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ROBBING THE MINTS. ra _ DIRECTOR PRKSTON CHATS ABOUr SOME BIG THIEVES. Fortune in Gold Dust and Nuggets ^ ?Trusted Employes who ma rsoc Resist Temptation?Some Curious Stories. v. TT VISITED the mint at Philadelphia last LL wee^? writes Frank pL G. Carpenter i n the Washington S tar. It now cont:.'.ins more than 3:200,001), 000, and it has 50,000,000 stundard silver dollars in a single vault. The San Franoisoo mint has, I am told, more than $50,000,000 worth of precious metal stored away, and in the vaults of the mint at New Orlear.s there are now something like $2U, Juu.uuu wortn 01 gold and silver. Daring my stay in oar Philadelphia treasure house I was shown the different methods by whioh Unole Sam guards his hoard. Every atom of gold and silver is watched, and, although the mint has handled more than a billion and a half dollars worth of bullion since it was founded, only a small part haa been lost. Still the temptation to theft is great, and every now and then the Treasury Department finds a shortage in some of the mints or in the Qovernment assay offices in different parts of the West. The true details of such thefts seldom get into the newspapers. They are filed away in the records of the Treasury Department and in the minds f of the detectives and officials who have aided in exposing the crimes. During the past week I have heard the stories of a number of such robberies, and, in my study of them, I have had aocess to the records of the treasury, in connection with R. E. Preston, the director of the mint Mr. Preston has charge of all the mints in the United States. He is the chief "watch dog" of Uncle j Sam's treasures of gold and silver, ana he knows more about the mint, perhaps, than any other man connected with the Government. He has been in the employ of the United States Treasury for the past forty years, and he is to-day one of its most efficient officers. You remember how, about two years ago, Henry C. Cochran, the weigh olerk at the Philadelphia mint, FIFTY MILLIONS OF 3IL^ atole bars to the yalae of $113,000 from the gold vault, stealing it bar by bar from a stack of sixteen million dollars' worth of gold bullion, which was there stored away. Mr. Preston wae one of the officials who superintended the putting awaj of that bullion, and he was acting director of the tnint at the time that Coohran's theft was discovered. The i^et steal in the Philadelphia mint occurred forty-three years ago, just before Mr. Preston en terea tee uovernmeni service, ana, curiously enough, this theft was detected by Goohran, who was an under p clerk of the robber, and who by exposing his superior got the place of weigh clerk, which he held for forty ' years, and in which he was at the time his own great robbery oocurred. During the investigation at Philadelphia the thief, Cochran, told Air. Preston the story, and Mr. Preston repeated it tome to-day. "It was away back in 1853," said the director of the mint, "when a vast amount of gold was coming from California that the first big robbery occurred. The culprit was James E. Negus, and he was the weigh olerk of ' the mint. There was at this time no ?esay office at New York, and all of the gold dust and nuggets were sent by the banks of the different cities to Philadelphia to bo reduced to bullion. c Negus had the handling of this treas, ore, and he for a long time carried on a a systematic stealing from the different deposits sent in. It was his business to take charge of them, weigh (hem and put them into the vault until they oould be melted. By taking a nugget or a pinch of dust from eaoh deposit he was able to steal thousands of dollars, and he probably carried cn his stealings during the whole of the four years that he was in ttie employ of the mint. Coohran was at this time a boy working in the mint. He acted aa Negus's assistant. He was led to V"' 'fHE OOLT> VAULT, PHILADELPHIA MINT. ; Buspect that Negus was taking out gold dnst and substituting black sand tfor it in some' of the deposits. He ' took occasion to reweigh several de< 7' posits when NegU6 was not present, and found that they were from five to ten ounces short. He went to the sucexintendent of the mint and charged t Negua with the theft. Negus waa called up. He confessed, and stated f that ho >m/? Ktolpn $10,600 worth of I 7 gold dust. As you may pee from the t letters here in the records of the de- \ partment, the treasury officials be- c lieved his confession, but they did not a think he should be arrested, as he had r made restitution. He was allowed to i go free. Within a few weeks he sailed ? for Europe, and that was the last that s was ever heard of him. There was no I cable in those days, and the probabil- L ity is that he carried a goodly amount i of gold away with him. The robbery 1 was not from the treasury, but from e the banks who sent in the gold, and v there was no wav of telling just how i much he stole. " v "It was in this way that Henry S. e Cochran became weigh clerk of the c mint," Director Preeton went on. v "He took the place of a thief, and v there is no telling how soon he became 1 a thief himself. He told me that he ? did not steal anything from the mint t nntil after the deposit of that $16,000,- t 000 in gold bars; bnt his connection 8 with the mint lasted for more than b forty yearB and his position was the A same as that of Negus. Daring nis ?< whole term of employment he had the h confidence of every one. I have a c letter here, signed by Daniel Stargeon, who was treasurer of the United f States when he was appointed. It is t he who advises the appointment, and s he desoribos Heny S. Cochran as t honest, able and oonrteons. Cochran seemed to be crazy for gold. He fell I in love with the preoious metal, and when we found that he had robbed the t mint of $113,000 he hated to give up s his stealings and he complained I bitterly when the mon9y found in his a * TTTl T . House was taxen away, niieu uu ?appointed weigh clerk he was about b twenty-three years old. When his robber; was discovered he was sixtythree. He was then a deacon in the ^ Presbyterian Church, and was organ- t izing a campaign for the Salvation g Army in the neighborhood in which t he lived. He had been married and t divorced. He had a grown-up daugh- i ter. He appeared to be eminently f respectable in every way and still he r had been stealing for years." r "How did you come to suspect him t of the robbery?" I asked. 't- V |_: ?? ?? o "it was turougu m? uwii huhuud, replied the director of the mint. "He had, fyou know, the charge of the c vaults whioh contained the gold bail- r ion. Mach of this bullion had been 1 untouched for years. In the vault i t ? ^ ^ I o t ifER BAGS A.ND BOXES. b a ;rom which the robbery was made ? ;here were $16,000,000 worth of gold ft jars, lhis vault had not been opened ^ 'or six years. The gold had been ^ wrought from the assay offioe in New fork in 1891 and stored away in 1887. L aided in putting it in. Ihe gold :>ars were piled up crosswise like rail oad ties, and they were arranged, as lsual, in a series of melts. When we >ut the gold in the vaults we put eaoh nelt by itself. Each gold briok has its lumber, and it is marked as to the nelt to whioh it belongs, so we can all just exactly how many pieces of fold there are in a vault, just where >aoh Diece is and iust what it weiche. rhie bullion was weighed twice before i t was put *in. There were about I wenty-five tons of it. I superintend- I id the woighing. I helped to seal the ' ioors of the vault when we were hrongh and saw that everything was ? ecured. From time to time the vault ras inspected, but the seals were inaot, and no une had any idea bat that U.a <*11 4ka?A AKnnf f nr/% UD WW) Oil lUCi (7| auvun IffU ^eare ago Secretary Carlisle gave >rders that this bullion be coined. Dbe vault was opened aud more than tOO poundB of gold were mis9iug. We lad little trouble in detecting the ? hief. Coobran bad been much excited w! rhen I told him of the intention to of ioin the bullion. at ( ( C7 /% aImaa^aJ An/) nil 1 4 /\ /wnl *T? n n W jllxs uujcuueu, uuu ottiu buc ^uiu wao TT o nicely piled up, and was such a beau- ht iful sight to show to visitors, that the b< Government had better bring some of p< ts bullion from New York and coin it. m ; laughed at this, the Cocbran then cc nsinuated that the gold might not be tb ill there. When he found that we g< eally intended to coin the gold, he TJ lame over to Washington to see* me, 01 thinking there might be yet a chance oetop it. He called at my house here H it 11 o'olock one night, and asked if it se ras really true that the Government a vaa going to take the gold out of that pi rault. I replied, 'Yea.' He then said : tr Well, you won't find all the gold tb there. Home of it Lb missing. It was tb [lever rightly weighed, and it is .not st there.' It was at this time that I ba- tb gan to suspect him, and I said to my- T telf. 'Well, if any of that gold is Ion, ni [ think you know where it is. A day b< jr so after this we opened the vault, in ind we found the gold was just 8113,- ci )00 short. Still, the seals were in- tb tact. The steel walls of the vault were sj unbroken, and there was no sign as to ai where the gold had gone. Coohran w seemed very nervous, und upon finding pi that he was suspected, he confessed ft \is was the thief. He showed how he tt aad fished the gold out with a crooked K< wire. He would pull it down from pi the pile and drag it to the door of the l'v irault, and then by slightly pushing the door at the bottom he was able to as ?9t it out through the crack between ;he door and the floor. He had car- pi ried it off, bar by bar. in his lunch h: basket, or in his trousers pocket, and tb aad taken it to his home in the eubur bs M >f Philadelphia. m "What did he do with the gold?" 1 I lakfld. , p "He sold it right back to the mint rom which he had stolen it," replied tlr. Preston. "He did not dare> to do his without remelting it, as thc> gold ras so fine that it would be sure to ireate suspicion. He had fit his homo n n A Ka lU A rm IA I UiUUlUiO ouu UO ICIMt Ib^U VUW ^UiU I nixing it with silver and lead. This asfc product be 6eat to us through the sxprees company, and was e,ble to do o without suspicion. We found ono >ar of gold in Cochran's house the da}' 10 confessed, and we also found 85000 n gold engles. It was a curious house, t was honeycombed with seoret closes, and it was in these that the money vag found. Cochran kept up bis stealng to tho la9t. The day the weighing ras completed Cochran came down arly. He was there before any of the >tber employes of the mint. We had weighed part of the gold. The vault /as open, and there was a truck in it oaded with bars of bullion. Coohran, inding no one about, picked up wenty of these bars, and, one at a itne, threw them into the ventilator haft of the vault, so that they fell in letween the roof of the vault and the ioor above. When he confessed he old where this gold was andl we got it mi.. ?3? 11 ? iaOK. J.UU fCLUU IUUOX vr tin || overed by that whioh we found at the loase, and we received uomething rom Cochran's property and his londsmen. Unole Sam is, however, till 812,000 or 813,000 short from hat." "What did they do with Cochran?" asked. "He was tried and sent to the penientiary for a term of six years and even months. He is now iu prison, le weighed 250 poands when he was xrested. He does not weigh 150 iow, and has lost 100 pounds since lis theft was discovered." "Do yon think he was insane ?" "That is a question," replied the lirector of the mint. J"He seemed to >e a monomaniac on the subject of ;old. He claimed that he had saved he United States millions of dollars >y guarding its treasures, and he was ndignant when the gold waB taken rom 'him. SinnA that time we have lot kept gold bullion in vaults of this lature, and there will probably never >e a robbery of that kind again." "Has Uncle Sam ever lost as much >s this in the past?" "There was little loss in Cochran's ase," replied Director Preston. "The aoney was nearly all recovered. Fhere have, however, been big Ioesos n tho past. In 1855, just about the ime that I entered the Treasury Demrtment, Unole Sam lost $150,000 at he San Francisco mint. When one >f the settlements was made it was ound that this much was short. The melter and refiner claimed that this ras waste, that it had been lost iu reining or had esoaped np the fines. It s a question in my mind whether he lid not tell the trnth. At any rate, te was arrested, but not convicted. Ihortly after his trial be left the Jnited States and went to Sonth imerica. He was drowced there." "There was a qneer robbery at San 'rancisco in 1878, by which a colored ,ight watchman Btole $20,000 in gold, t was known that gold was in some ray or other teing taken out of the lint, but it could not be tractid. The etectives finally discovered that fenry Smith, the night watohman, tadbeen selling bullion. They arrested im and charged him with taking it rom the mint. He denied the crime. 'hoy then went to his house and tboragbly investigated it. They took up he floors and broke the furniture, at conld find nothing. They next ttacked the yard. Thef dug the noil ver with spades, and found a little lrnace in which gold had evidently t some time been melted. This was iown to the watohman, bat he said e knew nothing about it. They then ent back and dug up a flower bed, "WEIGHING GOLD OTRIP9. L' 1. L1 1 J L J. ? uiuu tuey utiu/iui iuuuueu uu uuuuu.jv ' its beauty. It was filled with pansies, id the ground abon.t it was ooverod ith rose bushes and geraniums. They id dug about two feet down into this ;d when they found a big earthon >t which was covered at the top with elted wax. Breaking this, they dis>vered a saucer beneath it, and under lis there were seven cones of yellow >ld, worth, all told, about $6000. hey took this to Smith, and he at ice confessed. He had stolen about 10,000 iu less than three years, o had taken the gold from the iparating tanks by means of spoon. The bullion whs laced in such tanks and eated with acid and water to remove >e silver. By the action of tha acid, le gold fell to the bottom in the tape of a fine black precipitate, and ?e silver solution was washed away, he tankn were covered and locked t.t ight, bnt there was a hole in the sttom of them in which a houa we,s iserted for the washing of the pr?pitate. Tlio watchman unscrewed le hose, and then, by means of a )oon,ladled out a few spoonfuls a day id took them home. Each spoonful as worth about $20, and he laid the recipitate aside until he could buy a irnace and cruoibles. With thase he irned the black powder into yellow Did by melting it, and he sold the roduct to the bullion dealers of San luncisco." "What wae done with this mE.n?" 1 iked. "He was arrested, tried and sent to rieon," replied Mr. Preston; "but is fato was rather an exception to lat of the mint robbers of the past. Lany of them have escaped punishient. I do not believe in this at all. think they should be prosecuted and uniahed to the full extent^of the law." TSSBSSB . '^^aajpn COAT AND BASQUE, 'SOME NEW ATTRACTIONS IN. WOMAN'S APPARELu Stylish and Attractive Coat With Slashed Collar?An Exquisite French Model Basque of Striped Beige Cloth. y | f OBACCO-brown cloth, velvet I , braid and smoked pearl bnt* j tons are stylishly combined Gr, in the smart top garment depicted in the first large illustration The picturesque hat of brown felt, writes May Manton, is trimmed with COAT WITH SLASHED COLLJIR AND P velvet-edged ribbon and brown oatrioh plumes. The coat fronU are loose-fitting, dosing in doable-breasted fashion by three fanoifu^ tabs at the top on the left side. The graceful and perfectlyfitting baok is shaped by Beams that extend to the shoulder, which aro concealed by straps of oloth applied iu tailor fashion. The center-back seam is omittedJ(the newest wrinkle, by the way). Below the waist line the back is laid in deep box plaits. An attractive feature is the stylish collar, cut in deep slashes and outlined on its free edges with braid. It is so arranged upon a deqp band as to provide the fashionable flare. The one-senm gigot sleeves are of moderate but fashionable fulness, and are completed at the wrists by flaring cuffs of velvet .to match the collar. Prettily shaped pocket laps cover inserted pockets. Melton, covert, whipoord and all regulation plain or mixed oloakings may bo employed in making this stylish coat wilth decorations of fur, - ? _ J AiBtraKban, orsaa, or piaiuiy uumuou by maohine stitching. To make this jaoket.in the medium size it will require two and threefourths yards of fifty-four-inoh wide material. LADIES* FR1SNCH MODEL BASQUE. Striped beige oloth made the exquisite basque that oloses in oentre-frout with small bat tons and button-holea, as shown in the seoond large engraving. The waist, of beooming length, is rendered glove-fitting by doable bust darts, nuder-arm and side-baok ?wl4-W rt ammma/) A I^UiOO WlbU II tunCU UCUVAO i/HWUt u smooth standing collar of velvet fits the neok oloeely. The ono-seamed gigot sleeve of fashionable fulness is arranged over coat-shaped linings and finished at the wrists with flaring velvet ouffs. Whon cut with "V" shaped neck and embellished with trimming, the waist is tuitable to complete a dinner toilette, while the circular or square neck will be appropriate for an evening bodice. To make this basque for a lady having a th.irty-aix-incb bust measure, it FRENCH MODEL BASQUE O will require two and seven-eighths yards of forty-four-inoh widfi material. LATEST STYLE OF COIFFURE. In the latest style of coiffure the hair is so loosely waved and held in a sort of a paff by a semi-circular comb that the effect is almost that of the old-fashioned "waterfall." In a very pretty arrangement intended for full m V'' dress, this circular comb is surmounted by a small wreath of roses, which also holds back the pompadour roll in front and encircles an airylooking structure of curls and puffs, the wreath being finished by a high white aigrette on the left side. NEWEST MODES ?N WAISTS. Peacock blue and green shot silk m o rla f Vi i'a afr li aVt nrai'af TtT hi/ik ia /vma UlUUU VUIO OiJllOU HHIOVj " UIVU AO UUD of the newest modes. The rolling collar and cuffs of white linen are adjustable and can be removed to have laundered when necessary, or when .made to match the waist they can be permanently secured. . A handsome stock collar of satin ribbon is tied under the collar in a large bow at the 1CTDRE8QUE HAT OF BROWN FELT. centre book. . Belt to match cloned with silver buckle. Fire email tack* are laid at the neck on each side of the box-plait in centre front. These plaits spread gradually, allowing an easy, graceful fulness orer the bast which is confined again at the waist line, and the lower edge is ooncealed under the dress skiit. The fall back is stylishly plaited or gathered, as nrfiffirrad. and ioined to the stiaight lo.ver edge of joke lining, the handsomely pointed yoke in newest design being laid flat over the plaits or gathers ^ a 3d stitohed on the carved edge. The lADiiW WAI3T. stylish bishop sleeves are fashionnKlir wide, cathprfld at the toD and *"*' V ~ ? * c finished with wrist-bands to which the caffs are buttoned. The neck is fin* ished with a close-fitting collar, to the npper edge of which the linen collar is bottoned with single studs in front, closing in back oh two separate buttons, whioh are sewed inside the collar. These stylish and becoming waists are a pronounced feature of the season's modes,made of cashmere, French flannel, crepon, brilliantine, fine plaid an! mixed woolens, as well as of silk, patin, brocade and other fancy silk textures. To make this waist for a lady in the medium size, it will require five yards of twenty-two-inch wide material. - 7 HATS IN CHANGEABLE VELVET. Mirror velvet will appear in both P STKIPED BEIGE CLOTH. hats and bonnets, unless the hats arc designed for traveling, in which oase ( hey are notifceably modest and severe. "What io the difference between a visit and a visitation?" "Well, when your pretty young sister comes to seo us, that is a visit. When your mamma comes and stays a month, that is visitation."?Truth. L: ^ r l.; r*. 'j. , ' <* - ^ : m.. ' , CALF WITH TUKEE LEGS. He Has Only One Front Lex, and Was Born That Way. There is a three-legged calf at omcKsmnny, renn. me inpea Delongs to S. C. McDaniels. - Five months ago his faithful family cow presented him with Ben. Ben is the name of the calf that has become famous for being not like other calves. His right leg is entirely missing. Both hind legs are perfeotly formed THE CALF BOBN WITH THREE LBG3. and plaoed. His left fore leg is also just as perfect as any calf's, bat it is almost in the middle of his body. All the ribs are naturally formed, reaohing all the way to the neck. There is not even the trace of a shoulder blade on ftiA ricVit nirlfi. The calf weighs 250 pounds, and can ran and play as lively as any oalf with a fall set of legs. Htore piles and ditches are not obstacles to him?he frisks over them, tail high in the air, using his fore leg on the principle of a jumping pole. He has been much petted, and follows the members of the McDaniels family about like a dog. At the tender age of four weeks Ben left his mother and went with his mas' ter on a jaunt about the surrounding country, attracting considerable attention and earning considerably more than hia living expenses, thanks to the willingness of Americans to pay to see freaks. He has not missed a meal in his life, and is unusually strong and healthy.?New York Journal. Core of Driving Horses. A livery man who has been in the business many years, has this advice to give people who have only one horse: xD0 man who keeps a horse lor ins own use occasionally, and for the nse of his family whenever they feel like driving, most,remember that each an animal is more liable to eatoh cold than one whioh works steadily. Whenever the horse is driven any distance at this season of the year hg should be carefully and qmCkly blanketed. "A friend of mine who had a little horse, for which he paid $125, took a spin through the Park the other day, and on the way home stopped at a drug store on Madison avenue. As be intended to remain in the store only a few minutes he did not take the trouble to throw the blanket over the horse. The little fellow stood with his breast to the bleak north wind for five minutes. The following morning the stableman found him propped as if he were on etilte. He wae eo badly foundered that he was of no further use. If that horse had* been covered, he would not have been ruined. Never permit an uncovered horse to stand with his breast to the irind. Better let the wind strike him broad side."?New York Mail and Express. Food of Moloff. Little is known of the habits and rood of oar native moles. .Professor H. Oarmen has examined the stomachs pf fourteen moles in Kentucky, where it sometimes becomes troublesome in gardens and lawns by loosening the soil about newly set plants or marring 'the appearance of the sward. While strongly accused of eating seed corn after planting, it appears that the bulk of its food consists,of earthworms and insects, especially the former. It is especially fond of the May beetle, the parent of the white grub, so destructive at times to lawns, and appears not to eat oorn or vegetables of any sort.?New York Independent A Bash Admission. On one occasion a much-reapeoted but dry old friend of the family called on James Harper, and, after a time, asked him how he and his brothers distributed the work between tbem. "John," Mr. Harper said, goodbumorediy, "attends to the finances; Wesley to the correspondence, Fletcher to the bargaining with authors and others, and?don't you tell anybody," he said, drawing hia ohair still closer and lowering the tone of bis voice?: "I entertain the bores."?Argonaut. Big Yield of an Apple Tree. Forty-one bushels of apples were gathered this season from a oentury did tree, whioh is known to have borne fruit for eighty-six years, in the orohard of R. H. Williamsi of West Corinth, Vt. The oiroumferenoe of the trunk near the ground is twelve feet four inches.?New York Sun. Extinguishing Burning Oil. Never throw water on burning oilit only spreads the flame. Dry sand will quickly put out the burning flame by smothering it. If sand is not at hand in such emergenoy throw some heavy woolen substanoe, as a rug, a carpet or a damp towel or sheet, over it. Excluding the air is the jjreat secret of extinguishing all flres. Sared. Hare?"Well, that was a harebreadth escapul"?Truth. ' | ; TEMPERANCE. ; _ -i *> THE TOBCH OF -TE1CPIBAKC*. While we sit at home rejoicing Safe from every storm that blows, On the street oar erring brother Down the drunkard's pathway goes. ' Let us reach oar hand to save him, Let as be his gaide and stay: Sorely now he needs oar friendship On his dark and dreary way. Keep the torch of temperance burning, Flnsh its light upon oar foe; We may ?ave our falling brother From the drunkard's final woe. Where the brilliant lightsjure flashing In the gay saloon nndtrftwd Stands a brother, husband, father, Needing now oar hel ping Gtend. See. the tempter now besets him With his demon's glass of rum. Hasten?ob. I pray you hasten? Lest he fail before- we come. Eeep the torch of temperance'batntBf, Flash its light apon oar foe; We may save oar falling brother From the drunkard's final woe. BHTJK THIS 80WT2T0. WUa quite common to hear men tar: "Boys wiirbeboys. They must sow their wild oats.", Tnat theroia danger to be dreaded from harI ng this old "proverb repeated without protest * Is attested - by the. many human wrecks that Hoe the pathway of, life, says the Church News. \ A man might at reasonably spw the seed of weeds in his field and -expect a oropof oorn as for a boy to "sow wild oats" for a dozen or more years and hopb. soma day to wake up a Rood, trusted andnoporable mac. tm Boys should be taught that jf-fiailn to "sow wild oats." and that for eaoh seefoftrv-^^H a tearful aocount must be rendered, if not here, at least hereafter. The sonl Is lik?& snow-white clotb, and Is soiled by sin lost as cloth Is disfigured by dirt. No sensible maatf, or boy would throw a fine coat on tbo ground and expect that it would escape per-^&raifjjj manent injury. Tet thousands "sow wlld^^4.<j)^ oats" without realizing what tney are doing. ?sSsg| ' Aside from the blemishes which sin imErlnts upon the soul the boy Bhould oonsider MHB Is worldly prospects, and remember that every grain ot "wild oats" he sows detracts u^/iu uio uuatnuoi| auu iouuo ivs logoou |U9 ^ vjhances in the business and professional world. A boy without experience may be persuaded that it is an easy thing for him to give up the bad habits he ucquire3 by "sowing wild 1 k oats," but the man of mature years oan give testimony of tho struggle necessary to get rid of a single bad habit acquired early la' ,.( life, and which has been nourished for years. Our passions will run away with us unless, like good horsemen, we hold a tight rein oa' them. When they nave the mastery we become slaves of the meanest kind. If men would but remember this fact they would never say a single word which might be construed into an encouragement to the boy to "sow wild oats." Tbe sowing may be pleasant, but the reaping will be anything else, ~V... V either to the boy or to*his parents. Boys should never forget that before thoy can 30 w wiia oats tney moat cease to iove their parents, oad that while they are east* ing the seed into the ground they are har- , rowing tho hearts of mothers that bora.them aud of fathers who have labored to feed, ' ? olothe ana educate them. TBI TEMPEBANCE CALL. The call just sent out from, the fntera*tlonal offices of the World??; Women's Chris- tton Temperance Union to the lp,000 load unions in the United Statasls as follows: My Comrades: The cup of wrath Is fnlL In these two terrible years when the massacre of the innocent baa gone on under the eyes of our patalyced rulers in Christian lands, we have thought that man alone oould help. But it is women who are dying two deaths in the bloody East, and we; tbdfr sisters, cannot longer wait Ton bare nobly responded to my earlier appeal, and in tha ' name of Christ and humanity, of the home against the harem, I earnestly and tenderly cnll upon you to organize meetings in every locality, urging our Government to co-operate with England In putting a stop to tha mnssaores ana giving protection nencerortn to Armenian homes. Let these meetings be addressed by the pastors, the business men and the most capable women. L9t money be raised by systematic visitation as well as by collection, and forwarded to our'National Treasurer, Mrs. Helen A}. Barker, the Women's Temple. Chicago.' And may God deal with us at last as we deal with our Armenian brotners and sisters and their little ones in this hour of overwhelming calamity. a FBXKOXS E. WIIXABD. j AOAIHST CLUB DHINKUfO. One of the perils of young men. especially at the present time, Is club drinking. Many young men who would be ashamed to be seen drinking In the ordinary saloon are tempted to this Indulgence in the more select and aesthetic environment of the club. An old New York olub man is quoted as saying: , ' 'The barroom makesylrunkards. I wish I could say that the purpose of the elab vas to make men sober, but as I cannot do so with truth, I might as well confess, among other things, that the tendency of the modern olub Is to intensify the drink habit till .it degenerates, particularly with young men. Into the disease of Inebriety. I know of scores ol promising Uvea?and so does every club man. of experience?that have be$n wrecked by the onnortunitiafl for convtvialltv Afforded by oIuds. 11 t)ie stetftfrds of the leading clubs In any of oar oitles would confess to the nnmber of members they know to b? habitual drinkers, or rather habitual drunkards,the report wouldstartle the uninitiated." Friends of temperance, while laboring for the legal suppression of the saloon, should also exert all possible moral power for the restraint and abolition of club drinking. , a doctor's tkstimont. Doctor Forel, of Zurioh, teaches that aloohollo intoxication, as affecting the nervous system, 1b conspicuous from the first, often after small doses. The excitement following the first class is the effect ;of a paralyzatlon of the complicated ohocking apparatus which usually controls instincts, Impulses and thought. Mentally alaobolpaztuyzes, in the first line, the highest, most complicated and finest conceptions of reasonand dictates of conscience. He states that chronic alcohol | poisoning produces mental paralysis. Psy- t Jj ohopaths, or nervous people, Sre extremely ' susceptible to the narootlo action of alcohol in disease as well as in health, even when the disease is not of alooholic origin. Very small doses of alcohql will, In such persons, give rise to considerable phenomenu of alcoholic poisoning. He has seen severe delirium tremens after suoh comparatively small quantities as one and one-half to two quarts 'of cider dally. a poor bulk. Many people outside the total abstlnnnoe ranks (and good peoole, too) are apt to condemn hastily those who are striving to curb and control the power of the liquor element by legislation. Yet it is a poor rule that does not work both ways; jind if it Is well to remove the. drinking man from the saloon, why not also rejpove the" saloon from the drinking man? sen's wobk in two states. The report of the Connecticut State Prison ' for the year ending September 30, 1895, shows that of 395 prisoners 209, or 52.9 per cent., confess to tne use of drink as the cause of their crimes, and fifty-three more, or 13.4 percent., make the cause to be bad company, whioh probably means drink. Oregon State Penitentiary report for 1895 states that ''about eighty per cent, aofcnowl-' edge to have been more or less addicted to the use of intoxioants," and that "about sixty per cent attribute their downtall to the use or intoxicants." The average number of convicts was 360. ? "liquor tbs root of all evil." James Cunningham, a sailor, was before Magistrate Kudlich yesterday charged with having been intoxicated. He pleaded to be discharged, as he wm anxious to join his ship. ' > "I would n?t!)Prutscharg<? a nii?n accused of larceny ttuu a man brought httre for intoxicutiou.' replied the Magtstrate.N "Liquor is the roa of all evil," and he fined Clunulngham $3?New York World. temperance nkwh and notes. r.vou Mohamet is on record as saying that V "alcohol is the mother of sin." No man has a right to destroy his reason yS J Dy drink, to become diseased bydrink, to destroy his moral sense and conception of right and wrong. jH