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The census bureau has declared Col
umbus, Ind., the centre of popula
tion of the United States. Columbus
is in Bartholomew County, on the east
fork of White River, in the finest
fanning land in Indiana. The city has
BJ3O inhabitants, an in:rease of 130'J
since 1800.
Since 1800 the centre of popula
tion of the United States has shifted a
little to the north and a little to the
west. It is still in the State of In
diana, not far from Columbus, the
capital of Bartholomew County, in the
southern central part of the State. On
the old pivotal point arises a monolith
monument erected there May 10, 1891,
by the Chicago Herald. On one of
the sides of the column Is the follow
ing inscription:
: CENTRE OF TOrULA- :
: TION :
: OF THE :
: UNITED STATES. :
: 85 deg. 32 m. 53 s. W. Long :
: 39 deg. 11 m. 56 sec. N. Lat :
: ERECTED BY :
, : TIIE CHICAGO HERALD. :
This monument was dedicated with
elaborate ceremonies by the people of
Columbus and the contiguous country.
Eloquent addresses were delivered by
notable Indiana orators and lively in
terest wa* felt in the event by the en
tire Hoosier State. The centre was
then about twenty miles east of Col
umbus. It is now about seven miles
north of the same city. Ilence it is
moving north and west.
In time, with the great increase in
population which is coming for the j
Northwest, it may shift to Chicago. It
is by no means impossible that changes
in the growth of the population will I
bring the centre, even if It is carried j
west of the west shore of Lake Michj- j
gan, back to Chicago, where it will ,
remain fixed indefinitely.
The centre of population Is the cen
tre of gravity of the population of the
country,each Individual being assumed
to have tho same weight. 'lhe method
of determining that centre is as t'ol-
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MONUMENT AT THE CENTRE OF POPULA
TION.
lows: The population of the country
is first distributed by "square degrees,"
as the area included between consecu
tive parallels and meridians is desig
nated. A point is then assumed ten
tatively ts the centre, and the cor
rections In latitude and longitude to
this tentative position are computed.
In IS9O the centre was assumed to
be at the intersection of the parallel
of 39 degrees, with the meridian of
86 degrees west of Greenwich. This
would have made the centre of pop
ulation of the United States just two
miles due north of Seymour, in Jack
eon County, ind. From this assumed
base the verifications were made and
the true centre was located.
The movement of the centre has
been steadily westward. On the ac
company lng map its unwavering rnarcJ;
toward the west, with occasional dips
to the south and north is shown. In
1790 it was east of Baltimore twenty
miles. In ten years it had moved
forty miles westward. The anexatlon
of Louisiana brought it south and
west, and in 1820 it was sixteen miles
north of Woodstock, Va. In 1&40 the
pioneers of the West brought it north,
and in 1850 it had mover, south again.
Texas had come into the Union. The
growth of the great West had switched
tt back to the North in 1860, and it was
near Chillicothe, Ohio. War reduced
the population of the South in the de
cade between 1860 and 1870, and the
centre moved north near to Cincin
nati. In another decade it had cleared
Cincinnati in its westward progress,
and in 1870 tt had settled in central
southern Indiana.
The past ten years has carried the
centre westward about twenty miles
and northward about seven miles.
There is no reason to b lieve that it
GAKDEN WHERE FL&MMA.BION CONDUCTED HIS BXPBBIMKNTS IN OBOWINO
PLANTS UNDEII,DIFFERENT COLORED GLASS.
will not continue on its course with the
sun anil shift to the north until it
settles near Chicago, there to remain.
| RED GLOW MAKES PLANTS BROW t
Flammarion's Investigation of the Influ- jtj
2 ence of Various Kindt of Light
<j> on Vegetation. <f
The experiments in regard to the
Influence of the different parts of
the sunlight upon the growth of
plants have been carried on for sever
al years, especially by the famous bot
; anist Sachs, who proved that red rays
of the sunlight especially favored the
growth of plants and flowers. Such
investigations have now been again
taken up by >l. Camflle Flammarion,
a celebrated French astronomer. Flam
marion established, In connection with
the Observatory at Juvisy, near Paris,
an experiment station in the form of
a small garden, as represented in one
of the cuts, where he studied the mat
ter and conducted his experiments. A
report recently published contains
some interesting points. Flammarion
used the double-sides bell-shades,
which were filled with colored solu
tions, and at the same time he pro
vided beds, covered with colored glass.
The best results, however, were at
tained In four little hot houses, one
of which is covered with ordinary win
dow glass, and the other three with
blue, green, and red glass. The gln--i
used tor these houses was carefully ex
amined, and only those pieces taken
whose intensity admitted only mon
ochromatic light. Heat ana all other
conditions are the same in the four
houses. The screen-like devioe shown
In the other cut represents a number
of thermometers made of colored
glass while in the extreme right is a
radiometer for the observation of the
intensity of the light. Flammarion
first selected for his first experiments
a plant from which, through its pe
culiar forms of growth, we can judge,
at any time, of its healthy condition.
DEMONSTRATING THE INFLUENCE OF
LIGHT ON VEGETATION.
This was the Mimosa pudica, the well
j known sensitive plant whose leaves
! act only upon exterior irritations when
I the plant la in a perfectly normal con
dltion. Young plants of a triflo over
an inch in height were planted on the
same day and in the same manner la
all of the four houses, and were .-ire
fully attended to. After three ir/iiths
a notable difference was to b_- seen.
Under the blue glass the plants did
not die off, but neither did they show
any signs of growth. In the white
house they were well developed and
had grown to an average height of
four inches. In the greenhouse the
plants were a little etiolated—that is
to say, they showed Instead of the
normal green color t a yellow-white
color, but their development had been
magnificent, their height averaging six
inches. The greatest development, how
ever, had taken place in the red house,
where the plants not only showed their
usual normal color, but had reached n
height of seventeen inches—that is to
say, fifteen times the original size, and
were blooming splendidly. Flam
marion then took two other plants and
attained almost ihe same, or, at least,
very similar results. Experiments
carried on wltli strawberries showed
also the same results; under the red
light tliey developed marvelously. It
will readily be understood that these
experiments, especially with regard to
valuable, rare plants, are of the high
est vulue.—Philadelphia Record.
<■(»* by the Can.
Gas by the can Is a Parisian novelty,
according to Sterling Helllg's letter In
the New York Press.
These gas fountains—using the word
In the French sense—are long, narrow
metal boxes, standing upright, of solid
construction, to hold compressed Illu
minating gas, that by means of rubber
tubes are led to incandescent burners
by way of movable lamps like those
that stand on centre tables iu America.
OPENING A CAN OF GAS.
The gas boxes, sold to the consumer
at $5 each, require only to be taken
home and set up on shelves. Three
form the regulation "battery" for a
moderate-sized house, lighting the
three rooms which the French light
brilliantly, the dining room, the ante
chamber and the kitchen.
One of those bldons, or gas boxes,
represents a provision of about 1000
caudle hours, which means ten can
dles during 100 hours, or twenty can
dles during llfty hours, and so on.
When the first bidons are empty the
company exchanges them for full oues
at a dollar apiece.
Where to Be Good.
It was a Payne avenue car, rather
crowded, too, on lnst Sunday night.
Iu one corner sat two little urchins,
taking up as little room as possible.
Indeed, they occupied about us much
room as one adult. The boys were
evidently of the class which run about
the street on weekdays in bare feet.
They could not, however, be Included
in the "bad boy" class. They were
evidently not used to sitting quietly
aud orderly, and lidgeted about in re;u
distress. Their eyes roamed from the
floor to the people, and back to the
floor again. Finally one said to the
other, in a confiding whisper: "Golly,
but ye have to be good In a ear, don't
ye?"— Cleveland Plain-Dealer.
DB. TALMAGPS SERMON
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
£nl>Ject: Lack of Patience—Faith, Hope and
Charity llloom in Many Hearts Where
the Grace of Patience Is Wanting—Pity
Itatlier Than Condemn the Erring.
[Copyrtuht Willi. I
WASHINGTON, D. C. —This discourse of
Dr. Talmage is a full length portrait of a
virtue which all admire, and the lessons
taught are very helpful; test, Hebrews x,
36, "Ye have need of patience."
Yes, we are in awful need of it. Some
of us have a little of it, and some of us
have none at all. There is less of this
grace in the world than of almost . -y
other. Faith, hope and charity are all
abloom in hundreds of souls where you
find one specimen of patience. Paul, the
author of the text, on a conspicuous occa
sion lost his patience with a coworker,
and from the way he urges this virtue
upon the Hebrews, upon the Corinthians,
upon the Thessalonians, upon the Ro
mans, upon the Colossians, upon the
young theological student, Timothy, I
conclude he was speaking out of his own
need of more of this excellence. And I
only wonder that Paul had any nerves left.
Imprisonment, flagellation, Mediterranean
cyclone, arrest for treason and conspir
acy, the wear and tear of preaching to
angry mobs, those at the door of a thea
tre and those on the rocks of Mars hill,
left him emaciated and invalid and with a
broken voice and sore eyes and nerves a
jangle. He gives us i\ snap shot of him
self when he describes his appearance and
his sermonic delivery by saying, "In bodily
presence weak and in speech contempti
ble," and refers to his inflamed eyelids
when, speaking of the ardent friendship of
the Galatians, he says, "If it had been
possible, ye would have plucked out your
own eyes and have given them to me."
We all admire most that which we have
{east of. Those of us with unimpressive
Visage most admire beauty; those of us
with discordant voice most extol musical
cadence; those of us with stammering
speech most wonder at eloquence; those
of us who get provoked at trifles and are
naturally irascible appreciate in others the
eciuopoise and the calm endurance of pa
tience. So Paul, with hands tremulous
with the agitations of a lifetime, writes of
the "God of patience" and of "ministers
of Clod in much patience" and of "patience
of hope" and tells them to "follow after
patience," and wants them to"run with
patience," and speaks of those "strength
ened with all might to all patience," and
looks us all full in the face as he makes
the startling charge, "Ye have need of
patience."
The recording angel, making a pen out
of some plume of a bird of paradise, is not
getting ready to write opposite your name
anything app'.audatory. All your sublime
equilibrium of temperament is the result
of worldly success. But suppose things
mightily change with you, as they some
times do change. You begin togo down
hill, and it is amazing how many there arc
to help you down when you begin togo in
that direction. A great investment fails.
The Colorado silver mine ceases to yield.
You get land poor; your mills, that yield
ed marvels of wealth, are eelipsfd by
mills with newly invented machinery; you
get under the feet of the bears of Wall
street. For the first time in your life you
need to borrow money, and no one is will
ing to lend. Under the harrowing worri
ment you get a distressful feeling at the
base of your brain. Insomnia and nervous
dyspepsia lay hold of you. Your health
goes down with your fortune; your circle
of acquaintances narrows, and where once
you were oppressed by the fact that you
had not time enough to return one-half of
t,he social calls made upon you now the
card basket in your hallway is empty, and
your chief callers are your creditors and
the family physician, who comes to learn
the effect of the last prescription. Now
you understand how people can become
pessimistic and cynical and despairful.
You have reached that stage yourself.
Now you need something that you have
not. But 1 know of a re-enforcement that
you can have if you will accept it. Yon
der comes up the road or the sidewalk a
messenger of God. Her attire is unpre
tending. She has no wings, for she is not
an angel, but there is something in her
countenance that implies rescue and deliv
erance. She comes up the steps that once
were populous with the affluent and into
the hallway where the tapestry is pelting
faded and frayed, the place now all empty
of worldly admirers. I will tell you her
name if you would like to know it. Paul
baptized her and gave her the right name.
She is not brilliant, but strong. There is
a deep quiethood in her manner and a
firmness in her tread, and in her hand is a
scroll revealing her mission. She comes
from heaven. She was born in the throne
room of the King. This is I'atience. "Ye
have need of patience."
First, patience with the faults of others.
No one keeps the Ten Commandments
equally well. One's temperament decides
which commandments he shall come near
est to keeping. If we break some of the
commandments ourselves, why be so hard
on those who break others of the ten? If
you nnd I run against one verse of the
twentieth chapter of Exodus, why should
we so severely excoriate those who run
against another verse of the same chap
ter? Until we are perfect ourselves wc
ought to be lenient with our neighbor's
imperfections. Yet it is often the case
that the man most vulnerable is the most
hypercritical. Perhaps he is profane and
yet has no tolerance for theft, when pro
fanity is worse than theft, for, whde the
latter is robbery of a man, the former is
robbery of Clod. Perhaps he is given to
defamation and detraction and yet feels
himself better than some one who is
guilty of manslaughter, not realizing that
the assassination of character is the worst
kind of assassination. The lavcr for wash
ing in the ancient tabernacle was at its
side burnished like a looking glass, so that
thosS that approached that laver might
see their need of washing, and if by the
gospel looking glass we discovered our own
need of moral cleansing we would be more
economic of denunciation. The most of
those who go wrong are the victims of cur
cumstances, and if you and I had been
rocked in the same iniquitous cradle, and
been all our lives surrounded by the same
baleful influences we would probably have
done just as badly, perhaps worse.
We also have need of patience with slow
results of Christian work. We want to
see our attempts to do good immediately
successful. -The world is improving, but
improving at so deliberate a rate; why not
more rapidity and momentum? Other
wheels turn so swiftly; why not the gos
pel chariot take electric speed? I do not
know. I only know that it is God's way.
We whose cradle and grave are so near to
gether have to hurry up, but God. who
manages this world and the universe, is
from everlasting to everlasting. He takes
500 years to do that which He could do in
five minutes. Ilis clock strikes once in a
thousand years. While God took only a
week to fit up the world for human resi
dence, geogolgy reveals that the founda
tions of the world were eons in being laid,
and God watched the glaciers, and the fire,
and the earthquakes, and the volcanoes as
through centuries and millenniums they
were shaping the world before that last
week that put on the arboreseenee. A
few days ago my friend was talking with a
geologist. As they stood near a pile of
rocks my friend said to the scientist, "I
suppose these rocks were hundreds of
tbQUsa?4* of years in construction?" And
the geologist replied, "Yes, and you might
say millions of years, for no one know#
but the Lord, and He won't tell."
If it took so long to make this world at
the start, be not surprised if it takes a
long while to make it over again now that
it has been ruined.
The Architect has promised to recon
struct it, and the plans arc all made, and
at just the right time it will be so com
plete that it will be fit for heaven to move
in, if, according to the belief of some of
my friends, this world is to be made the
eternal abode of the righteous.
The wall of that temple is going up, and
my only anxiety is to have the one brick
that I am trying to make for that wall
turn out to be the right shape and smooth
on all sides, so that the Master Mason will
not reject it, or have much work with the
trowel to get it into place. I am respon
sible for only that one brick, though you
may be responsible for a panel of the door
or a carved pillar or a glittering dome.
So we are God's workmen, and all we
have to do is to manage our own hammer
or ax or trowel until the night conies in
which no man can work, and when the
work is all completed we will have a right
to say rejoicingly: "Thank God, I was
privileged to help in the rearing of that
temple! I had a part in the work of the
world's redemption."
Again, we have need of patience under
wrong inflicted, and who escapes it in
some form? It comes to all people in pro
fessional life in the shape of being misun
derstood. Because of this, how many peo
ple fly to newspapers for an explanation.
You see their card signed by their own
name declaring they did not say this or
did not do that. They fluster and worry,
not realizing that every man comes to be
taken for what he is worth, and you can
not, by any newsj aper puff, be taken for
more than you are north nor by any news
paper depreciatia be put down. There
is a spirit of fairr ss abroad in the world,
and if you are a public man you are classi
fied among the friends or foes of society.
If you are a friend of society, you will find
plenty of adherents, and if vou are the
foe of society you cannot escape reprehen
sion. Paul, you were right when you said,
not more to the Hebrews than to us, "Ye
have need of patience." I adopted a rule
years ago which has been of great service
to me, and it may be of some service to
you: Cheerfully consent to be misunder
stood. God knows whether we are right
or wrong, whether we are trying to serve
Him or damage His cause. When you can
cheerfully consent to be misunderstood,
many of the annoyances and vexations of
life will quit your heart, and you will come
into calmer seas than yon have ever sailed
on. The most misunderstood being that
ever trod the earth was the glorious Christ.
The world misunderstood Ilis cradle and
concluded that one so poorly born could
never be of much importance. They
charged Him with inebriety and called
Him a winebibber. The sanhedrin misun
derstood Him, and when it was put to
the vote whether He was guilty or not of
treason He got but one vote, while all the
others voted "Aye, aye." They misun
derstood His cross, and concluded that if
lie had divine power He would effect His
own rescue. They misunderstood His
grave, and declared that His body had
been stolen by infamous resurrectionists.
He so fully consented to be misunder
stood that, harried and slapped and sub
merged with scorn, He answered not a
word. You cannot come up to that, but
you can imitate in some small degree the
patience of Christ.
There are enough present woes in the
world without the perpetual commemora
tion of nast miseries. If you sing in your
home or your church, do not always choose
tunes in long meter. Far better to have
your patien;e augmented by the considera
tion that the misfortunes of this life must
soon terminate.
This last summer I stood on Sparrow
hill, four iniles from Moscow. It was the
place where Napoleon stood and looked
upon the city which he was about to cap
ture. His army had been in long marches
and awful fights and fearful exhaustions,
and when they came to Sparrow hill the
shout went up from tens of thousands of
voices, "Moscow, Moscow!" I do not
wonder at the transport. A ridge of hills
sweeps round the city. A river semicir
cles it with brilliance. It is a spectacle
that y iu place in your memory as one of
three or fo ir most beautiful scenes in all
the earth. Napoleon's army marched on
it in four divisions, four overwhelming tor
rents of valor and pomp, down Sparrow
hill and through the beautiful valley and
across the bridges and into the palaces,
which surrendered without one shot t'f
resistance because the avalanche of troops
was irresistible. There is the room in
which Napoleon slept, and his pillow,
which must have been very uneasy, for,
oh. how short his stay! Fires kindled in
all parts of the city simultaneously drove
out that, army into the snowstorms under
which Ho.ooo men perished. How soon did
triumphal march turn into horrible demo
lition!
To-day while I speak we come on a high
hill, a glorious hill of Christian anticipa
tion. These hosts of God have had a long
inarch and fearful battles and defeats have
again and again mingled with the victor
ies, but to-day w: come in sight of the
great city, the capital of the universe, the
residence of the King and the home of
those who are to reign with llim for ever
and ever. Look at the towers and hear
them ring with eternal jubilee.
Look at the house of many mansions,
where many of our loved ones arc. Be
hold the streets of burnished gold and
hear the rumble of the chariots of those
who are more than conquerors. So far
from being driven back, all the twelve
gates are wide open for our entrance. We
are marching on and marching on, and our
every step brings us nearer to the city.
At what h— we shall enter we have no
power to foretell, but once enlisted amid
ttie blood washed host our entrance is cer
tain. It may bo in the bright noonday or
the dark midnight. It may be when the
air is laden with springtime fragrance or
chilled with falling snows. But enter we
ist and enter we will through the grace
offered us as the chief of sinners. Higher
hills than any I have spoken of will guard
that city. More radiant waters lhan I
saw in *he Russian valley will pour through
that great metropolis. No raging confla
gration shall drive us forth, for the only
fires kindled in that city will be the fires
of a splendor that shall ever hoist and
never die. Reaching that shining gate,
there will be a parting, but no tears at the
parting. There will be an eternal farewell,
but r.o sadness in the utterance. Then
and there we will part with one of the
best friends we ever had. No place for
her in heaven, for she needs no heaven.
While love and joy and other graces enter
heaven, she will stay out. Patience, beau
tiful Patience, long-suff -ring Patience, will
at that gate sav: "Good-bye. I helped you
in the battle of life, but now that you have
gained the triumph you need me no more.
I bound up your wounds, but now they
arc all healed. I soothed your bereave
ments. tut you pass now into the reun
ions of heaven. I can do no more for you,
and there is nothing for me to do in a city
where there are no burdens to carry.
Good-bye. I go back into the wor I from
which you came up to resume my tour
among the hospitals sud sick rooms and
bereft households and almshouses. The
cry of the world's sorrow reaches my cars,
and I must descend. Up and down that
poor suffering world I will goto assuage
and comfort and sustain until the world
itself expires and on all its fountains and
in all its valleys and on all its plains there
is not one soul left that has need of pa-
—— - -
THE GREAT DESTROYEI
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Wlio Will Volunteer?—A Collection of
Tragedies, Showing What nn Awful
Account the Rum Heller Will Have
to Give at the Bar of God.
Who is ready, who is willing? Who will
volunteer?
Who will join the gath'ring army? Who
the call will hear?
Right and truth against the evil must pre
vail;
If we trust our mighty leader, we shall
never fail.
Faithful soldiers now are needed on the
temperance field
Who ara always firm and dauntless, who
will never yield, «
Who are never faint and fearful when the
foe is near;
Such are needed in our army, who will
volunteer?
—Temperance Banne"
The Rum Demon at Work.
A young man who is now serving a term
in State prison for homicide told me again
and again, with tears in his eyes*, how he
committed a crime while in a condition
of insensible inebriety that forever brands
h'.m as a murderer, writes the Rev. Josiah
Monroe, in the New York Witness.
All he can say now is that when the
deed was done he was insanely drunk, and
did not know what he was doing. But
the law takes no such excuse and holds
him responsible for the crime, whether he
was aware of it or not.
Oh. this cursed rum that makes so many
maniacs and idiots, that sends men to the
gallows and fills the death chamber. That
robs children of their parents and wives
of their husbands. That takes the bread
out of the mouths of helpless infancy, and
steals the clothes off the backs of the in
firm and decrepit. The sacreligious de
spoiler of the dead; the desolator of the
home. The ruin of tens of thousands of
all classes, rich and poor high and low.
Recently I met the father of this young
man of whom I sreak. Pie looked patri
archal. His son's disgrace added ten yearn
at least to his life. He was downcast,
grieved, mortified, and had been praying
for death to come to his rescue, but it did
not come. With the Psalmist he had
cried many a time. "Would God I had died
for thee, my son!" But it was too late.
But what about her who was his best
and earliest friend —his mother! She took
to her bed at the beginning of the trou
ble. and became a poor, nervous, chronio
invalid. Oh, what misery, wretchedness
and disgrace rum brouaht upon several
families, all related to this young man!
How it blasts, blights and eternally ruins
the most promising life!
Last December an intelligent man. about
forty years of age, was discharged from
Danncmora Prison, but the great ifcm
gate was hardly closed upon him before
he was arrested again for a crime commit
ted several years ago, and, strange to
say, one which he had already forgotten.
The man had come from a respectable
family in New York City, but on account
of his long criminal career they disowned
him. He felt greatly mortified over this
arrest, when he thought he was a free
man.
After coming to the city he wrote a
very pathetic letter to one of the judges
in General Session, saying, among other
things, that he had not sen a free Christ
mas in nineteen years, and begging clem
ency that he might have one more chance.
He has spent several terms in prison the
past nineteen years —only remaining out
a few months before he was back again.
So that during nil these years he had not
.~ Cui'i«tma3.
The judge tflok pity on him and gave
him a suspended sentence, which was the
same as another clmnce to show himself
a man.
What a splendid opportunity was placed
before him! He started in again to show
what lie could do. Many people encour
aged him. For a season his pathway was
full of sunshine and hope. But the evil
day came. He lost his position because
of his lack of foresight. A friend met
him on the street and asked him to drink.
I call him an enemy. Under the influence
of strong drink criminal tendencies were
generated in his heart. With the mad
ness of a lunatic he risked his liberty for
a mess of pottage. He sold himself to
the devil. Tn an hour he fell under the
influence of strong drink. He was caught
red-handed. The die was cast.. He was
arrested, indicted and sent back to Clinton
Prison again for five years. This man told
me with tears in his eyes that it was his
own fault and he deserved all he got for
his foolishness.
Five years for one drink of whisky which
for the time made him a fool! Tt" there
were no wide open saloons in this town
this man would still be enjoying his free
dom. When a poor drunkard comes be
fore a magistrate in this city, he usually
says to him: "John, I will lock you tip
for your drunkenness." Why don't they
lock up the saloons and the poor drunk
ard would attend to his business. Then
he would tie able to feed and clothe his
family. \\ hat an awful account the rum
sellftr will have to give at the bar of God!
A Request From "Little Hobs."
Lord Roberts has found time amid h'.s
multiplied labors and excitements to
send from South Africa to London a tele
gram rebuking his home-staying fellow
countrymen for the form of welcome with
which they have received his discharged
soldiers. Lord Roberts is a temperance
man of pronounced views, believing as lit
tle in alcohol as an ingredient of patriotism
as of courage, and it is no wonder that lie
has been disgusted by the accounts he has
received of the orgies which disgraced the
London streets on the arrival of the re
turning troops. "I beg earnestly," his
message runs, "that the public will re
frain from tempting my gallant comrades,
hut wili rai.ier aid them to uphold the
splendid reputation they have won for the
imperial army." The heroic "Bobs" is a
fighter of such approved ability and deter
mination that he can well afford to do a
little preaching on occasion. His sermons
are always treated with respect, even if
they are not always heeded—and it's more
the pity that they are not always heeded,
—New York Times.
Does Not Give Force.
Professor Bunge says: "Alcohol docs
not give force; it is not foree-produeing.
The seeming exciting impulse which it
produces is but a fleeting exaltation of the
organism, after which comes the period
of fatigue, weakness and paralysis. The
consumption of alcohol neither augments
the physical energy nor the muscular
work. Alcohol does not warm the organ
ism. u'oho) does not favor digestion."
Tlio Crusade in Ilrlef.
The footsteps of every prosperous ni/in
ore far and away from the saloon.
If you drink beer, rum and whisky, you
are certain to sutler from bitters.
A little in one's own pocket, and less in
the saloon's, is a savings bank notion.
Drunkenness has become disreputable
or it is pitied as the manifestation of a de
plorable disease.
Canada consumes just two-thirds of a
gallon of spirits per head of population
per annum; the United States consumes
one gallon of spirit* per head ~popula
tion per annum.