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It. ^ \ ' ) SILVER SERVICE FOF r FLAGSHIP f i j 4lJ *'' i 1.-^ ? , / Admiral Dewey's flagship Olympis ] Isew York, with a superb silver service I Washington. The patriotic citizens of they decided they would make a preset ture of the set is a winged figure of Yi< great battle?of Manilr. Bay and thetriu can be mounted upon the center piece < when that vessel is not in use. Or, wl mounted on a pretty ebony pedestal, attractive piece in the set is a great tra Dewey and of every officer aud man w memorable moruiug of May I. rue se ladle, water kettle with tray and stand augav bowl, three meat dishes, differeu ing cups, cooler tureen, center piece, c liglits each, two compotiers and two dozen cut glass cups, specially desigue lNGLEY'S FLYING MHCHINE. | v/'ill Carry Six Men and Travel ^ lOO Miles an Hour. Washington', D. C. (Special).? Professor Samuel Pierpont Laugley, of the Smithsonian Institution, is credited by scientists and inventors with having perfected a flying machine that in mechanical construction and simplicity of detail is a vast im, provement over his so-called aerodrome that circled in the air over the waters of the Potomac three years ago. The new machine is no working model, but is said to be able to carry in its cur as many as six men and travel easily at a rate of 100 miles an Lour under the absolute mastery of its engineer and pilot. Added interest accrues to this new machine since the appropriation of the United States Board of Ordnance, made last fall, has been employed in its construction. The sum of $25,000 was put in Professor Langley's hands j _ Li. ; . JJ L ? _ A, ^ r 4U A Wak DtiKonii I OJ cms uepunmem ui iuc m?i uuic?u I in Washington, after the professor Lad explained his plans and the possibilities he believed to be within his power to attain. The engine is built of aluminum | ?nd steel, and though its power is I great the total weight of this device is I only forty-seven pounds. The machine is built largely of; aluminum, and the body or car is j about twenty-five feet long, six feet | wide and eight feet deep. The car i tapers at each end and is well supplied ; with windows. Entrance is effected i through two doorways, one on either j side of the forward end of the car. j These doors lead directly into the ; main room of the car. For an ex- j tended trip this main room will be ! fitted out with hammocks, cooking j utensils and other articles of the i kitchen and sleeping room that the j traveler would find necessary and , convenient. Back of this room is a second apartment which secretly holds the vital organism of the new aerial monater. Here it ia where the liquified air is developed which has beeu utilized with such magnificent genius by Professor Langley. It furnishes power to the engine; it reduces to a liquid the buoyant gases that are the initial lifting power of tne wiioie con-; trivance: it supplies fresh air for the car at all times, and is also an ever, ready refrigerant that will preserve fresh meats and other foods most needed on a loug voyage in the air or water. The engine, of course, is a wonder in itself of lightness, compactness and as a power producer. Though weighing only forty-seven pounds, it serves to drive the aerodrome at the sDeed of at least 100 miles an hour, and can operate at the same time a *mall dynamo, to which it can be .easily geared. Back of the engine-room is the storage-room, having ample space for all ritOFESSOrc SAMl-EL PIERPONT LAN'GLET. provisions and even additional freight and gearing that would be used in a long journey. The so-called pilot-house occupies the forward etid next to the main 01 ?ntrance room. Slightly abaft ol amidships on the outside of the u.a?hine on either side are the paddle -wheels that at 2000 revolution* pei X ADMIRAL DEWEY'S OLYMPIA. I. V f% UsmhiJIbfl PWWI j k will be presented, wbeu it arrives at ', the Rift of the people of the State of Washington spared no expense when il to the Olympia. Tue principal feaitory, iuteuded to be symbolic of the inph of American arms. This figure or upon the cover of the punch bowl jen not on table, the figure can be Next to the figure of Victory the mo9t y ?n which are the names of Admiral It "was ou board the Olympia on the I comprises a punch bowl, tray end . cofi'ee pot, tea pot, cream pitcher aud t sizes, gravy boat and tray, two lovme pair of eandelabra, having seven serving trays. There are also four d for the Olympia. 1 minute are calculated to produce the 100 miles an hour speed. The paddle wheels are five feet six inches in diameter, and are made of aluminum, with steel braces. Above the wheels and extending from end to end of the machine in a curve that slightly droops toward the rear are the wings or sails. Each sail extends twenty-four feet from the side of the car, and considering tho width of the car, six feet, the total width of the aerodrome from the tip of its wings is fifty-four feet. In *he stern THE FLYING MACHINE DES is mounted a double rudder, one operating to raise or lower the air ves -1 ?J it.- -J.1. i. .1... : i 41, ? aau me uiucr iu oicoi 10 iv mc right or left. Another feature of this machine that is credited with being a most sensible one, not found, by the way, on the flying model *>i three years ago, is the gas bag or balloon that profrudes from the centre of the car, to which it is held by tbe usual network of ropes. This is used when the passengers desire to return to the earth. The balloon is gradually inflated and siuiultareously the engines are slowed and Anally brought to a standstill. The supply of gas in the bag is reduced or increased as deAAW^ifinna an/3 in fliia UIHUUCU UJ WVUMlViVUO, UUM ?M.W | manner the machine can either float along almost on a level plane or sink slowly and gentiy?like a tired bird? to earth. The working crew of the present , FLYING MACHINE'S STARTING POINT. fHou.se boat at Quantico, Vn., on which Professor LaoRley conducts bis experiments with the aeroplane.) vessel will consist of two men, one to care for the engine and the other as a lookout or pilot, who also directs the steering apparatus. The entire structure in its present perfect shape has cost only SI 7,000. Professor Laugley has been an investigator and builder of machines desigued for aerial navigation during a period of over ten years. He has constructed as many as twenty-five models of one kind or another. lie Strove to Please. The boy who tackles a new job may always expect to be, for awhile at least, the butt for jokes and pranks from all the other boys in the place. A clerk in a big Chicago '\otel tells of ; a new bellboy wbc was recently em! ployed. On the rirst day the house| keeper met him in oue of the hallways staggering under the weight of two "lire buckets" filled to the brim with water. "Here, boy, what are you doing?" she asked. "Why, the other kids told me I had to change the water in these buckets every day, and I'm doiugthat." ; "And do you kuow,"said the clerk, > "that boy had put fresh water iu 215 buckets? But I guess it didn't do any i harm to have the water freshened up a bit, anyhow."?Chicago News. f . London enjoys a greater area of ) open spaces than any other capifal in the world. CGOCOSCOGCCGOOGOOCOGOOOOOJ I THROWING LASSO; j C? Direction* Which Will Ei able a ( | g Boy to Make a Lariat an I to j> ; Q Learn to Dae It. { IOOQOCOCOCOCCCOCOOOOC 30GG0C | The horse-hair lariats are dry weather ropes which are in commoi use in the great deserts of the South west, but for general service in lasso ing cattle, staking out horses, tying loads on the pack horses, and for th< numerous uses to which the cowboj puts his "lass rope" the braided raw hide lariat is more serviceable and is more generally used. The Indian* j of the great plains are very expert in I making lariats of rawhide. They use j half-tanned cattle skins from which ! the bail- has not been removed. This : rawhide is cut, into narrow strips as long as the hide will permit, or sometimes an entire hide serves to make one strip, the cutter beginning at the outer edge and cutting round and round the hide along the constantly narrowing outside until the skin has been reduced to one long piece of rawhile about one-quarter of an incb wide. The strips are soaked in water, fastened to a block at one end and * ? ?* i- - ? wortea togecner into a Draia 01 mree THROWING THE LABIAT. strands or more. While the braiding is being done the rawhile is kept drawn as taut as possible. When the rope?usually about lifty feet in length?is completed it i9 buried in t.h? frrnnnd where it is allowed to re main for two or three weeks. Then it is dug up and stretched by means of heavy weights. The hair is then sandpapered off, the rope is greased with mutton tallow and the loop is made. A lariat of this sort is prized by its owner as something more valuable than jewels or fine linen, and many an old-time "cow-puncher" would not sell his lariat for its weight in gold. The boy, however, who wishes to CENDIKG TO THE EARTH. learn to lasso can make a very desir able lariat from apiece of flexible rope about one-fourth inch in diameter and thirty feet long. It is a good plan to grease the rope with tallow, as that will help it to run smoothly and keep it from kinking. An eyelit fully half an inch in diameter, of the sort that is used ou awnings, should be provided for the slip noose. The picture marked No. 4 in the accompanying illustration shows how the eyelit should be adjusted at one end of the rope. It must be securely fastened and there should be no rough rope ends stlCKing out 10 lnieriere >vnu the easy working of the noose. When your lariat is ready for service let the rope slip through the "honda" or eyelet, till a loop about five feet in diameter is made. Next coil the remaining rope in your left haud (see No. 1 in the illustration) until the loop and six feet of rope remain uncoiled. Then grasp the remaining rope in your right band, holding it and the loop about one foot above the honda (see No. 1), and you arereadyfor the swing. In makingthe swing let your wrist be limber, in or| der that as you whirl the loop above and around your head, from right to j left, the wrist will turn with the loop, | thus enabling the latter to make a horizontal revolution. (SeeNo. 2.) Stand facing the object you intend to lasso and when you are ready to make the + lnf lnAn (ta o a if. Qtvin nrq luiun igv IU^ 14-J *V w? I from back to front, at the Bame time | make a quick step forward. At the instant the cast, or throw, is made the hand should be palm down and the arm stretched forward at full length and on a level with the shouldsr (see No. 3). After some practice in throwing the lariat the loop as it flies through the air will remain open like a hoop lying on the ground. At this time the right side of the loop should be lower than the left. If such is the case, the low side will strike the target first and swing the other j side over the object. ! in coning tue surplus rope in your I left hand be sure to have it ao adjusted ! that it will "pay out" easily. The | important thing to Ifcarn first is to ! make the loop fly straight and on a , level course. Wheu you have reached i the point of skill where your loop re^ j mains open while sailing and makes ? | "bee line'' for the mark, you maj ! know that you will soon be master o1 I tha lariat. Obeyed the Injunction. Senator Clark, of Montana, recent ly laid an asphalt walk before hif ' Western home, and, the composition ] being not yet dry, caused a temporary ' boardwalk to be erected, with the sign j "Take the Boardwalk.'" Some !oca j wags noted this, and the day after it: appearance carried oft' the walk, anc j wrote uuder the sign the words, "W< j Have." The coffee plant is ind'genocs t< i Asia and Africa, but the greater par I of the world's product now comosfroD I the Western Hemisphere. . "KISSINC BUG" IS IDENTIFIED. 3 A Hideous Insect On? Inch Lone That ' Feeds on Human Lips. jj The "kissing bug," which has been 5 on the rampage in New York and else3 where, is not unknown to entomolo3 gists, bnt its habit of biting human j beings on the lips is perfectly new. This hideous insect is called melanolestes picipes by the scientific men 1 ia a nrortntnrr insert. Until it THE "KISSING BUG." made its debut in Washington, it was never known to feed on man. Its lavonte pasture nas tnus lar ueen me cnbicular bug that inhabits bedding, and its most acceptable feeding time just after that bug has had a meal of blood from a human being. In this waymelano, etc., gets a taste of human blood. It has now gone into the business for itself, and taps its food supply without the aid of a vicarious distributer. The kissing bug is black, has a fat body, and does all its hunting by night I like the wolves in "The Jungle Book."' ft is about an inch long, has a narrow, pointed head, and a beak as sharp as that of a mosquito. When it sucks its riotim, who is always asleep, feels no pain, but the stung parts swell to ten times normal size in from two to four days. Collodion is used in the treatment. The probable cause of the prevalence of the melanolestes this year is the great abundance of insect life to be found everywhere. Nature has pxoviftd this species to prey upon caterpillars and other insect pests, and with the disappearance of these the melanolestes will disappear also. Again, I oature has provided millions of paraI ntes which in turn feed upon this in ?ect and destroy its eggs. It would be entirely out of the question for mankind to attempt to stop the pest by artificial methods. If the '.nsect pest is going to increase in still greater numbers people will merely be obliged to stand it? ravages and make ;he best of the situation. It is peculiarly unfortunate that the melanolestes has chosen the night to follow Its mischievous work, as people are lecessarily more at his mercy when sleeping than when awake. As a rule the melanolestes picipes nakes his home under thSbark of rotien trees. The insect runs with great swiftness and is hard to catch on that account. It flies mostly at night. In the larvae state these creatures resemble somewhat the common bedbug. In fact, in the States of California and Texas and in all the Southwestern country where considerable innoyance and suffering are caused Uy its depredations, it is commonly known as the "Great Big Bedbug." Hutnble Birthplace of a President. One of the oldeit houses in the South is the building shown in the accompanying pictu -e, in Raleigh, N. C., which was the birthplace of President Andrew Johnson. It is a very small affair, only eighteen feet front and eleven deep, and contains but two rooms. In the upper room, which is only seven by nine feet in size, and as smoke-dried as a Laplander's hut, Andrew J obnson was born. For many years the house has been occupied by colored people; and an old fa WHERE ANDREW JOHNSON WAS BORN. "auntie" who now lives there tells visitors that she believes some day "dese people will carry de ole house : off. Ebery one ob dem tears off a big splinter." Jacob Johnson, tlft Presi! /lonf'o fotlior was ft tftilnr here, and ! his wife was a maid of ail work at the | old Union Hotel on the site of the I present postoflbe. Jacob lost his life j in a mill-pond while attempting to I save the life of a drowning friend. In | 1866 a monument was erected to him near the scene of his heroic deed. A Very Small Kallroad. In the Isle of Man there is a railroad of which the gauge is bat twen, ty-four inches, and this was thought to be the smallest railroad in the world until at the Omaha exhibition j the owner of a railroad having a gauge | i of only 12$ inches came to the front, i | The height of the small engine of this unicue road is two feet one inch from i I the top of the stack to the rail, the [ | cylinders are two inches by four . inches, the boiler holds twenty-foui t gallons of water and develops sufficient r steam to allow of one and a half horse ' power beiug indicated, or sufficient to draw ten cars, each carrying two per sons. An American vessel enjoys the distinction of being the smallesl steamer that floats. It is called the i Nina, is twelve feet long aud three i feet wide, carries a boiler weigning r eighty pounds and an engine weighing , twenty pounds, while the hull weighs 1 ninety pounds. The little steamer car 3 attain a speed of Ave and one-hall 1 miles an hour, j France prohibits the use^of cement floors for powder mngazTntfs. It is j said that particles of sand, getting in* i to the cracks of cement floors, cause ignition of the powder br friction. SHS n 1 j Damage to Crops Estimated at Not Less Than $40,000,000. i MILES OF LAND INUNDATED. Contributions Are Wow Being: Bncelved ( From All Sections?Districts Organized ( - ? ? I the Distribution of Sappiin^Governor ? Bayers Receives 16,000 From New York * c Austin, Texas (Spcclal).?A careful cal- j culation 'made by Judge N. A. Cravens, r private secretary to Governor Sayers, from I tbe reports on file In his office, sbowH that ? the overflowed district extends from * McLennan County to the Gulf In Brazoria g County, a distance of about 325 miles. The t average width of the Inundated portion of ? the valley is about ten miles. In some places the water covered the rich agricultural land to a width of fifteen miles, while at other points the width was not more than four miles. Taking these conservative figures as a basis it is calculated that the area inundated Is nearly 21.000,000 acres. Estimating the cotton.vield at only one bale per acre and the value of each bale at 820, and calculating that only one-twentieth of the Inundated district was planted in cotton, the loss from that source alone will be 820,000,000. The damage to other crops will amount to an equal sum, making a total estimated loss In crops alone of 840,000,000. It is asserted by those who have been throughout the Inundated region that tbe above estimate is not any too high. The water bus covered the growing cotton, corn and sugar cane so long that it Is now assured that the loss of those crops Is complete, and that it will be too late in the season to replant. It will be several months before tbe two thousand and more country road bridges can be replaced ow ing to the fact that tne wtate legislature at its recent session passed n-law requiring ( that all country bridges must be constructed on contract, and that the bids must be asked through advertisements. There is no provision for such an emergency as ex- e ists at present. The cost of the destroyed n bridges runs from $500 to $16,000 each. f The estimated railroad loss from the t flood is from $4,000,000 to 85,000,000. The d Houston and Texas Central, It is said, will y have to rebuild the entire road between c Calvert and Hearne, and its total expendl- [ tures in Robertson County will reach fully I half a million dollars. The Missouri, Kan- J sas and Texas losses near Sealy and Dewey t will be equally large, and the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe and the Southern t Pacific are afflicted keenly in many places. II Governor Sayer? is in constant receipt of v reports from the numerous committees in 1 charge of the front of rescuing and dls- L THE DES MOINES, A TYPE OF THE 81 trlbuting food supplies to the flood refugees. The Governor bus received many c contributions from Texas towns and from t eastern ana norcueru cuius, numiucui ?. men of New York City have sent $16,500, J while other liberal donations have also a been made. The response to Governor I Sayers's appeal for aid Is very gratifying \ and is much appreciated. a It is now realized that it will be a heavy task to take care of the homeless and needy E people until shelter and work can be pro- f> vlded. A plan of action, by which it is ? hoped an abundance of the necessary supplies can be obtained has been perfected 2 by the Governor. It consists of the forma- i tion of districts, each of which is composed 1 of counties that were unaffected by the 1 flood and are contiguous to the Inundated ; region. The County Judges In these dls- 1 tricts will call on the people of their re- t spectlve counties for aid and to forward ( all contributions of foo>l and clothing to specified distributing points. Governor Sayers has sent money to d many placos along the Brazos River with c instructions to municipal officers and flood c committees that it be expended for food p and clothing. Twenty thousand Govern- d mont rations arrived at Richmond, and t the work of distributing them began b immedately. Richmond is the .centre of a large territory 01 devastated cotton and sugarcane plantations, and thousands of starving and destitute negroe3 are gathered there, l Ninety-five p"r cent, of the flood sufferers are negroes, many thousands of whom are destitute of clothing and shel'er. The loss of life will, perhaps, never b* D known. The ertlmates that have been made make the number of persons v d. o a ned from 100 to 300. 1' li SHOT AS A SPY BY FILIPINOS. a Pennsylvania Soldier Captured and Shot t While Scooting Near Caloocan. Altoona, Penn. (Special).?A comrade of e Grant Cullom, of Company C, Tenth Penn. n sylvania Volunteers, until recently in ser- ? vice in the Philippines, has written to j, friends here that Cullo n was ciptured and e shot as a spy at Caloocan. Cullom was fluent in tho Spaui-h language, and for b that reason was detached as an order y to General Otis. Near Caloocau he ente ed r the Fi ipino lines, but a rainstorm de- 3 stroyed his disguise. He was ca; tured and shot in sight of the American outpost. Cullom leaves a widowed mother resld- p ing In Beaver Falls. e An American Woman Honored. Mrs. May Wright Sewall, President of the United States Council of the Women's a International Council, has been elected to 9 succeed the Countess of Aberdeeu as Pres- J ident of tho Women's International Coun- I oil, which will hold its next meeting in Ber- fi lln. J ltn?.nAf1 OnK The Volta Electrical Exhibition, which was being held at Como, Italy, has been entirely destroyed by Are, due to defective ^ electric wire?.' Many relics of Volta per* si iuhed. There was no loss of life. v N?vriy Gleaning*. P Jung Lu, a favorite of thoEmfress Dowager, Is said to be scheming to make him- a self ruler of China. p In some parts of Russia the only food for h the people consists at present in acorns, 9, leaves and the soft bark of trees. p A thousand tons of fodder and war ma- G terials have been shipped from tlie Wool- g !wlch Arsenal, England, to South Africa. rt Johnson's Island, Lake EH^ wnicn was -j jfamous as a prison for Confederate sol- *| idlers during the Civil War, ha9 been sold iat auction for 945,000. There are twenty-three volunteer American soldiers in prison at Santiago, Cuba, under sentences ranging from three months rl *o two aad a half rears. tl INDEAVORERSIN DETROIT fhey Hold the Most Successful Coil vention in trie sooiety s History. Uie Secretary'* Report Shows a Member* lilp of 3,500,000?The Old Officer* Were 1'naiilmoujly Re-elected. Detboit, Mloli. (Special).?Fully 20,000 lelegates attended the Christian Endeavor 3onvention which ha3 just been held la his city, besides thousands of visitors who ire not connected with the society, but rho oame^here to attend the meetings. The invention was the most successful in the ?9 oA/ilnftr Af ttlA fl rflf hllfll* USIUl 7 VI kUU O W tub J ?MW M*w? ivww* loss session ot the convention la Tent iadeavor more than 10,000 people were ailed to order by the Rev. Dr. Nemiah Joynton, of Detroit. After devotional exrciaes, led by P. 8. Foster, of Washington, lecretary John Willis Baer submitted his innual report. jJtfBAEJl. VBSH^WT OFFICERS OP THE T.J>. 8. OF C. *. They were re-elected nt tbeElghteenthlnteraatlonal Convention just held.) He said that there was now.an official nrollment of 55,813 societies, with a total oembershlp of 3,500,000. The report urthered showed that the various socleies hail expended fully a halt a million lollars in missionary work during the pasc ear, and had donated various sunft to >ther charities and toward defraying ex>enses of eduoating men for the ministry, frauds E. Clark, the President, followed Ir. Baer, delivering his annual address to he members. Treasurer William Shaw's report showed he Qnances to be in good shape. The pubIshiug department's receipts at Boston irere *69,037.25 and at Chicago fl3,228.67. Lfter deducting expenses the balance on land at both places Is $3103.93. " | I X NEW CRUISERS FOR OUR NAT*. At a meeting of the Trustees the present ifflcers of the United Sooletv were unanlnouely re-elected, as follows: President, he Rev. Dr. Francis E. Clark; Secretary, 'obn Willis Baer; Treasurer, William Shaw, ill of Boston. Representatives on the Joard of Trustees of the United Society pere elected from each State, Territory, ind the Provinces of Canada. There was enthusiastic applause when lecretary Baer read the following tele;ram from the President of the United Itates: "The Rev. Dr. Francis E. Glaflr, Detroit, lich.: On the occasion of the eighteenth nterqational convention of your society, [ desire to express my cordial Interest in ts work, my best wishes to those assembled vith you in convention, and my earnest I iope for the continuance and Increase of he great results which the efforts of the Jhrlstian Endeavor 8ocIety have achieved. I "William McKinlet." The meeting of 1900 is to be held In LonIon, England. Obio members of the solety, headed by the Cincinnati delegation, ame here prepared to overwhelm all oposltion for 1901. The trustees, however, t~A /ilofm hv that unou v/iuuiuuati a vi.iu. ?? lie place for the convention of 1901 shoulc e left to the next annual meeting, PLAN OF THE NEW WARSHIPS. 'he Six New Cruiser* Are to Be Sheathed and Copper Bottomed. Washington, D. C. (Special).?The six ew cruisers of the Des Moines class for rbtch Congress made appropriation at Its ist session are In one respect, that of be* ag sheathed and coppered, a radical dearture from previous practise, but they re in every respect up to date. The general dimensions und features of he Des Moines will be as follows: Length on load water line, 292 feet; ength, extreme, 303 feet 2 inches; breadth, xtreme, about 43 feet; full-load dlsplacelent, about 3400 tons; total coal banker apucity, not less than 700 tons; speed on rial, 163^ knots; type of engines, vertical averted, lour cylinder, inyio uijuusiuu, stimatod Indicated horse-power, 4500 tons. Main battery?Ten flve-inch flfty-callber reech-loading rapid-fire gun9. Auxiliary battery?Eight six-pounder apld-flre guns, two ono-pounder rapid-fire ;uns, four Colt machine guns. ;8ail area about 6000 square feet. The guns will be designed for smokeless owder an? the flve-inch guns will be more fifective than the old type of six-Inch guns. Attempted to Kill Ex-King Milan. Former King, Milan, father of King Alexnder of Servla, narrowly escaped agsaaInation at Belgrade, a few days ago. ?he woo.ld-be murderer (9 under arrest, le flred four revolver shots, one of which ;razed Hi9 Majesty, slightly wounding ilm in the back, another wounding in the tand Adjutant Lukitcb,who was with him. General Walker U Acquitted. At Bristol, Va., the jury in the case of reneral Jainos A. Walker, charged with liooting Lawyer Hamilton, returned a erdict of not guilty. Sniniiion?il Governor Itoonevelt. Governor Roosevelt went to Washington few days ago to have a conference with resident McKinley at the White House. '.e went In response to a telegraphic jmmon3 from the President. The puroso of the President in summoning the overnor was to have a talk with him reardlDg the organization of the ten new ?glments of volunteers about to be rorulted, and particularly with reference to le appointment of principal officers for id regiments. Fixed Bayonet* Quell Rioters. Regular soldiers dispersed street-car oters in London, Ont., a few days ago. at le point of the bayonet. ' A TEMPERANCE COLUMN. ' ' 1 THE DRINK EVIL MAOE MANIFEST IN MANY WAYS. Write If, the Poem Tliat Wan Such a Favorite With Mis* Will?r<l?The Oatlook From the Woman'* Chrtitlao Temperance Union Standpoint. [Miss Frances E. Willard recommended every younp person to learn and speak these verses:] Write it on the workhouse (?ate, Write it on. the schoolboy slate, Write it on the copy book, That th<? youDtr may often look, ' Where there's drink.thore's danjrerv Write it on the churchyard mound. Where the rum slain dead are found, Write it on the gallows hlffh, TT74 * fna nil ^uacom.Ko " mo u it/x *(ii ^ "Where there's drink there's danger." Write It In the nation's laws, Blotting oat the license clause; Write it on each ballot white, So it can be reml aright, "Where there's drink there's danger. ?? Writo it on our ships that sail, Borne along by storm and gale, < Write it large in letters plain Over every land and main, "Where there's drink there's danger,1* , Write it over every.gate. On the church ana halls of State, In the hearts of.eVery band, In the laws of ev?*y land. "Where there's drink there's dnnge.1^ Decline in Liquor-Drinking. The silver anniversary meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 8eattle in October next will be the first gathering of the organization on the Pa- i ciflc coast. Miss Anna Gordon, Secretary of the Union for the United States, and also Corresponding Secretary for the world ' organization, says that the records of the Uniou show that during the year following Miss Wlllnrd's death there were more additions than during any other year in the Union's history. The growth during the . ; . past year lias Deea large, ana mere w?a never a time when the outlook was more bqpeful than to-day. The Union has some ' i ? 800,000 members In the United States. It has branches in forty countries, in all parts of the world, with a total membership of about 500,000. Australia ia said to be particularly well organized. BruDohes are flourishing in India, In Africa, In China and in the principal countries of Europe. In the last-named country tho movement Is slower than in most places, for It Is found to be a difficult fleld to cultivate. The Union is so well organized and has covered its fleld so completety that it has forty departments "of activity which are distinctly recognized. That under Miss .H Qordon's care Is work among children. Miss Gordon's review of the fleld for the twenty-flve years of the life of the Union was most interesting. Without any question, she says, great progress has been made iu the drinking habits of the people. Not only has there been a perceptible decline of social drinking, bat the business value of total abstinence is being recognized mere and more. The case of the Southern-Pacific Railroad is given. Orders were issued that no one should be employed by the road but toted-.abstainers?a fact which obtains with, other roads also. Bat it was found that if saloons were Buffered to remain where the men could get liquor easily, there was danger to the road. Sonoe an additional order lias Deen given mat no llquor-s>ellIng shall be permitted In ..any building wblch is the property of the road. One of the leading business men of Chicago, himself not a tota' abstainer, yet recognizes the value of abstinence so much In his business that be has made a rule that onlyabstalnerssball be employed. In many places agreements are secured on the part of dealers In real estate whereby a clause is put into the deed that the sale of liquor shall never be permitted on the premises. Lately there has seemed to be an in- x *'. crease of drinking at home on the part of some people wbo have been in Europe and # have put In practice here what they found abroad. But this does not offset the broad generalization that daring the last twentyflve years the uce of liquor has declined, and that the outlook fqrtbe future is most encoui;aclng from the Union's point of view. The Instruction of children in temperance matters is now advanced so well that only three States in our country fail to require temperance instruction by law. A Sad Sceno. The other day we were spending a few j Lours In a neighboring town. As we were | passing along the street we noticed the [ :rape on the door of a small cottage. Ah, I we knew of the sorrow within. A beloved mother had been taken. She had lived to a good old age. Children and grandchildren had grown up about her. As we were walking along,a middle-aged man drew near. He was talkative, very much so. His brain was crazed with liquor. His language .was punctuated with oaths. Judge of our surprise when he regan to talk of his mother lying dead la the house. Not words of filial affeotion or of sorrow dropped from his lips. Oh, to what depths of even brutlshness drink will bring a man. How it will change a loving son to a heartless wretch even in the presence ol death Itself. [ Such scenes are unanswerable arguments | for the banishment of the drink cursa from j our land.?Northwestern Hall. An Old Law Still In Force. We learned the other day of a man wIk coasted tbat be had taken a Dome or wins every day for fifty years and bad nevar been injured by It. But of bis twelve children, six died la infancy, one was idiotic, one became Insane, and tbe other four grew up to be nervous Invalids. Men find it impossible to get away from tbe old law laid down thousands of years ago tbat "The sins of the fathers shall be visited upon thelrchlldren." It Is a terrible thing for fathers to commit sins for which their children will have to pay tbe penalty, bat men are doing so on every hand.?Herald and Presbyter. Questions Easy to Answer. Who with healthy, untainted blood wishes to have a body'liko that of the sots whom ho meets? Who with a vigorous, clear brain cares about exchanging it for the mental incapacity which they exhibit? Who with a clean, pure heart would like *.> Kin ninrith enr*h nhseenltv. DtO iu uaio ui3 iiiivu ir*?? . , fanity and vlleness as come forth from theirs? '"B* aot among wlneblbbers." Choose better companions. P. T. Barnuin'a Advice. In one of tbe last letters written by P. T. Barnum, just discovered, he thus advised youDg meu: "Keep your brain free from , , the fuoies o! alcohol, your blood free from its taint. Avoid tobacco as tbe poison it really Is. Keep yourself clean, physically and morally. Give your body the care you would give to any machine of which jou require much good work." The Crusade In Brief. By order of General Wood saloons ia Santiago are closed on Sundays, The social glass Is the doorway to tha drink habit, and that habit is the doorway to poverty. Beniamin Tarrot was hangad at Hamil ton, Ont., for the murder of bis mother, whom he had killed when sho rebuked him for coming home drunk. Intemperance Is the source of much of our crime und misfortune. Thousands of premature graves tell of Its ravages. Our workhouses are thronged with victims. Its baleful tyranny is cramming our jails with criminals. The light over a liquor seller's door Is a false beacon, luring men to destruction. In some towns in the Argentine Republic confirmed drunkards are shamed into reformation by being compelled to sweep the streets for eight days eacti time they may bo arrested for drunkenness. The German military authorities have recently felt obliged to establish santtariums for the treatment of drunkards among the officers in the German argay, and to issue general orders for the repression of the vice of drunkenness. t? io com 11 man rt'a^lios the acre oi twenty-live without au appetite for drink, the ebances are greatly in his favor of remaining a sober man to tbe end. For this reason temperance work for and among tbe youns i? baarWv recommended