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f a.--' $| The German Army | W. Now Uses an A'uto- ? $9j < g mobile Bakery | wannsl One of the things which cause i *nd of trouble in petting an army cor Into the field is the commissariat. ( paper and in times of peace ever rvlrt Ai*/1or nnil t! IUIUq IO XII yic viuv? - I Y: ' .' r : : ? commissary department simply perfe tion; but the moment the drums be for battle the bottom see,ms to fall o of all the arrangements and heartbur IT t 1 on lugs auu tuuipuuuid cuujc ?? . There are few wars without comrni sary Scandals. The Emperor William fully reco nizes that good food and abundance it is as necessary to the success of : Sir army in the field as good weapons ai good powder, and that empty stomacl are poor supporters of enthusiasi which means first class work. In i army, perliops, is there so much s tention paid to the commissary a I rang&ients as in the German arm | and the Kaiser himself takes- a supe ^ vising interest in everything done. Since bread is the staple of life, tl baking of it is one of the absolu necessities of the commissary uepm ment. and now Emperor William h: had rigged up a perfectly up-to-da bakehouse on wheels. It is an aut mobife -bakery that will not have r depend on either horses or mules keep up with the regiment, cavalry, n tillery or Infantry to which it is a tached. We present a picture of tli latest novelty. . William H. Tafl, Wh | Will Succeed Elihu Roc I* as^ Secretary of Wa s 'William Howard Taft was born $ Cincinnati, Ohio. September 13, IS." (and was a sou of Alphonso TUft, juris former Secretly of War and Attorue General of the United States. He wi educated at Yale, whence he was gra L uated ir> 1S7S, ranking second in h ^ class. In 1SS0 he was admitted to t! bar in Ciucinnntl. having been grad WP ated from the law school of that cil the same year. As the law reporter i ^^^the Cincinnati Commercial he gain< |mJ?yourualistic experience. In successic served as assistant prosecutor < MKg^Bmilton County, collector of intern ^^^^^ enue of thp F.rst Ohio Distrir jlMMBBMge of the Superior Court of Obi Solicitor-General of the Unit< EBhS^hi 1892 he was nrtpounted Unite I WILLI, States Circuit Judge of the Sixth D tricf. In 1S96 he became dean and pi feasor in the law department of t University of Cincinnati. In 19<)0 became Chairman of the Thilippi Commission. Lesson to Bamptlous Newspapers. There is really no necessity for t New York papers to poke fun at t [personal columns of their country cc temporaries. It is quite as interesti tor the readers of the Pineville Pot to learn through the columns of tt .valuable news medium that Peter P kins is painting his henhouse green it is for the patrons of the New Yo daifer newspapers to be informed tl; Mrs. Vanderbilt has a new gown that Mr. Astor is putting a* new frc on his Newport villa. The plutocra of Plneville is just as importantla Plneville?as is the millionocracy gf New York. The Scandinavians now have enormous fleet of big steel tramp shi In serious rivalry with the British. Bk. [?- , I) The Protesting Sioux \ z ^ Cyrus E. Dallin. tlio well-known & sculptor, who for tlio p;;st three years ? has had his home and studio at Arling^ * ? - - * t--? /!IaKa Itoc VX ton UeiglllK. SM1S III'" "WWII VX.VWC. v just completed his figure representing ?v the protest of the Sioux Indians at the taking of the great Louisiana ter- J 5 ritory, which was formerly owned by ' no tlie Sioux and Cherokee Indians. The < ps statue is for the St. Louis Exposition, j I )n where it will be set up 011 one of the j I y- main boulevards in the central portion i lie of the grounds. i THE AUTOMOBILE BAKERY. '0- The statue represents a full-blooded v at Sioux mounted on one of the famous c ut Indian ponies of that trifre. The steed ? n- is drawn back on bis baunebes and I d. the Indian's band is raised in protest s is- at tbe seizure of bis lands. The Sioux 1 is finely modeled, the expression of the 1 K- face and the raised hand giving un- ^ m jg c yJ ?JK i THE PROTEST BY THE SIOUX. in 7" i7, mistakable emphasis to the sculptor s st, idea. Tlie statue is 10 eigmeuu iwt y- high. as (j. An Ancient Giant. jg The complete skeleton of a human giant has been found at Holbeach, u. England, a little Lincolnshire fen town tv between Lynn and Spalding, during 3f excavations l'or the foundations of two new houses. Every bone was in per)n feet condition and not a tooth was of missing. Tlie skeleton measured seven al feet two inches in length. A curious t. key, five inches long, with triangular o. handle, was found near the bones. ?d Stukeley. the famous antiquary, who was born at Holbeach. records that at >d the spot where the discovery has just t ? r j SsrtjHi. a it?; i i MHNNife* I fewl ! l.M H. TAFT. t is- boon made a Roman Catholic chapel. :o- dedicated to St. Peter, formerly stood, he Other human remains have been prehe viously unearthed on the same spot. , ue A " Waking Machine." An ingenious cadet of an EngliBh scientific corps made use of electricity v>a tn w:ike him in the morninir and boil he his coftee at the same time. The min>n ute hand of his clock was made to ng bring two spring contacts together and ;er thus send an electric current to ring lat the rising bell. The current, at the er- same time, actuated a small electroas magnet, which allowed some sulphuric irk acid to run out of a spoon and ignite lat a match, which, in turn, lighted a spirit or lamp under the coffee boiler. By the >nt time be was dressed bis coffee was cy hot. -to India's population is 300,000,000? one-fifth of all the people in the world. an pa Food for thought sometimea results in mental Indigestion. $ The True El Dorado $ A Lake in Lhe An-'cs Thought, t r\ rnntain MnrX Trpacire I ; Away up in the heights of the Andes, ust north of the equator, some l?UOC 'eet above the sea, lies in the plateau >f Bogota the Lake Guatavita. This >!ateau is supposed to be the birth>lace of the potato, which to this day s the principal crop. This lake is bong drained by a joint stock company, : . 'J- , > \ ' Si % |si| ill A r?AtTAnnm?nf >iiii iiit: uuiidtrui ui luc \jrv>i ci umtui ?f Colombia, and tbe purpose of its Iraining, sordid In itself, rests on a >asis of quaint romance. It is a very trange tale -*vbicb Mr. Benjamin Tayor tells in tbe English Illustrated, inder the title of "A Quest for Sunken ["reasure." "This lake," says Dr. Zerba, "is the lelebrated 4EI Dorado.' Here, it is ;aid, the Cacique of Guatavita was overed with a sticky substance, over vhich gold dust was strewn, which jolden covering constituted his vestoent when making the sacrifices. The erm 'El Dorado,' it should be ex)lained, means tbe Golden One, or the Jolden Man, not the Golden City, as is ommonly supposed. " The Cacique of Guatavita. who had in army of 30,000 men. used to rule here over 1,000,000 people. This lake, between 9000 and 10.000 eet above the level of the sea, on the mmmlt of a conical mountain, they regarded as the residence of their pro LAKE GU Showing the tunnel made by the Spani ecting deity, to whom they thought it leeessary to make offerings twice a 'ear. In consequence all the Cacique's ubjects assembled at the stated times, vith their gold offerings, and, forming n grand procession, advanced with uusic to the lake. Arrived there, the - ' ?- -3 rthlofo am. .acique uiiu iuk luuiu^ai >arked on the lake in large canoes, by teps formed in the bank, and the peo>le at the same time spread themselves .11 around the lake. On arriving at the eutre of the lake the chiefs anointed he Cacique and powdered him over vith a profusion of gold dust, hence he name of El Dorado?the Golden )ne. \ Bottle-Washing Machine. A new bottle-washing machine has ust been put upon the German marLet. The device has many advantages, t is claimed, over similar machines mown thus far. The bottles are first lipped into warm water, get tilled, urned around several times, and then each a system of brushes, by which hey are scrupulously washed and leaned inside and out. As soon as he bottles have gone through this >rocess the machine provides for a horough warm and gold douche, and GERMAN BOTTLE-WASHING MACHINE. ill the operator of the machine has ;o do is to remove the cleaued bottles ind replace them with others. One :nousana ootxies cuu eusuy ut- wumieu ind thoroughly cleaned in less than an aour's time. Golden eagles are increasing in th? Scottish Highlands, owing to the ef forts made by large land owners foi thair preservation. Fully 2500 persons commit suicide ir Russia every year. , William Penn's Compass | Innkeeper Showed Instrument# Which i Belonged t*o Colonizer. Some time ago. while hotanizinj along the Osage River, iu central Missouri, the writer stopped over night at ' 1 n /I ctAn a n f oil f An?n Sn f llii CA1lfh< I viiaunivut, cL ouiau >V II ill lUf; ouuv*? ( era part of Morgan County. The lot quacious landlord of the little inn, In his anxious endeavors to make the time pass agreeably, recited many war rem- * iniscences, and incidentally dropped the information that an old surveyor's compass, with an interesting history, was a greatly prized relic of a family of that vicinity. Interest in the story . was intensified when he further stated j. that the ccmpass was once the prop- g erty of William Penn, and that there g was much tradition and some recorded evidence to prove that it was the iden- t tlcal instrument with which the nu- ^ cleus of the present city of Philadel- ^ phia was first surveyed. v "xue name 01 me wlul-u uwua this rare historical treasure." said the ^ landlord, "is McNeal, and they live upon a small farm in the northern part of Camden County, sis miles south of tbi's place.". On the following day the pleasures 0 of the botaincal fields were forsaken, t f | ! WILLIAM PENN'S COMPASS. t , g the-McXeal home visited and the Penn n compass, with its attending parapher- | f i nalia, carefully inspected. t The instrument consists of a block i of walnut wood, about three and a half [ inchcs-broad and nine inches long, hollowed into a box. The box is neatlj* a lined with some white substance, and A ii ATAVITA. ' j a ards intheirattcmpts to drain the lake.) j 1 ; the degrees are printed across one j ' end. A heavy steel needle is accurate- n i" ly balanced, and a glass top set in * cement covers the compasa. The move- * ment of the needle is quite limited, as c can be seen in the accompanying mem- | c ory pieture, the swing being through | an arc of only about forty degrees. : a The compass, with the instruments ^ with it, such as rulers, dividers, efc., * ( bears the unmistakable marks of age. The family in possession of this | ^ curious relic has resided in Missouri | * . for many years. Among its numbers c , have been some of the pioneer Meth- s odist ministers of the State, and also 5 General John McXeal, ft Federal com- i1 mander. S According to the documentary history of the instrument, it is claimed that William Penn and his co-worker used the instrument in the survey of Philadelphia, and a few notes were given in the old document. p Whether the compass is a genuine 0 : relic or not could only be determined 8 by comparing the historical data which f accompany it with the old records of ^ i the city of Philadelphia, but the odd e . form and mechanical excellence of the i instrument tend to inspire the casual a i inspector with confidence in the gen- e uineness of its history.?Philadelphia s i Record. o * o A Correct Obituary. c A country editor says: "A properly ( written obituary contains the age, name, relation, date of demise and time of funeral in the first paragraph, p and the rest should be left to a kind n Providence. An obituary fashioned * after these simple rules is calculated _ to preserve the reputation for veracity on the part of a large number of edit- * ors who find the temptation strong to' E 'heap coals oi fire on the head' of tha 8 departed." s r Spanish Enterprise. The shoemakers of Madrid, Spain, re- j cently combined to encourage dancing y ( with the object of wearing out as t ( much shoe leather as possible. They ? hired several dancing halls and + | charged ten cents admission. Each s admission ticket bears a coupon, twenty of which entitle the owner to a new pair of stioes free of charge at tha i union store. RoihIm Forwt*. Forests cover thirty-six per cent, of Russia's total area, or, in all, 464,500,000 acres. In other words, there a^ i four acres of forest to every inhabitant of Russia. household patters oiaining: uooawnru. Before using varnish stain on boards r any wood article, brush over with strong solution of permanganate of lOtash. This is not only a disinfectnt, but makes a dark foundation for he viirnish stain, of which one coat vill then bo found sufficient. Silk Underwear. Soap should never be rubbed directy upon silk underwear. Strong soapude made of warm water and a white oap will be found best. Squeeze the ;arment in this water, and then, if he garment Is very much soiled, pass t through another warm suds. Press ietween the hands to get? out the rater, shake well, press on the wrong Ide with a moderately hot iron. Silk reated in this way will keep the color o long as It holds together. Uses of Waste Paper. Few housewives know of the numerus uses that waste paper can be put o. After a stove has been blackened, t can be kept in a very good condi ion by rubbing It every day i7ltb aper. The teakettle, teapot and cof ee pot can also be kept bright and lean in the same way. ' Knives and inware can be polished till they shine ike silver. Paper is better than a Iry cloth for improving the appearmce of mirrors, lamp chimneys, etc. ?reserves aud pickles keep much beter if brown paper, instead of cloth, s tied over the Jar. Paper is as good is wadding for putting under carpets, ind two thicknesses placed under a ipread make a covering as warm as i blanket.?Jessie Pordyce, iti Ameri:an Queen. To Preserve Brashes. Good hairbrushes are costly Items, ind a way to keep the bristles stiff md clean for years Is worth knowing. \ ixussimi wiueur sl>c= mia lcu^. lave ready two basins; put a lump >f soda the size of a walnut in one md three parts fill it with boiling vater;. the other basin should be three arts filled with water as cold as you an get it, to which you have added ufflcient lemon juice or good white 'inegar to give it a noticeably acid aste. Shake the bristles of the brush veil up and down in the boiling water ill they are cleaji, then at once rinse hem thoroughly in the cold water and tand them up to dry in the air or in l warm place, but not too near the Ire. Of course, the back of the brushes Qust not be wetted. Rules For tho MNtreBS. Do not interfere with the ghi's musements after her work Is done. Besides regular afternoons and evenngs ofT, give a maid an occasional ay' off. Don't expect more from a servant han you could do yourself. Meals shall be prepared at regular .ours and the girl's worL: must not be lelayed by tardiness. Increase wages in proportion as serices become valuable. Remember that your servant is a luman being not a beast of burden. Place some room other than the itchen at her disposal to receive om^any. If criticism is to be made, do it in a ool, dispassionate manner. Follow the Golden Rule. Do not Interfere with any of ber suerstltions or relicrious beliefs. Do not interfere''with her love afairs unless she asks for advice. A Cozy and Aristocratic Sittlnj?-Koom. To the lover of harmony in furnishngs as well as in sound, the more ar: Istic a room the more comfortable it rill be. Many rooms are furnished ti good taste with a regard for color nd arrangement, yet they lack somehlng?call is "artistic confusion." Order is of course a desirable thing, ut when every article of furniture nd every book Is ih its proper place, he room looks more like a show room han a living room. A magazine lying arelessly on the window sill or on a hair looks as if it were being read. Too much order gives a stiff appearnee to the most beautiful room, and ;estroys the artistic careless effect hat few rooms possess. Of course, there is the other extreme, "lie artist whose friends have to make heir wav as best they can through a haotic studio or sitting room?when he does not affect the disorder?eonoles with the rather fallacious sayag that "Genius knows no order."? Irs. R. Baldwin, in American Queen. t RECIPES j - Egg Fondue?Boat four eggs until Ight: add to them a little salt and pep>er for seasoning, two tablespoonfuls f Parmesan cheese and two tablepoonfuls of milk: put one tablespoonul of butter in a frying pan; when tot. turn in the eggs: stir until tblckned; serve on toast. Omelet With Peppers?Beat seprately the whites and yolks of five ggs. Put them together, season with alt, flavor with a teaspoonful of nlon juice, and add ha'f a cupful f green peppers which bavc been fHmi in -i little butter. UUJJ^JKJlA ai:u &IIVW ... .. _ Jook in u hot buttered omelet pan. Pineapple Cobbler?Four slices of ilneapple out in dice, one lemon nd one orange sliced very thin, eight ablespoonfuls of sugar, one pint of ced water and one cup of shaved ice.Mace the fruit in a bowl, strew with he sugar and a little ice. and in ten ainutes add the iced water. Stir well nd pour into glasses half full of haved ice. decorate with ripe berles. Egg Vermicelli?Boil four eggs wenty minutes: make a white sauce vlth two level tablospoonfuls of buter and two level tablespoonfuls of lour; when the butter has melted add he flour and stir together until mooth; add gradually one cupful of old milk; stir this over the fire unti' hickened and boiling; add one-fourth | easpoonful of salt and a little pep- | tnoct ?!,. oMr.oa nf bread: remove I he shell from the eggs. cut them in j lalves, separate the yolks from tinvhites; part in small pieces of rings; nix them with the same; pour the iauce over the toast and rub the rolks over the top through a sieve. wjs-E .CPVI I Wortj)Mp?0bJ\ Automobile masquerade runs are tlie latest. A brick house is more endurable than one of stone. A well constructed brick house will outlast one built of granite. During the last three years twentytwo millionaires have died in England. Their average age was seventyfive years. The average man will die for want of air in five minutes; for want of water in a week; for want of sleep in ten days. Two or three hives of bees on a Kent (England) farm have declared war on the poultry, and several fowls have been stung to death. . In the Sandwich Islands there are twice as many Japanese as natives, and the Chinese outnumber the natives by a small excess. I ' ' the ground that letters patent have no intrinsic value a woman was acquitted of theft on her trial at Vienna for stealing such a document. Seventy Polish schoolboys at'a German gymnasium have been sentenced to terms of imprisonment from six weeks downward for belonging to a secret society. The great violin neighborhood is Markneukirchen, Saxony. In that town and vicinity there are about 15,000 people engaged exclusively Jn the manufacture of violins. In accordance with a superstitious custom, a Hungarian girl was entering a chapel in Staranovares to toll the bell during a thunderstorm to ward off lightning when the chapel was struck and the girl killed. In New York, at the lowest possible average, 500,000 people live in room? j which ought to be considered absoluteJ ly uninhabitable, dark and without any window or ventilation. Tight lacing caused the death ot Delia Ackerman in the Cook County Hospital, Chicago. Constriction of the vital organs resulted from constant compression, and septic poisoning ensued. A feature of Iowa's dairy exhibit j at the St. Louis World's Fair will be , a statue in butter of John Stewart I It will be life size and will be kept J frozen in a glass case throughout the j. Exposition. The best protection against cold is i the skin of the reindeer. Any one clothed in such a dress, with the addition of a blanket of the same mateI rial, may bear the lowest temperature of an Arctic winter's night. Scotland has an area or i9,0G2,482 I acres, of which 4,894,460 acres are unj der cultivation; 112 persons own onei half of the total area and eighteen per| sons own one-fourth of it. One-fourth ! of the tenants hold five acres or less j and nearly one-third hold between five I and twenty acres. Animals have a language made up or signs or inarucuiate souuua ropi-uss! ing impressions, sensations, passions, but never ideas. So this language excludes conversation and is limited to interjections or signs or movements expressing joy, grief, fear, anger, all the passions of the senses, but never more. Tobacco is both cultivated and consumed on a large scale in Japan. The plant was introduced by the Portuguese in the seventeenth century, and the trade In it is a Government mo' nopoly. Tobacco is almost universalS ly used in a small pipe. While cigarettes are manufactured in large quan' titles, they are nearly all exported. The Lutheran Church rangs first among Protestant denominations in the United States, having 1200 con gregations and a membership of 1.800,j 000, forty-eight theological semiuaries, forty-three colleges, tifty academies, i ten young ladies' seminaries, twenrytwo hospitals, tifty-two orphan asylums, twenty homes for the aged and eight deaconess houses. Best Apples Sold In Boxes. In the fruit trade it is no longer | the thing to order a barrel of apple3, j if you wish to get the best. Only inI ferior apples are packed and shipped j in barrels, either for home or export | trade. Fruit growers have discovered i that they can get from $3 to $4 a box for apples that will bring only S3 if sold in a barrel; and a barrel will hold flmrtc? oo monr onnlo^ nj? ;l bOX. Uil. CC UUICO UO Uica ? From August to October apples overshadow all other fruits in the New York export trade. The commission houses handle i>00.000 boxes and 5)00.. 000 barrels every week. The demand | for American apples in England increases every year. More than onehalf the apples brought to New York City are exported. Kings. Baldwins, Greenings and Ben Davis apples are the surest sellers. The best of them come from Lockport. The New York Central pier. North River, which does not cut any figure In the general fruit trade, is the centre of the wholesale apple business?New York Times. Efficacy of Turkish Censorship. Frequent testimony has been borne to the vigilance and Intelligence of the Turkish censorship, but It would be difficult, remarks tne Westminster Gazette, to match the most recent instance. A German engineer in the Lebanon district placed an order for an electrical engine with a Paris firm. It was to be delivered immediately. The firm telegraphed to inquire how , many revolutions a minute. *Fiv? hundred revolutions," he telegraphed back. Next day he was arrested on a charge of treasonous correspondence with a Arm in Paris. As he waa able to assure the local officials of the Innocence of his motives no diplomatic Incident has followed. ' is TIE GREAT DESTROYER I SOWS STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE ViCE OF INTEMPERANCE. It U Done at the Counter?That Is th? Place Where Diseased Bodies. Rninc?l Homes and Crowded Jail* and Almshouses Are Dispensed. I have lately seen in an English newsEaper the announcement that a publie ou3e is for*. sale> and the advertisement contains the following sentence: "These premises are surrounded br numerous manufactories, employing thousands of well-paid hands, who inhabit numberless dwellings in this dense neighborhood. The trade is large, full priced, and mostly done at the counter, approaching $2000 (?400) per month." $3 This coldblooded announcement smells of the pit. Beelzebub himself could not frame a more infernal sentence than this one, in which the dram dealer tells hovr cunningly he has planted his death trap between those laborers' wages and all their needy wives and children. He has reared. his toll gate right in the very track of these well paid hands, so that he may . levy on tnem at tne rate 01 ?zuw jiermonth! For this sum he retails to these operatives disease, poverty, disgrace and endless destruction. We feel ~ ir fingers instinctively twitching to get such a scoundrel by the,jugular, and gripping it until he is as purple in the countenance as anx, of his victims.. But why spend .our righteous indignation upon a foreign liquor seller, .when this same conspiracy against the wage* and honor and lives of workinjmien is being carried on in our land? Precisely the crime which that Englishman so shamelessly advertised is being perpetrat- >. {$ ed here in all our factory towns, in all . our cities, and in a great majority of our villages. At this time the labor question' -v v"j i3 one of the foremost questions of the hour. Discussions about labor, about wages, and about r.he needs of the laboring t 3? classes are engaging the pens 'and the tongues of the ablest writers of the country. Both patriotism and philanthrope are studying the problem: "How shall the laborer be elevated?" and "How shall the inequalities in a degree be remedied?" After all, the chief problem, to my mind. is to teach the laborer how to save and how to use aright' the money which he cams. High wages are not always a blessing. They are often a curse. Master Mechanics tell me that' in the "inflation times," when they paid their hands hid* wages, the increased pay was a terrible i xemptauon. vvuu auuu wages, a mutu i larger traffic in tobacco and rum was "done j at the counter," when wages are low, and work is scarce, he ia tempted to drink, in order to drown worry and sorrow. All winds seem to blow towards the dram shop. This traffic in intoxicants is sometimes tremendous. How else could high rents be paid on so many corners, and so many glittering bars be kept up in th- fashionab'" saloons aa<i hotels? Multitudes of ?he humbler classes may' be rescued from the clutch of the dram. shop by personal effort. This is the line of effort in which the Sawyers, Mood.vs, ! Murphys, Reynolds, Goughs and Williarda j did their best service. Father Mathew j saved thousands of his fellow-countrymen | from the whisky shop by his own personal effort. My Irish gardener refused to touch whisky even as medicine when he was sick. He belonged to a "Father Mathew Abstinence Societv." The dead hand of the Irish apostle held him back. There ? i ia an immense field for this Christian | temperance propaganda among the work- . , ing classes, ana the educated Christian class ought to go into it. Horace Greeley ! told me that none of his work paid better I than this?to open temperance coffee houses, holly tree inns and reading rooms. It i3 a vast boon to the poorer class, who have been done at the counter of the dram dens. Many of even the better grade of la. boring people are pitiably ignorant as to ; the very nature and effect of alcoholic ' stimulants. Patrick or Sandy really be' live that a glass of whisky gives warmthi / / v ^ j and strength. This error is Being corrected in the public schools by teaching every j child the principles of true temperance. : If the commonwealth suffers by the pov! erty. crime and demoralization causea by I the bottle, then the commonwealth is a? | much bound to save its children from I the bottle as to teach them to read and j write. All attempts to break down the counter# are balked as long as costly bars are sua tained by the upper classes. The drinking usage of workingmen will continue just as long as their employers practice the same. Social influences work downj ward. And in the highest tier of society j the decanter is slaying its thousands, too. j Alcohol is no respecter of persons. I Perhaps some of my readers, who will j redden with indignation at that English. J ! rumseller's advertisement, will themselves 'fy j offer wine at their own tables! They pet out liquors at weddings and on New Year's 1 day. Practically, they put their own tables on a par with the dram shop counter! Fashion tempts them to do what avarice tempts the liquor seller to do. Are they any less guilty? Before they warm into I indignation at the temptation set before the poor laborer, let their cheeks crim' son with shame at the example they them' selves are setting.?The Rev. Theodore L? ! Cuyler, D. D., in the National Advocate. Labor and Liquor. m The following extracts are from an article on the subject read by Mrs. Bosworth, of Evanston, 111., before a recent meeting of the Woman's Home Missionary Society: i r;v? "Daring a conversation with a manazer I of one of the factories at Chicago Heights i the other day, he told me that the averI age wages of their laborers were from $L 'to $2.25 per day; that ,the majority received about $1.65 per day, and that twothirds of their employes were foreigners, and the average family of children was live, and about one-half of their earnings these men spent in the saloons. "Chicago Heights is a typical factory town, twenty-*even miles from Chicago, on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois rail- .'3 road. It has a population of about SOOO inhabitants, and yet seventy-two saloons; live and thrive within its limits and ar? able to pay $500 per year liquor license." Arthur Told the Truth. The Religious Telescope, Daytoa, Ohio, effectively comments: "When thoughtful people look at the figures which represent the enormous liquor bill of this country they are wont i to say within themselves, 'Where does all the money come from?' A statement recently made by P. M. Arthur, chief of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers, is at least a partial answer to tnat question. He said: 'If it were not for the sa'.oon, do you know, I think that seven-umtd* of the workin^men would have th<dr own. homes instead of paying rent. ^ Ruin i# at the bottom of the whole trouble.'" The Cra?ade in Brief. B'luffton, Ind., U making a big G;jht against the saloon. Public sentiment at Fairfield, Ind.. a Prohibition town, has driven its one jointist out of the place. Lizzie Lawler, aged eleven years, was employed as tarcenaer in a sa'.oon at New Haven. Coan. Her employer was toned $200 and costs. Four little boys from ns many different families of Greensburg, Ind., were made drunk on liquor sold them by a saloon, keeper on Sunday, and the jury that decided the case let the rascal who sold it go scot free. A sharp contest between the temperance and saloon forces in Lyons, Ind.. has been, carried on all year. Already five applications for license have been defeated. Friends of a man who was prevented bv remonstrance from opening a saloon. in Bear Creek township, Ind., refuse to hire as school teacher any one whom. Trustee Whitman has engaged. They declare they will filibuster until the saloon, keeper gets a license. The Security Trust and Life Insurance Company, of Philadelphia, is offering a. special form of policy to those who are physically sound and who abstain from, alcoholic beverages. The mortality experience of the temperate is to be kept sei>arate from the company'^ general experience, and full credit given tue nan-ussrs ot alcohol. .