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L I k TIMBER-FLUME lii lr ? II H The fumes, which are used to float SB -&Iu tops to the sawmills, are fed by tb Pgj cases between three and four miles H week's work in camp, save a tedious en skiff and using the waterway, trave minute. A gaff Is used as a brake.? 11 Great and New | 11 National Industry, 1 d * tt\s of Acres For Macaroqi Wt\eat ^ \U M/Vt/'M/NL' \\t M/MAl/M^N/zNt/M/Xt/MAl/VI/ M.' VW T HE United States Department of Agriculture has just announced one of the most valuable discoveries of recent .years. It Is the introduction of the ^- drought resisting macaroni wheat, iruHP^rtCd from the Volga region of East Russia. This wheat is adapted to 4Bemi-arid districts and can be profitably grown in the great plain regions Of the United States far beyond the 100th meridian. Alre.idv astounding results have } been obtained by the Government. ' In South Dakota, where the crop has ^ just been harvested from one locality, (S8&SSS& "Territory it) vThicb rrac&ro?)' wl)t raxS&s Jo loog 0,1 tqe 3uronj?r r&iofoJ "Ttrrironj \i) w>)';ct) macaroni t ot tbc graiij will qoT be so go It is reported that the yield of macaroni wheat will be from thirty-five to forty bushels'per acre, which is onethird more per acre than the average yield of the regular wheat from this section. , The establishment of this new wheat Industry will be of incalculable benefit to agriculture in the semi-arid plains. A million or more of acres can thus be given to profitable wheat raising, which, on account of drought, have heretofore been entirely idle. Macaroni wheats differ radically thp nrriin'flrv bread wheals. The grain is much harder, and in the best varieties contains an unusual amount of nitrogen and a correspondingly small amount of starch. The quantity and quality of the gluten make it exceedingly valuable for making macaroni. The area outlined by the Department of Agriculture where macaroni wheat will succeed best is a long belt extending northward and southward through the great plain from North Dakota to the Texas coast. In width it embraces nearly the whole of the two Dakotas, Nebraska, the greater part of Kansas. Oklahoma and the eastern sections of Colorado, New Mexico and of Central i Texas. The most remarkable thins regarding macaroni wheat is this: It Is not only true that It can be grown in dry districts, but It must be grown there in order to produce the best quality of grain, and up to a minimum of about ten Inches of an annual rainfall thfc idrier the better. ^ Probably the most important announcement from a commercial standpoint as a result of the new wheat industry Is the fact of immediate market for these wheats. The entire present crop of this year, which will be about 100,000 bushels, was contracted for even before harvested at a good average price. Another important business enterprise may be brought into existence, for the reason that the macaroni wheat from Southern Europe Is succeeding so well in the great plains as to warrant the establishment * ' ???<?/? ,n.in<r Ahnilt (01 macaroni uiiuiuia<.tui.us. ? 15,000,000 pounds of foreign macaroni is imported Into this country each . year, solely because being made from true macaroni wheat it is considered to be of better quality than our domestic macaroni, which is made almost entirely from bread wheat. All the costs of the imported product can now be saved to this country if the farmers and millers will furnish our factories [ BRITISH COLUMBIA. iifg" I ^logs and hewn timber from the mounte mountain torrents, and are in some long. The lumber men, after their j journey by constructing a rough woodling at times at the rate of a mile a London Illustrated News. with the right kind of material, and j the factories are anxious to have the ; same. The area of wheat in the United ! States i6 1899 was over 44,000.000 ! acres. At the lowest estimate, there- | fore, if the average yield of wheat is increased only one bushel per acre we will have an Increase of 44,000,000 bushels, worth at the former price for 1900?nearly sixty'cents per bushelabout $20,000,000. These figures will give at least an idea of the possibilities for the new macaroni wheat indu- I . try.?New York Herald. NECK AND NECK. A Queer Sport That Finds Favor In th? Bavarian Alps. One of the queerest sports is that i known as "Streck Katzenzichen" (a j word which absolutely defies trans- j latiou)?which is practiced by the : sturdy sons of the Bavarian Alps. It is a trial of neck strength. Two j EMJtlHI I k / 7" \ \ v \ i ft (w ' ** \J[ \ \ I PH#T^' &; will suctecd best, and wifyool" iTigaftor II i} af least 10 njcb?. n)iy be growq, buf fl)< quality od " men, says a writer in the New York tieraia, ne uowu lauus , Then a rope is passed over their heads, j as shown in the illustration. Two chalk lines are drawn between the contestants. The object is to draw the opponent so far that his finger tips shall be beyond the second line. This rough pastime means sore necks and bleeding ears, but it is greatly enjoyed \ A KECK-AND NECKTUG-OF-WAR. by all beholders. The winner usually receives a cash prize, and the contest is invariably followed by dancing on 'the arena where the bloody conflict was pulled," as the local prints describe it. Discovered Gancotton. In a notice of a recently published biography of the eminent chemist Schoenbein, a writer in Science says: No one of the discoveries made by Schoenbein made him more popularly known than that of guncotton, destined to play so important a role in international, as well as industrial enterprises. .This dates from 184G. Ita value as a substitute for gun powder was at once perceived, and experij incnts with firearms were instituted as early as May 01 me same year, it is a sad commentary on the unprofitableness of pure science from the money point of view* that this prime discovery brought to Schoenbein only eighteen to twenty thousand dollars, while Alfred Nobel gained through it more thau ten million dollars. She Did. "I'll get even wid 'em for dischairgin' me!" mumbled the cook lady, lift: ing up the register and dropping a : pair of her old shoes down the hot air r\\r\?? -ina* hofnro aha want nwav ft"- "V.v.v v. ? " ".J . And those old shoes avenged her for nearly a week before the family found out what was the matter.?Chicago Tribune. Eggs and mulberry trees were sent out to Georgia by the British governi ment shortly after the settlement of ; the colony. if PBESIDENT'S ftipflTER j B SHOWS GREAT PLUCK. |i While riding with President Roosevelt, her father, Miss Alice Roosevelt had a narrow escape in Washington the other day. The horses were trotting along Seventeenth street toward the boundary, when, upon reaching Rhode Island avenue, a lumbering herdic came upon them, frightening Miss Roosevelt's horse so that it swerved suddenly. The President was riding slightly in advance, and was interfered with by the vehicle and prevented from going MISS ALICE BOOSEVELT. (The President's eldest daughter.) to bis daughter's assistance. In the meanwhile the intrepid horsewoman had gotten her steed under control. President Roosevelt turned so quickly that the horse seemed to stand immovable, the rider sittiDg erect, like a sentinel on guard. An orderly in uniform was half a square behind. President Roosevelt has purchased the original drawing of Bernard Partridge's recent London Punch cartoon, representing the President as a Rough Rider. A reproduction of the famous picture .is shown on thiB page. THROWING THE BOOMERANC. Flight of th* Australian Weapon Analyzed by a^Scleutist. The wonderful flights of the boomerang, described by travelers, are seldom seen to-day, and, though there are many nativeS of Australia who can make a boomerang go to a distance of 240 feet before it returns to thom, there seems to be only one trustworthy account of a much more sensational throw. According to this account a boomerang described five circles in the air, traveled to a distance of about 270 feet from the thrower and rose to a height cf 135 feet. There are two principal types of this wcapou, as described by a recent experimenter. The first, shown in figure No. 1, is bent almost to a right anple, and has the cross section shown in No. 2. The cross section diminishes slightly toward the ends, and the weight is abo: t 230 grams. The arms are twisted from the plane, like the j sails of a winar.:M. being rotated m the direction of a righthnnded screw. A boomerang of the second type is shown in figure No. 3. It lias a cross section similar to that of a boomerang j cf the first tj")e. Its arms, however, i are twisted in the opposite direction, | and thus involve a lefthanded rotation, j Cn both types one side is more round-1 ed than the other. A boomerang of the first type is held i with the more rounded side to the j left, and the concave edge forward, and is thrown in a horizontal direction. As much rotation as possible is given to it, but instead of remaining parallel to its original direction, "the plane of rotation has an angular velocity, first about the direction of translation. and second about a line in its plane perpendicular to this. The efi:ct of the latter is that the path curls to the left, while owing to the former the plane of rotation inclines over to the right, i. e., rotates in thedirection of the hands of a clock facing the thrower." After it has described nearly a complete circle the boomerang goes more slowly, and finally falls near the feet of the thrower. In figures Nos. 4 and 5 its flight is illustrated by means of projections on a horizontal and on a vertical plane. Until the velocity becomes small th? up hill path is nearly PRESIDENT BUYS r~\ r 1M / > I i r> i-'ui\ion ^ rw"?- v - i. r CARTRIDGE'S CART! straight, but the moment that point has been reached the weapon starts to return along a track close to that of the ascent. If the thrower wishes the weapon to VTN .s, O S O'S? 12 \ A I, describe a second circle in front of him, he must cast it from him with much greater force, so that after one circle has been described it may still have sufficient velocity to make a second one. Moreover, after the weap- ( on has described tue "first circle and while it is over the thrower's head the I axis of rotation must point in an upward direction in front of him, for if it points behind him the subsequent path will be behind his back, and a figure of eight will become possible. If a path with a second loop in front of the thrower is desired, a boomerang with much twist and well rounded should be chosen, and the thrower's body, while throwing it, should lean over to the left.?Chicago Record-Herald. British "War Office. This picture illustrates the famous British war office in London, whicb has been the European centre of interest in the great South African trouble. Here are received all the official telegrams from the front and here are posted the bulletins tvhich the authorties see fit to publish. Ever since the war began the street before the grim old building has been crowded with anxious relatives of the fighting men, eager for news of husband, brother, sweetheart or'father, and many have been the distressing scenes the war officials have been compelled to witness. Antiquity of Stonehenge. A striking discovery has been made during excavations which were necessary to raise one of the monoliths in the famous prehistoric group at Stonehenge in Wiltshire, England, into an upright position. The men engage:! in the work have found numerous neolithic implements, which had evidently been used in cuttiug and pquaring the stones, and, when blunted, bad been turned into tbs beddiug on whicli the stones are supported. The discovery is held to prove that the unique spectacle of Stonelienge is anterior to the Bronze age, and that the structure still visible was certainly built before 1500 B. C. Tbe Boiling Point. It varies in different localities. On Fifth avenue the pot can hardly boil under $00,000 a year, whereas in Brooklyn it will boil for $1200 a year, and on the east side from $3 to $S a week.?New York Times. The average duration of marriages in England is twenty-eight years. Russia, with thirty years, is tfte only country to beat her. In France and Germany twenty-sis: years is the average duration. The word "mile'' comes from the Latin "mille," a thousand. A thousand paces of a marching soldier made the Roman mile. DRAWING OF THE ARTOON. JON IN PUNCH. t iWILO PLUNGE FOB LIBERT Condemned Man Tries to Escape Just Before His Execution. NEARLY KILLS A CLERGYMAN Churl ex Brown, One of the Murderer* of Washington Hunter, at Riverside, J., Broke From the Death House and Fought Murderously For His Life?He Is Hatiged ail Hour Later?The Crime. Mount Kolly, K. J.?Charles Brown, one of the murderers of Washing-on Hunter, paid the penalty of his fliare of the crime in the jail yard. A short time before lie died he made a desperate attempt to escape. In doing so he wounded a constable, but not seriously. He succeeded only in getting into the jail yard, where he was cowed into surrender. He then acted coolly enough until he was being led to the sallows. Tiien lie men desperately | to wrench his hands free from the rope I binding them, and. failing, gave up his resistance. The Rev. Mr. Deisinger. a German minister from Camden, who had been laboring with Brown to bring him to a better way of thinking, reached the jail shortly before 0 o'clock. He was conducted to Brown's cell. He rej mained with Brown for pernaps twonI ty minutes. Brown sat listening, but with evident impatience. He finally I asked Mr. Deisinger to leave the cell for a few minutes. The minister turned to go out. As lie did so Brown reached down to beneath the toilet bowl in the cell and ripped from beneath it the length of large lead pipe furnishing the bowl with flushing water. It is-thought he had previously prepared the pipe so that a single wrench would allow him to tear It loose. The minister turned as he was leaving, on hearing the noise made by the prisoner. Brown sprang toward the door and. pushing the minister aside, was in the corridor. The death watch had retired a few feet from the cell Cioor wiine iutr uiiuism ?>uo ii^uniu(i with the prisoner, and this put them at a disadvantage. Waving his length of pipe Brown ran toward the end of the corridor. The two deputy sheriffs got out of his way. Their shouts alarmed those who were in the yard preparing the scaffold. These men rushed toward the entrance and were met by Brown. Standing close to the doorway was an axe which had been in use in erecting the scaffold. Brown dropped his lead pipe and grabbed the axe and advanced swinging it. The deputy sheriffs drew their revolvers. and Brown was warned to stop or be shot. As the men advanced he began to retreat and backed against a wall, intending to use the axe. The deputy sheriffs rushed in. and as they did so Deputy Sheriff WoodnlfTs arm was grazed by the blade of the fexe and cut. The wound is not dangerous. Brown was led back to a cell and secured. He was hanged at 10.10 o'clock. The body was buried in the paupers' field at New Lisbon. Brown was executed for the murder of Washington Hunter, of Riterside, N. J., a wealthy retired farmer. On the night of January 25 last Brown, ohu. Young. Charles Miller and Otto Keller forced an entrance Into the aged farmer's home with the intention of robbing the place. Mr. Hunter resisted and was brutally beaten with an iron bolt. His skull was crushed and lie died four days later. Brown was found in Sing Slug prison, -where he was serving a term for burglaryGovernor Odell pardoned him in order that lie might be brought here tor trial on the murder charge. BANK TELLER A DEFAULTER. The First National of KalUton Spa Closet Its Uoors?Shoiinife 8100,000. Saratoga. N. Y.?The First National Bank of Ballstou Spa has closed its doors. Edward J. Graham, of Albany, a National Bank Examiner, posted on the main entrance an official notice stating that "this bank is closed pending an investigation by the Controller of the Currency." It soon became generally known that. United States Commissioner Charles M. Davison had issued a warrant. for the arrest of the teller, Chas. E. Fitcham, who is accused of being . ? frv tiio nmmmt of nmrp I till Ulll UC/^lCi lu un. I?4..1UUUV than $100,000. It is said that his peculations have covered an extended period. lie having been connected with the hank for over a quarter of a century. His plan of operations is said to have heen to manipulate certificates by making false entries ami appropriating balances, all of which came under his personal supervision. When the interest came due he managed to pay it out of his own poclcer, which aided him in concealing his line of action. What disposition Fitcham has made of the misappropriated funds cauuot be learned. He lived in good style at Ballston Spa. and his salary was only $1000 par annum. If he had been engaged in stock operations it is not known, and his friends are at a loss to account ior wimi ne u<i? uuuc nuu the amount alleged to have been stolen by him. Fitcham's wife and daughter are reported not to have known anything of of his conduct until he was placed under arrest, and the result is that they are prostrated with shame and grief. Fitcha.ni has always commanded the greatest respect in Ballston Spa, and ids defalcation has proved a great shock to the entire community. Rnbbei'fi (Jet Miser's Hoard. .Tobn Brenuan, a miser, left his house at Milder, S. C.. for a few hours, and on his return found his strong box looted of $1500 in cash and many valuable papers, mortgages, titles to real estate, etc. Heir to Spanieli Prince. The Princess of the Asturias, sistei oi' tiie King, who was married on February 14 of the present year to Prince Charles of Bourbon, son of the Count of Caserta, gave birth to a son at Madrid, Spain. Newny UlemiiiigA The present population of Manila is. estimated at 244,732. It costs $4 for ten words by the new telegraph line to Yukon. Norway's railroads belong almost exclusively to the Government. Texas oil producers have ordered an o'l ship larger tliau any now afloat. The lawyers of Kentucky have orr.-.nized their State Bar Association. Eighty-two postoftices have been established in Minnesota within a year. It is a remarkable fact that few savages have ever been known to stammer. 'GOVERNOR JENKINS OUT President Roosevelt Removes tha Chief Executive of Oklahoma. Charsed AYlth Improper Connection With a Contract?Thomas B. Ferguson Territory'* New Governor. Washing: on, D. C.?President Roosevelt has appointed Thomas B. Ferguson Governor of Oklahoma, vice William M. Jenkins, removed. The President attached to the papers this memorandum: "Governor Jenkins, of Oklahoma, Is hereby removed because of his improper connection with a contract between the Territory and the Oklahoma Sanitarium Company. "One of the duties of the Territorial Governor is to enter into a contract with some person or corporation for the keeping of the insane of the Territory. Governor Jenkins made such a contract with the Oklahoma Sanitarium Company, a corporation the promoters of which reserved $10,000 of it3 ."took for the Governor and subject to his orders. "In the Governor's explanation of i the affair he says he told the promo| ters at the time they desired him to i sanction the contract 'thai it was an Important contract and that I had some friends whom I would like to have Interested in the company to whom I owed some political obligations which I would not be able to pay by an appointment or anything of that kind." "The stock was delirered to a bank, subject to the Governor's order, and was turned over to those friends, whose political services the Governor thus sought to reward. "The extent of the favor to the Governor or his friends is suggested by the fact that the only known sale of the stock since the contract was given out was at double the price paid for It. "The Governor's confessed relations to the matter disclose such an entire lack of appreciation of the high fiduciary nature of the duties of his office as to unfit him for their further discharge. "A sound rule of public policy and morals forbids a public servant from seeking or accepting any personal benefit in a transaction wherein he has a public duty to perform." MOTHER AND FOUR DIE IN FIRE Father 'Eicapes Only to Hear Deatb Screams of His Loved Ones. Altoona, Penn.?Five persons, a mother and her four children, were burned to death In Gwin Station on the Wopsononock Railroad, three miles i-1- A XI.!- -U? mt.. An | norm 01 mis cuy. xue uunuauu escaped with serious injuries. The dead are Mary C. Burk, the mother, wbc was forty-two years old, and her four children, Adam, sixteen years old; Mary, thirteen; Jotrona, eleven, and Joseph, eight. The husband is Carl W. Burk. He is seriously burned about the back. Mrs. Burk and the children, except Adam, retired at the usual hour. Mr. Burk, who was in Altoona, did not get home until late. The lamp was burning in the kitcheq for him. Before he went up stairs he turned it low. A lunch was left on the kitchen table for Adam, who was a stage hand in the Altoona Opera House. It is not known what time Adam came home. About 1.30 o'clock Mrs. Burk was awakoned by a dense smoke in her room. She awoke her husband. He dressed aud hastened down stairs. Opening the kitchen door, he found the room was ablaze. Burk's clothing was ignited, and he sprang outside and rolled in the snow to extinguish the fire. He then called the aid of neighbors, but there was no hope of saving the house or its inmates. Burk, in a mad frenzy, tried to rush through the flames, but was prevented. ' Meantime the agonising screams of j the inmates could be heard. For one j brief second Mrs. Burk appeared at an i upstairs window. In her arms she car- j ried a child. Then the flames rose I about her aud she sank back and was J I seen, no more. i RETURNED TO SEE MOTHER DIE. Daughter, Kidnaped in Infancy, R?stored to Her Parent After Years of Absence. McKeesport, Penn.?The daughter of Mrs. Jane Williams, kidnaped in infancy. was restored to her mother while the lafter was on her death bed. The daughter never knew who heT mother was until informed a few weeks ago by a relative, who, it 19 said, was instrumental in having her taken away. Mrs. Williams's husband died in Chicago in 1809. and when relatives wanted to adopt their youngest daughter. Mary, she refused. The little one soon afterward disappeared. Mrs. Williams came to this city to live with her son. She began to fail last summer, and a relative sent her word that her child was alive. The daughter, now Mrs. Annie Madden, of Liverpool, England, j where she was taken when stolen, was sent for, and arrived a week ago. The mother died, holding her child's hand. Convicted of Polsonlne Her Children. Mrs. Elmer Quimby, -at Ithaca. Mich., was found guilty of murdering her two children by administering poison, and sentenced to life imprisonment. The woman and her husband planned to rid themselves of the children and poisoned them both. The husband was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Wealth In Suicide's Pockets. FTenry Bouck. a wealthy baehelot fanner at Grover, Iowa, committed suicide by hauging. Twelve thousand dollars in bank drafts and S33 in money were found on the body. Governor Taft Called Home. Governor William H. Taft, of the Philippine Islands, has been directed by the Secretary of War to return to the Unlrul States. This action is taken hecar.sc Governor Taft will l)i? unable to perforin any duties for some time, and will be obliged to leave the Philippines to regain his health. I New Consul to Sauooa. The State Department at Washington. lias announced that George Heimroil of Omaha has been appointed Consul-General to Apia, Samoa. Labor World. Two years ago in Maine there were two woodsmen to one job; now there are two jobs to one woodsman. The Paris newspapers generally agree that the threatened strike of ihe French coal miners has been averted for the time being. La Resisteneia Union has officially declared the Tampa (Fla.) cigarmaKers' strike off. This ends the long struggle, which started last July, between the elgarinakers and manufacturers. The iatter have not yielded a single point. ' " ' ' . TIE GREAT DESTROYER 4 some startling facts about The vice of intemperance. Tile Paramount Question is 3fot One of rolitlcs or of Social Classen, Bat One Pertaining to Public Health and Morals ?Alcohol a Positive Poison. In his address before the American Medical Temperance Association, Dr. N. 8. Davis, M. D., LL.D., of Chicago, President of the association, said: "The" paramount question before the intelligent men and women of Christendom to-day is not one of politics or of political parties or of social classes/but one solely pertaining to public health and morals."It is whether alcohol and other wellknown narcotic drugs are really wholesome articles of drink or food, safe for general use; or are they absolutely subtle, deceptive and dangerous poisons, stealthily de stroying botu pub.ic health and morals, and constantly multiplying hereditary degenerates in all clases of human society? If the former, they are an titled" to tne same treatment as other articles of com* , merce and general use. If the latter, then their regulation belongs exclusively to the police and sanitary authorities aided by the courts. They cannot be both. That alcohol, as it exists in fermented and distilled liquors, is a positive proto-plasmic poison, directly impairing every natural structure and function of the living body in proportion to the quantity used, and the length of time its use is containued is proved oy the results of every experimental investigation concerning it, instituted by eminent scientific men, both in this country and Europe. "Ana their verdict is abundantly confirmed by the history and condition of the inmates of every asylum for the poor, the feeble-minded, the epileptics, the insane and the inebriataes; those of every reformatory and prison, and by the records of ' , every police and criminal court, and by the details of every well-kept registry of vital statistics. As concerns d'anaer to human life, every intelligent reader of the public press knows that the ordinary use of alcoholic liquors by persons claiming to be in health is the direct cause of more suicides, homicides and murderers every month than is produced by .all the other poisons known to toxicolozists in a year. Then why not now, at the beginning of this twentieth century of the ' Christian era, cease calling alcoholic liquors stimulants or restoratives, and not only speak of them as subtle and dangerous poisons in every household, but also concentrate all the racts known to science. clinical experience and of economic ana criminal records, in favor of having al cohol and all liquids containing two per cent, or more of it, placed on the statutes of the several States alone with arsenic, strychnine, etc., to be sola and used under the same regulations and penalties aa other poisons dangerous to the public health and morals? If this were accomplished it would soon remove one of the chief corrupting influences from the general field of politics, and place it under the domain of the police and health authorities, aided by tne courts, where it legitimately belongs. And it would do more to prevent tuberculosis and all forms of human degeneracy than all the,other measures combined. Price of a^Drlnk. If it were necessary to describe in worSs the evils and effect^ of intemperance, one might use tne thoughts of John B. Gougb expressed in one ot'hie lectures entitled "Man and His Masters," wherein he represents a man overcome with the appetite for intoxicating liquors as pleading in this manner: Give me a drink! I will give you my hard earnings for it. Give me drink! I will pay for it. I will give you more than that. I married a wife; I took her from girlhood's home and promised to love her, and cherish her, ana protect her?ah! an! and I have driven ner out to work for me and I have stolen her wages and I have brought them to you. fUt-n mo drink and I will VOU them. More yet. I have snatched the bit of bread from the white lips of my famished child?I will give yovt that if you will give me drink. More yet. I will give you my health. More yet. I will give you my nanliness. More yet. I will give my hopes if Heaven?body and soul; I will barter jewels worth all the kingdoms of earth? lor a dram. Give it me!"?Christian Work. Statue From Whisky Money. The Rev. W. F. Lloyd, of the "Walnut Street Methodist Church, Louisville. Ky., made an attack from the pulpit on Messrs. [. W. and B. Bernheim, distillers, who recently gave a bronze monument of . Thomas Jefferson to the city of Louisville. He said: "The city of Louisville is congratulat? ;a?^ rtf TKnmua .Tpffpr tng 113CU OJl LUC owawuv. jon, presented by two wholesale whisky sellers.. The money with which this was done was blood money, wrung from bleeding hearts of innocent women and children. It represents tears of orphanage and widowhood, and is a sort of concrete expression of destroyed character and despoiled manhood. Jefferson held sentiments strongly antagonistic to whisky,both in its drinking and sale, and it was enough to make him turn over in his grave at the thought of having his statue presented to the city by men who had made their fortune by preying on helpless drunkards and innocent women and children." "On Signing the Pledge." Why do temperance men waste so mucll time in debating points which are not debatable? What nonsense has recently been written and spoken about the "ethics of pledge-signing!" Would the temperance movement have ever attained its present position without pledge-signing? While we are waiting for temperam^ Wislation. and while the \ public house reformers are hatching out their schemes for improving the drinking taverns, let every earnest worker keep pegging away enlisting . pledged abstainers. , Those who wish to see quick returns for their work and abiding results, will still go on entreating men and women to sign the pledge, no matter how many logicchoppers declaim against old-fashioned methods. In some things the old is certainly better than the new. Tlie CruHade In lirlef. In every Methodist church in New Zealand intoxicating wine has been excluded from the Lord's table. Some parents who set intoxicating liquors upon their table wonder where their children learned to become drunkards. Dr. Ganser, a Dresden physician and alienist, has found hypnotic suzgestions a great aid in reclaiming drunkards and stealing their will. The Temperance Permanent Building Society has 8515 members, and last year loaned 81,590,000 ? the largest sum advanced by any building society in England. ? A vigorous crusade against liquor joints is in progress at Mount Vernon, 111. Three local dealers have been fined $200 and costs for selling liquor on Sunday, the maximum fine under the law. A Columbus (Ohio) saloon keeper, who Elacarded his establishment as a "Soldier's lest," was notified by the soldiers at the garrison that the name was offensive and that it must be removed immediately. The sign came down. The battle against alcohol is the most significant phenomenon of our ages; more important than all political action, Mars, and treaties of peace.?Adolf Fick, M. D.. Professor of Physiology, University ol Wurzburg, Bavaria. The "Gideons'' is an organization of commercial travelers in Chicago who neither drink nor play cards, 1600 strong. The opinion of physicians, hyeienists and moralists on alcoholism may he summed up in the words of Gladstone: "Alcohol is a more devastating scourge than the scourges of history, plague, war and fam- ' ine; more than all these, it decimates humanity. It does more than kill, it degrades." The London Lancet says: "We look to the medical profession to be brave and courageously defend the facts which they are so well acquainted with, and rise abov? the sneers and cheap criticisms which would call them cranks, because they urg6 total abstinence and denounce aJconol u o Kovorflcp." . X;>.y