The gold of the earth Is at present
Anglo-Saxon by a majority of four to
one.
A Paris paper is out with an
fcrticle on th.e carelessness of the
American people, as evidenced in
their failure to preserve their ru.ins.
More than 7,000,000 letters were
Bent to the dead letter office at Wash
ington last year, the number being the
largest on record for a like period.
This is a case in which an increas
ing mortality rate denotes improved
business health.
That sweet young maid of Mar
eeilles who found President Kruger
"almost handsome" might discover
beauty in a bulldog's jowl and lines of
pleasing proportion in the average
municipal statue. Her compliment is
Interesting as an example of French
"politesse."
r
The Philadelphia Medical Journal
declares that "it requires no mathe
matician to discover that the shiftless,
the thriftless, the indigent poor—the
class which produces relatively the
greater number of criminals and
paupers, if not of the mentally de
ficient —is increasing out of all pro
portion to the thrifty, the well-to-do —
the class which produces relatively
lew of the paupers and criminals."
The fourth census of the Dominion
•112 Canada is to be taken soon, begin-
Ing the first week in April next. It is
expected to be completed within a
month. Besides the enumeration of the
people, industrial and other statistics
will be compiled as in the United
States. In the United Kingdom the
census is supposed to be taken in one
day, but no attempt is made to do
more than secure a count of the
population.
Zadkiel, in his illustrious astrolog
ical almanac, proscribes several days
in each month as days on which it is
advisable to "avoid superiors." But
here comes Rev. Edward Everett Hale
with some new rules of conduct, one
of Which is, "Talk every day with a
man whom you know to be your su
perior." Probably it will be the better
part of wisdom to subscribe to Dr.
Hale's precept. He is a notorious
optimist, a man of unusually confident
tomorrows, and his present advice is
but another application of his old
rule, "Look up and not down."
A Massachusetts leather man pre
dicts an casing down of the price of
sole leather very soon, on account of
the invention of a New England
genius. Sole leather grows on beasts
in very limited quantities, and it is
hard to get enough of it. The invention
is to use leather scraps of all sorts foi
the manufacture of good, serviceable
sole leather. The scraps are worth
less for all practical purposes, and
generally rot in the streets and alleys
But a machine has been devised that
tears them into shreds anil makes
them into pulp, which is run out undei
great pressure in continuous sheets
of good sole leather. A fall in the
price of sole leather is predicted as
the result of this discovery of a way
to use the scraps.
If there were no such things in the
world as time locks, the Presbyterian
church at Mount Joy, Penn., would
be SB7OO richer than it is. The story is
queer, and therefore nterestlng. Tht
Rev. David Conway, while pastor ol
the church in question, was throws
from his carriage in May, 189U, ami
received injuries which soon caused
his death. When he realized that his
end was near., Mr. Conway sent foi
a lawyer und made his will, giving
among other bequc eta, S.IOOO to his
church. He was at once told that such
a bequest, if made within 30 days
before death, was Invalid, so h(
signed an order directing the Mount
Joy National bank to turn over to H
W. Hartman, a member of the con
gregntlon, bonds to the value of ss7mi
which he had on deposit, and thes«
Mr. Hartman was to transfer to the
church. Mr. Hartman Immediately
endeavored to Ret the securities, but
the bank vaults were protected by a
time lock, and tl.ey could not lit
opened until the next morning. Mr
Conway illed In the night, while th«
vault doors wrri still Immovable, and
consequently, though the bank gav«
the bonds to Mr. Ilartnmi as soon at
It rould. he was forced in hold theiu
until a legal decision as to their propel
disposition could be secttri d The i|«
clslon has Jn-t been rendered, and li
Is that then curitb s must be addet'
to Mr. Cuiiw .y'« estate and divide**
according to the vnlid provisions ol
his will Tliu fresh 'teltali church nat
urally regards the nu>u a* a hard one
and in elder* have their duili*
whether tittle III! k* are to be UMIII
beted among tuu valuable tutNUliou*
of the agu
It is safer to marry a thrifty woman
with 15 cents than it is to wed a
vain belle with $15,000.
The allies In China should at once
import the college ca>e rush and
popularize it in the provinces. It would
give the Boxers a chance to work off
that gouge feeling.
Male students of the Vienna univer
sity recently resented the admission
of female students to the philosoph
ical faculty's lectures by raising a
riot which stopped the lectures.
Austria is evidently behind the times
in educational matters.
Out of the wilderness of dietary
theories in which we are now roam
ing bewildered —raw meat, raw wheat
and all —we may emerge into a gas
tronomic Canaan of content. But the
man who is inclined to let well enough
alone will watch the other fellow ex
perimenting and himself stick to the
diet that "agrees with him."
There is no cause for immediate
alarm at the statement of an eminent
mathematician that in 10 centuries the
population of the United States will
exceed 40,000,000.000. This would be a
density, counting Our present area, of
over 11,000 to a square mile. Even if
any of us should live till that day
there would possibly be no scarcity of
provisions.
A New York judge has decided
that a diamond collar button is an
article of jewelry and not personal
attire, and that it must be left in the
safe if a hotel is to be responsible for
it. If New York City is shocked by
the appearance of men without col
lars in transit from hotel offices to
their rooms this judge will be en
tirely to blame.
In Europe there continues to be
considerable discussion of the ex
haustion of forest resources. A late
review of the wood imports and ex
ports of France and other countries,
in the Revue Scientiftque, leads to the
conclusion that a wood famine is
soon coming. The problem is less
acute in the United States, where
reforestation is urged chiefly for cli
matic purposes, but the prospect of a
wood famine has been considered
even here.
"While naval authorities in Europe
and America are cogitating over and
experimenting in desultory fashion
with wireless telegraphy, little Japan
has bought two complete Marconi
plants, with an effective radius of
125 miles for immediate installation
on two first class Japanese cruisers.
Among nations, as in leaser political
or domestic organizations, it some
times happens that the latest comer
runs most swiftly and eagerly in the
unending race of material progress.
Through investigations by the
United States fish commission, con
ducted on the New England coast, it
has been shown that the cultivation
of clams for the market, as oysters
are cultivated, is, under certain con
ditions, a practicable and profitable
industry. This is valuable Information,
in view of the rapid depletion of the
soft, or, as it is commonly known, the
long-neck clam, along the New Eng
land :-liores. Success in the culture is
largely a question of a proper food
supply, and much depends also on the
nature of the ground. Clams will not
thrive in a purely sandy bottom;
neither will they grow in a oft mud
The bottom must be a mixture with
just .-and and mud enough to make
a firm bed. They will set best, it was
found, where there is a rapid current,
which keeps any sediment from set
tllng. The current, too, brings mora
food.
The ass Ttlon of Professor Nathan
lei Schmidt of Cornell university at
the New York State Conference of re
ligion In New York City that he did
not believe that the average Sunday
school teacher wan competent to
teach a Sunday school class calls at
tention to the plan, already in op
eration to some ext< nt, of employing
paid teachers for such work. Within
a few days the pastor of a lloston
church, where tin- sy.sura of hiring
trained tca> hers for Hunday school In
struct lon has been tried, reported en
thusiastlcally in Its favor. In sotue ol
tlii- Miitlthy congregations In and near
New York t'lty, there are already
paid (Sunday school teachers, espe
cially those who have charge of Infant
clares lly the lloxton e*pe: ine nt It
»n:i found that good story tellers were
tin newt successful of the |ald teach
•r: T. e hearty applause that Professor
Schmidt received would sci into Indi
cate tht't an effort to train or secure
renlij compel* nt Hun.lay school tenet)
ers v u'd be a move in the lellgimis
it> Id til .t *uuli| tonitiiaui tujtaut »p
pi oval.
I HJORTH HJDHYESES'S ADVEHTIE.!
BY HUGH W. BE AL. 4
Tho Pine Mountain Side, a mile
long, carries logs from the summit to
Beaver Basin, a small, deep pond, 30
miles above Blomfleld.
The slide is a little over three feet
wide. Where its steep trough is
straight the sides are about two feet
high. They rise to four feet on two
curves, where the flying logs rise as
They "thrash around" and a new direc
tion. Logs usually run the Pine Foun
tain Side in from 70 to 80 seconds.
Their friction on its smooth and
close-jointed bottom is lessened by a
stream of water about one inch deep
at the head. This is conducted to the
slide from a large spring high on the
mountain. Because oi. leakage this
rivulet is not moro than a quarter
of an inch deep at the lower end.
Through and over this shallow
stream the logs fly with spurts of
spray. The little current does noth
ing to propel them, only serving to
save the bottom of the slide.
Duringthe highest third of its length
the trough, hero straight and very
steep, crosses two tremendous gorges
on trestlework. Touching the face
of the mountain, it runs close to the
ground on a gradually lessening
elope. Then, turning to the left, it
renews the quickness of its fall while
being carried along the wall of a
precipice by iron supports clamped
to the rock.
Again touching solid ground, it
passes a promontory, runs 300 yards
straight, and again turns to the left-
Thence it runs straight out on a
trestlework and shoots its logs into
Beaver Basin from a height of 30
feet.
Here Is an amazing spectacle when
the logs follow one another quickly.
Some l'ar outjump the rest, some
turn over and over as they fall, a
few "skitter" on the water as do Hat
stones thrown swiftly near the surface.
Many, after disappearing, spring out
to nearly their w hole length, and
slap loudly down.
On the shore near the mouth of the
slido there is a log shanty where five
raftsmen live, and near the head of
the i;lide is another shanty occu
pied by the gang employed in canting
logs into the entrance of the chute.
The foreman of the gang was big
Peter Hicks. Sober, Peter was a
peaceable, generous man, with no
worse fault than a turn for rough
joking. Drunk, Peter seemed to de
light in bullying and cruelty.
Now whiskey was easily obtained
from the owner of an illicit still in a
gloomy ravine halfway up the moun
tain. Hence Hicks frequently began
the morning with a dram.
Among the men placed under Hicks
by the general overseer was one
Hjorth Hjoryesen, a Norwegian not
20 years of age. He was too reserved
and laconic to be popular, but he was
respected for his frugality and
strongth.
As his mind was sternly bent on im
proving his English and gaining
enough money to buy a farm, the fair
haired blue-eyed youth spent none of
his time or means in dissipation.
When the day's work was done he
devoted his himself to his English
render and grammar, never disturbed
by the talk in the shanty, but some
times interrupted by a vision of his
old mother and lngeborg and Hans
and the baby.
Hjorth never lay down to sleep
without reckoning the day's wages in
with his little savings, and thinking
how all those yellow heads at home
were so much nearer tho wide farm
in the west that he meant some day
to own.
Big Peter Hicks, drinking when
ever he had a chance, felt rebuked by
the severe sobriety of this youth. On
first arriving, Hjorth had silently re
fused several invitations to drink.
He had not even returned thanks.
Being taunted with this apparent rude
ness. he had gravely explained that
he did not believe any man should
give thanks for the offer of poison.
From that hour Hicks resolved to
drive Hjorth out of the gang.
With this object, the foreman
"piled" work on the lad. Hjorth, in
the pride of his strength, regarded
this as a compliment to his powers,
and encountered every task with
good humor.
Then Hicks Imposed on Hjorth the
duty of insiiectlng the slides. It needed
petty repairs two or three times a
week, and all these were uot likely to
be noticed on one Inspection trip. In
finding something overlooked by the
lad. Hicks expected to get tin excuse
for discharging him.
Nearly all day logs were running In
the slide. Then nobody could walk In
It. Hut it hud to be Inspected while
moving logs guve Indications of loose
ends or bolts. Therefore a line of
planks was laid outside on the ends
of the eros.ipli-ces that supported the
bottom of squared timbers. No man
of weak nerve could walk along these
single planks across seveial deep
chasms.
The triweekly Inspection usually be
gan about two hours before time to
stop work, I Hiring the last hour uu
logs were launched. This i tialdeil
H)orth to wulk back inside thr trough
and drive loose bolts, or make any
other necessary repairs.
One Thursday cutting In November
llliks ami four of his gang left th»
i amp cabin, and were absent all
nlgbt. The next morning only four
men. one of ahum waa lljorth
It joryesen. presented themselves to
launch trees.
The gciiuml overseer thereupon
gave the Norwegian the office form
erly possessed by Hicks.
At noon the missing men appeared,
bearing unmistakable signs of hav
ing spent the night in carousing.
Hicks was enraged when told that
the foreigner was now the leader of
the gang, and that he himself could
either leave or goto work as a com
mon laborer. As lie had flung away
all his wages, he could not afford to
leave. So he suppressed his rage and
went to work.
Big Peter felt his degradation keen
ly, and with his boon companions re
garded Hjorth as a usurper.
Toward evening of the following
day, Saturday, the men expected that
their new foreman would appoint one
of them to inspect the slide, and thus
avoid the disagreeable duty himself;
but he told them to quit work at the
usual time, and then started upon his
tour of inspection.
After Hjorth had disappeared,
Hicks and four of his companions,
leaving the other men still at work,
walked away southward, plunged down
into a thick growth of saplings, and
disappeared.
They were absent for more than an
hour. When, flushed and boisterous,
they returned from the illicit still, the
sun was disappearing and all the
other lumbermen had left the scene.
Sitting down on a large log that
was awaiting its turn to be launched,
they fell into talk about Hjoryesen,
and vilified him without stint. Re
membering that the object of their
wrath was still below them, some one
proposed to frighten him by launch
ing the log down the slide.
They rose, seized the untrimmed
log upon which they had been sitting,
and brought it round to the slide.
Then they lowered it, large end
first, until no more than four feet pro
jected above. Still they held on,
half afraid to let it go.
Was Hjorth in the slide? If so, the
log would but give him a fright, pro
vided he were far enough away to get
ouc on hearing it coming at him.
"Wait, there he comes now!"
Hicks exclaimed.
Picking up a bough about seven feet
long, he laid it horizontally across the
end of the blide in such a manner that
it caught on a projecting knot of the
log and held it in place.
Through the gloom of early evening
Hjoryesen could be discerned about
a hundred yards below.
When he stepped from the slide,
he found the men grouped in his way.
Hardly noticing them, Hjorth at
tempted to pass. But Hicks placed
his burly hand upon the youth's
shoulder, and thrusting a bottle under
his nose, said:
"Have a drink?"
Hjoryesen gazed calmy into the eyes
of his enemy. Then he shook off the
offending hind
Hicks, drunk enough to be wicked,
seized the lad by the collar and tried
to force the bottle into his mouth.
Hjorth sent it spinning into the air.
Big Peter tried to grapple the Nor
wegian, and received a stinging blow
in the face that sent him tumbling
dangerously near a steep embank
ment.
Then the other four rushed at
Hjoryesen. He knocked one down and
struggled furiously with the other
three, but was soon overpowered by
the united attack and borne to the
ground. A rope was passed round him
and his arms tied in front of his body.
Hjorth made no outcry.
"I'll tlx you, you young panther!"
said Hicks, wiping the blood from his
face. They seized the prostrate youth
and carried him to the edge of the
precipice.
"No, don't throw hint over! Send
him down the slide!" shouted Hicks.
"Hooray!" cried another.
They threw Hjorth backward on the
log already in the slide. A second
rope was passed round his waist and
knotted to the log
"Now will you drink?" said Hicks.
"Never!" said the boy, white with
rage.
"You'd sooner have a ride over the
slide, would you?"
"Murder me! You've got the power
to do that' Hut drink with you I will
uot!" said Hjorth. in his own tongue.
Hicks had meant to frighteu, not to
kill the young foreman.
I'll pry your teeth open!" he cried,
and strode furiously back for a
stick.
The words were hardly out of
Hicks' mouth wheu his leg struck the
retaining branch. The log was off wltii
Hjorth In an instant.
li:ckii shrieked with horror and tiung
himself to the ground The otlx-rs
•tared at where the log hail In three
seconds disappeared. Kar down the
chute they heard it roaring away Into
silence. Hicks rose. All looked at hiui
In terror.
"We'll h.uig for this!" he cried.
With one Impulse they took to their
hwels to tin>t a hiding place.
As the log shot away It swayed,
jumped back 10 Its tlrst pisitlou. alid
fell over a little to that sld«. It ran on
the short mills of th<- bruurhe*. The men
had uot trimmed tlu'iu away, as they
would have done had the lug been
put on the slide in the usual untrue
of work Hack and forth It hopped ou
the points.
The air shrieked in Hjorth'i ears
and the slldo roared under the en
ormous an.l rough log It shuok th><
hoy to this sld«> and that, torturing
h.m at »vury t hauge He h.»d given
himself up for likt, but terror did
uot p.iral)i<. his »• us**.
"Another moment," he thought,
"the log may turn right over, and tear
me and strev me in shreds, along this
trough." But he set his teeth hard to
bear tho pain, and uttered never a
cry.
At ten seconds on Its course, the
log had reached an equilibrium.
Hjorth lay as if half-turned on his
right side.
"I shall be sma3hed at the turn,"
he thought.
Even then the log half-canted over
and tossed him as far on his side as
he had been on his light. It was now
flying round the first curve out if its
equilibrium, as a sleigh swiftly
turning a corner rises on the inner
runner.
Against the longer side of the curv
ing trough it slashed, then raced on
almost free of the bottom. It was
pressed against the side timbers, and
carried Hjorth on the other side.
The knot on the rope round the
young man was thrust against the
timber. Its particles began to be
planed off n.u those of a candle might
be if held against a revolving grind
stone.
Farther back, whore the side of the
log touched the slide, bark flew away
in strips that dropped behind and were
whirled along for some yards in the
vortex of air following the rushing
timber.
The air through which Hjorth was
forced came against his almost sense
less body with such solidity as to
push him farther into the rope. His
chest was so wedged into it that tho
constriction almost stopped his breath
ing. So was his agony that he
must have died had it endured long.
Again the log .ighted for a straight
run of then seconds, ,lien canted and
rose to hurry round tne final curve.
Once more the knot was ground
against the side timbers. The strands
had been almost worn away when the
log lay down for the straight stretch
to the water. Still the rope held Hjorth
although the thrust of the air against
him was so strong that the knot must
have fallen apart had the run been
twenty seconds longer.
Then the log shot straight out over
Beaver Basin. Hjorth's legs flew up
like rags tied to a descending arrow,
and the log, plunging at an angle
into the pond, went out of sight.
Neither Hjorth nor the rope that had
bound his body rose with the timber
when it jumped half out and splashed
heavily down. The remaining strands
had parted under the strain of the
plunge. The log rose, and little waves
went away trembling with reflections
of the last rose color after sundown.
Their circle had widened far before
Hjorth's head appeared.
Too much racked and exhausted to
struggle, he rose as a corpse rises.
But the icy water had restored him to
full consciousness, and he tried to
strike out "dog fashion" with his
bound hands. But the effort was agony.
He understood that some of his ribs
must have been broken, and with an
agonizing breath he sank again.
Even in that extremity the youth's
firm Northman soul forbade him to
yield and die. A twist of his legs
brought him upward. He let his feet
sink, became motionless, laid his head
back, and so rose till his nose and
lips were above the surface. Although
cheeks and forehead were sub
merged. he could yet catch breath.
But the pain of his gasp for air was
unendurable. He convulsively moved
his DO 1111 d hands. That slight distrub
ance sank liim once more.
Still Hjorth kept his senses. Tread
ing water with his feet, he thrust his
head well above the pond. Then he
heard a voice cry out near by:
"There's his head! Pass me that
pike-pole."
"Where?" cried another man.
"There! Here, don't you see? Ah,
he's gone down! No —I've got him!"
As Hjorth went under he
felt the sharp hook of the ptke-pole
catch in his coat. Then he was lifted,
groaning, into the boat of the men who
had their cabin near the mouth of the
slide.
Hearing the roar and splash of a log
at so unusual an hour, they had run
out of their shantv. On seeing Hjorth'*
head appear on th • rose-tinted water,
they had hurried to his aid.
Before morning, after stripping him
in thi'ir shanty and wrapping him in
hot blankets, they had taken him to
the doctor at Illomfleld.
There his young ribs quickly knit,
but his nerves were shaken and he
could not go back to work on the slide
He drew his little earnings from the
bank and went to Dakota. There he
has prospered so well that all the
yellow headed Hjoryesens are with
him.
He refused to lay an information
against Hicks.
"What good would It do?" Hjorth
asked, "let him go. If I put him in
jail, he'll take to the bottle worse than
ever when he comes out."
When the news that Hiorth refused
to prosecute was brought to him. lllg
|>eter hastened to the man he had
wronged, cried like a child, and swore
he would never taste liquor again
He hept tl .it pledge, and is now an
Industrious, r«M>cetul.le cltUeu of
Hiomiieiit front whom I had roost of
the particulars of this narrative.-™
Youth's Companion.
r«t<OMl*ir«44 *hut I M
The p<» tofilce dec a' meat at Wash
ington his been tljilo; since June 30
to secure uu official report from Hunt
mistress ll.die» of the Jaycun posiortt
lice. In Marlon county. West Virgiula
Null.in,: could he ueard from there, so
UU Inspector Mas sent out He found
the postoftw ■ vUmcd and learned that
the |MM.tutii<tie-->* had moved awit#
several months a i lets, tan the build
■ nt> I'h' property was r< moved to
t'ulimoiit and the om«-e st Jajrvnu tern
porarlly discontinued. Washington
•ttar
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Going Tliroucli the MiII—TIIOUBU It May
Seem to Stanil Still, tlie Chukv of Tem
pernnee Forward at a CirutiCy
mic I'ucr— Seven Steps Aheatl.
Adusty miller, "\vhito as snow,
VV ith thought lines ott his honest brow,
Fell asleep on his sacks one day,
And dreamed he saw across the way
Scores of neighbors coming to mill
Without a bag or sack to till.
He said to himself, "1 will not trust,
They can't get flour without the dust!**
There was a rollicking toper, Jim,
Whose hat had neither crown nor ritn;
He hated monarchies and that
Is why he wore a crown-less hat.
At least he said so, but the "fix"
Of that chapeau was caused by "bricks."
Shoeless, he climbed the steps "pell mell,"
Headforemost in the hopper he fell.
He was followed by Dandy Zack,
A friend of art and applejack.
His taste, I fear, was taste for wir.a,
And not esthetic taste divine.
His linen had neither stain nor blot,
His boots reflected, if he did not.
Into the hopper he softly slid,
And under the rags of Tim was hid.
Tipplers and toper* tumbled in.
Smelling of whisky, beer and gin,
Moderate drinkers in dress genteel,
Drunkards down at the mouth and licet,
(ients of fashion who sip the wine.
Stained of logwood, not from the Rhine,
And bummers boasting strength of will,
Passed quickly through the murmuring
in ill.
The miller in dreams went to the bin.
To see the grist it had within;
Judge his surprise when jolly Tim,
No longer tipsy, greeted him
As a man who is sober should.
Smiling, well dressed, erect he stood,
His cheeks were touched with healthy
rose,
The red had faded from his nose.
There, hat in hand, st(>od Dandy Zack,
fione was the odor of applejack,
Ex-drinkers in their senses stood,
Like a brave band in brotherhood.
They'd given up ale and gin and wine,
And talked of charters they would sign.
A team came clattering down tho hill;
The miller 'woke and worked his mill.
—George W. Bungay, in the National Ad
vocate.
The "Work of Fifty Years.
When our temperance friends begin to
grow discouraged—as the very best of tin
must at times, progress is so slow it
would be well for them to remember that
though apparently at a standstill, the
cause of temperance still moves forward.
During the past half century, for instance,
in spite of all opposition, we have made
some strides toward betterment. Our
readers' attention is directed to the fol
lowing facts to prove this:
1. The geographical area within which
prohibition is not only nominal, but act
ual, has been ircatly enlarged through
the operation of local option laws, even in
States under the license system.
2. There is a marked tendency to throw
additional restraints and safeguards
around the liquor traffic, one of which
consists in raising the license fee.
3. A method of dealing with the ques
tion has been found in applying to th»
mloon the law of nuisance, under which it
can bo suppressed, in a court of equity,
by the use of the writ of injunction.
4. It is also noticeable that the general
course of legislation is in the direction of
a tinner control of the traffic by the po
lice and by the courts.
5. Tt comparatively rarely happens that
amendments to the existing laws are
made in the interest of the saloon.
6. The attitude of the police to the
traffic is undergoing an obvious change for
the better. There is a general movement
for the suppression of dance halls where
liquir is sold; of concert saloons, "stall"'
saloons, private wine rooms, saloon thea
tres, gaming in saloons, "pretty waiter
S??ls" and all similar practices.
7. The number of arrests for public in
toxication is asserted to be less than it
was, and iuch arrests tend to diminish
the offence.—Sacred Heart Review.
Early Temperance Soriuty.
Tho increase of drunkenness in man;
parts of the United States led to the for
mation of societies intended to counteract
this evil, and, as American intemperance
was mainly the result of dram drinking, ;»
pledge against the use of spirits was adopt
ed. The movement spread to this coun
try, ami the British and Foreign Temper
anew Society was formed on that baais,
and many local societies came into exist
ence in lS'-St and 1830. In the latter year
the Government pasicd th; mischievous
Beer bill, and before the end of tie year
24,000 beerhouses were licensed. "Every
body is drunk," wrote Sydney Smith;
"those who are not singing are sprawling.
The sovereign people ate in a beastly
state." The natural result was an increase
of drunkenness, and those who had en
gaged in the crm.i te against spirits had t<»
face the obvious facts that people can be
come intoxicated on wine as well as on
whisky, and that beer as well as brandy
makes people drunk, llenee a new pledge
aguinst all intoxicants was introduced.
The abstainers were zealous propagand
ists. and after a lim* the temperance se
cieties that adhered to the old ant. spirit
platform died out or adopted the more
thorough going I us.s, and the temi stance
movement l-eeame w hat it is today- a
crusade against all intoxicants
The only exceptions are the Church of
kugUnd Teei p#ran«f Society and *OlllO
other tttatanan «»rganii/Uioti*, ftftuMiat.od
it a much later tint* which ha\e 1 "dual
buu"~one Mctmn of "total abstainers,"
ami th# other of non-abstainer* who ure
ileairnua of promoting temporaries Tha
•arlu-st instance koowu to mi* >f ih# u»#
of the wor«! temi»erance 1* th* ttc!« a of the
Youtitf iViplvM Temperance
Hector, m tin? Stat# of New V»»rk. 112 »rm« «i
A iat IHL.W whose pl«i|ge it .(gainst
"mioiuaUnn liquor," Note* ami Vju#
ries.
Han on Iu to «Irani*. \
Sew ho««ks of rn)e» am! rognl <ll % *
eently iseu#<l r the government •! -t»..
plove« of th# i'h ag.«, Hur.iit.'ii ul
(Jumty Raiiro«wi contain #|»e< .11 Uh!v
blow* to intosu aiu* an l t ►lur- o t .1
th# rv*M prtivi that tSe hatnt lai n«r oj
niloii#ant« or th# fr«*<|uentum "i f4a#e#
wh«r# mioiicantto %r# »<tM .« •aftV-Uo|
for tliauitaeal tr in th# rami's
Trnip#<!«•>.«» »H«|
TVtuk the ptair man • cur«<
It4a.iv l» jmir ««*lliae. ami y»*u Utilise
evil
\l UtA|#t(o, lud . recently. «' t#i Itfev
*eltu»n kee»#rs wer« riusJ tor v
law by *#'lll4 b SuittUy Tla m« *t*4
»«»•!• a ere 111 tn each
I'h# tierma 11 ua* * c.«at# each »thi' latil
4»| ih« empire than '-S mail# « year,
*h<W th# amount #§*nt by each 112 4U#>
kul ami t« UiHvtu lift* imJ »*%ty,
or 14 ui) foof ti ne# aa wm h IV ai* man I
IfUHtt a Mar fof l#»v a if**, * l .»U 40U
t Ml maths.