China has itself been for centuries
one of the most exclusive of nations.
Andrew Carnegie proposes to give
1 000 to help educate American
' people up to something a little better
than the so-cal'od historical novel.
Between telephones in use in railway
(rains and also on the tables in res
taurants we have no cause to fear that
our native land is slowing down its
gait.
The experts at the United States
fish commission are reported to be
puzzled over the question, "Do fish
sleep?" We are not experts, but that
they do sleep is probably the cause of
lots of fishermen's '"hard luck" stories.
Some manuscripts of Richard Wag
ner are said to have been discovered in
use as coverings for jam pots. The
story was probably started by a French
writer as an insidious and cruel method
of shocking Germany's musicianly
pride.
There is the usual hope that the date
of inauguration will be changed, so
that the barbarous practice of submit
ting a man to the chance of contract
ing pneumonia will not be included
among the tests of his fitness for of
fice, observes the Washington Star
Criminals are very expensive mem«
bers of the community. They cost the
people of the country about $1,000,000.-
000 a year. If their increase could be
prevented it would be a paying in
vestment to give each of the 250.000
accepted criminals a monthly pension
of S3OO, on the condition that he take
a life vacation from the strenuous de
mands of his profession.
The British Museum library contains
over 2,000,000 volumes, acquired partly
under the provisions of the copyright
act, which gives the museum a right
to a copy of every book published in
the United Kingdom, partly by pur
chase, and partly by donation or be
quest. It also appears that in the mu
seum there are over 10.000 volumes of
London newspapers, more than 47.000
volumes of provincial newspapers from
England and Wales, about 10,000 vol
umes of Scottish newspapers, and some
9000 volumes from Ireland, figures
which goto support the demand fo>-
increased accommodation.
An idea of the enormous passengef
traffic of London will be obtained from
the follow'ng figures: Thirty-eight om
nibus routes converge at Charing
Cross. About 700 omnibuses pass
there every hour, carrying 9000 pas
sengers. At Hyde Park corner there
are 20 omnibus routes. 390 omnibuses
per hour, with an hourly passenger
average of over 5000. At High street.
Kensington, there are four omnibus
routes, with 112 omnibuses and 1500
passengers per hour. At Piccadilly
Circus there are 3D routes. GSO omni
buses and 8500 passengers, while along
the Strand there are 26 routes, 445 om
nibuses per hour and 6000 passengers
A new incident in the American in
vasion is reported from Egypt. An
American engineer has just completed
a new system of suspended bridge
tramways for unloading coal from
steamers in Alexandria. The present
apparatus is the first that has been in
stalled in Africa, but the Egyptian
railway administration has decided to
adopt the system, which will undoubt
edly meet with further success. The
work is done automatically, and only
occupies one-fourth of the time neces
sitated by manual labor and steam
winches; 2120 tons of coal in ten hours
is the unloading capacity of these
hoisters, two or three ships can be
worked at a time, and there is a great
diminution of waste and "small." The
saving of labor is also one of the grea*
advantages of this system.
A year ago a philanthropic Parisian
matron of wealth and position hap
pened to discover a nurse girl in one
of the public parks whose inexperi
ence brought her into sore distress in
the care of her infant charge. After
relieving the girl, this philanthropic
woman conceived the idea of estab
lishing a school for servant girls. The
institution was started and is now in
a flourishing condition. Girls are
taught washing, dressing and properly
handling a life-size porcelain infant
and all sorts of domestic work, and
when armed with credentials of effi
ciency from the institution, are eagerly
employed by housekeepers. It is said
that not a complaint from the mis
tresses who have given the graduates
employment has yet been lodged with
rhe management. Practical philan
thropy of this kind is always valuable,
as in teaching the recipient of its
favors bow to care for others it teachej
'.hem how to provide for themselve o
On Pitcairn Island in the South Pa
cific ocean mail is delivered only once
a year. That must be a pleasant place
for the man whose bills come by thp
post.
Every country is disposed to put the
construction on the Monroe doctrine
that suits its interests. It should be
remembered, however, that no inter
pretation is valid unui it receives the
indorsement of the United States.
The tests made on the German mili
tary electric railroad between Berlin
and Zozzen have already produced
speeds exceeding 100 miles an hour, and
that within the limit of apparent abso
lute safety in the opinion of railwav
engineers.
Because a pert telephone girl in
Seattle, Wash., refused to connect a
subscriber with the fire department
■when he wanted to give notice of a
fire a loss of $60,000 was incurred, and
now the telephone company is being
sued for damages by the person thus
served and by the insurance company
which suffered the loss.
Carefully compare statistics of tlu
population of the British Empire, pub
lished by a trade paper, bring out the
rather startling fact that out of a pop
lation of nearly 400,000.000 about 48,-
880,000, or less than one-eighth, are ol
British birth or descent, nearly 4.000,-
000 are non-British white men, and the
colored races number 313,000,000.
In 1880 there were seven pulp and
12 paper mills in Maine, having a cap
ital invested of about $2,500,000. At
the present there are 30 pulp mills
and 28 paper mills, with a daily capac
ity of about 2165 tons of pulp and
paper. The amount of capital invested
in the business is not far from $30,000,-
000. These mills consume about 350,-
000,000 feet of lumber each year.
Before 1898 there had been no rub*
ber planting in Nicaragua beyond a
few fruitless experiments on the At
lantic coast of Nicaragua. In 1898 the
work began on what may be called a
large scale, and each year since the
number of planters has increased. It
is safe to say that in this vicinity
$50,000 in gold value is now being ex
pended yearly in growing rubber ex
clusively.
Statistics issued by the British Tu
ciian department of revenue show that
the mineral production of the British
Indian empire is not very promising.
Of salt about 1,000,000 tons is annually
produced; of saltpetre, about 20.000
tons, and coal to ihe extent of 6,000,000
tons, while the gold was valued at
about $10,000,000. mostly from Mysore.
Burma and Assam have yielded 38,-
000,000 gallons of petroleum.
In the competition for coronation
aonors in England it has been decided
that no knight in armor shall throw
down the gage of battle as champion of j
the king against his enemies, that the
ancient office of herb strewer shall be j
allowed to fall into innocuous desue- j
tude, and the bearing of the royal bows
and arrows in solemn state may be
pretermitted. But even with these old
time features of display lacking it can
not fail to be a memorable and won
derful pageant.
The St. Louis Republic remarks that
Emperor William of Germany will un
questionably be amply repaid in prac- I
tical knowledge for the close and I
searching study of American naval de- :
velopments to which he is now devot
ing so much of his time and august ,
attention. In all probability the Ger- ;
man kaiser is witnessing the building
of the greatest navy yet known in the j
world's history. The supreme teach- I
ing of world pontics is that the pres
tige of a nation depends upon that
nation's sea power.
The swamping of the submarine boat
Fulton at her wharf in New York City
does not necessarily reflect upon her
qualities as a diver. She went under
because a workman negligently left a
hatch open while her stern was being
hoisted out of water for repairs. Nat
urally the water entered the hole and
the craft foundered. The carelessness
of an individual has spoiled many an
elaborate scheme before now. One
man's inattention to orders brought
two trains into a head-on collision the
other day in Michigan, and caused the
death of many people. Yet the rail
road is not to be condemned as a
worthless institution. The Royal
George was lost because somebody
blundered, and yet she was the finest
vessel of her type afloat at the time.
Wh«n some ingenious fellow invents a
device which will be proof against
human carelessness or error, he will
have scored the greatest of all suc
cesses.
THE VERECUNDITY OF LANQFIELD. *,
* By Helen Ellsworth Wright. S
When the m'eu of the service left
Valdez to build the military lines
through the interior of Alaska, Lang
field went with them.
He was undeniably plain, under
i sized and over-sensitive, and that was
why he felt certain that Dolly could
never love him. To be sure, he had no
intention of loving her, but when six
feet two of well developed manhood,
in the person of Tom Perry, came down
from Circle City prospecting, Lang
field found that intentions and love
had very little to do with each other.
Vainly he stood erect, but not one cu
bit could he add to his stature, and
every morning the square of looking
glass impressed afresh the redness of
his hair upon him.
Tom and Dolly had known each
other in the States, and Langfield
watched with hopeless pain the re
newal of their friendship. She had
grown shy with him since Perry came
and there could be but one reason, he
argued. He did not blame her; there
was nothing in him to inspire a wom
an's love, and Tom— So he packed his
flute and his knapsack and left with
scarcely a farewell.
The men were not fond of Lang
field. He had a way of shrinking into
himself, that only Shivers, the camp
mascot, a lank mongrel Siwash with
the stump of a tail, understood.
Mornings, when the "Top Sergeant"
gave his first call through the camp,
it was the warm tongue of Shivers that
brought Langfield into touch with the
day, and later, when the company lined
up around the mess tent for their ra
tions of coffee and beans, the man
would seek a secluded stump for a ta
ble, with the dog huddled by his side.
Langfield seldom joined the camp
fires. But when the fever broke out,
Langfield was the first to offer his ser
vices. He was not afraid of contagion
he told the sergeant, and anyway,
there was no one at home who needed
him. After that he and Shivers took
up their quarters in the hospital tent.
The fever had its run, but only one,
thanks to the nursing, was borne up
the trail and laid away under the sncw.
Langfield planed a piece of spruce
scantling and drove it in by the mound,
but his hand was unsteady, and his
eyes were heavy and dull.
The "Top Sergeant" on his rounds
the next morning found him sitting
up in has blankets. His face was swol
len and discolored, and he was talk
ing excitedly to Shivers.
"You mustn't let Dolly get the fe
ver," he said; "she's so little. Nor
Tom —promise me you won't let Tom."
He leaned over and looked into the
dog's pleading eyes. Shivers whined
and thrust his muzzle into his mas
ter's palm. "She couldn't help loving
him." Langfield continued deiensively.
'You know she couiTTn't yourself!" He
fell back on the pillow and tossed
restlessly for a moment. "It'll be cool
up there under the snow," he began
again, "and I won't be heavy to pack.
And say—" He sat up. pulling the dog
close to him, "maybe she'll forget—
that my hair was—red."
The men were very tender to
fleld after that, and Shivers seldom
left his bedside.
When, some weeks later, he
convalescent, he seemed smaller and
slighter than ever, and his hair shone
more vividly red against the pinched,
white face. They carried him out into
the sunshine, but his eyes wandered
regretfully up to the snow.
In a month he was at the post
again, doing the work of two men,
with scarcely the strength of one.
He came down the mountain one
night an hour behind time. The trail
was slushy, and the early gray twi
light lent a soft indistinctness every
where. Suddenly he paused and stood
looking intently at a line of fresh
tracks in the path. His first thought
was of Shivers. He always met him,
but seldom so far from the camp.
Lighting a match, the only one he had,
he bent closer. The prints were too
clean-cut for a dog; the opposites al
tr.ost overlapped each other, and Shiv
ers was broad-chested. Cautiously the
man crept 011, peering about for an
other mark he knew. It was there —
a slight depression in the mud, like
the fringe of a feather. Only the edge
of a shaggy tail made that. He stood
up and looked around him. He was
not afraid of death, but he had a de
cided preference regarding its medium,
ind a she-wolf hunting for a family
dinner was hardly to his liking.
The camp was three miles away, and
the underbrush made a cross-cut im
possible; besides, the snow still lay in
the ravines. Tnere was one thing to
be done, and drawing his hat securely
down, he started forward, then paused
again, with his head raised to listen.
From somewhere there came a faint
cry, weak and indistinct, but undenia
oly human.
Langfield made a trumpet of his
hands. "Hel-lo!" he shouted, and
strained his ears for the reply.
Some 10 feet down the trail a gla
cier stream had gullied out the bank.
Its icy, slate colored waters fell al
most perpendicularly over the rocks.
Creeping to the slippery edge, he
peered over and called again. A faint
voice answered.
A steep, shelving path was just visi
ble, a.id ue clambered down to it,
scratched and torn by the brambles at
every step. A little farther on a roll
of blankets impeded his way, and he
knew that somewhere in the ravine be
.jw he would find a prospector.
The man proved to be a big fellow,
out the light was too dim to see his
face. The force of his fall had wedged
one leg between the crevices of rock.
and it took Langfie'.d's entire strength
to extricate him. He pressed his can
teen to the stranger's lips, and rubbed
him- vigorously, but it was half an
hour before he could get him up the
path All the while, in his over
vrought fancy, he heard the cry of the
mother-wolf fcr food, and once he was
sure that a pair of luminous eyes were
watching them from the dusk.
"It's no use," said the man at last.
"I can't make it!" and he sank limply
on the bank.
Langfield took off his coat and rolled
it into a pillow, then started below
again. In tne outfit there would be
matches, and blankets enough for the
night.
Just as he reached them a long,
whining howl broke the stillness. An
other followed, and another. They
were tracking along the trail.
To the man, straining every sinew
under his heavy load, it meant but one
thing. Mechanically he held to his
burden and stumbled on. His head
swam dizzily, and the brush about him
seemed to swarm with uncertain
shapes. With a superhuman effort he
hoisted the blankets over the last little
ledge of rock and drew himself up be
hind them.
The sick man lay where he had left
him, but creeping toward him on the
bank was a lithe, gray shadow. It was
less than a dozen feet away. Langfield
drew his revolver, then, by the sud
spit of fire, he saw what he had done.
"Shivers!" he cried. There was a
giad whine of recognition, as the dog
tried to drag himself toward him.
Langfield was kneeling beside liim in a
moment. "Shivers, old friend," he
said, and somewhere on his "journey
to the dog star." Shivers heard. His
stump of a tail wagged an answer, and
in his glazing eyes t-ere was a look of
perfect trust.
The night wore on. Slowly the gray
skirts of dawn swept across the eastern
sky.
Langfield still sat with the dog in his
arms. The prospector could not see
his face, but the slight, drooping
shoulders seemed familiar. The pain
was growing unbearable, and he
groaned.
langfield started. "Yes, yes," he
answered absently, "I'd forgotten."
He put the dog gently from him and
stood up. The morning light was
flooding everything, and it fell upon
the two men as they looked into each
other's eyes. Langfield drew in his
breath with suuden sharpness. The
other muttered an oath and leaned
weakly back against the bank.
"Tom Perry!" ejaculated Langfield,
taking a step toward him. "You!"
The man nodded.
The lines on Langfield's face were
tense and drawn, and he steadied him
self with an effort. "Well," he saiu at
last, it's three miles to the camp, and
we'd better be moving."
There were a few drops in his can
teen. He offered them to his compan
ion, converted himself into a prop for
the wounded side, and J.he slow, pain
ful journey down the trail began.
Neither o* them talked much. The
mist hung midway on the mountain,
and when they emerged from it, the
company's quarters lay on the ledge
below. Already the camp was astir.
The two men upon the path paused
exhausted. Langfield eased the sick
man down and threw himself beside
him. He had not eaten since the day
before, and was weak and giddy. The
solitude was oppressive. Blue-faced
glaciers smiled mockingly out of the
ravines, a raven croaked from the al
ders, and the memory of Dolly seemed
hovering in the light. For the first
time Perry's helplessness tempted
him. Why should this man have every
thing which he had been denied? He
felt again the dumb, pleading eyes of
Shivers. Shivers had loved him; he
had never known that his master was
plain and red-headed, and Shivers —
was dead.
Langfieid mechanically slipped his
hand to the sheath in his belt, stole a
sideways glance at his companion and
saw that his eyes were He
drew out the knife and held it behind
him. His breath came in short, con
vulsive gasps.
Just then Perry gave a stifled moan.
The sound brought Langfield to his
senses. What was this he had in
tended to do? A fit of trembling
seized him. He rose to his feet, though
he reeled as he aid so. There was a
swift movement of his right arm, and
something glanced in the light and fell
far below them in the brush.
"No one needs me," he thought, "and
Tom-—"
"Come," he said aloud, "we must get
you down for—your wife's sake."
The man did not reply at first. When
he did his voice was a trifle husky.
"I have none," he said.
Langfieiu stared at. him. 'Why—
Dolly—" he blurted out. "She—" He
began and stopped again, but Perry
understood.
"No-o," he replied with an effort,
"she didn't want me." He turned his
head and looked unseeingly across
the valley. "There was some one else,"
he said.
"Some one else?" Langfield stupidly
repeated.
"Yes," answered the other, "and it
seems the fool couldn't understand!"
There was a moment's silence. "She' 3
waiting till the company's ordered
back," he added, with a whimsical
smile.
Langfield drew his hand across his
forehead. The snow, high up on the
mountain, Seemed a swimming sea of
white; the little stream beside them
roared like a cataract in his ears.
' Perry made an effort to rise, but fell
I back in a spasm of pain.
"She loves —my God, man'" he cried
vehemently, are you an idiot- She
loves—you!"—The Ladies' WOIM.
UNLOADING IRON ORE SHIPS.
Mnclilnery That Ti ow Greatly lieduce* the
Lnbo - and Co**'.
The use of steam shovels at some of
the large iron mJ.nes in the Lake Su
perior region in loading cars at the
mines has long been an important ele
ment in reducing the cost of our iron
i ore. The handling of the ore in this
manner years ago reached a degree
of perfection that is almost incredible.
A record of GouO tons of ore dug from
the ground and loaded by one machine
in nine hours indicates what may be
done under favorable conditions. Of
course this achievement it not usual
j and it would be unfair tD gauge a sea
| son's work by this record. The aver-
I age output of each shovel per day,
j working in open pits and dumping the
ore directly into the cars is about 1500
| to 2000 tons costing from 10 to 15
j cents a ton to mine and load.
It was long, however, before great
; expedition and economy were secured
in unloading the ore ships after their
arrival at the receiving ports of Lake
Erie. This promem has been solved
at last, machinery having supplanted to
: a large extent the nand labor which
formerly filled the ore buckets. Ore
handling appliances now remove the
ore from the vessel at a minimum of
expense.
At Conneaut, on Lake Erie, for in«
stance, a 6000-ton ship may now be
cleared of its ore in 1-1 hours. A load
of ore arriving at that port may be de
livered at the furnaces of Pittsburg in
2s hours after the arrival of the ves
sel. A steam shovel in operation there
loads 35 to 40 cars with ore in two
hours.
The machine for unloading vessels
weighs about 400 tons, has a height of
55 feet, and is mounted on wheels, so
that it is moved along the dock as it
unloads one part after another of the
vessel. The clamshell bucket whicl
scoops up the. ore has a spread of If
feet, takes out 10 tons of ore at ►
time and discharges it directly in<
railroad cars or through a hopper in*
small cars, which carry it to stc
piles at the rear of the dock. Its
pacity ranges under ordinary con »-
tions, from 250 to 300 tons per hear.
It. reduces the labor employed 75 per
cent. only six men being necessary for
the operation of each machine. Three
men are in the hold to cfean up the
ore which the machine cannot reach
and the other three are engaged in op
erating the macnine. The entire cost
including the wages of workmen and
engineers is 20 cents a ton for remov
ing the ore from vessels and depositing
it on railroad cars ready for transpor
tation to the furnaces.
This machine has been introduced at
most of the ore receiving ports, includ
ing South Chicago. It has brought
about one of the most important eco
nomies recently introduced I'or lessen
ing the cost of producing pig iro
Sun.
QUAINT AND CURiOUS.
Comparatively few horses attain to
17 hands, but Kansas boasts of one
that measures 20 hands aad weighs
2412 pounds. This big creature is
owned by a man named Stout, who
lives in Doniphan county, Kan.
The Zuricher Tagblatt published tha
following advertisement: "A Swiss
family, Protestant, wants money to
purchase a grocery shop. In case the
help is forthcoming the family will
baptize their three children, aged 1 to
10 years."
The goose marke_t is one of the prln*
cipal institutions peculiar to Berlin
Geese furnish one of the staple arti
cles of diet to the German people, and
the total value of geese consumed in
Berlin in a year is said to exceed
$3,500,0u0.
Three friends of a Russian living at
Marienburg gave him 100 marks to
shave off his beard. But his wife in
terfered with a public notice to the ef
fect that she claimed part proprietor
chip. The three friends are now su
ing the husband for non-performance
of his contract.
The Chinese have the idea that milk
revives the youthful powers, and that
it has special virtue as winter food
for old people. Pictures and charac
ters illustrating this idea as well hs
the value of it for baby food, would
without doubt increase the sale of
American millc in China, as one of
the consuls suggests.
"Bees" are an institution in the Rus
sian village. All summer time they
are in full swing, especially among
the women. Each one's flax is gath
ered and beaten in turn, the potatoes
are dug and stored, and so on. But
at the end of every clay the evening
is full 01' song and dance, for in Rus
sia they do not forget to play after
work.
The ancient city of Babylon seems ta
have been protected from floods by
high brick embankments on both sides
of the Euphrates, while an immense
reservoir was constructed into which
the whole river might be turned
through an artificial canal. This great
reservoir, used for irrigation in times
of drought, held sufficient water to ir
rigate over 2,500,000 acres.
Tlieir Kommice.
"Let's see; wasn't there a romance
connected with their courtship?"
"Yes. The one he told her about
his vast wealth." —San Francisco Bul
letin.
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
Some Picas For the Saloon Tlie Claim
That It is the Poor Man's Club is a
Q4Jl>ancerous Lie—Too Much Frequented
bv the Youn^.
The following is from an article entitled
lhe Saloons of Pittsburg," contributed
to the Brotherhood Star by the ilev. Di'.
Fisher:
"The saloon is a menace to good gov
ernment, and the avowed and open en
emy of the church and the home. It haa
justly brought down upon its own head
the opprobrium of all good citizens, and
yet there are some who look upon it as a
necessary evil and lamely attempt its de
fense on grounds of so-called expediency.
"That tlie saloon furnishes a cheery and
bright, retreat from the cares of the day,
and stands in strong contrast to the dingy,
office, or the dirty and hot mill or factory,
and is to the young man a place of socia
bility and entertainment is conceded by
many of its enemies, and by some writers
it has been called 'The Poor Man's Club.'
This claim contains only part of the truth'
and is therefore a dangerous lie.
"The brilliantly lighted room, the daz
zling mirrors anil bar fixtures which are
usually present in saloons claiming any ;
degree of respectability are always men
tioned, but the bare floors covered with
filthy sawdust, the vile pictures which
hang upon the walls and the foul air laden'
with ooscenity and profanity are usually
omitted in singing the praises of the sa
loon. Nor is the gambling annex, which
so often forms an important part of the
saloon, generally advertised. 'The Poor
Man's Club' sophistry doss not prove that
the-* ' man's ciub is any less a menace to
tj ->n of Pittsburg than is the
112 cessity for the accommo
dl olic which is heard annu
al! se court, and is recognized
bj' ire in making laws provid-,
is ansing of this evil, ostensi
bl it, but really giving it an air
of ity, and the claim that it ia
a,; e source of revenue to the
Si junty are both very transpar
eii ill not go down with the stu
de' i.itical economy.
at the saloon does for tlie pub
the temperance house cannot do,
' and only bad, and the expense en
jpon the honest taxpayer as the re
jf the saloon is far in excess of the
iue received.
he suggestion that the saloon is a
jtitute for the speak-easy, the opium
i or the brothel is usually the last ditch
which the interested defender of the sa
on takes a stand.
"A visit to the saloons of Pittsburg dur
ing the evening hours especially will reveal
the fact that far too large a portion of the
young men of this city go there for amuse
ment. This we claim is not entirely due
to lack of better places. We have not
heard of the reading rooms, parlors o£
prymnasiums of the Y. M. C. A., and sim
ilar places of resort being overcrowded;'
nor do we believe it fair to charge it to
the natural depravity of young men who
find it easy to stray from the path of pur
ity and temperance. Let us rather ask if
the real cause of danger does not lie in
the cloak of respectability assumed by
reason of its legal status and partnership
with the State, and also too Oiten on ac
count of the patronage by good people of
the restsftirant with a saloon annex.
"The writer believes that all the much'
talked-of substitute for the saloon will not
meet the issue successfully so long as the
saloon exists as a strong competitor. Teap
off the mask and let this agency of Satan
fall, as fall it surely will by its own weight
of corruption.
"Let the State wash its hands of the
whole business and no ro-called 'sumptu
ary' laws will be necessary.
"When the saloon is outlawed it can he
treated as a nuisance and soon abolished."
Mighty 4id to Success.
Complete temperance—that is, total ab
stinence from all poisons—is a mighty aid
to success. Life is too short, nowadays, to
squander time on the delirium of intoxica
tion, or on the mind-clouding reactions
that follow the excitements of every stim
ulant-habit.
"I'm sorry, amigo, but I've no time to>
fuddle," Dr. Bence Jones, of London,
used to say. in declining the invitations of
convivial friends.
The truth probably was that he re
joiced in a pretext for absolute emancipa
tion from a life-blighting vice, for temper-i
ance need not limit its arguments to utili-j
tarian considerations. Its superior chances
of success extend to the pursuits of intelli-!
gent votaries of pleasure.
During the bonanza period of the Cali
fornia placer diggings, the traveler, Ger
staecker, noticed that many miners, in- 1
eluding men who had gone exclusively in
quest of fun, became temperate under the
inspiration of good luck: they preferred
the river-bar to the rum-bar, and avoided
dissipations that tended to mar their en
joyment of more pleasant pastimes.
The main objection to the use of stimu
lants is, indeed, the fact that they defeat
the main purpose of their dupes. The
opium-eater, like the dram-drinker, hopes
to trick nature out of some extra enjoy
ment, and playing that trick is. in every
instance a losing game. Its penalties out
weigh its pleasures; the net result of the
experiment is a loss, in happiness, as well
as in time and health. —Success.
The Saloon Cursed Town.
Localities might be pointed out in the
Northwest which were originally entered
by a sturdy and industrious band of pio
neers. That their settlements should, in
the course of time, become the richest
gardens of the Northwest, there deemed
to be every reason to expect. Yet suet
has not been the case.
One of ihe fertile sources of this curse
upon the community was the saloon. It
was built near the church. Saloon and
church formed the nucleus of a village
which eventually had other saloons.
The saloon became a pleasant rendez
vous for the young men. Here they could
meet a friend whenever they went to the
postoffice or to the blacksmith s shop. It
was frequented during most of their leis
ure hours, and crowded upon election dayt
ard Sundrvs. Habits, associations, tone
of conversation, ideas about men and af
fairs, ambition and purposes of life were
formed and molded in the saloon.
Water will never rise higher than it?
source. A generation will seldom exceei
the level of tlie influences by which it it
surrounded, and where the saloon is the
high school of the community, wo cannot
expect the children to discredit their edu
cation. —Catholic Citizen.
The Crusade in Brief.
The alcoholic psychopath, who is susp!
cious, gloomy and irritable, with sens,
perversions, should come under medica
care at once. He is dangerous to himseli
and to the community.
The Crusade in Brief.
The mills of God grind slowly; the liquo
traffic mangles horribly.
Health is the root of all good; stron
drink is health's rooted evil.
It is a fact worth mentioning in the?
days of social wine drinking that not
drop of wine was served at the wedding c
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
In Toledo. Ohio, with its 047 license
saloons, there were 367 arrests for drunl
enness during the past year, or three 1
every 1000 inhabitants. In New Yor
there were thirteen, in I'hiladelnhi* thirt
f#ur arrests to every 1000.