To offset the shortage in potitoe*
the peach crop kindly omitted* its
usual failure this year.
It has just been discovered thai
epilepsy is caused by a microbe. We
shall soon hear of the microbe of love,
»nd the microbes of hunger and thirst
Even lumber appears to be subject
to contagion; at least experienced lum
bermen say that in the process of sea
soning wood should be occasionally
repiled and decayed or defective pieces
removed, lest they infect the others.
The Philadelphia Times remarks
that if England is buying American
sfcvators and Spain is purchasing Yan
kee cars, we are countenancing royal
institutions to the extent at least ol
establishing heralds' colleges over
here.
It is announced from Faris that the
clever chemists of the Pasteur insti
tute have succeeded in producing foocf
stuffs from absolutely inorganic mat
ter, and if the report be true the time
may come when a man can live on
rocks if the wheat supply fails.
Rear Admiral Melville's idea of set
ting casks afloat to determine wheth
IT there is an ocean current across the
north pole is a hopeful one. The
casks are merely to be filled with
shavings, and there will be no need
of organizing expeditions to rescue
them when they get lost.
New Zealand has decided that it j
would be prejudicial to her interests !
to enter the Australian common- ;
wealth. The question was reported
upon adversely by an investigating
commission, and the report was af
terward confirmed by the New Zealand
parliament. The proposal will hardlj
be revived again for several years.
A train robbery in Minnesota and
the hold-up of a stage coach in the Ad-
Ironaacks, both having occurred on the
same day, constitute gentle reminders
of the fact that the road agents are
still with us and gaining a precarious
living from their nefarious business.
The wonder is not that such things
happen, but that they are not of more
irequent occurrence in a country des
titute of an efficient rural police. The
comparative infrequency of road rob
beries under the circumstances testi
fies to the law abiding character of
the American people.
The passion for pie cannot be float
ed or abated by the jeers and gibes
of satirists and fun makers opines the
New York Tribune. New York City is
almost as insatiable as New England
in its craving for this savory delight
of the palate. Companies which pro
duce and distribute pies in vast quan
tities and of every imaginable kind
are now flourishing on an extensive
scale. The wagons of these companies
are among the neatest and most taste
ful of the business vehicles seen in
our streets. Fancies in food may
change to some extent, but the sale of
pies among the masses shows no fall
ing off.
The disgrace of dying rich is possi
bly not so much feared as the discom
fort of dying poor. We ha\e heard it
so asserted by persons of wealth whose
actual practice of giving left room for
110 doubt of their sincerity. And the
same belief is held by the thousands
who, equipped with all the honors of
flawless poverty, are yet sparing no
pains to provide a moneyed and dis
graceful end for themselves. But
there does seem to be agreement
among these that the way to get most
satisfaction out of dying rich is to
know that your money is going where
you would really like to have it go.
It is admitted to produce genuine an
guish to be forced to give ycur sav
ings to some institution which you
care little about in order to keep it
from relatives for whom you care less,
observes Puck.
The uses of electricity for rendering
homes more homeful, and relieving
the burden of daily housework, have
fnultiplisd with astonishing rapidity of
late. The devices now available foi
an establishment with a moderate In
come include hand lamps, ornamented
randies, with miniature electric lights
at their tip, lamp attachments to the
faces of clocks, and even small lamps
for decorative purposes. Into houses
ran be carried power from an econom
ic plant for doing the larger part of
nousework, such as running flat-irons,
coffee-mills, sewing-machines, and ice
cream freezers. The same current
may be used for boiling water and do
ing most of the ordinary cooking. New
mansions are being fitted with tele
phones in place of the speaking-tubes,
and to correct buildings as well as
town offices. Where a water-mill or
r windmill cannot be used to supply
power, the dynamo Is run, in maav I
tases. by a gasoline engine. I
The discoveries of systems of wire
less telegraphy are becoming too nu
r erous to mention.
One of the chief uses of those South
American republics is to make new
histories, geographies and maps nec
essary every year or two.
The announcement is made that In
diana will put about 24,000,000 cans of
"French peas" on the market this
year. Now let Europe have another
shiver.
The "touching" interest of the Ital
ian people in the affairs of their king
was strikingly manifested on the oc
casion of the birth of his daughter.
Within two flays after that event King
Victor received 2G.000 congratulatory
telegrams and 20,000 requests for
money.
Speed is becoming more and more
the supreme consideration in the
construction of war ships. Ships of
the navy, it seems, must not only be
able to fight, but it seems must also
be able to run away upon occasion,
and to steam great distances without
stopping to take on coal, states the
Baltimore Sun.
At a recent meeting of German
spinners at Leipsic a table was sub
mitted, which showed that the world's
consumption ol' cotton was now about
14,000,000 bales annually. The United
States stands at the head of the list,
being credited with a consumption of
j 3,000.000 bales. Great Britain comes
! second, with 3.300.000 bales.
The value of street railway fran
i chises in a big and growing city is
exemplified in the offer which the
Chicago City railway has made to the
municipality in consideration of a 20
years' extension of its franchises. It
offers to pave the streets it occupies
from curb to curb at a cost of $10.,-
000 in return for the privilege it asks.
The last clause of a will which was
filed for probate in Washington, D.
C., the other day significantly says:
"The net sum of $186,000 left by this
will is the financial result of a long
life of industry and economy, and if
used for good and useful purposes by
those to whom it is now given is
enough. And if not so used is too
much."
The statistics collected during 189!)
showing th« damage done by light
ning have been published by the
weather bureau. The number of build
ings damaged or destroyed by light
ning in 1899 was 5527. In addition to
these 729 buildings caught fire as a
result of the proximity to other struc
tures that were fired by lightning. The
approximate loss in 2824 cases was
not reported, owing undoubtedly to
the fact that the loss was small. A
conservative estimate of the total loss
by lightning during the year would be
$600,000. The great majority of build
ings struck by lightning were not pro
vided with lightning rods. The same
conditions prevailed in the preceding
year.
Jules Verne, now long past his seven*
tieth year, has begun his ninety-ninth
story. Since he commenced writing
some of his most marvelous tales have
been proved to be only prophecies. For
'.nstance, we have submarine boats al
most as wonderful us Captain Nemo's
craft, and the journey around the
world has been accomplished in much
less time than that required by the
mythical Fogg. If M. Verne wishes to
write a novel of adventure so improb
able that science will not catch up
with it tor a long time to come, he will
have to tax his powers of ingenuity to
the utmost ; provided that at the same
time, as in his earlier stories, he sur
rounds it with the specious atmosphere
that imparts one of the chief charms
Lo his narratives.
According to a writer in Ever,
eody's Magazine the family of the
average American lives on a scale and
a daily diet which would be regarded
In Europe as lavish, such a one as can
be afforded there only by the rich.
His table is spread with abundance,
not only with articles of domestic
production, but of imported food
stuffs. For example, his family con
sumes annually 1250 pounds of wheat
flour, and 600 pounds of oat and corn
meal, 750 pounds of meat, or about
two pounds per day; 750 pounds of
potatoes, 100 pounds of butter, and
300 pounds of sugar. He is the great
est coffee drinker on earth, one pound
a week being required for his fam
ily's consumption. Of tea, however,
he uses little, five pounds per year
sufficing for his needs. His table costs
him sl6 per month. He eats three
meals per day, taking his dinner at
noon. He retires between nine and
ten at night, and rises at six In the
morning.
. A REAL TESTjOF NERVE. |
4 BY EDGAR WHITE. 4
Some years ago an eminent railroad
man said: "They will build engines
that will beat a mile a minute dash
with a heavy train, but to operate
them successfully you'll have to in
vent something besides flesh and
blood."
And the tenderfoot who has clung
to a fireman's "seatbox" while the
machine under him was spinning out
the miles at that rate will vigorously
second the statement.
But that assertion was made back
yonder in the 19th century. This is
the 20th.
The Burlington had completed its
eastern cut off to the Mississippi riv
er, and one locomotive was covering
the division between Brookfleld and St.
Louis, 175 miles.
The Northern Pacific express
reached the mid-Missouri division 50
minutes late. The engine hauling it
was sending aloft a geyser of steam
from the safety valve and quivering
all over as If enraged that in spite
of its best exertions this dishonor had
attached to it. And the engine driver
was mean enough to slander K by say
ing, "She just wouldn't make steam."
If the machine could have talked it
would have said something about
"nerve."
A helper leaped into the cab as the
engineer stepped off, and ran the en
gine down to the tracks leading to the
round house. Then there was slowly
backed up to the long line of vesti
buled coaches that had come in from
the Coast, a double compound, a type
recently adopted by the road. The
coupling was made so gently that the
most sensitive passenger could not
have told when the tender struck the
front express car. The engineer, "Aus
tralian Jack," as the boys called him,
walked over to the fireman's side and
looked .down the depot platform,
where trucks of baggage and express
were being noisily wheeled about. A
tall man with an iron gray mustache
emerged from the crowd and walked
up to No. 850 —Jack's engine. He was
superintendent of the lines in Mis
souri.
"Jack." he said, "we're nearly an
hour late. The president and two of
the directors are along, and they want,
to catch the Iron Mountain at Union
station in the morning. There's a bis
consolidation meeting of the Southern
at Memphis tomorrow, and they have
to be there. They won't wait for them
if they're late. Blossom lost time out
of the junction because he was afraid
of the new track work, and the 'bis
uns' are 'most wild. You understand
what this means to me."
Australian Jack touched his hat and
Inclined his head a little, but said
nothing. As the superintendent turned
away a messenger boy rushed up tow
ard SSO. The official rtopped him ami
took the message from his hand. He
said: "Never mind; Jack don't want
that now. I'll give it to him at the
station."
When 850 started there was no slip
ping of the drivers, no sudden jerk
and shutting off of the steam. Th«
engineer clasped the lever with a vel
vet touch and the wheels began to
move. The start was so gradual that
the great men, who were smoking their
cigars in the rear compartment of the
president's car frowned and wondered
if the man at the throttle was of the
sort that could gather up that 50 min
utes out of a schedule that called for
nearly GO miles an hour.
"I think Jack will make it all right,''
said the superintendent; "but I'm
afraid I played him a scurvy trick to
night, and one for which he will nev
er forgive me when he learns the
truth."
"What was that?" said the presi
dent
"Well, his mother, who lived down
the road a piece, had been unwell for
several days, and just before starting
the telegraph boy went toward the en
gine with a telegram. 1 knew it
wasn't a train order because they were
all In. It struck me that Jack had
better not get the message just then,
and I took it. It was from his sister
and simply said, 'Mother is (toad.'"
concluded tl-e snperin , endent, with a
sigh. "It was too late to get another
man, and I didn't 'ell him."
"And he is ignorant of his misfor
tune?" said one of the directors.
"Of course," answered the superin
tendent "It might be dangerous to
let him know while making the sort
of run he has to make tonight." The
speaker judged from sharp experience.
The men smoked their cigars in si
lence. The smooth rolling cars be
gan to gather momentum, but there
was no jerking, no swinging of the
r.olid train —just an easy slipping along
as a pneumatic tired buggy might run
over a velvet carpet.
The superintendent explained the
distances between the stations and
the men who had thousands at stake
on the success of the run got out pa
per ar«* figured the rate at which the
miles were being thrown behind. The
34 miles to Macon were made in 39
minutes —the numerous coal switches
in Macon county being responsible for
the loss of five minutes. This made 55
minutes behind, and the railway mag
nates gloomily shook their heads.
"Boys," said the president, "I'm
afraid the jig is up. He'll never make
it. It's queer they refused to postpone
that meeting; guess they don't want
us there."
The superintendent looked at the
floor and said nothing. It seemed to
the impatient men in the rear car
that the express and baggage men at
Macon would never get through. At
last the signal was given, and the
train started out on the new St. Louis
cut off. After creeping through the
yards, it came into the open and
plunged through the rich farming
lands, where the early pioneers of the
middle west had fought Indians, lev
eled the great forests, and made his
tory. The rock ballast road bed was
as level as a billard table, and Austra
lian Jack had struck the schedule gait
before the officers realized it. At a
tiny station, 10 miles northwest of
Paris, the superintendent noted his
watch. Within 10 minutes the roar
of the rushing express train started
the echoes in the drowsy county seat
of Missouri's Democratic Gibraltar,
Monroe county, and a minute after
wards the red lights on the rear car
were disappearing in the direction of
the Mississippi. There was but one
more stop until the Missouri river was
icached, and the superintendent knew
Jack would make the run of his life
to Old Monroe.
The next 10 miles was made in eight
and one-half minutes. Then the en
gine settled down to work. The rate
was increased to 10 in eight minutes;
then in seven; then in six, which was
the limit and which was held without
deviation. The president dropped back
in his chair. He knew the man in
front was doing everything humanity
could accomplish. Out of every 10
miles traversed he wa3 placing four
minutes against the 55 on the debit
side, and if the gait was kept up to
the city limits the train would back
into Union station exactly on time.
As the early dawn of the June morn
ing crept over the Mississippi, the lim
ited crossed the line of Audrain anl
invaded the soil of old Pike, the start
ing point of so many of Missouri's
worthy sons. Some of the passengers,
scenting the approach to the river,
walked out into the vestibules to look
at the scenery in the twilight. Then
they noticed something of which they
had been unaware while lying in their
chairs—that the mileposts and other
objects were whizzing past them at a
i ate they had never before experi
enced in all their lives. It was hard
to believe that gently rocking train
was annihilating distance at the rate
of 80 miles an hour, but that is the
story the mileposts told.
At Old Monroe there was a wait.
The dispatcher had calculated on a
run of only 60 miles an hour out of
Macon, and had permitted a north
bound train to leave West Alton ou
the limited's supposed lost time. The
president and directors frowned and
began to look anxious again. Ten min
utes were placed on the wrong side
of the ledger. The officials from their
observatory glared at the innocent
freight engineer, and the president
said something the Sundays schools
books don't approve of.
It seemed so long this time before
SSO struck the maximum that the pres
ident thought the engineer must have
abandoned the task. He suggested
that the superintendent go forward
and see what the matter was, but that
gentleman said:
"We are on a gradual grade, and
have an unusually heavy train. He's
doing the best he can. 1 think he'll
make it."
Along the river before striking the
bridge is a level stretch of road, about
the best on the system. When 850
reached it she "jumped" like a race
horse. It was the first jar felt by the
passengers during the trip from the
central Missouri division. Along here
the speed of the train was little short
of a hurricane. The section was cov
ered before the passengers hardly re
alized they were on it, and the train
leaped over the bridge without dimin
ution of speed. Then a smooth road,
a few turns, and the heavy fog of the
city obliterated the appearances of
day. The officials looked at their
watches.
"There's only one way he can make
it," said the president. "Will there
be much travel over the streets this
early do you think?" he asked the su
perintendent.
"There'll be some," that officer re
plied, "but they'll open the bell valve
and take the chances. If we don't
strike anything you'll reach the sta
tion to the second."
Along the winding, wriggling track
around the lumber yards, warehouses,
glue works and factories the nerve
racking rate was held with death-like
tenacity. At one crossing a team es
caped annihilation by hardly a hair's
breadth, and the men who looked out
of the glass windows in the rear could
see the driver and several people ges
ticulating and shaking the fists in
their direction. A policeman standing
in a saloon door scowled and wrote
something in his note book. With a
roar and a rush the train shot up on
the elevated, flew past the ancient
levee warehouses, around the tene
ments in the southern district, and
then took one strand of the web south
of Union station and followed it to a
given point; then stopped and slowly
backed into the sheds.
"Gentlemen." said the superintend
ent. "the Iron Mountain is over on the
10th track. You have three minutes
to roach !t." He then hurried to the
front of the train. Australian Jack
leaped from his cab and waited. His
face was as pale as death and his lips
twitched. Soldiers tell us the bravest
men lose their nerve after the battle.
"Jack, my boy," said tfc;? superin
tendent, "you've done me a good turn
tonight and I fear I've done you aa
ill one. I got this message for you at
Brookfleld. and wouldn't deliver it
then because—because —because—"
"For fear I'd flunk," said Jack. Hf
took the paper mechanically. H-:
didn't start, as the superintendent ex
pected, but folded it and put it in hit
1-ocket.
"I saw the boy hand you the mes
sage," said the engineer, "and you read
it and looked at me. That told me the
story. I knew then my poor old moth
er was dead, because she had been
very ill and my sister had agreed tc
tell me how she was just before we
started. I knew the worst had hap
pened when you did not give the mes
sage to me." And Jack sat down on
the step of the tender and buried his
face in his arms.
The superintendent reverentially
took off his hat and looked across at
the network of tracks and moving
switch engines. He appreciated his
subordinate's devotion to duty because
he himself had risen through efforts
of a kindred nature. —The Criterion.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
The Saxons, whose original settle
ment is determined by the little king
dom of Saxony, derived their name
from the seax, or short, crooked knife
with which they armed themselves.
An old dining table at which Prince
Charlie dined when he marched intc
England was exposed at a sale of
household furniture at Moffat, Dum
friesshire, recently and was knocked
down at 30 shillings.
The word rival at first meant a
brook, then was applied to the per
sons who lived on opposite sides and
quarrelled about the water, and still
later it was understood as applying
to contestants for any desired object.
When the King of England goes
a-traveling he does not jump an ordi
nary train and take any vacant seat
he can find. Instead of that he has
his own business car. which has the
right of way over .almost any railroad
in Europe. This car which is just be
ing finished, has been under spasmod
ic construction for over two years
It is said to run very smoothly, and,
as soon as the necessary trial trips
have been held, it will be turned over
to His Majesty.
A phenomenon attended an earth
quake that visited a little town in
Mexico recently. Having wrecked
several houses in the town the tremor
passed onto a lake in the neighbor
hood. the waters of which it put into
violent agitation. The agitation
ceased after a few minutes, and then
the water gradually disappeared, leav
ing the bottom of the lake exposed,
when it was seen that the earthquake
had opened a fissure in the bottom,
and thus drained it.
Among the various proofs of the
relics brought to London from Toul
ouse being the relics of St. Edmund
is the fact that, when the shrine at
Bury was defaced in A. D„ 1539, no
mention was made of anything hav
ing been then disc vered inside it.
Another important piece of evidence
is that upon a verification of the rel
ics at Toulouse in A. D. Itii4, no bones
were missing save the radius of the
forearm, which was the identical relic'
alone mentioned in later records of
Bury Abbey.
One of the most curious perquisites
in connection with King Edward's
coronation is the right of one of the
peers to claim the bed and bedding
used by the Heir-Apparent on the
night preceding the coronation! In
olden times this was a perquisite of
considerable value, as the "bedding"
usually consisted of richly embroidered
coverlids of velvet or silk, with price
less hangings of cloth of silver and
gold. Nowadays it is. of course, of
less value, excepting from the point
of view of the quaintness of the privi
lege.
In the village of Hirzbach. near As
bach. Germany, there is a peculiar gar
den gate. In the year 1820 Ludwig
Marenbach, a farmer, planted at the
entrance of his garden two beech
trees, which he united in one arch.
Over this arch the cultivator made sev
eral ivore small arches with all kinds
of figures with some small branches.
Today the whole in its blooming
green dress seems like a living trium
phal arch. The many years it has
existed makes it look more like a
work of nature than the work of a hu
man hand.
A Truck Farmer'! I'ariid iae.
How great are the possibilities ot
Hawaii as a fruit and vegetable grow
ing country 'will be understood when
it becomes known that four crops
of potatoes have been produced in suc
cession on the same piece of land
within 12 months. Radishes become
edible 10 days after sowing. Straw
berries are of the finest flavor.
Cabbage grows all the year and it
apparently makes no difference wheth
er it is planted in the spring, summer,
autumn or winter. Parsley once
sown grows forever, apparently. Lima
beans continue to grow and bear for
over a year, and they have to be
gathered every week after starting to
bear. Cucumbers bear the entire year
and so do tomatoes, which, with
proper attention, bear for years.
Raspberries bear for six months.
Pineapples come into bearing when
the plants are four months old and
bear in abundance for years. Lettuce
can be planted at any time and it de
velops quickly. The same is true of
celery.—Fruit Trade and Produce Rec
ord.
rHE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Dr. John Madden Ha* Contributed an Es
pecially Notable Paper to tlie Dlseug
■lon Whether Alcohol U a Food or
Poison—lnimical to the Kody.
To the scientific literature produced in
answer to the question, "Is alcohol a food
Dr a poison?" Dr. John Madden has re
cently added an especially notable paper.
Dr. Gladden is a professor of physiology
n Milwaukee Medical College. His arti
cle on the subject is contributed to the
Scientific American. After a thorough
review of the various experiments that
have been made to solve the problem anil
a rehearsal of the opinions of other high
authorities. Dr. Madden presents the fol
lowing conclusions:
"If those small quantities of atcohol
oxidized within the body are to be called
foods, should thev not. exhibit the char
acteristics of food by increasing the nor
mal functions of brain or muscle?
"Is it not a fatal inconsistency to call
any substance a food which does not give
increased warmth to the body, but, in
stead, decreases the bodily temperature;
which does not protect the nitrogenous
tissues from waste, but does increase their
rate of metabolism: which does not give
added power to the nerve cells of the
brain, but, on the contrary, always de
creases the quality of their products;
which does not enable the muscle to con
tract more vigorously, but does, indeed,
decrease its capability for doing work?
"The argument has been made repeat
edly and reiterated persistently in the
past year or two that the fact of alcohol
not being oxidized within the body was
prima-facie evidence that it contributed
to bodily energy. But this is proved by
incontrovertible evidence to be fallacious.
"Another argument much used in favor
of the food value of alcohol is that physi
cians find it valuable in certain cases of
extremely low vitality; that there are cer
tain conditions of this kind which alcohol
alone can reach
"Such assertions as these are not easy
to refute, simply because they are vague
and so much of a personal equation enter?
into them.
"The writer has seen many cases of
this kind and has had many in his own
practice in which the therapeutic value of
alcohol was thoroughly tested, but he can
not recall a single case in which the alco
hol was known to have saved a life, or, in
deed, to have been of any value as a food,
.and the majority of the best and most
carefully educated and most experienced
physicians of to-day are against alcohol ill
any quantity as a source of bodily nutri
tion.
"Considering the foregoinz evidence are
we not fully justified in calling alcohol a
poison, meaning thereby that it is a sub
stance inimical to the organism, producing
injury in small and death in larger quanti
ties? Are we not. moreover, by the same
evidence, fully justified in denying it a
place in any classifications of foods because
it neither repairs tissue waste nor protects
the organism, neither is it a source of or
ganic force?
"Let us continue to teach our boys and
?irls that alcohol is a poison; that the
act of its being oxidized in the body, it
taken in small quantities, is not sufficient
to constitute a food; and that the normal
man is never benefited by it in any quan
tity."
The Urunkard'i Limit.
Dr. Charles L. Dana, of New York, pro
lessor of nervous diseases. Cornell Univer
sity Medical College, and visiting physi
cian to Bellevue Hospital. New York City,
has just written a remarkable article on
"Inebriety—a Study of Its Causes. Dura
tion and Management." His conclusions
arc chiefly based upon investigations at
Bellevue Hospital.
One of Dr. Dana's significant statements
is in regard to the number of times that a
drunkard can get drunk without succumb
ing to insanity or death. Dr. Dana puts
the extreme limit at 2000 and says that
only a few are able to reach the 100 mark.
In his article which is contributed to the
Medical Record Dr. Dana says:
"The cases that are brought into the
wards at Bellevue include all phases and
degrees of alcoholism. I personally studied
350 cases in 1891. and a somewhat larger
number in 189*2. 1893 and 1895. I found the
acute effects of hard drinking to be dis
tributed about as follows: Simple intox
ication. sixty per cent.: delirium tremens
ending in recovery, thirty-six per cent.;
delirium tremens with complications end
ing in death, four per cent.
Regarding the divisions by classes of
persons subject to inebriety Dr. Dana says:
"It is not the day laborers, but the me
chanics, artisans and small tradesmen that
furnish the greatest proportion of cases.
Drivers, waiters, painters and liquor deal
ers supply a very considerable quota. It is
the indoor workman, however, who is
oftenest the victim."
Rerinan Army and Drink.
The Christian Commonwealth (London.
England), in an editorial note entitled
"The Drink and Crime," thus comments
on some statistics published in the Kreuz
Zeitung regarding army prisons in Ger
many :
"This is not the only country where the
drink produces crime. We are sometimes
told that the drink habit of the Germans
is quite harmless; that the beverage they
use does not lead to evil consequences:
that it is only in those countries where
distilled liquors are chiefly used that the
habit becomes vicious. But facts do not
support this contention. In an article in
the Kreuz Zeitung. warmly advocating
temperance and the disuse of alcohol in
the army and navy, the writer brings for
ward remarkable statistics in support of
his plea. In 120 army prisons throughout
Germany forty-six per cent, of all the
murderers committed their crime while
under the influence of drink. Sixty-three
per cent, of the cases of manslaughter,
seventy-four per cent, of serious injury to
the person, and seventy-seven per cent, of
criminal immorality are due to the same
cause. In the navy, out of 1671 punishable
oases during the last six years, seventy
five per cent, of the most serious cases
have been due to drunkenness. Evidently
the drink is the same old evil, whether in
Germany, England, or any other country
Everywhere it leaves devastation in its
pathway."
Age In Inebriety.
Concerning the interesting topic of age
in inebriety. Dr. Dana says:
"The average duration for men of the
drinking habit in serious cases investi
gated was about fifteen years—the maxi
mum being over forty years. Among pe
riodical inebriates the average duration
was nineteen years. In general it may be
concluded that hard drinking can rarelv
l>e carried on for more than twenty years,
and it generally brings the victim to grief
at about the age of forty."
Tlie Crusade in Brief.
The health of the liquor business mw
depend on your depending on the liquor
for your health.
Dr. Dana, of New York, finds that the
number and proportion of w>man ine
briate. are increasing.
Alcohol causes the strength of grin to
increase just after the drink has been
swallowed, but this is followed by a rapid
decline.
How many of your friends and acquaint
ances are addicted to the use of liquor?
Perhaps they are waiting for your to as
gist them to a way to be cured of their
appetites.