Main and Market streets are intended to be devoted exclusively to business interests. Merchants and storekeepers of all kinds should buy one or more lots on these streets. Every store that is built enhances the value, and inside of one year these lots will undoubtedly be worth from $100 to $200 each.

These lots are extremely low. Buy a lot or two for yourself, your wife and each one of your children. Club together with your relatives and friends and buy a whole block for $320. A small investment that will return double the money inside of one year. Climate, health and soil unsurpassed. Why not own your own winter home in this land of oranges, tropical scenery and sunshine? Don't live another winter in the cold Northern climate. Homes for all, rich or poor. Nothing equal to a home in sunny Florida for health, pleasure and oranges, during the long, cold winters North. Secure your lots now, while they are cheap. February Ist the price of corner lots on Main and Market streets will be advanced to $40 each, and inside lots, $35. On all other streets and avenues prices will be advanced to $30 for corner lots, and $25 for inside lots. Secure your lots now, TO-DAY, while cheap. Only $10 a lot, and how extremely low it is for a fine building lot, 40 x 100 feet! A Warranty Deed given with each lot.

5 ACRE ORANGE GROVE TRACTS, $200 EACH. Price after February 1st will be $300.

Over 2,000 persons own property in Silver Springs Park TO-DAY.

If you would like a large Lot, say 80 x 100 ft. we will deed you two inside Lots adjoining for $20. or a Fine Corner Lot and the next Lot adjoining, $25.

After February 1st, 1886, we shall sell no Lots for less than $25 each.

New settlers are now coming into Silver Springs Park at the rate of twenty to thirty persons every week. Every mail brings letters from parties all over the country who are getting ready to go. Ten new houses are nearly completed! Also two new general stores. Every carpenter coming to our town has been put right to work. The sound of the hammer and the saw is the daily music the people hear in our bustling, thriving town. Address,

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HOW TO EAT, DRINK AND SLEEP AS CHRISTIANS SHOULD.

II.

HOW TO DRINK AS A CHRISTIAN SHOULD.

OR one unlucky drink as a Christian shouldn't, the rivers of water of repentance can never atone; much less, wash away the evil effects. A Christian conscience is simple, direct, and right to the point. There is an emotional habit that has nothing at all to do with the workings of conscience, but is a delusion and a snare. There is a fidgety, worrisome method of looking at everything microscopically dividing and subdividing, before any decision is reached, that, in process of time, renders the person indulging in it, helpless as a baby in mental effort. There is a simple way of asking one's self, "What would Christ do were he to decide this?" That question leaves one alone with conscience. We wish we could put every Christian under a vow that he would drink nothing that was intelligently presumed to be unhealthful. A twelve-month would give such noble results provided the vow were kept.

It is far worse to suffer thirst than hunger. It is easier to yield to the first impulse toward a liquid temptation than a solid one, no matter how beautifully the dishes are arranged, and though mixed with the skill of a gourmet. We do not allude to intoxicating drinks, in this connection. They are so obviously without the range of topics to be treated in these papers written for Christians, or at least for those inclined toward Christianity, as to make it worth no man's while to bring them in. It would be like trying to introduce The Dead Sea into our grandmother's old-fashioned well. There are other times and places in which, guided by competent travellers, one can contemplate The Dead Sea-we must stick to our well.

The throat is a dry little tyrant, and will have its copious draughts when it likes, served at all hours of the day and night by its obedient lackey. Nothing is so preposterous as to expect it to wait until the ruling power says "Yes." Ruling power? It is supreme, and knows no other dictator; and it allows small rages, feverish little tempers, and impatiences, to get the best of its already heated surfaces, which now clamor right noisily. They are silenced in the usual way.

Clearly, healthy views on this all-important subject, "How to drink as a Christian should," are not to be gained without conscientious thought and study. He who is willing to keep his body under, amid all the allurements of a table where

carte blanche is given the cook, and no one cares how much the bill is, need not be surprised if he yet finds himself a great remove from a well man. You have only been half fighting a battle, my man. With one hand you waved off the world and the flesh; with the other you courted-the Devil. "Only ice water," you say. True; but in the condition of your body, that one glass worked more mischief than you or the doctor is smart enough to get out for a month.

"Is a person never to have a moment's comfort?" you cry; and there ensues a mutter that sounds something like "fanaticism," and "hobbies," and, to support yourself under these trying circumstances, you take another glass. It cools you off, and you feel better able to forgive us.

Thank Heaven, every man can create his world of opinions and live or die by them. No one is obliged to drink to his neighbor's health, or for his own. In this slow way it is allowable to take one's own life; and no one thinks of arresting the keeper of an eating-house. It is only when vile compounds are thrown in one's face that the case becomes one of assault and battery,-and there is a hauling to justice. But the same beverages seductively working man's internal confusion, are considered worthy of a large price, and the proprietor and his guests part on the best of terms.

It does no good (as was remarked in the preceding paper on eating) to put certain drinks under a ban. "What is one man's meat is another's poison," reads just as well if drink is substituted for meat, and does not need repeating here. The immense variety of beverages which a person of ordinary contrivance can concoct, argues for a corresponding number of thirsty and willing throats waiting for them. They may be all good in their way; only see that each throat receives its proper portion. Do not give green tea to that nervous woman already so irritable she cannot dress the little children God has given her, without twitching and slapping them to the tune of cross words. It is poor enjoyment to pay for her morning cup,-the consciousness that she has lost the love of an innocent little child. with the knowledge that she has soured its merry disposition for that day.

And do not, we beg, insist on a child over whom you have control, showing you the bottom of a large milk cup drained dry. Pleadings and tears do not avail with a mother whose mind is made up that "milk is good for her." How does that mother know, pray tell? Has she ever given the matter one earnest thought, beyond that of assenting to the general statement that milk is wholesome? That all children should like it, is equivalent with her to saying that they do. She does not consider that the little stomach, to be treated intelligently, should have this fact remembered and borne in mind, that its father could not drink milk when a child, and that now in middle life he recoils at the mention of it, with a memory for many an hour of a stomach soured after its trial. But that to her is all nonsense, even if she does remember it. That he could drink milk, so delightful to her, she does not for an instant doubt, were he really to make up his mind that

he would. The will is at fault. And she secretly determines that their child shall learn early in life to "drink what is set before her." So the little thing is made wretched by nausea, and inward disturbance that makes outward irritability, keeping her in disgrace half the time, and in defiance the whole of it, simply because that mother would not bring her common sense and Christian judgment to bear upon the matter.

One needs a chemist nowadays in every travelling party, and in each quiet home. Under his hand, with analytic nicety, particles of slow poisoning matter stand out numbered and ticketed for what they are. We are astonished and grieved to see many of our favorite beverages thus disgraced in the eyes of the world, and we are in danger of quarreling with the man on the spot. To us the glass sparkles clearly; the contents are not only harmless, they are strengthening and invigorating. Science only makes us wretched, and we will have none of it. "Away with this man," we cry, "let us alone in our cups."

A soda-water devotee is just as hard to reason with as any other man who is carried away by his palate. One way, if adopted, might cure him of his absorbing fancy; let him go behind the fountain through which the foaming beverage is drawn, and remain there one day. The sight of the processes going on in that shop, and the manipulations with the fruit (?), syrups, even without a peep at the interior of the fountain and a complete knowledge of its pipes, will at least work in him a salutary effect.

How many of us drink intelligently when we visit celebrated springs? We pay our five dollars a day, and that certainly ought to entitle one to drinking as much as one likes. So we rush blindly on, in this our first visit, running a race with old habitués who have come fortified by their physician's carefully guarded opinions. Of course it doesn't kill us on the spot. Perhaps in solitary cases the soaking may work good, although it wasn't the spring to be prescribed for us, but one exactly the opposite in its properties. At any rate, we return home satisfied to have obtained our money's worth. That satisfaction goes a long way toward good health, it is true.

There is a habit of drinking for the sake of something to do. "Give me a drink of water," every five moments, in a restless child becomes a ceaseless saunter to the ice-water pitcher, in the boy, and a habit of something worse in the idle man. Of course intelligence must guide the parent, who ought to know that some children require more cooling draughts than others; but often a miserable habit is formed when there is no real necessity for the constant drinking. This habit becoming settled, nothing now remains but for the parents to hand the little imbiber over to the doctor.

It is conceded by all observers of the noble animal man, that he is the creature of habit. Either he is to allow these habits of his to fasten upon him, instigated by a listless, selfish, or thoughtless impulse, or he, the ruling power, is to exert a conscience in the matter, which, when well trained, he is to set over them. In other words, either they or he is to be master; which, is to be determined alone by the man.

Almost every intelligent person cares for his body in a cleanly manner, not restricting himself, by any means, to Florence Nightingale's thrifty, two-cup sponge bath. It is supposed to be quite as great a necessity to wash out the inner man as his shell; and it certainly appears reasonable that the four-footed animals, who as a rule drink copiously, have an instinct that it would not be bad for the higher animal to follow. Cool, even temperature of the body might be secured, and many diseases averted. Who can deny it? That glasses of cool (not cold) water from a pure source, before meals, have resulted in great good, many persons are ready to affirm on oath. The same can be said of hot water. But

that either drink is a positive panacea for all ills, is going a step too far.

It is this positive way of putting things that keeps many people from trying any known good advice. Because it has been confidently asserted to them that the specific named can cure everything, they turn away in disgust. There is always grace in an under-statement, whether describing a cough medicine, or a fine sunset. And we shall work far greater good in our efforts to ameliorate mankind's miseries by drawing simply a few well-chosen lines of thought, leaving them free from our long-winded theories, to see the matter for themselves.

There is a whipping up of tired nature going on that ought to come under the notice of some society for the prevention of cruelty to animals. The lash is being applied in this way, to take a common instance, in your very house. Your husband did not sleep any last night, thinking of his business entanglements. You prepare him two cups of strong black coffee, which he pours down for breakfast, unable to eat anything with it. No doubt while the stimulus lasts he is carried through an immense amount of work in a savage manner. It passes for pure grit, by the on-lookers. Perhaps it may be; but there is another kind of grit that we like quite as well,— the patient, steady following one's conscience. And your doses of strong tea that enable you to get through the house cleaning, or the fall sewing, is another whip,-long and cruel. The society should have its hands on you both instanter.

That your daughter Mary has no hope of winning the prize for general scholarship, to be bestowed at the close of the spring term at the public school, unless you allow her to carry to her room after supper an extra cup of strong tea or coffee to keep her awake while she studies on into the hours the growing girl should be asleep, is no excuse for you that you give it to her. That she begs for it with tears in her eyes, seconded and abetted by every one of the family circle, who are proud of her early ability; all this is no extra reason why you should yield your judgment to your feeling, and allow her to apply this whiplash to her tender shoulders.

And even, and here we say it in the tenderest way, knowing full well what it costs to refuse our heart's dearest instincts, we should sometimes hesitate to watch by the sickbed if, in order to do it, we must resort to strong coffee, tea, or more powerful stimulant, night after night. Will it be any comfort on returning health, for the dear one to see that his faithful friend is utterly worn out as to his nervous system, perhaps unable to sleep, certainly incapacitated for healthful labor, or mental life? What can repay the mischief? Who is to blame? Certainly not the sick person who was in no condition to say, "Get the trained nurse who has been fitted for this very thing. Save your strength, my dear friend, for the oversight of those countless things outside of her duties, and for the sweet consolation of my spirit, and for my mental tonic in my convalescence." Surely we did not look for him to say it! The whiplash was applied to our back by our own hand, and we must bear the consequences now.

There is a class of people who progress with a meal something after this fashion: A long draught of coffee, tea, milk or water, as the case may be, begins the performance; this is followed by a mouthful of something solid; only a mouthful, however, for the stream is turned on again down the throat. A glass of water disappears; then the food is attacked and voraciously; again the stream. Once more attention is given to the food, but always the stream has the first consideration. We silently ask, and wonder how long the man can stand it. To say nothing of the utter disregard of the laws of health in thus eating and drinking simultaneously, it is an absurd spectacle!

A tired, over-heated man drinks twice as much water as he

needs, first, because he is so tired he doesn't know what he is doing till he sees the bottom of the glass; and second, because his blood is at boiling mark, and the sudden chill is delightful, and he would prolong it till his capacity to swallow gives out. For the same reason he drinks rapidly, that the succession of chills may lower his temperature as speedily as possible.

And then he goes out to his stable, "John, be sure to give Black Prince no water just yet. Rub him down well, John, and cool him off slowly."

This danger of rapid drinking is a very important one to note. Granted that the liquid is all right, the time for taking it right, and our body in the proper condition to receive it, the habit of swallowing as fast as we can, is a most pernicious one. It is disagreeable, vulgar, and smacks of low life; moreover it robs the cup that is emptied, of half its charm. What an aroma is lost; what a delicate flavor, by all this unseemly haste! Take, oh friend, we beg, a few lessons in the art of drinking. Observe that gentle woman minister to her palate at the family meal. It is a poem to be read by all,-her finemannered deftness, and her self-control. No wonder that this vulgar habit is unhealthful. Christian manners bring their reward, while an outraged stomach takes its own method of revenge.

There is nothing so conducive to Christian manners as the Christian thoughtfulness of the housekeeper and homemaker, who, by a little extra care, sees that the family table is prepared as it should be for enjoyment of the family meal. This she does by devoting five minutes or so to personal supervision of her table, around which is to gather those whom she loves best in the world, perhaps for the only time in the day when she and they can meet for conversation. Not one of those who are thus welcomed at this board will will ingly disgrace it by a slovenly appearance, or by disagreeable habits, while there. The exquisite cleanliness of the glass tumbler will of necessity make the one who drinks from it think of purity, of gentle manners, of a nicety of appointment that should correspond in his preparation for the meal. Of course thin, delicate glassware is very acceptable where one can afford it; but nothing could be more beautiful, it seemed to me, than a tumbler, thick and heavy it is true, that was handed me at a cottage where I asked for a drink of water one hot summer day while driving. It was spotless and clear, and it had the odor of a thousand country scents, none of them intrusive, suggesting sweet, grass-dried towels. It made me think, as I drank, of the "river of the water of life, clear as crystal."

We can, those of us who are home makers, help each other to be gracious by doing our little daily duties of care-taking and serving thoroughly; and if we give the cup of cold water, see that it is clean and attractive.

There is a mother who, working at the problem how to provide the daily meals for a large family, in such a way as not to go beyond the sum the father can afford each week, yet finds time amid her multiplicity of duties, to take down the dainty cup and fill it with the milk that her little Sarah is to drink at breakfast.

“It takes twice as much time to wash that thin china and put it carefully away," said grandmother on one occasion. "Give the child a cup the same as ours."

"No, mother," said the home maker, gently, "nothing I could possibly say would teach Sarah the good manners I desire her to learn so much as the use of this dainty cup. I rather take a thousand times more trouble, if necessary, in its care than not to give it to her." And the grandmother stared, and to this day doesn't see what her daughter

meant.

not obliged to consider the matter of drainage and houseplumbing to be sure that the water they drank was properly disconnected from unhealthy surroundings. But every young couple of our day, desirous of beginning their housekeeping aright, must give serious attention to these questions. The complications of modern life, the over-crowding of our cities demanding large water supplies, to furnish which bodies of water are drawn upon that should never be used for that purpose; the desire for quickly-built, showy residences that shall not cost much; the cheap, gay, little country house with its well of water that is constantly absorbing contaminating poisons, has so made matters worse in this direction that now we stand face to face with the dread fact that much of our ill health is due to impure drinking water.

How can we help it? It is useless when physicians, hygienic journals, and other first-class authorities on the subject are laboring with the people, for us in this simple paper, to expect to write anything new. It would be worse than useless; it would savor of presumption. Yet this much can be said: Every householder should look to the matter for himself.

"But I don't understand anything about it.” "Study the matter up then."

"But I have no time; my life now is overcrowded to that point that I am obliged to scrimp my eating and sleeping hours."

"Let us see. You take the 5.40 express out at night to your home, that pretty cottage distant from the city of Nwhere you work, fifteen miles. You generally read your evening paper on the way out, or you buy a copy of Puck, The Judge, or something of that ilk. Now why not get an authority that you can rely upon, either journal or book, on just this very subject, clap it into the bag that contains your papers brought from the office, or into your coat pocket, if you carry no bag. You will be surprised to find how soon you have mastered the simple rudiments of this exhaustive system of plumbing, drainage, and house-building. You cannot, it is true, go into many details, nor would it, perhaps, be wise so to do; but enough for you to understand whether the source of your water supply is pure, and your house and grounds are right for your family to live in, can be yours if you will devote this time to finding out."

"But I shall have to give up my paper then. It is invaluable to me as news, beside resting a mind and body thoroughly jaded by the day's work.

"To be sure; but how much do you gain? If you take money into consideration, a cool hundred or two saved by not calling in your physician to see you or your wife through an attack of typhoid fever, or all of the children through diphtheria. Then as to worry, and lassitude, and a general loss of all household peace,-who can estimate what their effects are? Besides, did you not often read an ocean of silly anecdotes, police records, and sensational gossip along with your evening paper? Maybe it rests you; but rather than do that sort of reading, a quiet nap with head thrown back, and no thought allowed in your brain, would pay better. Take it all in all, had you not rather give up for a few nights your evening paper on the train for the sake of what you gain in return? Honestly now."

"Well, supposing I do find out that something is wrong about the house, or that the well is impure, what can I do about it? I rent the place; the landlord would see me in Joppa before he would lay out a cent for alteration. What can I do,-say?"

"Get out of that house, man, even if you sleep on the common, or take to the woods."