The Taylor County News. (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 8, No. 14, Ed. 1 Friday, May 27, 1892 Page: 2 of 8
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ABILVKB.
ONLY A PICTURE.
Somethlmj to show me! "Well my lasa.
Make haste I hare no time to Idle:
These bright spring day go flying past
Like colu that never felt a bridle.
A picture: TUTcll. if that in all
I can't--nay rhtld don't look so sorry
I'll come and see although I call
The -whole thing only waste and worry.
But have your nonsense while you may
Your brushes paints and longhaired mas-
ter They're pretty whim for you who see
Such beauty in a canvas plaster.
What's in a picture? There" but or.c
Could win from mr an hour's gazing:
It comes sometimes wlv-n day is done
And dusk falls on the rattle grazing.
A wide low house ihat fronts the sea
The Funlight falling on the gables.
The wood -what's this' Why' ran It be?
Last. you have neatly turned the tables.
Know i(T Aye. know each blade and stalk.
Kach sunny knoli. ach shady rover.
Why every flower beside yon walk
Has had in me a faithful lover?
KnotritT See yonder uorn old step
Tho open door the henrh beside it.
The rove-tree trained where It should creep
I almost sec the hand that tied it.
The sunny windows seem to throw
On me a tender look of greeting.
And in my heart awakei the glow
Of other days so glad and fleeting.
The l":ir old faces one by one
'(inicoii! from shadows swiftly thronging
Dear pirttirenf my luiyhood's home.
My eyes are dim with hue and li.-ipin'r"
Jean Ulewett. in Chicago Mail.
(
A WOOD MATCH."
How Mrs.
Skrimp Managed Hor
Husband.
It was n. good mntcli. That was .the
viTilJc. of vt-rylxxiy Jleckett the
miller s:iitl that it iva.s a jjnod match;
Hicks the .storokeejH't. said it was
and all the neighbor.- both male and
female acquiesced. Kwryl.ndy said it
was a prmd match and everybody was
rig-lit. ft wr.s a good match- but per-
haps not in (he .sense that everybody
mant.
In the matter of a'p .Simon Skrimp
and hi.s new wife wore not as well
matched as some people jjiven to senti-
ment think it husband and wife should
h .skrimp was a crusty old cod per of
fifty years while Mrs. Skrimp was not
much over twenty. Then in the mnt-
ter of personal appearance some peo-
ple mig-hl have seen a disparagement
for while Skrimp was taU. raw-boned
wrinkled and homely almost to hide-
ousness Mrs. Skrimp w:s plump rosy
and almo-st pretty. While his feature
were coarse his hair wiry and his eyes
cold and lusterless. her features were
soft and smooth her hair warm and
.silken and her deep brown eyes full f
love aim sutinhi ne.
Yet it was a pood match for. wasn't
Skrimp the possessor of thinp. that
"amply balanced apainst his wife's
youth anil beauty? Wasn't he the owner
of a pood farm well stocked with cows
and horses and hops and sheep: not to
mention farm implements in the shape
of wapons plows harrows and hoes'.'
Anil then didn't he have money out at
interest secured by mortpapes on a
dozen farms? What difference if he
was fifty years old and a thrice over
widower with one eye. three teeth a
bald head a wrinkled face and a crum-
pled temper? He had money and
money covers up more defects of per-
son and more deformities of character
thau charity covers of sins
Skrimp was by no means sentiment-
al yet he was not entirely void of feel-
inp and even love for some forms of
beauty. Tlie.se were objects for which
he entertained an ardent admiration.
He never prew enthusiastic over a
beautiful flower or a fine paintinp or
anythinp of that kind and it is proba-
ble that he saw uothiup more beautiful
in the rose than in the jims-on; or in
tho lines! oil paintinp than in the pahit
on uis oarn. ricri.np whs not so con-
stituted as to be carried away and
thrown into a lit of rapture by those
thinps that arc pleasinp to the general-
ity of mankind. Yet for all that.
Skrimp had taste after a certain sort
and there were objects upon wlroh he
gazed with a fondness not far short of
ecstasy.
Skrimp was practical. He was ex-
ceedingly and eminently practical. He
was practical to that degree tnat he
gauged everything by a monetary
value. Friendship love wife and
children were valued at what they weie
worth to him in dollars and cents. So
with everything else. He had no ad-
miration for flowers because they had
no value. He did not care for paint-'
inps. because they brought no revenue.
He had no love for a landscape unless
he had a deed to it and could use it for
pasturage or cultivation.
Hut there were objects which Skrimp
admired. He had an eye that saw
beauty in the plumpness and symmetry
of a fatted swine and his soul was
filled with a sort of ecstasy as he gazed
on the well-rounded form and mental-
ly calculated how many dollars it rep-
resented. With equal pleasure he
viewed u field of growing corn or a
field of wheat or a steer or a horse.
All these objects had beauty because
they had financial value. They were
solid substantial practical and they
would bring money.
Skrimp moreover was economical.
That was where the secret of his suc-
cess lay. He war. not possessed of any
strikinp ability to make money but he
had the knack of saving it. He was
one of that class who' find as much
pleasure in savinga dollar as in making
in it. Economy was a hobby with him
and his whole life and everything con-
nected with it was made to fit in that
narrow groove. His text was "scrimp
pinch and save." He wore his pant-
too short in order to save goods. He
wore his shoes without hose !e cause it
was cheaper. He did without sus-
penders and substituted a hemp string
in their place. He kept his hands in
his pockets when the weather was cold
so as to get along without gloves. He
starved his horses into mere -skeletons
to save ha and grain. He robbed his
calves in order that there mipht be
more butter to sell. He fooled away
ten dollar' worth of time patching up a
worthless plow rather than pay five
dollars Xor a new one. He would drive
twenty miles and lose a day in order to
pet a barrel of salt for twenty-five
cents less than he would have to pay
at home. He would wait at Huckett's
mill all day to see that Jleekett did not
take a quart more of toll than lie was
entitled to.
That is th-s kind of man Skrimp was.
Yet when he and Minerva Sargent
married neople said it was a gocd
match SUriinp's new wife was. poor
bnt she whs proud. Pororty and pride
were never known to dwell together in
harmony and when they both tike tap
a dwelling under the same roof there
is sure to he trouble. Skrimp had
never given enough attention to human
nature to discover this truth but he
was not too old to learn.
All of Skrimp's former wives had
been sufficiently docile and easy na-
turcd to bend to his will without
trouble. They had. never dared to ad-
vance opinions of their own but ac-
cepted his commandments as though
they -were the dictum of a shah or
sultan. When he said eight yards was
enough goods for a dress they
scrimped and spliced and pieced and
made eight 3'ards answer. Hut the
new wife was a different sort of
woman though to look at those soft
eyes and that mild gentle counten-
ance one would not have suspected it.
She was proud and she was not to be
commanded or driven against her will.
One morning when Skrimp was pre-
paring to go to Hick's store with a
basket of marketing. Mrs. Skrimp. said
to him at the same time handing him
a piece of goods:
"Here Simon bring me a dress pat-
tern like this. Let's see." she added.
"I reckon eighteen yards will be suffi
cient though perhaps you had better
get twenty so as to be sure of it"
"Twenty yards for a dress!" Skrimp
exclaimed in astonishment "Why
preat peewhilikcns woman you're
crazy That's more than enough for
two dresses."
"Its just enough for one" Mrs.
Skrimp replied quietly.
"Hut I say differently" Skrimp
cried; "its extravagant to use ten
yards and I can't afford any more.
You'll have to get along with that"
"You bring twent3'." Mrs. Skrimp
called as Skrimp rode away. "There
are enough butter and eggs to pav for
was true there were enough but-
ter and eggs to pay for .such a dress
pattern a.s Mm. M;rimp wanted but it
was equally true mat mere were other
purposes to which Skrimp wished to j
devote the proceeds of the marketing. 1
There was a 11 ew bridle needed and !
some nails and an ax and when these
things wen paid for and a pluir of to
bacco purchased there was just enough !
monev left to buv Mrs. Skri nip eight :
yards of remnant calico. i
As Skrimp rode homeward he felt !
some misgivings as to the manner of j
reception his wile would give him. and
he msiy have ex pern need some sliph:
compunctions of conscience but that is
hardly probable.
".she won't like it." he mused. "I
most know she won't Hut th whsit's
the difference? There ain't no woman
sis likes to have si msiu cut her down to
reason ami commwi sense in her ex- !
penses but they've pot to pit used to
11. . wile nsis 10 ! look (town ami
kept down or else she'll ruin a man in
no time. She won't like it of course
but sis for that matter none of the oth-
ers did: stdl they had to git used to it
and so will she."
When Skrimp sirrived home Mrs.
Skrimp took the packages and a- she
..11..I1...I t II. siai.. it.nitiiinttiir l.a. .I..... .
-i ii.it tin I'll. liPllltlllllll llli itiisn j
pattern l.e stood off wsitchinp her and
wsiitinp for results. Hie unrolled the 1 dust the sort of match thstt was calcu-
goods noted the quality smd qusiutity ' lsiteil to do Skrimp the most good. It
then looked up into her husband's face.
while he stood motionless expecting
the stii-:n pi blow. I iirst moment they
ga.cd .steadily and ilently into each
other's eyes then su spoke. Her
voice had never been more gentle her
manner more mild thsm sit that in-
stant. "Mr. Skrimp." sbL. .said "where is
my dress pattern?"
"You have it there" he replied
pointing to the calico.
"Kiit this js i what I wanted
Simon."
"Xo I know it ain't" Skrimp
answered. "but I thought it would do as
well as it conies a power ehcsipcr.
There ain't :my sense in paying so
much for si dress."
"Mr. skrimp." said the wife "I be-
lieve I a. 11 capable of judging in such
matters. I don't think it necessary
for vou to dictate to m- in the matter
of buying a dress and espeeiallv when i manner. Somewhat disconcerted to
I save up marketing to pay for it" j discover that she hail apparently made
"Times is close." Skrimp urged si conquest of this guileless child of
"and it stsuuls us in hsiud to be sis sav- Italia she begsiu to sketch his knee a.s
ing as possible. You can make eight ! more remote from the artillery of his
yards do splendidly by cutting it close j sentimental glances. In a remote cor-
am! working in the set sips. I tell 3011 ; ner of the room giggling arose smd she
I csm't a Hon! anv more." 1 perceived that the smiles of the llirta-
"lint. Simon." saiil Mrs. Skrimp '! j tious model were taking effect upon
di 1 not ask vou to afford aiivthiuir. I
sent marketing to pav for 1113 dn
"Oh. well that's all the same."
Skrimp replied. "The marketing is
mine.
"Do ou claim the butter and the
epps. and evervthing of thsit kind'.'"
"t'ertainh. It's all mine and I pro-
pose to use it to bin groceries smd
whatever else I choose "
"And 1 am to have no sa in the mat-
ter at sill?"
"Of course not"
Mrs. Skrimp looked very hard at j
Skrimp for si moment while a Hush of ;
langcr swept over Her tsiee and sue
seemed on the point of spesikiug out
Hut she remained silent and letting
her e3es fail broke into a light laugh.
"Yery well sdmon" she said "the
marketing is ours and I will not
make the mistake again of supposing
it mine.
t
I
.surimp v:is ph-aseii nut at me .satin
time surprised at these words from
his wife. It was what he wanted her
to ssiy. but it astonished him that shc
should ssi it so readih.
"She looks quiet smd humble
enough." he mused.- "but somehow I 1
feel a.s if there was something more to
the back of her conduct. She knocks
under too e:is3 I'm afraid. It don't
seem just natural for s womsiu to give
in without a struggle. I'm fearful !
everything ain't just right"
However as the dsis passed suul the
weeks ran into months and Mrs.
Skrimp continued quiet and tractable.
Skrimp conelrded that it was sill right
and that there would be no trouble
after alt.
"She was the easiest woman to
break in I ever see." be mused with si
satisfied chuckle. "J list come right
under as docile a: a lamb and without
a word."
Skrimp seeing that he had gained so
decided an sulvantstgc determined to
follow it up. and accordingly he
preached economy to Mrs. Skrimp con-
tinually. If she asked for anything he
objected ssiying she could get along
without From morning to night. dsi-
after day skrimp dinned into his
wife's ears the old cry: "Times is
close aud 3011 must learn to do with
out anu save.
Mrs. Skrimp was met with this re-
ply so often that finally she ceased to
make nry requests of her liusband. aud
then h was happy. JJe vdi'icUled Vo
j himself and congratulated himself on
his fortune in getting a wife who was
so easily broken- in-ko-bend to his will.
It was evident that he had made a
good match whatever may be said for
his wife and he was happy.
1'oor Skrimp! Alas for him he
little knew how dearly his happiness
was costing him. He little suspected
that for every dollar he was saving he
was paying double. He little dreamed
that in his effort to "break in" his
wife the breaker was really being
broken. Hut these things all came to
him in time and they came with crush-
ing force-
In the autumn when Skrimp's hogs
were fat and reaiby for market he sold
them to Hicks and one day he drove
them down to the store to be weighed
and delivered. They were nice hogs
and Skrimp contemplated them fond-
ly mentally calculating at the same
time the amount of money they would
bring.
Hicks weighed the swine figured up
their value and atmounced the total to
be two hundred and eighty-five dol-
lars. Skrimp was pleased for that
was more than he had expected to get
for them and he rubbed his hands to-
gether and smi!ed and almost
chuckled as he mused:
"Two hundred and eighty-five dol
lars and all cash! Xo store bill to de-
duct out but all clean cash. That's
what comes o shuttiu' down on fami-
ly expenses an I making the marketing
pay for the groceries and the like.
There's nothm" like breaking a woman
in right at first Now I can loan this
money sit ten per cent and it will bo
of some use. Xo store bill to nav.
and"
At this point Skrimp's train of
thought was disturbed by Hicks who
was saying:
"Now Mr. Skrimp. I am ready for a
settlement I suppose you want your
account at the store deducted from the
value of tin hops?"
"Account sit the store!" Skrimp ex-
claimed. "Why I ain't any!"
"Yes. you have an account of one
hundred and ninety dollars" Hicks re-
plied. Hain't 1 paid marketing for all
I've bought thi- yesir? Skrimp asked.
"Yes but j'our wife Iris run si bilL
She said you claimed the marketing
so she would buy on time and psiy with
the hogs."
Skrimp stood aghast his mouth and
eyes op.Mi and his face blank with
astonishment Here was a turn of af-
I :rs that h hsid not bargained for a
j thing of which he had not dreamed.
I'r a long time he was silent but
finally he gasped: "One hundred and
J ninety dollars! And I thought I had
j broke her!"
! Skrimp w:is beaten completely. He
ssiw it smd acknowledged it He ac-
knowledged fii'thcr that he was a fool.
He was too crestfallen too entirely
beaten out to raise a row with his. wife
although he was mad with singer. He
kept quiet knowing that the less ho
said the better. He relinquished his
claim to the marketing and he never
from that day presumed to dictate to
his wife in the matter of her dresses.
He was cured.
So it w;is a good match sure enough.
wsts "si good match ami no mistake"
but from a point of view different from
that tak-Mi by 1; -elicit. Hicks and the
neighbors. -Thomas I. Montfort in
(ood Housekeeping.
IT WENT WITH THE POSE.
The M...I.-1-s sn. Was .MlsiiiHl.T-t immI by
(lie SoIkt ISirl Student.
An Indianapolis artist who has won
prestige in east-rn art circles tells the.
following incident which occurred in a
Xew York studio of much celebrity:
A large class of women and pirls were
sketching from si semi-nude model a
young Italian who was posed with his
head thrown back his arms fantasti-
cally wreathed over his hesid smd his
legs extended in some sort of wild
IS.icchsinal est per. The Indianapolis
woman was sketching the model's
shoulder w hen she observed that ho
w as smiling at her in a very familiar
some lively girls among the students.
The;' subsided shortly but the 3oung
Italian still continued firingjoff smiling
glances in every direction.
At about the center of the class was
a ('eriustn girl serious to the core sib-
sorb d in her work and fierce in man-
ner as a female I'ismarck. Ever3
stroke she planted on her easel was de-
cisive and almost combative. Suddenly
she came under the battery of the Itsil-
iau's smiles and. without sin iustsmt's
hesitation her voice rang on like a
clarion:
"You schtop that schmiling; vc don't
vant 3ou to schmile."
'I lie figure of the model relaxed in-stsintain-oiish
and he stood straight as
an sirrow before the clsiss the. imper-
sonation of offended and wrathful dig-
nity. After an appalling silence he
remarked in the severest tones:
"La-lies. I am here before vou zim-
ply as 7.1 iiiimIcI of z 'Dancing Fawn;
ze smile goes wi ze pose." Indianap-
olis Journal.
A Hard MriifrRle.
A veteran Missouri hunter having
occasion to visit a small town on his
wav :sScd through a dense thicket
sit:d ssiw
ordinal
what he supposed was sin
eat climbing through some
luiMics sihout six leet siwsi. lie no-
ticed that its ees had a peculiarly
ugly glitter and that the animal was
unusually large: but. without stopping
to reflect he extended his hand and
called: "Kitty! Kitty'." Kitty came
but in such a savage fashion that he
regretted extending the invitation.
The animal was a genuine wildcat
and jumped on the hunter like a tiger.
The hunter had not o much as a
knife with htm. Wing on a friendly
visit: but he had his skill and courage
and sifter a tough struggle he suc-
ceeded in getting hold of the animal's
throat Yet in spite of his strength
he was lacersited b' the cat's teeth and
claws smd he had all he could do to
choke it into insensibilit3. He sad
afterwards that of .all hi.s encounters
this was the hardest fight and narrow-
est escape of them all. Golden Da3s.
In Love and the Soup. Le Martin
"I haf ze consomme here called zo
lof." l'.otid "The love?'- Le Mrxfin
"Oui." Itond "Isn't that a queer
name for a soup?" Le Martin "OuL
It eez for ze man vat eez in bof at so
saute time."-X. Y. Herald.
TEMPERANCE JOTES.
WHICH SjtAUL "IT BE?
tldyUttle-home for Bety and rac.
With just enough xoi for one. two. three?
Or a tumble-dowa hut vita ft broken gate.
Xmd a tod -eyed oa Mitfag early and late:
Ythich shallit be
For mine and me?
A five-cent glass of beer for mc.
Or a n ve-ccnt lo.if for all of us ihreeF
3c cr or baby wine or wife.
Which do I hold more precious than life?
Which Ahall it be
For mine and mc?
Potatoes and salt with a crust of bread
For the lcst little woman the Ionl ever made.
While- th: rumseller's wife feeds oa turkey and
w inc.
Dought with my monev if I so incline
This shall it be
For mine and mc!
TsUters and rnsrs for my little one.
My fair comely baby my own darling .son.
While the runiejitr's children go warm and
well clad.
An my e:irnlncs. wrested from my bonny lad;
T.lis .shall it be
For mine and me!
Well. inai. do you think me a wrolo-evcd fool
IMmdly to serve a.s the riim.eller"s tool?
Ah' How can I hesitate which to choose.
When it" all to gain -or sill to lose;
For mine and me.
For mine and rue'
N. Y. Witness.
THE FASHION OF TEMPERANCE.
Drink Ht IHiuif-r If Heroiniug I'npop-
ti I u r.
That the fashion in wines smd wine
drinking at tsible is surely changing I
think no tine at all siddicted to dining
either in the capacity of guest or host
at hirge dinners will deny. The causes
for this change are numerous perhaps
the most potent of them being the dread
of invalidism which attacks men even
more generally and with more remedial
effect than women. lVrfcet physical
condition is sin ideal much striven for.
and one and perhaps the principal way J
of attainment thereto is by temperance
in the use and selection of wines. Men
appreciate that fact in this generation
as never before and are helped toward
it in many wsiys by fashion by the
spirit of the sige which frowns upon
self-indulgence' and by athletic trsiin-
I let ween the ages of ;: sixteen and
twenty-one the average gentleman's
son is at college and at work usually
in some department of college athletics.
His training there forbids an excessive
use of either wine or tobsieeo. smd so
during tin's years a habit of ab-
stemiousness is inculcated and almost
never outgrown. Older men le.-irn the
advisability of such habits j.erhaps J c'ourt- Ic added: "The only way to
sifter over-indulgence and in sight of stamp out this curse will be very earn-
threatened disease both of which act est an1 aggressive Christian work
sis decided curbs to a careless intemper-j anonr tlllJ P'plc." He cited a num-
ince. j nt'r f pitiful cases of misery and deg-
A change in the fashion of serving . radation brought about by the use of
wines has e.une about and a greater liquors and sa:d: "The jails are full all
temperance in their use lias arisen with ! tu lino wslu llu'n who are inebriates."
it. although the custom itself is sis firm- j II1' sPoIii f "- 'ed of an inebriate
lv intrenched as ever. A mixture of ! vlum. a bill for which has been in-
elaretand water and champagne are ' Produced in congress. If the drink-
the two bcv.-raires most ustiallv served
to guests now. How many of us can
remember of how recent a date is this
change and appreeistte it streordingly.
Light wines sire the order of the dsiy
the heavy ports and Madeiras of our
grandfathers being relegated into ob-
scurity. 'I he amount of wine consumed at
dinners too. is much decreased. Most
men. knowing theircapabilities. seldom
exceed them and but rarely drink to
reach them.
As to women they are always light'
oriiiiicr.s. .iien stmiv tneetlect ot wine
drinking on their digest ion next morn-'
inp. and are as si consequence the bet-
ter in health mind smd happiness. let-
ter. too. than those of their ancestors
who. to prove their manhood would
drink until nature advanced its own re-
fusal. Happily all this has changed and
mothers can. in this age. watch the
growth and development of their sons
with serene consciousness that the com-
mon temptation to excess in drink is
nullified in si great measure by the
fashion of temperance and the lrcgionic
tendencies of modern societ3. Flora
I'a3r.e Vhitniy in Ladies' Home
.Journal. '
THE FASCINATION OF A BAR.
.Men Who Wnulil Kat her Drink In n Sa-
loon Than at Their Dun sldclionriW.
Man's development goes on and takes
many peculiar forms. A doctor was
saying the other dav that bars have si
peculiar fsiseinsition for men who are
not by nature born to inebriet' that is
most deplorable. One case was cited of .
a man who was free to drink sis lie
chose who had no faiiiih anil who
lived alone in handsome apartments
In lit
he had every kind of I
own room
choice liquor. Yet. except when the
friends came to see him. he never
brought out his liquor but bought all
he drank in public bars. If he were
aliout to enter his home and desired a
little whisky he would turn about and
go as many blocks as was necessary to j
find a barroom. Then it got so he
would go out in the stormiest of nights.
and on more than one occasion lie rose
from his bed. dressed himself and went
out into a freezing eold when he might j
1
have helped himself at his own side- I
board. It is a distinct development of
!'
a certain moral character that is not
unint-resting. (Questioning a man pos-
sessed of the habit. I received an ex-
planation that is suggestive if not sat-
isfactory. "I have met 111:1113 hard drinkers"
said he. "who prefer to shut themselves
up alone in a room anil empty bottles
swiftly without anything to distract
tiieir attention from the exercise The
nervous imbiber however who is not a
drunkard but a very common product
of these hard-riding da"s. feels de-
pressed when he helps himself to a
drink in his own house. With such a
man whisky and silence are not com
patible. The act of entering a hand-
some barroom of giving his order of
receiving a strange bottle and of pour-
ing out the liquor while there is life
and movement sill aliout him. brings
him up and gives him a trifle of enthu-
siasm. Then he realh loves to psn for
hi.s drink. It does not seem precious if
he gets it as it were free at home.
Then there is the pleasure of catching
up a kernel of parched corn from the
end of the bar. or an olive from the
lunch table. There is the rush of faces
the bustle of agile servants in their
white coats the glitter and eliek of
glassware smd the pungent flavor of
'.cinon in the air." Pittsburgh Post.
THE MISSIONARY.
It Is by That Name Tlntt the Afrlr.ini
Delt;:iate StronfT Drink.
As stated bj the bishop of London it
is a positive fact that in one place in
Africa the Christians are building a
mosque rather than a church because
tho Moliamrn-(lrin i!o not brintr drink
with them; where i iacreMed aun-1
fcer of Christians woald ascan aa ia
crease in the importation of drink. -
One of the Mohammedan African
chiefs in praying- for the suppression
of the liquor traffic created bj us in
his country says: 'The natives them-
selves do not want it it is forbidden by
their laws but they are forced to break
those laws by you English. You are
deteriorating our people and destroying;
whole races of them." He pathetically
implores "the English queen to stop
sending her rum and her gin to his
people."
The very air of Africa reeks with
rum and gin imported by us: every hut
is redolent of its fumes. (Jin bottles
and boxes meet the eye at every step
and in some places the wealth and im-
portance of the various villages are
measured by the size of the pyramids of
empty gin bottles which they erect and
worship. Over large areas drink is al-
most the side currency and in many
parts the year's wages of the negro fac-
tory worker are paid altogether in
spirits.
A steamer which recently returned
from West Africa brought home with
her a cargo of rubber palm oil ivory
gold and other rich products sho had
obtained in exchange for a compound
called rum and gin bartered at the rate
of "rum nine pence per gallon and gin
two shillings and six pence per dozen
pint bottles." This so-called rum and
gin is known to the natives as "tho
missionary." The introduction of this
missionary into peaceful villages trans-
forms them into a hades peopled by
brutalized human beings whose pun-
ishment is to be possessed by a never-
ending thirst for more missionary.
The chastity of women becomes a vir-
tue of the psist. They follow one about
with scarcely a rag on their besotted
persons crying for more gin. The
wretched natives having disposed of
their cattlcfor drink take to thieving
for it. and. being caught are. sometime.-!
dogged to death'by our government of-
ficials. Fortnightly Review.
A
CREATOR OF CRIME.
Misery ami
I)et;r:i(littiou
Kcjultlng from
Drink.
Ir. a recent address by Judge Kim-
ball of Washington on crime speak-
ing sis the result of his experience as a
police judge in the nationnl capital he
said: "There is nothing that produce
so much crime as liquor." He stated
that during the year ended December
:U. 1MJI. there were over eighteen thou-
sand cases in the police court some-
thing over twelve thousand in his own
""PS are to ie continued in w aslnng
ton. by all means there should be an
inebriate asylum; but we suggest that
it would be wiser to close up the drink-
shops and therefore to a large extent
avoid the necessity for an asylum for
their victims. Xational Temperstnco
Advocate.
A GOOD
BARGAIN.
An Irishman Who Houht
Itoottt with
llii Drink .Money.
At a temperance meeting where
several related their experiences a
humorous
Irishman who spoke wsis
V K " . KIUCl h'H;aKpr-
.1...1....X...1...1. 1 4 l. II. . .!. 1
in- unit un .1 11.111 01 iinu new nuois.
Ssiid he: "A week after I signed the
pledge I met an old friend and he
s;is: 'Them's a fine pair of boots .m
have on.' "Vwy are' says I. 'nnd by
the .same token it was the saloon
keeper who gave them to me.'
' 'That was generous of him' ssiys
he.
" 'It was' says I. 'Hut I made a bar-
gain with him. He wsis to kep his
drink and I was to keep m3 muii-'.
M3 money bought me those fine bjots.
I got the best of the bargain and I'm
going to stick to it'"
I'o3's. will 3ou do the same? Will
you keep 3our monc3 and invest in
something else than drink? Banner
anil Herald.
TEMPERANCE BREVITIES.
Thiskf. times sis much spirits are con-
sumed in Scotland according to tho
population ns in England.
('AltKKii.l.v compiled statistics show
that sit' thousand lives are annually
destroyed by intempemnce in tho
I'nited States.
I'ltK lord chief justice at the Itirming-
hamissies last year .said: "If England
could be made sober three-fourths of
her jails could be closed."
Dil HoiiKitr Jackson who was at
one time at the head of the medical
staff in the West Indies expresses his
conviction that an English soldier.
aided by temperance may be rendered
capable of going through the severest
iuilitar3' dut3 in the hottest islands of
the West Indies.
Onk hundred and forty inmates of the
workhouse in the District of Columbia
have urge nth petitioned the corumis
sinners against the issuance of an;
mis-
uv
! ..1- 1 ;..- i;....o 'pi. .....- ..it. ......
Illl'll. ttljll.lt IIVIlll.. 1 lib 11WW! II lltltll
know what they are talking about for
saloons have do.ubtle.ss been a deep
curse to all of them.
It has been demonstrated in Kansas
that the liquor traffic will not be able
to stand against persistent bold and in-
telligent opposition. It can make no
defense for itself. The Inst shred of
argument in its behalf is the fallacious
one of the dollar. Experience has
shown that the communit3 that will
suppress the traffic gains financially
and that liquor revenue pasone dollar
and robs the people who can least af-
ford it of ten.
Tiik League Journal in a well writ-
ten article on "Savings Hanks and
Temperance" indicates the "silver
lining" to the "sable cloud" of drunk-
enness. It hails the increased number
of depositors especial hr among youth
and children in the savings banks of
the united kingdom as a bright and
cheering sign for temperance reformers;
and it claims that the temperance agi-
tation has wrought a great change in
the habits of the more intelligent work-
ingmen directly and indirect.
A mxktkkn" 3esir old New Jersey boy
died not long age from excessive use of
cigarettes. He began to smoke them
when eight 3ears of age and the habit
so grew upon him that he could not
shake it off". A few weeks ago he be-
came so sick that he had to cease work
and grew weaker every hour. From
his former healthy.robust form he dwin-
dled to a skeleton. As he died he
turned to those beside him and said:
"Tel! the boys that cigarettes killed
::ie; ltjjt them profit bj my sad experi-
euce." A moment latex he wh dend
HENRY GEORGE.
The other day Henry Georre
ailed to'Jo duty in a superior court
in New York. At -4be dose of the
trial the judge instructed the jury to
una a veraict ror tne attendant ana to
enter up this as the finding of the jury.
Mr. George arose and said that the
jury had not so found and he did not
propose to have it go on record in that
way. Thereupon the judge excused
him from duty the rest of the term.
We mention this case simply to show
how the law is tied up to old forms.
This is true in all departments of
science. A great many people' think
they must take an opiate in order to
cure a cough or cold when it is the
worst t hing they can do. If they will
take REID'S GERMAN COUGH
AND KIDNEY CURE a remedy that
conUins neither opiate nor narcotic
they will be astonished to find that
they can be entirely cured without run-
ning any risk. There is no danger of
taking an overdose of this remedy.
Get it of any dealer.
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