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CAH TOtrTOBOBTI BT JBFFXB POHB0SH HANATO^ ' 1* the gloaming I am sitting, 1 Dreaming of the happy past, Softly, like ttao shadows flitting. 'Tie a dream?it cannot last? For my darling, I've been lonely Ever since yon 'went away. And I'm thinking of you only Every minute thro' the day. I ke?p thinking how -we parted, How we said the last pood-by; Even now the tears have started, I can almost hear you Bigh. Do you recall the time, I wonder, And think of it with fond regret; Or have you torn swept ties asunder And schooled your heart to soon forget? Lost Lina; -OB,THE BITTER AND THE SWEET. A Til? of Two Continents. BY MBS. NINA LAWSOH. - ? ~ FCHAPTER XVI.?Continued.] ""What grandeur and how beautiful J Could it but last forever, I think I hould be happy. No wonder Lenora was continually sighing for her old Jiome, and these beautiful hills and alleys. In the springtime, when the roses and wild flowers are in bloom, when the sparkling water of the coo], ahady brook goes rippling over its pebbly bottom, while the sweet little 'birds warble their songs from the lofty Ibows of the forest trees, sending the lovely sounds, echoing on and on, until tlie sounds die away in the distance, ' such quiet loveliness as this would be balm to the aching hearts of all poor, saddened souls." - The sleigh had by this time stopped In front of Farmer Rice's gate, and Gertana lightly sprang from under the warm robes into tne aecp, iignt snow. The door of the old farm-house was then opened and an elderly gentleman, with a kind, pleasing face, and more white hairs than black on his head, appeared to welcome her, as it seemed to the now light-hearted woman. And, in fact, bo it was. As the old man saw the sleigh stop at his gate, his heart beat with joy, for it seemed to him that he would hear from their lost darling. Auntie June's sad face was lighted with a pleasant smile as Gertana entered the house and introduced herself. She was welcome, oh, bo welcome, and she must stay all night so that she oould tell them every little thing about their "lost Lina." i Gertana had intended to stay only a short time, but to please them she consented to remain, and sent a note back to the hotel to Nissou. The day passed quickly and pleasantly by. Gertana told the lonely couple all the particulars about Lenora. It seemed to almost break their hearts when she told them that she had been toien away tne second tune, ana no one knew where she had been taken to. Of course they had not missed the papers, and did not know when or how ihey had been taken. It was quite late that night before the large bed of coals was covered over with ashes, and the old couple and their visitor retired. The sun was shining in brightly through Gertana's window the next morning before she awoke from her weet, refreshing sleep. A neat, plain breakfast was waiting lor her on a neatly spread table. About nine o'clock the sleigh came for her, and just before she went she drew from her pocket a large roll of bills and counted out five thousand W/UMOi $?. "I give you this amount of money to oomplete Lenora's education should he return; but if she is not here in three years I wish you to use it, to buy for yourselves the comforts of life. I gee tftere jg a Hjtle gilyer among the ^lack hairs of your head, and now Bince I have been -with you I can realize how much you have lost, and I do this for her sake. Also I will leave with you her diamonds and dresses, nd this oil painting that looks just like her, no doubt, when you last saw hor. II she returns the dresses may be of use to her, ani now, good-by to you, with the sincere hope that she will return." Gertana had glided out of the door, and was riding off, before the astonished couple could recover from their urprise. They were thankful, they were pleased, but these sentiments could not ?11 the place that their Lina had oocupied. It was arranged between them that Gertana should return to Chicago with Lenora's papers and jt.ace thein in the bands of somo good, trusty lawyer. It was but a short time after she left the farm-house until she arrived at the hotel, where she found Nissou patiently waiting for her. They returned to Chicago the same clay, and on the following Gertaua placed the papers in the hands of a trusted, careful lawyer, T. H. Hyde, and in a few hours afterward she left the city en route to Italy. Uncle Criste and Auntie June waited the three ye?*s and more for their darling child, but she did not come; neither had they ever heard from her. ?? CHAPTER XVII. Noll lay on the hard bunk of his prison cell some time before there were sny signs of his recovery, but finally he became conscious, only to find himself securely locked in a dark, dingy cell, 'wliile outside a guard passed glowjy by every few minutes. After gazing" round for some time in a strange, bewildered fashion, trying to remember how he came there and what had happened, he got up and walked to the grated window of his cell. It was still dark without, day had not yet dawned; vet the darkness was no darker than tne thoughts then passing through his miad. For a long time he stood there, muttering terrible oaths, cursing his ill lack, and those who held him a prisoner. He then paced restlessly up and down the cell, compelled to nurse his wrath and make the most of his position. He could not then realize that he was getting part of his reward for his many crimes, nor could he imagine why Xenora disliked him bo, and would continually plead for freedom. No, he was blind to the misery of all tout himself., Thus lie spent the weeks that passed Ixifore the day set for his trial came. Court opened at nine, and he was led from the jail to the court-room closely guarded. The streets were crowded with anxious spectators, all waiting to #ee_"Jim tbs Desperate." . . During the {rial, Noli sat in the prisoner's box, pale, anxious, yet somewhat resigned, as he knew he was powerless, and had been caught at last. Before the sentence wa6 passed, the Judge asked Noll if there was anything that he wished to . "I plead guilty of the charge, but wish you to grant me the privilege of returning immediately to Chicago. I know the sentence will be a heavy one, and I wish to see my home once more." It was impossible to grant that request, for there was too great a risk to be run, but after considerable pleading and arguing the request was granted, under certain conditions. . . The sentence was the'n passed, which was twenty years' imprisonment. A cold, chilling feeling crept into the veins of Noll's body as the stern voice of the Judge pronounced the sentence. He had hoped that it would be less severe, and that there would possibly be a chance of him outliving or escaping in time that he might yet realise those sweet dreams of the past. Court then adiourned. and the t>ris oner was taken back to his cell; be was given a scanty supper and left alone in hie glory. He did not sleep, for all night long a slow, steady tap, tap could be heard on the hard floor of his cell; as he thus paced up and down this dark, narrow, little place, his head was thrown forward, resting on his chest. His face, that \va3 once bright and beautiful, was now pale and haggard, while his eyes were sunken and dim. Had all his crimes been known, his body would soon be cold and stiff in death. But no; Jim the Desperate had escaped the terrible death he deserved ?the gallows. Did he think, while he was paoing up and down that eell, of a few who were then dead?that they had met their death by his own hand? Did not the ghost of that poor, bereaved father and mother, whose bones were then lying at the bottom of a deep gorge of the Rocky Mountains, appear before him, while he paced there in the silent darkness ? Did they not speak to him in snch deep, threatening tones that would ?-J 1 ~ kl/vA/1 ?? fVift vnina nf Vna CLUTU.l'C tuo W1WU J? mv T VAUW w* body, charging liim 'with the murder of their 6tolen daughter, and of stealing all the money they then had ? And, when all -was still as death, without and within, save the dull, heavy tap, tap of the prisoner's tread, would, not that ghostly vision of that fair, beautiful girl, that he had Btolen from those poor, injured parents and carried off among the mountains? would she not appear before him, asking him for mercy and freedom ? And when, one day, as he returned to the cold, damp cave, where he was then hiding from his pursuers, he saw that innocent, injured girl stretched, lifeless, on the floor, with a knife pierced through her heart, with her little hand still clutching it in the tight, cold grasp of death. Did not this appear before him, with many more equally as terrible crimes ? Yes; and the beautiful, childish face of his last victim?Lenora Churchill? encirclcd in the clustering golden curls of her shapely head, while her great, beautiful eyes were over before him, as he last saw her. For Lenora he wished to be free, and if she was still at his cottage when he returned, he intended to make a desperate struggle lor freedom. That night was a long and terrible one for Sylvester NolL He viewed his past life from his earliest memory up to the present date. The beautiful home of his childhood, in the fair lands of France, near the city of Bordeaux, -where he had spent so many happy days, now appeared before him in that dingy, ugly cell. The Bweet, pleasant face of his mother -was there in that beautiful home, and the name, Sylvester Eustace De Blaise, sounded in his ears aB he had heard it so often in the years of the past. And then, too, as he grew to manhood, the many pleasant hours he would spend at the clubs, the amount of money he used, and the company he then entertained. Finally, the great passion for the rambliner table and all sorts of amuse ments that drew on his puree. Thus it went on a few years, when the day of reckoning came, and he and bis poor, loving motlier were penniless beggars. And the night he went home tc tell his mother of his disgrace; how she looked as she dropped dead at his feet. Ah! Those thoughts were distressing, yet he had not let them eater his mind of late years, but to-night they same, in spite of his every effort. Every crime he had ever committed seemed to stand before him, there in the darkness, like so frightful threatening specters. Gertana Girandani, the beautiful Italian woman, whom he had 60 cruelly wronged, would appear to Sylvetf ter's memory, and the apparition of hei father was there before him, asking for his only child. As all these crimes would rise before him, in spite of all that he could do to drive them back, he would shudder and reel round the cell like a drunken man. Finally night?that night?the most horrible that Sylvester Eustace De Blaise, for that was his real name, bad ever known, passed and morning dawned. As the light slowly crept into his cell through the one narrow grated window, it seemed to drive away those wild, maddening tnougnts tnat nad haunted him during the night. He then threw himself upon his hard, narrow oot, weary and worn, and oompletely exhausted. The breakfast that had been given him remained untouched; about nine o'clock the Sheriff and a guard came to his cell. "Hello, Jim! Come, it's train time, and if you want to get to Chicago today be quick." The sound of the officer's voice startled the prisoner, and he quickly sprung from the cot. As the guard opened the door of the cell De Blaise appeared in front of them, with the liffht ahininar full on his face. Tbe two men started back, for they could scarcely believe him to be the same man they had seen in the courtroom the day before. Nothing unusual happened on their way to the city, and the prisoner made no effort to escape. After their arrival in Chicago the prisoner and the two men guarding him j were driven in a closed carriage to that i now deserted cottage, and at the first j glanee Sylvester knew there was some- ' thing wrong, for the shutters were all j closed and n? oould be seejft. I They" rang the belf apfl Pe Dlaiae's old ooachmSn opened toe door. "Why, Tom, what does all thismean ? Where is Henry and the rest of the servants, and your mistress and the madam?" "The servants were all discharged, and the mistress was stolen out of the house night after you left, and the madam, why, I don't know where she is, either." De Blaise was standing in the hall, while Tom was explaining the strange and sudden change. The library door was standing open, and De Blaize, looking more like a dead man than" one aiive, reeled' "and staggered into the room where he had i last seen the two injured beauties. The chair in which Lonora refused to sit, in his presence, still stood in the same place as it did when he left the room on the day of his departure for Springfield. Sick at heart, and thoroughly convinced that it would be useless to attempt to find either of the ladies, he surrendered all hopes and himself to his present bitter fate. The two men guarding him never left his side, and scarcely removed their eyes from his face. It was evident from the expression on the prisoner's face that he "was mentally suffering almost more than he could bear. For some time he stood gazing around the room from one object to the other, evidently seeing nothing, but remembering everything that had happened in that room, when suddenly he looked steadily into the faces of the two men guarding him, and in tones strange and hollow, that were entirely foreign to him, he said: "I am now man enough to realize that I never was one before, but I was a rogue, a villain?aye, worse, I was a brute! "In this very room I have, no doubt, uttered the words that caused the death of her?whom?I?really?did? love; ok, my God! how muoh I cannot tell, and never knew until now P The last few words were scarcely audible, so low and hollow was his voice. He sank down in the chair by bis side, end covering his face with his hands, be wept like a child. Einally the sobs grew fainter; he looked up at the men, with pale, parched lipa, and haggard, tear-stained face. With some difficulty he arose from the chair, scarcely a shadow of what he was the last time he sat there. "Oh, would to God it was in my power to undo the wrongs of my past life! but no, that cannot be. "My soul must go to hell and my heart'bura forever for' the redemption of those Bine." As he ceased speaking he cast a pleading glance at the men at his side, as if it were in their power to relieve him in some way, bufc- finding no response to his silent pleading a deep moan of unutterable misery escaped his lips, from the very depths of his miserable wicked soul. "Oh, if you have no mercy on me then ihoot me. Hell and eternal damnation would be better than this horrible mental misery. "My God, man, it Is tearing my heart and soul from my body. Shoot me, for Heaven's sake." Almost before the words escaped Sylvester's lips a little stream of blood rushed from one corner of his mouth and went trickling down the side of hii pale cheek, flowing in a little stream to the floor. Before the astonished guards could recover their presance of mind to attempt to check the flow of blood, a pistol was fired from behind the curtains of the arched doorway and the hnllef. Ant?rfld Svlvester De Blaise' heart. He threw up his arms and fell blaok on the floor?a dead man. [TO BE CONTINUED.] POPULAR SCIENCE. It is not generally known that black coffee is a most potent alcholic ncutralizer. A method of soldering tin cans by electricity has recently been devised and it bids fair to be quite generally used. An English engineer states that a certain firm has been saved over 100 tons of coal a week by a weekly cleaning of their boilers. . The voracity of the silkworm is great, consuming as it docs in its life of thirtyfive days sixty thousand times its primitive weight. A soldier who had borrowed a bugle belonging to a musician suffering from tuberculosis became himself a victim to this fatal disease. The explanation of the peculiar destiny of thundei clouds is said to lie in the fact that the vapor is partially condensed into urops oy tne eiectricai action. Under the most intense chemical rays of the spectrum ants are thrown into most violent perturbation, while tbey go quietly about their business under the color rays. The danger of infection from impure water is said to be only slightly reduced by filtration through sand. Bacteria pass through this medium ut all times, but in larger numbers just after the filter h:is been cleaned and again after it has becu used for some time. Leading authorities seem to agree that while electricity is an unquestioned success as a substitute for horses in street car propulsion, its use instead of steam locomotives on ordinary railroads must be postponed at least until many more improvements have been made in clcctric ensrineerinff. The use of the electro-magnet for indicating the presence of submerged torpedoes or lost anchors has been suggested. The magnet, in connection with a delicate strain dynamometer is lowered into the wafer and excited by a battery. The metal will attract the magnet and the dynamometer will reveal the fact. The cars on the Jungfrau Railway, in Switzerland, have movable flaps, which may be expanded by the guard until they nearly touch the tunnel lining. In this way the car becomes a kind of piston, acting in the tunnel as a cylinder, and the air acts as an automatic brake to check the speed of the descending car. A metal has been produced that will melt at a temperature of 150 degrees. It is an alloy of lead, tin, bismuth and cadmium, and in weight, hardness and color resembles type metal. It melts so easily that, placed on a comparatively cool part of the stove with a piece of paper under it, it will melt without the paper beiDg ecorchedT \ * . SPORTS OF nMU ORIENTAL METHODS OP KILI>ING TIME. The Koran Forbids Games of Chance ?Male and Female Dancers? Athletes Who Eat Six Meals a Day. Excepting this great religious drama or passion play, called the Tazieh, the Persians, says S. G. "W. Benjamin in the Mail and Express, have no dramatic amusements. They partly make up for this lack by listening to professional Btory-tellers and strolling musicians; they are also addicted to card playing, although with much less variety of games than with European cards. Games of chance arc forbidden by the Koran: so also are pictures or sculptures of humaD THE STORY-TELLER. beings; but the facile, pleasure-loving Persians have found means to evade the precepts of the Prophet on these points. A Pcisiao hand of cards is complete with a set of four, all face cards. Persian cards are all paiutcd by hand on little tablets of papier mache, two inches long aud one inch and a quarter wide. Tho design is executed in water colors, sometimes on a gold ground, and protected by a glossy coat of thick varnish. The Daeicana cages are always DiacK. csome of thee* cards are very expensive, a pack costing as high as $10 to $45, although, of course, such expensive sets arc for the wealthy- But whether for rich or poor, Persian playing cards are made by hairi. When they first came into use it is difficult to ascertain with precision. The chief game played with these cards resembles brag or poker. It is always played for stakes, and the sums lost or won in the houses of the nobility are sometimes large. As for the Persian dancers, there is little to be said about them that can lead to an introduction of that form of the enteitainmcnt into the United States. They aie professionals brought up to the business from the cradle. The female danccrs are practically forbidden to exercise their vocation by the present law of Persia, but the law is a dead letter in A STREET DANCER. one respect. These women are invited to dance in the harems before women only, and if they do not dance before men they are not molested. Their figures are supple and tbcir movements are not without grace. The male dancers shave their faces Emooth and the head from the forehead to the nape of the neck, the latter a custom of all Persians; but the side locks they allow to grow down over the shoulders to resemble women. They also wear skirts, still further to carry out the resemblance. Such is the absurd inconsistency of the Orientals that they would be shocked at the impropriety of any one dancing for pleasure, much less in company with dancers of the other sex. The Kara Enenz or Black Eyes offers one of the most amusing sources of popular entertainment in Persia. It is an itinerant puppet show analogous to Punch and Judy. There is the sama little booth, the grotesque dolls moved by human hands, and the comical conversation in squeaking falsetto. The Kara Enenz is undoubtedly very funny, and gives immense satisfaction to the idlers in a Persian market place. Whenever it appears a crowd collects, listening with rapt attention and greeting the coarse sallies of wit and satire-with peals of laughter and earnest expressions of "Barikallah!" and "Bah, bah, bah!" Next to the Tazieh, the least objectionable and most popular sport in Persia is that of athletic exhibitions. As one strolls about the streets of Teheran, he often sees a crowd collected intensely absorbed in some exciting scene. On approaching and peering through a chink in this animated mass oue finds that they are gazing on a wrestling match. Such is the steadiness of the climate that almost tne wnoie year around such exhibitions occur out of doors under the clear sky. But these are the cheap shows, witnessed chiefly by the lower classes, the performers being altogether second rate. If one would sec the athletes of Persia at their best,he must see them in the covered arenas where they perform to what in Boston arc called "cultured audiences." The professionals of Persia form a class by themselves, as distinct from other pursuits as our actors, as carefully trained, dieted and disciplined as champion oarsmen. The athletes of Greece and Rome thought to maintain their prodigious strength by regular,frequent and I violent exercises in the gymnasium ' ? . cry THE SALUTE. But the Persian professionals follow quite another course. They avoid severe | nvnwii An n ry A TVl/it? flof fitTA AT CACI uuu auu iuu^uc. xuvj \,t*v uw V/A, 3ix times a day, and are warmly clothed, especially during the cold season. On ordinary occasions they go abroad but once daily and then toward evening, and walk with great deliberation. When the period for practicing or for exhibiting in public approaches the Persian athlete lies in bed for several days gathering force for the contest of strength. The public exhibitions are held in places especially constructed for the purpose. The arena or pit is excavated at least five or six feet below the surface, and the earth is beaten hard and rolled smooth. The spectators sit Persian fashion on their knees and heels on the floor of a gallery built around the arena and carefully protected by an awning or roof from the elements. The arena, whether oval or round, has an average circumference of 140 feet. When time is called the athlets run forward and leap from the gallery into the arena, sometimes alighting and balancing themselves some moments on one leg, a remarkable ieat. Their skin is oiled to enable them te elude the grasp of their opponents. A number enter the arena at once and begin with prolonged exercises with heavy Indian clubs, which they 8wing in every- position, gradually increasing the weight, until toward the close of this oractice clubs of oak are sometimes wielded in each hand weighing sixty pounds. This club exercise A PERSIAN CLUB SWINGER. continues over two hours; the movements are made to the accompaniment of music, and toward the close the strongest athletes stand on one leg and balance the clubs at arms' leDgth for several seconds. This species of exercise is of great antiquity in Persia. The athlete who is able to outlast ail the others in the club game is accounted the victor, and receives substantial rewards from the spectators. After this sport is over the wrestlers begin. When they are ready to grapple, cacn places ms rignt nana on tbe nead of the other as a salute. They then grasp each other with deliberation, placing one arm over and the other under the shoulder of the opponent. Then the struggle begins in earnest. With us the chief object in wrestling is throw one's antagonist, and on the back, if possible. It is quite opposite in Persia. There the wrestler does his best to drop on his hands and knees, and his opponent tries to prevent him. The victor must meet all new comcrs until he meets one both stronger and fresher than himself. Cases have occurred of Persian athletes who have successively overcome every antagonist who has presented himself at one exhibition of strength, men having been known to conquer from twenty to twentyfour contestants in one afternoon. Presents are showered upon each victor, the one rcmnioing last in the field sometimes receiving hundreds and thousands of dollars from the wealthy and enthusiastic spectators. This sport is highly esteemed in Persia, and men of rank and physical strength sometimes condescend to enter the arena and try a bout with the professional athletes. The latter are shrewd enough on such occasions to cede the victory to their wealthy antagonists, who, flushed by their success, present costly gifts to their professional antagonist. Says a house decorator in the Washington Star: "You can bid good-by to carrara marble. It was all very well up to a few years since, but the developments of our own land and of Mexico have driven it to the wall. Its most formidable foe is the Mexican onyx. ' This, although it looks soft and creamy, is a8 hard as steel, and when once pol- : ished is almost indestructible. At present it is used in small quantities, ?. i i t :i? "u and IS CUieny kijowu irurn na wuite and yellow varieties. More remarkable than the onyx is the petrified wood oi Arizona and New Mexico. It comes in ail colors, and is superior in beauty and elegance to most of the moss agates used in jewelry. It takes a magnificent polish and is not so costly but that it can be used for mantelpieces, bar fronts, washstands, ash receivers, table tops and bureau slabs. The supply is inexhaustible.1' The Father of the British Fleet. Oil April 12th Sir Provo William Parry Wallis. R. N. G. C. B., senior admiral of the British fleet, entered his hundredth year. He may well be called "The Father of the Royal Navy," having actually entered the service before the end of the last century. He was born on April 12, 1791, at Halifax, Nova Scotia, son of Mr. Provo Featherstone "Wallis, chief clerk of the Naval Yard there. In 1795, a child of four years, his name was entered on the books of one of the King's ships, and toward the end of 1800 he joined the Cleopatra, with 8m PROVO "WILLIAM PARRY WALLIS. which ship, in 1804, under the command of Captain Robert Laurie, he first went to sea. This ship, a few months later, in the Atlantic Ocean, fought the French frigate Ville de Milan, wa9 defeated and captured, but was recovered a week afterward, by the British frigate Leander. The young midshipman Wallis became a lieutenant, and served in several other ships during the French -war. In 1813, when Britain was at war with the United States, he was second lieutenant of the frigate Shannon, under Captain Broke, which fought the American frigate Chesapeake off Boston Harbor. After that famous battle, which was a British victory, when Captain Broke had been wounded and his first lieutenant killed, the command of the ship, with its prize, devolved on Lieutenant Wallis. He was promoted, and was afterward employed in different naval services, on the coast of Mexico, in the Mediterranean, and, in 1857, us admiral and commander-inchief on the southeast coast of America. ?Once-a- Wctk. mieraaiionai uonnaary Line monnment. The townsite of Blaine as platted crosses the boundary line, a portion of it lying within British Columbia. This international line is not an indefinite, tangible line as is generally supposed, but is accurately and carefully located. It is possible to lay a penny?if you have one?so that it will be half in^he United States and half in Canada. A number of years ago a joint commission surveyed a line westward from the Lake of the "Woods and erected an iron monument BOUNDARY LINE MONUMENT. every mile. Through the forest they cleared a strip twenty feet wide, as straight as a string, and in the centre of that strip, at intervals of a mile, stand monuments like the one shown in the illlustration. On the Canadiau side is inscribed "Treaty of Washington," and on the United States side "June 15, 1846,'' the date of the treaty. Every visitor at Blaine becomes interested in this boundary line running through the towD, and especially in marking the course of the ' * 1 * - f AXA S\t\ V> ciearea sirip as iur us tuc ujc tan a**.? Seattle (Wath.) Wat Shore. And Yet Ho Was Not Happy. City Visitor ? "What makes little Tommy cry so, Mr. Leeks?" Farmer Leeks?"Wall, the fact is, lie went out this morning to find a hornct'g nest for his natural history collection, and " City Visitor?"And the poor boy couldn't find one?" Farmer Leeks?"Naw; the poor boy fouDd one."?Lippincott. A .Pennsylvania court nas just made a ruling that -will interest many travelerg. Some time ago a man boarded a limited train at Erie, having only an ordinary ticket. The conductor refused to accept the ticket and ejected him. The man brought suit for damages. The case has just been decided against him, the court ruling that it was his business to have found out if the train in question was the right train before boarding it. A fortune awaits tne ingenious man AtLc can make a watch spring that won't break, livery how anu meu suujo uut comes to the front witli the claim that he has made-the discovery, bat all have so far failed. The breaking of watch springs is largely due to electrical influences. After a watch spring has been demagnetized it is less liable to break, of course. But to say that a watch spring will not break or that sonic will break, is nonsense. \ TEMPERANcf^J ; WHICH WILL YOU TAKE? M A rose or a thistle, |B A rock or a cake; Now answer me quickly, H| What will you take? sMH Rose and cake said every voicar-^- Mm May you answer as promptly, M With judgement as clear, H When asked to decide flfl Between watsr and beer. H| And than be as wis9 as your c'aoio&. [J The one leads to sickness; |H The other to health. MB The beer leads to ruin, 9fl Pure water to wealth. Q| Yet many the bettor despise. HH The one cost you nothing; B| The other is dear. For God gives the water, |Rj But man sells the beer. PB Oh when will man learn to be wise? ?Edward Carswcll,in Ttrtipcran.cc Banner. Ifl ivn vpt tt tq hi nnfit rvntotbir H The Joliet brooch of tho Illinois Steel fl| Company, with a capitalization of $3,000,- Rfl 000, employs at least 1500 men, while, ae- cording to their advertisomant, the five Chicago breweries recently consolidated with a capitalization of over $10,000,000, employ less than :W0 men. In othsr words, an equal investment in the steel industry gives employment to over fifteen times as many mea as the making of beer.?Stone City Patriot, H THE CCBSE OF AFRICA. A slight idea of the amount of drink constantly Deing poured in upou the natives of BH Africa may be gathered from the following; facte taken from an article by Mary CL HI Leavitt, who has just left that country: At I Madeira, where many, but by no means all, of the ships going to Africa touch, the following amounts were declared in one week;-,^H 060,000 cases of gin, 34,000 butts of rum, 30.000 cases of brandy, 28,000 cases of Irisnt whisky, 800,000 demijohns of ram, 38,000 IS barrels ot rum, 30,000 cases of "Old Tom? ..^B 15,000 cases of absinthe, 40,000 cases of v<V* |H mouth, all costing $5,230,000, ' HYPNOTISM AND DRUNKENNESS. .JHHR If t,here were no other reason why a ctidF of hypnotism should be established in madi-rS| cal colleges, it would seem desirable for~-^H I teaching students the simple method of treating inebriates tried by Dr. ?eraheim,;-<^B of Paris. This physician created a dislike for liquor by simply, suggesting, withoataotuallv hypnotizing the patient, that drink IB should be given up, and the effect seems to H| be permanent. Aside from othar medical value of hypnotism, the cure of drunkards-^ should even a few per cent, prove so suacepti-vfll ble to hypnotic suggestion?would justify. an effort to bring this mysterious agent to the aid of the profession. SH "HALT AND HALF." H| A temperance writer has given us the fol- H| lowing original sentiments concerning the Hfl popular beverage known as "half and naif : "The title of "half and half is given to a mixture composed of two sortB of liquor. To the drunkard's wife it suggests tnat her "better half' has proved for worse instead of for better. It may also signify the maay half-dollars that have been transferred from ^fl tho drunkard's pocket to the saloonkeeper's till. In some cases it is suggestive of witted children, born so becauso their fathar>'^H was a drunkard?half and half?the best half I of the man gone and the other going. Who or what shall stop him??W. C. T.U. ?14^ Mux. TRUTH SUCCINCTLY STATED. 10 If grand ideas bad waited for public sent!' H ment^ where would wa be now? In the dire twilight of a tallow dip, instead of this eleotrie light around us: on the old ox team, in- |H stead of enjoying the speed and splendor of the Pullman palaco car, and on the temper- MB .ance question back in tho custom of the aayg Bflf when a man could advertise the liquor bust* ness on the tombstone of his fatb9r, as was. done when that inscription was made on ft- ^^9 tombstone in til 3 old country, which coous^Hj to us thus: "Here lies below, in hops of Zion^ The landlord of the Golden Lion; His son keeps on the business stili, Obedient to his country's will." Bfl ?George W. Bain." THE PASTOR'S VICTOBT. ; ^H| Many years ago, when drinking hatte BB were more prevalent than now, a Congrae** H tional minister in York County preacnedf* very strong temperance sermon tnat made a sensation in th9parish. Some of the leading IS members of the'congregation felt insnltaaTj They got up and left tne house during th? MB sermon, and then sent a letter demandinga?! KB apology or me pastors resignation. xuv next Sunday the pastor announcdd from tb? Ma pulpit that be would comply with the gen-j HE tlomen's request in tho evening. Of counayj IB everybody who could go to tho church tha&: evening was there, the disaffactei ones with Biniles on their faces at tha thought of how. they had triumphed over the minister. Tha: worthy man ascended tin pulpit, went through the preliminary exercises and {hen. H| announced his text?"And being convicted; I by their own consciences they went out oneby one." The sermon preached from that. H| text was a stunner, but nothing more was I said about an apologv, and tho minister didnot resign.?Mount Deitrl (Me.) Herald, CONSUMPTION OP BEER. H We have received a table compiled fqr BB "The Brewers' Handbook." giving the numberof barrels of beer sold in each of the O States and Territories of the Union during- HH the years ending April 30, 1889, and April HB 39,1893. From this table it appears that in HH the years mentionel no beer was sold bythe barrel in the States of Arkansas, Florida, . Maine, Mississippi, North Carolina and Vermont. Doubtless bottled beer was sold in Hfl some of these States, but they may be set ' *- Ll.L Hill- L? Miuwl I down as scares in woicn iimio uoei ? um, in any form. There was a decrease last yeant HO , in the number of barrels of bear sold in Ca^B^H j ifornia of 2493 as -comDared with the vious year, doubtless the result of the creasing use of wine in that State. Tbe other 8tates and Territories in which the' boer trade bos fallen off are Arizona, tbe Dakotas, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Massachu-' setts, Nebraska, Nevada, aud South Caro-. Una; Massachusetts shows the greatest de- IH crease, and Iowa stands next. The States! where the consumption of beer has most increased are the following, given in tbe order! of increase: New York, Pennsylvania, Wte-r HM consiu, Ohio, Illinois, Missouri and New Jersey. Tbe total number of barrels sold in > the year ending April 3J, 1SS3, was 23,033,785, i H9 aud in the following year 23,820,933 barrels,! a net increase of 1,722,118 barrols. There is considerable trade in this fluid in some of < tbe prohibition States, Iowa taking last year i 88,266 barrels, and Kansas 2700.?J/tiuxxu-t kee Sentinel. , TEMPERANCE NEWS AND NOTES. t The C. T. A. News suggests an enumewu?; Hi tion of liquor drinkers. A W. C. T. U. of thirty-three members: has be*n organized at Trondhjem, Norway. ' |H Instead of a State debt upon which to pay > interest, Iowa had a balance in ite State' HI treasury last month of $157,00). Bjfl AtTunkerley, South Africa, there is an: average of one native found dead every J |^K morning as a result of excessive drinking. The Lord Major of London recently enter-' tained thirty-seven total abstinence mayors'! from as mauy different cities in England. ? HI The State W. C. T. U. of Connecticut is in i a very flourishing condition. Two promising-! new societies were recently organized by the! State President, Mrs. S. B. Forbes, who has' been making a tour of the local unions. . Miss Leila Bull, a former member of tbef Young Women's Christian Temperance! Union, of Pittsfield, Mass., has been a mis-! HH sionary in Osaka, Japan, for nearly two' BMI years. She reports that the temperance so- Ha cioty organized there among tho women by j Mrs. Leavitt now numbers two hundred . women and that all the officers exccpt th^^^H President, arc Japanese. Miss Charlotte A. Gray, during a rccentj Bfl tour of tho northern towns of Norway, obtained more than 000 signatures of women to J B the world's W. C. T. U. petition against the flflfl liquor traffic, collected quite a sum of money; for the Woman's Temperance temple, formed two new societies of the W. C. 1. (J., and Hg aroused among the women wherever she' went a more active interest in the temperanee work.