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| New York Capitalists to Restore |
| Yucatan to Its Ancient Place
I as the World's Garden Spot. |
-r" EW YORK capitalists are
I about to attempt one of the
1 most extraordinary opera
(J" tious that has ever been con
templated by man. They Intend to try
to restore In Yucatan a civilization
dead these hundreds of years, to re
populate the streets of its forgotten
cities, to revive the past glories of a
once famous country, to refresh its
desert wastes with the water which
©nee made a green and a goodly land
of tiiat which is now but a wilderness
of sand and desolation, and to again
eet flowing the tide of life and com
merce which once profited by the nat
ural resources of this old-world land.
In its conception the project is as
flaring as if an attempt were made
to restore the life of ancient Egypt and
people" again the palaces of the Phar
aohs.
The country upon which this re
markable experiment will be made
lies at the southeastern extremity of
Mexico. It has been characterized by
travelers as the hottest place on earth
—Death Valley only excepted—but sci
entists, who trust to thermometers
rather than to the perspiratory remem
brances of explorers, say that the cli
mate of Yucatan has been defamed.
They say that the average highest
•temperature Is only ninety-eight de
grees. while very often the mercury
registers as little as seventy-five de
grees. Yucatan lies twenty degrees
from the equator—the twentieth de
gree of longitude intersecting the
country,
Yucatan, like Egypt, is n country of
magnificent tradition. That it was
once a country of great wealth and of
rapp rfi§
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TOLTEC CROSSES.
a high degree of civilization is thor
oughly established, yet although it was
once a region rich in agricultural pro
ducts, it is to-day almost a forgotten
corner of the earth, badly watered, lit
tle cultivated and maintaining a place
In the affairs of mankind only because
its forest are rich in mahogany, rose
wood, logwood and other valuable tim
ber. Having an area of 28,178 square
miles and a population of 275,500--
mostly Maya Indians the country
possesses only twenty-five miles of
railroad line. This railroad connects
tiie capital, Merida, with its port of
iProgreso, 011 the northwest coast.
According to the official returns
there are altogether in Yucatan seven
cities, thirteen towns, sixty-two ruined
cities, 143 villages, fifteen abandoned
settlements and 333 haciendas. Scarce
ly any of these places have as many
11s 10,000 inhabitants, the population
of the great majority falling below
1000. !
This is the sort of country which New J
JBE&UiNS.CF ' J
.York capitalists confidently expect— i
liy the help of American enterprise as
much as by the power of money—to
convert iuto n land of prosperity.
There is a certain element of specula
tion about the undertaking, but thej
men who have entered into the project
me emphatically not of thp class who i
lend their names to schemes of doubt
ful outcome.
The ancient ruins of Yucatan and
their meaning have really been the
main reason for the interest in the
country taken by the New York capi
talists. It is perfectly evident that
Yucatan at one time supported a very
large population; that the country was
well watered and that the practice of
agriculture had attained a high stand
ard. To-day Yucatan is very nearly a
waterless desert, nncl yet It seems cer
tain that neither the climate nor the
topography of the country has changed
materially since the days of the an
cient civilization. It is for this rea
son that some account of the known
history of the former civilization and
ruins of Yucatan becomes Interesting
and pertinent at this point.
Of the sixty-two ruined cities of Yu
catan proper the most Important, or
at least the best known and most
fully described are those of Izamal,
Mayapan, Ako, Acanceli, Uxmal, Tl
kul and Kabah, all centred in the
northwest corner of the peninsula
round about Merlda, the capital, which
Itself stands upon the ruins of Tiliu;
Chiehen-Itza, about midway between
OF PALACE: RED
Tikul and the cast coast; Labna, Noh
becan and Potonclian, iu the Campeche
district. Most of these places were
described and illustrated by Stephens
and Catlierwood nearly titty years
ago, and have recently been revisited
and redescrlbed by Desire Charnay,
from whose book the illustrations ac
companying this article were repro
duced.
A more modern and productive in
vestigator was Dr. do Plongeon, who,
with his wife, spent many years in
,
Investigating "the ruins and inscrip
tions found in Yucatan.
To de l'longeon Is due the now gen
erally admitted theory that the civili
zation of Yucatan was allied to that
of Egypt. He established the fact that
many of the gods represented in the
mural paintings of the inhabitants of
Yucatan were identical with the Egyp
tiou divinities. De Plongeon also
pointed out the fact that the same
| head-dresses were worn by the Egyp-
tion kings and the Yucatan rulers.
The value ot' skilled investigation of
the Yucatan ruins can bo appreciated
when it is said that they are recog
nized as being among the most beauti
ful specimens of architecture In the
world. The structures, especially those
ot Uxmal. Akc. Kabali and Cliicliea-
Itza, excel all other American rnlns,
There Is nothing comparable to them
on the Mexican table-land.
Uxnial, for Instance, stands alto-
CARICATURE.
gether unrivaled for the magnitude of
its buildings, the richness of its sculp
tured facades and the almost classic
beauty of its stntuary. Its most
spiculous edifice bears the name of
the Nunnery, though there is slight
evidence tlia'. nuns ever inhabited the
building. 'Aere is also a beautiful
building known as the Governor's
Palace, which possesses a wonderful
frieze, 325 feet long, decorated with
a row of colossal heads in high relief,
divided into panels, and filled alter
nately with panels of heads and pan
els of designs resembling arabesques.
One of the strangest and most signifi
cant monuments in Yucatan is found
at Ake, ten miles east of Merlda,
where there Is a huge pyramid, with
an immense flight of steps, presenting
features different from anything else
where discovered In Yucatan. This
strange monument is surmounted by
thirty-six pillars, each four feet square
and from fourteen to sixteen feet high.
At Izamal, a few miles east of Ake,
there is another great pyramid, with a
base 000 feet square. Near it are
three other pyramids and a colossal
head, thirteen feet high, which bears
a strong resemblance to the Sphinx,
as far as style is concerned. Unlike
that great monolith, however, the Iza
mal Sphinx is built up of rough stones
which have been covered with mor
tar.
The interesting feature of all these
ruins, from the modern and utilitarian
point of view, is the proof they afford
that at some time, not very remote,
the country of Yucatan was almost as
crowded with people as modern China.
Wonder has boon expressed that such
a bleak, arid and almost streamless
laud should have ever become the seat
of empire and the home of a flourish
ing civilization, but from a geographi
cal stauilpoint the absence of rivers
on the Yucatan plateau appears to he
due not so much to a deficient rainfall
as to the extremely porous nature of
the ground, which absorbs water like
a sponge, and thereby prevents the de
velopment of surface streams.
It Is to this problem that modern
methods will be applied, although, in
their very application, they will have
been copied from those of the ancients.
Yucatan is not a dry and waterless
land at all, only, like many onother
country, it will only yield its treasures
to those who will work for them. Be
neath the surface of Yucatan the
waters accumulate in such abundance
that a sufficient supply may always be
had by any one who will take the
trouble to sink a well. The water is
so thoroughly distributed, Indeed, that
any part of the tableland may be suc
cessfully tapped for water.
In that fact lies the secret of the old
time prosperity of Yucatan and its
present day desolation.—Brooklyu
Eagle.
lieefeater With n Sense of Humor.
Some years ago I followed a party of
tourists around the tower, and heard
one of the "beefeaters" who garrison
that venerable fortress narrate the
history of the various trophies. Ho
was a man of humor and indulged ill
frequent jokes, and as he came to a
long row of dismounted camion he
winked at me and remarked:
"These 'ere cannon was hall cap
tured from the Yankees."
"When?" 1 asked.
"In warious wars," ho responded
boldly.
"Then why do you label them as
having been captured from the Turks,
the Russians and other nations?"
"To spare yer honor's feelings, sir,"
he responded politely.
But 110 cannon or flag or any trophy
among the thousands that may be seen
iu tlie Tower of London ever belonged
to the army or navy of the United
States. If there were ever one even
of the most insignificant character it
would be shown with pride to every
American tourist.—W. E. Curtis, in
Chicago Itecord-Herald.
The longest-lived people have gen
erally been those who made breakfast
the principal meal of the day. The
stomach has more vigor in the morn
lax tliuu at anv time.
DP. T'ALMAGES SERMON
SUNDAY'S DISCOURSE BY THE NOTED
DIVINE.
6ui)Ject: The Folly of Eitravnennce
Causes of tlio Great Financial l>ls
turlmnces "Whlcli Take l*laco JKvery
Few Vears—Wasted Wealth.
I Copyright 1901.1
WASHINGTON, D. C. —IN this discourse
Dr. Talmage shows the causes of the great
financial disturbances which take place
every few years, and arraigns the people
who live beyond their means; text, .Jere
miah xvii, 11, "As the partridge sittoth on
eggs and hatcheth them not, so lie that
getteth riches and not by right shall leave
them in the midst of his days and at his
end shall be a fool."
Allusion is here made to a well-known
fact in natural history. If a partridge or
a quail or a robin brood the eggs ot an
other species, the young will not stay
with the one that happened to brood
them, but at the first opportunity will as
sort with their own species. Those of us
who have been brought up in the country
have seen the dismay of the farmyard
hen. having brooded aquatic fowls, when
after awhile they tumble into their nat
ural element, the water. So my text sug
gests that a man may gather under his
wings the property of others, but it will
after awhile escape; it will leave the man
in a sorry predicament and make him feel
very silly.
What has caused all the black days of
financial disasters for the last sixty years?
Some say it is the credit system. Some
thing back of that. Some say it is the
spirit of gambling ever and anon becoming
epidemic. Something back of that. Some
say it is the sudden shrinkage in the value
of securities, which even the most honest
and intelligent men could not have fore
seen. Something back of that. I will
give you the primal cause of all these dis
turbances. It is the extravagance of
modern society which impels a man to
spend more money than he can honestly
make, and he goes into wild speculation
in order to get the means for inordinate
display, and sometimes the man is to
blame and sometimes his wife, and oftener
both. Five thousand dollars income. SlO,-
000, $20,000 income is not enough for a
man to keep up the style of living he pro
poses, and therefore he steers his bark to
ward the maelstrom. Other men have
suddenly snatched up $50,000 or SIOO,OO0 —
why not he? The present income of the
man not being large enough, he must move
earth and hell to catch up with his neigh
bors. Others have a country seat—so
must he; others have an extravagant ca
terer—so must he; others have a palatial
residence—so must he.
Extravagance is the cause of all the de
falcations of the last sixty years, and if
you will go through the history of all the
great panics and the great financial dis
turbances no sooner have you found the
story than right back of it you will find
the story of how many horses the man
had, how many carriages the man had,
how many residences in the country the
man had, how many banquets the man
gave—always, and not one exception for
the last sixty years, either directly or in
directly extravagance the cause.
Now, for the elegances and the refine
ments and the decorations of life 1 cast
my vote. While I am considering this
subject a basket of flowers is handed in—
flowers paradisaical in their beauty—white
calla, with a green background of bego
nia; a cluster of heliotropes nestling in
some geraniums; sepal and perianth bear
ing on them the marks of God's finger.
When I see that basket of flowers, they
persuade me that God loves beauty and
adornment and decoration. God might
have made the earth so as to supply the
gross demands of sense, but left it with
out adornment or attraction. Instead of
the variegated colors of the seasons, the
earth might have worn an unchanging dull
fcrown. The tree might have put forth its
fruit without the prophecy of leaf or blos
no'ii. Niagara might have come down in
gradual descent without thunder and
winged spray.
Look out of your window any morning
after there has been a dew and see
whether God loves jewels. Pu 1 " a crystal
of snow under a microscope and see what
God thinks of architecture. God com
manded the priest of olden time to have
his robe adorned with a wreath of gold
and the hem of his garment to be embroid
ered in pomegranates. The earth sleeps,
and God blankets it with the brilliants of
the night Sky. The world wakes, and God
washes it from the burnished laver of the
sunrise. So I have not much patience
with a man who talks as though decora
tion and adornment and the elegances of
life are a sin when they are divinely rec
ommended. But there is a line to be
drawn between adornment and decora
tion that we can afford and those we can
not afford, and when a man crosses that
line he becomes culpable. I cannot tell
you what is extravagant for you. You
cannot tell me what is extravagant for
me. What is right for a queen may be
squandering for a duchess. What may be
economical for you, a man with larger in
come, will be wicked waste for me. with
smaller income. There is no iron rule on
this subject. Every man before God on
his knees must judge what is extrava
gance, and when a man goes into expen
ditures beyond his mean's he is extrava
gant. When a man buys anything he can
not pay for, he is extravagant.
There are families in all onr cities who
can hardly pay the:" rent, and who owe all
the merchants in the neighborhood and
yet have an apparel unfit for their cir
cumstances, and are all the time sailing
so near shore that business misfortune or
an attack of sickness prepares them for
pauperism. You know very well there are
thousands of families in our great cities
who slay in neighborhoods until they
have exhausted all their capacity to get
trusted. They stay in the neighborhoods
until the druggists will let them have no
more medicines, and the butchers will sell
them no more meat, and the bakers will
sell them no more bread, and the gro
eeryman will sell them no more sugar.
Then they find the region unhealthy, and
they hire a carman, whom they never
pay. to take them to some new quarters,
where the merchants, the druggists, the
butchers, the bakers and the grocervmen
come and give them the best rounds of
beef and the best merchandise of all sorts
until they find out that the only compen
sation they are going to get is the ac
quaintance of the patrons. There are
thousands of such thieves in all our big
cities. You see, I call them by the right
name, for a if a man buys anything he
does not mean to pay for he is a thief.
Of course sometimes men are flung of
misfortunes, and they cannot pay. I know
men who are just as honest in having
failed as other men are honest in succeed
ing. I suppose there is hardly a man who
has gone through life but there have been
some times when he has been so hurt of
misfortune he could not meet his obliga
tions. Hut all that I put aside. There
are a multitude of people who buy that
which they never intend to pay for, for
which there is no reasonable expectation
thev will ever be able to pay. Now, if
you have become oblivious of honesty and
mean to defraud, why not save the njer
cliant as much as you can? Why not go
some day to his store and when nobody
is looking just shoulder the ham or the
spare rib and in modest silence steal
away ?
That would be less criminal, because in
the other way you take not only the man's
g.iods, but you take the time of the mer
chant and the time of his accountant, and
you take the time of the messenger who
brought you the goods. Now, if you must
steal, steal in a way to do as little dam
age to the trader as possible.
.John Randolph arose in the American
Senate when a question of national finance
was being discussed, and. stretching him
self to his full height, in a shrill voice hs
crieil out: 'Mr. Chairman, I have discov
ered the philosopher's stone, which turns
everything into gold—pay-as you go." So
ciety has got ';o be reconstructed on this
subject or tl <; seasons of defalcation will
continue to repeat themselves.
You have no right to ride in a carriage
for which you are hopelessly in debt to
the wheelwright v\io furnished the landau
and to the horse dealer who provided the
blooded span, and to the harness maker
who caparisoned the gay steeds, and to
the liveryman who has provided the stab
ling, and to the driver who, with rosettcd
hat. sits on the coach box.
Oh, I am so glad it is not the absolute
necessities of life which send people out
into dishonesties and fling them into mis
fortunes. Tt is almost always the super
fluities. God has promised us a house,
but not a palace; raiment, but not chin
chilla; food, but not canvasback duck. I
am yet to see one of these great defalca
tions which is not connected in some way
with extravagance.
While once in awhile a Henry Irving or
an Edwin Booth or a Joseph Jefferson
thrills a great audience with tragedy, you
know as well as I do that the vast major
ity of the theatres are as debased as de
based they can be, as unclean as unclean
they can be and as damnable as damnable
they can be. Three million dollars —the
vast majority of those dollars going in the
wrong direction.
'Over a hundred millions paid in this
country for cigars and tobacco a year!
About $2,000,000,000 paid for strong drink
in one year in this country! With such
extravagance, pernicious extravagance,
can there be any permanent prosperity?
business men, cool headed business men,
is such a thing a possibility? These ex
travagances also account, as I have al
ready hinted, for the positive crimes, the
forgeries, the abscondings of the officers
of the banks. The store on the business
street swamped by the residence on the
fashionable avenue. The father's, the hus
band's craft capsized by carrying too
much domestic sail. That is what springs
the leak in the merchant's money till.
That is what cracks the pistols of the sui
cides. That is what tears down the banks.
That is what stops insurance companies.
Thrt is what halts this nation again and
again in its triumphal march of prosper
ity. In the presence of the American peo
ple, so far as I can get their attention, I
want to arraign this monster curse of ex
travagance, and I want you to pelt it with
your scorn and hurl at it your anathema.
I know it cuts close. I did not know
but some of you in high dudgeon would
get up and go out. You stand it well.
Some of you make a great swash in life,
and after awhile you will die, and minis
ters will be sent for to come and stand by
your coffin and lie about your excellences,
but they will not come. If you send for
me I will tell you what my text will be:
"He that provideth not for his own. and
especially for those in his own household,
is worse than an infidel!"
What an apportionment! Twenty thou
sand dollars tor ourselves and one cent
for God! Ah, my friends, this extrava
gance accounts for a great dial of what
the c.i"se of God suffers!
An<«.he desecration goes on even to the
funeral day. You know very well that
there are men who die solvent, but the
expenses are so great before they get un
der ground they are insolvent.
There fire families that go into penury
in wicked response to the demands of
tl.is day. They putin casket and tomb
stone that which they ought to putin
bread. They wanted bread; you gave
them a tombstone.
One would think that the last two ob
ligations people would be particular about
would be the physician and the under
taker. Because they are the two last ob
ligations. those two professions are almost
always cheated. They send for the doctor
in great haste, and he must come day and
night. They send for the undertaker
amid the great solemnities, and often
these two men are the very last to be met
with compensation. Merchants sell goods,
and the goods are not paid for. They take
back the goods, I am told. But there is
no relief in this case. The man spent all
he had in luxury and extravagance while
he lived, and then he goes out of the
world, and has left nothing for his family,
nothing for the obsequies, and as he goes
out of the world he steals the doctor's
pills and the undertaker's slippers. I was
reading in a New York paper an account
of the obsequies in a family of very moder
ate estate, and the aggregate was $.'5000.
A man in New York of moderate estate
dies. He has lived in extreme luxury.
He departs this life. The family, desirous
of keeping up the magnificence, orders the
following things. They were produced and
never paid for to this day:
Casket, covered with Lyons velvet,
silver moldings SSSO
Heavy plated Jtandles 60
Solid silver plate, engraved in Roman
letters 73
Ten linen scarfs lo!)
Floral decorations 225
Music and quartet choir at the house 40
Twenty carriages 140
Then fifteen other important expen
ditures amounting to 330
Making an aggregate of SIS 76
And all that to get one poor mortal to
his last home and never paid for! Swin
dled his family. Swindled the world. He
is swindling it now. It is one of the great
curses of this day, the extravagance, the
wicked extravagance, of the country.
And then look how the cause of God is
impoverished. Men give so much some
times for their indulgences they have
nothing for the cause or God and religion.
Twenty-two million dollars expended in
this country a year for religious purposes;
but what are the twenty-two millions ex
pended for religion compared with the
hundred millions expended on cigars and
tobacco and then two thousand millions
of dollars spent for rum! So a man who
had a fortune of $750,000 or what amount
ed to that in London spent it all in in
dulgences, chiefly in gluttonies, and sent
hither and yon for ail the delicacies and
often had a meal that would cost SIOO or
S2OO for himself. Then he was reduced to
one guinea, with which he bought a rare
bird, had it cooked in best style, ate it,
took two hours for digestion, walked out
°" Westminster bridge, and jumped into
'he Thames —on a large scale what men
are doing on a small scale.
Oh, my friends, let us take our stand
against the extravagances of society. Do
not pay for things which are frivolous
when you may lack the necessities. Do
not put one month's wages or salary into
a trinket, just one trinket. Keep your
credit good by seldom asking for any.
Do not starve a whole year to afford one
Belshazzar's carnival. Do not buy a coat
of many colors, and then in six months be
out at the elbows. Flourish not. as some
people I have known, who took apart-,
ments at a fashionable hotel and had ele
gant drawing rooms attached and then
vanished in the night, not even leaving
their compliments for the landlord.
I tell you, my friends, in the day of
God's judgment we shall not only have to
give an account for the way we made our
money, but for the way we spent it. We
have got to leave all the tilings that sur
round us now.
Alas, if any of you in the dying hour
felt like the dying actress who asked that
the casket of jewels be brought to her and
then turned them over with her pale hand
and said, "Alas, that I have to leave vou
so soon!" Better in that hour have one
treasure of heaven than the bridal trous
seau of a Marie Antoinette, or to have
been seated with Caligula at a banquet
which cost its thousands of dollars, or to
have been carried to our last resting
place with _ Senators and princes as pall
bearers. They that consecrate their
wealth, their time, their all, to God shall
be held in everlasting remembrance,
while I have the authority of this book
for announcing that the name of the
wicked nhall rot.
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Dmnkenneii Is Not Hereditary T.ato
Conclusion? licarliflit by n Committee
on Inebriety Selected by the lon
•lon Medical Society.
The drunkard can no longer lav his in
ebriety _to bibulous ancestors. The man
who arinks to excess cannot claim public
indulgence on the theory that he inherited
H taste for alcoholic stimulants from his
parents. A craving for drink, in fact,
cannot be transmitted from parents to
children.
The;o are the conclusions of a commit
tee on inebriety selected by the London
Medical Society to investigate the rela
tion of heredity to inebriety. The com
mittee was composed of five physicians,
two surgeons, a professor or bacteriology,
an army surgeon and five general practS
tioners. After eighteen months of inves>
tigation of all phases of drunkenness un
der all sorts of conditions and environ
ments the committee has made a report
which completely upsets many of the fa
vorite notions of temperance reformer#
and sociologists.
It has been stubbornly contended for a
century or more that inebriety is heredi
tary in many instances, that the tend
ency to drunkenness is capable of trans
mission to offspring. It is true, however,
that this contention has been always vig
orously combated by the highest medical
authorities. The report just publisl J
declares that there is no evidence in the
history of the race that acquired charac
ters of any kind are heritable. The last
word of science, as declared by teachers
of physiology, biology and botany, is a
very definite assertion that 110 instance of
the hereditary transmission of an ac
quired taste or characteristic has ever
been demonstrated either in the animal
or the vegetable kindom.
If a man having no inborn tendency to
excess, yet acquire drunken habits, his
progeny are no more in danger than are
those of his neighbor, says the report.
The whole question of drunkenness is a
matter of environment and an innate ca
pacity to enjoy the exhilaration that
comes from alcoholic indulgence. It is
not denied that drunken parents who be
come thus mentally and physically weak
are liable to have children weak in body
and feeble in mind. But instances of in
ebriated fathers having sons who found
no pleasure in alcoholic indulgence are
numberless.
If the conclusions of the society are ac
cepted they relieve the ancestors of
drunkards of a heavy responsibility and
brush away the only claim which the in
ebriate appears to have upon public in
dulgence and sympathy.
A Xew Point of View,
Listen to the appeal of the late Dr.
John Hal): "Fathers, do without it for the
sake of your young sons if for no other
reason. How can you tell but that their
swift feet may trio to that destruction 011
this side of which your slower feet have
been able to halt?" The Christian prin
ciple should nersuadc you to leave off
drinking for the sake of the weakest and
lowliest, and certainly for the sake of
those in your own household. Let the
young men of your families do as you may
think it right for you to do. and what
fearful probabilities loom up before you!
l>r. Nott used to remark how those young
men who at college persisted in the use
of intoxicating drinks soon sank into ob-
Bcurity and often into drunkards' graves.
It is hazardous, then, to form habits
which are so frequently fatal, and it is
becoming ill all Christian and well dis
posed people to exercise by their example
a commendable, salutary and restraining
influence over men generally. These ara
the principles which make the early tem
perance reformation so mighty. These
are the principles which have swept the
use of intoxicating drinks out of three
fourths of the pro.-perous. respectable and
intelligent families ot America. Eev.
John H. Barrows, D. D., in Christian
Work.
A Ureirer'# Object T.e»?on.
A remarkable lesson is taught by the
?xample of the great English brewer.
Lord Iveogh. Eleven years ago he placed
81,250,000 in the hands of trustees to
build mode! tenements for the poor in
London and Dublin. In the seven large
buildings completed for London there
ire club rooms, reading rooms, music
■ooms and minor theatres are supplied,
»nd various shelters for children whose
mothers are out at service. But the Strang
;st thing of all is that in these beautiful
homes (for such they are, artistic, com
fortable and inspiring self-respect in the
5000 or 9000 nooulation they shelter) not
1 drop of the brewer's own beer can be
sold. Mineral water is on draught, but
svery form of intoxicants is banned.
There are plenty of baths, but no bars.
A Sham ltefonn.
As an evidence of the way in which the
svil of intemperance seeks to gain popu
larity, it is said that Lord .Grey, who owns
i public house at Broomhill, England, ha .
adopted the Gothenburg principles. He
ievotes the profits (less ten per cert,.) to
schemes for the benefit of the inhabitants
jf the village, and has addressed .he mag
istrates in various divisions of Northum
berland urging them to give preference in
the case of new licenses to applicants who
would adopt that principle. The London
Christian comments on this by saying:
"It is no use to benefit a community with
one hand, if you demoralize it, from little
:hildren upward, with the other."
The Uest Way.
A poor woman stood near the magis
trate who was hearing the case.
"Drunk; third arrest," against her hus
band. It was quickly decided, but some
how the pathetic face of the woman
touched the judge, and he said to her: "I
am sorry, but 1 must lock up your hus
band." She did not seem one who would
be a deep thinker, but was there not deep
wisdom m her sad and quick reply: "Your
Honor, wouldn't it be better tor me and
the children if you locked up the saloon
and let my husband goto work?" —Tem-
perance Cause.
Necessity of Temperance Hospitals.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, presid
ing at the annual public meeting of gov
ernors of the London Temperance Hospi
tal, said that he considered the hospital
to be of great importance to the cause of
temperance. It was doing a valuable edu
cational work by proving that alcohol is
not necessary as a means for the cure of
disease.
Drunkenness 111 Scotland.
In the matter of sheer, overmastering
drunkenness we stand without rivals ni
shameful isolation. —Dundee Advertiser.
The Crusade in Brief.
We arc foremost in liquor legislation.
While the pulpit resolves, the saloon
acts.
When people understand what alcohol
is, and what it docs, they will put it out
of existence. —Willard Parker, M. D.
Nearly i>oo saloons have gone out of
business in Cleveland, Ohio, within the
last six months, according to the report
of the city treasurer.
The Toledo police judge who has a sym
pathy for plain drunks agrees with nu
merous sentimentalists and pseudo scien
tists when he says that they are the vic
tims pl » du»eMe.