The German emperor Is getting pos session of a lot of islands -whose lan guage is so peculiar that be cannot tell whether lese majeste is being com mitted or not. The attorney general of Wisconsin fias rendered an opinion on the anti pass law to the efl'ect that state offi cials cannot ride on free passes out- Bide of the state any more than they can inside. Dr. Hartland Law of San Francis co, told a New York audience the other day that it is not infrequent for the woman to propose to the man and that presently it will be the regular cus tom. Day by day it becomes clearer that it is the men and not the women who need the chaperons. While they are trying to mitigate the "tipping" annoyance abroad, the custom is constantly growing on this side the ocean. The Denver Repub lican Las discovered that the govern ment bas to a certain extent endorsed the practice. It seems that the first auditor of the treasury in passing on the accounts of men who travel in government service holds that a tip of a quarter dollar to the porter of a sleeping car is necessary and proper. Many persons consider the acceptance of a tip as destructive of the notion of personal equality essential to the preservation of republican spirit. England is willing to make consid erable sacrifices to retain Gibraltar. A new battery has recently been made on the highest point of the rock, and the shells,weighing four and five hun dred pounds, are taken up by a nar row path, on a barrow drrfwn by a mule and guided by a man. Frequent ly, it is said, mule aud barrow and man have fallen over the side of the cliff; but instead of an outcry against the dangerous practice, the English gravely congratulate themselves that the accidents have not taken a more Berious form, "considering that these ehoils are charged with powerful doses of Lyddite." The whole top of Gib raltar might have been blown off. Only the other day, in the terrible wreck at Waterloo, la., the arm of a traveling man was caught between im movable and relentless beams. The only seeming relief was the lose of the arm, and with that loss were counted 99 chances of death to one of life. He accepted the one chance aud 'died, only whispering with his last breatb, "'Break it to her tenderly." He was en route to his own wedding. There are heroes and heroes, and it is not always the one who wins the dis tinction in front of belching cannon, sputtering musketry, flying shrapnel and bursting shells that most deserves the honor. In 1871 Germany lo<t 113,000 lives by smallpox. In 1871 a law was passed making vaccination obligatory in the first year of life, and compel ling its repetition at the tenth year. The result was that the disease al most entirely disappeared. At pres ent the losi of life from it throughout the empire is scarcely one hundred a yeir. At the time of the Franco- German war the German government had its civil population vaccinated op tionally, and its army completely re vaccinated, while the French —popu- lation and army—were vaccinated per functorily. Both were attacked by amallpox, the French army losing 23,000 men and the German 278. In the face of such facts, all one way, with which statistics of the disease Hie crowded, it is not easy to see how tlie anti-vaccinationist is able to give «nv plausibility to his argument. Farmers in Oregon and Washington have reason to believe that the horse less ngi has been postponed. Buyers from Wisconsin, Minnesota aud the Dakotas have been scouring those states for horses, and paying from sls up for animals that two or three years ago were thought fit ouly for the abat toir. Ho great is the demand foi heavy work-horses and animals suita ble for the cavalry service that it is impossible to meet it with the class ol animals required, and buyers are fill ing out orders in some cases with nn broken range horses, for which as high as 810 per head has beju paid. Government buyers, who a few years ago were wont to cull very closely and reject everything that did not meet tlu exact requirements, have beeu com pelled to waive some of the specifica tions, or else fail to secure the full quota of animals needed. The prin cipal reason for the advance in priest is that many breeders abandoned the business when there was so little protit in it. The work-life of horset Is short, and the demand has now •vertnken the supply. A minor fac tor ia the increased it naQ<l During the year 1898 American builders sent 580 locomotives to for eign countries. This record prove» that if others will pay the freight tli« Yankees will show them how to haul it. In a search for a name for the "eleo trically propelled self-contained vehi cle for roads and streets," the Elec trical lieview has chosen "Electromo bile" as the best of the thousand; suggested. A thinker of the name of David Morgan has been studying Tennyson, He finds that Tennyson "sat like » clam in his shell and growled and grunted." This may not throw any sudden wave of light upon Tennyson, but the growling and grunting clam sitting in his shell is a new and inter esting figure. But living in the country does not in itself make us virtuous or wise, says Mrs. Englesfield in Self-Culture; we have strayed too far from nature tc slip back at once into the habits and instincts of onr more fortunate ances tors; we need a teacher, a guide, tc open our dull senses and direct us till we can read the secrets ourselves, But when we have cast off the artifi cialties of city life, and have giver ourselves humbly into the care ol Mother Nature, then will she reward her child with her infinite treasures o) knowledge, health, beauty aud virtue, The petroleum output iu Southern California now amounts to about 15,- 000 barrels a day, and it is all consumed apon the Pacific coast. It was dis covered about ten years ago, and has been in use far about five years. A tnnlc steamer runs regularly between Santa Barbara and San Francisco carrying refiued petroleum to the lat ter market. The Southern Pacifi< runs its local trains by oil, and it ii also consumed as fuel in several man ufacturiug establishments iu this sec tion. There is no smoke aud no cin ders. The locomotive tenders ou thf Santa Fe road are big tanks, and the engineer feeds the fire with a key. There is no surer safeguard against all degrees of mental unsoundness than a habit of self-control. As met of quick blood may fall dead iu mo ments of high excitement, so may lesser disturbances, oft repeated, nu settle the rational faculties. Machin ery "that is loosely set tends to jar it sell to pieces, aud the agitations o' ungove.ned emotion may graduallj produce an "unstable equilibrium" o the nervous system, aud predispose the brightest man or woman to be en ' tirely upset by a sudden crisis of pas sion, alarm, loss, or ecstasy. For joy like grief, anger, fear or appetite, re quires the gentle restraint of reason The asylums are full of admonitory cases. Wanted, for each individual, i good internal government, well admin istered. The "literary fellers" to whom tin late Hon. Zachariah Chandler applies an epittaet suggesting that they wen already dead aud worse, seem now t< be spt iially appreciated by our gov eminent for public and particularly diplomatic service. In former timei Irving, Hawthorne and Motley wen regarded as exceptional instances o' men of letters deemed tit for consula: or diplomatic place. Now the rub seems to run along the lines of tht old exception, as is easily seen by i r<iffijence to the just published mem bertbip roll of the Authors' club ol New Yoik city. There are only 15i members of the club. Yet the lis' includes John Hay, fiite ambassado: to England, and now secretary o state; Horace Porter, ambassador t( France; Andrew D. White, ainbassa o to Germany; OscarS. Straus, ministe: to Turkey,and Arthur Sherburne Har dy, late minister to Persia and lion minister to Greece. On the subject of homicide in th« United States the Springtield ltepub licau presents figures furnished by i correspondent, as also some of its owi gathering, which goto show that thi comparison made between this coun try and others in this particular ii not as disparaging iu the United States as many persons have thought On the contrary, when comparison ii made between the older parts of tin United States, where the restraints o law aud order are fairly well enforced and England,for instance, the balauci is on this side. Massachusetts' re cent record for deaths re ulting fron personal violence is 0.5 for ever; 100,000 inhabitants, while England': is 0.8, and Scotland's 1.5. Vermont Rhode Island, and Connecticut ii 1893 had a record of O.C for ever; 100,000. As to the country at large it ia claimed that comparisons witl older countries are unfair. Here then are many sections where police pro taction exists mainly in nan i An Unexplained Mystery. I 3 THE STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE OF AN ENGLISH J < EXTRAORDINARY. 112 frvvvvvvvw vwv wvvvvvvvvv< The secrets of history have a fasci nation that is all their own to a good many of us, observes a writer in the London Queen. Among the mysteries of lifa may be reckoned the strange story of Mr. Bathurst's disappearance iu 1809, a story that an interval of nearly a century has not cleared up. Let us, for the benefit of those who know very little about it, tell the leading facts of the narrative iu a few words. Mr. Bathurst, son of the bishop of Norwich and kinsman to the Lord Bathurst of that day, was a mau who, though young (he was not 27 when he vanished out of this world's knowl edge), was one on whom bright hopes had been formed. He was brilliant, talented and seemed destined to make his mark in the world of politics. Through Lord Bathurst's influence, who was iu Lord Castlereagh's minis try and secretary of state for foreign affairs, he was sent to Vieuua early in 1809, as envoy extraordinary, on an important secret mission to the court of the Emperor Francis. The posi tion of Austria was at that time most critical. She had preserved strict neutrality since the peace of Presburgb, but her relations in regard to France had sud denly become strained. Napoleon was profoundly irritated,and Bathurst believed that the French emperor bore him especial enmity aud considered his secret mission as an effort to incite Anstria into declaring war with France. So strongly had this idea taken pos session of Bathurst that, when his mission was accomplished, he was often heard to say that he believed his life to be in danger and that Na poleon would prevent him ever get ting back alive to England. He hesitated long before turning his face homeward aud finally decided to make bis way to Loudon by Berlin and the north of Germany. He had with him liis private secretary and his valet, and to escape observation he assumed the name of Bach, while, iu the words of the story written soon after his disappearance, "he had pis tols about his person and firearms in the back of the carriage." It was the regular old-fashioned chariot, with four horses and postilions, in which all the upper ten of those days made their infrequent journeys, and on November 25,1809,tbe cortege arrived at Perleberg, a quaint little town on the banks of the Stepuitz, a few miles from where that river flows into the Elbe at Witteuburg, and ou the direct road from Berlin to Ham burg. It may alsojje mentioned that Frtde berg is only a few miles distant from Magdeburg, garrisoned at that time by French troops. Close to the post-house, where trav elers changed horses, was a small inn, the White Swan, and this was close to the gates and high tower of the once fortitied little place. Mr. Bathurst (lined at the White Swan, giving orders that the horses were not to be put iu till he bad diued. It is curious to read how a smart young man of 80 years ago dressed when he crossed Europe in that an tiquated vehicle, a traveling carriage, and it certainly gives more reality to thcrse ghostly figures of the past if we can picture them iu "the habit in which they lived." Mr. Bathurst wore a light gray coat, heavily braided aud frogged, and panta loons, as they were then called, of the same shade; his long fur (sable) coat was lined throughout with violet vel vet, and he had a cap of the same fur. In his scarf—one of those bulging vol uminous scarfs that encircled our grandfather's necks —he had a hand some diamond piu. Hardly was din ner over thau Bathurst, hearing that a s luadrou of the Bradenburg Cuiras siers was quartered at Perleberg, under the command of a Captain Blitzging, went to the barracks, asked to see the commanding officer, and telling him that he believed his life to be in the greatest danger, requested a guard of soldiers while he remained In town. It was noticed that hew.as profound ly agitated and that he trembled as lie spoke, and this he explained by say ing that he had that moment received news that had greatly alarmed him. Blitzging laughed at his fears, but consented to let him have a couple of soldiers during his stay in Perleberg. Mr. Bathurst returned to the White Swan, saying that he would not start till late, as he considered it would be safer to travel at night, when Napo leon's spies would be less likely to be on the alert. He remained iu liis room in the inu writing letters and burning papers till 9 o'clock,when the carriage came around,and he dismissed the soldiers on guard. He stood at the door of the White Swau watching his portmanteau being replaced at the back of the carriage. He stepped round to the horses' heads, aud theu—then—just as if the ground had opened under his feet aud swal lowed him up, closing its'lf upon him without leaving a trace behind, he disappeared aud was never seen aguiti! It must be borne iu mind that the time was the end of November, that it was a remarkably dark night aud that au old lauteru swinging ou a rope that crossed the street from one house to another gave but a feeble glimmer, and so did a horn lantern in the hands of an ostler. The lußdlord, prepared to speed the parting guest, was in the doorway 'talking to the secretary, who had just paid the bill, but neither of them seemed to have been paying sny at tention to Batunrnt'c mov«m«Dt* Tim horses were now in, the postilions had clambered into their clumsy sad dles and the valet stood at attention at the open door of the carriage. They waited and waited, but still Mr. Bathurst did not appearand then —the wind being bitterly cold —they must all have grown impatient and scattered right and left to look for the missing mau. One of them went into the hotel to see if he had gone in there again, another sped along the road that the carriage would have taken, while the secretary went to the guardhouse to find out if Bathurst could possibly have returned there to ask for an armod escort for the journey, but all to no purpose. Suddenly, inexplicably, without a cry, a word, a warning of any kind,he was gone—spirited away—and what really became of him will never be known. The officer in command of the Brad enburg Cuirassiers acted with the greatest promptitude. The alarm that the missing man had displayed that afternoon had made a deep impression on him, and without loss of time he put the secretary and valet under ar rest, j'l'iced a guard over the Swan Inn, took possession of the traveling carriage,and then began an exhaustive search, which lasted for days. The river was dragged; marshes, woods and ditches were examined for miles around; the houses in the lower part of the town were entered, and there was cot a barn, hedge, outhouse or copse that was not searched; while bloodhounds also failed to track him. The English ambassador at Vienna— and through him the English govern ment—was communicated with. A thousand pounds reward was offered by the latter for any authentic infor mation; his own family offered as much, and Prince Frederick of Russia, who, for friendship's spke, took the deepest interest in the fate of Bath urst,offered in addition 500 Friedricks d'or, either for the discovery of the body or any clue that would lead to the solution of the mystery. The only discovery worthy the name was made by two poor women of Perleberg, who, more than a mouth after the disappeaiance of Bathurst, found in a copse, whither they had gone to pick up sticks, the gray pantaloons that he had worn on the eventful night. Two bullet holes were in the trousers, but no traces of blood, which would have been there had the bullets struck a man w earing them. They were stained ou the out side, as if the wearer had beeu lying on the earth; and in the pocket was a half-finished letter, or rather a few words scratched iu pencil, to his young wife, to whom he was tenderly at tached. In these few words he ex pressed the certainty he felt that he would never reach England alive, bade her a touchiug farewell and entreated her by the love she bore him never to marry again. There was no ending to the letter, which was barely legible; but though there is no doubt that it was written by Bathurst, or that the pantaloons were his also, no one for a moment believed that they had lain there undiscovered for more thau a month. They had been pluced there to divert suspicion from the right di rection and perhaps to encourage the theory adopted by some, that he had been the victim of a mere ordinary highway robbery and murder. It is hardly possible to overestimate the sensation caused by the sudden disappearance of the late envoy extra ordinary from the court of England to that of Austria. Reports of all kinds were rife, and information that was never verified was freely circu lated. The Times took the matter up and not obscurely charged the Emperor Napoleon with having made away with Bathurst. The Moniteur,ou the other hand, iu a leading article published December, 180!), state 1 that "Sir Bathurst,'' on his way from Berlin, had shown signs of insanity and had destroyed himself in the neighbor hood o;' Perleberg. According to some he had beeu murdered in awood by his servant, who had robbed him and escaped. Others believed that he had been attacked by brigands; while a mysterious story ap peared in print suggesting that he bad been drowned at sea. Bathurst himself had always de clared that his ruin would be brought about, not by the Emperor Napoleon, but by the Count d'En'.raignes.a name well known in the secret history of those times as that of a Russian spy, and there is no doubt that the latter had been heard to say that he could prove that Bathurst had beeu shot in Magdeburg fortress. But as both d'Entraigues and his wife were them selves murdered by an Italian servant (believed in his turn to be a spy) not long after Bathurst's disappearance, his worJs were never proved. The theory that he had beeu carried off to Magdeburg aud there murdered was also held by Mr.Underwood, at that time a prisoner of war in Paris, who, in one of his letters written then, declared that both French and English believed that the crime of bis abduction had been committed by the French government. On January 2:1,1810, there appeared a paragraph iu a Hamburg paper, which informed the people of Perleberg who the murdered Bach really was who had so mysteriously disappeared. The paragraph was in the form of a letter, dated London, January (>, exactly six weeks after Bathurst's fate had beeu sealed one way or another. It ran thus; "Sir Bathnrsk tun bassador extraordinary of England to the conrt of Austria, who was be lieved to have committed suicide in a fit of insanity at Perleberg on Novem ber 25 of last year, is well in mind and body. His friends have received a letter from him dated December 13, which, therefore, must have been written after the date of his supposed death." Who inserted this paragraph, and for what purpose? It was absolutely untrue, but may have been designed to cause the au thorities to relax their efforts to probe the mystery and perhaps to abandon them altogether; or it may have been a plan to throw dust in the eyes of the public, to whom the story of Bathurst was one of absorbing interest. To those who held Bathurst in af fectionate remembrance it was a com fort—and it was their only one — in after days to think that every con ceivable effort had been made to find out the meaning of his mysterious dis appearance. His young wife,to whom he had been married for four years, was utterly heartbroken,and at a time when wars and rumors of wars dis tracted Europe, making her task al most an impossible one, she gave her self up heart and soul to the difficult and dangerous business of finding out a secret that was without doubt a po litical one. She appealed to the Emperor Na poleon himself for information, and he assured her through Cambaeeros that /on his word of honor he knew nothing of the matter beyond what he had seeu in the papers. She demanded a per sonal iuterview with him, and there is no doubt that they met, but what she asked the great man and what he answered has never transpired. But she received his permission to advertise for her husband iu the Moniteur and all the French papers, but with no re sult. The poor soul traveled all ovei Germany, staying for mouths at Perle berg and the neighborhood, where she offered the most liberal rewards even for the slightest clue to the secret. But, though the sums offered would have made auy of the peasants or the dwellers iu the somewhat poverty stiicken place rich beyond the dreams of avarice, no oue ever claimed them, no one came forward with even a gar bled statement of facts; there was never a glimmer of light to dispel the darkness. Mrs. Bathurst never gave up the hope of his return to the last hour of her life, and she lived to be a very old woman. The husband of her youth was to bei still a living figure, and she firmly be lieved that the hour would come wheu he would come back to her once more. Her life was a sad and troubled one, but that consolation was always hers, though her dream, as we know, was never realized. Of her three children, the eldest, a sou, was killed when riding a steeple chase at Rome; while the sad fate o' her daughter, the beautiful Rosa Bathurst, is still remembered there, and the place is still shown on the banks of the Tiber where her horsa reared with her, and—the river being in flood—fell back and drowned her iu the stream. She was ridiug with the man to whom she was to be married shortly. She was ouly 17 and ad mired aud loved by all. No wonder that her mother's heart was half broken. Still, through all her troubles she was sustained by the belief that her husband would return; but the grave does not give up its dead, and the well-kept secret has never been disclosed. CURES FOR CRIME. How Dr. D, K. Itiower Would Check Its Spread in America. Dr. Daniel R. Brower of Chicago, professor of mental diseases iu Rush medical college, told the American medical association recently that crime in the United States is increas ing iu a vastly more rapid ratio than is the population. This, he asserted, is due to criminal parentage aud en vironment. To check the alarming growth, he added, radical changes iu present methods are necessary. Dr. Brower's theme was"The Med ical Aspect of Crime." He contended that the present laws and their pres ent method of execution are a potent factor iu the causation of crime. The code of today, he asserted, is the Ro man code. In ancient Rome it did well because the death penalty was common, but today, with no cutting off of the supply of criminal materia l , he argued that the law contributes to its increase rather thau to its diminu tion. "Our laws," said he, "ore defective because they are directed not against the criminal, but against crime only. The great question agitating society is the care of the criminal. It baffies society. The habitual criminal is a biologic study rather than a prob lem. " The doctor recommended that the children of degenerates b.' taken care of by the courts and placed in favora ble environment at the age of seven. He further conteuded that those who are concerned in the sentencing of crimiuals should know something about their biologic conditions —or, iu other words, a judge must also be a physician. A person who has com mitted his first offence, he maintained, should not be permitted to associate with hardened criminals, aud trials should be speedy and prompt. The pardoning power, he added, should be removed from state gov ernors airtl rest alone in 2>& r doning boards, whose members should be skilled in criminal anthropology. For those who are incapable of reforma tion there should be penitentiaries for their lifelong incarceration. Dr. Brower read statistics showing that the proportion of criminals to population iu this country had in creased from one in 34A2 ia MHO to one in 757 in 1890. A TEMPERANCE COLUMN* THE DRINK EVIL MADE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. Cconomlc Aspect* of the T-iquor Problem —A Vast Bam of Money Taken Frou» Our Population Without Any Return ' pf Value—Drink's Relation to Poverty) The New Voice devotes considerable •pace to the book "Economic Aspects ol the Liquor Problem," recently published by the "Committee of Fifty." The book is one of the most valuable contributions to the discussion of the liquor question that lias recently been published. It is true that its conclusions with regard to the part played by drink in causing poverty, paup erism, and crime are not as radical as the views usually held by temperance reform ers; but, accepting simply the conclusions arrived at by Mr. Koren, who ha? done the work for the committee, a traffic that In the light of conservative investigation is to be charged with tven twenty-five pei* cent, of all our poverty, thirty-seven pel/ cent, of our pauperism, and fifty per cent, of our graver crimes, and that sends out Into the cold world almost forty-six pel/ cent, of the destitute children of the land, can safely be pronounced a national cursu of colossal magnitude, and its abolition by taw can most reasonably be demanded. Still the exhaustive treatment of the sub ject given by this volume neglects one or the most Important economic aspects of the drink question, and one that we believe can not be too frequently or too emphatic ally called to public attention. One of the most serious, if not the most serious, acouomic relations of the drink traffic is the faot that a vast sum of money is every year taken from a large portion of our jountry's population' without any re turn of value. The sum is known to average about a billion dollars annually, or, to attempt to rnnke so vast an amount more tangible by comparison, to substantially equal the total gross receipts ot all the railroads in the United States. The taking of this money from those who spend it, without valuable return, means tor some of them poverty, but, what Is u much more Important fact, it means that all of them have less money and some of them practically no money at all with which to purchase from others the neces sities, comforts, and luxuries of life. Wo are almost constantly confronted in the in dustrial world with what is glibly termed "over-production," but the thoughtful stu dent of conditions knows that there never has been any real over-production. If the actual,reasonable needs of the whole people were satisfied, there would be no trouble some surplus in agricultural products or ii> manufactured commodities. And why are not the people's wants supplied? " The saloon can in large measure answer the question. Illustrate the case simply enougn in this way: Suppose a group of citizens A, B, C, and D, who spend a large purt of their earnings for drink, which they buy of ono E. F would be glad to sell them potatoes; Cx would be glad to make them shoes; H needs their patronage in stoves and I in furniture; but their trade with E, the saloon-keeper, prevents their trading with F, G, 11, and I to any profitable extent, and also in considerable measure deprives these latter of tho trade which they would have from each other under 'more pros perous conditions. The poverty of A, B, C, and D may be readily recognized as due to drink; but when F can't pay his taxes bejau.se these men spent for beer the money thoy ought to have spent for pota toes, and when G loses his job because thej buy no shoes, and when H makes an as signment because so many of his neighbors use heaps of scrap-iron in place of decent stoves, few people ever think of tracing the cause back to E's saloon. let there the cause often is. Tho whole story of the economic aspects of the liquor traffic will never be told tilt Mr. Koren or some one else shows us the relation of drink to the poverty of thou sands who never drink. The Greatest Kidnapper. The saloon steals children out of mothers' arms, away from fathers' protec tion, astray from the pure joys of home; the saloon by its foul temptation takes the boys and the girls. One it sends to the scaffold, another to the cell, another to the brothel, and thousands to lives of useless wretchedness and shameful degradation In the wretched homes of poverty and vice, In the haunts of the slums, and in the social refuge-deposits that we call asylums and prisons there are to-day multitudes whom the saloon found as innocent boys and girls, and stole away from their in uocency; and in tho homes of tho land to day are thousands of boys and girls that the saloon will steal—is stealing for the jame dread fate. These facts are as unimpeocbable as the truth that two and two are four; and are the result of tho saloon's existence with tho same absolute certainty with which darkness follows sundown. God 9peed the day when men shall be able to hail each other with the glad news that the common sense of the great people who have just been thrilled with one mother's sorrow and joy has at lost been aroused in behalf of homes and mothers everywhere, and that the boys, and glrle art safe from the saloon! Easy Money. About ten years ago the editor, while de layed in a New York bank, noticed a young man who was taking gold pieces out of his pockets and piling them before hi in on n shelf. On being asked whero the gold same from, ho frankly replied: This Is my tobacco and be-r voney. I never tasted either. But I have many friends who smoke aud drink, and fre quently ask me to join them. It occurred to me two or three years ago that if I ac cepted such Invitations I would have to re turn them, and that it would cost me full as much as the "treats" amounted to. I begun saving the price of a cigar or glass ot beer whenever Invited to take them. When it amounted to ten dollars I would exobauge it for an 'eagle' aud t jss it into a drawer. The other day I got thom to gether and was amazed at toe number. There are just fifty. Tho easiest money I •ver handled!"— Christian Ethics. Are the Rnglish People All Going Mad? In a blue book recently Issued by the commissioners of lunacy in that country the statement is made that while in 1355? there wa9 only one lunatic to every 536 persons, the last return shows one to 308. "The proportion having Increased at a steady ratio during the forty years." II the increase of lunacy goes ou at the same rate during the next fifty-three years, at the end of that time one-half of the popu lation of England will be insane. This is an appalling suggestion and should make every thoughtful man pause. To what extent the liquor trade and the drink habit are responsible for this rapidly-in creasing Insanity it Is difficult to say. Di rectly and indirectly the use of nlcohol has muoh to do with existing aud prospective Insanity, and if the statistics ot this coun try are examined, we veuturo to say they will not vary mush from England. The Cruaade in Brief. Never drink, never drunk. Swim in sin, sink in sorrow. Two glasses ot beer are two too many. If America sinks, 'twill be through drink. Drink Is the root, drunkenness the fruit, Where temperance reigns crimes jranes. A drunken night makes a cloudy morn ing. The Christian who prays for God to sweep intemperance from the land doesn't mean It unless he is willing that God should use him as the broom to do the with.
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