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CAl ;LOV] Lby'amei iCopyright, by R CHAPTER II. CONTINUED. , "Yesterday I put a piece of helio^ trope at my throat, and he made m< remove it. He paid the scent of tht thing made him have a faintness. ] pointed out several pieces in the vases ?nd he answered if I would wear i rase full of other flowers with helio _ irope, he might perhaps endure it He makes the same objection to an;; Dther flower I choose. He takes dis likes to all the gowns I look well in, and I really^can only dress myself ii a gray winse'y or a Galashiel's tartar with any comfort. All my friends ar< In some way objectionable. Th< Heriots are flighty; the Netherby girl; ?re extravagant; the Hislops are vnl gar; the Fenwicks are beyond bearinj for their pride; and so on and so on If it was not for the minister, he wouli cross you oil my visiting list aiso.' "Why does he do such things?" "Only because ho is a natural ty /ant. He loves to show his power and I am completely in it. Until lateh I did not mind him very much, ! had mamma and you, and everything , gave me joy. I wore my pretty dresse when I came here, and played ant sang when he was out of the house and carried my novels and poetry t< my own room; and as long as I coulc visit Jessy Telfair, I cared nothing for the Heriots or for anybody else." "You have Jamie Wintoun also 01 your side. Jamie is a multitude." "Jamie is well enough." "Weil enouch! And Jamie is to bt your husband!" "No, he is not. I vow I will neve: marry him. Jamie knows how I feel I made him understand the othe: night. I did not mean to hurt him bat I fear T did, for he has not beei to Levens-hope since, and the lain was fretting and fuming about hi: 'nephew's wrongs' all the time I at< my breakfast this morning." "Poor Jamie Wintoun! He is sucl a good-hearted, honorable soul!" "He may have all the good qualitiei that exist, Jessy, and yet he has neve: made me in all these years care fo: him as some cne made me care with i glance and a sigh and a toach of hi: hand. And this some one has al Jamie's good qualities added to hii own special ones." "Besides all thone other excellen cies which you are constantly invent ing for him?" "Very likely I do invent some Every woman has to invent for th< man she loves her ideal virtue. No has them naturally.' ^topics they talked with ai Hfl^^m|^9P^^ncreasing interest. I'he kirl ranS? an(l the minister preachec and prayed, and the congregatior scattered over the hills, and Katherinf still lay upon Jessy's bed, with a head ache and a heartache, telling hergriefi and despairs, and listening to hope! and likelihoods, ansrrv a little, weep ing a little, but with all finding grea comfort in Jessy's reasonable and un reasonable friendship. When Doctor Telfair came bacl from the afternoon service, Jessj boldly defended her own and Kathe Tine's delinquency. "Katherine is really sick," she eaid, "and I stayed at home -with her, And you ought to go and give th( laird a good scolding, father. He is simply an outrageous domestic ty\ rant." "He thinks he is doing his duty.' "He knows he is overdoing his duty. And it is the overdoing thai 1 delights him." "What was Katherine crying about?" "Crying?" "Yes, I heard her sobbing. Pooi little lassie! What was she crying for?" "For the moor., I think." "You mean for that Mr. Mowbraj she met here?" %"Yes; that is what I mean." ? "Jessy, you are a wise wee body, and I will tell you something. You must judge whether to speak or to bt quiet. I have had three newspapers from the young man. His name is in all of them. I have no doubt they were intruded for Katherine. He was surf I would tell you, and equally surf that you would carry the message tc Katherine." "Where are the papers, father' "Why did you not tell me before? A ) Babylonish signet would have beer more wiselvread bv von than a ronnd about love message." I i. "I am not altogether without e ^i* sense of the tender passion, Jessy. ] live yet, my daughter, in a shadow oi the bygone. But I was thinking ol "Wintoun, who is a very pleasant young man and living within my own bounds and parish." "Katherine will never marry Jamit "Wintoun," "The laird will make her." / "She is beyond his 'make' now." "Not until she is of age." "Pshaw! She came of age the daj I she met Richard Mowbray. Father, K you are ten times greater than the Jaird. Stir yourself up for pooi A Katherine, who is likely to be driven distracted between Brathous and WinA toun." jj^R , "A word in such a matter, Jessy, is like a mustard seed and may grow into a great tree, and with all my col? 1 ? ... 1 1 J1 T 1 J I lege learning ana soui wisuom jrmigui be put to the wall by two bits o! lassies not out of their teens yet. ] am not very sure if I ought to let you have the newspapers." "I have taken your first word or that subject, father, ami so I will nevr need your second, which is nothing but a doubt anyway. Mysie will give you a good tea. I lookeJ well to it. Mine has gone upstairs with Katherine's. We would only be talking un-Sabbathlike if we came down; and, besides, you would feel it to be your duty to forbid us looking at the papers to-day, and that would l>e a dreadful trial.1' OWER OF 1; jAI.A.WATER. | S ( s^story: $ * li a e. barr; OBIBT' BOSNIK'6 SOXS.T M 1 An involuntary glance at the papers when Doctor Telfair first spoke of them had revealed their situation to Jessy. They were on a book-shelf, and she took possession of them with a r nod and a smile, and ran upstairs with the fleet feet of love. The even' ing meal had been set by the window, 1 and Catherine had risen and was pour ing the boiling water on the leaves of ' the tea as Jessy entered. The pecu^ liar refreshing odors of Pekoe and yonng Hyson filled the room, and ' there was a wan smile upon Katherine's face; for the young iiave to be 1 very despairing, indeed, before the 3 succulent juices of flesh and luscious sweetness of creams fail to interest 5 them. The idea of a good meal had ~ been accepted by Katherine. at first 3 with the resignation which a sense of | personal duty inspires, but it was fast becoming a pleasurable anticipation. Jessy's face flashed to her hope and expectation, and Katherine put down the little brass kettle and looked at ' her friend with breathless interest. P Selfish people like to play with good news, to make riddles and surprises ' and please themselves, but Jessy shut | the door aud said promptly: 'Dear, if you want to know about Mr. ' Mowbray, here are three newspapers J with his name in them. He sent them to father. Of course, he knew they ^ would be given to you. Love has many strange postmen. Only think of him 1 sendincr the minister?Doctor Telfair himself, and no less!" She was turning over one paper as 5 she spoke, and the others were in Katherine's hands. A pencil mark r quickly directed their attention to the * proper lines. r "Here is the first notice," said ' Jessy. " 'Balmoral Hotel, Edinburgh, j Richard Mowbray, Mowbray, Westmoreland.' How the name stands out 3 among a score of other names!" 9 "He looked at it," said Katherine, and the words caught light from his 1 ayes. "Here is the second notice: 'Perth, Richard Mowbray, Mowbray, 3 Westmoreland.' What is he doing in r Perth, Jessy? Did he speak of Pqrth r before I came?" * "I think not. This is the latest \ paper, May 15. 'Wick, Caledonian 1 Hotel.'" 3 "Wick! What ever has he gone to Wick for? Itis almost at John O'Groats ?at the last foot of Scottish ground." "I think I know. He Booke of an aunt "who lived in the Orkneys. The ' next paper, I dare say, will come from * Kirkwall." , Katherine's headache and heartache were now gone, blown off John 1 O'Groats, far away over the great J North Sea. It was charming to Bee how brightly and swiftly the color 1 came back to her cheeks and the light 5 to her eyes. She was hungrv then, and she'poured out the tea, and en3 joyed her slice of mountain mutton, 3 and very much enjoyed her tarts and " tinctured cream; the while she talked softly, and smiled and dimpled, and was as happy as she had been miserable. The laird was now a nonenity. [ She felt even a trifle belligerent 7 toward him. Wintoun's absence was no longer annoying. Jessy promised to see the young man and find out ' what was the worst of the trouble there. And after a delicious, delight5 fal meal, Katherine rode slowly and 5 hopefully home between the two lights, with three little scraps of news, paper in her silk purse. As for the purse, it was hidden away Bafely close ' to her heart! j CHAPTER TIL DESTINY. What is love! 'tis cot hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter. "What's to come is still unsure; > In delay there lies no plenty. Theu come kiss me. sweet-and-twenty Youth's a stuff will not endure. r ?Twelfth Night. When Mowbray came first to Gala Water the primroses were starring the , meadows and hedgerows, when he i came again the roses were beginning , ! to bloom. The interval was not a ( i happy one to Katherine, for if love . l makes a man cunning it makes 'a. worn s an self-willed. Without actual > knowledge of Mowbray's character she . i naa assured nerseit tnat ue was tne ? mate of her soul and that it would be a kind of sin to hesitate in her alle? gianee. She had seen Mowbray bet a i few hours. Wintoun had been her i familiar for years, but no doubt had troubled her decision against Wintoun. Almost without consideration i or without conscious intent she had j [ made her old lover understand that " she had decided against him; and f Wintoun, not usually quick to apprei hend, had been positive of this de- ^ i cision, though the words which had ^ enlightened him admitted of another i construction His uncle's temper had suddenly 1 forced him to take a position which he had not considered, and which on reflection he regretted. He had in fact ^ r spoken more proudly and chivalrously ai i. ~ /~ii. .i ???:?? v, ^ ( L Li a LI UC imw JLJLie uvA t nc <| s could not endure the thought of re- . signing Katherine. To give her up ; i implied the unsettling of all his life, and he was a young man whose happiness depended upon its .being fixed , and methodical. Unusual events and f emotions disturbed his equilibrium, j threw him out of his orbit, and he felt t like some forlorn castaway. Katherine f was lovely and lovesome, and lie had [ got the habit of loving her. In tear- ^ i ing herself from him she inflicted a wound, aud suffering of any L.ind was i a new sensation to Wintoun. He $eI sented it and his uncle had been the i firat vAfMnipTit. nf lii<j VAnnri'fmpnf ! But his heart-suffering was not all. I Katherine's desertion would wound i his personal and family pride in the s keenest manner. He could imagine . s how young Heriot and Jack Netherby [ and Harry Forster would condole with ' ; him. He was aware that he had f "peacocked" about Katherine's love ; for him and his alliance with the i i A. ? Flower of Gala Water in a -way to merit the sympathizing retaliation which was sure to come. How they would twit him with the Englishman's trmmpnj now tney wouia conaoie with him because he lived three hundred years too late and could no longer "ride" into "Westmoreland and "lift" Mowbray's cattle and corn and carry off Mowbray's wife! Not naturally a very bright young man, his imagination had at this crisis a terrible vividness. Nor could he afford to be quite oblivious of his uncle's threat. It was true that Brathous had part of his estate in pawn. He had been made fatherless at an early age and his mother had not been equal to her position as guardian of a large landed estate. She had left it in difficulties which Brathous had assumed and hitherto managed with great skill; but in financial matters, if his unole went' against him, what could he do? These reflections, added to a severe cold, produced a fever which kept him at home for a week. Katherine fchnnirht nliA was tn blamfl for his ab sence. Tbe laird was sure his nephew was brooding over the angry words he had said?both were blaming themselves somewhat and both were anxious to be friends again. During that week there had been hours, if he had known them, when he might have greatly influenced both his love and his creditor; for it is not in any life opportunity is wanting; it is the soul, alas! that is either ignorant of its "hour" or else too fearful to claim it. In any case, Wintoun let it slip and every day took it farther away. Katherine received the hope which had been sent to her through the vagrant newspapers, and after that Sabbath day she felt no more compunction^ about "Wintoun. Her rapturous joy in the peradventure messages overcame such weak and transitory regrets and doubts as had assailed her in her loneliness. "I will have the blessedness of loving as well as of being loved," she said to herself, as she went home witb the three bits of paper iu her possession. "Jamie may lovo me, but I do not love him; and even Jamie has the habit of loving more than the divine pas* sion of the condition. I will wait for Richard Mowbray. He is sure tc come." * I She was then ..orry that Jessy had promised to say a conciliating word to Wintoun. She wished she had told her to leave affairs as they were. The loir^'o nn?or ftt Viia nonViAw's fthspn r>.P c?v* ?" ?M ? T? would be easier to bear thau Jamie's reproachful eyes and the frightened attempt to please her which he would be certain to make. She hoped some good fate would prevent Jessy seeing Wintoun until sh6 could contradict her desire. But Jessy was no lukewarm friend. She persuaded her father to take her to Wintoun House early on Monday morning, and while the minister went to talk with a sick plowman Jessy took the unhappy lover seriously to task. "Running away even before your rival is on the ground! I amnshamed of you, Jamie Wintoun! The man may never come near Gala Water again. He may have seen some othei pretty girl as he went through the Scottish land. He may have a sweetheart in England." "He is sure to come back here. J feel it." "No one's feeling3 are to trust to. They are simply the most unreliable evidence. Suppose he does come back! What then? Lord Taunton admired Eatherine, and came back and back, and then went his way and married another woman." "Mr. Mowbray fell in real love with Eatherine. I know he did." "What do you know of real love?" "I think I know all about it. Jessy." "You do not. If you were in real love would you stop away from Katherine for anything or anyone? No. You would press your case morning, noon and night. You Tvould get Katherine's mother on your side. You would seek your uncle's active help, for if he set himself to worry Katherine she would marry or drown herself ?to get beyond him?and if you had a thimbleful of good sense you would be coaxing me this very minute to say the good words you have not spirit enough to say for yourself. Jamie Wintoun, order your best horse and put on your best coat and away over to Levens-hope and ask for what was promised you; and then see to it that you let no one say 'No.' " [to be continued.] Obeying Order*. A person who was an eye-witness to the fact relates an amusing circumstance which occurred while Judge H. presided on the bench in a Western district. On a certain occasion after his appointment business called him to Lib* erty, and while there, meeting with many of his old associates at the bar, be got into a convivial mood, which lasted several days, and on going ont lie looked rather worse for wear. In crossing the river at Owen's Landing, there was a boat discharging freight, and in great haste for fear another boat would pass, that had just hove in sight. The clerk sang out: "I say, old man, can't you lend them a hand in taking off that load of furniture? I will pay you well for doing so, and 'double filly' in the bargain." "Oh, yes," says the jndge, always ready to help in a time of need. "Then turn in and be quick," said the clerk. The first tiling was a marble-top bureau. In going off the plank the judge slipped, and the clerk roared aut: "There, now, throw that into the river, will you?" "Certainly," said the judge; and giving a kick with the order, overboard it went. "Hello! what's that for?" said the clerk. "I always obey orders when I work for a man." "Leuve!" said the clerk. "Agreed," said tie judge. "Who is that man?'' said the clerk. A bystander remarked: "That is Judge H., of the Fifth Judicial District of Missouri." "Let go that line!" cried the clerk; md the boat put into the stream at l-? i' rtol oon/I AVr? vovl ott TlTflflro. Lto m^UCOb u uv sine. Australians breed and raise kangaroos for the leather made out of iheii skins. THE CRISIS HTI no-f m/N- n ro rvo o r\ f 41, * Tl I I'lj^lliuui UiCiinu w ? uiw at Faraway P WE OPPOSE GERA The belief in Washington that Germany will repudiate any unlawful acts of her Consul at Apia, Samoa, and will also disavow responsibility for the extraordinary attempt of Dr. KafFel, the President of the Municipal Council, to run the Supreme Court, probably accounts for the calmness with which the Administration regards the mutter. If the recent aggressions of local German representatives in Samoa had TWO NATIVE BEAUTIES OP THE iKOYAL SA1IOAN HOUSEHOLD. been the first of their kind we might be at some los9 to account for them; but we must go back mor? than a dozen years for the beginning of the efforts of the German traders to control the islands and to turn them, if possible, into a German possession. A3 long ago as 188a Consul Stuebel and Herr Weber, tlie head of the leading German firm, tried to bring King Malietoa under their control, and, finding this impossible, encouraged Tamasese, the Vice-King, to plot against the Government. In 1887 a German naval officer landed his men at Apia and hauled down the King's flag, the unfortunate monarch being Boon afterward taken away on a German ship to a distant land, and TamaseBe set up in his stead. The people, finding Tamasese only a German puppet, chose Mataafa to be their King, and he distinguished himself by defeating with considerable loss a landing party from the German cruiser. Meanwhile the vigorous protests of Consul-General Bewail," our able representative in Samoa, backed up by those of the English Consul, were followed by the measures of Secretary Bayard against German aggression} and the resnlt was a conference at Berlin, ending in the tripartite treaty under which the islands are now governed. The war with Spain and the pressing occupations connected with the ex pansion 01 our territory Dave caused Samoan affairs to slip temporarily into the background. The appearance of the Philadelphia in Samoan waters will signalize the resumption of our full rights and responsibilities there. More fascinating than romance is the naive story of the brown skinned folk of Samoa these twenty years past. It is tragedy, it is farce, it is opera bouffe, it is child's play. It is a tissue of intrigue and greed and simplicity. And the mighty import of the world politics threads the whole by virtue of the clashing interests there of the three great Powers of America, England and Germany. t? Nearly every year in the past twenty there has been a crisis there, a clash of kings or a wrangle of consuls. "WarRliinn luvrp rnllnrl intn th?t,rn.nri/? lmvnf Apia and Iain there at anchor, silent but powerful factors in the situation. Almost ten years ago came the greatest of all the crises. Rival kings were warring in the island under German incitement. Consuls were at daggers' point. Washington, London and Berlin were aroused. Out across the Pacific into Apia harbor sailed three American warships. Three German vessels lay there already. Her Majesty's steamship Calliope put in. The ngly quarrel was smoothed over by none of the soft speeches of diplomacy. The British and Americans stood allied against the greed and assumption of Germany and there was no pretense of concealment. The bluff naval officers talked plainly of shooting and meant it. Bumors came to America that already there had been a fight between the United States steamship Adams and the German ship Adler, in which the former was sunk by On a /Ifttr flin firft wqc nearly ignited. English and American vessels had followed the Germans on a crnise about the islands with outspoken intentions. The tension was too much; at one point the German lowered his gun ports and made ready to fire. By no more than a hair's breadth ^ lip MATAAFA IN NATIVE COSTUME, W possibly was war averted that day. For some reason known only to himself the German did not lire. Tho ships steamed sullenly back to Apia harbor. There they lay watching each other with angry eyes. They were prey to fate. At the moment wheu war seemed most imminent came & tsrrific hurricane up out of the Pacific into Apia harbor. Ia the angry sea J IN SAMOA. iree Contending Nations in the acific Island. IAN AGGRESSIONS. were buried many German and American seamen and along with them, as it happened, -were bnried for the hour the ugly quarrel which had divided them. The nations were brought to their senses. But for the tragic intervention of the hand of Providence, who knows but that a great war might have started? The Berlin treaty followed in its stead. Now the' second great crisis has come. The poor, vacillating king, set upon the throne by the Berlin treaty of 1891 is dead/ German interests, i.: -l. i J ? * i 'i I wniuii iittve ever uommaiea on ine island, seek to replace him by a man suited to their own desires. Strange contradiction of fate?that man is Mataafa. Stranger still he etands barred | from the petty throne by the very act of the Germans themselves, by their own special provision, inserted in the -itinrrriniraHil ' *~*" *i THE SUPREME COUI Berlin treaty, to keep him out of the seat of authority. It is as though the hand with which they had struck Mataafa had rebounded and smitten them. They had been his dearest foes. He had been the instrument with which the undisputed reign of a puppet king of the Germans had been overthrown. They were his followers who slew forty of the flower of the German marines. Mataafa must be barred from the throne. He was. CHIEF MAUAIVA, ONE OP THE 8UPPOBT- ] ERS OP MATAAPA. \ When his following grew turbulent they stole him into exile and kept him ( hidden away for three long years. Times changed. Political lines j shifted in the islands. Malietoa, the weak, died. Note the drama. A man J of the United States, William Lea Chambers, of Alabama, had come to be ] chief justice of the island, under the \ provision of the Berlin treaty. Not ( long ago a German had held that offioe. Now that a question of vital political import was to arise to be passed upon, a hated American was seated in the chair. A balf dozen claimants for the throne sprang up. Moli, the brother of the dead Malietoa Lanpepawasone; Malietoa Tanus, a son of the dead sovereign, a stripling little known to the ohiefs and the people, was another. The American chief justice, con- , struing the Berlin treaty, readMataafa outside of the ranks of those who may be King of Samoa. The old exile had carried by a vast majority the odd sort of an election by which a king is elected. The Germans, who had put that clause in the document, found it last to bar their own path even more than that of the aged, indifferent Mataafa, whom they had brought back from . exile to make a king. The Germans want the ruling hand . in Samoa. They cannot claim this on ^ the strength of their superiority in i ll U, ''' 'ITH HIS SISTER AND RELATIVES. trade with the islands, for in this respect they fall far below the United States, Great Britain and Australasia. 3 In 1897 the islands imported $53,415 I worth of goods from the United States, ] $13,322 from Great Britain and only ] frnm Oeimnnv. The Germans. ( however, prepare and export a great ] deal of copra, and they own most of t the land that foreigners hold in the ( islands. Of the 135,000 acres, about one-sixth of the area of the gronp ovned by foreigners, at least 85,000 acres, including the best land in the islands, is owned by the Germans. This landed estate was secured by the original German trading firnf, and its suecessors have never parted with an acre of it. Tho great drawback of Samoa is that it is so far irom markets. Its best products are tropical fruita, which are abundantly produced, but distance from markets prevents exportation. In 1888 the Ceylon coffee disease first appeared on the plantations of Samoa and in a short time put an end to coffee production in that group. No attempt has since been made to raise coffee. Practically the whole business of Samoa is based to-day upon the cocoanut, and the export of copra, the dried meat of the cocoanut, repreoents nearly all the exports of the islands. In 1997 nearly 11,000,000 pounds of copra, the native product, were ex ported m addition to the large quantity raised on the German plantations. What with her political troubles and the causes that have conspired to keep her commerce small, Samoa has not ? m'1 IT HOUSE AT APIA. had a very prosperous history. The time is coming, however, when she will see better days. The resources of the group, whioh, all told, is about qs large as Rhode Island, have yet scarcely been touched. In fact, nobody lives more than three or four miles from the sea and the inner parts of the islands have not been ntilized. ' JOKE ON A BRIDAL COUPLE. How th? Young Wife'* Trunk Looked 'When It lUteclied the Station. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Mahaney, who married recently at Meadville, Penn., were desirous of reaching their new home in Jersey City without observa- * tion. They might have done so had it not been for a trunk. Some persons, at present unknown to Mr. and Mrs. Mahaney, decorated that trunk as np trunk ever leaviug Meadville before was decorated. , i First two large pasteboard hearts, , red in color, were tacked on tho top. 1 J In black letters across one heart ap peared, "We are as happy as two tur-' ' lie doves," and on the other was printed "Two hearts that beat as one." : Red, white and blue ribbons were also lttached. Mr. Mahaney, who is employed in , the general postoffico in New York, t had been told by a friond in Mead- J rille that ho need not givo himself no , :oncern about the trunk. The friend would see that it did not miss the ' ;rain. ; ! The bride and groom reached the , Erie Railroad depot in Meadville as f :he train they wore to take to Jersey Dity came into the depot. "All aboardl" shouted the conluctor. "Walter! my trunkl What about it?" said Mrs. Mahaney, who, as Miss Annette Baldwin, was ono of the belles : 3f Meadville. j "There it is," answered Mr. Mahaney, as he caught sight of a por- c ter lifting the trunk into a baggage f :ar. ; "Oh, I'm so glad! I thought it j ? c ITONDEBFCTi BRIDAL TRUNK AS IT AR- ? I< RIVED IX JERSEY CITY. ? r wouldn't arrive in time," said the u jride. "I wish it hadn't," groaned the * jroom, iyho had just then canght sight () )f the decorations upon the trunk. b During the trip to Jersey City the ri jridegroom tried to reach the trunk n order to denude it of its decora~ ? i ? ?1. . ;ions, but tlie baggage master, wuo .vinked at the couducter, wouldn't ri lelp him find it, and when tho train eached Jersey City the trunk had D gained a few new trimmings. The air vas blue when Mr. Mnhauey, in Jer- 7* tey City, aided by a sympathetic baggage man, who said ho had recently^ )een married himself, finished tear-ing i( )ff the decorations from that truUk. w A Reliable Sign. js "Xow," said the attorney for the lefense, "here is a skull. Can you ell U3 to what species it belougs?" "It's the skull of a lawyer," replied |gv he expert witness. ^ ?.rr f.HO" .1. XIUW uUUJUU kCii. "By the cheek bones." H The cliavter of tho Ancient and tl Ionorable Artillery Company is dated jD March 17, 1638, and its founder was c Robert Keyne, a part member of the Ionorable Artillery Company of Lon- $ !on, which was chartered by King lu ienry VIII. The Boston organiza- ion was first known as the Military jompauv oi juassacuuseiiB. A TEMPERANCE (X)LUim?|j| Tur rsnuii/ Pint iliHEf M A M1CCTQT.l < i nt umnft cvil mnu& wwmi IN MANY WAtS. \ ^3? The Two Patha-.Mo?t of the DUewir^^jj Treated in tlie Hospitals Arise From . Alcoholic Drlnka?Children of Toper* yjfjM Are Often Deformed and Idiotic. -9 Thdrfl wArp nnm (?n llttlfi bOVS. '' VVcfl Long, long afro! < Leaving home and all Its joys, Long, long ago! . k They had heard the people say. "While the sun shines make your hay;" '-JjM Bo to work the> trudged away. Long, long agol They worked on for many a year, Long, long ago! Full of courage, full of nheer, Long, long agol But on? merry New Year's day, . ''lagaj Ac a party bright and gay, Both were tempted, sad to say, Long, long ago! One resisted, doing well. Long, long ago! While the other drank and fell, /%w| Long, long ago! He who drank the poison wine,Heeding not the voice divine, Died a drunkard (fearful sign). Long, long agol He who shunned the temDting wino. ? . <' 3?9 Long, long ago! ' Listening to tbe voice divine, , y-px Long, long ago! V " ,< Fall of honor lives to-day, ~XE9 Teaching men the better way B||j That he chose when young and ear. ?Mrs. M. A. Kidder. The Danceri of Alcohol. At the last meeting of the Paris Hospitals IB Medical Society, M. Legendre, a'.armed by the ever-increasing amount of drunken- ,'/l ness, aslced if it would not be possible to' .. withstand thia by means of meetings, in- 3 slstence on the dangers of alcohol, and byi what be considered an even better method^ ' that is, getting up for the instruction of .; '-;|S patients lantern shows with exhibitions of anatomlo preparations to show the dsoger* - ?JS ot alcohol. M. Legendre has had printed] for the use of ail his patients ft little leaflet,' \ jfil the text of whioh .runs as follows: * .' "Most of the diseases treated in the hos-|?^^H pitals arise from alcoholic drinks?that Is v "3&V to say, they are either caused or aggravated* . ' *39 by the abuse ot alcohol. All alcobolio,: ^591 drinks are dangeroa9, and the most hapn-. S&M ful are those whioh contain aromatlcs 1ft addition to alcohol?as, for instance.. ' absinthe and the so-called aperients, called "Alcoholic drinks are more dangerous when taken on an empty stomach or be-*' t ween meals. A man necessarily becomes - ' ftjH an alcoholic?i. e., slowly poisoned byalco- >j?| hoi?even it he never gets drank, when;. every day he drinks alcohol In the form of jja liqueur or too muoh wine, more, than one' *'5$] litre per diem; "Alcohol is a poison the habitual use of ?{ which destroys more or less quickly, but none the less certainly, all the organs Most Sag necessary to life?the stomach, tbe liver,!.', tbe kidneys, tbe blood vessels, the heart; v%8a3 and tbe brain. Alcohol excites man, but? v/wfflj does not strengthen him. It is no aubstiJ tut a for food, but takes away the taste foe ;-l^l tt. Those who often drink alcohol or too- '*; ? much wine (more than one litre a day) am, ''vlja much more liable to illness, and when llf are much worse, for the disease is oftfeb \ eompllcnted with fatal delirium. / y aiuuuui is u iic^ucui causa ui cuusaup*' ' > - JUS tion by its power of weakening the lunnJ ' H Every year we see patients who attend hospitals for alcoholism come back some months later suffer log from consumption*: . Fathers and mothers who drink often hare children who are deformed or idiots <5i who> * 'Sidle from fits." The Beat Care. 1 Rev. Dr. T. DeWittTalnfage said in a cent sermon: : ..'vv? "A celebrated doctor of France has re-1 rently discovered something wbioh all' drinkers ought to know. He has found' out that alcohol in every shape, wbetber of wine or brandy or beer, contain* para- . fitlc life, called bacillus potumans. By a gaj ijowerful microscope these living things. ire discovered, and when yon take atronffj j- jg lriuK. yuu unwe mem miu ixje siomacu, ana . . Ihen iuto your blood, and getting into the! jrimson coals of life they go into every! ''tW~ 'issue of your body, and your entire or-janlsrn is taken possesslou of by tbesel 1 .oxlous infinitesimals. When in delirium; / r"$!$ remans a man sees every form of reptilin life, it is only these parasites of the* v*??S !.raln in exaggerated size. It is not a halt, " 'jcinutlon that the victim is suffering: '*: rom. He only sees in the room what is-;. ? actually crawling and rioting in bis oral; X Sm )rain, Every time you take strong drink! ,; S ou swal.'ow these maggot?, and everyi ime the Imbiber of alcohol in any shap?: ** eels vertigo or rheumatism ornausea.it! 3 only the jubilee of these maggots. 'Ef-j ortsarebelng made for the discovery oly iomegermicide that can kill the parasites-! * . >< >f alcoholism, but the only thing that will! ver extirpate them is abstinence, t* ."hlch I would before God swear all yonnjt : lenandold." Treatment of Inebriates in Germany. The sixth paragraph of the new code,* vhlch will come into operation in Germany^ n 1900, enacts compulsory treatment of) \y, labitual drunkards, involving their being v /laced under a curator, who will be em-i ^ lowered to put the individual anywhere1 or treatment until discharged from cura-! orship by the court. The exact descrip-, ion is: "He who. in consequence of in?-. riety, cannot provide for his affairs, or irincfl hlmaulf np h(? fnmllv Inf-n Hnn. * ;er of need or endangers the safety ofi. itbors." Thl9 measure was fir^t advocated' n 1863 at a meeting at Hanover. A Drunkard's Will. ffijK A dying drunkard In Oswego. New York, eft the following as bis "last will and testaaent:" "I leave to society u ruined cbarcter, a wretched example and a memory. bat will soon rot. I leave to my parents: s much sorrow as they can, In their feebly tate, bear. I leave to my brothers and; Isters as much shame and mortification as' can bring on them. I leave to my wife a roken heart and a life of shame. I leave o each of my children poverty, ignorance,; low character and a remembrance that heir father filled a drunkard's grave." - jggfpj The Saloon-Keeper'* Profit. If a bu9hel of corn is worth fifty cents, rhen made into whisky it makes four gal3ns which, sold over the bar, brings 124." 'he Government gets $4.40 of this, the raiioads forty cents, the distiller $4, and the aloon-keeper all that remains hut the fifty ents the farmer got when he sold the corn. 'his is not the only transaction in which tie price received by the farmer and that aid by the consumer is a long way apart, ut there is no other transaction that can aHult in less pood to the country, and no 'orse use that corn can be put to. Paragraphs About the Crusade. The bright lights of the saloon are stolen om human eyes. Vf Consecration and concentration are much eeded in the anti-liquor flght. :i* At the beginning of 1399 there were 10W iwer licensed saloons in Chicago than in anuary, 1893. A St. Louis GranU Jury reports that iventy-flve per cent, of all crimes are jmmltted by intoxicated persons. One of the Parisian religious papers, hen pleading for tempcrance, gives no rongor waruinq than simply that alcohol bad for children "under the age of y x." A. saloonkeeper discharged a clerk for Biting drunk. A distiller advertised for * vo teetotalers to run his still. A drunkard at a discount with all people. Even the evil wants a more respectable man than & runknrd to work for him. A unirjuo will, just probated In Washingiu, Penn., is that of Jeromo Plummer. is entire estate, valued at 475.000. after , 10 death of his wife, is to bo sold and the icomo used exclusively for the cause of imperance in Washington County. It is called "uncivilized warfare" to jison the water which an enemy drinks. hy is it not branded as "uncivilized" to irnishour own soldiers?our own citizens with a drink which destroy? their useilness, not only as soldier?, bu: as men? The American Friend. ' J