j y WJmm ILLUSTRATIONS COPYRIGHT 1908 bf THE COPYRIGHT 1909 hy THE 8YN0PSI3. Count dl Rnslnl. th Italian ambas sador, is at dinner with diplomats In M national capita! when a messenR-er brlnns a note directing lilm to come to the enilmssy at once. Here a beautiful young woman asks that she be Riven a ticket to the embassy bull. The tick et Is nmdu nut In the name of Miss Is abel Thnrne. Chief Campbell of the secret service, and Mr. Grimm, his head detective, are warned that a plot of the Latin races avninst the English speak ing races Is brewing In Washington, ami Qrlmm goes to the state ball for Information. In a conservatory his at tention is called to Miss Isabel Thome. CHAPTER III. (Continued.) Senorlta Rodriguez laughed, and Mr. Orlmm glanced Idly toward Miss Thorne. she was still talking, her face alive with Interest; and the fan was still tapping rhythmically, stead ily, now on the arm of her chair. "Dotdashdot ! Dot-dash dot! Dot dash dot! Dot-dash-dot !" "Pretty women who don't want to be stared at should go with their faces swathed," Mr. Grimm suggested, Indo lently. "Haroun el Raschid there would agree with me on that point, I have no doubt What a shock he would get if he should happen up at Atlantic City for a week-end In Au gust!" "Dotdashdot! Dot-dash-dot! Dot dashdot!" Mr. Qrlmm read 1t with perfect un derstanding; It was "F F F" in the Morse code, the tall of one operator to another. Was It accident? Mr. Orlmm wondered, and wondering, he went on talking lazily: "Curious, Isn't It, the smaller the na tion tho more color It crowdB into the uniforms of Us diplomats? The Brit ish ambassador, you will observe. Is clothed sanely nnd modestly, as befits the representative of a great nation; but coming on down by way of Spain and Italy, thoy get more gorgeous. However, I dure say as stout a heart beats beneath a sky-blue snsb as be hind the embellished black of evening dress." "F F F," the fan was calling In Intently. And then tho answer came. It took the unexpectedly prosaic form of a vio lent Bnecze, a vociferous outburst In a bench directly behind Mr. Qrlmm. Bonorlta Rodriguez Jumped, then toughed, nervously. "It startled me," she explained. "I think there must be a draft from the conservatory," said a mnn's voice Pologetlonlly. "Do you ladles feel It? No? Well, If you'll excuse me?" Mr. Orlmm glanced back languidly. The speaker was Charles Wlnthrop Rankin, a brilliant young American lawyer who was attnehed to the Ger man embassy In an advisory capacity. Among other things he was a Heldol berg man, having spent some dozen yenrs of his life in Germany, where ho established Influential connections. Mr. Grimm knew him only by sight. And now the rhythmical tapping of Miss Thome's fan underwent a change. There was a flutter of gaiety 'n her voice the while the Ivory fan '"PPed steadily. "Dot-dot-dot Dash! Dash-dash-dash! Dot-dot-dash! Dash!" "S t 6 u t," Mr. Grimm read In Morse. He laughed pleasantly at some remark of his companion. "DaBhdash! Dot-dash! Dash-dot!" said the fan. "M a n," Mr. Grimm spelled It ut. the while his listless eyes roved aimlessly over the throng. "S t 6 t m a n!" Was It meant for stout man?" Mr. Qrlmm wondered. "Dot-dash-dot! Dot! Dash-dot dot!" "F-e d," that waa. "Dot-dot-dash-dot! Dot-dash! Dash-dot-daah-dot! Dot!" "0 a j e!" Mr. Grimm was puzzled a little now. but there was not 4 wrinkle, nor the tiniest indication of j'uieziiy m nia face. Instead he be ,san talking of Raphael's cherubs, the r r JACQUES fUTRELLE by M.Q.Ifettivf ASSOCIATED .SUNDAY MAGAZINES B0BD3 - MERRILL COMPAJsy remark being called Into life by the high complexion of a young man who was passing. Miss Thorne glanced at him keenly, her splendid eyes fairly aglow, and the fan rattled on In the code. "Dash-dot! Dot! Dot dash! Dot dashdot!" "N e a f." Mr. Grimm was still spelling It out. Then came a perfect Jumble. Mr. Grimm followed It with difficulty, a difficulty utterly belied by the quizzi cal lines about his mouth. As be caught it. It was like this: "J 5 n s e f v a t 5 f," followed by an arbitrary signal which Is not In the Morse code: "Dash-dot-dash-dash!" Mr. Grimm, carefully stored that jumble away In some recess of his brain, along with the unknown signal. "D 5 5 f," he read, and then, on to the end:: "B f I n g 6 v e f w h e n g g 6 e s." That was all, apparently. The soft clatter of the fan against the arm of tho chair ran on meanlnglessly after that. "May I bring you an Ice?" Mr. Grimm asked at last "If you will, please," responded the senorlta, "and when you come back I'll reward you by presenting you to Miss Thorne. You'll find her charm ing; and Mr. Cndwallader has monop olized her long enough." Mr. Grimm bowed and left her. He had barely disappeared when Mr. Rankin lounged along In front of Miss Thorne. He glanced at her, paused and greeted her effusively. "Why, Miss Thorne!" he exclnlmed. "I'm delighted to see you here. I un derstood you would not be present, and " Their hands met In a friendly clasp as she rose and moved away, with a nod of excuse to Mr. Cadwallader. A until they came to another door open ing into the hall. Chief Campbell pushed It open, and entered. Ono of bis men stood Just Inside. "Whnt was it, Gray?" asked the chief. "Senor Alvarez of the Mexican le gation, was shot," was the reply. "Dead?" thin slip of paper, thrice folded, passed from Mr. Rankin to her. She tugged at her glove, and thrust the lit tle paper, still folded, inside the palm. "Is It yes, or no?" Miss Thorne asked In a low tone. "Frankly, I can't say," was the re ply. "He read the message," Bhe ex plained hastily, "and now be bos gone tq decipher It." She gathered up her trailing skirts over one arm, and together they glided away through the crowd to the strains of a Strauss waltz. "I'm going to faint In a moment," she said quite calmly to Mr. Rankin. "Please have me sent to the ladles' dressing-room." "I understand," he replied quietly. CHAPTER IV. The Fleeing Woman. Mr. Grimm went straight to a quiet nook of the smoking-room and there, after a moment, Mr. Campbell Joined him. The bland benevolence of the chief's face was disturbed by the slightest questioning uplift of his brows as he dropped luto a seat op posite Mr. Grimm, and lighted a cigar. Mr. Grimm raised his hand, and a servant who stood near, approached them. "An Ice here," Mr. Grimm directed, tersely. The servant bowed and disappeared, and Mr. Grlmra hastily scribbled some thing on a sheet of paper and handed It to his chief. "There is a reading. In the Morse code, of a message that seems to be unintelligible," Mr. Grimm explained. "I have reason to believe it Is In the Continental code. Tou know the Con tinental I don't." Mr. Campbell read this: "St5ut man fed qaje near JSnacf atiif," and then came the unknown, dnsh-dot-dash-dash. "Thnt," he ex plained, "Is Y In the Continental code." It went on: "d55f bflng Gver when g g5es." The chief read It ofT glibly: "Stout man, red face, near conserv atory door. Bring over when G goes." "Very well!," commented Mr. Grimm ambiguously. With no word of explanation, he rose and went out, pausing at the door to take the Ice which the servant was bringing In. The seat where he bad left Senorlta Rodriguez was vacant; so was the chair where Miss Thorne had been. lie glanced about Inquir ingly, and a servant who stood stolid ly near the conservatory door ap proached him. "Pardon, sir, but the lady who was sitting here," and ho Indicated the chair where Miss Thorne had been Bit ting, "fainted while dancing, and the lady who was with you went nlong when she was removed to the ladles' dressing-room, sir." Mr. Grimm's teeth closed with a llt tlo r.nap. "Did you happen to notice any time this evening a stout gentleman, with red face, near the conservatory door?" he asked. The servant pondered a moment, then shook his head. "No, sir." "Thank you." Mr. Orlmm was Just turning away, when there enme the sharp, vibrant era-a-sh! of a revolver, somewhere off to his left. The president! That was his first thought. Ono glance across the room to where the chief executive stood, In conversation with two other gentlemen,- reassured him. The chol eric blue eyes of the president had opened a little at the sound, then he calmly resumed the conversation. Mr. Grimm Impulsively started toward the little group, but already a cordon was being drawn there a cordon of quiet faced, keen-eyed men, unobtrusively forcing their way through tho crowd. There was Johnson, and Hastings, and Blair, and half a dozen others. The room had been struck dumb, Then dancers stopped, with tense, n- quiring looks, and the plaintive whine of the orchestra, far away, faltered, then ceased. There was one brief Instant of utter silence In which white- facet! women clung to the arms of their escorts, and the brilliant galaxy of colors halted. Then, after a mo ment, there came clearly through tho stillness, the excited, guttural com mand of the German ambassador. "Keep on blaylng, you tarn fools! Keep on blaylng!" The orcnestra started again tremu lously. Mr. Grimm nodded a silent approval of the ambassador's com mand, then turned away to his left. In the direction of the shot. After the first dismay, there was a general move ment of the crowd In that direction, a movement which was checked by Mr. Campbell's appearance upon a chair, with a smile on his blnnd face. "No harm done," he called. "One of the officers present dropped his re volver, and It was accidentally dis charged. No harm done." There was a moment's excited chat ter, deep-drawn breaths of relief, the orchestra swung again Into the Inter rupted rhythm, and the dancers moved on. Mr. Orlmm went straight to his chief, who had stepped down from the chair. Two other secret Bervlce men stood behind him, block ing the doorway that opened Into a narrow hall. "This way," directed the chief tersely. Mr. Grimm walked along beside him. They skirted the end of tho ballroom "Only wounded. He's In that room," nnd he Indicated a door a little way down the hall. "Falrchlld, two serv ants and a physician are with him." "Who shot him?" "Don't know. We found him lying In the ball here." Still followed by Mr. Grimm, the chief entered the room, and together they bent over the wounded man. The bullet had entered the torso Just be low the ribs on the left side. "It's a clean vound," tho physician was explaining. "The bullet passed through. There's no Immediate dan ger. Senor Alvarez opened his eyes, and stared about him In bewilderment; then alarm overspread his fare, nnd he mado spasmodic efforts to reach the Inside brenst pocket of his coat. Mr. Grimm obligingly thrust his hand Into the pocket and drew out Its con tents, the while Senor Alvarez strug gled frantically. "Just ft moment," Mr. Grimm ad vised quietly. "I'm only going to let you see If It Is here. Is It?" He held the papers, one by one, In front of tho wounded man, and each time a shake of the head was his un Bwer. At last Senor Alvarez, closed his eyes again. (TO UK CONTINUED.) ANCIENT ISRAEL USED INK Writings of Bible Times Inscribed on Potsherds Have Been Found In Samaria. "Thnt the ancient Israelites had a cheap and easy method of tending writ ten messages which was In fairly com mon use Is now an established fact, eald George A. Relsncr. assistant pro fessor of Egyptology at Harvard, who for the last fourteen years has been conducting excavations In Egypt and Palestine. Professor Relsner Just re turned on the Campania. "We were excavating In Samaria, once capital of the northern kingdom of Israel, In 1908, when we came upon the palace of the Israelite kings. Last sunimer we found on the floor of one of the chambers of the palace a number of potsherds and on these shards were written message; they related to tithes or taxes paid to the king, and were written in an ink made of pure carbon or lampblack. These, perhaps, are the earliest specimens of Israelite work contemporaneous with the Bible. They were written In the reign of King Ahab." New York Evening Post Right In Hit Line. "Here's an Interesting article in this newspaper entitled, 'The Art of Rest ing.' " "Better send it to Wil'owby." . "Why?" "His wife runs a boarding bouse." TITUS SECURES HISTORICAL OLD BAT ?4i .P U y mm ?fmmm: John Titus, Philadelphia Right Fielder. John Titus, the Philadelphia right fielder, is using a bat that has some history connected with It. In 1894 Captain Anson discovered a piece of timber that he considered Ideal wood lor a baseball bat and he proceeded to have It turned Into a cudgel. Anson In his day merely had to swing It and the ball would go to the fence. It Is so heavy, however, that many an ordinary player would hardly care to handle It. When Pop Anson retired from the game he retained this groat stick as a treasure. At last when the former star's belongings went under the hammer. Pat Moran purchased this Cub third baseman Doyle looks like a merry clouter. Those cork center balls certainly do Improve the hitting. Charley Hall is proving the ready rescuer of the Red Sox. It will be about a month before games are won or lost by one or two hits. It Is no particular honor to bat only .300 nowndays. To be a star a player must bat about .BOO. - San Francisco and Portland are hav ing a great fight for the honors In tho Pacific Coast league. G rover Cleveland Alexander Is the full nnaie of the young pitching phe nom. who has been helping the Phil lies keep In front Savannah. In the South Atlantle league, hears the unique distinction of having nn outfield of three players who broke Into baseball as first base men. ICddie PhelpB continues to be the catching sensation of the Eastern league. His throwing Is said to bo letter perfuct and he Is hitting like a fiend. "Walt until the fields become hard and sunbaked," writes one critic of the new ball, "then see what troubles the fielders will have trying to Judge tho bounds." The athlete can learn better base ball on the prairies than In school, but he should learn sportsmanship In school, a thing hard to acquire In the prairie games. Gov. John K. Toner of Pennsylva nia, the former Chicago National leaguer, Is putting in much of his of ficial time around Philadelphia, and llkeB to see the games. Manager McGraw has given orders none of his plnyers can play with semlprofesslonal teams around New York this year on Sundays. The Gi ant players have been picking up some easy money every year that way. In the law suit between the owners of the Boston Natlonnl club It was tes tified that the directors "are called upon hourly to decide such questions as who shall play on the team and In wl'Bt order they shall bat." Of course Boston Is at the tall end. Lewis Drucke, pitcher for the New York Giants, sued the New York street railway corporation for $25,000 damnges, claiming his arm had been Injured In an accident and the same week he pitches and wins a game of ball with that same helpless arm. They cnll bnscbnll the "national" game In the States, but at that It Is more of a public Institution in Can ada. In one of the cities of the Cana dian league the clt" board of puhllo works had the work of making the grounds done at public evpenso. Brooklyn baseball writers, having exhausted every other sort of criti cism of the poor showing of the tenm, now say there are not enough Irish men on the team to make It a proper fighting organization. And the same day two "Dutchmen" were chased for umpire baiting. - 1 Noferw bat, and when Pat was bought from the Cubs be brought It to Phila delphia. Titus coaxed, and Anally Moran consented to let him have the bat. His first hit was a home run over tho fence off Bob Harmon of St. Louis. Titus has been batting con sistently ever since he came Into pos session of Pop's old smasher. Big Salary for La Crosse. Ball players get fancy salaries, but they are not the only onos. Nowsy Iji donde will draw down nearly $4.00(1 this season for playing Iji Crosse with the Vancouver team. BOOST FOR "RUBE" WADDELL LaJole Sayt Eccentric, Southpaw, Now With Minneapolis, Is Fast Enough for Eig League. Larry LaJole believes that Rube Waddell, the eccentric diamond actor, still has the ability to travel In fast company. Nap says that the fact that the Kube Is with Joe Cantlllon this season will make blin a big winner. According to LaJole, there Is only one man In this wide world who can ban die Waddell right, and that man Is the present manager of the Minneapolis American Association club. "Cantlllon will let Waddell have a free rein," says InJolo. . "He won't Issue any orders, but he will put It up to Rube entirely. I expect that the Rube will pull off a select scries of his copyrighted stunts again this year, but I wouldn't be surprised If he pitched fully fifty games for Cantlllon I know both of them well, nnd, bellevei me, they make a good combination. "Waddell Is far from tho has boen. "Rube" Waddell.'' stage. He still possesses tho stuff, and It only remains for someone to get It out of him. Joe Is the one to do It." Good Work 8polled. Pitcher Wllhelm of Birmingham In a recent extra Inning game with New Orleans, deliberately passed two men, with one on, filling the bases, to get Jay Klrke, who had not been able to get a ball past the box. Ho guessed right, for Klrko hit right Into his hand for the sixth time up, but Wllhelm spoiled it all by making a bad throw und lost his game. Crimson Trophies Burned. Trophies won In many famous re gattas In the past, together with a score of racing shells, were lost In a fire which destroyed tho home of the Riverside Boat Club on the banks of tho Charles River. The money loss Is estimated at $20,000, but tho valuo of the mementos ennnot be computed In dollars and cents. if, mm-f jt-st- .rs -'r' -yv S". A?'," 1 -f . if bt v.i J'J V VfV-; v',y,?t'.tl fc&-m" Y'HVv v''' V " I tcrHr::mi WITH THE STATE LAWMAKERS IIAHRIMU IWi COKKKSl'ONDKN'CE Shreve Bill Approved. New regulations for foreign corpo rations doing business In Pennsyl vania are provided In the Shreve llou bill, which has Just been ap proved hy Governor Toner. I'nder former laws corporations chartered la other states or countries desiring to transact business In this state were required to liavo an anent upon whom legal papers could be served. These agents were scattered and at tlnws hard to find. The Shreve law provides that only the Secretary of the Commonwealth may act as attor ney for foreign corporations, which are required to appoint him as their attorney, upon whom all papers shall be served. As soon as any corpora tion deslKiiaUs the secretary as Its attorney the fact Is to be certified to tho Attorney General and all papers served on the secretary are to he promptly forwarded to the olllres of the corporation. The f'es are to he' paid for the use of tho State. No Money for Aides. Attorney General Hell advisor! Dr. N. ('. Schaeffer, Superintendent of Public Instruction, that no appro priation had In-'ii mado for the pay of assistant county school superin tendents provided for In the school rode. In his opinion, the Attorney Genera! .jays: "There are no assist ant coiin'y superintendents and were none at tile date of the passage of tho appropriation ai. There Is no provision for the payment of any part of the sum appropriated for superin tendents to the salaries of nsslstant suiM'iintend.'iits. and there Is contain ed In this law the positive direction Mint after deducting from the $15, 000, noo the specific amounts ap propriated, 'the remainder of the Amount hereby appropriated shall he paid In favor of t lie several school districts of the Commonwealth.'" BKdlnq fir PiMe Contract. Ilarrishurg. Bids were oened by tho State Board of Public Grounds and Buildings for the furnishing ot supplies to the departments of the State gover,-.:i:ent. annual contracts whose value runs between $100,iino anil 2"o,(miii. The tenders were re ceived on fi.TO'.l Items. The total numlwr ef Items Is GH!) ahead of last year and Includes all kinds of sup plies, from furniture to pens. It was the first time Governor Tener pre sided at the opening of bids. In all ninety-four firms submitted bids and It was announced that no awards would be possible for at least a month. The bidding was the great est ever known for State contracts. Barnard Unveiling Tho legislative committee that Is to have charge of the formal unveil ing of the Barnnrd statues In front of the State Capitol organized here by electing Representative Robert R. Dearden, of Philadelphia, as chair man. The other members of tho commis sion nre Senator Wlillam C. Sproul. of Delaware: Senator J. K. P. Hall, of Klk, and Representatives W. W. I'lerlch, of Westmoreland, and A. B. Hess, of Lancaster. Tho committee will meet again on June 2(5, to select a date for the unveiling, which will probably be earlv In October, unless Sculptor Barnard desires otherwise. Pigs by Trolley. Plus Is pigs according to the Val ley Traction Company, which oper ates the trolley line between this city and various towns In Cumber Ian county and because of the fact that two pigs were charged three fares to go from Carlisle to New Cumberland, the State Railroad Com mission has been asked to Investi gate a charge of discrimination. Webster Prowell, of New Cumber land. Is the complainant, and he In formed the commission In a letter that It cost him $1.50 to transport the pins by trolley, when by exprcs? It would cost only fifty cents. Objet 10 Car Fender "Ads." Members of the Mothers' Club, o( Reading, have sen t a pot it ion to the State Railroad Commission, asking It to restrain tho Reading Transit Com pany from placing placards nnd all other obstructions of any kind what soever 011 the fenders of. the trolley cars. First Paid W tret. Peter Raglan, a cart driver, earn ing $1 a day. Is the first person to be roiumitted to prison under the new State law allowing a witness $i.60 per day when he is unable to furnish bail for his nppourance at a hearing mi has to be Imprisoned. The case Is a Minim; one and Italian could not secure $200 bonds. Scranton'a New Counei. Tho five men who will constitute the first City Council of Scranton un der ttie new second class city act pre scribing a small single chamber were named by Governor Tener as fol lows: Lewis II. Johns, W. W. Davleg. William Wirtlt. I.ainotto Bel In and P. P. Jordan. The appointees will hold office until the first Mon day of January, 1912, their succes sors to be elected at the November election. The Councilman are to he paid annual salaries of $2..r00 each and provision Is made for Increase St'te A- p Intmen's. James N. Moore, director of the State Legislative Reference Bureau, announced tho following appoint ments: I-ee V. O'Biicn, McKivs port. search clerk; Irma A. Watts, llarrlsburg, cataloguer, and Kdward Frlel. Philadelphia, messenger. The appointments were approved by Gov ernor Tenor. The Hongkong Chamber of Com merce celebrated the fiftieth anni versary of Its organization on Muil 3. HOARY TYRANT KIN3 ALCOHOL Liquor Dislodges Man's Judgment and Leaves Him Unreasoning and Demoralized Being. Of all the tyrants of passion to which human frailty ever swore alle giance, there Is none whose rulershlp Is so physically, morally and mentally enslaving and menacing to manhood and seir-respect as that of the old, hoary, tottering tyrant. King AleohoL While an Impaired and breaking-down body may still leave the mind In pos session of powers to engender human izing and Intellectual efforts as wit ness a blind John Milton and Michael Angelo, a hunchbacked Alexander Pope, and a dyspeptic Thomas Car lyle the decay of the mind wrecks the entire man, both mind and body, writes Dr. Axel R GibBon In an ex change. Alcohol by acting directly on the mind, dislodges the Individual from his moral center of gravity, un balances bis Judgment and leaves him sooner or later as an unreasoning, de moralized nnd devitalized being. Sentiment and moral suasion are not sufllcient to stir up the unfortu nate victims of this vice to a full re alization of the seriousness of their situation Facts must h presented naked, tangible, Irrefutable facts. We must approach the enemy In his own stronghold and assnil him with h! o n weapons. We nre often met by the argumert that nloohol as a drink generates warmth and Btrrngth, nnd ubove all serves as a valuable stimulant. Noth ing, however. Is more erroneous. Thu sensation of bodily heat, to which a drink of whisky on a cold day Is ac credited to give rise. Is based on thl quality found In alcohol to open a way for the warm Wood stream to the sur face tissues of the body. The moment the cutaneous vessels become filled with blood a wave of warmth Is felt to pass over-the body only, however, to disappear a few moments later un less a new drink Is Indulged In. Old, wise Mother Nature, always provisional, and far-seeing, has given to the vital processes of the body a perfect system of economy. I'ndor the Influence of cold tho skin la made to contract Its vessels so ns to pre vent the normal nnd Indispensable heat of the body from passing out of the system the moment the blood stream sweeps through the cuticle nnd becomes exposed to the cold, ab sorbent, surface tissue. The sensitive and more highly organized Interior viscera, such as the heart, intestines, lungs, brains, spinal cord, etc., nre thus kept warm at the expense of the coarser and less readily deranged structures of the skin. Now, In place of assisting nature in this Ingenious scheme which, for the prolonged maintenance of life Is absolutely nec essary, the consumer of alcohol thwarts her efforts nnd wastes his bodily resources In unreasoning wan tonness. He may to Borne extent ba4 compared with a person who after having heated up his apartment to a point of normal tvmperature, throws his doors and windows wide open to the withering cold of a winter's blast. Indulgence In alcohol ns a stimulant against cold, opens the capillaries of the skin and sends out Into midair the reserve fund of warmth which Is Intended to surround nnd protect from cold the Interior high-strung vital or gans. Hence the sensation of Inter nal cold which always follows as Boon as the effec'. of the drink Is passed off, a sensation which often leads to cyanosis and alcoholic poisoning. It is on the basis of this fact thnt In po lar expeditions nil Indulgence In liquor Is strictly forbidden. Probably one reason for the perni cious action of alcohol Is that It Is upon the "night side" of nature. Fer mentation rudely Interrupts the nor mal life cycle of the grain or seed and sets up Instead a destructive de composition. Tills vibration Intro duced Into the living organism cannot but Induce similar vibrations, there fore Its effect la always Injurious la every respect. I'nprejudlced tests havo shown that those who partake ot It are less capable of both physical en duranco and mental exertion. The progressive drunkard soon he gins to exhibit the old characterised marks of ftabblness and looseness of excessive tissue. Tho cause of this phenomenon lies In c j hyslologicnl process equally sltnp'e and Impres sive. As Is well known, the blocd. among other Important thicks, ccn tains two kinds of blood corpuscles the ml and tho white. Whin '..e func tions of the red are to exetiaiige oxy gen derived from the lungs, for enr bon dioxide, derived from the com bustion going on In the bodily tissues, the functions of tho white blood cor puscles consist In removing and caus ing to be eliminated front the system all broken-down and eltcte tissue. Bac terial Invasion, ulcerated tissue, In flammatory elements, are all cleared out promptly and diligently by this vitally so important blood corpuscle. Now If on tho microscopic slide we bring a drop of alcohol in touch with a white blood corpuscle outside tin body does It almost Instantaneously succumbs to the destructive Influence of the alcohol. A numbness stenlt over the blood corpuscle, which at onco censes to exhibit Its normal ac tivity and soon dies. The effect which alcohol has on a white corpuscle outside the body In no way differs from Its effect on the corpuscles Inside the body. The num ber of w hite corpuscles being thus di minished through alcoholic Indulgence It follows that their functions of scav engers, owing to the decreased num ber, enn bo only Imperfectly dis charged. As a result effete material Is permitted to remain in the bodily tissues, which glcs rise to fermenta tion. Hence the bloated, swollen, tur gid, puffed-up appearance of tho Ine briate. Reproduction, Every mnn might to reproduce him self throng!) some good il.ed or per son thnt works for him. Rev. Newell Dwight Hlllls, Congrega'Uot.nllst. Brooklyn
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