Show the one diverting incident in the present yellow fever outbreak in the south was furnished the other day by a drunken man in memphis tenniesee Tenn alie fellow was picked up in the street in a state of helplessness and carried to a hospital where his symptoms were declared to be those of yellow fever A more thorough examination of the case revealed the true state of affairs but not until the city bad been thrown into the incipient stages of a panic by the report that the dreaded scourge had arrived in town the incident is suggestive enough for a whole temperance lecture it might be said for example that the scourge ot intemperance is far more to be dreaded in fact than the scourge of yellow fedei where the latter numbers its victims by the hundred tho former counts them by the tens of thousands let a bulletin be issued every day of all the new cases of drunk disease in the country all tho deaths from the same cause up to date and the total number daily and what reading we would have and if we should add to these bulletins a record ot all the lauy fearful evils that follow in the wake of the drink scourge where would the fever bulletins stand in comparison there is one method of prevention and suppression which works well with both these scourges urges and that is the method of the quarantine maine ehude island iowa and kansas have established a quarantine against the liquor infection and the time is near when the lines will be extended this is what we need most of all a national quarantine against tho microbes mic robes of the beer keg and the whiskey bottle THESE is an evil in the land in the shape of indecent advertisements in public places which the sentiment of the country should unite in denouncing and if possible suppressing pressing su it is surely a hard thing that the worst variety shows and theartres theatres the atres places in which no respectable person trill eyer be found should be allowed to thrust their in decencies into public notices everywhere evey where on dead walla and billboards bill boards it is of little avail for parents to endeavor to maintain in the hearts of their growing boya and girls the innocence and purity of true childhood while avary salomon is an object of vice and the streets are plastered over with pictorial advertisements suggestive of everything but what is pure and elevating the effect of these exhibitions hibit ions upon the public mind and especially ally upon the minds of alie young cannot in fact be otherwise than positively degrading the worst offenders in the matter of indecent advertisements in recent years have been the manufacturers of cigars and cigarettes not content with poisoning the bodies of the young with their compounds of nicotine and other noxious drugs they are anuw poisoning their minds by flooding the country with corrupting pictures ax english paper the oldham chronicle recently had a book of mormon sent to it for review this intelligent intelli gont newspaper accepted the duty and as a result we find it giving utterance to the following sentiments the days of pooh hoohing the mor mons are now gone and devout and thoughtful men feel called upon to examine the wonderful and almost anique claims of the book of mormon or else give as reasonable an account of its origin as that offered by itself it is simply a question of evidence and the problem is practically in a nutshell and yet how few christian people have devoted one hours thought to the subject apart altogether ozether alt from its claim as a divine revelation the book of mormon is a work of singular interest ita is very similar to that of the koran 01 alio book of chronicles and it gives us a large number of israelites who left jerusalem long before the christian era and who ultimately settled in america this history in written in a quaint simple impressive style and is of absorbing interest it combines the excellencies of a book of travel a history and a religious manual its moral tone is aih and the work abounds in the loftiest loft iest inspirations it ought to bo in the study of every preacher of the gospel and all christians ought to know what it really is A novel enterprise is knocking at the doors of congress for relief tho ladies 0 hot springs arkansas organized an association to a libra y and reading room for citizens and visitors to that resort fire and other misfortunes discouraged bliem and now they ask congress to take abo matter of their hands and maintain the aue the supreme court of the hawaiian islands hag decided that the trustees appointed by the legislature to pay the debts of king kalakaua must refund to the heirs of the chinaman ah ki the sum of which ah ki paid to the kins for a of alie opium traffic some time since and which monopoly lie failed to receive SPEAKING of the navy there are now thirty two new vessels of the best modern type eitnier built or building if mr whitney lias another four years opportunity lie liapes to more alian double this number which would make a very effective and respectable sort of xavy the senate has passed tho bill already passed the house to make tho department of agriculture one of alio executive departments of the government this will create a new cabinet officer to be called tho secretary of agriculture the announcement to tax made m this issue by county assessor and collector bvm H brown raould ibave the effect of causing delinquent taxpayers to make immediate settlement with collector brown the law id very forcible in this regard and while the duty of levying upon property to pay delinquent taxes is very disagreeable to the officials it nevertheless has to be dene those owing their taxes should avoid any unpleasantness in this regard |