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t== gWANDL!NG NEW Kiuv o lmn&nab VIPORTS OF TEAS VER since onr doughty forefathers tumbled King George's chests of East India tea into Boston Harbor?and thereby started a - revolution?the American -e been very partial to the leverage. It has been esti IHiatil^hat this year nearly 100,000,000 pounds of the eastern leaf will be brewed in various parts of our land. ^ . c. B ig| - WEIGHING Ai>u ? The shy Mongolian was wont, in Btnes gone by, to send us all sorts of Hried things for tea?dried leaves of Boy old plant, with plenty of bluestone Br soapstone sprinkled on to give color, Hid a few decayed tea leaves thrown for conscience sake?until Congress Kolc a hand in the matter in 1897 and Urected the Secretary of the Treasury vto appoint a board of tea experts, to Pconsist of eight men learned in tea Lgrowth. who were to determine standards of quality. \ Last year there wore thirteen stand, ards decided on. These, of course, were of as low a grade of tea as tliey thought should be imported into this ' country. Any tea which the inspector .deems below the standard is rejected. CThe importer?or would-be importer?is Pordered to remove the stuff from "the [land of the free." If he fails to do so in six months it is destroyed?history thereby repeating itself. In the office of the tea inspector? where the kettle is always chirruping cheerily?in the assessors' storehouse, Washington and Christopher streets, high on a shelf, sit the stern tea tribunal?thirteen austere judges, clad in judicial robes of tin. The taster selects three samples, which have come in for examination, and takes them to a big round table with a revolving top. Beside each sample he places a standard?Oolong beside Oolong. Ceylon by Ceylon. Japanese by Japanese, and so on. Before each sample and each standard he puts - 1 31^1 4.U* t.U/9 VK r\tt ?:,m I it uuuuitrifss* tup?uic aiuu iucj us to drink from in Chinatown?and into each he places exactly the weight of a half dime of tea. The table is reyolved around, and an attendant pours tn boiling water. When tea is boiled It draws out the tannin, so the taster ie careful only to steep it. After four I A UrsLUAJUIiNU A minutes he begins the examination. The dregs are lifted up on a long spoon and smelled. That is generally sufficient to the sensitive olfactory nerves of the experienced inspector. If he is not satisfied with this, however, he takes a thoughtful sip, holds it in his mouth for a few moments, and spits it out. "Why, if we should swallow Wall the tea we taste in a day." one of them said, "it would kill us."?New York Commercial Advertiser. Married Twice In Five Mi nates. mm A young man from San Francisco r met his affianced bride in Abilene by f apoointment. They went to the minis ter and were married with the usual short ceremony. As the groom drew a W roll of bills from his pocket to pay the r preacher, the wedding ring, which he ^ had forgotten, fell to the floor. The ^ bride looked at that ring regretfully, K though she said nothing of her disapP pointment at not being wedded by the | ring ceremony. The preacher caught her look, however, and told the couple B to stand up before him. Then he mar I. tnem nil over again, using me ring ceremony, to the very palpable pleasure of the young woman. As the pair left the parsonage the groom was heard to say: "Well, I guess we got all that was coming to us that time."? Abilene (Kan.) Chronicle. Japanese Laws. ' During the twelve last sessions of the Imperial Diet altogether 500 new laws. 145500 new regulations and 2000 minor decisions were passed and signed by the Mikado. ' England's National Society tor the Prevention of Cruelty to Children now bag 900 centers of work in operatlodj fifty havlBg been added test year. . ^ \ SHIPPING LIVE FISH Getting: Sea Food to the Residents of the Inland Cities. There was recently reference made in these columns to the proposition whlcn has been lately agitated, lookfumlahinnr r?f fish from the 1 Pacific Ocean to the residents of the cities of the Atlantic Coast. The originator of this subject claimed that it was entirely feasible to take the fish from the waters of the Pacific, and while they were yet alive freeze them in blocks of ice. and.in this form ship them , across the continent. On their -III SAMPLING TEAS FOR G0VERNME1 arrival at the Eastern markets the fish were to be .thawed out, whereupon they would be restored to their former activity and would be sold alive. The success of this plan is said to be wholly dependent on the manner of the freezing and the subsequent thawing out operations which, if performed properly, would not do the fish the slightest injury. The subject has the greatest interest j~ ?- 'fll _ r-^ especially to the residents of the inland cities, who in this, or some similar manner, would be enabled to enjoy the luxury of fresh fish, whereas at present they are limited to the canned varieties. This problem has been successfully met by a Berlin merchant, Herr Krantz, who has designed and is operating a car by which he is enabled to place bofore -lis customers live fish from the Mediterranean. This is described as follows in a recent issue of *Jie French publication, La Nature, CARGO OF TEA. and translated for the Scientific American: The principle of this arrangement consists in placing the water tanks containing the fish along the sides of the car and connecting them together by means of rubber pipes. These latter are in turn connected with a suction pipe ending at a pump which, by means of a force pipe, sends the water into the various tanks through nozzles. In this way there is obtained a continuous renewal of the water of the tanks, with an aeration of?the latter through its contact with the external air. The accompanying figure shows the internal arrangement of the car, the jaciceted wooden body of which, forty-one feet in length, nine feet in width and 9.34 in height, is supported by an iron frame 42.G feet in length and nine feet in width. This body is divided into three compartments, one co-ntaining the tanks, another the engine for driving the pumps, and the third the pump itself. The tanks, twenty-four in number, are placed in two rows of twelve each o 1 Anrr fha cirloc r\f tho n nrl cnn. aivstife iuu -iwuo v.. ?uu arated by a longitudinal passageway. Each of the tanks is connected, by means of a small pipe, with a conduit placed on a level with the floor and divided into two part; connected in front and ending through one pipe in common at the pump. This latter forces the water into a pipe placed at the upper part of *he car above the tanks. Upon this pipe, opposite each tank, are three branches consisting of vertical tubes provided at the lower part witu nozzies tnrougn wmcn tue water la introduced into the tanks at an inch or so above the level of the ' liquid. Each of the tanks, of a capaciIty of 132 gallons, is capable of holding ^330 pounds Of fish, which makes a to/ tal capacity tor the twenty-four tanks of 7920 pounds. The tanks are closed at the upper part by a rounded cover of galvanized iron, containing an aperture for the passage of the nozisle. A Smuggler's Nest. Arunaei was ouut; u jiivopciv/uo ouu port. In the time of the Fitzalan earls it was a kind of little Portsmouth and one of the southern gates of the kingdom. The earl, who fought at Crecy, was thus able to land his prisoners and his loot at his own door. By the way, it was out of the ransom obtained for these prisoners that the original, great hall at Arundel Castle ia said to have j ST INSPECTION. been built. Arundel in those days looked upon piracy with a lenient eye, unless the pirates happened to be aliens, when retribution audden and severe feli upon them. Later in the centuries it was a nest of smugglers. Indeed, it is scarce fifty years ago that a cargo of contraband was successfully landed close by. The particular "Smuggler Bill" who ran it came in the guise of a peaceful - OF LIVE^ FISH. I collier captain, 3uu wueu me coast guard boarded him at the river mouth a well-planned squabble with the cabin boy about his light refreshments threw him off the scent. A regular pilot worked the vessel up the Arun, but at Ford, where the water was slack, the captain himself took a turn at the wheel and accidentally ran her aground. As she could not float again till next high tide the pilot went home for the night, and by the time he returned next morning the "stuff" was TJD nnHnarl fliof traa. SULC aouviv* WX/V4WU. ? to* sel was higher in the water, but he could prove nothing, though he suspected much. The clever captain had outwitted the customs.?London Tatler. Albino Birds. A genuine albino blackbird has just been shot uear Catterick Bridge, Yorkshire. Scientific ornithologists have clearly enough explained the physiological nature of albinism in birds, but it is still a mystery what originiates these physiological conditions, and also why it is that dark plumaged birds, such as blackbirds, rooks, etc., are more liable to albinism, pare or partial, than any others. It is very strange, for instance, that white robins are very rare, and it is notable that the last found in this country was obtained in Yorkshire (Sedbergh district). Last; summer a perfectly white sand martin was seen by hundreds in the Benthum (Yorkshire) district, and three or four in other parts of the north of England. House martins, also barn swallows (Hirundo rustica), are very liable to assume albinism. and many records are preserved in Yorkshire. As for "pied" blackbird, rooks, and such like, they are as common as the proverbial blackberries, whereas in the whole of England there are probably not more than two records of albino woodcocks.?Pall Mall Gazette. A DR1PLESS TEACUP. No Longer Nc<d One Soil ClcLh or Clothes. An improvement in teacups has been patented by an English jewelry concern, and consists of a serrated eightpointed base instead of a continuous rim, as ordinarily used. The patentees call it the "dripless teacup." as, owing |||| XO DRIP FBOM THIS CUP'S BOTTOM. to the fact that the bottom of the cup does not touch the saucer, no liquid that may be spilled will be carried up when the cnp is lifted. The illustration herewith is ta-ken from the Jeweler and Metalworker, of London. v f I1H0R EVENTSDF TH EIYEEK WASHINGTON ITHST8. The Democratic Senate caucus adopted a resolution making its decisions when made by a two-thirds vote binding upon its members. President and Mrs. Roosevelt, Secre+OTTT TTitv?hr>nr>lr nnrl nMipr fifflpiflls Jit tended funeral services for John. R. Proctor. late President Civil Service Commission. The Prairie was ordered to Colon with her 250 marines. Senator Hanna asked the Senate Committee on Military Affairs to require General Wood to appear and auawer the charges against him. Senators and Representatives were pleased with the suggestion of Baron d'Estournelles of an international exchange of visits between the lawmakers of France and the United States. President Roosevelt has been presented with a certificate of associate membership in the Travelers' Protective Association. Representative Gillett, of Massachusetts, proposes a fund for retirement of clerks t;o make the clerical service more efficient. The President and Mrs. Roosevelt will give a dinner on^New Year's Day to a number of young people. Senator Gallinger introduced a bill for a National Forest Reserve in the White Mountains. New Hampshire. Tli? hil! nnnrnnrifltps Sri.000.000 to buv the lands. Secretary Root declined to permit the extension of New York's harbor line 200 feet into the North River. A Senate Committee reported favoring a bill authorizing Albert F. Eells, of Boston, to construct a lighthouse at Diamond Shoal, at Cape Hatteras, to cost $575,000. Baron Speck von Sternburg. the German Ambassador, called on President Roosevelt to pay his respects and formally to announce his return from his recent sojourn in Germany. He.presented to the President a communication of good will and friendship from Emperor William. The House Committee on Appropriations reported in favor of the pension appropriation bill which carries a total o: $138,150,100. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. The Carmelite convent at San Juan, Porto Rico, has been abandoned, after being occupied 300 years. At San Juan, Porto Rico, the indications now point to a settlement of the cigarmakers' strike by a compromise on $6 per 1000 for brevas. Major-General Leonard Wood lias proclaimed in Moroland. P. I., an antislavery law, passed in October last by the Legislative Council of the Moro Provinces. Secretary Carter, of the Territory of Hawaii, in his annual report strongly recommefids an increase in the salaries of the Governor and judges of the Territory on the ground that those at present paid are entirely inadequate to the cost of living there. DOMESTIC. Three factories in the Fox Rivet manufacturing district in Northern Illinois were shut down because their employes, numbering nearly 1500, refused to promise in individual agreements not to strike. Wages have been cut in the Connoilsvillo rnko jlisirift nvprasrinsr seven teen per cent., and affecting 30,000 men. The Miners' Union at Teliuride. Col.. Las voted to continup the strike until pi settlement on an eight-hour-a-day basis is reached. General Francis V. Greene will become supervising engineer of the Ontario Power Company at Niagara Falls at $10,000 a year. A court at Austin, Texas, has enjoined the Southern Pacific from ownership of the Sau Antonio and Arausas Pass Railroad. Four striking coal miners were shot, three fatally, at Trinidad, Col., guards at the Segundo coke ovens beiug accused of the shooting. Building statistics for twenty-one of the largest cities for November show an increase in building over a year aco. of nearly $5,000,000. Bids for raising the grade of Galveston, Texas, seven feet, to prevent flooding by tidal waves, the work calling for 11,000,000 cubic yards of filling, show New York contractors to be the lowest. 1 Machin & Brown, builders, have assigned. with liabilities of $311,000, and rv?rA? 01 AAA AAA nacafa Mrs. Katherine Soffel lias just finished a two-year term for assisting the Biddle brothers in escaping from the Allegheny County Jail. ? Governor Heard, in his message to the special session of the Louisiana Legislature, called for legislation to check the boll weevil evil. Five persons perished in a fire at Guthrie, O. T., which destroyed three I business houses. The financial loss is I less than $30,000. FOREIGN. Revenues of Mexico for last fiscal year were $70,903,416 and the surplus $7,800,000. The body of Herbert Spencer was cremated at Hainpstead, England, a few invited guests attending the closing rites. Leonard Courtney, M. P., made a brief address on the life and work of the dead philosopher. Oxford defeated Cambridge in th? annual football match at the Queen's J Club, London. * The Jsobel prizes were awarded tnus: Peace, W. R. Cremer, M. P.; physics. II. Becquerel and the Curies: chemical. Professor Arrhenius, medical, Dr. Finzen; literature, Bjornstjerne Bjornson United States warships found no CoIotcLian troops on the San Bla3 coast. The new revolution in San Domingo is widespread and serious. Dispatches from India-China report the massing of French troops on the Siamese border, in anticipation of war, The council of foreign bondholders in London has written to President j Roosevelt, asking his good offices to induce Panama to assume a part of the , Colombian debt. Tne Chilean Government has decided ts spend $10,000,000 for docks al i Valparaiso. General von Einem, Prussian Wai Minister, in the Reichstag defended the German Army from charges of bru tality, admitting, however, that ther( was some mistreatment of privates which the Government was determined to ston. The Norwegian Parliament has awarded the annual Nobel peace prize $39,150, to the Hon. William R. Cremei\ M. P., of London, England, foi his work in behalf of international arbitration. It is reported that the Somali levies raised by the British in East Africa have mutinied and joined the forces o/ the so-called Had Mullah. :;\ . ' ' . * \ " y BANDiTS TERRORIZE TOWN Burglars Use Dynamite at Pavonia, and SeoureMonev. More Than a Hundred Shots Fired in (bt Attack by Police, But Bandits \ Finally Get Away. Camden, N, J.?Professional cracks* men, who are supposed to be the same men who blew up the: safe in the Clarksborough Postoffice, wrecked the safe in the office of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Pavonia, a suburb of Camden. The burglars opened Are on the operator in the signal tower and he narrowly escaped with his life. Ralph Hlnes, the night operator in the signal tower, which is directly opposite the railroad station, saw a man standing on the platform of the station. The man's face was partly covered with a handkerchief and the operator's suspicions were at once aroused. He called to the stranger and asked him what he was doing there, and the man made no reply. Hines then asked him why he had his face covered, and the stranger-siouted back that he bad a. toothache. At the same instant there was a tremendous explosion inside the railroad station, and the man on the platform drew a revolver and opened fire on the operator. The latter was unarmed and was compelled to seek refuge inside the tower from the fusillade of shots directed at him. Looking from the window of the tower he saw two men carry off the booty they bad secured from the safe, while the third man, with the revolver, brought up the rear. All of the men were masked. Hines had managed to send a telegraph message to this city for help. The police immediately responded, arriving on the scene just as the robbers were holding up a freight train. The robbers compelled the engineer to cut loose from the train, and then steam away with his engine. The police opened fire on the robbers, which they returued. This running fusillade was kept up for a mile, but the robbers eventually escaped into the swamp. Before blowing open the safe in the station the robbers held up Night Watchman Oscar Till at the point or a revolver and took his watch and what little money he had. Then they cut the telephone wires, thinking they were the telegraph wires. The station building was badly damaged by the explosion. The safe, which was completely destroyed, contained a few hundred dollars. Another gang blew open the safe in the Pennsylvania Railroad station at Marlton, nine miles further on the road. They got away with the contents of the safe. The robbery was not discovered "until the station was opened in- the morning. HELD UP PRISON CHECKS. State Inspector Claims Kentucky Auditor Favored Contractors. Frankfort, Ky. ? State Inspector Henry B. Hlnes. in a report to Governor Beckham, charges Auditor "Gus" Coulter with holding up checks of the Frankfort Chair Company aggregating 9>?:-J,lHK) in payment ior convict muui. The checks are dated at the end of each month from February to June inclusive. The Auditor turned over all other revenues from the prison as soon as presented, but laid aside these chocks which, he says. he still has. He says the company notified him that they had no money in bank to pay the checks. The Inspector notified the bondsmen of Martin, the manager of the company. The Prison Commissioners require a settlement for prison labor at the end of each month. DROWNED AFTER A RESCUE. Men Taken From Floating Piece of Ice Meet Death. Middleboro, Mass. ? After being blown more than half a mile over the surface of Lake Asdawampsett on a piece of ice which had broken away from the shore while the men were -Standing upon it, Harry Haskins and Frank Allen were rescued from their* precarious position by S. A. Lewis, who rowed out to them, only to lose their lives by drowning when the boat was swamped by a squall. Lewis managed to grasp one of the gunwales and hold on until rescued, but the others, weighted down by their heavy clothing and benumbed by cold, sank and did not reappear. TO JAIL FOR POSTAL FRAUDS.. McGregor and Upton Get Two Years and a Fine of $1000 Each. Baltimore, Md.?Thomas W. McGregor and C. Ellsworth Upton, the clerks in the rural free delivery division of the Postoffice Department who were convicted in the United States District Court of conspiracy to defraud the Government on a postal contract, were sentenced by jnuge ruomas j. morris to serve two years in the Maryland Penitentiary and to pay a fine of $1000 each. The men were found guilty after a trial which lasted six days. Motion for a new trial came up for argument, but Judge-Morris refused it. Storm Kills Two in Ohio Town. Two persons were killed ind several seriously injured during a severe wind, rain and hail storm at Akron, Ohio. In less than half an hour nearly every trolley, telephone and light wire w^s. down, leaving the city in total darkness. The streets were piled high with debris. Mine Owner Acquitted of Murder. Ben C. Aylor, the Webb City mine owner, who shot and killed Gordon Allen, n wealthy Joplin man, two months ago. was acquitted by a jury in the Circuit Court at Carthage, Mo. Aylor's plea was self defense. A Better Feeling. Bradstreet's Review says: "Better eeling?approaching optimism in some lines?is due to improvement in retail trade, stimulated by cold weather, the advent of the holiday season and the more normal tone of public sentiment." Sporting Brevities. The total receipts at Harvard College last year from all branches of sport were close on to $100,000. with a credit balance for the year of $23,601.00. James Lyuah. '05, of Savannah. Ga.. has been elected eaptam or me uornen football team for the season of 1904. . Lynali played quarter-bacL during the season just ended. Roger Kenneth Waters, of Germantown, Aid., a guard for the past three years on the Lehigh University football team, was unanimously elected cautaiu of ute team for 1901 / YV'v-< .V J . * - _.v JAPANESE KILL KOREANS. Marines Quell Strike Riot at Mok-j Fhe. - *, f Reply to Japan's Proposals Not Believed to Be Final?Complication# ? Not Feared. Seoul. ? The Japanese" landed marines at Mok-Phe, on tire southwest coast of Korea to suppress rioting- In connection with a strike among laborers. It is reported that they fired upon the mob, killing several people. The strike was among Korean coolies employed in the foreign concession, and it precipitated clashes between the Koreans and Japanese. London, Eng.?Telegrams from Japan concur in declaring that the position of the Ministry has been rather improved than otherwise by the dissolution of the Diet. The terms of Russia's reply to Japan have been commu< nicated to the Japanese Minister here, Baron Hayashi, by his Government. He said the negotiations were Incomplete, but significantly added he saw no reason to change his opinion that a peaceful issue would result therefrom, After a careful examination of the Russian draffr of the agreement t1t? Foreign Office here doubts,Japan will accept the terms immediately. Great Britain*and Japan are bound oy ireary xo Keep eacn otner ruiiy informed, and any prospect of a critical outcome of tlie Russo-Japanese negotiations would necessitate a Cabinet council. Paris, France.?Dr. Motono Itchiro. the Japanese Minister, in the course of an interview, expressed tbe firm beli* that a peaceful solution of the RussJapanese differences would result fro the negotiations between the two n tions, adding: : "All depends, however, upon the altitude of Russia. Our Emperor is ani mated by pacific sentiments, and the Czar's love of peace is universally known, and the peaceful dispositions of the two sovereigns give a solid guarantee that war will be avoided.*' NINE CONVICTS GET AWAY. i Big Jail Breaking Accomplished Under the Noses of the Guards. Philadelphia, Pa.?Nine convicts, led by Harry Siften, who is chief of the "Battle of Waterloo" gang, an organization of thugs, escaped from the House of Correction. All the men wore , striped suits. They were occupants of the third tier at the prison. A few minutes after the morning "wake up" whistle had sounded one of the guards noticed that Siften was missing. A glance at the washroom showed that a bar was gone from the window. A glance showed misty figures disappearing over the racetrack. The work of cutting the bar had taken several days. A rough saw had been made out of. a butcher knife. The cuts in the bar had been filled up each day with soap and iron filings. The removal of the bar left an opening only twenty inches wide. Through this the men squeezed, dropping twenty-five feet to the ground. They then scaled a picket fence ten feet high guarded by sentries. UNION MAN ARRESTED. Miners' Committeeman Placed in Military Prison. Cripple Creek, Col.?Union circles were greatly disturbed when D. C. Copley, one of the Executive Committee of the Western Federation of Miners, was arrested at his home, in Independence, by a squad of militiamen and landed in the military bull pen. The reason given by the military authorities for Copley's arrest is military necessity. The* union men invariably believe that he is being detained without warrant of law, and those who are opposed to union ideas assert that they are glad that the strike question has come to a focus. " The only known charge ugainst Copley is that of complicity in the explo slon at the Sun and Moon Mine, in Clear Creek County. He appeared to answer recently and is out on bond. v MURDERER ELECTROCUTED. Two Great Shocks Needed to Kilt Patrolman Ennis. Ossining, N. Y.?Two tremendous shocks were neded In Sing Sing prison to kill William H. Ennis, the former Brooklyn polic&man who had murdered his wife. The first shock of 1800 Volts and eight amperes continued for six seconds. Apparently there was something wrong with the electrode pressed to the right side of the forehead as the flesh was burned and an electric light sprang from the living tissue that had been turned into carbon. Then the current was reduced to 200 volts and ran through the man fqr thirty seconds. Surgeons then examined the body and apparently were not satisfied, as another shock of 1800 volts was given, when Ennis was declared to be dead. MAD MULLAH'S MEN CANNIBALS. One Captive and Several Women Eaten by Camp Followers. London, Eng.?Advice^ from Somaliland, East Africa, say that the Mad Mullah's camp followers havtf taken, to cannibalism, owing to shortage of supplies. The body of a captive recently executed by the Mullah was immediately carried off and eaten by the followers. The feast was participated in by women, whom the Mullah subsequently ordered to be executed. These were, in turn, oooked and eaten by their late comrades. Germans Repulsed. ? The Germans in German East Africa have not yet succeeded in putting down the Hottentot rising In their territory. An official telegram from the Harte* beest River states that the Hottentots have repulsed a German patrol, wounding two of them. Two Bankers Held. J. L. Broderlck and W. L. Collins, President and cashier of the defunct maiana i\anouaj tfank, at uosnen. Ind., were bound over to the Grand Jury. Large Red Apples Wanted. Fancy apples are wanted in New York and probably more could be sold than are likely to come forward. Large red apple? are wanted for decorative purposes at Christmas. A good many box apples are being bought for that purpose. Peru Takes Off Tariffs. The Peruvian Government has. promulgated a law by which boiler tubes, manoraetres, steel axles and all the principal pieces used in the construction of machinery will be admitted into Peru free of duty. pi THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABO'JT THE VICE OF' INTEMPERANCE ] Poem: The Saloon Mast Go?Insurant* Statistics That Favor Temperance Ar K?ment??Teetotatar*, ?i a Body, lilt? Longer Than Nou-AbstjUnerl.' , The saloon must go, With its crime and woe. And all of its evils that burden us so. . ; 1 ae 'direless church member? " Who fails to remember' - , That duty would spur hitn to master tb# foe. His actions say not; But yet it will go. : The saloon must go, Though the drunuard says no, For blear-eyed and wretched he hugs hi* worst foe. While for a short season, Bereft of hU reason, # a The poor hardened sinner hU "wild oatof* will sow. i But, oh. the sad reaping, The wailing, the weeping! xuc oatvuu xnuov Kur Though, drunkards say no. The saloon must go, 'Though brewers say no, + ' t profits unrighteous from beer ^?arrtif .. flow. i * They :firid their chief pleasure In heaping up treasure That's wrung from hearts'broken with sot* , row and woe.: . i . Though the brewers say no The saloon must go. . The saloon must go, , Though the barkeepers say no, , While each year more., hardened and shameful they grow. They ruin the lives < nf tVio nhilrlrpn *nd vitm * They cause all the sorrowjy ,the hunger and* woe " . x I That evermore come To the victims of rum. *i/"' " i Barkeepers say no; ; , j But still it must go. i\ The saloon must go, * Though the devil shouts no! While,\viewing the heartaches, the ruiafc . ii)/l woe, biiewer and the vender, In Xpite of their splendor,' Must shoulder; though for it they heave* forego. I The saloon must go, ., . '. ?? Though the devil shouts no! ' Jffl Awake! Face the foe! Fan the embers aglow, . _ , . . That still in the conscience are slumbering if _ low. T I While vjctima are weeping > *^?1 Can Christians lie sleeping! For God and His cause strike the death* dealing blow. ' ,s The saloon must go, For God's word says so. . " ?Ram's Horn. Abstainers Live toof. The advantages of total abstinence a* ' demonstrated by statistics have not re* 4 ceived much attention ia Ihia country. 1 Until very recently the great life insurance a companies have not divided the person* they insure into moderate drinkers ajid 'abstainer?'and, as a result, reliable figures are not obtainable. The Equitable Assurance Society has nowr begun to rpake the distinction referred to, and in about fifteen $ years it will be in possession of'some valuable information. If other companies can be induced to follow the example of.?he . suitable, that is, to put abstainers in a. class by themselves, the coming generation will be in a position to know beyond Masonable doubt what influence "moderate" drinking has upon longevity. The British, companies; Which have" kept -4 statistics upon this subject^ are small aa 1 compared with any of the American I "giants," the total number of policies issued in any one year by the -biggest o? ' them, the United Kingdom Temperance ^ and General Provident Institution/ being below 3000, insuring less than $jj00?,000. The medical profession would do well -to urge upon life insurance officers the wisdom of separating abstainers from those . ^ who- take alcoholic beverages. The premium would, of course, be the same.for ? both classes, and the additional, clerical ] labor involved would be small; If teetotalers as a body live longer than non-abstain-> J era, they are entitled to-the benefit of thie ;jm condition 00 far as dividends are concerned. -vja r. e? ? ? ..... MIUbai- . tilinH come ioreigu autuMnua upuu im? suujwv -- , are .at hatad. In Bradford (England), a ? 1 manufacturing place with a population of \ J about 280,000, there are br&ncnes of thft Rechabitea (abstainers) and the Odd.Fel* w Iowa. The latter consists chiefly of "mod- 3 erate" drinkers. A few abstainerir may j| belong to it, and'a small number-ofercessive drinkers may have succeeded in being accepted. Taking the ten years from 1893 to 1902, the average number of days ' of sickness per member waa between .tea . j days two hours (minimum in 1897), an? twelve days six hours (maximum in 1901). i I n?a rat<> w.ia one in iiitvithree" in 1893; one in eighty-four in 190$, (Total membership 1902, 5162).- A Recbabite wb? has ceased to abstain from alcohol and yet is sufficiently dishonest to remain ar mem- 'P ber of the order must be a great riarity. 'iM The chances .are that no such individual exists. The average duration of sickness, t' per sick member in the Rechabites, taking . N. *aji the year 1893:1902, was six days and two hours (minimum in 1893); seven days fotrteen hours (maxim^rti in 1899). Death .'39 rate, 1893, one in ninety; 1902, one in 151. jfl (Total membership 1902. 3895). Unforiu- -3 nately, the report of the latter organization l| does not rive the" age at death of {t> mem- ' ,'fl bers, so'that comparison tiannot-be made.. , 1 The figures speak for themselves.?Ameri- | can Medicine. ^ What the World Drlnlu. A writer in Harper's Weekly calls atte&tion to some interesting facts which have recently been brought to light regardin <r cnmnarative consumption of alco- >j holic beverages' in various countries. France, it appears, beats wff: the 'palm, .with a record of eighteen and one-fifth. litres (a. litre is a little more tkan a? quart) per year;' Switzerland consumes thirteen and one-half litres; Italy and Denmark, ten litres each; England, German v and Austria, nine; Holland, si*; the United States, five, and Canada, two. There may be hope for France's future, though, for England, where-there is-?-?pecial effort now to restrict the indulgence of the drunken, has in twenty-jive years reduced her annual per capita allowance : j from'ten litres to nine: ' The1 great trouble 1 at present.'in France seems to be that .the ' government is not strong, enough to restrict the manufacture and sale of 'liquors. There are very nearly half a million1 wineshops in France, and last year, in spite of ,< i" repressive legislation, there were L137,328 private distillers. who made alcohol or brandy from their own pfodufce fot' theif own use. " ? '/; ,y% The Cramute in Brief< , , ' E. A. Brown, of Grafton v was $300 for selling liquor without a license is that no-license town. According to a recent computation 30,* 000,000 people in this country are living in territory where the sale of liquor is .prohibited. No physician will question the statement * that alcoholics taken to the noint of intoxication increase the susceptibility to infec* tious diseases. The State W. C'. T. tj., of Iowa, report* that drinking by women has increased. Thpy hold physicians who prescribe liqnur* and sales at soda fountains responsible. They will fight them. . ? A recent Associated Press dispatch from Washington says that "another attempt will be made to secure the repeal of tha law abolishing the canteen." James Brouner, a prominent druggist at Latonia, Ky., blew out his brains in hia ; drug store because ms youns wife, who wa# of a prominent Kentucky family, had left' j him for the reason that he came home in* toxicated. Whisky is nine-tenths profit' io the deal* er and ten-tenths poison to the drinker. The Pennsylvania Food vommisaione* v^f has ordered the bringing of 335 prosecutions?one for every day in the yeai^* against liquor dealers. He say* that salicylic acid has been found in eighty-five pe* cent- of the samples of liquor analysed bj> ' his chemist.