rersistence brings success. No
doubt eome town will eventually get
up an exposition that pays expenses.
The United States by paying off iti
own debts and lending money to Eu
rope makes it plain that prosperity a.'
a national proposition is no myth.
Justice might do better service in
fome parts of the United States if
the bandage were removed from her
ryes and a modern weapon substitut
ed for the Roman sword.
The saie rule to guard against mala
ria is to Map at every mosquito that
comes along, without waiting to deter
mine whether it is an anopheles or a
culox. There is as yet no society for
the protection of the common punc
ture r.
In ISSS the first law adopting the
Australian system of voting was passed
in Kentucky, and by IS9B the Austra
lian system had come into force by
legislative action in every state of the
country, except North Caiolina ami
South Carolina.
The Chinese residents of the com!-
try are evidently taking to heart, the
old slogan "The Chinese must go,"for
they have "gone" to the number of
29,000 in the last 20 years, and we now
have less than 90,000 of them. When
the Chinaman makes his little for
tune he goes back to China to live as
a nabob among his people, and this ac
counts for the decrease.
A new theory concerning the in
crease of appendicitis attributes it tc
worms or microbes swallowed by the
patient when eating raw fruit. Old
school physicians and surgeons sling,
however, to the opinion that most ol
the alleged cases are fictitious and the
product of imaginative young practi
tioners who desire an opportunity to,
display a little surgical skill at the
expense of the patient.
The unveiling of the monument to
Commodore Perry at Kurihama, Ja
pan recalls the fact that in 1853 the
people of that island were hardly su
perior to the Chinese, and certainly
not less exclusive. By opening theii
ports to commerce at the instance of
the United States and by welcoming
the advances of civilization the Jap
anese have devloped into a great
eastern power which must be con
sulted in relation to all international
questions affecting the nations that
border on the Pacific. Not only com
merce, but education, industries and
social customs have been influenced
by the contact with the white races
which was made imperative by the
landing of Commodore Perry. Japan
has every cause to make that occa
sion memorable.
According to the Baltimore Sun a
man need not be a scholar to be an
inventor. One of the most successful
aeronauts of old times who had made
a study of aerial currents and the
management of balloons, once deliv
ered an address in which he referred
t6 the "anaconda" as "the largest bird
that ever flew," and he also remarked
that "the mental faculties of a man's
mind is so constructed as to bring
things down to a pin's pint." He also
referred to the currents of air as
stretchums, meaning strata, and yet
lie was one of the foremost balloonist.?
of his time. He was an inventor also
of many useful things, and was the
first man in the country to suggest an
ironclad man of war with slanting
sides. He built a miniature vessel
on this plan of sheet iron, placed it
in the water and fired musket balls at
it at short range. Every ball glanced
off. The Merrirr.ae was built on a sim
ilar plan, and from that humble be
ginning the evolution or revolution
ir. naval architecture took its start
The exhaustion of the world's coa)
deposits would not create the alarm
that Englishmen felt some years age
when a statistician announced the
date when the working of the coa)
mines would be difficult and costly
There is a belief in Texas that the
supply of fuel oil which was recently
discovered in that state is virtually
without limit, and it is affirmed that
the Texan product has many and
great advantages over coal, including
cheapness. It is found that there is
still another substitute for coal—
"masut," or German brown coal tar,
the heat producing quality of which
is said to be one-fourth greater than
that of ordinary coal. Masut will
also produce steam in less time than
Is required in the case of coal. Coai
tar has been almost as surprising as
the cotton plant In the matter of its
adaptability to many uses. A num
ber of the most efficacious of modeio
remedies have been extracted frcui
?oal tar—among them some whieb
are used in the treatment of disease!
Of the nervous system.
With bold bacilli in a kiss and
germs in the ice cream, pray who can
tell what will become of love's youna
dream?
In dry regions there is a great deal
of talk about meeting the drought
problem by irrigation. There is only
one drawback to irrigation, and that
is the absence of water.
Those who have studied the sub
ject carefuny have estimated that a
loss of nearly $10,000,000 is sustained
annually by the cultivators of the soil
from insect ravages in the United
States and Canada.
An Irish judge sitting in four courts,
■Dublin, in summing up a case in which
the plaintiffs were a lady and her
daughter, began: "Gentlemen of the
jury, everything in this case seems
plain—except Mrs. O'Toole and hei
charming daughter "
The Philadelphia Saturday Kvenine
Post remarks that to keep up with
the average small boy in these swift
times requires 16 hours of exercise
daily, a bicycle, an encyclopedia and
all the latest editions of Ready Replies
to Instant Inquiries.
A Paris schoolmaster has petitioned
the French chamber against king?
still being portrayed on French play
ing cards. He suggests that king?
should be replaced by pictures of
Thiers, MacMahon, Grevy and Carnot,
and queens by equally prominent re
publican women. The parliamentary
commission sitting on the petition ha?
replied that the change is impossible,
since it would ruin quite a number oi
playing card factories.
"Blind Tom." who was the musical
prodigy of the last generation, has re
appeared in concert at the age of 52
years. He is the same mental imbe
cile as of old. and since retiring from
the stage has spent his days in asy
lums and sanitariums, but his musi
cal powers are said to be unimpaired.
He can still play three airs at once,
play with his back to the piano, and
immediately reproduce any air which
he hears. He is a human freak, unex
plained and unexplainable.
Lord Dundonald, the well-known
British cavalry general, has been giv
ing, in an after-dinner speech, his
conclusions drawn from his experi
ences in South Africa. He said that
the ideal .mounted man of the future
would be one wno was skilled in re
connaissance and outpost duty, could
attack a position and defend a posi
tion, and was, above all, a good shot,
and able to walk many miles without
fatigue to ease his horse. As to the
retention or not of the sabre, he
thought the ordinary cutting sword
should go.and some light weapon be
substituted that could be utilized at
the end of the rifle or for thrusting.
The future was the mounted riflemen.
The Toronto Mail and Express
states : "In 1867, the year of the con
federation, the population of Canada
was 3,371.594. In 1891 the popula
tion was 4,833,239. In 1901 the figure
is estimated to be 6,000,000. If we
have but 5,500,000, as some suppose,
our increase will have been 2,100,000
since the Union. In 1817 the areu of
Canada was 499.700 square miles; in
1901 the acera is 3.470,392 square
miles, or about 40 percent of the
area of the British empire. The ad
dition of Manitpba and the northwest
in 1870 and of British Columbia on
July 20, 1871, and of the province of
Prince Edward Island on July 1, 1573,
brought in the aditional three million
square miles. In 1867 we had 2350
miles of railway, which had cost $150,-
027,000; in 1901 there are 17.164 miles,
which have cost $993,266,000. In 1867
we exported $57,567,000 worth of
products; in 1900 we exported $158,-
896,000 worth.
In Michigan a compulsory vaccina
tion rule has come in conflict with
the compulsory school-attendanco
law, and has had the worst of the en
counter. The supreme court of tho
state was arbiter in the contest, tho
case passed upon being the right of
the Kalamazoo school board to ex
clude from the schools unvaccinated
children. This It may not unquali
fiedly do, the supremo court ruled.
The legislature, the court says, has
provided who shall and who shall not
attend school, and it has nowhere un
dertaken to confer power on school
boards to change the conditions. If
the rule was that du-ing the preva
lence of smallpox in Kalamazoo the
pupil could not attend school unless
vaccinated, a dierent result would be
reached, but as these epidemics never
last very long the standing rule of the
board that no person unless vaccin
ated can attend school at any lime
is beyond the power of the board to
prescribe.
! THE FALL OF A SEA-MONARCH. }
BY FRANK T. BULLBN.
Glorious in all his splendid majesty,
the great sun issued forth of liis
chamber, and all the wild sea basked
in his beams with a million, million
smiles. Save the sea and the sun and
the sky, there was nought apparently
existing—it might well have been the
birthday of Light. The one prevail
ing characteristic of the scene to a
human eye, had one been there to see,
was peace—perfect, stainless
Yet beneath that sea of smiling, placid
beauty a war of unending ferocity
was being waged, truceless, merciless;
for unto the victors belonged the
spoils, and without them they must
perish—there was none other food to
be gotten.
But besides all this ruthless war
fare, carried on inevitably, because
without it all must die of hunger,
there were other causes of conflict,
matters of high policy and more in
tricate motive than just the blind, all
compelling pressure of hunger. The
glowing surface of that morning sea
was suddenly disturbed simultaneous
ly at many points, and like ascending
incense the bushy breathings of some
scores of whales became visible. Per
fectly at their ease, since their in
stincts assured them that from this
silent sea their only enemy was ab
sent., they lay in unstudied grace
about the sparkling waters, the cows
and youngsters frivoling happily to
gether in perfect freedom from care.
Hither they had come from one of
their richest feeding grounds, where
all had laid in a stock of energy suf
ficient to carry them half around the
globe without weariness. So they
were fat with a great richness, strong
with incalculable strength, and be
cause of these things they were now
about to settle a most momeiito.is
question.
Apart from the main gathering of
females and calves by the space of
about a mile lay five individuals, who
from their enormous superiority in
size, no less than the staid gravity
of their demeanor, were evidently the
adult males of the school. They lay
almost motionless in the figure of a
baseless triangle, whereof the apex
was a magnificent bull over 70 feet
in length, with a back like some keel
less ship, bottom up, and a head huge
and square as a railway car. He it
was who first broke the stillness that
reigned.
Slowly raising his awful front with
its down-hanging 20-foot lower jaw
exposing two gleaming rows of curved
teeth, he said:
"Children, ye have chosen the time
and the place for your impeachment
of my over-lordship, and I am ready.
Well I wot that ye do but as our
changeless laws decree; that the choice
of your actions rest not with your
selves; that although ye feel lords
of yourselves and uesirous of ruling
all your fellows, it is but under '.he
compelling pressure of our hereditary
instiiiits. Yet remember, I pray you,
before ye combine to drive me from
among ye. for how many generations
I have led the school, how wisely 1
have chosen our paths, so that we ar->
still an unbroken family, as we have
been for more than a hundred sea
sons. And if ye must bring your
powers to test now, remember, - too,
that I am no weakling, no dotard
weary of rule, but mightiest among
all our people, conquerer in more than
a thousand battles, wise with the ac
cumulated knowledge of a hundred
generations of monarchy. Certainly
the day of my displacement must
come; who should know that better
than I? But methinks it has not yet
dawned, and I would not have ye
lightly pit your immature strength
against mine, courting inevitable de
struction. Ponder well my words, for
I have spoken."
A solemn hush ensued, just empha
sized by the slumbrous sound of he
sparkling wavelets lapping those
mighty forms as they lay all motion
less and apparently inert. Yet it had
been easy to sec that along each bas
tion-likc flank the rolling tendons,
c-ach one a cable in itself, were tense
and ready for instantaneous action,
that the great muscle mounds were
hardened around the gigantic masses
of bone, and that the flukes, each some
hundred feet in erea, did not yield to
the heaving bosom of the swell, but
showed an almost imperceptible vi
bration as of a fueus frond in a tide
rip. After a perfect silence of some
15 minutes an answer came—from the
youngest of the group, who lay re
mote from the chief:
"We have heard, O king, the words
of wisdom and our hearts rejoice.
Truly wo have been of the fortunate
in this goodly realm, and ingrates in
deed should we be had our training
under so terrible a champion been
wasted upon us. But therefore it !o
that we would forestall the shame
that should overtake us did we wait
until thy force had waned and that
all-conquering might had dwindled
into dotage ero we essayed to put thy
teaching into practice. Since thy dep
osition from this proud place must be.
to whose forces couldst thou more
honorably yield than to ours, the
young warriors who have learned of
thee all we know, and who will carry
on the magnificent traditions thou hast
handed down to us in a manner worthy
of our splendid sire. And If we be
slain, as well may be, remembering
with whom we do battle, the greater
our glory, the greater thine also."
A deep murmur like the bursting of
a tidal wave against the sea-worn
lava rocks of Ascension marked the
satisfaction of the group at thi3 expo
sition of their views, and as if actu
ated by one set of nerves the colos
sal four swung round shoulder to
shoulder, and faced the ocean mon
arch. Moving not by a barnacle's
breadth, he answered, "It is well
spoken, oh, my children; ye are wiser
than I. And be the issue what it will,
all shall know that the royal race
still holds. As in the days when our
fathers met and slew the slimy dragons
of the pit, and unscarred by fathom
long claws or ten-ply coats of mail
dashed them in pieces a.nd chased
them from the blue deep they be
foulde, so today when the world lias
grown old, and our ancient heritage
has sorely shrunken, our warfare shall
be the mightiest among created
things."
Hardly had the leviathan uttered
the last word when, with a roar like
Niagara bursting its bonds in spring,
lie hurled his vast bulk headlong upon
the close-gathered band of his huge
offspring. His body was like a bent
bow, and its recoil tore the amazed
sea into deep whirls and eddies as if
an island had foundered. Pull up on
the foremost one he fell, and deep an
swered unto deep with the impact.
That awful blow dashed its recipient
far into the soundless depths, where
the champion sped swiftly forward on
his course, unable to turn until his
impetus was somewhat spent. Before
he could again face his foes, the thive
were upon him. smiting him with li
tanic fluke strokes, circling beneath
him with intent to catch the down
hanging shaft of his lower jaw, rising
swiftly, end on, beneath the broad
spread of his belly, leaping high into
the bright air, and falling heavily up
on his wide back.
The tormented sea foamed and
hissed in angry protest, screaming sea
birds circled around the conflict, rav
ening sharks gathered from unknown
distances, scenting blood, and all the
countless tribes of ocean waited
aghast. But after the first red fury
had passed came the wariness, came
the fruitage of all those years of train
ing, all the accumulated instincts of
ages to supplement blind brutal force
with deep-laid schemes of attack and
defence. As yet the three survivors
were but slightly injured, for they
had so divided their attack, even in
that first great onset, that the old
warrior could not safely single out
one for destruction. Now the young
est. the spokesman, glided to the
front of his brethren and faced his
waiting sire:
"What! so soon weary? Thou art
older than we thought. Truly, this
battle hath been delayed too long. We
looked for a fight that should be re
membered for many generations, and
behOKi —" Out of the corner of his
eye he saw the foam circles rise as the
vast tail of the chief curved inward
for the spring, and he, the scorner,
launched himself backwards a nmi
dred fathoms at a bound. After him,
leaping like any salmon in a spate,
came the terrible old warrier, the smit
ten waves boiling around him as he
(lashed them aside in his tremendous
pursuit. But herein the pursued had
the advantage, for it is a peculiarity
of the sperm whale that, while he
cannot see before him, his best arc of
vision is right astern. So that the
pursuer must needs be guided by
sound and the feel of the water, and
u.e very vigor of his chase was telling
far more upon his vast bulk than up
on the lither form of his flying ene
my.
In this matter the monarch's wis
dom was of no avail, for experience
could not tell him how advancing age
handicaps the strongest, and he won
dered to find a numbness creeping
along his spine—to feel that he was
growing weary. And suddenly, with
an eel-like movement, the pursued
one described a circle beneath the
water, rising swiftly, as a dolphin
springs towards his pursuer, and dash
ing at the dangling, gleaming jaw.
These two great jaws met in clashing
contest, breaking off a dozen or so of
the huge teeth and ripping eight or
ten feet of the gristly muscle from
the throat of the aggressor. But hard
ly had they swung clear of each other
than the other two were fresh upon
the scene, and while the youngest one
rested, they effectually combined 1o
prevent their fast-weakening foe from
rising to breathe. No need now for
them to do more, for the late enor
mous expenditure of force had so
drained his vast body of its prime ne
cessity that the issue of the fight was
but a question of minutes.
Yet he still fought gallantly, though
with lungs utterly empty—all the
rushing torrent of his blood growing
fetid for lack of vitalizing air. At
last, with a roar as of a cyclone
tnrough his head, he turned on his
side and yielded to his triumphant
conquerors, who drew off and allowed
him to rise limply to the now quist
sea surface. For more than an hour
he lay there prone, enduring all the
agony of his overthrow, and seeing
for before him the long, lonely vista
of his solitary wanderings, a lone
whale driven from his own, and nev
ermore to rule again.
Meanwhile, the three had departed
in search of their brother, smitten so
sorely early In the fight that he had
not since joined them. When they
found that which had been he, it was
the centre of an innumerable host of
hungry things that fled to air or sea
depths at their approach. A eiano*
revealed the manner of his end—a
broken back —while already, such hf.d
been the energy of the sea people, the
great framework ot' his ribs was partly
laid bare. They made no regrets for
the doing of useless things finds t O
place in their scheme of things. Then
the younger said: "So the question
of overlordship lies between us three,
and I am unwilling that it should
await settlement. I claim the leader
ship and am prepared here and now
to maintain my right." This bold as
sertion had its effect upon the two
hearers, who, after a long pause, re
plied: "We accept, O king, fully and
freely, until the next battle day ar
rives, when the succession must be
maintained by thee in ancient form."
So the matter was settled and proud
ly, the young monarch set off to re
join the waiting school. Into their
midst he glided with an air of con
scious majesty, pausing in the centre
to receive the homage and affection
ate caresses of the harem. No ques
tions were asked as to the wherea
bouts of the deposed sovereign, nor as
to what had become of the missing
member of the brotherhood. These arc
things that do not disturb the whale
people, who in truth have a sufficiency
of other matters to occupy their
thoughts besides those inevitable
changes that belong to the settled or
der of things. The recognition com
plete, the new leader glided out from
the midst of his people, and pointing
his massive front to the westward
moved off at a stately pace, on a
straight course for the coast of Japan.
I.ong, long l=\y the defeated one,
no.ior.less and al'-.ne. '.lis cj.crtions
had been so tremendous that every
vast muscle band seemed strained oe
yond recovery, while the torrent of
his blood, befouled by his long en
forced stay beneath the sea, did not
readily regain its normally healthful
flow. But on the second day he
roused himself, and his mighty head
swept the unbroken circle of the hori
zon to satisfy himself that he was in
deed at last a lone whale. Ending
his earnest scrutiny, he milled round
to the southward, and with set pur
pose and steady fluke beat started for
the Aucklands. On his journey he
passed many a school or smaller
"pod" of his kind, but in some mys
terious manner the seal of his lone
liness was set upon him, so that he
was shunned by all. In 10 days he
reached his objective, 10 days of fast
ing. and impelled by fierce hunger
he ventured in closely to the cliffs,
where great shoals of fish, many seals,
with an occasional porpoise, came gai
ly careering down the wide gaping
tunnel of his throat into the inner
darkness of dissolution. It was good
to be here, pleasant to feel once mors
that unquestioned superiority over all
things, ana swiitly the remembrance
of his fall faded from the monster's
mind. By day he wandered lazily, en
joying the constant easy procession
of living food down his ever-opened
gullet; by night he wallowed sleepily
in the surf-torn margin of those jagged
reefa.
And thus he came to enjoy the new
phase of existence, until one day he
rose slowly from a favorite reef patch
to feel a sharp pang shoot through
his wide flank. Startled into sudden,
violent activity, he plunged madly
around in the confined area of the
cove wherein he lay, in the vain en
deavor to rid himself of the smart.
But he had been taken at a disadvan
tage, for in such shallow waters there
was no room to manoeuvre his vast,
bulk, and his wary assailants felt
that in spite of his undoubted vigor
and ferocity he would be an easy
prey. But suddenly he headed in
stinctively for the open sea at such
tremendous speed that the two boats
attached to him were but as chips
behind. He reached the harbor's
mouth, and bending swiftly sought
the depths. Unfortunately for him
a large pinnacle of rock rose sneer
from the sea bed some hundred fath
oms below, and from this he hurled
himself headlong with such fearful
force that his massive neck was brok
en. And nej t day a weary company of
men were toiling painfully to strip
from his body its great accumulation
of valuable oil, and his long career
was ended. —New York Evening Post
How to Kilter Politic*.
If you want to be a politician, the
first thing to do is to get into the push,
or at least create the impression that
you are in. When there is a conven
tion, if you can't work in as a dele
gate. you can at least get into the
crowd in the hotel lobby, and if you
carry ourself in shape you can make
the stranger who is within the gates of
the city believe you are not only a dele
gate. but one of the steering commit
tee. Keep busy. Take at least eight or
ten men off to one side in the course of
the evening for private conversation.
There is quite a good deal in making
people believe you are cutting a good
many lemons, whether you are or not.
It is a good idea to be seen often on
the corner talking with some promi
nent candidate. You can arrange this
if you have the proper amount of gall.
You may not have anything to tell
him. but then you will be seen in con
sultation, and you will make some par
ties who don't know you very well
think that there must' be a hen on. But.
above all else, cultivate your gall. If
you can get some reporter to inter
view you on the political situation,
that will be a good scheme. The news
papers can make a reputation for al
most any sort of a man. —Topeka Mail
and Breeze.
An Ocu'lut Among School Children.
An oculist who has examined the
eyes of pupils in five of the Jersey
City public schools has found that
one-sixth of the children have defec
tive vision.
THE GREAT Ll
SOME STARTLINC FACTS «dOUI
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
/nt'-mperance is Dccreaslne, I)Klsrc» th»
Atlanta Journal—The Business World
Has No riace For the Man IVh«
Drinks.
The "fresh" young man who feels
obliged to carry a bottle with him to all
places where he thinks he will not be o£i
feretl something "to wet his whistle" if
rapidly passing away. The business worlc
has no place for him and he is growing
into disfavor socially. The evidence o:
this is seen on everv hand.
A few days ago M. Jules Cambon, tin
.French Ambassador to this country, said
in an interview at Paris in speaking oi
the American people: "There may b«
some hypocrites among them, but the vast
majority abstain from strong drink."
In commenting on this statement edr
torially the New York Sun says:"lt i»
true, as general observation must have din.
covered, that, prudence in drinking til!
kinds of alcoholic liquors has increased,
and that total abstinence from them is
relatively much more frequent than for
merly."
It is plain that the business conditions
of to-day require the services of sober
men. No others need anply. Great enter'
prises can only be carried on successfully
by those who utilize fully their natural
mental gifts and their physical energies,
The hard drinkers cannot command the
confidence of business men. hence those
who indulge immoderately in the use of
stiong intoxicants sooner or later become
loafers.
It is a noticeable fact that the thriftiest
communities after they get settled down
to business produce fewer drunkards than
those where loafing is the rule.
Only a few days ago the news columns
3f the Journal showed that fewer licenses
to liquor establishments wore granted in
Atlanta during the first six months of
this year than for the same period of last
vear, although the city has in the mean
time grown largely in population.
Ambitious men have learned that suc
cess can only come either in business life
or in the professions to those who keep
their wits about them all the time and
preserve themselves so as to be able phys
ically to perform great labor.
This state of things has had its influ
?nce socially for apnarent reasons, ami
hence those who at dinners and other se
rial entertainments habitually indulge to
the extent of obvious intoxication are no
longer regarded with amusement but with
commiseration, and as needing such ten
der care as is given to a sick man.
It has always been a matter of remark
that in the clubs in Atlanta there is very
little immoderate drinking. The young
men are busy here, and understand that
he enterprise and sobriety of their com
petitors will not suffer them to destroy
>r weaken their capacity by indulgence iu
;he use of strong stimulants.
The New York Sun says"even the
Tammany General Committee, once called
i collection of red noses, is now full of to
;al abstainers; that none of the great, po
itjcal leaders of the present is a hard
Irinker; that many of them are total ab
itainers, and that the same is true of the.
jreat leaders in finance, in trade and in
:he professions. Strict abstemiousness is
•lie rule among them and a reputation for
ntemnerance is always injurious."
Archbishop Ireland was quoted in the
newspapers a few days ago as saving that
:emperanee is increasing, and his conclu
lion was based on information obtained!
from the Total Abstinence Society o£
America, a Catholic institution.
It will be noticed that the observation
>f the French Minister has been confined
:o the large cities of the West and tho
3ast where temperance is not enforced
>y law, but is simply brought about by- *
justness and social standards.
The Sun arrives at the conclusion that
is a result of increasing temperance
imong the people the liquor question
'has been practically eliminated from pol
tics, for the evils of alcoholic abuse are
•ecognized by all parties and by liquor
lealers not less than by there t of tho
>ub!ic."
Whether the Sun's conclusion in this
>articiilar is correct or not it is gratifying
o note the evidences of the fact, that ours
s becoming more and more a nation of so
lev and temperate people.—Atlanta Jour
utl.
Dancers of Alcoholism.
It is needless to enter into details as to
lie consequences entailed by overindulg
ence in the use of alcohol. Most of us
.re familiar with cases of ruined lives and
vretched homes as the result of the fatal
labit, and in these days of high pressure
iving it is becoming more and more cotn
tion. Mental worry, overwork, ill-health,
vant of sufficient nourishment and cloth
i:g, tend to swell the numbers of chronic
ilcoholists, and the habit so easily ac
juired is extremely difficult to relinquish.
The real danger to the race, however,
ics in the fact that the? great majority of
jiebriates need no incentive to acquire
he habit: they are born with the tenden
cy, and it is to this cause chiefly that we
nust ascribe the increase in the number
>f deaths from chronic alcoholism during
he last twenty-three years. A reference
:o the table of statistics shows that ia
i875 twenty-seven persons in 1,000.000 died
is the result of chronic alcoholism: in
!898 these figures had more than doubled
hemselves, the number then being re
timed as sixty-five per 1,000,000 of popula
;ion.
The following quotations point to the
:onclusion arrived at by some of the most
uninent men of the day:
"Heredity as a causation is estimated t<>
5e present in nearly sixty per cent, of all
;ases of chronic alcoholism.
ninety-seven enfants nes de parents
ilcooliques fourteen seulement etaient
tains."
"There are not a few human beings st>
laturated with the taint of alcoholic hered
rty that they could as soon 'turn back a
lowing river from the sea' as arrest the
narch of an attack of alcoholism."
Much that has been said respecting in
sanity applies equally to inebriety. Both
seiong to the group of diseases of the ner
."ous system, showing a marked tendency
:o degeneration, and both are liable to be
:ransmitted hereditarily. Wcstminstei
Review.
Opinion of tll« Highest %utlioritv.
For we cannot shut out of view the fact,
within the knowledge of all, that the pub
lic health, the nublic morals and the pub
lic safety may he endangered by the gen
eral use of intoxicating drinks'; nor the
fact, established by statistics accessible
to every one, that the disorder, pauper
ism and crime prevalent in the country,
are in some degree at least traceable to
this evil. The United States Supreme
Lourt, 1887.
The Crusade In Brief.
_ A movement has been started to estab
lish a chair of temperance in London Uni
versity.
A protorial edict has been issued at Ox
ford reviving the prohibition of under
graduates entering any hotel or tavern.
Most drunkards commenoe on beer and
wine, and finally drink the stronger bever
ages. A beer drunk is the worst kind of
a drunk.—L. D. Macon. M. D.
• rea ' an d dreadful cause of crime
m this country, the overwhelming curse
which debases and ruins the lower class,
resides in the ale-house—The Rev. John
C»ay, of England.