The Cedarville Herald, Volume 12, Numbers 27-52

T / V/'f It's an irwtU ce, but souu* un- toy it, For in- faring from gome rofulous affection, 1run- down ” and b’s a torpid liver, ■all that may come decided, wisely. Golden Medical Imedicine to help; |tlia t it’s guardn~ no other blood- . Inefit or cure, you pack. pt for you to take t for the dealer rs something else ' [od.n Is it likely? a medicine can't lugs has to happen, Catarrh, or you’re That’s what is proprietors of Dr. Remedy. By its leansing, and heal-, cures th8 worst ust er 99 I s is the query per- lually on your little r s lips. And he is Iworse than the big- 1 , older, balder-head- | s an interrogation |is it for?” we con- tbe cradle to the [this little introduc- iand ask: “What SR fo r ?” As easily ked: I t 'is for Dys- special remedy for kd Liver.. Nothing but this brimful, agust Flower cures e know it will. We Iknowing it, Twenty :ed in a smallcountrys it has an honoredr |ty and country'store,V i' the largest manu- / : in the country and -. Why is this? The limple as a child’s 1 honest, does one I s it right along-—it i Man’fr,WoodburyjN.J. THE lONLYTRUE IRON IONIC inrjfy nrXK PD . rMgbJS NETS, remove I.IV K B Ser.bulM «trei;*tii. renew etlle, restore t»ca.Ri end rororyouth. D j'epeiM lri, ■tllKCslIon, tli*t tirco fccl- JcjrsSsolutol y eradicate*!. Mlaa brighten*-:. lira]a ^ pow er i n c r e a s e d , bones, nerves, lims- clrn, receive new force. In,- f.'ora coniplalnts j'f" tu lh e lrce x . it-OnJ Bpealy ccro. Return* ,1« amities C om p le x io n - All renuino g . ••V1b far j Z cent stamp for SINECO..'SI. Lcultf M«. IMOTHERS! |VoK » mrem.Safety to ther am t Vhitit* S FRIEND” icm en l o f ttn •or atul Mtifki of* 9teth e r* * F rle*<J” t Mid (lul not oap ri/n c e tb rt itual In *ti<!i ra*cs.-M »- :o..jan. i.'itsi, 1-’!• . , . i.vd, <io feeelrt of itliont mailed I r t a - C«a [JOISTS. tout »*»• ; 1 2 OLD HOUSE. I ’:>a-gtt tlio old bouse standing Iona lv. Tao » . s -.I oh - b closed, the rooms nil dturjc Md drear, Tho porch deserted, where, my love, together Wo sat In the old sweet days with no one iiear. ‘ . The tuttumn oli-lit wind bitterly was blowing, The o d trees on the root ibelr branches trailed: The longgrusu In the yard was waving sadly, The tail wh.ie pillars In tne moonlight paled.. A h i i o v e . i n t f t ^ i i i o ^ ^ h ^ i s i o n ^ <l ! S | ir i d n j r .that a ^ e s;of bf Since ihOHCj-lkdlMmss HJM*NeonoiVeeil and ^y our fopt j ftfll to |’i • . J M A f * v )iin i# id lf1 in n e fftife In H iT ffiiR fAV Sweet memories jiow lo%g. 4 ehd a&i &urled in Old t h ^ o i er told, before Out hero me, , There comes to me a fancy strango and sweet: . , Suppose those darksome rooms once more were opened, .And light and life and love againmightmoet. How joyous would the old house ring with lull; By t t _ __ bright} - ,v iA t . And thoughloutsldo tho autumn wind • lug. ■ v The hearts within are beatfng gay and light. So if to me you ever should return, love. Then you wouiaMfega mg drflr’dMm^ipu, And with the light, of;your‘gwi|et.prof*nc* 4 ioar • ’ ■-•t ri tJ Howga iwl}h youth' V#> Is sigh. then carefully picked their way hack to the roo fs edge and thence' down to the street, front’ where they stood in grobp watching ^rijth frightened' faces the four of us who remained. Getting up to the top of the shaky single plank scaffolding a t the steeple’; base was an easy , matter, apfl .when wo go t there we Waved ourhalX and gayly shouted to our comrades.below and laughed a t their replies for us to mqdo\yfi. r# .’],. ^ tb> f$ a n d fl sliding f a it jrtod'ifaster to Je jtage/|bounded o ff e n d S tr u c k th e pavement w ith such f o r c e i t splinr NfcN® l l } l . ' li * K S This caused two more of my com panions to weaken, and without say ing a word they, after slipping once or twice', ip' their aip^ipty td ;reach solid ground, managed to ' climb down aud join the group on the street, which had been increased by passing people stop- pinjflfp watch pur proceedings, „ „ " ■wnsii'i.ii . *Jii iiit . k .- -5rl.t-Lti tfiiLISJL A Jf My life would suvH%lotgettitig^urs bfjpsln. U Wboa/inBeiroitT’roo Press, -Thomas L. mM " X £ l ■ --IT" HEIf EVER I s e e workmen on the t'pps of high places or on the frajl-lpokipg , scaffolds often _ insecurely erected op new buildings a 'sh iv e r runs thtough me, for it calls to mind an adventure I once had which "n early caused my death. ji So awful is the remembrance tpT naile that* no t for all the gold in the world would Im o n u t one o f' their lohg lad­ ders and’stin d , as I have Been them dp, on merely the tvvo-fd 6 t top ledge of a lofty brick wall and gaze coolly down on the hard pavements, a hundred or more feet below. . . As for going hp ln a balloon, the very tlinnght makes mo, feel faint and sends a chill down piy backbone. ; i, ^ ' 1 also avdiid lohkingi!from,t^el^blgh^r too strong to \¥'fle with. ’•Even the birds soaring;ltigh'inrthe a ir make me feel uncomfortable, and th e circus with its trapeze performers is barred from m y l i lt o f pleasures. ^ All this came about becanso I, when a boy„ ventured a climbing feat which, as I Iiavo sni(f. ,^elVpigli ;Hu| Aneo«rly end to my existence. I w a s m ayb fca diwenwmrs, ^A#t- the time, ns ngTle! as 'il 'wilcF rtiomiwy, and too thoughtless to know what danger meant. A largo churcli was In cour^opf-ereO’ tion near 'ou r house, and its v 6 ry tall wooden steep le w a s being 'topped; with a htige hall surmounted,',wltji a croaa The carpenter iw o rk“ Was alLdone* and the scaffolding was left for, the painters to Rnfsli and to gild the ball and cross. . ,. * - ' As far as th e belfrey in the steeple the scaffolding wedt; then n irrow slats na.led acres* quo of the octagon aides formed a sorb of ladder tb f ilc h its highest point, the slats growing smaller as they rase, until, iom ing to the ball, they changed to a rude, rounded arrangement following th e shape of the ball and under and over it to the cross. We boys found tljjis dally growing church a Spe play groUpd, and after* school used to congregate there to watch the workmen, partlch llH y when they were risking th eir lives and took* no bigger th an dwarfs Upofi th e steeple. it was, indeed, a circus to u& and tho sight of the men way, way up on the cross thrilled M w ith a queer delight. On? holiday, when tho men were no t working, we wer» th ere as usual* gas* ing upward and eagerly discussing the nutter until one a t us proposed seeing hour hard or how easy it was by climbing up ourselves. Note but boys, of course. Would think of, let alonfc attempt, anch a hazardms feat, and so, a fte r a . few *'d»res," up the ’scaffolding and, long astside ladder to the roof we started, I leading the rosfc We all safety gained the edge o f the •toping roof and M t there awhil* to re- wanoitre, TlnJ steeple didn’t look so hipi ss from the street, and there was » ladder lying on the roof to where the tower began. that we crawled <me afte r an* "her end then stopped again to get •w breath before the n ex t mount. ttowe of th >lads now began to he a *;*to seared a t the prospect before | *“d In spite o f the more daring rdicnlo and loud assertions th a t r* "ouhlu't fail they wisely concluded 59 no further to t the present and fille d Wltlr thC -’foolish bravado’ showing off to the audience below, led the ascent up the steeple. .The flats, nailed there for climb o'rri tie Kbys' thodask „ rTT<, .................. impelled by tfwdesitW ’for admfratloh and tliinking what a hero 1 would be when the feat was accomplished I kept ou and upu'ard l until, after the hardelt of-efforts, I fdund niyaelf on tho top- rapi^slat just underneath .the* slopin; .Outward b a l l * ^ j f . . v * i ^^ '* Tliere I clung:t 6 vrcst and*sec how 'fat »X,c,owp*‘ 5 hi?h hhd fo t. , '/■.Tol my^qrprljOj he. too, had %howp the white feather and left me, and saw disappearing .aver^ the the roof’sedge. .. -< Instead of his desertion' making me frightened it served 'to rouse myde termination, to go still, higher, and w ithout looking ddwn again, for it Was setting me dizzy, I started to surmount the ball and reach tho ci/pss above i t k *Climbing inside the roundihg’ladder, then crawling between the slats and ‘climbing outslde. 'but never Iodklhg down While t did it, I pulled myself up slowly and w ith much difficulty until tp my delight, I »at on the great bail! yvith my little legs on cither side .of the huge cros^ elihging.to it'ttghilif with one.arm apd waving my h at .with the other to tiiP spell-bound crowd in the street- below-looking: no bigger Jthan ,pnt4_. ; * u ' k ^ i "F o r some' minutes I enjoyed my tri- umph, and gazed aroudd a t the mag- nificent view- without a thought of danger. ■ L' ' To show off a .little more I fired my cap a t my. startled audience, and watched it, borne on the. winch descend fltt tk s tr u e k ^ ie 'g ^ u nd.'“ Then ! thought it was time for me to {follow. -iffls ffi *1 •? ' Clutching . - ladder' etotiit id com mepccfd, but getting to the edge of the 'hall, I discovered th e well-known fact 'th a t f t is a great deal easier to climb up. 'th a n to gbtdowb; I w as utterly stuck. 1made se’veral attempts to get under or over, but I didn’t, know hqtjr or where to place my feet. Each time I felt for a resting spot I found none to stand on, and after several hair-breadth es­ capes from slipping and falling, which brought 0,polifl sweat all pvdr me, had to g iv e dp and crawl back^to my seat, and’there, twistipg,my legs .and arins nround the cros^hudgoh. XJ\ ^,i I then fqlly realized my awful.perl; and belfarild'terribly frightened. 1 felt weak and sick. My head l>egan to swjm and grow so dir^y^that, things turned ^>I*ek to my ^y«s. • I iiOard froin “ HAXG OSf, ypl? I.tTTf.E BAT.” below lliouls of cncouragertent and murmurs of despair, and above a ll I heard a scream which I recogtifoed as my mother’s voice* Ilh t 2 shut ray Cyes and hun^ fo the cross, expecting* h»ch instan t to lose my hold and dash]jon ttie stones httri- dreds of feet down. A t lsat, completely overcome w ith fe&r and terror, my strength le ft me, my arids loPseoed their grip and 1 2 knew l wa* fainting and in a moment nittat perish. Just then n strong voice OouadMalole^ to me and a man’s head ahowod ltaelf] above th# std* of the ball where the ladder was. '“Hatw on, yotf little rat,” H said* ‘‘or I’ll whlp yoil to On inch of your life.” The angry tone seared me so that,1forgettlng my dahger and even where I %s», 2 hunj? 6 t 1 lfkfe s good fellow. More afraid o f the punishment than of falling, 1 le t my rescuer fasten a rope under my arms, and, meekly obey* ng hls stern command, allowed him to fft and lower me to another man on the slat ladder beneath th e ball an d then be helped down the steeple slats and th e scaffolds and the roof t o the street. Tliere, after my distracted mother had embraced me, I got from my father the soundest thrashing 1 knew before o r since, j - • I ‘deserved all and more than I got, but as a preventive for future climbing exploits it was entirely unnecessary, The remembrance of my terror on the steeple top keeps me forever on the safe and solid ground. A n d th o m e m o r y is e v e r r e f r e s h e d by r ridijnig h tm a r a s . i n v ^ iic ti I low Pi falling fro! wj^cen jnstj I stftkW U 8 i fttopTof sharp, hard! ! ' r f t t D b j W m n INDIAN GR^fES. Hello* or a Curlnii* ludlnn Iluryiur Ground tm tbn Piiclflo Mhuro. . , ^umong.- the curious things of this toast is k strange Indian- graveyard near Sequim hay, about a mile from Port Williams, where tho remains of fully tlvfe hundred children of to d g!pr-, est hato^beto left. to tbC raercyjot the worms and the buzzards. The great number of bleachjng bones scattered around ’over several acres would indl- cato; tow^presene«.ysf a^laugMer.: n n .cpipratifelsot for.^ffe|m<Sji,.jtl^tt -IkNy fk i. bQnes o f humait' befag% 'And l?unjid> skulks lp. great ”i|ftulh^rs;,a|(S skrejifn over the surface of the old burying* ground, presenting anything but a pleasant spectacle. .; . i., - *- Tkh graveyard is.Qn. a sandspit pn tbo beach, and the1' waves washthg the shores have swept the loose sand aw.ay,-. leaving the bones, skeletonS^aud bodies: exposcd^to. ryiew. Soiqe of th e bodies weiro hbfie^ in baskets, sonic fn toxes add some' were ^wrapped ita blankets and laid to restfin the hollow, pf several pld decaying stiunps. Others wprp buried beneath the massive roots of the tall evergreens that grow on the beach« A number of little . houses aboiit the size of chicken coops were erected to mark the last resting places of the* chiefs and great men of the tribes. The bodies of the chiefs were carefully -tied in baskets with ropes "and strands and piaced-in these little houses or shaks and, left to wither and decay. ” Among the carious sk«l*toqs found was one,pf adw arf ,gnly'thirty.inc)ij>t long, w ith' a skull eighteen inches through. There were other , dwarfs among the dead, but none so short us this man with ahead 'large enough for a giant This old Such a strap was found tograplier, his camcrjt ghastly s«m: JLeha-has gi none of the questioned o; ntorest biMf „.jhbS|ypjNP ' ....^fJect,'cah.,giV».a» account of it or ' m .^Mr...lfeard of i t before I*. the beach' some liistork|ikd*^a* bf tanoe to those Interested ip and habits of some bf th e In of the Pacido -Opest—Port Leader. tnpor- istoms f tribes nsepd 5 | K*eov*r. death ^ShtoS^rpottoo ,ln ;^ p . pa th. Urokeh tiinmfW .i!llNM l^e^Ki|HiHlfh ments of treetops and all tlm wreckage.ihat hufticsimsdly, thcopgh tlie. p ir when the* Btormtlcraon ffings Ills giant arms aloft streaked the--inky sky, t ■-$>.*■ f l : I p ,the ruins of a Stately mansion, lo­ cated on what had Oilde oeCn vtfio’ fair­ est residence sfrdet of the suburb/ lay a man y et in the prime of life, breathing but uncopscious. He W 0 s lying on a mattress. ' Ilia hands were grasping firmly tho sides of it as if he bad mechanically tried td save kUtoelf by bringing the mattMtas tc^otksr Over his- body when the dreadful shock oame. Tp this position he was found. Friends leased over him. ‘He breathes,'' they said. *'JIe is still alive!'’ They lifted him gently. He opened his lips and something like a group came from them. Then he moved uneasily, and in it strong voice lie said: *'1'1Lbet a thousand dollars to a cen t we’ve run into another thundering okl Mtilk train!”—Chicago Tribune. TEMPERANCE NOTES. THE LURING DEMON. ™ The c»g, and whsel. and belt bo strong,, Wusesch Ptthmits place, ' , * , - Tbe still was ready now to start ( Upop Us maddening rape. . Tbcracetogrjnd jfrpjglood olpipii. ......... . A ppisan, stfsurc nndfell,- - -! i That dwprtwa^htdU dtep^y dro^ Anddoved Its praise totelL , h' -is '1 t f. ' .»;*?•?*£ ate ye of tbe sparkling draughtI hetv within this cup j -'- * . , _ ye want of earth or heaven, . /j :jAm drink tbe mixture up!” then ths tompMc’s gloating eye 'krkltnxwith rapture.sseu, . icttms taste and tuste again, < . sense and reasonflees. ' ■ToosipvfitsghrglingWaters fl 6 *r,*■' '* .Tooiiow.lt* victims.foaba’.:..*- - r , » I thirst forblood Tfain would now This quenchless burning slake. Isxik hither! lo, I see a victim tpirapi mg stride. u<1> } A mothSr’bjojrhe surp muat he, A father’s bopeand pridet ; c !H Come, desaons, baste, andPaw keep watch, . if v jiVith keen and piercing eye -Andlist four ohanoe for warm tirlght blood- Not letttpfBB yea .by.; , - Aye, iglght nbt he so brave and fair Bu titra l>y truth and right. - ; > Be lost to us add ’scape at last The dismal realms of night! . •fi Turn, engine, turnl wheels, swiltly flyl Bonds ahd eogs and belts so strong • with winged speed goby: ■ ' Do well your ghastly part, forX Am stattdlag wlRl'o gloatingheart, - A burning, eye, to see . ; i Tbe life blood of tho'heart go dryv " f The soul’s thlrstthrougn eternlty t” j .TJbe'domon eyes watched eagerly , Ibe awful power that bore The unconscious youth round wheel and cog, .vjy^iieBe*hfrdm;boneitto}^f’ - ’’ Bntmow an angel from God's-fi 8 htr • Hastes, in this dreadful hpur, ' To bear ololt tbe splrit bright, ' ' - J f: ggr from tbe flendtsb_power,'. , . Tho reeking blood and quivering ffesh, Slake not the demon’s thirst, . i Tbo groans of pain, the mother’s tears, • Bat« hot his direful curse, ’’ Nosrto the still where warm and bright • The gurgling poison flows, Which soon will blight the hearts and homes , Where’er It haploss goes. . .* . • .’-rtl.-Vi ► -ji -■. | • -f.-" “ Ab, well for'me, thou faithful tool, - ‘ -That human blood nor tears. Canstop thy ghastly work, nor rouso s The deadenedheart to fears. Hero 'ne*th this gtm the power of death power, resistless, strong, ■ P^growlng steady dropby drop, , . - -Till millions make a throng 1 “ Of wretebod hejplpss creatures lost, My.realm ofntght toOU. While willing Servants mad for gold Run on the faithful still. Better then tear, or blood or groan,. " Than mangled fleshi 1 ' wedb; 'V'Afc crime and suffering and woe, •--Now in this fluid seen.” *” Twll! fill tbe prisons, load withchains ;; Tbe maniso lh his celt,. ' • lichpvcsented ' appearance, in, u tocal pho- 0 u t tli4re with ' i ’T wi Ubfight fair homesvflth want andShame * HOupt^. y -Twill slnk the soul in hell: ■ IJo power *o potent, flenfMbeloy, "Jn all their c-unuiug skill, . qpuld e’er dovloc lUcc this that' men . 'Have made to work my will.” —AUo Andys, In Rdral World. He IVa# OK, There was an oldish couple sitting oh • touch a t the bridge piers, when the than suddenly caught sight of a police* ■tan coming up tho promenade, and he vote and Walked down to meet him, "Docs this bridge, connect New f orlc and YVashington?” be asked, “Of course not,” replied the officer. “ Is th a t Brooklyn over there?” t-’Ves, sir.*’ The old man went down into a Coat1- tall pocket end fished ap a very tong a n t a vei-^ bltok-looking cigar End teld 'it o u t ’•‘What’s this for?" asked tlie pfiicer. “#h! Don’t talk so loud! I t's for y to .; I want you to dome a favor.” ’‘Well?” “ I told the okl woman th a t the bridge connected New,York and Washington, Bhe sorter flbtimed i t If she ask* yob tell her the same thing.” ‘.‘But you are way off." “1 know it* but I’m not so allfircd way off as I will be if she finds out she’a righ t and I ’m wrongl Why, she’ll w an t to keep righ t on living Tor two hundred years more in order to tw it me of it about ten times a day!”—N, Y. World W H ISKY NO .HELP. .Xhn A lmoat F a ta l R em it o f Depending on a Ntlinut'ent. . ;■ 1 saw an exhibition of nerve- and pluck the other day which ought to be 'recorded in ;black,- and white, From the cornice pf one of the tall- buddings -Whs suspended a pairttor.'s scaffold. They are rdlsed and lowered, as’yoti know, by the painters pulling-: on, a tockle- a t cither end. Few men qair Rjitok up from the walk a t tlie scaffold,' swaying abou t’Xnider totr- cornice 'hnd ’ "the men poolly playing their.- brushes*' wjtliont feeling the flesh creep a little- The .freaking of a rope meant death to tho meu ou.thg scaffold, and perhaps, to two or three pedestrians below. Hhpuld one of the men lose his balance and fall he'd strike the flagstone and have every bone broken. Three Or four of us were lopking up frdm a doorway opposite, when one of the painters dropped bjs brush? and lurched about as If drunk. The other cried out to him sharply, hud he lay down on the scaffold as If helpless. The man had either taken stek or was overcome by frig h t There was no one on the roof. We saw the other painter look up and around in an anxious way* aud then he crept along the scaffold to his partner. If hs tried to brace him up it was a failure. He took the slack of the rope and passed it about him so th a t he could not roll off, and then he began hoisting up the scaffold. He pulled that end up about «two feet, and then crept down and raised tho other to correspond. There was a lift of ten o r twelve feet, and he passed from e n d t o end of the scaffold five or six times befofts he elevated (t to the cornice and could step off. The other man lay as if dead, and was pulled off on to the roof so helpless th a t he could not stand. He was sitting with his back to a chimney when I got up there, and no dead man's face was ever whiter, lie trem­ bled in every limb, his teeth chattered, and his eyes seemed to have lost all expression. “What’s the matter?” I asked too othQK.partner. who was calmly adding a Tittle otl to th e m ixture in his pail. “JN’c tt man,” ho brusquely replied, “How do yoiynican?” •‘I t ’s his first time on a swing Scaffold," he explained, “and- he was foolish 'enough to take a drink of whisky to brace his nerves.” 0 ••And didn't It?” “ For half an hour so; then i t col* lapsed him, as it always docs every* body, and he went to pieces quick as wink.” “ Is It your first experience?” “Not by a dozen! Most of ’em act this way the first time. You've got to give ’em a sharp talk and tie ’em on or they’ll do something desperate,” “And Weren't yiftfM aMjtfittlefl?” “Shoo! Feel my pulse." And Jm whistled merrily as he stirred tfie mixture and waited for an. . other 1 fran to come and go down with ■ him. > “How do T to k to e other.....O0 Ho tried t» reply, but his tongqp seemed to. h»ye .lost ^poyvpr, »nd._. ofter,two ' qr' three/efforts, he/ -begins ' 1 'weepingIfifil'a th lld ^H b Wto’Utftelly -? 3 nrinerveid.—M, Quad* In N. Y. eWorld. THE POWER Ol! EXAMPLE. G ifted M^n IVlio llwve I.ed ,fhT fr Adiuir- ■ 4 er* t o Drlutr .'1 " Mora than*«corp of y e ir s ’Hgo* an eminent, musical composer, whose music 1 is Lean!to-day in thousand&’b f - pUmqs of religious worship throughout; -: * the land, was Bnddenly^ cut- down by the reaper. Death- , . ? ■ ' ‘‘How^ ^ad!” . “How mysterious!” , toady people'said: ' ' v s < . .One who knew -him : to st1*said:-I ’He! ‘ s' -» wa«[ faken- avy^y from tfee - to come," for, aias! though he had great gifts, and whs an Tnfinehtitalt fhemtof of tlm bhuroh of Go^ lib dWjffrreiPOrted ,t^o..artificialatfmuiahtsto ketipVhp -the - ■ strength which he felt he mtot1h#?!?;to B , conduct his conventions successfully. “What harm can .a glasX of bbbr do so great and good a man os -*-—?” was - Siid by some. Others said: “If - 7 - 7 , can ,d rink a glass Of beer, l ean. He' surcly is a good man.” ' •J ‘ How many feet wofo thu s tu rned into tjie way pf death^wUl.novqr be , known. One has come under.our ob­ servationi, 'where death alone-delivered th'ef-victim from the power of tompta/ tion / 1 We looked upon tlie ,still, white face but .a little while ago and. heard a bereaved one say: “ E. tried so hard' to resist temptation. I t caiinot reach him now. ■ ■ ■- -j- * “I t waai the example of B* th a t m ruined my husband. I saw the danger, and plead with him th a t he should not giro such an example to Tits'fidmirera Death settled that;’bu t i t ' was %bo late for poor E, A b LlOokcd npom the -.no*- ble form, and thought pf the unvary-, ing courtesy aud gentleness of the de« ceased, and df Ids wreckpd life, irre­ trievably ruiped.by the ,ex»n»pl^,,of a ‘gopd toan,’ I realized sapiqyiipg of the power each,individual e^prts; fpr their example lives long afte r they sleep tlie sleep which knows nb waking.v—^MrA E. J. Richmond, in National Temper­ ance Advocate. MEN WHO ARE TO BE PITIED. T h n ie Who H elp I'e rp e tu a te th e Curse of D rink. , The man- who .lias ty walk, iii order | th a t the whisky seller may ride, in a car* rioge. 's The man who baa togp ragged, .bleary, eyed abd red -posed, (ip, n order th a t the hap-kebper may weat- "good eldthes and sport diamonds.v •' * The m an who has to take, j^e,very, bldod out of his veins to help keep in* motion too machinery th a t grinds up . good corn, and makes it into bad whisky. /JThe man Who b aa to go without bu t­ te r and live op dry brftSd, pud cold liver, in order th a t the beer.peddler nuiy'have porterhouse / steak arid hot eoffep.,r . *' • - , „ Thu mini who h as t o .take bread ou t of his mouth to help put a gratui.piatio in to the home of .the doril’« ,.adjutant*' general, who supplies hiqi with bitters. .T lie lriAn who has td -steal -ft*(iih liis '1 oWd wife and childfen iu iorder, that the family of tlie political philnnthror pist who put parties ih'powor and men. irt the dltdli, mdy cdnilnUe^to farei 5 sumptuously every day.—'Itam'* Horn. 5 BITH AND~BREVITIES. T ub money paid >n one year for three glasses of beer X day would pay the . ren t for a stp&U suit of rooms.for one year. , T ub undergraduates of Cambridge, Eng.* have taken to drinking -tea after dinner instead of wine. But though novel a t Cambridge this prac­ tice has been in vogue a t Oxfonl for seventy years, the innovation having been brought about by Newman ami Froude, even then famous, who induced most of the other fellows of Oriel to give up wine in tho common-room after dinner and substitute te a T iir London Standard, in an article upon the French experts in tho adulteration of liquors, declares that there is scarcely any genuine wine o r brandy in the market. I t cites the ' testimony in a case of litigation in the French courts which shows that the a rt of imitating the brandy distilled from grapes is now so perfect th a t only by analysts can it be discovered to be an imposture, I t adds th a t M. Jacquemin, an enterprising French­ man, “has succeeded in producing de­ licious wines w ithout any grapes a t all." This Is a perplexing dilemma for wine drinkers. A good way out of it is to drink no wine a t alL T ab amountof destitution and misery which can be traced directly to drunk- enhossiS appalling- In England* for example, the enormous proportion of the national earnings expended on strong drink is attested by the impos­ ing contributions to the imperial ex­ chequer derived from excise duties, anti it is certain th a t by fat* the g reater ‘ p a r t Of the stupendous outlay for drink represents a consumption of alcqhol which even the defender of moderate and careful drinking would admit to ho excessive- Hundreds of millions of dollars which* if invested in the neces­ saries of life, would materially promote the well-being of the English comuni- ty, are wasted every year upon strong drink. 1