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i'- i' r % BRAKEON SHIP. ' Brought* t?o a Full Stop sn a Very Short* D stance. '^Mention was made some time ago in iese columns of the experiments made L >n the St. Lawrence Iliver with a ship ^ jrake, and there is now given hereIjrlth a picture of the device, taken g from a recent jssue of the Scientific I 'American. During the t.'stx referred I to the steamer was driven ahead at r jn indicated speed of eleven knots an , jiour. Steam was then shut off. and. L simultaneously, the brake ou each side m I J] aaan?l ?S3 i|l\ i K ?H SHIP BRAKE opened. The vessel came to a full ?H stop within a distance equal to her own 8b iength. The brakes were then closed. 9||r Jhe vessel sent ahead until the origjnal rate of speed was attained, when the engines were reversed and the V brakes opened, with the result that all I headway ceased after she bad gone V but fifty feet?about half her length. Tt> nianonvrlni? the Bureklt at full I speed, she was turned also within her Own length, with one brake thrown open. An examination of the hull and f METHOD OF MELTING brake mechanism after the test! showed apparently no harmful straii or other damage, and in operating tb< brake no jar or vibration was observa We by those on board. The method of operatiou is as fol lows: When it is desired to stop th< vessel suddenly, as In the event of i collision, or when making a landing the catches that hold the forward ends of the gate are released, and the gat? la slightly opened by mechanica means. The pressure of water ther catches on the forward edge of th< gate, swings it out to the full-open po sition, sudden jar or shock being pre vented by means of water cushions al the back of the slides. The movement ^ of the brake can be controlled entire r ly from the bridge or from engine room, as may be desired. ^ TO KEEP THE HAT IN SHAPE. Metal Frame to Keep Felt Headgear ir Orcfer. 1 The prevailing fad which demands that the attire of the man should be fconf in snick-!ind-snan condition b\ means of forms and shapes suited foi the various garments has now spreac to the hat. and there has been recent ly introduced a wire frame adapted t( receive the felt headgear now geueral ly atfected by the masculire clement t The frame is of spring ^ire, ovei (which the hat is drawn when not ir use. with the result that the curves and surfaces are maintained in tin Bame beauty of outline which it won FRAME TO HOI<D THE HAT. (When it was first taken from the hat ter's showcase. * * The comfort of the soft felt hat i recognized by all, but its one draw back has been the fact that it soo: takes on a disreputable appoaranc for the lack of a Little care, and in be M half of this hat frame it is argued tha there is every reason why a man shoul take as much care of his hat as an other part of his apparel. . Melt?s the Street Snow. Machine For Disposing of tie W.nter Accumulation. An improved method of disposing of the accumulation of snow, which is an increasingly important problem in municipal government, is shown herewith, from the Scientific American. It is designed t? scrape up the snow from the pavement and at the same time reduce it to water, which flows off into the sewers. To this end the machine comprises a furnace, or heater, of peculiar shape, mounted to swing be -* ? '' 1 mmmmm f'Zz -vtmy& '&vewiW #*&* & ON THE EUREKA. tween the side rails of the frame. The forward portion of this heater is inclined downward and terminates in a shoe or scraper, adapted to scrape up the suow as the shoe is drawn along, s The shoe may be raised, when desired. to prevent it from engaging with the s ground, by means of a lever adjacent to the driver's seat, and having suitable connection with the forward end 1 of the furnace. The smokestacks i shown communicate with the forward "nri nf thp furnace. and a forced draft I caw^SNOW IN CITY STREETS. > is provided by means of blowers havi lng pipes leading to the ashpit. The i snow scraped up oii to the shoe is car rled along the inside surface by an end less conveyor, and thus coming in con. - tact with the heated surface of the J furnace is immediately melted. Th6 i endless conveyors and blowers are op, erated by chain and sprocket connec* tlons with the rear wheels of the ma* chine. Above the conveyor is a coal 1 bin, from which a chute leads reari ward, and is inclined downward, so s that the ooal may pass to the rear plat form when the fireman opens the * gate at the end of the shoe. Jacob t Mnndry, of Wakefield. N. Y., Is the t inventor of this machine. KE V CARRIAGE SPRING. The Familiar Flat One Discarded For the Spiral Coil. k The accompanying illustration will convey graphically better than words can tell a recently patented method of 5 mounting vehicle bodies which allows J the utilization of the familiar spiral ; r \ / \ ! : v y SPXBAL 8PKIX03 O.V C AKriAli^S. a . springs in the place of the liat ones now so generally used for this purpose. The front and rear axies support upright standards, which are sufficiently braced to give greater rigidity to the under frame. The body of the vehicle is supported from each standard by means of helical springs, which are inclined inwardly toward the centre of the carriage body, thus exerting radial pulls to prevent lateral swaying without interfering with their vertical yielding movement when the vehicle is _ passing over rough roadways. The Government of the Transvaal n V>Qa t\f\xtr rfasiislar? fhnf Mia nmoatif fhtwi 2) U(4C uw II UV.V.1UV.U l?UU \.k?\ |iiVOCUk UUiL { is inopportune for the construction of d new railways, in view of the scarcity e of labor. t The human body, being lighter than d the water of the Dead Sea, swimming y in it is difficult, the head alone tending to sink in the water. ! .TTTnni? \rnV v JLf VJ JM va ' Judge Gray, Delaware's most notec coal commission of last year, has latel didate for the Democratic Presidential was United States Senator from 1885 t< of the Paris peace commissioners, wh > ferring the Philippine Islands and Port a member of the joint high commissioi appointed a member'of the internatiom The Hague convention. An Odd Corn Crib. ! r ...!_ A Novel Met?hcd of Out*wit/t.irg luc j Rat>s and Mice. Every possible device is resorted to at this season of the your?when the m( old corn is becoming scarce and the re new corn seems a long way off at .pj planting time?to protect the grain _ from thieving rodents. One of the most ingenious contrivances was encountered the other dav at <he back of a suburban lawn, where the one well-filled corn crib stood near a stable sheltering the family driving horse. Evidently the rats were not to deprive laat horse of Ills rightful share of good, sweet yellow corn, for six bright new galvanized buckets had been sacrificed for its protection. The crib has been mounted upon six strong cedar posts aud ou the top of these supports are the six large pails. When , .'Mister Rodent smells the tempting corn "and scrambles up the posts to enter the crib he finds himself baffled ~ by a great enveroping roof of tin. 0 ODD WAV OF PBOriCCTlNO A CJKN OdiU. ^ The expanding edges extends so far ei from the posts on every side that it sj is impossible for the rats or mice to reach them. They are too high from the ground for them to leap upon them, and the most artful old rat is convinced after repeated trials that there is no possibility of getting around, or through, or over the troublesome paiis to reach the bottom of the crib and the tempting corn within the open slats. _ - yji Bulgaria corresponds in area to Ok- s< lahoma and in population to Missouri, tj MOST NORTHERLY >mHt0 ^ _ This is the most northerly olmr^li in lug is situated in the highest North of S city of Yakutsk, which has the fame o It was built by Russian convicts, and times in the yenr. The little church wa Eternal snow surrounds that district !GE GRAY. %n ;ii ?*< ?w ^b^M| 1 I jurist and head of the anthracitf y been mentioned as a possible can nomination next year. Judge Graj ) 1S99, and in 1S98 was appointed on< negotiated the treaty of Paris trans o Rico to the United States. He wai t at Quebec in 1898, and in 1900 wai il commission of arbitration undei COTTON TIE BUCKLE. he Tighter the Pull, the Stronger It Holds. An important' improvement in thi ethod of tying cotton bales has beei cently made by a Southern genius ie buckle is made of a single piec < 7 CJTf-n MEW CO: TOM TIB BUCKLE. wire bent as shown in the illustn >n, and which, owing to the ingenlou spositlon of the several planes of it nuponent parts, is self-binding witi: it the necessity of riveting or othei ise permanently securing the saint i making use of the device it is no ;cessary that the buckle should res jalnst the material forming the bal order to hold the band in posltior le strain on the band providing sul ?ient locking effect According t ic inventor it is practically, impossibl f fho hand thus tied to work loos* ! in all cases the grip of the buckl creases with the strain. fte assert iat the use of these ties will effect msiderable economy, in the fa?'t tlui is often found necessary under th esent methods to put a bale in th impress a second time simply b( luse of the fact that the bands hav ?come loosened, which operation i itirely dispensed with .by this ne\ 'stem. The Wirelea* Between Inland*. A French company has been opera! ig an electric cable between the is! ids of Gaudeloupe and Martiniqw lit the lines have teen broken fo >me time, and now the wireless syf >m has been out in use. The ('nitei tates Consul at Gaudeloupe report iat the service is satisfactory, wit; ily occasional interruptions by resi >n of weather conditions. About sis ' messages a day are transmitted. OF CHURCHES. >v.,A'vy1 BMpSSf 1 * -v a f jwjj f \ 'ii sin? 't / the world. The little wooden- builc Iberia, seventy-two miles north of th f being the coldest city on the globi . services in it are held but a fe^ 8 discovered by a German explore. I. v ' ' ' ' BANK ROBBERIES OF 1903 The Operations of Burglars Are of Ihe Increase. statistics oTTIieits For two iear as Compiled by the Pinkerton Agency? Burglaries, 71; Attempts, 53. New York City.?Operations of'bflnk % burglars are on the increase, according to this year's statistics. This conclusion is reached by the Pinkerton Detective Agency in its annual report to tbe American Bankers' Association. There were seventy-one successful burglaries of banks, according to this report, <}uring the year ending September 15, 1903. The attempted burglaries numbered fifty-two. As a reward for their efforts the knights ql the "jimmy" obtained a combined haul amounting to $180,997.46. Of this amount only $12,980 was recovered by detectives. . "There is a slight increase," say Messrs.'Wiillam A. and Robert A. Pinkertou, "in the attacks upon your members by burglars this year, as compared with last year, but the losses sustained have been considera-bly diminished this year, on account of the money recovered by us, at times aided by police departments. "Burglars in six of fourteen suscessful attacks and three of eleven atfomni-a on niomhdi'C llJlVP llPPTl apprehended. Thirty-three safe burg- , lars and outlaws have been apprehended. Of this number twenty-six were convicted and sentenced and turee were acquitted, three are awiting trial and one escaped. In addition to this, for operations on members previous to September 15, 1902, two have been executed and three sentenced to life imprisonment. "Twenty-one forgers and swindlers nave been convicted, eleven of whom were sentenced to forty-Aye years' imprisonment. or an average of four years and one month each. Of these forgers j the only organized and fully equipped . band was under the leadership of T John S. Brush, who was finally j broueht to justice. "Charles Becker, alias 'The Dutchman,' who was released from San 3 Quentin September 28, may again en3 gnge in forgery, but will, we think. " Dear in minu uie mining ui u ycisistent prosecution for bim and any who may associate with him in committing forgeries." On the subject of "yegg" burglars the Pinkertons say: "We referred at ) some length to the operations of bank. vault and safe burglars of the 'hobo* # or tramp type, more frequently referred to as 'yegg' or 'yegg men,' by 1 which class all but one of the burg> laries referred to in this report were e committed, and who for the last few - years have committed most of the bank, vault and safe burglaries in this country, which are steadily increasing. "They operate with nitroglycerine or dynamite, and frequently shoot interfering policemen. The curtailing of burglaries by these criminals is one of the propositions we now have in hand, and we expect to show good results during the coming year. "One of the most important arrests for bank burglary made for your association was that of Willinm Rudolph and George Collins, 'yegg' burgiars, arrested by us at Hartford, Conn., Mfirch " 1 J-1? f /ilftr 1, 1HU3, ainea oy me poiure ui mm. "We are confident we linve succeeded in locating George Parker, alias - 'Butch' Cassidy, and Harry Longi bauch, alias 'The Sun Dance Kid,' two 9 of the 'WiKl Bunch' band of despera. does, who on September 19, 1900. entered the First National Bank, of Winnemucca, New, held up the officials of the bank and robbed it of $32,640 in - gold." >t it COMMITTEES OF THE SENATE, e : Republicans Complete Their Assignments ' ?Hanna to Succeed Morgan. Washington, D. C.?The Republicans of the Senate completed their commit tee assignments. The more important -< are as follows: Appropriations, Gilline ger; Contingent Expenses, Chairman, s Kean: Commerce. Foster, (Wash.). ' a Quarles. Alger: Finance, P&ft'ose; In- | j dian Affairs. Clark (Wyo.). Long; Im- j migration. Chairman. Dillingham: Interoceanic Canals, Chairman, Hanna; 6 .Tudiciary, Mitchell; Naval Affairs, ' Burrows; Pensions, Chairman. Mc< Cumber: Philippines. Lone; Postoff flees, Chairman, Penrose: New Mem? ? -r* j.?. DHUM. \ | bers, Burrows, scotr, ourmu, . leges and Elections, Hopkins; Public . ands, Fulton. Coal Confiscated by ? Kanoas Sheriff.I Sheriff Knapp, of Wichita County. ? confiscated a quantity of coal. A coal r famine exists all over Western Kansas, I .. and sis carloads from Kansas mines j for Colorado were sidetracked at Leoti . and sold at public auction by the s Sheriff. Sheriff Ivnapp does not know " who owns the coal and he apparently doesn't care. He has deposited the I ; money, and will turn it over to the iwner when he find him. Hl^hont Voltage Kills Murderer. Carmine Caimari was put to I'eath in the electric chair in Sin? Sins Prison for the murder of Mrs. Josephine Lan,n in Von- York City, on Octo i>er 6, 1902. Three shocks were given before Galmari was pronounced dead. The voltage, 1920, was the highest yet used in an execution in Sing Sing I'risou. To Sell Patents. E. F. Davis, who since the electric chair was installed in New York State in 1S!)0 has shocked over seventy murilerers to death, has consented to sell I to the State his patents and electric devicp for killing murderers and to instruct an officer at each of the State prisons in the use of the apparatus. China Uecognlzea Panama. Sir Chentung Lians-Cheng, the I Chinese Minister notified Secretary ! I Hay that his Government had author - ?' ? ? ? "wog-nition of izod turn ro exteuu i?v China to the Panama Government on I!?e same terms as that accorded by the United States. Wiroleas Testa Successful. The De Forrest wireless tests between their station at Holyhead and Ilowth, near Dublin, Ireland, a distance of sixty-four miles, have been successful" both ways. News of the Tollers. Work on the Indianapolis, Ind., labor temple is expected to begin Janu- j ary }. Minnesota State Federation of Labor , will raise .$100,000 to assist the striking flouring mill employes of Minneapolis. Garment workers are considering me i- question of (he abolition of Sunday. e work in the clothing trade in Montreal,' ? Canada. , (V Shoe factory workers nt Rochester r Is. Y.. have been granted a voluntary reduction in working hours fr0m to nine, EXPORTS AT HIGH MARK j Average More Than $6,000,(1)0 For i Every Business Day. October Shipment* Amounted to SIGO,nnn Vovf In 11 f American Commerce. Washington, D. C.?Five million dollars a day is a snag sum for the people of a'single country to realize as the sale of the products of their farms, factories, forests, fisheries and mines. The total exports of the months, as shown by the figures of the Department of Commerce and Labor through its Bureau of Statistics, amounted to $160,370,059, which would average more than $5,000,000 for every day In the month and practically $6,000,000 for each business day In the month. From the port of New York alone the exports of the moath were $51,867,942, or nearly $2,000,000 for each business /latr /\ P 4-V? m r\ r> fVi ' - . * yJUXJ \JL iuq UiUUlU. This exportation in* October, amounting to $160.000,000,.exceeds that of any preceding month irCiti'e history of our commerce with,tJlie single exception of October, 1900, when the total was $103,389,680. For the ten months ending with October the total exports were $1,149,469,933, and for the twelve months ending with October the total was $1,422,887,954. These totals, for ten and twelve months, respectively, are larger tbqn in any preceding year except 1901 and 1900, in which the ten and twelve months' totals slightly exceed those of the present year. Imports in October also exceeded those of any previous October, with the single exception of October, 1902. They amounted to $81,931,003, or a little over $2,500,000 per day. The exports were, as already shown, over $5.000,000 per day,, thus leaving the average total excess of exports over imports fa aaa a ?mi,,. i y uaj. xut; iui<u CAtcds of exports over imports, for the month of October was $78,4?.0,"054, or $2,530,202 for each day in the month, or S2,005,150 for each business day in the month. Of this enormous total of $166,000 000 of exports, or $0,000,000 a day for each business day, the largest single item was cotton, amounting to $60,000,000, while the remaining $100,000,000 was divided among other farm products, manufactures, the products of the mines, forests and fisheries. The high prices of cotton during the past few months resulted in a reduc-' tiou of purchase abroad in the earlier months of the year and thus a shortage of stocks, and as a consequence the first month of the cotton year, October, showed a very large exportation of cotton, and at unusually high prices, the ttvcia^r pci puuuu iul ^vnuu caported being 10.1 cents, against an average of 8.4 cents in October. 1902; 8.1 cents in October, 1901; 9.9 cents in October. 1000, and seven cents in October, 1S99. A comparison of October exports with those of October of earlier years illustrates the remarkable growth, of our export trade. In 1870 the October exports were $29,000,000: in 1880, $83.000,000: in 1890. $98,000,000, and in 1900, $163,000,000, the largest exports for any single month in the history of our commerce, and,in 1903, $160.0000.000, or more than- any preceding montb except1 that of October, 1900. BOCOTA EXPECTS WAR. Awaiting Mission's Result ? Hundred Thousand Volunteers. Bogota.?A man prominent in public affairs stated that the Colombian Government would await the result of the mission to Washington of General Reyes before deciding upon its policy as regards the new Republic of Panama. The general opinion here is that +horo will ho war hut the Government will do its utmost to effect a diplomatic arrangement. . United States Minister Beaupre and the American colony here are deeply grateful to the authorities for the consideration shown to them. The belief is expressed in-Government circles that the United Staie3 Senate will not approve of the iiction of President Roosevelt regarding affairs on the isthmus. A11 parties here havs offered their aid to the Government, and over 100,0<X> volunteers have tendered their services in case of a declaration of hostilities. ELEVEN DEAD IN A DUNBAR MINE Smouldering Fire in an Adjacent Property Caused the ?xploslon. Connellsvllle, Pa.?Eleven men were killed and ten injured In the explosion of gas in the Ferguson mine of the Dunbar Furnace * Company. Fire smouldering In the ill-fated Hill Farm nijne, where, on July 16, 18!)0, thirtyone miners were entombed and burned to death, it is said, fired the gas. Three of the dead were Americans and the others Slavs and Poles. "*"* mAnl'/ul Allf U'erguson mine is muiusi Twenty-one men, the night shift, had just started to work when the explosion occurred. All had safety lamps, so it Is thought that the old fire in the Hill Farm workings started the gas. Drawing of ribs is said to have been the cause of the generation of gas.. In a statement given out the officials of the Dunbar Furnace Company say the mine had been pronounced safe by both fire boss and the mine inspector. John L.Jerome Found Dead. .Tohn L. Jerome, a prominent capitalist and former Treasurer of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company, whs fouud dead in bed at his summer home at Buffalo Park, Col. Hart P. Dunk* Found Dead. Hart P. Danks, a musical composer ^ nitiniiMi remitatlon, and formerly a noted singer, was found dead in bed in I his boarding house at Philadelphia, Pa. | Fort Gibson Fire Swept. Fire made a clean sweep of the military quarters at Fort Gibbon, near Dawson, N\ W. T. The loss will reach 5100,000. The soldiers had nothing with which to fight ther flames but snow, which proved useless. The fire destroyed the barracks, warehouses | and paint shops. Boy Shoots Baby. Tcny Cinco, two and a half years old, was shot through the brain by Carlo Maresco, six years old, at New Haven, Conn. Prominent People. Emperor William of Germany has a collection of waiting sticks of all shapes and cut in every part of the world. The Rev. B. Alden, of Streator. 111., ninety-seven years of age, is the oldest Methodist minister iu the United States. i George S. Buxton, a friend of Charles Dickens, and at one time a playmate of Queen Victoria, died recently in Eoekford. III. " '"** " ? Kaa? A1 on+orl George K. Mcoienau u?ta uccu successively President of the Board of Aldermen. Congressman and Mayor of New York. ; . y - J . ' THE GREAT DESTROYER 1 SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. "I Poem: The Two Glasses?Poo to the Hainnn Race? Alcohol Has Can-led-on Its Work Throughout Centuries--- Why Weaklings Aro Born Into tho World. There stood two glasses filled to the brim, Ona rich man's table, rim to rim; , One was ruddy and red as blood. And one as cicar na the crystal flood. ? J, < Said the glass-'pf wine to the paler brother: "Let iw tell the t'aie3 of the past to each other. I can tell of banquet, and revel and mirth; And tbe proudest and grandest souls on. earth T Fell under my touch though struck br blight; ", There I was king, for I ruled in taight. rrom tne neaas or Kings A nave tora tne ^ crown, From the heights- of fame I have hurled ) . men down; 1 ^ . .- V I have blasted rc-ny an honored name, ... '::. ? I have tskdn virtue and given sbwne; . I have tempted the youth with a sip, * taate That has made his future a barren waste; Or than anyarmy beneath the sky,' . Far greater than any king am I. I have made the arm of the driver fail And sent the train from the iron rail; I have made good ships co down at sea And the shrick3 of tne loat were sweet to me, For they said. 'BehiiW.liow ijreat you be! Fame, strength, ^wealth, genius before yoa fall, For your might and power are over all.' Ho! ho! pale brother," laughed the wine, "Can you boast of deeds as great as mine?" ? \i Sand the water-glass: "I cannot boast Of a king dethroned, or a murdered host'; But I can tell of a heart once sad Bv my crystal drops made light and glad. Of thirsts I've quenched, of brows I've laved; I Of hands I've cooled and souls I've saved; I have leaped through the valley, dashed down the mountain, Flowed in the river and played in the fountain, Slept in the sunshine and dropped from the eky, And everywhere gladdened the landscape and eye.' . 5*? I have eased the hot forehead of fever and jjp pain; I have made the parched meadows grow fertile with grain. I can tell of the powerful wheel of the mill That ground out the flour and turned at . my will; I can tell of mankind, debased by you, r That I lifted up and crowned anew. I cheer, I help. I strengthen, and aid. I gladden the heart of man and maid* I set the chained wine-oaptivc free, ' v And all are better for knowing me." These are the tales they told each other, ', r 'J Thfi irlnna nF wjnp ?nH nalpr hrnf.hor j As they sat ti&etjier. filled to the brim, . , v " . ' On the rich man's table, rim to rim. a! Demoralizer, <??.' ' '''"fcj The use of totctfholic beverages is as old as civilization. The demoralization wrought by the beverage use of alcohol in various drinks is beyond computation. Its physiological effects upon tne human body and the mind faculties arc a decreased tissue resistance resulting from alcoholic indiges- . tion. It prevents oxidation. and causes other nutritive disturbances. Though .5 taken into the syetem in small quantities. it coagulates the pepsin and albumen of the food and destroys the solvent powers , ^ of the gastric juice. It also decreases the . motor and the absorbing power of the stomach. It profoundly affects all the tissues of the body, and especially those which enter into the structure of the nervous system. 1 Alcohol excites the mucous membrane of the stomach. The first to suffer are the 9 brain cells b/ thickening of the tissues* Alcohol acts upJKJ the blood, destroying the red corotrScles, or causing them t5 shrink. Healthy protoplasm is essential *te healthy life, but alcohol produces disease. Persons who take no alcohol live long<r? and can work harder, than those who do. Alcoholic beverages produce disase and incite to crime. One form of heart disease ia a result of alcoholism and produces ernaustion and irritation. Every vascular ' organ of the human body suffers from Alcoholic effects if the use is continued.- Th? constant use of alcoholic beverages will finally overthrow the most brilliant mind 'and all its powers', and arouse all the krtfer and violent passions. > The unquestionable conasquencea of alcohol seen in hereditary law should alarm * ' the physiological student of to-day.Statistical evidence is abundant shovKng the blighting effects of alcoholism in parenta upon their children. /. Let us consider. Morel's table of alcoho^c neuropathic degeneration extending through four generations: "First ger.eration,',immorality, alcoholic excess and brutal degradation. Second generation, hereditary dmnkennesa, rpaaiacal attacks and general paralysis. Third generation, hypochondria, lypemid, maniacal attacks and general paralysis. Fourth generation, feeble intelligence^ stupidity, attacks of mania." .1 , v-Jj TTrnrn n parpfiil nhqprvnhinrt Mtpnrlint* over many years we believe this table of / ^32 thereditary sequences to be aporoxiraately correct. A legacy o( low and defective vitality, feeble powers of resistance and inability of adjustment follows. Untoldi .? numbers of children are born into this life weaklings, and go down under the fascinating power of appetite through lack of physical, mental and moral strength. Medical science, true to its. mission, rejects alco-' bolic depressants as a remedial a^ent today and treats the powerful destroyer as other dangerous poisons. . > If for the next .four or five generation* our racc would be absolutely free from alcohol and tobacco, we shoi'ld see men and Women with superior bodies and minds, with an increased limit of life reaching beyond a centurv.?Charles H. St. John, Bf. D., in Union Signal. Drink Change* Good Men Into Dmnoni. ' It h a broad statement to make, but T fxll.r rAnvinopH tll.lt. ninotv-fiwft T1PT* cent, of the crime committed can be traced to fondness for whisky. It leads men into all kinds of 6vil and changes a loving husband into a veritable demon. The crusade against whisky is a crusade for the preservation of the home and the nation. ?Statement by Magistrate E. Gnston Higginbotham, Lee Avenue Court, Brooklyn. II Alt Poverty is One to Using Wlitoky. Whisky Tias ruined more good men, mechanics and skilled artisans, than the world can ever dream of. All the poverty V is due to whisky. It is only rarely that a real case of distress i3 caused by uncontrollable circumstances. Artisans and, rich men alike would improve their conditions if they could avoid the time, 'J 4-Latt nrfiofo An TxrV???- \\ ^ rnuucv auu CUCIK* MICT ?? ???,?> V.? kv.?Statement by Magistrate Tighe, Butler Street Court, Brouklyn. What It Doe*. The liouor traffic: Defies law. Wrecks lives. Ruins homes. Divides families. Destroys wealth. Breeds criminals. Produces poverty. Increases taxation. Debauches politics. TtUmialifiea laborers. Depreciates oroperty. Corrupts legislatures. Profanes the Sabbath. The traffic must be destroyed. A Multiplicity ilf Saloons. Among a population of 7000 in a certain district in Birmingham, England,' there are forty-fire public houses, Deing one for every 155 persons (only eighty-eight of whom are over eighteen years of age), the auoriM fnr t.hf> cifcv bein<? one to 243. Of the 7000. over 2500 persons have within a year claimed the .attention of the authorities or charitable agencies. Underhanded Method* of Llqnor Men. Reports come from many towns in Ohio and Indiana, where saloons were recently closed, that men are secretly made drunk and then turned loose in the streets to create the impression that more liquor ia used under the reign of prohibition than under that of Ucenae.?National Advocate*