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The startling events that marked the opening of the Rus M^-Japan' .War have established the U truth of that statement, for in the 9 hands of an alert, intelligent and darjfl lag people this deadly weapon, in the ? first half hour of hostilities, sank two ofthe finest battleships and one of the HflflfcMuisers of the Russian Navy, and S&pPmPDlly struck a blow at the naWjal prestige of Russia from which that country will take many years to reM cover. At the same time, the Port M Arthur torpedo attack must be Judged 9at its true value, and. therefore, we 1 - . I TORPEDO PRACTICE AT NE^VPO HEAD TORPEDO FROM TI Itnust not lose sight of the fact that Information is finding its way to the public ear which makes it pretty evident that the Russian ships were not looking for, and were totally unprepared, to receive, a torpedo attack. If this is the case, what has been proved la that if the torpedo boat can get unmolested within easy range, the torpedo is fairly sure of its mark?and this we all knew well enough before the war began. The Whitehead torpedo is undergoing constant development, the latest improvement being the introduction of the gyroscope for the purpose of Heping the torpedo more accurately Bon its true course. The latest pat I Bros mciuae tnis uevice ana are genially of larger diameter and greater sngth than the earlier types. The torpedo here shown consists of , cigar-shaped body of phosphor rcnze or steel, divided into six separte compartments, as follows: 1, the uagazlne; 2, the secret chamber; 3. he reservoir; 4, the engine compartaent; 5, the buoyancy compartment; , the bevel-gear chamber. The magazine contains the explosive Large, which consists of a series of 1&??yn y : " ; :-v' . t'' ->4y> }* .-;; - "O If s [Isks of wet guii cotton packed togethr. The foremost of the six cylinders ontans a detonating primer consisting t fulminate of mercury. The small ? / f IDER ROOF AT THE NAVAL ACAD C ALSEY, HEAD OF DEPARTMENT OF [NTER. PHOTOGRAPHS SHOW SAILS propeller at the extreme point of the torpedo is part of an ingehious safety | device for preventing premature ex- j plosion in handling. When not in use | the firing pin is held in check by a : sleeve; but as soon as the torpedo ( strikes the water, the rotation of the , little propellers releases the sleeve and , leaves the firing pin ready to strike ] the detonating primer the moment the , torpedo meets an obstruction. . The "secret chamber" is the most ingenious part of this most ingenious piece of mechanism. Its piston, pen- j dulum. and springs perform the im- ( portant work of regulating the hori- ( zontal rudders which keep the torpe- j do at the proper depth. Immediately j o ? o *t.? I, ;0 ? ill iluui ui acv.1 n vwuiua ao ** j narrow compartment perforated on its walls to allow the outside water to ( enter. The front wall of the secret j chamber carries a piston, which can move in the direction of the axis of the torpedo. The pressure of the water is resisted by three coiled springs. At a certain predetermined depth, according to the tension on the springs, the springs and water pressure will be in equilibrium; below that depth the piston will be driven in by the wa- ] ter pressure, and above it the springs i will push forward the piston. To prevent too sudden oscillation in this action, the piston is connected to the rod of a swinging pendulum. The mo- ] tlon of the piston is communicated ] by rods, which pass through the hoi- s low stay rods of the air chamber to the i ? It - < ' " 1 s ; . :;-.^^.V>-v - . v.- -" ; ,/, &>u 5' ''.' .f V ";'?v.";'.v ft i'^,'S/,/?^''^S v?"^ * ^ ^ ?.'/> f s * s\^t|'yv^v;.y :?, -^> '< C >'i Wiii ' < , .. * Copyright by Frank H. Child. UT, It. I.?LAUNCHING A WHITEIE TORPEDO BOAT MORRIS. horizontal or diving rudders. If the torpedo goes too deep, the piston moves back, the pendulum swings forward, and the rudders are elevated, the reverse movements taking place if the immersion is not sufficient. When a torpedo dives into the water the first part of its run is made on a wave line which crosses and recrosses the desired and ultimate level of immersion, the piston and the pendulum gradually bringing the torpodo to a true course. The reservoir forms the central body of the "fish." It is made of forged cast steel and is tested up to seventy atmospheres. A tuyere at its after end feeds the air to the engine. The torpedo is driven by a three-cyl- d inder engine, with cylinders 120 de- p grees apart, acting on a common u crank. Tlio engine is started by means of a valve which is opened by e a lever striking a projecting lug on s the launching tube, wlien the torpedo t is fired. a The buoyancy chamber is an air- \ tight compartment, the purpose of t which is to afford the proper buoyan- u cy to the torpedo; it carries a piece of a lead ballast, by shifting which the f trim can be controlled. The tubes carry j s IIDE VIEW OF A 14-INCH TORPEDO the connecting rods for controlling the | horizontal diving rudders. S Next comes the bevel gear chamber, t where is located, the gear Cor caus- t EMY AT ANNAPOLIS, ID. SEAMANSHIP, FOR GIVING PRAC REEFED AND SPREAD. ing the propellers to rotate in < posite directions. The after propel is keyed to the main shaft; the forws propeller is keyed to a sleeve whl rotates freely upon the main sha and the motion is reversed by men Df two bevel-wheel gears which ti jn a spindle at right angles to 1 main shaft. The "tail" consists of 3tock with vertical vanes, which i is the vertical rudder, and two fran which carry the horizontal rudders. The torpedo is fired from a lauuchi tube by the explosion of a sm charge of gunpowder behind it. TI compresses the air which surrouu :he rear half of the torpedo and thru: it out of the tube without any seric lar. The ranee and speed of the tori loes vary with the size. The weap iere shown is fourteen inches in dia iter, fifteen feet in length, carr linety pounds of guncotton, and L i speed of twenty-oight knots for *ange of 800 yards. The eighteen-ir Whitehead torpedo is sixteen ft seven and one-half inches in leng carries a charge of 220 pounds of gi cotton, and has a speed of thirty-o snots for 1000 yards.?Scienti American. King Eight Tears Old. The youngest king in the world Oaudi Chua, king of Uganda, who low about eight He holds his coi seated on a scarlet throne, with eopard skin mat under his feet, a jearing in his hand a toy gun. T British exercise a protectorate o\ he young king and his kingdom a mrA oatablislied for him a sort >arliament which he opens regulai vith much pomp. Little Daudi Ch .peaks English and gives state dinne it which there is curious mixture African and European foods and ci oms, though the royal table is si )lied with fine linen, cut glass a iilver brought from London. rO MAKE MEAT TENDE It must have been a consciem ;tricken boarding-house keeper w vas the other day granted a patent 1 i machine to render meat tend doubtless she had tired of hearing t omplaints and the pointless jokes er boarders concerning her steaks, a iro'oably she had lost her star board v*ho, having broken all his front tee n efforts to masticate the meat set 1 ore him, left her in sheer despair oin for all time the patrons of t THE MEAT-TENDERER. air,? lunch rooms, where hot .soups a irocurable, and do not necessitate t ise of the molars. At any rate, such a patent was gTai d, and the accompanying pictu hows not only its extreme .simplicil >ut, also, seems to indicate that it Ci nd will do its work well. Tooth wheels, carried in a handle, are n tackward and forth over the tougiic neat until it lias been brought to su . state that it can be readily mistake or the most teuder and the most tool ome venison. ' . ...: < - ' < v-Y . y ~ . \5-X-x^<;^Vx'Vol&ii V j;'vA"'- '' :'v, ' >' \ ... ' rr'. . ;; > ,: ..: Rain falls more frequently betwc i o'clock and S o'clock in the morni. han at any other time during t wenty four liourn, TELEGRAPH TYPEWRITING. j Ln Ingenious Machine YTSticZi veniln nntf Keceivea j A wireless telegraph wri?nr. or zeroi ;":i:>h as it is c*.'.i!:,d lor til ? sa!:e of I uvviiy. has been iuvented by an Kuj;j ikhmrin. TLi-^ zerograph in apprarauce i I Ts:?mbkvs an ordinary typewriter, but j ! t is or' simpler construction, witli a | ceyboard figured with the signs of the J utters and numerals, which can be u'inted or telegraphed to any number if instruments. Each instrument, the uvtmtor explains, is at once a receiver .?,i n on:ili!iiisr oneralors I (1111 a uuuguuiiivi, ^ .0 converse1 with one another in writng. and thus obviating misunderstandings. which are apt to ocvur in j ndenbonic communications. So far naessages have been sent only for a <hort distance, but it is intended to ex; .leriiKeut over wider spaces, and it is loped that messages can be sent to my distance that ether waves will :arry. The machine is always ready for immediate use. and as there is no nechanism which requires to be .vound ?'p in order to obtain syncbronj sui. the operator has both hands tree ! for manipulation. \ I Another advantage claimed for the j I .nvontiou will bo of special importance ! m military affairs. Messages cannot j oe picked up. To quote the inventor's j jwu words: "In sending a message J i*ou are sounding two ether waves '* which allow you a choice of tifty-six signs, aiid these are given direct ^rint. either as letters or figures. Ahsolute secrecy is thus obtained. The i i oniy way to intercept messages would j oe to employ a similar instrument, IC? | which would have to be synchronized 1 io the same degree as the transmitting ins instrument. Lastly, these machines j will receive their messages (which are i*1? given at present at a speed of twenty* 3 i live words a minute) without anybody lct j being present, and would thus be of ies | great advantage in a signal box. as the signal nan will receive clearly D" I printed instructions should he be ab. I sent (he time the message^ is sent to 1115 him. Nor will the machines work only 1<*J without wires. I gave a lecture in 3^f j Paris before the Society of Eugiueers, >U1 of which I am a member, during ? U!~l. r rtfic fr\ Pl'llflfiots | \VUICU i. uiccougcu iv i.v?. ?. . ?e j while telephonic communication was 01 j going on over the same wires. I have ,ra ! sent messages also between Berliu iei j and Fraukfort." 131 J The apparatus consists of a type^ ' ! writer, which, by depressing a key, lC' j sends two impulses. Each letter re ?e I quires only two impulses, and the dif ^ ; t'erent letters are obtained by means in | or the time interval between these im m pulses. For wireless purposes these impulses operate a switch connection with the induction coil, thus making I the sparks for sending the ether . ] waves. The induction coil is con | lifted with an aerial as well as an earth wire. To turn the apparatus ar I into a receiving instrument it is only 1 i necessary to move a switch, which is ; placed beneath the typewriter. This f I makes all the connections to the re ei I eeiving apparatus, wiiich consists of a n(* I coherer and a very sensitive relay.-< of | The Inventive Age. rly ua WORDS OF WISDOM, rs, of j Character determines condition. L,s* ; Home is tlie liarbor of the heart. ip, i Life is ever more than literature. . nd ; Greatness appears in little things. Strength comes through struggle. R ! Prejudice puts its eyes in its pocket Feeding malice is fostering murder, j Men differ not so much in their faith . ! as in their phrases. .or er< Sin is no more essentia! to salvation he thau disease to health. of The best time to attend to your j nd neighbor's affairs is in your sleep. er. j When a man falls in love with heav i 'th | en he learns how to love this earth. )e" | A man is not doing his level best who , ! is content to stay on the same level. he A reputation tor eating chicken is not the only thing essential in a good pastor. A man. who has only flowers in the garden of his life does not need to build a wall about it. The man who fails while trying to J do good has more honor than ho who ' succeeds by accident. | I When there is. room for all a wo i man's love in the heart of a poodle no man need t-e sorry lie has lost it. The hungry one is apt to think that he has heaven's full meal when li? ! has only caught the fragrance of tha j kitchen.?Ham's Horn. JiothlnK I.ost. "They take tremendous precautions j at the mint so that no specie shall be i lost," said an Englishman, with a reiu I iniscence of an article he had been j reading on the subject. "Every scrap j of refuse is burned in order that not j the slightest vestige of metal shall bo j wasted. The working clothes of the _ i men are burned, too, when they are re i worn out, and they even burn the carts be j which are used in carrying the bullion j to the mint. it- "Well," said the American in the re ; guess we go one better than that in ;y, our immortal country. "We burn the au refuse, and the clothes and the carts, ed i'es, sir, we do all that, and, what is jn more, when a man dies who lias st worked there we have him cremated." ch Then they talked about the weather.? en London Fun. ii- Tho J^ar(?e;Jt Banks. In the Suited States the largest bank is the National City Bank of New Vork, with a combined capital and surplus of almost ?12,000.000. In second place comes the National Bank of Commerce, with $33,500,000. and in third place the First National Bank, with ?23.400,000. The largest bank >litside of Now York is tin1 First National I'ank of Chicago with n combined capital and surplus of $15,000.)00. nattering But Noisy. Lady Cromer. when, with 1)or 1ms5aud. Lord Cromer, and Conn toss Vnl la Uleichen, making ;i lour in the soudun, beeamo in time acenstoniert io :ho peculiar "welcome" of I'jo Sondan ?se women, which at first is somewhat tlm 11WVM nntfvn 1 V-? liJC; 11KL ?*?%... V en .Toman present omils peculiar long, ng ;brill cries, the while she heats vjg. he >rousiy upon any object that happens :o he near at hancl that'wiJi produce a ood voiuuic of sound. / ^^I'^O^LAR^V^T^ gv ft SCIENCE ^ (jp? An attempt lias been made at Durango. Mexico, to make soap from oil extracted from castor beans, but the experiment was a failure. Only 0350 deaths from cholera in the Turkish Empire were reported for the year ended February 22 last, but experts believe the real number was three times aa large. If the ocean were dried up. all the water passing away as vapor, the ! amount of salt remaining would be i enough to cover 3,(K)0,000 square miles j ?i.U ? rr.;irt fltiolr WUU U lUJCl uuc luin: IU1VU, Two Englishmen are said to have invented a kind of wheel wliich makes it possible to transport troops in the African deserts on automobiles at the rate of three or four miles an hour. After an exhaustive inspection of electric railways throughout Europe and the United States, a committee appointed by the Swedish Governmeut recommended that the State railways abandon steam for electricity as a motive power. ' Radium constantly generates heat, and Wien has now shown that it may constantly generate electricity. It gives off both positive and negative electrons, and the former?several hundred times as large as the latter?may * t 1 * - 1 /vP rtloco AH oriTT DG ceid U.'icit i)y ;t mcti; ui giuoo ??. uu^ other of a variety of substances. In an insurance office where it was formerly necessary for a force of clerk3 ,f to copy names on reference cards to be filed in various places, one clerk now writes the name <yi a single card with metallic ink, clamps it in a bolder with a number of blank cards, and flashes an X-ray through the pack. The Mexican Railroad has erected a monument, with suitable inscription, marking the point where the globe is crossed by the Tropic of Cancer. The monument is of wood twelve feet high and twenty-four feet long. On the top there are two arras pointing out the two zones. It is situated on a desert ground a few miles south of Catoree. The heat lost by radiation from bare pipes containing steam at 100 pounds pressure has been estimated by Professor S. P. Thompson to be about two ^ * 1 ~ AOrtU fnn cnimrp i XOD5 ui LTOI a ycui. iui >.u ivu , feet of pipe surface. Anotlier experiment lias found that eighty-eight per cent, of the loss is prevented by the best mica covering, but that asbestos J covering is much inferior to mica, and ! cements are less effective still. BEES IN BEDROOM. Nebraska Man Finds the Little Workers Good Company. Just inside his bedroom window, where tfteir humming soothes him to slumber at night aud rouses him to the wakeful duties of the day, J. H. Sears has placed his hive of bees. He has had them there for eighteen months, and finds them pleasant aud compau? ionable. \ This location for a bee hive is considered one of the most unique in the 1 annals of the apiarist, yet from the storehouse he has there established he has taken away more than forty- , c ? f l"v??tr O hniltf IIVI? [HJ U uu."5 UL LIKJUXZJ t ?*vv?.v $7.30. While visiting in the country in the 1 summer of 1902, a (laughter of Mr. Sears found a swarm of bees in a badge. They seemed to belong to no one, and when she returned home she informed her father. The latter used to raise bees <.? the farm, and at once paw tne possibilities of the "find" his daughter had trade. At the same .time, he did not take into consideration the fact that he had no adequate place Ito keep them when he had brought |them home. When he had obtained the swarm, captured in a cracker box, ' lie discovered that his back yard was far too small to accommodate his pets. The only possible place for them was in the bedroom where he slept. Mr. Sears leaves his window slightly open to allow the bees entrance and esress at will. An up-to-aaie mve is placed for tbeir occupancy, with all the comforts of the out-of-door apartments, with the addition of hard coal heat in the winter. The bees have already begun to sally forth into the country in search of the early blossoms, and at almost any hour the sill of one of the windows of ' the house at 132!) M street may be seen partially covered with 'the dark yellow insects, crawling in or out of , the room where is their hive.?Liucola (Neb.) Star. ; Day of tlie Farm llorse Oven The day of the horse as a heavy.la- j borer on American farms bas ended, ' and the machinery will more and more t . be operated by one of the three motive j , powers?steam, gasoline and electric- i 1 ity. The trackless trolley farms have | < to-day loomed up as experimental in- j vestments which thoroughly work out | ! all that was claimed for them. With I .] cheaper power derived from the rivers and waterfalls, electricity will extend to all parts of the country, and small and large farming implements will be operated thereby. Electric power is cheaper than horse power, even when ordinary fuel is used to operate the engines, and when tbe power can be supplied from some river it will be ftfr i cheaper. than steam in any form.? j Washington Po.it. Limited Sight of Reptiles. Reptiles' sight is generally good, and is probably their most acute sense, yet ! their vision is very limited. Croco- j diles cannot distinguish a man at dis- j 'tanees over ten times their length, j Fish sfo for only snort distances, xue vision oil serpents is poor; the boa con- i stridor, for example, can see 110 f farther than one-third his own length. Some snakes see 1:0 farther than oneeighth of their length. Frogs are better endowed and see twenty times their own length. The hearing of j nearly nil reptiles is even worse than ' their sight. Aiost of thorn are deaf, especially boa constrictors. "Deaf as an udder" represents a careful observa- 1 tinn of our ancestors. " / :* THE FAIR CASE SETTLED Over a Million Faid by His Relatives to End All Suits. I Aged Mrs. >elHon, tho Mother of Mrs. Charles L. Fair, Will Divide Over 81,500,000 Among Uelallvo*. Now York City.?After many months , of court controversy and private negotiation, the legal JL>attle for the $7,000.000 estate left by Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. Fair, who were killed on August 14, 1002, in an automobile accident in France, was settled in a manner satisfactory to all the parties interested. While the exact amount paid never may become known, it was reported from mi authoritative source, it was i $1,500,000 in cash and jewels, furniture | and other property valued at $100,000. i The reason publicly given for endiDg this hotly contested suit was that the notoriety of the case was impairing the iienltu of Mrs. Nelson, wuo represented the heirs of Mrs. Fair, and causing great annoyance to Mrs. Oelrlchs and Mrs. Vanderbilt. Another reason why both sides, were eager to end the litigation was that the legal proceedings in France, New York and California were a heavy drain on the estate of $7,000,000 and that the dozen lawyers were reaping a rich harvest at the 1 expense of both sides. Mrs. Oelrlchs and Mrs. Vanderbilt agree to pay the counsel fees of the Nelsons and give them a goodly sum, and the'^ Nelsons promise never to annoy those women again. The diplomacy of Colonel William Jay, Mrs. Oelrlch's brother-in-law, is , said to have brought about the^end of the will contest. Beekman &,*"Chanier represented the Nelsons in the case, i and so ready were they to dose the i case they did not take even an hour's delay before they'-signed the final order of settlement. The formal end of the case came when Justice Blschoff dismissed the complaint of the Nelsons. They had asked the court to cancel an agreement they had made with Mrs. Oelrlchs and Mrs. Vanderbilt whereby they accepted $178,000 to settle the case. The Justice furthermore enjoined the Nelsons from bringing further proceedings against the daughters of "Jim" Fair, all of which was in accordance with the private agreement. .uirecuy aner air. auu iyirs. v^uunea L. Fair were killed, in August, 1902, in an auto accident in France, Mrs. Oelrichs and Mrs. Vauderbilt directed Colonel William Jay, their attorney, to settle with Mrs. .Fair's relatives, the Nelsons, at any price, and so avoid the annoyance of;a contest. The Nelsons jumped at the offer of Colonel Jay and the agreement was signed. But when they heard that Charles Fair had left 57.000,000 they thought their $178,000 too small and cried "Fraud!" It was their contention that Mrs. Fair survived her husband several minutes, and that the estate was theirs. They 1 said the dead man's sisters had tricked them into an unjust settlement BATTLE WITH PERUVIANS. ( Brazilian Force Repulsed in an Attack After Losing Many Killed. Rio Janeiro, Brazil. ? News has been received of another battle in the upper Purus Valley. Colouel ' Arujo, who started from ChandJ j less with 220 men. attacked the Peru- ' vians at Santa Rosa. The fight lasted , twenty-four hours. Finally Colonel , Arujo had to withdraw after losing many killed and wounded. Colonel Arujo says the battle was fought under unfavorable conditions. j It is announced that the negotiations i are continuing with favorable indica- ] tlons. Baron de Rio Branco, Minister l of Foreign Affairs, declared that Bra- ] zil is disposed to submit the matter to j arbitration if it could not be settled by 1 direct negotiations, but that it is ueces- , sary that Peru specify her claims. Meanwhile the military aud naval preparations continue. 1 HUSBAND IS THE MASTER. ( May Even Eject His Mother-in-Law j From His Wife's House. < Columbus, Ohio.?In affirming a judg- ] ment of the Circuit Court of Erie Coun- , ty, the1 State Supreme Court has af- \ lirmed the right of a married man to ru!" his domicile as against his moth- < er-in-law. ' Oscar W. Green forbade bis wires 1 mother to enter bis bouse, but ignoring ) bis order sbe presumed to visit at tbe * bouse. He ejected Uer and sbe had ] bim arrested for: assault and battery. He goes free. His wife owned tbe property. Tbe Supreme Court holds tbat tbe , husband is tbe master of tbe bouse, whether JJb.e,.wlfe owns tbe property or , not, and sucb be may deny any per- ( son admittance and may use force to < eject, if necessary. ] IDLE PUPIL KILLED. I Teacber Struck Him With Ruler and j j is Charged With His Death. 1 Des Moines. Iowa.?C. N. Jensen, a < school teacber, at Graettinger, Iowa, is j under arrest for tbe killing of tbe nine < year-old son of Barney Elsenbast. 1 Young Elsenbast was remiss in his 1 studies, and the teacber ordered bim to study bis lesson continually for an J liour. Tbe boy indulged in a mild prank and hesitated about complying. ] riiereupon Jensen seized a ruler and \ struck bim several blows on tbe bead, j Ibe boy-, was dazed, but apparently re- 1 covered and did as be was bidden. Tbat night be was taken seriously ill 1 and uext day he died. An autopsy es- , tablished that the blows were responsi- ^ ble for his death. , Novel Accident Proves Fatal. While Charles II. Ramsey, as:cd eighteen years, was carrying a piece J of iron pipe on his shoulder, at Reading. Pa., one end of it came in contact -j with a live electric wire, and the young ] mail was shocked to death. ; < Winter Wheat Improves. A general improvement in the condition of winter wheat is indicated, ? pecially over the western parts of the winter wheat belt and in the Middle ? Atlantic States. i Sporting Brevities. r.<V\rt nrnlicfc f rrvnv tlin 31UIC llliill 4>\nnj V_l.ll.JV.. ....... ...V, , many cities made a run throngh the 1 park system. Boston. Mass.. ?.fter I . Liftiiteiiant-Oenpral Nelson A. Mii"shad i : addressed them. < Tim University of Pennsylvania lacrosse team defeated thv> (^ollesje of the City of New York on Franklin Field. Philadelphia, by the one-sided scare of six to nothing, i Edmund llnssell. captain of the University oL* Pennsylvania track team, and live other members of tbe srpiad liave bean dismissed from the training tnbio bv Sbcl) f!io conrii 1 / ' THE GREAT DESTROYER ? " -m 9 ' SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. A Silhouette oa "My Chromatic-Nofed Friend" From the Pen of Bob Bur\dette, Which Make* a Good Commonsense Temperance Sermon. y For a good, common-sense temperance sermon brought right down to practical, every-day experience, there could he nothing better, than the following from the pen of Bob Burdette. What he says of liquor drinking may be applied with equal force to all other expensive habits tnafc seem but small items when counted singly, but which, when figured up as a whole, amount to enough to build a home in a few years, or to start a man in business. He says: "My homeless friend with the chromatic nose, while you are stirring up the sugar in a ten-cent glass of gin, let me give you a fact to wash down with it. For BAmn irfllt ?>n mak K r\ no Unn n /4l<tn1/in/v A rrAA/1 ? X. Dviut j toio JUU uavc uccu uiiimiu^ a (jvi/u Improved farm at the rate of 100 square feet at the gulp. If you doubt this state- j ment, figure it out for yourself. An acre contains 43,560 square feet. Estimating, for convenience, the land at $43.56 aa Icre, you will see it brings the land to just one mill per square foot. Now pour down the dose, and imagine you arc swallowing a strawberry patch. Call in your friends, and have them help you swallow that 500-foot garden. Get on a prolonged spree, and see how long it will take you to swallow enough pasture land for a cow. There is dirt in it?300 feet ol good, rich dirt, worth $43.56 an acre. "Now is a good time to look the matter square in the face, and cut off the expensive and useless custom of throwing money?five, ten, twenty, or thirty centa at a time?into the beer and whisky till and save it instead, as the beginning of 3 fund to buy a ^arm or home. There is one thing sure as truth, and that is, that you can't give your earnings to somebody else? and also keep them for yourself. The men you give them to wiil neither buy you a farm or build you a borne. They may build homes with the money yotf^ give them, but the homes will be for themselves, and the farms they buy .will be for themselves. Wherever you plant it there it will grow. If you drop- it oa another's soil, he will" harvest the crop; if you plant it for yourself, you may reap the fruitful increase, and gather the golden / grain into you own granary, where by every God-given right it belongs."? American Homes. " ? . Ram or tb? Republic. An eminent American statesman), now and for the last twenty-five years a member of the United States Senate, said, ia 1870, that "rum selling and rum drinking are working our national ruin. It (the rum power) regards neither public good nor private welfare; it has practicaJly subverted civil law in this country;, it is- sapping the fouodations of free government. The Republic must triumph over rum, o? rum will triumph over the Republic." , Uonhning Ourselves lor the moment to the line or thought thus, presented, who will doubt that, on this line, we have been on a continual down grade since 1870? In . ?: most of the States oi the Union the liquor laws have been made satisfactory to the liquor sellers, w*ho have; thereafter^ habitually defied the laws, almost with impunity. Of the men high in authority, * cow few have dared to speak or to> act in defiance of the liquor power,, the actual dictator? The surrender has. already taken place. Dare we fight for redemption, or will we admit that "democracy i? a lailure." It is our own mission to- try to save men and women from ruin through the agencies of drunkenness. We try to think that some success has attended this effort, but we are sadly conscious of the odds that are against us, chief among, which ia the apathy and carelessness of men and women who know their duty quite as well is we do. The iniquitous classes will not ilarm us if the men and women who ought to be Christian will stop theorizing and go to work. But conditions, as they actually 3tand to-day, are reeking witih. peril.?National Advocate. Intemperance Cause of Cancer; An inquiry by Dr. Alfred Wolff into the mysterious cause of canrer has Welded an unexpected conclusion which promises temperance advocates a new ana powerful argument. Taking the widest possible surrey of cancer areas throughout Europe and in the United States, Dr. Wolff discovers that all the districts of high cancer mortality are districts in which beer or cider 13 largely drunk. Bavaria, for instance, leads the list in Germany, and Salsburg ia Austria?both great beer drinking provinces. In France the statistics are still more striking. There is the most marked contract between the high cancer mortality in beer drinking departments and the low death rate from cancer elsewhere. The increase in cancer in England during resent years, Dr. Wolff thinks, ha3 probably iirect relation to the increased consumption of beer. What it is- in beer that conveys infection is not clear; that is a matter :or further investigation. Another conclusion to which all the figures point is that cancer is most common in thickly wooded Ji3tricts abounding in water. Dr. Wolff's researches show tne strongest evidence that cancer is contagious and that habits ind environment have much more to do ,vith the disease than race or heredity.? r^ali^'a WppL'IV '?V Miners' Lives. A dispatch from Pofctsville states that 'in order to reduce the danger of accidents in the anthracite mines, to a minimum ind to assure steadier work by the men the officials of district No. & will hereafter iischarge all miners who hecome incompetent by reason of drink." Such action is common among railways,. But owing to the laxity of miners' lives,, ;he decision of district No. 0 is an inlovation, and it is particulary interesting because it was suggested by the employes themselves. These miners recognize the- risk to theit)wn lives involved in the carelessness of eliow-workmen befuddled by drink. Their >ivn safety demands sobriety all along the ine. Their course wau*. dictated by sell protection. The lines are closing up against the mani tvho drinks. Employers everywhere aw ealizing that the employe who gives ajart of himself over to slavery of iiquo* s not the man they want. They want a ;ull man not part of the time, f*t one who s a whole man with a full sense all the ;ime. It is becoming- more and mor# impera;ive every year that the man who 'has sei*?(?ll ?hfMilrf rf>ro!?nize these facts> The fichoj] of experience is a hard one, .; jut it teaches- thoroughly.?National Ad- i ,-ocate. I<llot? From I)ruuknrd?.. Plutarch says: "One drunkard begets mother." and Aristotle, ' Drunken womern jring forth children like unto themselves." i\. report was made to the Legislature ol Massachusetts by Dr. Howe o:j idiocy. He lad learned the habits of the parents of' J00 idiots, and 14.'), nearly half, are report;d as known to be habitual drunkards, showing the enfeebled constitution of the children of drunkards. ISettev Abandon I!? Ufte. AH whisky Is said to contain fusel oiL riiat being true, it wi.'l be bolter thati ft hi.-ikv sha'l be abandoned as a leverage. Fearful lavages. At a rvx-nt meeti 115 Paris of llie font chief temperance soc ieties of France,, presided over by M. Casiinir-lVrier, it \va? shown tfrat absinthe among; the upper and aii'itli(.- cl.ivse.i and brandy ?n?ing tl>e low ?r cla.^.'s are making lavages. The lund of "light tines" ur.d 'u;odcrat? drinkers*' is even as other land*. Pub'.i^ sentiment is risiujf. The Catholic ana I'ratiCts.it clergy, army rargeons and civ il'.r.i reformers arc uiiilin;; ic? invosi.i^.ll'i kU'l avert this national |>eri!. A Strong I'oint. Tko average arre-ts for riruiikennrss it the Scandinavian cities are four and onehalf timos the number average for ali th* American citics xu the same class. ' ' - - - - - - ?