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3 Mining Anthracite. \ J How S Pcnasyivonia Cool Fields J j Art Worked. J , THE word anthracite, which i has become such a vital part ' of the life of the American people, is a striking example < Of how the world becomes dependent on what nay be termed the latter-day progress of mankind. Just 100 years 1 I ago Philadelphia received her first J shipment of anthracite coaL It cauic , I to the city In two great river arks, auj was used to gravel the sidewalks. A mall quantity of this coal was burced In a grate, but the experiment was not a success, and In lyjtf, when another ark load of coal tied up at the wharf In the Quaker city it was rejectedBo one wanted it In 1808 Judge Fell. Of Wllkesbarre, successfully burned i anthracite In a grate. In 1812 another ! Sort was made to market anthracite 1 coal In Philadelphia, but nine wagon ? loads which were seut there from ] Portsrille had to be giren away. i The real history of the anthracite i coal Industry begins In 1820. when 305 1 tons of coal were shipped to Phlladel- < phia from the Lehigh region. During < the next ten years the trade from the < Lehigh regions was firmly established, and the 8chuylklll region was opened < up upon the completion of water com-1 < munication with Philadelphia. Durlug I the latter part of this period the Dela- 1 ware and Hudson Canal Company was ! organised and began the shipment of 1 w i /S&ffl COAL BREAKER. SHOWING METH CITE COAL FOl Anthracite from Carbonilale by the canal and the gravity railroad. From this time on tbe trade rapidly Increased, canals and gravity roads multiplied, only to be replaced by locomotives on their advent. One of tbe first locomotives used In tbis country was for the purpose of hauling anthracite. The process of mining anthracite co.-U consists of two methods?stripping aud closed work. StrippiDg is the process Where the coal lies near tbe surface of the ground as It does in many Instances In the anthracite held. Tbe closed work Is that done under ground, or at the bottom of a shaft. Owing to the character of the deposits the room and pillar system is employed. When the shaft cannot be placed so as to reach tbe lowest point of tbe deposit, th coal below la-reached by Inside or blind shafts or inside slopes. These hafts, which are sometimes sunk to a depth of over 1000 feet, usually have several compartments, one for the pumpway and ladder, and two or mure for hoisting. A common size of the hoisting compartments Is 7x12 feet. The coal la brought to tbe bottom of tbe shaft from the Inside or blind shafts by mean* of small cars, and in some Instances sheet Iron chutes, according to the Inclination of tbe shaft, according aa the blind shaft slopes up or down from tbe bottom of the shaft from tbe surface. Anthracite Is mined with band rotary drills and by black blasting powder. Dynamite or giant powder is used for rock work, sometimes for driving gangways, and In some locations for blasting coal Itself where fire damp necessitates a flameless explosive. Tbe mines are ventilated by rotary fans. The.law requires that each min^r sball be supplied with at least lift) cubic feet f air per minute. Fire damp is prevalent in many of the anthracite shafts, necessitating the use of safety lamps bj tbe miners. The co?t of mining anthracite coal Is greater than the ewt of mining bituminous coal, and this cost doe* not *nd When the coal is landed at the surface of the mine. Anthracite as It comes from tbe mine constats of lumps of valiouii sises. and Intermixed with these lumps is a mixture of rocks. These lumps must be broken and assorted as to sise before the anthracite i? ready for the market, since the economic use of anthracite requires that the lumps must be of as near uniform ?ixe as possible. and as there is a greater demand for tbe Intermediate sizes, tbe larger lumps must be broken down to smaller sises. This elaborate preparat'on greatly Increases tbe cost of the coal. Anthracite Is prepared for market in what Is known as the coal breaker, a large building, usually built of timber, but sometimes of steel and Iron. Tbe coal Is broken op by machinery consisting of toothed rolls, sfter which it Is screened in circular revolving screens. The slate Is picked out by tend by boys and old men, who nit long tils chutes through which the . foal passes. As far as possible the "] work of sorting s!z<*s anil picking out Impurities is done by machinery. As the Illustration shows, tin* general plan is to sort the coal over inclined bars. ! Mien to pass what goes through thrt i l>ars over revolving or shaking screens, , while what goes through goes directly I to the loading bins. or else Is broken up into smaller sizes by rolls and then j separated Into the various sizes by ! H'nvns. The capacity of the average i breaker is from 2<mu to 3:*H) tons of | L-oal a day. The tendency of recent years has ! I?een to use more of the smaller sizes of anthracite, and consequently the ! breaking Las been done with this enJ ! in view. | i i Carton* Sarjflrnl Cam. The popular Itelief that a man xrbo , receives a wound from a builet In the j !... ? ta luMinil to illn therefrom almost; ! UVUt V ?o Instantaneously Is now seen to be un- ! founded, for at the Inst meeting of the French Academy of Medicine Dr. Pey- j rat told of a man who was restored to ( health after his heart had been pierced ! by a ball from a revolver. The wound- ! isl man. be said, was placed In a hos- I [?ltal In Paris, and Dr. Launny. a noted ! surgeon, operated on him there with j preat success. According to Dr. Pey- ' rat this Is the only case of the kind | on record. True, statistics recently j complied by Dr. Dentu. show that out of every hundred persons who receive wounds In the heart from swords or daggers ftvm thirty to forty-two are cured, but. though medical books have been carefully searched, no record baa been found In them of a man whc has been rescued from death after bla heart had been perforated by a ball. lit w-jr mm ia*iu*?Am*r Ihrm i mwJ mxm 5"! ; \ c rrvi J i* a r/?DM? >* . ' Lp^CuT/woj OD OF PREPARING ANTIIRAB MARKET. Far Wttl" Wiped Out. I A publishing bouse la this city, says tbe Chicago Chronicle, bas received an order from the Yukon region for books expressive of what is now the "far Northwest. The order includes \ Gibbon's Bome, Macaulay's England. I the writings of John Stuart Mill, of | Fiammarion and other engaging scientists. graphic novels, humorous ! stories, bat none of Bret Harte's. The | Far West of Bret Ilarte is at the van- I iahing point. A hurry posteript ob- j served that the navigation season is i short and that only letter mail is car- ! ried over the ice. ( In truth, there is no longer any "far" West or "far" Northwest. The i rugged and often illiterate humanity j that cleft the mountains and swam the rivers, opening up a new empire i for all the world. Is also of the past. 1 The universal free school sends a dif- j i ferent multitude now to the advancing \ frontier. Sturdy but not Illiterate, , the new pioneers want books wherever they go. and science and the organize^ forces of civilization enable them to < gratify their taste. Culture is no longer a monopoly of the older portions of the country. 1 The TtUphoM la Corsica. Ajaccio, in Corsica, the birthplace of Napoleon, has a new telephone service. At preseut Its subscribers arc three In number. PtotoffTmph bjr Alraan k Co. The Hod. Michael Henry Herbert. (SacceMnr to Lord Pauncefoto u British Amb&?*ador to tho United State*.) Brussels has a church clock wound up by atmospheric expan*i??n Educed I bj tbe beat of the sua. | wo More of Our Series of Tombs of the Presidents, ftr k Bmh^Bm V^iE^T T^iinEr LLjff V? ttwMPV Thomas Jeflenton. At Monticello. near Charlottesville, "Irglnia, Thomas Jefferson was burled. The plain granite shaft at the grave H?ars an Inscription, prepared by Jeferson himself, setting forth that It is he burial place of the author of the >eclaratlon of Independence. & < unH? ??&ig And rev Jackson. Like several of the early Presidents. Lndrew Jackson was burled 1>eside bis rife, at bis homestead. The Hermitage, j iear Nashville. Tennessee. This cor-1 er of the estate was afterward bought ! iy the women of Tennessee and given j o the State. Transportation In !<?? York. The elevated railroads of Manhattan I ind The Bronx aiv unmatched by auy : pen-air steam railroad system in the vorld In the number of passengers arrled each year. The report of the >uslness. done by these elevated railoads for the year that euded June 30 ast shows that In that year 213.UW.0W msseugers (round niynlM?rs> were ransported without accident to one I >f these passengers excepting souie rifling bruises.?Philadelphia Press. Woman at Railroad Craising. The feminine guardian of a railroad XUOTJUtf 19 U l?> i'f ?UU au<m u iu ua?lers iu France. As the train apiroaches a crossing on. sees a quaint Id dame, with a sunburned face, wearng an apron with woudrous stripes, md a queer-looking 1 .ack hat made if waxed cloth, similar Iu shape to the >ld straw hat of the Jack Tar of by;one uays. This hat Is only worn r-hen a train goes by, presumably to r!re a certain amount of otlkia! dignity aCAUDlXQ A FBINCH BAILBOAD CBOSSINQ to the Nearer when oa duty. Slung around the left arm Is the trumpet with which warning Is given to pedestrains and others of the approach of a train, and in the right hand is seen toe red flag, which is kept rolled rojnd the stock when the road J* clear, and inly unfurled as a danger signal. A man has to have a pretty hard :beek to travel on his face. "IT'S THE PACE & Auto?"What was your record last Trolley?'"Seven." Auto?*Ob! You're dead slow. Mil Trolley?"Yes. but I ouce nearly kil >u can't beat that"?Philadelphia Inq \ A REMARKABLE "CATCH." Nlne-Ytar-Old Girl Lands 5lutj*MTtD Poaad llib. Miss Kathleen Dunsmulr, the nineyear-old daughter of rtbe Premier of British Columbia. succeeded not long ago in landing the monster fish In the illustration, which actually weighed Wst A NINE-YEAR-OLD FISHER UAIOKK'S REMARKABLE CAT***' ninety-seven pounds . ju measured over five feet, considerable more than the little lady who made so successful a haul. The catch was effected from a steamer anchored In Union Bay, British Columbia, a strong salmon line and salmon bait l>elug used, and so delighted were the crew with her success that nothing would satisfy them but that the small fislierwoman and - ?- <1-1- -i??-i i? UtT Riant U9U SUUUJU UV Jiuviu^iutiuvu together. A Womu'i Unwieldy Load. Hardly anywhere In the world does the traveler see men. women and children staggering under load* so unwieldy as In Mexico. The photo, reproduced?taken in Pcotlan, Mexico? shows a native girl with both bands full of baskets and a stack of hats on her bead which would crush ao ordinary American man. A Mexican wornan will walk the streets all day carry* rv v* .1 J From a Photo bjr Win Itld Scott "EABDLT ANYWHEBE IS THE WOBLD DOES THE TBAVELEB SEE HEX, WOMEN AND CHILDBEN STAOOEBXNO CNDER LOADS SO CNW1XLDY AS IX J MEXICO." lug such a burden and look and feel J none the tireder for It.?The Wide World Magazine. The Diaitram LI*. The most dangerous thing about a lit? is that a word once uttered can never t>e obliterated. Some one has said that lying is a worse crime than counterfeiting. There is some hope of follow- j lug up bad coins until they are all re- j covered, but an evil word can never be overtaken. The mind of the bearer or reader has been poisoned, and human devices cannot reach In and cleanse It. j Lies can never be called back.?New York News. The law has no penalty for stealing ' a heart, because the punishment of having it left on your bands is enough. ?New York Press. "Majuba" was the name given to a new sulphurous yellow-colored rose recently exhibited In Paris. Another black red variety was called "Boer Courage." THAT KILLS." " Sror v Of f3k^?2 > / Hi ?jy fl^gT // week?" e was nine." lied a President of the United SUtia; lulrtr. i.r'i- rrr - * PRESIDEHT IMS' GUEST He Attends the Celebration cf Washington's Initiation. THE ORATOR OF THE OCCASION Coeimlt Sara the Lesaoa it Brotherhood Mast Bo Uaritd If tho Groat !*doi> trial aad Social Problem* of To-day Are to Bo Solved?Ret nnu to ITuh> Ington?Sagamore Dome Cloud. Philadelphia. ? President Roosevelt was the principal guest at the sesqulcentennial annive^ary celebration by the Grand Lodge of the Most Ancient .and Honorable Fraternity of Free and Accepted Masons of Pennsylvania of George Washington's apprenticeship Into the Masonic fraternity. The President was also tbe orator of the occasion. He was met at the station by Grand Master E. A. Tennis and the Reception Committee of the Grand Lodge, and escorted to tbe Masonic Temple, where the exercises 'began at noon. President Roosevelt spoke. In part, as follows: "It seems to me that that which this country needs trore than anything else is not to preach only, but to practice tbe virtues we try to realize through Masonry and to show to tbe memory of tbe greatest Mason that ever lived? Washington?tbe homage of deeds, not merely words. "Each one of ns naturally is interested especially in life as be sees it from bis own standpoint Each one of us that Is worth bis salt Is trying to do bis share in working out the problems that are before us all now at tbe beginning of tbe twentieth century. "And so does any man in public life, whatever bis position be. if be is interested at heart, be has tbe desire to do some kind of substantial service for his country. He most understand that the essential prerequisite of success under our Institutions Is genuineness In the spirit of brotherhood. Masonry should make and must make each man who conscientiously and understandlngly takes up bis obligation the best type of American citizen. because Masonry teaches him his obllgstlons to his fellows In a practical fashion. 'The lesson of brotherhood first and foremost is to learn that lesson with a full heart In one hand and without a weak bead on the other. The lesson of brotherhood?that Is the lesson that bas got to be taught and got to 1* learned and applied to vs as a people If wc are to solve the great Industrial and eoclal problems of to-day. "If we could get wage workers and employers In any given occupation or In any given district in a lodge together. I guarantee the result I guarantee what will happen. Is not that true? Do you not think so? (Cries ot 'Yes. yes.') Exactly, and I will guarantee It If that thing could happen we would come always into the lodge 1 ? - %*tm K?A*ltAti an<l a A nil 1T?I If. [ ri'B|n;viiii? uio mvtuci hm?? log to do what was good for his brother; each recognising that in onr Gov! eminent every man of as has to be hit I brother's keeper." Washington. D. C.?President Roosc relt returned to Washington froaa Philadelphia, where he stopped on hl? way from voting at Oyster Bay. Ac companylng him were Mrs. Rooseveli and their two children. Archibald ami Quentln; Secretaries Cortelyou and Loeb. Dr. Lung and a j>qmb?r of the servants from the Sagamore Hill home Tbe President and his family were ; driven t? the White House, where the I improvements have been enough ad vanced to give accommodations for tb< immediate demands of tbe President'! household. -? -* -. o#-Tbe 8agamore Hill home has beer closed for tbe winter. IADRONES BEHEAD A PRESIDENTS VTlfli Kordered sad Child? Stales Tea riUedllBMt t* Amitlcu*. Manila.?A portion of a gang of La drones, which had been operating 01 tbe Island of Biliran, crossed over t< tbe Island of Leyte and entered t small town near Cartgara. Here tbsj beheaded the presldente of tbe town murdered his wife and abducted tb< presldente's chlldrn. The motive U said to have been tbe presidente'i friendliness with the Americans. Ladrones are again active in thi provinces of Rlzal and Bulacan. Luzon Native constabulary have engagec these bandits close to Manila and killed a number of them. Reports re celved here Indicate that the situatloi on pie Island of Samar la better thai has been recently represented. Tm Found Dod la Omaha. Nob. The Rev. William G. Rabe, pastoi of the German Baptist Church, ai I Omaha, Neb., and Miaa Augusta uusu a young woman, were found dead in i vestibule in the rear of tbe churet auditorium. Tbe two bodies wen locked In embrace, and tbe gas Je& were turned on, but not burning. Tb< Bev. Mr. Babe was fifty-four years olr1 and a prominent minister. Miss Bu*l was about thirty-one years old. ant was missionary pastor of tbe cburcb She west to Omaha five yean ag( from a Chicago missionary college, ant bad worked with tbe Bev. Mr. Batx j ever since. JUtcd sailor Kills Himself. Because he had been Jilted by th< young woman whom be bad been en gsged to marry. David Diamond, i nilor at New York City, committee' suicide by Inhaling illuminating gai through a tube. Cm! of tkt C?uu, ail.SS4.81S. The cost of the temporary work of tbe twelfth census, according to th< Director's annual report, was $11.S34. 818. or an average cost of 15.3 centi per capita. A total of 30.375 person.' j were employed In tbe census, and 34)10.000 bulletins were Issued. CUmn Worried by Superstition. Tbe Chinese are greatly worried bj the second crop of lichee nuts thlt year. It Is pointed out that Just prloi to the Tal-plng rebellion there was t second crop of lichees. Co??dee r?an E?porU For Doty. Commander Bobert E. Peary. th? Arctic explorer, reported at the Navj | Department, at Washington, but h? I will not be assigned to duty until b( " ? '??H1 tlio effect of the I run3' recutcn ?vu. .? re*tnt operation performed In Phila delpbia. Mr. Peary is still on crutches Blind sad Eighty-eight, Ik* Buki Cora. Mrs Caroline Stabler, of Dilllngers rille, Iowa, who is eighty-eight yeart of age. and has been totally blind foi the last fifteen years, is helping tc busk corn on the farm where she re shirs. . BLOWN UP BY DYNAMITE Father and Daughter Killed and Mother Injured at Chicago. Chariot Smith, a RrJ?ct*4 Sal tor, Arwrt d? Said to Htrt Jfado Threat* to Blow Up tbo Homo. Chicago. ? Joseph Kordech and hii daughter Lacy, twenty years old. wer< blown to pieces by a dynamite bomfc while asleep In their home at Chicago Heights. Mrs. Kordech, who wai sleeping with an Infant two weeks old, was badly Injured, but will recover. Charles Smith, a former boarder a< the Kordech home, 1* under arrest at the lock-up charged with blowing up the house and with the double murder. Smith had made repeated threats tc blow up the Kordech home. It lJ charged. He is a rejected suitor of Mamie, old est daughter of the Kordecbs, and b< also bad a grievance against the Kor dech family because $385 of bis monej disappeared from his room while b< was a boarder In their home. Thli was more than a year ago. 8mitli charged the family with taking th< money, and he has said on several oc casions, it la charged, that be would "get even." In a fire following the explosion of the bomb the ruins of the Kordect home, which is at 1434 Portland avenue. was completely consumed, together with a frame building a fen yards to the south. The house was ? one-story frame structure. The bomb had been placed under th< floor of the room occupied by the fath er and mother and directly under tbeh bed. The bomb is thought to have beei about ten Inches in length. It waa oi ' sheet steel and lined with lead. The explosion was terrific. Tw? larsre nieces of steel were fonnd im bedded Id the wall of J. C. Adams'i bouse, 500 feet away. | RECEPTION HELO^ON BATTLEFIELD i Pnildnt Tlatta Ct4w Voutahi oac arc Story of Tlckt. Brandy Station^Va.?President Boose relt passed several boars on the battle field of Cedar Mountain. Accompanle< by Secretary Root, Secretary Cortelyot 1 and Dr. Blxej. tbe President drove t< the site of tbe struggle and there re celved from an eye witness and par 1 tlclpant an account of the fight Ii was tbe most Interesting happening on his pleasure trip. The day was per > feet and tbe drive to the battlefleU was as pleasurable as could be desired i In tbe very heart of the battlefleU President Boosevclt held an in for ma reception. Many people bad gathere< ' from tbe surrounding country and af 1 ter Judge Grimsley bad described thi battle tbe President received Inform i allv those who had assembled on th< field: The President while receivinj vu photographed by Mrs. France Boddle. of Culpepper, both alone an< in a group with Secretary Root Secre tary Cortelyou. Dr. Rlxey and Judgi Grlmsley. Subsequently the Presiden received a shell which had been dui up on the battlefield as a memento o: his visit. TURKS TO DEFENO ABRAHAM'S TOMI , - jc EUftue to Ut A4irieu Imth la Placi It Is Supposed to-S?. Constantinople. Turkey.?In spite o i the formal promise given to Unit* i States Minister Leishman last August in the name of the Sultan, by Izze t Bey. his secretary, to grant Mr. Bankf I an Alfierlcan citizen, a flrmln autho: I lxlng him to make archaeological re searches at JekAbrafcam, Mesopots rnia", the Porte"aow has declared t Spencer Eddy. Secretary of Legatioi and Acting Minister, that it Is unabl to grant his authorization in questlot as the place where the America; i wlsties to carry on his researches Is ss cred ground. ind is supposed to coo i tain the tomb of Abraham. . The Porte expresses Its willingnes to Indemnify Mr. Bonks. Mr. Eddy ba r forwarded this communication t Washington. r 11. PISHINC TflU/N 'filMfPT BY HBP Mala Bolldlagt of ft. Fltm, 9Clqa?loi ' Dtatroftd. | St. John's, N. F.?St. Pierre, Mlqnc r Ion. wai swept bj Are and all the prln clpal buildings surrounding tbe mail 1 square were destroyed. J, These Included tbe Gorernmen , offices, tbe palace of justice, tbe Catb ollc cathedral and adjoining cburcl , structures and many smaller buildings St Pierre. Miquelon. is tbe capital o j tbe French colony that includes 81 I Pierre and Miquelon Islands, and is aj . important fishing station. Vivo Ymm For Aurkhlitt. William MacQueen and Rudoipl Grossman, tbe Anarchists, were sen tenced to fire years each in State pri . son by Judge Scott at Paterson. X. J. t for riot and malicious mischief. Tbeli counsel took an appeal at once, ant ' tbe two men were released on glvlnj . $6500 bail each. It will probably be t , year before tbe appeal Is decided. > Bollor IipUtln Kilts Throo. i Three trainmen were killed by the i explosion of a boiler of a Baltimon I and Ohio locomotive In Halethorp seven miles west of Baltimore. Traffic j was delayed about three boors by th< I accident. Those who wefre killed wer? , E. W. Biggs. an engineer; O. W. Hunt a fireman, and C. C. Stalling, a brake man. Vacl* of Csa'r Dlairseod. J The St. Petersburg Official Messeq * ger announces tbe dismissal from tb< | Russian Army of tbe Grand Duke Paul 1 Alexandrorltcb. who is an uncle ol ' tbe Czar. 44 Cotton King " Ktllod by m Fall. Captain John H. Montgomery. Presi , dent of tbe Pacolet Manufacturing ; Company, at Gainesville. Ga.. fell six J teen feet in a warehouse aud wat ( killed. Captain Montgomery was tin i largest cotton manufacturer in the South. >f '1 Horn Sale IUiIIxm 180.000. f 11 wan uiiuuuuu-ti tuai iiiu laiuuuq . Belle Meade breeding farm near N'a*h. vllle, Tenn., would be continued by th? ' son of General Jackson. The sale of horses realized $180,000. Fit* Taar* For St. Lomla BoodUr. , "Edmund Bench, former member o( (he House of Delegates at St. Louis, , Mo., was found guilty of perjury In hi* ; testimony before the Grand Jury as to ; the $7.">.Q00 boodle fund raised to ob tain the passage of the Suburban Franchise bill, and was sentenced to fire years lu the penitentiary. Berscb la wealthy nnd prominent in politics. J President Hoth lata Whits Roim. President Roosevelt has removed to > the remodeled White House, at Wash. loftoo. from the temporary quarter! be has recently occuoled. IIIMIMil I THE GREAT DESTROYER i SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE ViCE OF INTEMPERANCE. Orlik mad Labor?The Chief dm at Wotklnetnta U the Llqaor Tnflc* It Takea From Than EnoacH to LUI Tbaai from Forerty to Comfort. It ii well to imprea* upon the minda of working men just what toe liquor buaineaa mentis to that portion of oar population wham we call "wmae earner*." We hams little sympathy with thciae theomu who believe the go:d?a age ia to be uahered is by the abolition of labor. Labor ia not * eurne upon man, but the power to labor ia rather hie aupremcat bleasing. The > curae cornea when he muat labor under un* just condition* for inadequate compen*a. tion, when be spend* the fruit of his toil for "that which aatufietb not," and when ' ?the chief corse of our modern system? he most constantly labor under the oppress* ing fear that to-morrow be may hare no > chance to labor. I The foremost factor in the production of these conditions is the liqeor traffic. There is little that is new upon that subject, but the fects arc pertinent and are well worth reciting. The liquor traffic has debauched our polr ifcics until juit legislation is a practical un, po!M*biUtjr. , The muor traffic has created au under* consumption of the necessities of life that ; reduces the demand for the products of ' labor far below the legitimate normal standard, fend causes the country to be flooded I with men who can find nothing profitable to do and therefore must, of necessity, sell J their strength for any pittance offered, for ! the sake of escaping immediate starvation. The liquor traffic takes from the workins man by no means all of the great tax it leviej upon the American public, but ift ' tikes from working men enough money to t lift almost the whole class?if Ire may use such a term without implying an odiooe distinction?from poverty to comfort. The liquor traffic by diverting a billion . and a quarter dollars from the channels of legitimate trade cloees the door of opportunity upon fuljy a million and a half men, 1 who would find lucrative employment in ' the production of the goods or the production of the raw material to manufacture i the fodds that would be required in store . and market if the gin mill were oat of the lie<9 m ekemid snen il , " / MMI ?u? |rw|rw uwi vwuv^ ?w their money for the real necessities and tbd fal luxuries of life. It ia altogether potable that the aboli. firm of the liquor traffic would cot settlo ererr ohaae of the labor question, but it I would be so long a itride toward settlement "nd the condition that would exist would be so infinitely superior to that which exists now, that were the saloons swept out of existence to-morrow the "cause of labor" would hare advanced at least a century in the single step.?The New Voice. The Drink Demon.. The Concord {N. H.) Daily Patriot, under the editorial headline "Killed His Two Babies," speaks as followa: No man haa a right to get drunk and no man who ia at all likely to get drunk hao any right to drink whisky, and all man who drink whisky are more than likely to at aome time get drunk. Hence no man haa any right to drink whisky. You may be able to pick flaws in the philoaopby of the above, out if you are a man who loves your home and those dependent upon you, and if 70U have regard for tha things tfiat enter into the make-up of good and true men. you cannot wall afford to quarrel with the aentiment. No man is bettered bv Honor and nearly . all men are made worse. * '* A few evening* since a man named Fredt erick Dietscher. a driver for tbe Health1 * Department in New York City, cot drunk*' I and in his maddened and drunken condi* t tion went to hia home. ' Hia wife, with a tender word of greeting, went to the door to bid him welcome when i he dealt her several vicious blows on the face and she sought safety by hurrying to t her room and' locking herself in. His little five-year-old daughter clung to his knees and cried, "Don't kill mamma, f pana." ? i . ; | He told her to go and get her brother, a > little lad of six, and when they returned 1 lie took out a revolver and killed them both and then killed himself. ; Telling the story of the great and sad '* | Trime, the wife and mother aaid that up to * that night he had always been kind, and i* the did not know what could have caused , a him to commit the awful deed save that hr 3 was drunk. "*K? e The Patriot is not in the moralizing , busineas, and it has no idea of starting upa ' t school for tbe reclamation of the tippler J 0 but if it can say a word now and then that? - will tend to check tbe downward march of i* a fellow citizen it will not halt in the pro* s cce4[Ut*$er&~fr?'? . 1 French Laws Against Oruakennoee. f 3 Sitting tbe other day in a French cafe T noticed a placard legibly displayed headed, Law for the. repression of pubtic drunk.T.ness. and for combating the progress of ' alcoholism." if procured a copy of the placard and frund therein certain points of interest from the aocial science standpoint. Tbe law is an old one. It ia dated - 1873-1873, and has appended tbe names of - JuW flwvr. A. Thiers and E. de Goulard. 3 It provide* for the infliction of a firefranc fine on those who are found drank t in public place*. If a accond offense be committed within a year of the fir*t con* ' nction imprisonment for a period varying 1 from six day* to a month may be inflicted, i. -? i:h a fine of from aixteen franca to 300 f trances. Sundry penalties also follow con* -iction at the police court of persona who ! have twice been found guilty of drunken- ' 3ej6. They are deprived of the power of voting, cannot serve as jurors or hold Fmblie offiee and are otherwise degraded rom public service. Drunk people are not 1 allowed to be served under pain of fine,' and to persons under the age of sixteen V*ars alcoholic liquors must not be served. , The placard in question by law must be ( rxhibited at the municipal offices, cafes an<f | y. her places where liquors are conxuiccd.-* f London Chronicle. 1 Itriklat ttrnt Car Cards. Thf Methodist Ministerial Association of Willtamsport, Pa., has posted cards bearing Scripture texts on tne liquor question ! in the street cars of that city. In one of } the cars, fitted in between two hotel advertisements, is a card bearin* the words, "Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, ' ami whosoever is deceived thereby is not wise." In the same rare arc the advertise* 5 ments of three hotels and three kinds of beer and whisky, with another kind of beer advertised outside. In another car are the words, "Wine?at last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder." In this car were the advertisements of five hotels and brands of whisky and beer. In still ? another was the warning. "Woe unto him | that ffiveth his neighbor drink, that nuti test the bottle to him, and maketh him drunk also." In this car were five advertisements of the drink referred to. Crisis Da* to Prink. When sentencing a person convicted ot | liquor without .1 licence, Judge 1 <^uinn. of the Seventeenth Judicial Di?*rict (Faribault. Martin and Jackson counI tie*), of Minnesota, recently ?aid that nine :y-*even per cent, of crime ua* due. di> -ectly. to drink. The statement being ! Ulenced in private, the inventigator ku eferred to the court record*, and it vh ."ound that of the pernon* ?entenced by .Tiidce Quinn during the five year* of h'.a 1 service a* Judge of thin district there is biit a Mingle exception to the rule stated by I liiin. Every ca*e can be attributed to the ' n*e of intoxsciting liquor, with the one esa'ntioo, but ev?*n in thi? caj?e the boy'* ? -- i- j_:_i 1: tamer wa* an uarauua; unniter 01 uquor. PUnu Ropoailbllltr. ! A decision of the United State* Court' , of Appea.* recently nit ting at St. I?uis has l reated great consternation among aaloon( keeper*, and they arc asking. "What next?" The decision of that court is to the effect that a *a'oonkee|>er may he held 1 responsible for the death of a patron of i his place in the event that death occur* 1 from an accident resulting from the inebriated condition of the patron. The thirty-second annual convention of the Catholic Total Abstinence L'nion of i America met recently in Dubuque, lotva. The reports state that the L'nion now em? I braces 990 societies, with a membership oi 854,110, an increase during the part jreac of more than 10.000 members.