More than fifty-five per cent, ol
American freight is exported and im
ported ou British slifys.
Washington officials hold that the
Japanese are entitled to be admitted
to citizenship in every part of the
United States,and have the privileges
of the most favored nation clause, un
less Congress shall pass laws here
after to interfere.
A Bussian physician examined a
number of students with regard to
{heir health as affected by smoking.
Of the smokers 16.09 percent, were
/ound to have some affection of the
respiratory tract, while only 10.69 of
ihe non-smokers were thus affected.
In respect to diseases of the alimen
tary tract, the figures were respec
tively 11.88 and 9.92 per cent.; and
jf both tracts combine.!, 8.77 and
3.22 per cent.
Famine and pestilence are raging
in Russia again, on a scale far more
Beiious than in India a year ago.
Those who charged the Indian woes
against the British government will
please take notice, snys the New York
Tribune. As for the scourges of Rus
sia, there is indisputable evidence that
tliey are really the fault of the govern
ment in refusing to permit the people to
become educated and thus able to till
their land better and improve their
sanitary condition. It insists that
they shall remain in iguorance and
squalor, and the result is that they
ire dying like flies in a frost.
There are floating stories occasion
ally of frog farms here and there, but
all apocryphal, Forest aud Stream
says, if by farming be meant the arti
acial propagation of frogs as fishes are
propagated in hatcheries, and reared
through the successive stages from the
eggs to maturity. M. F. Chamber
lain of the United States fish commis
sion says that while the value of frogs
ss food is now thoroughly recognized
in this country, to such a degree, in
deed, that the United States consumes
more frogs than are eaten in any other
country, not excepting France itself,
hurnau ingenuity has not as yet de
vised a method of carrying artificial
cultivation beyond the larval stage.
It is comparatively easy to stock a pond
with breeding frogs or with tadpoles.
They may be protected against their
natural enemies, but the insurmount
able trouble is to furnish food for the
young frogs. Live food is absolutely re
quisite, but there is no practical de
vice to furnish insects.
One of Germany's lea ling statisti
cians has come to the conclusion that
in order to live long it is necessary to
be married. Out of every seventy
men who reach the age of sixty he
finds that forty-eight are married
men and only twenty-two bachelors.
This German statistician, whose name
is Dr. Schwartz, further finds that
between the ages of thirty and forty
five the mortality among bachelors is
twenty-seven per cent, while among
married men it is only eighteen per
cent. Dr. Schwartz has proved.that
it is absolutely necessary to be mar
ried if a man wishes to become a cen
tenarian, for of fifty proved centenari
ans whom the doctor has examined
not one was a bachelor. It is true
that there were no married men,either
for all the old men were widowers.
These facts ar-a now established. To
live long a mau must be married, and
then become a widower at some period
of his life, which has not yet been as
certained. Evidently, if Dr. Schwartz
discovers the exact length married
life should continue he will have
flolve.l the problem of old age.
The United States supreme court
recently decided a case that may have
u marked influence toward the dis
couragement of suicide. It was con
fronted with the question whether the
heirs of a sane man, who had com
mitted suicide, could recover ou an
insurance policy taken out by the man
npon his own life. The court ruled
in the negative, thus in the particulai
case in point barring the heirs from
•u enormous sum of money to the ex
tent of which various companies had
insured the life of the suicide. The
court's reasoning is sound and based
npon a recognition of the best public
policy with regard to the treatment ol
suicides. It was held that to compel
the payment of such policies would be
to put a jnemium upon self-destruc
tiou by offering a degree of incentive
to discourage men whose sole liesi
taucj about committing suicide might
'spring from the fear of leaving desti
tute those dependent upon them. If,
by insuring their lives heavily and
paying a tithe of the premium required
by the companies they could make
•mre of the support of these survivors
this bar to suicide, which may be.fairly
eousidered as influencing many men
to prevent, their self-destruction, would
V>e withdrawn.
Political matters in Great Britian
have begun to attract attention such
as they have not received in a long
time, says Harold Frederic.
Bussia is said to have crowded Eng
land out of the flowery kingdom; but
it is hardly probable. John Bull has
planted his feet in that China shop,
and it will require something more
than diplomacy to remove him.
The butchers and meat dealers of
Berlin complain that $7,664,000 worth
of meats were imported into Germany
in 1896, principally from the United
States, and at prices with which they
are unable to compete. They there
fore petition the government to open
the frontiers to the free importation
of animals and meats from European
countries, and to restrict by all prac
ticable means the import of meats
from America, which is steadily in
creasing from year to year. Even in
the matter of apples the Yankees have
seized the market, and last yeor there
were landed at the single port of
Hamburg before November 18, 64,-
638 barrels. In short, American com
petition is now spoken of in Europe
as the "transatlantic danger."
The latest advices from Pekin
brought new stories illustrating the
arrogance of the Europoan govern
ments in their treatment of China.
Until recently all business with for
eign nations was transacted at the
tsung-liyamen, and the members of
the diplomatic corps visited that place
almost daily whenever they had busi
ness with the government. But the
German minister compelled Weng
Tung Ho, Chang Yen Yuen and other
members of the yameu to come to his
legation for the purpose of discussing
the demands of the kaiser's govern
ment for indemnity for the death of
the Jesuit missionaries and other
matters relating to the occupation of
Kiao-Chou. This is the iirst time
such humiliation has ever been im
posed.
Two years ago a Kansas colony con
sisting of about a dozen persons sold
out all their property and set forth
with the proceeds to the Holy Land,
for the purpose of rebuilding Jerusa
lem in preparation for the second
coming of Christ. The fund all told
consisted of about SIO,OOO, and it
must have required faith as a grain of
mustard seed to believe that such a
sum would be sufficient to make the
towers of imperial Salem again rise
crowned with light and restore the
splendors of Solomon's Temple. The
experiment has, of course, turned out
a failure, announces the New York
Tribune, and the colonists are to re
turn to Kansas, leaving Jerusalem tc
its natural processes of growth and
decay, as they ought to have done
from the beginning. In starting life
over again in the homes they aban
doned they are not likely to tind the
experience acquired in their pious ex
ile worth anything like the money it
cost them.
Says tho Chicago Drovers' Journal:
The tendency to feed cattle and not
raise them is growing more populai
with the farmers of the middle west
every year. This is a short cut to
quick returns, and saves about twe
years' time. Of course somebody has
to raise the stock cattle, but as this
part of the industry can be carried on
more cheaply on the big ranches,
farmers who raise corn prefer to let
them have a monopoly on the breed
ing and raising end of it. The num
ber of range cattle that are being fed
on corn each winter is growing
rapidly. This fact is just as notice
able with sheep as with cattle, for
naturally the same conditions and re
sults obtain.
The revised figures showing the ex
tent of the American groin crop for
the past year have just been given
out by the United States department
of agriculture. The acreage devoted
to the six principal cereals, viz.: corn,
wheat, oats, rye, barley and buck
wheat, aggregated 150,431,105 acres,
while the total amount of grain pro
duced aggregated 3,040,922,822 bush
els. The value of the entire crop i?
estimated at $1,121,295,762. In de
tail the figures showing the amount of
each cereal produced, together with
acreage and valuation, are aa follows:
Acres. Bushel. Value.
Corn. 80,095,051 1,902,907,938 5 501,072,952
Wheat, 39,465.068 530,141,163 428.547,121
Outs, 25,730.375 698,767,809 147,974,715
Bye. 1,703,561 27.363,334 12,239,640
Barley. 2,719,116 66,685.127 25,142.13£
Buckwht 717,936 14,997,451 6,319,18?
Total, 150,431,105 3,040,922,822 $1,121,295,762
While the figures represent but Ut
ile profit to the individual farmers
scattered over the United States, they,
severtheless serve to indicate the sur
passing magnitude of the country,
irhich is capable of producing harvests
n such abundance.
THE COOP WE DO.
The good we do with motives true Ob, toller in a weary land,
Will never quite be lost; Work on with cheerful race,
For somewhere in time's distant blue And sow the seed with lavish hand,
We gain more than it cost. With all the gentle grace
And oft I thinlc a strange surprise That marks a brave, yet loving soul,
Will meet us, as we gain A soul of royal birth.
Some diadem that hidden lies, And golden harvests shall enfold
From deeds we thought in vain. Your own bright, blessed earth.
j The Conqueror of Junius. [
"A regular Amazonl" said Junius
Haven, shrugging his shoulders. "Oa
the very top of a load of hay, with a
straw hat pulled down over her eyes
and a pitchfork in her hand!"
"Now, Junius," cried out Mary
Haven, "you are talking arrant non
sense."
"A uian must believe his senses,"
said Junius. "I asked for Miss Joce
lyn, and the ancient beldame who was
shelling peas by the kitchen window
pointed one skinny forefinger across
the fields and answered, 'There she is,
a-gettin' in the hay. They all stirs
round lively in these parts when there's
a shower comin' np. Guess you'll
find her, if yon goes across lots.' "
"And you?" questioned Mary.
Mr. Haven smiled ironically.
"I?" said he. "You must bear in
mind that I was looking for a young
lady, not for a farm boy's assistant,
so I just turned around and came
home."
"But there must be some mistake!"
cried out impetuous Mary. "My El
lice Jocelyn is a princess among
women, tall and slender and graceful,
who plays the harp and writes deli
cious 'transcendental essays."
"There was neither harp nor writing
desk on the top of that load of hay,"
said Junius, very decidedly. "And
pray, Mary, don't be offended, but I
am rather disenchanted with your rus
tic belles, after my afternoon's experi
ence. Beach me a cigar, please, and
don't let anyone disturb me for a
while, there's a darling!"
Mary Haven obeyed. Was not Ju
nius, newly arrived from Europe, a
very shah and sultan among men,to be
waited on and humored in his every
caprice ?
But while she found the cigar-case,
banded the newspaper and regulated
the exact fall of the curtain-folds which
should be most agreeable to her
brother's optical partialities, she puz- j
zled her brain as to how and why and !
wherefore this little plan of hers for !
an instant attachment between Junius j
and Ellice Jocelyn had thus come to ■
an untimely standstill.
"It's the most unaccountable thing
in the world," said Mary to herself.
"I think I'll go over and see what it
all means."
Low and long, with gabled fronts
and bay windows, all wreathed about
with trumpet creepers and blue-cuppeil
convolvulus vines, the Jocelyn farm
house stretched itself out under the
umbrageous walnut trees,with Ellice's
hammock swinging in the porch and
Ellice herself, posed like a woodland
nymph.
She was certainly very pretty, this
fair-haired blonde, with the complexion
of sea-shell pink, the china-blue eyes,
the dimples on cheek and chin, the
muslin dress that looked as if it might
have been just taken out of the win
dows of a New York modiste—and she
came forward, cool and composed, to
meet Miss Haven, as if the June sun
were not blazing overhead and the
thermometer in the porch did not stand
at 90-degrees in the shade.
"So glad to see you, dear!" said
Miss Jocelyn, with the princess air
which seemed to sit so naturally on
her.
"Dear Ellice," said Mary, plunging
precipitately into her subject, "where
have you been all the morning?"
"Where have I been?"
"Believe me, I am not asking from
mere curiosity," pleaded Mary. "I
have a reason. You will answer me,
I know."
"Certainly! Why shouldn't I?"
said the Serene One, lifting her golden
brows the sixteenth part of an inch.
"Let me see—l was in the glen,sketch
ing the beautiful mossy boulders by
the spring, until the shower came up,
and then I sat in my own room and
wrote a few letters."
"luen it couldn't have been you,
after all!" bluntly ejaculated Mary.
"What couldn't have been me?"
"The girl with the pitch-fork on the
top of the load of hay."
And then, laughing heartily at her
own blunder, Mary related the morn
ing adventure of her brother.
"It must have been Uua," said El
lice Jocelyn, with a slight shadow of
annoyance upon her smooth brow.
"Una! The little sister who has
just returned from boarding school?"
Miss Jocelyn inclined her head.
"There is no end to that child's
pranks," said she,impatiently. "And
papa indulges her in everything. Dear,
dear! I hope your brother wasn't very
much shocked?"
"I'm afraid he was," said truthful
Mary. "He supposed it was you, of
course. And he said you were a reg
ular Amazon aud that he didn't care
to make the acquaintance of a farm
boy's assistant!"
Ellice clasped her hands together in
sylph-like despair.
"It's enough to drive one frantic,"
said she.
And in the same moment a brown
cheeked damsel, with chestnut curls
tangled around her neck and a pretty
brown cambric dress, burst into the
room like a beam of sunshine.
"It isn't true!" said she, defiantly.
"I'm not an Amazon, and nobody has
any business to call me a farm boy's
assistant!"
"Una!" softly pleaded Ellice, lifting
her white palms, as if to ward off this
sudden gust of breezy defiance.
"And the hay would have been
spoiled if I hadn't helped to get it in
and poor old Hans would have been
discharged for forgetting; and, besides,
wasn't Maud Muller, in the poem, a
haymaker? Aud did anyone dare to
criticise her?"
"I am sure—" mildly commenced
Miss Haven.
"Oh, don't make any apologies!"
said little Una, with her retrousse
nose in the air and two red spots on
her cheeks. "And tell your brother,
Miss Mary, that I am as little anxious
to make his acquaintance as he is
mine."
And exit Una, not without some
slight emphasis on the closing of the
door.
"How pretty she has grown!" said
Mary Haven, in admiration.
"Do you think so?" said Ellice, a
little doubtfully. "She is so dark
and so abrupt, you know; and then
she has no charm of manner—poor,
dear, little Una!"
Junius Haven laughed a little when
the younger Miss Jocelyn's defiant
message was brought to him.
"She need not be alarmed," he
said. "There is no sort of probability
that we shall be brought into contact
with each other."
But "Man proposes and God dis
poses," says the sparkling little prov
erb, and the week was not out before
Mr. Junius Haven, strolling among
the picturesque woods, found himself
in a ruined saw mill, where tall,sweet
fern bushes grew through the yawning
crevices of the mouldering floor, and
sunbeams sifted like misty lines of
gold between the cracks in the roof
above.
"There must be a view from that
peak," said Haven to himself; and
springing up a slight ladder, which
reared ituelf from beam to beam, he
picked his way across the perilous
flooring to the window, which looked
out over a breezy stretch of vale and
upland, where the blue windings of a
river flashed in the sunshine, and the
undulations of a distant mountain
chain seemed to close up the horizon
with its purple gateways.
As he stood there, feasting his eyes
upon the prospect,a slight noise below
attracted his ear; he hurried to the
edge of the floor only in time to dis
cover that the ladder, his sole means
of escnpe, was walking off npcu the
shoulders of a stout, silver-haired old
man, who whistled cheerfully as he
went
"Halloa!" shouted Junius. "Hold
on there, my man! Where are you
going with that ladder?"
No answer—no response of any na
ture.
"Is the man deaf?" cried Junius, in
a sort of frenzy.
That was precisely what old Hans
Diefendorf was. As deaf as the pro
verbial post.
Pretty Una Jocelyn was waiting for
him on the edge of the ruins, holding
up one pretty linger.
"Hush, Haus!" said she. "Don't
you hear some one calling?"
"Me not hear nottiflg," said old
Hans, whose dull ears could catch
Una's clear, sweet voice, when all the
shouting of the farm hands was inau
dible to him. "It must be de cat
birds or some one who shoots squir
rels in de glen, may happen."
"No," said Una, crisply; "it is a
voice calling. Stay here, Hans, until
I come back."
Hans stood still, contentedly, with
the ladder on his back, while his young
mistress hurried up the steep bank as
fast, as she could.
"Who is it?" she cried, in a voice
sweet and shrill as a thrush's warble.
"It is I!" responded Mr. Junius
Haven, plaiutively. "I climbed up
here, and now some one has taken the
ladder away, and I can't get back."
Una stood there, tall, brown-cheeked,
with her hands clasped behind her
back and the wind blowing her chest
nut curls about, while a mischievous
light scintillated under her long, dark
eyelashes.
* "Oh," said she, "I understand! You
are Mr. Haven?"
"And you are Miss Una Jocelyn?"
said he, coloring and biting his lip.
"Exactly," responded the girl.
"And here is an excelleut opportunity
for me to be avenged. You have called
me an Amazon, a farm boy's assistant
—all manner of names, and you are at
my mercy now."
"Yes," confessed Mr. Haven, peni
tently; "it's all true."
"Don't you think it would serve you
right," went on Una, severely, "if I
sent old Hans home with the ladder,
instead of recalling him to your assist
ance?"
"Of course it woufd," said Haven.
"So do I," said Una; "but I mean
to be magnanimous. Hans! Hans!"
Clear and flute-like her voice
sounded down the glen, and old Hans'
husky accents replied:
"Yaw, yawl I ish coming!"
Una Jocelyn in the meantime ntood
looking at Mr. Haven as coolly as if
he were a Sphinx or an obelisk or
some such marvel of theuuiverse. Mr.
Haven regarded her on his part with
a sort of meek propitiation, and when
at last he had descended and stood on
the green turf beside his fair rescuer,
he held out his hands.
"I hope we are friends?" said he.
"Oh, certainly!"
But she made no motion to take the
extended Dalra.
"Won't you shake hands with me?"
he asked, in some discomfiture.
"I didn't suppose you cared to
shake hands with a regular Amuzon,"
said Miss Una, sarcastically.
"It was a foolish speech," said' H
aven, vehemently, "and I've been sorry
for it a score of times since it was
spoken!"
Una turned to him with a smile
that illuminated her piquant face.
"In that case it shall be forgotten,"
said she. "And I'm very glad that
old Hans brought the ladder here to
look for my poll-parrot that has been
lost these two days."
"I wonder if I couldn't help find
it?" said Mr. Haven, eagerly.
"I don't know," said Una,demurely.
"You might try."
They did try. The parrot was not
found, for he had been stolen by a
tramp who slept in the Jocelyn barn
two nights before. But Mr. Haven
and Miss Jocelyn became excellent
friends in the progress of the quest.
Una forgave him his city-bred preju
dices, and he began to see things
through the medium of her clear and
brilliant eyes. They had called her a
child, but she was such a bright,orig
inal sort of child!
And oue evening, about a fortnight
subsequently, Mr. Haven astonished
his sister by saying, abruptly:
"Well, Polly" (the name he always
used when he was in an especially
good humor), "I have a piece of news
for you. I have proposed to Miss
Jocelyn, and she has been graciously
pleased to accept me."
Mary clasped her hands in delight.
"Oh, Junius!" she'eried, rapturous
ly-
"But not your Miss Jocelyn," he
added—"not. the one like an exagger
ated wax doll. It is Una that I mean
—my dark-eyed queen of the brunettes
—my little compound of tire and dew
and sparkle!"
"Oh," said Mary, "I am sure I'm
very glad!"
Hut she thought, and so did Miss
Ellice Jocelyn, that there was no ac
counting for the erratic direction
taken by the current of true love.—
Saturday Night.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
Dutch omnibuses are fitted with let
ter boxes.
Birmiugham turns out five tons of
hairpins every week.
One of the German cities boasts a
street laid with rubber.
Six thousand people sleep in the
open air in London every night.
Over one thousand children are born
yearly in the London workhouses.
Two thousand two hundred trains
leave London ordinarily every twenty
four hours.
Nearly $5,000,000 worth of proprie
tary medicines are exported from the
United Kingdom each year.
There are nearly 19,000 hounds
maintained in the United Kingdom ex
clusively for hunting purposes.
Kerosene from Sumatra is entering
the markets of the far East in compe
tition with the Russian oil.
In Berlin and Leipsic cyclometers
are attached to cabs, so that the occu
pant may know his legal fare.
There are 305 miles of street rail
ways in St. Louis now, and they carry
100,000,000 passengers a year.
Great preparations are being made
for the Stock Growers' convention to
be held in Denver on Jaunary 25th.
It is stated that sharks have now
penetrated into the Mediterranean
through the Suez canal from the Bed
sea.
In France there have been found
only twy criminals whose measure
ments by the Bertillon system coin
cided.
The Adams homestead at Quincy,
Miss., has been restored under the
direction of the Quincy Historical
society.
The oldest living clergyman of the
Church of England, the Kev. Edward
Allen of Tiverton, Devon, recentlj
celebrated his hundredth birthday.
A substitute for honey has been in
troduced in Germany under the name
of sugar-honey, aud consists of sugar,
water, minute amounts of mineral sub
stances aud free acid.
In the British Lord Chamberlain'*
department the position of chimney
sweeper is held by a woman, and the
oftioe of statuary mason is also filled
by a member of the fair sex.
Marie Antoinette was the first per
son who broke the absurd fashion of
dressing infant boys as droll minia
tures of their fathers. She attired the
unfortunate dauphin in a simple blue
jacket and trousers.
Signor Tosti, the famous composer,
after a hard day's work, either teach
ing his many royal pupils or in com
posing, seeks recreation at his favor
ite amusement of upholstering. The
greater part of the chairs and the
whole of his wife's boudoir have thus
been upholstered by Signor Tosti.
8100,000 in Klephant Tusks.
Zanzibar is to the trade in ivory
what Cape Town is to the diamond
business. Many carloads of mam
moth tusks are shipped from Zanzi
bar each month of the year,and native
merchants have grown immensely
wealthy in the business of gathering
and shipping the elephant's contribu
tion to the world's commerce.
The largest Shipment of ivory tusks
ever sent from Zanzibar was trans
ported on the sailing vessel Madeira
to Aden and thence by steamer to
New York. The value of the shipment
amounted to nearly SIOO,OOO, and con
sisted of 355 magnificent tusks, weigh
ing 22,307 pounds. Enough billiard
balls could be made from this pile of
tusks on which to roll the New York
postoflice from the Battery to Harlem.
—New York Journal.
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN;
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.
"Sign tlio Pledge"—Tribute!! to tho Lata
Frances K. Willard—The Co mine Man
Must Be a Sober One, or He Wilf
Not He Able to Obtain Employment#
Sign the pledge! we now entreat you;
Come with us and take your stand.
Many friends with joy will greet you,
Give you welcome to our band!
Pledge! our country calls you,
Bids you help us In tho light;
a, t,le ' eta Ptlng cup enthralls you,
Sign the pledge! on, sign to-night!
Sign the pledge! The promise given
In the name of God Most High,
U encourage some who've striven
From the dangerous path to fly'
Your example thus to others,
Shall be as a guiding light; I
for the sake of weaker brothers,
Sign the pledge! oh, sign to-night!
Sign the pledge! The children's voices
Rise to heaven—oh, heed their cry!
Many a fresh young heart rejoices,
Many a cheer supplants a sigh,
When fond parents help their dear ones
in the;battle of the right.
For the sake of precious near ones
Sign the pledge, then, sign to-night!
—Frederick Sherlock.
Tributes to Fiances E. Willard.
She waa, In short, the personification of
a principle.—Washington Times.
Miss W'illard was one of the most dis
tinguished women of this century.—Fon
du Lac Commercial.
The example of this noble woman Is an
inspiration to her sisters throughout the
world.—New York Mail and Express.
With all ber achievements it will be thu
crowning glory of her renown that she was
a woman among women.—Detroit Free
Press.
Frances Willard had thetrue statesman's
mind along with the intuitions of a heart
filled with spiritual devotion.—Boston
Transcript.
» The death of Miss Frances E. Willard
will carry sorrow wherever she was known.
She was a noble woman, nobly planned.—
Philadelphia Record.
Miss Willard was a patriotic woman and
American through and through, but the
grand world sweep of her labors made her
a cosmopolite.—Rochester Times.
Tho death of Miss Frances Willard re
moves from the sphere of earthly useful
ness one of the purest spirits that ever
graced the round earth.—Denver Post.
Other leaders may arise to carry on her
work, but none can win a warmer pluce in
the hearts of the women of America than
Miss Willard.—Hacine Journal.
But, in spite of the fact that she repre
sented what is called the "progress of
women," she was not a new woman in any
3ense of the word.—New York Sun.
Probably no woman leader In any of the
reformatory movements of the time has in
spired her followers with a higher degree
of trust, confidence and affection.—Phila
delphia Leader,
The motto—of her choosing, we believe—
"For God and Home and Native Land," of
her organization was not merely rhetorical,
rthe was one of the cleverest thialiura of
her sex.—New York Press.
Miss Willard was a genius in organization
and administration. A tireless worker
and a keen judge of persons, she knew
where to place her trust and where to labor
herself in tho Held.—Washington Star.
She took a part, ond one of far-reaching
prominence and importance, in the world"."
affairs, yet was always a wonijß, never
losing tho tender grace, charm aiwlollcac.v
which, after all, are the dls'Mgulshing
traits oi tUe sex.—Philndclp.Qa North
American.
It is not too muoli to say that, without
the ability, good sense, steady foirminded
xiess and thorough devotion of Frances E
Willard that remarkable organization, the
W. C. T. U., never could have attained to
(lie position of Influenco and power which
I: novf holds.—Boston Globe.
Tba Coming Man.
Tho question of drunkenness or sobriety
In an employe is year by year assuming'
greuter importance, says an exchange. The
more rosponslblo requirements of these
later times rnako a new phase in the tem
perance question. Rapid transit and rapid
pretty much everything annihilate time
and space, and they have also the liability
to annihilate a great deal of human life.
Those who direct these things, they who
are In immediate control, must have clear
heads, sharp eyes and strong arms. There
is no place of responsibility in which a
drunkard or tippler can by any moral
right be put. In discussing this letter, a
recent writer says very pertinently, and
speaking the sentiments of all tVought
ful persons: "Tho oonviotionis deloening,
among employers and laborers equally, to
dismiss Inebriety from the problem of em
ployment, wages and labor. Each side
plainly sees the Injury—the damage to ail
parties imposed by the inebriate. The day
is coming and must soon come, when so
briuty will stand first among the titled
qualifications of labor. So many men
work among machines that drunkenness
is inconsistent with their own safety; so
many work In places which lnvolvo tho
safety of others, where drunkenness can
not possibly be tolerated. A drunken man
may wreck a train simply because he Is
drunk. He may destroy property because
he is drunk, ami make a drunken blunder
with machinery. Human liberty does not
Include the privilege of drunkenness in
places where human life or property Is at
stake or dependent upon the mistakes of
an alooholized brain. Drinking locomotive
engineers, for instance, certaluly a»s dan
gerous men. No penalty can be to\ great
for a company whioh knowingly efcploys
drinlring men in plaoes wlierctheir respon
sibility involves human lite. In fa(Mvts'l
BUC'J men should be cured of their Inelm
ety or discharged, and no such £erso»
should be giveu employment unless lie ha*
a clean bill of health iu rela'jpn to inobri
ety." *
All Habltnal 1 uid.
The Wine and Spirit Gi i states that a
now code is to oome into in Ger
many in 1900, which "inter aTki" enacts the
compulsory treatment of habitual drunk
ards. The exact doecription given of an
habitual drunkard is: "He who, Inconse
quence of inebriety, cannot provide for his
affairs, or brings himself or bis family into
the danger of need, or endangers the safety
of otherß." The coda provides for Ills be
ing placed under a curator, who will be
empowered to place the Individual any
where for treatment until discharged from
curatorship by the court." The colonle-i
are popularlv supposed to produce novel
ties in legislation, because of their freedom
from many of tbe restrictions which pnovail
in older countries; but here is a probosr,!
which might well be aceopted, even if « Is
"made in Germany."—National Teniper
nnco Advocate. I
Temperance of the Tartars, 1
Here Is a little bit of testimony as
influenco of strong drink in shorten
life, and of course in impairing the lift 1
establishing diseased conditions.lt may
long before the end. Official statif
show that while the mortality amongst
Russians is forty per 1000, the rate amo
the Kazan Tartars, who are abstainers i
intoxicants is only twenty-one per 1
These Tartars, who live in Russia, nui
040,000. With the exception of their te
talism they live under exactly tho s
conditions* as the Russians. Granting
accuracy of the figures given It is to be
posed that the Russians prefer "a s
life and a merrv one!"