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The Ascent, of
Mount* Whitney
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m Irgj NE of tho most intere.stin
, v organizations in tlie Wes
I ft em States is the Sierr
Club, of California. I>
Isal lyPi lieving that the beauties c
the Kreut Sierras had not been full
I appreciated even by mountain lover
^ the members of the club a few vent
k ago determined to attract popular it
^ tcrest to the mountain ranges of Cal
fornia by conducting annual outinjj
among the highest peaks.
Success quickly rewarded the effort
oi T!iese amateur uiuuuwum-vo. lu
uuinber of those who joined their at
nual outings steadily increasing, tint
1 this year the party numbered 110.
The Sierra Ci
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-jrrHRING THE "CHIMNEY" ON
I The chib's outing this season was t
Kern River Canyon ainl Moant Whit
ney. Camp equipage and supplies suf
flcieiit for fire weeks were transport
ed 100 miles across high niouutaii
passes into the heart of the region o
peaks. Teaching altitudes of from 10,
000 to 14,000 feet. The country tra
versed was but little known, map
useless, SU IliC uiuuiuuimtio uuu
feat in exploration to that o
one of the highest mountain
' < ^wroe United States.
^ After a two days' stage drive, fror
k Visalia to Mineral King, the part,
* walked twenty miles across the divid
to their camp in Kern Canyon, one o
8^ the glacial gorges whose beautifi
domes and walls still bear the scars o
Hi the flowing ice that formed it. Her
Be a week was spent in tramping an
Sg fishing, thus getting the party in pliys:
p cal condition for the trip to the bas
* of Mount Whitney.
The eighth day was spent in prepai
Ing for the eight-day trip to com<
p Shoes were renailed with heavy hot
nails, and the strongest wearing ar
parel was selected. Every unneces
8ary article was left behind, for onl
fifteen pounds of baggage was aiiowec
Including sleeping bag or blankets.
Thus equipped, tlie party crossed th
Kern and ascended Volcano Creek t
Its sourc2, near the main divide b<
tween the Kern and Owens Valleys
and followed this divide, at an alt
tude of between S000 and 10,500 fee
to the base of Mount Whitney. Durin
the entire trip every one slept in th
open air. rolled up in blankets c
sleeping bags. No rain fell and ther
,vras no dew, so one had only to fin
a dry place in the sand, wriggle inl
a comfortable position, and sleep.
On the morning of the ascent tL
t mrtv breakfasted at hf.lf-nast threi
[ and were on tlie march a little aft(
| 4. The Ave miles to the base of tlL*>
mountain was quickly covered, wit
frequent short rests to prevent ore
exertion, dangerous at this altitud
The real climbing on Mount Whitne
begins at Langley's camp, at an alt
tude of 11.6}5 feet, and continues unt
the broad irrest of the mountain
reac hed, at'about 14,000 feet. For 8(
feet great granite bowlders were ei
countered, and over these the purl
made their way, switching back ac
forth across the mountain :n order 1
gain elevation until the base of
"chimney7*"or rock gorge, was reache
Here the way led upward over bowl
ers, between two sheer walls of gra
ite blocks. Tor 500 feet we toiled i
this gorge with hands, feet and elbov
in action, finally coming to the sloj
that leads to the summit, which w;
reached before 9 o'clock.
The most striking feature of Moui
Whitney is the tremendous abyss <
the eastern face. Approaching the mo
ument on the eastern rim of the sut
mit, one sees only the ragged rocl
around its base. and. beyond, the farn
and orchards. 10,000 feet below. It
like a world seen from a balloon, ai
the height makes one dizzy. The mei
bers signed the club register, whi<
,was left in the monument, and th(
explored as far as possible the l?a
of the nenks. which, on everv side e
cept the east, rose in chaotic mass*
their summits all over 14.000 fe<
seamed and scarred by chasms ai
gorges. Geologists have found he
splendid examples of the action
^ glaciers during the Ice Age? Colliei
j|| Weekly.
Germans eat the most Irish potato!
the annual consumption being ov
40,000,000 tons.
' | The First .Han in the
Russian Empire After
the Czar :: :: :: :: ::
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_ tils *pp-.rir,ti:iont as prcsi|
S* r*| {*(',:t ot tlu> committee of
* W * ministers Scrgius do Witt
" ** becomes the s.ctuai premier
i- of IJussia. the first man in
a the empire after the Czar. Ilis career
t>- has been a remarkable one. Iiorn in
>f 1S40, from parents unknown in Itusv
sian officialdom. and of insignificant
s, social position, lie has placed himself
s on the hi.srlu\st rur.c of the ladder by
i- sheer force of merit and in the face
- of the most determined opposition from
;s the strongest party in Russia. inelud-1
ing on the 0:10 hand M. do Plehve.
s the reactionary Minister of the Intee
rior. and on the other M. Pobiedonosti
zetf. the chief procurator of the Holy
il Synod: Prince Imeritinsky, and General
Vannoffsky, who have taken a
lub's Ascent. of Mc
[IE LOWER SLOPES OF MOUNT WH1
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o loading part in trying to defeat his [
projects. It has been reported that;
scenes of extraordinary bitterness have
: occurred in the Council Chamber itn
self. The reactionaries denounced do
f Witt as a Socialist, a Communist, a
revolutionary, because he insisted that I
Russia must cease lagging behind in"
s the race of civilization and progress, j
I- The "War Party" was perhaps more j
f bitterl.. antagonistic to him than any '
s other faction, for he on more than
once occasion convinced the Czar that
n Russia was absolutely forced to live ;
y at peace with her neighbors, since she
e had not the means to carry on a war.
f It has even been said that had it not j
il been for do Witte's counsels Russia i
f and Japan would have been at war ;
e over their differences before to-day.
d hi. de Wltte has passed nearly half !
I- his life in obscurity. He spent some 1
e years at the University of Odessa, j
When he left Odessa he'obtained a'
- post in the State Railway Department.
}. becoming an employe at an insignifi*
)- cant railway station?an assistant sta- i
)- tion master and bookkeooer.
3- It is said that :t was the war with |
y Turkey which gave him his chance. I
1, His chiefs in the railway department
lost their heads completely under the
e strain of transporting troops to the
:o front. De Witte quietly did'what his
? superiors ought to have done* workit
ing out various schemes for the trans
i- portation of troops into Turkey. This
t, proof of forethought created a sensaS
tion in official circles.' When the war
e was at an end his reputation had been
>r made.
e Since 1STS de Witto's promotion has
d been rapid. In 187!) lie was summoned
:o to St. Petersburg to take part in the
work of the great Railway Commis-1
ie sion, and it was he who drew up for |
e. the commissioners their report. He
?r was then appointed director of the
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*" M. DE WITTE, THE I
2t,
nd Southwestern Railway and later chief
re | of the State Railway Department. In
0f 1892 he became Minister of Commu:'S
nications, and in the following year he
took M. Wyschnegradsky's place as
Ii^inriTinQ \ftniotai*
is. Immediately after ne became head
er of the finances of the empire M. de
Wltte began the work of completely
! reorganizing them, no declared tlial
j tlio ever-reeurring deficit was "intol
I era bio.** and lie proceeded first to re
I form the monetary system, then to re
j organize the system of taxation, and
I then to negotiate the commercial treai
ties by which Russia's foreign trade
| was greatly increased. He encouraged
j the introduction of capital from
France, did everything possible to establish
new enterprises, and imported
machinery where the Russians were
not able to make it.?The Commercial
Advertiser.
The Emperor of Japan.
With .Tapau confident that she can
whip Russia, the Czar's empire equally
confident of her ability to destroy
her little rival, and with Russia's peculiar
conduct of the Manchurian difficulty
as a moving cause, it is not surprising
that the press should be filled
from time to time with reports that
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PING ON THE MOUNTAINS! DE.
war between these two powers is Imminent.
Yet there are so many reasons
why war would be disastrous to
both nations that conservative observers
do not look for actual hostilities
in the near future. The careful meu
on both sides would naturally do all
in their power to prevent such an issue,
and not the least of them the Emperor
of Japan, who is regarded as a
! man of the highest statesmanship and
loftiest patriotism.
Mutsunito. 121st Emperor of Japan,
was born November 3. 1&32, and succeeded
his father February 13. 18G1.
He is tall for liis race, of dark complexion.
possessing fine open features
and a high forehead.
At Four Dollar* a "Week.
A young man named Farrel, a graduate
of Yale and the heir to a fortune j
S'EW PREMIER OF RUSSIA.
of $8,000,000, has entered his father's
iror. foundry at Ansonia, Conn., as a
toolmaker's apprentice. He is working
ten hours a day at a grindstone,
learning h. w to Sharpen tools for the;
machinists. The position of toolmaker's
apprentice is the lowest of 1500
in the foundry, and the wages are $4
a week. |
Protection From
Avalancfies ,
Snow Guards Surround Houses in i
Mcnaced District*.
Diving the present year some terri ;
ble avalanches destroyed large tract!
of fertile fields in the Engadin Val
lej'. A State coach, connecting Davor
and r?te. Maurice, was surprised by om ,
of these awful snow drifts, killing* in
stantly the postilion and -srt pasffMv
gers. It was only four months aftei
|the accident that the bodies of thes<
unfortunates were recovered. An ides
of the formidable size of such ava
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A CHURCH WITH A SNOW GT7ABD,
lanches can be formed when one considers
that the snow masses coming
down arc sometimes two miles In
length and from forty to fifty feel
deep.
In order to protect the little isolated
mountain dwellings and Alpine
churches against those accidents, the
Inhabitants of the menaced districts
bave constructed triangular safety fore
parts on one side of the buildings, as
in the case of the little church shown
in our illustration,
Rome's "Missing Liidf,"
Rome has its mysterious "missing
lady' as well as London. The woman
in question was dining with some
friends at a restaurant. When she left
she forgot her coat and returned to the
restaurant to get it. her friends remaining
but a short distance away. She
was not seen or heard of again. The
restaurant keeper asserts that she got
tier coat and rejoined her friends, but
they assert that she never came out of
the place. At last accounts she had
not been found nor the mystery solved.
?dwin Markham, Post*.
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Experiments With
a War Balloon
A new type of war bailoon has lately
boon experimented with in the artillery
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branch of the Spanish Army. The
photograph reproduced above shows
the balloon at the beginning of its ascent
on its first trial.?Harper's Week)y
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! MAUI Dili HAVAUKU.
(Maurice Grau recently offered her
j $225,000 for 100 readings.;
The maximum endurance of a twelve
inch gun is 300 firings, while the six
inch gun may be tired upwards of
2000 times without injury.
Shop furnaces of the Santa Fc in Albuquerque,
N. M., are to be operated
with oil fuel, and 15,000 gallon tanks
urn being built for storage purposes.
Captain Lefant, of the French army,
is about to explore the Niger Basin,
under the auspices of the Paris Geological
Society and the French Colonial
Office.
The service of electric teams in Calcutta
is picturesquely fitful during the
monsoon, for every storm occasions
a disturbance and dislocation by the
failure of the current or the breaking
of a wire.
There are immense forests of Aloppo
pine in Algeria, which have up to nowbeen
considered of little value; the
suitability of this wood for road paving
and for timbers for mines and
telegraph posts, may have the effect
of enhancing the value of these for'
esls.
Of the 250 persons Prussia who
were bitten last year by dogs, cats,
horses and other animals suspected of
hydrophobia, 227 were vaccinated by
the Pasteur method. Of these, only
1.34 per cent. died, while in the nonvaccinatd
cases the mortality was
13.0-1 per cent
The iucrease of electric wires in Philadelphia
has led some public spirited
citizens to draft a petition which will
be submitted to the Aldermen, and
in which it is asked that the committee
on ordinances be requested to grant
hearings on the subject of having aiJ |
wires placed under ground.
A French botanist on the Congo
found a plant growing in great
abundance there which produces a
liberal quantity of rubber. It is called
Landolphia thralloni, an^ the rubber
from it is already being put
on the European market. The rubber
supply from the Amazon region is fast
disappearing and prices of rubber are
going up, so that substitutes are being
searched for with great zeal. ?
Three college men?.7. R. Johnston,
Instructor of botany at Harvard; A.
F. Blakslee, assistant in botany at
Harvard, and C. M. Wilson, of Brown
University?have returned to Boston
with over 4500 specimens of rare plants
and flowers collected principally in
Venezuela and the islands lying off the
coast. ' The trip consumed three j
months, and during that time the gen- |
tlemen were compelled to put up with
many hardships and extortions at the
hands of the Venezuelans. The specimen
will be placed in the museum a?
Harvard.
A Domesticated Eagle._
Havana. Mason County, has one of
the greatest curisosities in America,
\fr T~).n nmrin.
JL IIU L lil LJUU nwnu,
County Treasurer, has a pet golilen
eagle, one that stays in the Court
House Park without being caged. He
is at liberty to go when and where
he pleases. Mr. Damarin feeds his
pet twice a day. He can go up to
him and stroke him. just as he would
a cat or dog. When the street carnival
was in Havana last week the eagle
was the greatest attraction there.
This is the history of the bird: A
son of J. Wiley Smith, who lives about
eight miles southwest of Mason City,
near the Sangamon bottom, shot and
crippled him last fall and took him
home and kept him until spring, when
his son, Berry, brought him to Havana
and put him in a squirrel cage.
But as that was too small and he
could not learn to fly, as one of his
wings had been shot. Smith had the
business men and the county officers
donate enough to build a cage about
twelve feet square, and he was kept
in that about six weeks. Mr. Damarin
fed and tamed him. He had'a stump
of a tree put in the large cage, and
the eagle stays on that tree all the
time, when not flying or Walking in the
park. As the cage was still not large
enough to let him fly. they' took the
cage away to give him his liberty.
But the bird won't leave. He eats
fresh beef, kidneys or liver or live
rabbits.?Bloomington (111.) Pnntagraph.
A Severe Taskmaster.
In the preface of "Pierre et .Tean."
iuaupassant has recorded how he borrowed
from Louis Bouilhet the belief
that a single lyric, a scant hundred
lines, would give immortality to a
nnof if nnic tho work were fine enough.
and that for the author who sought
to escape oblivion there was only one
course to pursue?to learn his trade
thoroughly, to master every secret of
the craft, to do his best always, in the
hope that some fortunate day the Muse
would reward his unfailing devotion.
And from Flauhert, the author of that
merciless masterpiece "Madame Bovary,"
the young man learned the importance
of individuality, of originality,
and of personal note which should
be all his own, and which should never
suggest or recall any one else's.
Flaubert was kindly and encouraging,
but ho was a desperately severe
taskmaster. At Flaubert's dictation
Maupassant gave up verse for prose;
and for seven years he wrote incessantly
and published nothing. The;
stories and tales and verses and
dramas of those seven years of apprenticeship
were ruthlessly criticised'
by the author of "Salambo." and thenl
they were destroyed imprinted. In all
the Ions history of literature there is
no record of any other author whoj
served so severe a novitiate.?Brander
Matthews, in tbe Bookman.
Famous Locks of ilair.
The latest craze, apparently, on the
other side of the water, is that of collecting
hair of celebrated men. The
most valuable is apparently that of
Napoleon, which costs some .$15 per
lock, while a lock of the Pope's hair
is worth just half. That of Tolstoi,
the great philosopher and writer, and
of Alphonse Dr.udet are valued equally
at $3, while a cutting from the hair
of M. Loubet can be bought for a:
penny.
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BIG BEQUEST TO BRYAN
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beaiea racitsi. r. c. n;aiisi< j-.cn '
Gave Him $50,000.
IVidow Contests the Legacy?ttryan Sayv '
"Neither I X?r Sly Family Shall Profit
by It Unless Mrs. Bennett is Wining.'*
Now Haven, Conn.?'Willi?rm .T.Bryan
came to New Haven from Now York,
and appeared at a hearing in the Probate
Court in reference to the bequest
of $30,000 which the late Philo S. Bennett
had made to liiin. The bequest'
was made through the medium of a
sealed letter mentioned in the will and
opened by order of the court. The pro-1
vision of the will which makes the g!ft
to Mr. Bryan will be contested by Mr. I
Bennett's widow, who will, it is said.
allege undue influence upon her husband
by Mr. Bryan, who Is an executor
of his estate, and by Mrs. Bryan.
Witnesses at the hearing stated that
the will" was drawn by Mr. Bryan and
typewritten by Mrs. Bryan, after an interview
with Mr. Bennett at . Lincoln,1
Neb. The testimony showed that the
Bryans did not see Mr. Bennett sign ;
the document, although they were!
asked to witness the last will.
The envelope mentioned in the will
has been a mystery until the court ex-!
amination, when it was sent to the i
heaHng by its custodians, the Mercan- I
tilo Trust Company, of New York City. |
The court took ofacial cognizance of i
the document and ordered that it be j
torn open, giving counsel an opportunity
to read its provisions. In the document
Mr. Bennett, in addition to making
the above mentioned bequest, requested
that Mr. Bryan give Mrs.
Bryan $10,000 of the sum received and
the Bryan children $15,000.
Ever since the will was filed for probate
in New Haven comment has been
rife as to Mr. Bryan's part in its execution.
the impression prevailing that it
was he who drew up the document and
thus received for himself and Mrs.
Bryan so much authority in the disposition
of the estate.
According to the terms of the will
they had the disposition of $30,000
among colleges and p#or students of
both sexes.
Philo S. Bennett was killed last August
in a stage coach accident in Idaho.
He was a member of the wholesale
grocery firm of Bennett. Sloan & Co..
of New York City, and had a home in
New Haven. A. P. Sloan, of this city,
a member of the same firm, was an executor
of his estate with Mr. Bryan.
Before the hearing was adjourned
T3t?rn t\ ornAnnna/1 in nnnrf off/ir Q
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sharp cross-examination by the
widow's counsel and the publicly declared
intentions that Mrs. Bennett
would stubbornly contest the provisions
in the sealed letter, that he would
not accept a cent for himself, but that
he maintained his right to sDend the
SoO.OOO for educational and charitable
purposes. Mr. Bennett's counsel said
that Mrs. Bennett was thoroughly
competent to expend that sum for the
purposes named, and that not a cent
of it would go to Mr. Bryan if it was
possible to prevent it.
W. J. Bryan is reported to have declared
that he was ready to make an
attested statement, to be introduced
as evidence." that he would pot accept
the gift for himself should such action
be contrary to Mrs. Bennett's wishes.
DIES IN FOOTBALL CAME.
Player Drops Dead in Contest With tli?
Annapolis Naval Cadets.
Annapolis, Md.?In the progress of
the football game here between the
micisnipmen anu xue x>;uuuiuie meuicm i
College team, Robert E. Lewin, a j
player on the latter team, whose borne
was In Piainfield, N. H., was seized
with an attack of heart trouble, and
probably died almost at once, although
avery means was taken to preserve his
life, and he was not pronounced dead
for over half an hour. The incident
took place toward the close of what
would have been the first half of the
game, but the contcst was ended by i
Drder of the Superintendent of the Military
Academy as soon as the serious
nature of the accident became known.
MISSOURI MAKES 1805 KNOTS.
Cattleshlp Beats the Record of Her Slgter
Ship Maine on Her Trial Trip.
Boston, Mass.?The new first class
battleship Missouri had her official
trial trip over the Cape Ann course
and made the uncorrected average
speed of 18.05 knots an hour. When
the tidal allowances are figured out her
official speed will be 18.22 knots.
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me average speeu m iu? uauicouiy
Maine, sister ship of the Missouri, is
17.98 knots, and the builders of the latest
battleship feel elated. The highest
6peed made attained by the Missouri
was about 18.7 knots an hour. The
Missouri steered perfectly and turned
in from twenty to twenty-five seconds.
Marshall Field Sues Dowle.
Marshall Field, of Chicago, ha3
brought suit against John Alexander
Dowle for $5000. The summonses in
the suit were served on him in his mansion
at Zion City on the morning of his
departure for New York. The matter
| had been kept quiet, as Mr. Field was
one of the creditors whom Dowie
boasted would give him unlimited
credit.
Speculated and Forced.
J. E. Leimer, cashier of the Princeton
(Wis.) State Bank, who is in jail there
charged with forgery, says speculation
in grain caused liis downfall.
State Bank Examiner Marcus G. Bergh
stated that Leimer had confessed that
his forgeries amount to $09,000. The
Princeton Bank is closed and the Montello
State Bank, of which Leimer is
Vice-President, was oracrsu not 10
open its doors.
More Postal Fraud*.
A dispatch from Washington says
that Postmaster-General Payne has
summarily dismissed M. A. \V. Louis,
superintendent of supplies; Louis
Kempner, chief of the registry division;
C. B. Terry, a clerk in the supply
division, and Otto Wei's, a clerk in the I
New York postoffice. |
Harrlman Predicts Continued Prosperity.
E. H. Ilarriman, railway magnate,
in an interview at Chicago, declares lie
has unbounded faith in the country's
future business. t
I Plttsburjj Bank Fails.
I The crippled Federal National Bank.
I of Pittsburg. Pa., capitalized at $2,000,- I
I 000. has failed. Information was sent J
to the Controller of tne uuncmj ?i
Washington that the bank would not
be able to open for business, and Bank
Examiner J. B. Cunningham was immediately
appointed receiver.
>fo Littauer Prosecution.
Attorney-General Knox has rendered
?:i opinion to the War Department that
I the statute of limitations bars any prosI
ercurion of Congressman Littauer, ae-'
| cused of violating the law in regard to
Government contracts. <
THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE.
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rocin: xd? Kesau-curope a mrou i/iaua
?How Intemperance it Combated In
arloos Countries?France 1* Makinga
liosperate Attempt to Crush the Enemy
Broken and bowed with terror and fears.
More with soul-agony than with jears,
Heart-sick and weary?so tired 01 life, /
Who is this? The drunkard's wife!
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Laughed at and shunned on every hand,
A pitiful sigh*. in this Christian land,
He, who has none of earth's laws detiled.
Who is this? The drunkard's child!
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Four rough walls, and a roof of tin
Rusty and bent?the rain dripping in.
Winds lashing the waves on the beach to
a foam, What
u this? Th<! drunkard's home!
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Dark and wicked, and full of sin;
Never a ray of God's light within,
Waiting for death'j last summons to toil.
What is this? The drunkard's soul!
?Rain's Horn.
Th? Great Fljflit Is On. ' . /J
The rapid increase of intemperance in
European countries of late has resulted
aot merely in a much more vigorous crusade
against the evil by t.mperance societies,
but also, in many countries, in legislation,
expressly designed fo reduce the
:onsumption of liquors. The German Government's
proposed bill, of which recent
iispatches tola, is simply one more indijation
of the tendency.
The German plan is, indeed, a very mild
)ne, though it may have exceedingly beneacial
effects if adopted. One feature of it
ia the forbidding of the extension of credit
by saloonkeepers to their customers; anDther
is the requirement that non-intoxicating
drinks, such as tea, coffee, lemonade
and milk, and also cold foods, must be
sold wherever alcoholic drinks are sold.
Tr> Ulnnrlfinri Wislation has taken two
forms, ^or one thing, it is operating
through commissions to reduce tnc number
of public houses, and for another, it is
leeking to reform habitual drunkards byplacing
them on blacklists, and making it
t punishable offense to sell liquor to them.
3ver the bar.
France has been awakened to its great
need by clear evidences of the ravage?
made by liqueurs, and especially by absinthe.
Medical statistics recently com- jjj
piled indicate that the great increase in.
pulmonary tuberculosis was due almost
intirely to alcoholism, and also that twothirds
of the inmates of the insane asylums
were suffering from the same cause.
There is now talk of prohibiting the sale *
)t adulterated liquors and of creating a
State monopoly of alcohol, which will rap- ; g
Elv the pure article, and that at a very
igh price. '
In Belgium the tax on spirits has been,
increased, and at the same time the tax oa
tea has been removed, with the object o? j
mcouraging the use of tea as a beverage, ;
In Holland a league has been formed to
aght the use of spirits. It aims at legislation,
but for the present it is doing personal
work by posting agents at the doors . 4
)f public houses to urge the patrons not to
inter. -
Austria is considering a law which pro- J*
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be sent to a reformatory, there tobe
imprisoned till physicians certify that
their craving is cured. Norway has a similar
system now in force, except that it applies
it much more promptly.
In Switzerland the police are required to
arrest every person showing the slightest V;
sign of intoxication. Alcohol is sold by a
Government monoooly, and ea:h canton
is required to spend ten per cent, of the reaeipts
from this source on hospitals and
other agencies for combating the evil.?
Chicago Record-Herald.
Treating Causes Nine-Tenth* of Crime*. 29
There is no better place to watch the
results of whisky than the police court.
Over nine-tenths of the cases arraigned ^
in police courts are the direct results of
whisky. It is indeed sad to sit on a bench,
day after day, and watch numberless men
and women brought before me by the police
absolute wrecks in both mind and
body as the result of their intemperate
use of whisky. .
The cases of young men and women are
not the only ones. In many instances the
prisoners are men of years and women.
with hair white as the snow and bent with *
age. There is a simple way of solving the
jreat problem of drink, and the way is to
rtop the "treating" habit, or in other j
words stop drinking "to be sociable," as
the young man terms it. There are few
men who, if honest enough to tell us, that
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stopped I believe that there would be .
fewer drunks in the city, and in fact the
end of the horrible condition existing to- ?'
day would be near.
I have been personally interested* in the
Evening Journal drink records, and have
myself investigated several cases brought
to my notice. Each one tended to show
me positively that had the habit of treating
not been prevalent they would neve*
have been in the condition they were. In
Western cities Legislatures rave inter>fered
and made it a misdemeanor to be
found in the practice of treating, and it
has, according to recent reports, been effective.
I am of the opinion that if the *0$
Evening Journal, with its powerful editorials,
can in some way induce or encourn-r
a movement to put an end to the treating
habit a great good would have been, accomplished
and the root of the drink eril
will have been practically killed- Our police
courts' records show that over ninetenths
of the crimes cominitted in thia
city are the direct results of whisky.?
Statement by Magistrate Flammer in the
New York Evening Journal.
Railroad Wants Temperance Men.
M. de Tera, the general superintendent
of the railroad system of Germany, haa
issued orders tnat ail employes on uie inroads
who are not total abstainers will
be discharged at the earliest possible moment.
He asserts that no moderate drinker
will be retained in any nosition of trust.
The orders end with the sitjnificant eentence:
"Temperate men. with clear br*in?
and steady hands, are the only ones vbo
will be retained, and who should apply
for positions."
Haw Drunkards Are Treated iu Persia.
Persian drunkards are^ blacklisted, and
to be blacklisted means mat im- pcioun ~
enrolled cannot visit the bazars to buy
things except at certain hours and only
then under police supervision. He cannot ??
visit any p'ace of public amusement, and
even when at prayers in the mosque he
must hold himself aloof from his most respectable
neighbors. If, after being blacklisted,
he drinks again and is found undei
the influence, he gets eighty lashes on the
soles of his feet.
Rallnr Teetotalers.
Queen Wilhelmina and the Sultan 01
Turkey have the credit of being the only
reigning monarchs at the present time who
are teetotalers. The Sultan, in aoite of all
bis faults, is a strict follower of Mahomet,
and his religion forbids him to partake ol
alcoholic drinks. Queen Wilhelmina, on
the other hand, is a teetolar from conviction,
and with characteristic energy sht?
tries to induce others to follow her esamplae.
Princess Pauline of Wurtembergr if
eaid to have done so, and if others oi
equally exalted rank are not persuaded by
the Queen to become workers in the cause
of temperance it will not be Her Majesty*
fault.?Chicago News.
This Railroad Doesn't Temporize.
0. A. Goodnov General Manager o? th* '
Rock Island Railrtad, says: "The Rock
Island does not temporize with the .use oi
intoxicating liquors. If the men forget an
order, or misinterpre a signal, we know
that that is human, f>,r they are not iniajlible,
but if they frequent saloons or habitually
use liquor, it is an infraction of th*
rules, and is met with instant dismissal.
Our operating men must be total abstainers,
but, of course, we do not follow them
into their homes."
A Model City.
Shenandoah, Iowa, is a model citflr, ha**
ing no saloons, no police, no crime, no poverty.
The first negation generally brurgji
the reat.?Christian Endeavor World.
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