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MOVE, FARM AW GARDEN.
A littlo powdered charcoal will
sleanso and sweeten bottles if it is well
uhakcn about in tnem.
Pullets for next winter's laying
should be hatched now. Tho earlier
f hey arc hatched tho sooner they will
ibegin to lay. Indianapolis JournaU
A Cure for Sore Throat: Take a tes.
spoonful of black currant jam or jelly,
iput it in a tumbler and fill up the xri
;bler with boiling water. Take this sev
eral times in the day and drink while
-hot Toledo Blade,
In -changing the cows from dry
feed to pasture, let it be done gradually,
firing them to the stables early andgire
Chem a feed of hay, with roots if availa
ble; give dry fodder the next morning
4eforo turning the animals out to grass.
Cleveland Leader.
Children's Pudding: To one quart
of sweet milk allow nearly half a cup
ful of cracked wheat; put it in a pudding-dish
and bake slowly for two hours,
Stirring it several times. Add raisins,
salt and a little cinnamon, if liked, for
flavoring, and cat it with cream and
sugar. This is nice both warm and
cold. The Household.
Beggar Stew: Take all sorts of
cooked and uncooked scraps of meat,
cut into very small pieces and put them
into a stew-pan with the bones chopped;
ftepper and salt, a Utile sliced onion,
double the quantity of raw potatoes and
cold water to cover; simmer quite gent
ly for three hours, and after removing
tho bones serve very hot when the pota
toes are reduced lo a pulp. Albany
Journal.
A farmer who has made a small
fortune of late years out of hogs says
that he can make a pound of pork
in September, when hogs are run on
second-crop clover, for one-half tho cost
of that produced in November and De
cember from corn alone. He is becom
ing more fully convinced every day that
three-fourths of the failures in hog rais
ing are due to following the old idea of
tiog and corn, and that the only w.iy
we can successfully compete with feed
ers in cheap corn counties is by mak
ing our pork principally of grass.
1'ruirie Farmer.
It was found by careful trial at the
garden of tho New York Experiment
.Station, that the old and expensive
fiiethod of growing celery in deep
trenches, and with repeated 'earthing
cip" as the plants grew, was in no way
superior to the level culture method,
with a single earthing to blanch the
fitems after they complete their growth.
This is in accord with the common
practice of our best gardeners at the
present time, but is contrary to the
leaching of the older writers on the sub
ject. AT. Y. Examiner.
A strange dish, finding favor with
the epicure himself (he in no case be
ing told how it is mado), is called ba
con short-cake. Make a crust just as
you do for the biscuit served with fricas
need chicken; roll it out in one large
cake to be baked in a long tin; cut little
slashes in the dough, and through these
slip slices of bacon in. The bacon
should be cut in thin slices or strips
about five inches loDg. and not half that
width. Have these slices about three
inches apart Bake the same as any
phort-cake, and serve hot. As an en
tree, with game, this is considered
specially appetizing. Boston iilobc.
Basrs and Their Uses.
This is a season of bags, and the fash
ionable woman cau not have too many
of them. The shopping bag is now
-made of plush or the material used in
tho suit worn, and lined with some gay
ibut harmonizing color. The strings are
finished with heavy tassels or metallic
rbobs, and by way of decoration tho
monogram, or, better and more stylish,
the initials which arc put on the side of
-the bag in silver or gilt letters. The
opera or theater bag is some eight
inches square, usually made of bright
i-satin, lined with sheet wadding and
plush, perfumed to suit tho fanjy, and
closed with ribbon or cord for" draw
strings. The lady carries itou her left
rm, and in tho theater she hangs it on
Hie box rail or tics it on the back of the
chair before her. After the perform
ance the bag is opened, and in it aro
tumbled fan, smelling bottle, bouquet,
liandkcrohicf, glasses, programme, li
bretto and other adjuncts of an opera
ioilet which usually burden the escort.
In place of the "old sofa-pillow is a
slumber ba, cut square in shape and
about 12x'J inches in size. The fashion
is to make it of shaded yellowish satin,
though that is a matter of taste. The
ag is filled with eider down or cotton
-' .tatting and perfumed with the sachet
)owdcr. It is closed at one end with a
oose bow of ribbon and secured to one
side of the chair-back. When not in
use it is allowed to dangle at the right
of the back.
Stocking bags made of opal-tinted
eatin, with a facing of amber plush, are
now hung in the family sitting-room,
from some fancy nail or cabinet bracket.
When the washing comes ud from the
laundry, all the hosiery is put in this
pretty satin bag and mamma or big
eistcr has an ivory eg, with her name
etched on the side, with which and a
ten-dollar gold thimble she darns holey
toes and heels in the family silk stock
ings. fhen there is the catchall for the
library or back parlor, made of em
bossed velvet, brocaded silk, or some
equally rich fabric, which is dark
enough to shed the dust and stand plenty
of wear.
Newly married couples, and not over
bstemious young ladies, have little silk
tmgs lined with white linen, and made
of almost any fabric, hung in some odd
corner of the room and filled with
crackers, fruit, licorice root, sassafras,
confections, or anything to munch on
between meals. Then there is the
creton bag, lined with' white leather
and containing a sponge, cap. flesh
fcrusn, bath mitten, vial of hartshorn.
And a cake of favorite toilet soap. When
tho bath-room is any distance from the
apartment Miss Fastidiousness takes her
tathing bag on her arm and directs et
-fitcps to the burnished bath. ' Ladies
belonging to literary clubs who patron
zc the public library are seen going to
nd from that institution with a dozen
or more books squeezed into a bag mail
of crash or Turkish toweling and gar
nished with strips of velvet or cmbroid
miy in crewel work. N. Y. Star,
Pumpkins and Squashes.
In the Now England and Middls
States and some portions of Canada,
great attention is given to raising
pumpkins and squashes. Their culture
is generally neglected in the West ex
cept by persons who have moved from
the East and still have faith in the
minor crops. In Southern Michigan
and Wisconsin, where farmers are in
clined to make the most out of their
land, they are raised in quite largn
quantities. They are sometimes
planted in fields devoted to corn, a
seed being placed in each third or
fourth hill. The vines do not generally
make much growth until the use of the
cultivator is discontinued. In many
cases they are planted in a field by
themselves. It is usual to plant them
in .hills eight feet apart each way. If
the ground is quite rich no manure is
applied. If it is not a spade is used to
make an opening for the hill, which is
partly filled with compost, well rotted
stable manure or other good fertilizers.
Hen manure, hog dung, ashes and bone
meal are excellent substances to apply.
The ground between tho hills is kept
free from weeds by tho use of the culti
vator. Not more than three plants
should be allowed to grow in each hill,
although it is best to plant rive or six
seeds, as some of the plants will be un
promising, while some of them may be
destroyed by bngs while they are "still
small. There is much less trouble with
insects when many pumpkins and
squashes aro planted than when there
are but few plants. These plants re
quire less cultivation than almost any
crops raised in the field or garden.
Pumpkins and squashes may be raised
to excellent advantage on the sides of
hills, on ground broken to admit of
easy cultivation, and on the places that
have been occupied by nay-stacks and
manure-heaps. If a place three or four
feet square be well prepared for the
hill, the remainder of the ground need
not bo disturbed. The viues will do
quite as well if they run over barren
irround or rocks as over the best of soil.
They are not adapted to shady places
or ground that is hard and cold. They
are very useful for feeding to all kind;;
of stock during the fall and the early
part of the winter. Many of the lon;f
keeping varieties of squash may be
kept all winter by taking pains in "har
vesting and storing them. In harvest
ing them care must be taken not to
break the stem oil", as to do so would
insure the rotting of the squash. It is
best to carefully cut the vine where tho
stem is attached to it. Care must also
be taken not to bruise them. They
should be kept in a tolerably dry placti
where there is no danger of frost. They
may be fed very liberally to all kinds
of animals during the month of No
vember. They will make cows continue
to give milk long after the frost has put
a stop to the growth of grass in the pas
tures. They will help cattle and sheep
to lay on fat. Store hogs will eat them
raw,and those that are fattening will
derive great benefit from them when
they are cooked. They aid digestion,
and arc very valuable to feed in con
nection with corn. That good beef and
mutton can be made from squashes and
grass has been demonstrated by many
farmers. Squashes and pumpkins arc
very valuable for fowls during winter.
They require some fresh food, and in
many places it is easier to supply them
with squashes than with any other fruit
or vegetable.
Pumpkins have recently given place
to squashes as articles of food for men.
The latter are now generally used for
aaking pumpkin pies," and are also
boiIedand served with meat. The vari
eties of squash furnish an excellent sub
stitute for the sweet potato. They may
bo boiled or baked. Large quantities
of squashes are now dried and canned
for use during the winter and spring,
and there is quite a demand for them
for export. The consumption of
squashes in cities has increased very
fast during the past few years. During
some seasons it is difficult to supply the
demand. Not infrequently are squash
es sent from this part of the West to
Boston and cities in the New England
States. When the crop is a failure else
where on account of the drought or
other causes, Western growers have
realized very high prices. Every
year the pic-bakers in this city pur
chase squashes by tho ton, and some
times by the car-load. Considering the
ease with which they arc raised and the
numerous uses to which they arc put, it
seems remarkable that so little atten
tion was paid to their production. Chi
cago Times
His First Offense.
"Guilty or not guilty?" asked an
Austin Justice of the Peace of a colored
culprit, who was accused of stealing a
whole line full of linen.
"Dat ar 'pends on you, Jcdge. Hit's
for you to say."'
"You must cither plead guilty or not
guilty. 1 have nothing to do with it."
"Yes, you has. If you is gwineter
let me off with nuffin but a reprimand,
like you did las' .time "
" Well, suppose I do let you off with
a reprimand, as I did last time?"
"In dat case I pleads euilty to six
shirts, foah pilfy slips, and about a
dozen under-pieccs."
" But I'm not going to let you off so
easy."
"Den, ef you is gwineter sock it ter
me, I'll gib a liar one oh de shirts, and
we will try dis case by a jury."
"All right. I'll cuter a plea of no
guilty."
This did not seem to suit the culprit
rery well, for he spoke up:
"1 6ay, boss, I don't keer to put de
Court and de Sheriff to trouble on my
account. Jess lemme off ag'in wid a
repriman', as you did las' week, on ac
count ob hit being my fust offense, and
I'll plead guilty ter five chickens I
pulled las' week, an' a hog I stole las'
winter, an' a par ob shoes from de
store, and a wood-pile I'se gwineter
haul off to-night."
The Justice thought that "do fust of
fense" plea was worn out, and the
offender is now in tho Texas Peniten
tiary. It does not pay to be guilty of
thelirst offense more than halfa dozen
times in Texas, unless the first offeree
is shooting a man. 'Texas Sifting:
m .
When the Washington monument
is completed a great American eagle is
to be perched in dignified security five
hundred feet in the air and on a chim
ney weighing more than seventy-five
thousand tons,jxnd costing $800,000.
Bird-Lline and Its Uses.
Bird-lime is a tenacious, sticky sub
stance, used to smear twigs or sticks
for the purpose of catching birds that
may alight thereon, and might bo used
for'destroying the pestiferous European
3parrows which aro rapidly becoming a
great nuisance in all our "largo towns
and their suburbs. It can also bo em
ployed for catching fruit-eating birds,
or forcing them to leave the garden and
orchard; for a bird that once sets foot
on a fresh splash of bird-lime and is not
caught will be very likely to leave the
locality and not revisit it again during
the season. Although bird-lime is
made in the United States in small
imantities, Japan is probably the only
country in which it is regularly manu
factured on a large scale. It is made
from the bark of tho mochi tree, an
evergreen with thick evergreen leaves.
Tho manufacture extends over several
months. The bark is taken from the
trees in June and macerated in water
about forty days; after which it is beaten
in a morfar with a pestle shod with
iron, the fiat under surface of which is
armed with spikes projecting down
ward. When the mass in the mortar
becomes glutinous it is taken out and
washed iu water to remove as much of
the rough outer bark as possible. It is
then again pounded and treated in a
vessel of hot water ou which it floats.
Here it is again manipulated by tho
workmen for the purpose of discnera?-
ing the remaining particles of bark.
After this it is again washed in cold
wat.er. These processes of pounding,
boiling and washing are repeated until
about nine-tenths of the original mass
is washed away, and the material be
comes sufficiently clear and pure. It is
then a dull whitish color, extremely
viscid, and of a very gummy consisten
cy. When well prepared it is said to
keep good for a long time.
An interior article is made in Europe
from the bark of the common holly,
treated in a manner similar to that
above described. Other preparations
have been made under the same name,
but without the same results. A recent
writer, speaking of the uses to which
this article is put by the Japanese, says
that they are tar more diverse than one
would suspect, the principal one being,
of course, the snaring of birds and ani
mals. By means of bird-lime, animals
as large as monkeys are oaught. When
the' once get the stuff upon their paws,
they soon cover themselves with it, ami
so exhaust themselves in trying to get
rid of it that they fall an easy prey.
Birds as large as ducks aro taken, and
by a very "ingenious process. Tho
young shoots of the wistaria, which at
taiu considerable length, and are strong,
liirht and flexible, are gathered, dried
and knotted together in one continuous
length. This is smeared with bird-lime,
aim floated out to sea, where very often
iu the morning the hunter is rewarded
by the capture of several birds. It is a
very inexpensive method of bagging
wild fowl, as the tackle will serve any
number of times till the bird-lime dries,
when it is easily replaced. There is no
noise made in this kind of hunting to
drive away the ducks, or to inform tho
neighbors of what is going on about the
haunts of wild fowl.
Small birds are caught in various
ways, some by means of a decoy bird
concealed near a patch of tempting
food, which is plentifully planted with
little splinters of wood, like large
needles, the upper half of which are
covered with lime. In China and Japan
they use bamboo splinters, but those
made of basswood or auy similar light
kind will answer just as well. The
Japanese also catch small birds on trees
by using long bamboo rods, the tops of
which are smeared with the lime, and
then stealthily thrusting them against
their feathers. Rats and mice are easily
caught by spreading a small quantity
of uird-lime on pieces of paper or
board, and placing these near their
poles. It is also spread upon the leaves
of the bamboo and universally emploj'ed
throughout Japan for catching flics and
other insects. Even llea-traps are made
of it. and used by tho Japanese in bed.
Bird-lime has'as yet been very little
used iu this country, but it could" be in
troduced tc advantage in many sections
and for niany purposes: and if the En
glish sparrows are to be destroyed, it
can be done more rapidly and with less
danger with traps than with powder
and shot, although the former may not
afford quite so much sport to boys who
are fond of a gun, and take more pleas
ure in a noisy hunt than a still one.
A1 11 Sun.
How to Make Cheese Digestible
Cheese is among our most nutritious
foods. It contain-: many elements for
sustaining life, and people who can eat
it find it nourishing and healthful; but
everybody can not eat cheese. Men
wholive in the open air and work hard
can digest it; but the great bulk of
people, who live and work indoors, can
only partake of it as a relish at the end
of a dinner, or as an accompaniment to
their dessert of pie; yet twenty pounds
of cheese contains as much nutritious
material as a sheep of sixty pounds in
weight, and has the same value as prac
tical nutriment if it could be easily di
gested. A distinguished English chem
ist suggests a remedy for the indigest
ibility of cheese. It is to add the bi
carbonate of potass to cheese. He pre
pares the dish as follows: Cut the
cheese into shreds, grate or chop It up
fine, like suet. To every pound of cheeso
add a quarter of an ounce of bi-carbonate
of potass. Put the resulting mixture
into a sauce-pan with three times its
bulk of water, or fonr times its bulk of
cold milk, and mix well. Put the
sauce-pan on the fire and let the mixture
simmer, stirring all the time until the
cheese is melted, which does not take
long. Turn out into a dish, and
the result is a nutritious mixture,
which thickens like a custard in cool
ing. This cheese-custard maybe eaten
with impunity by persons whom a
small piece of ordinary cheese would
sicken. Cheese treated in this way is
recommended for sea voyages, to be
used instead of salt junk. It prevents
scurvy, and is a great saving in bulk
compared with other food. It is the
absence of the potass from the ordinary
cheese as well as salt junk which
makes them unwholesome. Demoresfs
Monthly.
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Rich soil grows a tree larger in one
year than a poor soil in three. Troy
Timet.
Fasfclea Jfotes.
Many of the new Molierc waistcoats
an belted.
Black dresses of every description
will rage in the fashionable world, and
in fine contrast will be seen very elabo
rate white toilets, these equally la mode.
The Louis XV. and Louis XVI. styles
will this summer rank high among tho
varied modes. These have sharply
pointed bodices and separate trains
mostly lined with satin of a paler shade.
The paniers are of moderate size, and
the bodices, if low, are oval in shape
p.rouud the shoulders. Where the high
standing fraise of silk, satin, orvelvet
is worn the bodice is cut square, and
the pointed ends of the fraise fasten at
each side of the opening.
The dressy spring visitcs and peler
ines arc infinitcsimally small hardly
more than fichus when knotted in front,
and only half draping the shoulders.
There are women who never fed fully
dressed for out'doors until the costume
is completed by at least one of these
diminutive toy-wraps; while others, es
pecially those possessed of fine figures,
are always ready to "lake possession of
the fashion which allows them upon th4
promenade minus any Wrap whatever.
The.e small capes when worn are made
of the richest fabrics, Tich as beaded
grenadine, velvet-brocaded gauze. Ori
ental broches, and embroider executed
on silk canvas netting. The fact, how
ever, that so little fabric is required is
fast making these at first uncommon
wraps so general of wear as soon to ren
der them "pujtse.
A new and exceedingly graceful jer
sey toilet for evening Mear has ap
peared, which is becoming- only to the
"divinely tall" women who have perfect
figures. The sleeves are glovilitting,
and have no seams visible. The robe
itself molds the form to Perfection. A
lovely model of this description, and
made by Redfern. is ot an exqiiisito
-hade of sheeny golden fawn-colored
Ottoman silk, rare of quality ami color
ing. The heavy sweeping lines of the
train an; unbroken and t.'nadorned, but
the waist ajul half-long sleeves aro
trimmed with wide ruffles of duehesse
lace. A sim lar toilet is composed of
nun's gray satin brocade with silver
Mowers, with blouse pa-tron, panels,
and sleeve garniture of Violet plush.
A handsome style of elaborate morn
ing dress, designed by Wr.-th for water
ing place wear, is a robe in princessc
form made of gray satin foulard bro
caded with pale pink azaleas of natural
size. The bodice opens in front over a
full waistcoat made wholly of white laco
and fastened with tiny pearl buttons.
Tne sleeves are high and full on the
shoulders, and the front ef the skirt and
foot of the long train aro covered with
a mass of wide cream Iacrt rubles caught
up with miles of pink saf in ribbon. An
other robe designed by the famous artist
is composed of pale pink summer satin
shot with gold, and brotf.ided with clus
ters of dark red hedge roses with golden
hearts. The front of th'j dress is made
of plain pink surah trimmed with ruf
fles of dark red Spanish lace, with the
pattern outlined with gold threads.
The sleeves are half long, aud the pink
brocade collar is lined with dark red
velvet
There seems to be no limit to the
variety of French sateens with their ex
quisite colorings, artistic combinations,
and satin-like surfaces. Many of the
latest productions are quite adapted to
replace foulard or surah.- they arc, in
deed, often combined with fame, taf
fetas, satin sublime, and other silky
fabrics, iu the construction of a dressy
costume. Over lacc-IIounced skirts,
mounted on silk, or plain sateen, and
used as polonaises profusely trimmed
with laces and ribbons, they rank among
the prettiest dresses for the coming sum
mer. Almost all corsages designed for sum
mer use are cut open in the neck for in
door or outdoor toilets. In the latter
case, however, the open space is cov
ered by an embroidered chemisette, a
plaited or blouse plastron, or a jabot
vest or waistcoat of some sort. Where
lace or very sheer embroidered fabrics
arc used, they are always placed over
some non-transparent material, as the
contrary would be wholly bad taste,
even at Saratoga, where last season
much latitude was given in the wear ol
bodices there considered suitable for
afternoon use. For indoor wear tliia
season are prepared some very charm-inn-
cnrsages of fancy lace, brocaded
r-renadine, and white and black nets in
panish Escurial, rose point, and other
handsome designs. These are cut with
high necks and half-long sleeves over a
second waist of silk, low in the neck,
with a fall of lace from the shouldor to
resemble a very short undersleeve. X.
Y. Evening Post.
Tact and o Tact.
A subject destitute of tact had better
not converse with a monarch. A King
or Queen is sensitive to contradiction,
and seldom smiles while receiving "tit
for tat." The following anecdotes il
lustrate this fact:
Henry Carey, a cousin to Queen
Elizabeth, after having enjoyed her
Majesty's favor for several years, lost it
in this "manner. As ho was walking in
the irarden of the palace under the
Queen's window, she asked him, in a
jocular manner:
"What does a man think wbn he is
thinking of nothing?"
The answer was a very brief one.
Upon a woman's promise," he replied.
"Well done, cousin," said Elizabeth.
"Excellent."
Some time after he solicited the honor
of a peerage, and reminded the Queen
that she had promised it to him.
"True," said her Majesty, "but that
was a woman's promise."
One of the most distinguished inci
dents of Zimmerman's life was tho sum
mons which he received to attend Fred
erick the Great in his last illness in
1786.
Oncdav the King said to his eminent
physician": "You have, I presume, sir,
helped many a man into another
world?"
Any ordinary nerson would doubtless
have "been scared by so momentous an
inquiry, and it '. in fact a somewhat
bitter "pill for the ibetor; but the do-
he gave the King in return was a judi
cious mixture oi" truth and llattery.
'Ot so many its your Ma esty, not
with so much honor to myself."
The testy old monarch must hare
found in the remark food for refleclioi.
lou'JCs Companion.
S-
Soclety and the Saloou.
Two significant episodes occurred on
the same day in this city within the
past week. "A speaker addressed a
Meeting of liquor-dealers, and told them
that "saloons are a benefit to the com
munity," and said that the Temperance
movement was "a scheme of the rich to
srush the poor." Elsewhere the agents
?f the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Children were rescuing the
helpless little ones of two families from
the neglect of drunken mothers. Per
haps it is only to audiences of liquor
dealers that any speaker would venture
the nsscrtions above cited: would claim
for the agency that degrades even ma
ternity the character of a benefit- Per
haps it is only before such an audience
that any speaker would describe the
Temperance movement as a scheme of
the rnh to cru-h the poor. To crush
the poor! Ask the poor, bloated wretch
whose conscienceless appetite has
broken up hi home, killed his wife,
tent his children adrift, alienated his
friends, destroyed his opportunities,
blasted his existence, if he believes
this. Ask the haggard wife of the
drinking artisan, as she strives, at t.ie
risk of brutal usage, to secure from the
week's wages wh.ch he has destined to
the saloon some pittance wherewith to
keep the life in her famished children
and her wretched self. Ask the stunted
boys and girls whose parents swill away
their humanity over stale beer in tenement-houses
"if they think a movement
which is to obtain ftrthem the unknown
blessing of tender treatment is a scheme
of the rich against the poor. Ask the
thousands who in man- devious ways
have drunk themselves to ruin and
shame and physical, menial and moral
wreck if the saloons are a benefit to the
community.
When vice and degradation, immoral
ity aud crime, brutality and obscenity
all that is earthly, sensual, devilish
is recognized a henHiceut. then, and
then alone, will the claim put forward
'or the saloon- be recognized as valid.
When the interests of the poor are seen
to consist in the perpetuation of pover
ty, in the blocking of every avenue of
es ape from squalor and ab'eet indi
gence, in the propagation of
ill foul
and filthy habits and tenden "ics, in the
et:n tioti of shame and decency, in the
g!orifi ation of sottishness and self-indulgence,
then, and then alone, will it
l.e admissible to say that the Temper
ance movement is a scheme of the rich
to crush the poor.
The saloon is an institution which
makes the poor poorer continually. If
only half the annual expenditure of the
wage-earning classes upon drink wero
saved, the elevation of those classes
wouiu proceed ov leaps and bounds.
The saloon, however, is ever lying in
wait lor the social wage-earner. In this
great city, on any of the main avenues,
he can not walk a block without pass-,
mr a manufactory of misery. At every
turn the purveyor of drink entices him,
. "
gets between him anil his family, be
tween him and his manood, between
him and his happiness. The pervading
influence of rum pursues the slaves of
appetite unceasingly, anil, makes their
lives a constant struggle or a succession
of disastrous falls.
This subtle, prevalent influence is the
bitterest curse that rests upon modern
dispositions that are manifesting in
centres of population, together with the
vices of administration which alarm tho
thoughtful and the difficulties in the
way of reform which are due tb the in
tractability of the material dealt with
all have their spring and origin in that
habit of drinking, that potent drink in-
lluence, which batlles the enthusiasm of
the reformer, and laughs to scorn the i
Temperance Rcadin
uniiiAimun. juiuii, m uesiroy civnia-lot tne I'ennsylvania Hospital lor the
tionifTt is not itself destroyed. For Insane for the year 1883 iu a table
the discontent, the anarchic tendencies, showing tho causes of insanity in 8,8.r":
the seditious doctrines, tho dangerous cases attributes to intnmir.inrn x-'K
appeals of religion, of reason and of or fifty vears ago. the tendency to m-self-re'pect.
This evil influence is , sanity from this cause has increased,
degrading and brutalizing society, and The reason for this must be sought for
progress will be slow and unsatisfac- ! in the character of the drink itself. It
.tory until a public cpinion is formed t is a notorious fnnt that tho. Hrnr n,i
which refuses to palter with the abuse
longer. X. J". Tribune.
The Work
of the Law
League.
and Order
No Temperance movement has ever
gained such hearty sympathy from all
good citizens as" the Law and Order
movement. Having for its aim not the
propagation of any peculiar Temper
ance views, but simply the enforcement
of law. it appeals to the judgment and
conscience of all men who believe that
regard for law lies at the basis of social
order. It finds sympathy with all save
the extreme Prohibitionists, who be
lieve that all license law is a sin and
ought not to be upheld. While we be
lieve a Prohibitory law to be the only
rational method of restraining the liq
uor traffic, good reasons exist to urge
the strict enforcement of a License law
when it is on the statute books. The
general reason that law should be re
spected may be passed over for the con
sideration of the special reasons for tho
expediency of compelling liquor dealers
to regard the law.
In the first place, the Law and Order
movement practically unit-s all good
citizens against the liquor traffic. It is
a well-known fact that on the question
oi license or no license the votes of
many of the most intelligent and up
right men are cast on the side of the liq
uor interest v lien the question of
maintaining the law is brought to them
their vote is found on the side of Law
and Order, the side of Temperance.
The result is that instead of having two
parties arrayed against each other, the
License and the Prohibitory, each con
taining good citizens, we have two new
parties with a sharply-drawn line he
tween them. On one side the law abid
ing, on the other the lawless. The liq
quor interest is thus plainly shown to
be what it really is, the lawless clement
in society.
Furthermore, so far as License law is
enforced, so far it is prohibition. Only
the prohibitory clauses in a License law
are the effective clauses. The enforce- !
ment of the Sunday law prohibits for ; when we think of it, is there really any
one day out of seven. The enforce- justification possible for the honie
ment of the Night law prohibits for six builder who deliberately tears down its
hours out of the twenty-four. The en-1 walls and sets them tumbling upon thu
forcement of the law regarding minors , helpless inmates. Let us have the other
prohi.-nts the sale to all under twenty- side of the appeal run-out orer the
one years of age. world; not only the home against the
Ihe work which the Massachusetts saloon, but the home against the drink
League has accomplished in its two ! er. Union 'Siqwtl.
years ot existence may i.e fitti ,
noticed here. In those towns wot? .
"No" vote has been obtainv,!. as Water
n arm oomeryme. it i ,nak;n,r .
uWu.,HWUra, iimr trom tho
Lunu. wu iuuu six in-Ictm-ntt
were found against a notorious nim
seller in Watertown through the effor's
of the League. The Cairn rid ranch
League, which was formed "but two
mourns n-u. jj;u icccnity -eeiuvd th
conviction of six dealers." The town of
Marlboro had sixty liquorsaloonsa vear
and a half ago. Now no one dares to
advertise that ho sells liquor.
In all of the nearly sixty towns in
which Lranch leagues have Teen organ
ized, convictions tor illicit; selling have
been doubled and tripled. These con
victions are not spasmodic, but a part
of a well-defined policy to make liquor
selling, contrary to "law, diisracefiil.
expensive and daiigcrou-.-. Ve trut
the work will go oh until all of the
three-hundred and forty-seven town in
the State see their good citiens hmnd
together with a common purpose ol
euforcing law and establishing order.
Golden llulc.
Intemperance and Insanity. "
Tho Fortnightly liemcic for April con
tains an article by Mr. W. J. t'orhet.
M. P.. on the increase of insanity in the
United Kingdom. From a comparison
of critical statistics he shows wrv
clearly that within the last twenty year"
the ratio of tin insane to the p nida
tion f England, Ireland and Scotland
has steadily and rapidly increased. In
1862 the ratio was l.Sl per 1 00 : m
1872 it was 2.41 per 1,000: and in lss-i
it was 2.84 per 1,000. The-e figures
indicate an increase in the two decade
of about s'Xty per cent. Anion; the
causes assigned for this alarming shew
ing intemperance holds the chief place.
Out of a total of 13,50 1 ca-es in the
United Kingdom in 18dl. 1.7:50 were di
rectly attributable to intemperate hab
its. He quoted Lord Miaftsbury as
saying: "In the year 184:5 I stated that
a large pr -portionof the cases of lunacy
was asvribable t intoxica.ion, tid that
remark applies equally to the present
time, for it is applicable to all time
that hah tsof intemperance i:i many in
stances lead to the development of in
sanity. We shall see that a large pn-
. portion of the cases of lunacy aro as-
crioamc to intoxication, ami we snail
draw, moreover, this startling con
clusion that if thousands are deprived
from this cause of their reason aud in
carcerated in mad-houses, there mtit
be manifold more who, though they fall
short of absoltue insanity, are impaired
in their understanding and mural per
ceptions." Lord Shaftesbury proceeds
to say, that he had communicat'jd with
medical authorities on the sub ect, and
general concensus
of opinion was that
an immense proportion of case of m
tanity arise more or less from the u.
of case of m-
e
of strong drink. The writter adtU: "I
i go a step further, and ho'd that there
abundant evidence to prove that tc
. ilissin.it.ifin .iml ilrnnLi.nn. oitJior
i . '
directly or consequentially, by trans-
mission to the next generation, is to be
charged an emmense proportion of the
annual increase of lunacy."
These views receive further confirma
tion from the statistics of fhe lunatic
asylums in this country. A recent re
port of the New York" Asylum shows
that out of 254 patients admitted, over
77 per cent, were drinkers. The report
far larger nunier than are attrbuted tc
any other specific cause.
It is easy to believe that a larire pro
portion of cases assigned to 'los ol
property," "domestic difficulties,"
"want of employment," etc., might be
traced to the influence of stronjr tlrink.
It is also evident that, although the mini,
bor of those addicted to stronjr drink is
uronortionatelv less than it w.i fort v
other compounds used to adulterate
in;uors at tne present day are ot a na
ture calculated not only to stupefy and
benumb, but to quickly and permanent
ly derange the brain. Under the in
liuence of these drugged compounds
the madness of intoxication becomes a
real madness, and not a temporary ex
hilaration. X. Y. Observer.
Temperance Items.
A careful estimate makes itout that
not less than 60,000 ar& spent every
day in Boston for liquors, or $20,000.
000 every year.
Wish men mingle mirth with their
cares, as a help either to foriret or
overcome them; but to resort to intoxi
cation for the ease of one's mind is to
cure melancholy by madness.
A Kansas jury gave the following
verdict in a case" where a man died in
a state of intoxication: "Death by hang
ing round a rum-shop." It is a ver
dict that nvght be rendered in a multi
tude of cases, instead of "a mysterious
Providence." Chicago Inter Ocean.
Tiikee cheers for Rhode Island
pclilr, plucky and persisJent! Without
petitions or the pressure of persuasive
pubiic pleading, the Legislature has
passed the Compulsory Scientific Tem
perance Instruction bill. This action
gives us five States arrayed against the
next generation of saloons. Union
Signal.
Everv one knows that it is impossi
ble to make a horse drink when he is
not thirsty, and also that nothing is
easier than to make an ordinary man
take a drink whether he is thirsty or not;
and this is what makes the drlnkin"--saloons
flourish and keeps so many
drunkard's households down in poverty,
in case the head of the family has not
manliness enough to resist the tempta
tion of "taking another drink." home
Gazette.
Speaking of home, there is a crv
that comes to us often. It is the cry of
the home not onlv against the saloon
but asrainst the "saltan nifmn a.i
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