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Temperance Department.
not for those wl.o prey upon the
people. Instead of asking that the
people should avoid these placed
we should demand that these places
avoid the people. The streets are
for the citizens ; if any one has to
vacate, let it be the enemy.— The
Crusader.
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The Yellowstone Park.
NW^tKar PresIdent^AHhur and
his friends are sojourning in the
Water is the strongest drink. Il
Yellowstone Park, it may interest
drives mills ; it’s the drink of lions
our readers to know that an illus­
and horses; and Sampson never
trated manuel for tourists, describ­
drank any thing else. Let young
ing that region, has been prepared
men be teetotalers if only for econ­
by II. T. Winser, and published by
omy’s sake. The beer money will
soon build a house. If what went . The apostle of the Indian Theis­ G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 'At Living­
into the- mash-tub went into the tic church lately declared in Birm­ ston the traveller leaves the main
kneading-trough, families would be ingham, England, that. “ fifty per line of the North Pacific Railway
and takes a branch road,fifty-seven
spent in waste were only saved dia die through indulgence in in­ miles in length, to the Mammoth
against a rainy day, work-houses toxicants,” having acquired the ha­ Hot Springs, near the north-west-
would never be built. The man - bit of drinking from contact with ern corner of the Park, This is
who spends his money with the sa our Western civilization. If the about twenty-live hundred miles
loon-keeper, and thinks the land- mote self-governed and resolute from New York City, and the jour-
4«^ l’ulhuari train ctwts^Jjout
lordWow and h flow do ye do, my"’" manhood -"«»Mh-e—W es teris-nation*- ■
good fellow ?” means true respect, falls before free intoxicants, it is $150. -At the entrance the travell­
is a perfect simpleton. We don’t not strange the feebler manhood of er finds saddle horses, guides, car­
light fires for the herring’s comfort, the Orient, decaysjjefore them. As riages, and other comforts for ex­
but to roast hiin Men cfo not keep prohibition--has—waved—India and- ploration.------- - --- -— ------- .———
It will surprise most readers' Dot
pot-houses for laborers’ good, if China, it alone can save them or
they do, they certainly miss their the Western nations in the future. familliar with western distances to
learn that this Park is larger than
aim. Why, then should people — Watch Tozver.
theStates of Deleware and Rhode
drink “ for the good of the house ?”
Noah Porter on temperance ed­ Island together. It is situated on
If I spend money for the good o
any house, let it be my own, -and ucation : “I have no doubt that the borders of Idaho and Wyoming
not the landlord’s. It is a bad well the State, in its public schools, Territories, and was set apart for a
into which you must pour water; ought to give instruction irrespect National Park in 1872» though its
and the beer house is a bad friend, to those duties and..moral relations. striking _ characteristics were dis-
‘ because it takes your all, and leaves which are generally acknowledged covered ten years before. It is six­
to be essential to the welfare of the ty-five miles long, from north to
. you nothing but headaches.
He who calls those his friends, commonwealth. A knowledge of south, and fifty-five from east to
who let him sit and drink by the the duty of temperance, and the sin west. It has a number of rivers,
hour together is ignorant—very and evil of intemperance, are both but its largest stream is the Yel­
y ignorant Why, red lions, and ti­ recognized as essential to this wel­ lowstone, and its largest lake has
gers, and eagles, and vultures are fare. It follows that the State has the same name. It has a number
all creatures of prey, and why do the right, and is under the obligi- "of mountains, ranging in height
so many put themselves within the tion, to give such instruction as from seven to ten thousand feet,
power of their jaws and talons ? may thus promise to be useful and capped with snow all the year, and
full of geological curiosities. Vol­
Such as drink and live riotously, effective for good.
canoes and glaciers were evidently
and wonder why their faces are so
I do not believe, that a nation in operation there at a late period.
blotchy and their pockets so bare,
would leave off wondering if they controlled in its government by The roads run through chasms and
had two grains of wisdom. They rum sellers and rum drinkers can gorges, and over the beds of streams
might as well ask an elm tree for long exist as a republic—and to now dry. The greatest variety of
pears as loose habits for health and that condition this country is fast wild anamals is there. There are
wealth. Those who go to the sa­ approaching. Our political conven­ buffaloes in the basins, and elk
loon for happiness elimb a tree to tions, our national, State and local graze on the mountain sides. Moose
elections arc largely controlled by haunt the marshes.and heavy wood­
find fish.— Rev. Mr. Spurgeon.
the organized forces of liquor deal­ lands. Six species of bears inhabit
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A mad dog roams the streets. ers and liquor drinkers. I know the forests, and small game abounds
Children are going up and down. this to be an unwelcome tiuth, though reptiles are few and far be­
«•They are warned. With the bold nevertheless, and we may as well tween. Two thirds of the area of
curiosity of youth they venture face it first as last.— Senator Pratt, the park are clothed with dense
near. One says, “ He doesu’t look of Conccticut.
forests of fir, spruce, and pine ;
cross : I’ll handle him.” he is bitten
choke-cherries, gooseberries, and
and dies in the arms of his father.
The Governor of Missouri is currants both black and red grow
Some people say, its a shame ; the bravely committed to the enforce­ along the streams. The meadows
dog ought to be put off the street.” ment of the Sunday law. Ilo says are bright with familliar flowers.
Others say, “ No, the children he will make it the supreme effort Pasturage is excellent. The nights
should have kept away, and they of the ballance of his administra­ are frosty, even in the Summer ;
would not have been bitten.” Is tion. This sounds very much like very hot days are seldom known;
the street designed for mad dogs, Grant’s promise “ to fight it out on and the winters, though snowy, are
or children ? Kill the dogs and let this line if it takes alk summer.” not severely cold. The most re-
the children run ’ So ^vith the sa­ Such men are wanted everywhere. markable features of the park are
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loon. Society is for the people, —■Union Signal.-
its calcareous springs, whose de-
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posits harden into terraces as they
dry, and glisten in the sunlight.
fftrer waters are ’hot and-seetheup
from below with angry aspect.
There are many immense geysers,
the earth around which, rumbles
and shakes, and the air is hot with
fetid odors. There are springs of
boiling mud, white, green, violet,
purple, brown, and blue. There are
huge cones, with, openings at the
top, whence issue columns of noisy
steam. There are petrified forests,
where the ground is strewn with
trunks and limbs of trees which
have solidified into clear, white
agate. There are mountain sides
worn by clacial action into spectral
There are cataracts of most stu­
pendous majesty and power. There
are cratered hills, with rocks all
ur4>und^tliat-axe_wariir±üL.ihnlnußlk.___
and hollow to the tread; There is
a natural bridge, a rival to that of
Virginia. In describing the Hot
Springs of the Yellowstone Lake,
Mr. Winner says : Seldom are the
water and deposits of any two
springs alike. There are coral, hon­
eycomb, brasintone, pebble, scale,
and crystal formations, the whole
making kaleidoscopic groupings oT
color and design. Down in the
limpid depths of many of the
springs are grottoes, ar.d arch-like
structures. One dazzling* white
pool, the very type of purity, en­
trances the visitor, who stands with
wondering eyes, to look far down
below upon what may only be lik­
ened to a resplendent fairy grotto
of frosted silver encrusted with
pearls. Another crystal, dear and
colorless basin has a rim blazing
with hues of sapphire, opal, ruby,
and emerald. Still another pool,
full to the brim, has the corrugated
sides of its profound deeps adorned
with tints of reddish gold. Several
basins of unknown depth are man­
tled with a saffron scum of the con­
sistency of calf’s leather. This lea­
thery substance is not of a vegeta­
ble nature, but is deposited by the
mineral constituents of the springs.
It forms in layers, which are bright­
ly mottled with red, yellow, green,
and black on the under surface, and
the lowermost strata are solidified
into pure, finely grained sheets re­
sembling alabaster.” It was cer­
tainly a very happy forethought
and wise acton the part of the Fed­
eral Government to set this won­
der fully picturesque region apart
for a National Park, to be kept for
the enjoyment of visitors forever.—
Christian at Work.