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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1898-4-8, Page 3, A DOWNWARD PATH. D. TAI -MAGE POINTS OUT THE END OF THE GeMBLEFI, A Powerful indictment of the Evfli 1n volved in Games of Chance—Denounces Church Raffles—Rotting Results Bonito Moral and Financial Loss. (Copyright teen by emericen Press Assoeise eon.) WashingtonApra S.—The spirlt bazard iu this sermon is arraigmel by Dr, Tabu kge, and the downward path a the gamester is plainly peinted out; text, Acts i, 19. "Aceldama—that is to say, the field of Inecel," The money that Judas gave for sur- rendering Christ was used to purchase a graveyard. As the money was blood money, the ground bought by lt was called in the Syrlae tongue Aceidaille, meaning "the field of blood." Well, there Is one word I want to evrite today over every rent COMSO where wages are staked and every poolroom and every gambling, ntloon and ever, table, public) or private, where men end women be for RIMS of money, 'ergo or small, and that a word inearniulined with the nro a innumerable victlies—Aceldama. The gambling spirit, whteh te at all Slime a stupendous evil, ever algid anon Sweep °Wei` the country lihe an epidemics prostrating unceunted thousands. :clug0 has never been a worse attaek than that from whieli all the villugeei toWeis and cities are now suffering, 1Vhile among iny hearers and readers ara those who have passed on into the afternoon of life and the •shadows are lengthening and the sny crimsons with the glow of tile setting sun, a /ergo oune, leer a them are lu eariy life, and the niorning is coinin,.."' down out of the clear sky upon them, and the bright air is re- dolent with spring blossoms, and the stream of Me, gleaming and glancing, rushes on between flowery benne. matt - lug musio ale it gotee Some et yea are engagedininercautlic coucerns as. clerks and Wont cepers, ena your 'whole life is te nu naesea in the exciting world of Maio, The sound or buy life stirs yott as the drum stirs the liery war horse. Other e are in the meohanical arts, to batmen and chtsel your way through life, and sureess awaits you. SQ/110 are preparisee for profendonal lace nnd grand opportunities are before you—nay, F41110 O f you alremly bave buckled on the armor. 33itt, whatever your age and calling, the subject o gembling, tibout tvbich 1 speak to•deb is pertinene. A. Worldwide ]vii. Some year ago when all association for the supprettion of gambling was ormiu• ized an meant of the assoolation came to prominent citizen and asked him to patronize the seeiety. He said: "No; I can have no interest in sueh an organize - thin. I am in nowise affected by tho evil." A. that very time his son, who was his partner in bueiness, was WM of the /waviest players in a Amens gamble lug establiehment. Another refused, his patronage on the same ground,Ixot know- ing that hie first booltkeper, thougli re- ceiving a salary a only $4,000. was lee. Ing front $30 to $100 per night. The president of a railroad company refused to patronize the institution, saying, "That scieictet is good for the defense of merchants, but wo railroadpeople are not injured by this evil"—not nnotvint; that at that very title two of his conduc- tors wore spending three nights a eaeh week at faro tables In New York. Direct- ly or indirectly this evil strikes at the whole world. Gambling is the risking of something more or less valuable in the hope of win- ning more thau you hazard. The instru- ments of g oning may differ, but the principle is the same. The shuffling and dealing cants, however full of tempta- tion, is not gambling unless stakes are put up, while on the other baud gambl- ing may be carried on without cards or dice or billiards or a tenpin alloy. The man- who bets on horses, on elections, on battles, the man who deals in "fancy" stooks or conducts a business which haz- ards extra capital or goes into teansao- tions without foundation but dependent upon what inen call "luck," is a gam- bler. Wbatever you expect to get from your neighbor without offering an equivalent In money or time or skill is either the product of theft or gaming. Lottery tiokets aud lottery policies come into the same category. Bazaars for the founding of hospitals, schools and churches, con- ducted on the raffling system, come under the same denomination. Do not, there- fore, associate gambling necessarily with any instrument or game or time or place or think the principle depends upon whether you play for a glass of wine or 100 shares of railroad stock. Whether you patronize auction pools, French mutuals or bookmaking, whether you employ faro or billiards, rondo and keno, cards or bagatelle, the very idea of the thing is dishonest, for it professes to bestow upon you a good for which you give no equiva- lent. The Curse of Centuries. This crime is no newborn sprite, but a haggard transgression that comes stag- gering down under a mantle of curses through many centuries. All nations, barbarous and civilized, have been addict- • ed to it. But now the laws of the whole civilized world denounce the system. Enactments have been passed, but only partially en- forced, and at times not enforced at all. The men interested in gaming houses • and in jockey olubs wield such •innate/toe by their numbers and affluence that the Judge, the jury and the police officer must be bold indeed 'who would array them. 'selves against these infamous establish- ments. The House of Commons of Eng- land actually adjourns on Derby day that members may attend the races, and In the best circles of society in this country to -day are many hundreds of professedly respectable men who are acknowledged gamblers. . • Hundreds of thousands of dollars in this land are every dee being won and tort through sheer ganabling. Says a traveler through the west, "I bare trav- eled 1,000 miles at a time upon the west- ern waters and seen gambling at every waking moment from the commencement to the termination of the journey." The southwest) of this country reeks with this dn. In some of those cities every third or fourth house ID many of the streets is • a gaming place, and it may be truthfully • averred that each of our eittes is cursed with this evil. Men wishing to gamble will find places just suited to their capacity, not only In • the underground oyster cellar or at the table back of the curtain, covered with greasy cards, or in the steamboat emelt- Ins cabin, where the bloated wretola with rings in his ears dealout his paok and winks at the unsuspecting traveler, pro- viding free drinks all ,ground, but in gilded parlors and amid gorgeous sur- roundings. This sin works ruin first by providing an unhealthful stimuleitt. citement is pleasureable. Under every ono and in every age men have sought it, We must at tines have excitement. A thousand voices in our nature demand it. It is right. It is healthful. It is inspirit. Mg. It is a desire God given. But any- thing that firet gratiaee this appetite ana hurls ie back in a terrific reaction is cle., 'Actable and wick.cd. Look, out for the agitation that, like a rough musician, in bringing out the eune plays so hard that he brealts down the instrnment. God never made a man strong enough to en - dere the wear and tear of gambling ex- citements, The_ Beall to Wein. A young man having suddenly in- berited a large property site at the hazard tables and takes up in a dice box the estate won by c father's lifetime's sweat and shakes it and tosses it away. Intem- perance soon stigmatizes its victim, Wok- ing hint out, a slavering fool. into the ditch, or sending him, with the drunk- ard's hiceougb, staggering up the Wont where bis family lives. But gambling does not in that way expose its victines. The gambler may be eaten up by the gainbliw's passion, yet you only disoever it by the greed in his eyes, the bardness of bis features, the nervous restlessnees„ the threadbare coat and his entheeressed businees. Yee he is on tite road to rain, and no preaeher's voice or startling warn- ing or wife's entreaty can make him stay for a moment his headlong weer. The infernal spell is on /dm, a giant is aroused within, end though you bind him with cables they would part like bread, and though you fasten him seven times around with chalue thee Wenn/ Reap like rusted wire, and. though you piled up in WS path heaven high Bibles, tracts and sermons and on the to should set the eress of the on Of Ged, everthulti all the nimbler would leap like a roe over the rooks ou hie way to perdition, ".A.coldarna, the lied of blood!" •Agalu, this sin Ivories ruin by killing industry. A man used to reaping scores or hundreds of dollars from the gaming table svill not be content with slew work. Ile will say, "Wbut is the use of tryiug to make this $50 In my store when I can 3 mike five tiuie that III half an hour by the dice?" You iever know a confirmed gembler 'Who Was industrious, The men given to this vim spend their thee not actively employed in the game in idleness or intoxication or sleep or in corrupting tow victims. We sin bus dulled the cerpenter's saw and cut the band of the factory wheel, sunk tbe cargo, broken the teeth of the farmer's harrow and sant a strazige lightning to shatter tbe battery at the philosoplier. nize very Idea in gam. ing is at war with nil the industries of society. Something, for :inuring. Any trade or occupation that is of DSO is ennobling. The street sweeper advances the interests of staiety by the cleanliness effected. ',rho cat treys for the fragnaents it eats by °leasing the house of vermin. The fly that takes the sweetness from the dregs of the cup compensates by purify. ing the air and keeping back the pestil- ence. But the gambler gives not anything for that which he Olken I recall that sentence. He does make a return, but it Is disgrace to the man that he fleeces, ; despair to his heart, ruin to his business, anguish to his wife, sbarne to his children ; and eternal wasting away to his soul. He pays in tears and blood and agony and darkness and woe. What dull work Is plowing to the farmer wben in the village saloon in One night he makes and loses the value of a sureiner harvest! Inbo will want to sell tapes and measure nan- keen and out garments and weigh sugar when in a night's game he makes and loses and makes again and loses again the moats of a season? John Hermit was sent as a mercantile agent from Bremen to England and this country. After two years his employers mistrusted that all was not rigit. He Was a defaulter for $87,000. It was found that he had lost in Lombard street, Lon- don, $29,000; in Fulton street, New York, $10,000 and in New Orleans $8,- 000. Be was imprisoned, but afterward escaped and event into the gambling pro- fession. He died in a lunatic asylum. This crime is getting its lever under many a mercantile house in our cities, and before long down will come the great establishment, crushing reputation, home comfort and immortal souls. How it diverts and sinks capital may be inferred from some authentic statement before ue. The ton gamine; houses that once were authorized in Paris passed through the banks yearly 825,000,000 francs. souree of Dishonesty. Furthermore, this sin is the source of dishonesty. The game of linzard itself is often a cheat. How many necks and de• ceptions in the dealing of the cards! The opponent's hand is °Mimes found out by fraud. Cards are marked so tirit they may be designated from the back. Expert gamesters have their accomplices, and one wink may decide the game. The dice have been found loaded with platina so that doublets come up every time. These dice are introduced by the gamblers un- observed by the hanest men who Lave come into the play, and this accounts for the fact that 99eaut of 100 who gamble, however wealthy when they began, at the end are found to be poor, tniserable, hag- gard wretches, that would not now be allowed to sit on the doorstep of the house that they once owned. In a gaming house in San Francisco a young man having just come from the mines deposited a large sum upon the ace and won $22,000. But the tide turns. Intense anxiety comes upon the counten• ances of all. Slowly the cards went forth. Every eye is fixed. Not a sound is heard until the ace is revealed favorable to the bank. There are shouts of "Foul! Foul!" but the keepers at the tables produce their pistols, and the uproar is silenced, and the bank has won $95,000. Do you call thisni game of chance? There is no chance about it. Notice also the effect of this crime upon domestic] happiness. It has sent its ruthless plowshare through hundreds of families, until the wife sat in rage and the daughters were disgraced, and the sons grew up to the same infamous prac- tices or took a short cut to destruction across the murderer's scaffold. Home bas lost all charms for the gambler. How tame are the children's caresses and a wife's devotion to the gambler! How drearily the fire burns on the domestic hearth! There must be louder laughter and something to win and something to lose, an exeitement to drive the heart faster, fillip the blood and tire the imag- ination. No home, however bright, can keep back the gamester. The sweet call of nova bounas back from his iron soul, and all endearments are communed in the fireoof his passion. The family Bible will go after all other treasures are lost, and if his crown in heaven were put into his Jiang he would ory: "Here goes—one More game, my boys! On this ooe throw stake my crown of heaven!" Deetroyer of Xouth. A. young rnan in London on coming of age received a fortune of $120,000, and through gambling in three years was throwe on his eother for support. An only son went to New Orleans. He was Heir, ietellectual and elegant in manners. His parents gave him on his departure from bome their last blessing. The sharp ors got bold of him. They flattered him. They lured him to the gaming table and let him win almost every time for a good While aod, patted him on the back and said, "First rata player." But, fully in their grasp, they fleeced him, and bis $30,000 was lost. Last of all, he put up bis watch and lost that. Then be began to think of bis home, and of his old father and, mother, and wrote tbus: "nny beloved parents, you will donbt- lees feel a momentary joy at the recep- tion ot this letter from the child of your bosom, on whom you have lavished all the favors of your declining yeare. But should a, feeling of joy for a moment spring up ht your heertswben you should have received this from me, oherish it not. I have fallen deep, never to rise. Those gray hairs that I should hare hon- ored and protected I shall bring down in sorrow to the grave. I will not Curse Int' destroyer; but, el:4 lime God avenge the wrongs and. 'repositions Praetieed Upon the unwary in a way that shall best please him( This* my dear parents, is the last letter you will ever receive from me. I humbly pray your forgiveness, It is my dying prayer. Long before you will have received this from ine the gold grave will Imes closed upon me forever, Life to MO Is insupportable, 1 cannot—nay, X will not—suffer the theme of 'laving ruined you, Forget and forgive is the dying prayer of your unfortuate son." The old father Caine to the post -Mlle; got the letter and fell to the door, They thought ho was dead at fleet, but they brushed bask the white hair front bia brow and framed him. He bad may faint- ed. "Aceldatua, the Aoki of bloodl" 'When things go wrong at a gaming Onto, they shout; "Foal! Foul!" Over all the miming %blue of the world I cry out; "Vault Foul! Influitely fetal!" CamblInn In Churches. "Gift atoms" are abundant througbout the eountry. 'With a book or knife or sewing mac:nine or mat or carriage there goes a prize. At these stores people get something thrown in with their purobase. It may be a gold wateli or a set of silver, a ring or a farm. Sharp way to get off unsalable goorls, It bee filled the land with fictitious articles and covered up our population *with brass finger rings and despoiled the moral EfIDSO of the Qom• netutity, and Is fast making us a nation of gamblers. The rhumb of God has not seemed willing to allow the world to have all the advautege of those games of chance. A church bazaar opens, and. toward the close it is found that them of the more valuable Articles are unsalable, Forthwith the conductors of the enterprise conclude that they will raffle for some of tbo valut able articles, and under pretense of auxin fry to mato their 'Welker a present or please some popular member of the oburob faseleating persons are dispatched through the room, pencil in hand, to "solicit therm," or porhape each drawe for his own advatage, and scores of peo- ple poe home with tboir trophies, thinking thatit is all right, tor Ciaristian ladies did the embroidery and Christian men did the raining, and the proceeds went toward a new communion set. But you may depona on it that as far as morality Is concerned you 'might as 'well have won by the crack of the billiard ball or the turn of the dice box. Do you wonder that churches built, lighted or upholstered by such processes as that come to great financial and spiritual decrepitude? The devil says, "X helped to build that house of worship, and I have as much right there as you have," and for once the devil is right, We do not read that they had a lottery for blinding the ohuech at Corinth or at Antioch or for getting up an embroidered surplice for,St Paul. All this I style ecclesiastical gambling. More than one man who is destroyed can say that his first step on the wrong road was when he won something at a church fair. A. Pernicious custom. The gambling spirit has not stopped for any indecency. There transpired in Maryland a lottery in which people drew for lots in a burying ground. The modern If betting about everything is pro- wel° of immense mischief. Tlie moSt ; klthful and innocent amusements of saehting and baseball playing have been the occasion of putting up excited and extravagant wagers. That which to many bas been advantageous to body and mind has been to others the moans of financial and moral loss. The custom is pernicious In the extreme where scores of men in respectable life give themselves up to betting, now on this boat, now on that; now on this ball club, now on that. Betting that once was chiefly the accom- paniment of the race course is fast be- oonaing a • national habit, • and in some circles any opinion advanced on polities is accosted with the interrogation, "How much will you bet on that, sir?" This custom may make no appeal to slow, lethargic terapereanents, but there are in the country tens of thousands of quick, nervous, sanguine, excitable tem- peraments, ready to be acted upon, and their feet will,soon take hold on death. For some months and perhaps for years they will linger in the more polite and elegant circle of gamesters, but after awhile their pathway will come to the fatal plunge. Shall I sketch the history of the gam- bler? Lured by bad company, he finds bis way into a place where honest men ought never to go. He sits down to bis first game, but only for pastime and the de- sire of being thought sociable. The play- ers deal out the cards. They unconscious- ly play into Satan's hands, who takes all the tricks and both the players' souls for trumps be being a sharper at any game. A slight stake is put up, just to add in- terest to the play. Game after einem is played. Larger stakes and stili larger. They begin to move nervously on their chairs. Their brows lower and eyes flash, until now they who win and they who lose, fired alike with passion, Sit with set jaws, and compressed lips, and clinched fists, and eyes like Broballe that seem starting from their wickets, to see the final turn before it ecnnes. If losing, pale with envy and tremulous with unuttered oaths case back reclhot upon the heart, or winning, with hysteric laugh—"Ha, hal I haye i11" Lost Vrams and Soul. A few years have passed, and he is only the wreck of a reau. Seating him- self at the game ore he throws the first card, he stakes the last relic a Ills wife seeetne gN AND MAIIIIELLOUS CUBE! Paine's Petery Pemppund.... 'Saves a. Life • .kfter.. Dootoit and Hospitals Fail. [113. Weirtilele33 0011 000 (O. CoM......40.-Simitt- • . tri.011 NH 01 NO110118. Pf1011iii)11 URN • WefilleSS.--iitilllilile NH 01 8011 Mr. Deschamps Says After the Use of Six Bottles of Pam Celery Compound 1 Am a Cured Man." THE GREAT SPRING MEDICINE MAKES PEOPLE WELL At the !tenant time there are )nany thousands of teen and women in Canada who are suffering niuoh the same as did Mr. T. Deschamps, of 248 Atwater avenue, Point St. Charles, Montreal, Such suffer- ers may now rest assured that the Mlle inetlicine that made Mr. Deschamps well man will bestow the same gift—good bealth—to -others. Mr. Desobamp's marvellous cure by the usenet Paine's Celery Compound, after failures of doctors and hospitals is already well known to malty ituudretis In St. ea,- briel ward, Montreal, for the cured maxi has never ceased to sing the praises of the remedy that restored bine to beeith. Mr. Deschamps write a as follows: Flaying beeA a greet sufferer for four years trona nervousness and wealtness,and having been completely cured by Paine's Celery Compound after failures with all other means, I desire to make the follow- ing statement; "I became so bad from nervousness and. nervous prottration that I was nueble to sleep or assio myself in any W. My limbs were neutib and. Useless, ar*d. for a, long time I was net able to steendalona I was under tile care of several doctors in Ottawa, city, but their treatment did not better my 01:14ditiedi, After enreizig to nientreelIwas a patient in the Western Hospital, but after three months' treat- ment I left there no bettor. I thank - Heaven that I was ad:4MA to use Paine'. Celery Compound, Ws great medicine commenced to do its good worn from tile time I used the first bottle, and now, aft& having used air bottles, I am a cured man." —the marriage ring winch sealed the solemn vows between them. The gains is ' lost, and, staggering Wok in exhaustion, be dreams. The bright beers of the past mock his agony, and in bis dreams fiende 'with eyes of Ilre and. tongues of llama circle about him with joined hands, to deuce and sing their orgies with hellish enotus, ehanting "Hail brother!" kissing Ins clammy forthead until their loath- some looks, flowing with serpents, crawl into his bosom and sink their sharp fangs and suck up his lifeblood and, wil- ling around bis beart, pbach it 'with chills and shudders unutterable. Take warning! You aro no stronger than tens of thousands who have by this practice beep overthrown. No young man in our eines eari escape being tempt- ed. Beware of the first beginnings! This road is a dovne grade, and every instant increases the mornentuna. Launch not upon this trim:heroes sea. Splint hulks strew the beach. Everlasting storms howl up and down, tossing 'unwary craft into the Hell Gate, 1 speak of wbat have soon wIth nay own oyes. To a gam. bier's deathbed there comes no hope. Ho Will probably die alone. HIs former asso- ciates come not nigh his dwelling. When the hour comes, his miserable soul will go out of a miserable life into a miser- able eternity. As bis poor remains pass the house where he was ruined old com- panions may look out for a moment and sae "There gene the old oarcass—dead at last," but they will not got up from the table. Let him down into his grave. Plant no tree to oast its shade there, for the long, deep, eternal gloom that settles there is shadow enough. Plant no forget- me-nots oreglantines around the spot, for flowers were not made to grow on such a blasted heath. Visit it not In the sun- shine, for that would be mockery, but in the dismal night, when no stars were out and the st irt of darkness come down, borsed on me wind, then visit the grave of the gambler. ENGLISH INTRODUCTIONS. Some of the Customs Prevailing in Society There. I find that English people object to our babit of over -introducing in society. Tbey think It vulgar, even when guests are assemblea to dine together. "Of course," said a London man -of -the -world to me'quite recently, "you are always made to know the lady whom you have been desired to take down to dinner, (This constant phrase, "take down to dinner," comes, of course, from the fact of all London drawing -rooms being on the floor above that of the dining -room.) The lady on your other side? Why on earth should an introduction to her be requisite? You interchange conversation with her, of course, while the dinner progresses; some of my most agreeable moments have been spent in quietly find - Ing out out who she is and letting her quiet- ly find out who I am." "But would it not be more agreeable for both," 1 ven- tured, "If the sociality of your hostess had previously made you . acquainted?—if you had also been presented to the other lady?" My interlocutor here scowled, then merrily smiled. "Pardon me," bis reply came, "but that word 'presented' does so grate on English nerves! We haven't it here; we never use it; we think it very bad form." It was ray turn to smile. "You think it American?" I asked, de- murely. "Well, yes, if you won't be offended," he said; "we do thinn it a—a trans-Atlantio importation. I know you'll forgive me if 1 say to you that it was lugged over here by certain Ameri- can girls, Who have chosen to use it with a great airiness and emprossment They speak of havinn Lord This and Mr. That 'presented' to them. Of course, we Eng- lish laugh in our sleeves at all this. Why not? We can't help it. One is 'presented' here to royalty alone. The word, is never employed in any other sense. When it is so employed eve think the impulse is shockingly bad taste. You are 'presented' to the Queen, the Princess of 'Wales; you are 'presented' at the drawing -rooms in 13uokingham palace and all that sort of thing I can't tell you what amusement it causes us to hear chits of American girls prattling about the personages who have been 'presentedto them. The plain old English word 'introduce' is what we always use."—London Correspondence in Collier's Weekly. Moore's conscience. Leigh Hunt relates in his writings the following: "1 remember when I Was showing Lord Byron and Nichae my gerilen whilst in prison for publithing what was called a 'libel' 013 the Prinee Regent, a smart .. shower came on whieb indueed Moore to button up his met and push on for the ' interior. He returned instantly, blushing up to bis °yen baying forgotteu the lames ness of his friend. "'How mucli better you behaved,' be said to me afterwerds, 'in not basteeine to get out of the rain. 1 quite forgot, for the moment, whom 1 was welkin' with.' "I told nim that the virtue was invol- untary on my part, !Wing been occupied In conversation with bis lortiehip, which he was uot; and that to forgot a mane lameness involved a compliment in It which tiro sufferer could not dislike. " 'True,' said be. 'but the devil of it was that 1 woe forced to remember it by his not coming up. I could not, in ile- coney, go on, and to return was very awkward.' "This anxiety appearedto =every ami- able." The Finished Okarautor. There are, within the range of every- ! one's life, processes of life which must be solitary; passages of duty svbioh throw one absolutely upon his individual moral farces, and admit of no aidwhatever from another. Alone we musestand sometimes; and if our better nature is not to shrink Into weakness; we must take with us the thought which was the strength of Christ: "Yet I am not alone, because the Father Is with me." The sense of right can xnore readily indurate tbe tender than melt the rocky soul, and that Is the most finished character which begins in beauty and ends in power; that leans on the love of kindred while it may, and when it may not can stand erect in the love of God; that shelters itself amid the domesticities of life while duty wills, and When It forbids can go forth under the expanse of immortality, and face the storm that beats, and traverse any wilderness that lies beneath the canopy.—James Marin Dangers of Small Talk. "1 bad a narrow escape last night." "What was it?" "1 asked Miss Zoozellbarun if she favored annexation, and she thought I was proposing to her."—Chicago Record, HOW to Make Simple Household Remedies for Coughs and Colds. To make borehound candy put an ounce of the dried herb in a pint of boil- ing water. Strain off the infusion of horehound and add a pound of sugar to every half pint of the liquid. Boil the syrup until it threads and the thread cracks off brittle when bitten and then pour it out on buttered sheets of tin. When it is partly cooled, crease it into inch squares, and when it is hard break it up into separate candies. If these can- dies are too bitter for your taste, lessen the amount of horehound a little. Iceland moss makes an excellent sooth- ing cough candy. Take five cents' worth of the lichen, soak it over night and wash Ib repeatedly. Take it out of the last water and put it in a thick porcelain lined saucepan in plenty of cold water and let it slowly simmer over the fire until tbe water is of a thick., starchy consistency. .Add a pound of sugar to half a pirlt- of the thickened water. Stir the syrup repeatedly until a drop forms a creamy ban when rolled between the linger and thumb. It must be stirred re. peatedly or it will burn. Pour it out on buttered biscuit pans that have sides, which will prevent the candy spreading in too thin a sheet. It should be about half an inch thick. A simple troche which is easily pre. pared at home is made as follows Mix together an ounce Saab of posvdereci cu. bobs, licorice and gum arable. Add to this raixtpre a dram of oil of aniseseed and a third of an ounce of oil of cubebs. When the oils are mixed in, add half a pound of raw sugar ancl finally just enough warm water to make a dougla as stiff as you oan handle. Sprinkle a booed with a little powdered licorice and roll out the mass as thin as a pie crust. Cut it into small troches with a thimble. Let them dry on a board in a closet or any cool, dry room. If the atmosphere is not too moist, they will dry in a day, They are excellent to soothe any roughness of the throat that &PAINS a cough. They will frequently entirely stop a troublesome cough which comes from some trifling nervous cause. Tire materials are simple and are easily obtained at any drug store. Do not put them on the tire to mix them, but do all the work on a board. Whet the New Automatic her Poen Prof. Von Brue of n ulanger. n well known autlicoity oncoin-no:is of tailitery surgery, hae leterestiten experimentwith the new autoniatie re- volver, which it appears is being adopted by nearly all the kluropeon government -B. Tito experiments were made ea pine wood, on plates of iron, on a tiling horse and portions a human vorpsvs, at dis- tweet* varying from 10 to ritiO metre, The results were aii follows: Tlitoe was little difference between the efforts on living and on deed materiel. The hole made is from five to seven malimetres In size and. decreases with the Inercese 02 distauco; the aperture of exit Jo ueuelly slightly larger than that of the entrance. The effect of the projeetile on the long hollow bones was exeetly similar to that of the German infantry rifle at 1,000 ne 2,000 metres. Vie bone was splintered In evin7 ease; in no ease did the projectile remain in the bone. The track of the bullet invariably formed a smooth chain. nol without shattering, before the bone and. witheue bony deer's. La the ease of bullets striking the skull there was ex- plosive action—that is, eomminution of the vault—at a distance of ton metres, corresponding to the effect of tbe in- fantry rifle at 1,0e0 metres, which de- creased gradually up to lino, metres dis- tance. As regards the penetrative power at ten to tweuty metres, the projectile. passed, 'through two trunks and only stuck in the third; it pierced pieces a pine wood thirty-two eentitnetres thick and three iron plates oach two milli- metres thick. In all respects the now pistol proved itself superior to the ordi- nary army revolver.—British Medical Journal. • Snow Trade in ninny. The principal export from Catania is snow, in which a most lucrative -bet& Is carried on in Malta and parts of Southern Italy. It Is collected during the winter in hollows in the mountains and covered with ashes to prevent its thawing. It is brought down in panniers on mules to the coast at night The revenue derived from this source is immenee and renders the Prince of Palermo one of the richest men in Sicily. now is the universal luxury from the Merest to the lowest rank and is sold at the rate of four cents for thirty ounces; the poorest cobbler there would rather deprive himself of bis dinner than of his glass of "aquagelata." It is extensively used in bospitals and a scarcity of it would be considered al- most as great a misfortune as a famine, and would occasion popular tumult. To guard against such accidents, theGovern- naent at Naples has made the providing of it a monopoly, the contractors being required to glee security to the amount of 60,000 ducats, which sum is forfeited if it tan be proven that for one hour the supply has not been equal to the demand. A. Soldier's Grit. The morning after the battle of York there were many men with limbs so in- jured as to require amputation. Among them was a young musician who had re- ceived a musket ball in the knee. .Aswas usual in such cases, preparations were being made to lash him to the table. The sufferer sat watching the arrangements, and Amine...said: "Now, doctor, what would you beat?" "My lad, I am going to take off your leg, and it is necessary you should be lashed , down." "I'll consent to no snob thing. You ratty pluck the heart from my bosom, but you'll not confine me. Is there a fiddle in camp? If so, bring it to me." A violin was brought to him and after tuning it, he said "Now, doctor, begin." And he played until the operation which took forty mimites, was completed, without missing a note nor moving a musole. • Strive On. If your seat is too hard to sit upon stand up. If a rock rises before you, roll it away or climate over it. It you want money, earn it. If you wish for eOnli.- dance, prove yourself worthy of it Don't be content with doing what another has done—surpass it, Deserve success ad 15 will come. The boy was not born a man. The sun does not rise like a rocket or go down like a ballet fired from a gun; slowly but surely it makes its rounn, and nevertires..., It is as easy to be a lead- er as a wheelliorse; if the job be Jong, the pay will be greater; If tise task be bardethe more competent you must be to do it.