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t * NEWEST OF TI PANAMA'S 1 PEOPLE AN1 Its Settlements Ch Owing to the Dense Ji ?Mule Paths and Isthmus Needs Sanitati r>fcOJ4. HE territory of Panama, embracing the larger part 3 HP ? of the Isthmus, extends i 1 t east and west about 460 i^fOW miles measured in a BtTujyu*. line. It adjoins the Republic pf Costa Rica on the west. i Panama and Costa Rica have a loner Standing boundary dispute, and no one ?tetends to know how it will finally bd decided. The boundary shown onj HARBOR A L this map Is that adopted by the best Cartographers pending the decision of j. . *ne dispute. jf Near the boundary on the Caribbean Bide Is Boca del Toro, the fine inlet Protected by islands. i The eastern boundary is the Gulf of I)arien and the Atrato River, which is navigable almost to its source, in northwestern Colombia. The river -would hot be prominent in any hostilities that Colombia might contemplate, because muddy bars at its mouth present entrance to any but the smallest Jvessels; and to take troops down the lAtrato to Panama would involve the crossing of almost impassable mountain ranges. t When the American geologist, Robert T. Hill, made a geological recon noissance tnrougn me iscnmus severar years ago he reported that our knowledge of the higher summits and the topography of the country beyond the low drainage valleys opening on the Oceans was very deficient. We know, however, that most of the interior is thickly sprinkled with hills and low knountains most irregularly distributi *ed. The courses of the larger rivers have been traced, and also some of the tributaries; and the courses of 1 some smaller tributaries have been inferred from the lay of the land. i But while most of the territory of Panama is uninhabited, except by scattered bands of Indians, there are nC A R I B B E^A ,. ?QitJM2ANruA ? P. ? wajv, B<t* MAP OF THE KEPT J ft few small areas of treeless upland country. Dartieularlv alontr the Pacific Ooast north of the city of Panama, (Where a considerable number of settlements are found and agriculture is followed. The towns and hamlets are scattered over these upland regions or dotted along the coasts, particularly ton the inlets, or planted in the interior along some waterways within easy reach of the sea or along the line of the Isthmian railroad, between Ihe cit, ies of Panama and Colon, where the tK>pulation is most dense. Panama is supposed to have about &50.000 inhabitants; but bo census has ?ver been takei., and these figures are based only upon an official estimate by the Colombian Government. The liifficulties of travel and the ill famed iclimate have made the Isthmus so unattractive to residents from foreign lands that they have added little to our knowledge of the people and couni v v&\ * < y.vj CULEBHA, OR SXAKE Ct'T, IN C UNDER THE FRE try except in the neighborhood of thel railroad. Tbe city of Panama eyes all its | -IE REPUBLICS f rERRITORY, ) CLIMATE. !erly on the Coast, ingles in the Interior Abandoned Porks? ion Badly. celebrity to its vital position at the narrowest part of the Isthmus. It has - * - < ? .' :*' i * >: ' : T PANAMA. flourished, or declined according to the routes followed by international trade. The work on the De Lesseps canal gave it a period of great prosperity, but it has languished in recent years. It is no wonder that the people of Panama and Colon were cut to the quick by the way in which the Colombian Government has trifled with their interests; for they can have enduring PRINCIPAL STREET IN PANAMA MENT I prosperity only by the carrying out of the canal enterprise. Under the old regime of Spain the only line of communication between the 4wo oceans was one simple mule path crossing toe Isthmus from Panama to Porto Bello on the Atlantic side. [ N cj ^ A si -k j.- \\t r \ Y JBLIC OF PANAMA. Porto Bello Harbor is commodious and deep, but the fortifications of the old seaport are now overgrown with forest vegetation and the place has become an obscure hamlet occupied by a few hundred negroes who do a little trade with Colon, Colombia and Jamaica. The deadly Chagres fever raged so there that the port was practically! abandoned and Chagres became the I Atlantic terminus of the Isthmian I route from Puuama. But Chagres soon won fame as a hotbed of marsh auu tu*r ^u[juiauvu lapiui) ui3appeared. A new port was founded, therefore, which was called Colon in honor of Columbus, who discovered the bay. It became known also as Aspinwall, from the name of one of the chief promoters of the Isthmian railroad. This name, in late years, has been very little used. After Colon was burned in the revo . V ? ANAL. AS FAR AS COMPLETED NCH CONCESSION'. '.ution ot" 1S&" It was rebuilt oa a targ. ? nl<i ?i an Kflffoi* ^r*iinrul rrrn n nt I i v.1 JJ.UI.LI auu vu. uruci UHIIMVU ^ivuhu, but it is still a very uabealtbful place. I The late George S. Morrison, the civil engineer, in his address in December before the American Geographical Society, said that the death rate on the Isthmus could be greatly diminished. He attributed the unhealthful climate to the fact that no systematic sanitary work has even been undertaken. There is an abundance of excellent water in the mountain streams, but no village or city has a water supply. There is no sewarage system. Til a nrnmon trn all cnllnfl nlAf^aa ?n jl. ?? v/mvyU fi uuu ouiitu v iv lucn x u the streams and the people get their water from the same streams. Nearly every disease may be found there, and the filth of centuries is kept under some of the houses.?New York Sun. HARBOR AT COLON. TVary Insects. One of the efforts now making to lure and destroy harmful insects is by the use of trap lanterns. Entomologists are making experiments in various parts of the country, and at one station, where the trap has been used every night for five months, it has been found that the most harmful insects avoid the light, as a rule. Of the buffalo 'tree hopper, the squashbug, the chinchbug and the bee moths, for example, very few specimens were caught; while, on the other hand, ichneumon flies, Iacewings, ladybugs and -v , 'j other insects useful to the farmer were caught in a great number. Another singular fact is that of the harmful in. sects lured into the traps a majority were males, whereas it is the females that do the most damage. Head Hunters. Head hunters is the uame given to the pfpfessional assassins of Solomon Islands. The vocation of these men is to procure the heads of those whom they are hired to murder, or to sell the victims for sacrificial purposes. Sometimes the enemies of a man offer a large sum, to be paid in the native i shell money, for the head, which will be a proof of death; and the head hunter, with cold-blooded and unscrupulous methods, lays his plans. Frequently great caution is necessary. The intending murderer will worm his way into the friendship of the victim, and a long period may elapse before the opportunity will arrive for the fatal stroke. It may thus often happen that the murdered man's death will have been compassed by one whom he has regarded as the closes! and most loving of intimates. Surely this is the most hateful of all professions followed for the sake of gain. President Loubet and His Peasant Mother. 11 > ^ESflH^H|B?nHH|HHBBR|^^^ E ' a A Missouri Radish Which Tied Itself \h a Knot The St. Louis Post Dispatch gives this picture of a queec radish which ! grew in a Springfield garden. / .*/' :H$$S / >. "CP ." * II The si?nsr of suiel! in the snail has found by Emile Yung to be limited. as a rule, to a distance 0- about ;'.n inch. R It is estimated that New York City alone has loO.QOO persons who would he dead without the medical progress 0i of the last fifty years. Cremation makes slow progress, and Sir Henry Thompson gives the number of bodies disposed of in 1902 in the crematoria of the world as 5320. f r The contested theory that pearls are due to a parasite iu the oyster. was i{* first advanced by Filippi in 1852. Sev- 'Q eral recent observers have confirmed lue view. of B Were it not for the multitude of storks that throng 10 Egypt every win- . ter there would be no living in some parts of the country, for. after every inundation, frogs appear in devastat- s_2 ing numbers. n< The double-headed snake, hitherto ai supposed to be peculiar to Central e3 America and the credulity of unscieulific travelers, has turned up in Cali- ^ fornia. One story says that it was beaded for San Francisco. fr A successful method for destroying p; the water hyacinth (lily pad), which w seriously obsrructs navigation in ir Southern rivers, has been tried on the St. Johns, where son<? wharves have ?5 been abandoued because of it. A boat filled with a laboratory and force ^ pump sprays a swath ninety feet wide q with a chemical which causes them to fr die to the roots. . hi Recently experiments with a view to 91 preserving the calorific properties of hard coal by immersion in salt water ' were made, and it was demonstrated- rc that a loss of one per cent, occurred, a, Stored in the ordinary way coal loses a about fifty per cent of its calorific sc power. Rain sodden coal is said to ol cause bunker fires, but the effect of ^ coal soaked in sea water yet remains v c< to be seen. g The Kitten and the Hatpin. u A small kitten, the property of Johu M. Yore, 710 First avenue, St. Joseph, Mich., is dead. The fact itself is not C( startling, but the manner of the kit- 'f ten's death is so unusual that it has r< aroused much interest on the part of ai neighbors, physicians and veterinarians in this city. P The kitten, in a moment of excessive | playfulness, twelve days ago, swal- ^ lowed a hatpin. The animal was only four months old and of the usual size ft for such an age. The hatpin was seven u inches long, with a stone head. Mr. h Yore noticed the kitten playing with g the ornament, which came from his b daughter's hat. Soon afterward the ^ pin was missing. Search was futile. n and the kitten, which continued to be as sportive as ever, gave no symptoms a, of distress until a few days ago, when h it became ill and subject to fits. This ei I n nnntrAfforeu ill thp linilSPhold. fl One side asserted that tlie kitten had ^ swallowed the hatpin. The other ridi- .Vl euled the idea as physically impossible. ^ Neither would weaken, however, and 0 finally Mr. Yore became convinced that the only means of solution of the mys- ti tery lay in a searching examination of a pussy's anatomy. No X-ray being A handy, chloroform and a knife were s] used. The result was the recovery of - . ... ... . o; the hatpin at tne cost or me cat s life. The pin had been swallowed, its c, white head going down first, the metal u body following until the point found a p lodging place in the animal's throat. T Before the dissection took place the n case was placed before a physician and v two veterinarians. In their opinion t( they declared that the kitten could not ? have swallowed a pin of such length. Later when the pin was produced and j, shown to them they expressed much astonishment?Chicago Inter-Ocean. "Love Interest." I, A weekly contemporary, says the London Graphic, remarks that "love interest" is being relegated to a subor- ^ dinate place in modern fiction. There j? probably never was a time in the his- e' tory of literature when really great e novelists could not dispense with that fi interest and yet hold the attention of t their readers. Cervantes did so in "Don Quixote." So did Dickens in "The Pickwick Papers," and Disraeli in "Vivian Grey," and Zola in "La ^ Debacle," and there are many other 0 instances. At the same time it stands y to reason that, as civilization becomes t1 more complicated, the novelists will become less and less disposed to harp continually upon a single theme. Women, in particular, have more in- B terests in life than they used to have, and women are the novelist's most faithful clients. J?heir lives, like the ^ material world general, progress ti ."from an indefinite incoherent homo- ei geneity to a definite coherent hetero- tl geneity." Etcetera, etcetera. The Spencerian philosophy, which explains E 90 many things, explains also the de- ^ position of the loVe interest from its A sovereign place in contemporary ro- y4 mance. S w How Paris Paper Orevr. Additional proof of the enormous change in French journalism in recent years is seen in the fact that the Petit Parisian now comes out as a twelve- c' page paper. Ten years ago it was a a little four-page sheet. Then it grew to six pages, then to eight, and has now reached twelve. As its circulation is over a million a day, it may now be considered the best newspaper property in France. Thirty years ago M. tl Dupuy, its proprietor, was a bailiff n serving writs in Paris, and three years s ago he was Minister of Agriculture. ' Now he is a multimillionaire.?New York Herald. i How Qtoe Indians Spend Their Money. ' The plethoric Otoes, those that sold ? high priced inherited allotments, are v putting on all kinds of ridiculous style, e " "? mAC?|- /JAt Hu llAI'COC fl JL"Ul\Y ULtr U IIJ 1 lig IMC 1UUOI VV.-JU,* ?,? and carriages, and several of tbera are o buying: very expensive tattoo marks, One of them recently had his lli tie daughter decorated in the face by a a expert tattooer. and he paid about $300 t] for the indelible insieuia.?Chandler (I. c T.) News. p INH IO?ES II FAR EAST Ip Si creasing Evidence in Tokio of In porfant Development. CIi U3SIA GATHERS HER FLEET rilors For Cruisers to Receive Tlielr Ari Qg masnentA and Proceed East ? Czar Send* Instructions Regarding Reply to Viceroy AlexiefT? Salfl to Contain lQ' ve Terms Satisfactory to Japan. mi London. England.- A special dispatch fu om Tokio says there is increasing ev- a enc-e there of the imminence of some th lporlant development in the Far East. c*j The first authentic news of the date .Q : the Russian reply to Japan reached th aron Hayashi. the Japanese Minister tic > Great Britain, through the Asso- Pr . . th ated Press dispatch on the subject ^ om St. Petersburg. The Minister ac lid the reception of Russia's proposi- so ons would entirely depend on how er ?arly the.v assimilated with the Japlese terras, from which it would be ot ctremely hard for Japan to recede. ^ He addecf that orders have been sent i Genoa to hoist the Japanese ensign ttl >'er the new war ships Kasaga and ^E iasin, recently purchased by Japan t0, om Argentina. Mr. Bnlfour, tKe Prime Minister, l0: issed a few hours in London on his ay to Chatsworth to attend the meet- .m ig of the National Defense Commit?e. which, however, is said not to be IJ1 mnected with the Far Eastern situa- , on. 10 Bizerta. Tunis.?The Russian cruiser .w urora has gone to Piraeus to salute "J ueen Olga on her return to Greece om St. Petersburg. **, It is thought Admiral Wirenius and . is entire Russian naval division will Sj lil for Suez. The division comprises le armored cruisers Demitri Donskol ad Oslayba, the protected cruiser Au- ~ >rn. n disDatch boat destined for Vice- Dt >y Alexieff and eleven torpedo boat L: jstroyers of the latest model, having; ?a speed of twenty-six knots. The per- tr >nnel of the division consisted of 3500 Beers and men. The orders to Adlira I Wirenius were to conduct the di- .J ision to the Far East and then to pro- ^ ?ed by the trans-Siberian Railroad to r, t. Petersburg to assume the duties of f nder chief of the naval staff. " Moscow. Russia.?The Russian cruiser aratoff has been ordered to Sebasto- ^ :>1 to receive her armament and pro- u >ed with all haste to Port Arthur. he cruiser Oral has been ordered to ' imain at Odessa until she receives her a:: rmament. . "( St. Petersburg, Russia.?Russia's rely to Japan is now in the hands of Dle Viceroy, Admiral Alexieff, for him > deliver when he considers the fitting -c loment has arrived. Russia has not at all given up the lea of a peaceful issue, all depending jV" pon whether Japan is in earnest iu ^ er declarations to the government rearding her desire for peace, which is \ eginnlng here to be much doubted 2; i view of her extensive war preparaons. These are daily being an- , ounced. ? As to whether Russia's reply will be ? cceptable to Japan no one can tell. It 5 as been calmly and carefully consid- '. red, and from Russia's point of view ? ames terms which Japan can accept rith honor, and she must take the . ery gravest responsibility by refuslg them. The next word lies with g" apan, and accordingly the question .. f peace or war rests in her hands. Tokio, Japan.?War preparations con- g. nue. but the government seems deter- t lined to avoid the opening of a con- . ict and for this purpose the note ?nt to the powers was intended to how that the responsibility rested n Russia. The government is proceeding very autiously, and unless Russia gives L ndue provocation it is possible that eace may continue for some time, 'he preparations made by the govern. :ii lent are, however, sufficient to con- ;l ince the populace of a determination ?t > fight if necessary. The popular m lamor has somewhat subsided, al- ai sough many support the proposition o< ) seize and declare a protectorate over a. lOtc?. ta ?? ia GENERAL LONGSTREET DEAD. .eaves But One Great Confederate ^ Leader Living. Atlanta. Ga.?General Longstreet, sol- tli ier, statesman and diplomat, and the ist Lieutenant-General of the Confed- al rate Army, with the exception of Gen- il ral Gordon, died in Gainesville, Ga., m L*om an attack of acute pneumonia, tv [e had been ill two days. A. General Longstreet was a sufferer ai rom cancer of one eye, but his general ealth had been good until recently, " rhen he was seized with a sudden old. developing later into pneumonia P f violent nature. He was eighty-four ears old. He is survived by his wife, vo sons and a daughter. fe In BOODLE . INDICTMENTS. 3f ft lench "Wan-ants in Milwaukee For Ar- fr rest of the Accused. P Milwaukee. Wis. ? The Grand Jury jj. hw.h is invoehVa f inc nllPCPd COITUD- t;, on in Milwaukee city and county govL-nments returned indictments against er le following: Fred Heiden, Jr.. former inspector of ,a louse of Correction, two indictments; x-Alderman Charles H. Havenor, ^ harles J. Jungmau andCharlesCooke; > ldermen George Meriditli, William ^ immerman and Valeutine Jesion and .j. upervisor Albert ?. Dade. Bench p rarrants have been issued. jr Duel for a Baroness. Earon von Ompteda. the novelist, exiiauged shots without any result with cavalry captain near Dresden, Ger- ir lany, because of the captain's atten- ^ ons to Baroness von Ompteda. ?' Kaiser Closes a Theatre. Emperor William has ordered that le Royal Opera House be closed until r lore exits are built and fireproof stairs ubstituted for the present wooden tairs. kj Deaf Mute Wins Doctor's Degree. For the first time in the history of ierman universities a deaf mute has jy ueeeded in obtaining a doctor's degree, ui >r. Walter Kuntze, on whom the Uni- ti< ersity of Leipsic has conferred a Ph. fr is a comparatively young man. I! ; v.' lesis for the degree is regarded as one ei f the best in recent years. a' tl< Blackmailer Sentenced. Isaac Graville, convicted of sending lireatening letters to the Northern Paiiie Railway Company, was sentenced ei t Helena, Mont., to ten years in the enitentiary and to pay a tine ot ?500Q, B / ORTORICANS NOT ALIENS iprem9 Court Reverses Ruling- of ! rnmmiwinnpr nf TmmiorrnHnn. I lef Justice Fuller Says the People of Porto Rico Are Governed by the Lawa of the United States. Washington, D. C. ? The Supreme turt has decided that citizens of ForRico are not aliens within the mean. ; of the Immigration act, and rersed the ruling of Immigration Comissioner Williams at New York in resing admission to Isabella Gonzales, native of the island, on the ground at she was likely to become a public arse. rhe court, said Chief Justice Fuller, announcing the opinion, did not lua xc ucvcooa'ijr tu [MW UU IUC 4'jca >n of the power of Congress in the emises. and the only thing vital in e case was whether Miss Gonzales ' us an alien within the meaning of the :t of 1891. That act related to per ns having allegiance to foreign govnments. The people of Porto Rico, ling governed by laws of the Congress the United States, executed by offirs appointed by the President of the nited States, were not aliens within e meaning of the immigration laws, id Miss Gonzales should be admitted the United States. The court was unaimous in that opin. n. ' By the Constitution of the Spanish onarchy and the Spanish civil code force in Porto Rico when the treaty Paris was proclaimed," said Chief istice Fuller in delivering the opinn, "persons born in Spanish ierritory ere declared to be Spanish subjects it Porto Ricans who were not natives the Peninsula remaining in Porto ico oould not, according to the terms ' the treaty, elect to retain their alle ance to Spain. By the cession theii legiance became due to the United :ates. which was in possession and id assumed the government, and they (came entmea to us protection, xne itionality of the island became Amerim instead of Spanish, and by the eaty Peninsulars not deciding to prerve their allegiance to Spain were to ? held to have renounced it and to ive adopted the nationality of the ace in which they may reside." The opinipn notes the legislation by sngress providing a civil government r the island and for the appointment officials to carry out the laws and ie election of a commissioner to the nited States, and says that Miss Gonilcs was a citizen of Porto Rico un;r the terms of the Immigration act ; it contained nothing or implied )thing to indicate the intention of jngress that the, Porto Ricans should i considered as aliens. As to the contention cf the Depart ent of Justice that the test of Gon,les' rights was citizenship of United :ates and not alien, or the contention ivanced by-counsel for Gonzales that e cession of Porto Rico accomplished ie naturalization of its people or that citizen of Porto Rico under the act r 1900 was necessarily a citizen of the nited States, the court did not feel tiled upon to pass, or upon the power : Congress in the premises. The only lestion was that arising uuder the nmigration act, and the court thought clear that that act related to forgners as respects their country, to :rsons owning allegiance to a foreign overnment and citizens thereof. Often* of Porto Rico whose permanent legiance was due to the United tates, who lived in the dominion of ie United States, the law of whose >micle was enacted by the United :ates and enforced by officials sworn supQort the Constitution of the Unid States, were not aliens when arrivg at ports of the United States. MINE LEADERS DEPORTED. ress Censorship Established in a Colorado County. L^cuvci , KjKJi.? u uuci tur [;ivtiuuiuon issued by Governor Peabody dearing San Miguel County to be in a ate of insurrection and giving the iJitary full power to use such meas * as they deem proper to restore " . Major Zeph T: Hill, commander . k military at Telluride. has esblished a strict press censorship and .ken control of both telegraph and te\f)hone lines. Major Hill rounded up twenty-five of ie leading union agitators, including resident Miller, of the Miners' Union, id marched them to the railroad staon. A detachment was sent to the office ' Eugene Eagley, ex-Attorney-Genert\t PnlnrnHn onii nntc iwnrpspnHn? embers of the Miners' TJnion. He as arrested and ordered deported. 11 were warned not to return to Tell:ide. EBELS NEAR SANTO DOMIK( apulation Joining Revolt Against Provisional Government. Cape Haytien.?The population of the sgion south of Azua de Compostela, . San Domingo, has joined the army 1 revolutionists which is marching on le capital, and several jjew defections om the Ministry of the provisional resident. Morales, are announced. General Jiminez, former President of te republic and leader of the revoluonists. is still in Santiago de los Cailleros, working with the aid of Genals Desehamps and Picliardo, for the rial success of the revolutionary tuses. There is great depression in Aj&ess and the situation is deplor >Ie. , The British cruiser Pallas has arrived : Porto Plata. Three German warlips, the Gazelle, the Vineta and thu anther, and the French cruiser roude are at Port au Prince. Firemen Save GOO Girls. Panic and possible loss of life was /erted by the activity of the Fire Deirtment at the textile mills of William . Smitk & Sons, at Philadelphia. Pa., here 000 to 000 jjirls are employed. 11 were rescued from the tire escapes. Montreal Club Euros. Fire destroyed the house of the Mr. oyal Club, a leading social organizaon of Montreal. Can. Frank Flutt. a emati. twenty-one years old, was ;iled. and six persons were injured. Virrii.l'llivnrinA Fvill< fiYmv Four men were killed aa;l several ere injured by an explosion in the itro-glyeerine department of rhe Naonal Explosives Works, eisiht miles om Penzance. Cornwall. The district as euveloped in black smoke. Nearly ,'ery window in St. Ives. throe miles ivay. was shattered and many wia >ws were smashed in Penzance. Bride Burned to Death. Mrs. Charles Lane, of Poweiitou. Khteeu years old. and a bride of only few months, was burned to death al arnett, Ga. N : THE GREAT DESTROYER SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Poem : Who Will Sign f?An Inatmnoe Showing That Two Driilci m D?y Kay, Send a Man Bavins to a Drunkard'# Grave?A Terrible Warning. Sign the pledge! Who will sign? Maka no more delay; Wait not till to -morrow; better sign ,M to-day. v x Sign the pledge right early! Offer no excuse, Stopping short of duty never is of use. For a million pledges we have set our plowr, ?ou can lend a good hand; lend it her? and now! ) For the sake of others, for your own sake sign, , For the wide world's welfare, come, withi us combine. See the drink curse raging! Join to a tern' its course By your wise example, by love's gentla force! Parents, answer quickly to your country*? call. Christians, for this service Christ requires . . > you all! And this sacred crusade; hear the voice Divine, Let each say with fervor, "I will make it mine." . v. /.-J Then in years to follow we shall thankful v . be That we helped the people to be pledged and free! ?Dawson Burns. / - ^ A Sure Way to EMtpc. >' } A man whose widow testifies that h? was never drunk in his life died in ?(Ne*r York hospital the other day of delirium tremens, the doctors declare. His habit was to take two drinks of whisky daily, one in the morning and the other at night. He was not robust physically, and tneso two drinks, steadily repeated every twentrfour hours for some thirty yearn, finally alcoholized his' tissues, undermined hi nervous strength and killed him. T.nvmon havo aonffpd at J-ho Hnnfcnra Frt* holding that two drinks a day can do one any harm, much less send him raving to drunkard's grave, but the doctors stand their ground, and come back at the moderate drinkers in a way to alarm these comfortably self-indulgent and easy-minded persons. Men so eminent in their profea* 1 sion as Drs. Shrady, Danforth, Somerset aftd Bailey assert that*those who cannob , drink in moderation, but lose control of themselves whenever they touch alcohol are really in less danger than those who seldom or never drink to excess, but imbibe steadily?the strong-willed tipplers, wbo "carry their liquor like gentlemen'' and pride themselves on being able to "take it or leave it alone." Dr. Shrady puts it thus: *. As between the habitual drinker and the dipsomaniac, the latter has the better chance of a good old age. It is just the difference between the name which burns itself out quickly and is done with, and the smoldering fire which slowly but sure* ly eats into the vital organs, produces de*. generation of the arteries and brings ont a premature old age. It is not so much the quantity of alcohol a man drinks as the regularity and frequency with which; he drinks that work the havoc with hitt system. Of course, there are unnumbered metf? and women, too, who on social occasions > -iS take wine without injury to themselves. And it is also true that there are multitudes so organized nervously that they; are in no danger of. .becoming drunkards, though they like a bottle of claret with their dinner and a glass of something stronger on occasion. But the safe course for the young matt - i who has his way to make in the world is to eschew drinking altogether. He may; be among the fortunate upon whom alcohoi can take no hold, but then again ho may have the physical and nervous susceptibility which makes it unsafe to trifle > with the tempter. If he resolves to be * total abstainer he will be completely in- > sured against the peril which strews tha shores of life with wrecks. If you don't drink yon can't possibly become a drunkard?Editorial in the New York American. I - ; Test Your Appetite. ' A young man carelessly formed the habit of taking a glass of liquor every morning before breakfast. An older friend aat vised him to quit before the habit should grow too strong. "Oh, there's no danger; it's a mere n?? tion. I can quit any time," replied the drinker. "Suppose you try it to-morrow morning/* suggested the friend. < Very well; to please you I'll do so, hilt I assure vou there's no la for alarm." A week later the young man met hid friend again. ' "You are not looking well," observed the latter. "Have you been ill?" "Hardlyj" replfea the other one. "But I am trying to escape a great danger; and fear that I -shall before I shall have conquered. My eyes were opened to an imminent peril when I gave you that promisa a week ago. I thank you for your timely; BUj?aestion." How did it affect you?" inquired t&a friend. "The first trial utterly deprived me of appetite for food. I could eat no breakfast, and wa9 nervous -and trembling all day. I was alarmed when I realised how; irsidiously that habit had fastened on ipe. and resolved to turn square abont ana never touch another drop. The swearing off has pulled me down severely, but I am gaining, and mean to keep the upper hand after this. Strong drink will never c.?,tch me in hia net again."?Church Life. Greatly Reduces Drunkenness. A certain Justice of the Peace of East * Poughkeepsie, N. Y., requires all drunk* utuu(jiit uciwit 111in vv 01511 iug iviivnU15 total abstinence pledge: "I, having been convicted before ? , J us tic? of the Peace, of public intoxication, in order to obtain a suspension of sentence, d> hereby pledge myself to abstain from intoxicating liquors for a period of one year from the date hereof; and in case I should be arrested and convicted of intoxication, within that period. I request said Justice, in order to save me from utter ruin, to impose upon me tKe full penalty of the law, to wit. six 1 jnths in "i Albany Penitentiary." It is stated that thie unique method has greatly reduced drunkenness in the town. V Nadie a Demon of Him. t "Lock me up, please; put me where 1 . . can't get anv more whisky: it makes a demon of me," said John Jackson, as he hurried into the central station, in Clever land. Ohio. "Anything to get me awaj; from the liquor demon. I've had enough-.^ Red lights twinkle all around me. Hun-' dreds of voices call to me. I see all sorta of things." A TemperMce Kerivjtl. The Illinois Citizenship League has put t"> test a new method of anti-license work in saloon towns, and found it very suecessful in creating sentiment. It U called a "Temperance Revival," and coa? sists'of a series of meetings, at least four, and a children's meeting. At these meetings the people are asked to eome forward and sign the pledge to the effect that they will do all in their power to prevent the sale of intoxicating and malt liquor in their own town, except for medicinal and mechanical purposes. Ou each signer ? bit of red ribbon is pinned: also, on the children at their meeting, when they promise to help. The Folly of Treating. The question of wages and of justice to the laboring man absorbs wide attention; but who will dispute that it' ill the money that is sj?ent by the working classes in "treating' each other to alcoholic beverages were saved there would be thotmnd* ot better furnished homes, better clad wives and better ted children? a:i worse lliau r unn v?.? The fact that all whisky handled by tha retail trade contains fusel oil would ba move alarming if it were not for the other fact that fusel oil is not the worst thing that whisky contains. The alcohol w what does tiie business, if the consumer sticks to it long enough. ? Minneapolis Times. t . . * V : ?_