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lHr&M i CTgaa skw 2'V KjgSl T-C Fir' i- Vw - .,-? J " " i -HE 3ED CLOUD CHIEF. t "! uC. HOSMER, Publisher. KSD LrtUP, NEBRASKA. A BABY LOUISE. ... "" Jo Io'c cith you, Kaby Louise! " th ouraJJep hair and j our soft blue eyes, -wid iliq-drcaiiy wisdom that In them lies, -Ind th&taitVftwcct smile you brought from , ios.'.i.'-'dj-j su;fbinc, llaby Louise! wht.n o : fold vour hands, llaby Louise T i our hands. Iki a fairy's, 80 tiny and fair " '" a nrett. innocent, faint-like air. Arc- oiijtri its to think of some angel-taught , ttae u Ic-arr.atl'Bbovc, Baby Louise? I'm iftlovt&h TO". Baby Louise! Wl Sowe'dajr. littloionc, your cheek will grow n8 With a fcish of J delight to hear the -words .-aid: " I love j oa,jEaby Louise. Do yon. hear ufc. Baby Louise? I ium -unf i r7p raise for nearly an hour. Anil jour las.oaikeep drooping lower and lower, n Ami j oirveoj to sleep lile a weary flower, L'iirattul IWOJy Louise! - JHarjarct Eutlnge. MAl)ffillABEED. BV .1 SSTE rOTnERGIM, AxOior of Onc tf&hrce." "Probation," "The fc tVHJWds." Etc, CI nUlTBRJlL-CosTiN-nED. " Oli, MT L:dyi Elizabeth is in the Iue.stion."beguvMr. Starkie, benev olently; ami tltfntHcv went out o the office again; afie'r which Philip hcar -teps :i!onn p:ssagc, and presently a single por-on ei'tered Mr. Day's office, ami called tliTs name, .a little impa tient 1 v. " Where ls tie?'' murmured Mr. Starkie, finding', his call unanswered; and sounding aJgong in the hope of conjuring up sorJeeply. Philip ro-e. from -his "scat, and went into the office. Mr. Starkie stood there, an open L'-ter in his hand. " I want Mr. Pay." he said. "Mr. Izayfhas 2ofce, sir. He had an "Ppomtmcut&unc he said, as there was :iot!iing muehdongj this morning, he had better go" , V Wh must he choose just to-day to h:ue an" appoint n3Bn"t?'' muttered Mr. Starkie. in voXatiua.J i ne "r fiueyuur uvuuuiui iiuuui " ' an I be o tin v use?" asked Philip. thinking of trie time which still hung u-eh'"-; on hi hands. " Vou arc not dr. Day. sir," was tin- curl ivply;to vbich obvious' truth Philip murmured bdoivhis breath: " Xo. I wisli lwere;" and then added alou 1- - BvL'I know were Tie lives, and 1 could g'-Uuid fetch him, if you like." V S- At tin Mr. Starkrj, looked more at tentively at Philip, :nd. his eyes rested thoughtfully upon ""the 3'oung man's fac.D f ft "i our w.h to oblg makes j'ou for get that, a- Mr. DigJias an engage ment, it would probaoljr be lost time to go after him,"' he remarked. " I think, periiaps. you may ei7Bmy jmrpose as -well a Mr. Day,or a'Sjell as any one but Mr. Dav. Ainnptel am going to try ou Conic wihtne." W Phil.p followcdlhis wef to his private room, ard there Mr. tiikie read over again the 1 ttcr he hell in his hand. "You will not Bicnl'.o your errand of to-day to any of 'voir Allow' clerks," he remarked. T jk -Certainly not' -.replied Philip, steadily meeting the piireing eyes which vcre lixed upon huk. 3 W'v arc making a laq,of railway in China, in a ratheront cMhc-way dis trict. Y i-, thoporItwaschieHv through the l&ntislfConrufct Y tha't we undertook the job, :awe intrusted the management offit tcSjrwell. I dare say you lemember Bywul-he was only here a week or two leflre he went out?" - j I Yes. I remember liuji. I never soke to him. though, on Mad any ac quaintance with hiini?' i lie had to be nveitM w considerable jjowers hivfag ith very English and Irili navvies under Iji naties: and the absolutcl as well as mmand of large iu.i of money, important i osr for jiim is was an np you maj- ?...!.,.. 3 ji..i. k. "Certam'.v. sir. c k4 "Well, 1 need not go ?np particulars; but to come to the point, r5hivc strong reasons for wishing to leainVKomething about Hywell. He ha& the best of ref erences with him fronvkJEiJake and Robinson. He had been vfb them for a j car. and the ic:isqn gyii for his leatsnjr wa that thcvhal jo reduce their stall" of servants,? wlushf as thev Jiavejailcd since, seems. 11K3IC enouffh .... t . -" Put I must know more ai.uj possible; though Mr. Grey ;s picious: lut then," in ton tience. ' he never will be sujj anvthinjr reasonable, until lis him, if l ot sus- f impa jiou?, or s safely married to L.ailv iiiizaotwi " - - . a w . on." Philip -siniled involuntarily. nd bent his he:iil to nide his smile. J' Starkie went on: .. "? "Mr. Plaice, one of tke mAers of the firm Bvwell was wilfc"; lniejoufc at Edgeton now. in a small?jray; jR fancy. Y'ou can go and see himand id out all you can. If possibloyou nfct dis cover where he came from tb origi nal people who recommendel Jim to Blake, and what sort of -chat&pe.r he wa. And at the same time, jo must not let the cat out of the bag. Bo you understands" i )t " 1'enectiy. 10 you vraui, a this moment?" , ' to go Yes. as soon as ever ym. can must ec what a mess we "shall 1 -we get wrong with these peoj are so ticklish" to deal withfI v nave the affair settled as soofi as ble," said Mr. Starkie. p vexeil and harassed. "Way "If it -were after five o'clocl heinin Philil). f- " A.flcr live? A loss of hours1 surd." said He, testily. "Wttt'st ler vou from jroing now?" r "i oii"-l t to meet my sister-a p rirl who has never beennerejn n. tefore-at lialf-pastfonr, thats m -ivouhl not have mentionciWt, v Philip, apol.etically, -but Iau j 1 '. Un liL-i'd the idea of the sedition. ":ni! was ve.ed tothinkj ...;-:.. r;i -. 1 nt the same time , prised to lind lfmself coniidmj.suei, tails to the august chief of thewtafcffi ii'iif ! "I would do anthjng to obMge but mv mother would never forgive me if left Grace in- the lurch Saturday afternoon, too." ' Quito right," said Mr. Starkie, look iugpanquil again. "Make your mind easy: I'll go and meet your sister myself; and do you be off as quickly a? you?ean." "You, sir?" ejaculated the astonished Philip. "I couldn't think" "Pehaw!" was the impatient retort. "Waste no more time. 1 can't go and look after the "fellow myself, it would raise suspicion. If I could have done Grey's errand, I would; but the Lady Elizabeth might not have approved of the substitute. .However, as this is your sister, ind not 3 our sweetheart, who's to be nvt, it is managed easily enough. At which station should she arrive, and what is she like?" "She comes to the Parry Street Sta tion, by the train from York; and she's like they say bhe's 1 ke me." "Very, good. Half-past four, you say? I'll see to it. And now, lose" no more time. Good-day!" "Must I let you know?" "Ah, yes. If you get back to-night, I must troub'e you to come to my place to-morrow"and report to me, any time." "Yes, s'r; I'll do my best," said Philip, at la-1 actually taking his de parture. As he drove to the station to take the train to Elgeton, some six or eight miles out of Irkford, he had time to reailze that his mission really must be au important one. " It must be," he reflected, "for the Governor to hurry me off on the spot, and go and incur Grace himself. I can't get over that." It was almost eleven o'clock of the same night, when Philip's hansom stopped at the gate of his dwelling- lace. Grace had come. There was a ight behind tiie green blinds, and he looked toward the left hand yes, a light behind tiiose other green blinds, too. - As Philip cnlered the narrow passage of the hous., a fa c, somewhat dolorous in expression, tnd, as he had hinted to Mr.-fetarkie, strikingly resembling his own, was put out of the door of his sit ting room.with adub!otis,iupiiringlook, tiirhe had fairly entered, when the door was Hung ide open and a tall girl bounded as nrtch as such a small passage would allow bounding out of his parlor and threw herself into his arms. "My dcarjhil:- At last! How very bad of you! How immensely you are improved! I thought you never were coming!" She dragged h'm into the sitting-room. "That litt'e mustache, oh. its killing! It is, really! But what hare you been doing all this time?"" "Did Mr. Starka meet you all right, you unfortunate child?' asked Philip, holding her at anus length and look ing at Tier. "Allow, me to return the compliment. You, also, are immense ly improved." To view her, one must have said that in any case Grace Massey must have been a pleasant object to looknpon. Tall, dark, upright, she was perhaps some what amply developed for seventeen; with shoulders that ,were decidedly broad, and hands' by noN means' small; all was yet so harmoniously formed, and in such fine proportions, as not to appear in the least awkward or ungain ly. In every mo emtnt was the tree, elastic grace which covers, or rather displays, vigor of constitution and strength of limb, givtn by a healthy, outdoor life. Grace Massey would nev er be a Hebe, but she miht develop into a Juno a stately, dark-ej'ed dame one could easily imagine it. At the present moment she vas all girl, all sister. ' "Did old Starkie mettyou?7 repeat ed Philip. ' " Old Starkie' did meet me. sir. When he came up to me, taking off his nat, and sayinjr: 4Miss Massey, I im agine.' I thought that 'your manners were immensely improved, but that you had aged very much, and " "You preposterous goose! I hope 3011 didn't give such a welcome to the arjtd impostor as you drl just now to the real brother."' "Oh!" cried Grace, ccnvulsed with laughter, "what a f rightfel idea! I be haved like why, like any one ought to. Mr. Starkie saw me safe here, making profuse apologies all the way for hav ing deprived you of 'so grpat a pleas ure,' and all that. He apjreciated my company, whatever other people may do." "The old humbug!" sail Philip, in much amusement. "Well, thank Heaven vou are here at last. 'What do 3-011 think of your juarters?" You might begin housekeepingat once If you liked, by seeing after something in the shape of food and drink forme, fori am nearly starved.". Grace rang the bell, remarking: "I may get accustomed to it in time, but just at first this place gives me the sensation that lam in a pastel oard box, and must step and move gingerly for fear my feet should go through the floor, or my "fist through the walls. ' ' "They are rather thin after ihe Foul haven ones, I confess." he said, "Ah," he added with a sigh of satisfaction, as he seated himself before the meal which "his widow" had prepared sfor him; " if you knew, my child, what it is to be perishing with" hunger in tie midst of plenty "' "When was your last meal?" ,rAt a quarter before eight a. of ,the present day." Jiut where have yon been, asd what have you been doing?" she asked, in 'amaze. "Scouring the country for proofs of villainy which I have not found." "Proofs of villainy?" Never mind! It's all in the way of business; and in the way of buiness too, I shall have to leave you to-morrow, till about four o'clock " "Oh, Philip!" i "But some nice young ladies whom I know are coming to call upon you, and invite you to their house." "Have you really business to-morrow?" "Really I have. T have to gc and see Mr. Starkie." "It must be a most peculiar business that wants transacting on Sunday.1' "Just what I expected you id say," said Philip, nnd he gradually contrived to console her by promising to return im the afternoon in plenty of time to gor ... .? Sri witn nr m Berghauses', and by paintii a and Emilie Berghaus in the : Pti ractive colors his imajn- nation fcquM supply, till Grace said. gravely . "Its e thisIiss Thckla Berg- haus m very special friend of said he. biting his lips. vours. "Xon butjiot either, and rather glad Grace Ind begun to to obs Tawn. Despifc owsine?s they sat up late, "talk r past doitgs at their home at o ilb en, where i.'hilip had not been $1 j ast three wars. "1 was in en ft three when last I left it," he sal, "a acre lail. 1 wonder when I shall. s t again. It is a line old place, jGi'.ac; and i olten ieel sorry mat none w us bl lowed m fathers calling." "Tillers f tif soil!" p, there exclaimed is so much Grace. "Oh, PJ more to douDj.a y life!'' w about "Muchyu fc a city life. Go to bed n(l am that you have taken vour Shelangtieo, I left him. av '; her candle, and s iiAqp Elt IV. ilAtll LK Tllri HAIX. un Aionaar a tng Philip and his sister sat at U fast. Gi ace was in high spirits, fie, 1 d with Tnekla ani ith the whole Ber , and certain that .hmiiie Uerga-is ghaus faniilyj-iud' she would beivcirv , ppy in Irkford. "1 am surel e you will, said Philip, absently, fi in truth he was thinking of othyr ings, of his inter view with-Mrrcar file day before, and how, on bis re tinjrall the efforts he had made lo le something deti- nito about Bv.wcll. I how they had re- suited in noth bu ague rumors that he was a verylehivc said "wihl," tler yet another said ue fellow, but some aid "rash," and s the best fellow in tue world, abu n nan's enemy but his own; his cufcfthai thanked him for his exertions, saul pressed himself perfectly satisfied, b had appeared at the same time as if 11 his own mind 6k the ju'te at case in bjuct. it Mr. Starkie's y (the iirst time Philip had liipciedi with him nnd his mm he had enjoyed tha hi or), and had re- turned home to nni G; .cdresfcud in her Tery best, drawino-on pair of lemon dying with 3m- colored kid gloves, an patience to set .ell to arlton drove. Mr. Berghaus" hor?e. a riickla. Emilie and Hermann had, tall that morniii;; on their way from '.ha and .she was delimited with thkn d;rect- la morn- ind went to the window.'" Dii yoigo the top of one -of dhi5so.att to town on itil.nr omni- buses? How funny! ' J "Yes, I must 6e 1 offttow," ie an swered, also rising ,j J "Oh,." continued Urae still looking out. "there is tnat sweft-Iooking "-:rl wjiuiu a uuwueu vyisie ay when 1 was sitting 8t tb Vtiido'.v here. oinin"' to ro to chutLi! L e came from the next house withpisKM ster. I sup- 1 pose. The sister is r alh iquite beauti- ful, though I don't ffek'nlu little one" looks botlfe-ire face. Jiutthe - and good. 1 know who , Jjooicat ner, iflull jm muy mc. k, Philip looked Qveri 1 31 I oiuuer and saw me jnri or wnc 1 ho i:id .said to Hermann Beirhaus:t!kit; a school- irirl;" the vounserf ithel wo ladies who had arrived in!:i cal on r r day evening. She was a talh slij t. upright- looking girl, apparently aboil sixteen years old. T ' hftecn or Philin took stoek of -herewith an in- terest for which he yoald's irdly ac tinic less sister of count, tninKing 01 Jier.au as an individual thaa-'is tfiat other girl, bhear.-s ,ir. with a bright; handsome, open fi bright linir liTinrht f?roa nrntnrl nr about her was bright, and there twis. sides, an indescribably sweet antfWwxl Expression in both eyes and moo h. .jSlie was dressed in soft, gray sfet, "With a little black iichu about her skmldfrs, aud a small, compact, black straw Mt crown ing her shining locks. BI12 cjrricd sev eral books fastened togt'uheB. with a strap, and she was a'iiUyJfcuippet!, gloved, finished, "ready in nrery re spect, as she stepped HE. Ui 'i the bouse and took her wa( '&'" the street. There was sometUi Dn:ipcrior and refined about herijabpeBranee nothing slovenly. All W''-s ttmpact, neat aim wen arranged. . m "Where can she be )kr' 'at this hour?" asked Grave. foUriw with ure. of her eyes the lithe, graceful the grl. I "Probably to school," si a tone of indifference. "School oh. verv likclvv lip, in :e is a , isn't great big girl's scliool near lhel there?" $ "ies, m iaruon uoau. cwsjo-m iois of girls go hundreds. Otoi"slway.s ..- . , . ,m t . """"O '-- r". -w..u comnnr tlinm ll find flrkiim ' "But who is Unit, know?" .rl4 "r, vou "I don't. I saw two youagil! rive in a cab the other niJbti all I know about them. They there, I suppose." E j ' dge "Very likely. Welt-ob, ket a nnmilme i.n'f it (lnmllV.x-1 .' our I In another minute Philipxi I carried out of sight, byth eei and Grace was left to find ke; the scene of her studies, thfc ' Collesre. the classes of whicb s ;nTs prevailed ujon a fond fatherland der mother to allow jner to &ti rhilip, from the top of th soon caught sight again 01 of the school-girl, as he sap be. Yes; she was just, Ui the side street which led to High School, and he had bee: i-. " 1. UN miP(!IHrB. - - a. 'l.u . Zj. "I wonder who on earth m.l be?" he s -Mjculated. Then anlter u ance sitting next to him began "to spftk of other things, and PHliu's In ic tipos'oeasod.,. f f, -v, ' uuuic u3 pasavvt. auu uiwu Aiay graauauy aavanceu, ana nie day hours of Whitsuntide seemfttl gotten in the roar and busdeof rn i work and business. 5,- Grace assured her brother a again 'how Tery happy she rhilip found her a pleasank conai The Yorkshire girl was full of spirit; and a bright example boasted intelligence -of ber native try; having an ample fund" of ness and common sense a "long k TC bk "I suppose voucw.Jl bit iroir ly'hc added, fp ihisIniii m-r. as she rose Iron theable on her young shoulders, and a warm. generous heart to boot. Honesty wa her chief characteristic honesty ol word, deed and purpose on her own part, a love of honesty in others, and a quickness in, as it were, scenting out, dishonest in all its forms, and an in tense, uncompromising detestation ol it, which, as Philip toldher, was, on the whole, rather troublesome than other-! wise. But he smiled as he said it, and j J Grace, with a secret thrill of pleasure, ! ien mat ne iovcu ner ior 111.1t nonesiy. and that the salient feature of his own character was the same thing; that, whatever he might say, in jest or satire, he was loyal to the'backbone "jan nock," to use the expressive vernacular of Lancashire or Yorkshire that, his word, once seriously pledged, be it by no more ample formula than "yes" or "no," "I will," or "I will not," it would be kept at whatever cost, and kept, not in letter only, but in the very spirit of his promise. A few days sufficed to make Grace satisfied that Thekla and Emilie Berg haus were au fond, like her brother and herself "jannock," and the friendship progressed with the rap id pace incidental to the friend ships of honest boys and girls in general. The Berghaus girls were un spoiled at heart, though their training and education, their 'in ussant courses of balls and visits, and their life in a house whose doors were always open, and which was scarcely ever void of some kind of company, had given them a confidence of. manner and a some what artificial behavior which had at first rather puzzled aud almost re pelled the country-bred girl. But the get uineness which she soon found be neath the surface quickly won her heart, while it was very pleasant, even to a student at .so advanced an academy as th Women's College, occasionally to cas. aside her studies and p-irtakc of the sotial amuseirtents to be found at CarltoL Grove. Compliments were not altogether despicable, even to one who piofcsscd to be interested in Mill's "System of Logic." and the attention ' which Philip's friends paid to his ' bright anil hands'.mc s'ster was by no j means disnrr '.-able to her. One moniiiu. when it streamed with jain. i-omen iiatn.cre tl-an a week after G lace's arrival. Philip, a little later than usual, ro'-e from the bicakfast- table and p:erand to take his way to town. ! ace had been discoursing again about lliiir uc.t door neighlois, and Philip had been more interested in the discourse limn he would have cared to confess. Whether from that reason or not, he was ihrea minutes lute, and when he opened tin door and looked out the omnibus was ju-t vanishing round a corner, on its way to town. Buttoning up Irs n.ackintosh and ra's ing his umhiclhi, he derided to walk as far as Carlton Bond, other omiuhus, or, 111 c cab to the office. to be coNmvi:i. Sweet Simj lirity. I saw a g'rl come into a areet-car the other day who had. I w.-t.s iuly to bet, made her own dicss, and luw" nice she did look. She was one of tl toe clean, trim girls you see now ami -.hen. She was :u;out eighteen ears old. and, to begin with, looked well-fed. healthy mdstionn-. She looked as tin n.rl, ; t had a. sensible mother at horn."" Her ' face and neck and ears and h:r hair ' were clean, absolute d v clean. Ihw sel-' uoci you s c mat. more was no pow der, no paint on the smooth, roanded cheek or linn, dimpled chin: none on the moist 1 cd lips; uone on the shell tinted but not too small ears; none on the handsomely .set neck rather bioad behind, perhaps, but running migitty prctt ly up into the tightly-corded ha'r. And such hair! It was ot a light chest nut brown, and glistened with specks of gold as the sun shone upon it, ami there was not a smear of oil or poma tum or cosmetic on it; there was not a speck of it astray ami not a pin to be seen in it. As the girl came in and took her scat, she cast an easy, unembar rassed glance around the car from a well-opened gray eye, bright with the inimitable light of "good condition," such as you see in some handsome young atliletes wbo are in good training. There were no tags atfd ends, fringes, furbelows, or fluttering ribbons about her closely-fitting but easy suit of tweed, and as she diew oil one glove to look in her purse for a .small coin for fare, I nofc'ced that the gloves were not new, but neither were they old; f hey were simply well kept, like the owner and the owner's hand, which was a solid hand, with plenty ol muscles between the tendons and with strong but supple fingers. It would have looked equally pretty fashioning a pie in a home kitchen or folding a tandage in a hospital. It was a hand that suggested at the same time woman liness and work, and I was sorry when it found a live-cent piece and had been re-ghned. One loot was thrust out a little over the slats of the car floor a foot in a good walking-boot that might have splashed through a rain-storm without feai of damp stockings and an eminently sensible boot on a two and one-half foot, with a high instep, a small round heel and a pretty broad tread. The girl was a picture from head to foot, as she sat erect, disdaining the support of the back of the seat, and devoid of all appearance of stiffness. Perhaps the whole outfit to be been, from hat to boots, did not cost forty dollars, but I have seen plenty of out fits costing more than ten times, 01 even twenty times that which did not look one-tenth or one-twentieth as well If our girls only knew the beauty ol mere simplicity, cleanliness and health, and their fascination! Sun Francisco Examiner A Mass., rich young- chap of Natick, to a liverv stable nrnttv went drank and ordered a team. While they were harnessing the horse he climbed into tiie carriage and went to slcen. They let him Sleet) a eon nie of hours when he awoke and, declaring that he had taken a good, quiet ride, "called at tention to the fact that he hadn't abused the horse, but on the contrary had given him an oat bait at the Newton lalls Hotel, paid three dollars for the tour and went off satisfied. Boston Post. There is said to be three cents worth of gold in every ton of sea water. TftlliperflllCe Heading F0R GOD'S SAKE, Jt01'S!n SAVE TEE A hard drinker of many years said, as ho lisnoil the pleduc: Twnn'i io any good: I Mii't reform: it' too late; but, lor God's take, have the boys! " Mis AW.'v Jiradle!!. ' Like Dives in the deeps of hell, I can not bre-ik this li-iirlu! spell. Xnr ciucnch the flies I've m.ully nursed, Xor cool this dreadful rasinjr thirst. Take buck your pledge, j e conic too late: Ye cannot tave mo from my fate, Nor tiring- mo back depurto.t joys, llut j c cun try to s.ivo the boys. Ye bid me break my flery chain, Arise, and be a man airain. When every street with snares is spread, And netsot sin whero'er I tread. No, I must reap us I did sow. The seeds of sin bring1 crops of woe: llut with my latest breath I'll crave That ye will try the boys to save. These bloodshot eyes were once so bright. This sin-crushed heart was plad und light; llut by the wine-cup's ruddy glow I I nice J a path to shame and woe. A captive to my galling chain, I've tried to rise, but tried in vain: The cup allures and then destroys. Oh, from its thraldom save the boys! Take from your streets thoo traps of hell Into whose gilded bnarc I fell. Oh! freemen, from those foul decoys, Ario and vote to save the boys. And ye who license men to trade In draughts that charm nnd then degrade, Hefore ye hear the cry: "Too late!" Oh! save the boys from my sad fate! Franca E. V. Harper, iu Union Signal. WHO HAS AX INTEREST IN RUM I There are those! who consider the rum question as one affecting only the man who drinks and the man who sells. There never was a greater mistake. Every person in a community has an interest, a direct, vital interest in every man who drinks and every man who sells the drink. It is everybody's business whet he liquor is drank or not. The use of intoxicants by any one concerns the entire community. Turn a mad-dog loose in the streets and the entire community hastens to destroy it, because its very existence is a menace to the community. rum seller in a community, so "far as ow erfor damage goes, "is worse than a do 'en mad-dogs. One dog may oe killed and his power for evil ceases;" the rum-seller stays. It does make a difference in a com munity whether or not a man supports his family decently and properly. v iietner a man is a iiselul IM .1 " . . . . a man is a useful nitron nr n burden upon other citizens is a matter or interest to every one in the com munity in which he resides. Whether a man brings up his children to indus trious and virtuous habits, or launches them upon the sea of life as pirates, to prey upon others, is a matter of Tery much moment to everybody. When a man sits down to the business of drunkard-making he has established a school for bejrirarv and crime. His business is to implant in as manvincu a 1 tl ere take an-1 and boys as possible an appetite to grat fault of that, a ify whfch not only takes the entire pro- rat- cceds of their labor, but unfits them for labor at all; an appetite so powerful that when labor will not supply it, it compels its victims to resort to crime. It is a business which, inasmuch as its victims can not support their families, throws the burden of theirsupport upon tha community at large. It is a busi ness which not only makes courts of justice necessary, but is the foundation stones of the alms-houses and the jails. Who ever knew a drunkard to occupy decent dwelling, or to pay rent promptly for the miserable hovel which he invariably inhabits? " uo ever K"ew the wife of a drunkard ! to make purchases ot any amount, of dress goods for the clothing of herself and children? How many children of drunkards are kept out of school Jor want of decent clothing? and, for -want of proper edu cation, what percentage of them grow up into manhood and womanhood, ig norant, depraved and vicious? Prom what classes come the depraved the thieves, the street ruffians and the gamins who naturally graduate into crime? There can scarcely be found a crimi nal who can not trace his education in trimc to rum. There is scarcely a case of destitution that requires public interference that mm is not the cause of. The regular, almost universal, .plea of murderers in extenuation of their crime is: "I was drunk when I did it." The breweries and distilleries, and their lieutenants, the keepers of rum shops, are directly responsible for nine ty per cent, of nlfthis misery and death. They do not wait for their victims to come to them they go out and seek them. In the city of Toledo there arc six hundred regular rum-shops, and counting the houses of infamy, the gambling dens and other places of like character .that depend directly upon rum as the foundation of their business, the number will reach eight hundred. As bad, as wide-spread as is the drink ing habit, one huudred would fully sup ply the natural demand for liquors. How do the other seven hundred make a living? They create a trade in the horrible stuft they deal 5n. They go out and pull in victims. They stop the labor ing man on his way home. ,They en tice him out of house evcniDgs, they search out boys ani initiate them in the habit, knowing full well that once lixed it is almost impossible to break it, and that once in their Lands they have a mortgage on him forever. There arc exceptions, honorable ones, but they are few in number. The whisky business, as a rule, is in the hands of a class who are utterly regard less of the effect of their hideous trade upon others. As a rule they sell in differently to the drunken man who can barely stand before the bar, and to the precocious boy or drunken woman. They sell to whomsoever has monev to pay, even though they know that' tho tumbler-full swallowed at eight is to eventuate in a murder at nine. And this same reckless disregard of the public good runs through the whole buaiuess. The brewer's wagon stops with the same regularity before a murder-don or a thieves' resort as before a respectable saloon, and the vilest of them can secure their supplies from wholesale concerns. The onlv question asked is concerning pay. It is a busi ness from first to last "without a con science. It is a business that ruins the drink-biryer, soul and body, and leaves the seller almost as badly wrecked. It is a soul-searing, pityeradicating, feeling-hardening business, one which knows neither remorse nor shame. It is a business based upon the most soul less cupidity, which is a total stranger to ever sentiment that ennobles and1 every instinct that is good. It has no more pity than a shark and no more remorse than a tiger. What it wants is money, and it cares not how it gets it y Every citizen has the right to say whether the horrible traffic in men's bodies and souls shall be tolerated, and if so, on what terms. Communities have the right to protect themselves against vice, for thev have the burdens 01 vice to bear. It is nonsense to say that a community which has to support the widow and orphan may not control the trade which makes widows and or phans. It is nonsense to say that a com munity which has to pay the terrible cost of the crime committed within its borders may not restrict and restrain the cause of almost all the crime. It is worse than nonsense to say the one trade which sets morals a.t defiance, which is allied to everything that is bad, and which has nothing whatever of good in it, shall not only be above law but shall make the laws. Toledo Blade. "Bands of Hope. j Tho recent meeting of Christian phi lanthropists in Chicago for the purpose of organizing, reviving and perpetuat ing Bands ot Hope, both among Proiest ants and Roman Catholics, was s:gnifi cant. The gathering was called by the ladies of the Woman's Christian Tem- Eerance Union. Remarks were made y leading clergymen of this city, to gether with gentlemen acquainted with tho practical work in England. Favor able resolutions were adopted, and the ladies have begun forming organiza tions with their usual persevering ear nestness. The fact that only a small proportion of the masses come directly uuderpulnit influences was emphasized. f Reference was also made to the fact that the liquor interest is not an organ ized, tangible institution like slavery. It is intermingled with business, poli tics and society, like a corrupting leaven. Its slaves can not be emanci pated by a single stroke of the Execu tive pen. Education is the fundamental ultimate thunderbolt to reduce the rum traffic to the minimum of theft or for gery. " cry cncourag.ng results were citeil by Band of Hope leaders from across the sea. Temperance (total abstinence) principles have gained permanentground in England to a marvelous degree. Thirty Mayors of cities have graduated from Band of Hope organizations and know not the taste of alcohol. " Ninety per cent, of the ministers in our Meth odist training-schools," said Rev. Mr. Hardy, "are ignorant of liquor's taste." Blessed be agnosticism upon the sub ject of rum. This means great progress when remembered that not infrequently the local itinerant on the Sabbath dealt in liquor through the week. There must be tremendous power and inspiration in the annual assembly of 40, 000 children at the Crystal Palace, Lon don, arrayed in white, bearing Temper ance banners and singing Temperance songs. The result is a deep-seated, inbred, life-long hatred toward rum and rummerics. Like the Christians at Sardis they have not defiled their garments." They shall walk before the -Great Throne ol Goil in white, for they arc worthy. "Wine is a mocker, strong drink "is raging, and whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise,"-viz.: the wine bibber, the beer-guzzler are not only unwise in the sense of being foolish, but often arc uninstructed and lack infor mation. We are not troubled by sane people taking arsenic.strychnine or oth er well-known forms of poison. Let people be rooted and grounded from childhood concerning the deadly and fioisonous nature of modern adulterated iquors. Let there be scientific lectures and experiments in connection with our common schools; but instead the "best Mayor" and City Council of Chicago license saloons within a stonc's-throw of our school-buildings. Thus the nur sery of vice and the fountain of culture spring up together in the same block, protected by the same law and govern ment. Amazing inconsistency and aw ful duplicity! "Whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." Would we equip an invincible army of- public sentiment possessing the mighty battery of legal enactment and legal enforcement? It will not be ac complished alone by the fiery eloquence of an hour, but by the patient training of a generation. Mormonism, alcohol ism, and every ism of evil may laugh at the orator but tremble before the teach er's power over the young. We waste but little time teaching the semi-centenarian pure mathematics or technical science, but consider him a fit subject for lessons in morals and religion. It would not be difficult to show in addi tion that the surest avenue to the drunk ard's soul is the " innocent heart of his child." Rev. J. P. Eriishinqham, in N. W. Christian Advocate. A ciiinD of twelve years came to scliool one day with tears, entreating us to go to her home. Her excitement was so great we went at once, and be held a scene too dreadful to describe. It was a drunkard's home. The father lay upon the floor helplessly drunk and had fallen upon the floor, cutting his face, which was covered with blood. The mother, so intoxicated she could scarcely stand, was holding an iron poker in her hand arid threatening the lives of the four children, from three to ten years of age. Such is the result of rum selling and rum drinking! the curse of our land, and the cause of most Lot the wretchedness, want, suffering ana crime we see among us! Uh! for the power to remove it! Advocate and Guardian. The progrojs of the Temperance work in London is indicated by the offi cial statement that in 1831, when the population of London was littlo more than a million and a half, there were 31, '153 apprehensions for drunkenness and disorderly conduct. In 1882, with a population which had increased to 4,91)0,1)52, the number of apprehensions had fallen to 26,296. An actou who once held an honora ble position in New York presented himself at a police station the other night and asked to be sent somewhere for care and treatment. Drunkenness had ruined hirn, physically and men tally, and having no 'home nor friendsi, the"poor-hoiise was his oDly refugo. s t?l i I2 ... ft11 -" W 1 ) 1 . r5 13.-- T.L. ra3MSj5sJS.. uTH TfS&Jc j yf - .ie'-&&fe. fs.J.-.-!lJ