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tr- ' ? I J ascINT OF A DR IbSTwar balloons 1 i watch the boers. | $ Remarkable Battlefield Work Done by * : Mounted Telegraphers. * & lfej??eK)*?#?#?fe*e!eie(e(eK5f?K>to)?K3?ejeK>?3(o^^l f DISPATCH from Cape Town states that the British troops have an important auxiliary in the military balloon, and the defence of Ladysmith was considerably facilitated thereby. "VS The bajl on was . , in telephonic communication with the' camp, and kept a watch on tke Boer movements daring the night. The brilliant work performed by the signaling corps of tbe United States army during the war with i offonfmn f a "ha KJ^aiU IBU3UU oyowiai HVWUV?VU %vr MW <Jrawn to that branch of the service. An interesting comparison will be afforded by the study of the operations of the signalers of the British army in the hostilities in the Transvaal. The latest information received is to the effect that a complete ballooning corps from England is on the scene of aotion. The great Napoleon regarded military balloons as of "no strategical importance." He was accompanied by a ballooning corps -during his second campaign in Egypt, but the wagolls containing the acoesaories fell into British hands, and this calamity no doubt influenced his opinion. However, since those days military balloons have done good work on many occasions, and it is confidently expected that their advent in will offnv/1 monv 1 a a arm Q bUO Xiauaruai mu nuviv* *w?vw-w CIRCUS-LIKE FEAT IN THE FIELD. in the possibilities of ballooning in warfare. The British balloon division is fully equipped for the work it is to perform. The chief work which it will be expected to execute may be summed I Bp as follows: First, to discover the whereabouts of the Boers hidden in I BALLOONING TRA -3 i* ?v??ltMA?nA^Ana cover; seuuiiu, iu mu^e uusciianuuu and to take photographs; third, to carry dispatches. Invaluable information concerning the enemy's movements will be telephoned from the men in the car to those below. X/Vt * . Jk:> S&W&V . ... : - ' ' ' :agon balloon. f The balloon, too, will render excellent service for map-making pur? ? ? ?? w?11 KA fnlfan puwtio. ruuiu^xa^uo niu uo vertically 'downward that will she w every detail of the country and the position of the Boer forces. It is only a matter of practice for skilled surveyors to become efficient in judging distances and heights from a balloon car and in making accurate sketches and maps. The British military baboons now S TOWER CONSTRUCTED BY ROYAL ENGINEERS WORKING "WITH THE BALLOON DIVISION. +/-> +V>? fr/vnf hr?M ftVinnt 10.(1(10 ? > cubic feet of hydrogen. . Each balloon will oarry two persons?one in the car and the other in the netting. These balloons are made of goldbeaters' skin, which is far superior in every way to silk. Each balloon will be placed on a wagon and drawn by | twelve horses to the scene of operations. The gas will be conveyed in wagons drawn by a steam traction engine or by four horses. This gas is stowed in steel cylinders, 110 cylinders being required to fill one balloon of 10,000 cubic feet capacity. Hitherto one cause of great concern in the ballooning operations has been the difficulty of obtaining a balloon sufficiently Bteady to ensure the making of accurate observations. It Uas also been feared that the difficulties attending the manufacture, handling and conveyance of the gas 'might - * J.-1.1- T_ J i.V-1. prove lDBurmouuiauie. jlu uruer tuut this may not prove a stumbling block in the Transvaal, the British army is being also furnished with equipment for the rapid erection of observation towers. The care of these ia entrusted to the Royal Engineers, a section of the British army whose operations have always been distinguished by excellence of work. One of the illustrations shows one of these towers after it has reached a height of 110 ? [N IN THE FIELD. feet. It -will be seen tbat tbe observation posts afford every facility for reconnoitering the movements of tbe Boer army. Tbe results of tbe observations made by balloon or tower will be communicated to tbe general % staff headquartej a by means of telephone and telegraph lines, to be erected by the telegraph battalion of the iSoyal .Engineers. xqis uanmiou has seen long and honorable service. TELEPHONING FROM A AVAR BALLOO*. In the erection of temporary lines it has made a record for speed, stability and efficiency. (iaiioping across a plain, horsemen may be seen, impaling tlieir specially constructed posts at regular distances. With a speed that is almost incredible, other horsemen follow, unreeling the coils of wire; others, with an agility and skill hitherto confined to circuses, pursue tbem, standing on saddle to adjust a-wire to the insulator, dropping into tlieir seat, only to repeat the operation a few yards further on. The illustrations show that this line is not as primitive in construction as one might suppose. Baled Money. But speaking of cotton?strange how the subject sticks to one?I once a3Ked a small farmer in Georgia, J/\ ?aii vm'aa AAffnn traar offar TT LI J" UU J\J I* iitlOD wvvuu jwm M4W* year? It seems to mo it's the hardest thing in the world to raise; it requires more care than anything I know of; has to be plowed oftener and looked after more carefully; why don't you raise something to eat?" And the man with the two-mule farm laughed and said, "I'd know you was from the North just by that fool speech. Because I owe for my land. I have to have money every year to run this farm. I can borrow money on my next crop of cotton. And the man who lends me the money can keep his ?ye on my crop from the time the seed is in the ground till it is lpaded on the cars. His security is all right. But if I go to him in the spring and teil him I ain't going to raise any cotton, bnt only corn and garden truck, he can't keep track of no such perishable security as that. He won't lend me a cent. So if I want any money I've got to raise cotton." And I made what haste I could to swim ashore. It is so easy, son, for us to tell people 2000 miles away just what they ought, to do. So much easier than it is to go there anc do it.?Robert Burdette, in the Los Angeles Times. Crouiwell and America. In the first instalment of his study of Oliver Cromwell, in the Century, Mr. Morley takes occasion to discredit the report that the great English statesman ever set sail for this conn? ? - A1- a ?n^nn4?An s\f mnl/in/v Viia LI V, WHU bUC 1UICUUUU VI liiuaiug uid home in New England. There is no substance in the fable, though so circumstantially related, that, in 1636, in company with his cousin Hampden, despairing of his country, he took his passage to America, and that the vessel was stopped by an order in Couucil. All the probabilities are agaiust it, and there is no evidence for it. What is credible enough is Clarendon's story that five years later, on the day when the Great Remonstrance was passed, Cromwell whispered to Falkland that if it had been rejected he would have sold all he had the next morning, and never have seen England more, and he knew there many other honeBt men of the same resolution. So near, the Royalist historian reflects, was this pool kingdom at that time to its deliverance. Secret Drawer* Designed by n Woman. "Most people seem to think," said a maker of furniture, "that secret drawers and hidden receptacles in furniture only exist in npvels and plays, but this is by no means so. J ' if? i-_ 1. - g U very irequeuny m&e urutiro iui nuvu items, and I employ a clevar woman designer, who shows positive genius in planning places of concealment, which no amount of tapping or measuring could reveal. In most cases, even were the hollow receptacle discovered, the woodwork arouud would have to bo cut away, so complex ara the fasteuings. Most of the orders come from women?and ncii people, of coarse?and I have no doubt that a desire to- hide articles from too curious servants dictates the orders." Pulling; PnTrci' of >t Hnrtc, A horse can draw on the worst kind of road about four times as much as he can carry on his back. On q, good macadamized road he can pull ten times as much, on a wooden road twenty-five times as lunch, and on a tramline tifty-eight times as much. MurcuIoiik*) stopped tlio Mil!. The water wheel in the Waterford grist mill suddenly stopped one day, and three muscalonge, weighing about five pounds each, were found wedged in the sluiceway, shutting ofl the water.?Meadville (Penn.) Democrat. "Barker humbly nays he is but an instrument in the bands of destiny." "I know he talks that way; but, all the same, he thinks destiDy has its hands full when it is using him."? Indianapolis Journal. I | THE CREATEST MOOSE HEAD. | : .Romantic History' of an Enormous Sped- j men in Tacoina. A moose head whose antlers meas- j are from tip to tip /iix feet six atd a j half inches, a head on which from tip 1 to tip a board could be placed, the tallest of men lie down and not be too tall tor the length of it?111 fact, the LARGEST tfOOSE HEAD IX THE WORLD j largest moose head in the world?is I the property of W. F. Sheard. of : Tacoma, Wash. It has forty prongs, and its immense fanlike antlers are enormous in their width as well as in I height. The marvel is that any neck j could have carried such a burden. Its history is unusual and tinctured ! witn the romantic superstition of the | Canadian Indian. For many years j the Indian tribes aronnd Fort Selkirk ! and the mouth of the Stewart Rivor, I in the northwest territories of Canada, j had told amoDg themselves the tale of a mighty moose, a "hi-uli moose," that for years and years had hannted the district of the Stewart River.. I Many years before, when this gigantic animal fhad first appeared, their fathers had endeavored to kill it; for i j days they had tracked the beast I through the pathless forests. Easy I i to track it was, for the immense j antlers, said the Indians, made a path I f/-?l 1 nrra nf fV>r? trooa n'i^or I I I than a man was high, and the marks i of his huge prongs on the bark were | certain indications of his path. But j nobody was able to kill him. Gradually I grew up around this huge, mysterious animal a superstitious reverence tbat j he should escape all bullets and arrows j ' and evade ail pitfalls. ! In October of 1897an Indian-French ! half-breed, untroubled by superstiJ tion, legends or scruples, came into the I ; post and reported that for four days | he had followed the "hi-uh moose," j 1 and had killed it near the headwaters ' of the Stewart River, two hundred or three hundred miles from Dawson City (Klondike). This was in the dead of winter. Finally a party of whites went out from the post and brought the moose | in. The next year the head was sent down the Yukon to Tacoma, Wash., ! where W. F. Sheard, a skin merchant j of that city, bought it, and in his posj session this unique and magnificent trophy remains. Midway Between Pole and Kqnator. j A big shaft of granite will soon be . erected by the Government of the i TTnifArt St.ntaq nt North Parrv. Me. The purpose of the erection is to mark the geographical spot which is midway between the North Pole and the Equator. .On the stone is the inscription: "This atone marks latitude 45 degrees north, half way from the Equator to the North Pole." The" shaft will rise near North Perry's solitary church, and will be the most curious sight in the vicinity. The people of the village?500 in all?are | I so taken by surprise that they can dis- J i cuss little else than the oddity of the | I Government's proceeding in so dis- ! j tinguishing their settlement. The I North Perryans are not precisely men j I of science. Most of their time is de- j i voted to working in lumber camps and j ' guiding parties of hunters, and per- j haps not one of them has ever dreamed j he has been living In a town bnilt ; I upon such a site. On the day of the j , n V I ^ This Sterr mdrw Utitudf. Sdfj-J 1 - v. \ north, hilf-way 1 ^ 're"i thf Equator I ^ ' . to the NorlK-polf I . tV jy?m 3HAFT TO BE ERECTED AT NOP.TE PERRT, ME. ?????????????? i "unveiling" North Perry will take a holiday and celebrate their new honors with a picnic. Muklnc Knbbur in Brazil. | The process of ranking rubber is . much like that of making maple sugar. The trees are tapped when the sap be- j gins to run, aud the milk, as they call j j it, is boiled in a big kettle until it is j reduced to its proper consistency. In : some parts of Brazil lie natives find a ! j vine whose juice will cause the milk I of the rubber tree to coagulate with! out the use of heat, but tbe common process is to "boil it down" with all ' its impurities and allow the manufacj turer to refine it. " I ( Orlcrln of a Weli-Ktion-n Phr.ine. The origin of the phrase "to give the cold shoulder" is said to have been a custom in France of serving a cold shoulder instead of a hot roast joint to guests who had outstayed their welcome. In some districts of Ireland seed cake was used to convey the same hint. GOD'S MESSAGE TO MAN. PRECNANT THOUCHTS FROM THE WORLD'S CREATEST PROPHETS. Katydid?The Christian'* Common Experience?The Selfishness of Sensitivenous-.The Light of the <Jospel Shines ?The Kvi^ninfja Will lie Joyful. The evening shadows gather aad tho land 1 V is very still! The dew is falling softly on meadow, vale and hill. I The thrushes cease their vespers, the bees tire in the hive, And sleep is sitting tenderly on everything alive. Katydid, Katy didn't! I hear tho aid retrain, Insistent, sharp, staccato, 'tis tho well remembered strain; Tis sounding from the thicket, 'tis singing in the copse, From yonder field of clover in 3ilvern sound it drops, And far and wide the crickets send back their monotone, The crickets and the katydids are in the world alone. From unforgotten summers, the summers of my youth. Troop back a phantom host of forms, of pleasure and of ruth; I see the lissome ligures of maidens fair and sweet; I hear across the silent years the eohoo3 of their feet. t Katydid! Katy didn't! how sharp and clear the strain! Again I stop and listen to the rune of that refrain, It is blending with the crickot, It is calling from the hill; It punctuates the silence when all the land is still; When the thrushes cease their vespers, the bees are in the hive, And sleep is sifting drowsily on everything alive. But it Is not wholly sadness, this tender looking back; Where flowers have withered, other blooms ' have cbeered tbe beaten track; iiliere's nothing richer, fuller, than the wealth of autumn's time, When we're half way up the hilltop, with other hills to climb. Katydid! Katy didn't! and the crickot's steady drone, j The little orchestra keeps on till all the birds have flowu. ! And dews are heavy in the grass, and bees are in the hive, ! And sleep b falling dreamily on everything alive. ?Margaret E. Sangster, in Christian Intelligencer. The Christian's Common Experience. The psychic or natural man of St. Paul, ! represented by the unre?enerate, is.the man I of the present world; npt necessarily "senI sual aud devilish," but earthly in his tastes, tendencies and aims. He is naturally a mai teriallst, is shaped by his environment, acj cepts the law from his earthly relations. He ] loves tbis world and cleaves*to it; he is shut ! in with it. The body exerts over him a con; trolling influence. He is able to look out | only through the narrow windows of sense, | and scouts the idea that skylights are possible. The skies are to him vory unreal; he has never looked up into them, havI Inc ala-uva lived so close to the earth and ia the miniature world of sense. Though dwelling in the same house, tb? relations ot the natural and the spiritual mail have never been harmonious. The struggle I for precedent has been intense and longccntin'.ied. The balance hassomptimf;g bun? I oven, though more commonly inclined nOw on one sjde aad then on the other. The pneumatic man, catching -inspiration from his noble ideal and receiving fresh impulse from the Splrit.rises in his might and essays to bind his psychic adversary; and he suc; ceeds in time in holding him down; but in ; an unexpected moment the cords on the ! hands of thu spiritual Samson are rent [ asunder and he comes again into the ascendant. Such experiences are known to most ounsuauM, aau wiui suiuo iuoj uiitn.<? up iuu main record of their early lifa. The Selfishness of Sensitiveness. Every minister must constantly moat the senfeitive peoplo of his parish,and there is no field in which he need* to he so tactful, kind aud firm as when he is dealing with those who have a tendency to be sonsitive. They do sutler keenly, and the fact must not be lost sight of. Tney are not to blame for tho quality of soul which makes them susceptible to every w rd and mood on the part of others. Aud yet there is a side of this matter which must be kept in mind by those who have a tendency to sensitis-eness. The trait may run swiftly into a most subtle sort or s^tlsbness. There are churches in which the whole work of the church is really conditioned by the morbid nature of some one member, and very often the danger of hurting the feelings" of one sensitive person becomes the chief point in the discussion of the work of the church. It can be said with truth that there are churches in which the entire work of the body is not only conditioned but impaired most seriously by this fact The Light of the Gospol Shine*. He who believes the world to be going to the bud utterly and rapidly needs only to compare with'candid fidelity the condition of society fifty or one hundred y^ars ago with today to"be convinced of the great advance in the right direction which has been made. In many respects the special achievements of former days now are become commonplace. In heathen nations, too, the light of the Gospel shines far more brightly than a generation or two since. It is the almost uniform testimony of experts that the opportunity for winning people individually, and sometimes iu whole communities, to Christ never was so great as at present. In education, in politics, in business, in society, in art and literature, in every department of life, in spite of frequent and often depressing instances to the contrary, there has been and still' there ia going on a progress toward the ultimate triumph of Christianity among men. The Evenings Will He Joyful. fuofj nt n vm.H la rki. faal ing with which it comes to au end. Drudgery is a heavy burden; but all is not drudgery that is so regarded. Life itself is a burdea to some; the joy of living is only weariness to many; yet life and labor and joy and enthusiasm and hope are all together in tbe plan of Him who gave them to us and | framed our souls to feel and our hands aud minds to labor. We need not envy the leisure classes; they are like the overseer who said: ' I wish 1 could chauge places with one of my workmen." The fatigues of se ting your own tasks are greater thau the worry of iluding work for others. Let it be a joy to us that each day has its appointed task, and then the evening of each busy day will h i the gladdest we have ever known; and -o on to the end of the earth, the beginL'.ng of heaven.?N. Y. Evangelist. If ye knew that He is preparing for you ye would bo too glad. He will not, it may be, give you a full draught till ye come up to the well head ami drink, yea.drink abundantly, of the pure river of the water of life fcb'at proeecdeth out from the throne of God and from the Lamb.?SamHel Rutherford. The gr>?ut stay of the believer is not the grace of God within him?that is a well, whos:? streams sometimes run dry; but it is the grace of Go.l without him, the grace fiat is in Jesus Christ, which is an overflowing fountain to which the believer can lever come amiss.? Thomas Boston. Destroying Malarial Mo?qultoe*. Major Itoss, the discoverer of the malarial mosquito, who has just returned to T.nit.Inn from All-Inn siivh that, lllthouzh bis investigations only proceeded sij wneks, tbo results were remarkable. The authorities iu Sierra Leone, acting on his advice, are now destroying the viruleut mosquito by every m?ans in tlioir power In the judgment of Mujor Ross, the future of the West Coast will be assured as soon as the colonial authorities take similar steps in the neighborhood of the principal towns, although yearn must elapse before the inland stations u^e improved. / ; - - v. v . i . _ THE SABBATH SCHOOL j INTERNATIONAL LESSON COMMENT! COD MDWCMR^D OC Subject: Woes of Intemperance. Fro* xxlli., 29-35?Golden Text: Prov. xx. t?Memory Veisei, 20.32?Couimeu | tary on the Lesson. 29. "Who." A divine commission to over] I man to Investigate the prevailing cause o | woe and sorrow and strife, and thus be de< j terred from taking the wrong course lc life. Robinson calls this lesson tht drunkard's looking-glass, set before those wbosa fuco is toward the drunkard's hnbl':s, so that they may see what they wil be if they go ou. "Hath woe." What spact would be needed to record the names of al who could truthfully say "I" to this ques> tlon! "Woe." Direful distress; both th( ^v/uuvuiuubivu ivi n jiu v^vluujuicu, nuu o certain awful condltloa lor suffering. 81c of all kinds brings its own punishment, but there la no pin wblch so speedily and relentlessly pursues Its victim as the slu of drunkenness. The drunkard hn3 woes ol body and woes of mind; woas iu himself, woes in his family; palna, diseases, poverty,.and all without alleviations. "Wh? hath sorrow." The Hebrew word means, flrst, poverty and then misery. The drunkard has sorrow of his owu making. The cup contains more than one woe; a single sorrow is not all. These are so numerous as to call forth a constant and long-continued cry of augulsb. " Who hath contentious." Those who responded to the first two questions will also respond to this. Nine-tenths of all the brawls aud fights, quarrels and misunderstandings are traceable to drink. "Who hath babbling." This refers to the tendency of strong drink tu foolish and incessant talking, revealing secrets, vile conversation and noisy demonstrations, which are common in different stages of drunkenness. The word la now commonly regarded as meaning sorrowful complaint; for example, over the exhausted purse, the neglected work, the anticipated reproaches, the diminishing strength. Nothing goes right with the drinker. He complains of God, of society, of his family, of his circumstances, ol everything. Nothing can be right to one who is thus wrong. "Wounds without cause." Wounds received in wholly unprofitable disputes, such as come oJ the brawls of drunken men. Drinkers aro especially exposed to accidents and diseases which temperance^ would have prevented. "Redness of eyes." Bloodsnot, blurred, or bleared eyes. Gen. 49:12. Al cohol induces a paralysis of tbe nerves controlling the minute Wood-vessels, the capillaries, which results in a dilation that speedily shows itself In the eye. In his step and in his eye the drunkard shows the secret of his sId. " 30. "They that tarry long at the wine." This answers the above questions. He who begins to drink continues to drink, tarrying often a whole night, and from that to duy and night. ''They that go." To places or among people where Intoxicating drinks are made or Stored or used. "Mixed wine." Spiced, drugged, medicated wine, the intoxicating power of which is increased by the infusion of drugs and spices. Such men drink the cup of a costly death. The sbemicai analysis of the liquors used by the people in tbis country shows that they drink alcohol, arsenic, alum, aloes, bitter almonds, blood, chalk, cherry-laurel, cocculus Indlcus, copperas, gypuum, henbane, ldloglass, lime, lead, logwood, nux vomica, opium, oil of vltrol, oil of juniper, oil of turpentine, tobaooo, sugar of lead, resin, etc. 81. "Look not thou upon the wine." T?is prohibits moderate drinking. Do not pat yourself la the way of. temptation. He who goes freely into temptation is already more than half fallen. "When it is red." The bright color of (be wine gives it an attractive look and adds to ft3 fascination and its danger. "When it glveth its color in the cup." Literally, Its eye, the clear brightness, or the beaded bubbles, on which the wine-drinker looks with pleasure. "When it goeth down smoothly." This verse pictures the attractive side of wine, when it seems perfectly harmless to sip a little, when it is bright and inspiring, thrilling the nerves with delight, promising all joy and freedom. It is tne shining side of evil that is so dangerous?this flowery entrance to the path that leads to death. 32. "At lastitblteth." Tte pleasure will be attended at last with Intolerable pains, when it works like so much poison in thy veins and casts thee into diseases as hard to cure as the biting cf a serpent. Its effects are opposite to its pleasures. Its only beauty is when it sparkles in the cup. It cau only harm the one who ventures to enjoy its pleasure. Then it bites; sends its poison beyond your reach. Its only end and purpose is ruin. 33. "Thine eyes shall behold stranga women." The loving wife will be forgotten and her gbodness despised, and evil desires spring up to All her place with others, or to go from her with others who have fallen into the same pit of drunkenness as yourself. Homes are broken up as the result of strong drink. The tears und pleadings of the devoted wife are spurned, und the dance-hall is sought, where worn /* ?% ?!* I?Q affdo A# mlrtlfiid (7U arc UIDS3CU IU SUll, I.1**1 O/oiI \JL o*wia.v>vk men, and where natural affection la overthrown, and cruel l'.:st rules. 34, "As he that lleth down In the midst ot the sea." To make one's bed on the waves of the sea would be to be swallowed up in death. So is the drunken man. Or as a pilot who has gone to sleep when his ship was in the troughs of the sea, allowing the tiller to slip out of his hand, and his ship to be swamped with the wave.? which he might have outridden. Stupefied, besotted men know not where they are or what they are doing, and when they lie down they are as if tossed by the roilln* waves of the sea, or upon the top of*a mast. Their beads swim. Their sleep is disquiet, and troublesomo dreams make pleep unrefreshlng. "Upon tjio top Ql a mast." The drunkard is Utterly regdrdlesa of lite. He is as one falling asleep clasping the masthead, whence in a few inlnutes he must either fall down upon the deck and )3e dashed in pieces, or fall Into the sea and be drownea. 35. "They have stricken me and I was not hurt." With consciences seared " - ' ???? A ^ I. ? hn?o)o IIJULU acii"! DJJJDUt ^VUD, hUO uiuuamu t/uw?kg of the things whioh should make him blush with shame. Because he did not feel the hurt of his wounds he cares not for the scars. He thinks himself fortunate to be saved from the sense of pain, never feeling any alarm for his unfeeling soul, that has uo thought of God's great mercy in sparing his life in his helpless moments. "They have beaten me....I felt it not." Angry companions have done their worst to end my life, says he, but their blows did not affect me. "When shall I arfake? I will seek It again." Rather when I shall awalce [ will seek It again. Self-oontrol is all gone. The drunkard is a slave to appetite. He is a3 insensible to the pleadings and warnings of those who seek his salvation as be Is to the beatings of his comrades when he is delirious. One of the greatest punishments of drunkenness is this insatiable appetite thnt, in spite of warnings, and in the face of all consequences( turns the drunkard to his cup again. FACTS ABOUT COLD PRODUCTION. More Than One-Fourth ot Ten Ulllloni Discovered Since 1800. Of tbe $10,000,000,COO worth of gold produced in the world since the discovery of America, more tbau one-half has been produced since I860, and moro than ono^ fourth 9lnce 1803. To put it in other words, one-half of the gold product of the lust four hundred years has been produced within forty years, and one-fourth within fifteen years. Theso facts regarding the gold production of the world are presented by some compilations of the Treasury Bureau ol Statistics at Washington, with reference to the temporary suspension of gold mining In South Africa and its po3Slblo affect upou tho gold supply of the world. The compllntlon presents the facts collated by Dr. Adolph Soe'beer and the Director of thi tiiiiiea mines .mm, which auuw un kuiu product of tb? world by decades and yearn since tbe discovery of America, and when summarized show that the grand total of cold production from 1493 to and Including the estimate for 1899 amouuts to $9,833,059. Au examination of the figures ol annual production shows that of the S9,833,059,fiOO gold produced since 1493, 85,* .141,855,600, or considerably more than onehalf has been produced since 1860, and 42, 640,260,400, or more than one-fourth, since 1885. - '-V . i, , | THE GREAT DESTEOYEB. ^ . 1 SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT Trie VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. j 'Tin tlie Little Things That Count?'Wher* There U Deep and Constant Pilnkin* There Can Be No Happiness? Drunken- . ., ;r| atu is Mostly Acquired,Not Hereditary j Just a little hero and there, boys, i Such a trifling thing, .you think; I ' Sixpence for a yellow novel, , j Ami another one for drink; i ! A. little spent in the card room, > Threepence for a cigar, > But 0, do you ever think, boys, i 'lis tbe little things make or mar? ! Just a little while from home, boys, I And ah! your unwary foet Will bo lured to sin-atalned by-patha , Tbat lead tc ruin's broad street. , It Is juat the first wrong thought, boys, i Just a few vile words, ah me! And your current ot life is changing, | You are drifting out to sea, , Where no human hand can save you, ... .. Rudderless, and lost. Don't you thlult these boasted'pleasures * " ^ | Are bought at a fearful cost? Tis the little things that count, boys, That make up the mighty whole. , Tls ttie little thoughts and deeds, boys, In the balance against your soul. ?Our Young People. Merriment as Related to Draukard*. When Dr. Thomas J. HIllls assorts that whiskey contains all ?the constituent elements of food, he probably speaks from 1 modlcal knowledge. But when he states tbat whiskey makes , j hundreds merry for every tea it makes miserable.be knows not whereof ho talks. One drunkard may feel exceedingly merry, but he Is sure to make everybody within bis sphere of Influence miserable. Where there is deep and consistent drinkIng there ean be no happiness. Mr. Hlllis seems to think that all drunk* nrds are hereditary drunkards, and that they drink because they are unable to M>* stain from it. Generally speaking, wo are an Intern* | perate nation, but the intemperance ot nineteen men In twenty is not hereditary. It is acquired. Tnere are men who aohleve g?g , drunkenness deliberately and periodically. , Others have druakeaness thrust upoa < $ The periodical draukard is a prey to circumstances. If he happeos to be a rich man either joy or sorry will arraign him at , the bar. It he Is a laboring man ho gets drunk on pay days, because the task ot earning his money Is over and he seeks the relaxatioa which on penniless days he la unable to purchase. But whether a man be a periodical or an habitual drunkard, he Is sure to oausa misery. Dr. Hlllis inveighs against ministers and ultra-temperate physioiaos, who "assemble in a moral blockhouse, deal to the bugle of common sense." .dim The exoesalve use of whisky has nothing to do with common sense. As a mediolne it is a line thing for snake bites. *Aa a merriment producer it is a failure throughout the world. As a misery maker It la perfection.?New York Journal. The Woe of England. The drink evil continues to be one of th? most pressing questions of the day la tb? United Kipgdom. From the latest statistics it appears that the consumption of whisky last year was the greatest yet reached, the population having swallowed f , more than a gallon per head ot liquor known by that name. The London Lancet, In referring to the British death-rate from Intemperance, directs attention to one of Its most painful features?the Increase of alcoholism among women. The deaths - ,'}3 from chronic alcoholism in the year 1897, as compared with the year 1878, la men . show an Increase of 82i< per oeot., thoaeof "" females of 145^ per cent.; and the deaths from cirrhosis In men an Increase ot twelve per cent., and those from cirrhosis In females of twenty-six per cent. The amount of disease, caused by liquor, wLlch falls short of a fatal termination is necessarily a matter beyond all power ot calculation. "Statesmen," the Lancet says, "may croata for themselves theories tbat extenuate a . national vice which yields the exchequer so many millions sterling a year; Dat, | speaking from a medical point of view, we mu9t point out tlu it Is disgracarul ana disastrous." f V'Osj Villainous Decoctions. In New York City alone three chemical laboratories manufacture concoctions for the adulteration and coloring of beer, whose sales annually aggregate several hundred thoijsand dollars. Of American beer which was made in different parts of the country and tested by our Department of Agriculture, according to their report of 1887, six bottles out ot twenty-six contained salicylic acid, and one out of two foreign bottles which was made in Bremen and labelled1 "Kaiser." The sumo report contains the result of the analysis of seventy samples of AmerU can wine, eighteen of which contained salicylic acid and thirteen sulphurous acld.j In the composition of fifty other samples of sweetened California wine, hardly a trace was found of grape julce. v i iUOU.^.re. In an able address on State medicine before tbe American Medical Association at Columbus, by Dr.D. It. Brower, of Chicago, ; occur the following passages: "An in> I portant factor In the cause of crime is in! temperance. Fully fifty per cent, of th< I criminals arrested in Chicago are ine: brlates, and the police reports of New York I show about the same proportion! Ferri > has shown beyond question that in Franca | crimes Increase and decrease with the 1 ] moro or less abundant vintage, and we may 1 , safely attribute at least some of the increase of criminality and pauperism In the United States to the Increase of intemperance; and it. may be estimated that alcoholics are the direct or indirect cause of probably seventy-flve per cent, of all crime committed." 1 No Good in It. There Is no reul good that comes to one front the use of intoxicants as a bevertge. | | Most meu who drink will admit taere la no | good la It. They may Insist that there Is no great harm, bat at the same tlmeac* | knowledge that'there are no beneficial returns for the large Investments of time and money. The supposed benefit to one's health, or to his social and business stand* ing, can readily be' shown to be ia fuot no benefit at all i Whliky and Coffin*. A writer in the Century tells of a man in Buenos Ayres who traded in whisky and coffins. "I remember," says he, "the tiers of whisky barrels ranged on end, on one side of the store, while on the other side, and divided by a partition, were the coffins in the same order, of all sizes and in great numbers. The unique arrangement seemed in order, for as a cask wad emptied a coffin might be filled." -vi The Cru?ad? In Briaf. No ono wants to be a drunkard. Total abstinence is the only absolutely aafe course. The man who calls himaolf a "moderate drinker'deceives nobody but himsolf. I Wine may multiply the flow of words. I Imt it never Increases the uurltv of thought. Alcohol, in oven moderate quantities, tends to produce un appetite that become* imperious in its demands. Some surgeons will not undertake to perform operations upon persons who have been addicted to drink. Almost without exception, air great London physic! ins, nud all great surgeons, uro In favor of total abstinence. In no department of human thought and endeavor has the temperance cause made rnoro notable progress in recent years than in that of medical sclerce. More than 100,000 la tills land go down to a drunkard's death annually. All of this vast army Is recruited directly from the ranks of moderate drinkers. The stream of heredity is more or less poisoned with ulcoh >1. Every one who begins drinking is in danger of awakening a sleeping demon within him. Alcoholic liquors, instead of being regarded ns a panacea for all human ills, as they were years ago, are fast beiug excluded from medical practice generally. ? ''fi