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f Soldi IAGROUP C The fierce fighting men of the Tu: against the Macedonian revolutionists thrown. The Turkish soldier is a fa in the future life will be all the grea Mission Bookrack Though it fits right into a mission L -Scheme of furnishing, there is nothing to prevent this mission bookrack from being utilized in any room where a , bookcase is suitable. If the room be | -done in mission style the wood should J of course be of the same sort as other I pieces of furniture, the beautiful tea [ brown being a general favorite. Such k pieces may, however, be stained in any color or to represent any wood. This one is characteristic of mission i hSSI Hi = :^ THE n us I ON BEBmmmM BOQKRncn pieces, being solid and well designed generally. It may be used as it is or it may be fitted with a rod and hangings. All this must naturally be governed by the rest of the room. t Perpetual Light. A small quantity of radium salts in he Currie laboratory, where this wonderful substance was discovered, was sufficient to render the walls, the instruments, the air, radio-active. That is, the walls, the instruments, the air, gave off radiations of their own merely because radium was or had been present. Imagine the gain to mankind when n nrocess is evolved for making those radiations luminous. Or-dinarily gas or electric light would no * longer be necessary. There would no longer be dark corners in the world. Everything that had felt the influence of the radium would shine, and since the energy of the salt is well-night perpetual, there would never be any need of renewing the lighting contract. ?Theodore Watlers, in the September % Everybody's. Oshkosh, the Menom Was: Named a Prosix Oshkosh was the name of a Menominee chieftain who had been very Hand who remained death. His grand ijBijBKBi^ $& BhsI ^^HRHH^Hp;^ .-Wi-t^Wi 19 W son, Reginald Oshkosh, a graduate ol B the Carlyle School of Indians, was p present at the recent celebration of the r fiftieth anniversary of the founding oJ ! . J* ers of the Turkish j JJ_rrTTT7. ?TT>AX-T,y T)PPI?FVT TH 'JL' _L JLJL 1~J a v* ... rkish army who may be called on to def i, or foreign invaders, as the case may be. talist, and fights with an enthusiasm insj ter for having died in defending the faith. Guard For the Rings' It so frequently happens that the possession of a ring has some sentiment attached to it that it is held by its owner at a valuation much greater than its intrinsic worth. On the other J*_^!bssS$ 1 BIKO GUARD. < hand, rings very often represent the investment of a great deal of money, and in either event the owners are desirous of enjoying the pleasures of wearing the precious circlets without the constant fear of them becoming separated from them. For this purpose the guard shown here has been devised. It consists of a bracelet, to the inner part of which is attached a shield, and each of the rings on the finger is fastened by a holder, which will not permit the ring's removal, either by accident or design. This mechanism fits in the palm of the hand and is not at all obtrusive. i Tirurrrni: dtttc y WAS BORN " L'Ulustration gives us the picture of s the humble dwelling at Riese, where j the new Pope first saw the light of t day. A tumbler combination lock for postoffice boxec has been inveute1 for those prone to lose t^eir l:eys. tinee Chief For Whom srous Wisconsin City j the town and delivered an address. The semi-centennial celebration and ! the agitation that has resulted from j it have brought into existence a moveI ment to remove the bones of Chief t Oshkosh from the Kesliena Indian res- i ervation, where they now lie, to the city that bears his name, and above them to erect a monument. i ' - r 9 \rmy. m vv mm mmm m m. ft E GUARD. end the Sultan and his government form a bulwark not easily overtired by his belief that his' reward WHY DO PLANTS HAVE THORNS ? From an Article by Ferdinand Faideau, in La Science Illustree, Paris?Condensed and Translated For Public Opinion. The influence of the environment i rery great in the formation of thorn: so great, in fact, that we frequentl Ind that a plant in one place ha thorns and a few miles away is devoi )f them. Observation and esperimei ire in agreement in showing that thre :auses are in operation here, namely mpoverished soil, dryness of the a mosphere, and intensity of light, eac which Drovokes or accentuates th condition under discussion. Iu thl connection it is interesting to stat that cultivation diminishes the nun t>er of spinas and iu many instance makes them disappear after seven generations. M. Lhotelier has shown by a Ion series of experiments that thorn slants when submitted to the actio )f humidity tend to lose their spinei 'j r ' my . , " lit t IJ : jfcj :horns of eglantine, sloe-tkei and gooseberry stems. the reduction taking place in tw ivays. In the case of spines whic ire produced by modified leaves o nodified stems, there is a tendency t evert to the primitive type, while I hose which originate iu stipules?a >rgan unnecessary to the life of th jlant?the spine diminishes ,and i nnnv rns<?s nnmnlotp'v riisnnnenrs Th jartial deprivation of light also pre luces a more or less complete suppres ?lon of the thorns, as proved by man; mthenticated instances. It thus appears that thorns are th esult of insufficient nutrition, but thi tnswer by no means exhausts the sut ect, for the question arises, what i he use of the thorns, and how d hey benefit the plant? Grindo :laimed that the thorns have no us since they are found in a large nun: >er of families different both as t !orm and as to needs, but there ca )e but little doubt that the thor: s a means 01 proiecuon to uie pian ind that its purpose is to inspire icaltby respect in quadrupeds. Th horn protects the creatures which cai y it, and where the case be that of ledgehog or thistle, beast or bird, i illows its possessor to the more el 'ectually defend itself. To pluck >ouquet of eglantines without tearin he clothes or wounding the fingers i in operation which requires consum uate cleverness, and thus in nuinbei ess instances from the sloe-tree to th rnnsphf-rrv we see that nature lin liade provision for these members o aer family, so that they may defen :he young leaves and tender buds s lecessary to the continuance of tliei lives. A Hidden Portrait* An important part is played by hit len pictures in politics, particularl n Frcnch politics. An example c ?ncli pictures is that shown above, th )riirinal of which was sent to the Thi ulelpliia llecord by Will Leigh, of 1/ iaska. Pa. The head of Napoleon i 'ormed by the leaves in the uppc iprhthand corner of the bunch of vie ets. Statistics show that 29,470 bodie vere cremated in France last year. THE WHITE ANTS OF SOUTH AFRICA ADR.1EN LOIR, in La Nature, Paris. HERE are found in. South I ___ Africa a considerable nurnO I O ber of insects belonging to ^ the termite family, but the 'WOW most remarkable are those called white ants. Eecause of the destruction which they cause these insects are a real scourge to the country: they live in myriads in subterranean nests, and are one of the great* est obstacles to every form of agriculture. During the night these insects perform their destructive work, the greater part of the time being invisible and moving under the shelter of small tunnels which they construct on their way as they move forward. Not only do they attack vegetation of all sorts, but they also invade houses and even when the exterior of these appears sound they aro often filled with ants which destroy wood and undermine masonry. Tue house may appear intact, but some day it is discovered that the building is really about to fall into dust. Tne rapidity with which the insects work may De judged when it Is stated that a lawyer of Bulawayo found after an absence of a week that the insects had made occupancy of his house impossible. Eight days only had suffice for these do stroyers to raise in tne chimney a nest as high as a man. I have seen cases of wine from Europe, the corks of which had been entirely consumed by ants, leaving the bottles to waste their contents on the floor of the storeroom. One frequently comes across these ants' nests, little hills erected at short distances from each other around a hill of earth flftten feet in height, at the top of which is a gaping opening, the entrance to the nests. The nest 1' AN A>T'S NES T. ^ ll e Itself is composed of galleries hollowed [s irregularly, all ending in a larger gal;e lery, which may be considered the i- principal avenue of the city. This are!S nue leads to the deepest part of the nest, where we may find the residence of the queen. When sovereignty has S been placed on the head of a aueen, y the workmen tear her wings off and n place her in a cell proportioned to her 3- size, with an adjoining cell for her mate. As in our own climate, each one of these nests forms a small republic, containing a queen, royal guards, workers and other useful members of society. As thousands of eggs are laid each day in these nests, it is not difficult to understand the ever-increasing number of ants that inhabit them. These small but fearful enemies of mies which live in the same neighborhood, and two ant nests never live man themselves have implacable enetogether in peace, even where they are I lnnaDirea Dy inaiviauuis uiuseiy reiui* I ed to each other lrom the standpoint of race. The most formidable enemies tj of the white ants, however, are the large black ants called Matabeles, because of their color, which is anala0 gous to that of the inhabitants of 11 Matabeland. The black ants are much r larger than the white, und a legion of 0 Matabeles is sufficient to throw an n entire city of white ants into a state 11 of absolute panic. Much more vige orous than the latter, armed with for11 midable mandibles, the invading black e ants throw themselves on the poor '* frightened creatures of the white city, seizing as many as thirteen at a time, y and carrying them quickly to their own hill. In this case the Matabele e is not inspired by .my bloodthirsty 9 desire, for it does its captive no harm, being content to keep it in a condition ? of slavery. Much less diligent and in?i telligent than the lfttle white ant, the j black ant makes the former work for * the black colony, the white ant laborli ing faithfully in the domain of Its ^ masters, constructing for them com^ fortable cells, taking care of their larvae, and digging tunnels which permit ' tiioip nwntnrs to j?o from one nlace to a. the other sheltered from the wind and | ? rain. Thus It is that frequently we find entire tribes of white ants living a in the Matabele communities. Large and small ants have one common enemy, the ant bear, which is a- very numerous in fhose regions where ? prey is abundant. There is absolutely 3 no safety when one of these animals [' enters the nest, althouph this does not prevent the number of ants from ine creasing in enormous quantities, in ? places the nests of these insects occupying such an extent of territory that they form small villages, attackinrr nvorvthintr flAvotirinc evervthinp. ***?, ^ ^ "" C?? ~ " - ? cutting tiie roots, destroying the leaves, hollowing and emptying the interior of branches and leaving only the bark, the whole tree falling into dust. At Bulawayo in the municipal park out of every fifty trees planted one only lives, and it is estimatted that the da mace In this town nlone amounts to 2o0.' XX) francs per year. Arie'g Parlor Trick. George Ade attended recently a din ner of theatrical people in Boston. The i stage folks sang song and told stories, but Mr. Ade, who is very quiet and ' retiring, would neither sing nor speak. tto whs. he said, no cood at anything of that kind. Finally, though, the calls for .Mr. Ado became too vehement. The young man had to yield. He rose and said: "I will toll you an excellent trick in parlor magic. You take a tumbler and fill it two-thirds full of filtered water, j. Then you insert in the water a lump. j of sugar and a spoon and you begin *f to stir. In a few minutes the sugar e will become invisible." A Bi?i Tomato Vine. A tomato vine, nearly sixteen feet j ' hierh. was on exhibition at the Illinois I r> State Fair. It was grown at Para~ gould, Ark. In the city of New York there are 3 ! only 737,477 white persons bora of aativc parents. 1 t ' iiiiilpSISr ! i Sixteen Crushed to Death at Indian' apolis in a Collision, j PURDUE'S ELEVEN DECIMATED i , Purdue University Special Hit# a Switch Engine Head-On?Seven Players, Two Assistant Coaches and a Trainer Killed Outright ? Fifty Persons Hurt ? Tho Game Abandoned and Team Disbanded Indianapolis, Ind. ^Running at tho rate of thirty miles an hour, a Big Four j special train of six coaches, loaded with students of Purdue University, including the football team, was wrecked just inside ^the city limits by coming into collision with a switch engine hauling a train of coal cars. Fifteen persons were killed outright and fifty were injured, come of them so seriously that there is no hope of their recovery. There were 054 students and spectators on the train, and the football team, which was scheduled for a game with the Indiana University team here, was in the forward car. and four players, three substitute players, two assistant coacues anu oue Trainer were Kiueu outright, and live members of the team were seriously aud several slightly injured. The train was a special, made up at Lafayette, and, with few exceptions. all the passengers were Purdue students. Many of those killed and severely injured were among the best men on the team, and there will be no effort to reorganize it this year. The Indiana University team came in a few minutes after the wreck occurred aud assisted in me worK 01 rcseue uiiu 1.1 c-uiiuy for the injured. President Stone, of Purdue, was on the train, but was not injured. The trains came together with a great crash, which wrecked three of the passenger -coaches, in addition to the engine and tender of the special train and two or three of the coal cars. The first coach on the special train was reduced to splinters. The second coach was thrown down a fifteen-foot embankment into the gravel pit, and the third coach was thrown from the track to the west side and badly wrecked. The coal cars plowed their way into the engine and demolished it completely. The coal tender was tossed to the side and turned over. A wild effort on the part of the imprisoned passengers to cscape from the wrecked car followed the crash. Immediately following the wreck the j students and the others turned their attention to the work of rescuing the in* I jured, and by the time the first ambulances arrived many of the dead and i suffering young men had been carried out and placed on the grass on both sides of the track. The dead were removed last. Several wagons belonging to teamsters living in the neighborhood were pressed into service and the dead were carried away as fast as they could be taken from the wreck. Many of the bodies were so mangled tliat they coma ue laeiumea umy uy letters anil other paper in the clothing. The cause of the accident has not been explained. The engineers of both trains say they had the right of way and were proceeding without knowledge that another train was on the track. There Is a sharp curve where the wreck occurred, and many freight cars were standing on the side tracks, obscuring the view. The following were taken from the wreck dead: W. H. Grube. substitute player. Butler, Ind.: Walter Furr, member of the team: E. C. Robertson, assistant coach; Walter Roush, substitute. Pittsburg: R. J. Powell, Corpus Chrlsti, Texas; W. D. Hamilton," centre rush. Lafavette; Walter Robertson; Ga briel S. Drollinger. beheaded; Sum Squibb. Lafayette; Jay Hamilton, substitute player. Huntlnsrton. Ind.: N. R. Howard. Lafayetto: Patrick McClair, assistant coach. Chicago; Samuel Truitt, player. Noblesville; G. L. Shaw, Lafayette; TV. S. McMillon, Indianapolis. William Bailey, of New Richmond. Ind., substitute player on the Purdue University football team, died on the afternoon after the accident from internal injuries received In the Big Four wreck. This is the sixteenth death. Boston. Mass.?Cutts. the football coach, injured in the train wreck near Indianapolis, is Oliver Cutts. the Harvard player about whom there was SUCU IUSS two jeuis aiju. FUNERAL PARTY KILLED BY A TRAIN; Three Men, a "Woman and a Coffined Cody Ground Under Wheel*. Charlotte, N. C.?Three men and a woman, riding in a wagon in which there was a coffin containing the body of Mrs. Kate Lewis, on the way to interment, were struck by an express train on the Southern Railway six miles north of Concord. The occupants of the wagon?Mrs. Lulu Townsend. John Key, Benjamin^Tippet and Daniel Weaver?were instantly hilled, their bodies, as well as that of Mrs. Lewis being ground to fragments. The wagon was proceeding, drawn by two mules, on a road alongside the railroad track. As the locomotive reached rvHii n fon* vnv.is of the wagon the mules became frightened and bolted fairly in front of it. Cost of Army Jlaneuvres, S3C0.000. The army maneuvres just finished at Omaha. Neb., cost the Government ?3o0.000, according to reports of army officers made on request of MajorGeneral Bates. " i Quit l'ulplt For Business. Because he believes that the ministry v.-ould not in nice a sufficient provision for the support of hims'elVand family wlien old age shnll have overtaken him, I (iiq bnv t a tnimsrtii. nastor of the ! Birmingham Methodist Protestant Church, at Pittsburg, has laid aside the work of the church and entered upon a business life. He believes that I a man's ability in his useful days j should be employer to provide for his family, and that this is a feature overlooked by the church. Labor World. Ogden. Utah, has passed an eighthour ordinance. Rubber workers at Indianapolis, Ind., have organized. There are S.j.000 trade unionists in j JNew soura w aies. Laboring uicti of Pittsburg, Pa., are : founding :i hospital. Chinese arc being driven out of ped- : dling by organized labor at Ogdeu, j Utah. j The normal German working day is I ten hours and the normal week sixty, ( hours, i cdneyIsuRd fibe-swept " Fourteen Blocks and 400 Building? nitr\r\ a*!1 rurniiP Da^/m^'. UCvlIUJCU III 1 CMIIUU3 IIWJlll NOTORIOUS BOWERY WIPED OUT Fivo Hundred Persons. Homeless anil Loss Eitlmatccl at 91,000,000 ? Scarcitv of Water Gives Free Stray to Do i structlon ? Many Fair.oas Resorts Go Up In the Flame*. Now York City?Coney Island was swept by a fire which in a few hours j destroyed property to the value of ' about Sl.OOO.OOO, made 500 people ! homeless and entirely wiped out the | acres of dives, cheap shows, restaurants, dance halls and various other characteristic Coney Island resorts 1 ?i,? .i ii.. T> r? ..:..? ! WHICH niieu iue xju>vcijr tut iiuuui uiuc blocks and extended as far south as 1 the surf line of the sea. , The region destroyed was practically the same as that which was burned in ( 1896. except that this time the area left in ashes is much larger than it was i at the former lire. Five persons were injured?only one j mortally. He was Albert Itubein. proprietor of the Silver Dollar Pavilion. The fire started in a vacant building, known as the Hippodrome, adjoining Tlce's Albatross Hotel. It spread so i swiftly that soon not only the Hippo* i drome, but Tice's hotel was blanlug 1 fiercely. Both of these buildings are on Til- , you's walk and close to the large structures of Steeplechase Park. There was a light wind blowing at the time almost directly from the west, and the sparks and flames were carried along in a line parallel with Surf avenue and seemed to threaten the destruction of the mile or more of buildings in front of them. The buildings at Steeplechase Park were scorched by the heat, and several times burst into flames, which, howWAttA /11IIA1?1*? CtlKflllA/1 KtT fll A firO CYC1, n CI C IJUIUU1J OUUUUCU UJ IUC lit Vapparatus which is a part of the park's equipment. From Til.vou's walk and the Bowery the fir<? worked its way diagonally iu a northeasterly direction toward Surf avenue, which it reached at Schreickert's walk. From there it went eastward along the south side of Surf avenue to Stratton's walk, Henderson's walk, and finally to Thompson's walk, where it was held in check by the heavy brick wall of Henderson's dancing pavilion. Explosions followed one another at short intervals, increasing the danger as well as the difficulty of fighting the fire. They were caused by the bursting of branch gas mains, gasoline tanks, siphons for charging beer kegs and kindred devices. Small stocks of cartridges in rifle galleries went off. the 6lugs darting in all directions. Stauch's and Henderson's were the only brick buildings in the burned | zone. Henderson's Theatre, on the north side of the Bowery, and his pavilion on the south side, with the baths at the rear, were said to be valued at ?125,000. Stauch's plant, on a conserI -i-? X- 1?- -1 _ A. AAA AAA vauve esumaie, was vaiueu ai There was a heavy handicap at the start. Coney Isk.nd gets its supply of water from a pumping station at Daly's lane, behind Sheepshead Bay, where there are many sunken wells. When Coney Island became a part of New York some of this water was diverted to Flatbush and elsewhere, leaving a supply utterly Inadequate. It is estimated that besides these larger buildings there were on each of the fourteen blocks, eighteen smaller buildings, making 252 buildings in all that were destroyed. The average value of the smaller buildings was about $2000. This would bring the total loss on the smaller buildings a little over $300,000. FIRE COST TWENTY-FIVE LIVES. Result of Thirty Minute Blaze in Over crowded New York Tenement. New York City.?Twenty-five persons, I twenty-one men, three women find a j baby, were suffocated in an early morningfire in a tenement house at U4G ' Eleventh avenue, between Thirty-fifth . and Thirty-sijcth streets. The "House of All Nations" this particular building is called, because of the babel of mingled English, Italian. Austrian and Hungarian speech in its halls and stairways. On each of the live floors lived four families, two in front on each side of a central passageway, and two in the rear. Each of these families accommodated from three to ten boarders,#and there were 150 persons in the house at the time of the fire. One woman, who jumped from a third-story window, was fatally hurt. As far as loss of life is concerned it was said at Police Headquarters that no more disastrous tenement house fire ever occurred in the city. The fire was remarkable because so large a loss of life occurred in so short a period. Twenty minutes after the firemen arrived the fire was under control, and the flames could not have had 4-/vn minufftp' llflOiltV'OV 1 >. A- ' 1HULC Lliclll LCll 1U1UUICO ucauiiuj ww fore the alarm was sent in. In that time more than two score persons huddled together in the crowded rooms, died just where the devouring flames and blinding smoke discovered them. It was not known until the fire i was subdued that one had perished, but the firemen's short and terrific buttle disclosed heartrending scenes. Poor Arctic TVUalc Catch. A vessel arriving at Onalaska reports fh,e catch of the arctic whaling lleet , Up to October 21 as sixteen whales. "Whalemen say the season has been the poorest in the history of bowhead : whaling. ! Charges Fraud. Ex-Senator Smith, receiver of the United States Shipbuilding Company, made his report to the court, declaring ; the trust a swindle, and accusing Chas. M. Schwab of the deliberate purpose of wrecking it. Tomailo Tear* Up Oklahoma. i Two persons were killed and nine in- ' jured by a tornado that formed three miles north of Hydro, in Caddo County. 0. T. A half dozen farm houses were j destroyed. The preperty loss is eui- ; mated at ?50,000. i j Dynamite Wrecks City. ( A carload of dynamite exploded in i the yards of the Pennsylvania Rail- | road Company at Crestline. Ohio, com- 1 pletely wrecking 300 box cars, a nuin- ' ber of passenger cars, demolishing t thirty tracks for a half mile and in- J 1...... ,1.,Imilv-p mciing senuuf tuima^v UJJ cici.i ^ in the place. The most wonderful part | J of the entire explosion is that only one i i person was killed. j < Tos.is Ball rinycr S2iot. TV. B. Tackaberry. a well-known ball ] player of the Texas team, was shot ; and killed by Prince No well, manager | of a messenger scrvice at Fort Worth. ( ' TIE GKEAT DESTROYER | SOMI STARTUNC FACTS ABOUT -rue wi/?e r\c imTCmD~B iurf I nt V iwm \jr n? i wiin Why the Side Door of the Saloon Ha#Opened the Way to the Downward Path For WonieR-Vigorous Expressions oa the Subjcct by Mrs. Edwin Knowle?. Unquestionably the greatest evil thai menaces our national life to-day is drunkenness among women. Enough has been said in both light and serious vein about the practice of "genteel tippling" by women of the so-called unper classes, and L shall refer to them only incidentally. Of far greater import is the increase in drinking by women in humble circumstances, the wives of hard-working mechanics, themothers of large families. It is of far greater import, because these women are of the "plain people," and there are more "plain people" than any other sort. So. long as they are sober, industrious and virtuous it makes little difference if they rive dinners to monkeys at Newport or now many cases of champagne are consumed at pink teas on Fiftn avenue. With these women opportunity means i great deal. In some respects tne word opportunity is the biggest in the English, language. But it has an added signifilance when it clears the way for these ivoraen to become habitual drinkers. And* the side door of the saloon leading to wine rooms for women ? "ben coops" I call them?is just another definition of the vvord opportunity. The side door of the saloon has opened the way to the downward path for more women in humble circumstances than all other avenues combined. 'ihe poor creatures think they need a stimulant. Possibly they do. But I doubt whether they would resort toliciuor if it were not for that side door. These women would not think of going in the front door of the saloon. It would not be considered respectable, and they efill rofm'n u rprfnin nmminf. nf rtri/fo as to their standing among their acquaintances. Even the bartender who serves drinks in the wine room would be most ... righteously shocked if thev were to come up to the bar and ask for their liquor. They could not go into the swell cafe? where their more wealthy sisters sip their cocktails and highballs. They wotud not be admitted. Trust the waiters in the / cafes for being good judges of wardrobes. So they go to the side door of the saloon* which always stands invitingly open from long before sunrise until long alter most honest people are abed. Thus the side door is the main opportunity for women. It is the women'* a annex to the saloon. It is there for' no other purpose. When a man wants a drink he goes in the front door. With him there is no necessity for concealment unless it is on Sunday or after closing j hours at night. Then his skulking is for the purpose of protecting the saloonkeeper. not himself. The question might not be to serious if the women of the poprer classes were not so serious about their drinking. Your society woman is not nearly so liable to become an inebriate. She starts to drinking because she thinks it smart. She ma/ -i grow to like it. but, after all, drinking is Mm largely an incident with her. The dip- . humanize ?suun an eupneniisuc term:? . . is the exception. If she becomes a real drunkard she haras no one so much as -gja herself. She may injure her reputation, v|g8 but that is easily repaired. She has no family dependent on her work, no cbil- ' .'V dren crying for her attention, and she never loses hqj-self to such an extent that she neglects her lapdoe. Radical steps should be taken with the saloon side door. It is the gateway to damnation for women. If it is not feaai* ble to force saloonkeepers to pay an eztrai license for this accessory, close it up. It <v, is ruining the homes of people who appreciate homes. Home life means every* thing to the poor peoDle. Their amuse* nients are largely of the fireside variety. A trip to the theatre is an everit, not s nightly occurrence until they get bored to death. They don't go out to dinners or attend balls. The women come in closer contact with' their children. They have no nursemaids to look after their little ones. What can be the effect upon the younger generation when the mothers get drunk? A raomer in tne ponce court answering u* the charge of intoxication! What a spec- " tacle for a child! , If you want to stop nine-tenths of the drunkenness among women, who are the wives of workingmen, close the aider door that admits them tg the "h^n coops." Io! that way you remove the opportunity and lessen the temptation. I am not sanguine enough to believe that such a step would reform all of them, but I believe it will beat all the temDerance lectures - .; that can be delivered and all the pleases that can be signed?Mrs. Edwin Knowles, in the Xew York Press. More Dangerong Than Malaria. The famous Dr. Wulfert has lately published a paper on the effect of alcohol on Europeans in tropical countries. It is more dangerous, he says, that malaria or climate fever, and at the same time affects 4-Vta /ii/voal-ivo (irajna fho hrain. and the nervous system. A person addicted to the use of alcoholic liquora will there have his s'jimach entirely out of order in two weeks. It is the same way with the nerves* The moderate use of alcohol continued \ with the heat causes ah intolerable eom- S nolence, weakness heaviness in the limbs* difficulty of working, and low spirits. The effects on the brain show themselvea by dizziness and in fits of bad temper *-v ? that sometimes cause real madness. These effects of the alcohol show themselves especially during the rainy time, when the air is saturated with moisture. As a proof that these troubles really come from alcohol can be mentioned that the Hollanders in In^ia who do not use alcoholic beverages are able to work hard either at mental of muscular labor even during th? hottest times. The Greatest Curae. Undoubtedly the greatest curse to the poor of this city is the drunkenness among the wives and mothers. A drinking man is often sober, but a drinking woman almost never. The saloon with its side door, its drinking booths for women in the rear, is, I firmly believe, the greatest obstacle in the way of reform. It affords an easy opportunity for women to get their liquor. It is more than an opportunity; it is a temptation to idle women or a restless temper anient. It is true that a person bent on getting liquor can buy it at some place or other. But the saloon side door is far more potent, and in my opinion constitutes the gravest menace of all that threaten the poor of New York. It has wrecked thousands of homes by degrading the wives and mothers, and has dotted Potter'# Field with the "raves of women.?Statement from the bench of Yorkville Police Courc by Magistrate Charles A. Flammeo. New York City. The Crnsada In Brief. Go'dsooro, X. C.. is planning for a Ircal Prohibition campaign under the leadership of the Anti-Saloon League. The City Council of Sault Ste. Marie* Mich., has violated a State statute by granting a license for a saloon to be located within 200 feet of the hi^h school. Tha school board will carry the matter to tha < courts. L. J. Gibbon, of Corydon, Ky., who waa indicted for selling alcoholic liquor in thkt Prohibition town, has brought suit for ?5000 damages against two wholesalers of Padacah, who. he alleges, sold him the liquor in question as non-alcoholic pale lie. Philadelphia brewers and distillers are charged with putting salicylic acid into their products, and Dr. B. H. Warren* State Dairy and Food Commissioner, ia launching a crusadc against them on thaS ;core. i Nine hundred and twenty-tiro licenses for liquor sellers have been issued in Vermont since the license law went into effect, and reports from ail quarters indi- 1 E late that the State is growing heartily sick of its experinent, 'drunkenness ani :ri'.nc increasing steadily. The workings of high license in New; Hampshire, after fifty years of prohibition. may be inferred by the published ut- v nf .Turin* Pillsburv. a prominent irrist of that State, who says tersely and significantly: "May God have mercy on our State till we vote agiin."