AN ARIZONA GHOST STORY. A strange-looking little Arizona newspaper, in a wayworn wrapper, came with my mail a few mornings ago, and when 1 opened it, wondering why it had been sent to me and l>y whom, my eye presently fell on a blue penciled paragraph: "Marshal Catlip and posae got back late last evening. They had a lively chase—and there is one bad man the less. It won't cost this town anything to try him. Dive Tranchard needed a change. He was too fond of horse flesh —other people's." Probably Arizo;iians understood that paragraph perfectly at first sight, and it intimated even to a slow New Eng lander that "Dive Tranchard" had been sternly punished. "Dive Tranchard!" Something in the name set the chords of memory vaguely vibrating all day.and when I waked next morning, the full, fa miliar name had come to me out of the past—Dives Tranchard! It must be he —the "queer boy" of the school where I first began as a teacher in Kennebec county, Maine, 20 years ago. I was then only 18 years old, and the school agent who hired me and the good minister-member of the school board who gave me my "certificate" said that I might "pull through" if I could manage Dives Tranchard. In the schoolroom, Dives did not ap pear formidable at first view, but I was not long in discovering the fer tility of his mischievous ingenuity. The wits of the average schoolmaster could not possibly keep pace with the swift triekiness in which he indulged himself. He was a somewhat sedate and dis tinguished looking youngster, with a clear-cut, refined face, and the incon sistency between his countenance and his conduct was such that I never was able to feel, during the whole time he was my pupil, that I quite understood him. Dives was an orphan, who, while still very young, had been adopted by the storekeeper of the place, Mr. Mul hnll. Ilis father had been a very intem perate and blasphemous man. whose dearest delight had been to rail at the Scriptures. In profane bravado he had named his three sons Judas, To phet and Dives. The two former had died of croup while very young, and Dives, or "Dive," as he was generally called, was the sole survivor of the family. Naturally, a teacher only IS years old could not hope to assume the role of moral adviser to a youth of 1" with entire success. When I attempted it.with Dives, he grinned in my face, and the effort end ed in a rough-and-tumble fight over the school house floor. In this conflict I es tablished a kind of doubtful suzer ainty over him. and afterward main tained it with a bold front, but the Issue was always in some little doubt. What the outcome would have been is far from certain. I have a feeling that Dives would have been too much for me, in time, had our relations as pupil and pedagogue continued long. Hut they lasted only throe weeks. On the first day of January lie ran away, in consequence of a curious prank. District Number Eleven was the only place where I ever saw what was be lieved to be a ghost. The people there Were not superstitious, but I found that many of them had seen an ap parition that they could not account for. It had been seen three times the previous winter and once late in No vember. a few days before I arrived. More than 'id persons admitted that they had seen it during snow-storms, but all made light of it: the people were not ignorant, and the apparition puzzled them much more than it frightened them. The mysterious thing, whatever It was. had always been seen at night, and seemed to be a kind of phantom on horseback, an equestrian ghost, so as to speak. It had been discerned pasting at great speed, but the hoofs made no noise, and It looked thin, or white, and was hardly distinguishable In out line amidst (lie falling snow flakes. That was about all I could learn re gunllng the phantom; and as the repre seiitntlvc of education, I set myself to 1 discountenance belief In the S|)e reall.v seen the ghost. It was a place where the people re I tallied many of the old customs of an- j eestrul Puritan Ktiglaml, among other* , that "of watch night," or watching the old year oat and the new vetir in, til I the lllgllt of Deeelllller Hist. It Wit* announced lit the meeting hulls,, till' | previous Sunday that there would l» a Watch night the following Saturday evening, to last half past twelve, New Year'* uiornlng Tlieie would l«- stug lug and prayer*, but it wai not to I** i an i**clu«ivcly religion* cere,nony. ' Oonversiitioii and even story idling Would lie allowed At the w«ti tj night Me eting there Were :tn or MS people, old and young, j ill. lading the Mc|h<*ll»( minister, Mr. ) IteeVe* who had h»'c|» *. 111> d tlo re bit? | a few mouth*, a very .toting man, with whom I hail already beeouie lull - uiate. lie v*i companionable ruhiiat and hill) a youth * it* »lll| lit joyed iituw hailing fur lwtani« Aft r »< hoot, when 1 {MHOW*I the hou<« where ha ! Itveil, u UMiall} da.l ' I out, Ifwth j from liis theological studies, and we would go at a brisk trot for a mile to gether along the road to the post-ottlce and back. The early hours of the watch-meeting passed agreeably. We had all gath ered about the meeting-house stove, for the night was cloudy and bleak, and after the usual hymn and opening exercises, we amused ourselves by re lating our "good resolves" for the New Year. Many of these were admirable and some very humorous. Mr. Smith, the little shoemaker of the place, whose wife Wis very large and strong and active, rose to say, with a twinkle in his eye, that he had sadly neglected his duty for the past twelve months, but had now firmly resolved to beat Mrs. Smith more frequently during the year to come, to which Mrs. Smith responded with a breezy laugh, "I'd like to see you begin!" At about 11 o'clock one of the boys, who had been to the outer door, returned to say that it was snowing fast and thick, and Indeed, we could faintly hear the icy Hakes driving against the window-panes. One of the young ladies was playing, on the or gan, the accompaniment to a hymn which many of the older people were singing. Young Mr. Reeves sat near me, with a quiet smile oil his face, pondering, as I fancied, something which he meant to say after the music. Sud denly I felt him start, and glanced at his face. His eyes were bent on some object, but he turned at once. "Don't look!" he whispered tome. "I have seen that ghost. It Is outside, looking in at the opposite window. Wait a bit, then cast your eye In that direction." I did so, and saw as distinctly as I ever saw anything, a long, white aw ful face looking in! Much to my con sternation, it moved, and appeared to nod several times. "Don't seem to notice it!" Mr. Reeves whispered. "Sit quiet a mo ment. When the people move back from the organ, we will steal out and see what we can discover." Recovering myself in a moment I stepped quietly to the door, and a few moments later was joined by Mr. Reeves in the dark entry. We took our liats. and then, without waiting to put on our overcoats, opened the door carefully. Snow was falling fast and drove in our faces: several inches had fallen; but we dashed out, doubled the corner of the house and hurried toward the window. A great, dim. indistinct object was standing there which appeared to melt away suddenly, with but the softest possible sound. It disappeared round the other corner of the house. With out speaking, we ran after it. We could hardly see anything on ac count of the driving snow and dark ness. yet we again discerned, dimly. Hie great. Indistinct object moving to ward the highway. I confess I felt a shivery sensation, for the spectral appearance made hardly an audible sound; lint I dashed on. side by side with Mr. Reeves. We were pood runners, and a dash to cat'di the thing. In the road, a few hundred feet from the church, we came so near at one time that I reached out my hand in hope to lay hold of the apparition, but it glided away only the faster and I did not suc ceed. And now we both heard a kind of regular ntntlled noise, as of great feet falling softly: and these audible evi dences of physical substance stimulat ed us to continue the chase. "Run it down!" Mr. Reeves said. In a low voice, and I Settled myself to keep pace with llltll. The snow hindered us little, but not withstanding our efforts the effigy drew away from us. We had lost sight of it when we ran past the house of Mr. Mulhall, the storekeeper, but in the very moment of passing, we heard the large door of the stable creaking. This, nt that hour of the night, seemed so strange that we both stopped short and turned back. Kntcrlug the yard, we approached the stable door, but found It closed. I There Were slight noises In-idc, how , ever, and soon a match gleamed I through the crack of the door, and a ; lantern was lighted. I To our astonishment, we now per ceived that the person Inside was Dives Tranchard, clad In a white gar , nieut ami white cap. and that lie was j untying what looked like snowy bags i from the feet of Mlllhltll's old white '■ mare. Having taken oIT these mutter*, | lAvcs next proceeded to withdraw a large, white, bonnet like structure j from the mare's head. When tin si singular trappings were removed, he put the beast In her stall, stripped off hi* own wkltu garment and cap. and made the whole outfit Into a bundle Then lie extinguished the lantern, left the *tuh|e by a * d<" door, and went to the hott*e. which h > ! intered cautiously by a door In the rear. My Mr*t Impulse had l tl re. Our * t>*enet had Ikm I Uulttl) Unlived. At 8 o'clock tbe next morning, after Dives bail gone to the school- j house, we called at Mulhall's store and told the astonished storekeeper what we had seen. He did not at first be- | lleve us, and wis Inclined to resent the charge against his l'oster-son. I At last, when Mr. Reeves said that ' he might perhaps be convinced by be- j ing allowed to examine the room i where Dives slept, Mullmll led the way ! up-stairs. It was a large, open room, with many okl chests, boxes and cuddies, and a j very brief search disclosed the bundle j which we had seen Dives bring from , the stable the previous evening. It | contained not only his white shirt and cap and the gunny bags, with which ; he muffled the mare's hoofs, but a ; curious padded contrivance of white cloth and wire to tie on her head. j The front of it was drawn to repre- j sent a human face, with holes for the ! horse's eyes. It was this nodding white face which we had seen at the window. Farther search In the chamber re- j vealed other things; plunder of many kinds; goods and trinkets from the ; store; not less than 50 letters, appar ently stolen from the post-office; four bridles; 15 silver spoons; a bunch of articles which Dives could not have come by honestly. By this time Mulliall, a rather simple • man, was abusing his foster-son vig oicisly 'is a tli■ 'f and wished togo at once with us to the schoolhouse and denounce him. Mr. Reeves persuaded him to say nothing till evening, and we arranged to call at the house that night and en- I deavor to get the truth of the matter from Dives himself. But before noon that day the youth had, in some way, learned or guessed that his thefts were discovered. Ho j did notroturn to the schoolhouse in the i afternoon. He had run away, and I never heard of him afterward until I saw his name in the Arizona newspapers.—Youth's Companion. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. A Chinese woman's shoe is often only three inches loug. Naturally the Chinese lady does little walking, and when she does get about she leans con stantly on her maid. A marble statue of Apollo, witli the head in a tine state of preservation, has recently been unearthed near Ath ens. Its workmanship shows that it belongs to the fifth century B. C. When a rich Chinaman is so ill that he is likely to soon shuffle off this mortal coll, his thoughtful relatives hurry him off to an undertaker's, where he may rest bis dying eyes on the coffin that is to contain his bones. This is to save time and trouble. Numerous droves of cattle, each beast with smoke tinted spectacles fixed over its eyes, are in winter seen ranging the stioweovered plains of Russia. The glare of sunlight on tin* snow causes blindness, hence the re sort to spectacles to protect the eye sight of the cattle as they pluck the grass whichsproutsthrougli the earth's white mantle. What is the record price for a single flower? From Australia comes an answer to the query. A princess was president of a music exhibition on which a loss had been made. She ac cordingly organized a flower show, at which ladies of rank, including the princess, had stalls. One of her cus tomers was the wealthy Baroness Keinelt of Trieste, who. in oho ising a pink, asked: "How much may I pay for this flower"f" "You. Itarnu i ss, may in your generosity fix the limit." "How much is wanted for the music exhibition?" Forty thou sand pounds." "1 will give that for the pink," said tin- burouess. A curious tight took place a short time ago on tbe south bunch of the Potomac. John Fisher, of Itoiiuiey, W. Va., caught a 40 pound turtle. .Inst as he landed It, the hook broke, 1 and the turtle elmsetl him all around the boat. The fight lasted lo minutes. Fisher defending himself with a pud dle, when the turtle at last turned tail and flopped Into the water. A I'lM MilUtt I or H|»iit»|«*ra. Queensland has been not Inaptly de scribed us apa radix' for spinsters. The 1 last census taken there showed more single men titan single women, anil the efforts of the colonial g >vern ineiit in the way of emigration nr»- now chiefly devoted to making up the ile- | tieleney. Indeed. W|r Horace Toiler, < the agent general for Queensland, may claim to b - one of the bttsl. t m.itrluio. ' ii in I ag uts In the world, for h* In -.end- , lug out large numbers of single women i to Unit colony, and It Is said tint th" 1 objection entertained by the work>ng- ' men id A list t aba to free or assistml < emigration does uot extend to the i'la a exported b> ll I lit. HI long as lie In i lire ' ful to Select tbelli yoUllg Ulld tolerably ] good looking It Is evident llitl the i agent and his assistant-, must puss* ss < unusual powers of discrimination with J regard to picking out attractive cnil , grouts, fur ll up|»*ars that almut ."si i per cent of the wuuieu marry within I two years after thelrarrlv.il In Qie eii» I laud V\li< nwe are told th il servant* , are always In demand lu the .lustra i llan colonies, that Mages ateriigc th" j tMwii tH»» ami 9.1*1 a >esr ami thai J lu all probability wltlilu two {cars do- i iue»itc wrvtie mat Iw banged fur I It*.lt tmotlt It l| l*nt> to tll"l« l»l ift'l 1 wit) Queensland has Iwu H o> it | | paradise tor spinsters,'* I DR. TALMAGE7S SERMON ——— SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE Br THE NOTED DIVINE. Subject: The Faith of Rahnb—There Is Mercy For All Sinners Cheer For All Who Are Engaged In Life's Buttles— | Meaning of the Hun's Standing Still. [Copyright lttuu.l I WASHINGTON*, D. C. —In this discourse ; Dr. Taliuage follows Joshua on his tri ' umphal march and speaks encouraging ; words to all who are engaged in the bat ! ties of this life; text, Joshua i, 5, "There 1 shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life." | Moses waß dead. A beautiful tradition Bays the Lord kissed him and in that act drew forth the soul of the dying lawgiver. ■ He had been buried; only one person at the funeral—the same One who kissed him. : But God never takes a man away from any place of usefulness until He has some | one ready to replace him. The Lord does 1 not go looking around amid a great va -1 riety of candidates to find some one especi ally fitted for the vacated position. He makes a man for that place. Moses has passed off the stage, and Joshua, the hero, I puts his foot on the platform of history ■ so solidly that all the ages echo with tHe ' tread. He was a magnificent fighter, but he always fought on the right side, and he never fought unless God told him to fight. He got his military equipment from God, who gave him the promise at the start, "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life." God fulfilled this promise, although Josh ua's first Wttle was with the spring fresh et, the next with a stone wall, the next leading on a regiment of whipped cow ards and the next battling against dark ness, wheeling the sun and the moon into his battalion and the last against the king of terrors, death—five great victories. I As a rule, when the general of an army starts out in a war he would like to have a small battle in order that he may get his own courage up and rally his troops and get them drilled for greater conflicts, but the first undertaking of Joshua was greater than the leveling of Fort Pulaski or the assault of Gibraltar or the over throw of the Bastille. It was the crossing of the Jordan at the time of the spring freshet. The snows of Mount Lebanon had just been melting, and they poured down the valley, and the whole valley was a raging torrent. So the Canaanites stand on one bank, and they look across and see Joshua and the Israelites, and they laugh and say: "Aha! They cannot disturb us until the freshets fall. It is impossible I for them to reach us." But after awhile ! they look across the water, and they see a movement in the army of Joshua. They say: "What is the matter now? Why, there must be a panic among those troops, and they are going to fly, or perhaps they are going to march across the river Jor dan. Joshua is a lunatic." But Joshua, the chieftain, looks at his army and cries, "Forward, march!" and they start for the I bank of the Jordan. One mile ahead go two priests carrying a glittering box four feet long and two feet wide. It is the ark of the covenant. And they come down, and no Boonor do they just touch the rim of the water with their feet than, by an Almighty fiat, Jordan parts. The array i of Joshua marches right on without get ting their feet wet over the bottom of the river, a path of chalk and broken shells and pebbles, until they get to the other bank. Then they lay hold of the ole anders and tamarisks and willows and pull themselves up a bank thirty or forty feet high, and. having cained the other bank, they clap their shields and their cymbals and sing the praises of the God of Joshua. But no sooner have they reached the bank than the waters begin to dash and roar, and with a terrific rush they break loose from their strange anchorage. As the hand of the Lord God is taken away from the thus uplifted waters —waters perhaps uplifted half a mile —they rush down, and some of the unbelieving Israelites say: "Alas, alas, what a misfortune! Why could not not those waters have staid parted, because, perhaps, we may want togo back? O Lord, we are engaged in a risky business! These Canaanites may eat us up. How if we want togo back? Would it not have been a more complete miracle if the Lord had parted the waters to let us roine through and kept them parted to let us go back if we are de feated?" Hut this is no place for the host to stop. Joshua gives the command. "For ward. luarch!" In the distance there is a long irrove of trees, and at the end of the grove is a city. It is a city with arbors, a city with walls seeming to reach to the heavens, to buttress the very sky. It is the great metropolis that commands the mountain pass. It is Jericho. That city was afterward captured by Pompey and once by Herod the (Jrent and once again by the Mohammedans, but this campaign the Lord plans. There shall be no swords, no shields, no battering ram; there shall be only one weapon of war, and that H ram's horn. The horn of the slain ram was sometimes taken, and holes were punctured in it, and then the musician would put the instrument to his lips, and he would run his lingers over this rude musical instrument ami make a ureal deal of sweet harmony for the people. That was the only kind of weapon. Seven priests were to take these rude, rustic musical instruments, and they were to go around the city every day for six days— once a day for sit days and then on the seventh day they were togo around blow ing these rude musical instrument* seven times, and tlien at the close of the seventh blowing of the ratu's horn on the seventh dnv the peroration of the whole scene vt* to tie a shout, at ythich those great y\ ill- should tumble from capstone to base 'lhe seven priests with the iude musical instruments pass all around the city walls on the tirnt day and score a failure. Not ►Li much as a piece of plaster broke loose from the wall, not so much as a loosened roil;, not so much as a piece of mortar lost from its place. " I'lieie," say the unbe lieving Israelites, "did I not tell you so? \\ 11V. those ministers are fools. '1 he idea ot going around the city with those uuui rat instruments and exiiecting in that Way to destroy it. Joshua has lieen spoiled. He thinks because he has overthrown and conquered the spnug freshet lie can o\er tluow the stone wall. \\ hy, it is not philosophic, IXi you not see there is no relation Iwtneeii the blowing of these musical instruments and the knocking tlown of the wall? It is not philosophic. And I suppose there were many wiseacres who stood with their brows knitted and with the forelmger of the right hand to lh" foreliiigei of the left hand, arguing it all out ami showing that it was uot po» stble that such a cause could produce such an effect. And I suppose that night in the encampment there was plenty of canca lure, and if Joshua had been nominated for any high military position he would •lot have received man) votes. Joshua e atock was down The sevoml day the priests blowiug the musical instruments |" around the city, and agatu a failure the third da*, and a failure; the lour Ih day and a fai'urt ; filth day, in I a failure, s ktb day and a tailors Ihe setculh da) comes, the chiuactegic day. Joshua la up early in the morning ana eternities the troop#, walks all about and looks at the city wall The priests stall to make the eiiiUlt of the dty. khv) go all round time, all around twice, three times* four tones, five tlitrus, «js times, seven tiures, •111 a ladiiie. these is uuly one mote thing 1 1 do, and that Is to Utteff a gleat ah'Ut 4 see the laraeUtish aim| gtraight ening themselves tip, filling their lungs for a vociferation such as never was heard be fore and never heard after. Joshua feels that the hour has come, and he cries out to his host, "Shout, for the Lord hath giv en you the city!" All together the troops shout: "Down, Jericho! Down, Jericho!" and the long line of solid masonry begins to quiver and to move and to rock. Stand from under! She falls! Crash go the walls and temples, the towers, the pal aces, the air blackened with dust. The huzza of the victorious Israelites and the groan of the conquered Canaan ites commingle, and Joshua, standing there in the debris of the walls, hears a voice saying, "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the davs of thy life." Only one house spared. Who lives there? Some great king? No. Some woman dis tinguished for great, kindly deeds? No. She had been conspicuous for her crimes. It is the house of Rahab. Why was her house spared? Because she had been a great sinner? No, but because she re pented. demonstrating to all the ages that there is mercy for the chief of sin ners. The red cord of divine injunction reach ing from her window to the ground, so that when the people saw the red cord they knew it was the divine judication that they should not disturb the prem ises, making us think of the divine cord of a Saviour's deliverance, the red cord of a Saviour's kindness, the red cord of a Saviour's mercy, the red cord of our rescue. Mercy for the chief of sinners. Put your trust in that God, and no dam age shall befall you. When our world shall be more terribly surrounded than was Jericho, even by the trumpets of the judgment day, and the hills and the mountains, tHe metal bones and ribs of nature, shall break, they who have had Rahab's faith shall have Rahab's deliverance. When wrapped in fire the realms of ether glow And heaven's lost thunder shakes the earth below, Thou, undismayed, shalt o'er the ruins smile And light thy torch at nature's funeral pile. But Joshua's troops may not halt here. The command is "Forward, march!" There is the city of Ai. It must be taken. A scouting party comes back and says: "Joshua, we can do that without you. It is going to be a very easy job. You must stay here while we go and capture it." They march with a small regiment in front of that city. The men of Ai look at them and give one yell, and the Israelites run like reindeev. Look out when a good man makes the Lord his ally. Joshua raises his face, ra diant with prayer, and looks at the des cending sun over Gibeon, and at the faint crescent of the moon, for you lflfcw the queen of the night sometimes will linger around the palaces of the day. Pointing one hand at the descending sun and the other at the faint crescent of the moon, in the name of that God who shaped the worlds and moves the worlds he cries, "Sun, stand thou still upon Gibeon, and thou, moon, in the valley of Ajalon." They halted. Whether it was by refraction of the sun's rays or by the stopping of the whole planetary system I do not know and do not care. I leave it to the Christian Scientists and the infidel scientists to set tle that question while I tell you I have seen tho same thing. "What!" say you. "Not the sun standing still?" Yes. The same miracle is performed nowadays. The wicked do not live out half their day, and their sun sets at noon. But let a man start out in battle for God and the truth and against sin, and the day of his usefulness is prolonged and prolonged anU prolonged. But Joshua was not quite through. There was time for five funerals before the sun of that prolonged day set. Who will preach their funeral sermon? Massillon preached the funeral sermon over Louis XVI. Who will preach the funeral ser mon of those five dead kings—king of Jerusalem, king of Hebron, king of Jar ninth, king of Lachish. king of Eglon? Let it be by Joshua. What is his text? What shall be tho epitaph put on the door of the tomb? "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life." Before you fasten un the floor T want five more kings beheaded and thrust in— King Alcohol. King Fraud. King Lust, King Superstitition, King Infidelity. Let them be beheaded and hurl theni in. Then fasten up the door forever. What shall the inscription and what shall the epitaph be? For all Christian philanthropist! of all ages are going to come and look at it. What shall the inscription be? "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life." Hut it is time for Joshua togo home. He is 110 years old. Washington went down the Potomac and at Mount Vernon closed his days. Wellington died peaceful ly at Apsley House. Now, where shall Joshua rest? Why, he is to have his greatest buttle now. After 110 years he has to meet a king who has more sub jects than all the present population of the earth, his throne a pyramid of skulls, his parterre the graveyards and the ceme teries of the world, his chariot the world's hearse—the king of terrors. Hut if this is Joshua's greatest bat tie it is going to be Joshua's greatest victory. He gathers hia friends around him ami gives his vale dictory, and it is full of reminiscence. Young men tell what they are going to do: old men tell what they have done. And as you have heard a grandfather or great grandfather seated bv the evening fire tell of Monmouth or York town and then lift the crutch or staff as though it were a musket to fight and show how the old battles were won. so Joshua gathers Ins friends around his dying coucn. and he tells them the story of what he has been through, and as he lithed granite for the hr*w agitie that (of (lit hi ad it shall he 'he sun that stood still u| on liils n and fo# Iku Isut the inuuh Uiit stood still 111 I it# talien 111 AisWa. ME GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. A Shameless Defaulter Drunkenness Among the Itlch— British Wires and Motherrt Acriuttidof« Tendency Toward Inebriety—Proscribe Whisky For iiuhies What kind of good cheer Do you find in your beer— I'd like you when sober to say"! Js it the fun of destroying, Disabling, annoying, Of hitting and hauling, Of punching and mauling Whoever may come in your way? Is that the good cheer To be found in. your beer? What sort of good cheer Is there hid in the beer, Since lawmakers give it a place? We ought to enquire While watching the buyer! What comfortless clothing! What faces of loathing! What lawlessness, shame and disgrace! Is this the good cheer Measured out with the beer? There should he good cheer Hid away in the beer To have it demanded "like bread." But bread never makes you A loafer, nor takes you From health and from toiling, While morals are spoiling And vacuums filling your head! Maybe sellers of beer Get the most of the cheer. Ah, me! It is queer That we lay out for beer Bright silver and gold by the ton! Oh, grain that is wasted! Oh, grief that is hasted! > - Oh, little ones crying. And hopes that are dying! Oh. the good and the brave onesundone' Each bubble of beer Snonld be reckoned a tear! Jessie MacGrcgor, in Temperance Banner. Women Drift to Wine, British women are drifting toward gen eral drunkenness, according to the facts and figures developed at the recent meet ing of the Charity Organization Society of London. Not content with this disclosure. Dr. Heywood Smith, the well-known special ist on woman's diseases, asserted that ine briety was more rabid and increasing with greater, rapidity among the rich and well to-do women than among the lower strata of society. In an interview with the Chicago Rec ord's London correspondent Dr. Heywood Smith said: "I get my knowledge of the facts from every-day contact with wom en's ills. Drunkenness has not yet reached the aristocracy, but in the so called upper classes it is epidemic." Dr. Smith added that the medical pro fession was not altogether blameless. lie accused his fellow-practitioners of need lessly prescribing wine and whisky to many women patients, and he declared that even babies in arms were not im mune from alcoholic medicine. Dr. Holmes, director of the Church of England Temperance Society's police court mission, said at the meeting that the ine briates act ought to be amended so as to give neglected husbands a release from drunken wives. He claimed that more homes were wrecked in London through drunkenness of wives and mothers than through the excesses of intemperate men. Statistics that were introduced showed 10,116 cases where women were coAvicted in the London courts of drunkenness dur ing the year 1890. of which number 4145 were habitual drunkards. Dr. Brooks, a member of the Fnlham School Board, urges the incorporation of temperance study in London's public school curriculum. Sanity Tested. Bcv. John F. Hill, in Presbyterian Ban ner. takes the following incident from a New York paper, and adds a suggestive comment: "A gentleman was once being taken over an idiot asylum. He asked an at tendant how they knew when an idiot was considered to be sufficiently restored to sanity to be discharged. " 'Oh. said the attendant, 'it is easily managed. We take them into a yard where there are several troughs. We turn on the taps and give the idiots buckets to bail out the water and empty the troughs. Many of them keep bailing away while the tap keeps running, but them that isn't idiots stops the taps.' " 1 his little story, though by no means a new one, may have proven amusing to the readers, ar: I all will agree that the asylum should not discharge an inmate who failed upon this funny test. But are all the people in asylums for the insane or imbecile who "keep bailing away," hoping to empty the trough with out Stopping the inflow? Is not this pre cisely what we do when through our state and municipal governments we make des perate struggles for the abatement of the floods of crime and pauperism, and yet neglect to close the saloon, which is the acknowledged source of the greater part of those awful streams? The Whipping Post. A preacher in Hartford. Conn., in ad dressing a ministerial meeting, advocated establishing the whipping -pout for thu punishing uf drunkards Would it not tie better and more humane to establish the whippingpost for the mmishinent of the men who engage in the drunkard making business, and especialK for the punishment of the preachers who fad to inveigh against the legalized rum traffic? Whip ping drunkards for getting drunk is quite too much like "kicking a man when he is down to suit our sense of fair pint. No one reels like whipping a cripple for slip ping down on a banana peeling carelessly thrown on the sidewalk it is the feHow who threw the peeling there who should lie punished. So it is the fellows who foi tilth) lucre s sake run the saloous anil entrap the bo » and make drunkards oi the in, and the preachers who tad to cry out against the monstrous legalized traffic, who are to blame tor the drunken ne»s, and not the |«.or victims of their greed and delinquency. Keligious Telt SCO pc. M ur«l«*r l*i «»(«•«'lt*«l It) l.iim . Recently there w is a horrible wreck out in Indiana on the Monon, at Kail 11 ,\ti Open switch let a last 810 vine rnstrngrr tram collide with a waiting freight, and four valuable live* were snuffed out in a svcoiid ol time, all because a tlruukeii biakeiuan left the switch open Whet* did the braktiiiaii get his intoxicants? Vi the licensed saloon The Crusade is* lirisf. A saloon is 4 ihwlwl emptier an 1 » heart breaker Ihe liquor traffic restricts industry and brings (Hit cirt). ■"vltishiicM ic many a man's direst devil - mt is strung drink Hum off New Zealand the same tee tide III) t