Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I .** jfae, a B IT was Just before tbe Christmas of I 1 1850 that four little Alabama girls I Jl were as *)US-V 05 four Jitt,e g,rls? ft LUy Langhorne. Lucy Waller. MatI tie Harwood and Llszle Ella Manning I H?nld be. They were to have a dolls' 0" party on tbe Monday after Christmas. 0 and they could talk of nothing else. 1 Hal Stanley discovered that the girls I had a project on hand. Tbe wblsperbehind' desk lids and around the I store, and tbe long conferences daring I sec ess. told tbe secret, altboagh tbe i Strictest silence about their plans was I maintained In the presence of tbe boys. I Lily often let slip an unguarded re| nark about tbe coming festivity, and I then clapped her bands over her | mouth if she saw Hal 8tanley near. I cor Ltrxie sua uttu wiiu u?n auu ?... gain, "Whatever you do, Lllj I*anghorue. don't you tell Hal Stanley. I i don't want him to know one word boot It until It in all over!" "I say so. too!" exclaimed Mattie Harwood. "Why. aren't you goiug to let him come to the party?" asked Lily, In a pathetic rolce. "Let him come!" said Lizzie Ella. "I'm astonished at you, Lily Langborne. Don't you know Hal 8tanley well enough to know we don't want him at our party? What are you thinking about?" , *1 thought maybe you'd let him come, after we bad finished flxin' our things?" said Lily. "Well, you thought wrong?be shan't tome any time If I have anything to 4o with it." asserted Lizzie Ella. cxr llfll uf nuc uu uw wuntimet, and leads bfm all around the front yard," said Lily, meekly. "Ye*, and pinches you when he takes you off the pony, doesn't her' retorted Lizzie Ella. "He don't pinch me hard." Insisted LOy. "Well. Lily Lsnghorne, you are a strange girl. I declare. I should think jon wouldn't went him at the party." answered Lissie Ella, with a toss of her head. "Oh. I don't want him. if you don't, Lizzie Ella. Only he said he waa com In*, anyhow," said Lily. "Very well." said Lizzie Ella, still provoked, "none of the boys shall come tf Hal Stanley Is to come. If be comes I shall not come, and my sister shall aot make the dolls' dresses, and I won't lay my hand to a thing. I did think we could have some boys and hare a dance, but we'll have girls enough to make a set" "It would be nice to have some boys."* said Mattie Harwood. "Ed. Waller can dance. "Well, we can't hare them. My mother saya we cannot Invite the other boys and not Invite Hal Stanley, and I ?will?not?hare?Hal Stanley at our dolls' party. Now. you've got It." said Lizzie Ella defiantly, as she walked away from the croup of girl*. And so It was settled that the dolls' party should be enjoyed without the presence of boys, aud the preparations for the event began. The Saturday before the eventful Monday the table was already decorated with frosted cakes and fruits and candles. The dolls In all their flnery were In their eats. The table was beautiful. The bright colored candles and the gay dresses of the dolls shone axnoug bouquets and garlands and bowers. Everything had been arranged to perfection, and the door of the room wus closed. After the dance the girls were to enter the room and stand around the table behind the dolls. Each girl was to have a match, and at a given signal each was to light the three candles In front Of the doll behind which she stood. They had practiced the marching and tandiug until they could do It without ft mistake. All were to light the candles at once, so that an illumination Should burst over the table like a flash. By 4 o'clock Monday afternoon the girls had arrived in full dress. They 1 talked and played games, and every thing was delightful. The mometil arrived when the procession wan to 1 march to the tabic where the Hut? foreign ladle* lu national cc?tutncs await *d thorn. TIip mimic on the niano truck up and the girls started. On they went, keeping step to the march until they readied the table ami each ?irl stood In her place. Not a mistake bad been made; the girls w^re radiant With happiness. The signal was given and suddenly the table was a blaze of light. The pyramid of snowy cakes and the sparkling candies and brilliant Itults and tiny Dowers ana wreaius made a fairy scene. A burst of admiration went round the table. "Oh! It! oh! oh!" sounded froui one to another. They were too delighted to speak, when suddenly a scream % I jrafeuaGOGKe- : i brought everybody back from fairyland. It was Lily I*anchorne. "Tin* doll*! Oh. the dolls! where are the dolls? Oh! oli! oh!" Then every girl asked the same ijuestlon. except Lizzie Fllln. who shrieked, -Who did it? who did it?" And where were the dolls? There in ' the chair of each one sat a dirty rag doll with a black face and a woolly i head, wearing a red calico turban lu- ] stead of a wreath of roses. "It's Hal Stanley, hateful Hal Stan- j I I ?ndfo(nd]ll?y fi tbebofeclymA 1 ii> a mangtr. wmiig? C? X' $' [ '' A* ley!" screamed Lizzie Kl!a. i: "Hal Stanley!" echoed all the girls, i "We'll never speak to him again!" r During the excitement a servant y opened a closet door in a corner of the room. "Look hyali. Mlstis." called she to Mrs. Langhorne. "byah's de dolls. Fer 1 grashus sake, Jes look!" * And sure enough there hung the ? ilolls. The Parisian lady, witii her I bands tied behiud her liaek, was hang Ing from a poj:; the Spanish lady was ? jangling by her feet: the Switzerland * Lady was tied and gagged KO that she a could not Hpeak one word: and the In- c dies of ltnssia and Holland. Denmark and Sweden and Prussia were banging Id disgrace. Mrs. Langhorne's scissors out the gallows, and she handed to each girl her treasure. The line spangles and lace# had suffered front the execution, but the lady dolls were soon placed at the table and the rag dolls were Ihrown aside with contempt. "Your dolls are not (lend if they have been hanged." said Mrs. tanghorne. "They are as much alive as they ever ? were." 11 Sunshine followed the storm, and the 1 girls did enjoy tne remainder of the L evening. Nobody ever discovered who j I ?... Ttin . Iiaugl-u ?UC *M*- k?\'umruuau. J I Iihalll* !>? <! uctIon. , "I guess imw nnsu't got so uiwch . money this year," wiiil little brother, fs "What makes you think so?" asked c little sister. : "'Cause he was telling me thnt it i wasn't right to impos?* on Santa Clans ? just because the old feller was good- ] natured."?Indianapolis Journal. i Not > Kxhimllre TreallM>. 1 "And now." said the literary man ' who had earned $100 by a syndicate article on "What to lluy for CliriutinuH Presents,** "If 1 only knew what sort of a Christinas gift to get for my wife I should be perfectly happy."?Chicago Tribune. : - .. LcBiind of the Mlitlfto*, Christmas is never Christmas without (he holly wreath ami the mistletoe. Christians venerated the holly or hoiy tree because to them the little thorny leaves and red berriep made in a wreath typltied the crown of thorns and the bloody drops. Doubtless they introduced this solemn reminder sit the festival in order not to forget tie sai-redness of the occasion in the general festivities. The ntistle bush, mistletod?or mistletoe. as we know It?owes Its use ns a festal decoration to pagan times. According to the Scandinavian legend. Itaidur. the most 1h?Iov?i1 of all the ijods, bad a premonition that death linItended. Thereupon nis mother. Frigga. Iiesought everything that was begotten f earth, air, tire or water to swear not to harm her son. Hut in her request she overlooked the tiaicnirifiinr little mistletoe. I.oki. the ;<>?! of dostruetion. disguised as an old ivoman. visited Frljiira, and, learning ?f her overnight. hurried baek to whore flio gods were assembled. Thorp they avre amusing thenmelre* by hurling ill manner of missiles at Ilaldur, and ill were turned aside. But Lnkl with *.u arrow of mistletoe ptorced Baldur'a jeart. In reparation. the mistletoe was xlven to Frigga to do as she saw fit. provided it touehed not earth. And *he. to show that she bore no II! will, hung it up. and every one who lusted >e FUst CfrtUfi I - 1 'v i k V;?? Jvr *MttM 1mm* ^^ PSBH :.V .. JkHfttt*] ^i1 in dor it receive! a kiss as a token that. u*t<>ad of hatred aud Jealousy, the nistletoe uow st?>od for love aud for;i veness. Tbrlr ChrU'ina* Gifts. "I thought it l>etter to get you somehlug useful." .mid Mr. Du.?sill to hi* vife, 'No 1 have Imught you a couple >f good brooms for your Christmas ireseut." . "TJiai was very inougniiui 01 you. ny dear." replied Mrs. l'ossiil. "I bare your ideas. ami have l>ought you t good strong coal-scuttle for you to arry up fuel from the cellar in." An old Knglisb recipe for plum pudling is as follows: Mix together one iikI one-halt cupful* of currants that iavc liecti cleaned, washed and dried. ?!ie and one-half rupfuls of *totled aisins, one pouu?'? of suet. chopped Ine: tliree-MuarterH of a pound of stale read erumos. oue-<piarter of a pound f brown sugar, one-ipiarter of a |Niuud ?f flour. !?* grated rind of one lemon tud otn- half pound of uiiuecd candied range peel. Beat live eggs, not se|>iratine the whites and yolks, add one upful of liquid to them and mix thoroughly with the Other ingredients, [toil for six hours. When wautetl for use lm>11 six hours longer. When ready to serve, uumould, stick a sprig of [jolly in the centre, and wreath with I liaru buuuv. rt I. -rTifi iiTtf n-i . . f"~" M a k i n ^Cnristma^^ The difficulties of canity making have boon greatly exaggerated. Any on<? with a little patience can make very good confectionery. The easiest candies to make are those prepared from confectioners' sugar an?l egg*. The sugar Is of tine quality mixed with certain gums to give It consistency anil requires no troublesome boiling. hence its popularity. To make tbe candy from tbe *ugar, several eggs are broken and the whites are separated from the yolk*. The yolks may be set aside for use in some household operation, as only the whites ure needed for tbe candy. I'or a pound box of candy the whites of two eggs are about sufficient. Tbe whites are put in a cup and mixed with an equal quantity of water and about half a teaspoonful of extract of vanilla or whatever other flavoring extract Is to be used. The Pqn!d Is then gradually mixed with .be sugar ' until a paste of nbout the consistency . of dough has been made. Tbe compu?i * - f v HOni* A|^etlVth?? I tutor tuttyftbt ongdo I \ twltitudtoftbebeawn' \ I y b4ft vrai$iu$ Qe& \ Md faying, ; \ " |[5]loiy to 6*d itf the%b<ft.<*nd on eorrt> p??K44M4ttUI \l . ': ' toward met). . t . jf ! ! i^QDB H jEfljt vA j? Rj ; irr tohcn Jcfusi uras born in Qcthleb^m of Judea. w the days ci nerod the hing.txbcld J 4 ttere cctax iuife nun ( frcitf tlx to Jerufalewj. fljflttbca ?.1. \rr. sition 1m thoroughly worked together with a strong wooden or metal spoon of large size. A clean white cloth Is spread on the talile. The hands being thoroughly washed, a little butter?the unsalted kind hi lx>st?is spread upon the lingers, and the pleee* of candy are Worked into shape and placed lu a pan on a piece of oiled paper. The pan is tln-n put away until the randy hardens. Thexe candles mny ho colored brown hy mixing melted chocolate with the candy when the eggs and flavor are put in. The juice of spinach will impart a green that is a perfectly harmless coloring. The kernels of English walnuts placed on the top of the hit* of candj*. half a kernel to each piece, make deliclous confectionery. A sort of nougat can be made by slli Ins shelled English walnuts, j blanched almonds and clean white |m*u : nuts. The Hllces of nuts should !>? mixed with the sugar and eggs while still quite liquid, care being taken not I to break the nuts more than necessary. The substance Is then formed j Into Iwirs and set aside to dry and i harden. Chocolate creams may be made by ! taking the white sugar and whites o? I ...til til*. Ittn/mu ?if fmnilt* I lh-j little conns. These nre sot aside j fur several hours, or a day. to liarilen. i Some melted sweet ehoeolate is preI pared In a howl and each of the cones I Is taken up the point of a clean, new j hatpin which has lwen scoured with i sand snap before using and one hy one they are flipped Into the chocolate until they are thoroughly con ted. They are thru ranged on sheets of oiled paper ou buttered pans and left to ii:t rden. Cocoa mil candies may be made bv mixing shredded <wonnut with tb? sugar as the candy Is l?elng made. In order that a rainbow may be produced. the sun must not lie more than forty-two degrees above the bor!zoo. 4 - 1 9 GOOD 9^:\ ? ROADS. | Ghuttt la Baad Kaktag. fT> HEY bare been glow in comI ? Ing to tbls country, bat now I that tbey have started they are coiaing with a ruth. One of the latest States to adopt the money system of working the roads Is Iowa. Ia that Stnte there Is to be no more working out the tax by individual land owners. Everything la to be done by the money system. New York is fast working that wuj. Whole counties are leaving the old way and adopting the new. This change comes hard in some localities. The old men have for so many years looked forward to the time of working roads that they do not like to have It done away with. It has .been looked upon as a sort of picnic, a time when we can get together and talk over all oar own affairs and those of our neighbors. Everybody's business Is raked fore and aft at these annual gatherings. A little mud or loose earth Is hanled into the road?usually where It Is least needed?and the rest of the time Is spent sitting'under some tree or In the fence corner. True, a few districts have always done good. faithful work. All honor to tnose districts. They shall have all the credit doe them, bat we nil know, and they themselves know, that they are exceptions which prove the rule. Time and money enough have been wasted by men under the name of working on the road to put the highways of the State in first-class shape. But what are we getting In return? That is what troubles some incredulous souls. They are aiways suspicious of new things. They look on the new everywhere with doubt. So In the matter of the money system of working the hlghvays these men profess to see grave dangers. Some districts will be neglected. The work will lead to wholesale Jobbery. The highways will be no better than they used to be. It will cost more, and so on. ad infinitum. It most be Jjft largely to time to tell as what part of all these gloomy fore'bodings are to become true. It seems reasonable, hr.wever, to suppose that If. we elect honest men for highway commiss loners?and that we oaght always to do?the work will be done fairly and in the most workmanlike manner possible. It is true that not all honest men are competent to baild roads. We will doubtless soon see to It that there are schools under the supervision of the State in which practical roadmaking shall be taght We will also be more inclined than In the paat to keep' competent men in the office of highway, commissioner when once we have) fonnd them. The trend is in the right! direction, anyhow. Mistakes may bei made. We will profit by them and* gradually will come a perfect system.?. E. L. Vincent, in the New York Tri-: bane. Federal AM to Mm4*, The good roads movement that seem* to be going over the country Is one of the best signs of the times. It is, perhaps. a better evidence of real progress than industrial enterprise of any other,, character. ; When a community once gets well started In good road building It la very likely to keep It up, for every Advance on tills line gives a fresh object lesson of the practical value of good roads and tlie wastefulness of bad ones. For several years past a campaign of fiopular education on this subject bas been carried on in every section of tbe country by individuals and organizations. by newspapers and magasines. nnd to a very notable extent by the Federal Government through its admirably conducted Department of I Agriculture. The railroads have also j given it very valuable aid. This work has seemed in many localities to have j little effect, and there nas been much to discor?raffe those who have devoted I themselves to It. But they have kept bravely on. and now or all sides the fruits of their labors are beginning to appear. It is a safe prediction that there will be more miles of first-class roadway laid in the United States this year than in any previous year of our history. It has become much easier than it formerly was to interest the masses of the people, the farmers, the business men, men of property and pro| fessional men?the public generally?In this subject, which concerns us all and touches all our Interests. Interest in road improvement Is growing into enthusiasm for it as a larger proportion of the people are coming to appreciate Its importance and profitableness^ We are at the beginning of a great era of road building in this country, i which Is equivalent to saying that w? are making surer the way to the substantial development and progress of the country. . Representative Beldler, of Ohio, has introduced In Congress a bill which should receive the hparty support of men of all political opinions. It Is emphatically a measure for the ' advancement of the public welfare; it Is hard to conceive one that would better deserve that title. .The Beldler bill prorides for the as? /innrcnMnn rnnrPftPIltlntf the War Department, Postofflce Department, Agricultural Department. Interior Department of the Federal Government, aa well as every State and Territory in the Union. Such n convention would be composed largely of men who liave made a special study of the construction and , care of road?. From It wj might therefore reasonably expect reeom- ( inemlations that would lie of immense value to Congress, the State Legislatures and county boards in their legislative and administrative provisions for i roml wort. Th? convention might also lay the 1 basis of a national good roads policy that would benefit the country quite as much as the Government's labor ami t expenditure for river aud harbor improvement. I The Bcidler bill is one of the most i practical and promising measures that rnncrAfitt III a 1 loug time.?Atlanta (<?a.| Journal. 1 Tho Moit Vulntble Stntnr. 1 The most valuable statue in thfe * world Is that of the soil Diubutsu. in Yokohama. Japan, ft is ??3 1*2 feet' high, weighs 4HQ tons and contains ^ 600-pound weight of pure gold ' MUCH POVERTY IN EUROPE !n the Unilai Kingdom There An 530,000 Psrions Unemployed. Bn*lai 8imU Filled With Pick Md Itartiif-BliUr Cold la Gtrmuy Add* to Suffering?5?w?dUh Crops Fall. London.? It In long since the London theatres and restaurants hare expe- j rienced as profitable a season aa the present. The West End is ablaze with light nightly, all the amusement place* are crowded, and theatre supper parties keep the fashionable hotels and restaurauts bus./ until long after midnight. Id tbe meantime. If Is estimated tbat 500.000 persons are idle in tbe kingdom. and tbe Board of Trade returns show tbe largest percentage for ten years past of unt killed persons out of work, while tbe proportion of skilled men without employment is constantly growing. Tbe Woolwich Arsenal authorities hare discharged 2000 mechanics since tbe winter set In. and are preparing to let out 4000 more. To tbe great number of persons out of work ? * Ka n .J ?lrwl AAA MAmiiaM A# uiuai uc uuucu w*?,wv uicujmi a w* Army Reserve, who have been released from service with tbe color*. The worst distress, naturally, is visible in tbe East End. Several of the newspapers have started subscriptions and dally print harrowing stories of half-clad school children, many of whom are without any food, except scanty luncheons furnished by sym? pathetic teachers. Several of tbe London Suburban Councils are starting public works In order to employ a small proportion of the Idle persons. The Canning Town suburb, where the distress is keenest, has appropriated $50,000 for relief work. 8t. Petersburg. Bttssia.?Lack of employment is causing unprecedented distress In tbe Interior of Russia. In Saratoff. as a fair example of tbe prevailing conditions, workmen eagerly accept about seventeen cents a day. hosts of beggars literally Invade the ulirvnn An<l k/tifjAe an/1 fhn mtWAtktm bva PIIU|FB fit ill UUUOCOI uuu IUC nu ft in MIC rilled with sick and starring people. Similar pitiful details come from other interior cities. Berlin. Germany.?The bitterly cold weather which prevails throughout i Germany has caused various municipalities to vote contributions in aid of the unemployed. Dresden has just voted $23,000 for this purpose. Stockholm. Sweden.?The crops In the northern district of Sweden and in a part of Delecarlla have failed entirely owing to the cold, wet summer, and collections are being made in all cities and towns by banks, corporations and. private individuals for the renei or ue nunvn. rniai mr conn try. especially from Scania, large quantities of supplies are sent daily to the distributing committees. The railroads carry these supplies free of charge. The members of the royal family are deeply Interested, and arc lending their aid to the relief movement MUTINY AND MURDER AT SEA. CapteJa Waaadcd and Mate Kilted?1U altera Urn Skip aa a Baft. Queenstown.?Captain Beattie of the British ship Leicester Castle, which sailed from San Francisco July 26 for Qaecnstown and which has Just arrived at Liverpool, reports a mutiny in the South Pacific on September 0. Three Americans, Ernest Sears, James Turner snd a man of the name of Hobbs, shipped on the vessel at San Francisco. At midnight on the night mentioned Sears, who was on deck, called the Captain from bis cabin and said a man bad fallen from the foreyard. The Captain hailed the second mate and told him to bring the injured man in. * While the Captain was giving this order Seaman Hobbs shot him twice, i one bullet striking the Captain over i (lie ueurt. nuuua uicu iuicc uuis shots after tbc Captain, who ran ou 1 deck. The second mate, who beard the { noise, ran to tbe Captain's assistance, > ivhereupon Hobbs shot him dead. Hobbs wounded tbe Captain Ave j times. Hobbs, Sears and Turner then i left the Teasel on a raft. They were | located for several hours in the dark* j ness, bnt when daylight came they j were lost to view. It is believed they Intended to make for Pitcairn Island, j They may have perished, as they bad j only a week's provisions with them. ; It is supposed tb/1 tbe object of tbe j men wat? to pluuder tbe vessel. The Captain recovered from his wounds \ during tbe voyage. DEATH OF THOMAS NAST. The Coiisal-General at flnijaqail t VIctJm of Yellow F?f?r. Guayaquil, Ecuador.?Thomas Nast, tbe Consul-General of tbe United i States in this city, died from yellow fever, after an Illness of three days. Mr. Nast's body was buried Ave hours after bis death. The funeral was attended by the Governor, the ! members of the Consular Corps and the i American Colony and by many friends. The coffin was wrapped In the Stars ; and Stripes. The British Consul recited a prayer at the cemetery. The death of Mr. Nast Is deeply lamented by the natives, who held him In high esteem. Thomas Nast, artist and caricaturist, was born on September 27. 1840. at Lnndau. Bavaria. He was educated In the United States, where he aleo studied art. He soon acquired a repu- ' tatlon as a talented artist, but it was as a cartoonist that he was best ( known. He was regarded as one of the most brilliant of caricaturists. i Job* Ban-aft MfnUtrr to Japia. It wan formally announced at the While House, at Washington, that John Barrett, of Oregon, former Minister to Slam, and at present World's [ Fair Commissioner to Asia and Aus- j trnlh, has been appointed .Minister to , Ja|>an to suececd A. E. Buck, of Georgia. deceased. King Golnr lo Irrliml. The Lord Mayor of Belfast has announced that Kin? Edward and Queen Alexandra would visit Ireland in the parly part of 1!XW. Labor World. Iron and ste?l workers at Wilmington. Del., bare organized a union. Cleveland. England, miners have ! In'rit granted an Increase in wages of ! three i?er cent. The Russian Government has instl luted an etsiit-liour uay 111 an iuc Slate workshops. I Belgian miners hnve resolved to rerommeure an agitation for an advance Lit fifteen per cent. Hnftiucers iu South Africa average lis. -id. per day, and the hours of labor vary from forty-eight to dfty-four ? week. ../ v < i. THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Tfca QimIIwi of iMbrMy ~m the KtV York In Smi ft-Tb* Mom Kilua Bmww It rrovidM OnlltoUM Tor tbo Appetite Tor AImImU* Matilatlw At a discussion of the question of "The Saloon, Its Function and Perils," by clerical and lay philosophers, in New York, a clergyman of Pittsfield in Hassacbnsetts, the Rev. Raymond Calkin*, m imported to have made these rather surprising remarks: "The saloon is ministerinit to (be social instinct of the people and tiiat is why it exercises its mysterious and powerful in* | fluence in every community. It is an inI formation bureau, it is a labor bureau, a I postoffice, a place of recreation, amuse* ment and fellowship. "Picture the condition of a young laboring man alone in the city. As be goes to his room in his boarding bouse, past dark ana gloom/ cnurcnes. ne rind* one aoor opens to bun, and be finds justifkition for oekinc hia amusement in the saloon in the cold and uninterested attitude of oar Chriatian society." The influence ezerciaed by the drinking saloon in evenr community ia not at all "mysterious," Mr. Calkins, but ia due to a cauae which has always been apparent. The saloon exists because it provides gratification for the appetite for alcoholic stimulation, an appetite which baa been Cwerful from the time when Noah, after iding from the ark. "began to be a hue* bandman," "planted a vineyard," and "drank of the wine and was drunken." Neither in Pittsfiekl nor in New York do people go to a saloon to get information or to obtain labor, to post their letters, or simply for recreation, amusement and fellowship. They go to it to get a drink. At a great part of the bars the customers tarry only long enough to pour down their dose* of liquor, thougn at me Deer garaens apirit of sociability may prevail. The great and primary attraction at all ia the ? stimulant. Neither ia the Rev. Mr. Calkina joatified in. attributing the tendency to frequent saloon* to the defaultof churches and Chmtiana. No "young laboring man alone ia tlie city" ia driven to the saloon by their niiglect to exercise the influence proper to them, and none will make that excuse for going to a drinking place unless be ia seeking to manufacture a pretext for gratify* / irg his appetite. Nothing except hie desire for a drink ia responaible for hie coarse. How to find Ma substitute for the saloon" waa a question much discussed at thia conference. Such a substitute, it seems from statistics gathered by Dr. Crothers, baa been found by frreat numbers of people in the secret use of morphine, and m mm mMirin* UUm from victims of the habit which confirm hi* observation and conclusion that it is widespread, sll of them being from men for above the averace in intelligence. It is demonstrated that when the appetite for artificial stimulation u thwarted in one direction it may be diverted to another and a still more dangerous and pernicious form of indulgence; that frequently men and women who detest alcoholic drunkenness (sll a pray to an infinitely worse intoxication. The core for the influence of the saloon which seems so "mysterious" to the Pittsfield clergyman is not in improving drinking places so as to make them more desirably efficient in "ministering to the social instinct of the peonle," but in controlling the appetite for stimulants to which they, minister, first of all. 80 long as that appetite is left unrestrained the evil results, whether there are or are not saloons at which to gratify it. A drunkard does not need to go to a saloon to get drunk. He can keep the stuff at home. The strictest abstainer from alcohol may secretly keep a hypodermic syringe with which to inject morphine into nis system, to his utter undoing. The question of inebriety is rery much larger than the saloon question.? New York Sun. Dtlakla* Vnm "Drinking in England is alarmingly oa the increase among women of the wealthy and leisure class, says Lady Henry Somerset in "The Story of Our Farm" in the North American Review. "Women in inMmtl* rMnteUbla iwniHrnn |R COU tinually convicted of drunkenness, until it mar be truly said that scarcely a family exists but has some record of the hideous disease. I remember standing once in front of a public bouse with an American who, when she saw respectably clad women entering it, asked, 'Are you going to hold there a crusade meeting? It seemed to her inconceivable that women were going into the public house to drink, but to ns it has become commonplace." Had the American kept her eyes open at home she might hare been less shocked abroad. Women in America do not frequent public houses, that is, barrooms. But to semi-public retreats our women flock in alarming numbers. Hotel cafes, so called tea rooms dressmakers' parlors and "beauty shops" are the resorts of laipe numbers of American women who drink at all times of day or night all sorts of intoxicants. Women of position, of refinement snd of home training may be found to-day in popular resorts who fire or ten years ago would, hare lost social caste had they been seen drinking an in toxicant in a public place, especially wnen unaccompanied bj husband, father or brother. "I hold bridge whist responsible for much of the drinking to-day among women who reallv ought to know better," said a man. "All day they are shopping or doing teas, receptions and calls. Most of the night, after a heavy dinner, is spent at the whist table. Haggard, worn out with the excitement of the game, with nerves upset by losses, the women turn to a highball or cocktail. Finding momentary strength, they grow to depend upon these artificial means to pull them through a New York season."?New York Press. Vonl W*j to right Bam. A new and practical arrangement for providing masons and other building labor* era, coachmen, errand boys, policemen' and others with cheap food and non-alco* bohc annua naa oeen cauea imo unn| bj the Berlin section of the German Society for Popular Hygiene. At stated hours special carts pan* through the street* and dispense sandwiches, bread and butter, the sausages so dear to the German palate, tea, cocoa, coffee and soup, all at u the lowest possible prices. f ??? f - No." ' On the cornerstone of that fabric which we entitle manhood is engraved the mono* syllable "No." He who early learns tit* use of that inva'tuble word has already learned the way to peace and comfort ana safety. An easy compliance frustrate* everything. Respect for others need not degenerate into servitude, but resiiect for one*elf? that is the very alpha and omega of all inward command. Th? Crusade In Brief. Pan Francisco is credited with baring one saloon for every twenty-two it dull male inhabitant*. The Church Temperance Society sends a coffee van to the great tires in New York City, that the firemen may obtain the refreshment they sorely need without recourse to the saloon. The r.-port from I'ekin is that the Chine<e authorities have ordered all foreign suiocnkeercru to close their saloons and to leave the city within three days, thereby removing from the city one disgrace to Western civilization and a hindrance to minion work. Measures to promote temperance in Swiss town* arc impeded by -Ji:c fact that in marly all hotel* and restaurants guest* are cijiected to drink wine or beer. Three African monarch*. Fnipcror Mcnehk Km^ l>ewanika and Kmc hhaiuo, have barred the entrance of drink mtft their territories. Thus the war against lukallff ! ?twl till. iiitlitcnrii licntticas are tearhiag civilized European* valuable Icsmim in wmc government. In accepting nomination for the Mayoralty of Shellichl, Kn^!an<l, Aldrrniaa J. Wyciitfe \\ linoa liaa stipulated tL.it a? Ilia total abstinence and non-ansokmc; principles are well known, hm co'league* r.iunt not expect him to make provi*iou in theiw directions in a>y Iiomi^i'itiea tlir'. uuy U!:.* if he i& c*?c terti. *' ' v