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I HARPOONINO
r One of the Oldest For/n
PLENTY OF DANG
SO many American whalers are
going to seek the big "fish" in
Baffin Bay waters this season
that the Canadian Government
has deeded to charter a sealing
steamer to cruise there to prevent the
Yankees from "violating Canadian cus*
toms laws." It looks as if th? "prostrated
American industry" were about
to awaken to something akin to vigor.
Years of more or less desultory whal
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I tug have given the sea giants a chance
to recuperate, and that they -were not
? guilty of race suicide during their
time of rest is proved by the fact that
whales are plentiful In all the seas
again.
? - For a rich American, eager to try
L real sport, there is a great chancc now.
r iWhaling, one of the oldest forms of
big game hunting known, is the one
field which has not been fittingly ex1
ploited by the amateur sportsman.
In a time when lion and tiger shooting
are mere routine sporting affairs to
h'indreds of wealthy men, the whale
hould appeal with great force.
To the man who has exhausted even
the delight of the sixty-mile-an-hour
automobile, there is an unlimited field.
The chances are that if he once gets
an opportunity to taste the unbridled
and terrific pleasure of a "Nantucket
L ilelgb ride" he will view his auto ma'
chine as a tame thing ever afterward.
The Nantucket sleigh ride Is so common
an experience with whalers that
they are prone to speak of it in disappointingly
matter-of-fact language.
Bui. for all that, there Isn't an old
whaler of them all whose nostrils will
not dilate with zest when he thinks
upon it. And the landsman who ever
has had the rare fortune to experieuce
one is not likely to find anything else
In all the rest of his life that will not
y seem tame compared with It.
Few landsmen ever have the opportunity.
When a whaleboat lowers to
i fight a sixty-foot whale the business
Is too important to incumber the craft
with unskilled passengers. And not
many landsmen would really care to
go into the wlialeboat even if they
could, when they behold, wallowing in
the sea. the huge thing that ^is to be
- attacked.
The ride begins after the whale has
been harpooned and when the boatheader
considers it time to draw up
Alongside and begin lancing. The first
thing that is done is to haul in upon
the harpoon line until the boat is
. brought as elo&? to the running whale
as is consistent with the extremely
delicate margin that the whaler allows
for safety, "Safety" to the
whaler really means to remain just
about an inch or two beyond the reach
of the vast flukes with which the'big
beast is beating the sea.
Having hauled as far up on the
whale as possible, the boat-header
rarmhoe nrra-r tho hnws nnrl lifts tho
line out of the chocks. Swiftly he
brings it around the outside of the
boat and pnsses It to the bow oarsman.
who has faced around on his
thwart so that he looks forward.
He at once lays hack on tbe line
and holds fast with all his might.
'And immediately the boat dragged like
A railroad car by that mighty living
locomotive, begins to run parallel with
b the side of the whale and just a few
feet away from him, being prevented
from running right on top of him by
the oblique strain of the line.
Now, if the harpoon is well forward
In the whale, the boat hangs in a prccarious
but sufficient arc of safety.
+o II UommALn "flirt
HP 1UI lue eniuniu^ uui uuiimiEia .uv
Ocean behind It and the wildly sweeping
jaw unavailingly searches the sea
In front. '
The boat-hender braces himself in
the bows until he is based Srmly as
the stem-post and begins to poise his
long, keen, razor-edged killing lance
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^ THE TRY WORKS
| "waiting for the opportunity to thrust
i it into the whale's life. Sometimes
J* the opportunity comes within a minut?
after hauling up on the big "fish."
Sometimes It does not come until the
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boat has been towed for many miles
It does not require very much time t<
tow a mile when a sixty-foot whal
is doing the towing.
As long as the whale runs in a fairl:
straight course the boat will hang t<
him like a terrier. He may champ an<
bite and hammer the ocean into acre:
of froth with head and flukes and tai
and never shake it off. His only chanci
for retaliation is to run deep or t<
S DECK.
"mill." "Milling" is the act of turning
suddenly and so bringing the boa
within reach of flukes or jaws.
The position of the bow oarsman I:
no joy in a Nantucket sleigh ride. Thi
Are Now Extra
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etyiuffeur in a racing automobile is ir
a paradise of ease compared with him
He must keep the boat in positioi
by his unaided strength. From th(
time he gets the line until the ride is
ended he drives '.nto a smothering
sheet of flying spray. When the sea is
high every billow is hit by the boai
with a smash that wrenches his arms
The strain on the wet line cuts anc
burns his hands. And If he lets a tool
of it slip he is disgraced. Once he is
in it, he is in it for good, with n<
chance of help or relief till the wild ad
venture is done.
Often the boat is hauled so close 01
a harpooned whale that the harpoonei
leans over and steadies himself bj
resting one hand on the butt of th<
hnronon that Is sticldna in the srrea
sea mammal, while with the other h<
drives the killing lane?. Again ant
again the long weapon is buried deei
in the black sides, until suddenly
thick, black-red clots of blood wel
from the wound, showing that th<
"life" has been reached.
Then it is "back," sometimes for deai
life. A whale may take his death s<
quietly, so passively, that it is pitiabh
to see so mighty a swimmei killed thu;
easily by man. Or he may fight till th<
boat seems only a black atom in th<
sudden uproar that smites the oceai
and sends* tons of water rising till thej
ON A WHALER.
seem high enough to wash the sky.
The danger from a fighting whale i
not only in the whale itself. The boa
is a perfect man-trap of keen dead!;
tools. Lances and harpoons, cuttinj
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spades, hatchets, knives and boat
books, all sharpened to the finest edge
the ship's grindstone can give them,
fill the boat. If the whale gets at It
and hurls It Into the air, the men find
tnemseives in murueruus cuujyiiuj
when the weapons come raining down
, on them.
The harpoon line goes hissing out?a
serpent of rope far moae dangerous
' than any cobra, for let but kink in the
3 least and catch a man and he will fly
B overboard with it and out of sight as
if lie were a mere splinter of wood.
7 So there are enough sporting chances
3 in the whale to excite and content the
* most exacting of sportsmen. And the
3 size of the trophy if he "bags" a whale
1 certainly leaves nothing to be desired.
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Demand For Railroad Tics.
The annual demand for railway lies
is 400 to each mile of track and the
average life of a tie is seven years.
It is an unusual acre of forest that has
J 300 trees that will make three ties
etPcli, anil it taices nicy years to grow
a tree that will make three ties.
Therefore, twenty-five acres of forest
are necessary for every mile of track.
Electric railways included, there are
iii the United States about 2"A).000
miles of road.
An Indian LeglPlntur.
Bear Tracks, outside the five civilized
tribes of the Indian Territory, is
the only Indian legislator in the world.
He is a member of the Legislature of
South Dakota and resides at Hot
Springs. Bear Tracks is an Ogalallah
Sioux, and- is an expert barber by
trade?rather, perhaps, close to the oldfashioned
habit of the Indian of taking
the entire scalp. He has made and
lost a fortune, but at this time Is In
very good circumstances.
A Folding Four-Armed Ancbor.
? A new improvement In anchors is
t shown herewith. It is the invention of
Henry James Brooke, a retired engl3
neer of the Danish navy, and now ree
siding at Svendborg, in that country.
ding Fuel Power
id that the Tuber Is Good for ?>'o
Generating Human Energy.
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i It is described as an automatoic stock.
less four-armed anchor, in which one
i pair of arms Is rigidly fastened to the
? shank, while the other pair is arranged
3 so as to be capable cf moving up the
; lower part of the shank, which is
> formed like a screw with a great pitch.
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A FOLDING FOUB-ABMED ANCHOR.
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) The length of the screwed part of the
i shank and the pitch are arranged In
3 such a manner that the movable pair
? of arms will shift from a cross position
; when resting on the fixed pair of arms,
i to a parallel position after having made
r one-fourth of a revolution In moving
to the extremity of the screwed part
of the shank. The advantage of this
arrangement is that the anchor is capable
of lying fiat down on the deck
and of automatically assuming the
cross position when heaved overboard,
so that at least two tiukes must take
hold.
Eejccted For Stammering.
As stammering is a cause of rejec- j
tion for military service its frequency
is shown by the statistics of the examination
of recruits in different nations.
The number rejected as stammerers is
7.50 per thousand examined in France.
8.23 in Switzerland, 2.S7 in England,
2.2 in Austria, .80 in Italy and but .11)
in Russia.
. Longevity In I'nrl*.
There are at the present time five
men in Paris over 10(J years of age. It
is noteworthy that none of these MeJr.
mnKXtOil TlmPfl Qra r?31
lUU^tlJl'lia 13 uiaiLii;u. xuwic va* t w*
I nonagenarians, eighty-five of whom arc
I within a few months of completing
their century of life. Of octogenarians
there are no fewer than 10,017.
An Ancient Castle.
s Kilkenny Castle is one of the oldest
t Inhabited houses in the world, many of
y the rooms being much as they were 800
g years ago. 1
Evolution of the
Potato.
Some of the Many and
Varied Uses Which
It Is Servimr.
T" ? 0-DAY Germany fairly rivals
I Ireland with its potato crop
| and outdoes most other countrioe.
Fully an eighth of the
arable land of the empire is planted
to this nutritious vegetable. Half the
large yield is used directly as human
fbod; a considerable other portion is
given over to fattening stock. vThere
still remains an enormous surplus after
that, however, and it is the success
with which the Germans have met in
turning this surplus into manufactured
products that is most remarkable.
Among these manufactured products I
are starch, glucose, potato flour, dextrin
and starch-sugar, each of which I
appears prominently on the list of
German exports, all together contributing
large sums every year to the
profits of German manufacturers and
exporters. But the-alcohol which the
Germans mnke from the potato is the
most valuable and wonderful product
of all. This as a light producer fairly
rivals the electric current, it is said.
The apparatus for its practical use
includes lamps, chandeliers, street and
corner lights, In which alcoholic vapor
is burned like gas in a hooded flame,
covered by a Welsbach mantle. So
used, potato alcohol is described as
burning with an incandescent flame
equaling the electric light in brilliancy.
Indeed, we are officially told now by
our Consul-General at Berlin that potato
alcohol is competing with gas and
electricity with increasing success
every year.
In the problems of heat and power
production, too, the lowly potato has
been brought Into us?, and the alcohol
from it has been applied to warming
and cooking stoves, to steam locomobiles,
to threshing, grinding, fuel-cut
from the Potato
mething: Else Besides
Alcohol Made from the
IPotato Is Nov Used to
Pun These Machines
Gallon
P?Uh?l
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ting and other agricultural and mechanical
appliances. The advantages
said to be found in its use are immediate
readiness for operation; dispensing
with coal, water and firemen; freedom
from odors and danger of fire, and
greater economy of maintenance. Possibly
there is some exaggeration in
these claims. But figures given plainly
show that the potato, as cultivated in
Germany, has produced a real competitor
for at least benzine and petroleum
for motor purposes.?Providence
Journal.
A SIMPLEJSPRAY.
Two Jets of Water Wliioh Break Each
Other Up.
An improved nozzle for making a
spray is shown herewith, which, while
It is applicable to a number of different
purposes, is mainly Intended for use
about plants where it is necessary to
cool water in quantities tor condensing
purposes. In this nozzle the central
portion is in the form of an inverted
hollow cone having two holes through
the sides set at such an auyle with each
other that water passing through them
from the lower side forms two streams,
which strike each other and are thus
broken up Into fine spray.
By arranging a system of pipes over
and round the sides of a tank or cooling
pond, with a number of such nozzles
screwed into them at suitable distances,
a very large quantity of water
can be effectually cooled in a very
small area with a head only of from
NOZZLE FOR COOLIXG WATER.
five to ten feet. An installation of fifty
n rival aa nt nn P.nrrlish fnvnflf?p rnnls
HO,000 gallons per hour of blast furnace
tuyere water coming from four furnaces.
The water simply liows bj
gravitation from the troughs round the
furnaces to the nozzles, no pumping
being required.
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TORONTfllililliL!
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Liabilities of A, E. Ames & Co. !
Estimated at $10,000,000. j
! DECLINE IN STOCKS THE CAUSE j
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A Henry Fall in Canadian Securities
Brought on the Collapse of the Firm
?Montreal Has a Panic and Hundreds
Lose All They Possessed?The Failure's I
Effect in Boston?New Yoik Escapcs.
Toronto, Ont. ? A. E. Ames & Co.,
bankers and brokers, have closed their
doors. The firm in times past has had ,
large dealings with Boston brokers.
Mr. Ames, its head, is a son-in-law of j
j Senator George A. Cox, of Toronto, i
one of the leading financiers in Can- |
ada. Senator Cox is President of the I
Canadian Bank of Commerce, Canadian
Life Insurance Companyand other
concerns, besides being Vice-President
of the Dominion Coal Company ?nd I
Dominion Steel and Iron Company, im- J
mense companies formed largely Dy
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the coal and iron companies is supposed
to have been largely held in Toronto.
Dominion Steel common, purchased
around $70, is selling at $15 a share.
Twin City, which )>as declined from
128 to 92, was another stock held iu
large blocks by the firm's clients.
The last statement of the Savings
Bank Department of the firm showed
$200,000 on deposit. It is impossible
to figure the firm's total liability at the
present time owing to the wild fluctuations
in the prices of securities in
which the company and its clients are
heavily interested.
It is stated on good authority that.
Mr. Ames has put $1,000 000 into the
business, and the other members of the
firm. A. R. Tudhope, E. D. Fraser and
A. E. Wallace, sums aggregating nearly
tlie same amount.
It is known that one of the Toronto
banks recently advanced $200,000 to
Ames & Co. in the hope the amount
would be sufficient to tide over the
Arm. The l>ank is well protected, however,
and will not suffer.
Ten million dollars Is the amount of
the firm's liabilities, as genemily
agreed upon by bankers and brokers.
Against this amount the company holds
securities which in any half normal
condition of the market would be
ample.
The suspension of Ames & Co. will
have no cffect on the many institutions
In which Mr. Ames is interested, except.
perhaps,-his withdrawal from the
presidency of the Metropolitan Bank.
Two or three years ago successful coups
brought him handsome results. The
tide of fortune turned a few months
ago, when the stock of companies in
which he was Interested began to decline.
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Montreal, Que.?The worst panic iu
the history of the Montreal stock markpt
was mused bv the announcement
of the failure of A. E. Ames & Co., of
Toronto, which resulted in the bottom
falling out entirely. Prices declined"
*o the lowest level of the year. Hundreds
in Montreal have lost all they
possessed, and among these are a
number of well-to-do people who had
gone deeply into Dominion Coal and
Iron oft the strength of the great Canadian
names connectcd therewith.
Boston. Idass.?News of the failure
of A. E. Ames & Co., of Toronto, threw
the Canadian stocks listed on the Boston
Stock Exchange into complete demoralization.
The firm several weeks '
ago cleared up practically all its interests
here.
New York City.?Wall Street was not
affected adversely by the report of the
big failure in Toronto. The local correspondents
of the house said that the
general impression was that preparations
had been made here for the collapse
of the Canadian brokers. The
nrm nau a commercial ruiiujj ui muiv
than $1,000,000.
HAWAIIAN LAW UPHELD.
Islands' Old Lryts in Force Until Congress
Enacted Others.
Washington, D. C. ? The United
States Supreme Court, in an opinion
by Justice Brown, decided the ease of
the Territory of Hawaii against Osaki
Mankiehi, a Japanese, who was convicted
of manslaughter and sentenced
to twenty years' imprisonment under
the laws of old Hawaiian Repubiic,
adversely to the claim of the prisoner
that his conviction was illegal and invalid.
The conviction took #lace after
the resolution of annexation was
adopted by' Congress and before the
passage of the act creating the Territory
of Hawaii and establishing a code of
laws for its government. Mankiehi
was found guilty without Indictment
by a Grand Jury and by a majority
vote of the trial jury. The decision |
was sharply criticised in dissenting
opinions by Chief Justice Fuller and
Justice Harlan, in which Justices
Brewer and Peckhara concurred. Justice
White also presented an individual
opinion, but concurred in the result,
creat Salt lake coinc.
Level Constantly Dropping Deiplto a
Heavy Rnlnfall.
Salt Lake, Utah.?Great Salt Lake is
doomed. Readings taken by United
States Section Director Hyatt show
that despite the unprecedented rainfall
of the last three weeks the lake is two
feet six inches below normal.
The readings amazed Dr. Hyatt, who
expected, in view of the heavy precipitation.
that a rise would be shown.
Scientists are puzzled bj the drying up
of the lake. Some attribute it to a subterranean
outlet, others to evaporation.
Lincoln'* Ln?t Ju<?Re to Retire.
Henry ('. Caldwell, Federal Judge
of the Eighth Circuit Court at Little
Rock. Ail;., will retire from the bench
on June 30. Mr. Caldwell is the only
surviving annointoe 011 the bench of
President Lincoln, bo having been ap- |
poiutdl in 1804.
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Gunm Conneclr-tl by Cable.
The British cable steamer Anglia. engaged
in laying the Commercial Pacific
cable, arrived at Guam. She had jrood
weather throughou', and her trip from '
Manila was entirely successful.
Personal Mention.
Emperor William has declined to accept
a legacy of $.">00,000 left to him
by the Baroness Oppenheiin, and has
handed the money over to the military
charities.
Because he said that all the recent
Polish literature is worth nothing,
Henry Sieukiewlcz. once the idol of ,
Poland, has becomes its most uupopu
Inr citizen.
Wlien General Ludington retired
from the Quartermaster's Department,
he received from the officers who'
served under him a gold and silver
lovinz cun
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CROP LOSS $40,000,000
The Damage Done by the Floods i.i
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xne west
Hor? Harm Done to Corn Than Wheat
in Kanvag?Continued Wet Weather
Prevent* Cultivation.
New York City.?A special'dispatch
to the Tribune from Topeka. Kan., i
says:
It is estimated that the total damage
to crops and live stock in thp Kaw
Valley will be In the neighborhood of
140,000,000.
The damage to the-wheat crop of this
State from tlie flood will not be nearly
as great as many hare estimated. In
the first place, many of the great wheat
counties were not in the flood district.
The flood originated in the wheat belt,
hut came through only the eastern
part of it. Then the upland wheat 5s
entirely free from the effects of the
flood, even in the flooded counties. Of
course, in the bottoms, where a swift
current has washed over the fields the
crops are destroyed, but such fiplds
probably will not aggregate a third of
the acreage in the flooded counties,
while they will amount to only a small
per cent, of the total acreage of the
State.
A great danger to the wheat crop is
that the continued cold, wet weather
has caused the wheat to rust. Whether
this is the case cannot be ascertained
on account of the condition of the telegraph
wires, but it is probable that
considerable wheat rusted.
The damage to the corn has probably
been greater(than that to the wheat.
Not nearly all the corn has been
nlnnfrprl Iippauso nf tlip wet weather.
but a great deal which has been
planted has either been washed up or
covered so deep that it will not grow,
and much of that which remains:is so
weedy because of the continued wet
weather that it will be almost impossible
to get the weeds out. If it stops
raining and dries out within a few
days considerable corn may yet be, ,
planted, but.it looks as though the'
acreages of eood corn will bt? greatly
cut down. The flooded counties were
nearly all big corn producers. Governor
Bailey says he has only a small
part of his corn crop in on his farm In
Nemaha County, and docs not know
whether he wjll get it in or not.
"I saw many fields in coming around
from Kansas City the other day," he
said, "that are worthless because of
the weeds. It has been impossible to
cultivate them on account of the wet
weather. If what corn I have in on
my place is like that I shall slnmly
have it blacklisted between the furrows
and cover up corn, weeds and all.
That is the only way to get rid of the
mud."
FERRIS WHEEL SOLO.
The Fainonn Chicago Fair Attraction
Bring* Only SX800 at Anetlon.
Chicago. ? The Ferris wheel had
rather an ignominious fate in Judge
Chytraus's court when nobody could
1?p found who was willinc to nay more
than $1800 for It?engines and buildings.
boilers and all. Attorney H. M.
Seligman. who represents a 9rm of
junk dealers, bid $1800 for the wheel,
and as the only other offer was $800,
it was accented.
The Ferris wheel cost $302,000, and
was one of the wonders of the World's
Fair. There are $300,000. In bonds outstanding
against it and an indebtedness
approxlmating'$100.000. which the
$18.00 bid will helo to liquidate. The
wheel is now standing in Ferris Wheel
Tark on the north side.
DOES NOT BLAME RUSSIA.
Ambassador lVTcCnrmlrk Exonerates in
Klshineflf Mnnacrc.
New York City.?"The news from >
Kishineff was received just as I was
leaving Russia," said Ambassador MeCormick.
when he landed from the
Krouzprinz Wilhelm. "I suppose tlirl
the news camp to St. Petersburg in the
same way that it came here. I had not
been instructed by the' United States
Government to take any action.
"I do not liplieve that Russia fathered
the attacks on the Jews, or that
the Russian Government condoned
them in any way."
Asked if the law would be enforced
:i?i. r.nt. I
ai)Q IIIOSP 1UI uv via* |
rncrfs punished the Ambassador replied:
"That remair to be 3eeu."
BOY HERO LOSES HIS LIFE.
Tried to Sore Two Children From Burning
to Deatli~Attempt Failed.
Clinton. lad.?Benjamin Van Hou- ,
ten. a farmer weft of Clinton, lost j
three children in a fire. He was work- <
ins some distance from the house when J
the structure caught fire. His oldest ]
sou. thirteen, was working iu the field. (
The boy hastened to the rescue of his t
brother and sister, aged four and six. ,
who were in the house. He broke in <
the door, but was unable to reach the <
children, who were soon burned to 1
death. j '
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Tlie rescuer whs nm^scu . i?/.u ,
house by neighbors, but lie died in a (
few minutes. j
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Joke Rennlt* in a Girl's Sulcidc.
Mary McAndrew, aged seventeen
years, who is eniplo3*ed at one of the
factories at Seranton. Pa., felt ill and 1
to tease her the other employes of the | ,
factory told her that she was getting i
smallpox, that disease being epidemic.
This so worried the girl that she went : 1
home and her mother went to pet a 1 '
doctor for her. As soon as the mother
left the house the girl swallowed two {
ounces of carbolic acid. She died three \
hours later. i
Sailor* Handed For Sea Murder.
Gustavo Rau. a German, and William
Smith, an American, seamen of the ;
Ilritlsh bark Veronica, from Ship I si
and. -Miss., who 'ere sentenced to ,
death on May 14 for the murder of ^
Captain Shaw and six members of the ]
rrew, were hanged at Liverpool. Eng- 1
land. Ran protested his innocence on
the scaffold.
Curzon .Mas* Itcmuin Viceroy. I ^
Lord Curzon's term as Viceroy of Inilia,
which expires next September, will
he extended for two yours. (
Minor Mention.
The volume of trade in Manchuria
has doubled in five years. i
The twei'ty-seveu railway bridges on '
the Uganda (Africa) road are Ameri- '
can. j
Pneumonia has become so prevalent <
in Chicago that it approaches an epi- 1
i) mic J
-'allure of crops, disease among the
' ami over-uomilatien art- causing
acim distress in Java.
Within six mouths 120 new couip.i- | <
niis have beeu iueorporntcd whose
atnpt ntrtrrnvntps SI fiOl) UUU.OOO.
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TEE GREAT DESTROYER
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some startling facts ABOUT
the vice of intemperance.
Bobbed of nil Brain* by Llqoor?TJi#
Be*. Thomas B. Gregory Belate* m
Horrible Experience?The One Drink
That Wai a Death Warrant.
"Out in that one miracle of history," th#
great "Windy City-" by the "unsalted
eeas," there lives a man who could a "tale
unfold" of the woes of strong drink.
A few years aco this man. Whose name.
for tenderness' sake, shall be left for you
to guess, was a prince in the industrial
world.
He was worth his hundreds of thousands!
The* lord he was of a beautiful, happy
home. A lovely wife confided-^in nim and
was proud of him, bright-eyed children
met him when lie came home at night, innumerable
friends rejoiced in his prosperity!
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The old ada?e that "America is the land
of opportunity" was mightily corroborated
by this man's cane.
Beginning with the slenderest of means,
relying mainly upon his own pluck ana
gumption, the man w<? speak of soon forged
tc the front in splendid style!
While still a young man he found hin*
self at the head of a splendid^business.
Twelve hundred men were on his payroll,
and they were paid generously, regularly, ?
for the "boss" believed in fair play.
On the great west side his plant was the
wonder even of the enterprising denizens V
of that hustling, unterrified centre of
American strenuositv.
His profits were $30,000 a year. And as
the fates smiled upon him and hia bank
nnnniinf nronr nnH crraxi? ko mftra fin^%TWArft
let himself out in his generosity toward hia
family, his friends and the poor and the
needy round about him.
There was not a mean hair in his head.
His heart was as big as a mountain, and
his future looked as rosy as an Italian sky.
There are to-day in the city of Chicago
no less than twenty big men, the advance.
guard of the financially powerful ones of
the city, who, a few years back, were employed
by the man around whom this story
centres.
But'the man of whom I speak?where ia
he to-day? God only knows. j
A few days ago he .was brought up beiore
a Chicago justice of the peace charged with
a petty theft.
Already, I opine-, the reader is beginning . -h
to "'catch on" to the mystery in the case.
One word tells it all?whisky. This man
lived to be thirty-five years old before alcohol
ever passed his lips?and then he took
a drink. ? . * "a
That one drink was his death warrant.
That one drink loosed the furies which
pounced upon him and destroyed him.
That drink created a strange, fiendish
desire for another, the second led to still
another, and before he realized it his paradise
was gone and "desolation saddened
all the green."
He got drunk. And he got driink again,
and again, and presently he was a common
sot.
His magnificent business melted away
like a snowbank in the springtime; his
beautiful home was blasted, as though it j'i
had been stricken by the red lightning's
withering shaft. The light,in his children's
eyes went out, the iojr in his wife's soul
was turned to grief, ind to-day the once
brilliant, prosperous man, the pride of a
happy home and the marvel and wonder of
the whole community is a tramp, a coin- N
mon sneak thief, shivering, cringing, hating
himself and longing to die.
In the great city by the unsalted seas he
roams about penniless, homeless, friendless,
living on the charity of a few friends, hia
health gone, his brain addled, his whole
existence a perpetual nightmare.
It is the old, old story. And yet men
will not profit by it.
Oh, humanity, thou art the biggest fool,
the mo3t stupid, idiotic thing, in all the . - ;'f
world.
Wilt thou never learn*'wisdom? Wilt
thou never discover anrd respect the fact
that strong drink is hell?
What then? Assert yourselves. Exercise
vour will power. Be men.
Whisky never goes out into the street
after a man. The man goes in after the
whisky. The man who says: "I will not
touch the accursed stuff." and means what ' ^
he says, can go unhurt by miles and miles
of saloons. M
It is the man that goes in that gets hurt. 1 "I
have no one to blame but myself," er
claimed the,man I write of. That is what
he said the other day as be stood rageed
and shivering and miserable before the
Chicago justice. '-*\r
"I have no one to blame but rnvself, I
l i 1 L., i:
iiave^ ueen iuuucu ui my urmus uy iiquui>
and it is all my own fault."
This storv needs no comment. It speaks
for itself. It is its own terrible interpreter.
It is only necessary to remind the reader ~
that there is but one thing for him to do
if he would escape the fate that grappled
and crushed the poor fellow out in Chicago
?he must let whisky grandly alone.
He must eschew it as he would eschew ' ;*
the hell-broth mixed by Macbeth's witches
on the "blasted heath."?National Advo- -i
cate.
Tlitt GrowJnc Temperance QoeaMon.
Under this heading the Chattanooga
(Tenn.) Times says:
Delaware has got a temperance move
ment on its hands, too, and the indications
are that a local option lav will be passed
by the State Legislature. The Savannah
(Ga.) Morning News sees in thi9 a significant
indication of a erovth of the temperance
sentiment and believes that local option
is a sound American policy of local
self-government. A writer in the New
York American, who has studied the situation
all over the country with an especial
idea of analyzing the real cause of the
changing sentiment of the-people and limiting
the whisky traffic, which, be states, undoubtedly
prevails, finds the whisky people
have been largely resDonsible for their own
undoing. "Whisky dealers," says this authority,
"are outspoken lawbreakers, and
so flagrant and insolent have become their
disregard for the sensibilities of the better
jlements of the communities in which they *
3o business that they have at last brought
in themselves the condemnation of thac
arge class of conservative and liberal thinkers
who have stood between them and abio^ute
prohibition." Here we have a prettv'
tair representation of the situation which
? ' ' - 1 i.- i-L
OUgni to convey a warning iu me ucaicis
in this State, although it is exceedingly
ioubtful that it will.
Good A ((vice.
Mr. T. P. O'Connor, a noted Irish politi*
:ian and brilliant writer, closes an article
in the Royal Magazine with this good adrice.
to which wc wish every young man
would give heed:
''And let me whisper this word finally in
rour ear. It won't do you the least harm
f you are a teetotaler. You may lose something,
but you gain tenfold. I believe in
lalf a century from now no man will rise
o the height of any profession, in the
Jield, in the forum or at the desk, who is
lot a teetotaler." '
France.
The French Minister of War protested
igainst the Chamber of Deputies making
in appropriation for supplying the army
ivith wine. The Chamber of Deputies dii-ide.l
upon the matter, and the protest of
the Minister was disregarded by a small
niajontv. The event, however, marks a
tremendous advance in public sentiment*.
A Mlstiibe.
The mistake of the Stale is locking up
;he drinker instead of the drink.
Devil's Deputy,
'Where Satan cannot go in person, says
m old Jewish proverb, '"he sends wine."
Salooiilst Kninori Her Husband,
Both Sides, a liquor organ, notes with
iV.in that a Chicago jury lately assessed
'.amuses 01 S'A'fcX) against a saloon'* - -per for
soiling intoxicants to the Irisband of .Mrs.
Kranccs Htily, causing him to !<.=.! his posi:ion
anil to become so unbearable she was
jbliged to get a divorce from him. It
narns saloonkeepers that thev are in dan
? 1 * f.. I * ?.
?t. sum mat tnoy must oe 111 or a caiciui iu
ivlioni they sell.
The Citizens* League. of Chirr, go. in the
t*ear 1902 prosecuted 492 saloonkeepers for
celling liquor to minors or drunkards and
in a majdrity of eases convictions were secured.
The" largest number of c^ses handled
in a single mouth was forty-five.