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t COOO [COUNSEL FOR THE YOUNC. Dear children, hearken to advice. That vou may grow up sveet and nice; Oil! Do not fractious be and bold. j And. aye. be gentle to ihe old! When to dear grandpapa's you I Don't stamp upon his gouty toe. And in his lean and shrunken uliin* v j Do not stick old and rusty pins If grandma says, "Come, kiK* n.e. dear.'' JJon't ,iab the poker in ner ear; Or from her cap-stringe bite t!ie la-;e, Or paste scrap-pictures on li.v face. If at a nice old spinster aunt's A visit you should make by chance, I>>n*t with the scissors snip her frock. Or throw tomatoes at her clock. F<ir it's ov little things like the*' r Often your elders you displease; Oh! Pray be ca'.m and seif-contr>>lied? And never strike or scratch the .jld' ?Carolyn Wells, in I'uck. GOT THERE. ^ab?5raB?5rab jBsBaaeaBsc xjkS ^TT /lrvn'r noA/1 i f rn ?y # ? O 1 T* VU UVU I uvvu *?., U.J ... .... said Pfeineger. parrouizingv o V ? ljr" "There are wnie wo-, men who have to deck themselves out with Haunting silks and satins and frills and furbelows and gingerbread aud gewgaws. They've got to attract attention in some way. but you don't need it. You look well in any modest Iittl? thiug. ,You can lend distinction to your clothes." Mrs. Pfeineger looked pleaded "Ir's awfully nice of you to say r>o." she said, "but?" % "And another thing," continued Pfeineger; "we can't afford any needless extravagance. We aren't destitute, thank goodness! But it's just as well to practice judicious economy. Yes. I know you do; I'm not complaining. It seems to me. though, that, you have plenty of pretty little gowns. Where's that brown dress with the yeilow trimming? I never see you wear that BOW." -v- "I ripped that up last spring and had the skirt dyed and wore it out." "Well, you've lots of others. Wear r some of them. This isn't a royal visit, and Barker is just as plain as an old shoe." i '"His "wife may not be, though." '"Oh. hang her! Wear anything you like. I don't care what you wear." "I suppose," said Mrs. Pfeinegpr. after a short pause, "I might wear that little gray silk, but " "Why, of course. What's the matter ^ ith that? I declare, you wi>:neu get ue! You buy a dress and pay some * faucy price for it and then after you've worn it once or twice you go to work and rip it up or else have it altered. Here I've been wearing the saiuc dr?ss suit fdr five years and expect to wear it for five more, unless you let the moths get into it. and it's the same with hats. My hat " Mrs. Pfeineger sighed. "Very well, dear, I'll wear the gray," she said. Barker was an old friend of Pi'einek ger's?a friend of his youth. He had j gone to California about ten years before and had prospered. Pfeineger was walking along the street oue afternoon when he was nearly knocked down with a slap on the shoulder. It .was the long-lost Barker. He had altered in the ten years. Pfeineger was not quite sure that it had been for the better. He was broader of sirth and redder in the face, and it seemed as if jf- he was rather more boisterous in his manner than formerly. However, they lunched together and Pfeineger asked his old-time friend and his wife, who had accompanied him on his eastern trip, to dine with him. "I didn't hear that you had married. Bob," said Pfeineger. "I don't know that I would have believed it if I had lieard it. I always thought you were abovA such weakness." Barker again slapped him on the 6houlder, and keeping his hand pressed heavily there said in a husky Imt impressive whisper: "My boy. she's a corker!" When the Barkers made tliPir apr pearance Pfeineger could not help admitting that his friend's description of his wife was not altogether inaccurate. She was a tall woman, high colored and with flashing black eyes?rather too much color and rather too much flash about her. perhaps; but she was emphatically a "corker." She was attired In a costume of pale green ?atin. elaborately trimmed, that fitted her to a perfection, and when she sat down to ^ -dinner ana tne cnair.cnus mar covered her fingers up to the knuckles sparkled in the light of the candles Pfeineger could not help a sneaking feeling that poor little Mrs. Pfeineger was soine;what eelipsrd. The evening "was not exaclly a succc*s. Mrs. Barker was vivacious cuough. even to the point of smoking a cigarette after dinner. She played the piano, too. in a dashing port of way. 'Barker talked a great deal and rather boastfully of himself, and his pride in his wife was manifest. "Yes, we're going to stop here a week or two," he said once. "The madam here has got to buy a few more trunkfuls of dresses. I tell you, Pfeineger, v she keeps me broke about all the time." I.ater on. as Mrs. Barker was playing. Barker called Pfeineger's attention to one of her rings and told him the price. In was in vain that Pfeineger told himself that his guest was a vulgar, purse-proud upstart, and that he thanked the Lord that Ms. Pfeineger was not as Mrs. Harker. He could not . keep his eyes off the lady or her gowns or her rings. [ ' At breakfast the- next morning he suddenly said. "Mollie." Mrs. Pfeineger started a little. 4i\Vhat is it, James?" she asked. "Don't you think?er? that your wardrobe wants lookinc after a lit tie?" Mrs. Pfeineger is long-suffering, but her tone was rather Impatient as she answered that she had been trying to ? convince him of that a few days before. "I suppose you want me to look like the fascinating Mrs. Barker," she added. "Not by a long shot," said Pfeineger, iritb rathax warwUi if,, kmi- ; . "But?well. Is that gray dress th? best you have?" "It's about the only thing I have." she replied. "Then," aaiil Pfeineger. ".vou must go down town to si good dressmaker ; and get yourself fitted out. Yes. I i guess I can stand the expense. I'll bet ! i I I can match piles with Barker and top j hiui an inch or two for all his brag. ; ; Don't ask me what. (Set what you ' ; I want. Get plenty while you're getting and get them good." ; Of course tliar was a nice thing to < say, and of course Mrs. Pfeineger ' ; thanked him. but. somehow she did not j feel quite as delighted as Pfeineger felt ? she ought to be ?Chicago Daily News. J !; CRYSTALS AND CEMS. \ Beaattes Th?t M?y B? Ob??rv((l Through ^ :? Magnifying Glues. I Sketching crystals is fine and delicate j work, requiring much study, a sharp- j, lmiv* tuarinil Mjul ;i stt'.-nlv h;ind. I"""-" ? ? b I First of all, having .selected your nest j, of crystals, it is well to study all the ^ books have to say about them, their j angles, cleavage phuies, luster, etc., ^ then take a large ore magnifying glass _ ! and examine them closely under it. An ^ unexpected world of beauty will thus g often be revealed. If the crystals are ^ in a little geode or cavity, such as is ^ common in the zeolite class in volcanic p rocks, you may see the fairy-like cav- p ern lined with sparkling gems, from which radiate tufts of tine silken hairs with a big gem crystal set in the ^ midst; sometimes the caverns contain ^ purple gems of amethyst or fluorspar. |, You will observe crystals that have ^ been stunted in their growth or mis- 0 shapen by tiie pressing agaiuai lurui p of other stronger growing crystals. : You may see flue .striae or parallel ^ lines or indications of twinning of (j crystals; you will notice also the lines |j of cleavage characteristic of certain 0 crystals and invisible to the naked eye, v also crystals that have been broken ^ and faulted and recemented by min- y eral matter. : Having thus thoroughly studied the a crystals, place them on a piece of white n paper in strong' light and shadow. s Draw the outlines clear ami strong. ^ and the angles and faces of the crystal n sharpiy. Some crystals resemble one another so closely, like certain forms 0 of calcile and quartz, that only by very , careful drawing can one be ilistin- n guished from the other, especially. without the use of color. In highly j . . t?" colored ores and crystals smue uuuuful realistic effects have been obtained , by photo-lithography in colors, but many ores and crystals have no dis- ) tinctive colors; then you must rely on form. A/rain, some forms of crystals are identical in form with others of an entirely different order and you may _ have to distinguish them by color. ' Shading, especially in transparent crystals. should be used sparingly, except when the shadow is very pronounced; 1 or when the bases of thp crystals descend into the dark depths and recesses of the geode cavern. To bring out distinctly the forms of white 01 translucent crystals it may be well to slride a dark background back of them. j Sometimes a row of quart .-rystals in the centre of a vein is locked in 1 . the embrace of an opposite set. like a row of clenched teeth. Occasionally those are beautifully tinted with ame thystine purple, whilst back of them is :i layer of milky white opaline quartz, agate or chalcedony, anil back of that a dense layer of red, yellow or variegated jasper. In drawing crystals the , main point to be aimed at is their char- : acteristic shape or grouping, so that any one seeing the sketch may reeog- e nize them as belonging to a particular 11 family. When crystals are very small, f as in twin crystals of tw,in, or in cr.vs- ? tals of telluride ores, it is legitimate * to magnify the crystal so as to bring * out its distinctive ftatures. Some ores ^ form a series of concentric rings, like 0 green malachite and blue azurite of * copper; they had better be represented ^ by theii natural vivid colors.?Mines T and Minerals. , ? i E ; r The Admiral Failed to Get a Doe. 1 j( Admiral Sterling almost became the j, possessor of a coach dog, and some one j in Honolulu a loser thereby. The dog , lias u habit of following people to whom he takes a fancy, and there is j -(V ???.n 1,? ft : 1LU suaIV! 11^ 11: 111 utl UI1111 cun.cc* *1 j into his lioad that a change of masters is desirable. In some Way h? followed ; an officer down to the naval station. I One of the clerks saw the dog and ; made inquiries from other station at- j taclies, but no one seemed to know j anything about it. A telephone mes- j sage came to this inquiring clerk i shortly afterward asking whether such ' a dog was at the station. The clerk } replied that it was there and tied up, j and the person at the other end of the j 'phone said that dog was probably the i one intended as a gift for Admiral Sler- I ling, but had been sent to the wrong i place, and the clerk was asked if he j would kindly present thp dog to the admiral. The clerk was unable to com- j ply with the request just at that time, i owing to the stress of work. Later in the day. in tt inking over his telephonic instructions, he came to- the conclusion that the voice had a familiar sound, and he forthwith smelt a rat. The dog is still at the station awaiting his owner. Admiral Sterling didn't need a dog, anyhow.?Honolulu Commercial Advertiser. Curious " Gootl-Eyn." When a Turk bids farewell to a friend he solemnly crosses his hands on his breast and makes a profound bow. The natives of New Guinea, 011 tlip other hand, exchange chocolate, j conveying an expression of confidence in each other as well as a salutation. In the Fiji Islands two cardinal-colored feathers are crossed and the Burmese gentleman murmurs soothingly, "I-Iib, liib!" In Japan your friend takes off his slippers and says: l,I regard thee." Dangerous Bacteria. It is the bacteria that have oecome virulent by feasting on human tissues that are dangerous. A soiled bottle returned to the milkman by a mother I whose baby had a diarrhoea will infect ; the score or more of bottles that are 1 wasnea m tue same water witn it. ] i Invention of Decimal Fraction*. Decimal fractious were invented l*y j a German, Joliann Mueller, of Nurern-, , berje. in tlie Year 1464. I VX?(WSlZi}Z( - agiaiK>8!gt8 | Servia is a I 1 The People Are CI ^ Religious?=Sc H Their ( By Emma P< luailiii AOX, HE Servians, who cal ^ themselves Serbs or Sorbs > rI ^ o claim descent from a com ( munity of Slavs invited bj %rov the Bmneror Heraellus tc ieupie ilie Dauubian lands laid wast< >y tlie Avars. This stock to-day, it Europe, numbers over 80,000,000,500,000 l>eing settled in Servia. Bj inguage and race they belong to Rus ia. and a common saying with then 5: "The Germans have reached theli lay; the English their midday; th< French their afternoon; the Italian: heir evening; the Spaniards theii light;, but" the Slavs stand on th( breshold of their morning." Thf Servians are more purely Slavs thac heir neighbors, the Bulgarians. When bey adopted Christianity, part of the eople joined the Greek Church and art the Church of Rome. For a brief period during the reign f one man, Stephen Dushan from 1332 3 13"?3, there was a powerful Servian insrdoui. iucludine Bosnia. Herzeeov la and much of Macedonia. But after is downfall and the disastrous flight f his successor at Kassova the com oneat parts of this Servia fell asunder Many of the Servians remain in lacedonia to-day?in the sections nown as Old Servia?while the warke Montenegrins are the descendants f the aristocracy of ancient Servia rho fled to the mountain fastnesses be ween the Adriatic and the Valley o! leta after the defeat at Kassova. In the Ottoman invasion the Servians long the Danube were conquered aany of the nobles, ip order to pre erve th^ir privileges, adopting Mo ammedauism. Thoy are a gentle-man ered people, however, and do not in L?rfere with their Christian brothers f the Greek or Romish Church. The Servian language is flexible ausical and powerful. Song is heart KINO PETER I. OF 8EBVIA. verywhere, and the wanderinj oinstrel still traverses the countrj rooj ca&tle to castle, singing of the [lories ;f Servia as she was prior tc he defeat of Kassova. They are verj oud of the grand old hymns of the ireek Church. One noticeable feature f their songs is the keynote of hope ulness and brightness. Many of theii iallads are like Longfellow's "Hia ratha" in meter. Of their poetry i ias been said to be "like tlieir owi mountainous land, wild, stern am ugged, but d-iversifled by smiliDg val eys and fruitful fields, showing that i s capable of development and eultiva ion." The versification is regular. KING ALEXANDER AND QUEE VIA, WHO WERE H As a people the Servians are simplf minded, hospitable, honest, dignified There is a great prejudice against law fers all through the land, and the have in the Interior what are known a "reconciliation, houses," in which case SB. v i jasgstasggggBsafflfflg Peculiar Nation. | M ean, Hospitable and ^ >mething About Customs. ? m Fwf iddock Telford. iJSi m 1 are decided by the village elders wilh, out expense to the litigants. The coui mon people are grave and religious by r character, many of them holding three ) daily prayer meetings. At the table i each individual aeks a blessing ou the i food. In drinking, even, the toast of - the Servians is "to the glory of God," r and no one, it Is said, would take his - seat at the head of a convivial party i who could not extemoorize a suitable j r SERVIAN NOBLEMEN A,< prayer. There ar- few great land owners. Each family owns the land it tills, and with the most imperfect methods of agriculture manages to draw from it a livelihood. Scarcely a third ol' the ground is under cultivation, however,.owing to the fact that there are so few day laborers. -1.1 - ?.14-1, 4-1 When a cultivator is not mut- wuu iue > help of bis family to harvest his own hay or wheat lit- calif, upon his neighbors, and in return offers his own services. At the end of each harvest is a festival called the nioba, when nil men and women engage in the kola, or national dance. An immense circle is formed of men and women alternating, I and holding each other by the hand or waist. In the centre the gypsy band ; plays the national airs. r The circle revoives siuwiy, m tuivcs i ?the steps, a series of .small standing > jumps, executed with great.decorum, r No Servian will consent to be a house ; servant?even the cooks and men i servants coming from Croatia, Austria - or Hungary. Maize is the principal p crop, the rest of the arable land being - given to potatoes, hemp, vines, tobacco, t rye, wheat and corn. i The climate and vegetation are much 1 like the South of England. The slopes - are covered with strawberries, the fort est glades with raspberries and black berries, while pears, cherries, plums and apples grow even in the woods. I DRAGA, THE RULERS OF SER eCENTLY ASSASSINATED. ; Lilies bloom on nil the hill sides and I. flowers are everywhere. The pig has always been to Servia v the chief source of her commercial s wealth and the prime factor la politics. 9 Until twestfy years ago, Innumerable \ . . . : . f , : ?r '> herds of these auiiuals. almost wild, fattened in the glades of the vast T'II/ATT Tirana {.fAimllf vs*,*. luiuaif. IUCJ vrac uiuu^ui in droves toward the Danube and sold for consumption in Austria and Hungary. Now the oak forests are devastated to a ?reat extent, for the Servian takes from fhe soil but never gives back?and American bacon is used everywhere. Small wonder that Prince i Alexis a few years ago should have felt emboldened to meditate, an alliance between himself and the daughter of an American millionaire pork packer as 'all in the trade." The Servian woman, according to ancieut tradition, holds an inferior and somewhat servile position, and not until .she becomes the mother of children does she amount to much in the estimation of her family. This was one of the reasons that impelled Queen Draga to try and palm ./m t *Ui\A ~ ~ U ? _ on ner sisitri 3 cuuu as uer uwu. iu the wedding ceremony the presence of a new born child la deemed a. most 5 THEY ARE AT HOME. essential feature. When King Alexander was married the -wedding wus celebrated with a minute observance of all the traditional ceremonies and customs of the Greek C'hurch. As the Queen descended from her carriage a piece of white linen woven in the country was spread upon the ground. As soon as the brid^ crossed It, It was rolled up in order that no other foot might tread upon it. At* the entrance door of the Konak, her aunt presented a sieve of seed corn, of which the Queen took three handfuls, tossing them over her head. She [ then emptied the sieve upon the i ground. On the threshold the bride was pre- ( sented with a plate of bonbons, one of , xrnmmmmmmMsm ' A MIDI LB-CLASS SERVIAN WOMAN' IN < HOME DBESS. j j ' whirh she placed between her lips, 1 while the King bit off the other half. ?' The bridegroom then took into his i arms a new born boy, lent for this special occasion by the minister. Alexander kissed him, then laid him in the arms of the Qneen, who. after kissing i him three times, returned with him to j his mother with the present of a new ; shirt. This child is called N'akonyese, I "the most essential." The scattered corn denotes that the j bride brings witn her joy and prosper- ] ity, while the divided bonbon means ! || that no bitterness snau uiviue mem. j t After all these ceremonies the bride ? must still stand at the threshold until. ' provided with a loaf of bread under \ either arm and a bottle of wine in her 1 hands, she enters her future liome. I f Servian women are good housekeep- i ers and travelers rejoice to find scrupu- I a lous cleanliness, snowy sheets and com- j ] fortable heddin??essentials lacking in ' \ most of the other Balkan states. The ? people are extremely fond of taking their meals al fresco, and nearly all the hotels of the cities and larger towns have charming gardens inclosed in the quadrilateral formed by their dependencies, where all sup In the open air, surrounded by trees and dowers. The women of the cities combine European and Oriental fashions in their dress. An embroidered 6klrt and neckerchief cover the bust, held in place with flowers or a gold pin. A heavy brocaded sash Is usually thrown around the waist and hangs in front of the gay silk dress, which Is made in European style. An abundance of jewelry completes the costume, whose beauty is marred by the foolish custom of dyeing the hair and staining the eyebrows and Hps. The arrangement of the. hair is peculiar, a slick black braid colled around a light scarlet fez, Its crown covered with embroidery.-* ( Brooklyn Eagle. . i THE TOWER OF JEZREEL The 'Memory of an Extinct Sect of Religious Fanatics. On the summit of Chatham Hill, says The London Sketch, there is colossal structure that forms a landmark for. miles around. If is known THB TOWEB OP JEZREEL. as "Jezreel's Tower," and was erected not so very many.years ago by an extinct sect called tlie Jezreelites. Their leader, one White?or, as he preferred to call himself, "James Jeershom Jezreel"?had previously been a soldier, but found more profitable employment in preaching a faith which promised Immortality to all its believers. Money flowed into the exchequers of the "faithful," and the "Temple of Jezreel" was commenced, "for the housing of 144,000 persons who were not to taste death." However, before rhe building was completed the faith of the immortal Jezreelites received a rude shock. White died, and most of the money also disappeared. It is, perhaps, needless to say that the faith of the Jezreelites in their own immortality died with. him. A half-finished, ugly, gaping mass of bricks and iron still remains?a not inappropriate reminder r\P annh o nlona nf mnnnmPntfll fnllv A Glnot Sasrfufraa. The accompanying picture shows the largest sassafras tree I have ever seen or heard of. The tree measures thirteen feet in circumferenre and its height must be between forty and fifty feet. The tree stands iu the township of Red Hook, Dutchess County, New York, about two or three miles southeast of Tivoli, on the road from Tivoll to Upper Red Hook. I have driven past this tree every spring for nearly sixty years. The trunk is now a mere shell. and I desire to place on record the portrait of this venerable tree before it vanishes. Years ago the tree cvas covered with wild grape, and ?very spring it was covered with bloom the fragrance of which made the old I tree famous. At such times the tree tvaa enveloped by a cloud of insects attracted by the blossoming of the grape. The hum of myriad winprs made a memorable sound.?D. P.. in Country Life in America. The Latent Disease. Fanitis is the latest malady to attack the human race. It Is a disease to which only civilized people are subject. Moreover, it is prevalent in sumner, and persons who frequent sumner gardens and cafes are liable to be( lumbered among its victims. It is lothing more than an ordinary cold or leuralgia produced by the drafts creat>d by electric fans. Nevertheless, physicians, In a spirit of humor, have chosen to give it a semi-scientific iame, and many practitioners are conIdent the malady under its new nomenclature will prove as popular as la yrippe or appenuicius.?.\ew iwb Press. Round Boats on the Knphrate*. At Amarah, an Arab town of sunJried bricks, situated on the verge of i bank a little above the broad, turbid yaters of the Euphrates River, we saw for the first time those wonderfully mcrent boats?ancient even when Ke odotus mentioned them?called "ku^ - - J? as" or "gophers." They are deep, ound baskets, in appearance sonievhat like the coracles of the ancient Britons, and are covered with bitumen, vltli incurved tops.?Wide World Magizlne. Charles F. hur^ly, ncad of Taminauy Hall. - - s .1. THE GREAT DESTROYER 1 | SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT TUP Wire CtC IWTPMPPSAWrF if! J Ifoem: Th? Saloon Keeper'* Cub Druwm Bell?A Terrible Arraignment of thm Bum Demon?Many Are FuUoned to a Degrading Death by ThU Foal Harpy. Thrifty, 0 master, the ca3h drawer bell Tinkles fctjo tidings that all is well; That your coffer is tilling with good realm't cash, " That your silver greets gold with a gleecome CylW. ' - ? ' Sweeter to you than a seraph's song, Ih the music that peais? from your awb drawer go'ijr. i But, O while ye ring for the gold of price, Gathered by sin and in avarice? Ring for the things no gold can buy, The wealth beyond traffic and usury. Ring for the lives of good men lost, Burnt an a wisp in a holacauat: i King for tlie lire tnat was due the world, Blasted and down to destruction hurledRine for a father once strong and brave, Whose son lien wrapped in a drunkard'* grave. Ring tor the msther with prayers and tears, v'J Her .hair grown gra> with the ^ yearsi- f' Ring for fcHe*wife with her sullied name, A broken" heart and a living shame. Ring for tne $fildren with tainted blood Coursing their vein* like a poisoned flood. v-ft I Ring for the home with its hallowed blisa| -Turned to remorse and'to bitterness. Ring for the hope that for years has lain . .J Dead, like a friend on the battle plain. I Ring for the hope with its.warm, dead face, Its arms yet clasped in a last embrace| Ring for the joy that might J>ave been, -.vft Turned to a pain and a flaunting sin. ] Ring for the peace Christ meant Mould be^ A foretaste sweet, of eternity. Ring for the holiness life has missed, Sacred and sweet as the eucharist. Ring, 0 bell, for the drunkard's death, And the curses that died on kis latest breath. ( Rine, 0 bell, for the drunkard dead, ) Whose life was wasted and blasphemed. Solemn, my master, the cash drawer bell, Tolls on the air a funeral knell. Some one has murdered a man to-day! *3 j What Will- the Judge on the Great Throne say? Carved on the stone on Sinai's hill Is the law of the Prophet, Thou Shalt Not Kill! Who shall plead of this foul crime, Before God's bar in the Judgment time? ?S. B. McManus, in the Ram's Horn. The Destroyer. :*|%j If war has slain its thousands, intemperance has slain its tens of thousands. And whpTV" in the fat.lipr wlin mniiH tint nrpfer ' to see his eon shot down before his face than to behold him poisoned to a degrading death by these foul harpies whom le'gion has employed? And who are the men whose fate Jiaa been thus sealed in hopeless ruin? They are young. They were seized and bound v/hile young. Hardly one in hundreds has passed the maturity of his earthly dayd. Did tr>$y begin as purpossd, willing drunkards? Nothing was further from. 'Jjj their thoughts or their desires. They have waded out most gradually, almost imperceptibly, into the deep. They once looked down upon the inebriate sot with sorrow and contempt, as others now look down upon them. They started with the drop their fathers gave them, or with the offered glass of friendship, at noon or night, when thev lacked the courage to refuse. The de mon seized them when they were sheltered. as they thought, far from his abodes, and led them on, his purpose fixed, though yet unknown to them, for their final ruin. Where did this work of ruin begin? Do . not tell me at the tavern or in haunts like that. What gave to pure and innocent youths that taste for taverns? Where did % they get the appetite which sought its objects apd its pleasures there? You will be compelled to look back far beyond their public limit, and to feel and to acknowledge the responsibility often coming nearer home. The moderate drinker is but an in- , dentured apprentice to the drunkard. A gracious divine providence may cripple his ability in his youth, and he may not thoroughly learn his trade. But the habitual glass, howeyer apparently refined, signs his indenture. And rto one who starts as an apprentice of the craft, or who leads another to take a single step in its clearly marked line, has power to define the limits f the course. God grant that we may never lire to see our sons and daughters, so precious in our fiizht. cast out to perish under the destroy ing power of this legion demon! But if we would avoid this terrible sorrow let us avoid all connection with tke habits of the ' trade. Let us remember that he plucks the lambs from the flock at home, and selects the victims for his holocausts when thev and theirs least expect his approach. If you will save the souls of your chil- ' dren from the destruction, or yourselves "yj from all participation in the ruin, banish the "accursed thing" from your habitation; lock up the tempting bottles from their sight and neither have, nor offer upon. your tables this unnecessary inducement to vice, this direct provision for impoverishment of the health, poison to the bodies, and destruction of the souls of yourselves, and your children, and your friends. -The Rev. Stephen H. Tyng, D. D. -1 How to Treat the Intoxicated. lender this heading the Vegetarian tells how an intoxicated man can be instantly sobered by the application of cold water. Referring to the use of cold water as recounted by some physicians of olden times in cases ef insanity it quotes from an an- -" %$ cient author the following: -3^ "That wiiich will make a drunken man sooer in a minute ougin *? ca.c a mau uiau in a month. If a drunken fan is plunged into cold water he will come out perfectly sober, and I have known some that have recovered by simply wetting their heads in cold water." Another physician who has had large experience in hospital practice, says: ''In our missionary dispensary work here in this city we have had the most wonderful results from the use of the cold spray in such eases. Men who have been so intoxicated that they coald not stand upon their feet, by being placed under a cold shower for a few moments, have spruug out of it perfectly sober, exclaiming, 'You have wrought a miracle.' Sometimes such men have ?or.e out and gathered in other poor drunicards that the same mi^'ht be done for them. "'Applications of cold water act as a sort of tire alarm to every part of the system, and enable the nerve centres to rise above the depressing influences of the alcohol. [ Jmmeuiately lollowing the application of cold, wnetner it De a co.a sneet pacs. a cold full bath, or a cold shower bath, not applications snould be placed to the spine and the patient should be vigorously rubbed with a dry towel so ia to promote vigorous reaction. TerMmony of Carnegie. , In an address delivered at Pittsburg fiome years ago to youug men, Mr. Carnegie laid great stress upon the necessity of avoiding strong drink. He said in part: "I am not a temperance lecturer in disguise, but a man who knows and tells you what observation has proved to him, and I say to you that you are more likely to fail in your career from acquiring the habit of drinking liquor than from any of th* other temptations likely to assail you. You may yield to almost any other temptation and reform, but from the insane ?.? im*AuoiVi!o T UlUSb JAM UIIUUl I* ....pww.viv. .?. have known but of few exceptions to thi* rule.'' Tw? Chacka^ We have heard of two ways in which men tending to become drunkards rec ed the check they needed. In the one caae ? man who did not know he was drank talked freely about his private affairs, an* a friend made a stenographic report for his benefit. In the other case a friend took & snap-shot and showed him the picture. Ia both cases the victims were horrified to 'earn how easy it is for a man in drink to make an ass of himself without knowing it. Alcohol insanity is a well-recognized form of mental alienation, and its victims are to be found largely in town* and cities where the drinking customs are mod prevalent.