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if.::" _: v V ' : i ;J A JNAVAL WUJNUm ; w THE ABLEST COAST DEFENDER i: J\ THE WORLD. 0 t t The Monitor Puritan, Just Completed. Is the Pride of Uncle Sam's ^ Navj?Features of the Monster Fighting Machine. ^ r* q TTTT HE armored monitor Puritan, I . the best equipped and stanch- a I eBt craft of her kind in the entire world, a fighting ma- b chine of the most modern kind, fit to ti withstand the assault of the guns of 1 any enemy, is now moored between n the two dry docks at the Brooklyn e Navy Yard. Her 6idet are painted r white, her powerful turret guns aie in o position and her military mast with ti rapid fire guns aloft is aarefully shroud- o ed. ' t Naval officers who have watched the o r J ' I THE UNITED STATES J (One ol our most formidable engine! 1 progress made in the evolution of modern naval architecture regard this a novel fighting monster with pride. No fi wonder the old salts, and the young if ones, too, for that matter, have chris- ti tened her the Pride ot the American o Navy. / "With ships like the Puritan at the ii entrance to this harbor," said an offi- F oer, as he stood on the deck of the 1( monitor, "the people of New York ti never need be afraid that an enemy's a ships will ever dare to pass inside of h Sandy Hook. New York's commerce T \,1,,A ?&,i ? INTXKIOB OF FORWARD TCKRHI. it is safe. The Puritan is the ablest, w , grandest, mostpowerful, best equipped *c . fighting machine of the century." ? w Every officer and every Jack tar in V ttfe Brooklyn Navy Yard, from Com- 3' modore Sicard, the commandant of the w home station, down to the youngest ^ midshipman, and from the chief boat- w swain's mate down to the aftexguard h< sweeper, feels a lively interest in the ^ Puritan. ! The Puritan was begnn in 1875, at fc the shipyard of the late John Roaoh, at Chester. Penn. She is 286 feet six ai inches long, with sixty feet 1{ inches oi . greatest breadth and a draught of , -water of eighteen feet. Her. displace-. , dent is 6060 tons. is The Puritan carries four twelre-inch ai breech-loading guns in two turrets; hi , - VIEW OF THE MONITOR PUBI' six fcnr-inch rapid fire guns protected c< by armor shields and aponaons; two sax-pounder rapid fire guns on the m bridge deck; four six-pounder rapid fc fire guns on the superstructure deck bi . and two one-pounder rapid fire guns, is > which are mounted in the military top lc a.'oft. r< ' "You couldn't put another big gun c< aboard her," eaid a naval officer, "if st you tried. ' She actually bristles with en modern fighting guns. But won't she pi roll in a heavy sea way." cr There are two big turrets on the tc main deck, one aft and one forward, tl and both can be revolved easily by el hydraulic power, so that a rapid fire le ; can be maintained in almost any direc: tion. The turrets known as the mtch- t< Slfe ] born turrets, make it possible to raise hi the guns to a height of ten feet six ii : inches above the water line, 'i-lese | turrets do not project down thrnnph $' feffifij the deck as do tho3e in the Miautonomab; but the lower part, or barbette, f| ie secured to tho deck, forming a ?i watertight wall around the base of the ||||| turret to a height of 5i feet above ths j< deck. The upper part of the turret e: . containing the guua is made to re- s1 ' Tolve above this harbette just re- t< s ferred to, and has inclined sides tl Wi/, which make it appear something like ii a gigantic rivet head. Both the upper a nd tbe lower parts ol the turret ore rell protected by heavy plates oi teel armor, tbe latter being; fourteei aches thick, while the inolined sidet f the upper part present bat a smal arget and are very difficult of pene ration by the shot of an enemy. The turret guns weigh forty-five ons each and can throw a steel 850 iound shell a distance of fifteen miles l 500-pound charge of powder is re uired to fire each ball. l'iio bun itseir is protected by ai rmor belt five feet seven inches deep ourteen inohes in thickness to a poini elow the water line, from which i' apers to six inohes at the armor shelf 'his belt extends 150 feet along th< uddle part of the ship, protecting ngines, boilers, magazines and shdl ooms. Immediately forward and af f this belt the armor is rednoed ii bickness to ten inches for a distant f twenty feet, and is farther reduce 3 a thickness of six inches at the endi f the ship. I iONITOR PURITAN. 3 of war just pat in commi?ion.) The armor is strongly supported bj wood backiDg and a system of rigid rames and girders. The main deofe > covered by steel plating two inohes hick. The ship will carry 150 ton* f coal in her protected bunker?. Before the Puritan's armor was put i position it was carefully tested. In 'ebruary, 1894, a plate eighteen feet >ng, six feet wide and fourteen inches iiiok, tapering to six inches was tested t the proving grounds at the Bethleem, Penn., Iron Company's works, 'wo shots from a ten-inob gun were red at it at a distance of 360 feet. larnontfF nrnisntllpa vniohinor fiflfi "4rM,vl .. "-O??m """ ounds euoh, were used. The velooity as 1381 and 1630 feet respectively, 'he penetration of the urst shot was 2} inohes and that of the second inches. There was no radiating raoks from tbe point of impact, and tie backing showed no disturbance, he test was eminently satisfactory nd the result was tbe acceptance of ie araior by the Government. Then again the Paritan is so conducted that her bulkheads can be lied with water, causing her to sink > that her deck would remain bat a >w inches above the water. The monor is provided with eight boilers, hich are fitted with appliancee for treed draught. She has twin screws, itVi cnorinoa nf tho hnrieinntftl com. ound type capable of developing 700 horse power with natural draught, hiob will develop a speed of twelve doss, while with forced draught she ill develop nearly five thousand i>rse power and a speed of more than lirteeu knots. All the machinery joard the Puritan was tried and >und in exoelient working order. The quarters of the men are large id commodious and the wardroom Efioers and junior officers havd spleniA Qr\t?rfmonfa Bat as for the captain's oabin. Thifl about as small as one could imagine, id his office has just room enough to old a small desk and a man. Two T ' "?1 rAN LOOKING FORWARD. >uld not possibly tarn around. There are two powerful searohlighta lounted on the monitor, one on the >rward bridge and one on an aftez ridge where the signal quartermaster i stationed and where his flag chest ii >cated. The pilot house and chart )om are in one. The small wheel mnecte the pilot house with a steam veering geer below. Numerous tubes jnnect the pilot house with every art of the ship, thus enabling the jmmander and the officer of the deck > communicate with the eDgine room, le men stationed iu the turrets and sewhere about the ship without aving his post. There is a fighting wheel in the af;r cabin below the water line. Thia as hand steering gear and can be used 1 an emergency. The cost of the Puritan is abuul 3,500,000. The Speed of the Cauiel. The speed of the camel when on a >uruey of considerable length rarely xceeds three miles an hour, and the sriftest dromedaries are rarely knotrc 3 go faster than a ten-mile gait, but his can be kept up for twenty hours <i the day, and for six or seven days t a time.?Answers. > How the Hand Keeps Its Canning. ^ "I don't believe that the hand or 1 eye ever loses its canning," remarked ! a gentleman of the newspaper fratern' ity the other /lay. "Now, I have not had time daring the last twenty years to engage in the sports ot the field or ? forest. A conple ot weeks since I was one of the gaestu of a weU known banker of this city at his hnnting lodge in the conntry. We went hnnting. and I mast, confess that it was 1 with many misgivings that 1 ac ? cepted the shotgun our host insisted ^ that 1 should shoulder, and went into ^ the fields to chase the gay and festive partridge and lark. I hadn't shot a ' gun during the time mentioned. I | waited until no one was looking, and J blazed away at a field lark Thich was ' flying across a clearing witn his little 1 peculiar jerky flight, and down he 3 came. I did it again and again. Shot ' doves in fall flight, and all that sort 3 of thing, and capped the climax by shooting two larks when I saw only one. the second happened to cross the range just as I pulied the trigger, I suppose, but at any rate I bagged two and carried the horns during the remainder of the day. Now, I was considered a good shot in the days when we had time enough to beat the brush, and my hand and eye evidently retained every bit of their old-time cunning. as proven by the fact that I shot everything that peeped above* the tall weeds in the fields daring my usual oating. Really believe I'll try again."?New Orleans Times-Democrat. A MONSTER COW. ( She is a Product of California and Weighs 2550 Pounds. Farmer William Brace, of Tulare, Cal., owns a cow which has the dis'tiaction of being the largest by long odds of any animal of her sex in that part of the world. She could give pounds by the score to a Clydesdale sfallion and then win the laurels from him as a heavyweight, and nhe is bat six years old at that. Wheu placed upon the scales to be weighed and > afterwards photographed for the San | Francisco Examiner ehe tipped the ; bean at precisely 2550 pounds, i Remarkable ae she is for weight, her i height is even more astonishing. The measurements taken as she posed for ; her picture show that she stands exi actly sixteen hands hift^^r, to come down to ordinary tape m<<&sure, five i feet and four inches. Of her own THE COW THAT WE claim to fame she is very modest, bat of her calf, she is very proud, as, indeep, she might well be, for it is nearly as large as an ordinary cow, and as it persisted in being photographed at the same time as its mother it necessarily came in on the weighing and measuring process. While it is just half as high as its mother, it weighs but one-fifth as much. > A Caudle That is Transparent. A French chemist makeB a new kind of candle by dissolving five parts of colorless gelatine in twenty parts of water, adding twenty-five parts of' glycerine and heating until a perfeotly clear solution has been formed. To this is added two parte of tannin dissolved by heating in ten parts of glycerine. A turbidity js produced which should vanish on farther boiling. The boiling is continued until the water has been driven off. The mass is then cast into ordinary glass candle molds. The candles obtained in this way are as clear as water and barn quietly, and withont spreading any odor.? American Druggist. The Rain Tree of Fierro. Trayclers in the Canary Islands tell of a remarkable tree that grows on one of tbe group. It might well be called a rain tree. Fierro, the island ? r J L 1- ? reierreu iuf i? ciucujci^ utv, uuu ? rivulet traversing it anywhere. Yet a free grows there aronnd which is gathered a cloud, from which a gentle rain is always falling. Underneath the tree the natives of Fierro have constracted cisterns which are kept constantly full, thus giving them a water supply which they otherwise would not have on the island. Sportsman's Paradise. South Africa seems to be the sportsmen's paradise, even if the atories told about the country are only half true. A recent account says the country is simply teeming with big game. Buffaloes are in immense numbers, one herd which was seen recently being at least 1000 strong. Buoks are also extremely plentiful, while zebra and quagga and lions are too numerous to he pleasant Wild fowl ore in myriads, from a black duok with a white patch on its wings down to a sandpiper.? Philadelphia Ledger. A Willing P.irish'oner. A rector in a Suffolk village who was disliked in the parish had a curate who was very popular, and who, on leaving, was presented with a testimonial. This excited the envy and wrath of the rector, and meeting with an old lady one day he said: "I am surprised, Mrs. Bloom, that you should have subscribed to this testimonial." "Why, sir," said the old lady, "if you'd been a-going I'd 'ave ^ subscribed double."?London TitBits. i MA^oainveetednearlySlOO.OOOmore i in foreign machinery in May, 1896, than in May, 1895. A Deer Horn Inside of a Tree. Va^ Innrv o rrr\ o *Vin rtn naV fvaa w?? oat down in a Miohigan forest. Ai the woodman split it up his ax strnok something hard, which ho thought at first was a k:iol,. Bat when it nicked A DEER HORN IN A TREE. the edge of the steel blade he made ap his mind that it mast be something very much harder than a knot. So he cnt aronnd it carefully, ohipping and splitting nntil he laid the object, bare. It was a hage deer horn, buried in the very heart of the big oak. How it came there is a mystery. Perhaps some pioneer hunter or some Indian of a hundred years ago had shot a deer, and, to keep it from the wolves, V* VITT in lltA lintUn uau uuug *v uj iuo uuiuo IU mc nuiuo of a young oak, expecting to come back soon and claim it. Bet either he forgot where he left it or else some acoident happened whioh prevented 'his return, and the horns remained in the tree year after year, until the wood grew entirely around them. , The part of the tree containing the home was sent to the museam of the Michigan Agricultural College, where it now is. V Mexico's New Gunboat. Mexico has virtually no navy. She has one or twoso-caUed vessels of war, but they are the dimsiest apologies for any kind of naval service. The Bej public is, however, having a little gunboat built at New Orleans for speoial Bervioe on the coast of Yucatan to pro* tect the Government's mahogany interests from Indian depreciations. It is the first boat, says the New Orleans Times-Democrat, which Mexico has contracted to have built in the United States. The boat has cypress ribs; will be IGH3 2550 POUNDS. planked onHhe bottom and sides with cypress three and four inches thiok; will have pine planking between the decks and will be finished in oak. The length sixty-five feet by twenty-four feet beam by twelve feet depth and the draught will be two and a half feet. When completed the total height will be twenty-four feet. The heavy armament will consist of two guns, one in the bow, the other in the stern. These and the Bmall guns will be placed aboard the boat after it ha? been delivered to the Mexico Government and is in Mexican waters. The cost will be fyuw. Gold In River Sands. Gold exists in the River Seine in a state of division so line as to be in* visible to the naked eye, and when (he sand of the river near Paris i> used in making glass the crucibles in which it is melted are sometimes gilded over at the bottom. In for* ; mer times a sort of mining was in vogue at Paris by men who wonld buj five francs' worth of quicksilver, and, after passing river saud over it all day, would sell it in the evening for six or seven francs. Almost all the rivers of Europe carry small quantities of gold in their sands, such aa the Rhine, Seine, the Anr, the Reuse, the Danube and others, also the Clyde and many other streams in Scotland, Wales and Cornwall, and though sand from the bed of the Rhine, for instance,' yields only one-fifth of au ounce to the ton, yet the total amount of the yellow metal in that on^river is immense. It has been found by calculation that that part of the River Rhine alone which flows through whr.t waa formerly French territory, contains no less than 36,001) tons of pure gold. - . Case of "Hard Tack." Wandering Ike?"For heaven sake, Bill, watoher at now?" "Weary Bill?"Why, de old woman over in dat house jisfc gimme a hunk o* somethin' she called pie, and it's so tough dat I got ter sharpen up m* grinders 6c I kin wade through der crust."?Twinkles. The Piute Indians of Austin, Nev., are making an effort for the establishment of a school at that place. ' V 1 . STYLISH SLEEVES. EEDUCED DIMENSIONS ARE DECKEKD BY DAME FASHIO.V. But They Must Be Close-Fitting .1. jL'iuiu TI riov iu rjiuu w ? r oauouable Boleros For Young Girls. THE sleeve which itself oat so long and so pretentiously is energetically suppressed by Dame Fashion to its proper dimensions, and now, writes May Manton, shows the troth of-the oldpraverb, "Modesty adorns," as it appears in the reduced state both LADIES' AND i ' ! more graceful and ornamental than hnfni1? Fafihinn dictates, however. . that the sleeves most be close-fitting . from the wrist to above the elbow, where, a, slight puff is permissible; when the sleeves fit snugly to , the ihould^? they are somewhat relieved by volants, draperies or , epaulets. Two pretty designs are given- in* the illustration. I No. 1 is developed in brown canvas f oloth with figures in hyacinthe purple, j The adjustment, close to the shoulders, j has a graceful drapery above termini ating in a soft knot at .the shoulder, i The wrists have a slight point extend| ing over the hand. No. 2 may be ' rightly termed a modified sleeve, serving as a compromise between the sleeve of last season and the extremely .tight fitting ones of this. It is made in granite woolen and has a'separate portion. The fulness stands out fash*' ionably from gathers at the top, fitting the arm clo&ly below. The wrist is finished with a cnff of decidedly original shape. To make these sleeves for a lady in the medium size requires two and onefourth yards for No. 1 design and one and three-eighthti yards for No. 2 design, of forty-four-inoh wide material. For a miss in the medium size requires two yards for No. 1 design and one and one-eighth yards for No. 2 design of the same width material, i FASHI05ABGB BOLKROS FOR GIRLS. The short bolero or zouave jacket, according to May Manton, is the most fashionable o f * the season's accessories. Here are shown two of the very latest C V ..fashionable boi designs, which we give as one pattern. No. 1 is made of c^eam-oolored satinlaced cloth, the revers and small edges being decorated with green braid interworen with gold cord. The fronts are shaped in rounded outlioe and the back, of beooming length, is straight. The shoulders extend well over the dress sleeves and form pointed epaulets. No. 2 is represented in beautiful two-toned velvet, combining the autumnal shades of green and red. The oollar is of. satin in the saiqe deep red tint while the edges are outlined with fancy galleon in oolors to correspond. The jacket is shaped by shoulder and under-arm seams, the froats being slightly rounded, while the baok is notohed to a point in fish-tailed effeot. The collar falls deeply over the shoulders and b&ck in sailor style and expends down the front in slashed revers. Adj of the season's new fabric# will /v;' -Vi- "M.^ ' * J<nV; make stylish and - attractive boleroi by the mode, plain colors being usual ly chosen in black, brown, dark green, steel or dove gray, heliotrope, dahlia, pistache-green or creamy satin worn with waist to match or correspond. Not only will boleroa be found stylish in renovating last season's blouse* and waists, bat nsefnl as well, fox when made of cloth, velvet, etc., thej will provide additional warmth. To make No. 1 design it will require three-fonrths of a vard of twenty-twoinch wide materia], and to make No. 2 design "it will require one and onequarter yards of the same width material. LATEST FAD IN BOLERO JACKETS. The exquisite fdesign here repre_ ~ 7 ~~ ""~~ &' I33E3' SLEETES. sented embraces the latest fad in the bolero jacket and wrinkled girdle belt. Glace silk was chosen for the waist, the ground of fawn, showing stripes Of. golden brown. The waist is arranged over fitted linings which close in, centre front. The jacket fronts m '.rounded bolero style are trimmed with iridescent jew* eled passementerie while the free edges are outlined with a quilling of brown satin ribbon. The full front of ' LADIES* WAIST WITH BOLSBO Aim GIRDLB. tan chiffon is gathered at the neck and waist line, falling in pretty folds to the top of the deep girdle belt, the closing being effected invisibly in centre. The back, smooth fitting across the shoulders, has the fulness drawn well to the centre in overlapping plaits at the lower edge. The girdle of eatin is deepest in centra front, where the fluted edges conceal the olosing. The .EROS FOR GiBL^ 1 sleeves, mounted over coat shaped lin- I ing, are wrinkled from wrists to a lit- * tie above the elbow, where; they stand out well from the shoulders in moder- J ate fulness, according to the latest j style. A standing collar which is cov ' ered by a stock of brown taffeta rib- j bon ending in a large bow at back of nuck. j Elaborately trimmed, the waist may ( be worn at dinner, informal luncheon ' or tea, while developed in subdued colors or less expensive materials it will be equally appropriate for com- j pleting a street toilette. i To make this waist for a lady in the medium size it will require three J yards of forty-four-inch wide ma- ( terial. j From figures recently published at i Munioh it appears that there are now j in central Europe 15,614 gas engines , which aggregate 52.694 horse power. < iEilia I -r ,V <&f TEMPERANCE. >!* .i, ,7y ' -V DKISK AMD DANGER. Write It on the workhouso gate, Write it on the schoolboy's slate, '* Write it on the copv-boolc That the young may on It look? "Where there's drink there's danger. , v Write it on the church aid njound, ^ Where the drink-slain dead are found Write it on the gallows high, Write it for nil passer-by? "Where there's dnntc there's danger.' Write it on the BhipA that sail. Borne alone; by stream and gale* Write it in large letters plain O'er our Innd and pnat the main? * ' 'Where there's drink there's-danger.' . f Write it on the Christian dome, Sixty ihousand drunkards roam' , Year by year from God'and right, Proving with resistless might? V ' "Wiiere there's drink there t danger. WHAT IB A DECXKABDV ''What is a drunkard? I have gone through the whole creation that lives," said AxchVahop TJllnthonio, "and I And nothing in it like the drunkard. The-drunkard to nothing but the drunkard. Hereto no other thing in nature to which he can be likened. The drunkard to .a wjf-made wretch who has depraved cravingsoMfte throat of bis body unili9ie baa sank his soil^^s aotnr that it to lost.-la bto flesh, and baa ^ sank bto very flesh loifor beyond cotnparisoa than that of tbe animals which serve him. He to a seh'-degraded creature who66 . degradation to made manifest t^everyone w but tu'Liaelf: a eelNmlsentble bBr who, wbtle heis.JnsenBiWe to his cJwirtrfaCFT* ?-& ufflicta everyone .around-him or belonging-? to him with misery. s.,The drunkard fe let 1 loose upon mankind IflllTSWae foul, ill-bod- ; tng and noxious animal, to peet&r, torment and disgust everything that reasons or feels, . wbilo tbe curse of God hangs over bis J place and the gates of heaven are closed against him. Drunkemess to never to be found alone; never unaocompanied^ by some horriu crimes, if not by a wicked crowd of them. Oo to the house of , tbe drunkard, consider his family, look at; his affairs, listen to the sounds that prooeed from the hou'e of drunkenness and tbe hottse ' of infamy as you pass. Survey the insecurity of '.he publio highways and of the stfeots at night Go to the hospitals, to tbe bouse of oharlty, and the b?d of wretchednen.. , Enter tbe courts of justice, the prison, and the condemned cell. Look at the flagged:- WJfff feat urea of the ironed criminal. Ask all these why they exist to distress you, and you Will everywhere' be answered by tales, and recitals of the effects of drunkenness. ' And the miseries and the vices and the sorrows and the scencs ot suffering that have harrowed uj? your soul, were almost without exception either prepared by drinking or were undergone for procuring the means ot satisfying this vice and the vices which spring ffcm it." THE DRIVE TRADE IK RUiSIA.' The mode of regulating the sals ot intoxicants In Bussia has passed through many > phases daring the last few years, and now ihe Government have taken the. whole mattei into their own hands, and have oonstlluted themselves the sole agents for the dls- v trifcration among eighty million people ofthe Produce of 2600 distilleries. It is not in the \ .V:? iterest of temperance ithat this has beta done, but rattier in the /interest of revenue. The hope is expressed (bat with. the liquor places under imparl management. the peasants may be induced to moderate their drinkingonhaints'oay?. and be more regular 1 In their drinking all' the year round, and thus consume in the aggregate a larger quantity than is now consumed bv the boats indulged in on the numerous holidays that mark the Russian year. Already the Buaalan ? ' Government are'indebted to $trong drink /or eighty per cent of their revenue; if the new scheme should realize the hopes of its promoters. the retailers' profit being added io the large sums now received as duties or taxes, the cafr&re of the treasury ought to v swell to the point of bunting; But, Me. contemporary says, "There'is to be taken into account the Inherent rottenness of Bus- .. sian officialdom. One canimagine no better incentive to peculation and corruption than this gigantic liquor monopoly." A>' ERROHBO05 IDE/L Says the Scientific American: "For some yean past ^decided inclination has been apparent all over the country to give up tha . y. use of whisky and other strong alcohols, using as a 3ii betit iito beer and other oomS>unds. This is evidently founded on the ea that beer is not harmful and contains & * larger amouut of nutriment; also that "bitters may ha le some medioal quality wnlch will ?K<& a I/>aKaI ifr nnnlflfna , niii AXv; uiiuiu?u m? wiwuv* ? These theories are without oonannation in the observations of physicians and chemists. The use of beer is found to produce a species of degeneration of ;all tbe organism, profound and deceptive,' Fatty deposits, diminished circulation, conditions of congestion, perversion of functional activities-, local inflammation of both the liver and the kidneys, are constantly resulting from Us use." i \ WHAT MARKS CBIJCHALS. Statistics show that flft?<-to seventy-five 6er cent, of all the crime committed' in the ~ -? 'nited States Is done by persons while under the influence of aiootiW-The reason for this is plain. The person committing the crime is anaesthetized, his brain is paralyzed, he cannot think or act rightly. The monomaniac, tbe dipsomaniao. the idiot, the ??pi- "" leptic, the ineoriate and the feeble minded are increasing at ivgreater ratio tbanthenor 1 iHn?.noo Af nnnnloHnn an/1 It Jfi this olasn ot defectives which largely compose the criminal class. the nation's dbink bill. ' Duriog 1895 there were spent for the sup-; port of churches in this country, in round cumbers, $125,000,000; for pabllo education. $165,000.1.00; for printing and publishing. A f.370,000,000; for staple articles of food (meat, Hour, sugar, molasses and potatoes), ' 51,^50,000,000; for liquors, 11,080,000,000. rhat is, @120,000,000 mare were spent for liquors than were spent for the support of ' religion, public education, printing and publishing, combined. utile shoxt of a poisox. It is the peculiar double action of alcohol '-/Hn. which la misleading. So lontr as the organs of the body are "in a healthy condition, . alcohol is Uttleshort of a poison. The organ, In order to do its work properly, needs food, and unless there is Interference the food will be absorbed and changed into proper forms of nourishment. Alcohol roba the organs of the power of doing this. 1 A PROHIBITION KIPEKIMENT. A home-protected colony Is to be started by Mr. Henri Menier, the French chocolate millionaire, who has just taught the bland of Anticosti, at the mouth of the St. Lawrence River, fcr t 150.C00. The inhabitants will be' iskedto live under a mobibition liquor and" ?ame law. and will hayeVt^e fullest liberty) In every respect. Mofl? interest oentres :ibout the experiment. TEMPBKAXCE NEWS AND NOTES. Virginia has just enacted a law making It a misdemeanor to sell intoxicants to any stulents of an educational institution in that' State. Sir Leonard Tlll.ey said it. is not .good * rtateemanship for Canada to spend $40,000,300 in liquors and collect a revenue of f9r}00,000. The French Academy of Medicine recently adopted resolutions declaring that the drink jvil has become a permanent danger, attacking "the very life and force of the country** and laying stress on the fact that even the purest alcohol "is always and fundamentally. i poison." Tho liquor traffic constantly foils organized abor's efforts at aStumelioratlon of the con- * iitiou of the Working people. The great jurse of organized labor is the saloon. So-called "kind-hearted" people who show :he warmth of their affections by forcing upon their friend*, particularly young men, \ , intoxicating drinks, aro n pest to the com- A nunity. Tho Melbourne Sportsman is responsible rortbestatement that "drunk and incapable** ^as the charge Drought against Ave hundred ^H| :hildr<sn under ten years of age in Christian uondon for ode year. A movement has begun against the PulK^H^H nan and Wagner cars to prevent them fron^^HBH jelling beer and spirits while in service. b claimed that on some trains the servloe^^^HBH ho same as a second-class saloon, and H source of much comol&int to manr tra