Duke Henry's creditors do not seem
to have realized anything on his mar
riage with Holland's Queen.
A phonograph with rag-time music
attachments has been sent to the Per
sian court. Now, will the Shah be
civilized?
The Victoria memorial statue to be
erected in London is to cost $1,000,000.
The sculptor chosen to erect the statue
is Thomas Brock, and it will be erected
in Trafalgar square.
At the bicentenary of the Kingdom
of Prussia the East Prussians collect
ed 100,000 marks which the Kaiser has
assigned for the education of boys who
are no longer under the care of their
parents.
The area devoted to the cultivation
of rice in the South will be very ma
terially enlarged this year. If the
ratio of increase keeps pace with what
it has been during the past few years
this country will be able to supply its
own demand.
Small potatoes are not to be sneezeo
at any longer. They are all used in
the starch factories. About 16,C00 tons
of potato starch is made in this coun
try every year. Here is where the
small potato is just as good, so far as
it goes, as the big one.
Street trees, properly planted and
cared for, work a remarkable change
in the value of residential property.
Any one with doubts on this subject
should look into the history of Wash
ington, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Buffa
lo and other cities, where a compre
hensive system of street planting has
been carried into effect.
The inventors of names should find
out a briefer and better word than
"automobile" —something short and
snappy. The "wheel" is easier to men
tion than the "bicycle." A fit word
of a few letters should be chosen for
the motors. And something Anglo-
Saxon might be found to chase away
the "chauffeurs." That is decidedly too
foreign a term.
The latest statistics of the Salva
tion army show that there are 732
corps now in the United States, with
24 food depots, which has furnished
110,000 monthly meals, and 190 social
institutions for the poor, with a total
daily accommodation in the same for
7200. The workingmtn's hotels num
ber C 6 and the workingwomen have
%, with an aggregate of 0325 inmates.
Five labor bureaus and three from col
onies are established, the latter hav
ing 240 laborers. Other minor insti
tutions and slum settlements number
about 80 in all. The expenditure on all
these institutions in 1900 was $253,000.
of which $210,000 was raised by the
work or the payments of iDmates.
Minnesota is a poor place of resi
dence for a man who does not want tc
support his wife and abandon's her
The legislature has passed a law mak
ing wife abandonment a felony, pun
ishable by imprisonment in the peni
tentiary for not less than one year and
not more than three, with a provision
for a suspension of sentence provid
ing the husband give bond to the state
to support his wife and family. Under
this law it is believed, that deserting
husbands can be arrested in and ex
tradited from other states. If the
law stands a proposed test it is not
unlikely that other states may follow
Minnesota's example. The courts
have to deal with no more difficult
problem than this, and the total an
nual expense to the public in caring
for abandoned families must be enor
mous. So long as the husband re
mains in the same place with his fam
ily he can be got at and made to pay,
but once out of the jurisdiction of thP
court, he is practically a free man.
The African quagga is extinct, and
several families of antelopes have
been wiped out of existence. Zebras
are scarce, giraffes are few in num
ber, the rhinoceros and hippopotamus
are passing from view, but the hella
dotherium (hitherto only known
through fossil remains found in
Greece) still roam through the for
ests of Uganda. The helladotherium
is of the size of an ox, its neck is a
little longer, proportionately, than
that of a horse, the ears like those of
the ass with silky black fringes, the
head taperlike and the nostrils like
those of the giraffe. The forehead is
a vivid red, and the neck, shoulders,
Btomach and back a deep reddish
brown, and the hindquarters and legs
and boldly striped in purplish black
and white. Great is the helladotheri
um, for has it not survived the vicis
situdes of two or more geological ages.
And does its existence provide the
narrators of tales about the sea ser
pent—that antediluvian leviathan of
the deep—with badly needed evidence
of their truthfulness?
A manuscript of Milton's "Paradise
Lost" recently sold for SB3O. If poets
possessed Methuselah's longevity they
might make good money.
Male mosquitoes do not bite, but get
their living from the juices of flowers.
It is evident that in mosquitodom, at
least, the female sex is privileged.
The Loudon county council is going
to spend $7,500,000 in building model
cottages for workmen. The new mu
nicipal houses will accommodate 42,000
people.
Boston intends to spend $6,000,000
this year in street building and re
pairing, but it is not likely to attempt
to make its crooked paths straight.
That were a hopeless undertaking
All Europe produces beet sugar
with the exception of Switzerland, and
Persia and Egypt have entered the
field. The beet sugar-industry is one
of the great sources of France's
wealth.
An electric railway which is being
built in India has filed an order for
1,000,000 pounds of trolley wire with
a Connecticut manufacturing firm.
This is another triumph for American
over British manufacturers in their
own field of operations.
The American city milkman is not
the sole occupant of the milk-water
trust. Our consul at Frankfort, Ger.,
reports that of 122 samples of milk
examined by the board of health, over
half were diluted with from 10 to 60
percent of water. A test of 3704 sam
ples in Hamburg resulted in proving
475 objectionable.
Illustrating the cheapness of the
parcels postal service in Germany, it
Is enough to cite the fact that the
department allows packages to be sent
by soldiers at the low rate of 20 pfen
nigs (5 cents) up to three kilograms
(6.6 pounds) in weight, regardless of
distance. During last year 3,562,800
6oldiers' packages were sent through
the parcels post.
A consular report from Vienna
gives results of'the census recently
taken in Austria-Hungary. It shows
that the present population of the
country is about 46,590,000, 39,200,000
of which is furnished by Hungary.
During the last decade the population
of Austria increased 9.3 percent. Hun
gary shows an increase of 10.7 percent
for the last 10 years, which is slight
ly less than for the 10 years preced
ing.
We not only furnished millions of
dollars' worth of animal horses for
South Africa, but have received orders
for millions of dollars' worth of iron
horses for Russia. The Russian min
ister of roads and transportation has
allowed the government railroads the
following sums for 1901: For loco
motives, $10,300,000; for freight cars.
$9,270,000; for passenger cars, $3,605,-
000; total, $23,175,000. American
firms will get about $20,000,000 of this.
An interesting supreme court de
cision in New York holds that a worn
an in getting off a street car must be
given time to gather up her skirts, in
addition to time to step down from
the car platform. It is further held
that it is the conductor's duty to see
that her skirts are clear of any cai
fittings or attachments before he starts
the car. If he starts before he as
sures himself that they are free he
is guilty of negligence. The court, on
the other hand, does not consider thai
a woman is negligent to travel upoD
a car with a dress so long that it will
be more likely to catch upon such ap
pliances as necessarily extend above
the platform, such as bell plungers
etc.
The death in Balse of Emilie Kem
pin recalled an era that already swms
ancient. Its date was 1889. There
was then in New York City no oppor
tunity for a woman to study law; nor
had any woman advocate invaded t'he
city, though the legislature had in
ISB6 legalized the admission to the
bar of the gentler sex. Mme. Kempin
graduated in 1886 from the University
of Zurich, but meeting with opposi
tion in her application for a law pro
fessorship she came to New York City,
where she applied for admission as o
law student at Columbia. Her appli
cation was refused, but she was per
mitted to attend the clssses as a "vis
itor." In the fall of 1889 she founded
the first women's law class in the city.
Later she returned to Europe. The
number of women lawyers in the me
tropolis is not yet great—not so great
proportionally as in Boston or in the
west—but enough have entered the
profession to remove such action from
the realm of experiment. Truly an
amazing change for a single decade
to hßve witnessed, exclaims the New
Fork World.
AN ADAPTATION OF EXODUS.
Why There Were Many Plagues in the Captain's Quarters.
BY GWENDOLEN OVERTON.
To a certain sort of mind a saint is
only to be known as a saint by the
halo above his brow, and the Prince of
Darkness himself would be devoid of
Identity without a pitchfork and
cloven hoof. To such as these the
knight-errantry of Drayton and Bart
lett may seem problematical; but a
knight-errant'is one who succors beau
ty in distress, and who rides abroad
redressing human wrongs. Whether
he employs an obnoxious insect rath
er than a sword, as Drayton did,
or whether he rides a S. C. govern
ment mule, as Bartlett was wont to do,
is neither here nor there.
Bartlett was riding the aforesaid
mule shortly after the time my story
begins. He rode it up the line, its long
gray ears waggling evenly and rest
fully, and came to a halt in front of
the set of quarters where Drayton and
he roomed. Drayton was sitting on
the porch, his feet on the railing, his
chair tipped back, and the visor of his
cap pulled down on his nose. He
pushed the cap to the back of his
bead as Bartlett came slowly up the
steps.
"I wish you woud get a horse," he
complained. "If you could just realize
the figure you cut on that old ele
phant!"
"That's a mule," corrected Bartlett,
his arm around a pillar and letting
his heels dangle as he perched on the
Tailing. "It's also a very nice mule.
It is no longer a shave-tail, but has
reached years of discretion. The mo
ment man or animal does that, his ap
preciative country straightway has
aim inspected and condemned. Horses
may do for some, but not for one who
has the duties of post quartermaster
to perform. And, besides, I believe in
the infantry and scorn a horse."
"The scorn," observed Drayton,
"of the fox for the grapes."
"Don't rub it in," said Bartlett, de
lectedly; "I'm miserable enough as it
is."
"Thought you looked rather triste.
I'm all sympathy. Goon."
Bartlett released his hold upon the
pillar and folded his arms on hisbreast
in an attituue combining stern endur
ance and precarious balance. "The
Collinses are going to rout the Law
rences out."
Now, the Collinses were the family
of Captain Collins—wife, mother-in
law on both sides, and three small
children. They had that morning ar
rived in the post. Collins was in com
mand of Troop L, which had been
moved on some weeks before. If he
bad been well-disposed his entry,
ihould not have put the whole garri
son, below his rank, in the throes of
•»ar of a progressive "turning out."
For there were empty quarters into
which he might have moved exactly
as well as not, and no one have been
any the worse off.
"But Collins won't see it that way,"
Bartlett went on."He ranks Law
recce, and his wife ranks him, you
bet; and its the wife and the mother
in-law who are going to have the Law
rences' set or bust."
"Throw them a few buckets of paint
end calcimine, by way of sop," Dray
ton ventured to suggest.
"Did," said Bartlett, briefly. "Of
fered them half the quartermaster's
department, and a carpenter, and a
blacksmith, and a farrier, too. if they
happened to need one. Told them they
could hate any or all of me colors of
paint in the rainbow, if they'd just
>e good—but those three Graces are
going to have the Lawrences' house."
Drayton opined, with a little of the
placidity, nevertheless, with which we
all bear one another's burdens, that it
was a very great and very profsne
6hame. "There's that poor little wom
an with those little bits of kids, and
just moved into those quarters, and
got them all fixed up so prettily, and
her garden started, too. Then, those
Collinses; They're a mean lot of cat
tle, anyway." He made a gesture of
disgust, which turned the visor around
over his left ear, and was silent for a
minute through sheer wrath.
"I told Mrs. Lawrence they would be
serpents on the wood cutter's
hearth—"
"Serpents, now?" asked Bartlett:
"they were cattle before; and you
called that" —he pointed over his
shoulder —"an elephant, whereas, in
point of fact, it's a mule."
"I cold her," continued Drayton,
unmoved, "that It wouldn't pay. I
know all about the Collinses —served
with them in Texas. I was sitting on
Mrs. Lawrence's steps—l know that
I usually am, so you can save yourself
—I was sitting on her steps when the
Collins outfit drove up. The ambu
lance stopped in front of the C. O. s
house, next door, and Collins jumped
out and went in. The rest of them
just waited. All would have been well
if Mrs. Lawrence hadn't become
tender-hearted in a most unnecessary
way, and hadn't chosen to disregard
any advice." He assumed the look of
prophecy fulfilled. "I told her to sit
still and not get excited and do some
thing rash"; gave her the benefit of
my knowledge and experience. But it
wasn't any use. She made m? dry up
and liang onto the kids, while she
ran down to the ambulance and invit
ed the whole caboodle to come in and
rest and refresh themselves. They
cfftne. You can bet your life they
came—or they wouldn't have been the
Collinses. I saw Dame C.'s weather
eye taking in the house. I could see
she liked It, and I knew there'd be
trouble. Mrs. Lawrence kept them to
luncheon—the whole seven of them.
Asked me, too; but the kids were
raising Cain, and the abode of peace
was transformed, so I lit out."
"Well, I guess she's sorry now—if
that's any comfort to you. For the
Collinses are not only going to have
those quarters, but they're going to
have them quick. Even the C. O. got
at Collins. But it wasn't any use.
"My wife likes tue quarters,' says he.
And that's all."
They sat in meditation for some
time. Then Drayton spoke.
"I like those quarters, too. I'm go
ing to have some of them myself," he
said.
Bartlett did not understand, and
Drayton undertook to explain.
"Well—see here." He took his feet,
down from the rail, in his earnestness,
and straightened his cap. "It's like
this. You and I have got one room
each in this house, haven't we, same
as the most of the other bachelors?"
Such was the case. "And we're en
titled to two rooms each, aren't we?"
Bartlett agreed that they were. "And
we've been keeping these ones because
we've been too lazy and good natured
to ask for more, haven't we? Well we
won't be lazy and good natured any
more If the Collinses move into the
Lawrences' set, I'll vacate my room—
turn it over to you—and I'll apply for
the upstairs floor of the Lawrences
house. Oh! I'm entitled to it, all
right," he chuckled. "1 know my
rights as a citizen of these United
States and as a first-lieutenant of
cavalry. The Collinses, the. whole
sweet seven of 'em, may have the low
er floor. It's all they can claim under
law. That's four rooms, including the
kitchen. I dare say they won't mind
living like that any way. They're
pigs."
"Pics, too?" asked Bartlett.
Drayton went on unfolding his plan.
"Once I have that top floor, you watch
the interest in life I'll provide for
them. I'll make their days pleasant
and their nights—particularly their
nights—beautiful. I'll have suppers
up their every evening, and do songs
and dances until reveille, if 1 have to
hypothecate to pay my commissary
bill, and if my health breaks down.
You watch!" He stood up and began
to button his blouse. "So you are
warned. If the Collinses move in. such
is my devotion to them that I'll move
in. too. And I'll putin my formal ap
plication for those two rooms. No
other two in the post will suit, either,
you understand."
And it all came about exactly as he
said. There was a hegira of Law
rences and an ingress of Collinses,
and great was the latter's wrath when
they found Drayton taking possession
of the upper floor. They protested to
everybody in general, and to the com
mandant and the quartermaster in
particular. And the commandant and
the quartermaster said they were
soiry, but that Drayton was "certainly
within his rights. He had applied for
the quarters in virtue of the general
turning-out that D troop was causing
ing the post, and he was entitled to
occupy them. There was nothing more
to be said.
"I can't pretend to be sorry forthem,
exactly," Mrs. Lawrence confided to
Drayton, when he advised her not to
try to settle in her new quarters very
elaborately; "I'm only human, after
all, and my house did look so sweet,
and my garden—. But I'm sorry for
you. I think those children are the
very imps of evil."
Drayton nodded. "There are others,"
he said.
It was emigmatical, but Mrs. Law
rence looked doubtful and ready to be
hurt. "You don't mean mine?" she
said.
"No, my dear lady," Bartlett reas
sured her, "he doesn't mean yours.
He thinks yours are all that tender
infancy should be. I don't know what
he does mean, however. And prob
ably he doesn't know himself."
"Don't I?" queried Drayton, enigmat
ical still. "Don't 1 just?"
"Perhaps," said Bartlett, "you mean
Jimmy O'Brien. 1 sav you hobnob
bing with him today. Would it be
Jimmy now?"
I>rayton would not commit him
self. But is was Jimmy and one other,
nevertheless. Drayton had come upon
him when he was playing duck-on-a
rock all by himself, near the sutler's
store. The duck was a beer bottle, and
Jimmy was pitching stones at it, with
indifferent aim. The father of Jimmy
was first-sergeant of Drayton's troop,
and so the lieutenant felt they had
enough in common to warrant a con
versation.
It began by a suggestion as to a
better way to throw a stone, and it
ended with a bargain struck. "Then,"
said Drayton, "if I promise to pay you
two bits for every centipede, four bits
for every tarantula, ten cents for every
lizard, a nickel for every toad and a
cent for every big spider, you will
catch all you can and bottle them for
me?"
Jimmy nodded solemnly.
"And you won't say anything about
it to any one?" A quarter was pressed
into a chapped and grimy hand.
The very next morning before guard
mounting, ne clambered up the stair
way to Drayton's rooms. Drayton was
only just dressing. He had kept late
hours. Bartlett had helped him, and
until 2 o'clock they had alternated
pacing heavily to and fro with drop
ping weighty bodies on the floor.
The Collinses were kept awake.
"It's a question of endurance, be
cause we are two," said Drayton; "but
1 expect we can hold out."
He inspected Jimmv's first catch.
There was a centipede, two lizards and
three toads. Jimmy's pockets bulge*!
with bottles. There were also five
large and unpleasant spiders.
"Good toy," said Drayton, and paid
as per schedule.
Mrs. Colline and the mother-in-law's
nerves were not calmed, any way, Uy
the wakeful night. It was the harder
for them when they found three large
toads in their rooms that day. To
have a toad hop at you from a dark
corner is not nice. It is still less to
step on one and crush it It gives a
peculiar sensation. Mrs. Collins found
it so. There was a lizard in the milk
bottle, and another on the back of a
chair, whence it climbed into a moth
er-in-law's hair. Big spiders infested
the place.
Toward noon Drayton came down
stairs carrying on the end of a pin,
and examining it critically, a centi
pede. "Large, isn't it?" he asked, with
some pride; "I killed it myself at the
topof the stairs. They always come
in families of three. The other two
will be along pretty soon, I suppose."
The mother-in-law shuddered. "You
and Mr. Bartlett made a great deal of
noise last night, Mr. Drayton," she re
proached.
Drayton looked concerned. These
government quarters were so thin
floored, he explained.
"Did he always stay up until 2
o'clock?"
He admitted being of a restless dis
position and given to insomnia.
"All right," he reported to Mrs.
Lawrence, shortly after. "You just
rest on your oars. We'll have you
back in those quarters before the kids
have had time to do much dam:ige
to the place. 1 should say that a fort
night. at the very outside, should see
Mrs. Collins suing for another set—
any other old set. Bartlett will let her
have them. He's an exceptionally
obliging Q. M., as Q. Ms. go. That's
his reputation."
It did not run as smothly as Drayton
might have wished. The women of
the Collins family did not surrender
without giving fight. They attacked
Drayton himself first, but were met
with an urbanity which parried every
thrust. It was the thinness of the
walls and floors, and that was mani
festly the government's fault. As for
his insomnia, the blame of that lay
with the doctor, he should think. He
did not like staying broad awake un
til nearly dawn any better than they
did. Of course, however, he would try
to control his restlessness. The at
tempt met with failure, though, and
the women appealed to the command
ant. The commandant was urbane,
too, but the insomnia of his officers
was evidently not a matter to be
reached officially.
It was plain that the insomnia
aroused the supicions of the Collinses.
But the insects did not. They had
never—not even in Texas —seen a
house so overrun with reptiles. There
were lizards in everything. Thprcwer?
frogs and toads in dark nooks. They
hopped into your lap when you were
least expecting it. They were always
getting under your feet and —squash-
ing. Spiders spun webs and dropped
from the ceiling and the walls. And
as for more venomous things! A day
hardly passed that Drayton did not
kill a tarantula or a centipede some
where around. They seemed to
emerge only when he was near. The
wrath toward him was tempered with
unwilling gratitude to a saviour. There
had also been a garter snake on the
front porch. And one terrible day
they had come upon Drayton, sabre in
hand, standing in the front hallway
beside the decapitated body of a rattle
snake. They neglected, in the excite
ment, to notice that the body was not
wriggling.
Jimmy had that morning produced a
newspaper package. "Here's a dead
rattler," he had said. "I didn't know
as you could use him. But I found
him, and you can have him for a
dime."
And the rattler had proved the best
investment of all, as well as the last
straw. Captain Collins had carried
him on a stick out into the road. Then
he had gone to the commandant and
Bartlett. He was heavy-eyed for
want of sleep. The whole family was
that way; and Drayton was, too. In
all humanity he asked the favor of be
ing allowed to change has quarters.
Any other quarters would do, provided
there were fewer insects. He was not
particular at all. He asked so little,
in fact, that Bartlett took pity on
him. He renewed his offer of paint.
"Now," he said to Mrs. Lawrence,
"you can come back to your own.
They'll move out tomorrow. I've just
been inspecting the premises, and
there hasn't been much harm done.
They are still the best quarters in the
post. The kids have knocked a few
holes In the walls and the woodwork's
a little scratched. But I'll give you
some paint, too."
Paint was Bartlett's idea of the
panacea for all earthly ills. He had
not much else in the world, being a
second-lieutenant; but he had paint,
and he was liberal with that.
The Collinses moved next day.
Drayton waited until the last load ot
furniture was gone, and the three
women were taking their final look
around. Then he came down the stairs
holding out, at the length of his arms
two centipedes on the point of twc
large pins. He exhibited them.
"These quarters are too much for
me," he said, "I'd rather have a corner
of a housetop alone, than a wide up
per floor with crawling things. I'm
going togo back to my own room."
A fierce light of suspicion broke In
on Mrs. Collins' mind then. "1 be
lieve, Mr. Drayton, that the whole
thing was a put-up job."
"Do you? Do you really?" asked
Drayton, smilingly, deprecatingly.
"But consider, my dear lady, consider
the centipedes."—San Francisco Argo
naut.
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING PACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
EIJa Wheeler Wilcox Says : Do Not ITar
negß Bacchus to Your Load of Work,
Then Yon Will Have Plenty of Courage,
Hope and Energy.
If you were lost in a dark wood and
could not see the moon or the stars you
would not extinguish your lantern, would
you?
If you found yourself in a desert you
would not throw away your bottle of
water.
Well, then, do not talk about being
driven to drink because you are out of
work and in trouble, or because times are
so hard that your business barely pays
your office rent.
Of course drink gives you a momentary
or "hourentary" exhilaration, and causes
you to forget your worries.
But the corresponding depression fol
lows, with increased gloom and enfeebled
courage and strength.
If you are a sensible man, with good av
erage intelligence, vou will hoard your
strength and save all your faculties unim
paired by drink or drugs to carry you
through this dark place in life's woods,
and you will keep your light of sober rea
soning aflame.
If. after vou pass through the woods,
you have still the desert to encounter, you
will not add to the pangs of thirst by
"fire-water."
You will, instead, endeavor to keep your
head cool and your brain clear.
As well tie your feet in a bag when you
nre in a hurry to reach a destination as to
fill yourself with drink when you have a
hard and difficult path to pursue.
If you want to trv the exnerienee of
drunkenness, wait until you achieve a suc
cess and then "celebrate," if you are de
termined upon it. Then you can afford to
rest and repent at leisure, and if 5 - ou have
1 strata of good nrinciple and moral worth
in vou one experience will be enough.
You will not want to trv it again.
But don't harness Bacchus to your load
of work and worry and imagine he will
pull you through. He is not that kind of a
rod. He makes excellent promises, but he
takes you onlv a little way and dumns you
in the first ditch, much the worse for his
brief merry companionship.
Keep yourself perfectly normal in times
of anxiety. If you are in the habit of
using stimulants and nicotine, reduce your
usual quantitv, and if you have the will
power, give them up entirely for the time
being.
I know a man who did this during busi
ness depression, and he was amazed at the
result. Where he had been despondent
and nervous all the time, when not under
the influence of a stimulant he found him
self full of courage, hope and energy.
Instead of waking with a weight on
heart and head he woke full of ambition
for the new day before him.
Instead of trying to kill dull time by
drinking, experiment upon yourself by
finding the strength of your will in giving
up the use of all stimulants until you can
"celebrate" a victory.
It is more novel, and nays better in the
end.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in the New
York Journal.
Drink and Tonne Criminals.
The National Conference of Charities
and Corrections in session in Washington
has given prominent recognition to the
terrible increase of criminals, the appalling
growth of the population of our penal in
stitutions. A paper read before the con
ference by Mrs. Ophelia Amigh, superin
tendent of the State home fot; iuvenile of
feni?rs at Oeneva, 111., on its vahiabln light
upon the important question. Mrs. Amigh
is reported as saying that every girl now
in the home under her care had one drunk
en parent, and in the case of many of
them both parents were confirmed drunk
ards. Mrs. Amigh says:
"If we desire to raise fine stock we
never think of keening the sires and dams
drunk all or half the time, and yet nearly
all the children who come to ua are the
products of such conditions."
She goes onto say:
"One has to sit but one dav in the Juve
nile Court in Chicago to realize what it is
that fills all kinds of charitable and penal
institutions in Illinois as well as in other
States. All kinds of crime follow in the
«ake of intemperance, and something must
be done or we shall become worse than a
nation of leners."
Mrs. Amigh mentions one particularly
startling instance which has unfortunately
been paralleled many times. She says:
"We had one girl brought to us not
quite fourteen years of age who had deli
rium tremens, and we barely saved her
life. She had drank more or less since she
was ten years of age. What can we say
of the brute in man's form who would
ever give or sell intoxicants to a child like
that?"
It might not be irrelevant to ask: What
shall we say of the man who legalizes a
traffic the result of which, by centuries of
experience, is known to be such things as
these?
Prohibited H1 ft Own B»r.
Recently Guinness, the great "beer ba
ron," of Dublin, erected some model tene
ments for the use of working people, and
among other things prohibited all intoxi
cating liquors; even his own beer is not
allowed to be sold. Lemonade and mineral
waters can be had, but intoxicants of
every form are shut out. Plenty of baths,
but no bars. Very significant.—National
Temperance Advocate.
A I'ontinuoui Performance.
O how many are waiting to see if some
thing cannot be done! Thousands of
drunkards waiting who cannot go ten min
utes in any direction without having the
temptation glaring before their eyes or ap
pealing to their nostrils, they fighting
against it with enfeebled will and diseased
appetite, conquering, then surrendering,
conquering again and surrendering again.
Tlie Crusade in Brief.
Divest a saloon of every possible social
facility or appurtenance and men will still
patronize it.
Men drink for the feeling of mental ela
tion and satisfaction that it gives, not for
social enjoyment.
The fifty-four saloon keepers of Spring
Valley. 111., recently paid to State's Attor
ney Porter at Princeton S3OOO in tines for
operating saloons on Sunday.
The little village of Phoebus, situated
between Fortress Monroe and the Hamp
ton Soldiers' Home, is cursed with, per
haps, the most disreputable and indecent
aggregation of saloons that surrounds any
military post.
The liquor traffic is at last frightened.
To make it still more frightened do your
best to circulate in your community the
news that there is a fight going on be
tween God and the devil, with a good
prospect that the devil will be worsted.
As a matter of fact, there i-Pno substi
tute for the saloon, because there is no
substitute for alcoholic stimulation.
The South Dakota Legislature has a bill
under consideration which makes intoxi
cation a misdemeanor, fixing the maximum
penalty at S2U.
The English House of Commons on
March 20 passed on second reading the
bill prohibiting the sale of intoxicants to
persons under sixteen years. The vote
stood 372 to 54. This important legisla
tion is known as "the children's bill," and
has been actively supported by the promi
nent temperance people of England, in
eluding the officers ot the World's W. C.
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