The officers of a leading Loudon
hospital believe that the general ill
crease of cancer is due to excess i»
meat eating.
Osaka has been called the New York
of Japan. With the manufacturing
villages that cluster around it, it has
% population of about a million.
The Irish Cyclist says: '"The but
touless shirt,' remarks a very much
married man, 'was invented at about
the period that woman took to bicy
cles.' "
An Amsterdam paper states that the
diminution in commercial value of
agricultural lands in the Netherlands
in the last twenty years amounts to
634,000,000 florins.
India's area of wheat farms is now
about two-thirds as large as that of
the United States. The wheat is
still threshed by being trodden out
by bullocks and buffaloes.
Some time ago a committee was ap
pointed in Russia to consider whether
it was advisable to permit women to
practice law in that country. A ma
jority decided in favor of the innova
tion.
Bishop Leonard of the Protestant
Episcopal Missionary Diocese of
Nevada, Utah and Western Colorado,
says that the Indian has no profanity
—not a profane word in his language.
When he desires to swear it is neces
sary for him to learn English.
Rev. B. S. Mac Arthur declared in a
recent sermon at the Calvary Baptist
church, New York city, that he did
not believe the flood referred to in the
Bible covered the whole earth. He
also reararded as a pure fable the
statemont that the ark rested on
Mount Ararat.
If any dramatist lias beeu daring
enough to put on the stage such a sit
uation as that disclosed at the under
sheriff's court in London recently,
the critics would without doubt have
flayed him for his combined audacity
and ignorance of law. An undefended
breach of promise case, with the
parties summoned to decide the ques
tion of damages; the weeping plaintiff
baffling her own advocate by produc
ing at the critical stage the inevitable
marriage certificate and waving it in
the face of sheriff'and jury, thus prov
ing that the defendant had not broken
his promise, but had fulfilled it; and
as a denouement the jury promptly
finding, by direction, a verdict for the
plaintiff against her will, thus decid
ing that the parties were not married,
although they had proved that they
were—surely the force of absurdity
could not further go. Yet it all hap
veiled.
If it be true that the Mexican gov
ernment has contracted with an
English syndicate for a scheme of
colonization, involving the settlement
of 1,000,000 Europeans within twenty
five years, the scheme is one of direct
interest to this country, remarks the
New York Mail and Express. The
development of the natural resources
of Mexico by immigration ought to
mean a vast increase in our export
trade beyond the Rio Grande. At
the same time, there are growing in
terests of our own capital in the land
of our neighbor with which so vast a
scheme of colonization might clash.
Further announcement of the details
of this somewhat visionary plan must
be awaited. We would not allow the
establishment of a foreign empire in
Mexico by force of arms. It remains
to be seen whether this proposed
peaceful invasion will accord with our
interests.
Scientific agriculturists all over the
world were roused to keen interest
some months ago by the news from
Germany that bymeansof "nitragin,"
that is, cultivations of certain bacteria,
the productive powers of many im
portant food plants could be vastly in
creased. The theory was that by the
aid of this "nitragin" the plants would
be able to assimilate large quantities
of atmospheric nitrogen, and so make
the use of expensive fertilizers un
necessary. Later experiments, un
fortunately, show that there was little
foundation for the hopes excited by
those first made. Still, there is some
thing in the German idea, admits the
New York Times. Trials conducted
by the Glasgow Technical college with
beans and red clover produqpd en
tirely negative results, but some car
ried out at the Lancashire County
Council farm have given somewhat
more promising results, the plants
having been more numerous and
larger on the treated than on the un
treated plots. In the case of beans
an increase of 18 1-2 per cent, was
obtained from the inoculated plots over
the uninoculated one.
Complaint is made in New Englanc
that the school system is under th<
domination of the professional and
literary classes.
A writer in the Fortnightly Review
thinks that 55,000 farmers, each witt
a 100-acre farm in Canada, could sup
ply all the wheat England needs.
Rhodo Island is said to be the only
state which has a college where
students, in addition to regulai
branches, are taught the art of road
building.
Only 37,000 of the 32,000,000 of
Prussia possess wealth representing
an income of S7OOO a year, and only
14,000 own property to the value of
$125,000.
If the Salvation Army people suc
ceed in making their wholesale farm
ing scheme net them live per cent,
upon their capital, some of our hard
working, life-long farmers will want
to get Commander Booth-Tucker's
recipe for the operation, predicts the
New England Homeste.al.
Dr. Cumley, a Chicago dentist, has
been made the sr.bject of inquiry by
the grand jury, because he locked his
door on the mother of a boy who
wouldn't have his tooth pulled, al
though the dentist and the mother did
their best to persuade him. The
woman refused to pay a dollar for the
dentist's wasted time.
The Rev. Dr. H. W. Thomas of the
People's church in Chicago is anxious
for the formation of a vigilance com
mittee to put down the highwagmen in
that city, and says that he would like
to be permitted to carry a shotgun in
the streets. This minister of peace
declares that the only way to stop the
"hold-up" men is to kill a fe v o)
them.
It has always been a favorite and
generally successful scheme of Euro
pean rulers, when they find them
selves in straits as to home matters,
to awaken the loyalty of their people
or to divert their attention from their
grievances by real or imaginary foreign
complications. This would seem tc
the New York Commercial Advertiser
to be the present attitude of the Em
peror of Germany, and the neai
iuture will record his success or his
failure.
"The South is emulative in gallant
ry," notes the New York Commercial
Advertiser. "One stateafter another is
honoring its pretty young women,and
the women like it, even if theii
new honors are subversive of that re*
tiring delicacy so boasted of before
the war. Georgia has a female colonel
of militia, so has Tennessee and South
Carolina, and recently the governoi
of Arkansas made Miss Emma Whit |
tington of Hot Springs honorary
colonel of the reserve militia. The
rank of colonel is the lowest, it ap
pears, that the Southern girls will ac
cept."
That statistics can be made to prove
anything has been often said. Just
what the hbnest statistics do prove,
however, as to the relationship be
tween crime and ignorance on the one
haud, and between virtue and educa
tion on the other, is much disputed.
A New York j>aper has opened its
columns to the discussion of this
question, with the result that some ol
its correspondents assert that crime
and education are increasing together,
while others insist that the more
highly educated people become the
fewer crimes are committed. And
both parties to the argument make a
plentiful use of statistics.
Once ngain England nervously is
discussing the possible exhaustion of
her coal supply, which forms the
backbone of her commercial supre
macy. Leonard Courtney, as presi
dent of the Statistical society,
more than confirms Trofessoi
Jevons's view that the supply will be
in peril within an ordinary lifetime.
The output for 189G actually was thirtj
per cent, less than it would have been
if the rate of progress in Jevons'e
time had been maintained. While
the British output has increased lest
than 2 1-2 times since 1860 the Ameri
can output has increased ten-told, and
while the American cost of output has
greatly declined British has great! j
increased. This strengthens the Spec
tator's belief that America soon will
occupy a position of unchallenged
supremacy in the industrial world.
England must adjust herself to a
smaller output of coal and iron and a
readjustment of vocations. "If,"
adds the Spectator, "English suprem
acy be destroyed, it will not be
through the failure of coal, but
through incapacity to keep pace with
the electric development in America
and Germanv."
A FIELD FLOWER'S COMPLAINT.
If I had been a snowdrop,the first one of the Would you have gathered In your hand each
year, fallen rosy leaf,
Would you have thought me beautiful,being And said t, gentle word for life so beautiful
the first, my dear? and brief?
If I had been a royal rose grown higher
than your heart, But I that fain would oe a rose and wear her
Would yon have bent your face to mine and royal red,
drawn my leaves apart, A field flower among field flowers, I lift my
Until they dropped about you feet, and all Among the tall dead nettles, white campion
my heart lay bare? who will heed ?
A broken heart, a golden heart, for you to White campion shrinking faintly mid dock
leave or wear— and silverweed ?
—Nora Hopper, in Black and White.
i The Business Way. £
Srv WW WWWWWWWWVVW^
Jack wanted to, but Lady Mary
didn't, and that's the way it all came
about. Jack swore she was the very
daintiest, sweetest, loveliest girl on
earth, added a great deal more of
love's hyperbole, and—entre nous—
even soared into poetry occasionally,
when he read to Christopher Colum
bus, her pet bull terrier.
But as Christopher wrinkled his
nose decidedly and his tail did not
show the least intimation of a wag,
Jack tore it up—the poetry, I mean.
The trouble was Jack wanted to pro
pose and couldn't. For never did he
bring up the eventful subject but Lady
Mary would go off at a tangent, possi
bly because Jack was using round
about ways.
As Jack confided to his chnm (who
shall be nameless for various reasons):
"Do you know, H., if I speak of sun
sets, she will immediately have a wild
desire to discuss ethnology or irreg
ular Greek verbs, and if I should ever
mention love—not that I ever have,
you know—but if I ever should, hang
me if I don't believe she'd ask me
how ray liver was."
By which it can readily be seen that
Lady Mary and Jack were on the best
of terras,and the very intimacy seemed
to preclude the possibility of anything
more.
One afternoon I was lying on the
river bank industriously fishing, while
Jack sprawled upon the grass alter
nately reading and scribbling. Then
he looked up and observed compla
cently: "Now, I flatter myself that's
father good. Listen, H.:
'•The weary sun has sunk to rest.
And with him fades the dying day.
Come night, come hour I love the iiest,
Fit time love's winning words to say.
"I retty good, eh?"
"Good? Oh, Lord! You want to
change those last two lines. You
should say:
■'Alas ! still lives a love-struok crnnk,
Who cau't say what he wants to say.
"Besides, 'best' isn't good gram- j
mar, if you're comparing day with
night."
"Hang it all, H., Tennyson himself
could not please you." Then along
silence which he at last broke with: '
"Say, do you think she would have j
me?"
"Oh, take a run aronud the block! :
How do I know? There she conies
now, and I give you fair warning if
you two stay here and scare all
my fish away I'll tell about the
poetry."
Divinely tall and most divinely
fair was Lady Marv. She came trip
ping sedately over the tender grass,
the mountain winds kissing a delicate
peach blossom into her cheeks. Jack,
with his customary facility,rose to his
feet and the occasion to play the gal
lant. Neither of 'em paid the slight
est attention to me. I was supposed !
to be dead.
"Jack," she said, sweetly, "I want :
you to row me up to the store. Will
'you?"
Of course Jack acquiesced, and the
two of them got into the boat audi
started.
Jack is a finished oarsman, at least
he generally finishes it in about ten
miuutes. I'knew it was to be inter- ,
esting, so I gave up the fishing and
watched them.
(Mem. later: They have drifted
down the river, botn behind Lady
Mary's parasol.)
Now. Jack being one of those fel
lows who believe in never losing an !
opportunity calmly rowed the boat |
out iu the middle of the river and i
then, as I predicted, shipped the |
oars and opeued the conversation.
"How well we get along together j
in a boat," he remarked, gazing senti- '
mentally at the cliffs.
• "Yes," abstractedly, "but I wish
you'd row up to the store. I don't
want to wa-'te the whole afternoon |
drifting like this."
"No, of course not," waking np
suddenly. Two strokes. Then, "I
wish we could always—"
"There are a lot of new people com
ing tonight," she broke in. "Mr. Eg
gleston told me so."
"Did he? H'm!" Then with a
brilliant idea, "Are you ever inter
ested iu other people?" he asked in
his most beguiling tone.
"Oh, yes—now, there's Christopher
Columbus. I'm interested in him. I
wish I had him here this very minute.
I'd kiss his dear little nose."
"If I were only Christopher Colum
bus," insinuated Jack.
"I wish you were sometimes," she
cried, wickedly. "Then I could shut
you np occasionally, couldn't I?"
Now, what could anybody do with a
girl like this? The end of it was that
Lady Mary took the oars and rowed
to the store herself.
Jack came to me disconsolately.
"I wish I was dead," he said. I
told him how annoying it would be to
me to have him lying around dead.
He said I talked like a fool.
"Jack,my dear boy," I said,patron
izingly (I am two months older than
he),"the next time yon try to pop
the question be like a bottle of ginger
ale. Go off with a bang and let all the
fizzle come afterward."
"I never thought of that," he an
twered thoughtfully. "I wonder how
it would work? By George,H.,you're
a trump. I'll try it."
That evening they were both down
by the spring, and I hid behind a
tree. I didn't hear the first part of it,
but I got there just in time to hear
Jack say: "Lady Mary, I love you.
Will you be my wife?"
"With pleasure," she answered,
gavlv. "You silly boy, why didn't
you say so before?"
"Just what I told him," said I,com
ing from behind the tree.
"Did you? You dear boy,you may
kiss me for that. Keep stiil, Jack."
And I did.
SENATOR MILLS' STORY.
Abraham Lincoln's Sweeping Pardon to
Jolin L. Helm.
Senator Mills has a new story about
Lincoln. It was told to him by a
son of John L. Helm of Kentucky, who
lives in Corsicana:
"Old John L. Helm," said the sen
ator, "was a famous character in Ken
tucky. He was, if I remember right
ly, a governor of the state, but at any
rate his position was a most prominent
one. When the civil war came on
Helm was a rabid secessionist. He
could not praise the South too highly
and could not heap enough abuse
upon the North. He was too old to
go into the war with his sons and re
mained at home, doing all he could to
help the confederate cause and harass
the Yankees who invaded the state.
Finally he became so obstreperous that
the federal general who was in com
mand near Helm's home put him in
prison. The old man's age, the high
position which he occupied in the
state, his wide connection aud espe
cially his inability to do any ha>m,
j were all pleaded in his extenuation,
and he was released. Instead of profit
ing by the warning, the old man be
came more persistent than ever iu his
course. Once more he was clupped
into jail. This happened two or three
times, aud finally, while he was still
locked up, the matter was brought to
the uttention of the federal authori
ties. Even President Lincoln was ap
pealed to and asked to commit the ar
dent southerner to an indefinite con
finement in order that he might be
curbed.
"Lincoln listened to the statement
of the case with more than usual in
terest. Then he leaned back and be
gan to speak with a smile upon his
face. 'You are talking about old man
John Helm? Well,did you know that
I used to live when I was a boy in
Helm's town. He was kind to me.
He seemed to like me as a boy, and
he never lost an opportunity to help
me. He seemed to think,' said Lin
coln, with another of his almost pa
thetic smiles, 'that I would probably
make something of a man. Why, when
I went out to Illinois, poor aud un
known, that man gave me the money
to pay my way and keep me until I
got a start. John Helm? O, yes, I
know him, aud I know what I owe to
him. I think I can fix his case.'
"And then," said Senator Mills,
"Lincoln went to his desk aud wrote
a few words. The bit of writing is
treasured in the Helm household to
this day. This is what the president
wrote:
" 'I hereby pardon John L. Helm
of Kentu'iky for all that he lias ever
done against the United States and all
that he ever will do.
" 'ABKAHAM LINCOLN.'"
—Washington Post.
Candle Fish-Food, Medicine and Light
in Alaxka.
With the discovery of the Klondike,
with all its winter privations, comes
also the practical discovery of a fish
found along the Alaskan shores which
it is said will furnish food, light, heat
and medicine to the prospectors who
have gone into the new El Dorado.
This fish is of the smelt variety, but
larger and fatter. They are caught in
nets easily, and on being caught, are
found to be of a rich green color on
the back variegated with blue, and
with golden reflections on the belly.
On being caught these fish are dried
and stored. When the Alaskan is
snowed in and without a light,he sim
ply inserts the tail of one of these fish
in a crack in the table and touches a
match to its nose. It gives out a clear
three-caudle power light. The back
bone is largely formed of phosphorus,
which not only causes it to ignite
easily, but also accounts for the
strength of the flame and heat devel
oped. The substance of the fish,
largely fat, retards the rapid burning as
the tallow acts in an ordinary candle.
The fish is also valuable as food. Still
another use to which it may be put is
as a substitute for cod-liver oil, which,
aiding the natural heat of the body,
serves to protect against the severe
cold. It is to be hoped that scientists
will discover a way by which the skin
of this fish may be made into clothing,
and its backbone sharpened into min
er's picks.
Monntain climbers frequently find
butterflies frozen on the snow, and so
brittle that they break unless care
fully handled. When thawed the I
butterflies recover and fly away. I
TRAIN OF WHEELS.
Novel Scheme for Solving the Rapid
Transit Problem.
A novel scheme for solving the rapid
transit problem has been devised by
Mr. M. G. Malonev, a Philadelphia
inventor, which, it is confidently
promised, will soon revolutionize all
methods of transportation. The trains
of this railroad will resemble an im
mense Ferris wheel, and will be ar
ranged to roll along a track at a rate
of at least 150 miles an hour. Each
so-called "train" will consist of ten
coaches arranged one on top of the
other and bounded by the outer rim of
the wheel. This great outside rim,
shell, is io all purposes a large w heel
■which revolves around the centre, this
portion of the train remaining station
ary. This revolving wheel is built on
ball bearings, so that notwithstanding
the immense speed of the train, the
compartments for the passengers are
expected to be comfortable. The cen
tral part of the revolving wheel-train
contains the coaches, dining cars,
sleepers, engines,and every other con
venience of a regular train. The
engines are operated by electricity,
which is generated from storage bat
teries. It is believed that this novel
construction will greatly lessen the
amount of friction, and will result iu
an immense economy of injury. It is
calculated that the resistance that
such a car will offer to the wind will
be very much less than that encoun
tered by an ordinary locomotive. One
of these rolling trains will accommodate
as many people as a long train of
ordinary coaches. The inventor be
lieves that the fare from San Fran
ciso, which is now about sloo,can be
reduced on this revolving railway to
less than $lO. The run across'tlie
continent would be accomplished in
about one-fourth the time at present
required. The revolving train is to
be little less than an immense circular
hotel, and is to have all the con
veniences and luxuries of the best
hotels. The inventor promise* that
the new system will be working not
later than 1900.
Systematic Farming.
George G. and J. Carroll Hamilton
of Flat Creek, Bath county, are among
the most extensive farmers in this
section of the country, and they are
also very successful. And why? Be
cause they g<> at it in a business-like
manner. These gentlemen own and
manage four large farms, one in this
county, one in Bath, one in Ohio
and one in Missouri. They employ
Colonel Gumf, an expert bookkeeper,
whose duty it is to keep an open ac
count with every field on each oi
these farms. Beports are made to
the colonel every day of the amount
of work done in each field and every
thing in the way of cost to produce
any article in these fields is charged
up to it, just the same as a mer
chant would charge you with any
article you might purchase from
his store. So when the crop is sold
they always know whether tliey have
made or lost money. This is a system,
we venture to say, very few farmers
in Kentucky practice, and while most
every farmer will admit that it is a
good one, still very few of them will
follow the example of these gentle
men. The trouble with a great many
of our farmers these days is that they
like to be in town too much. If they
would stay at home except when they
have business in town they would be
better off. Now, we don't want our
friends who are landowners to take
offense at this, for we are interested
in their success. When the farmers
are successful everybody will prosper,
and that is why we make the sugges
tion that they give their land more
attention instead of sitting around
ton drygoods boxes in town whittl
ing sticks.—Mt. Sterling (Ky.) Sen
tinel Democrat.
American Colleges.
The number, large and small, of
educational institutions in the United
States aspiring to the name of college
is far greater than any one would
imagine who has not specially inves
tigated the subject, and it is fair to
bay that some of the smaller and
newer ones are doing equally good
work with their elders. According to
last year's statistics (1896) there were
470 "universities and colleges of
liberal arts" in the United States. Of
these, Ohio has the largest number of
hny one state, 40; Illinois, 31; Mis
souri, 30; Pennsylvania, 30; New
York, lowa and Tennessee, 23 each;
Kansas, 18; Indiana and Kentucky,
15 each; California, 16; North Caro
ina and Texas, 13 each; Michigan and
Minnesota, 11 eneh; Nebraska, Mary
land, Wisconsin and Georgia, 10 each;
Massachusetts, Virginia, Arkansas,
Alabama, Louisiana and South
Carolina, 9 each. Iu the total num
ber of students, Illinois leads with
53,'252; Ohio comes next with 12,806,
»nd New York third with 11,615. Mas
sachusetts has a total of 6244, and
Pennsylvania 9048. The older and
best known institutions are: Harvard,
Cambridge, Mass.; Yale, New Haven,
fconn.; Princeton, Princeton, N. J.;
Dartmouth, Hanover, N. H.; Brown,
Providence, R. I.; Cornell, Ithaca,
N. Y.; Columbia, New York city;
Amherst, Amherst, Mass.; William,
and Mary college, Williamsburg, A a.;
of Virginia, Chorlottsville,
Ya.; Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, Md.;
ind others.—Boston Transcript.
' Queer System of Eniiitier»Hoii.
I The Indians of Guiana have a queer
system of numeration. They count
by the hand and its four lingers.
Thus, when they reach five, instead of
saying so, they call it a "hand." Six
is, therefore,a "hand and first finger."
Ten is "two hands," but twenty, in-
[ stead of being "four hands" is "a
man." Forty is "twomen," and thus
they goon by twenties. Forty-six is
expressed as "two men, hand and first
finger."
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN,
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFESI
IN MANY WAYS.
Ring the Bella of Temperance—.The Sensoi
of Good Resolutions—A New Year's Ap
peal For the Practice of Self-Denial—
Intoxication Is No Excuse For Crime
Ring the bells of temperance, grasp a broth'
er a hand,
■.Bi h m 9 tt". Blster ' s dark despair away;
stftml OVerCOm<3tb '" by His word w '
pray B ' ve ®' s strength to those wh<
Ring the bells of temperance, no uncertain
sound
Palls upon our listening ears to-day
Never mind the battle raging all around
Stand, if need be, in the thickest fray.'
Ring the bells of temperance, ring them
loud and clear.
Let them drown the clamor and the din.
One, our God and Leader, banishes out
feur,
In His Name the victory we win.
Season of Good Resolutions.
This is the season of good resolutions
For although every day of our lives should
be as much the beginning of a new year foi
us. In putting away from us the things of
vice and accepting the things of virtue vet
to-day custom has provided a certain
definite time for looking back in dissatis
faction on our lives in tlie past twelve
months. A time to turn from the weak
nesses, follies and sins that have in that
period rendered our hearts unacceptable
to God, resolving with renewed courage to
face the future, trusting in His willingness
to aid us in our struggle.
Bitter Indeed must the retrospect be to
the man whose indulgence in drink has led
him to the commission of sins of which in
his inmost heart he is ashamed, and from
which he would have shrunk in horror had
he not been under the influence of liquor.
Bitter indeed—for he is conSeious of the
possibilities for good within him, stifled
and rendered worthless because of his
habitual or periodic drunkenness. Dulled
though his conscience may b« dv repeated
offenses, there are undoubtedly times when
the sting of remorse is in Ills soul. There
is an accusing voice that is never entirely
stilled, though it may be deadened by con
tinual sinning, and this voice insists upon
the enormity of sin.
But there is hope for such as he. On
this day of the New Year the bells are pro
claiming the beginning of a new spiritual
order of things for each and every one of
us, if we will but co-operate with the grace
of God. Old desires, old sins, old habits
that we have clasped to our hearts and
I worshiped for the past year, perhaps for
| many years, we may to-day cast away for-
I over, breaking and destroying them even
as the heathens long ago broke and de
stroyed their idols when they turned from
them to the love and service of the God of
righteousness. To-day we may emerge,
with His help, from the darkness and strife
of sin to the light and peace that is ob
tained only through self-denial and self
con iuest.-C. T. A., in Sacred Heart Be
view.
The Intoxication Dodge.
Judge Bregy, in ruling on a plea of drunk
enness, advanced in defense of a man
charged with fradulent voting, put his foot
down solidly on that old dodge. The judge,
in charging the jury, warned them that it
was not their duty to take the plea into
consideration, saying:
"If you believe that tlie defendant voted
in the name of some one else, as has been
testified to, then the fact that lie volun
tarily intoxicated himself Is rro defense*
He has not denied the fact of the illegal"
voting, but puts itunju the ground simply
that he has no recollection of the occur
rence. I say to you, as a matter of law
that if the intoxication were forced upon
him, if the liquor was poured down his
throat, it might act as a defense, but vol
untary intoxication is no excuse."
There was little reason to doubt that the
prisoner, although intoxicated, had voted
illegally with a full knowledge of what he
was doing, and it is more than possible that
he had drunk liquor expressly to give him
enough nerve to violate the law. The jury
convicted him.
The tendency in recent years on the part
of courts to reject drunkenness as an ex
cuse for crime is altogether in the lino of
public decency and justice. Indeed, drunk
enness in such a case as Judge Bregy passed
upon yesterday is an aggravation rather
than au extenuation of the main offense.
The intoxication dodge, like the Insanity
dodge, lias been overworked by lawyers.
Juries should no longer allow it to impose
upon either their sympathies or their com
mon sense.—Philadelphia Bulletin.
A Clergyman's Story.
"One day a young man called to see mo
for relief," said a clergyman in a sermon
recently. "He asked me for some clothes.
He said to me, 'Do you know such and such
a woman?' I said to him, 'Yes; a most ex
cellent woman.' 'Well,'hesald,'l am her
son. I have not seen her for fourteen years;
I can not llnd her address, she must have
moved lately. I want to see her once
again.' While I sent him downstairs to tho
room where we gathered clothes for the
poor I sent a fellow priest to the house of this
woman to see if she would see her son. One
of her daughters fainted at his name, an
other, stronger than her sister, saw her
mother waver in her determination not to
have tills cause of her misery return, and
said: 'Mother, if ho comes home, I leave.
For fourteen years we have been at peace.
I shall not live in thesame house with him.'
After attending to his needs I told the son
that ills mother would not see him and sent
him adrift, and lie is wandering as thou
sands of others wander to-night, a misera
ble outcast, the cause of innumerable
heartbreaks to those who love them. There
is 110 greater enemy of the family than in
temperance."
Misery Hue to Drink.
I say that I (Irmly believe that there is
more evil done to this community, more
pecuniary loss, both to the individual and
to the State, and more domesth! *iisoT\
due to excess in drink, than to all other
vices. And last, but by no means least, I
say that there is more crime due to this
cause than to all other causes. You may
say. in American phraseology, that Is "tail
talking," but I am not speaking extrava
gantly, nnd am dealing with facts, says
Mr. Justice Hodges In an nddress In Wes
ley Church, Melbourne, Australia.
How It is Done in Nevada.
Five university boys have been dis
missed from the University of Nevada for
drunkenness. This is as it should be so
far as the dismissal Is concerned. If our
universities would be less lenient to stu
dents who are like rotten apples in the uni
versity basket, parents would not dread
sending their sons and daughters away
from home influences to the great univer
sities. The publication of such action will
not Injure, but will rather help, the Nevada
University.—raciflc Prohibitionist.
How to Secure Prosperity.
With gold in the Northwest, pearls in Ar
kansas and big crops in every State we
should have prosperity, and would have,
too, were it not that the saloons destroy
faster than nature and man combined can
produce.—The People.
■* Pew Temperance "Don'ts."
Don't take the first glass and you can't
take the second.
Don't act as if God gave you a mind that
you might becloud it with drink.
Don't think you are more of a man if vou
drink. It really doesn't add to your
stature, mental or physical, the least frac
tion of an inch.