ff you want something with which
to resist electricity buy an elephant
Old Jumbo II at Buffalo walked oft
under 2200 volts.
There are different ways of rendei*
jng a navy invisible. Great Britain
is experimenting with paint. Spain
tried fighting, and it worked.
The Holland boat has one advan
tage over all the other submarine
boats. It has demonstrated its ability
to come up after going down.
According to a recent bulletin of the
census office, there was one patent tak
en out in Connecticut in 1900 for each
100 persons. In 1890 the figures were
•ne for each 796 persons.
Ontario has an abnormally low birth
rate, lower than that of any European
oountry, but not lower than that of
some of the adjoining American staves,
■otab'.y Michigan and New Hamp
shire, the former being IS in 1898 nnd
the latter 19 in 1895.
The attempt to make all the people
•112 Neuberg, Ger., goto bed at 10.30,
•n pain of 10 days in prison, has re
sulted in a window smashing and a
general revolt. From which it is dear
that one can't do everything he iikes
in Germany, even in so simple a mat
ter as going to bed.
The Duchess of Sutherland and An
drew Carnegie are jointly interested
in a technical school near Galspie,
Scotland. Its purpose is the instruc
tion of young men and women in the
art of earning a comfortable liveli
hood in the handicrafts—spinning,
weaving, dyeing, needlework, cooking,
laundering, scientific dressmaking,
poultry breeding and dairying.
Any one who is interested in t'uo
market value of fame may Hue to
know that at a sale of photographs
bearing the autographs of the subjects,
Mr. Watterson, the editor, brought
$7.50 and General Miles $3.50. Three
dollars and a half appeared to be the
military evaluation, for pictures of
General Sherman and General Sheri
dan each sold for that sum. The pho
tograph of the late William Florence,
the actor, sold for $4.50, that of Sena
tor Blackburn for $4, a crayon of
George Washington for $4.50, v. pho.o
grapli of "Buffalo Bill" for $1.50, and
one of General Boulangcr for 25 cents,
or 5 cents less than the current quo
tation of the "brav' general's'' fame,
states Collier's Weekly.
The late Philip Armour wai said t«
have incurred the disease which Hilled
him by overwork. This preternatural
activity is one of the prices of suc
cess, and one of the chief pleasures
of the live? of successful business
man. It is not merely or the dollars
that men of great wealth assume new
responsibilities, but for the pleasure
which they find in constant employ
ment. Mr. Rockefeller is now said
to be suffering the consequences of
prolonged overwork. Able to employ
the most famous chef, his dietary is
limited to crackers and skimmed milk
at blood heat. With the means to buy
the most rapid automobile and the fast
est horses, he is not allowed to ride
for pleasure, but must walk a given
distance every day. He cannot cruise
about in his yacht nor indulge in
other pleasures which his income of
$30,000,u00 a year would enable him
to do.
i
Signor Marconi, who is not prone to
talking overmuch for publication, has
announced that at St. John's, N. F.,
he has received communications by
wireless telegraph from Cornwall, Eng.
—a distance of nearly 2000 miles. This
would be deemed incredible in -he or
dinary course of events, since the gen
eral public has become largely accus
tomed to discounting heavily the
dreams and indealistlc aspirations o*
enthusiastic inventors. But Marconi
has used his utmost endeavor to es
cape this fatal classification. What he
ias accomplished in telegraphy with
out wires is a matter of scientific rec
ord, and the successful operation of
his system of communication over dis
tances of from 150 to 200 miles has be
come a recognized factor in maritime
equipment and service. The lines of
Inquiry upon which he has been work
ing are scarcely known even to liim
eelf, and none would venture to set
bounds to their extension. But the r.c
tual o'erleaping of the Atlantic by .*».
Marconi message is a startling expan
sion of what the 'scientific world had
heretofore insisted upon classing as a
sort of ingenious toy. Given the ini
tial power to surmount the hitherto
insuperable obstacle of distance and
electrical invention will make short
work of the remaining elements of the
problem of wireless communicat'oa,
observes the Philadelphia Record
it is easier for a camel to pass
through the eye of a needle than it is
for a rich man to please all with his
charities.
Monte Carlo has a special cemetery
for gambling victims who commit f-ui
cide. Since 1860 over 2000 graves have
been dug there.
A woman cashier has defaulted. Thl»
should end all controversy over th€
question whether woman can really
fill man's place or not.
An Illinois man after courting hi!
cousin for 20 years began to fear thai
they might not be temperanien ally
fitted for each other, and so he com
mitted suicide. She kept hiin guess
ing a good while.
After all, the world doesn't aovi
very swiftly. James Hargreaves, in
ventor of the spinning jenny, was
mobbed. Stage coach men tried to
kill the engineer who piloted the first
railroad train. Now the \nglo-Ameri
can Telegraph company orders ?Jrtr
coni to get off the piece of earth it
owns or stop trying to perfect an in
vention that may injure its cable
traffic.
The new Siamese minister at Wash*
ington is to devote all his time t-> tht
diplomatic relations of his country
with the United States. The old sys
tem under which he would have iad tc
act as representative to England, Hol
land anu Belgium has come to ar. end
This is very significant, as allowing
the serious way in which the Oriental!
now regard us as a world power, as
compared with their attitude even a
few years ago.
The moment a man ceases to
he begins to diminish. Such is tlu
conclusion at which a German physi
cian has arrived, after several months
careful study of the subject of humai
height. Men, so it is asserted, begir
to grow smaller in their 35th year, anc
women a little before they are 40
Men, however, stop growing when thej
are 30, and for five or six years Lheii
stature remains stationary. Then il
decreases, at first very slowly, but af
terward more rapidly.
Where did it come from. No treei
grow anywhere on the coast of
em or northern Alaska, and yet tbest '
shores for thousasds of miles an<
the islands of Bering sea are strewi
with immense quantities of driftwood
in places piled high on the beach
bearing testimony to the work of th<
rivers. This drift is the salvation c*
the Eskimo, furnishing him with file
and material for houses, boats an<
sleds. It would seem that nature pro
vides for the necessities of the hu
man race under all circumstances anc
conditions.
The bureau of animal industry hat
in the last few years won a liigt
place in the scientific world, and fron
all the civilized countries comes l.:gt
praise for what it has accomplished
and for the impetus it has given tc
investigation along similar lines.
"Veterinarians, agriculturists and th«
consumers of meats the world ovei
owe much to the American bureau,'
said a distinguished scientist trom Eu
rope recently, who had cune to tin
United States to study the methods 01
this department. It is far above anj
other institution of the kind in tin
world, and our debt to it cannot b«
overestimated. 113 officers are the
most enthusiastic and devoted scien
tists I ever met, and richly deserv«
the applause of humanity for what
they have already done and what tbej
are doing."
A writer in the Westminster R»
view remarks that the attitude of Eng
land toward Russia has been "vacil
lating, absurd, and without result,'
and that the object of British alplo
macy has apparently been to thwar?
important Russian schemes, in crdei
to obtain unimportant advantages foi
Great Britain. There is much trute
in this view. Russia has been ioi
many years, to the British "man it
the street,' whose views must ulti
mately come to be those of the Brit
ish government, a kind of boge/, al
ways plotting something to the detri
ment of England. For example, tht
aim of British diplomacy was for a
long time to cut Russia off from th«
ice-free port on the Pacific which wai
a most legitimate requirement of Rus
sian expansion, and the natural ter
minus of tne trans-Siberian road,
which, without such a port, would los«
much of its usefulness. Now, 'n splt«
of Great Britain, though more at th<
expense of American than of British
trade, Russia has acquired such a port
in the Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li, and the Brit
ish opposition has been rot only un
availing but Irritating. It is certainh
not good diplomacy to Incur at t!i«
»ame time enmity and defeat.
$ A QUEER BLUNDER. J
The morning sun brightened the gilt
letters on the sign above the entrance
to the staunch old warehouse, but its
radiance was lost on the young man
with keen, gray eyes who stood at the
office door and hesitated before he
turned the knob. In that brief mo
ment he tried to recall the directions
that Emily Quarles had given him.
''Father is peculiar," she had said.
"You must know him before you can
appreciate nim." And Spencer Grant
wondered how long it would be before
(his appreciative stage could lie
leached. He hadn't met this peculiar
father, and here he was standing on
the doormat of his office mustering up
courage togo in and ask him for his
daughter.
What else had Emily said? "Do not
contradict father. Do just what ite
tells you to do. Let him have his own
way. If he biusters and fumes, wait
quietly. He will soon cool down.
Father's gruff manner is largely as
sumed. ii you have tact, you will dis
cover the way to handle him. Tell
him truthfully, If you have a chance,
how we met at Aunt Stanhope's, and
that as soon as we were quite assured
that we were all in all to each other,
which, you must add, came to both of
us as a complete surprise, I sent you
directly to him. I will prepare him as
far as I think judicious for your com
ing. Keep up a stout heart and guard
your temper."
Spencer turned the knob and went
in. Tnere were several clerks writing
in tne outer office, but they did not
look up as he passed along the narrow
<pace before the high railing to the
i!oor marked "private." He knocked
at this door, anu a gruff voice bade
him come in. Spencer summed up all
his resolution and entered.
A sharp-featured old man, with
heavy eyebrows was seated at a desk,
with his bushy gray head bent above
a handful of papers.
"Sit down," he said, without lock
ing up.
Spencer obeyed, and after a little the
old man raised his head, glanced at the
clock, and then gave the young mar.
h long, searching glance. As he did
so he drew a letter toward him and
glanced at a page of it. Again he
6tared at Spencer.
"Well," he said abruptly, "you are
exactly on time. You were to be nere
precisely at 10. This argues well for
your early training. You have made
a good impression on me to sturt
with."
Spencer murmured his pleasure £.t
this favorable comment, but the old
man interrupted him.
"Your father says here that you re
eemble him. He writes that the re
semblance is so strong that I couldn't
help but know who you were if 1
chanced to meet you anywhere. 1
don't agree with him. though there is
a family resemblance. You are much
better looking than he ever dreamed
of being."
"Did my fatner say that?" inquired
Spencer hastily. He knew the thing
was quite impossible. Emily's father
was laboring under some queer delu
sion. But he didn't mean to contra
dict him.
"Yes, he did," chuckled the old man,
with a grim smile. "Fathers with but
one child are apt to be asses." Then
his tone changed. "What can you do?
Can you write shorthand? Do you un
derstand typewriting? Can you com
pose a good letter? Can you spell?"
"I think," said Spencer quietly, "that
I can best answer that by saying that
! have a pretty thorough business
training that was picked up in four
years of practical work. I've heen
hard at it, in fact, ever since I left
college.''
"Your father doesn't make any such
claim," said the old man. referring
again to the letter. "All he says Is
'Try him.' I wilL I've made a place
for you. i am going to indulge in
the luxury of a private secretary. Ha,
ha, ha! Here, take these letters. See
what answers they need. Answer 'em.
That's your little side room there.
Leave the door open—l may want to
call you.'
Spencer smilingly took the letters
and without a trace of hesitation wont
into the little room assigned him. He
found the conveniences he needed, and
with his amused smile deepening he
went at his task.
Presently he heard the outer door of
the office open and shut, and a mo
ment later the following dialogue :'amc
to him through the half-closed door:
"So you have come," growled the
old man.
"Yes, sir," said a mild voice with a
little quaver in it.
"WeU.V said the old man with a
dangerous rising inflection, "I want to
tell you that it can never be!"
"Do you mean that I won't do?" in
quired the mild Toice.
"That's just what I mean," snarled
the old man. "Your comprehension
does you credit."
"But how can you tell till you've
tried me?" protested the mild voice.
"Tried you!" roared the old man.
"What do you mean by that?"
"I mean, sir," said the mild voico
hurriedly, "that I hardly think it's fair
to condemn me unheard and untried.
I was led to think you would show ire
more consideration."
"Oh, you were, were you?" snapped
the old man. "Well, sir, you have
been falsely led. I know my daughter
much better than you do, sir!"
"Your daughter, air?"
"Yes, my daughter! And don't you
dare to mention her name!"
"I—l had no intention of doing so,
sir."
"Eli? Coming to your senses, are
you? That's right. She's only a fool
ish, headstrong girl. In a month she'll
forget your existence."
"But I don't see what your daughter
has to do with it She is nothing to
rue, sir."
"Spoken like a sensible youth. I
thought I'u convince you. There,
there, let the whole thing drop."
"And you positively refuse to gi'e
me a trial?"
"Confound you. there you go again'
Do you take me for an idiot?"
"I —I wouldn't go as far as that, sir.
You don't seem to understand that I
\yas led to believe you would give me
an opportunity to show my worth. I
am greatly disappointed, sir."
"Heavens, man, are we going over
all that again?"
"Try me for a month, sir."
"Not for a minute!"
"For a week."
"Leave the room, sir! Go, sir! Go
to the iaiot asylum and marry some
body in your own mental class."
"I'm going, sir. My father will ne
greatly surprised at your unreasonable
treatment."
"Your father! Who cares for your
father? Why doesn't he keep his
weak-minded children at home?"
"Good day, sir."
The door closed with a sharp bpng,
and there was a brief silence.
I wonder what the deuce he meant
by saying he'd tell his father?" Spen
cer heard the old man mutter. "Who's
his father? Well, whoever he is, his
son shall never marry my daughter.
What in the world could she have seeu
in such an unbalanced fellow?"
His heavy step sounded on the floor,
and when Spencer looked up the old
man was gazing down at him from
the doorway. His face was very red
and his white hair still bristled with
indignation.
"Well, Mr. Secretary," he said,
"how are we coming on?"
"Very well, sir," replied Spencer.
"I'll lay these replies upon your desk
in a few moments."
"Good," said the old man.
"By the way." said Spencer, "what
do you want to say to Van Annam &
Co.? They make an offer for your
stock of cochineal, you know."
"Accept it and tell them we'll ship
the stuff tomorrow."
"I wouldn't do that," said the sec
retary.
"Eh?" cried the astonished old man.
"You don't seem to know that there
is a corner forming in dyestuffs," said
Spencer, with a slight smile. "Wait a
minute, and I will telephone for the
latest quotations."
He arose as he spoke and stepped
into the outer office and entered the
telephone box.
"It is just as I supposed," he said,
as he rejoined tne old man. "Cochineal
jumped 34 percent at the opening jf
the market this morning.
The oiu man turned and went back
to his desk without a word. A moment
later he looked in again.
"That means $2735 to the good," he
said. "Guess you'll earn your salary
all right." Then he slowly addtl,
"And 1 guess I'm getting old."
The sound of an opening door drew
his attention. A radiant vision ap
peared in tne doorway. It was Emily.
"Well, papa?" she cried, as she
stepped forward.
The old man's lips tightened. "I
sent him packing," he said rapidly. "A
most reprehensible young fellow.
You didn't know him, my dear."
Before she could indignantly remy
an astonishing apparition appeared in
the doorway of the inner room. It
was Spencer—it was Spencer, bare'
headed, with a pen in one hand and a
bundle of letters in the other. As lie
caught her eye he put his finger to
his lips, shook his head at her over
the old man's shoulder, and drew
back.
"Oh, father," was all Emily could
say.
"Don't feel bad, my child," said the
old man. with a little tenderness in 'us
tone. "Vou'll soon forget him." He
lowered his voice. "I've got a young
fellow inside there" —he jerked his
thumb toward the inner door —"who
is just tne man for you. Smart, splen
did family, good looking, bright as a
new dollar. Saved me $2735 this very
morning! Hadn't been at work 20
minutes. Wait a little, and I'll intro
duce him."
"Let me have a look at him!" cried
Emily, as she darted to the door.
"Good morning," she said to Spen
cer.
"Good morning." answered that
smiling youth, with an eloquent grim
ace.
Emily turned to her astonishe.l
parent.
"He'll do," she said. "Come out hare,
sir." and they came forward hand in
uand.
"Bles6 my soul!" cried the paral/zi 1
father.
"You are quite right, papa," said
Emily. "He is just the man for ije_
In fact, I've thought so for some time,
and yet I don't believe you really know
who he is. You are getting reckless,
daddy. Tell him who you are, Spen
cer."
"I am Spencer Grant, of Spencer
Grant & Co., importers of dyestuffs
and druggists' supplies, and entirety
at Mr. Richard Quarles' service."
"Spencer Grant & Co.!" gasped the
old man, as a look of horror came
over his face. "Then who was the
other fellow?"
"I'm afraid." said Spencer gently,
"that it was the highly recommended
son of your old friend."
"Awful!" groaned the old man. 4 I
was light when 1 said fathers with one
child are asses. How can 1 explain?"
"Suppose you leave the explanation
to your new secretary?" said Emily.
"Let me suggest," said Spencer, w.th
a happy smile, "that you leave it to
the junior member of the new firm of
Quarles & Grant."
And then the grim old man chuckled.
—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
CAPTAIN COOK AND CANNIBALS
Portion oT IliH Vinrei'a Said to Have Been
Ha ten by M intake.
A new version of the alleged canni
balism on the body of Captain Cook,
who discovered the Hawaiian Islands
has been brought to light by the su
perintendent of public works, Jame;
Boyd. Captain Cook was killed in
177S near Kealakakua bay, on the
Kona coast of the island of Hawaii.
The British government erected a
monument to his memory near the
place where he was buried. Accord
ing to accepted accounts, parts of
Cook's body were eaten by the natives
who killed him, in the ferocity of the
passions engendered by the dispute
which led to his death.
Superintendent Boyd, who is part
Hawaiian, and well versed in Hawai
ian traditions, recently visited Kona
and met many old Hawaiians, who
received the tale of Captain Cook's
death from eye-witnesses. Boyd gath
ered from them a well-connected ac
count, which varies considerably from
that which has been accepted by tlio
historians.
After the death of Captain Cool:,
who had been regarded by the natives
as a god, it was decided to make an
offering of his body to the gods. The
viscera was taken out and placed in a
calabash, to be offered to one of the
powerful gods of the sea of Hawaiian
theology, the viscera being considered
a higher and better offering than any
other part of the body. The remaindei
of the body was to be offered to an
other but less powerful god. While
the viscera was in the calabash, av,-ail
ing a suitable time for the sacrifice, it
was found by children, who, mistak
ing it for the viscera of a pig, which
was considered a great delicacy, built
a fire and cooked and ate most of it
The remainder of the body, as all ac
counts substantially agree, was after
ward returned to Cook's successor in
command of his vessel.
Natives who gave this account to
Mr. Boyd showed him the place where
the calabash containing the viscera
was hidden when it was found by the
children. The part of Kona where
Captain Cook was killed, though dense
ly populated and a very important
part of the islands at the time of
Cook's death, soon ceased to be im
portant by the removal of the King's
residence to Haina. and afterward
to Honolulu, as Kamehamelia the
Great advanced with his conquest of
the islands. It has remained ever since
the place least influenced by alien
immigration, and today more than
anywhere else the Hawaiians of Kona
letain their primitive habits of living,
industries and pagan beliefs, and some
vestiges of the old practices. On this
account Mr. Boyd thinks this accouni
of the affair worthy of belief.
QUAINT AND CURIOJS.
The first organ in Boston, offered
tc; the Brattle Square church in 1713,
was unanimously and curtly declined
by that organization; and its setting
up in King's Chapel was attended by
about as much agitation as the intro
duction of the wooden horse into Troy.
These Japanese mothers in Hawaii
work in the fields, the children being
left at home to grow up more like
animals than human beings. The wife
is the absolute property of her hus
band. the child of its parent, and 11-
year-old girls are sold for immoral pur
poses for $lO.
The Jordan is the "Descender.'•
During its course it falls over 120 C
feet. At no point is it navigable, even
by a small craft, to any considerable
distance, and presents the unique
spectacle of a river which has never
been navigated flowing into a sea
which contains not one living crea
ture.
A Missouri sportsman tells of a hun
ter who, on a trip through the terri
tory, shot two wild turkeys from the
car platform. Tlu: obliging conductor
stopped and backed his train so that
the birds could be picked up. When
he sent in his report of the delay of
the "old man"he also sent along a
piece of wild turkey—and everything
was lovely.
A case which is. probably unique in
academic annals happened recently at
the Budapest university. A confirmed
lunatic, an inmate of the local asy
lum, appeared at the university, ac
companied by a keeper, and applied
to pass his examination. He was
quite successful in all the tests, and
having duly received his diploma aa
a professor he returned to the asy
lum.
In Siberia rivers flow over ice, olrt
and solid as rock. A tributary of the
Lena river has underneath the soil
which forms the beJ of the river, a
bed of pure Ice over nine feet thick.
A freak of nature is the lost river in
Kentucky. It is known as the Hidden
river, because no one knows its ori
gin, and it vanishes into a cave lead
ing no one knows where. It flows
without a ripple, and is of a pale
bluish color. Speaking of color, the
Chinese believe that the Yellow river
has always been of its present hue.
except one day about 3000 years ago,
on which occasion a great man was
born, and the water was clear for 24
hours.
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT,
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
to" llv Fire HII>I Loss l>y the Urluk CurM
Money Spent For Liquor In Two
Veili"» Kquuls Fire Losses of Ttventy
fivn Years.
In a receut number of Leslie's Week's
there appears a contribution in which th<J
losses by lire in the United States are in
telligently discussed from the standpoint
of the statistician. It appears that during
the past twenty-six years fire losses have
reached a total of $2,890,714,021, and thai
the uninsured losses aggregate about sl,-'
100.000,000. The Joshes of the present year
slightly exceed $150,000,000.
Commenting upon this the New York
Journal of Commerce says:
"It is clear that the enormous fire v.asts
is a serious tax on the resources of tha
United States, and it is strange that pub*
lie opinion is so dull regarding this waste*
No other nation could stand such a drain
and no other nation would.
These figures present a valuable compar
ison by means of which it is possible to ap
preciate with some degree of exactness the
enormous losseseaused by the drink traffic.
The people of the United States pass over
the bars of the saloons and hotels in only
a little more than two years time a sum
of money equal to the aggregate tire losses
of the country for more than a quarter oj
a century. Every dollar, every cent, oj
that enormous sum is just as really lost as
if the man who parts'with it should burn
it up. Indeed, when all the facts of the
ease are considered he is vastly worse off
than if he had lost by (ire property to the
value of the amount which he spends for
drink, for he would be infinitely the gain
pr in the transaction if when he has put
his money in the liquor sellers' hands that
worthy should refuse to carry out his part
of the eontruet and should withhold the
liquor that has been paid for.
A minute's consideration of the fact*
will show that this is the proper way oC
looking at the matter. In the case of tho
property destroyed by fire the loss lies not
in the fact that certain material objects
have been destroyed. It would be per
fectly possible that such destruction should
take place without any real loss to any
body. The loss lies in the fact that a cit
izen, or certain citizens, have been obliged
to part with their uossessions without val
uable return for them. The parallel be
tween loss by fire and loss by drink, this
principle being kept in mind, becomes
clear. The man who has spent the value
of a house for drink has just as really lost
his money as if his house had been burned,
for not a cent of his expenditure brought
back to hiin the slightest valuable return.
These facts present an astounding mar
vel. Well i)iay the words of the Journal
of Commerce be quoted: "It is strange
that public opinion is so dull regarding
this waste." —The New Voice.
Alcoholism In fSercnanyV
A Society for the Suppression of Alco«
holism met recently in Breilau to con
sider the drink question in Germany, anil
found that it had distinct cause for en
couragement in its tremendous undertak
ing. Americans are so used to hearing
German customs of drinking upheld as
the proper ones to be introduced in thin
country that it is something of a shock
for them to learn that the per capita con
sumption of alcohol in Germany is ten
auarts every year, or five glasses of gin a
day for every German—man, woman or
child.' The empire, it .appears, spends
$750,000,000 a year on drinl:. as against
83,000,000,000 for food. In the light of
these statistics, the desirability of "Ger
man beer gardens" in our American cities
is open to much question.
As a matter of fact, although there may
be much leas drunkenness in a beer-con
suming country the dulling effect of the
drink upon the intellect Vnd the phvsicjue
are too patent for discussion. A Munich
employer of many skilled workmen, in
speaking last summer of the difficulties
of competing with foreign and even North
German concerns, laid stress upon the
cheapness of Munich beer as one of his
greatest handicaps. "If we were on equal
terms in every other respect," lie said,
"the faet that my men's brains and bodies
»re sodden with beer, day and night, would
put me behind in the race."
The society in nucstion denounced its
own Government for introducing alcohol
into its colonies. One-third of the Ger
man imports into Tongoland and one-sev
enth of those into German East Africa, it
appears, consists of alcohol.—New York
Post.
Alcohol Does Not Heat.
Since alcohol contains no nitrogen it'
cannot, of course, take any part in the
building up of wasted or worn-out tissue.
That, alcohol is almost completely burned
up when tuken in quantity of a half ounce
or a little more at a time, and that its
burning is attendul by the production oi
heat is also proved by exact methods o£
experimentation. In spite, however, ofi
the fact that it is burned and heat is thus
produced, the temperature of the body is
raised for only a few moments and tnen
falls below the normal. These phenomena
are due to one of two causes, or both of
them, namely, alcohol produces a tempor
ary dilatation of the surface vessels ajid
thus increases heat radiation sufficiently
to more than compensate for the increased
production of heat, if more heat is really
produced: or, the narcotic eflocts of the
alcohol diminish the heat produced by les
sening chemical change. It is quite cer
tain, however, that the first cause given is
entirely responsible for the fall of tempera
ture. Recent experiments have been
made upon this same point, and the con
clusions drawn therefrom differ from those
above, which are universally accepted by
physicians to be true, but these conclu
sions were based upon a misinterpreta
tion of results. We may say, therefore,
without fear of successful contradiction,
that alcohol is not a source of bodily heat.
The Crusade In Brief.
There has been a growing agitation irw
favor of temperance in France in recent
years.
Wherever the liquor trade is sanctioned
by law its followers will be found to. bo
sticklers for the law.
In the Canadian Parliam«nt a resolution
is to be introduced asking for the passage
of a prohibitory liquor law.
From the smallest patch on earth yow
can sec the stars: from the grog shop you
can see the workhouse and the prison.
A great pledge siting campaign for
Ontario, Canada, is being organised ny tha
temperance forces of that country.
In 1900 the cost of elementary education
in England was £8.973,817. The amount
spent in strong drink was £100,891,718.
In 1898 there were 177,000 drink shops in
Belgium, one for every thirty-five inhabit
ants. These figures do not include hotels,
restaurants or small grocers.
Recently a schooner left Boston harbor
for the west coast of Africa with a cargo
of rum and gin valued at over SIIO,OOO. It
will take a good many missionary contri
butions to counterbalance the curse of that
cargo.
The Grand Lodge of Free Masons of
Georgia, recently in convention at Macon,
adopted a report recommending that per
sons who engage in the manufacture ot
sale of liquors after joining a lodge shall
be expellea.
A writer in tlie New York Sun savs: "I
venture to say that a man with sand and
power to break policemen for failure to en
force the law would close the saloons so
quick that reformers, ministers and eveij
ouc else would be eurpriiSii,"