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bM: 5»V BS® ,'/ THANKSGIVING FEAST. ET WO are tholast, m.v daughter. To set ihfl table /or two, Where onco we bad plates for twenty. Is a lonesome thing to da But my boys and girls are scattered To the east and the west afar. And he who was dearer thin chil dren a a through the gates ajar. I'm wanting my bairns for Thanksgiving. I thought last night, as I lay Awake in my bed and watching For the breaking of the day, IIow my heart would leap in gladness If a letter should come this morn To say that they could cot leave us here To keep the feast forlorn. Samuel, my son In Dakota, Is a rich man, as I hear, And he'll never let want approach vs. .Save thi wanting of bim near While Ja^k is in Sin Francisco. And Edward over the sea, And only my little Jes3io Is biding at home with me. And I feel like poor Naomi When back to her own she went, And they said: "Isthit Nacmi?" She well knew what (her meant. I've staid, and the lads hive wande"j2. And the time th.it was swift to go When I was brisk and busy Is laggard ana dull and slow. Oh! the happy time for a mother Is when her bairns are small, And into tho nursery bell at nljjht She gathers her darlings all When the wee ones are about her, With gleeful noise and cry, And she hushes the tumult with a cmlls, Her brood beneath her eye. THE HAPPY TIME FOR A MOTHER. But a mother must bear her burdon When her babes are bearded men. On 'change and in the arm/, Or scratching away with a pen In some banker's dusty office, As Martin is. no doubt— A mother must bear her burden. And lvarn to do without. I know the Scripture teaching, To keep the halt and blind. And the homesick and the desolate, At the festal hour in mind. Of the fat and the sweet a portion :I'll send to the poor man's door, But I'm wearying for my children To sit at my board once more. I tell you, Jessie, my darling. This living for money and pelf, It takes the heart from life, dear It robs a man of himself. This old bleak hill-side hamlet. That sends it? boys away, Has aright to claim them back, dear, On the fair Thanksgiving day. Shame on my foolish fretting! Here are letters, a perfect sheaf Open them quickly, dearest! Ah me, 'tis beyond belief: By ship and train they're hastening, Rushing along on tho way. Tell the neighbors all my children Will be here Thanksgiving day. —Harper's Bazar. THE RAREST FEAST. "We'll have a goose to-morrow, ma— Thanksgivin' day, ye know— An' have Josiah's folks come down'" That's what I said, but no. Ma 'lowed that turkey'd be the test. An' said it out so flat, It raised my grit, an' so I says: "Well, now, jus' think o' that! "That old gray gcoe is fit to kill, An' just the thing to eat Fersuch a day, whenfolks'll want To have some kind o' treat" "Whoever heerd," says ma again. "O' havin' Thanksday meal Without a turkey, roasted hull?" But I turns on my heel An' starts up toward the door, 'n' says: "Oh, talkin' ain't no us?, But common sense is on my side, 'N' I shall kill that goose.'' Jus' then I looked at little May Who sat there in her chair, Just like she allers had to sot (She couldn't Btir from there). An' then I say3: "Well, little one, You settle this dispute!" (Fer she was talkin' with her eyes. Although her lips was mute). •What'll we have to-morrow, dear? Now, you shall have your say." She looks up, shy, an' says out soft: "Let's have Thanksgiv.n' day!" Well, you can guess that little specch Has staved with ma an' me, Though she that sal.I it's gone away To where she's well 'n' free. Thanksgiviu's come again, an' we Jus' think of little May, So we don't worry 'bout the food. But have—Thanksg'.vin' diy. •Myrtle K. Cbcrryman, in Detroit Free Press WAS Thanks giving eve, and Mrs. Jones' city nephew had ar rived to spend the festal day at her home in the country. There was quite an ex citement in the household over this first visit of Brice Belling ham, who tvas considered one of the best of fellows in his social circle, and of whom his relatives might be proud without a penance involved. Slender were the facilities at^Felton Falls for showing him off, whue great was his aunt's nmbilion on that score. Some means must be found for bring ing him into the focus of the Robinsons, who had just settled in the place, and werp reputed very rich and refined peopla If-you have ever been at Felton Falls you xyill recollect that as you come up frc-.Tj the little railroad station and le&«e tfehibd the, cluster of dwellings wixn a single wnite spire pointing. up ward from their midst. Mrs. Jones' ornate cottage comes into view, stand ing on'the right hand of the road and a short di&tancfe beyond, along the plain upon your left, rises by far the most pretentious residence of the place close fceyond-which again is a cottage so humble as to seem poorly worth con sidering except for the connection its inmates have with this veracious tale. It was to the house beautiful that the Robinsons had^ome. It had been built two years before, but never occupied, for the reason that its owner died at the very time it was completed, and it had taken the interval to settle the es tale. Now it is well known that not •yen a mfeitbn patch' or frnit trees in their season of luxury are more irre aiaiibU to raiding yaungsters than is a -ii vacpnt dwelling, however inexplicable the fact may be. The incoming family could liaraly have been aware of the abuse the fane house had suffered, or they would have given it three weeks' grace in the hands of the repairers, in stead of calling it home and afterward putting it into a homelike condition, especially with the husband and father an invalid, and just at Thanksgiving time. In the small house nestled so near the large one lived Mrs. Brown nnd her daughter—"poor but respectable." Be ing Mrs. Jones* nearest neighbor hith erto Mrs. Brown hud received many attentions from that rich but respecta ble lady. But one day, alas! earlier in the year of which we are speaking, there came a breach of friendship. Their trouble began in the sewing cir cle, and Mrs. Brown was irreverent enough to say even in the church ves try that Mrs. Jones was no more nor less than a purse-proud aristocrat, and she wanted uo more of her patronizing. This was repeated to Mrs. Jones, and the neighbors all at once ceased to be neighborly. To return to Thanksgiving eve at Mrs. Jones'. Brice Bcllingham had scarcely been an hour in the house when he followed his aunt to the kitchen —feeling already privileged— and found her standing at a table pack ing a hamper with such provisions as grace tho cuisine of the well to do when a Thanksgiving dinner is iu course of preparation. Conspicuous among these were a fat turkey, stuffed and made ready for the roasting pan, two mince pies of glorious din meter, a^rl a head of celery beautifully bleached and of a quality to almost melt in the mouth. "Ah,w exclaimed Brice, "my good aunt is on benevolent thought intent, if I read the signs correctly. Now so far as a good dinner goes." he went on, smiling and watoliiog the basket, "I might as well be scute poor ueighbor of yours as to be what I am, your adoring nephew." "I have a neighbor who is not an ob ject of charity," began Mrs. Jones, "or would not be but for present difficulties. I wanted to lend a hand but am feeling dubious at the prospect. My man Peter drove away this afternoon for floosie, with directions in case of not finding there what he was sent for to go on to Parkboro. It looks as if he had gone on, otherwise he would have been at home before this and if so he will come too latf to carry out my basket to-night. I should prefer on several accounts to send it under cover of dusk. I have let Bridget go to spend to-mor row at ber cousin's, and Mary has lamed her foot so there is no one—" "Pray, aunt, allow me to be your al nuoner,*' interrupted Brice, eagerly. "I will manage to turn it into an adven ture to tell at the club when I get back to town." Aunt Jones could not resist his per suasive eloquence, that so well harmon ized with her desires, and consented with thanks expressed and unexpressed BRICE STOOD TRANSFIXED. —her dinner device including rather more than she chose to tell. With the knowledge that the "unexpected had happened" to the new family in the non-arrival of servants, this method of leaping into free relations with them had suggested itself that she looked forward with satisfaction to the sling ing jealousy poor Mrs. Brown would feel—her nnliappv and only share in the social intercommunication going on before her eyes—was Mrs. Jones' own secret. In her strained relations with Mrs. Brown, she hoped that person would see what she had brought upon herself, and she had no idea of conquer ing a peace by milder measures. An outline of the existing state of things with the Robinson family that his aunt gave Brice by way of preliminary to his undertaking was in the exhilara tion of the hour as good as lost upon him—it went in at one car and out at the other, as the saying is. "If you should get a glimpse of one of those pretty young ladies," finally remarked Aunt Jones, balancing the burden on an arm fairly well equipped with muscle through athletic oxercise —her smile was a captivating finish to the sentence. Immediately the young man was off on his errand under the starry canopy of the broad country skies, finding the situation, taken in all its bearings, sufficiently 'novel nnd even intoxi cating. lie had forgotten to don his goloshes, and tramped through miry places regardless of the fact that a "shine" was no more to be had at Felton Falls than was a chariot of the Pharaohs. As he was about to turn in at the mansion gate, he made the dis covery that the name of the people to whom he had been sent had dropped out of his mind. "'Twas something common—very," reflected the nephew 'of his aunt in striving to remind himself—"not Smith, though. No matter—it's gone from me I will inquire for the lady of the hous?, or bridge the difficulty some other way. If I bluntier, these chil dren of the frontier won't know it. Well—but how is this?—1 am blunder ing woefully already." Brice had surprised himself facing a low, broad flight of marble steps con ducting to a stately veranda supported by Corinthian columns, with French' windows, uncurtained and unliglited staring across at him. The truth.?was that the family were meeting their ex igencies in the rear rooms as quietly as possible. Brice had good reasrtn' for thinking nobody lived there and lie added—oblivious.of his aunt's explana tions—that neither was. this a home to. welcome donations for the mortal bfaWy. Whh.t was it liis augt had said about a house that had suffered from ill-usage,, and that sort of thing? ••Ah!" j. In returning toward the- gate' BHfce got his first vie iv of the cottage, crouching in the shadow of tiie grand er edifice, and for a moment (stood transfixed. At a little window sat a y6ung woman sewing-bv the light of a lamp that presented her clear-cut por trait to the beholder. "Xhiair the place* Wi& &&& of eonrse, and that the pretty gM," thought the young man. fife memory bad been faithful whelre a pretty girl was concerned. He passed into the.road. A lad was seen approaching who just then broke into whistling a popular tune—a kind of proclamation vof* innocence, probably, in regard to the desecration that had been going on close by, at the mansion just come out of its long swoon. "Can'yon tell me who lives in that cottage, my boy?" asked the stranger in Felton Falls. "Mis' Brown lives there now," drawled the young native, with hands deeply pocketed in a pair of immense trousers. Brice thanked his informer and was passing on, when the other recovered from his wonderment sufficiently to call out: "Und she lived there al'ays, fur's I know." "Yes yesi Brown's the name," thought Brice, w|th much satisfaction. "I won't get it mixed with Smith and Rob* inson any more. Mis. Jones to Mrs. Brown—that's it And a young lady as pretty-as a pink sitting with bent head at a window, the unconscious ob ject of admiration." Tho conscious admirer had reached the door over whose threshold, only a few inches above the surface of the ground, trailed the sere weeds of au tumn. Having fumbled in vain for a bell knob, he knocked. At tiie sound the fair needlewoman arose quickly, paused to raacli up and lower the shade from the top of the window, opened the door and appeared before the stranger with modest self-possession, a tall, slender figure in a pink print wrapper milled low about a whit*! and shapely neck. "My aunt, Mrs. Jones, sends compli ments, and begs Mrs. Brown's accept ance of a few articles suited to tlio sea son: hoping, as well, that she will kind ly excuse all deficiencies and informal ity." Except for the accidental substitution of Brown for Robinson, Brice had de livered his aunt's Message verbatim, and had done it wf th the address she credited him with when she withdrew from the basket the note prepared in view of sending it by the serving man. Ther saying another good evening, he turned «vay as hastily as if each mo ment were precious. Aunt Jones s.it building air castles when Brice reentered, running his fin gers through his dark curling locks and announcing triumphantly—as il the experience had not taken his breath away. "1 saw her, sure enough, aunt." "Which one?" was inquired. "Oh. then there are more of her! The lovely girl who received your Thanks giving offering with such grace may be about quitting her teens, 1 should say.' "Yes, that is she," responded the other, smiling her gratification. "Alicia is ber name. There is a married daugh ter, 1 have heard, and there are twins of fourteen or fifteen. When you come again, Bricey, say before the holiday! are over, I will have the young ladj and her mother to tea. Miss Alicia !r said to be very accomplished ant charming. I expect to be on terms o: intimacy with them directly." At this interesting point a rumble ol wheels came to their ears, and Mrs. Jones and Brice Bellingham hurriec forth to welcome a carriage full ol friends—further arrivals in honor o! the occasion. From that hour until an other nightfall joy and duty centered in themselves. It was Thanksgiving night and Mrs Jones was temporarily alone, Brief having gone to the station to witnesi the departure, as he said, of all bul himself. A boy, the same whom Iiricfe had mei on the road—the too early inheritor oj his father's greatness in trousers--rang the bell nnd put into the mistress* hai^o a note. With a glance at the neat super script ion she opened and read: "DEAR MRS. JONES: Mother requests mete express her almost painfully deep sense of youi goodness in making so bountiful provision foi our wants on this ever-favorite anniversary, asking also that you will in the same Christlat spirit forget, as you have evidently forgiven all words and acts which have disturbed youi friendly intercourse and been a source of ia Unite regret to her. "I am gratefully and respectfully yours, "MARY J. BROWS." Thrive the bewildered recipient read this missive then the truth flashed up on her. But even at this point she was rather overwhelmed with humiliation than sorry for the mistake her messen ger had made in the delivery of her Thanksgiving supplies. The apparent error struck her as an interposition oi Providence, the wisdom whereof she durst not question. "The woman need not ask my pardon," she murmured with bowed head "I have been fai more at fault than she in this quarrel that might, if it had gone on, infected 'the whole parish." Brice Bellingham on his return from the station noted his annt's air of ah1 straction, attributing it to the depar ture of those dear to her heart, amid the uncertainties that attend our fleeting years, also doubtless to tender associa tions of the day with kindred and friends who' were now only a blessed memory. How Mrs. Jones builded better than she knew, and what share his ridicu lous inadvertence had had in the transforming of events, Brice never dreamed. No, not even when a year later his marriage was celebrated in that lady's smiling presence, tuv.1 he bore away bis bride (gVe« whom?) the proudest and the happiest man who. •ever breathed the atmosphere of Fel ton Falls.—Lavinia^ S. Goodwin, in Springfield (Mass.) Republican. FW HU Health. Mrs. Hen—"Why don't you come out from under the barn?: They are throw ing corn out and all the fowls are there.* #lr. Turkey—"Thanks I'm here far my health at this time of year.'I-—Min neapolis Journal. You:k BeneUiok'a Trial. Although he wears a smilinif foot Bis humor's somewhat Jerky, For well he knows that after groov He'U have to carvs Um turkey 1 —Jatfn I 1 ggi gjll •?, J. -1 TEMPERANCE NOTES COMMON SENSE AND ORfNfC. ffatoral Principles Gonmug the Needs of Man. There was never any science that has seemed to me so beneficial and so use ful as this very simple science of teach ing why people should abstain from strong drink. There is common sense in science, and when science is not fj1® other way. common sense, it is not, strictly speak ing, scientific in its character. Science is simplicity. It is nature speaking to man. When we look at the details of life and consider how they are put to gether—so that living creatures may be bronght into action, and inay exist and have power, and may go through the phase Which we call life—we see that, with regard to the means by which a living being is brought iuto existence and carried through it, there are certain methods for the construc tion of the body, for the supply of its wants and necessities, and for the maintenance of its power, which re main inviolate. Hen may change their views anfl opinions, but these eternal laws go on. so on. The bearer of all these sub stances which go to build up our bodies is a fluid, and that fluid is water. It cent of the weight of all our bodies, Man must at some period of his his tory have dropped upon a stray kind of product which exists in nature, and, thinking it different from water, began to drink it. He called it wine, and then spirit, when he had discovered the art of distillation. Then serious evils took place. He was off the line, was not running with the natural state of things, but by and by men began to learn. Then not learned men but poor men began to think it wise to return to natural principles. Poor men rather more than fifty years ago began to start this great principle that man should be content like the rest of crea tion with the natural fluid sent to him. There has been a great controversy us to whether it is not bad to give up the fluid alcohol. You will ask: Is this fluid positively harmful? Yes, it is harmful. It changes the natural order of the body and produces a fascinating effect for the iroment. It quickens the pulse and the breathing, ex cites the mind, leads to sudden impulses which make men or women feel for the time that they are strong and happy, but in all that it leads them from the natural conrse of things. Everything is carefully or dered as to time in the human body, and if this regulation be but preserved, there is a long stage of life before every living man. But nature will not be interfered with. Change that order put into the body a substance like al cohol, which is foreign to it, which quickens the pulse, the breathing, the impulses,'and the thoughts, and you hasten the period of death. That is the peculiarity of all, or nearly all, those persons who indulge largely in strong drink—they become prematnre ly old. And so, is it not common sense and common scieuce too, when we see effects like these following a misuse of the substance before us, that it is bet ter for every man, woman and child never to vary from the natural course of nature so as to induce these pleasur able sensations and this quickened life in the organic lifj? I think you will all be of opinion that this is the right and proper view for everybody to take. We are all born to drink no other fluid than water. Why should we ever depart from it? Why break the pledge which nature has given, and make man cease to be what he was intended to be? Not one bit of good ever comes from the trial. When we take a pledge with nature, there is no service rendered ourselves by the breaking of it. ^fhis substance called alcohol goes to form no tissue or give warmth. It imperfectly dissolves everything in the way of food which comes in dontact with it, interferes with the digestion and the distribution of food, produces false products in the body, disease in the organs of the body, sadness always after a time, aberration of the mind, so that at least fourteen per cent of the unfortunates in our asylums are there because of its presence. It makes diseases, some of which are specifically its own and are called alter it and we can calculate by figures what will be the value of life in a person who is freed from this agent, and the value of life in one who continues to take it. This in common sense should make every one of us resolve to go back to nature if nature has been departed from, and to let our lives pass from beginning to end in pure obedience to nature and in obedience to that power from which all nature springs.—Benja min Ward Richardson, M. D., in Good Health. DRINKING WOMEN. Members of the Fair Sex Who Have Be come Inveterate Tipplers.. Women are being accused by mem bers of their own sex in away that is calculated to sturtle the public. At a recent meeting of the church congress in London Lady Frederick Cavendish declared that the members of her sex were becoming "inveterate tipplers." Alcohol, she said, was not the only fashionable failing, but chloral, cliloro dyne and morphia were used by many women in fashionable life. Many other prominent women in England made liki: complaints at the same meeting. It was an odd coincidence that on the sac le day the Women's Christian Tern-flies -for a four-ounce vial of landannm, get it, and drite away," and ahO added, "women use opiates ns men use liquor, and it is a growing evil." ren&jr wiH ask, what are we coming to? Kf the mothers of the land, par-' tknalarlj those in the "beat spciety," are addicted. to opiates "in the same way as men use liquor," it }s time that the sa'en waked up to a realisation of tin effect it will have on the riaing generation. Opiates wlU injure the health generally infialtaij worse thaa V. Y. Boa IS 11 101 (T- 'asf •••l* afe'A MA 9 «a -"i ttqnon It weald he much better for tbe women to So when we come to the investiga tion of the food and drink of roan we find that, according to nature, tlierq is one principle at work, and none other. There are two tiling* given us to live upon in nature —things which are combustible and things whiuh go to build up the body. These we call food. Then we have something given to us to carry these solid parts of food round the body and dispose of them in ... r—- her seeming age they call the same way in which the merchant her with unconscious irony "the Easr distributes his goods up the rivers, and Maeeompany Despite 1!"1, *":"1 1 makes up sixty-four per is their explanation. Then as an after thought—"An* then her man left lier and it carries like a mighty river all through our vessels tlife food which we require. In nature we always find this water present. The smallest or the largest anim:il cannot live without this fluid. Beasts require no other fluid than water. It is not until we come to' man, and then only to a very small part of mankind, that we see any inter ference with this universal law of na ture. the men to -the amoking room after dinner and fetiare not only the cigars but tbe spir its," as Lady Cavendish says is done in England. It Is difficult to believe that either in England or in this country the use df alcohol and opiates has become the great evil these ladies represent It is the general belief that the tendency is the other way. The man who uses liquor t3 excess now finds it increasing ly difficult to gain admission to good society, and a woman who does so would be excluded altogether. There is unquestionably greater laxity in that respect in England than in this coun try but even there the Victorian age has been characterized by a very great improvement in that respect The world is growing better instead of worse so far as the use of liquor and opiates is concerned. Still, the evil is great and these Christian women do not make these assertions without reason.—Philadelphia Press. A MORPHINE SLAVE. Ths^Terrlble Connrquenee* of Indulgence In the Deadly Drag. She stands behind the bar of a squalid saloon near the river waiting on sailors from the lake boats. She is not old in years, they say, but her face is seamed with the lines' that misery brings so quickly. Her form is bent like that ol one weighed down with the burden of many years nnd her eyes are dim save when the morphine gives them an un earthly glitter. lisli girl," because they remember her as they first saw her. She is strangely changed since then. "It's the drug as has done for her," she is crazylike now. Sometimes a maudlin sailor proffers his uncouth sympathy and with staring eyes she mutters dreamily of a "river shinin' in the sun. where the boats goes up an' down wi' their sails a-flap pin' to the breeze. My man's a-singin' an' a-comin' home to me." The voice sinks to a whisper. "There's children there a-playin' by the water, nn' flowers an' bird?. We're goin' back, goin' back across the weary, weary sea." Sobbing childishly she moans over and over again: "Across the weary sea, across the weary sea." Then her head falls upon her arm and she is still. The weird eloquence of the morphine eater causes a hush to fall over the assemblage of noisy men. "She will®, die in one of them spells some day," they whisper. Then they go softly away, for the moaning voice is not a pleasant thing to hear, and it lingers so long in one's ears—that sad, unmeaning refrain: "Across the weary, weary sea." "It's the drng as has done for her, an' her man left her," that i:i all.—Chi cago Times. THE HABIT OF NIPPING. Physical Dangers of Moderate Indulgence Iu Alcoholic Drinks. Whatever may be the opinion or judgment, based on experience or science, as to the value of the reverse of taking some form or alcohol with the meals, there is no doubt that the custom of taking wine or spirits or beer between meals and on an empty stomach—in one word the pernicious habit of "nipping"—is highly injurious. The morning nip, between breakfast and the midday meal, which is so fre quently taken by domestic servant", nurses, work people, and "city men," renders the taker less fit for his daily work than he would otherwise be, an.l is often in woman the fir st fatal step towards dram-drinking, and the shame ful life of the woman-drunkard, of which we are hearing so much at thi present time. The flushing of the fac?. caused by the dilatation of the small blood-vessels, usually induced by alco hol when taken alone, is symptomatic of what takes place in the stomach. The direct action of alcohol on the mucous membrane is to produce tem porary congestion or blushing of thrs internal surface of the stomach. This congestion ultimately becomes chronic if "nips" or "drams" of spirits are fre quent indulged in, with the result that the mucous membrane becomes thickened and indurated, a quantity of tenacious mucus is secreted, the di gestive ferment is paralyzed or de stroyed, and alcoholic dyspepsia is es tablished.—London Hospital. GENERAL GLEANINGS. It takes the confirmed toper a long time to find out that he has any bad habits. THE London police court mission does a good work by visiting prisoners in their homes, providing homes and situ ations for women and girls, helping the sick, and obtaining pledges from drinkers. THE Belgian Patriotic League fo.~ the Suppression of Alcoholism has caused to be written, for representa tion oil the stage, a drama entitled: "Martin, the Shoemaker or, The Ef fects of Drunkenness." A SUPREME court has rendered a de cision to the effect that a saloonkeeper who receives his friends on Sunday in his office connected with his bar in another building by arcliwajs. but sep arated therefrom by damask curtains and barricades, is guilty of keeping his saloon open on jSunday. THE saloonkeeper put water, sugar and whisky in a tumbler for his cus tomer. Now, what came out of that tumbler? In the first place, the cus tomer's wife got a beating out of it, and, in the second place, the customer himself got six weeks in prison. Beats all the sleight-of-hand in th* world! A cihcui.ar was sent recently to the leaders of religious bodies in Lseds, England, to ascertain the extent of their sympathy with total abstinence and the total suppression of the traffic. To the question: "Do you use non-al coholic wine at the communion?" Fif ty-one ministers replied "Yes," and fif teen "No." On the question of the di rect veto, sixty-sevea ministers^ and fifty-three laymen reported in favor. The replies came from all denomina tions. Animals That Get Drank. perance 'Union of the state of NewYork sleepy sot, while a dozen sober men in at Newburgh the same room are not molested by them. The flies will buzz around their subject with great delight, frequently alighting upon his perspiring face. in annual convention listened to somewhat similar accusa tions against American women. Mrs. Homer A. Nelson, whose husband has long been known as one of the promi nent lawyers and politicians cf that state, declared that the "use of opiates wat more widespread than generally imagined, and that in the better class of society it- was rapidly gaining ground." She told about its being a common practice for "well-to-do ladies Close observers have noticed that -T will gather upon a half-drunken, Off they go and return again and again, quaffing the alcoholic nectar issuing from his pores. After awhile their flight becomes un certain and eccentric, and sometimes they come in collision. Recently a drunken man raised his hand and toruMlied them from his flee. Some fell W vucui UVUI 1I1K iJVCi OUJUV lCli to drive up to the drug store, send in to the floor and lay there paralyzed. a vAmm-mmmaa a «. a a After awhile they get on their feet and wearily flew off, half dazed. Perhaps they had a head .pn. Many animals yield to the seduction of rum drinking. e? nvuiiv a aaaas aas iasn9 .This it surprising, and the average especially elephants, horses, cows and swine.. Poultry, especially turkeys, will absorb the tempting drink till they tumble over in a leaden sleep, lying around as if dead, and utterly ignoring their accustomed roots. On awaking they stagger for a few momenta anc1 soon recover, but it is hours before they renew their cheerful cackling.**- i- it. pn»i -tiw» HIS HONOR'S SECRET. The PisiutwsUdTose ot Kansas Vat to a Test. The following story hss been told me about Jamea Legate, the lobbyist, and a certain judge of of Lawrence, it seems, wanted Jim, to enlist the judge in the service the Galveston water project: "You can steer 'em up to deep» um, judge,*" said Jim, "and get them to hire me to promote their little scheme. They want deep water and an appropriation./ don't care for, but I would like to do you a favor. But," he continued, impressively and low, "mind you, if I do, my name must never be mentioned in the transaction. That you must promise. My name must never occur or be mentioned in the transaction at any stage." Jim promised, and the judge "saw" the Galveston projectors, with the re sult that Legate was engaged and paid the 10,000. Then the judge came around. "Well, Mr. Legate." said .he, in ami able anticipation of getting his five thousand dollars, "we managed that very nicely." "And I'm eternally obliged to yon, judge, too," interjected Legate "I don't think I could have turned the trick without your aid." After a pause, during which Legate had a dim, far-away look in his eye, the judge concluded to spur him gently. "You got the money all right, Le gate?" "Oh, yes got it in my war bags right now," and Jim slapped his enriched pocket approvingly, "and I'll always re member the help you were to me, too, judge When a man in a friendly, dis interested way does me a favor I'll never forget him. I'm a callous man but that sort of thing touches me." "Well," said tbe judge, after a TALKED HIM OUT OF IT. A Police Sergeant Exposes a I.lbel Upon New York's Principal Street. A badly battered citizen walked into a police station the other morning, and said he was the victim of a highway robbery in which he had lost three hundred and forty dollars. The rob bers, he declared, had sandbagged him and run off. ."I was walking up Broadway," he began, "when they attacked me It was—" "Hold up!" interrupted the sergeant "Did you say this thing occurred in Broadway?" "I did." "Now I know you're a liar. No such thing could happen in Broadway." "But it did," persisted the victim. "Here are five witnesses," and he point ed to that number of people who were with him. "One of them is the presi dent of the 'Steenth National bank, another is an English lord, the third is the governor of a state, the fonrth is a New York city congressman, and the fifth is an ex-president of the United States." "I don't care a blame," said the ser geant 'incredulously. "If a whole reg ment of generals were passing and made affidavits I wouldn't believe them. New York is too well policed for a thing like that to happen in Broadway." "But my money's gone." "You probably spent it on drink and are ashamed to tell your wife." "Look where I've been sandbagged, though. They chipped apiece right off my head." "Did it yourself, probably, to help your story. If you people think you can fool me you make a mistake. Now, get right out of here, or I'll lock you up for perjury." After they had gone he turned to the door man and said: "All sorts of liars come in here, bnt I'm equal to 'em. As if such a thing could occur on Broad way. Pshaw!" "Perhaps the old cove did get belt ed," the doorkeeper suggested. "It might have been as well to investigate the facts." "Tain't any question of facts," said the sergeant "It's a question of prob ability. It don't look probable on the face of it, and that settles it"—N. Y. llerald. Christmas Wide Awake. The December Wide Awake is a true Christmas number and has, therefore, the full Christmas flavor, from the beautiful colored frontispiece that onens it to the fantastic flower piece that ends it This frontispiece is a representation of the Ice Quern in her grotto, drawn by Henry Sandham to accompany Mrs. Sandham's article, "The Vagaries of Santa Claus." "The Bluecoat School," the famous English school in which Charles Lamb and other noted Englishmen were edu cated, by Louise Imogen Guiney, is highly interesting and fnlly illustrated by Joseph Pennoll. "Mr. Van Gelt's Case," by William O. Stoddard. To this strong story succeeds an equally Strong Christmas ballad by R. Macdon aid Alden, "How Lajla Found the Christ-child," beautifully illustrated by Merrill. The new serials that commence in this Christmas numbeV are of unusual excellence. They are W. O. Stoddard's Bevolntionary story, "Guert Ten Eyck Molly Elliot Sea well's nava. story, "The Midshipmen's Mess," and Theodora R. Jenness's Indian' story, "Piokee and her People all finely illustrated. A delightful Christmas play for young people, "Wishing," by William Grant, is given eomplete, with directions for home representation. Price 20 cents. $2.40 a year. D. LoTHBor Company, Publishers, li'jston, Mass. W ntx a barber talks too much his stores are generally illustrated with cuts.—Texas Sirtfugs. "Piano" ter. brief wait, "I suppose you remember your promise?" "Oh, distinctly," said Legate, warmly grasping the other's hand, "and I'll keep it, too. Your name shall never be mentioned in connection with this transaction. Never in any way or form. You can relv on my secrecy im plicitly."—Kansas City Times. r'Raneiy fertile Prinhpt U)d FtertiranentCuife 0f PfiJns ej?d^\cl?e$ WOODWARD & GO. cemMaaMw eff fhntsi aatf Lanscy. A noted sportsman and traveler, ato eefr as. ted with the Smithsonian Institute, re eently visiting in Dakota and Montana, writes ss ioUowiinreference to th) equip- Limited^Vse tibnled Train froji St. Paul to Chicago: ut ^/'Cmcaoo,Oct 26, lblBl n. ^^bed ChicaM_this morning 'on time via Th9 North-Wostsni Lins, and feel that a word is I want f10,000. You put me in line to make it, and it'a a divy. We take 85.000 apiece." The judge hesitated, but he wanted that 15,000 just the same. "Of course," said the judge, gingerly, "I would be very glad to serve yon, Mr. Legate, The money I due with respect to the supsTit equipment on their -Limited.' :\heil Moment Sleepers are cer tainly the most remarkable combination "bf eomtort and luxury ever put on and every appreciative traveler will bless the g.mus which has ernt ived to make the journey of life so smooth! I certainly do, andwul never forget the en logmen lex jjerien -efL I felt as if I were •rolling in wealth' all tbe way. It is a grand im provement to have the oking rompart irent independent and apart from tbe deeper, and I am sue thattne managers of 'hat line will receive the thantf of tbe ladies 'It is a great point to gain the good will of the ladies. "N'est ce pas?"—St. Paul Globe. COLD contrac t. '1 hit's why yoUr pocket book is small when you have coaled up fo.* the winter.—-Danville Breeze. oaclaL It is our earnest desire to imnress upon tbeminas of the public the superiority of the service offered by the Wisconsin Cen tral Lines to Milwaukee, Chicago and all points East and Houtlk. Two fast trains leave St Paul. Minneapolis an't Duiutb daily, equipped with Puilman Vestibuled Drawing Room Sleepers, Dining Cars and Coaches of the litest design. Jts Dining Car Service is unsurpassed, which accounts, to a great degree, for the popularity of this line. The Wlsconsin Central Lines, in con nection with Northern Pacific K. R. is tbe only line from Pacific Cosist point* over whteh both Pullman Vestibuled, first class, and Pullman Tourist Cars are operated via St Paul without change to Cliirago. Pamphlets giving valuable information can be obtained free upon application to your nearest ticket agent, or JAS. C. Poxp, General Pusseuger and Ticket Agent, Chi cago, III Laconic Pkoposau "Cook?" "No." "Aliua"—Fiiegendo ttlat No Wonder They Groan. Groaning is permissible to the rheumatic. But the groans wills on cease when they tone Ho=tetter Kr.m:ich Bii ters, which re lieve) the agonizing malady with gratifying I rompt tud". indigestion, constipation, malar.nl ailments, sick headache, lioua ness, nervousness nnd a hick of physical stamina, are among ti:e ailments overcome by this couiprehen 1 ve remedy. What I value moit is my peace of mind." "That's strange, lo. You've such a small piece"—Harper's Bazar. In Oltlen Times People overlooked the importance of per manently beneficial effects and were satis fied with transient action but now that it is generally known that Syrup of Fi-.r8 will permanently cure habitual constipation, well-informed ei"le will not buy other laxatives, which act fcr a time, but final injure the system. It is a strange paradox that fast colors are colors that will not run. —Boston Trau script. We will give 100 Do not TIIE reason that rich men have so many friends is because they are capital fellows. —ivOche_.ter Democrat. Tnn cucumber does its best lighting after it is down.—Texas Siftings. SVNSH1MJ£ comes, no matter how dark the clouds are, when the woman who is borne down by woman's troubles turns to Dr. Pierce's Fav orite Prescription. If her life is made gloomy by the chronic weaknesses, deli cate derangements, and painful disorders that af flict her sex, they are com pletely cured. If she's overworked, nervous, or run-down," she has new life and strength. Favorite Prescription" is a powerful, invigorating tonic and a soothing ana nervine, vegetable, perfectly It regulates and promotes all the harmless. proper functions of womanhood, improves digestion, enriches the blood, dispels aches and pains, brings refreshing sleep, and re stores health ana vigor. For every female complaint" and disturbance, it is the only remedy so sure and unfailing that it can be guaranteed. If it doesnt benefit or cure, yon have your money back. Zlrey all Testify To tho Eleacy of the Woflfrltonowntd Swift's Specific. Tho old-tlmo simple remedy from tho Georgia champs a^d fields has Conofcrlh to_t! antipodes, astor.ishlng rio skeptical and confountlln* tho theories of CicsewLo depend solely cn tho physlclaa'ackllL Therofccoblcod taint which ltc'oesnc Immediately eradicate FDlscns outwardly absorbed or tho result of vile diseases from wltMa all yield to thti potent bat slnplo remedy. It Is aa nnequalcd tonic, bolldsapthoold and feeble, cores all diseases arising from Impure blood or weakened vitality. Cend for a treatise. Examino tho proof. Books oa Blood and Skin Diseases mailed ffce^ JruggiMU Sell It. 8WIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta, Oa. BileBe&ns Small Guaranteed ti cure Plllons Attacks, Sick Headache and Conntipai ion. 40 in e^ch bottle. Price 23c. For Salo by druggists. Plctura "7, IT. 0" and sample dose free. J. F. 8MITH A CO.. Pr pMon, HEW YORK. Salvation I I A W I A A I N A Dr. Bull's Cough Syiip mil can year ceagfc Arnc. Tbe Best Vaterpcf Coat In the WORLD! SUCKER Tiie FISH liUAXD SLICKER Is warranted water prooTandwUlkeepynudry la tbe hardest storm.<p></p>HUM w-: U4-hx^v R'l'NGsufl STOVE POMSH I Unhands. In)nre the lion, and ban eff. I TbeBMneSua Stove Polish is BriUtanMMoiiI ns.Durable,and the consumer pays QEGREAT 4,Yes.'» reward for any case of catarrh that cannot be cured with Hall's rrh Cure. T.iken internally. F. J. Chs.net & Co., Proprs., Toledo, a ask afugitive how he "comes on." Ask him how he is "tfwiug off."—Tallin* News. A Dose in Tim Saves Nine of Hale's Honey Horehound and Tar or Coughs. Pike's Toothache Drop Cure in one minute. Tqs burplar doesn't care anything about goinir through your house, tie is satisfied with tlie haul Elmira Gasette. lor aotia I I or flaw package with every purchase. August Flower Eight doctors treated me for Heart Disease and one for Rheumatism, but did me no good. I could not speak aloud. Everything that I took into the Stomrch distressed me. I could not sleep. I had taken all kinds of medicines. Through a neighbor I got one of your books. I procured a bottle cf Green's Aug ust Flower and took it. I am to-day stout, hearty and strong and enjojr the best of health. August Flower saved my life and gave me ray health. Mrs. Sarah Cox, Defiance*.(X SHILOHS CURE 5e50e»*S Cores Consnmptlnn, Coogtis, Crony, gqit Xhroat. Sold by all Druggists oa a Guaranty FORCING A-HEADa Our sales for tho past week ol "CHARTER OAK"STOVES RAKOIS AND have been unprecedented. The Char ter Oak has been forging ahead every day of tho forty years that it haa been on the market. Host itovs dealer* keep them. X! you don not, writs direct to maiulactnrsrs. EXCELSIOR' MANUFACTURING CO. ST. LOU 13, MO. THE WEATHER. When the girls in Pirates of Pen* zance sit down on the stage and say, Let us talk about the weather," they begin oh a topic that is of vital inter est to every one. For after all we are what the weather makes us. When is warm and pleasant, we are happy. When it is raw, we take cold and an. correspondingly unhappy and misera ble. It is a dangerous thing to allow a cold to run under the idea that a cold is of not much importance. It. is ol vital importance. When you take cold do not delay a moment, but get a bottle of Reid's German Cough and Kidney Cure. This great remedy con tains neither opiates nor narcotics. It can be given to the tenderest infant without aiiy da'nger. It is the onlj cough remedy in the world of which il can be said it is impossible to take an overdose. It is. unequaled for croup, pneumciiia,pleurisy or any of the acute maladies that arise from a cold. Get it of any dealer. The small bottles cost 25 cents, the large ones 50 cents. SYLVAN, REMEDY CO., Peoria, HL [OTP*.)* O fVinn^ap*'!*. F^st and rVanaat, Ca frrt, KltKi&J St 6SfflA)(f Proprietors. Tbe new rOMXEL SLK'KEU Is a perfect rkliiigcoat.and oorcrs the entire saddle. Bewareuf ImftsUoaa. Doa't boy a cost If the Fish Brand" Is not on it. mnstra ted Catalncme Ih*. A. J. TOWEK. Boston. Msss. MINNEAPOLIS, DULUTH AND WE8T SUPERIOR. so ran sr. SOUTH, mnnA?o&!8. Book-keeping, Shorthand. Penmanship. lish, duy and night. Mention th paper. *. A. K. ABCBIBAU, Manager. PORTABLE UFFI I DRILLING FAUSUO*!,**. VTLLL MACHINERY. Machines drill any depth both by iteui and boras power. E^Srnd for fr»e lllnBtratcd catalocnsb KOKOAH, KELLY TAHETHILL, Waterise,fawa. OT*AMS this rarsa «wi nana*. DAUGHTERS, UnUVII I klkJ) ever printed onl«4le«F AMCJ work asd cMbrnMerjr. Dslsly Work for •"lenanre and Proflt Is the iaae afll. Write DAS ICS ft CO.. 334 Dearborn St^ Chicago, IU vmsi iius ruuMD «m iHiHk ST. OTTO'S COLLEGE, Offers superior facilities lbr obtaining a classical or commercial education. In •lanal instruction Riven. Terms Seasonable. Knter at any time. kEV.'WX. 31. UCMfUt, l'i£ M'SamiHIS VAPCa «ncr 15 to£lba.jw month brharmla Iremedies. Kostar*inc,Bolaeea ivunum. naaimoiiBBll and no bad effects. 8trtctly Be"l tei. fnr rir~Til"'*. iDn QlWJAl lir.a.MnVicfcer'n Theatre Bida, OwsaS sysaas taui farm—i ttwmast ^1 nRFV S E E S E VJ L.W USE NO OIL WINDMILL®RN°0LLCELR,KG O E THE MINNEAPOLIS ML HIS 36,000 CntCDUTIOI, Becanae it the beat dail in ih^S'orthweet. Sample FKEE. Saturday. It pages', contains com let* st ry. OPIUM Morphine Habit Cored In lO to 20 (lays. Ko pay till cared. ftB. J. 8TKPHE!£ Lsbaaaa^ SrilUlIBIrtRtmqtH|«l«4 FITS Okie. CCBED. Trial Battle ftee kf Cares after all etkers fail, iddms HALL CHEX.CO.,West P*lla.,ra I SO'S CU R'E F-OR CwsBB?aws sad people who hare weak lungs or Asth ma, should use Plso'sCure for Consumption. It haa tared ttsssssds. It has not injur ed one. It Is not bad to take. It Is tbe best cough syrup. Bold everywhere, lit, O N S O N A. N. K.—G. 145?. when wuma to abvektisers pleahe state that yea saw the Unrtissaeit la BY S/UIPLE.