sunny side of a religious life? If you were then in earnest about your soul'e salvation, why has the world, so often since, found a paramount place in your af fections? And why has Satan found it to be such an easy matter to overcome you? But to come to the more important ques tion: Are you now in esrnest about the salvation of your soul? Is your secret closet s place of dally delight, where you and your God arc enjoying holy intercourse with each other? Is your faith on the allert for higher attainments in the Christian life? Is It the earnest desire of your soul that through faith and prayer you may become more and more conformed to the holy will ami blessed image of God? Do you search the Scrip tures dally and make' them the man of your counsel? Is your voice regularly heard at the prayer-meeting? Is it a pleasure for you to support the cause of Christ by giving of your worldly possessions for charitable purposes without begrudging the gift? Now to those that can answer these plain ques tions in the sffirmative 1 would say, Let your motto he onward. Or is the reverse true of you? Is your secret closet a place you seldom visit,"and then more to quiet an accusing conscience than for the real enjoyment you find there? While in your secret chamber do you hurry over a few formal words and th’en hasten from the "boly ground" out Into the ceres and business affairs of life? Do higher at tainments appear at so great a distance, their value so uncertain, and the few that attain to them so singular, that vou think it wisdom to be content with as little religion as most professors enjoy? If your conscience re sponds yes to these pointed questions, then you rosy know that your joy and delight are centred In some created object, ana not in your Creator. Neither are you anxious to lisve your will conformed to the will of God, because you have alreadv sot up your will In opposition to His. The Bible, if read by you, is not your counsellor and guide. And "you find many excuses for non-attendance upon the public means of grace. IV Hhout particularizing further, If I have described your case, let me say beware! You yourself, end your fellowmen also know that you are not in earnest. Saints and angels look down from above and witness your Indifference and your insincerity. 8a- ian also is looking on ami triumpliantlv an ticipating the probable ruin of your soul. If you value your soul and think heaven to be worth obtaining, I Deseech you bestir yourself snd for once be in earnest to secure for yourself an “inheiltance among them Itaat are sanctified.” Be in earnest; do all tbst you can while it is day, for the night cemetb when no man can work.—[Congre gational Messenger. IN THE SUNSHINE. In a recent notice of the death of a colored man who had lived a good life, It is said of him. ,- He was a cheerful man; a Christian who loved the bright side, who walked in the light and loved the sunshine." The tiright side of life is the Christian side. The good father wants his children to “walk in the light ss he Is in the light." A man may be very devout,but if he shuts himself up Ins cell bis devotion may become superstition It would be better for him to go shout doing good. In the economy of grace there is no place for selfishness. 1 have been reading about an army officer who was killed in bat tle many years ago, leaving a wife and sever al children. Shortly after bis death a fear ful scourge carried off all his children. The widow was left desolate and alone, but she said, "I must not stay indoors and weep, I will go into the sunshine.” By going into the sunshine and mingling with friends and neighbors, she carried brightness into other hearts and homes. Bright homes make happy families. A father who is always stem and gloomy can not have a happy home, howsoever regular be may be in (ns family devotions, it has been well said that “wnerein our devotion is higher than our living, it counts for noth ing." There is a German proverb which says, “keep your eyes fixed on the stars, but do not forget to llgnt the household candles by the way.” Joyful Christians ought to let their fellowmen be partakers of their joy. Jerry MeAuley. who bad found Jesus a great Saviour, told his story “that othera might be led to adore and seek the blessed Friend who bad saved and k< pt him by bis grief." Occasional experience meetings In the churches, If properly conducted, might do much good. Tne ti friend _ be greatly comforted by the knowledge of the way In which you found peace In a time of sorrow like unto his own. The wise man said: “Heaviness In the heart of a man maketh It stoop, but a good word makrth it clad." In the epitaph of a distinguished bishop it is said of him : “He won all hearts by opening to them his own.” The love shed abroad in his own heart shone forth in his work and words, and won souls to Christ. “Wisdom’s ways are ways of pleasantness.” Light snd gladness are linked together In the Scriptures. “Light Is sown for the righteous and gladness for tbs upright in heart.” A good lady said to an infidel: “The Christian religion has saved my husband from a drunkard’s grave and made me a happy woman. What has your belief done for you The light which fills the soul of the believer with gladness here Is a foretaste of the ful ness ef joy which will be his in the presence of Ged forever. A physician who was dving looksd up just as the dawn was breaking into bts room, and exclaimed, “There is a great light. I feel so strange. A great glare of light. What is it?” A friend snd brother physician, who was at his bedside, replied, “It Is peace of God!” When Christ’s glory shall be revealed. It will be the blessed privilege of believers te be partakers thereof, and to “be glad alsc with exceeding joy.”—[N. Y. Observer. much good. The troubled heart of the who sita near you In the chapel might Tho 1H55 pattern cent (copper) with flying eagle it worth seventy-five cents. Rabbit Wool. To look at the rabbit as a wool-bearing animal and source of annual profit is a point of view that will certainly be novel to most people, but a student of the sub ject declares that the rabbit is valuable when thus regarded. He yields a wool, it is said, softer aud finer than that of sheep, and, besides its beauty, it is be lieved to have the valuable attribute of benefiting or curing rheumatism. Smell aa he la, his growth is vigorous, and it is estimated that the amount of wool pro duced by a rabbit in a year, oa be can be combed several times aud the wool grows again, ii worth about five francs, which is ss much as the wool of a lamb would fetch.—London Standard. A tramp, who fell asleep behind a kitchen stove iu a house in Ohio, began to talk, and a boy picked up enough of hie words to put an officer on his trail and have him run down for a big rob bery committed fifteen years ego. The cantaloupe is a native of America, and ia so called from the name of t place near Rome, where it was first cul tivatod. TEMPERANCE. VH1C PLANTING OF THE VINE. The flood was over; rich to soil, That promised recompense the toil, ‘ The legend" of the Talmud say, That Noah, digging hard one day, N Was asked by Satan what he sought, As with perspiring face he wrought. "I plant the grape,” the patriarch said. As from his toil ne raised his head. Said Satan, “I a favor ask. Let os together share this task.* 'rite tired man could not say nay. And so the devil had his way. A bleating Iamb he caught and killed And on the vine its blood he spilled. “Henoeforth.” said Satan, “lamblike ha, O vine, whoiasteth fruit of thee." A lion’s blood then wet the vine That it might bring forth royal wine. “Bold as a Hon shall ho be Who sippeth sparingly of theO, O vine, whose clustering cups shall holtj Juice worthy to be drunk from gold.” A pig that rooted on the plain, Was next by 8atan caught and slain. Upon the vine its blood was shed. And as it flowed hell's monarch saidt “Who drinketh to excess of thee, O wine, a very swine shall be.” Through all the ages since that time, In every nation, every clime, Wherever wine doth fill the cup, Man gives his better nature up. The lamb, with trembling, timid feet Before the lion doth retreat. The lion to a swine doth turn When wine in man’s proud veins doth burn. Who drinketh once will drink again, For Satan tempteth not in vam. Who drinketh wine his soul to bless, Full often drinketh to excess. His soul he bindeth witli a chain That few indeed can rend iu twain. —Egbert L. Hangs* in the Voice. TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. North Carolina has now two State unions, the colored women having organized there last July. Colorado was the banner State for In crease of Loyal Temperance Legions during the year now closing. The Wisconsin Woman’s Christian Tem perance Union has the largest per cent, of Increase In membership for 1S90. Arkansas whitc-ribboners hope for temper ance legislation this winter. Forty-four counties there are under Prohibition. Lady Henry Somerset, President of the British Woman's Christian Temperance Union, hopes to he present at the national convention of the United States. Mother Stewart and Mrs. Mary A. Wood- bridge are to tie delegates from the national union to the Good Templars’ gathering at Edinburgh, Scotland, next summer. The Atlanta convention resolutions urged upon the women special attention to the organization of young women into Young Woman's Christian Temperance Unions. The National Temperance Hospital, located In Chicago and belonging to the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, has treated 100 patients since last April, coming from ten States. The hospital is out of debt and in better financial condition than ever be fore. That tem[>eranco women have wonderful adaptability is shown by a somewhat recent division of their labors in the West so as to especially look after ranchmen and cowboys. Mrs. Elizabeth Houghton, of Texas, is mak ing a successful effort to get each one tn mark r calf with the initials “W. C. T. U.” and to give tho proceeds to aid the evangel istic work among themselves. Among the many beautiful banners wrought by loving brain and band for the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union that of the National Department of Peace and Arbitration is notable. It is of white satin and has a centrepiece composed of the flags of all nations, surrounded by appropriate symbols. Its motto is: “Our song is the song of angels; our sword the sword of the Spirit; our march tho march of peace.” AN OLD HAN’S REASONS. There is an old man living in the Stato of Maine who is said to be nearly ono hundred and thirty years old. Just think of it i How many changes ho must have soon during his longlife! How differout things must be from what they were when ho was young. He has had good health all his life and enjoys it now. He must have had simple, healthful habits, and what is a very telling fact, has never used strong drink. Some one asked him what he supposed was the reason for his living so long, and he replied: “I believe it is because I have always worn woollen clothes both in summer and winter, and havo left oil intoxicating liquors alone.” Bomebody told him that alcohol was needed sometimes for medicine, but ho shook his head, and re plied, that “wormwood was much better, and was always safe."— Youth's Temperance Banner. THE MODEL TOWN. The model town of Pullman, 111 —named for the founder and famous builder ot t'oa Pullmancais—is a prohibition town, ns in deed all model towns are. An Australian f entieman, becoming interested in this widely noun village, addressed a number ot quas- tions to a leading ollieial of Pullman. An English paper gives the result as follows: 1. In what year was the city of Pullman founded? Answer—1880. 2. What Is the population at present (Feb ruary, 1800)? Answer—11,000. 3. How many churches does it contain? Answer—Six. 4. How many schools also, and teachers employed? Answer—Four day schools and one night school; twenty-four t eachers. 5. How many lock-ttys or jails? Answer— None. 6. How many magistrates, with amount ot salaries? Answer—None. 7. Number of police, and their cost? An swer-Two, at seventy-live dollars per month. 8. What is the annual amount spent in ths velief of the poor? Answer—None. 9. Can you furnish us with your statistic* of crime? Answer—Wo have none. 10. Havo you any asylums, such as thoso for lunatics, orphans, benevolent, etc.? An swer—None. . 11. Is the trade in strong drink prohib ited? Answer—Yes. 12. Do you attribute to the absence of fa- silities for getting drink au improved state of morals as compared with other cities iu your State? Answer—Yes.—t/nfon Signal. A DIABOLICAL TEMPTATION. The following incident, is full of lessons for reformed men. It comes direct from a leader in Gospel temperance work: A good-hearted man who was under the power of drink, reformed and remained steadfast for niue years, amassing fifty thou sand dollars in money, becoming n director in an important temperance institution, and being instrumental iu saving one hundred and sixty-three men who had fallen. At the end of the nine years he felt altogether safe, became proud of bis success, did not like to have any ono know he was a reformed man, and ceased to attend and work in the tem perance meetings. A saloon-keeper got hold of him aud offered to wager ten dollars that this reformed man of nine years’ standing could not walk around tho block with a tea spoonful of whisk; iu his mouth. In the weakness of his pride, the poor fellow ac- •, swail ceptixl the wager," swallowed "the whisky, his appetite was fiercely aroused, he began to drink, and six years after this diabolical temptation bo died a drunkard. “Let him that standeth take heed lest he fall,” and let him remember that to work in Christ's name for others is tho surest way of being saved Simself.-IF. O. T. U. Bulletin. “THE DEVIL’S MISSIONARY ENTERPRISE.* No matter how earnest Chinese mission aries to heathen lands may bo, their effort* are often neutralized by tho conduct of nominal Christians. Here, for instance, I* the Bombay Guardian, speaking as follows, about whet is called “tho devil's missionary ontorpise:" All vessels bound for West and South Africa, coming from all ports In Europe and America, stop at Madeira. Here is the list of spirituous liquor* which passed through iu one week; it is token from the daily returns posted iu Liverpool: 900,000 coses of gin £340,000 24,<X)0 butts of rum 340,000 30,000 cases of brandy 90,000 28,000 cases of Irish whisky 50,000 800,000 demijohns of rum 240,000 30.000 barrels of rum 72,000 80,000 oases old tom 60,000 15,000 barrels of absinthe 45,000 40,000 cases of vennuulU.. 3,000 It is stated that for tho year ending My ”5, 1890, there were iu New York Stato 800,000 children of school a«e who did not attend school tot an; part of the jierjod. A THttlTitlNQ EXPERIENCE- Remarkable Statement of Personal Dan ger mtft Providential Escape. The following story—which is attracting Wide intention from the press—is so remark able that we cannot excuse ourselves if we do not lay it before onr reader?, entire. To the Editor Rochester (,V. F.) Democrat: Sin—On the first day of June, 188!, 1 lay at my residence In th's city surrounded by my friends and waiting for lioatb Heaven only knows the agony I then endured, for words can never describe it. And yet, if a few years previous any ono had told me that I was to I* brought so low, aud bv so ter rible a disease. I sbmiM have scoffed at the idea. 1 had always been Unconlntouly strong and healthy, and weighed over 2(10 pound* and hardly know, in my own experience, what pain or sickness were. Very many people who will read (his statement" realize at times that thev are unusually tired and. cannot account for it. They feel dull pain* in various parts of thS body and do not understand why. Or they are exceedingly hungry one day and entirely without appetite the next. This was just the nay I felt when the relentless malady which had fastened it self upon me first began. Htill 1 thought nothing of it, that probably I bad taken a cold which would toon pass away. Shortly next, I paid little attention to it. Then my stomach would get out of order and iny food often failed to digest, causing at times great inconvenience. Yet, even as a phy sician, I did not think that these things meant anything serious. I fancied I was suffering from malaria and doctored myself accordingly. But I got no better I next noticed n peculiar color and odor about tho fluids I was passing—also that there were large quantities one day and very little the next, and that a persistent froth and scum appeared on tho surface, and a sediment settled. And yet I did not realize my danger, for, indeed, seeing these symptoms continually, I finally became accustomed to them, and my suspicion was wholly disarmed by the fact that I had no pain in the affected organs or in their vicinity. Why I should have been so blind I cannot under stand I consulted the best medical skill in the laud. I visited all the famed mineral springs in America and traveled from Maine to California. Still I grew worse. No two physicians agreed ns to my malady. One said I was troubled witli spinal irritatiou; another, dyspepsia: another, heart disease; another, general debility; another, conges tion of the liase of the brain; and so on through a long list of common diseases, the symptoms ot many of which I really had. In this way several years passed, during which time I was steadily growing worse. loped mm terrible and con stant disorders. My weight had been re duced from 207 to 130 pounds. My life was a burden to myself and friends. I eould retain no food on my stomach, and I lived wholly by injections. I was a living mass of pain. My pulse wns uncontrolable. In my agony 1 frequently fell to the floor and clutched the carpet, and prayed for death. Morpiiine had little or no effect in deadening the pain. For six days and nights I had the death-premonitory hiccoughs constantly. My water was filled with tube-casts and albumen. I was struggling with Bright's disease of the kidneys in its last stages I While suffering thus I received a call from my pastor, the Rev. Dr. Foote, at that time rector of Bt. Paul’s Episcopal Church, of this city. I felt that it was our last interview, but in the course of conversation Dr. Foote detailed to me the many remarkable cures of cases like my own which had come under his observation. As a practicing physician and a graduate of the schools, I derided the idea of any medicine outside the regular channels being in the least beneficial. Bo solicltlous, however, was Dr. Foote, that I finally prom ised I would waive my prejudice. I began its use on the first day of June, 1881, and took it according to directions At first, it sickened me; hut this I thought was a good sign for me in my debilitated condition. I continued to take it; the sickening sensation departed and I was finally able to retain food upon my stomach. In h few days I noticed a decided change for the better, as also did my wife and friend?. My hiccoughs ceased and I experience! less pain than formerly. 1 was so rejoiced at this improved condition that, upon what l had believed but a few days before was my dying bed, I vowed in the presence of my family and friends, should I recover, I would both publicly anil privately make know this remedy for the good of bumnnity, wherever and whenever I had an opportunity, and this letter is in ful fillment of that vow. My improvement was constant from that time, and in less than three months I had gaiued twenty-six pounds in flesh, became entirely free from paiu and I believe I owe my life and present condition wholly to Warner’s Safe Cure, the remedy which I use,'. Binee my recovery I havo thoroughly re investigated the subject of kidney difficulties and Bright’s disease, and the truths devel- oned are astounding. I therefore state, de liberately, and as a physic! in, that I believe more than onc.-hatf the deaths which occur tn America are caused by Bright's disease of the kidneys. This may sound like a rash statement, hut I am prepared to fully verify it. Bright's disease has no distinctive feat ures of its own (indeed, it often develop* withoutany pain whatever in the kidneys or their vicinity), but lias the symptoms of nearly every other common complaint. Hundreds of people die daily, whose burial* are authorized by a physician’s certificate as occurring from “Heart Disease,” “Apo plexy,” “Paralysis,” Spinal Complaint,” ‘‘Rheumatism,” "Pneumonia,” and other common complaints, when in reality it is r rom Bright disease of the kidneys. Few physicians, and fewer people, realize the ex tent of this disease or its dangerous and in sidious nature. It steals into the system like a thief, manifests its presence if at all by the commonest symptoms and fastens itself in the constitution before the victim is aware of it. It is nearly as hereditary as consump tion, quite as common and fully ns fatal. Entire families, inheriting it from their an cestors, have died, and yet none of the num ber knew or realized the mysterious power which was removing them. Instead of com mon symptoms it often shows none what ever, but brings death suddenly, from con vulsions, apoplexy or heart disease. As one who lias suffered, and knows by its bitter ex- Ijerienee what he says, 1 implore everyone who reads these words not to neglect tho slightest symptoms of kidney difficulty. No one can afford to hazard such chauces. I make the foregoing statements based upon facts winch I can substantiate to the letter. 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