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| AT THE SUMMIT. B He started when the days were fair ? And all the slopes were glad and green. 8 .When all the world was free from care If And peace spread over every scene, W "To reach a goal that hope had set I ' Far. far ahead upon a height. L An!, bearing al) the foea he met V | Kept on the way with all his might He found a thousand cares that he ! Was forced to bear along the way, : But tore smiled on him joyously * And journeyed with hia day by day; New hopes succeeded those that died And little triumnh* made him glad. ' And men who fell' behind him sighed To have such blessings aa he had. At b??t. one dar he reached the Roal, * 80 high, no distant at the start, Bat joy came not to till hi* aouI. Kay. there *u sorrow in hi* heart; Tb?* plact was high that he had won And ?UI1 a *nlendid place and fair-* But after all hi* work tra* done. He tamed to find hi* rival there. ?. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald. A MODERN CINDERELLA Ifec Slary if tk? PriflM VM Vm Hir. L L JT AMMA. mamma, what |\ /[ do you think." cried I ? / I I ?<U Shmrf m ahe 1 V 1 ? ? ? rushed into the room where her mother sat. with flushed cheeks and dishevelled hair. "1 have found two tickets for the ball to-morrow uigbt?no name or anything on them by which I could trace the owner?and oh, mamma. I want to use ? them; I want to go!" "But, my dear." expostulated Mrs. 8tuart, aa Lyda paused breathlessly. x ""how?M | "Why, you kept one or two of mj evening gowns, you know, mother. Ud I am sore the white one Tvould do beautifully. and Tom is still quite pre eotnble la his dress suit, even if it 1a too tight?and here are the tickets, m why not? The only thing ia that I want yon to go. too, darling." with an pmnhatlc kiss on her mother's 1vCCCK? "I should not care in the least about It dear, aod am afraid you will be disappointed." "Oh. I kaow I than be la It. and not ?f It but that does not matter. I shall enjojr watching ft all and bearing tbe music. 1 nay combine business with pleasure, too. mamma, by getting some , new ideas for my skqfrhes." "We will see what your brother says, ear." Mrs. Stuart answered. She would have beea.4oath. indeed, jba deprive this daughter of bers of any pleasure that might come In ber way. for in the reverses that bad fallen on ( tbe family since Mr. Stuart'* death, ! L his wife's greatest grief bad been for Ij la. The diaaater had come on the | tYMj ere of her coming out. and erer j aUtte they left their beautiful English Imm and came to this big, seething, lonely American city, Ljda had worked atwartfly at illustrating. Now ahe waa making a success at It. had there waa also beginning to be quite a demand for her dainty watercolor work. When Tom came home Lyda immediately pounced upon him and related her Wonderful news. He readily agreed to take her. hot he warned her that they would not ha likely to meet any of their few acquaintances, and that, therefore, ahe would hare to be Kitlafled to dance with him or be simply a spectator at her first balL The next day they acauned the papers for some mention of the tickets, hot none appeared, so they felt Justified in nstnf them. That night Lyda waa sll excitement. The white gown had required very little alteration, and aa Mrs. Stuart put the finishing touches to her daughter's toilet she frit rery pardonable motherly pride In her. ?? hi.. ?- nu_ vt r ?>i. nun uu juu Wv ujr, lum; ujun I asked. at aha entered the little sitting K room. S| Ton whistled. "By Jove!" he eject* lated aa he gaied at the picture framed In the doorway. She laughed happily, fly taking innocent pleasure in his aaton? tshed admiration. MI knew you were good-looking. KB Lyda. but you're quite too stunning fto-night; Isn't she. mother?" V . "She does look pretty, but we must jg not turn this bright little head with 9 toe much flattery. Remember it is 1 only for one night.** Mrs. Stuart an - ' awercd. a little sadly. H Tom wished that his own bead were Be a trifle steadier. It had !>een achiuz SI most fearfully all day. but he would Ink not say a word to mar Lyda's pleasure flV or to cauae his mother any anxiety. He frit rewarded for the effort he oH had made when he saw how much Lyda enjoyed her novel experience. HB in listening to ber bright coinH^Lpients on the glittering panorama. Tom feared that dancing might tax hia powers of endurance too far. and SB jras wondering what escuse to make WMAo Lyda, when a hearty voice exn^H MWhv If It (iftt't Trtm Slit. I art!" Ami a friend from their native land shook him vigorously by the hand. Lyda was soon gliding around wit If jhii friend of her childhood. 8b?? naively explained to him how they happened to be at the ball, so he took great pains to introduce his frieuds. and after that she did not lack for partners. Flushed and happy, she finally went la prepare for her home-jrolng. When she emerged from the cloak room Ahe ex ected to find Tom waiting for her. but be was nowhere to tie seen, and ahe stood rather nervously watching for him. As shs looked rather anxiously sbout for her brother she happened to encounter the gase of a man who stood near her. He was distinguished lookT ?r?A Kail ?iA#t?ail him aav^vnl I tim** during the evening, secretly sriabinf; that she might have met him. f As she looked op be teemed to realize that he had been staring at her, for be started a little and turned away. Lyda did not know what to do. ? -1J V# * ?! AMA A# iflfwre CVU4U A vua Uv S It VUi/ vuc VI the ncen she had met would pass that .way. Her trepidation Increased. Noticing this, the man, who waa still covertly watching her, approached. "Can I be of any assistance to your* fee asked courteously; "perkspa I could ibid the person yon were looking for 7' . "It Is agr brother," Lyda half gasped, raisiag a pair of very frightened bine jgriia. Meeting his kindly, encouraging fe- .. "I thought be won Id bo here, ami cannot understand what keep* him. Ah. there ho is! Thank you ko much." as Tom hurried to her. looking very white. "Why. Tom. what i* the matter?" she questioned auxiously. noting his pallor. Hugh Thurston stepped aside, wish* ing devoutly that "Tom" had not ap- , pea red quite so soon. Of course, he w?* clad that the sister's anxiety was relieved, but he very much wanted to know who she wan. ! "Why. I had a sort of giddy, faint spell, little girl,"Torn explained hastily. "My head has bothered me all day. Awfully worry?hope you have not l?een frightened." "I was rather, but it'* no matter. I am so sorry you are ill; why didn't you say so, and we could have gone home sooner? ThJs gentleman"?nodding towards Thurston?"had just of? fered to go iu search of you." Tom turned to Thurston and thanked him briefly, explaining his own delay. Lyda bowed a slight acknowledgment an they passed. but something in bis eyes as they met hers made her heart give a sudden bound and brought a ! deeper flush to her cheeks. "Who on earth ran she be?" Thurston | wondered. Evidently they had not j come In a carriage, for she wore a hat, | and a dart ulster bid her ball gown, ! and he know from her accent that she : was Engliiih. Looking down, he saw a little gold pin lying in the corner where she had < stood whilie waiting for ber brotuor. I Picking It up. be hurried downstairs and searched the corridor for her. but [ she was nowheres to be scorn . Thurston started to take tbe pin to the desk, but he changed his mind and tucked It away in hl? card case. Then he went back to the ballroom and tried to find out who she was. But no one seemed to recognise bis description. In such a crowd, in fact, there were many who might have answered to it, so Thurston was forced to leave with* out obtaining any clew to her identity. He marveled at tbe depth of the Impression that thla girl's face had made upon him. His wealth and good looks won him so much favor among women that he had come to regard them with great indifference. He lnaerted an advertisement con cernlng the pin, but uo answer ever came, and be strove to forget the owner, but many times the blue eyes seemed to look at him through the smoke rings, or come unbidden between him and a printed page. The day after the ball, poor Tom iras In a raging fever, and the weeks which followed were anxious ones indeed in the Stuarts* little home, for Tom had a bad ense of typhoid. | Their small savings dwindled rapid* ly. and Lyda worked incessantly to renew resources. Mrs. Stuart be-aoie so worn by her vigill at the sick boy's side, that the doctor feared that she, too, would be attacked by the disease. Lyda. worrying about ber mother, grieving because she thought that she liad aggravated Tom's Ulnesa by taking him to tha ball, and working even harder than usual, had grown thin and pale, and there were heavy c.'rcles under the blue eyes. One afternoon, as she was doggedly ! putting the finishing touches to some ' dinner cards that were to be called for ' that day, the bell rang. "Come In." Lyda called softly, thinking it was tbe doctor. "Go right in. doctor," she added, without turning her head. She wan not willing that he should see the traces of tears that would brim orer occasionally and impede her progress. "I beg pardon, but my sister sent me for the cards." said a voice that was certainty not tbe doctor's. She rose quickly. "Oh, pardon me," she exclaimed, then stopped short as she recognized her "ball man," as she bad mentally termed him. Hugh Thurston started eagerly forward. "You!" he cried, with a glad ring in his voice, "yon!?I have so often tried to find you since the ball. But, child." taking ber hand gently in his as be saw her pale cheeks and tired eyes, "what have they done to you?" Tbe cheeks became so crimson and tbe eyes so wide with astonishment that he came suddenly to himself and dropped her hand. "Of course, you don't understand." he explained rather lamely. "You've probnhlT m>vpr crivpn rop n thoupht" The blue eyes were suddenly veiled. "You didn't leave any slipper behind that I might know of but?I found your pin after you had goue. and I wanted to Qnd the owner." He li.td pulled out big card ease while he wan speti k'nj and uow be handed tfce pin?a lover's knot with a diamond centre?to her. "Bnt it is not mine." she said, looking up with a demure little smile. "Isn't It?" he asked surprisedly. "It doesn't matter, though"?somewhat irrelevantly?"for I've done better thin tlnd the 'owner'?I've found the princess." and as their oyes met, the princess knew that the prince had come.?New York News. Oldnt Htxapkoit. A curiosity of gr.*at antiquity is to be seen within St. Andrew's Church at YVilloughton, near Gainsborough. England. This is a quaint speaking trumpet with an obscure early history, dating back to the times of the Knights Templar. In shape it resembles a French horn and is more than fire feet long, having a bell at the end of the graduated tube. It was formerly six feet In length, but Is now telescoped at the joints, where the metal has apparently decayed, j Tradition declares It was formerly sounded from the tower to summon aid in cane of need. It is believed that this curious instrument has often been used to cull together the villagers, thus dispensing with the usual bell, and to give additional power and strength to the choir, being then probably used by the chief singer, as the trumpet intensifies vocal sound to a marked degree. It Is called a vamp born and there are only about six of them In existence. These mediaeval megaphones magnify the voice two or three times. Churches at Braybrook and Harrington have vamp horns. In the early part of the last century the sexton of Braybrook Church used to go around the village oa Sundays to tommoa with the vamp horn people to attendance at the services.?Chicago News. 4 The Ancient Rnias of f ? Palenke. jt;; LBy Enos Brown. J jj A TRAVELER who recently c, visited tbe famous ruins at m Palenke, State of Chiapas. t( Mexico, laments the changes Q wbich time and the elements are grad- ^ uaily making In their appearance and 4j i^n.lUlni. Kntlilmr li-ia uvor hiaCn ilnno V.VHU I l Mill. liuilllllh IIII. I I III IJLLII LIU IM. ? by the Federal Government to preserve # these Impressive monuments of the ' highly eultured race who constructed them, and of whose history and origin ^ but little is known. The climate of the T region in which the ruins are situated t( lis the direct opposite of that of Egypt, { Inasmuch as the rainfall at Palenke g tins been known to amount to 200 ^ inches n year. The air is humid and p 'encourages decay, and at the same time stimulates the rapid growth of g the vines and creeping plants, which 'SSfSsS; d ^Vjj |j| * ('''Lj 9 n '_:> Is 3III&: ? ? ' 'J; ^ 5**' r [jw#2 a CABVIKO FBOX THK RCIMS OF PALINKI arc dlalntegratlng the wall# and pare* nieuta and will eventually level them to the ground. So dense la the foliage surrounding the ruin* that light from the sun la almost totally obscured. The photographer who was employed by the Mexican Government to take pictures of the ruins could accomplish his object In some, instances only by means of a flash light. The ruins of Palenke arc about 200 miles from the port, of Frontera, and are reached by steamer op the Tabasco River to San Juan Bautista and thence by trail. The group all lie within a radius of 2000 feet, and consist of nine distinct structures, of which the "palace" Is the largest and most central. The ruined buildings consist of temples, pyramids, aqueducts and edifices whose purpose Is not yet ascertained. j The temple Is the largest of all. aud | upon it the ancient builders lavished I all their art. It includes a court and balconien. as well as great corridors in ' which tablets in bass-relief are fast- * ened Into tue walls. Sculptures repre- 1 seating battle scenes and events of the 5 nation's life are carefully depicted. From them the physical characteristics and domestic habits may be correctly ascertained. The. dimensions of the "palace" are great. Its length Is 238 feet, and breadth 180 feet, and it Is elevated on a mound 310 feet long. 200 , feet wide and forty feet high. The material used was stone, many blocks oif prodigious size being used, and all joined together with mortar. As great architectural ability was displayed by the builders of the edifices at Palenke as was shown by the architects who erected those of the Nile. How it was possible for a primitive people to fashion. convey and sculpture such Immense stones as were emnloyed is the wonder of modern archaeologists. It would seem that the same people were the builders of these structures found j at Mllta, Mayapan, Tula, ns well as at L Palenke. a rare which covered Yucatan and the Southern States of Mexico g with mighty temples. s A French scientist with a lively lm- c agination and unusual powers of observation credits the Toltecs" wl*l? ; building these ancient temples, and f fixes the sevnth century as the period ; THE ' of tbclr erection, but these confident assertions are doubted. Others place t the era in which they were built as 1 early as the date of the pyramidn of I Egypt However, it seems to be proved ] beyond a doubt that many centuries ' . - - - n-|lT.-??rtMt??? 1- . I efore the dlSi?overy of America these uins were In existence. It I# not beeved thnt Cortex or those with him new of the Paknke ruins, though list conqueror must have been close > them at one time. European* first eard of them in 1750, but it was not ntll 1787 that they were explored, he key unlocking the mysteries hiden In the hieroglyphics which are arved on hundreds of tablets may ome time be discovered, and the his>ry of a great race of people and their rlgln foe known, but their successors rbo now Inhafoit the region have no radltions that can aid the inquirer. The ruins of Palenkc should be preprved. and the Mexican (Jorerntuent we that much to the world. If It were ossible to clear the tlmfoer away and estroy the growth of vines which is ipldly overwhelming them, these inerestlng relics might be saved for the uture. They have so far resisted the ffectsof time and physical convulsion. at must eventually succumb to tbe easeless, persistent and sdent assnulta f an overwhelming tropical growth.? cientitle American. A NEW BANANA. i Strang* Be* Interesting Product ot the EmL A new banana has recently been deeribed by Mr. Fleteher. of the Botanic rardens. at Hongkong. Tbe seeds of bis plane, which is known as the Elephant's Head." were obtained by Mr. Wilson in Yunnan In 1800. The eeds were planted In the Hongkong ardens in 1800 and three plants grew, wo of which still live and thrive. It i cultivated by tbe natives for the in er portion of tbe trunk, whica u sed a* food. The plants are from en to twelve feet high, with about a oxen leaves each. It is a highly ornanental species, with broad, arching ?aves, ten or twelve feet long. Tbe runk is conical. The fruit is clubhaped, of a golden yellow color, and bout four inches long. They contain n an average twenty seeds Imbedded / 4 TBS BLKPDAVT'fl BKAO. a a sweet pulp very similar in tu?t? o that of an ordinary banana. Tbli lew plant has boon named In honor of tg discoverer. Musa Wilson!. Tomb ?f f'reildcnt Arthur. T Tbe monument at tbe grave of Che* er A. Arthur. In Rural Cemetery, AI iany. New York, Is In tbe form of at ingel placing a palm leaf on a sarco ibagus. It la a beautiful piece ol iculpture. At the base there appeart .uly the simple Inscription. "Arthur.* Somehow or other a girl with bei irxt diamond ring loses all interest it lloves. ~ ?p ; : Jj : ' v v'' "' .'^ '.. vHQfeBQk VV 1 jj^r.^ ^^wy5||i fTHjfcjSW (jSSBpj RUINED TEMPLE OF PALENK.1 It is not llkelj that English oceai steamers will soon be built longer that [he latest specimens. No ship of mor< fKnn 71A foaft ??fln wapIt In tha I.IVPf IUUU IWV Itcv V?U "Vim iu vuv v. pool docks, and In the London docks roo feet i? the limit -J, - ^Y . .< 'i, ?#'&j ^ . - JU . K_2 IE* Oldest Man in the World 157?and H? Has Documents < to Prove It. Undoubtedly tbe oldest man In tbe I world, and probably tbe oldest human < being, is Manuel del Valle. of Menlo i *5 P^^lsRMBflil^^HSlhrilMiM^' /# ^ ~>>c^^BHB88K^r5||Bi^sj|Bij^^BMF " a ^ ^ ffllBM ! ^1 MANUEL DEL V. Park, Cal. He naa reached the age of 157 year*. He has legal proof of hi* age. Id at nemom living beyond tbe hundred mark who have attracted public attention there bai been grave doubt aa to tbe year of tbeir birth. Belief in their age is based upon the!t own stories or on hearsay. Manuel del Valle's proof is documentary. He has in bis possession the certificate of bis birth, signed by the ( jefe politico, or chief magistrate of: Zacatecas, Mexico. The certificate. ' which shows that 'del Voile was born In Zacatecas on November 24, 1745, Is supplemented by tbe records of tbe Mexican customs service, in which he served for many years. Were It not for these Indisputable > proofs it would scarce be believable i that a human being could have reached f the age of 157. At the time Del Vallc was horn George Washington was only thirteen years old. This living man was ten earn old when tbe French and Indian war began. He was a grown man of twenty wben tbe battle of Bunker liill was fought. He wag already an old man when Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, being then sixty-five years old. Del Valle was 101 years old at tbe beginning of tbe Mexican war. He retired from active business nineteen years before that, having then reached tbe age of elgbty-elght. He wag twenty years a customs official at Ensenada. Lower California. From 1814 to 1845 be acted as supernumerary in tbe Franciscan mission at . San Quentin. Lower California, tbe . first mission bullying to be established i on tbe Pacific coast, and which is now . In ruins. j In 1845. when be was just 100 years , old. Del Valle came with relatives to ' what Is now Ran Francisco in a vessel that sailed around Cape Horn. He * bn* lived in Menio Park since then I and has occupied tbe same room. Ills | grpat-grandn??phew. Jose del Valle. wbbbsskb E. i looking after the truck farm that supi ports the family. ? Manuel del Valle looks his great age. He is a little, dried-up, frail man, i scarcely five feet tall and weighing not more than ninety pounds. He la attll IIMIMII . able to walk without as*lstatice and 5 take* a daily stroll about bin house He haft not been more tban two block* away from it in thirty y??ar*. He can m*e but little, but be bears fairly well He np >aks Kugiisb brokenly, but un lerataiul* it well. He nev??r was much interested in the big event* of tb* trorld. He says be has never used liquor nor tobaceo. Furthermore be declare* that he never ban wet hi* feet nor been out In a frost, apparently i r tSTT minvMHHi ILLK, AGED 157. . holding these things to be equally abominable. He never eats solid food, his only nourishment being bean broth, and all day long he sits in the sunshine In front of his adobe home.?New York World. KsmMkabl* Flahlne Boats. This photo was taken at Pacasmayo. on the coast of Peru, and shows some remarkable fishing-boats constructed entirely of bundles of reed* tied rough ly together. TUeso arc u*eu oy me | uatires who lire ou the coast. The i I . - . | >Mmk > f^i^B ::V: w^&W' MH8By jWtj^B&y I | ^Blv. '-'^y. I ^^MR?^| m fiJS v I^SHkw^BSi TUS "BOATS" OP THE PI8QB.XUB.V OF PACA8MAT0, PIBC, COXSIHT OF BCXDLU or BKBDS TLED UODOHLT TOOKTHJtB. | fisherman kneels or fits astride the ' broad end and used n thin paddle. J These boats, which enn l>e launched j through very rough surf, were probably used by the Indians many years before the Spanish conquest. In the accompanying photograph wo see tbem being dried, a most necessary process ; after they have been made use of for Ashing purposes,?The Wide World Magazine. Th? Hewitt Lamp In England. The remarkable mercury vupor lamps devised by Mr. Peter Coo|?er Hewitt | are now bting exhibited :it the ollices ' of the Westiughouse Company. The** lamps can he run off any ordinary continuous-current electric light supply -in .1 ? system, ami hijow uu euicn-ui-jr m mu to three rawllri per watt, or for tlie same lighting require only about oneninth the current taken by ordinary glow lamps. The sol?> drawback to the light lie* iu its extraordinary color. There is it total absence of all red rays, and consequently all tints red by ordinary light are curiously perverted. A lady's lips look purple; so that at present no attempt is being made to utilize the light for domestic purpose*, as; feiuiniut- opposition would be too j strong. In other cases, however, the llplit has very strong advantages. It is statinl that It is an excellent light to work by. and this we can well believe ?Loudon Engineering. mart l)n( 8a*d Troubl*. The following incident occurred while the writer was a student in the Philadelphia Normal School. The j teacher of drawing there was extreme- j ly anxious thut the girls should do imaginative worn. She requested them to make a drawing to illustrate a story in which a dog aud a tree were the principal factors. One bright young lady finished hot work aud then sat very complacently waiting for her criticism. Presently Miss Campbell appeared, aud as xlie , looked upon a beautifully finished drawing of a tree she said: '"Very good, but wliere Is the dog?" "The dog." exclaimed the young lady. "Oh, he's behind tbc tree."?Philadelphia Ledger. All the world lores a lover except the fellow who baa been cut out IM? * 11 THE GREAT DESTROYER - _ '?> ) ? V SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Poaru: Baity'* Bit of Blo??It U CitimtM That Fifty p?r CfBt of tk? TuM Co to Support the 9alaoa Victims?Crlxao'a OtnHli la Lienor. Ons night within our Temperance Hall* men both of mark and mind. Were teaching *o?pe] temperance truth*, in word* lioth wiae and kind. The people ?r.t in hreathleaa crowd*, by love of Qoxpel brought; They listened with attentive cars to truths by Christians taught. : f A drunkard's wife amid tint throng had donned a bit of blue; Ah! she from drink had suffered, so all ita horrors knew. She thought that her example might o'er John some hold obtain, That when he saw her wear the bine ha would from drink abstain. Alas, alas! her hones were vain, and doomed to fly distressed, For when the husband saw the blue ha tore it from her breast. To him it was a stern reproach, and solemn words it said; He could not look upon that bine and hold an upright head! The badge of blue fell to the ground, where, in thin rags arrared. The drunkard's sick and only child with broken playthings played. The Imby clutched the bit of blue, it mid her playthings hid, And listened trembling to the oaths with which her father chid. Her thoughts were deeper than her years, she knew the meaning then, She thought: "I father wore this bine he'd never drink again!" To her the drink m^nt oaths and blows, and hunger, want and dread; While keeping from the public hotij? meant j?eace and clothes and bread. And babv kept the treasure blue after thai stormy night; And none beheld the badge until she'd faded from their sight. For hunger dire wroufht fatal work, ifc made her fade and sink. She was a martyr to the cup, and murdered by the drink. She'd starred and pined, while day by day the landlotd had hur share; To her the crumbs his table lost had been a* "prince's fare." Her father's heart was not all atone, some bitter tears he shed, While gating on the thin dead form laid on the wretched bed. He took the icy nand in his; be kissed the brow so calm. And lo, he found the bit of blue in baby'* palm. It was a voice heard from a grave, it cried so sad and clear: "AU r.ik. if .n?M >nni thia hW I'd not be lying here!" The drunkard dropped the lifeless hand, the cord was touched at laat! Conscience and memory smote him tore, and showed hi* sin-stained past, And sorrow's rain fell from his eyes, his sobs came unrepressed. He took tbe haby's bit of bine and pinned it on hi* breast. * And crying mightily for strength, foe God'e restraining power, He signed that day the temperance pledge, and keeps it to this hour. ?Harriet A. Bearan, in National Ad-> cate. lv . ~ ~ "* Greatest NatUaal Ertl. The saloon is our greatest national eril. Most political leaders would eclipse that fact with ether nuues. but we will not long bs duped. The debasing of the currency is not as serioua n matter as the debasing of manhood, though political parties seem not to have discovered it. Our foreign policy is not unimnortaut. hut the safety of oor homes is all-important. The protection of'our infant industries is insignificant in commriian with the nrotectian of our sons and daughter* from the clutches of the rum fiend. Free coinage is a slight matter in comparison with the free use of whisky. To our effort* to solve the financial problem we have heard much about free mirer^M^^ and yet we spend more monev for liquotf^^^* everv year than wc dig out of the grourff! in rilier in twenty yeara. The one J0mi of beer alone is appalling. We conjoined lost vcar thirteen gallons per capita^ Fifty per cent, of the taxes w^pay goes to supnort the saloon's victim^ iin some form. Two-thirds of the crimg^committed have their genesis in Ikjuor^ We have, it is estimated, an armv of 1^60,000 inebriates in this country, with ae"manv others com* ing up to reinforce them. What a waste is here in manhoods liapniness. usefulness and money making capacity! Whereas all the national, ftfcrfe. county and municinal. revenues ft?W the saloon are $141,000,437 ' year) the annual coit of the business in courts, jails, reformitorie*, police supervision. poor house*, loss of labor?to nr nothing of shortened lives, poor work, ill health and other wreckage?is <2.878.504.804. the cost of the traffic being nearly. twenty times what it brings to as. The saloon is going! Twenty-five years hence there * -ill be no such an institution as the ures?nt day grog shop. God is against it. The corporations are its nat mI ainxn tK*v ? nnitxllr rtfiuilic employment to drinVing men. and it it bui one step from making a rule against the drinker to the hurling of corporate end commercial influence against the aalooa it* self. Common intelligence has decreed th* death of the saloon business. We are acquiring too much sense to keep thi* evlt under governmental protection and with national indorsement.?Cumberland Presbyterian. Th? Farmers' Trotaat. A staple argument used by certain advo? cates of license is that the opening of saloons in towns in country district* attract farmers to town and thus promote trade. In Leesburp, Ohio, this argument was used by the merchants who feared that if the saloons were voted out trade would suffer. So many of the neiRhboriug farmers feeling inaultca by the si.itc.nent that they would boycott the town should the saloons bo closcd held a meeting and thirty-eight of thi! nost prominent declared in resolu*;? !.?? li.m/.r tr.ifile in A wenaM ta morals, pood citizenship and all that benefits humanity." and that "for the sake of our bovs and homes all goo 1 citizen* should vole 'dry-'" Th? bent of the resolution* is the following: "We resent any insinuation that the farmer* are a drinking claw and that we will continue our patronage if it should go dry and u*<- our influence for tb? advancement of the business interest* of the town." The result of the election wis the banishment of the saloon by a vote of 134 to 72. The Cratsilt In llrlef. A crusade is about to 1h? wawJ '*?t S'.i?..iay opening in ali its form.? in ra Sin Francisco is said to hive one saloon for every twenty-two adult male inhabitant*. Alcoholic drink a* an article of food has been abolished from all the institutions under the control of the f.mdon County Co'mk-iI duriug the year ju^t pa*t. Hat if ever there was a (wrversion m tlu> world it i* the transformation of inilljo?n oi iiiiidici* of lioneU corn into tho wh^ky thai ruin* so many men and commit* .so ti.my murders. Wlut liecomc* of the bushel of ct?m r?'*r?| on a We?tern |?!ain? ^ If it docs the work that it oiijht to do, it fecdii the fanner or the dweller in cities or the cattle that in ttr.'i iced H-. The perverted bu-hel of corn i< into four gallon* of v.hi*ky. " A few yeari a;?o nearly every whisky uionun on th^ road indulged in rrhi*ky to cxctv*. now two-thirds of the t\hi-kjr h.tloniPii in tna United State* an* total abstainer*." Raid .lohn Simon, a Lotii?ville# Kv., whi*ky salesman at the Hotel Haitimore. Kama* City, not iong a*r>. Kditor Bok. of the Ladies' Home Journal. *ay*, "No voting man uiil ever tin<f that the principle of total ab?tiuencc from liquor i* a barrier to any Mjcoea*--social, commercial or otherwise. It i? the one prineiple in hi* life which wiH in the loofl ran h?!p hia? :r.?rj :ha;i anv