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r - m* | WPROYIHQ WHCrtT. Tntlai JHaoj Varittiti to Se. lKt the Most Profitable? ^ Experiments la Cross Fertlllsatloa. By O. H. Biraklll, Y 1 T HB improvement of xrheat Is 1 * a *ery important matter. ?nu | !t i? only natural that the C work should be undertaken I %y the experiment station of the leadto* wheat State of the Union. Minnepgnwiwi??ii **~ v 'I^BD Jra H uj-.iS :\ |^^^^H^^?M||BHB|BB|HM BB^EJamW ?BB1 tSBBIpjBBB PLANTING TEST PLOT8 WITH Ota. The station is located at St Anthony Park, which is between tke <4ties of 8t. Pan! anl Minneapolis. Tlfc proximity of the great flouring mills Of tbe latter city gave excellent facilities for testing tbe milling qualities of tbe various wheats with which experl nit were made. All tbe variety testa were not made at Sr. Antbouy Part. however. A large number of axpertaenrs were made at tb4 MAttU It Spalding term. In the northwestern yurt of the State, near Warren, in the fa mo uc Red Hirer Valley; at Gljndon, In the southeastern part of the Red Klret Valley; at the Northwest Expertaant Farm, near Grooluton. Minn., and at the Northeast Experiment Farm, aaar Grand Rapflda, Minn. Extensive taats made at tla North Dakota 8tntlaa vara alao talkeo Into consideration 1 mm Hul V I Kj v- nangmnHnm f ? |MHXjW?i v<i .JRrejBvaj M-^<I|H^HHKvwHH^^H1h* MmeB&l 9^-II^hKHbV a^BSKii Hi rXJOTSP TXBS9 TlJtl> TP TO PHOTZOT #BOM USDS. KA L to drawing concmslous. The average P rosults of tests made at all these wlde[ ]jr separately points cannot help but be comprehensive and conclusive. The variety tests were begun In 1888. gad have been patiently continued until the present time. Nearly 200 varieties or samples were secured in the be? ginning from Minnesota and various * other States, as well as from Ruxsia. Pwmi ? an*! nthpr KnmiWHn rouutrlM And from Canada. The method of making the Odd tests fa Interesting. The land at the univerBtty farm la divided Into plots eltcbt rods long and one rod wide. A shoe Itrlll a half rod wide Is used, so that % cae round will plant a plot. After one variety la planted the aeeder is cleaued fcy hand, and thea every remaining WSBMHHLv aWBWHgp^^jp^Pg iif JkhI CROSS FKUTlLi I seed blowu oat -with a bellow* and I robber tube. An alley two feet wide h 1 left between the plots of (rain. Ai ^ (wheat la nearly alwaya self fertilised Sr there la little cross breeding of varte B gH, After the grain beada out, tlx K (lota of newly secured varieties an gone over. and all plants not of that variety an? removed. The different varieties are planted in the order of thi?ir ripening season, beginning at one side of the field. The earliest variety can thns be cat first, and each succeeding plot as it rlpt?ns. The binder is carefully cleaned after each plot, and the varieties are marked by placing a stake beside each shock. The aeparator used in thrashing is eoni structed so that it will clean itself thoroughly when run a few minutes after the feed is stopped. To further guard against the admixI ture of varieties, the first half bushel of j a variety is placed in a largt> sack, and A PLANTING MACHINE. tbQQ a half bushel is caught and placed in a small sack and saved for seed. The remainder Is placed in a large . "" !'? .- ?-y^v> 1 ?ao i n.< sav&? XUtr * UUIUjr Ul llic IO i ?.??**-** Id a germiuatlng chamber. In which the temperature is asjow as that of the noil at sowing time. Where necessary the seed is treated for smut. ' Many of the Russian wheats were found to be hadly mixed, although they were samples of the best varieties grown In that great wheat country. Some contain from two to four distinct kinds. In 1807 the 200 original varieties bad been so closely culled out that only eight of the best were still retained for further testing In order to still further decide among these, small amounts of each kind were made into flour and were subjected to careful tests, known among milling experts as the "color test," "gluten test" and the "baker's sponge test" The gluten test Is made by mixing ? Ultm ntia AftnAQ a# ffnttt* fldi) nam w HUUI uuc uuuw uv?i then kneading It into dough, rthicb . is held under a stream of water and , pulled and worked until the starch has t all been washed out. The wet gluten j is weighed and then dried and weighed ( again. In order to ascertain its moisture ( holding power. It is stretched into long threads and the ductility is noted. | Lastly It la moulded into a round hail , and laid upon a card. The better the , flour the better the gluten hall will , retain its shape. The poorer the gluten , the more It will flatteu out and spread , over the card. In the baker's sponge test the volume and time of rising of the dough are - > rtl..tnn Rnlton'a Ulna l*uiru. UIUICU ????u wva?vu o wiuc j Stem produced sixty time* Its volume , of loaf, while Illo Grande only pro- , duced fifty times Its bulk of bread. | though It contains one per cent more | gluten than the Blue Stem. ( In 1800 the work of improving wheat by selecting the best individual plants was begun. In 1802 400 kernels of . each of -.lght varieties were planted singly in hills twelve by eighteen inches, and the best plants were selected from each variety. In 1808 1200 of the largest hard kernels of Bolton's Blue Stem were selected and planted by baud, four inches apart each wny. As the grain approached maturity the poorest stalks were removed. Successive culliugs reduced the number of stalks to seventy-tlve. Thwu? were rarefullv saved and used for succeeding trials. Other varieties were tested In a similar manner. Another method of Improving Is that of hybridising or cross polleuating. The grain Is planted with a machine which places each two kernels four inches apart. One hundred seeds are planted in a plot, which is called a "centgener." Cross fertilizing, or polleuating by hand, is an interesting and delicate operation. The best stalks are selected, and when the flowering period ap no. . WB? I ZING BY HAND. I proaches the upper and lower splkelets i are removed, leaving six or eight on i each head. The anthers are withdrawn , with sharp-pointed tweezers to prevent Kii-ienuoiuoD. lonen grains irom ? another plant are placed upon the atlft ma and the bead wrapped In tissue paper to exclude polleu from other plants. The hybrids produced in this way generally show a great variation in type. A cross lietween Blue Stem and Fife produce*! over a dozen different varieties. In thin way ninny new varieties have been origins!tod. though few are equal In value to the parent plants. Comparatively few trap crosses are obtained, and only four to twenty-flve per cent, of the experiments in artificial fertilization are successful.?New York Tribune. Bird PmtMtloa NM'd la Egypt. Dr. W. I tines, in the Journal of the Khedivia! Agricultural SoHety mils attention to the marked diminution which has taken place in the numbers of the more common specks of birds met with in the neighborhood of Cairo. The rockdove. It Is admitted, does an appreciable amount of damage to agricultural product*, but the majority of birds, and especially the birds of prey. are ocncui'im. m mc iii.ti*uuiutu group the diminution In numbers Is very noticeable. Quite as strloua is the almost total extermination of the cattle-egre^ which a few years ago tvlis common on wet lands or might be seen following the plow in search of mole-crickets and larvae. "This bird was ho common in th?? past and Jld so much good that many travelers ^i|i I ^5 R :i 1 J JLJ ikiSffj THE PRESIDENT'S C confounded it with (he sacred lbl* of indent times. Although its nesu is Door, this bird has not escapnl sojailed sportsmen, who kill It simply For the sake of killing." If the birds are not speedily rehabll* , itated resort to other and expensive means of destroying deleterious In- | MK-ts will be necessary. The writer urges the authorities to take such jtepa for bird protection as may seem most suitable without loss of time. For Shooting PoImmmxI Arrows. Indians who use poisoned arrows do not trust alone to the venom with which they anoint their darts. In adlition. they often apply poison to the bow itself and utter certain spells over it, with the idea that it would launch ileath with the arrows it shot. The head of one of these Indian bows for Bhootlng poisoned arrows Is shown above. It will be observed that rattlesnake rattles form an hu|>ortant part of its decorations. China riridUa. The latest invention In the domain of ceramics is the manufacture of violins ami mandolins from porcelain. A well-known manufacturer of the Meissen ocarinas and pori-elaiu organs has invented n process for the manufacture of violins and mandolins from clay. Some violins have already l>eeu o>nipleted, and the Inventor has applied for letters patent for the same in dif ferent countries Under tliIm process the violins are cast. and every violin I* guaranteed a success and to be unexcelled for producing music. The latter quality constitute)! precisely the ehief value of this Invention. The porcelaiu Itody, it is rlaimed, Ik letter able to produce sound than a wooden one. since it co-operates , In the production of sound, malting the notes soft and full. Arretted For Not Going to Church. To such an extent does religion prevail at Gonoatoa, in the South Seas, that every man. woman and child on that island who does not go to church at least tnrec Times a ?? ? ? uauie i?j be arrested and fined, the fine going to tbe king. The mortgage Is alwajs looking for somebody to fire it a lift - - -. ??? - - - t AN ODD OLD CflilR. i J Used bj the Presidents of Harvard f J For Manj Generations. f ONE of the most Interesting pieces of ancient Colonial furniture in this country, says the Boston Herald. Is the chair used by the President of Harvard University during the annual commencement exercises in June. Aalde from the fact that it is very old. the chair has the distinction of being nlmost the only one of its kind In America. so far as collectors have been able to discover. The President's chair, as It Is always called, has been used by thirteen Presidents of the college and university. It is stoutly constructed of oak. In the style known as "thrown." or turned, and dates back to the sixteenth century. so that It was alrendy something of an "antique" when It was brought over to this country by some early Puritan or Pilgrim. Oliver Wendell Holme* bag described Ik thus: "Funny old choir with a seat like a wedge. Sharp behind and broad front edgeOne of the oldest of human things? ?^5 HAIR, nARVARD. Turned all over with knobs and rings? But heavy and wide, and deep and grandFit for the worthies of the land." CARRYING THE BABY. Head and Spine Troubles Caused Where Incorrect Ways Are Used. Tbe Accompanying imggestlons and Illustrations, for which we are indebted to Leonard's Illustrated Medical Journal, are worthy of attention: BOW TO CABBY BABT. "The child should always bo lifted with both hands, held lightly, hut firmly, the entire length of the hack and the head being carefully supported. One of the most common and dangerous errors Is leaving the tack of the head unsupported. When this Is L_? ?? HOW NOT TO CABBT BABT. done. the movements of the body of the mother or nurse in walking, or. indeed, the middeu lurching of the baby itself, may seriously affect the hea4 and spine." Wblt* I'ruM en Luggage. [.ondon Truth returns to Its charge that on the (.'outlnent there exists a system of marking luggage at hotels In order to Indicate the owner's value from the point of view of tips to ser varus, ana quotes its correspondent ou the Riviera ia explanation of the meth^,1. ..aA/l MA umall wIiUa i.m... I. uufl utn.\i. i\ oumii tvuiiu viuno in placcd on tbe luggage close to the hotel label If the tips to servants ore unsatisfactory." Truth's informant tested Its effect when moving about by comparing the behavior of hotel servant* when be arrived with his luggage marked this way and when be had wiped off the croua. t / IE PRESIDENT'S JOURNEY Itinerary of the Long Western Trip Announced at Washington* WHERE SPEECHES WILL BE MADE Addresses la row Stat* Capital* Before Visiting the St. LoaU Kxpocltloa?Will 8** Yellowstone Park and Graad Cann?_Th? n> lit ill. r?.ii Irilt Visit Tw?BtT*two Stales. Washington. D. C.?All arrangements for President Roosevelt's Western tour have been completed, and the Itinerary has been made public. The President leaves Washington on Wednesday. I April 1. at 0.03 a. m.. over the Pcnnsyl* | vanla Railroad, accompanied by Secretary Leeb. Assistant Secretary Barnes, the Surgeon-General of the Navy and three stenographers, railroad, officials, newspaper correspondent* and others. Chicago, the first stopping place, reached on the morning of Anril 2. At Minneapolis on April 4 the President will be entertained at dinner at the Minneapolis Clnb 'and afterward will deliver an address at the Auditorium. He will deliver an address at Bismarck. N\ D., on April 6. at the State Capitol. He will also deliver addresses on April 28 at Des Moines and Keokuk, Iowa. Ou arriving in St. Louis on the evening of April 25) the President and his party will be escorted to Odeon Hall, where a few minutes' visit will fce made to the National and International Good Roads Convention; thence to the St Louis University, and later to the St. Louis Club where the President and party will be eutertained while In the city. The following morning, at 10.30 o'clock, the President will review a parade. and in tbe afternoon will attend the dedication of the buildings of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Later the President and bis party will dine at the Administration Building, and will view a display of fireworks In tbe evening. At Kansak City on May 1 the President will deliver an address at Conrention Hall. At 2 p. m. be will be met by a committer from Kansas City, Kan., and escorted to that city, where he will make a brief address. On bis arrival at Toneka at 0 p. m. he will take part in the exercises of laying the cornerstone of the Y. M. C. A. building. In California an interesting program has been arranged. On Mav 7 the party will remain at Redlands for three hours. Governor Pardee will welcome the President to the State at that point. Two hours will be spent at Han Boron nli no in the afternoon, and Riverside will he reached at 0 p. m. The party will proceed to Casa Blanca and take a drive over the famous avenues and through orange groves to the city. The President will make a brief address. After visiting Claremont and Pasadena the party will go to Lo.i Angeles. Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo will be visited the next day. At Santa Barbara the President and party will visit the old mission. Sunday. May 10. will he passed quietly at Hotel del Monte. Monterey. On Monday a brief stop will be made at Pajaro. and Santa Cruz will lie reached at J).nr? a. m. The party will be taken by special train to the Big Tree grore where It will he entertained at an informal luncheon by the citizens of Santa Cruz. In the afternoon it will arrive at San Jose, and will be taken for a drive through th?* valley r.nd foothill orchards. On Tuesday, the 12th, a visit of tlit-eA hours will lw> I made to Stanford University, at Palo Alto. At Burlintrame the narty will he entertained at lunehenn by the Hon. Henry T. Scott of San Francisco. San Francisco will he reached at 2.15 | p. m. The President will remain here j until midnight of the 14th. He will I visit the University of California, at Berk-Mfv. and will nlso tro to Oakland. On Friday. May 15. the President and party w'll reach Raymond. Cal.. at 8 a. m.. and the next four days will be soent In resting and vlewlnc the beauties of Yosemite Valley and the bis: tree*. At Portland. Ore., on May 21. the President will take part In the laying of the cornerstone of the Lewis and Clark monument. At Olympia. Was!?.. on May 22. the President will attend the 'ayintr of the cornerstone of the Masonle Temple. The President will make addresses at Walla Walla. Spokane. Helena and Boise City. At Salt Lake City the President will speak in Ihe Tabernacle ivnd take luncbcon with Senator Kearns. Oil the morning of May .TO the PreMdrnt and his party will stop at Laramie. He expects to take a horseback ride from Laramie to fheyenne. On I reaching Chevenne after his ride the President will deliver a Memorial Day address to the \-eteran? who will bo | assembled there. | Lincoln. III., will lie reached on tlio morning of .Tnrio 4. and a stop of ton minutes will Ih? mado. Four hour* will be spent at Springfield. Here the program will inolude a drive to Lincoln's Tomb, an informal luncheon for the party at th*? executive mansion by Governor Yates and an address by tlv* President either In or :id|oinln*r the Slate Capitol. Decatur. III., will be the last nlaeo visited by the President on his Western four. T'non leaving Decntur th<? return trip to Washington will be made quietly, only stopping for necessarr railroad requirements. The President will roach Washington at 7.0."? p. m. on June 5. The time occupied on the trip will bo ?lxty-six days. The distance traveled will ho about 14.000 allies, through twenty-two State*. Consular Appointment*. President Roosevelt has made the following appointments: William A. Ruldee. of Wisconsin, now ConsulCe-eral at Havana, to he f'nnstil-fJenprnl at Vienna: Frank Steinhnrt. of Illinois, to he Consul-general at Havana: Denn R. Wood, of Now York, formerly Vice-Consul at Madrid, to be Consul at Ceibu, Honduras. Baalnaaa Failures Tor m Week. Business failures during the week numbered 220 in the I'nlted Slates und twenty-two in Canada. Sporting Brevities. A. Simons' Major Mansir won the New Louisiana Stakes, four miles, at V?.w Oploand mmi tmrlf |Ur 41VW V. %??? tww Columbia and Princeton will not meet on the gridiron this season owing to failure to agree on n suitable date. JU. X. Pillsbury finished third la the international chess tournament at Monie tnnu. larrascu nan i?>- wilier. The Canadian Auocintion of Amateur Oanmen want a permanent course laid ont at tbe old Welland Canal, St. Catherine's, Ont CUBAN TREATY ADOPTED ( | Island Senate Approves Measure Unhampered by Any Conditions PrMUnt RooMTtlt rromliM la Cafl u Kitra Seuion of Conpeu to IUk? Uw CoilMtlM EfltCtlf*. Havana. Cuba.?The treaty of reel procity between Cuba and the United J States aa amended by the Senate of the United States was approved In the Cuban Senate by a vote of . twelve to nine. This approval in ab- ' solute, and Is not hampered by any , condition*, the questionable time limit i amendment having been dispensed ' with through the receipt of the cable message from Secretary Hay in which It was positively declared that President Itoosevelt would call a special sea- i sion of Congress prior to December 1. j The parport of this assurance wa? transmitted to the Senate by President | Paltna, and read at the beginning of ; the session, an understanding having : been reached previously with Senators Bustamente. Capote and Dolx. com- ; posing the majority of the Foreign Re- j latlons Committee, that the objectionable condition in the report be elimln- j ated. This was done by the offering \ of amendments by other Administration Senators substituting the uncondi- , tlonal adoption of the amendments to the treaty by the American Senate for j tht> Qualified accentance contained in the original report.* Final action was delayed for a long j time by the discussion of an amend- ; mcnt offered by Senator* Sangullly. Tamayo and Recio. requiring the j House to pass upon the treaty. The amendment requiring the House to pass on the treaty wag defeated by a vote of five to fifteen. An amendment to or a substitute for the committee's majority report was then offered by Senators Frias, ! Monteagudo and Betancourt. This ap- ; proved and ratified all the amend* , ments of the Senate at Washington, and recommended that the Cuban Ex* ecutlve take action conducive to ob- i tainlng effective reciprocity as soon as possible. To this substitute report was added the following: "This recommendation must not be taken as an amendment to or a modifi* | cation of the treaty." The vote was taken separately on , each section of the substitute report The vote on the unconditional ratlflca* j tlon of the treaty was 12 to 9; on the recommendation to the Executive it . was 11 to 9. The present session of the Senate t than /Hiuimxl Ttirt will I (UCU UUJVUft H?\l, AUV ? ? >??V?.. ?w .. ?? | | b<? exchanged by cable. . EXTRA SKSDIOX OF COJfflBIU. - ? I Mrittrj Bay SitI Cabaaa Auu aneS ' That tki President Weald Call One. I Washington, D. C.?Intelligence of the ratification at Havana of the Cuban treaty as amended by the United State* Senate was received here. The action of the Cuban Senate In thus accepting the treaty without : any amendment simplified matters, and insured the exchange of ratification in this city before Tuesday, March 31. : Article XI. of the treaty provided that the ratifications should be exchanged at Washington as soon as could be be* ; fore March 31. Secretary Hay. when apprised of the action of the Cuban Senate, expressed his gratification. Secretary Hay added that in bis message to Minister Squiers I he gave the positive assurance that the President would call an extra sesalon of Congress in the fall. The time waa not Ktated, but the Secretary said that Congress would be convened sufficient- j ly in advance of the regular session 1 to assure Its action on the treaty as re* quired by the Senate amendments be- , fore December 31. DEWEY EXPLAINS INTERVIEW. No Intention of Reflecting on German i Emperor or Nifjr. Washington, D. C.?At the instance of the President. Admiral Dewey called at the White Housi; and made a full explanation of the recent newspaper in- , terview in which the Admiral was ' quoted as saying that the Caribbean Sea maneuvres were "an object lesson to the Kaiser, more than to any other , person." The Admiral assured the President that he had no intention of reflecting on Germany, her Emperor, or her Navy, and that while the statements credited to him were substau-' tially what he said, he neglected to caution the interviewer against quoting him. At the close of the interview the Ad- ' miral returned immediately to hia Kiiode lsiana nrenuo uouic. up u<rclined to make any statement for publication. At the White House It was said that the Admiral's explanation was satisfactory to the President. It is not believed that further official notice will be taken of the incident. The cabled reports state that the comments of the (terman press upon Admiral Dewey's reflections upon the German Navy are very bitter. The Cerman Foreign Officials say they do j not believe that a diplomatic incident will result from the interview. CANADIAN BEEF BARRED. I British W*r OSce Inauta Upon Enfliik , or Irlfth Grown Meat Tor tb? Army. ; Toronto, Ont.?A cable from London | says Mr. Brodrick's statement in tho House of Comiuous iu reply to Alfred Dnvies shows that the War Office still ; excludes Canadian beef from army | contracts. The beef must l>e English or Irish grown, not frozen or chilled, ' and not from animals killed at Dept* J ' ??'! ?? ?l.niflinm ivltliin loll il.1V.ll of ' arrival from abroad. Mr. Brodrick added In typical Waf j Office phras??olo;ry. that there "would ! not appear anything required to make j the terms of the contract clearer." Clark Ualv* rally to Oct It* SJ.OOO.OOn Judge William T. Forbes, of the Probate Court at Worcester. Maw., handed down a decree in the petitlou in etjully filed by the exerutors of the will of Jonas (J. Clark relating to liequests to Clark Unlversitj-. As a result nearly $'.5,000,000 will be paid over to iht> trustees ?f the unlvernlty if there is no appeal from the decree within thirty day*. llang*<l For m Triple Mardcr. For triple murder A. L. Heldlng hat been hanged at Portland, Oregon. Abe Slopaky Acqukttcd. After deliberating over four houra the jury in the case of Abe Slupsky, charged with murder in the second degree, brought in a verdict of not guilty In Judce Douglas' court at St. I.ouin. Mo. Slupsky shot and killed Charles Plnkard on April liO. 11)00. Dies at tli?> Age of 101. Dr. John P. Wood, of Coffeyv 11 le, Kan., died at the age of 101 years and two montba. nr. Wood was a practic. tag physician for seventy-five yearn, aad was the flmt Probate Judge of Douglas County. Kausar. i THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. A Brilliant E.licorlal Tram tha If aw Tor* AmaHcaa on tha Rabjad of Modtnte Oriaklac-Alrohol Hladm PI?H? ?Ba 8oclahla Bat Km* labff. The sot ia the product of over-drinkiag; and againat auch drinking thia paper ha* ever lifted iU voice aa atrenuoualy u it knew horv. If men will drink, let them drink ia moderation. The whiekv habit ia an evil, hut it ia Tint an murk nf an ?wi1 >k*n in. dulgcd in moderately as when it is carried to exccss. About the logic of the nropoaitioft there ia no .'oora for dispute. So one will think of questioning it. Excessive drinking t* a bad thing. But what about the so-called moderate drinking? That it doe* one a great deal of harm to drink to excess no one denies, but how about the other question: "Does it do one no harm to drink in moderation?" Take France for an answer. The French people are not drunkarda. You might travel all day in France without finding drunken man. The *ot is a rare phenomenon ia France. And yet for continuous respectable alcoholiam, the screwing-up of nerve* and heating of blood, day and night, year in and year out, Franee goes ahead of all other couatrie*. And what has this habit done for Franee ?France, where drunkards are almost unknown, where a sot is a living curiosity, where icarceiy any one drinks to excess, but where nearly every one drinks moderatelv? Tne answer is given in three words?tuberculosis, epilepsy, Insanity. On* nf tlm vnsMfr rlief inmii e\f livifltf Frenchmen. M. Melureur, Director of tb? Department of Charities of Paris, ia responsible for the Above statement, which he has had printed in larm type on placard* that are posted up all about tha gay capital. It u a fact worth thinking about. Frenchmen and Americana are made oat of the same material, and are aubject to the same physical lawa, and if it ia a fact, as M. Menureur claims it ia, that moderate drinking haa scattered far and wide in France the seeds of consumption, epilepsy and insanity, it is fair to presume that it will do the same in this country if given a chance. This is a good place to notice the argument, made by certain people, that moderate drinking aids digestion. Does it? The active element in the process known as digestion ia pepsin. Now, if a small quantity of gastric juice is put into , a bottle, and alcohol is added to it, the pepsin settles to the bottom of the bottle ia the r.hape of a 6ne, white powder. This ia precisely what happens in the stomach when one takes alcoholic liquor. Alcohol neutralizes the effect of the pepsin in the gastric juices, and as a result the food ia improperly digested. There is another way in which alcohol, hinder* digestion. *r If you will take the white of an egx and pour a little alcohol upon it. yop will no tice that the o? JwaTia to harden, iiiiii trerc being coo! ;<ed. Something jm similar to this take* place when alcohol u taken into the stomacn. It hardttU the in* coating of the stomach?in other word*, paralyze* the thousand* of little arms that are tupposed to take hold of the food and digest it. "y Upon this matter of drink a* an aid t? digestion Sir Henry Thompson. the mat* est authority in the world on the snbjeet, say* that alcohol, so far from aiding dilution, only obstruct* and retards it, and that the only safe rale U to abstain from alcohol altogether Sir Henry's book, "Diet in Relation to Age and Activity," is one that every one should read. It is sometimes claimed that the use of whisky promotes sociability and makes men congenial one to another. We hear this said very often. But did you ever stop Inns enough to uk vnursclf this question: ''What sort of good-fellow* ship is it that either cannot or will not show itself until it has been given a glass of whisky?" After you have got that sort of sociability, is it worth very much to you? What a shady compliment it is to your friends and .voaraeH to sav that you cannot sit down together and be sociable u-ithout first addling your brain* with drink. Can t you be sociable and be sober at th? same time? I? the sociability in the glass of whisky, or u it in the iientimenta of the heart? But the reply may come. '"The whisky stimulates our mind* and helps ua to bright thought*. After a gla*s or two we can think like lightning and talk like a hotue art re!" Yea. But about what doea the whiakjr help you to th?nk and talk? It la a very important question. Quality counts for something in this world, especially when we come to the matter of thought and it* expression. A dozen words spoken out of a clear 7>rain upon a noble theme are worth a thousand'thrown off in the heat of drink upon chcap or commonplace matters. Whisky never nut a great thought into a cheap man's head, and whisky never helped a great man to a thought that be might not just as well have arrived at without the whisky. That whisky innkes men talk ther.* is no doubt. But. besides being "cheap" talk, especially the talk that is induced by drink, is oftentimes not only humiliating but dangerous in it* consequences. Many a murder has leaped, red-handed and terrible, out of the talk that came from the "whisky bottle. ^ , And it i< innri" than nroliablc that manf who shall read thin editorial will be able to recall tim?? in their live* when they would have (riven anything in tiie world not to have talked so much at a certain time and place while they were under the influence of liquor. Tliey did not mean it?God knows they did not?hut they naid it, Mid it in conseSience of the fact that they had addled eir brain* by drink, and the mischief wa? done! Upon the whole, then, it i* best to keep one'a head clear and cool. And in order to do that it is necessary to let whisky alone. If you do not trouble it. it will not trouble you. Rut if von set mixed up with it, the chance* are that before the mixing is over it will throw yon and throw you bard.?Editorial in the' New York American. Against Treal Inc. A new league, to be known as tlw AnH? Treating League, lias been started in Dublin, Ireland, bv i"?me member* of the Roman Catholic priesthood. The members wear a small bulge, and at their initiation th?v promise an long as they wear the l>adge and are member* never to invite into a public house any one for the purnose of treating them. The league i? niaking rap'd stride* among the and societies. can* arc feeling the effects o^BMGBnFjHHHfKK tninishing trade. The CraM?l? In v?.11 ii.. .1*1 if Uil Vllf I f illH' III I India is directly traccs^MH|H^g^QB^^H to oxccm. 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