Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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r_ W . COME TO ME, LITTLE ONE. ' pome to mo. lit tie one. drowsy and dear. | r Mother will spare me lior darling awhile. ' I am so lonely when twilight ih here! i- Lie in my arnic, love, aud nestle and smiie. l 1 nave no mtie one. ucanc, ukc you. jNo little hand to hold close in the ni.'ht, | WO one to dream of the lonely hours r?v through. fNo one to wake for when Clod sends the I. lightSou are *orrv? Oh, blew you. mr sweet! J ar lit tit? fingers that wi^e ott the tears! I (tittle soft body and little'white feet, A How will they treat you?the terrible j jj| years? / liife is so fair to a baby iike you! ri All things are wonderful under the sun, Rainbows are real and all stories arc true, j .Would they might be so when childhood jr is doue. (Wide little eyes that are questioning so. J "vLife is no stranger to you than to me. The secrets worth knowing I never shall i know; The end of the rainbow I never shall see. * 6o. little drowsy one, nestle and sleep? .) Lullaby, baby" oh lullaby-low. BPhere always in peace in the dreams that ar? deep? i Lullaby, little one.-lullabylow. ??Elaa Barker, in Woman's Home Com pinion v ?1 aaBBr8B9BDSBBnBMDMCOHni [j r j An Old Maid's j j I Secret. | 711 1TTLE Miss Sophie was an ftQ)-1 Bag old maid, which means r I T. H | that she had passed thiri ! J ' ty-flve without either a f gfej)1 serious courtship, an offer bf marriage or the least indication that she would ever experience either. Once. 8udecd, when she -\Va8 quite a child? tonly twenty-four?there had heen a young man. a very pious. well-nf*iirbered young clergyman. who?but that seemed lifce a dream to Miss Sophie now. She might have doubted whether he jever lived if he had not given her that little old Book of Common Prayer and the faded daguerreotype of himself in that little folding case in the corner of jthe "what not." He had been her one ("possibility," remote always, but now nut nf thn Aiinpp l)t> h.Til married his cousin to phase his father, land was now a fat bishop as well as the father of a large family. ;i For four years now Miss Sophie had Jbeen "mothering" the two children of k 'her acud sister. Until Mattie grew B old enough and strong enough to go to work Aunt Sophie had been hard put W io it to make ends meet in the little ^ household. She had sewed and mend1 ed, milked her cow. tended her own chickens.' cooked, scoured, and saved to keep Mattie and the boy, Harry, hleccntly at school. She had even found time to do some plain sewing for the neighbors, and i: was agreed on all sides that Aunt Sophie hadn't "a lazy 'bone in her body." Mattie's ,wnges as a "maciiiue girs in tne nut^ ion factory helped wonderfully in Ibis W0 email household, but it made,thy old W maid's heart bleed to see her sot off I (for the shop every morning, and poor ' jHarry, who was ten, looked very disieonsolate loitering away to school [without his sister. i| Mr. Kingsland, the button manufacturer, had been very kind to Miss Sophie and to Mattie. lu fact, he had ffcade a place"' for the rhihl, and" had W' jgonc out of his way to advauce her r 4a the works, with a corresponding inF grease of pay. But lie whs a practical Sbusiness man for all that, and the hours -were long, the work hard and lithe wages not over much. It little jtowns like Belleville everybody knows everybody, and Mr. Kingsland had special reasons for knowing Aunt Sophie. jHcr Brotner uaa worKeu an me iacjtory. and it seemed quite fair and natural that lie should be kind to the iorphans. But ?his kiud of interest iiardiy explained his first visit to the 'old maid's house, nor the repeated attentions which he showed her. He was . [forever asking her advice about tlrp' w jireatment of the girls at work in his ?$? factory, and Sunday seldom passed . r Svilhout a visit, long or short, from 'Mr. Kingsland. j( He was pleased to take 1ea with ,!tliem once or twice, ami he showed Buch an interest in "her children." 'such a fatherly regard for Mattie, such Ian amused friendship for little Harry, such a frank and generous desire to be ^ * kind t>o everyone, that little Miss Sophie came to regard liiiu as something less than a wealthy patron, something 'more than a mere acquaintance. There ^ fwas no nonsense about him, and his mm presence in the house, though a cause of restraint at first for both Mattie and :Der Drotner, came to seem so natural "that the checrful little housekeeper airways laid his plate for Sunday supper, ;and the- girl and her brother always Jilrcssed in their finest ami smiled their ;sweetest when they knew lie was coming. J Som-'timcs when the child i*n were not present he would si', iu the vtranda .with Mi S3 .Sophie and tell her old stories of his past life?plain, unvarnished jtales of his struggles for an education 'and a living?an unromanrie story full lof the grim realities of a poor boy's liopcs and disappointment .*. lie had ^ never married. He had been too busy ^ /with the harsher affairs of iife. \> "I don't know that anyone would llha.e mo." ho would laugh. 'I'm sixty (years old, a plain old bear: now, don't you think so. Miss SophieV" i> And she would reply with some trite old sophistry, as '"Handsome is as handsome dors," or "Nrvor too late to mend." But when hi- was gone, a [, lou'-seine giant trudging away to his 1 furnished room in the hotel, she would sit alone for hours after the children 'had som* to bed and wonder if his jvisits?, if his eoiifidential manner and talk, if his extraordinary interest iu flier and the Mitie ones "meant :iny'tbing.' And if to? J "Suppose." sl.e would say. looking Into her little :nirror at her own round. Icbcerful, h:uidKon;e face, "suppose he ehoukl? What V Ask you to marry 'him. AVhaf wouid you say'/" And y*'.r wo-.t'd simile a little doubtfully, ?? she shook ner head, and. put 'tint out the liffhl. lay down to think il m mm' all over. There was nothing particularly romantic about Miss Sophie. She was a demure, modest little soul, but. being a woman, she could not avoid pondering such a denouement for this persistent friendship of a man whom everybody admired and respect *- A ed. It was in sucu icrius uiuc ouu thought of him. He was no hero in her eyes, for the little old maid didn't "go in" for heroes. She fancied that ho would make a goulle. eousiderate. "safe" husband for auy woman, aud "He's like a father to the children already," she caught herself saying one night. And after that she thought of Kingsland in a uew light. What an advantage it would be for Mattie and Harry to have a guardian, a protector, a father like that? Mattie, poor child, was not Stted for such hard work. The'opportunities for a girl, or even for a boy, were so small in the small town. Then they were such pretty, imaginative, amiable children. She. Aunt Sophie, had already determined to devote her life to theili. Why not complete her devotion to them by "marrying Kingsland"? Her reflections always came back to that. At last one night he called a little later than usual, while Mattie and Har | ry were at the concert. Miss Sophie noticed that he was "dressed up," and she felt the fever of curiosity and fear i come into her plump cheeks and bright ieyes. She had let him into the little parlor, but he stopped her with: ''Don't mind the light. Miss Sopfije. I just want to say a few things. I feel more collcctci!. easier, in^.'^a dark." j The scared little spinster wq^pj^d if she might faint, but sat downi>in 'the far corner with a queer little sigfi. He went on. speaking rapidly, and very plainly: "I am thinking pf getting married. Miss Sophie. Tbat is, within the next year or so. Meanwhile I want to do something for you?the children. I'd like to send Maiiie to some good school. No. no! She needn't know anything about it. And Harry? | I want Harry to keep on at school and j take a course of manual trainiug. It can be a secret between us?between J you and me. Will you agree to help me do this, Soph?Miss Sophie?" "Oh, yes, Mr. Kingsland. It is kind, so kind of you, but, but how are we to repay?It will cost so much." "Never mind that?now," he said. "I want Mattie for my wife " "Mattie'." she whispered, choking down a sob, wondcriug at her own composure. "'Yes, Miss Sophie, Mattie. I haven't said a word to her. I mean to give her a little more education?without her knowing, and then, if she will have me?what's the matter, Miss Sophie?" For the poor little woman was- weeping. But she calmed herself directly and said: "But if she won't have you then?" "Oh, I'll thick none the loss of her ! and?and?we'll keen this secret be- ; tween us. Miss Sophie."?John II. Raf- ! trrv. in tho Chicago Record-Herald. . " i Hor.HuK ao Automobile. If you should want to hire a l)i? j Panhard motor car for a Sunday out- i ing, and spoke for it in time, you could ' have it for S100 for tlie day. If you ouly wanted it for an afternoon, a fifty- I dollar bill would pay for the privilege I of riding in the maA|^>f a millionaire, ' With the car an cj^^Kaccd chauffeur ' would be furnishllfftud unless you ! were willing to take him along, you 1 couldn't rent the autofnobile under any j circumstances. A machine that costs j $t>000, ami whose parts cannot be du- I plicated this side of Franco, is not to j be trusted to any one save a good chauffeur. One shop lip-town has two of these ir.otoi cars that are used for demonstrating. towing broken-down automobiles and general business purposes. ! When there is nothing else for them to J do they may be rented at the prices i mentioned, though the proprietors of } the shop are not at all anxious to let ; them out. The wear aud tear on an j automobile is so great that renting them at $100 is in no sense a profitable enterprise. What a man who owns a touring car may pay for repairs?and not extraor- , dinar}' ones either?and tLe keep of the machine, is instanced by the year's bill of the owner of a $15,000 car. It amounted to $3200, and this did not include the wages of the chauffeur, whose salary was $150 a month, or about as much as the average captain of a trans Atlantic iiner is paid.?New York Press. Llzarcli. , j SomOj^f the most curious of our reptiles arfe to be found among tbo lizards. : Ono of the best known Is the so-called "horned toad." which is common in the arid regions throughout the West. I , kept a number of the little fellows in j captivity* last summer and they became ' so tame that they would take ants and flies from my fingers. i Another remarkable reptile is the leg-1 less lizard, the so-called glass-snake or joint-snake, which is quite common in the woods of the South. If this creature is hit with, a stick, the chances are that it will break up into a number of fragments, in a manner very surprising to one who witnesses the act for the first time. As a matter of fact, the fragments which come off are postanal?that is, they are really parts j of the tail?so that the reptile does not . perish as a result of Its brittleness. i The much-talked-of Gila monster is ; an orange-aml-black lizard found in the ; southwestern part of the United States, j ll?> imr ir> iiruuuiuus, uuu avian a t dangerous. ? Woman's Home Com-j panion. j I The Lout Chord. Among tlio lot of inmates at the as?, lum, the most conspicuous was a long- j liaircd man. who sat by tlio window | drumming Ids fingers excitedly on the window sill, as if playing a piano. "What was the cause of his aberration '{" I asked the keeper, "ills is a peculiar case," was the answer, "lie Is a German musician. He was in Ilackensack once, playing the piano. Mosquitoes were thick; they got on his music sheet and he unobservcdly played the mosquitoes for notes. The harmonies resulting were more beautl.1 1- - I...1 1, uu mail any ne nau uvtu uwiu um-n, | lie became enraptured, but Hie nios- j quitocs flew away anil :i repetition was impossible. Ever siiice thrn lie has beeu seeking for the combination, but can't find It. It was 'tbo lost chord.' "?New York Times. I ^"catching _ r? CM AT T WTTAVTTC 4 NEWFOUNDL^ J r~ IS1IEK.MEN* who live in ] New York, and there arc J Km "P || II thousands oC them, are WW lill'l porting out their tackle for a final overhauling, and soon they will bo off after all sorts of finny, swimming things, from mountain trout to deep sea base and btueflsh. Some* one has lately brought out a guide book which points the way to nearly 150 fishing places about New York. These and many others as yet undiscovered by the general public will be fished and fished again. Then will come a new series of fish stories. It is so every HEAD OF A WHALE CAUGHT | year, and it is a poor fisherman mi deed who in the fishing months canj not assimilate enough stories to last him the rest of the year. More than one New York man Is Hkely to return from coming summer vacations with most unusual tales, for an entirely new fishing ground is to be exploited. Those who have discovered it are not trying to keep it a secret, for the trip is a long one and the sort of fishing they have in view impossible to one who does not own a steam yacht. "If j'ou hear some chronic fisherman telling next fall how he caught a whale of a fish?say eighty feet long and weighing no end of tons." snid a fishing tackle man to a Tribune reporter the other day. "be careful how you call him a liar. It may be true." "An eighty foot fish." exclaimed the visitor. "No man could hope to put down a story like that." "Yet I have sold fishing tackle this year to several men wuu uope m can-u fisli that size," he responded deliberately. "And I think they will be successful." "They must be going whaling." "That's juKt it," said the dealer. "They own steam yachts, aud they are going to cruise for whales for the fun of it. The tackle I sold them consisted of harpoon guns and fa thorns of line." "Do you mean to say that they are going on a whaling cruise to the Arctic?" cxclalmed the visitor. "Wby, man. that takes years." "Who said anything about the Arctic? They will sail up to the New CUXXISO UP A WHALE AT A NEWFOUND LAND WUAKF. fouridland coast, where the water is full of whales. They are so plenty that whale oil factories have been started in five places along the coast, and it Is estimated that more than 700 will be caught this year. The Government regulates the Industry, and the professional whale fishermen have'to*pay a yearly license of $1500 and limit themselves to fifty miles of coast." According to reports from St. John's it is true that enormous schools of these leviathans have followed the caplin, a small fish like the sardine, of which whales are very fond, into these waters, and In six years the value of whaling products 1ms increased from $173 to $123,000. The Newfoundland whalers have successfully adopted the methods long in use in Norway, and the industry seems secure. The old-time whaleman started from New Bedford in a bluff-bowed old sailer, and cruised in every ocean, esteeming himself fortunate if lie got home again in two or three years. He fished with rowboats and iin^oonpri his whales by hand, and the grim, often tragic realities of the business bave been faithfully described by D.ma '1, \lJv \!i nnd Bullen. Tlie present-day whalertiif otrarv mnrnta?> ??ftnr UJita mm 13 vui w? vtj breukfnst iu a speedy little steamer, eruiws about tbe inaer ba&ks. and Is borne again by nightfall with a fish "big fish."k <w~%w r*?Tmrr?vTr T1WT S 2 kHJC. iiruLi HI lND WATERS. 9W * J or two which he nas killed with a bomb tired from a small connon on the ship's bow. There is no risk or romanco about the pursuit now; no angry whale splintering a boat with a blow of its flukes; no excitement of the chase, no towing of boats for miles. Everything is reduced down to a systematic basis, and the whaling skipper wears a uniform and smokes choice cigars. The steamer and the factory are the features of the wew enterprise which ensure its success. The ship chases the whales, and when near enough fires a shot at one. The projectile is IN NEWFOUNDLAND WATERS. harpoon-shaped, plcrees the whale's side and explodes within, the composition it contains tearing the animal's intestines in pieces and killing it almost instantly. The gas generated In this process helps to float the fish, which is then towed to land, or, if the herd is still near, is towed after the stpnmpr whil<? she tries for another. The factor}' ship is au inclined wharf running out under water, and by TRANSLATING WEATHER RE moans of tl^o huge bulk is gradually hauled up above high tide. The prize in position, the workmen begin to flense the carcass?i, c., to remove the blub ber. This is a mass of fat several inches thick lying between the skin and the flesh. Flensing with the oldtimo whalers was a most wasteful process, because it had to be done at sea. and much of the blubber was lost, besides which the remainder of the carcass was discarded as worthless. By the new process every pound of blubber is saved, the whole operation being performed on land and-wlUi the most modern appliances. As the great squares, or "blankets," of fat are removed, they are cut into smaller pieces by other men and packed into buckets on an inclined elevator which runs to the top of the factory, where the buckets unload automatically and their contents pass into a "mincer," which grinds up the fat, and it falls into steam-packed tanks, where the oil fs rendered out. Iu whale ships this was termed "trying out," and the fur naec on (lock wns fed with the scraps of blubber which were thought to be exhausted of oil. The whales are of four species?sulphur bottoms, humpbacks, finbacks and "sciehs," the latter a Norwegian name* for a small-sized whale as yet unelassed locally. The sulphur bottoms are the largest, sometimes reaching ninety feet in length and being worth $1200. The others are smaller, in the order named, the "sciehs" running from twenty-five tp thirty-five feet in length and figuring about $200. Whale meat, especially Time Oi 1110 "scieiis, js vtrry juilj ?iuu tender, like beefsteak, and is freely eaten by tiie factory folk and others. The first year the industry was started there wns a bad codtishery along the nearby coast, and as it relieved them of the need of towing the carcasses to sea the whalemen allowed ail comers to take what they wanted of the meat. The result was that the fisherfolk came in boats from far and near and took away loads 'of it, which rbey salted down i"or their winter's use. To i LE'S ^BLUBBBR. . people whose diet consists almost entirely of codfish- it was a welcome variety, the more rspeoially as roil was sura fee. Now, however, that tho is turned to DFoflt ahso this advantage no longer exists, but the visitor to the I factory cau always count on a whale < steak as a tidbit if he is desirous of making new experiments in gastron- 1 omy.?New York Tribune. i Will It Rain or ShineTo-Morrow? | ^ A A A A v w w u y 1 That Way the Weather Forecast 1 is Made at the Weather Bureau " in Washington. .* .* / .* j O O O O O 1 Ftnl Ifmll ^ w^s an evening session, j Isl ISsJ The matter in hand was to T give to the United States, A_ la its morning papers, a hint of the jurobable weather conditions of the ensuing day. The mean?, were some smudged sheets of telegraph manifold, plus the sum of the experience of the , United'States Weather Bureau. At five minutes before eight, morn- 1 ing.and evening telegwph circuits are made up covering the United "State* and extending into-.Canada, so that there shall be, as far as conditions may allow, simultaneous transmission of the reports of about one hundred and fifty weather observe to the Weather ' Bureau in Washington. By the first quarter after eight, messages have begun to come into the telegraph-room of the Weather Bureau that read, for example, like this, "Tafeta lushberg beak baggy." At 8.30 exactly, five clerks are at a high desk which describes three sides of a paral Ielogram, and a sixth clerk perched at a separate high desk begins to drone figures and abbreviations with wonderful rapidity and continuity. 6 "NImedoo thirdfour teen rain north cloud,'? he says, and the clerks on the inside of the "hollow square" make the final translation thus: The telegraph: "Tafeta lushberg 1 beak baggy." i The reader: "Ninedoo thirdfour teen- s rain north cloud twelfordy." 1 The clerks: "Barometer, 29.92; thermometer, 34; precipitation, .14; direc- 1 tion of the wind, north; cloudy; vel- j ocity of the wind, 12 miles; maximum c ^temperature, 40." s Each clerk has an outline map of the 1 . L PORTS RECEIVED IN CIPHER, AN United States before him. The ob- c servation stations are noted on the map s with little circles. Underneath the map on which the clerk is working are g lamps on which the observations for t previous days have been plotted, t Clerk No. 1 is putting down all the \ data; Clerk No. 2 takes the tempera- t ture only, and before the next tempera- f tu?e is called has calculated and put down the figures representing the a change from the previous observation c and the difference from the normal, a Clerk'No. 3 is holding the barometer u readings, and noting the variations f from previous observations. Clerk No. 4 is noting, with little wriggles of red and blue pencil marks, the presence of clouds and their character. Clerk i No. 5 is putting down figures in gross s on a blank for the Associated Press, I which will notify every city of the day's climatic conditions in every other city. . About this time, the forecast official, who nits sixth at the desk, begins to scribble furiously on a pad. He presses sIm PC1T1NQ THE WKATHER-STMBOIi TXPE ^ IN PLACE. ? is tlie ."first sheet with fervor into the hand of a waiting printer, and the craftsman shuffles off to his cnse of logotypes. The making of the night h forecast has begun. f, Before nine o'clock the reader has g tumbled off his stool and announced ^ that the reports are all in. The fore caster stands before the combined map j* and delivers his dictum to Clerk No. 1, ^ who is writing it out for the printer. Lines isotherm and lines isobar are racked to give up the secret of the weather for the rust, twenty-four " mmassif ^ '1 ] MEASUBIN0 TUB HEAT BECRIVBD FROM **' TUB SUN. Ol liours. Tills is !:inor <lay neeromanrv tor tbe T>euplU of *o?ie st-vonty rolHIorw at BPnole wfcfl wiil ihf> nr?nlt#<>T 01 . m1 ' ' to-morrow for overcoat and umbrella fl iirecttons. * J The clock ticks second by second toward that time when the forecaster s must say what the weather for the next twenty-four hours will he. Seo tlon by section he goes over the conn try and apportions to each its mead ol prophecy, while the logographs clicH In the printer's stick in the corner* crystallizing diviuiation into news. At ten the forecast in all its subdivisions K is complete, and*by eleven or shortly t thereafter the Associated Press has J sent out a forecast of the weather for ^ the following twenty-four or more '0 liours from the printed slip furnished L?y the bureau, and from which slip, j) printed and made permanent at 10.15 n j'clocb on the night before, the natiou fi jets its day's weather wisdom.?Har 1 5er's Weekly. 1 A Home-Made K*wl, t A simple ana inexpensive easei may ^ je made ae follows: 8 The centrepiece shown in figure 2 is ? formed of two lengths of pine, one and 8 i half inches wide and one inch-,thick,t ?c rc1 ' . . "Vi' ?m ii ==0 j Iff \r4 ] xJtt Ti&i I 'our feot and one foot long, respect- jj vely, and joined with a hinge. Be u lure that the bevel <at the foot and the P linge are placed as shown in figure 2. j! One of the two side pieces 19 shown j a figure 1. It is also bevelled and k ointed, but along the width instead Jj >f the thickness. The pieces are four j, md a half feet and sir inches long, ii lalf-inch auger holes are bored in at t ri t d D CHARTING THEM ON MAPS. g ? n onvenient distances. The opposite ^ ide piece must be the same. a] The three pieces arc now joined to- n retber by figure 3, which is four by n hree by one-half inches and secured ? \tt cnronro A r??iTr nf wnrulnn I 'J o^*. v, ?? K/. Vfc CVVUVM rvO", j CI whittled to taper and fit the augei ( 8< loles in the side pieces, serve as rests * or the canvas. " tj The whole, when completed, make? & i very useful article for indoor work " r outdoor sketching; or, by making ii ? l little" more ornamental^, it mayb( n ised as a "parlor easel" to hold a e< ramed picture. ^ C Rack For a Dipper. {, There is a dipper which is in commor h ise around farm houses which is ol k noli a ?]wn? tlinf- it spcins imnnssihle ? 0 hang it anywhere. A peg or nail a' / s V o! DIPPEB BACK. {.1 rill not hold it, and, because of the ^ >ng handle, its bowl cannot be slipped pi ver any convenient projection. A T ttle device of wire has been recently atented by a Massachusetts inventor, rhlch can be cheaply made and sold, Sl nd which offers the means of securing se ie dipper on a wall or fence or similar lace. The design of this is clearly ft hown in the accompanying cut which t< 1 from the patent papers. I a I n' cr How to Attract Hamiainjrbirds. ai At Perris, In Southerd California, .1 ummingbird came to gather honey tc 'om the flowers on a lady's piazza ui he hung a cup on a wire and lllled il JJ; rith soigar and water, anil the littlfc ^ illow came many times a day to gorge ? Sa imself. When filled lie would ppreh imself on the wire and try to express ? ' of is thanks in a song. As lie could not. ^ ng at all it was n Tery laughable e ?rformance. Other hummingbirds dr icwl tn HOPlirf* oninf> nf it 1-mt- >10 fnimrhf iom off successfully. The photograph as taken with the lady standing withone foot of the bird-H. 3. Chand- JJ r. | bo A Japanese inventor has diseoverpd in; compound which will remove natural W( id artificial blemishes lo the skin. ?f( irthmarkj and tattooing disappear fter owe application. ro< The inveBlinen: In the fiovernnicul ili . JutLne oflici* is S2.42f) Ofth ^ *? . ; - - , CUE GREAT DESTROYER " 1 10ME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. . * 'Jp 'he Teaching of Temperance?Mr*. Uant'c Paper at Bremen Conpreii-Knowl?<l(o a Great Power to Defeat Alcohol? Plea For Instruction in Public School* 'At the International Anti-Alcohol Conresa, Bremen, Mrsr Mary M. Hnnt, oC he Woman's Christian Temperance Union, Joston, Mass., delivered an address oa he significance of scientific temperance inti'uction in public schools as a preventive f-alcoholism. Mrs. Hunt said: The thraldom of alco olism can be overthrown only by making he masses intelligent in regard to the true iature of alcohol and its consequent electa upon the human system. This re- v uires, first, thorough scientific investtgaion of the alcohol problem, and second, be widest diffusion of truths thus learned.1 'he people of the United States, believing hat sucn diffusion could best be effected hrough public school instruction, secured etween the years 1882-1902 the passage, of itate and National laws by which the tudy of physiology and hygiene, including " . pecial instruction as to the nature ana ffepteiiof aleqfholic drinks and other narotics, became mAn<fatory for all pupils a all schools of the repiAlic. Temperance >hysio!ogy.> has thus been very generally aiight for ten or fifteen yea'-s, and it * ignificant that during this time the rate . f increase in the per capita consumption. . ' f alcoholic liquors; has diminished maerially; ako that [there has been a gain (' ?f*?ir? an A nno-fonMi ^'a?ra in ihn sngth of life. Thorough investigation m he most populous State, New York, show* hat the study is restraining children from orraing alcoholic and other narcotic habit* ,.V.V nd influencing their parents against alco10I and tobacco. The teachings that have ecured these gratifying results are: O First?The nature ot alcohol and its elects upon the human economy; and, Second?The physiological reasons for ibeving all laws of health, since unhygienic labits often cause a craving for narcotics. Careful grading shows that the subject an be adequately covered by a minimum. if three oral lessons per week for tea /6eks in each primary year, and foar text- , took lessons per week for ten weeks, in ach of the five grammar years and the irst year of the nigh ftchool. Thus, with 30 lessons, a progressive development is ttainea without crowding other branches, luring years in which the formation, of iabits is especially active. The text-books sed by pupils of all grades above the rimary are supervised by a committee of hysicians and educators. At the head* uarters of the Department of Scientific temperance Instruction, in Boston, are :ept on file records of all scientific investiation of the question, free of access to uthors and others interested. Objection 3 sometimes made to scientific temperance instruction on the ground that by injuring he brewing traffic it will decrease the lational revenue. Figures show, however hat every dollar of tax on fermented and isfcilled liquor paid into the national rcasury costs/thirty dollars in the cost of onacquent'crime andpoverty. The same i doubtless true in otaer countries. This ongress is to pass no resolutions, bat fiora ia nAtktnff ontr inrliviHnal rom personally resolving to use his utlosb influence to secure for all the children , f his own country the blessings of a 1 cientific education. Carbine the Geriran Thirst. Germany is paying $750,000,000 a year >r beer and other alcoholic stimulants, nd there is a growing sentiment that tint ; too much. It is not'a new idea. Luther, lelanchthon, Von Moltkc, and even Bislarck had it. What is new in Germany i the disposition to restrain drinking ithin reasonable bounds?the same disosition that has broken out in England, 'ranee and other parts of Europe. Mr. rrierson, writing in the Boston Transcript, ills about the international congress that ras held in Berlin, and about what Gerlany is doing for the promotion of temerance. He finds in the mere fact that ie congrcss was held in Berlin encouragelent for the belief that the old sentiment bat no German could drink too much i'V eakening. Drunkenness in the German. rmy and nav> has been checked by strict jgulations, and a beginning has been. lade of restrictive legislation, with more jrtain to follow. What is as yet more im- . . nrkanfc in nrnurpiK of the work of iucating public opinion by temperance >cieties. The assurance that this work rill go on, and that careful legislation 'ill supplement it, appears in the convie;on of authorities high in power that it is ssential to German prosperity that Gertan thirst should be kept witnin bounds. fere at home, too, new experiments are eing tried. Pennsylvania has a law, ever enforced, which forbids publicans to ;11 liquor to persons kntiwn to be given. abitually to excessive indulgence in drink. he papers report that a burgess in West hester is trying to bring about the enircement of this very reasonable law in is district by furnishing the local salooneepers with lists of persons to whom they just not sell. He says it is the only way j get the law enforced, for a member o? drunkard's family who should give such lformation would find it difficult to live i the same house with the person comlained of.?Harper's Weekly. / AjS Draj; Down and Destroy, X To have "free and intelligent men" & ountry must grow them; and you can o more do that while the men and boys t re exposed to the seducements of open iloons, and the devices resorted to by the v > quor traffic to create appetite for strong ' - ><? rink, than you can retfr and preserve the . fe of sheep when your flock is exposed to ieep killing dogs and prowling wolves. he saloons and the legalized rum trade .. * re the dogs and prowling wolves of bell > drag down ana destroy our innocent oys and young men; and how effectually key do their work is seen in the records E our police and criminal courts and in le many murders of helpless wives and lildren, killed by husbands and fathers hile crazed with beer and whisky, as reorted in the daily papers.?Religious elescope. An Abivie to Itowedy. The Citizens' League of Chicago has i* ted an attractive folder, which is being >nt to all the manufacturing firms in the ty, urging employers to pay their emloyes in cash instead of bank checks. We find," says the folder, "that the cus>in of paying your employes in checks is *? serious cause of drunkenness. Large umbers of saloonkeepers, by cashing these leeks, get your employes into their place? id put them under obligation to patrone tneir bars. Many men get trusted for rinks until pay-day, because they agree u_:? 1?i j > uri;i? JII men v;xicuiv3 nuu, aitci ijajAiiK i the score, they begin to drink and tend all their money, goinfj home caiptyinded to abuse their families. Hundreds minors take their first glass when the ? loonkcepers cash their checks." The Cratnde in Brief. The drink seller is always shamed of the oducts of his trade. ./J Wine opens the damper to let all the es of evil in a man burn. The man who clothes the publican's ife in silks and his own wife in rags ia orse than a brute. The traffic in ardent spirit, to be used drink, is morally wrong, and ought to be liversally abandoned. Dr. David Paulson, a prominent phycian of Chicago, declares Lhat the eatingpepper sauce and limburger cheese by >vs creates in them an appetite for cigar tea and whisky. The first step in the downward path to unkenness has very often, indeed, been ken at the dinner table. Alcohol is perhap.3 more acti -e than any her agent in producing dcgcncracy, and. one ot the most direct and potent causes criminality and insanity. IE we put meat into spirits cut of the dy it hardens it, ami prevents its docayg or dissolving. In the same wanner, if ; take spirits into the stoma h, as long the spirits remain in tli3 sto..iuc!i digcs>n is arrested. Ihe church "gathers the f''i!dren ?f >u in families," and protects t in ?i?4 lations. The saloon desti ' '"re faaes and leads to more divu. and proices more paupers than a/i oilier e\ik oncies combined.