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f m' I PIT BROW GIRLS. Women Who Handle Coal at the W English Mines. . Pit brow girls are among the most re- ( [ markable women workers in the coun- 1 trv savs the London Sphere. They , work as hard as men and almost like men do they dress. ' Very few pit brow girls are found in Britain outside Lancashire, and 5000 of them find employment at the coal mines, which are so numerous in the busy centres of that country. Their work lies on the pit brow?at the surface and not down below. Once women were employed in the ;oal seams, this being at the time foung children also worked in those lark depths of the earth: but in 1842, [ h the face of great opposition from 1 folliery owners, an act was passed pro- 1 klbiting women and children from beDg employed below the surface in coal ' bin ea. At present the duties of the pit brow lasses consist in dealing with the coal Is it comes up the shaft tc the pit head. 1 IVTieu the cage reaches the top the t rlrls haul out the wagons, which con- 5 lain several huudredweight of coal t todi. and run them on rails to a sort tipping machine, which shoots the < . k>al down below to the screen or rid- 1 tling machine. . r- . s This is a sort of iron slide, several I fards lone?, with holes through which i be coal drops at various stages into pucks waiting beneath. It is jerked i Ibout by steam power, and the coal J lioves downward while the girls, sta- I Soued alongside, pick out the rubbish, s it is dusty work. I Among the other duties of the "pit c kroo girls"?that is the Lancashire pro- 1 EEi" ' : i ' V, , ' ' \v v' .' / : ySj " + THE SIBERIA ounciatiou?is the leveling of the coal on the wagons which receive it as ic drop3 from the screen. As to payment. The girls start work at o'clock in the morning and finish at 3 or 4 o'clock in the afternoon, and they receive fifty cents or less a day. Men who do the same work get $1. Taken altogether, the pit brow lasses are a strong, healthy lot, ranging in age from eighteen to twenty-five. Their dress is distinctive and peculiar. The working costume consists of trousers, dogs and often enough a coat which has at one time been worn by a brother or has come from a rummage stall. When jjoing to and from work the girls wear petticoats, which they roll up round the waist while en gaged on tne pit Drow. Tbe hair is closely covered with a handkerchief, on the top of which is a soft bonnet. Then round the neck AN* ENGLISH PIT B?.OW GIBIi. > and back of the head a shawl is folded, this apparently bein:; a precaution to keep out the dust. A PRESENT OF HIS INVENTION. Dr. Hertz Refuses to Protect His Process - . of Tapping: Pine Trees. Dr. C. H. Hertz, an expert on the . subject of forestry and an attache of the United States Bureau of Forestry, and whose new process of securing the crude turpentine from the pine trees ' lias already been referred to in these columns, has described the process in OB. HEBlVs PB0CE3B OF TAPPING P-NE I TREES. I fuU in a Government paper, which Is Deing dlSIXlDUieu mryuyuoui uie cuiuitry. In this it is announced that the doctor will not take out any patents oa the process, but will present it to the .world. Dr. Hertz is a Southerner and was toved to take this step La order to save I 1 ^ ; > * - . <' ? \ ! i > : what is now & very important industi** the South" and which is seriously threatened - by the loose methods fol [owed at present. It is the custom to rut a "box" or pocket In the base of the ' tree and the sap runs into this from the scarified surface just above it. The cutting of the tree in the manner has a serious effect on the life of the tree. It opens up avenues for process )f decay and weakens the trunk so :hat it is more liable to fall through ( :he action of lightning or wind. Dr. Hertz's method utilizes an ?arthen cup, which is hung on tho :ree by a nail and into this the flowsor? ic Hipprffid hv means of two roughs of galvanized iron. This saves :he trees and increases the product by ibout seventy-five per cent The qualty of the product is also said to be rreatly improved. The New St. Petersburg Mammoth Frequent reference has been made in forest and Stream to the carcass of he mammoth discovered in Siberia ?ome years ago, and from time to ime we have noted the progress of the expedition, organized by the St. Petersburg Imperial Academy and led by Dr. Otto Herz, which set out for the " * * s' ?? ? I o rviitt ;cene ol me discovery wnu mc i/m.jose'of securing the carcass and transiting it to St. Petersburg. It will be remembered that the mamnoth was found on the banks of the *iver Beresowka. a tributary o? the iolyma. in the Province of Yakutsk, ' * tfter a landslide, which entirely ex>osed the great head, .soon after its liscovery the inhabitants bf the vilage near by took away one of the i'V " '; - V ' t -Sx J.;.-.-' ' I : t LN MAMMOTH. l 1 tusks, while foxes, (logs and other car s nivorous animals gnawed away the 1 flesh. As soon as the Gorerncr of thf ? province learned that the carcass had c been found, he protected it until the 1 arrival of the St. Petersburg expedl ? tion. The carcass was partly buried 1 in ice and partly ?n sand and gravel ' aud was so covered with earth thai ' it did not thaw at all. Dr. Herz began his excavations from 1 the front, and found the fore legs widely spread and bent at the wrist, and the hind legs turned forward undei the body. The mouth was filled with grass, and the well preserved tongue was hanging out of the mouth. The chest cavity of the animal was fyll of clotted blood, and it has been concluded that the animal fell into a hole, and, while striving to escape, burst a blood vessel near the heart. It has been as certained that the ice surrounding the carcass was not of a river or lake, bul was formed from compacted snow, and it is concluded that thev mammoth, while grazing over a meadow which formed the torn covering of a glacier, .ell into some crevasse that was hidden by the loose earth, and perished at once. The remains, which have now been mounted in the Zoological Museum o! St. Petersburg, show the animal as he died and was found. '"The frozen skin J has been carefully prepared, the skel- I eton and all the soft spots that could \ be saved have been taken from the i skin and preserved separately. The i skin of the head and ears, which had i been destroyed, has been copied from t the specimen obtained from Siberia s about 100 years aero, but, apart from t 4-Ua kAn/1 4-U _ 1 __ _ tut? ucau, uitr 5?kiu is iiecinjr prritfci. and it was found necessary only to add S in one of two places wool and hair i from other snecimens. It is to be i noted that the tail was well pre- i served, and that it bears at the tip ? tke tassel of long black hair. The f mammoth is a young male and not a 1 large one. 1 The discovery and subsequent in- i spection of this specimen at the Zoo- c logical Museum at St. Petersburg has ? led the director. Dr. SaJensky. to make 1 a careful scientific investigation of this specimen, as well as to show nil ' that is possible of it. He studies 1 will be published in the series of mem- ^ oirs which will appear from time to t time; the first?that dealiner with the ? skeleton?having already been issued. * Unfortunately, these memoirs are writ- I ten in Russiau. ? t Occupations arid Longevity. j With regard to the occupations ?vhich ( insure longevity, it is the universal testimony that clergymen reach the highest age, being close run by gardeners and vine-dressers. Ordinary agricultural laborers, although their occupation is so largely in the open air. are not conspicuous as long-livers, except in France, Sweden and England. People working with wood are longer lived than those whose occupations are with metals, and both attain a higher age tliafXr textile workers and workers in chen." ical industries. The shortest-lived people are miners, except in England, where the superior mining regulations , and admirable sanitary arrangements , have a beneficial effect. In England | and Norway sailors live to a far j greater age than in Germany and , France.?Tit-Bits. ( A Secure Foundation. I The weekly that has the admirable ' general news, literary and other fea- 1 tures of a first-class Ready Print, such ' as this concern furnishes, and pays good attention to home news, is built I on a secure foundation, and will not be 1 displaced by the daily. i Americans consume 36,000,000 : nniiTirtn nf HhinpflA teas SI ftf) flArt . ? w*. I Japanese and about 4,000,000 of In- i dian. The birth rate In Berlin decreased from forty-six per 1,000 in 1876 to twentv-aeven Itx 1902. AUTO BOATS? THE LATEST FAD Water Toys That Are Expensive, But Can Fly. pjj O NE of the latest fads with '?y-v those who can afford such I I costly toys is to own and race an "auto boat." For some time these dainty lit:ie muuiines have been very popular n France, where their number J'j le;ion, and there are many of them jwned by Englishmen, but it is only ' > I :HE "ARROW," CHARLES R. FLIN EST BOAT ON EARTH, MAKIN FORTY-FIVE MILES ecently that they have become popu- j ar here. The fastest of these boats, so far as he records show, is the Rollo, owned >y M. Giraud. it was Duiit oy a nrm , hat has become famous for turning ut fast automobiles. The motor is of wenty-four horse-power, just as is ised in road machines, but with cerain modifications that adapt it to Iriving a boat. The canoe into which he motor was put is thirty-nine" feet hree inches in length and four feet hree inches beam. In model the boat s almost wedge shaped, the entrance )eing line, the run^ almost straight, tud aft the hull is flat on the bottom o prevent squatting when running !ast. The hull is constructed very ightly and the deck is of the thinnest naterial. The Helios Club is the leading orjanization for the sport in France, and vhen M. Giraud had finished his boat le applied to that club to manage a leries of trials. The first trial was at ^.rgenteuil, and several boats of high ipeed were entered against the new:omer. The Rollo won the race. She iiuue suuiue mues in one uour ?eventeen minutes thirty-one seconds, iveraging 11.53 statute miles an hour. ,n her next race she did better than :hl8. At Meudou, In the races of the 3ercle de la Voile de Paris, she made |Bg *' . ME. EDGE'S BOAT APPEARS ON THE : 52.30 statute miles in two hours fory-one minutes thirty-eight seconds, ;vhich is a little better than twelve niles an hour. Many experiments ivere made with the motor, and its lower gradually improved, so that In iubsequent races the Rollo showed a speed of fourteen miles an hour and :hen a speed of lo.Gi milea an hour. In a long distance trial the Rollo ran 509 miles at an average of thirteen niles an hour, and once in a speed trill over a measured mile on the Seine, vith the tide in her fnvor. she slipped ilong at the rate of twenty-five miles in hour. This is a remarkable per'ormance for a bo;' of the size of the Rollo and having such a small powered notor. This boat has caused mnny )thers to be built, and they have been so successful that next spason they viH be seen In these waters. In England Alfred Harmsworth, w#io s an enthusiastic automobilist. recenty offered a cup for international races vith power boats. It was the inten:ion of two Americans to send boats 4-^ 4-~ TT AnnfiiM/v IViUDS lilt? uv run it# 11 j it; ta[nui c mc ;rophy, but they could not be got ready n time, so the idea was postponed for t year; but when the races are held lext season this country will be represented., Three boats raced for the :up, and the winner was the Napier. r THE NAPIER LAUNCH )wned by S. F. Edge. This boat was iullt from designs ty Linton Hope. 3he was forty feet long and was driv;n by a seventy-live horse-power four?yllndered gasoline motor attached to 1 two-bladed propeller. The cylinders ire six and one-half inches bore and tne stroke seven and one-half inches, rhe hull of the Napier is built of steel. i'h<* frames and floors are of lieht an 5le and plate, while two longitudinal Slrders run fore and aft to carry the motor and separate thrust bearings. Ihere is no deck to the craft, but merely a covering of canvas stretched tightly over the hull. The beam i& five feet moulded, and the draught two feet. The total displacement id 2000 founds. The course over which these boats raced was eight a & one-half knots, and the Napier'3 time was twenty-tour i ' a - ' ' ""v. ' ' '" f ' V ...?? > minutes forty-four seconds, averaging 20.6 knots an hour or 23.7 statuti miles. Against the Napier was th? Beadle, thirty feet long, driven by I fifty horse-power elght-cvlinder gaso line motor and a Thornycroft boat thirty feet long, driven by a twenrj horse-power four-cylinder gisoline mo tor. So far there have been no boats tha' have done as well in these waters ai the Napier and Rollo. Mr. Charles R. Flint's instruction! to his yacht builder were terse and tc the point. When the man came pre 'V ^ , ' J J > v rtg. v T'S FAMOUS YACHT, THE FASTG THE WORLD'S RECORD OF. IN ONE HOUR. ?Collier's Weekly. pared with plans and specifications, Mr. Flint waved them aside. . "I want the fastest boat afloat," he said. "I do not care 'how you build it or what it will cost. .Build me a craft that will break the speed record." When the Arrow was delivered to Mr. Flint a number of months later, the magnate took her out for a trial trip over a measured mile course. The lithe, slim, low-lying craft with its raking, squat funnel and sharp bow darted through the water like a greyhound. She seemed fairly to leap from one wave crest to another. The tor peuo Doat srern was smotnerea in foam, and against the knife-like edge of the bow curled an enormous "bone" which we't the forward deck with spray. Her owner stood aft with watch in hand. In affairs of commerce he was always cool and collected. Hia deals were executed with the sang froid of a Napoleon. Now he was transformed. His usu? r.lly imperturbable face revealed an intense eagerness not at all characteristic of the man. He alternately eyed the second hand of his watch and the red-painted buoys marking the course As one after another was passed he laughed aloud. Then when the lasl nuuylaueu astern ire crappedm; i.'and8 In an ecstasy of triumph. "Forty-five miles an hour!" he cried. w; - , _ > - >.. ~ THE LEFT; MR. BEADLE'S ON RIGHT. MTbat beats the record!" When Charles R. Flint stood on the deck of his boat and saw. her travel faster than any other craft had traveled before, he typified in himself the spirit that seems to be born in man? and especially in Americans. Tbe desire to do something a. little better than any one else has done, to move a little faster by train or boat, in running or swimming or driving, is inherent in a great many human beings. PlantR That Slioot Arrows. The arrows are crystal needles of oxalate of lime, of microscopic dimensions, and are sho; from miunte, capsule-shaped bodies, found in the tissues of such plants as the Indian turnip and the Polynesian taro. Dr. H. W. Wiley, OF s. F. EDGE. ESQ. Chief of the Bureau of Chemistry, describes the extraordinary spectacle he beheld in the field of his microscope when the "bombs" contained in a drop of taro pulp began to discharge their arrows. Sometimes only one or two needles, and sometimes groups of four to ten were discharged at once, the bomb recoiling as the projectiles left it. Dr. Wiley suggests that the intense burning and pricking sensation experienced in chewing such plants as those described are due to the release and discharge of these crystal arrows when the plant tissues are crushed in the mouth. According to the Mexican Journal o? Commerce seventy per cent, of $500,000,000 capital invested in Mexico by Americans has gone towards building railroads. " v -' I v -I . ' * - V' I Our Budget i of Humor. v n ^ To Society Reporters. Why drag her father in, and say He ''led" her to the altar? The average bride would make her wjlj Alone, and never falter. ?Philadelphia Preas. Not the Same. "Are you a moneyed man, sir?" "No, sir; I'm a married man."?Detroit Free Press. A Sad Confession. Roundabout Pryer?"Are you still at four mother-in-law's?" Doleful Henpeck?"Yes?stiller than ever."?Brooklyn Life. Kelentlea* woman. But," admitted the man, "I have ad? mitted that I was wrong. Isn't that enough ?" "No."-replied the woman, "you must also adimt that I was right."?Chicago Daily News. Country Editor's Courage. "John, said the editor's wife, "what would you do if you discovered a burglar in the house?" "Well," replied the editor, "it would all depend on how much money he had on him."?Atlanta Constitution. The Count Not Cruel. "You wouldn't marry me for my money alone, would you?" the heiress asked. "Ah. no," replied the count; "that would be cruel, and I have a kind heart."?Chicago Record-Herald. Would H&td Monopoly. Lambert?"Hello, old man! What ar? fou doing in Wall Street?" Bullock?"Oh, I'm merely trying to make an honest dollar." Lambert?"Well, you ought to succeed. You won't have any competition."?Chicago News. The Difficulty. v "Isn't it sometimes bard to calculate the pluralities by which you claim an election?" "No," answered Senator Sorghum, "the calculation is easy. Verifying the figures is where the difficulty comes in."?Washington Star. A Reminder. TTTnel-a Hi HI mrtrti?'' ! SPP In to-day's papers, that the Pope sat behind a large grating?" Rolande Parke?"Oh, thank you! Thank you! That reminds me. My wife told me to bring some nutmegs home."?Baltimore News. Amplified Metaphor. "This world is but a fleeting shoor/* remarked the austere citizen. "I suppose so," answered Mr. Storm* fngton Barnes. <!And the taxpayer is the man who pays his money at the box office and takes whatever the manager chooses to give him." Whyneu of the Which. , Miss Youngbud?"Did you enjoy the play?" j Miss Elderleigh?"Yes, indeed?especially the third act." Miss Youngbud?"Oh, yes. That was the act in which the heroine told how she induced her husband to propose." Equally Aggressive. Stranger?"But how did the feud ptart? Which' family was the aggressor?" Native?"It's hard to tell which was the aggressor, mister. As near a's we can make out each pulled the trigger at exactly the same instant, sah."?Judge. The Awkward Man* "Pardon me, Mr. Perklus, but you've jot your foot on my gown." "Why, so I have. D'you know, I shouldn't have noticed it if you hadn't told me, really."?New York American. - ij Easily Distinguished. "I can always tell whom Miss Barb* ley has been talking about," said Miss Cayenne. I ??TXrt r> "By noting which refer to her as a I frightful gossip and which speak of her as good company."?Washington Star. ^ Nat For Accotnmodntlon. "Do you think your friend would lend himself to a shady political transaction?" "No." said Senator Sorghum, "he might lease himself, or rent himself, or sell himself outright, but he wouldn't stand any friendly borrowing."?Washington Star. 1IU Way. T.oilr?"Vnn not one of UUVU JUM.UJ -w.. those bad boys who put pius in their teacher's chair, are you?" Boy?"No'm.'' Good Lady?"I thought not. Here's a penny." Boy?"No'm; I always puts tacks. Pins bend too easily."?Chicago News. Cau?e For Alarm. Anxious Mother?"Doctor, I am uneasy about my boy." Doctor?"What seems to be the trouble, madam?" Anxious Mother?"I don't know. It's his symptoms that scare me. He has I lost his appetite. He only wants uaree | na-jal8 a day now."?Chicago Tribune. ' ' ; BBS WASHINGTON ITEMS. Seoator Daniel spoke in support ot 4 \e Hoar Panama resolution a resolution aumorizing me <jommu? tee en Expenditures in the Postofflce Department to. call for papers connected with the postal investigation was adopted by a vote of 109 to 100. Representative/. Morrell, of Pennsylvania, has,, introduced a bill granting r rebate o< fifteen, per cent, of tariff' duties on goods brought to and from the Philippine Islands ia- American ships. Elihu Root. Secretary of War. testified before the Senate Committee on Military Affairs that General Leonard Wood's acts in Cuba had been approved by tne War Department. Secretary Root testified in behalf of f*l anat*a 1 t oamo waa/1 knfara fha stan. VUtiUl XiCUliaiU T? vvu UCVUl i tut wtuate Committee on Military Affairs. Representative Dayton, of West Virginia, declared the United Slates should not stop building battleships until forty-five are In the water. Representative De Arrnond, of Missouri, Introduced a bill providing for the ranking and promotion of officers of the United States Army on merit. The Interstate Commerce Commission, in its annual report, pronounces the Elkins law forbidding discrimination in railway rates wise and salutary. A resolution authorizing a committee to call on the Postmaster-General for papers in the postal investigation was defeated in. the House after a sharp debate. The Secretary of War has determined no further action regarding the war Titterances of Major-General MacArthur in Honolulu, H. I. ? The State Department was informed that Nicaragua has recognized the republic of Panama. OUR ADOPTED ISLANDS. .The Philippine Commission ha* named Beekman WInthrop as a Judge of the Court of First Instance. He has been assistant executive secretary. An agreement has been reached between General Taft and the friars by which the United States will acquire the friar lands for the sum of $7,210, 000 gold. A records-breaking trip from Manila to Washington has been arranged for Governor Taft. A number of friends of ei-President Woz y Gil landed at San Juan, P. R.t and expressed the opinion that the United States would be forced soon to intervene in the island. The United States transport Kingsley is ashore at Murcielag&s, North'- Mindanao. P. I., with a rock through her bottom. The Raleigh, the Cincinnati, the A! bany and the Pompey, of the Northern Asiatic Sauadron, under command of Rear-Admiral Cooper, arrived at Honolulu, H. I., from Yokahoma. It is said that Governor Taft and Mgr. Guidi, the Apostolic Delegate, have reached a basis of agreement for the purchase of the lands owned by the friars. The price agreed on is ?7,250,000. DOMESTIC. Federal Commissioner.Hall, in Binghamton, N, Y., concluded that the postal laws had been violated in the sale of time recorders, and held Senator G. E. Green for trial\ on all five indictments. Mr. Green got a stay. W. A. McKowen, Secretary of the Board of Regents of the California State Uni\^rsity, confessed that he was a defaulter to the extent of $20,* 000. By sawing tnrougn iron oars ana digging through brick walls thirteen prisoners escaped from jail at Tomb> stone, Ariz. Miss Wilhelmina J. Cook, of Newport, R. I., and her parents declare William Homer Leavitt, son*in-law of William J. Bryan, broke his promise ti marry her. The Committee of the State Board of Charities of New York; has recommended that the House of Refuge on Randall's Island be removed to some interior point and the Island used as a city park. The House of the Louisiana State Assembly passed a bill establishing a commission to spend $25,000 tQ suppress the boll weevil pest. I The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions reported that the total amount of money received | since 1810 has been $34,431,255. 'ihe Federal Grand Jury in Omaha, [ Neb., returned an Indictment against | United States Senator Dietrich for leasing a building to the Government. FOREIGN. Russians in Korea were reported to be inclined to resent American activity in Korea. ' The United States-Cuba Land Company has become the chief owner of a tract of 50,000 acres surrounding the Bay of Nipe, Cuba. It is intended to build a city and establish a summer resort , xnr. unamoenain auuouuceu, ??. Leeds, his intention to form a committee of thirty men prominent in principal industries, to examine and report ou all branches of trade in Great Britain and the colonies. News of the passage of the Cuban reciprocity bill was received w^th relief at Havana, and improved conditions, it was believed, would soon be noted. The correspondent of the London Morning Leader at The Hague says it is reported there that both Holland and Great. Britain insist that the Republic of Panama shall assume liability for $15,000,000 of the Colombian debt. Turkey granted all America's demands, arranged apologies for insults to Consul Davis at Alexandretta and freed --ttarian. Mr. Joseph Chamberlain has obtained the services of a number of prominent business men on his commission of experts to draw up a British tariff reform measure. The design of the Russian Building, Qt the St. Louis Exposition, has been approved by the Czar. It will be a liandsome structure, on the style of the Palace of Romanoff Boyards, at Moscow, and will cost $150,000. ? Positive announcements are made in Paris by the Soleil and the Lanterne that Victor Mercier, one of the directors of the Ministry of Justice and reporter of the Dreyfuss Commission, has c-oncluded his report, and that it recommends a revision of the case. The London Daily Mail's Pekin correspondent declares tuat a few Manchu nobles, who are uuder Russian influence, are delaying the conclusion of an alliance bet ween China and Japan. A French report that German Emperor's sister. Frincess Charlotte, has cancer is officially characterized us I nonsense. ITTTI? A DT?Arr rVT?CTDnVT7P lilli uuuai 1/JiJiJUViUU ;/: SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE A Sad C*u Bcinlting From Selling Ltq- V aors to Minora?It is the Duty of th# Community to Shield Youth Against ' Hsl If? Own Ignorance. ; A thirteen-year-old boy wm picked up . on tljye ^fcreet^in New York the other day helptesaly drunk and taken to the alcohol- /; ic ward.pf tbfciBellevue Hospital. ' *5 * No fath^t' ^hd no mother can read of '', a uch an incident without horror, or without fear for their own boys, amid the - . ^ temptations of city life. r. J? The small drunkard in Bellevae, when. rj his senses returned to him. cursed th6 . .? barkeeper who sold- him the liquor. And the barkeeper ought to be cursed not by the poisoned child onlyv but by all ; v men who are conscious of the moral dutr resting upon the matare to shield youth. against its own ignorance, cariosity and undisciplined desires. , , . . , , It should be the special duty of the a,nthorities to curse that barkeeper to prac-? vV tical purposes by dragging him into court > X; and giving him a long term in jail for hi? -/ if, own punishment ana as a. warning to / others in the same trade not to break th? . ^ law against selling liquor to minora. The city that does not guard children from whisky, v and . against all the , indulgences . . open to free-kving men. is pat to shame. ' And lads older than the tittle Bellevue - inebriate, boys nearing manhood, are en- '';J titled to better guardianship from the com- s ' ,'yg munity than they receive. Freedom is good for -men. Give men liberty and hold them accountable for the , abuse of it?that is sound doctrine, The kind of goodness which is obtained by making it impossible to sin is not the- - /; kind Qt goodness that will wear when the . time of trial comes. It is a hot-house ."J? plant. Man, should be master of himself. ; m When he is, that he has the iwwer within to resist any environment. But the man who is accustomed to props from without goes to pieces when those props are removed?when . he moves to some place where he may do as he chooses. But the doctrine of liberty with responsi- j? bility which applies to adults does not ap-" ply1 to the young; Just as a child has to be taught to walk, so muft; the youth be tiught ta-j?coznize danger whens it cpn- fronts, hint. He needs tne guiding hand until his -nnnral muscles have hardened .'."is and he ia able to walk alone. . " Lead us not . into temptation/', is a :.m prayer which above all other prayers . shows profound knowledge of weak human ^ nature. < Keep temntation out of the way of the young, and keep the young out of the way ' "?$?? of temptation. : 'iw It is a crime4101 to safeguard youth- from ; temptations that may ruin character while *: s /? character is forming. The penalties cannot be made too se- ; vere for such as place before growing lads tHte temptation to drink, the temptation. of gambling?temptation of any sort yielding to which impairs purity and vig*. or of mind or body. And whether temptation is presented to ' the young or their eiders, this is a truth that is not so well apprehended as il should be:, . The,.ten?>ter ** always worse than the & tempted-' ' . Tne man or woman that offers a bribe to the policeman or the custom bouse officer is more guilty than the accepter ?i the bribe?it is so insignificant to i hegm "/; cr, so significant to the taker, of good . Hiinmi HpoiroH nnrl not otherwise obtain*' T'; The rich man without conscience is the most dangerous enemy against whom society haa to contend* He is an ever flow*ing fountain of corruption. It costs him no sacrifice that he cares alwut to "buy " his way" through life, and his path is >*?$ strewn with dishonored fellow creatures. .'?* He carpets his progress with the self-re- . ' Ji spect o? others. He is Selfishness Incar- 'f# nate and a destroying fofce, making al- together for evil. . We need a sterner sex of abhorrence for Jiaj the tempter, and a more living conscious* . x ness of responsibility for the tempted. To all bras who' have conscience, that. thirteen-year-Oid drunken boy in Bellevue is a reproach. If as a community we were alive as we ought to be to the obligation of guarding the voung, no child could buy liquor in New York. The penalty for selling would 6e so heavy that no barkeeper, even if so lo3t to manhood as to be capable of committing the crime, $ wnnld -dare to risk the consequences.? From an editorial in the New York Even- * ng Journal. . -.r Liquor's Stertling Balance Sheet. A splendid way to interest and instruct* ' ^ nay to imoress a; Sunday school in a practical lesson on temperance, is for :'-Vj the superintendent, or some person well posted uppRthe evils of intemperance, tt> conduct a general exercise, a blackboard ' lecture, taking for. the topic, "A Debtor and Creditor Account with Mr. Alcohol." Have a good blackboard p!aoed before the ? . school, select some young man who can write well and promptly and clearly* and ask him to come forward and act as clerk for the school. Then let the lead- >1 er ask the scholars for some items that they can set down to the credit of Mr. - . ' Alcohol. None will probably be given, for the glorious reason that there arc none; but do not hurry. Continue to ask if there is not one thing that can be set down to the good credit of Mr. Alcohol. After I had almost worried a school in my demands for something to Bet on the credit side of the account, a little boy '* - ' said: "Alcohol is good to keep corpse? from rotting!" Finally when the school .is deeply im? pressed with the tact tnat mere u w good thing that can be 6aid in the. favor of Mr, Alcohol, let the debit side be called fat. ;You will be surprised to hear the reasons come in. Let the'clerk put them down one at a time, and let the leader put ^ - a little earnest speech with each one so i as to drive the truth home. When through J what an exhibit the blackboard will'show ?not one thing in favor, but more than . - j a dozen things against the use of alco* hoi! How easy now to clinch this truth fl udoi the souls of the very boys and girls 1 who have furnished the items for the conclusion!?The Rev. E. L. Eaton, D. D? 1 Beer Startles Germany. Cable dispatches from Germany give the : figures for liquor consumption in 1902 in that country. The cablegram says: "The statistics of the Imperial Health Office show that the total spent pn alcoholic liquors in 1902 throughout the German Empire was about $625,000,000, an average per head for persons over fifteen years of age of $35. The Health Office has issued a pamohlet in which, while not advocating total abstinence, it says total ab^iaadvjintA<7POU.S to health JO uvv uhiw?..n ^ __ and does not impair the working ability. A mass of material is yranged for popular understanding, showing the injuriou? effects of alcohol." The Crusatle in Brief. -i. Drunkenness directly kil* not less thaa i 70,000 men a year in America alone. q Can the church, or ought it. to live in association with the liquor traffic without conflict? The W. C. T. U., of Summit, N. J., presented the Summit Fire Department with a 100-gallon coffee urn, mounted on wheels, for their use at fires. This is designed to lessen the drinking of stimulants.. At Indiananolis, Ind.. recently three more victims of the wineroom evil appeaml in the Juvenile Court before Judge 11 LL * A" f"*A An\? fnYirf-^rt CCUOUN. ?n. ii ncit ??i *o, ?nW years old, and the other but fiTieen. A cow gave a geod pail of milk aai kicked it over; all cows don't do that. A good churchman praya 364 days "Thy kingdom come'' and on the 385th day vote* for rum; all churchmen don't do that. Sir Francis Jeune, President of tho London Divorce Court, told an interviewer that the new licensing act had a great interest for him, aa half the matrimonial J troubles brought before him could be at* | tributed to excessive drinking. I Although the blacklist for drunkards Li " not yet common, something like it goes into effect daily. Leas and less do men of influence recommend or employ any person whose mind is liable to be clouded,. ..r liia nerves shaken, or his judgment im- ,v? !dcured by the use of alcohol, whether i?. business houra or after. \ . . i ' ' ' Jj