Tlie automobile, like the bicycle, is
th«i good friend of good roads.
Paris is so well pleased with the
working of its underground railway
that it has decided to build a second.
The Venezuelan trade is getting a
hustle upon itself, opening up well in
most lines. Conditions there seem to
be healthier than for some time past.
The Missouri hen last year laid eggs
enough for shipment to bring in a
cash return of $5,375,000, and her
progeny formed a large portion of the
poultry which sold for $7,185,000 more.
it is said that Spain will contract
for eight new cruisers in England,
France and Italy. Poor old Spain!
She will never learn anything from
experience. And yet she ought to
know by this time where the best
boats are built.
The annual report of the commis
sioners of prisons of the United King
dom, shows a gratifying decrease of
crime. During the year 1900 184,330
persons were committed to prison,
184,086 being men and 49,250 women.
During the year 185,182 were dis
charged, leaving 15,670 prisoners in
custody at the end of the year, which
was a decrease from 16,593 at the
close: of 1899.
Comparison between the cost or
government in France today and dur
ing the last year of the empire are be
ing made to the disadvantage of the
republic. In 1869 the total cost
amounted to $385,000,000. In the year
ending .March 31, 1901, the expendi
tures amounted to $690,000,000. Mean
time the population has remained al
most stationary and the per capita
cost of government for the last fiscal
year amounted to $lB. The increase
in cost is due largely to the French
policy of refunding debts and annual
deficits and to the cost of maintain
ing unproductive colonies.
In many parts of the west and in
some of the south, community settle
ments of farmers are becoming nu
merous, says the Atlanta Journal. A
cumber of farmers build their homes
close together and from this central
settlement their land lines radiate.
The advantages of this plan are ob
vious. It affords the championship,
the lack of which the wife and chil
dren of many a farmer feel so keenly.
It affords mutual protection and the
means or mutual improvement. The
church, the schoolliouse, the social
club, the general store —all these are
made possible and brought nearer to
the people. The benefits of the com
munity life thus established are in
calculable
Instituted by a Frenchman, for a
German society of truthseekers. and
bestowed upon an American. This
is the history of the triennial prize
ot 3(K)0 marks just awarded by the
Berlin Academy of Science to the
American historian, Mr. James Ford
Ithodes, of Boston. It carries with
it fresh and striking proof that the
world of science aad literature knows
none of those political metes and bounds
whose settlement and maintenance
lorm the history of nations, and are
accountable for so much of the
world's bloodshed. To American his
torians this recognition of one who
has made a permanent place for him
self in his chosen field will be most
grateful, remarks the New York
Post.
Any careful observer must have
noted how much more popular re
creation has of late become among
the American people. The Saturday
half-holiday is more general and va
cations are longer and more indulged
in by all classes. And in addition
to these, excursions and "days off"
lire more frequent and popular than
formerly. Some one "handy at fig
ures" has estmated that 10,000,000 in
the United States will take a vaca
tion this summer, and that on an ev
erage each one will spend $lO. This
would make a total of $100,000,000
spent for rest and recreation. It is
probable that the figures are toe
small. Leaving out the rich and leas
ure class, to whom time and money
is no object, at least one in each
seven of all the people in the country
will enjoy a vacation this summer,
extending from five to 30 days. This
would mean a rest for over 12,000,
000 people, and if they spend only
sl2 each, about $150,000,000 will be
used in gaining rest and recreation.
It is time and money well spent. Nc
investment made in the whole yeai
brings in larger returns. It is one
of the causes which are adding per
ceptibly to the span of life. The
lengthening of this span has become
eo evident that a revision of the old
tables of the expectation of human
life has been made necessary.
When Sheffield steel manufacturers
set up mills in Pennsylvania, Great
Britain indeed gives up beaten.
Ireland has become innoculated with
the bacilli expositionalis and it is
planned to hold a great international
exhibition at Cork.
Probably It has never occurred to
the average man how much free ad
vertising he is doing for the various
dealers and manufacturers whom he
patronizes. The hatter puts his label
in our hats, the tailor attaches his
etiquette to our coats. Collars, cuffs,
shirts and shoes all bear the name of
the maker, so to some extent every
man who walks the street is a "sand
wich man."
People with chest complaints are
recommended by medical men to read
aloud, as this strengthens throat,
lungs and chest muscles alike. The
reading should be deliberate, without
being allowed to drag, and the enun
ciation clear, the body being held In
an easy, unstrained, upright position,
so that the chest will have free play.
The breathing should be natural and
as deep as possible without undue
effort.
The New Zealand government nas
decided that swimming and life-sav
ing shall be taught in all its schools.
The life-saving society's method hav
ing been adopted, 2000 hand-books
and charts have been sent by order
of the government for the use of
schoolmasters. The hand-book, in
which the course of instruction is ful
ly set forth for the use of classes,
schools, and individuals, has also
been translated into Swedish and
Italian.
The farmer's boy who drifts to the
city finds, in nine cases out of ten,
irregular work, a dingy little room in
a bad street, food that he would have
disdained in his country home and ir
resistible temptation to spend every
dollar which he can get hold of. The
city boy reaching the country finds
just as hard work and longer hours,
but work In the fresh air and sun
shine, with comfortable surroundings,
good food and all the social standing
of which his character makes him
worthy.
A novel but excellent idea has oee?»
Introduced in London at all of the
large halls, museums, exposition
buildings and other places which are
frequently attended by children. At
the Crystal Palace, South Kensington
Museum, the Hippodrome, Earl's
Court Exhibition, the Agricultural
halls, the Kew Gardens and other
places a room has been set apart tc
which lost children are taken by the
ushers and other attendants and re
tained until called for by their par
ents or whoever is in charge of them.
Mosquito hunters will follow with In
terest the experiments that aro beina
made in New Orleans, where the mos
quitoes flourish practically rfll the
year around. Oil has become very
cheap in that city since the opening
of the Texas fields, and it has been
decided to try to <o two things at
once —lay the dust in the streets and
kill the mosquitoes. Railroads have
tried sprinkling their roads with
crude oil. and have found this method
most efficient in permanently laying
the dust. New Orleans is trying the
eame thing, and it is said to be as
successful in streets used for traffic
as it is> on railways. Most of New
Orleans mosquitoes are bred in open
drains and cisterns, and while the
streets are being sprinkled oil is put
on the neighboring drains.
AS a result oi tne observanoD
of a board of British naval officers
some important changes are to be
made in battleships to be built in the
near future as part of England's prin
ciple defence. For one thing it has
been decided to cut down the masts
of such ships some sixty feet, because
the new signaling devices introduced
into use recently make tall masts un
necessary. Furthermore, the high
fore and aft bridges are to be lowered
built entirely of iron, and so arranged
that in clearing ship for action they
can easily be slid overboard. These
improvements are in the general line
of naval progress, and must be ac
cepted as good. But what will the
outsider think in regard to the grad
ual disappearance of all that he has
long recognized as marks of a ship?
There were weepings and wailings
when the old spars and canvas went,
and in the course of time even the
fighting mast will go.and wlien
steam is superseded perhaps even the
funnels. Then wc shall have wot hints
but the floating hulk, filled with death
dealing machines and horrid to look
upon. But maybe before that (linn
comes war will been abolished.
Why not? queries the New York
Times.
i WHEN SAM FOUND HIS COURAGE. {
EX ELIZABETH L. GOULD. £
"You know what the judge told you
at the 'cademy exhibition, Sammy,
said Hiram Lane, slowly, his eyes
fixed on the boy stretched on the grass
near him. "He said if ever you want
ed to leave Moorby to let him know;
that he'd like to do something for a
boy with such a good brain, and a head
for figures. Those were his words,
Sammy."
The boy's thin face flushed as he
turned to look at his uncle, and he
spoke with nervous quickness;
"He's forgotten all about me long
before this, Uncle Hiram. Why, that
school exhibition was two years ago
last June, and the judge didn't come
to Moorby last summer, you know. I
should be afraid togo and ask any
favor of him."
"I wish you hadn't such a bashful
streak in you. Sammy," said Uncle Hi
ram. looking down at the boy with a
half-reproachful, wholly affectionate
smile. "You're just like your poor pa.
A better man never lived, but he
wasn't built to get on in this world,
and he didn't get on. I was hoping
you might have a little more push than
your pa. Sammy, along with the good
ness. Now your ma's gone. I could be
moved anywhere; or 1 could be putin
the county farm, Sammy, if so be it
seemed best for you to strike out to the
city alone. I'm nothing but a helpless
old hulk, any way."
"Don't you say that again. Uncle
Hiram! Don't you dare to!" cried the
boy, fiercely, springing to his feet, and
rushing like a whirlwind upon the
figure in the old armchair. "Aren't
you all I've got in the world that be
longs to me? Do you suppose I'd go
away and leave you for the town to
lake care of? I'd deserve to be hung!"
"Sho, now, Sammy!" said the occu
pant of the armchair, gently, as he saw
the hot tears that stood in the boy's
eyes. "We haven't got anything but
each other, either of us; but here I am,
lame so I'm no good to stir about;
hands all knotted up with rheumatics,
so I can't use 'em, and you just spend
ing lour days distributing milk, and
sawing and splitting, which any boy
with no such head for figures as you've
got could do full as well. How much
did you earn last week, Sammy?"
"Only three dollars. Uncle Hiram,"
answered the boy, slowly. "You know
my work is always slack after the sum
mer people have gone. The judge and
tiis family are going next week. Their
oired girl told me to have Mr. Sargent
make out the milk bill. When I went
there yesterday morning the judge was
fitting on the side piazza, but he didn't
know me."
"Did you make your manners to
Him. and give him a good look at \vu.
Sammy?" asked the uncle, anxiously
"I mistrust you kind of half-turned
four head away, or maybe the sun
was in his eyes,"
"I took off my cap the best I knew
now," said Sammy; "but he barely
nodded to me. He wasn't reading or
anything, either."
"Maybe he was calculating in his
head." suggested Mr. Lane, quickly
glancing up at the boy, and then avert
ing his eyes. "You recall how he told
you he used to love to do those mental
sums, same as you did at the exhibi
tion. Sammy?"
The boy shook his head, and stood
for a moment looking across the fields
up to the hill on which stood tha
judge's house, its windows gleaming
bright in the morning sun.
"No, he's just forgotten me, Uncle
Hiram, that's all," he said, after a few
moments of silence. "I'm just one of
the country boys to him. and I guess
that's all I ever shall be. He's the
Dnly one that could give me a chance.
Now I must run over to Mrs. I-wpham's
and finish piling her wood. Will you
stay here and read till I come bad'
at noon? The sun's good and warm
;oday."
"You'll find me sitting in my castle,
same as you see me now," said Mr.
Lane, cheerily. "Pay my respects to
Mrs. Lapham, and tell her I wish she
could get out to enjoy this beautiful
weather, but I always think of what a
sightly view she has from that south
window of hers. I took special note
of it that day of the town celebration
when I rode past the house, three years
back."
The cheery smile lingered on Uncle
Hiram's face till the boy was well out
of sight beyond the turn in the road,
and then it gave place to a look of
patient pain.
"He'd counted on the judge's know
ing him," said the crippled man. turn
ing his head wearily against the soft
old cushion. "I know it just as well cs
15 he'd said so! "If the judge had
shown signs of remembering him.
Sammy would have plucked up courage
to ask him if there was any chance
for him down below. Don't I know
how he's kept at his study evenings
when he's been 'most too tired to sit
up? Seventeen years old last week,
and going to be hived up here all win
ter, and only just earn enough to keep
us a-going!"
Mr. Lane pounded on the ground
with his erirteh in excitement, and
scared away a squirrel which was on a
journey to a neighboring elm.
"Poor little creatur'! I didn't mean
to fright you," said Uncle Hiram, re
gretfully; "but I just recollect that
Sammy asked me if I'd full as soon
call him 'Sam,' now he's seventeen, and
I've clean forgotten it ever since till
this minute! And he such a boy, and
me such a drag on him, and forgetting
such an easy thing as that! I'll get
my mouth fixed for it when he comes
back. 'Sam,' I'll say to him. 'Sam, I'm
glad to see you back, Sam; and, Sam.
I've had a nice morning under tlx:
trees, Sam.' I reckon the oitener I
say it for a spell, the c-asier it'll come.
I'll practice it off and on the rest r'
the morning to keep my hand in," sail
Uncle Hiram, wisely.
Sammy's thoughts, as he hurried
down the road that led to the Lapham
house, were not very comforting.
"I'm nothing but what the children
call a 'fraid cat;' that's all I am!" he
said, bitterly. "Any other boy would
speak up to the judge and make him
remember, and perhaps get a chance.
Uncle Hiram minds, too. He's hardly
talked about the old war-times, when
he was a drummer-boy and got his
wounds, once, for the last week. He'd
rather be in an attic in Boston and
know I was working my way up than
to stay here in Moorby; there's nobo ly
here he cares enough about to make
him want to stay. And I might eai'n
money enough to buy him a wheeled
chair before long. While mother live I
I couldn t go. but now I could."
Sirs. Lapham's house laced the south,
and as Sammy entered the yard 'vs
looked for Mrs. Lapham's smile at th ?
window of the room where all her
days were spent.
She had been bedridden for ten
years; the old sitting-room of her early
married life had been changed to her
bedroom, and every morning before
Mr. Lapham started for his "Harness
and Shoe Shop" he dragged the bed
close to the window. All passers-by
were used to the sight of Mrs. Lap
ham's pale face propped into view by
many pillows, and her thimbie tapped
many a summons to enter on the low
est right-hand pane.
There was no face at the window
that morning, although, as Sammy
drew close to the house, he could see
that the bed was in its usual place.
As he stood a moment irresolutely at
the turn where the path branched of*
toward the woodshed, a man hailed
him from a passing cart, saying:
"HuMo, Sammy! How's business with
you these days?"
"Fair." returned the boy. soberly
adding under his breath. "I wish peo
ple wouldn't call me 'Sammy!' Its
such a baby name! "
There came a tap at the window as
the curt rattled out of sight, and Sam
my turned quickly to see Mis. Lap
ham's face, white and drawn, at tl.e
pane.
"Why, she looked as if she wjvS cry
ing!" said the boy to himself, startled
out of thoughts about his own troubles,
as he entered the house.
There was no longer any doubt in
his mind when he stood in the door
way and saw the invalid's great dailc
eyes.
"Sammy!" she cried, in a hit'h,
strained voice. "The men are at work
in the judge's meadow, and he's thera
with 'em! They're going to cut dovn
all my willows and my old apple-tr-e,
ham my I John Roberts is there w'th
'em. superintending under the judge.
1 tapped him in this morning just after
Mr. Lapham had gone, and he told me.
Why. Sammy, it seems as if those
trees belonged to me! My view'll be
all spoiled, and it's everything I have
to look at, that meadow is, Sammy!"
"Yes'm, I know," said the boy, with
quick sympathy. "I suppose he thinks
ihe mcadow'll be better wi:lout the
willows, and that the apple-tree doesn't
bear much of any fruit. He doesn't
realize about you. Mrs. Laphau*, th?
judge doesn t; I don't believe be even
knows about you. You see he's only
here in the summer, and he doesn't
see much of us village people." added
Sammy, gently. "It's an awful p.iy
Mrs. Lapham."
"If he knew,' said the invalid, crush
ing her handkerchief between her
clasped hands, "if he knew, do yju
suppose he'd leave the apple-tree
Sammy?' Look! Here's where I see
the buds on that long branch first;
and then the blossoms come, all whit ■
and pink, and then the apples. And
the branches are lovely even wh.r.
they're bare; and you know how they
shine in the snow and ice. I've shown
you so often. The road is so narrow
how can the judge help knowing about
me. Sammy? And the willows shine
so in the sun after a rain! I shall be
gone before they could grow high
enough for me to see them again!"
Sammy's face flushed a curious red
in streaks.
"I will go and tell the judge about it,
Mrs. Lapham," he said.
Even ready-tongued people hesitatel
to ask favors lightly of Judge Saun
ders. who was counted just but by no
means benevolent. Fear and excite
ment choked together in Sammy's
throat. Many ideas shot through the
boy's brain as he ran along the roa.l
to the break in the wall where the
meadow bars were down, and across
the meadow toward the tail figure of
the judge. But more vividly than all
else there rose before his mini the
invalid's face, and it was the only
smir he needed.
You may begin on that oldest apple
tree, Roberts," the judge was saying.
'I have an appointment now with Mr.
Willis, but 1 shall be back in the
course of the morning to see how the
work goen on. I —"
"Judge Saunders, please stop!" came
a boy's voice behind him, and the
judge turned to confront Sammy's
flushed and excited face.
"What's the trouble, my youn-j
friend?" he asked, in a curt tone.
"Where and why do you wish me to
step?"
"It's the tree, sir!" cried Sartiny, his i
troubled eyes fixed on the judge's keen
pray ones. "Mrs. Lapham is an in
valid; it's years since she could leave
her bed, sir. Her husband pulls it up
to the window every morning before
he goes off to work, so she tan look
out. She can see just a strip of sky
and this piece of your meadow; your
willows and the old apple-tree are "ier
picture, all the hap to look at!"
The judge stooped to pick up a long
blade of grass as tlie boy stopped for
breath, but did not interrupt him. John
Roberts and the other men stood open
mouthed behind their employer.
"In (he spring she watches for the
very first sign of green on the old
apple-tree," Sammy rushed on, never
taking his eyes from the judge's face,
"and she sees it, too. And then when
the blossoms come, and are in full
bloom, why, that's her happiest time,
sir. That long, straggly branch," the
boy pointed to one arm of the old tree
as he spoke, "lies right acioss her win •
dow, sir, with the willows behind it.
You see, 'way across the road the
meadow space between the apple-tre»
and the willows doesn't show; they
look close together, all in her picture."
Sammy paused, and the flush faded
from his face, leaving it unusually
pale. The judge stood looking off
across the meadow, drawing the blade
of grass through his fingers.
"That's all, sir," faltered Sammy,
"but —but I thought you wouldn't —
perhaps you wouldn't have the trees
cut if you knew, for Mrs. Lapham has
such a very little pleasure, sir, and
she's feeling so sad about the trees."
"I'm! I'm sorry for that,' said
judge, turning his keen eyes 'oward
the boy at last. "I suppose you're ovei
run with pleasure yourself, aren't you
—like most of the rest of us?"
"Sir!" stammered the boy.
"Do those old willows over there
come into your friend's picture?" asked
the man, abruptly, pointing to a clump
far along the little meadow brook.
"Oh, no, sir," said Sammy, quickly.
"She can't see those at all."
"Take the men over there Roberts,
and begin work at once. These trees
may stand as long as they're needed to
make a picture for Mrs. Lapham."
said the judge. Then, as the men
moved away, he turned again to the
boy.
"It's a pity you'd ratrer help run a
milk route than learn to be an account
ant," he said, in his former curt tone.
"I'm rather disappointed in what I
hear of you now. I thought you licul
ambition."
Sammy's face grew scarlet again aivl
his lips trembled, but he kept his eyes
fixed bravely on the judge's.
"I think —I am anxious to do some
thing better, sir," he said, slowly. "But
I thought you'd forgotten all about me.
and I didn't like to say anything, and
—I have my uncle to support. Judge
Saunders."
"I never forget a face," said the
judge, briskly, "and you can earn more
money in an office I know of than you
ever can here. I'll call to see your
uncle this afternoon, and have a talk
with him. Now you'd better go bacV
to Mrs. Lapham and ease her mind.
I'm not sure that you wouldn't maUe
a good advocate," he added, with a
grim smile. "Perhaps I shall be de
frauding the law if I get you start* 1
in business."
As the boy turned togo he looked
up at the Lapham window, and his
grave young face broke into a smile.
"How glad she'll be. sir!" he sa'n.
"I don't see how I can thank you—for
her and for myself."
"Look here!" said the judge, laying
his hand on the boy's shoulder. "Listen
to me. Take seven, multiply by foui
divide by two, subtract five, add three
multiply by eleven, divide by four, add
two, divide by seven, multiply by s'x,
divide by ten —and what do you have?'
The judge had spoken as rapidly as
his tongue could move, but none too
fast for Sammy.
"Three, sir." came the Instant reply,
delivered quietly, with shining eyes.
"We'll call that thanks," said tha
judge, calmly. "I havo three boys, and
not one of them can add twelve and
thirteen without a pencil and paper.
Good-by!"
When Mrs. Lapham, crying soft 1 y
for joy, had been left behind, and a
whirlwind had fallen upon Unci.)
Hiram Lane, and made clear to his
mind the morning's news, the lame
man set his lips for a self-appointed
task.
"Sam," he said, carefully, "you de
serve it all, and. Sam, your old uncle
is glad. Sam, and from this day on.
Providence permitting.', I will never
call you Sammy again!"— Youth's
Companion.
Hie Wn er llr«tle.
The great carnivorous water beetle,
the dytiscus, after catching and eat
ing other creatures all day, with two
minute intervals to come up, poke the
til_s of its wings out of the water, and
jam some air against its spiracles, be
fore descending once more to its suba
queous hunting grounds, will rise by
night from the surface of the Thames,
lift again those horny wing cases, un
fold a broad and beautiful pair of
gauzy wings, and whirl off on a visit
of love and adventure to some distant
pond, onto which it descends like a
bullet from the air above. When peo
ple are sitting in a greenhouse at night
with no lamp lighted, talking or smok
ing, they sometimes hear a smash, as
if a pebble had been dropped on the
glass from above. It is a dysticus
beetle, whose compound eyes have
mistaken the shine of the glass in the
moonlight for the gleam of a pond. At
night some of the whirligig beetles, the
shiny beanlike creatures seen whirl
ing in incessant circles in corners by
the bank, make a quite audible and al
most musical sound upon the water. —
The Spectator.
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Medical Testimony '<• to the Injury ol
Giving Intoxicants Jo Children Re
sponsible For Many Dlseatics anil Or
ganic Troubles—A Great Kvll.
Professor Max Kassowitz, the njost fa
mous authority in Vienna on children's
diseases, speaking at the session in Yiduna,
of the International Anti-Alcoholic Con
gress, strongly opposed the practice of
giving children intoxicants in any form,
even in very moderate quantities.
Beer and wine, he held, were highly in
jurious on account of the changing char
acter of the bodily organs during child
growth. Such liquids were absolutely un
nourishing and frequently led to epilepsy
and had also a deadening power in lea.ru
ing.
A Vienna schoolmaster stated that oil
Mondays the children were dull and heavy
in consequence of the beer and wine drink
ing on Sunday. Fifty per cent, of the
Vienna school children, it was stated, take
intoxicants.
The New York Herald interviewed va
rious New York medical men on the mat
ter. Dr. Louis Fisher, a leading specialist
in diseases of children, corroborated the
statements of Professor Kassowitz as to
the injury of intoxicants to those of ten
der age.
Dr. Fisher was inclined from personal
observation to the belief that wine and
beer were frequently given to children in
this city, especially among the tenement
house population. He added:
"This is observed by any physician who
has a dispensary practice. Among par
ents of Irish birth who live on the west
side whisky is a favorite tonic for babies.
The Germans on the east side give their
children beer.
"Parents seem to have the idea that by
giving children liquor they are making
them strong—that it will strengthen then
hearts. They generally begin the practice
very early.
"In consequence of this practice the
growth of the children is retarded, and
their digestion is disturbed. The suffer
ing of the baby from the effects of the ad
ministration of liquor seems to give the
parents the idea that more is needed to
counteract the ailments. So they go from
bad to worse.
"To any one whose attention has been
?alled to the subject particularly it is re
markable to note how much digestive
trouble can be traced to this practice.
The most deplorable part of it is that the
ill-effects of the liquor are not injurious
to the stomach alone, but quickly extend
to the liver."
Dr. Augustus Caille said the evils result
ing from the practice were real and not
Imaginary. He declared that great care
was necessary in the administration of
liquors to children even by physicians.
He added that he did not prescribe whisky
brandy for children except in extreme
:ases.
Views of the Very Kov. Dean Farrar.
My reasons for taking the pledge were
partly general and partly special.
First—l became convinced that the use
of alcohol in any form was not a neces
sity. 1 saw that whole nations have
lived .and flourished without it. I be
lieved that the whole race of man had ex
isted for centuries previous to its discov
ery.
Second—l was struck by the indisputa
ble fact that in England 20,000 inhabit
ants of our prisons, accustomed to strong:
drink all their lives, and the majority of
them brought into prison directly or indi
rectly by it, could be, and were, from the
moment of their imprisonment, absolute
ly deprived of it, not only without loss,
but with entire gain 1J their personal
health.
Third—l derived from the recorded tes
timony of our most eminent physicians
that the use of alcohol is a subtle and
manifold source of disease even to thou
sands who use it in quantities convention
ally deemed moderate; also, that all the
young, and all the healthy, and all who
eat well and sleep well, do not require it,
ind are better without it.
Fourth—That the carefully drawn statis
tics of many insurance societies convinced
me that total abstinence, so far from
shortening life, distinctly and undisputa
bly conducted to longevity.
Fifth—Then 1 accumulated proof that
drink is so far from being requisite to
physical strength or intellectual force,
that many of our greatest athletes, from
the days of Samson onward, "whose drink
was only of the crystal brook," have
achieved without alcohol mightier feats
than have ever been achieved with it.
Drinking Habits and Success Aro Allen.
Here are some words from John D.
Rockefeller, spoken in his speech before
the great I niversity of Chicago, to which
he has given over $9,000,000. They de
serve to lie printed in every paper in the
land. He said to the young men: "Some
of the foes which threaten your success
may not be apparent to you until it is too
late. If you are to succeed in life it will
be because you master yourselves, and if
you are to continue masters and not slaves
you do not need that I should say to you
here to-day that you must jealously guard
the approach of any foe to your well
being. How many a young man whom I
knew in my school days went down be
cause of his fondness for intoxicating
drinks! No man has ever had occasion to
regret that he was not addicted to the
use of liquor. No woman has ever had oc
casion to regret that she was not instru
mental in influencing young men to use
intoxicants. The chances for success are
better to-day than ever before. Success
is attained by industry, perseverance and
pluck, coupled with any amount of hard
work, and you need not expect to achieve
it in any other wav." This is the esti
mate of drinking habits formed by a man
who has probably had opportunity to
know and see as many young men succeed
or fail as any other man in the land. It
is fast becoming true that drinking hab
its antl success in life will not go together.
—Baptist Argus.
A Horrible Traffic.
A step which is most desirable is to re
press the horrible iniquity, of which Eng
land and Germany are specially guilty, of
deluging with ardent spirits—often of the
most villainous quality—the savage races
of Africa and other countries, and so in
curring the deadly curse of placing a
stumbling block before the helpless child
hood of the world. There are many evi
dences to show what those whom we com
placently call "the inferior races" think
of this shameful crime. The name given
in Africa to our strong drink is Shame
water; the Maoris call it Rotten-water;
the American Indians. Fire-water. "Drink
is death," said the African chief Khama;
"it is that and nothing else." "For every
sincere Christian in India," said Archdea
con Jeffries, of Bombay, "we have made
a thousand drunkards."
The Crusade In Brief.
The devil's most helpful ally is the
liquor traffic.
Governmental law has enthroned the
demon traffic.
Drink, combined with disease, has de
vastated the islands of Hawaii.
Russia, horrified at the wholesale de
generacy of her drunken peasantry, has
adopted rigorous measures to remove them
from temptation.
France is so much alarmed at the dis
grace of a drunken soldiery that the Min
ister of War has issued an order prohib
iting the sale of drink in barracks, camps
and manoeuvring grounds.