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r \ Characteristics o / flQilcl in Private, V ;?11?11?ii?i ?r i?1_ i?1_ , ^*l>PK LEO XIII. entered his pontificate m t !: ? sixty P eighth ye;:r of Sis* aj;o, a long-tried i>:?Ii tf. -whose ;?? ^ strength of chanirter, enorgy, judgment, i>i?*tv, vir' 1 Ft*'s and services are matters of record. He united :a admirably proportioned 'degrees the apostolic miMn<'>> with the [ administrative rigor: lit* undo himself at t'.if* same time loved and feared. A (HAKACTERT>TIC ATTITUDE OF 1HE POPE, AND OXE IN WHIPH MANY VISITING AMEBIC A VS HAVE SEEN* H!M AX TUE VATICAN. Personally, he was a man of stately bearing. His voice was sonorous aud brilliant when he preached, and slightly nasal in familiar conversation. In private life he was simple, affectionate, lovable and witty. In the ceremonies of the church, under the purple, he was grave, austere and majestic. One would say that he was given to posing, but THE POPE AT .MASS IN ONE () TENDED BY CARD I F sought him. It was the same with W Pius IX. The pontilicate creates a secI ?oil nature. A photograph of Cardinal Pecci. taken in 1870, when ho attended the Ecumenical Council, crivos one an ad mirable idea of the personal presence of the Pope. Wit a it appear also the likenesses of .'ill tlie o'her Cardinals, k and it Is no exaggeration to say that j" Feed's head is by far the most impressive in this gallery. There are sterner heads, heads more severely intellectual, or austerely grand, or cast ^ perha}?s in finer diplomatic mould; but ^ for supreme kindness and !>enevoleuee aud a certain beaming, gentle grace, no face in the galaxy of Cardinals can approach it. Like that of Pio Xono. it was countenance that won at once and immediately the way ?n ilse srrutinizer's heart. At the same time it was !" ! - ..Ifllitir tllflll ?tlUUUri lii ii2? iinriuuimi ??tuw.ij was that of Pio Nono. and it was particularly conspicuous in the manifestation of sound sense and < lear judgment. -11 S *rpi:? oh ;i:r. swiss gcarhs. Leo XII). w:?- ;; i;i!i in;:n. rather spore i in bnild, but nevertheless. of t>tioog. j wiry physique. 11 i* prrsenee was most j commanding. Mis head was very large * *rw" : es # &Sl. . ' f Pops ?eo XH1. / gtafcl? in Public. y - -- -rj-n-n-a-n ( ami thoroughly Italian. If. differed from the good natural roundness of Pio Nono's by its great length and the sharper outlines which it reached to ward rue cam. lue toreueaa was massive, high and rather straight, and was especially striking from its great width. indicative of intellectual strength. The thin hair that streaked it was of silver hue. The eyebrows were dark and heavy and of perfect arch, and tr.c eyes were singularly mild and soft and, at ihe same time, penetrating and searching. The large, well-detiued nose was characteristic of tirmnos and will power, decidedly Roman in shape, but with wide nostrils that were credited by physiognomists wi.'h bold leonine qualities. His handwriting is peculiar enough to excite interest, even if it were not that of the Pope. It is exceedingly small, and o.: very careful, laborious vUUdUUtliUU, aa u r???.u xjl IJUC uiuuiiugimal characters was formed with the most painstaking care. In its airy delicacy it resembles a lady's hand, but the mosaic elaboration of every stroke lias something highly scholastic about it. Under his diminutive signature the Pope left half an inch of vacant space and then completed it by five dashes, growing successively smaller and smaller. Pope Leo XIII. had a marvellous memory, which lie retained up to the last. Speakina of him in December, IStK), Archbishop Stonor, who frequently attended on him, said: "He recollects many of the people ho receives after intervals of as long as sixty years. Many years ago, when Lord Palraerston was Premier, His Holiness visited England, and was presented to the Queen and Prince Con- ' ?'"V*5 tVinfr T-ioit- lm ctill vemamlinra 1 >vi i. ta mai?iijii IIL *31111 iiuiiuiutiu1 ? the small details, and only a short time ago he mentioned Sir James Graham, who was one of the Ministers of the period, and spoke of the part he took in a controversy respecting posts and telegraphs." Again, when a Miss O'Conuell F THE VATICAN CHAPELS, AT N'ALS AND PRIESTS. was presented to the Pope a short time ago, His Holiness asked whether she was a relative of the distinguished , parliamentarian of that name, and, on . learning that she was his niece, said, , "I well recollect hearing your uncle , speak in the House of Commons." ( COUNTESS PECCI, MOTHER OK THE Eol'E. A poet as well as a statesman and poutit'f Leo remained to the last, as is evidenced by the fact that a line poem by him was published as late as February, 1003. In it we note all his old visor and grace of diction. A real achievement Jt was ior a man oi uis years. Of him indeed it may he said that whatever lie did was well done. There have been many pontiffs, but not many who have done greater deeds or endeared themselves more to all Christendom than Leo XIII. A conservative in many respects, he was at the same time a true child of the century, and hence he could not be blind to the march of events. lie saw the meaning of modern progress and he recognized the potency of modern ideas. A man of narrow miud mi.sht have come forth as a champion against them, but not such a man was Leo. Intolerance formed no part of his creed; class The famous Tia: prejudices found no favor in his eyes, n his masterly encyclicals he spoke au:horitatively and most wisely, not al* | -vays on purely ecclesiastical subjects, | jut very often also on subjects which | ire of world-wide secular interest. jjs rhus he was more than an eecelsiastie; 1 ae was also a great statesman. Of his | personal character, all who were ever | privileged to know him, have spoken in | :he highest terms;. That he was very I haritable and kindly is known to all. | [11 a word, he bore himself nobly in his | jigh office, and now that he has gone | :o his reward ail who have watched his 1 sterliug aud loyal work will admit that | le was a true and eminently sagacious $ shepherd of the people. Many anecdotes have been related as | :o the personal characteristics of Pope | Leo XIII. He was accessible and nffa- s jle to Mil who sougnt an audience and ? consequently thousands of those who | iiave visited Home retain vivid im- | >ressions of the Pontiff. Simplicity | ind frugality of living enabled him to | nisbaud his strength and to accomplish | m amount of work devolving upon him | is ''head o? tlic church," which to | Many men of greater physical strength | ivould have seemed appalling. But | Pope Leo XIII. was well entitled to he | considered in many respects the grand- I st old man of the age. Kve-Straia Hii'l XervotiHiicHH. * Ia some cities the nervous child is 1 moving parents ami physicians to ap- | >e:M for fewer hours in the schools and I less pressure. We do not much believe g in the intellect, the morals or the pedagogies of tl?e colt breakers or the boy 1 breakers. There are better ways to tin >reak a horse or a child than to break ap its will and the teacher that entertains | M< such di.ibolic theories should be bei 'broken." The noteworthy fact about the whole discussion is the utter omission from a hundred papers and cdi- j torials and discussions of the most im- j[y l>ortant element of the entire matter. rnid niiinv fithpr fac I urn: .4 1*:, (I 10 ,, tors; there id really ovcrstudy and jverpressure. but the one cause of I he nervous child, which is ignored, but which is as prolific a source of evil as perhaps all others combined, is eyeit ra in.?Am erica n M edici n e. Quantity of New Air Element*. Sir William Ramsay, who, in corjunction with Lord Kayleigh, discovered the existence of argon, and sub- A sequeutiy krypton and xenon, in the 1 itmosphero, has made a computation of the quantity of the last two ele- of men's present in the air. The result on jf bis experiments ami calculations shows that the air contains .000014 per rent, of krypton and .0000020 of xenon I by weight. To be more explicit, there be, is one part by weight of krypton in wt r.000.000. aritl one part of xenon in wt 10.000,000 of air. Measured by volume lea us constituent gases of the air. the vol- tin imii> of these two eiemeurs is mure lit inlinitcsimal. since there is only one iu part of the former in -O.OOO.OOO, and 40, Due part of the latter to 170.000,000 to parts of air. j>r< ou The Infanta Isabella of Spain'has foi undergone a painful surgical operation in consequence of her recent kick-from ( a home. Br AN INCIDENT OF THE / AGAINST THE MORO PHILIPPINE I T~ . 1 " ~~3~ ; ' ... ' -V. g^|| r;" -i- ** ' m jggjgft a . \L- -- .v - --- ' - MORO CARRIERS TRANSPORT1N i ra of Pops. A Victim of Lightning. L"he above picture, reproduced from i Scientific American, represents the pearanee of Clarence Grimsby, a mtana ranchrnau, just after he liad i?n struck by lightuiug. Automatic licncon Buoy. ^ buoy which generates the electriothat illuminates it at night is one S the marine novelties recently placed th? market. The Ihiisini; of Silk Worm. t is seldom that anythiug hut inulrry leaves are employed to feed sillc>rms in France. Very rarely the >rms hatch before the mulberry tves are out. and ou such occasions y are fed young rose leaves for a x days. About LKU)()0 acres of land France are planted in mulberries: 810 pounds ol' leaves are necessary produce 2.2 pounds of cocoons. The oduetiou of fresh co.coons from one nee of eggs in France varies from rty-live to 147 pouuds. )ne-sixth of t!i^ land owners in Great itaiu are women. ' 4 *t ? A *?n A IOM I uvttKiLAm i/HmrAHjni \ S OF MINDANAO, SLANDS. G A WOUNDED SOLDIER. ?Collier's Weekly. | C1HDAD BOLIVAR GAPTUREB Venezuelan Rebels Defeated After ti n c: _ i metj uap ui i igninigt LAST INSURGENT STRONGHOLD Great Carnage Attends the Desperate Resistance t<? the Victorious Government Troops ? Women Run With Babied Through Hail of Bullet* and Cannon Balls?"00 Defenders Die Together. Caracas, Venezuela.?After a bloody battle that raged from noon on Sunday until 8 o'clock Tuesday morning, the Government troops bave captured the city of Cuidad Bolivar. Du.'ing the fighting hundreds of revolutionary troops and citizens of Cuidad Bolivar were killed and the city was completeIt wrecked by shells. The fighting was o? Hie most desperate'character. Block after block was disputed, the Government troops entering the city slowly. All the houses had been barricaded and the revolutionists had been firing from flat roofs, called azotoas. WIipd the revolutionists finally abandoned the houses, after having taken all that could be used for barricades or to otherwise stop the Government troops, they were immediately occupied by the Government soldiers, who bored big holes in them so as to communicate with the next house. At 7 o'clock Sunday evening the Government forces, which were advancing from all directions, arrived near the centre of Ciudad Bolivar. For two hours previously firing had diminished, but it was renewed with more vigor at 10 o'clock at night, and illuminated the sky. At 3 o'clock Monday morning, when the inhabitants of the commercial and foreign parts of the city, near ihe Alameda, saw tte advance of the Gov. ernment troops, they all abandoned their homes and sought refuge in other parts of the city, crossing the streets amidst a hail of bullets and shells, the women carrying their children, the strong helping the weak. Many men, in trying to protect the women, fell, struck by bullets, in the middle of the streets. With the firing, the yells of the wounded and the crying of the women and children, a terrible scene was witnessed. The Government troops, however, acted with humanity, especially the forces of General Rivas, who, fighting bravely, was the first to order the attacking force to be merciful. At 8 o'clock the Government generals. having effected a junction of their forces, north and south, and having received further supplies of ammunition, decided to push the attack on the centre of the city. At 10 o'clock the Government troops had captured the north side of the Alameda, the public park of Ciudad Bolivar, which has Iwen defended by a double row of barricades. Behind one of these were found more than thirty dead soldiers lying on top of each other, while wounded men were seen on all sides. At 10 o'clock the Government commanders. seeing that only the artillery could make a breach in the barricades af the Alameda, ordered twelve guns lo open fire on them, and at the same time the Venezuelan fleet, which had changed its anchorage so as to bring its guns to bear effectively on the city, opened fire. iut' soiuiurs on uoiii siues iiau uairuo food for two days, no ambulances were being used, and yet the fighting wont on. At 1 p. in. the advance of the Government troops reached the market place. The old customs house and the water works were taken. The Dalton block, the property of the United States Consul, where all the leading German and French firms reside, was being attacked when the last telegram was CCUi. The jail was the centre of a terriMe resistance. All the defeated revolutionists were concentrated there. It is estimated that more than 200 men were killed in that vicinity. IRISH LAND BILL PASSED. John Redmond Declares It Will Bring Peace and Prosperity. London.?The Irish land bill passed its third reading in the House of Commons, by a vote of 317 to 20. In the absence of Irish Secretary Wyndham, the third reading of the bill was moved by Premier Balfour. John Redmond, the Irish leader, said that while the bill was defective in some features it would, if worked in a reasonable and moderate spirit, bring to Ireland the blessings of peace and prosperity. Sir Henry Campbell Bannerman, the Liberal leader, complimented Mr. .Wyndham on his conduct of the bill. Mr. Balfour congratulated Mr. Wyndham and the country on the bill, which, he said, was a tentative step toward the removal of the present Irish land system, -which was the worst in the world. Mr. Ralfour said the King had commanded him to say that, being aware pf the purport of the bill, he plnced his interests at the disposal of Parliament. P?r<lon Mail to Try Him. It has been discovered that Arthur Hewitt, the convict who led the mutiny at Leavenworth (Kan.) prison three years ago. in which a number of per were Kiiifu, is sei'viusj a seuiriicu iu tho Texas penitentiary at Ilusk for horse theft and burglary. Ho was scut MP from Sail Angelo, Texas, several monilw ago under the name of "Jim" iCook. He will bo pardoned by (lovf*rnor Lanham and returned to Leavenworth. where he will be tried for murder. Plot Against Ferdinand Denied. There is no truth in the report which was ivceiveil l>.v the American Hoard of Foreign Missions, ar Itostou, .Mass.. that a plot to assassinate Prince Ferdinand of J'.ulgaria lias been discovered, and that lie lias practically barricaded himself in his palace. A Year's Immigration Record. The record of immigration for the fiscal year shows that nearly a million aliens came to the United States, large ly induced, it is said, by the steamship companies. Prominent People. E. G. Vaugl.an, of! Richmond. Ind., has the finest private collection of Continental currency in the country. Paul Laurence Dunbar made his first book, "Oak and Ivy," out of scribblings of verse begun in his bigliti^liool days. The will of Harriet Lane Johnston, which was filed for probate In Washington, made large beiuests for educational and charitable purposes. Tolstoi has again offended the Germnu Emperor. An edition of a pamphlet by the Russian author has beeu seized by the police at Leipsie, ! IIINOR EVEH1S0F THEWEEK' ?? < WASHINOTOIf ITEMS. Ratifications of the Guatemalan treaty wore exchanged by Secretary Hay and Minister Arraiga. The President ordered the reinstatement of an official who had been removed by the Public Printer because ?... I..J !.???. i..? l.!o i ut? Hull l)cru L'Al'CllCU IJJ Uio UU1UU. | Acting Secretary Loomis issued his | ^ T,-arrant for the surrender to the Brit- 1 'sh authorities of Whitaker Wright. the London promoter, charged with large < financial irregularities. ' United States Minister Beaupre j cabled from Bogota that the Panama j Canal treaty is dragging. He does not ] indicate its chance of ratification. 1 Standards of purity for food products j ] have been adopted by the Department 1 of Agriculture. ( It was said in Washington that Sec- 1 rotary Root would probably retire in j the fall or winter, and that General Robert Shaw Oliver, the new Assistant ! Secretary of War, might succeed him. ] Orders have been eiven that reports of army officers of Government enjji- 1 neering work shall be opened to public 1 inspection in the various cities as soon '] as they are ready. , , OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. 1 The Director of the Mint bought at 54.0G per ounce 175.000 ounces of silver * for Philippine coinage. Secretary Hay said that the United j States owns the islands off the Borneo coast, and that the claim of the United I States is based in two treaties. ] Judge Wilcox, the intimate frienfl j and adviser of King Kalakaua and | other monarchs of the Hawaiian Isl- j ands, is dead as the result of an opera- ] tiop., blood poisoning having set in. Tne extra session of the Hawaiian < Legislature has appropriated $8,000,000, being $2,000,000 over the estimated ( Government receipts. i The Philippine Commission tabled * the opium bills and appointed a com- j mittee to investigate regulations for J the sale of the drug in Oriental coun.? j tries. DOMESTIC. ] Coming home intoxicated and soon after getting into au altercation with, his wife, Samuel Svensk killed her and i himself at Dulhth, Minn. The butter production of New York ! State for 1902 was 59,730,959 pounds, j an increase over the previous year of nearly 20,000,000 pounds. ] While blasting rocks on Tug River ' for a tunnel, near G'assville, West Va., ] two men were killed and several in- < jured. , ] Run down by a street car the Rev. Thornton Clark, of Leroy, 111., was I nearly killed at Detroit, Mich. The Joint Arbitration Committee ap- i pointed to settle labor troubles at Bar < Harbor. Me., resigned because the two 1 elements could not agree oa a common 1 ground. Chief of Police O'Neill, of Chicago, warned King Oscar, of Sweden, that ! four Chicago Anarchists had sailed i pledged to kill Emperor William of j Germany when the latter visits Swe- j den. ; District Attorney J. Ward Gurley, of ( New Orleans. La., was shot and killed , by a former client, who then committed ( suicide. At South McAIester. Indian Terri- ' tory, Dora Wright was hanged for the 1 murder of Annie Williams, a seven- , year-old girl. She mounted the scaffold < without a tremor. ] Seven highwaymen, who held up an electric car in Portland. Ore., dangerously wounded Frederick Day, a passenger, and rifled the pockets of forty j other passengers, obtaining $300. At Bloomington. 111.. Maud Jordine i walked out of McLean County court room a free woman. Justice Heineman \ having declared her not guilty of the ( charge of murdering her baby sister. , ^i > i a ? i L?e<jiu.reu. lusuiie auu lwsiucicu iu ?* i hopeless condition, Moses R. Crow, pro- i I moter and constructor of several large 1 water works, has been sent to the asy? ! lum in New York. ! The Passaic (N. J.) school trustees j are said to be considering the plan of ' asking women teachers to sign con- ^ tracts not to marry within five years. , The American Stogie Company, capi- 1 tal $11,900,000. has been organized. Eastern college students cannot keep up with Kansas farmers' daughters ic , harvesting hay. j FOREIGN. Plans for colonizing Boers in Mexico < are complete, and Piet Joubert is going : to Africa to bring across the first 100 ( families. , j Count Cassini, in Paris, said that no definite arrangement as to open ports in Manchuria was made with Mr. Hay before he left Washington. i A new Spanish Cabinet, under the 1 j leadership of the Marquis Villaverde j as Premier, was selected and approved , j by the King. A .1 ?**<->rvn Dnnnmn fhof if . I IX Uiai/Ull'il 11UUI 1 UllUUiU OU1U luut * o seemed probable that the canal treaty j ' would be ratified, with an amendment j increasing the compensation to $23,000,000. ' , Count Goluchowski was made tempo- i rary Minister of Finance in Austria, to succeed M. Kallays, who recently | died. I; Shareholders of the Cunard Stean? 1 [ ship Company have been asked to take | steps to keep the iine exclusively Brit- i ish by barring foreigners from the di- f j rectorate. ' Colombia's foreign debt has reached : 8 514,027,510 gold, or *1,202,475,000 in j , paper currency. Groat damage was done by wind and i ' rain in Ohio. Indiana. Wisconsin, I!!l- 5 110IS aim Olllt'l ntsieui oiui?. The rapid rise in the Oder caused i caused great alarm in Glogan, where a | < large part of the town was submerged. ? Joseph Schindler, head of a Berlin banking house, committed suicide, owing to the fact that the firm's chief r bookkeeper embezzled $3">,0U0 for Eoerse speculations, I Emperor William has conferred gold > medals upon John S. Sargent and Edwin A. Abbey, American artists. ? The Cuban Senate ratified all the t treaties with the United States except i the Piatt amendment. [ c The Marine Hospital surgeons who j 1 studied yellow fever in Vera Cruz, , jj Mexico, reported that the disease is : B transmitted by mosquitoes. Lieutenant-Commander Culver, of the ' 1 United States steamship Bancipft, took i the American ships in the Orinoco 1 River under his protection, invited the j ? wnmnn on/I fliililrnn nf P.iiirfiiil linlivar. I Venezuela, on board and took them j away to a place of refuge from the im- t uiinent battle. < Fraudulent naturalization papers and : 1 passports have been printed by whole- I ^ #afe in European cities and furnished ! to emigrants sailing for the United j \ States. j j The Government of Venezuela paid <o representatives of The allied powers t i the last installments of indfcmnitiei ] jgj-.eed, upon tn pwt pi'Qtvcsl. ' wmrM i j fit "it? ' . '.V /Xf <&? . 7iW ? f *'\vS * ' **- -Sffi THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTUNC FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Why Drunkard Maker* Are Not Entitled to tl?e Kespect 01 uecem rtwipn>-i? Prayer That Some Day the Voter* Will Stop Rum Selling. I have heard all I want to hear about regulating the liquor traffic. To my posi- j tive knowledge the people have been trying 1 to regulate the liquor business in this coun- A try since 1848. What has been the result? j Laws to regulate it have only had the- I ' ffect of intrenching still more strongly the bold of the devilish institutions. The Nation and most of the States permit the traffic to go on providing it is will- \ inz to pay a certain price. Inat meana liell for revenue only. I would be willing; to get up before r.ny audience in America inrf plead for prohibition but never for the license system. "To license the liquot traffic is a sin," and I do not propose to be one of the sinners who favor it. If prohibition is unattainable, the next best system is free liquor. No other crime against the people is licensed except the crime against God and man of manufacturing and selling for beverage purposes spirituous ind malt liquors. It is wrong to steal, wrong to commit arson, wrong to murder, aud the laws?<iy so. No one proposes to license either jf the above crimes. Why should not the law say it is wrong to poison the bodiqs and the morals of the people and cease to grant some men the privilege of making money by so doing. Low-license is bad and high-license ig jven worse. Judas Iscariot would not have made his case any better if he had taken sixty pieces of silver instead of thirty, i piece? of silver for betraying his Lord. There is not enough money in America to justify the sale of intoxicants to the neoplf as a beverage. The greater the amount so received the more hellish the liquor traffic becomes. Men in the saloon business are not in it for fun. Charge them $500 for ihe privilege and they demand our boys to get square witn us. v Make the sum $1000 and they want our jirls thrown in. Never in the history of the State of New York was so much- revenue obtained from the liQuor traffic as at the present time. Why'!' The Raines law has brought about i combination between drunkenness and prostitutioii-^-that is what has resulted trom the existence of Raines law hotels, ivhich were started for the purpose of political revenue. Drunkard makers are not entitled to the respect of decent people. They are in & wicked business. Saloons are an insult to the Holy Trinity: they are the foes of womanhood and childhood. I have no patience with those who have a good word to say in favor of distilleries, breweries or ? saloons. They are a ntench in the land. rhey crucify our Lord afresh every day, t including Sundays. | The only fear that taose engaged in the liquor traffic have is t.iat prohibition may :ome to power with nun behind the princi pie who will enlorce it. jror tnac reason? if for no other.?I am in favor of every. State in this'country passing prohibition legislation and of tHe people electing men who favor such legislation to make the principle mean exactly what it ought to a mean. . ! While I ask the miserable drunkard to stop drinking I call upon the people to io something better than to elect those for office who will grant those in the liquor traffic anything they want if they will only divide up the filthy lucre thu* abtained. Years ago I heard a gentleman named Smith?a noted auctioneer?make a speech in Newark, N. J., in which he said that ia ^ a dream he had a conversation with the Devil on the license question; and he gave ^ the Devil credit for saying that he was not -v 30 mean as to grant a few devils the right ;o sell certain drinks and then punish otfter levils for drinking them, or because they x>uld not stand' the effects. The liquor traffic is not fit for the region jf perdition, to say nothing about thia jountry. I hate the whole liquor business, and my prayer is that some day the people will pulverize it?George R. Scott, in the New York Witness. ' . ?. What the Saloon Is. Some reformers go out of their way to >ay special compliments to the saloon aa in American institution. They tell us the ialoon is the poor man's club, his haven of rest after a day's laborious toil. Why not continue the eulogy and recommend the saloon as the poor man's bank?, IVhy not call it the toiler's refuge in sickless? Why not style the saloonkeeper the vorkingman's good Samaritan in affliction, lis supporter and friend in misfortune ana poverty? I have no patience with people vho go out of their way to excuse the exist;nce of the lawless and poverty-breeding ialoon, and who are always seeking an opoortunity to pat the saloonkeeper on the jack for his many noble acts of charity and jenevolence. We know all that the saloon is, if we want to tell the truth. It is the highway robber of the poor and helpless; it is the .vrecker and destroyer of thousands of, wnnv romfortahla homes: it is the de Daucher of the young and innocent, through ;ts wine rooms and other pest-breeding annexes: it is. in fine, the vicious and contaminating influence that produces most o? jur political rottenness. We have permitted this vile reptile to? jntwine itself about our municipal, State md Federal politios until it has crushed? 5ut all decency and honesty, and left ua nothing but the shell of our boasted lib;rty.?The Rev. James I. Coffey, St> Louis. Impoverish#* ttitf Ware-Worker. It is estimated that of^very $10 spent for Intoxicating liquors only thirty-five cents joes into the pocket of the wage worker md ninety-six cents is spent for the raw material. The rest of the $10. $8.75, goes, into the pockets of the liquor dealers. If this same $10 had been spent for thejrdinary comforts of life the wage worker ivould have received $1.80 of it, while those who raised the raw material would have bad $4.80 of it. Thus the laborer gets only thirty-eight :ents of the $10 if spent for liquor that weakens him in body and mind. This is the first blow which the saloon: jives the laborer. It next robs him of the S>10, his week's wages, and sends him homa irunk to his suffering family. Then it uniermines his health and incapacitates him. irom doing hard labor, if it does not permanently put him on the sick list. It also looms him to perform the most menial ;ind of drudgery at low wages because h? lrinking has paralyzed his mental faculties. in that- hp nn lnnirpr ahlp tn ilrt skilled. vork. But the hardest blow the saloon givea lim is when it digs far him a drunkard's prave, and tumbles him into it without !3od or hope in this world or the next. Come, brother toiler, be good to yourself ind family, and touch not, taste not. hinlle not the unclean thing.?Dial of Progress. The Crusade In Brief. In the strength of its temperance sent*. nent America leads the world. The children of drunkards are very liable 0 be epileptic and idiotic, as well as crimn:tl. Every subject ot chronic alcoholism i? le facto, if not de jure, insane, and should >e confined in an institution for treatnent. William Onion, wnose ^ name has so? >ftcn figured in the London police court icws, and who has now been a total abtainer for four years, has just commenced 1 series of articles entitled "The Story of i Mis-spent Life." Five hundred boys at the St. Mary'a ndustriai School promised Cardinal Gib)ons lately that they would not touch iquor until they were twenty-one years of ijre. The new Prussian Minister for Works ind Railways has instructed 'He chief oficials of the Prussian State llaihvavs to n L"i? oirom* AnnAnf ?* n f i 1 r? er in oil "biw, LiMlllV US n-nvium, * ? ?' contracts for buildings clauses calculated o diminish the consumption of spirita by ;hc workmen. It is n well-attested fact that the regular uul immoderate consumption of alcohol ic*t>s as a virulent. )>oison to the human system. Its l>an?''r.! t'ffoc?* .:.e especially . >ifp*t upon th'? brain and .u-ivous .-yutem. and, sooner or later, if the habit ? persisted in to excess, it leads to meats* usDairmcnt. V.. -- I,, r