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, ^*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
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was that of Pio Nono. and it was particularly
conspicuous in the manifestation
of sound sense and < lear judgment.
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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 *
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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- '
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>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<
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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
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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.
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SLANDS.
G A WOUNDED SOLDIER.
?Collier's Weekly.
| C1HDAD BOLIVAR GAPTUREB
Venezuelan Rebels Defeated After
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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'
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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
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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. ,
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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. '
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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.
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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.
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