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m ? fl ?eJ The thousands of women who have mount Park, will be interested in this ve of Paul Henry Foley, Hertfordshire, En.i stones. The hedge is of clipped yew. C ' ecuted by the wives of Thomas Foley, 175 on the same desi?u.?Philadelphia Record BUILT 27 BRIDGES tbr IN 53 WEEKS, fro Afl I* dor \. JflM American bridge-building dri \ \s company, represented by a rea 7f boy of twenty-four, has i XjL just completed twenty- the ^ seven railroad bridges for We a British line iu Uganda, ide 'Africa, in record time. coi The Uganda Railway is a line run- as nlng from the coast above Zanzibar pic , CO victoria-\yanza. tne priucipat source me ? of the Nile. Its construction presented the difficult engineering problems, as the plo land rises sharply 10 nearly 1)000 feet of ^ above sea-level, and necessitates a two- up per-cent. grade much of the way. The hoi road follows a tortuous course through of gm^^broken hills and over numerous deep the gHBpvines. 1 ggKjS^B After tne British bridgeffi5|Kuilders had taken two years the br HkB construct eight viaducts, it fo: resolved to place the rest ( F?T""?-r\' GBraB^ftthe work in the hands of I ffiHKjKierican engineers. An MBG^Eeriean firm undertook to gSUBa^fche work, and to finish the aBljg|ftHlges complete for a sum than asked by British H^HR>ntractors for loading the ?? mv mAthrift 1 on shinhnnnl Thi> K " contract with the American 1 concern cafled for the cornpletlon of the work within ; " BBIDGE-BUILDEBS AT WORK OSLY FIVE NEEDED. t\ seven mouths after the foundations tio were complete: an unforseen delay, bri however, extended the duration of the mc work to a little over a year. sei A graduate of Cornell, Mr. A. B. dis Lueder, of Wilkesbarre, Pa., was put gr< in charge of the entire work of con- wc struction. He took with him to Africa mc twenty American "riggers." as the I bridge-builders are called, together w.i with 150 sailors and 'longshoremen br from India: 1.T0 native Africans were in later pressed iuto service. do The British contractors shipped their rei material from England in small pieces, toe while the American company hired An (THE LAST LIVING i ? > ANCESTOR. OF THE ? MODERN HORSE. The wild horse at present is limited 001 to the Old World, and is found only on sta the desert plains of Central Asia and crj Africa. Two specimens, male and female, of the little known PrzewalS-< ( " tio ' .7 . . up I^JBp? ,?:*V ?. | jj?^V dS&fcP1 ^ - an th< "WILD HORSE OP ASIA. Th "* - tei sky's horse of Asia have just beer, re- pa Icelved at the New York Zoological is Gardens, having been captured by fU] ageats for Carl Hagenbeck in the Des- a ert of Gobi. Tbese are the nearest ap- trc proach to the present horse of civillza- 0f tion, and supply an Important link hlth 1- J ~ U ik. 1. A?^1.tfUn ?L'IU UJJSOlIlfc iil I Lit* LUa III Ul CtUIUUUU, |H which reaches down from the three- 1 toed horse to the domestic animal of ch to-day. Prior to the discovery of the foi m numerous fossil types of America, it ao was generally believed that the horse WWW originated in Europe, especially as the ^ ffijB Indian tribes first encountered on thta ?r y continent bad 110 borsei. Modern pale- rii utifiil IJ^sigq irj [jil; : admired the sunken garden at the ry striking presentation of a geom ?land. The design is a patternwor >ne of the wouders of Stoke Edith 56-50. There were five of them. I ee tramp steamers which transportthe bridges, practically complete, m the shops of Philadelphia to the rlcan coast. All that remained to be ie was to set the pieces in place, ve some rivets, and the bridge was dy for the rails. n the actual work of construction, British aud American methods re still more divergent. The Britisli a was to employ as many men as ild be had; the American, to do with few as possible. The accompanying ture illustrates this contrast. Five n and an American "traveler" did > work of over a hundred natives em yed by the British contractors. One the longest of the viaducts was put by the American force in sixty-nine jrs, to the surprise and admiration the English engineers in charge of > line. 'he actual engineering work was Ilisa AT WORK? EMPLOYING A RCE OP OVER A HUNDRED. prlrl simple. The bridges, ol 01 which the longest was 120U fret and the highest 11B' lj feet, were almost entirel.v j on curves and steep gra | ents: but, thanks to the per I fection of the constructiot Bwork at borne and the soundness of the foundation work by the British engineers, everything fitted admirably. There were "CXX ? tons of steel in the entir< contract and the difficulties of transportation and erec n that the energetic and adaptabb dge builders from the United State: ;t and overcame would have bed ious except for the foresight anc idpline of tbe men in charge Th< . at traveling crane did most of tb< >rk, with never more than a score ol >n on the job at once. n December of last year the worl is completed and accepted by th< itish Government. It should be saic fairness to the contractors, that thej not cousider their work in Afric; narkable in any way. They simplj >k the contract and filled it witl nerican celerity.?Harper's Weekly. tologicai research, however, such a: now being carried on by Professoi born and Professors Marsh and Cop* tbe past, has demonstrated that rth America possesses a far mort nplete series of developmental lrps, anu points to tne fact tliat tin idle of the modern horse lies prob ly not in Europe, but Jn the Xe^ orld.?Scientific American. A Miulcal Treasurer. )ne of the curious working comblna us in the office of an operatic firit town is that of the treasurer of th< acern, who is also the official accom nist of the establishment. This con n has at least six opera companies full blast all the time, and as it is istantly recruiting Its forces, the of 2 is invaded daily by anywhere fron enty to forty applicants for positions principals or members of the chorus so matter how many of them then i a day. the treasurer must stop his irk in the business office, run ui ilrs and sit down at the piano ant :tle off the accompanimeut to any ol ; songs the applicant elects to sing e variety of these is large, as a mat of course, yet the treasurer-accom nist is never found lacking, for h< a first-rate musician and a wonder lly rapid reader. He is just as goo' business man, too, and has beer >asurer of this concern for a numbei years.?New York Press. Men. There is a difference in men. An At ison man died several years ago, au< ur men are now doing bis work, ?in< t doing it very well.?Atchison Globe rbe trouble with quarrels is that the; e generally picked before they an >e. ou)ers. west end of Horticultural Hall, Fairetrieal garden at Stoke Edith, the seat k of flowers, grass and various colored is a formal garden in needlework, exmagine five wives working successively * TEAS OF THE FOREST, t Native Plants As Substitutes for I the Eastern Herb. ; ' \ Picnickers and those who go a-camp! ing and forget to take their tea caddies i along, may find in the woods many a substitute for the fragrant bohea. , wherewith to brew a steaming cup to add cheer to a cold luncheon. Indeed, ! it has not been so very long since j Chinese tea was a luxury not easily - acorded in the remoter rural districts of our country, and recourse was had j habitually to native herbs or shrubs of the forest for makeshifts. Then, too, in the stormy days preceding the American Revolution, when the colonists were in a turmoil over the stamp taxes levied by the mother country, it was considered unpatriotic to drink tea that had paid tribute to the Government, and the so-called Liberty Tea was the popular drink. This, no doubt, was made from a variety of herbs, but certainly from the four-leaved loosestrife, a plant that is abundant in almost every woodland. It grows a foot or two high and may be recognized by its simple upright stem upon which tbi? leaves are set iif whorls of four, or sometimes live, the yellow starlike flowers being 011 long slender stalks from near the base of the leaves. During the Revolution the native leaves most extensively used for tea were prouauiy muse uj. me su-i-mieu New Jersey tea?a low bush that grows everywhere in dry woodlands. An infusion of the leaves boils a clear amber color, and in looks is as attractive as real tea; but the taste, though astringent, is by nd menus lively. Some effort has been made within comparatively recent years to revive the use of this plant as a substitute for tea on I '? BfeKMBOHMnMnnMnBaMi [ SOME NATIVE PLANTS THAT H , FOR J . a commercial scale. The leaves are T said to contain nearly ten per cent, of tannin. Hemlock leaves and those of the arbor vitae have also played a part in the making of rustic tea. The arbor vitae is a tree that grows wild in great abundancy in northern woods, and the old-time Maine lumbermen used frequently to resort to its leaves for tea when other herbage failed for the purpose. The little plant whose scarlet berries about the size of peas are sold under the name of teaberries by fruit venders on our city streets, is another herb which was long ago turned to use for tea. whence the commou name by which we know k in Pennsylvania. New Englanders for some unknown i reason call it checkerberry. The folip aco is very aromatic and people who are fond of a (lasli of spiciness in their . driuk have sometimes employed its . flavor in real tea. i Better known as a tea plant than . the snowberry is the Labrador tea, r or Ledum latifolium of botanists, j which grows in cold bogs and mounr tain woods from Pennsylvania northward. The leaves, which emit a slight, not unpleasant fragrance when bruised, are tough and leathery, and densely - clothed underneath with a rusty brown i wool. Steeped they give a wild, gamy 1 sort of taste to hot water, and the . resultant driuk suggests a poor grade of black tea. r Sweet fern, which is so abundant a i growth everywhere on sterile hills and bf mountain roadsides, ia another fa I \ mous tea p'rant, being often known i , TN f 1.L . m mountain tea. l?unng me l/ivu vt its use for tea was particularly prei lent in the Southern States, and ma a Confederate lady who had he reared in luxury was reduced to drii ing this poor substitute for her oolo or flowery Pekoe. The foliage a flowers of all the goldenrods are < dued with an astringent principle, a are moderately stimulant,-so that th suitability for the manufacture of domestic tea was recognized by Ame can country folk/as long ago as t days when George III. was king ov them. One species, the frngrant-leav golden rod. known sometimes as Bl Mountain Tea, possesses, in addith the flavor of licorice. Drank pipi hot in the wilderness it makes a plei ant feature in a camper's limited L of fare. Most, if not all. of these plants a more or loss astringent, and contr considerable tannic acid in their m.il up?qualities which go far to make r< tea the popular beverage that it is. MECHANICAL BAIT. A Wiggling Life-Like Thii of Metal or Rubber. The inventor of this device is Thorn A. Bryan, who claims that it may made in the shape of a minnow, era tish, fly or any other body, in the terior of which is mounted an elect: magnet, and naving movaote par such as fins and tall, having armatui for the electro-magnets connect therewith. By means of a small d battery fastened to the rod or carri in the pocket of the fisherman and convenient touch-button, with t necessary wire -connection betwe them, it is possible to send a curre through the parts as desired, when t tail and flns of the mimic fish will ELECTRICAL FTSH BAIT. agitated so rapidly and lifelike tl no member of the finny tribe coi think for a second of questioning genuineness. This deceptive construction can made of metal, although the inven thnf nihltAft TIrm Vi. tut; Ul?UlUU luug 4UUUU?. ?t v, bo preferable for the purpose. Whi it is desired to make them of me the wires connccting the fish and b tery may be readily insulated, so tl there will be 110 means offered for i escape of the current. Rubber, ho ever, has advantages of construct!' and Mr. Bryan says that the rubl AVE SEIIVED AS SUBSTITUTE TEA. can bo as readily painted and color to deceive the game flsli as metal. Nightingale* in a Tliundemtorm. Birds, as a rule, do uot seem to enj stormy weather; are nightingales exception? A correspondent ruentic a curious circumstance during t thunderstorm of May 30. The sto; raged with extraordinary vehemen the lightning and thunder being cessant, and some of the claps li cannon reports, over the Kentl border of Sussex for several hours d ing the night, and all that while (sa the correspondent), as we sat looki out at the terrific spectacle, sleep bei out of the question owing to the upro: the nightingales were in constc chorus, as if trying to drown the no of the thunder. It was most singul; in the occasional pauses of the din, hear the outpouring of delicious bi music.?Westminster Gazette. The Worm Turns. We note with alarm that a baseb umpire, forgetting the meekness a humility which are expected of hi has turned to and hammered abusive player into a condition coma. These indications of unrest a revolt upon the part of a subjugat class cannot but arouse the grav< apprehension.?Chicago Chronicle. Great Britain maintains a navy eqi to the combined navies of France a Russia. s CANAL TREATY ffiCIEDl" ny H ^ The Vote of the Colombian Senate ng . Was Unanimous. nd ** GREAT SENSATION ON ISTHMUS fir a " Ti- Colombia May Open Jfovr Negotiations k? With the United States? Nicaragua Al- ^ rt>r m taraiitSvA T?oo>orf1 orl na a Tknaot.?Vn , Jectlon a Heavy Blow to Speculative ea no Property Owners Alonz Panama Route lie ca )n- Eogota, Colombia, via Buenaventura, ag ng ?The Panama Canal treaty has been ag rfejected unanimously by the Colom- ca bian Congress. ^ m Bogota. Colombia.?It is reported that {e. President Marroquin bas been authorial ized by Congress to make a new treaty su which will not require further ratiflca- ns tion, but that the basis given for the ?j; treaty will probably prove unaccept- ge able to the United States. nc It is considered, however, in official er *8 circles, according to reliable lnformaHnn thnt mithnri^.n Hnn dron hv as Congress to make a new treaty will ??c be furnisb a basis for reopening negotiarw. tions with tbe United States. ^ jn. It appears that one of the objections ro, to the ratification of the treaty which carried weight in the Senate was that ' ' the Panama Canal Company did not S? "ea come to a previous arrangement with ed the Colombian Government for the Iry transfer of their concession. p, ed The action taken by the Senate, a moreover, seems to have been influ- w lie enced by the communication made by en the American Minister in which the in- -j] . troduction of any amendments to the cr treaty was objected to. th he be ' Colon, Colombia.?The rejection of ^ ? the canal treaty by the Colombian Senate has produced a tremendous sensation on the Isthmus. It was generally believed that the treaty would pass with some modifications. o There is good reason to believe that the majority of the members of the Senate regard the Spooner amendment to build a canal by the Nlcaraguan w route, if the Panama route was rejected by Colombia, as a mere threat on the part of the United States. They ^ ure convinced that the Kicaraguan pro- m Jeet is impossible, and that the United jj. States will again deal with Colombia. rc The rejection is a heavy blow to prop- b< erty owners here, who have been investing heavily on the prospects of the D( treaty being ratified. . si Panama, Colombia.?The unanimous rejection of the Panama Canal treaty by the Senate has caused a profound impression here in all circles. The p, question on all lips Is what will become of Panama? The only consolation the Isthmians have is that the rest of the ^ republic, with the exchange at a very q high figure, and with an upward tendi ency, will suffer a great deal more. gI It seems that the Government never ? expected the treaty to be ratified, and C{ It was not supported at all in the Sen- T] ate- et ? General Lucia Velazco, an old vet- ?n iat eran and a distinguished army officer, jld bas been appointed Military Command- r( itg er of the Department of Panama. Itls-'p thought that the fears, caused by the . rumors of a secession movement on the m " Isthmus, may have influenced the aptor polntment f1, jld tL ere Washington, D. C.?The official statetal ment was made at the State Departat ment that the action of the Senate of ii Jnl Colombia is not regarded in any sense as a rejection of the Panama Canal treaty by Colombia. It is further explained that the combined action of ^ on- the Colombian Congress and the Executive is necessary either to ratify or m reject the treaty, and as yet the Col- j. orabian House has not acted adversely. Reports from Bogota indicate that ^ when the treaty does come to a vote ^ in the House there will be an overwhelming majority in favor of it. Under these circumstances the officials of this Government are not so much t] concerned over the final outcome. t. Minister Herran was asked whether b It was probable that the State of Pan- b ama would revolt against Colombia in the event of the rejection of the treaty. He replied that there was no indication of such a movement in Panama, and that such an outcome was Y very improbable. u . MILLIONS TO_RCHT FAMINE., Indian Irrigation CcmmlaBion Proposes y to Spend $150,000,600."*d Simla, India.?In a report just issued the Irrigation Commission proposes to t] lay out $150,000,000 in twenty years on t< protective works and $2,000,000 annu- ti ally in loans for private irrigation a .works, the funds to be raised by loans and the interest thereon to be charged to the Famine Grant. d The keynote of the commission's pol- r? Icy is the vigorous use of the national ^ resources on protective works, irrespec- e tive of their productive character, and u the increase of the general resources of the country, and its resisting power in battles with famine. F ALPINE CLIMBERS RESCUED. iS ~ Seven Tourists Foil Into a Gor^e on tlio AlguiUea Urlses. ,ej Chaftiounix: France.?The seven tour- h Ists who wera reported to have been k killed while climbing the Aiguilles h Grises of Mont Blanc had, it appears, a o remarkable escape. oy They were seen to fall into a gorge o au near the summit, and it was taken- as a 01 in3 certainty that they were dead, but an t( . exploring party discovered the touri3ts, who were only slightly injured by u rm their fall. tt ce. in- Nordenskjold Relief Ship Sail*, ke The Nordenskjold relief expedition, (sb commanded by Captain Gylden, of the ai ur. Swedish Navy, galled from Stockholm ai on board the Frithjof. It numbers tl 3 r twenty-three men and includes six ill n? scientists. The members of the expe- <c? nS dition expect to return In April, 1904. ar, int Roumaula Orders Ammunition. Isef Acting War Minister Bratlano, of si uri Roumania, has ordered the Govern- gj ment powder factory and small arms' a . ammunition depot to prepare large re quantities of ammunition Immediately, cs Five Girls Drowned. At Lurich Station, Giles County, Va., all while a party of children, one boy and n(j seven girls, ranging in age from eight au ? 1?? .1 ? ? Hia Knot D' iu uliccu y etna, >vtjie uutiuujt, iuu ' capsized and five of the girls were JT an drowned. The drowned children were 11 ?f two daughters of John Hobinson, one w nd daughter of John Holloway, and two u< :ed daughters of Mrs. L. O. Lee. ?st ? Fprty Finn* Killed in Lake. . The upper deck of n vessel on Lake C iaj Tykojarvl, Finland, carrying persons w . from church, collapsed. Forty persons ni were drowned or killed In other ways, w and many others were Injured. * al f lOTHER'S QUEER HOARD ' usband at Her Death Finds $2800 ,1 About the House. ~~ i i a TT Talmn t.lio M on av Ffnm fhk. Pockets of Her Sons When They Came Home Drunk. Dover. N. J.?John Keenan, an old iner of the Borough of Wharton, has ade a deposit in the National Union ink of money his wife had saved in a ivel way. Keenan hae long been inpaeitated for work because of big ;e. Mrs. Keenan died a few days i :o. After her funeral Keenan relied a habit she had of going through e pockets of their two sons, both iners. whenever either happened to me home somew.hat the worse for luor. The sums which she would find on ch occasions she used to confiscate n nonnltv for tlifiir trnneoroaairma I ie never spent any of it. Remember- ! g this Iveenan began a systematic J arch of the house. He found coin id bills in odd corners. Being an illit- l ate man, Keenan was unable to 1 unt so big a pile. He tied it up in a 1 g cloth and carried it to a friend. f bo, after a count, announced that the lile" footed up exactly $2800. Keenan at once drove to Dover and ;posited the money. LINER SINKS CHINESE CRUISER: venteen Live* Lost Off Hong Kong and 170 Members of Crew Kescued. Hong Kong, China.?The Canadian iciflc Railway's steamer Empress of idia was in collision near this port ith the Chinese cruiser Huang-Tai. j lie warship sank an hour afterward. 1t ne Empress or inula saved 170 or the ew of the cruiser. The captain of ' ie Huang-Tai, who refused to leave J a ship, and thirteen ot her crew were 3 'owned. The Empress of India was t imaged badiy amidships. Montreal, Que.?In an official ex- ! anation which the Canadian Pacific 1 ailway gives of the collision off ong Kong, the railway officials say , lat the two vessels were running irallel courses about midnight, when, ithout warning, the captain of the hlnese cruiser suddenly starboarded is boat and tried to cross the bow of ie Empress. The latter's captain im- ' edit tely raanuevred so that the col3lon which he knew would be the , isr K*uld be a glancing one. The >w ot tue cruiser slid, along the side the Empress, but the starboard profiler of the Empress caught the cruis and injured her so seriously that ie sank in a few seconds. _ GIRLS ACCUSED oF TREASON; ollsh Pupils Expressed a Wish For Ke? establishment of the Old Kingdom. Berlin, Germany.?The authorities lve arrested fifty Polish girls at nesen, East Prussia, on the charge ' conspiring against the State. The rls, whose ages range from fourteen I i twenty years, were, with three ex- ' >ptions, pupils at the high school, he three exceptions, who are the ol<Tit of the prisoners,r were teachers i the school. , j All of them were in the habit of >ading Polish books and studying ! olish history, and in their discussions ' ^pressed hopes for the re-establishent of the ancient kingdom of Polid. The Public Prosecutor announces lat he will proceed against the girls. ? TEXAS PASTURES BURNED. Wj mm . icendlarles Start Fire* That Destroy 300,000 Acre*. Austin, Texas.?Captain W. J. Miller, ' Big Springs, Texas, a member of le State Legislature, was here and purtea iu uie ouiie auLuuiiuca mac tany thousands of acres of grazing ,nd situated In western Texas had een burned over during the past feways. and that the fire was started by icendiaries. The stockmen and farmers of the sction were guarding their pastures rith armed men. Captain Miller says aat up to the time he left home more aan 200,000 acres of the grass had een destroyed, and new fires had just een started, in Gaines and Dawson ounties. TROOPS SIDE WITH STRIKERS. oung Captain Suffers Death For Making a Speech in Klcf. London.?The Daily Mail's correpondent at St. Petersburg describes annoaHnnnl fnplrlpnf" trhlfll 0CCUrr0d iiring"the Sieff strikes? "^"v OJSUSIIS pccfl^jon. lie &a vs, when~fhe roops wer? ordered by the Governor >~fire on tbie strikers, a young caplin stepped In front of bis company nd forbade the troops to fire upon their poor starving brothers." The soldiers obeyed the counter orer and the captain made a flaming Evolutionary speech to his men. He ras arrested and brought to St. Petrsburg, where life was tried by court lartial and sentenced to death. LONG LOST BROTHER FOUND. or Years It Was Supposed He Was Killed In the Custer Massacre. Augusta, Me.?After a lapse of thirp-three years Mrs. George Diplock, ol lis city, who has long believed thai er brother, George B. Smith, was iif^^i in Pnofar motian^po in 1S7.1. lllt'U 111 LUC \JUOtV4 as received a letter from him dated akland, Cal. Smith is fifty-three years old and tvns a large stock farm fifteen miles ut of Oakland. He escaped the Cus>r massacre by being detailed with Ibbon's command June 26, 1876, going p the Little Yellowstone instead ol le Rosebud. Aged Bank Cashier a Suicide. W. L. Pettit, for mat^ years assi3t> at cashier of the First National Bank t Fort Wayne, Ind., shot himself in le head, dying Instantly. Continued I health is believed to have beeu the tuse. He was sixty-three years old. Americans In Fighting In China. The rioting which began at Fatslian, x miles from Canton, China, has >read to towns along the railroad merlcan engineers at work on the ad have fired at the rioters. Several 1 isur.ltles are reported. Flood Sweeps Monterey, Mexico. A cloudburst In the mountains adja- i rnt to Monterey. Mexico, caused a 5od in the Santa Catarina Rivor, ! hich flows through the lower part of le town. More than 300 houses were ! ashed away, making 1000 people )ineless. A number of lives were lost i Cavalry Going to Philippines. The order directing the Fourteenth avalry to sail for the Philippines, hich was held up foj- a time, was re ewed at Washington. The regiment hhh is now in Arizona, will sail in bo-.t two weeks. PEE GREAT DESTROYER j SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Laother la the Series of Remarkable Term peranco Editorials IVhlch the New York American is Running;?Reflection* Anent a Drunken Monkey. In the State of New Jersey, near the idge of the North River, an unfortunate nonkey got very drunk. Some brutal men, superior to him in )hysic;il development anu inferior in moral malities, persuaded the poor brute to lrinlc whisky. The monkey drank a great leal too much, was absolutely intoxicated, ind hir. conduct was exactly like that'of a nan?that i3 to say, of the average whiskyIrinking man. It would be p'.casant to relate that the nonkey tasted the whisky, felt it burn ind refused to touch any more of it. That infortunately is not what happened. It would be creditable to tne monkey's visdom if one could say that while he > nade a mistake, and drank too much vhisky once, he could never be persuaded ;o touch it again. That is not true, either.) The poor monkey, tempted by his bunan half brothers, drank the whisky, and le acted exactly as the average poor, foolsh, feeble man acts under the same cir? :umstances. When they offered him the whisky first ie didn't want to take it. They urged lim, and finally he took just a little. It )urned him, made him cough, made hia ;yes water. Even a monkey, you would ;hink, ought to have known enough to let t alone. But he did not know enough, bo ;ook a little more, then some more, arid inally all that he could get. He went through the various stages of humiliating incapacity that mark a human : . >eing's transition from sober to drunk. , He became voluble at first, chattered* umped about, showed many signs of. riendliness?apparently he was a much imjroved monkey. Then he became foolish and unsteady on lis legs. Finally he became brutal, waning to bite, and at last sank into a stupor, ust the equal of any dead-drunk man. Next day this miserable monkey, ini;iated into the results of the worst curse ;hat afflicts his superior brothers; persisted n his resemblance to a human being. He vas shivering,, nervous, without appetite* ind evidently suffering physical if not menial remorse. 1 But he was just like a man, and gladly; iccepted the drink th&t was given him vith the assurance that many other monieys are fooled by, "a little hair of the log that bit you will set you right." If that monkey is saved from a drunk* ird's grave, only the lack of whisky, not inv wisdom or strength of will of his Ov?a. ivill save him. If you ever want to argue with a man igainst whisky, the story of the drunken! monkey, intelligently presented, ought to . produce an impression. You might talk. to any whrisky-drinking man aa follows: j If you had seen that monkey, clear eyed, healthy and vigorous, you would have said ip| ;o his keeper: Don't let him touch whisky -it will ruin the monkey"?yet you drink whisky yourself. i If you had seen the monkey take the first , flass you would have said to his keeper:'! 'Don't let him take any more; the second;lass will ruin him, give him a longing fpr ilcohol. It will rym your moikey"?yefc ?ou take the second i?las3 yourself. { If you had seen the monkey in his de?vri/lSn/y ni?ft/?POfla frrtm anVvop fA /Ininlr lna. Dg bis equilibrium, becoming tint maudlin. unci then vicious, you would have said to bis keeper: "Now look at your monkey.' . . Jfou see how worthless he is; that is what tvhisky always does with a monkey"?yet that is just what whisky does with you* ind you jjive it the chance to do it. You might also say this to your whisky;inking friends: The monkey, most resembles the man that most resembles him, of course. The man that acts With whisky as the monkey; ioes is like the monkey. i Jn the brain of a monkev &s every child knows, the strongest instinct is that of imitation. The monkey will cut his throat trying to imitate a fhan shaving. No won- , *ja der that he ruins his hea.th imitating a man drinking whisky. The monkey, as he took that whisky, seemed foolish, especially after the first * taste, and if you had ever drunk whisky , yourself vou would be justified in a pising the monkey. Think how many excuses he has -that you who drink whisky have not. You know that whisky has ruined millions of men and is still ruining millions. The monkey knows nothing about that. You know that nine-tenths of the murders are based on whisky. The monkey knew nothing about that. i You know that whisky means failuite, poverty and abuse for children, abuse, poverty and sorrow for mothers. All of these things the monkey does not know. You are more foolish than he when you take the whisky.?Editorial in the New York American. - vdffi Charles Dickens a Victim. . < ^ "The principal reason that Charles Dickens died at the time he did was that he was in the habit of using vast amounts of alcoholic stimulants to keep himself up. When lecturing in this country he continued to drink the amounts that he drank when in England, regardless of the different effects of the climates of ; the two Tcmntries upon persons who use' alcoholic rt liquors. * He appeared to believe i it was necessary to take a certain amount with Kis meals, ajia at other.tjraea, to maintain Jjjm. * It" was a grt6v<5u3' wstakei^lfr.We wjuld not be understdod as saying that no was 4 nrunkard In the ordinary accepts; tion of th8 &?& >!? he ygcomedjiyto* two or three times a have lived longer than he did, thougTTtpq moral consequences would have'# been worse. Whoever tries to keep himself up regularly by any stimulant, in the absence of which ne would temporarily collapse. is nothing more than a moral and physical speculator; is like a concern that declares a dividend out of the principal, or the per* son who keeps up appearances of wealth by pawning their belongings and spending tne proceeds."?Dr. James M. Buckley. _ J The Only Safe Bale. The Commoner, Mr. Bryan's paper, in an editorial warning girls to "beware of tha young man who uses intoxicants, no matter how 'moderately,'" says: "The only safe rule is to let it (drink) alone. If men will not drink there will bfl no drunkards, but if they do, beginning ever so lightl- they will find it grow har<F er and harder to subdue the craving, until appetite will rule to their destruction." Alcohol in Ueer. Is Leer not made from grain which ii highly nutritive? Oh, yes, but the nutritive element in the grain is almost completely destroyed in ita conversion into beer, so that it is practically robbed of it? food properties, leaving the beer chiefly water ana alcohol.?H. D. Mann, M. D. Tho Crnlid* In Brief. Alcoholic insanity is increasing with in PaPlQ (jn-ak .. The chief danger of the drink habit liei in the insidious inroads which it make* upon the mind of the deluded victim. A temperance movement is now makinj headway in the universities of Southern France?at Toulouse, Moatpellier, Aix and Bordeaux. One of the most conclusive signs of th? rapidly increasing power of the temperance forces in fhis country is the unparalleled fear manifested in the ranks of the force* of intemperance in different quarters ol the country According to the report of the Philipt pine Commission, !990 places were licensed For the sale of intoxicating drinks last yeai in Manila. Ah nart of the warfare which 13 being carried on against intoxicants in France^ Prime Minister Combes has inaugurated campaign against the common adulterant* which liquor dealers use to cheapen theii wares and make them more palatable to th; popular taste. The effects of alcohol upon the elementaol the nervous system are much greater be? frtre uoara nf aw f(inn afterward. rhe brain is more sensitive to the effect* 5f all toxic influences during the period of adolescence, and young persons acquit* habits of using both alconol and tobace* much more rurally than during later pe* lods of life. '