The owners of fast automobiles
somehow assume as much credit foi
the bursts of speed as the man who
made the machine.
Football has done much to ease th*
public mind by making it plain that all
the men who wear long hair do not
necessarily play the piano or the vio
liu.
The affairs of Spain are not very in
dustriously exploited in the newspap
ers. General Weyler evidently disband
ed his regiment of rough typewritten
as soon as the war over.
The boiler explosion has become so
frequent an incident of modern affair?
that it might not be amiss to make
the public schools a means of impress
ing on the popular mind a few simple
safeguards in this connection, thinks
the Washington Star.
It seems to be about settled that th 6
two largest islands in the world are
both in the Arctic ocean. Greenland
is unquestionably the largest—if Aus
tralia is counted as a continent —and
recent explorations of Baffin Land
show that it is second only to Green
land in extent.
It is all very well for China to at
tempt the reorganization of her army
system with Japanese officers, but
what is more imperatively needed is
not a reorganization of the rank and
file, but wholesale reformation in the
official system which controls these
two branches of the empire, thinks the
Philadelphia Press.
The Boston police force, which in
cludes 1306 employes in all capacities
made 34,500 arrests last year. This
number was 4585 less than the aver
age number of arrests for the preceding
five years. The property reported
stolen in the city last year was valued
at $94,211.07, an increase of $24,879.96
over the average for the five years last
past.
"You can't make a doctor of a worn
an," is the opinion of one of the trus
tees of Northwestern university, ex
pressed in connection with the an
nouncement that the Woman's College
of Medicine is to be abandoned and
that its buildings are for sale. Trus
tee Raymond continued: "It is impos
sible to make a doctor of a woman.
Women cannot grasp the chemical and
pharmaceutical laboratory work, the
intricacies of surgery, or the minute
work of dissecting. In our women's
medical department we do not get as
high a class of scholarship as is set by
the other colleges in the university."
When a Chinaman loses his pigtail
he is thought by those who retain that
appendage to be an acceptable sacrifice
to the deity they worship, and prep
arations to immolate one thus de
spoiled were recently made by his
countrymen at Baker City, Ore. As
he was paralyzed he could not cut and
run away from his persecutors, and if
it had not been for a local order of the
Sisters of Charity among whom he
had before found refuge it would have
gone ill with him. They effected his
rescue at the last moment, his country
men regarding it as an act of impiety,
inviting international attention and
reprisal. The early discovery that the
heathen Chinese was peculiarstill holds
good, and is particularly demonstrat
ed in his religious practices.
In an article in the Blackwood's
Magazine, berating Anglo-Saxon so
ciety, the writer falls foul of the Am
erican woman, and expresses himself
to this effect: The intense
worldliness which is permeating
the polite circles of Europe
is the very essence and marrow of so
ciety in the United States. The de
mon of discontent holds sway there as
elsewhere, and in that strange conger
ies of different social elements every
body, democrat and would-be aristocrat
alike, treats life in general as a spec
ulation for the rise. The husband
slaves day and night in Wall Street or
Chicago for the dollars which his
smart wife spends abroad, or else com
peting in the unbridled extravagance
of New York or Newport convivality,
and, strange as it may seem, he is
content that it should be so. He feels,
no doubt, that a kind of reflected glory
is shed upon him by his better half's
brilliance, and M. Paul Bourget is
probably right when he says that "the
American husban'd of a smart
wife regards her as an in
vestment that is expected to
return dividends in the shape of social
triumphs." American society delights
in "tawdry Barnumlike entertainments
and social functions, where the fabu
lous cost of the accessories is advertis
ed in print, each article being inven
toried according to its size, weight and
value. Pretentious magniflcance and
vulgar smartness are the ideals of the
rich."
The anxiety of mlltimlllionaires to
endow libraries and universities shows
a very graceful readiness on the part
of money to pay tribute to brains.
New Mexico, now seeking statehood,
was organized as a territory Septein
ber 9, 1850. Arizona was not organ
ized as a territory until February 2-1,
1863.
It is inconsiderate l'or young women
to mob a male celebrity in an effort
to kiss him. No kindness could be
more mistaken. The celebrity, how
ever innocent he may be, invariably
has to take all the glame for the
transaction.
A school of instruction for laundry
girls is to be established in Chicago.
The School of Domestic Arts and Sci
ences, established in that city a year
and a half ago by a number of philan
thropic women, is to bring about the
innovation, and the laundry school is
to be a department of this institution.
Miss Isabel Bullard, head of the school,
says that washing is just as much of
an art as making pie or baking bread,
"and as for ironing, that is a lino
art."
Pinkerton, the present head of the
detective agency of that name, de
clares that in no country on earth do
women manifest so much maudlin
sentimentality for criminals as in the
United State's. Even when the men
have no pronounced personal charms,
he says, they are not without their
female admirers in tnis country, who
send them flowers and other tokens oi
esteem. The problem seems to be
one for psychologists to study and ex
plain.
A well known English dean recentl>
had the misfortune to lose his um
brella, and he rather suspected that
its appropriation by another had not
been altogether accidental. He there
fore used the story to point a moral in
a sermon in the cathedral, adding that
if its present posessor would drop it
over the wall of the deanery garden
during the night he would say no more
about it. Next morning he repaired
to the spot and found his own um
brella and 45 others.
It is said in Ohio that Governor
George K. Nash has now realized the
ardent dream of his life in having for
the second timo been chosen as chief
executive of the state. At his recent
second inauguration he said: "For the
future I have but one ambition, the
most sacred of my life. It is to show
my appreciation of the people who
have so highly honored me by being
their faithful servant during the next
two years. Upon this foundation must
rest whatever of fame lives after me."
Lumbering has been going on in
Minnesota for over fifty years, during
which time It is probably safe to say
been cui Of this amount perhaps $20,-
000,000 worth was granted to rail
roads. How much lias the United
States received for all this pine? Be
ginning with the year 1849 and up to
October, 1897, the exact <ind total
amount that the United States has
received for all lands sold in Minne
sota —agricultural as well as timber
land—was just $7,286,599.40. If these
splendid pine forests had been
managed on foresty principles
the general government would
have received many more
million dollars, and Minnesota
herself would have been in a much
better situation. In view of such a rec
ord it is not unreasonable that tho
public now demand that some little
remnant of the pine woods be saved
as a forest reserve, observes the St.
Paul Pioneer-Press.
America is not the only country in
which there is difficulty in raising
funds for memorials and monuments.
England is again demonstrating that
not republics alone are ungrateful
when it comes to a question of con
tributing money for such a cause. The
fiasco made in the effort to raise a
great fund for a Gladstone memor
ial is still fresh in mind, and now it
has been announced that the king will
be most reluctantly compelled to ap
peal to oarliaroent to provide sufficient
money to make up the needed balance
to complete the Victoria Memorial
Fund. The scheme that has been ap
proved and adopted calls for the ex
penditure of about $2,500,000. Of this
amount in the year since the late
queen's death only $927,00 C
has been subscribed. Tho sam«
difficulty was found in rais
ing a fund for the Albert mem
orial, which is more understandable
than in the case of tho beloved Victoria
for the Prince consort, although a man
much honored in his adopted country,
was always a foreigner. Parliament
made a grant at that time, and de
spite the huge war expenditures, will
; doubtless accede to the king's request.
THE MOCKINGBIRD.
List to that bird! His song—what poet
pons It?
Brigand of birds, he's stolen every note!
Prinne, though, of thieves—bark! how the
rascal spends it!
Fours the whole forest from one tiny
throat!
—Ednuh l'roctor Hayes, in Home and
Flowers.
{Margery DanYers: Fireman.*
♦ J
BY CARROLL, WATSON RANKIU.
Beyond a doubt the property had
been a marvelous bargain. The land
alone was worth more than the price
asked for the house and lot together,
with carpets and fixtures thrown in.
The former owner had had greater
business interests in another part of
the world, and having found himself
unable to live in two places at once,
had wisely concluded to convert the
superfluous house into cash. Mr. Dan
vers had bought it for a ridiculously
small sum, and felt that he ought to be
congratulated.
But although good Mr. Danvers was
jubilant over the purchase, Mrs. Dan
vers, on her first inspection of the
new house, sat down upon the thrown
in carpet and burst into tears.
The moment she beheld the parlor
vail paper she forgot all else and gave
aerself up to grief.
It was really enough to make one
blivious of other things. Mrs. Dan
woman, who loved pink-and-white
zooms. The late occupant of the house
had been a big red-and-yellow man,
who liked redand-yellow rooms, and
his taste in wall paper was certainly
deplorable. There was only one thing
in the house worse than the paper, and
that was the carpet.
"What, don't you like the paper!"
exclaimed astonished Mr. Danvers,
who was not artistic. "Why, that's
splendid paper! It must have cost $3
a roll. Pattern's a trifle large, per
haps; but just think how it'll wear!
It will last a lifetime!"
But, strange to say, this consoling
information only made Mrs. Danvers
weep the more.
"There's great stuff in that carpet,
too," said Mr. Danvers, eyeing it ap
provingly. "It'll wear like iron, in spite
of the children running over it. Those
big magenta roses stand out well,
don't they?"
Mrs. Danvers shuddered. The car
pet was a calamity.
Reasonable as the price had been
it had taken all Mr. Danvers could
spare to make the purchase, so there
was no money to be foolishly wasted
in replacing the perfectly good paper
and carpet. Poor Mrs. Danvers, cover
ing as much of the ugliness as she
could with her pictures and furniture,
wisely made the best of it, but all her
day dreams for the next ten years cen
tered about the repapering of tho lis
figured parlor.
Her daughter Margery understood
and sympathized with her mother, and
together they would deplore the dura
bility of the obnoxious paper and car
pet.
"It would be such a pretty room,"
Mrs. Danvers would mourn, "if only
something would happen to that out
rageous carpet and that horrible pa
per! "
"Wouldn't it be glorious," Margery
would say, "if our chimney should get
struck by lightning as the Browns'
did? The paper was torn off the din
ing room wall, and soot from the chim
ney ruined the rugs. The Browns seem
to have all the good luck."
The Browns selfishly retained their
monopoly of the lightning, and the
bated paper continued to bear a
charmed life. No warning voice was
ever raised when the little Danverses
approached the parlor wall with sticky
fingers; and although Mrs. Danvers
and Margery fairly courted disaster,
none ever came.
At last, when Margery was 17, both
paper and carpet showed unmistakable
signs of wear.
"Do anything you like about it. It's
your house," said Mr. Danvers, gener
ously, when Mrs. Danvers pointed out
the defects. "Yes, get anything you
like; all paper looks alike to me". Hard
wood floors? Ye-es, I don't mind. Still
I am a little disappointed in that
carpet. I thought it would last for
ever."
"So did I," said Mrs. Danvers; but
if she felt any disappointment it was
well concealed.
Then came deligthful weeks. The
house was all torn up and turned over
to the carpenters and paper-hangers.
Mrs. Danvers and Margery spent all
their days and part of their nights
studying samples of wall paper. Mr.
Danvers spent all his in trying to
dodge the pails of paste and varnish
that lurked in every corner.
At last, however, it was all finished,
to the complete satisfaction of Mra
Danvers and Margery, who ceased to
covet the Browns' share of devastating
lightning. Indeed, the renovated par
lor became the object of Mrs. Danvers'
tenderest solicitude, and the little wn
verses began to see imaginary "Keep
off the grass" signs on every side. And
then, when it was no longer wanted,
the disaster came.
Just a week after the departure of
the last workman Mrs. Danvers went
with her husband to a concert/ leav
ing the house and sleeping children in
Margery's care.
Margery spent the first hour in tho
kitchen, matting peanut taffy. When
at last she returned to the front of
the house she was greeted by an odd
pungent order.
"I wonder,' said she, "if I could
have scorched my candy? No; the
smell seems to come from the front
hall. Perhaps something is burning
upstairs."
Sne stopped appalled when she had
reached the top step. Something cer
tainly was burning. The upper hall
was full of thick, gray smoke.
xhe children!" gasped Margery,
•ariing through the smoke and into
the nursery.
Here the smoke was dense, and
through it, at the far end of the room,
wnere a closet door was standing open,
Margery could see a dull red glow.
"Quick! Quick!" she sobbed, drag
ging the heavy, half-stupefied children
out of their beds, out of the suffocating
room, through the hall and down the
stairs. "Oh, do hurry! The house is
all on fire!"
"There!" said she, snatching a vase
of flowers from a table in the lower
hall, and dashing flowers, water and
all into the faces of the poor, aston
ished children, thereby producing two
indignant howls.
"There, your lungs are all right if
you can cry like that! Now go sit on
the carriage block, and don't you dare
to come into this house again until
I call you, and don't you tell a soul
that this house is afire. I'm going to
put it out myself.
"Oh, I must —I must do it!" cried
Margery, seizing the two heavy pails
of water which Mrs. Danvers kept
ready in her little conversatory for the
purpose of watering her plants. "The
fire is all in that one room. If I let
the firemen in they'll ruin the new
floors with their muddy boots, and
they'll flood the whole house with
water. Oh, I can't let them spoil that
lovely pale-green paper and those love
ly floors!"
So, never thinking that her mother
would rather lose a thousand beauti
ful parlors than one little loving
daughter, Margery rushed into the
dense smoke and burled the contents
of her pails straight at the scarlet
glow.
The smoke stung her throat and al
most blinded her, but she groped her
way from the room, felt her way
across the hall, ran down the stairs,
and refilled her pails at the kitchen
sink. The bath room was nearer, but
Margery remembered that the faucets
there were small, and knew she would
save time by going to the kitchen.
She drank a little cold water, filled
her lungs with fresh air at the open
door and tucked up her skirts. Then
up she went with her heavy burden,
not spilling a drop on tho precious
floors. After the third journey Mar
gery noticed that the scarlet spot had
diminished in size, although the smoke
was quite as dense.
"I must be careful not to put on a
scrap more water than I need," said
this model fireman, as she toiled up
ward with her heavy pails. "I mustn't
spoil the dining room ceiling. I be
lieve the fire is in the pillows and bed
ding stored in that closet. I'll open
the window and throw them all out, if
I can."
And she did, but it was not a pleas
ant task. The smoldering quilts
burst into flames as she pulled them
apart, and the sparks burned hor
wrists and hands. But with the win
dow open it was possible to breathe,
and when the reking pillows had been
added to the blazing heap on the lawn
below, the atmosphere was decidedly
improved, although still by no means
clear.
As they discovered afterwards, the
fire started from a few oiled rags used
in polishing the hardwood floors, and
tucked into the closet by a careless
maid. It had burned almost through
the base-board, and would in a few
moments have eaten its way into the
partitions, where it would have been
beyond control.
Margery had undoubtedly saved the
day and a great many dollars although
she had, without realizing it, risked
something far more precious.
She had bathed her face and hands,
had opened all the windows to let out
the disagreeable odor of burned feath
ers, and was going down-stairs, well
satisfied with her evening's work,
when her father and mother appeared
at the front door. Perched on the
newel post in the front hall, she told
them all about the catastrophe.
"Where are the children?" was Mrs.
Danvers's first question.
"Goodness!" said Margery. "They
must be outdoors on the stepping
stone yet. I told them to stay there
until I called them, and I never gave
them a second thought!"
And there Mrs. Danvers found them,
sound asleep in their littie white night
dresses, but none the worse for their
unusual experience, for the night was
warm.
Mr. Danvers opened his mouth and
closed it several times before he man
aged to find words to fit the occasion.
When he finally succeeded all he said
was:
Margery, you smell just like a little
dried herring."
But there was something besides
smoke in his eyes, and Margery knew
she was being thanked. —Youths' Com
panion.
Civil U»»t of Europenn Monarch*.
The civil list of all European mon
archs amount to a total of nearly $30.-
000,000 a year. The revnues of the
Czar of Russia and the Sultan of Tur
key cannot be exactly estimated. After
the Czar the Emperor of Austria-Hun
gary has the largest official salary,
viz., $4,250,000, while that of tho Kai
ser amounts to $3,750,000 a year. Be
sides this official income, however, the
rulers of Europe have enormous pri
vate revenues.
Some high-sounding names carry
more weight on visiting cards than on
checks.
BEYGiw IOIN -
C'ouclltlcnft In tlie Hudoon Ray Country
Described by a Visitor.
Miles Spencer, agent for the Hud
son Bay company, in the almost un
known districts of Hudson bay, is on
his first visit to civilization. Though
56 he has never seen a railway train
previous to his present trip, and had
of conveyance as an electric car.
veyance as an electric car.
His life has ben spent among the
Indians and Esquimaux who occupy
the northern parts of Labrador and the
country immediately east of Hudson
bay. Contrary to the general belief
arising from the reports of missionary
societies and others, Mr. Spencer says
that in many respects the different
tribes still adhere to their old customs
and traditions.
Teh Esquimeaux in particular, are,
according to Mr. Spencer, a very diffi
cult people to civilize. There h;*s never
been such a thing as a marriage cere
mony among them, and the nearest
they have got to one today in the dis
tricts controlled for the company by
Mr. Spencer is that the young man
generally tries togo to some post to
buy a blanket, and that is all the cere
mony there is about it. They are not
so numerous as formerly, and it is
thought that this falling off is princi
pally due to the fact that for the past
generation they have been taught to
use English and American foods.
Formerly they never even cooked their
meat, and they seemed to derive more
benefit from it raw than in its cooked
state.
Money has not yet come into use
among the people with whom Mr.
Spencer has business dealings. Both
Indians and Esquimeaux bring their
furs into the company's posts and in
return receive different kinds of mer
chandise. Counters are used which
are known as "made beavers," each of
which is worth about CO cents of our
money.
The chief animals now hunted by
these people are, first, the fox, and
then the marten, beaver, otter, rein
deer and fisher. The silver fox is of
course most eagerly sought, yet not
withstandings its extreme value in civ
ilization, the finest specimens sold
at the posts yield only 30 made beav
ers, or $lB.
By far the largest amount of the
credit received ior furs goes for tobac
co. When an Esquimaux or an Indian
gets 60 made beavers, it is safe to say
that he spends 59 on tobacco. The Es
quimaux, in particular, will sarrifice
almost anything else for it.
They are wonderfully friendly peo
ple among themselves, and it is very
seldom, if ever, that quarrels arise be
tween the people of different districts.
The same thing cannot be said of the
Indians to the east of Hudson bay.
Mr. Spencer is authority for the
rather surprising statement that there
has been no falling off in recent years
in the number of furs sent out of this
country.
Nearly all the white men in this ter
ritory marry squaws, and young chil
dren, too, often grow up neglected.
The only education any of them re
ceive is when a missionary happens
to pass that way, for schools are un
known. —New York Sun.
Mr. iJiiieph Clininberlnln.
Mr. Chamberlain makes his way into
his place, and, before sitting beside
the leader of the house, takes from
the table an order paper of the day.
This, as is generally known, contains
a program of the business to be
transacted at that evening's sitting.
Having seated himself, he studies the
paper intently for a few seconds, and,
having apparently mastered its con
tents, throws it from him with an im
patient gesture. Mr. Chamberlain then
readjusts his eye-glass, thrusts his
legs straight out before him, and looks
round the house. On rising to speak
he places his neatly written notes on
the brass-bound box before him, and,
having put the edges straight, fires
away. Mr. Chamberlain speaks slowly
and uses scarcely any gesture. Most
dangerous when most polite, his face
becomes like a piece of parchment
when roused to anger. In the art of
crushing an adversary by an incon
venient quotation or by some personal
thrust Mr. Chamberlain is unequaled.
It is this gift that makes him as for
midable on the platform as he is in
the House of Commons. At public
meetings he always seems to expect
a few of his old radical friends among
the audience. But woe be to the inter
rupter! Led on by the orator with a
seductive question, his opponent gives
just the reply expected. Back like
lightning comes a crushing retort,
and thenceforth all is smooth sailing.
His perorations are invariably written
out in full ir. his study, and frequently
committed to memory. His voice is
firm and clear, but not very musical;
his enunciation perfect.—Chambers'
Journal.
A Cow Klopen With a Mooae.
The strange story of the elopement
of an ordinary milch cow with a bull
moose comes from Lake Onawa, a
pretty sheet of water in the hflls of
Piscataquis county, much frequented
by sportsmen from the big cities. The
cow was the property of Dr. A. T. San
den, whose cottage is located on the
shore of Onawa, and she was kept in
a pasture enclosed by a rail fence. A
big moose had been several times seen
hanging around the cottage grounds
late at night, displaying great bold
ness. Thursday night he came close
up to where the cow was, and the two
seemed to be good friends. Late at
night a tremendous crash was heard,
and the next morning the fence was a
wreck, and the cow pone. Neither she
nor the moose has been seen since.—
Bangor, (Me..) correspondence o'. tho
Chicago Inter-Ocean.
SOME
THE \,
Poem: Jiu, Bni j
of the Heasun* Why .
Should Abstain From
Liquori-Whl.ky Mock. Hide. .y. "
S tcTsay' r ' Why * rCally ' 1 haven't much
" "V" SS ">«
to *■» •*»
Just what the Temperance Pledge has done
tor Jim and me.
The pail that holds the milk, sir, we used
to fill with beer,
But we haven't spent a cent for drink for
now nearlv a year.
We pay our debts, we're well and strong,
and kind as men can be,
That s what God and the Temperance
1 leuge has done for Jim and me.
We used to sneak along the street, feeling
so mean and low—
We always felt ashamed to meet the
friends we used to know.
We look the world now in the face, and
step off bold and free;
That s what God and the Temperance
r.edge has done for Jim and me.
—Temperance Banner,
A Warning.
Henry Ward Beecher, whose sermons
Jn temperance every young man should
read, said this:
"If you say, 'Yes, I have a natural crav
ing for it,' and then to you I sav, 'That is
the very reason why you should not take
it. If you have no craving for it why
should you peril yourself by it? And if you
have such a craving, surely, if you are
wise, you will not put yourself in danger
by indulging it.' "
L<ook at the thing from the viewpoint of
your own interest.
If you had to employ young men to work
for you you would avoid drinking men.
Then don't drink whisky yourself. Don't
give every successful, conservative man the
best of reasons for mistrusting you.
\ery often moral cowardice underlies the
beginning of a drunken career. There are
ideas of good fellowship associated with
drinking.
A hundred thousand young men drink
every day because they are afraid people
will think they are not "good fellows."
Have the courage to be a good fellow of
the kind that is not pickled in whisky.
When a man wonders at your ordering
some harmless stuff, something free from
alcohol, point to the drunkard at the other
end of the bar and say:
"That man once thought that a bracer
would not hurt him. lam modest enough
to believe that what hurt him mav hurt
me. 1 shall need all my feeble ability to
compete with such geniuses as you other
fellows. Therefore I propose to keep in
tact my brain and the mucous membrane
that lines me."
Remember above all that the truest thing
ever said of strong drink is that it is "a
mocker."
Every Rensation that comes from whisky
is a mockery. Every promise based on
whisky is mockery. The strength of whis
ky is mock strength.
The friendships of whisky are mock
friendships. How often have you seen
such hideous mockeries of friendship
drunken men with arms around each other
protesting friendship eternal? Whisky
mocks hideously all the sacred feelings in
life, and it destroys them all.
Has whisky no work to do? Yes. it has'
an important work. It is the policeman,
the executioner among human beings. It
wipes out the unfit and softens the pain of
their destruction. It wipes out families
unfitted to survive. It shortens the harm
ful career of the spendthrift and of the
man squandering inherited money. It has
its place in medicine, along with strych
nine, arsenic and the other poisons. It
has no place in the constitution, the daily
life, the social pleasures of a normal, self
respecting man.—New York Journal.
Three Evil Practices.
Tn behalf of temperance there are some>
simple things which may be advocated with
good results. Practical business men gen
erally agree that a large part of all the
evils of drunkenness are caused by three
practices, namely, drinking at bars, drink
ing in business hours and the habit of
treating. It is generally agreed by com
mercial travelers, and all who in active life
see human nature at all angles, that more
temptation comes out of these three prac
tices thau from any other source. Treat
ing, especially, is responsible for many
evils. It not only leads to drinking in bar
rooms and in business hours, but it is al
most the sole cause of the excess which,
practiced indefinitely, finally becomes a
habit always difficult to overcome, some
times impossible. Business men are more
and more coming to the decision that
drinking in business hours must be abol
ished. By and by they will go further and
characterize the habit of treating as per
nicious and therefore ungentlemanly, un
social and undesirable. The habit of treat
ing has a ridiculous side. If that could 1«?
fully recognized, the pernicious habit might
be laughed out of existence.
An Kxpert on Drink.
Seved Ribbing, the famous professor ot
nedicine at the Swedish University of
Lund, makes these remarkable statements
in concluding an address on one phase of
the drink curse:
"How large a per cent, of moral down
falls are caused through drink I am unable
to say, but certainly it is not infrequent
that you hear from many a questioned
youth for an answer, 'I was somewhat un
der the influence of liquor.' Through
drunkenness and in drunkenness one ac
customs himself to conditions which, un
der ordinary circumstances, would be re
ligiously shunned. In course of time the
sense of shame is overcome, and silenced,
and the evil habits are looked upon as an
every day necessity. The cases when a
young man will in cold-bloodedness and
with a clear head and with decided inten
tion throw himself into the arms of pros
titution are very seldom in comparison
with those that happen under the influence
of liquor. An English army physician has
shown figuratively that sickness in a troop
is much less among the total abstainers
than with the balance of the men." —Ram's
Horn.
Require Total Abstinence.
As a result of Carrol D. Wright's labo*
bureau investigations it appears that more
than seventy-five per cent, of the employ
ers of skilled labor in the United State#
require total abstinence of their employes,
and fifty per cent, of the employers of un
skilled labor demand the same.
The Crusade In lirlef.
There is a growing tendency among wom>
en to the indulgence of alcoholic beverages.
The clergy could not do a better work
than to lead off in a pledge-signing temper
ance crusade.
So serious has the drawback of beer
drinking workingmen in Germany become,
and so thoroughly is it recognized, that a
movement has been started to exclude the
drink from factories.
In the Struggle for life which social in
dependence engenders there is often the
clement of failure or overstrain, and wom
en, too weak in many instances to bear the
strain, resort to stimulants.