Joseph Ladue got a great deal of
money in the Klondike, and lost his
health. It was a bad trade.
There aro about 10,000 musicians in
the German army. It is, however, un
derstood that under emergency each
one of them shall drop the instrument
and take up the rifle.
k New York leader of fashion has
invented a new way of hand-shaking.
A man who devotes his talents to such
purposeless ends ought to be afflicted
with softening of the brain.
Ix>rd Wolseley pays the American
Army a clever compliment. lie says
It is the best of its size in the world.
H e might also have mentioned thai
its size is whatever the emergjney
requires.
It would be a relief to many utilita.
plans if some arctic explorer would
wme back with a plausible falsehood
to the effect that he had discovered
the north pole and that it did not
amount to enough to be worth bother
ing about in the future.
Scientists are now declaring that
the idea of signals between the earth
and Mars is extravagant. However,
there was no prospect of any practical
advantages to be gained by such com
munication, and there are opportuni
ties for neighborly amenities here be
low that are still awaiting improve
ment.
"London Lancet impresses an old
lesson by saying man should not dine
alone. It is not good to think much
vhile eating, so the great medical au
thority advises conversation because
'most people do not think while talk
ing.' This sage conclusion must have
oome from much listening to dinner
table remarks."
Florida, according to the last census
returns, has a greater amount of land
wnder water than any other state ol
the Union, while Wyoming has the
least. It also appears from this cen
sus that New Jersey, within the past
1C years, has gained 70 miles in area,
as in 1890 sho was credited with only
7455 square miles, while in 1900 she is
given 7525.
Professor Willis Moore, chief of the
weather bureau, declares that after a !
careful examination of all that has
been published in the last two years_
he is convinced that the idea of pro
tecting orchards and vineyards from
hailstorms and frosts by cannon fir
ing is a popular delusion, like that of
the effect of the moon on the weather.
Mr. Moore says that the great pro
cesses of the atmosphere are on too
large a scale for any man or nation
to control them, and that it is useless
for mankind to attempt to combat
them.
M. De Bloch, the peace apostle and j
friend of the czar of Russia, says that
the Boor War has shown what undis
ciplined troops can do with modern
weapons, against superior forces, and,
lie believes, the reduction of the terms
of military service in Europe is immi
nent. Even at The Hague conference,
M. De Bloch remarked in a recent
speech at Vienna, the Italian military
delegate stated that Italy would no
longer be able o keep pace with the
new armaments in prospect. That
statement was stricken from the offi
cial minutes, and was never published.
But, it is well known that Italy can
no longer bear the financial burdens
imposed on her by the triple alliance,
aad public opinion is clamoring to
bring about a dissolution of that op
pressive arrangement.
The rapid increase in the suicide
rate in the United States, and partic
ularly in Chicago, has led to an inves
tigation by Health Commissioner Rey
nolds of that city to ascertain whether
grip has had something to do with
the case. Commissioner Reynolds
says: "Grip, or influenza, ha.3 been
more or less prevalent in this city
since the fall of 1889, and was espe
cially prevalent in 1891. It is claimed
that this disease profoundly affects the
nervous system, causing all grades of
mental disturbances, from simple me
lancholia to acute insanity. It is quite
possible that the great increase in the
number of suicides in 1893 was due
to this effect of the grip epidemic of
1891 and that the general increase dur.
ing the whole period, 1896-1900, is due
to the same disease." Accordingly,
the commissioner has requested the
coroner to make special inquiry into
the circumstances attending suicides,
with reference to attacks of influenza.
Grip has been especially prevalent in
Chicago during the last four or five
years, and from 1896 to 1900 the per
centage of suicides was 23.8 per 100,-
000 of population. It will be interest
ing to learn the result of the commis
sioner's investigation.
The way In which American anthro
pological museums are growing is a
source of envy in England, where
there is a lamentable indifference to
the subject.
The recently deceased son of an
English earl was regarded as having
disgraced himself because ne earned
his living as a showman. Neverthe
less he earned his living.
The number of schools in Cuba has
multiplied 10-fold in a single year.
That West Indian invasion of New
England has been followed by results
of the largest practical value.
Illinois is adopting drastic means to
put down hazing and kidnapping. The
maximum penalty for the former is a
fine of SSOO or six months in the
county jail. Kidnapping for ransnm is
made a capital offence.
The only two six-masted schooners
afloat came in collision off Cape Cod
recently. This presents the sugges
tion that those who are fond of mon
keying with problems of averages can
figure out what the chances are for
their doing this again.
Seventeen years ago, Germany, un
der Bismarck's lead, established the
state system of accident insurance and
old-age pensions for workingmen. It
has grown to be a vast machine, and
Its payments to disabled, sick and
aged wage-earners average $250,000 a
year.
The red spiders of California that
have inflicted th e orange groves to
such a fearful extent are in process
of being exterminated by a new in
sect, which has made its appearance.
This latest visitor devours the eggs
of the spiders. As long as the eggs
hold out the new insect will be all
right, but after they are gone no tell
ing what he may take a notion to de
vour.
The hope is held out that w e may
yet be able to dispense with elaborate
cooking. Several chemists are said to
be at work on the problem of com
pressed food, and they expect to com
pass "in the capacity of a small vial"
elements which will sustain life for
days. One enthusiast predicts that
science will yet be able to extract the
life force that is in the heart of the
corn, the kernel of the wheat and the
luscious juices of the fruits.
The Boston Herald takes occasion
to analyze some of the statements
concerning the amount of money paid
by Americans to foreigners for the
service of ocean transportation. It
derides the assumption that the sum
reaches $150,000,000 to $200,000,000
annually, but it does not attempt to
make a close estimate of the actual
expenditure. One percent of the cost
of the goods shipped, it says, would
about si?e up the business. If this is
the case. $24,000,000 would pay for
the transportation of our imports and
exports. Perhaps the insignificance of
the amount accounts for the fact that
Americans have not in recent years
made any great efforts to secure the
oversea carrying trade.
There is some probability that qmtr
rymen and stone dressers will gradual
ly be crowded out of their occupation
by the use of artificial stone. In the
manufacture of this stone the sand is
heated and the cement added to the
amount of 12 percent of the mixture.
The steel molds are filled with the dry
material and run upon a tramway into
an immense cylinder, which is closed
and bolted. Boiling water is then
turned in under pressure sufficient to
force it all through the sand in the
molds. The cement slacks, but the
steel molds do not permit any expan
sion to occur, and the stone is formed
and dried under an immense pressure.
The result is a very hard stone, which
can be supplied in shapes desired much
cheaper than the natural st one.
It is to be regretted that America
has not "launched upon the flood ol
time" productive intellects of the very
highest order. But there is nothing
extraordinary and discreditable in thr
fact, observes the New York Tribune
It was an amazing piece of good for
tune for England that Shakespeare
was born on English soil to speak the
English tongue. Goethe fortuitously
conferred unfading lustre on th» Ger
man name. It would bo a c:'.u=e foi
profound pride and Joy if another
Shakespeare or Goethe should appeal
in the United States with indubitable
credentials. But in the meantime we
cannot admit that we should hang
our heads in shame. It would be al
most —indeed, for aught, we can see,
quite—as reasonable to disparage Eng.
land because she has produced only
one Shakespeare in a 1000 years, or to
blush for the human race because
"within tnat circle none durst walk
hut he "
S TID. |
£ EY JENNIE DAVIS BURTON. IF
"Do you be Mr. Kane, sir? It's Mr.
Peter Tidmore Kane, in the real estate
business, I'm wantin' to see."
The gentleman addressed looked
down with seme astonishment upon
the sharp little freckled visage that
was upturned as he replied: "I am
Mr. Kane, my boy. What do you want
with me?"
"Sure, I'll be tellin' ye, but it's migh
ty glad I am to see you, sir. Shake,
then! I'm a namesake of yours, though
beliKe you're not knowin' it, and I'm
glad that I favor you, now that I've
set me two eyes on ye."
"Favor me, indeed, you young scare
crow!"
"On the inside, I mane, and I'd be
glad if it was on the outside, for it's
a mighty flne-lookin' gentleman ye
are, then. They do be tellin' me you
have the rintin' of a-many of the
houses hereabout, and it's to rint the
small place at the foot of the hill I'd
be askin'. I'll pay you as much as 50
cents a week far it, and worruk out
the rint if you say it's a bargain."
Mr. Kane was growing interested.
The small boy had a brisk, business
way with him, quite out of proportion
to his size, which was that of an aver
age 10-year-old.
"It is a little out of the usual line to
take work in return "
"Oil, it will be equally satisfactory if
ye pay me in cash, then, Mr. Kane, sir,
and 'tis a good bargain ye'll have, wid
me mother along wid me, and she that
aiger tote at rest wanst more. 'Tis
the plazed woman she'll be that all's
settled so well."
"liut hold on!" said Mr. Kane. "I
like to know something about my ten.
ants. Whnt security can you give me
that I shall find you responsible?"
"Sure, I tould you that I was named
after you, didn't I? It's Peter Tldmore
Kane Mulligan I am, and me mother
says ye'll be sure to mind Biddy Moran
that was cook to ye \van3t. But I'm
Tid for short. We'll move in the day.
and I'll just come up for me orders in
the mornin'," and Tid walked a .vay as
contentedly as If he carried a signed
lease in his pccket.
"Biddy Moran? To be sure. She
worked for us one summer a dozen or
mo-re years ago,'" said Mrs. Kane, when
her husband appealed to her for con
firmation of the boy's story. "Not
much of a cook, very green and a lit
tle queer, as I remember her. I'm
afraid they'll be a load on your hands.
Tidmore."
"Well, the old shell can't be much
worse with them in it than standing
empty, and I'll warn them out if they
prove a nuisance. The boy will get
along if he favors me 'on the inside,"
as he says,"and Mr. Kane laughed in
recollection of the sharp, little, un
couth figure as contrasted with his
own well-favored person.
Sure enough, the first sight that
greeted Mr. Kane the next morning
was Tid. keenly examining his garden
beds, shaking his head portentously
over poppies and lilies, and getting
down on his knees to sniff at the to
mato-vines, with a curious uncertainty,
not to say contempt, that sent the
garden's owner hurrying down to pre
vent any possible catastrophe.
"It's a fine lot of weeds ye've saved
np for me, sir," Tid greeted him,
brightly, "but I'm feared they've run
over the plants intirely. Or it is a
wild garden you do be having here?
Me mother tells me that you grow
things small in this state, and ye do it
uncommon well. I should say. Belike
it has to bo tuk out of you that way for
the big hearts ye'v e got," with a re
spectful deference that disarmed his
employer's wrath.
"Why, you young jackanapes, where
have you seen anything finer, that you
should be turning up your nose at my
garden, pray?"
"Faix, I think it wor in Californay,"
hazarded Tid, as if he were drawing
his recollections from some deep well
of memory. "The tomatuses growed
on vines as high as the house.l mind,
and there were men up on step ladders
pickin' them, and the lilies and the
vi'lets and the poppies all run wild in
the fields, they did. and the roses were
like to smother the house, and the coo
cumbers were as long as 1 am, and a
dal e longer sometimes. That's the
country, if it's ganlenin' ye're after."
"I wonder you left it," remarked Mr.
Kane, sarcastically.
"I'd wonder that mesilf, if there wor
ary show for dacint Americans out
there," admitted Tid. "The pigtails
and the greasers have it all their own
way. It's quare how there's something
forninst wan most iverywheres in the
West. In Nobrasky it wor the 'hop
pers. and in Kansas the drought. Up
in Washington it aither rained all the
time or the chinook blasted things,
and down in Texas there wor the cat
tle every which way. It do be good to
get home to the states," and Tid drew
a long breath of satisfaction. "But
this isn't worruk at all. and if ye'll
put me to it, I'll be diggin' in."
Mr. Kane found the boy eager to
learn and tireless in his efforts to
please, and although he made some
blunders, by the end of the week he
had won the favor of the household,
and was allowed to make himself use.
ful about the place in very much his
own way- This sometimes resuUed in
queer turns of fancy, according to the
Eastern view of things, as when he
was found in the early morning sweep
ing up grasshoppers from the lawn to
feed the fowls, and carefully treasur
ing pocketfuls of gravel while he was
still new to the situation.
"Sure, it wor the lashings of 'hop
pers we had out on the pen-Tries, but
nlver a stone to the size of a pea
there. Ye have th?m betther distri
buted here, and it's a fin? country,
though the things do grow small." he
decided, appiovingly, when the waste
of his efforts was pointed out to him.
It would appear that the Mulligans
had drifted all over the West in an
aiin'.ess fashion, "saking health and
bet'.herment," as Tid expressed it, till
the death of the father left his mother
free to return "for the making of me,"
he confided to Mr. Kane.
"Sure, a lad nades to be looking up
to a good man, me mother says, and
it's a power of t'achin' I'll nade to
came up to me name, I do be think
in'."
Th 9 amusement that Mr. ICanp de
rived from the glorified ideal upon
which Tid was basing the formation
of his character gave way sometimes
to a fleeting wish that, he lsad culti
vated more of the virtues which Tid
credited him with possessing. There
are drawbacks to being held as little
less than a saint by even an ignorant
Irish boy. Suppose, now, that Tid
could look beneath the surface and see
the true state of the man within him.
how would the revelation affect the
lad's moral growth?
Mr. Kane shrugged his shoulders
and threw off his uneasiness. It was
by no choice of his that he had been
held up as a model. Let the effects of
the disillusionment fall where they be
longed. It was not likely that he was
going to change his business methods,
his sharp dealing, his keen seizure of
apparent advantages, simply to spare
the tender susceptibilities of this small
vagrant; nevertheless 'he thought of
T'a was at the bottom of more than
cne reform that he made in thesa
days.
Meantime Tid was cultivating a ten.
der heart among other things, and
when he had the misfortune to set
his foot unawares 011 a toad one Jay,
he was the more hurt of the two.
"I'd 110 more scrunch the crature,
and it sitting by to do me a goo.l turn,
than you'd squeeze a tenant, sir," he
protested, remorsefully.
"There are some tenants that need
t'&o thumbscrews put on them. Tid."
"Of course, just as there are pertaty.
and cutworms and squash beetles
to clane out. It's a fine thing to have
the head to pick and choose amoongst
them as I weed out the docks and lave
the cabbages, to houIJ the helpin'
hand to tlie wake and nadey, and turn
the cowld back on the undesarvin."
I'm feared I'll be long learnin' all that
from you, sir."
"Oh, you aspire to a share in the
management of the tenants, too?" in
quired Mr Kane, with that sarcastic
accent which was cuite thrown away
upon Tid.
"I'm studying hard to b3 fit togo in
the office come fall, when you'll not
be nading me in the garding," admit
ted Tid, modestly. "I'll be worth me
keep there outside of me schoolin', I
will that, ye'll see."
"Hum-um-m!" That Tid was acting
like a prickly bur 011 his conscience,
the real estate man knew, and the far.
leaching consequences of this pro
posed move rather alarmed him.
Hadn't he closed up the typhoid well
and drained Ague Alley and given a
contract for rebuilding Hamshackle
Row —all good-paving investments, to
be sure, and much-needed reforms —
simply and solely through the quick
ened moral responsibility that the boy
had roused in him?
"If this thing feoes on,"he said to
himself, "I'll be renewing the Taft
mortgage and letting the Hop e farm
slip through my fingers. It's sheer im
becility on my part. Who wants an
inconveniently active conscience in
these days? I'll throw off the yoke be
fore it fastens tighter. I'll discharge
Tid and send the Mulligans packing."
But to look into Tid's trustful eyes
and make this decision known was
more than Mr. Kane cared to do at
that moment. It might be better to
talk the matter out with Tid's mother,
he concluded. A little bribe, now, to
persuade her to move on, say, without
betraying his part in the transaction,
wotild make everything smooth and
easy.
Mr. Kane had not seen Mrs. Mulli
gan. Tid had caught his fancy, but he
bad felt sure that th e mother would
be a bore, and had avoided the house.
Well, they had transformed the deso
late shanty into rather a picturesque
spot by the vines they had trained
over it.and the woman displayed some
of Tid's own confidence in receiving
him.
"Sure, I felt yez comin', sir," she ex
plained. "Be sated, piaze. I'd pass
the chair if I could step a foot unier
me, but it was the Lord's mercy that
I kept on me legs till we r'ached ye,
that it was, and I've some use of' me
hands still, so thiat I do a dale wid
ihem, and I can hitch me chair about
while I do me chores quite nate and
convenient. 'Tis honored I am to have
ye come sakin' me—regardin' Tid is
it, then? He's a credit to yez. that he
is, sir. He couldn't take afther you
sthronger if be wur your own blood
born."
It struck coldly home to Mr. Kane's
understanding that his task was none
the easier for coming here. This lit
tle helpless woman, wRh her useless
feet and crippled hands, all gnarled
and twisted with rheumatism, and her
wistful face beaming with tremulous
pride, was scarcely a better subject
for his retaliation than Tid himself
would have been.
Nettled and disconcerted, but unwill
ing to retreat, he demanded, sharply:
"How did vou oorae by that ridiculous
notion of '.raining the boy after nie>
Wasn't tirere any better model to be
found?"
"Sure, I'd want no betther if I'd «<
hunder' to choose from," averred th®
little woman, stoutly, "but I'd none
other fit to pattern him by but yersilf,
that's the truth. You see, it wor this
way. There wor me brothers and me
cousbins in the ould country did be
breaking their heads in their fights;
and there was Mulligan got so in the
way of bating people when he wor on
the police that he cudn't lave off the
thrick while he lived, and there was
you with a good worrud to the fore,
and a joke when a poor garrul blun
dered, and a gintleman's way. whether
it was to the high or l!ie low —and it's
the way that comes aisy to Tid, now
that he has ye before the two eyes of
him," said Tid's mother, proudly,
while Mr. Kane groaned in spirit.
How could he make these people un
derstand that their attitude toward
him was both unwarranted and unwel
come? Why should he consent to sad
dle himself with them? It was only
his foolish good nature that had got
him into this scrape. They bad no
real claim cn him.
"It isn't ivery finc» gintleman that.
I'd pattern him by, that's the truth,"
went on Mrs. Mulligan. "There's thim,
if you'd belave it, wud see but the im
pydince and niver the honor of haying
a poor b'y tlirained af'her thim. Like
as if Tid wud ba walkin' on the creep,
ing things wid no thought for their
hurts, that's how some wud be lookin'
at the poor people that's to do thim
the nood turn."
"Oh, I assure you that I feel the
honor of it!" murmured Mr. Kane,
ironically; but the struggle to express
herself filled the woman's mind, and
she went on without noticing the in
terruption:
"But if he thramped thim all out,
he'd be thrampin' on the good frinds
of him, and thrampin' out the tinder
ness as wud make the good man of
hissilf, and niver know that he wor
more hurt by his hadelessness than
thim. That's why I'm thankful to the
Lord that I'd the right kind to pattern
him by," concluded the woman, fer
vently; and no light retort fell from
Mr. Kane's lips now.
What if this were so? What if he
were crushing the better nature that
was struggling in him when he turned
from them? What if the loss were his
rather than theirs? What if these peo
ple -A-ere sent to awaken his conscience
and show him where he was drifting?
It was a new thought to him that
the claim of humanity might work
both ways. From this point of view,
he might owe something to the Mulli
gans instead of their owing everything
to him. Suppose he turned them out,
foreclosed the Taft mortgage, seized
the Hope farm, fostered the spirit of
greed and selfishness and thrust aside
responsibility, as his impulse had
been; 'low would his gain weigh in
the balance against—what?
Surely, the opening vista held more
than he had considered thus far. It
was no- only that he would shatter
their in man's goodness by shat
tering t,'ho idol they had made of him.
There was the hardening of his own
heart, the turning from his chance to
become an uplifting force to the people
about him. He was no better and no
worse than the majority of careless,
thoughtless men; but did he not have
it in him to be either better or worse?
And which should he choose?
He was still wrestling with that
problem when a small shadow fell
across the threshold, and Tid stood
in the doorway. He brightened at
sight of the visitor, and turned to his
mother in triumph.
"Didn't I be telling you he would
come wan day? She wor cravin' a
sight of ye, sir, that she wor, but we
wouldn't be askin' a busy man like
yersilf to come out of yer way for
that."
"It's for the good of ye that he's
ccme now, Tid. He's said as mucn."
"Sure, he's been doin' us the good
turn since th > day we r'ached him,"
said Tid, contentedly. "Thrust his
honor for that."
Mr. Kane stood.up and shook his
shoulders as if lie were throwing off a
load. To crush out trust like this, to
refuse the blessedness of such simple
faith and gratitude, surely that was
not work for Ti lmore Kane. Let the
name mean as much for him as for
Tid.
"Blarney!" he said, lightly. "I don't
want the roof here coming in on your
heads and giving you an excuse to sue
nie for damages. I'll just look around
and see what repairs are needed. And,
Tid," —more slowly—"if you feel ready
to come into the office tomorrow, I
find that I am ready to have you
there."
"Hooray!'* shouted Tid. —Youth'a
Companion.
'Tffftn H«r Firm Love.
On a corner stood a little barefoot
girl in her rags. Her soiled, pudgy
little hands hugged another bundle
of rags caressingly to her stained,
dimpled cheek, while she enjoyed all
het joys of young motherhood. The
bundle was her "baby." Tied with
a string near one end, th? rags formed
into a head. Another string about
the middle produced the effect of a
waist line. A young man saw the
happy little mother. "What's that?"
he asked, resting a hand on the un
kempt hair of the child.
"My dolly," she said, hugging the
rags closer.
"Your dolly, eh? What a pretty
dolly. And what do you call your
baby?"
"O tails it—l tails it—l talis it
Bum Annie."— New York Times.
i A Nebraska physician keeps in com.
i munication by mean® of carrier doves
with imtlents livin~ over a circuit of
j BO miles.
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE-
Pledge For the Intnmperufn—A Burlesque '
Declaration Which Shown the Pen
■titles a Man I'h.vm Who Itrcoines a Sot
—A Double-Barreled Card.
We suggest that a double-barreled pledge
card, to be kept in the pocket for distri
bution, says the editor of the Brotherhood
Star, navinc the regular total-abstinence
declaration on one side and the following
inscription 011 the reverse:
I hereby agree to drink all the beer and
liquor 1 can get by ca»h or credit or treat.
1 agree to drink in all hours and weather.
I also agree to keep this pledge if in so
doing my brain, stomach, liver and kid
neys are permanently injured, my repu
tation lost, my family impoverished and
I myself damned forever.
I also pledge that I will not murmur a»
I look upon the palaces of the liquor deal
ers, their fashionably-clothed families
and superb "turn-opts, or when I make
the comparison with my dirty, squalid
quarters, my rag-covered family and my
frequent "turn-outs"' on the street for non
payment of rent.
i further pledge myself to advocate rum
and beer, and always to vote as my mas
ters direct. This 1 subscribe to with a.
clear view of all the penalties that come
to a man who makes himself a sot to sup
port a syndicate that does more to make
hard times in the billions of dollars used
to supply the drink habits of its custom
ers, the expenses of lawsuits, supporting
paupers and criminals than all other
trusts combined.
Signed
Date
.; Witness.
When signed please hand over to the
nearest saloon-keeper and pass it onto
the brewer.
Directed Against Alcohol.
It is not from France that legislation
looking toward the restriction or the pro
hibition of trade in intoxicants is expect
ed. The Chamber of Deputies, however,
has adopted unanimously a resolution
calling upon the Government to prohibit
the manufacture and sale of all alcoholic
liquors pronounced dangerous by the
Academy of Medicine. The resolution
was directed against absinthe, that demor
alizing distillation of wormwood, the con
sumption of which has increased so alarm
ingly in France. Since 1894 the quantity
has doubled. Admittedly the use of ab
sinthe has done much to increase insanity
in the republic, until it is recognized that
something must be done to stop its rav
ages. For a country such us France,
where wine-drinking is as common as the
drinking of water with us, to enact a
measure prohibitory of the use of even one
liquor is almost as radical as general pro
hibitive legislation would be in the United
States, where the whole traffic stands in
doubtful relation to public welfare and
public sentiment.
The Only Itemcdy.
What is to be done to counteract the
enormous amount of disease and misery
attributed to strong drinks? Ever since
humanity has been acquainted with these
liquors people have been preaching moder
ation, and that has had no effect. In
proof of that, look at the increasing con
sumption of spirituous drinks, especially
beer, among all classes of society. There
never has been any real success except
where total abstinence has been the
watchword, of the masses, for every drink
er considers himself moderate. Only those
who avoid the fire! -is are secure from
the second and all that taight follow. The
total abstainer with hisVlmnks that con
tain 110 alcohol is a Ttfrpetual -tk-ntoastrut
tion against the drink customs, an unan
swerable argument against the popular
prejudice that a man must drink alcohol
to keep well. Ijct nobody declare his in-
I ability to get along without alcoholic
liquors; people have 110 right to express
an opinion on this question who have not i
tested the experience lor a considerable
time.
Drink and tlio Brain.
The fact is really moderate quantities
jf spirituous drinks diminish the work
power of the brain, a fact that has been
demonstrated by modern scientific appa
ratus. Alcohol never makes a man wiser,
it only lowers a man's demands on himself
antil at last nothing is too silly or boorish
to satisfy him. This temporary injury to
the brain, if the use of alcohol is contin
ued. leads innumerable people into perma
aent brain disease. Alcohol is to-day one
jf the most influential sources of mental
disease. It has come to such a pass that
in some years more than half of the men
ivho goto the State insane asylums of
southern Austria owe their insanity to the
ase of alcohol. And this enumeration
joes not even include the insane by rea
son of the drinking habits of their ances
tors. Neither does it take into account
the epileptics, idiotic and defective chil
dren obliged to suffer for the want of un
derstanding and the crime of drunken
parents.
The Itoad to Trieon.
Alcoholic injury to the brain does not
always lead to the insane asylum. Very
jften it becomes the road to prison. Seven
! to eight-tenths of all the unlawful trans
j actions, from breaking windows to break
ing heads, conscientious officials attribute
to the influence of alcohol. Countless ac
cidents, especially on Mondays, are also
nothing but the after effects of alcohol,
making people foolhardy and blind to dan
ger of every sort.
The very worst effect of alcohol upon
the brain is the change of character it
produces. Sometimes people of the very
nest disposition are permanently changed
through alcohol and become irritable, vul
var, abusive and quarrelsome. Thousands
an thousands of marriages have become a
liell for both husband and wife on account
of the drinking habits of the man. In
such cases the children suffer most, are
i badlv brought up, neglected, treated with
cruelty.
Dies of Alcoholic Diseases.
Ability to endure much liquor docs not
indicate that the organs of the body are
protected against injury from alcohol, but
only the power to conceal its effect on the
brain. Men employed in the manufacture
and sale of liquor are seldom seen drunk,
but the statistics of mutual benefit asso
ciations show that a greater majority of
such people die of alcoholic diseases than
people in other employments.
Drunkenness In Ennland.
If I were asked to say in one word
what was the matter with England I
should reply "drunkenness." What causes
this drunkenness? I will not venture to
declare, but from it spring practically all
the ills to which the British social organ
ism is heir. —London Interview with Miss
McDowell, of Chicago.
The Crusade in Brief.
The statement is made on medical au
thority that more deaths are due in Eng
land to alcoholism than to diphtheria or
typhoid fever.
A hundred dollars it> not much to get
for "cutting out booze »• a year," but
the workman who gets it 1 ..m Millionaire
Schwab will be more than hundred
ahead in twelve months.
Mrs. Vina Peeters, of Tiptoi., ind., has
been given a judgment for S3OO against
W. S. (lough, a saloon keeper, wtho sold
her husband liquor while he was in a state
of intoxic&'ion. Mrs. Peeters lias four
similar eates pending againit other saloon
men.