THE GOLD SEEKERS.
Xfie panting steamer siowlj drops For those there be who will come again,
Away from the crowded pier ; All broken and worn and wan.
The blackened decks recede from Tlew While others left In the Arotie snows
And leave me musing here. Will slumber forever on.
Away where the gold so warm and red. And some will empty-handed come.
Lies hid in the dark earth's breast; Who have missed the golden goal,
Little they reck of danger and cold, And some with gold too dear, alas !
Aglow with the golden quest. The price of u sinless soul.
The rosy youth with kindling eye, And those at home will sit at night—
In hl9 manhood's early dawn, And the wind sweeps where it wills—
The pale man with the student's BtoGfi With hearts away in a shambling shack
The stalwart man of brawn. In the wild Alaskan hills.
All. each and all, with fevered gaze 'Tis thus I muse on the lonely quay,
Fixed on the fields of gold; Whence the hurrying crowd is gone—
Ah, well-a-day ! for a faith that's firm While far away for the frozes north
And a heart that is brave and bold. A flag of smoke trails on.
—Carrie Shaw Rice, in Overland Monthly.
* THE COMING OF THE WHITE OWLH
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iBY MARY SPRAfIUIi:. ft
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The soft whir of a spinning wheel
I'atne through an open window, min
gling pleasantly with the singing of
birds and the hum of bees. Within
the room a slim, round figure stepped
gracefully to and fro. Without, watch
ing the pretty scene with a smile of
admiration, not unmixed with mischief,
on his handsome, ruddy face, stood a
tall young continental soldier, cocked
hat in hand.
His horse was close beside hiin,nib
bling, unrebuked, the clover which
grew in abundance near the weather
beaten house. Presently the crunching
of his strong white teeth on the
luscious mouthfuls caught the maiden's
ear. Like a flash she turned and saw
the silent onlooker.
"Well done, William Foskitt!" she
tartly. " 'Tis the act of. a
brave man, no doubt, to spy upon his
neighbors! Is it from the redcoats
you have learned such ways? Me
thinks they have apt pupils!"
A vivid flush mounted to the young
man's forehead. After au instant's
hesitation he vaulted over the window
sill aud approached the fair spinner,
whose look of pretended iudiguation
;hanged to one of great demureness
and whose cheeks grew rosy red.
"We've scarcely seen the redcoats
snongh yet to learn anything from
them, sweetheart, but the chance is
near at hand. General Washington is
•letermiued to lie idle behind his
trenches no longer. Within a few
day 8 —"
"Oh, William!"
Her voice was trembling now and
as loving as he could wish. Her wiu
some blue eyes were full of tears. The
thread, no longer truly held, broke
with a snap.
"Nay, now, sweetheart," he said,
caressing the sunny hair which lay
against his shoulder, "calm these
foolish fears. Likely enough we shall
stay these next three months as the
last. Let us not borrow trouble. See!
I am come with a message to you from
Anna Stedman. Here it is. Coine
out under the trees and read it. I
know already something of its con
tents, I doubt not."
He drew a scrap of paper from his
big-flapped pocket and led the way to
a heuch under an old elm in the door
yard.
"Dear Polly—My brother aud some
other young men who are at home
from camp on two or three days' leave
are going to give a ball here, at my
father's tavern, next Thursday night.
'Twill be quite a- grand affair.
"I wish you to come over Wednes
3ay aud spend the night. Bring your
finest gown. I shall wear my pink
gauze and the gold beads Aunt Mercy
gave me.
"Milly Brewster and Priscilla Nick
srson will be here. Milly left Boston
just before the siege began, and she
knows the latest styles of dressing
hair. She learned it from on English
lady her aunt knows. Nothing like it
has ever bi'en seeu in this neighbor
hood. 'Twill be most becoming to
your pretty head.
"William Poskitt stopped hero on
in errand, and I make use of him to
bring this to you. I have no fear that
his coming will anger you.
"Your true friend,
"Axna Stedmax."
The blue eyes and the gray ones
met in a smile of perfect understand
ing us the last words were reached.
The next Wednesday afternoon
I'olly set forth on horseback for Sted
uian's tavern, accompanied by her
younger brother, a lad of 15. Tied
to their saddles were several large
bundles containing her ball costume.
They met'few travelers on the three
miles of their ride until within a short
distance of their destination, when
half a dozen horsemen were seen ap
proaching at a rapid pace.
"Be not afraid, Polly," said Daniel,
with an air of protection. "We will
rein our horses to one side till they
pass."
"But who can they be, Dan?" whis
pered Polly.
"Very likely one of the expresses
General Washington sends all through
the colonies to carry and bring tidings.
I have heard my father say they ride
iwiftly aud in small companies."
There was time for no further ex
;hange of words. The galloping riders
were close by. The lad took off' his
oap, aud Polly, blushing,involuntarily
bowed in response as every man of the
eonipauy raised his cocked hat,and one
of them, the youngest and handsomest,
spoke a word of respectful greeting.
Daniel turned in his saddle to look
after them. His hazel eyes were
glowing.
"I r-ish I was a manl" he cried.
"I'll be a soldier the minute father
thiuks I'm big enongh!"
" 'Tis a brave life indeed," answered
his sister.
The silence seemed deeper than ever
after the sound of quick hoof-beats
died away, but soon they began to as
oen4 the long hill leading to Sted
man's tavern. As they approached
the great rambling gray house with its
protecting row of elms three girls ran
out to meet them, laughing nncl chid
ing Polly for her late coming.
"We thought some accident had be
fallen," said Anna, the tallest and
most buxom of the group. She
mounted the broad horse block and
assisted Polly in untying the parcels.
"Here,girls, do you take these inside.
Daniel, you can help. Timothy will
see to the horses. What! You can't
stay, Daniel?"
"No, Anna. My father said he
would need me in the field tomorrow."
"Be sure you come tomorrow night
with your brothers, then. 'Twill be
a merrymaking long to be remem
bered. What do you think of this,
Polly? Two officers from General
Washington's own colony, who lately
came onto join the continental army,
are staying at Isaac Merrick's and have
promised my brother to be here. They
say that open war will soon begin, and
we'd better make the most of this
ball. There! the last knot is untied!
Come right iu! Supper is all ready.
You, too, Daniel. 'Tis moonlight
now. and the road will be all the
lighter an hour hence."
So, well laden with Polly's finery,
they disappeared within the hospitable
tavern.
Two hours later, Daniel being well
on his homeward way and the house
hold tasks disposed of, the four maid
ens bade the family good night aud
repaired to the large double bed Jed
chamber where they were to sleep.
Several caudles were lighted and
placed on the high, narrow mantel
piece, whence they th>'ew fantastic
shadows over the spindle-legged fur
niture and the opposite wall.
"Now, Milly," began Anna in her
brisk fashion, "yon do my hair, and
let Polly and Priscilla see how we do
ours. 'Tis all with rolls and cushions,
which we made todny, aud with puffs
and curls wonderful to behold. I've a
full supply of powder, too."
So saying she brought forth from a
cupboard a large paper bandbox piled
with numerous articles ready for use,
at which the girls looked with spark
ling eyes. Anna soon had her beauti
ful dark hair unbound, aud wheu she
had seated herself iu a low chair, with
an apron tied around her plump
shoulders, Milly began operations.
Very deftly her slender fingers Hew
like white birds in aud out among the
long, shining tresses, smoothiug,part
ing, weaving, rolling, curling, pow
dering, until a tall, elaborate structure,
truly marvellous to the sight, arose in
stately grace upou Anna's head. She
sat quite patientlv during the pro
tracted ordeal, encouraged now and
then by glimpses of her growing
adornment in a bit of broken looking
glass held before her eyes by one or
the other of the admiring girls.
"I'm sure I can never do that in
the world," sighed Polly, envious of
Milly's skillful touch. "How did you
ever learn, Milly?"
Milly's thin, dark face glowed with
satisfaction.
"Oh, '.tis not so hard when once
you have tried it!" she responded, as
suming an air of indifference. "My
Aunt tiethia has a dear frieud in Mis
tress Alice Montford, wife to an Eug
lish merchant. Her maid taught me
how to do Aunt Bethia's hair. There!
Is that not truly becoming to onr
Anna's face? Rise,fair maid, and view
thy charms!"
Lnughing, they led her to the long,
narrow mirror hanging against the
wall, in which, by dint of turning this
way and that, she was able to see her
mass of white puff's and curls.
"Now, Polly, it is your turn next,"
said Milly.
"Why, I thought—" bsgau Polly.
"Oh, I'd just as lievedo them all
as not,interrupted Milly, good natnred
ly. "I love to seo what new ways I
can discover."
Polly took her place in the chintz
covered chair without further ado.
Her golden locks received a different
treatment from Anna's dark ones, but
indue time she, too, emerged from
Milly's hands with a triumph of archi
tecture nicely balanced 011 her pretty
head.
"How shall we ever be able togo to
bed?" she suddenly asked, while crau
ing her neck to view her newly ac
quired possession. "I feel as though
this would all fall off if I don't keep
very straight and stiff."
"You'll soon get used to that," re
plied Anna, with a confidence born of
experience. "But, of course, as for
going to bed,that is not to bo thought
of. Come, Prissy!"
Blank astonishment looked from
Polly's bine eyes.
"Not goto bedl Who ever heard
of snch a thing?" she cried in wonder.
"How will we look tomorrow night if
we don't get any sleep?"
"Oh, that is another thing! We «au
sleep well enough sitting up and lean
iug back in oar chairs. Ladies of
'fashion often do that. I'H show jam
how my Aunt Betbia does."
Polly made no answer. Her neck
was already aching from her continued
efforts to ba'auce her "tower" prop
erly. For a few minutes she wished
she had not coiue, but very soon her
naturally sweet temper reasserted it
self, and she made the best of an un
comfortable prospect.
"We might have waited until to
morrow afternoon," said Anna, "but
there'll be so many things to do. W«
can manage to sleep somehow."
By the time Priscilla's auburn hail
was dressed she had tardy qualms o:
conscience.
"What think you, girls?" she in
quired, with an anxious wrinkle in
her white forehead. "Is it altogethei
seemly for us to ape the fashions o!
our country's enemies? How will oui
continental soldiers like to see ui
thus?"
"Have done with such foolish no
tious, i'riscilla Nickerson !"commanded
Milly with more than her usual de
cision. "You will learn, some of thest
days, that men know nothing of fash
ion. If we only look to their pleasing
that is all they care. And I'll warranf
there'll be no finer appearing girls at
the ball than we four. There's small con
nection, to my thinking, between the
way we do our hair and this unchris
tian war. So put away your sillj
fears, Prissy, and be sensible."
Milly was older than the others.
She lived in Boston. Her sharp,posi
tive way and words had a great deal
of weight with her companions. So
Prissy dropped the matter and was
soon engrossed in trying on her new
blue satin slippers.
Not so Polly.
"What will William Foskitt think?"
she kept asking herself over and over
again, until her heart grew so heavy
that but for the shame of self-betrayal
she would have torn the mass of rolls
and ribbons from her head and braided
her soft hair in its accustomed bands.
At Inst each head was dressed. Then
the girls sought comfortable chairs
against whose high backs they could
lean propped up with cushions aud
pillows. The candles were extin
guished. Wrapped in blankets they
established themselves aud for a time
talked of the morrow's gaieties. But
finally wearied nature claimed her
due. The moon peeping in through
the open window at the mild August
midnight saw four sleeping beauties.
High in an elm tree opposite this
same window sat a great white owl.
For a long while he had been keenly
observant of all that was going on
within the chamber. What he thought
of the proceedings can never be
known, but true it is that he slowly
descended from his perch aud with
noiseless movements stepped inside
the window. Gravely scanning each
bedecked top knot he selected Polly's
as the most to his liking. With a flut
tering whir of his big wings he made
swift and sudden descent upon it,div
ing his strong claws sharply within it
and, after careful balancing, settliug
down into a steady position.
And poor little Polly! Alas! her
light slumber, already disturbed by
uneasy thoughts of possible disloynlty
to her lover, had a rude awakening.
A confused seuse came over her of
being carried off by the top of her
head; a stab, a pain; a startled con
sciousness of the near presence of
some awful thing, some heavy weight.
Then she gave piercing shrieks which
brought the terrified girls to their feet,
the household to the room.
Candles being hastily lighted re
vealed to the incredulous eyes of all
the huge white owl sittiug on Polly's
head, blinking wisely and evidently in
no mind to leave his dainty resting
place.
Muscular hands carefully dislodged
him. Polly's golden hair was soon
combed smoothly out and laid in a
long, glistening braid over the pillow
on the bed to which they carried her.
For hours she suffered severely from
the nervous shock, audit was several
days before she was able togo to he>
home.
She did not feel entirely herself
again until she had told the whole
story to William Foskitt and had heartf
him say that he forgave her.
"I will say the words top ease you,
sweetheart, but I do not consider that
you did grievous the stalwart
young continental replied to his in
sistent petitioner. " 'Twas only a
trifling matter. You charge yourself
too heavily, my Polly."
"No, William," she made answer,
smiling up at hun with happy eyes.
" 'Tis the part of a woman to be true
even in very little things."—Waverley
Magazine.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
There is at Werda in Dahomey a
temple in which 1000 snakes are fed
by the priests.
Squatters who have recently pene
trated the interior of New Zealand
report the discovery of a tribe of aborig
inal dwarfs.
Florida housewives use oranges iu
s'.ead of soap iu scrubbiug floors,
'i'liey cut the fruit in two aud rub the
pulp ou the floor- It is found to be
very cleansing.
Far away from civilization gesture
language is still extaut in Australia.
Some of the tribes possess such an
excellent code that it is almost as effi
cient as the spoken language.
A queer exhibition was recently held
in Berlin, Germany—that of the Vege
tariau society—in which sixty chil
dren were shown who have nevei
touched other nutriment than vege
tables.
A man who was convicted of seven
highway robberies in Cotania, Sicily,
was lucky enough to be tried before a
tender-hearted judge, who thought ■
life sentence too severe. He therefore
was easy with him, letting him off with
only 180 Tears' imprisonment
[FOR FARM AND GARDEN.]
Keeping np Fertility,
To keep up the fertility of a farm
while cultivating is something that
comes about as near to agricultural
science as anything of which there is
knowledge, and the farmers that un
derstand this the best and practice it
the closest are the most successful and
prosperous, for the proper manuring
and enriching of the soil is the foun
dation of successful farming—no mat
ter what branch of farming it may be
—and it is a matter that demands the
farmer's most careful and earnest at
tention.
Important Points in Potato Culture.
Potato rot and blight have been ef
fectively treated at the Michigan sta
tion, by the use of a spray of bordeaux
mixture. The crop was successfully
carried through a severe drouth by
continuous cultivation of the surface
soil. The corrosive sublimate treat
meut of the seed controlled the potato
scab. It was found that potatoes de
teriorate rapidly from year to year
unless well selected and carefully
grown. Selected seed increased the
size and appearance of tho tubers of
several varieties. The potatoes which
were stored in a potato basement lost
11 1-2 per cent, in weight from Sep
tember to May. Potatoes which had
sprouted yielded less than sound
seed.
Starting » Sitter.
To get the best results, have a sep
arate house tor the sitters. Let them
get fully determined to incubate, then
prepare a fresh, clean nest aud remove
them carefully after night. Put nest
eggs (or the small gourd which every
poultrvman should raise) under them
until they are reconciled to the
change.
A luth coop, one foot wide, two feet
loug and fifteen inches high, is set
before the nest and the hen eats,
driuks aud dusts iu this coop until
accustomed togo back to her nest.
A house for the sitters with the south
side made to opeu, the opening
screeened with two-inch mesh chicken
wire, is a flue place on sunny days to
opeu U}) and let the sitters come out
to sun and dust themselves. At other
times it has been found that three
weeks' confinement in the small coops
often caused diarrhea and weakuess
which this freedom of the henhouse
every few days obviated. Do not for
get to see them back to their proper
nests with the coops in front and the
house shut up, for a hen needs seclu
sion when sitting.
Fowl* for Confinement.
Frobably more mistakes are made
iu selecting the breeds of poultry to
be kept than in any other part of the
work. The large, heavy breeds like
Brahmas, Cochins and Plymouth
Rocks, have been bred for generations
to confinement and rarely make an
effort to escape from small yards, while
the lighter, more nervous breeds like
Leghorns aud Minnrcas, resent being
deprived of their liberty. In the se
lection of a breed care must be taken
iu this direction as well as iu the
proper selection to meet the demands
of the market. It does not follow,
however, that Leghorns cannot be
kept iu small yards, but simply that if
such is the case they must be kept
busy at all times. Never permit thom
when confined iu small yards to have
more thau one meal a day that they do
not earn by hird scratching. Like
humans,the busy hen is the contented
one, aud if not kept busy they are apt
to get into mischief. In the case of
the hen this mischief consists in
feather pulling and egg eating, both
almost impossible to break off. If
one is not so situated that fowls kept
in small yards can be kept busy ut all
times, then the heavier breeds should
by all means be selected.—Atlanta
lourual.
Corn Cobs for Stock Lota.
Every stock raiser knows how
muddy it becomes around feed troughs
at certain times in the year, especially
if the ground is n rich, black soil. It
may be impossible to put stone around
the troughs, or if not, the expense of
doing so may be too great. One of
the cheapest and best methods of pro
tecting against mud is to throw corn
:obs around the troughs. The cobs
which ere left in the troughs, if the
3orn is fed in the ear, will not be suf
ficient.
The oobs should be epread on the
ground to a depth of six inches. They
Bhould not be thrown ou the mud, but
on dry or frozen ground. The cobs
will rot, but they will become pretty
well packed into the ground. Before
the rottiug cobs can become a slush, a
fresh supply should be spread oil. If
this is well done, there need be no
complaint because of the mud around
the troughs. It will not be necessary
to move the troughs to avoid the mud,
which must be done if there is nothing
to prevent it. The farmer will do
well if he fills up with corn cobs all of
the mud holes which he may find on
his farm. The cobs make good paths
across muddy lots, aud are useful
wherever the mud becomes deep and
disagreeable. Of course, most of
them rot finally, but they serve an ex
cellent purpose while they last.—New
England Homestead.
Stop tlie Wuiite of Fruit.
In the fruit industry the waste often
eonsumes the profits. An iuoppotune
rain or wind at the time when the
fruit is just ripening often ruins the
hopes and anticipations of a whole
year. The failure to use the right
kind of a package and to make the
fruit look its best in it often degrades
the quality in the estiniKtion of the
buyer from first to second class with
the correspendinc reduotion of prioe.
The crowded market of Saturday oftes
leaves on hand of the grower a few
crates of berries which are worthless
when the market opens the following
■week. The insects somehow find their
way to the fruit and just at the time
when it should ripen we find that it is
ruined. Nine cases out of ten of fail
ure in the fruit business cornea
through loss due to waste.
The successful fruit grower must
learn early in his career that his prod
ucts are at all times tender and quick
ly perishable. He must, so far as he
is able, prevent the contact of any
agent that destroys or reduces the
value of his fruit. This is not some
thing that is beyond his power. By a
vigilant warfare against insects he can
greatly increase the quantity and im
prove the quality of the crop w liich h«
is to receive.
Cold storage affords one of the most
practical means of preventing waste in
the fruit crop that we have. Apples
that fall from the tree when almost
ripe, aud are lost, are frequently ripe
enough to be picked and placed in
cold storage. The fact that apples for
cold storage should be picked while
solid is valuable information to those
who realize that their fruit is dropping
badly while in that state. An ice aud
cold storage house on the fruit farm is
of immense value in preventing the
waste iu summer fruit that comes nat
urally through rapid decay. Berries,
cherries, plums aud peaches can b«
kept a number of days, even weeks,
and there is thus afforded ample op
portunity for using or disposing of
them. Let the farmer and fruit
grower be as painstaking to prevent
waste in their products as the packers
and the manufacturers are to prevent
waste in their large commercial estab
lishments.—W. L. Hall in Farm,
Field and Fireside.
Choosing the Kight Breed.
Many dairymen who grasp the cor
rect idea that improved methods of
breeding benefit their milch herds feel
disappointed at results. This is be
cause they do not acquire the breed
best adapted to their needs aud loca
tion.
As a truthful illustration of what I
mean, I wish to cite an instance of
which I was personally cognizant some
little time ago. A New York dairy
man bred into Holsteins under the
supposition that because of their
copious milk-yielding qualities, they
were the best cows for him. Two
thirds of this man's furm was low
lying laud, and the pasturago neces
sarily of a watery nature; that is, the
luxuriant grass growing from a pro
verbially moist soil contained far more
water than does highland herbage.
Now, Holstein cows are known to
lean toward the production of watery
milk, and iu this instance, stimulated
by the character of their feed, they
I held good their reputation to the ex
tent of yielding milk that did not con
tain the legal per cent, of solids.
The man was disappoiuted with the
breed without recognizing the fact
that his inferior pasturage had more
to do with the failure than anything
else. Besides this, I know of a num
ber of other prominent dairymen liv
ing on river-bottom land, who, with
Holstein cows, find it difficult to pro
duce milk possessing a legal standard.
In some cases they have supplemented
grain rations to help them out, and in
others gradually introduced other
breeds of cows.
Do not infer from this that I am
saying anything against Holsteius, for
in their proper place I am a great ad
mirer of the breed, but a breed must
be adapted to its surroundings aud the
requirements of the dairyman. If a
dairyman is not quite sure what kind
of milch stock will meet his best needs,
he had better go experimentally before
acquiring a whole herd of new bloods.
Also always take into account the
quality of your soil ahd pasturage, and
the adaptability of the prospective
breed of cows for the conditions you
have under control.
To new breeders, grades, I think,
will prove more generally satisfactory
than full bloods. By judiciously se
lecting the dams cows or heifers of
naturally good milch strain—and using
a thoroughbred bull, firstclass grades
can be secured at a uominal price.
This looks easy enough, but yet it
requires skill and careful study on the
part of the breeder to breed success
fully. It can be said as a general rule
a successful dairyman will make a
good breeder. One must be an accu
rate judge of the points of a good
milch cow, and of the sire that is to
be father of her calf. This is the
main essential, and the side issues
are sure to be taken care of by one
who has the right principles at heart.
—George E. Newell in American Cul
tivator.
Poultry Not**.
Feed liberally, but feed right; and
you will have no overfat hens.
Have a curtain of oiled muslin to
shut off the run in stormy weather.
A healthy hen will lay and consume
a great deal of food without getting
fat. *
Many fail with poultry because tney
try not to get their hens too fat—they
starve thein.
Open the doors and windows of the
poultry house on all clear days and
you will not be troubled with damp
walls.
It has been demonstrated that stand
ard bred fowls can be made to lay
from 150 to 200 eggs per year under
proper treatment aud care.
The gizzard is made to grind the
food in. It cannot grind food that is
already ground, thus, in order to keep
it in normal condition it must perforir
the work nature intended it to.
Some of the expert pickers of poul
try can take the feathers off a fowl so
quickly as to astonish one' who does
not understand the operation. It is
done by dipping each carcass in cold
water and allowing it to drip.
A TEMPERANCE COLUMN.
THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST
IN MANY WAYS.
Til# Drankatil—liquor 8hoi» Are Not She
Poor M»n> Club—Are n Sm-ry Make
shift When Itecreation li the Object-
Drunkenness Is a Ulieait.
On feeble and unsteady legs
He walks as If he trod on eggs.
Whene'r he has to give or take
His hands, as with the palsy, shake.
To m«et your gaze he vainly tries
With dull and bleared and bloodshot eyes.
Compelled to bear the sign, he fjliows
A swollen, coarse and crimson nose.
His pimpled, blue and bloated face
Of manliness has not a trace.
All people near him shun like death
Ills permeating, sickening breath.
With ruined health and shattered nerves
He suffers tortures he deserves.
Sad children and heart-broken wlfa
Through him endure a wretched life.
Abhorred and shunned by friends op.ee
known
He wanders through the world alone.
Soon losing self respect, he goes
Iu seedy, torn and dirty clothes.
With raging, hot, increasing thirst
hich can't bo quenched he's ever cursed.
In vain he takes the pledge to stop;
With all power gone he has no prop.
Down, down he sinks, until in time
Ho in the gutter reek 9 with slime.
From borrowing he begs until
For drink he'd steal or even kill.
Delirium tremens' horrid sights
He sees. With Imps and snakes he fights,
At last with tramps hte doom is sealod,
An then he goes to Potter's Field.
And after that? Alas, who knows
! Where any slave of liquor goes?
Saloons Not a Social Necessity.
The argument that liquor saloous are a
social necessity" to the poor man, or In
; deed, to any one, Is too specious to hold
■ water. At any rate, in this country there
is but little of the "poor mau's club" per
taining to them. At its best the liquor sa
loon Is but a sorry makeshift when recrea
tion is the object, and the instruction a
worklngman is likely to gain injlt is scarce
ly calculated to elevate or improve his
mind. 80 long as he has money and will
spend it with alacrity his company is wel
come, but when his pockets are empty his
society is no longer regarded with favor by,
1 the proprietor. The saloon keeper is not a.
I muu of sentiment, but invariably keeps hia
1 eye on the main chance. This being so, the
1 question must be faced as It really is and
not judged from an optimistic and imaglua
! live point of view. The truth is that the
liquor ualoon in Amerioa Is not a "poor
mau's club," a place in which he can give
his "recreative instincts" fair play, but
, simply and solely a house for the sale of
. strong drinks at a large profit to the pro
prietor.
: If the liquor saloon does satisfy the work
ingman's "recreative instinct," all wo can
say is that if he does not possess the bibu
lous Instinct we are sorry for the intelll
-1 gence of the worklngman. The great ma
jority of medical men nowadays are quite,
agreed that alcohol does no good to 11
| healthy man, and, taking into consideration
I the incalculable amount of harm that has
been wrought by its agency, it is best that
| the matter should be judged on Its merits,
! and that the Ignorant and careless should'
Ibe warned of their danger. It is right and
; just that the worklngman should be af
j lorded the opportunities of mixing in con
genial society which tho rich man enjoys,
but he must not look for in the liquor sa
loon.
| From a consideration of the social side of
the saloon question to that of the abuse of
drink is but a step. Where, then, is the
remedy to be sought In order to übolish or
counteract an evil which is acknowledged
on all sides to bo widespread and extreme
ly pernicious? The view that habitual
drunkenness Is u disease and should be
treated as such is the one most generally
held in these days. Dr. Norman Kerr, the
best known British authority on the mat
ter, says: "Deal with the inebriate as you
have successfully dealt with the maniac.
Frown not on him as a hardened criminal.
Kenieihber he has fallen by the power of a
physical agency whioh has orushed to earth
some of the noblest and most gifted. Treat
him as a patient laboring under a baffling
and Inveterate disease and amid many dis
couragements. Such a measure of success
will follow your true curative treatment as
will gladden iyour hearts as men, while it
will attest your skill as physicians."
An Intellectual Poison.
Alcohol is an Intellectual poison. Nor
could it be otherwise, lor the brain, which
is the seat of memory, of thought, and of
all the intellectual faculties, is affected by
alcohol, and by reason of tho extreme
sensitiveness of Its tissue is even partic
ularly jsensltlve thereto. Hence it soon
becomes subject to change under the in
fluence of liquor, and quickly deteriorates.
The power of thinking Is affected, the in
tellectual faculties are obsoured, judgment
disappears and the final result is that many
alcoholic subjects develop madness.
For that matter, drunkenness Itself—-
Ihut temporary poisoning—is really an
ephemeral madness which, by force of!
repetition, becomes converted Into com-,
plete madness. It is a statistical fact,'
which shows at a glance how alcohol af-,
feots the ralnd, that the Increase of mad
ness is iu direct proportion to the con
sumption of intoxicating liquors in the dif
ferent countries.
Bad For Our Soldiers.
The whisky and beer manufacturers and
dealers who ure trying to make the people
believe that nothing will preserve our sol
diers' health and increase their strength so
much as tho product of their breweries and
distilleries, are well answered by tlie ex
perience of the great explorer, Paul du
Cliaillu, who, in a latter written to a young
soldier, said:
"I will tell you my experience while
traveling in warm countries. I abstained
from strong drinks because I found they
did not help mo—on the contrary, I felt
weaker liulf an hour after, so I gave them
up-"
Notes About The Drink Evil.
While the saloon exists your own son isl
never safe.
A champagne trust with capital of J50,-
000,000 is reported.
The House of the Utah Legislature de
feated by a vote of 20 to 19 a bill t" *>•"
local option upon the lion"
The man who dell'
health uud shorter
oommits suicide a!
his brains or took
1 If you have got
drink in your mou
hound you throut
safety is, renounce
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shelved a bill des'
on Sundays. Sui
law of that little
The Leglslatui
journed withou
carry out the w
by their vote ti
the last eiectK