Professor Ed-ward Hull, an English
scientist, estimates that about 58,-
275,700,000 tons of coal will remain
within a depth of 4000 feet by the end
of the century.
It is estimated that in Paris one it
eighteen of the population, or 150,-
000, live on charity, with a tendency
toward crime. In London this class
is ono in thirty.
While the government is appropri
ating money for the relief of the Klon
dike "sufferers," hosts of other ad
venturers are still flocking to that in
hospitable country. Are they deliber
ately counting on lAng similarly re
lieved and brought home at the ex
pense of the American people? nsks
the Xew York Tribune.
It would seem to the Xew York
Times that Americans are rapidly re
verting to old types of the Indian and
the Asiatic, with a slight difference
in dress, and are also going back to
Greek sobriety of manner, with some
attempt at sobriety of life, although
as yet the latter is not so successful
as the effort to build up a superficial
soberness of manner.
Southern cotton mills are running
double time and increasing their
plants, while those in New England
are limiting production and reducing
wagfes and inviting strikes as a pre
text for closiug. Here nre plain signs,
observes the Trenton (X.J.) American,
of a great migration of industry
which will have an important effect
on the history of civilization in Amer
ica.
An expert in educational matters
Fays that country children remember
longer than city children. It would
be well, adds tho Youth's Companion,
if their superior memory invariably
retained the story of failure of boys
and girls who rushed into cities when
their country home offered them sure,
if moderate success. The examples
of occasional good fortune are never
forgotten; the disappointments lie
come indistinct in the recollection,
largely because the mind wishes to
put them out of view.
An amusing illustration of the fact
that the agitutiou in behalf of the in
crease of the navy has taken deep root
in the German nation was furnished
a few days ago. A wealthy Berlin
manufacturer, Dorst, married a few
months ago the daughter of Admiral
Koester, and at first the union was
quite a happy one. Then the hus
band, who is politically a follower of
Eugene Richter, the Socialist leader,
discovered that his young wife is an
enthusiastic supporter of the Emper
or's naval plans, and she in turn dis
covered that he was a violent oppo
nent to those plans. She,besides, was
a member of something like a German
Primrose league, and he forbade her
to attend those meetings. Hence
marital disharmony; hence, also, di
vorce suit, tried in a Berlin court.
They both got their decree on the
score of "political incompatibility."
Kansas is famous for boy orators,
boy preachers, boy financiers and
youthful prodigies in almost every
walk in life. There would seem to be
no longer any need for giving years
to the study of any profession how
ever learned and intricate it may be,
and as to experience, that does not
count for anything in this age when
there is so great a disposition mani
fested to throw experience overboard
as not being applicable to the present
race of men. The latest boy wonder
that Kansas has produced is an
nounced in a dispatch from Topeka,
to the effect that a boy lawyer, only
seven years old, has passed a success
ful examination and has been awarded
a certificate by the supreme court of
that state. The story, is as related in
the Trenton (X. J.) American, is that
the boy, accompanied by his father,
appeared before the court a day or
two ago, and satisfactorily answered
the most intricate questions in law,
without hesitation and without stum
bling on a single question. The father
of the boy, who is also a lawyer, says
that his sou has for some time dis
played an aptitude for legal subjects
and has devoured profound legal
works with eagerness. The chief
jnstice at the close of the examination
jokingly remarked that the boy was a
better lawyer than his father, which
might very well be true, and it might
also be true that he was more familiar
with law than the chief justice who
ordered the certificate to be issued to
him. Lawyers and judges are made
of queer timber sometimes, even out
side of Kansas. If this thing keeps
on, however, there will soon be no
use for men. The boys will fill all the
responsible situations in life, and the
men can go fishing.
The latest project of the Danish
government is to introduce an income
tax of 1 1-4 per cent, a year, those
having less than 700 crowns of in
come being free.
Oats form one of the principal Bel
gian crops, with an average annual
value of about $16,000,000. Yet large
quantities are imported from the
United States, Canada, Russia and
southeastern Europe.
Train robbing appears to have be
come a permanent and prosperous in
dustry in the Transvaal, the last ven
ture in that direction having netted
the perpertrators upward of $60,000.
Thus, eveu in far-away South Africa,
the wild western method of money
getting is making steady progress.
The price of rice has risen so high
in various parts of China that the
natives are growing to like corn meal.
There is a chance for American corn
in the Orient on the score of cheap
ness which the Middle West can profit
by when the Nicaragua canal is built.
It will then be possible to ship corn
from there to China through a Gulf
port at a price which will
with rice at average market rates and
afford our farmers a steady and fairly
uniform revenue.
Says the Hartford Post:—Xew York
has expended $5,000,000 for a speed
way for fast horses, and now it is
prepared to spend SBO,OOO for a speed
way for bicycles. Plans have been
drawn for such a speedway along the
road connecting the Bronx and Pel
ham parks. Wheelmen number 600,-
000 in Xew York, or one-fifth of the
the entire population. Carriage riders
number about one per ceut. of the
population. The wheelmen should
have their speedway.
There seems to be no question
about prosperity in Chicago. Accord
ing to the Inter-Ocean, the number
of people in the poorhouse is less by
300 than it was a year ago. The num
ber of applications for outdoor relief
in Xovember was the lowest on record
for many years. The estimates of
the county agent for the poor fund
are 810,000 less for 1898 than in 1897.
No public appeal is likely to be made
by the A-sociated Charities. These
facts goto show, as the Inter-Ocean
says, that there has been a general re
vival of work.
Money is the true king, exclaims
the Philadelphia Record. The smart
scheme of the German Kaiser to sell
the Sultan of Turkey guns and build
him war ships to be paid for out of
the Greek indemnity—thus enabling
the porte to build up its independ
ence of European control on the basis
of late victories in war and diplomacy
—has been nipped in the bud by Rus
sia and Austria. Russia lias de
manded payment of the war debt of
1878, and Austria has putin a claim
for indemnification for later indebted
ness which the Sultan has been
forced to comply with. Thus Ger
many loses fat contracts and diplo
matic prestige, and the Turks find their
legs tied by debt.
The reported extension for fifty
years of the concession to the Casino
company at Monte Carlo is a mattei
of considerable interest to the world
at large. "It means," explains the
New York Mail and Express, "the
further enrichment of stockholders al
ready inordinately wealthy through
the proftt of the gaming table. But
it also means—which is of more im
portance—the impoverishment of men
and women born to luxury, the
squandering of millions not the prop
erty of the men who squander them,
broken hearts galore, and incidentally
Ihe self-murder of a goodly number of
fools made desperate by ill luck. It's
a great place, this Monte Carlo. The
devil is extremely fond of it."
Apropos of a statemeut touching the
manner in wh. „h this country has per
formed its duty towards Spain in the
matter of preventing filibustering, we
have made inquiry for the exact de
tails from the navy department, states
Harper's Weekly. The government
has maintained a patrol fleet on the
coast of Florida for the last two years,
consisting of the following vessels:
Raleigh, Cincinnati, Amphitrite, Maine,
Montgomery, Newark, Dolphiu, Mar
blehead, Vesuvius., Wilmington,
Helena, Nashville, Annapolis, and De
troit. Most of the time three vessels
have been on duty, and the cost of the
service has ranged from $15,000 to
$60,000 a month. The best witnesses
to the effectiveness of this patrol ser
vice are the filibusters themselves.
If Spanish troops and warships had
been as efficient against the insurgents
as our navy has been againg filibus
ters, the insurrection would have been
conquered long ago.
If the world seams eolJ to yon,
Kindle fires to warm It.
Let their comfort hide from you
Winters that deform it.
Hearts as frozen as your own
To that radiance gather ;
You will soou forget to moan
"Ah ! the cheerless weather."
His Freshman Romance. >
S BY ABBIE FARWELL BROWN. r
Apropos of finding photographs,did
you fellows ever hear about Briar
wood's romauce. In our freshman
yeav it happened.
Briarwood was not exactly in our
crowd, you know, but we all came
from the same fitting school,and so at
first we saw a good deal of him. I
remember I went over to his room
that first evening after he was settled
and found him sitting in his big arm
chair before the open fire. He
jumped up quickly when I came in
and laid something slyly on the man
telpiece. It looked like a photograph,
and I began to blow him about being
homesick so soon and asked if he was
looking at mother's picture.
He flushed up quickly and said it
was nothing to be ashamed of if it had
been his mother's picture, but that as
it happened it was no such thing.
Then he changed the subject and asked
how I liked the room.
"Have you noticed my desk?" he
asked, pretty proudly. "I bought it
of Thorne, the fellow who had this
room last. He was first marshal last
class day and a first-rate fellow, too, I
judge. Great, isn't it, Stockton?"
It was a handsome desk—mahogany,
roll-top,with brass knobs and all that.
He unlocked and rolled up the top for
my benefit. *
"Thorne gave me the key himself,
with his alumnus blessing, today," he
said, "and when I asked if 'finding
was having' he laughed and said I was
welcome to whatever I found in the
old ark, for he was pretty sure there
was nothing but undergraduate dust
in the cracks."
"But you did find something after
all?" I asked quickly, for though he
is a good lawyer now. he never could
keep a secret in those days.
"Oh, well, not much, ' he said,care
lessly; but I saw him glance toward
the mantel. I guessed in a minute .
what it was, and before he could stop |
me I sprang for the photograph at
which he had been looking when 1 en
tered. He jumped up angrily. "Give
me that photograph!"
"Oh, ho! So it's a girl, is it? And :
a mighty pretty one, too."
The girl was evidently tall and dark, 1
with a splendid figure, a strong face—
almost masculine, but perfectly feat
ured—and great big, dark eyes full of
fun. She had a huge shade hang- j
ing by its ribbons and was smiling so ;
as to show the prettiest teeth I ever
saw.
"Thorne was a lucky fellow. I
wonder—ah, here's a name on the
back," I went on,composedly. " 'Rose
Thorne.' Pshaw! So she was only
his sister! What a fake!"
Briarwood had the picture by this
time and after putting it away in the
desk turned upon me indignantly
again.
"You had no business to meddle
with it," said he.
"She's a stunner,"l answered, "and
if 'finding is having,' Briarwood, I ad
vise you to hunt up the original pretty
quick, old man."
With this parting shot 1 hurried
out of the room, dodging the curve on
a Greek lexicon that came tumbling
after me. After that I saw more or
less of Briarwood,principally less, for
he soon grew too popular to stay in
our set. He was easily the man of his
class and no wonder, for take him all
around, he is about as fine a chap as I
ever saw.
It was one evening along about the
first of June, I think, when one of
the fellows—Goodrich, expelled the
year we graduated—came running
into my room all out of breath for
laughing and threw himself into my
chair, so weak he could hardly speak.
"Oh, it's the rich joke on Briar
wood," he gasped at last; "it's the
photograph he always carries around
with him—'Rose Thome'— oh, my
eye!" And he exploded again. "That
picture—it's Thome's owu photo, taken
last year in the Pi Eta theatricals.
Here's a duplicate of it. I found it in
Van Ruyter's room today." And he
pulled out of his pocket another like
ness of the fair Rose Thorne.
The joke was too good to keep. The
idea of dignified old Briarwood being
in love with another fellow—a shaven
and bewigged "Pose" blossoming on
the Thorne tree!
"And he carried that thing around
in his vest pocket next his heart!"
roared Goodrich. "I saw it the other
day at the gym. Oh, the soft meat!
He'll never hear the last of this!"
Then we concocted the fine scheme.
We agreed that the crowd should meet
around at Briarwood's rooms some
evening, quite accidentally, and man
age to bring "Rose Thorue" into the
talk somehow, till he fired up, then
we would give it all away and explain
that his lady-love existed only as a
strapping alumnus, and the joke would
be on him for the benefit of the whole
college. For we planned to get a ver
sion of it into the "Lampoon," with
portraits.
We set one night just before class
day for our seance, and all the boys
promised to be there to see poor old
Briarwood through with it. Well,sirs,
that evening Harry was in his best
mood. He had just finished his last
examination and was feeling pretty
fine altogether, for his year's rank
was a sure thing; however, the profs
might play the deuce with the rest of
us. He did the honors in great shape
ajd showed no sign of caring for any
girl, let alone the photograph whose
SOMETHING.
If the world's a "vale of tears,"
Bmlle till rainbows span it.
Breathe the love that life endears—
Clear from clouds to fan it. .
Of your gladness lend a gleam
Ujto souls that shiver
Show them how dark sorrow's stream
Blends with hope's bright river!
original he had never seen. The boys
began to put up the game before long.
Goodrich was the one to start if off.
"I say, fellows," he called across
the room, "don't yout remember little
Thorne? Yes, you do, at Adams'
spread a year ago—little Rose in the
red dress?" We had all come on for
class day the year before.
"Oh, yes," said another fellow,with
a grin; "you mean the girl who took
too much champagne—"
"And couldn't walk totlie carnage,"
chimed in Eddy, with his horse-laugh.
"I remember that, fellows; I carried
her."
"She was more than a handful for
Thorne, that little sister of his," said
another. And so they went on with
their jokes about "Rosie," as they
called her, each growing more per
sonal in his hits, which were received
with roars of laughter and assenting
grins of delight.
Briarwood was all this time sitting
glum and quiet by the window, with
his head bent in his hands, pulling
fiercely at his pipe without a word.
Then Goodrich said, suddenly:
"I say, fellows, how many of you
have her picture? She only gives 'em
to the ones she loves best, sweet Sozo
dont! I got mine the night I took her
to Marliave's for a little dinner after
the theatre. How's that, Briarwood?
Is that the way you got yours?"
Harry jumped up quickly and stood
facing Goodrich defiantly, with his
eyes flashing.
"Oh, you've got it there,we know,"
went on Goodrich, tapping his breast
pocket. "I've seen it; isn't it like
this?" And lie pulled the duplicate
out of his own pocket triumphantly.
But Goodrich overdid the thing—he
always did. He was a coarse brute,
and the faculty was all right to get rid
of him as soon as they did. He made
some other remarks which were quite
unnecessary 112 r the purposes of our
joke and which we were all of us
ashamed to hear, and then he stepped
forward as if to grab the photograph
out of Harry's pocket.
But Briarwood was thoroughly
waked up now. With a gesture he
flung away his pipe and then, planting
his big fist squarely between Good
rich's eyes, sent him tumbling back
with a crash against the door.
"It's a lie; it's all a—lie," he said,
steadily and in a low tone. "She is
Jack Thome's sister, and I know she
is a fine girl. I'm not ashamed to
wear her photograph, but I won't take
it out for you fellows to see. If any
of the rest of you dare to say that
Goodrich spoke the truth, let him
step out and say it,and then I'll knock
him down."
Just then there was a knock on the
door. We must have made a terrible
racket there with our laughing and
jollying, and when Goodrich fell he
made a big crash, for he was a heavy
fellow—half-back on the team until
he was expelled.
At auv rate, as we all stood there
looking sheepish enough, in walked
Mr. White, the proctor. He stood
holding the door-knob in one hand and
looking first around at the crowd of
us, then straight at Harry, who was
still standing with his fists clenched,
glaring down at Goodrich on the floor.
Then Mr. White asked, sternly:
"What's ail this row, Mr. Briar
wood? Did you knock this man
down?"
"I did, sir," Baid Harry, firmly.
"Why, may I ask."
"He insulted a lady."
"A lady? What lady?"
Harry made no reply, and some of
the fellows snickered. But Harry
looked around quickly with a glance
that made us all keep quiet.
"This is the lady's photograph," he
said at last, steadily taking the pic
ture from his breast and handing it to
the proctor with much dignity. "She
is the sister of a man who is an honor
to the college. You know him, Mr.
White."
No one said a word, even to explain
the joke. Mr. White started when he
saw the face, turned it over and read
the name as if puzzled. Then, as if
suddenly comprehending, he glanced
around the circle of us with a qnisi
cal look and a half contemptuous
smilfc.
"Briarwood," he said, "you were
quite right. I excuse your action and
thank you in the name of the lady be
fore all these gentlemen. Goodrich,
get up and out of here as quickly as
you can." Then turning to Harry
again, he said, pleasantly, as if noth
ing had happened:
"Mr. Briarwood, there are a lady
and gentleman waiting outside who
would like to look at this room, if you
are prepared to receive visitors now."
We all stood mute and awkward
while the proctor, after receiving a
puzzled, but gracious assent from
Harry, turned and spoke to some one
outside the door.
"Mr. Briarwood." he said,re-enter
ing, followed by the two strangers,
"I think you have met Mr. Thorne
before. He wished his sister to see
his old college room. It is the first
time she has ever been to the college.
I assure Miss Thorne, it is not
usually so noisy here. The boys were
having a little frolic tonight."
One by one we slunk silently out
of the room, fixing our dazed eyes to
the last upon (he feminine counter
part of the unlucky photograph—a
sweeter, far lovelier version of the
handsome brother, by whose side she
shood chatting graciously -with Harrj
and looking coldly at as from under
half disdainful eyelids.
We said little more to one anotbAi
that night, but we all wondered, and
wonder still, how much of that racket
she ever heard. She had come to
C early for her first class day,
for she had been studying abroad for
the last three years and so had missed
her brother's spread. But she had
wanted to see his old room,now Briar
wood's, and had stumbled upon our
joke.
No, it didn't get around the college.
I don't know whether Harry himself
ever quite understood it. You see,
we naturally did not care to have it
noised around much, for even Good
rich agreed that the joke wasn't ex
actly on Briarwood*
Oh, yes, her name really was Bose.
Thorn e had written it 011 the photo
because its resemblance to her was so
perfect. We saw it still more plainly
on class day, when she wore a big
legliorn hat as she walked about the
yard with Harry, the lucky dog! We
hung around them anxiously, the
whole crowd of us, hoping for an in
troduction, but neither of them paid
any attention to us. That was only
Harry's freshman year. You should
have seen him at his own class day.
What's that? Of course, he did.
Harry always got whatever he tried
for, in college and out. Besides,hadn't
Thorne himself agreed that "finding
was having?" I rather think that
Harry found something worth having
on class day evening. It looked so.
—Woman's Home Companion.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
There have been thirty fatal termin
ations of prize fights since 1832.
Seven out of every eight loaves of
bread eaten in London are made from
foreign wheat.
The number of shops dealing exclu
sively in horseflesh in the Belgian
ports exceeds thirty.
Sea weeds do not draw nourishment
from the soil at the bottom of the sea,
but from the matter held in solution
in sea water.
In spite of the closest espionage,
the diamond mining companies of
South Africa lose, it is said, $1,000,-
000 a year by theft.
Woman is a subject never mentioned
in Morocco. It would lie considered
a terrible breach of etiquette to ask u
man about his wife.
One of the stations of the railway
which is to be built from the Bed sea
to the top of Mount Sinai will be on
the spot where it is supposed Moses
stood when he received the two tables
of the law.
The Congregational church in Gil
sum, N. H., completed ll!5 years of
existeuce the other day. The damask
linen cloth, woveu on a hand loom,
about 1790, is still used to cover the
commuuion table.
According to the premier of New
Zealand, a homing pigeon flew from
Victoria to New Zealand in three days.
The distance is about 1000 miles, and
the bird must have llown without rest
at a speed of about fifteen miles an
hour.
In one consignment a feather dealer
in London received 6000 birds of para
dise, 3(50,000 birds of various kinds
from the East ludies aud 400,000 hum
ming birds. In three months another
dealer imported 356,398 birds from
the East Indies.
A large sunfish weighing-188 pounds
was captured off the south side of
Nantucket, B. 1., by a party of fisher
men and brought into town, where it
has been 011 exhibition, attracting
large numbers to see this wonderful
monster of the deep.
The Manx cat is not the only tail
less variety. In Crimea is found an
other kind of cat which has no tail.
The domesticated Malay cat has a tail
that is only about one-half the usual
length, ami very ot'teu it is tied by
nature in a kind of knot which can
not be straightened out.
Herr Marpmann lias found microbes
of various kinds in seventy-seven
samples of ink—red, blue and nigro
siue—supplied to schools, and some
of the microbes were deadly enough
to kill mice inoculated with them. He
recommends that ink bottles should
not be left open to the air in schools.
French Secret Police Methods.
I once spent an afternoon in a pleas
ant little villa 011 the banks of the
Marne, with the former chief of police
in the time of Napoleon 111, up to the
proclamation of the republic. No one
would have thought, to look at the
peaceful figure of the proprietor, a
little man in sabots, with gray beard
ala Millet, absorbed in cultivating
the magnificent hortensiasthat covered
his terraces, reaching to the water's
edge, that his head had been a store
house for all the machinations and
turpitudes of that period of decadence
which ended in a disastrous war and a
revolution. It was on that afternoon
that I learned how the fatal Ollivier
ministry was decided upon by M.
Thiers and his political friends one
evening in the conservatory of a beau
tiful French woman, living not far
from the Opera. Two brothers, well
known in the best Paris society,mean
while distracted the attention of the
gnestß in the salon by sleight-of-hand
tricks and gymnastic feats on a Per
sian rng. And when I asked the old
man how he knew all this with such
precision, "From a feinme de cliain
bre," he answered, tranquilly, "all
personages of importance at that time,
r.t their own request, took their ser
vants ouly from my haud."—Harper's
Weekly.
A sponge with the great circum
ference of five feet six inches has
lately been taken from the waters o'
Bivsayne Bay Florida.
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.
Wanted-l.lttlo Tim an<l llie New Shoe
That Came Out of Hl* Father's Blarl
Bottle—How Worklnßinen Keconn
Incapable of Defnedlng Their night*
Wanted—a million hearty lads. What'
.wanted with them now?
To win good health, tho truest wealth, t
plant, and sow, and plow;
To drink at health's pure fountain, thn
ripples down the hill,
And sav their nay toevery way which load
them to do ill.
To take soma comrade by the hand an
hei,i him on the way;
To lead him through the night of glooi
into the light of dav,
To leave the road the drunkard goes, an
vow nllegiance ever
Unto the cause of temperance, and drin
to ruin never.
Come, boys, and pledge right hesrtil
your lives and honor true,
That you will never bo misled, whatov<
others do.
A million hoys stand pledged to-day the
hearty aid to give,
To aid the cause of tomperanco and hel
the poor to live.
Ten million women join with them and li
t heir hearts in prayar,
That these same boys, and millions mori
may 'scape the drunkards' snare.
The fireecly Bottle.
A poor, undersized hoy, named Tim, si
ting by n bottle and looking in, said, '
wonder if there oan be a pair of shoes ,
it?" His mother lmd mended his clothe,
but said his shoes were so bad he must p
barefoot. Then he took a brick and brol
the bottle, but there were no shoes in I
and he was frightened, for it wash
father's bottle. Tim sat down again an
sobbed so loud that he did not hear a sU
behind him, until a voice said:
"Well! what's all this?" He sprang u
'n great alarm; it was his father.
"Who broke my bottle?" he said.
"I did," said Tim, catching his broat
half in terror and half between his sobs.
"Why did you?" Tim looked up.
, The voice did not sound as he had e:
pectod. The truth was, his father had be<
touched at the sight of the forlorn flgur
so very small and so sorrowful, which hi
bent over tho broken bottle.
••Why," he said, "I was looking for a pr
of new shoes. I want a pair of new sho
awful bad—all the other chaps we
shoe?."
"How came you to think you'd find sho
in the bottle?" the father asked.
"Why, mother said so. I asked her 112
some new shoes, and she said they In
gone in tho black bottle, and that lots
other things had gone into it, too—eoa
and hats, and bread and meat and thinp
and I thought if I broke it I'd find 'em a
and there ain't a thing in it! I'm re
sorry I broke your bottle, father. I'll nev
do it again."
"No. I guess you won't," he said, lavlr
a hand on the rough little head as he we
away, leaving Tim overcome with astonis
nient that his father had not been ana
with him. Two days after he handed Ti
a parcel, telling him to open it.
"New shoes! New shoes!" he shoute
"O, father, did you get a new bottle, ai
were they in it?"
"No, my boy, there ain't going to be I
new bottle. Your mother was right; t' '
things all went into the bottle, but you s
getting them out is no easy matter: i
God helping me, I am going to keep tlu
out after this."
AVorklngmen ami the Saloon.
"The serious difficulties surrounding t
wage-earning classes suggest practk
work to our tot il abstinence societies
says Father Oleary, of Minneapolis. "T
sacred rights of labor were never in mi
serious danger than in our day. Tho c"
tresses of the poor combine to dispel fr<
their minds earnest convictions on the >
ties of the laboring classes. Working ir
besotted by drink aro easily robbed of th
rights. They forfeit in their folly th
due share of the advantages that modi
invention and industrial progress have w
for them. Men whose faculties have bi
weakened by excessive drinking are iu
pableof defending their rights and una
to preserve them. The victims of sale
environment becomo easy victims oft
delusive sophistries of socialism and
archy. Slaves to the drink habit en:-
become unconscious slaves of uuscrupuh
masters who deceive and mislead tUemii
believing that the avowed enemy of wen
is tho poor mau's friend. Working ri
whose earnings support the saloon -1
never be capable of maintaining tl
rights nor of performing their duties. I
solute habits will iufullibly oonsign
people to debasing bondage, depend
poverty, degrading slavery and self-c
tempt. Sober men are at least capabk
receiving salutary lessons, of giving in
ligent consideration to tho vexatious pi
lems that arise between organized wet
and organized labor. There is always
couraging hope that men who are not
sotted by drink can bo guided safely in
fence of " their right and in performanci
their duties."
No I.iquor at Sea.
Whatever the deep-water sailor's incl
tions and habits may be ashore, says
New York Sun, he gets no liquor to d
at sea, unless it comes from aft and is d
out to him. When the men that tnak
the crew go aboard, which they do jus!
fore the ship sails,their traps aro searc
and If whisky is found it goes usualiy
the side. It might bo possible for asi
to smuggle üboard a little whisky, enc
to last for a day, but after that hew
he most lil:ely a total abstainer until
ship reached port.
Work of KiiKliHh Temperance Ileforn
Canon Hicks, of Kugland, declarci
cemly in a public address that temper
reformers were doing more than tore
individuals, since they were lighting
the liberty of the people, whose bodies
souls, and whose homes and happi
were virtually bought andsold by the (
brewer capitalists. This is a serious
dlctment. but there aro facts which e
be cited to support it.
Generally Admitted.
"The evil of intemperaneo is gene
admitted," says the Itev. N. J- McMan
the C. T. A. U. Convention in Sera:
Penn., last summer. "Economically it
poor investment. Socially It is an int
able nuisance, condemned alike by pr
and public Opinion. Unified public opi
tho law of the State, has adjudged di
enness a crime punishable by line am
prisonment, and justly so in tho lutori
public morals."
Temperance New* and Note*.
Temperance helps to remove ...Jipts
Body and soul are benefited by abstii
from liquor.
Scientific temperanoo is taught In
hoys* and girls' colleges at Coneej
Chill, and tho young people are great
terested.
Temperance reform Is one of the
urgent of national remedies, becaut
temperance is one of the most dang
of national evils.
One's own self-interest demands tei
ance; besides which, the good exc
shown to others will undoubtedly infl
gome In the right direction.
Why should a man be discourage
cause in the battle with his appetite:
made cognizant of his weakness? I
not the weapon of prayer to overconc
enemies of his soul?