Harvard has discontinued its veter
inary school. It might substitute in
struction ia repairing automobiles.
Spain does not allow any prejudice
to interfere with its purchasing Amer
ican goods. With all its chivalry and
romance, Spain has always had a pret
ty fair conception of the value of a
peso.
The small boy cannot always be
classed as an inveterate nuisance. Two
little nine-year-olders at Kokoma, Ind.,
discovered a broken rail upon a bridge,
an'd through prompt action saved two
passcwger trains from disaster.
A British parlimentary return states
that there are 1305 miles of street
tramway open for traffic in the United
Kingdom. The total capital authoriz
ed is 1209,385,200, and the total num
ber of pasengers carried last year was
1,198,226,758.
The co-eds in the Wurzburg univer*
slt.y, Germany, persisted in wearing
their hats in the lecture rooms, and
the janitor was forced to post a notice
In the entrance hall that unless they
were voluntarily removed thereafter
the offending women "must expect to
have their hats Uken away by force."
After that the hats came off.
A league against dueling has just
been formed in France. Its organizers
intend to found local branches in all
the departments, and their aim is to
bring about the settlement of all af-
by tribunals of honor. The ab
solute principle to be observed by all
the tribunals is that in no case can a
question be settled by the force of
arms.
The Frenchman's weakness for gov
ernment situations is shown by the
fact that for 20 vacant posts as office,
guardians, caretakers, porters, etc., at
the prefecture de la Seine, there were
no fewer than 7000 applications and
35,800 applications were received for
320 vacancies among the office sweep
ers. These candidates were recom
mended by municipal councilors, depu
ties, senators, and even ministers.
The total output of the eight loco
motive building yards in the United
States for the year 1901 was 3384. This
is 231, or 7.3 percent more than in
1900, and is the largest output for any
one year. It is especially interesting,
because the two previous years were
also record-breakers, and the new rec
ord was made with one works closed
tor six months. Of the 3384 loco
motives built last year 337, or not
quite 10 perecent were for export; 825
were compounds.
In a few brief lines from the rock-
Bound Massachusetts coast is con
densed a pitiful tragedy of the sea. A
distressed barge in the offing; a life
boat with a crew of seven to the res
cue; a rush of angry waters engulfing
the little vessel, and then swift death
for six hardy life savers. Not even on
the high seas when hurricans rage is
maritime adventure so dangerous as
the oft-repeated experiences of the
government life-saving crew. And
these heroes, who value not their own
lives, and take no heed of fame, are
paid starvation wages by the govern
ment for 10 months in each year, and
are laid off without pay during the re
maining two months! Unenlightened
selfishness, indeed! exclaims the Phil
adelphia Record.
The neglect of roads that were re
cently good, and that with a little ex
penditure of money, work and sense,
might be kept so forever, is, without
a doubt, a consequence of the disuse
of the bicycle. Whatever may be said
of that vehicle, remarks the Brooklyn
Eagle, "its value in extending well
paved streets and well-laid roads is
unquestioned. So long as a million of
wheels were in use there was a com
mon demand for roads on which one
could ride them. With pleasure riding
came collateral advantages. The
country inns, roadhouses and stores
were better kept than ever before;
work was found for mechanics at re
pair shops; the farmers had a more ac
tive demand for their products, in view
of the increased business of provincial
hotels and restaurants; real estate val
ues, even, were favorably affected. But
the riding of bicycles for pleasure has
almost ceased. It is too bad. Our
well-made paths and wheel ways,
which four or five years ago were gay
with a whirling throng, which at night
sparkled with moving lights, which
were lined with inns whence came
cheerful sounds of music and merry
making, are scenes of melancholy, the
occasional and lonely rider emphasiz
ing their deserted aspect. The road
houses are closed and falling into de
cay, weeds springing about their lit
tle lawns and gardens, or snow drift- (
ing over their once populous verandas.
Gatling, the gun man, has Invented a
plow that does the work of 60 horses.
But what can the ordinary farmer do
with a contrivance of that kind?
The vote of Nevada fluctuates very
little. In 1892 it was 10,878; In 1894,
10.508; in 1896, 10,305; in 1898, 10,011,
and in 1900, 10,196. No other state in
the Union has such a record of an al
most stationary vote.
A once popular play hinged upon a
paper hidden in"The Leather Patch"
on a pair of trousers. Truth, thus dar
ed by fiction, now produces from th«
hollow wooden leg of a Trenton junk
man |15,000 a will and a temperance
pledge. Fiction always was outclassed
in this match.
Bermuda is to be equipped with th»
largest floating dock in the world. Th«
structure was recently launched at
Wallsend, England, having been con
structed there for the British govern
ment. It has a lifting capacity of 17,-
500 tons, and an area of 69,000 squan
feet. It will, therefore, accommodate
the largest battleship afloat.
The annual report of the farmers
cooperative society in lowa, shows thai
last year it handled and marketed pro
ducts to the value of $616,294, at ar
expense of $4030. It is claimed that
the amount saved by the society dur
ing the year ended July 9, 1901, on th«
basis of the volume of business done
was $86,000, which would give its 60(
members an average of $1403 mor«
than they would have received if thej
had marketed their products in th«
old way.
It often happens that the introductioi
of an invention intended to take th«
place of something already in use, ao
tually results in increasing the use o!
the latter. The telephone, for exam
ple, as many people thought, woulc
take the place of the telegraph to t
groat extent; on the contrary, while its
use is constantly increasing, the use o)
the telegraph is increasing, too. It ii
the same with the electric light anc
illuminating gas. Census reporti
show that the use of gas, in spite o:
the introduction of the electric lighi
in buildings of all kinds, includinf
private dwellings, has steadily in
creased during the past 10 years.
As a result of the Anglo-Japanes«
agreement it is expected that then
will be something like a vogue of Jap
anese fabrics and styles in the fash
ionable English world. The consum
mation of the Franco-Russian pact
was for several years the dominant
factor in the creation of the Parisiar
modists and milliners; hats, cloakt
and gowns were made to suggest it
their outline or decoration, the Cos
sack tradition. In similar manner, It
is predicted that some modifications o)
the quaint Japanese robes and packets
hairdressing, etc., will find their waj
into the toilet of the English gentle
woman, where the kimono indeed has
already established itself.
The Philadelphia Record quotes th«
following' letter from Pulaski F
Hyatt, United States Consul at Santia
go, Cuba: "As the question of land
ownership in Cuba is under discussion
for your information I write to saj
that, so far as sugar plantations wen
concerned before the Spanish-Ameri
can war, out of forty-seven sugar plan
tations within my consular district o!
Santiago and its dependencies no)
one belonged to a person who claimec
to be a citizen of Cuba. By far th<
larger share belonged to British sub
jects, although long residents upon thi
island. The balance was pretty even
ly divided between French, Germai
and Spanish citizens, while two be
longed to American citizens —on*
small one to Chester A. Whitney, neai
Santiago, the other to a man by th«
name of Rigley, near Manzanillo."
The Egyptian pyramids are soon tt
come out of their darkness of 500<
years, and will be accesslbli
to all tourists. General Direo
tor Maspero, of the society whlci
has in charge the preservatloi
of the antiquities of the country, hai
been experimenting with the electric
light, and began his work on the tem
ple of Karnak, at Thebes. The exper
iment met with so much approval that
he has decided to light the inner pas
sages and catacombs of the great pyr
amids. This will provide Egyptiai
tourists with new attractions, and thej
will be able to penetrate to the inner
most recesses of the pyramids. Th«
lighting will be of especial value tc
women, who have confined their inves
tigations of the pyramids of the left
shore of the Nile to climbing up oi
the outside, as they were afraid of th«
intense darkness within. With th«
introduction of the electric light th«
tombs of the Pharaohs will be accessi
ble to all.
| ASTRAY IN THE NIGHT, j
By NORMAN DUNCAN.
In order to reach Lake Kamiehou,
where Ellerton had his adventure, you
take train at Quebec for the back
country, and when you have been
jolted over 200 miles or more of that
rickety road, you are put off In a
wilderness of pine and tangled under
brush —in the dusk a forsaken, ghost
ly place—fearfully silent when the
train has puffed out of hearing.
Thence you go by canoe down a tor
tuous, fussy little stream —dodging
boulders, picking the way through
noisy rapids, paddling laboriously
through long stretches of slow, back
water —until you sweep out into the
head waters of the Kamiehou. In
the twilight you make the lower end
of the lake, where you find hard
ground and a clear space to pitch
your camp. If you love this patch of
unspoiled wilderness as some men do,
you look back over the quiet water,
and upon the wooded shores, which
rise to the sky, now all aglow, and
you know that you are happy to have
escaped for a time from the life you
have left in the cities.
"I have heard you say, Ellerton,"
said I, one evening, when the day's
fishing had been well done and we
were loafing blissfully on the shore,
"that you had an adventure here."
"About CO seconds long," said he.
"Not long enough to turn a man's
hair gray," said I, with a laugh.
"I don't know about that," he re
sponded, soberly. "I don't know about
that. Seconds seem to be very long
sometimes. A minute is not like a
minute when death stares you in the
face."
"But you escaped," said I.
"That's the ridiculous part of it,"
said Ellerton.
"Well," said I, "you've time to tell
the story before we take a swim."
"Swim!" said he, with a shudder.
"I think I'll not go in tonight. I've
already recalled vividly enough the
minute of horror I had off the point
there."
"And that is the story?" said I.
"Yes," said he, "you're right. It was
my first summer on the Kamiehou,
when I was in happy ignorance of
how dens a real Kamiehou fog may
be. I was here with Jack Black, of
our company, who had made this
his fishing ground for year's. I was
his guest, in fact, and therefore bound
In politeness to follow where he led.
Wo had spent the early part of the
ifternoon whipping the streams above
Moose brook, and we had oome slowly
Jown the lake, casting from the boat,
:urn about, until we were a mile above
'.he point., and well out over deep wa
ter. Then we let the boat drift, and
Sofh took to fishing.
"It had been lowering all day. Dull
ilouds hung in the sky from the hills
tc, the hills, and turned the waters of
the lake black. It was hot. gray,
lamp—oppressively 'muggy,' indeed,
as Jack had said. It was not long
before a roll of thunder sounded from
the northeast. Then on the instant a
certain nervous depression, which
mvariably falls upon mo with the ap
proach of a storm, strongly asserted
Itself; and I looked about in some
apprehension.
" 'Jack,' said I, 'it's going to blow
hard, probably; it's going to rain hard,
anyway. I think we'd better pull in.'
"'Oh, pshaw!' said Jack. 'Rain
won't hurt us.'
"Black clouds were crowding up
from the northeast. I could readily
distinguish them from the unbroken
gray of the sky overhead, and it
seemed to me that a wind had torn
their edges to tatters. The rain had
hidden the hills, and I could see it
sweeping over the lake toward us.
"We caught only the edge of the
etorm, however. It was nothing more,
after all, than a heavy summer show
er. It cleared the sky for a time and
left the water unruffled. We were
drenched, to be sure, and I had the.
boat to bail out, but we were well
content; and so we fished on until the
evening came down, and I caught
sight of the first star.
" 'Now, Jack,' said I, 'we had better
get in.'
"Jack is at this moment somewhere
In the interior of Newfoundland, where
the mosquitoes are as big as horse
flies, and gather, so the visitors say,
in clouds which darken the sun. The
salmon are proportionately large and
plentiful. That man is after them.
Neither distance, hardship nor expense
can dampen the ardor with which he
pursues the game flsh. You will not
wonder, then, when I say that all the
polite persuasion I could bring to bear
upon him on this occasion was of no
effect.
" 'Your wife will be growing anx
ious,' said I, at last.
" 'Oh, no,' said he, placidly, 'she
won't expect me for an hour yet.'
VWe were then half a mile offshore
—just beyond the edge of the sand
bars. The lower end of the lake, here,
for something less than half a mile
from the outlet, is not at any place
more than four feet deep, and in many
spots it is much less than that. The
shallows are many acres in extent,
though to all appearances, when the
water is turbid, the depth might be
unfathomable. Beyond, through all
the twelve miles of the lake, it is deep
—even to within a few yards of the
shore.
"We were lying, as I say, just be
yond the sand-bars, when I saw a
thick, white mist begin to creep from
the shore out upon the water. Then
it seemed to gather in all directions
about us: but the heaviest cloud came
across from the marsh-lands in the
west.
"It was an inoffensive thing at first,
and I saw no danger in It. It lay close
to the water—a fleecy, white cloud,
sweeping gracefully toward us. It was
only when we were enveloped—when
the shore line had become indistinct
and, growing dimmer yet, disappeared
—that I was startled by the thought
that there might be some difficulty in
making land.
"'I say,' I called to Jack, in alarm,
'you know your way about here pretty
well, don't you?'
"Jack glanced up and a perplexed
look overspread his face. He gazed
about him in every direction for a
moment, but he saw nothing save a
circle of black water about the boat
and a white wall roundabout and
overhead. I wondered which way the
camp lay—even, in fact, which way
the shallows lay. I was utterly con
fused. The breeze had failed, and
there was no perceptible current. No
where was there visible any object by
which our position might be fixed.
" 'I think,' said I, 'that the boat was
heading due north when last I saw the
shore, but I'm not certain. It was
most certainly northerly, at any rate.'
" 'Why,' said Jack, confidently, 'I
know this lake so well that I could
smell my way ashore, if there was no
other way.'
"We were in no danger whatever.
At most, it appeared, the discomfort
of spending a night on the water was
all that we had to fear. But have
you not remarked how suddenly great
perils may come? How, in a twink
ling. men pass from a safe place into
an overwhelming, deadly danger? And
how the situation may be precipitated
by the very silghtest miscalculation?
" 'Now I'll row you ashore,' said
Jack, as he put up his fishing tackle
and took the oars.
"He began to turn the boat about.
He pulled vigorously on his left oar
and backed water quite as energetical
ly with his right. This he kept up for
a much longer time than 1 thought
sufficient to turn the boat's head to the
south. I was not, however, in any po
sition to make suggestions. The power
in Jack's strokes gradually decreased,
until he came to a full stop. He gar.ed
intently this way and that. Then, find
ing nothing to arrest his eye, he turned
suddenly to me.
" 'Which way does she head now?'
he asked.
" 'I think you have turned too far.'
" 'I don't think I have turned far
enough,' said he.
" 'lf you were to row on a straight
course as she heads now,' I said, 'you
would land somewhere near the head
waters of the lake.'
"Jack rowed doggedly on the course
of his choosing for half an hour or
more without developing anything to
give us a clue to our whereabouts.
Night added to the obscurity. We
might have been on a shoreless waste
of water for all that we were able to
see. The midst made the night im
penetrable. I could but dimly dis
tinguish Jack's form, although he sat
not more than five feet from me; soon
I could not see him at all. At last he
lifted his oars and, as I Inferred,
looked over the bow.
" 'lt's a wonder,' he said, 'that they
don't show a light at the camp.'
" 'I still think your course is wrong.'
said I. 'At any rate, no torchlight at
the,camp could possibly penetrate this
mist. Had we not better decide to lie
here until morning?'
" 'We can't do that.' Jack answered,
with a kind of fierceness in his tone.
'My wife would be too anxious. We
must make the camp."
"I heard the oars rattle in the row
locks and the splash of the blades in
the water. The boat moved forward.
Jack was rowing strongly—almost an
grily. It was plain that he was losing
his temper. It is hard enough for a
man to walk in a straight line with his
eyes blindfolded; it is much harder to
row a straight course over smooth wa
ter in the dark. No inexperienced man
can do it. He fails to realize that his
right arm is much stronger than his
left; even though he may do this, he
cannot measure out equal strength to
his arms. I was reasonably certain
that Jack was rowing in a wide circle.
When his breath came in gasps and his
strokes were slow and labored, I said:
" 'Let me have a go at it, Jack.'
" 'All right, said he, 'we'll change.
Perhaps you'll have better luck than I.'
" 'Be careful,' said I. 'We're over
deep water here.'
"He let the oars swing to the side,
and I made ready to steady the boat. I
heard him rise. The boat rocked a
little. He is a heavy man, and some
what unsteady on his feet. It was so
dark that I could not see him; only
then did I know that he was on his
feet, waiting for me. I rose in the
stern myself, and with the utmost cau
tion advanced a step, stretching out
my hands as I did so. I swayed to the
left —fairly lurched. Have you never,
in deep darkness, suddenly felt a loss
of power to keep your equilibrium?
You open your eyes to their widest.
Nothing is to be seen. You have no
longer, if I may so phrase it, a sense
of perpendicularity. You sway this
way and that, groping for something
to keep you from falling. Thus I
felt.
" 'Are you ready?' said Jack.
" 'All ready,' said I.
"I made a second step forward;
again the boat rocked, againg the dark
ness confused me, and I had to regain
my balance. In that pause it struck
me with unpleasant force that we were
both poor swimmers, weighted with
great fishing boots; and I recalled that
we had seen the boat sink, although
she was empty, when we had washed
her out, the day before. 'lf she were
full of water now,' I thought, .'she
would flutter from under our feet.' A
third half-crawling advance brought
me within reach of Jack. He caught
my outstretched hands and drew me
forward until we were very close.
" 'Look out!' he cried.
"I had crept too far to the right
The boat teetered alarmingly. We
caught each other about the middle
and crouched down waiting, rigid, un
til she had come to an even keel.
" 'Now!' said Jack.
"I made the attempt to pass him
The foothold was uncertain; the dark
ness was inconceivably confusing. 1
moved to the side, but so great was my
agitation that I miscalculated, and the
boat tipped suddenly under my weight.
The cold water syept over the gun
wale. I Bhould have fallen bodily from
the boat had it not been for Jack's
strong clutch upon my arm. In the
light we might have steadied ourselves;
in the dark we could not. Jack drew
me back—but too hurriedly, too
strongly, too far. The side of the
boat over which I had almost fallen
leaped high in the air and the opposite
gunwale was submerged. Jack released
me, and I collapsed into a sitting posi>-
tion in the bottom. Instinctively I
grasped the gunwales, and endeavored
frantically to right the boat. I felt
the water slowly curling over.
" 'She's sinking,' said Jack, quietly.
"'Yes!' I gasped.
"The boat sank very slowly, gently
swaying from side to side. I could see
nothing, and all I could hear was the
gurgle and hissing of the water as it
curled over the gunwales and eddied
about the boat. I felt the water rise
over my legs—creep to my waist —rise
to my chest —and still ascend! I think
through those seconds all my faculties
were suspended, although one great
problem was clear enough before me:
If I could not row ashore, how could I
swim ashore? Where was the land? A
yard or a mile off? In which direction
would it be best to strike out to make
the most of the little strength I had?
Could Jack take care of himself? If
not, how could I best help him? These
questions were before me, but I was
incapable of answering them. I had
not one clear plan that I can now re
call. I did not breathe. I did not
move. I waited. The water rose to
my shoulders —to my neck —to my
chin! Then I felt a slight shock, and
it rose no more. There was a moment
of deep silence.
" 'We have grounded,' said Jack,
tremulously.
" 'Your course was right,' said I.
'We have been over the sand-bars all
the time.' "
Ellerton paused for a moment. He
looked over the Kamiehou, now almost
covered by the night, to the waters off
the point.
"It was just off the point, there," he
continued. "We had been rowing in a
circle over the shallows —probably very
seldom in deep water. We sank in
three feet and a half of water. It was
not difficult to make the land. We
lifted the boat and turned the water
out of her. Then we waded ashore,
guided by the depth of the water, and
dragged the boat after us. In half an
hour we were at the camp. As 1 said
in the beginning," Ellerton concluded,
"the escape was the ridiculous part of
the adventure. But sixty seconds some
times make more than a minute." —
Youth's Companion.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
The largest sum ever spent in im
proving one street was $14,300,000 on
the Rue de Rivoli, Paris. New Can
non street, London, cost $2,950,000.
The greatest bay in the world is that
of Bengal. Measured in a straight
line from two enclosing peninsulas its
extent is about 420,000 square miles.
Farthing breakfasts, consisting of
coffee, bread and butter and jam, are
now being provided by the Salvation
army for poor children in Newcastle,
Eng.
The Eskimo have a queer manner
of wrestling. The wrestlers sit down
on the floor, back to back, and lock
arms. A wrestling match is a test of
strength to determine which can
straighten out the other's arms.
The tail of a flsh is his sculling oar.
He moves it first on one side and
then on the other, using his flns as
balances to guide his motion. If the
fish is moving fast and wants to stop,
he straightens out his flns, just as the
rower of a boat does his oars.
Carp are wild animals, according to
a recent decision of a London police
court. Seven hundred of the fishes
had been exposed for sale in a small
tank, where they naturally died, and it
was held that the owner was guilty Oi
a violation of the cruelty to wliu ani
mals act.
Persians still believe that human
tears are a remedy for certain chronic
diseases, reports a physician just re
turned from Persia. At every funeral
the bottling of mourner's tears is one
of the chief features of the ceremo
nies. Each of the mourners is present
ed with a sponge with which to moy
off his face and eyes, and after burial
these sponger are presented to the
priest, who squeezes the tears into bot
tles, which he keeps. This custom is
one of the oldest known in the east,
and has probably been practiced oy
the Persians for thousands of years.
Opal*.
He —Are you superstitious about
opals?
She —Well I think it's unlucky to
lose a chance of getting one.—Phila
delphia Press.
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
The Whisky Itoad—Many Million* of Men
Walk This Path to Destruction—The
Able Man Who Drinks Temperately
Starts Many on the Path.
We are well aware that among those
who drink a great many lead livea of self
control. Drink does not conquer them.
It gives excitement without serious dam
age. It may even make life really more
agreeable.
There are thousands of self-controlled
drinkers —self-controlled for the present
at least.
Each of these is apt to look upon him
self as proof of the fact that drinking is
not necessarily harmful.
But each of these, especially if a con
spicuously successful man, is one of the
most dangerous men in the community.
Weak young men follow the example of
those whom they admire.
If the successful business man drinks,
and controls himself, his weak clerk fol
lows his example and does not control
himself.
Many a poor creature has gone to jail,
indignantly prosecuted by his employer—
by tne very man from whom he learned
his bad habits.
We write to-day to urge upon successful
men, upon all temperate drinkers, this
fact:
You can of course do as you please with
yourself—but don't put temptation in the
way of others.
If you have a son of fifteen you would
be furious at any man who should tell him
that a little whisky would not hurt him.
Yo* would call the giver of such advice a
villain. But many a grown man, weak in
character, lacks the moral strength of a
young boy.
Remember that what you can stand,
others cannot stand. When drink is dis
cussed, think of the harm it does, think
of the women and children made miserable
by it, think of the pitiless slavery that it
inflicts on mankind.
Never say a good word for whisky or
for any of its fellow troublers of civiliza
tion.
You are a responsible part of the human
race. You have no right to be indifferent
to the effect of your example on others.
The greater your own strength of charac
ter the more followers you will have. Lead
them on the path that will keep them free
from harm.
You are powerful and fearless. Do not
on that account encourage the weak to
pick a quarrel with an enemy that will
vanquish them.
Perhaps you ask:
Do you expect to stop the sale of strong
drinks? Have you any idea that ineu will
ever stop drinking whisky?
To that we must answer "No."
While millions of men live dull, unsatis
fied lives, they will seek and find artificial
excitement.
While competition, overwork, strained
nerves and ignorance of right living tor
ment mankind, strong drink will be used
to give false rest, artificial aid to digestion
and to "let down" the nervous tension.
We have no hope of reforming humanity.
It cannot be reformed. It must be
strong enough and happy enough to turn
aside from the stimulant that it will not
longer need.
We have no hope of wholesale reform.
You cannot take medicine from the sick,
or whisky from the miserable in spirit.
But you can give good suggestions, you
can plant good resolutions in the breasts
of many. And that we hope to do.
We discuss temperance on this page
and ask each reader to decide what is best
forhim.
Never mind why others drink. What
is best for you?
Never mind the good excuses which cer
tain drunkards offer —what excuse can you
offer if you fail to give yourself a chance?
—New York Journal.
Temperance in the Army.
An order urging a temperance reform in
the army has been promulgated by Secre
tary Root, by direction of President
Roosevelt. The orders refers to immoral
ity in the service, and says it is the duty
of officers to point out to their men the
terrible effects of excesive indulgence in
strong drink. The order says:
"By direction of the President, the at
tention of the officers and enlisted men of
the army, especially of those serving in
tljp tropics and away from home, is called
to the following facts:
"The only really efficient way in which
to control the diseases due to immorality
is to diminish the vice which is the cause
of these diseases. Excessive indulgence in
strong drink is absolutely certain to ruin
any man, physically ana morally; while
disease due to licentiousness produces ef
fects which are quite as destructive and
even mor loathsome.
"It is the duty of regimental, and partic
ularly of company, officers, to try by pre
cept and example to point out to the men
under their control, and particularly to
the younger men, the inevitable misery
and disaster which follow upon intemper
ance and upon moral uncleanliness and
vicious living. The officers should, of
course, remember always that the effect
of what they say must largely depend
upon the lives they themselves lead. It
is in the highest degree necessary that
each officer should be an example to his
men in the way of temperate and cleanly
living.
"Every effort should be made to promote
throughout the army a cleanly and moral
tone in word no less than in deed. As a
nation we feel keen pride in the valor,
discipline and steadfast endurance of our
soldiers, and hand in hand with these
qualities must go the virtues of self-re
straint, self-respect and self-control."
A New Way to Keforin.
B. F. Stevick. of Council Bluffs. lowa,
has caused to oe published in all news
papers of that city this notice addressed
to the saloon keepers:
"My downfall and domestic troubles
are all caused by drinking. I have said
several times that I would quit, but 1
never did quit. Now my wife has filed a
suit for divorce, and 1 realize what a fool
1 have been. I have notified all saloon
keepers not to sell me liquor, and have
told them I would prosecute them after
ward if they did so. When my friends ask
me to drink the bartender will refuse to
serve me. My wife has consented to with
draw her suit and I intend to brace up.
The saloons that sell me liquor will have
a damage suit on their hands." —The True
Reformer.
Need of Total Abstinence.
Under the auspices of the ministerial
association of Joliet, 111., a notable tem
perance mass meeting was held recently,
The speakers were bankers, judges, iner
chants, teachers, railway managers, edit
ors and workingmen. All bore testimony
to the need of total abstinence by the mac
who succeeds in life. Earnest, thoughtful
appeals were made for a higher grade ol
citizenship, which will banish the saloon.
Record of Hard Drinkers.
Drunkards in Germany will for the fu
ture be sternly looked after by the State,
Each town must keep a record of all the
hard drinkers, and the city medical men
are bound to report those who habitually
imbibe to excess, so that the authorities
may weed out the black sheep and sub
ject them to a strict course of treatment.
llralns Sodden With Beer.
A Munich manufacturer recently de'
clared that the cheapness of native beer
was his greatest handicap. "The fact that
iry men s bodies and brains arc sodden
with beer, day and night, puts me behind
American manufacturers in the race."