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THE ARMY WITH
Br nriiirn i i n i n
IWI1IU1 JAfA^
OPPOSES RUSSIA
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The artillery of the Japanase Army
Is always eotw'Klered to be the pick
of the service. French and English
officers who have had opportunity of
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seeiug the artillery at manuevres are
loiud in their praises of the Japanese
?oldiers, and of the smartness of the
Aray in which they carry out the vari/
ous movements. They Know hotv to
handle their guns well ;;nd to serve
them quickly. For some time past the
Japanese have paid particular attention
to increasing the efficiency of this
branch of the service. The men are
the tallest In the Army, their standard
of height being tive feet four inches,
as against five feet three inches, the
standard for the engineers and cavalry,
and five feet two inches, the average
of the infantry. The gunner's rate of
pay is in like'manner the highest in
the whole Army, the gunner private
getting six and one-half sens a day
(about seven cents) to the five and onehalf
sens (six cents) drawn by their
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comrades of the engineers and cavalry.
ana tne lire sens inve cents> or uie
Japanese Tommy Atkins of the line.
The same genera] proportion In the pay
holds good for the officers of artillery,
a&'compai.i with their brother officers
of the sappers, cavalry and line. As to
details, the organization of the Japanese
artillery service is divided broadly
into two branches, the field artillery
and the mountain artillery. The former
Are armed with twelve-pounder breechloaders,
the ethers have four-pounders.
There is also a corps of gunners reserved
for home defense. The field artillery
is like our own, in that it is
distributed into tmtteries of six guns.
JAPANESE SC
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JAPANESE ON THE
.which batteries are formed in eight
regiments, divided between the imperial
guards and the line. Altogether
the entire force has some 320 field guns
and half as many mountain guns. The
field pieces are designed in Japan aftet
a special pattern, and are made at the
national arsenal and gun foundry at
Osaka. They are very powerful
Iweapons and can do good work at from
2500 to 3000 yards. The uniform of the
gunner is much the same as that of the
cavalry?dark blue tunics and breeches
iwith yellow collars and facings, and
brown boots. The greatest care is
taken in the education of the officers
of artiHery. They are thoroughly well
grounded in their work at that most
rmrishing institution, t&e Uunnery
?hool, of Tokio.
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I The Scarcity of 1U<II< iin.
At the present time we jiossess Oitly
about a gram of the pure salts of radium.
However great may be the care
lr? on^h rnuftfii?r?lw>c ufmi H
are inevitable, aud serious losses have
at times resulted from unforeseen accidents
brought on by the disconcerting
properties of radium. Research in all
branches of experimental science?
physics, chefnistry, physiology, medicine?is
impeded, and a whole evolution
in science' is retarded, by the lack
of this precious and unique material,
which can now be obtained only at:
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great expense. We must look to individual
initiative to come to the aid of
science, as it has so often done in
the past, and to facilitate and expedite
by generous gifts the success of researches
the influence of which may be
far-reachiug.?Mme. Curie, in the Century.
A Strange War in BoanIa.
A singular war has been waged in
Bosnia recently. Both sides to the controversy
speak the same languageCroat?but
they write it with different
alphabets, the Catholics with Roman
letters and those of the orthodox Greek
rhurch with Cvriliic. To simplify the
task of the public teacher the Austrian
government directed that the Latin alphabet
should alone be used in the
schools. The innovation provoked a
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RY OF RUSSIAN ARTILLERY ON ^
loud outcry from the orthodox Greek
partisans, who deemed it a blow to
their religion. The government had to
yield.
I Carious Experiments.
, Dr. Basehide has made experiments
to test the ability of various persons
to wake up at a given time. He found
that peasants and menials more commonly
possessed this power than more
educated persons, and he thinks the
phenomenon borders on hypnotism, being
a kind of auto-suggestion. Most of
the Dersons he emerimented on woke
up from fifteen minutes to an hour, or
even two, before the time desired.
>L^ M(^ T A^S
MARCH.
A New Explosive.
The latest in explosives, according
. to Metal Industry, is powdered alum
, tnura mixed with nitrate of ammonia
, and put upon the market under the
. name of "ammonal." This explosive
, is said to be one of the surest and
. safest known, as it cannot be exploded
' by yriction or blow, while otherwise
containing all requisites of an explosive.
The gambling receipts at Monte Carlo
exce^ji those of last year by over
$600,000. It is the custom of the banks
to give those who have lost their aLl
free tickets that will take them home.
The accepted bid for the steel superi
structure across the East River to
f Blacfcwell's Island was $5.132,985. I
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RAILROAD f1EN|;
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Railway uien in foreign lands often
carry on their work under condition *
that would appall their fellow workers f
at home, says the Wide World Mftga- 1
ztne. On certain Central African ?
railways, for instance, trains have 1
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frequently been charged by rhinoceroses
and other large beasts; and an unhappy
telegraph operator on the Uganda
Railway, on returning to the sta
uon, found the station master and staff
barricaded in a but, wbile two big
lions patrolled the platform. He
promptly wired down the line for instructions.
The edifice seen in the cut shown
is rendered necessary by very similar
conditions.
It is a hut built for the pointsman
at Walayar, a jungle station on the
Madras Railway, and is Intended to
protect its occupant against the numerous
tigers wuich frequent the vicinity.
These ferocious brutes have in the
past manifested an unholy taste foi [
railway men. and so it was found nec
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essary to place the men at isolated
spots in cages. The tigers have evei
been known to visit the stations, caus
ill
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ing dire dismay amoug the staff aud 4
passengers.
Italy Neglects Navlgati in.
The Venetian Deputy. Romanin-Jacour.the
other day delivered a lecture :
in which he deplored the fact that
Italy, of all European couutries, alone
neglects its opportunities for river
navigation. There are on the peninsula .
3000 kilometers of navigable rivers,
and by a network of cauals these and
the larger cities of Northern Italy
could be easily connected with each
other and with the oceau aud the great
iakes.
A Useful Combination t
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An Idea for a combination coal and j
wood holder is shown in the above il- ^
lustration reproduced from the Woman's
Home Companion. For economy
of space this receptacle will be found
especially desirable for a small room.
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It measures fourteen Loche6 wide and ^
thirty inches long, maifing the interior
of the log holder twelve inches square
and eighteen inches deep. The coal t
hod is fourteen inches deep, and the t
lid pitohes down so that at the front >
the box is but four inches deep. I
g A HOME-MADE $
% BAROMETER, g
Here is a home-made barometer with
vhlch anybody can be his'own-weath;r
prophet. It is used largely in Eng
*nd, and its success in Heralding the
ipproach of storms'fa vouched for.
Lhis is the way to make it:
Get a common glass pickle bottle
ird All it with water to within about
wo inches of the top. Then place au
impty salad oil flask mouth downward
nto the bottle. Nothing could be
nore simple. The water in the neck
f the flesk will rise or fall according
o the state of the weather.
Should the water rise in the flask it
an indication of fine weather. When
he water is entirely out of the flask
me may wen iuuh. iwr >trjr >vci yvtuiut.
aud wheu the water ia the neck
if the flask rises above the water in
he bottle It indicates "set fair." -A
uan who made some of these baromeers
for himself says:
"During the last summer I have had
wo of these water barometers beside
t mercurial barometer such as is
;nown to science, a-nd have carefully
*>mpared them. I noted that when
he mercurial barometer was cutting
ively capers my water bottles were
ar more sedate and on the whole
nore reliable."
When the subject of these water
>arometers was brought to the atten
tlon of Mr. Emery, the local weather
forecaster, he smiled and said:
"The principle of the mercurial barometer
and jour water barometer is
the same. During the passage of an
area of high pressure the water In the
bottle will be pressed down by the
weight of a column of atmosphere,
and, of course, the water will be
forced up into the neck of the flask.
Contrarily. when your home-made barometer
is In an area of low pressure
the water in the bottle will rise and
the water in the neck of the bottle will
CO down.
"However, It is nonsense to say tDai
the water barometer could be more ac.
curate than the mercurial. A mercurial
barometer In good condition never
cuts any capers.^ Moreover, a rising
barometer does not always indicate
fair weather nor a falling barometer
a storm. The best we can say Is that
this will prove true in a majority ol
;ases. I would doubt the accuracy of
the readings of your water barometer,
but It might make a good plaything."
-New York Press.
Travel* of a Marked Lobster.
About three months ago a fishermar
caught a large seed lobster marked H
A. IC which he put overboard In Se
guin Harbor. This was noted in tbf
Jonesport Enterprise, with the requesi
tnat any one catching this lobstei
would in. turn report. On December ?
George Marshall caught the same shell
fish near Mark Island, which as soon
as punched by the inspector will be
placed in Hatchet Harbor. This is in
teresting to those who are studying the
habits and vagaries of the esculenl
crustacean, and guesses are in order as
to when this specimen will next show
up.?Portland Times.
Shoe Clamps
For Blacking Stand
At last an inventor has devoted his
attention to the lately neglected blackI
g box, which, since the days of combination
outfits, has been retired to
oblivion. It seems a simple matter.
CLAMPS THB SHOE IN PLACE.!
easoniug backward, to adopt the faniliar
combination club skate princi-1
)le to a blacking box foot rest, yet it
las taken a long time for any one to
lit upon the idea.
The Tomb of David.
The tomb of David. King of Israel,
s still pointed out to travelers in Palatine.
and despite its age. is in a renarkably
good state of preservation.
juviu uieu m iuu> a. o., ana was
>uried in the "City of David." His
:omb became the sepulchre of several
subsequent kings, aud one of the sa:red
places of the kingdom. It stands
>n Mt. Zion, at Jerusalem, just outside
>f the city wall.
Italy has been more successful than
Jermany in preventing a wholesale
emigration from the country to the
ities. Its surplus population has gone
'or the most part to North and South
America.
British doctors are recommending ciler
as a remedy for gout acid rheumaism;
the result has been a great rerival
of the cider trade, which is Like- !
y to benfit American fruit growers.
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lu the schools of France one child iu
four of both eeres is a u. '1 biter.
Horses, giraffes and ostr ches have
the largest eyes of land aniin:.ls; cuttlefish
of sea creatures.
Examination of the records cf the
characteristics of European royalty by
Dr. Frederic Adams Wood, shows that
the morally superior were the better
endowed mentally.
Corn has been bred to show that by .
intelligent cultivation the parts of the
kernel that yield the oil can be minimixed.
while those that produce protein
can be developed.
A recent study of iufant mortality
in France shows that out of every 1000
deaths of infants under one year of
age 116 are breast fed, 290 bottle led,
and 594 infants to whotp solid food
had been given too early.
The heat developed by the firing of
heavy guns is remarkable. During
some recent trials in Germany a gun
that had been fired seventy-five
times melted solder placed upon it,
while another was hot enough to soften
lead. ~ '
Liviug bacteria r*as recently submitted
to a temperatr e of liquid hydrogen.
about 2D0 decrees Jentigrade.
and about as near absolute zero as we
can get, and after ^n Immersion of ten
hours there was no appreciable effect
on the vitality of the organism.'
TELEGRAPHED WITHOUT BATTERIES
A "Wire" Sent (WO Miles by Electricity
Taken From the Air.
The Northern Pacific telegraph department
has telegraphed a distance of
miloo rrrl fhntif hoffarlaa
Saturday night, when, the aurora
borealis display was on, the electric
waves were noticed as early as 7
o'clock by Superintendent Dildine, of
the system. They decided to experiment
with the atmosphere as a current,
and accordingly had the line
opened from St. Paul to Dickinson. N.
D., with the batteries along the line
removed. The electricity was taken
from the atmosphere during the disturbance,
which lasted twenty hours.
Superintendent Green says:" "We
found that the electricity from the
overcharged atmosphere registered
from twenty-three millimeters positive
back to the same figure negative. Pure
green light shot forth at stated interals,
toward the.earth, and each time it
descended it charged the electric wires
all over the country to such a degree
that all communication was stopped
for a time and disturbed for many
hours. . . ;'
"The electrical waves came with the
regularity of the pendulum movement.
They Were of about three minutes'
duration each, shifting from negative
to positive polarities In almost perfect
rhythm. Our instruments showed'a
maximum intensity of 370 volts. .:; *
"Whan flio nm?rani- tvnK .it Its mnxi
I mum positive polarity we could talk
to Dickinson very easily by using the
regular Morse alphabet. As the pendulum
swung back to the negative po'e
the sounds from the instruments would
'become fainter and fainter until the
pressure came back. Our volt meter
was not of high register, 300 volts being
its limit.
"The disturbance commenced at 2
o'clock Saturday morning and lasted
until midnisrht. It was one of the
most remarkable atmospheric disturbances
that has come to ray knowledge
Cor forty years."?New York World.
The Hardiness of Trees.
An expert nurseryman says the
hardiness or non-hardiness of trees
depends largely upon where the seeds
from which the trees in question
sprang came from. Satisfactory results
are seldom experienced by planting
a seed obtained from the Sunny
South, say. By planting seeds grad
ually further north, however, trees
may be at length hardened and acclimated
until a seed from such a tree
vmay be reasonably expected to thrive
and mature its fruits.
Trees, like people, acquire their habits
from the climate in which they live.
The Northern tree knows instinctively
when the time has come to ripen its
fruits. The Southern tree follows the
same instinct, being in no hurry, as
there is little likelihood of real cold.
With transplanting? further north its
habit changes.
The great trouble with most people is
that they want to jump a tree from
South to North at one move. This
same idea is evident in the attempt to
bring various fruit trees from Russia
to the Northern United States.
Apples and plums from the land of
the Great White Czar have taken kindly
to the below zero conditions of the
eentle Dakdtas.?Philadelphia Record. |
British Naval Increases.
There have been launched during the
twelve months for the British navy
thirty-five vessels, the collective displacement
tonnage being 148.746 tons,
while the indicated horsepower of the
machinery aggregates 300,100. The vessels
complete represent a cost of ?12.232,000.
The previous twelve months
made a "lean" year, so far as launches
were concerned, the number of British
warships being fifteen, of 92,054 tons
displacement, with machinery of 185,000
indicated horsepower, the cost being
about ?5.931.800. In 1901 the total
number of vessels was thirty-two,
while the total tonnage was 209,100
tons, and the cost about ?10,000,000
sterling.
Tuft Hunter Outgeneraled.
The fondness that some people have
for contact with notables is not always
shared by the notables themselves. It
is told by the late Baron Huddleston
that he once tried to obtain a seat
next to a duke at the table d'hote in
a hotel where both were guests. That j
this proximity to the great man might
be brought about, the baron gave tiie
waiter a sovereign. The servant proved
a traitor, and an explanation being
demanded, he confessed that the duke <
had giveu him two sovereigns not to
give the baroQ the coveted seat.?Ar- soaaat,
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THEATRE FIRE AFTERMATH [T
Thirty-three Theatres and Twenty s<
Churohes Closed in Chicago.
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Th? Lou to BaslneM Autoanta to Over
100,000 a Week?Over 5000 People
Oat of Employment. ,
Chicago, 111.?With thirty-three theatres
and twenty churches closed "by
the Building Department, Chicago is ,
put down as the dullest town on record.
People remained at home and
intensified the wall from business men,
stranded actors and transportation 1
companies.
Some reports had it that the loss of
business by department stores
amounts to $100,000 a week in some
cases. Country patrons won't come to
Chicago while there are no amuse- 1
ments. Matinee days always are big tic
anil fK A IAOC f A fhotia Tt
ouvppiug uaj o, auu iuc ivoa iv i.Mvuv
is keenly felt. All branches of stage de
employes are circulating petitions call- *?
ing upon the City Council to hasten the
opening of the playhouses.
The act" of ciosure has thrown 5000 ha
persons out of employment. Of these -w!
3000 are connected with the stage. It
is asserted that 500 chorus girls are bo
here out of employment. In the vau- {J11
deville, musical comedy and legitimate
lines the number aggregates 1000.
Stage hands, ushers and mechanics sa
number 1500. Walters, bill posters, be
cabmen and bartenders laid off num- th
ber 2000. in'
An indication of the far-reaching ef- .kr
feet of the closure is shown in the a.ction
of the elevated roads and the il- ?0a
llnols Central taking off half their W)
trains after 8 p. m. The restalrants
in the Auditorium Annex and Victor- p]
ia Pullman Building are closed after an
8 p. m. Rector's and a few ochers are T)
oj*en, but without patrons.
Chorus girls have taken up work as ^
nursemaids and domestics and many |-f
are behind counters in department ]j
stores. m
Pawnshops are thriving. The stage r.?
people are the heaviest sufferers. No jjt
one knows when the playhouses will f
open. Public opinion is unanimous in S'1
demanding that the letter of the law ar
shall be complied with. . . <. tb
Many theatres will never open. In yc
otuers improvements requiring months yc
will have to be made. Though the
new laws have not yet been passed, ta
the temper of the City Council shows
the ordinances will be most stringent ke'
The remarkable change Which has 0t
come over the night life of the town tr
has been widely, commented, upon, oc
Even the hold-up man has quit busi- ci
ness. - pc
Philadelphia and St. Louis present
night scenes of. stirring activity in
comparison with the present situa- j
tion. The pressure upon the Council th
to pass an order opening the theatres tir
under police and. fire department con- dr
trol is enormous. "Vhen they are al- 1'
lowed to open the upper balconies will 2Vi
remain closed.
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une-imra 01 me oimtr gum nauc,
according to one estimate, has been cut
off by the closing of places of amuse- en
ment, and local traction companies to
note a marked falling off in amount of j"
traffic, due to the same cause. |cl
A man interested in the Union Trac- y
tion Company said that the receipts t
had fallen off $1000 a night since the ^
closing order went into effect. Mem- Hi
bers of the Union Loop Company estimated
that the elevated roads had sp
suffered an average daily loss in pas-: .W
senders of between 3000 and 4000, lv
while the late suburban trains on the ?
Illiuois Central have been leaving the
city wltn less tnan nair me pusseu^cia jq
they usually carry when the theatres
are open. th
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Settlers Are Being Murdered and
Homesteads Burned.
Berlin, Germany. ? Further advices pc
from German Southwest Africa say J"
the Hereros are murdering settlers and
burning homesteads over wide areas. ee
The German colonial troops in the dis- be
turbed district are wholly insufficient w
to deal with the rebellious natives.
Chancellor von Buelow submitted to tjh
Emperor William the dispatches received
on the subject by the Govern- J"
ment It was decided to ask the ev
Reichstag immediately to authorize the
sending of reinforcements. German
marines have a keen desire
for service In German Southwest ,
Africa, as was Indicated when the Second
Division of marines/ 1000 strong, h(
was drawn up at Wilhelmshaven. Vol- *"
unteers for service in that colony were ^
called for, and every man stepped for- m
ward. di
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ROBBED THE DEAD. q?
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Victim of Iroquois Fire Relieved of Cl<
Money... m
Chicago, I1L?Charged with robbing
the dead and dying at the Iroqdols The- ?l
atre fire, three men have been placed
Under arrest by the Chicago police, fc,
The first of the alleged ghouls to be h<
captured was Louis Witz, keeper of
the Illinois saloon, located at Dearborn b<
and Randolph streets, a few doors from ^
the main entrance of the theatre. ' J *;
It is charged that Witz robbed the
body of a dying woman, Mrs. E. J. cc
Trask, the afternoon of the fire, secur- jjf
ing $199, which, it Js alleged, was di- is
vlded among three men, two of whom b(
were arrested after Witz. a.
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Uruguayan Rebels Routed.
It is announced in a dispatch from W
Montevideo that the Uruguayan revo- tl.
lutionists have been defeated after a
sanguinary battle at Illescas. General "
Saraiva, the revolutionary leader in t[]
Uruguay, is reported to have been fa
wounded in the leg in a fight at Man- ot
savillagra. na
Canal Treaty Amended.
The Panama v)anal treaty was
amended by the Senate Committee ou ?r
Foreisru Relations, at Washington, D. l>e
C., so as to give the United States more ,
jurisdiction over the harbors of Colon
and Panama.
Flood ?rowns Thirty.1
Thirty persons were drowned and lo<
three hotels and 17G houses destroyed '
as the result of the bursting of a reser- th
voir at Bloemfontein. Hundreds of wi
persons have been rendered homeless ov?
and destitute by the disaster.
College and Educational Notes. 30
Amherst College students have
formed a mountain-climbing club and
have elected as its President Dr. Edward
Hitchcock, dean of the faculty.
The catalogue of the Bowdoin Col- w<
lege for the year. 1903-1904 shows a
total enrolment or 3UiJ, or wuicn mini- ce
her 277 are in the academic depart- yo
ment.
The reports of the President and po
Treasurer of Radcliffe College for the ^
year 1902-03 sbow the number of stu- a ,
dents admitted to registration lu the th
college during the year was 420, twen th
ly-s?ven less. thaoi the urecedioc year. &
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3ME STARTUNC FACTS >BOUT
THE . VICE , OF INTEMPcRAMCE^ ,
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?em : A Mocker ? A Father's Tragi*
Bad, Which Uia goa Vae?l m a Text
The Cm* of Llqaor Stayed Aw?y.
"Wipe i? a. mocker," ah, God.
It tobcka at the widow's cries.
Hocks at the children asking for bread*
Mocks when the drunkard dies; .
"Strong drink is raging." .God heip us. _ . ^
A raging lion, in truth,
Seeking the men to slay them,
From old age down to youth.
"Whosoever is deceived thereby," i- V
Can it be, he "is not wise?"
God made him see the awful curse,
And open hi# blinded eyes.
?Ram's Horn. ,
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The Lawyer'* Story. ,
The young men had made great prep.ira- ;
)ns for their fishing trip into the Indian. r " f
srritoiy, jind their disappointment! wa?
ep when.'on the very morning they were ;.? i<
start, tbfr lawyer, whom they all' liked*
Id them he could-not go. To make the
itt<Jr wor.-tfi liw expian;itions were very
me arid Unsatisfactory; .it was evident he
id given up the trip for some reason
Rich he hesitated to name.;u\ 5
As a lost resort thp others went in a
>dy?six of them?to his office, and de- -r ^
anded that he tell them exactly why Li
id deserted, when he had been most eausiastic
in planning the outing. '' '
"If you're really to understand it," he
id, *'I shall have to begin with my own
ivhood. My father, the beat father, 1
ink, that a boy ever had, always showed
e a tenderness which even as, a child ?
tew was somewhat different from the
i-e which my playmates had from their
irents. It was not Until'I was perhaps
urteen years old that he told me why this
I88O.
"Although he himself lived a most exemary,
life his father, his father's father
id two of his uncles bad been drunkards. v ".:
be taste for liquor he believed to be heditarv
in our family, and in. me hejiad *-2
bogniaed many of the trait* he himself
i3ses?edr and which had made his owa -%
e a long fight against the habit.of drink.
e pointed out the danger that. lay, befora e,
and begged me to give him' my promise
ivcr, under any circumstances, to "touch.
juor.: 'It is your only safety/hSsaid. .
inless you make this resolution,, and have
e. strength to keep it, the odds will'bo
tally against you, for, like myself, yoa
e easily influenced by 'others; If I -M
ought that to morrow you were to take
iur first drink, J should pray,to, God that - ^
iu might die to-day.'
"Of ctoUrse I promised.' He had never
iked to me in that way' before^ and of
urse it madeen impression oa mv I
is frightened, and for several years I
pt my promise. Then I went with some a
tier young fellows on 'an all-day fishing
ip. While we were eating our luncheon 1
lc of our number, a bov wnom we -all adired,
took a bottle of whisky from, hi?
icket, dnwk from it atad passed it to his
st neighbor. The bottle' went round-the
rcle, for no one dared refuse to follow yjg
sorge Beitz's lead. When it campto me
tried "to pass it on without drinking, but ^
c others began to tease and ridicule me,
itil from sheer cowardice. I took the ?. ii
ink. A second and A third followed, and
began to realize that I liked the stuff and
mtcd more of it. My father's'warning
shed across my mind:
" 'If you take one drink, you may be for- %%'
er lost!' . ' .
"The re3t of the day passed wretchedly
tough, and I was glad when it was time
start for home. When I reached the
mse I found that my father, whom I. had
Ft in good health in the morning, was j v
ing at thfe point'of deatn. He had had / ,
sudden attack of heart disease;. They
Id me he was very anxious. to see me
ane, and with a breaking heart I entered
s room. .
"He could'not move and could hardly
eak, but as I took his hand and. bowed
y head upon it,.crying, he smiled tenderand
lovingly on mar. When I grew, ' ',
Imer he spoke, although the effort wastiful
to witness: . "*
" 'Be strong?mother's sake?my. sake?
ss me.' .
''As I bent down to kiss him he'ndticed
ie odor of hqaor in my breath; I'shall
'ver forget the look of agony, of despair,
his eyes. ,. ....
*t lie 1 1 1 : J J
nay poor?iosi?Doy: ne gruaueu, uui
e?e were his last words. v"!* ' " >'
"Since that day, God helping me, I have
;ver touched a drop of liquor. But I
iow ray weakness. I don't dare to ex- .
myself to temptation, and I never
\owingly go where liquor is to he ysed.
lis morning, while, the provision wuson
is being loaded, I saw that some one had
nt along a case of whisky. Forgive me,
>ys; I'm not preaching nor finding- fault
ith you. but you. see now why I can't go."
"You can go and you shall go," spoke up
le judge, who l\ad provided the case of .
1'jor, for the whisky is going to stay
?re." So the lawyer went, and 4'jollier,
althier, happier outing none of the men
er had.?Youth's Companion. . ,t
The Wlneroom Most Go.
The promise is made that the (rinerooin
utit go absolutely. The Journal sincerely - ' ,?
jpes that this is true; that it is not
erely a temporary spurt of law enforoeent
to keep the "reform element" from
tmplaining too loudly of the new adinistration
or to bring the Drewery syncate
to terms. This is not a question oft
jlitics,, but' a deeper and more important
lestion of the moral atmosphere of thi#
immunity. The Journal*is a Republican
jwspaper,ana'Mr. Holtzmac is a Demo at,
but in any earnest and persistent
easures he ma; take for holding the
juor traffic within bounds, for wipin*
it winerooms v/here children are en tired
> their ruin and abolishing the dive#
iat are festering sources of crime, he and
is police administration shall have th? _
A? fKio nonnt t ^
rtil tjr ouppv/l U Vi l uto J/upi.1 . ^
Tnere is no measuring the harm that u
iing done by failure to enforce the law
i tni? particular, We hare had in thi
avenile Court a nuiiibK- d examples or
rls, mere children, induced by sucb
onstera as Griswola and Metzler to beime
habitues of dives and engage in a
:e that is worse than death. But thia
not nearly all the siory. In the neigh>rhood
of every factory may be found
number of low doggeries that reap a
ch harvest every pay day. In not a few >
' these gambling la carried on, and in
ore of them low women, t congregate.
rorkingmen from the factories nock t?
tese places, and that one is lucky that
its out before spending h:s last dollaft It
not possible to abolish ;his class of
loons, but it is possible greatly to lessen
ie evil they do in poboing workmen's
milies of their bread ov compelling strict
tedience bo the law.?Indianapolis JourlU
.v ' . ' The
Crtuade In Brief.
Dr. Justin Edwards said that 10,030
unkards who took the pledge hr.d been
rmanentiy reformed in five years.
In Great Britain in 1901 there were .?00fr
aths directly due to alcohol, while the
aths from tuberculosis numbered 58,000
In Maine, Kansas and North Dakota
ey 1iave prohibition by State law in
irty-eight other States tliey hcve it by
>nl nntiiMi.
The legislator who wi!l vote ,to fasten
e saloon system on the neck: of an unllin*
people should be preserved i 1 hi.i
n alcohol and used as a ugn ia a saloou
ndow. .
Accord'ng to statistics rccent!y Gathered,
.000.000 are living in nrohirbitku tcrriry
in this country. This is nore thau
e-third of ths entire population.
lleniv Noble, a veleian ?t the Leaven*
>rth (Kan ) Soldiers' Home, shot him[f
dead afi;cr spending his $&> in pension
jney for drink al the joints in that city
Dr John Watson (Ian Maclaren) rently
preached a temperance sermon adcating
that theieeper9 cf drinking places
England be called upon to pay increased
or rates and poiice rates.
It is scarcely thro* years smce the rerm
was inaugurated by the formation of
society of abstainers in Vienna, and now
ere are nine abstaming societies, two of
cm being societies of workingmen "to.
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