|H / BLxcavations !n~~ i je roman foruw i HE remains or the uortlieastern part of tbe Forum ^Bj o present considerable iuterHagB K est, especially after tbe refijlggBr cent excavations which SjgllHudatore Loni is making, and SimMftght is being thrown upon tbe SpgagM the Forum, thus settling some discussions which have arisen II IHe Norths disputed, has beeu found, acrditig to the recent excavations, to aloag the northern side. It passes front of the two last named strucres and lies underneath the level "" ?1 r\i fMrhf nf* thp Oil ^ UUIIU SL'CU UU luc U9UL Va ring. y> rijards the Basilica Fulvia, of IgHch only the central iart built of ?T blocks and part of the portico is iHr standing, the censor, \i. Fulvius jMailior, founded this edifice in the SBr 17-9 B. C.. and gave it his own 10. Later on. M. Aemilius Lepiduring his consulate in 78 B. 0.. ^Hor?d the building considerably, and ^^wnented it with bucklers upon egljBi were engraved the portraits of B||Mucestors. A reproduction of the p|Hca restored ind ornamented in Bjs way now exists upon a medal of Kte time of Lepidus. It is probable, riowever, th.it he did not finish the Isvork upon the building, for only pventy-five years later we see that a omiiins Paullus took un the I >vork and received 1G00 talents from Daesar for this purpose. From this ;ime on the edifice took the name of Jasilica Paulli. It was badly dainiged in the tire of the year 740 of Some, and the work of restoring it vas carried out by Augustus and some >f the members of the Aemilia family. Thb splendid Phrygian columns (pavmazzetto) which Valentinian and Thijodosius gave to the Basilica of St. ?aul in 38G A. D.. came from the buiidngjwhich Augustine restored. In the fifth century the Aemilia no on*r existed. On its site had been :on|ructed a portico, which was'probfcbl^commeuced under ?etronius Max mu. prefect of Rome, and completed fty Theodoric. To the edifice which erected belongs the pavement Qraied of small blocks of marble of pifferent colors, representing geome ric forms. The columns of red graute with their pedestals aud capitals if white marble (thr^e 'f which can lerj be seem were taken from diff.Tfnt edificts aud wore adapted to the nain structure as best mijrht 1>?. The nciaat basilica contributed to this lUilding with the old walls constructd of large tufa blocks (some of which till remain, as will be observed), also i p-ith a dozen ccminus adapted to the ortico. This colonnade was of conIderable length, nearly 20?i feet loug, nd ran along tne Sacra Via. To the ancient structure also belongs he pavement of African marble and wo fragments of an architrave on vhich traces ca:i still be seen of an nscription showing the obstruction if the building by Aemiliu: Paullus. ... \ also fragments of a freize jruamented with bucranea aud largo paterae. The piaco which was occupied by this long portico or colonnade can no easily dis- ; tingu.shed on the present sire, and also j some of the marble slabs which formed ] the pavement still remain. Some sec- < tions of the large marble columns are | still left. i At the farther corner of the structure, next the Temple of Antonius and Faustina, were discovered not long ago the remains of a monumental inscription in honor of Lucius Caesar, the adopted son of Augustus. The colossal fragments on which the inscription is cat have be^n left in the place where they were found. They no doubt keep the exact position which they took when the old edifice fell in ruins or was overthrown during the Middle Ages. It is impossible to say to what monument this colossal inscription belonged. Perhaps Augus- ; tus, when reconstructing the Basilica I Aemilia, added a portico to which he ! gave the name of his two nephews, j Lucius and Caius Caesor. i Until the recent excavations were i made, archaeologists were not sure as i to the exact direction of the Sacra via, lue mum avenue iuiuu^u | :astern Corner of the Rom: the Forum, which was the scene of so J many events in the history of the cap- '< ital. It was formerly supposed that 1 it passed through the middle of the ' Forum, but the excavations which t Commendatore Boni recently made 1 have proved that it ran along the i northern side, tracing a line which 1 started from the Arch ot Septimus < Severus and passed iu front of the { Basilica Aemilia and the adjoining I Temple of Antoniur and Faustina, J therefore skirting the colonnade whose 1 remains are visible in the engraving. 1 The actual pavement of the ancient avenue lies, however, far below the level of the present ground. At the corner of the Basilica of Constantine (lying further back of the Temple) a considerable pcrtion of the old pavement has been discovered. It is formed of hirge polygonal slabs of basaltic lava. The pavement which has beeu uncovered so far lies about eight feet below the ground level and is in a sood state of preservation, with the blocks well joined together.?Scientific American. The Gr?at Extent of Alttftka. The latitude of Alaska corresponds aDnroximately to that of the Scaudi navian peninsula. Point Barrow, the northernmost cape of Alaska is in about the same latitude as North Cape. Dixon Entrance, which marks the southernmost point, is nearly ou the same parallel as Copenhagen. Sitka, the capital of Alaska, is in the latitude of Edinburgh, in Scotland. Alaska stretches through twenty- ( seven decrees of latitude and fiftyfour of longitude. Its east and west ( dimensions, measured to the exereme j limit of the Aleutian Islands, is almost exactly equal to the distance from Savannah, on the Atlantic coast, to Los Angeles, on the Pacific. Its most nor- e therly and southerly points are as far '( apart as the northern and southern ? oounaaries ot iue uuuea oiates.?s tioual Geographic Magazine. ( g Thirty-seven Yours in Harn^n. The Kezar Falls, Me., . burying ground society have for thirty-seven ; years in suecossion chosen Thomas C. . Randell clerk of the society. They would not hear his excuses this year. although he is almost eighty-seven years of age. c About ."3000 of the 240,000 inhabitants 8 of Sao Palo. Brazil, are Germans. Un- r like the Italians, who go back to their i native country after earning a compe- i tence, the Germans make Brazil their 1 permanent jorne and help to pay the i taxes. r ipg . ppr r: - ? v... V /' ^ ^ * *.'>* :' , ? *-/- ' ' " " \ ^ ^ ^;r. * * -::. 4 - ' ... ' vv* > V\- ;... , :d States Mint, Phili A NOVEL FENCE P/IINTER. i A Pittsburg company is offering the j bristle brushes for painting wire fencing shown herewith. They have a malleable iron frame, fitted with a high;rade steel spring six iuches long, there being an opening between extreme lim? its of five and three-quarter Inches, -I? I and between brushes of one inch. The , brushes are held iu position by a set , screw. At the forward end of each ' irm is a socket to hold the brushes, the j 30cket being extended into a cup to i catch the drippiugs of paint should too i much be taken. Paint is poured into j the cup *at the top of the arm and j works down through the brushes, any I m Forum. ????. surplus being caught iu the brush cup9 | aid may be returned to the can. As :he paint gravitates to the bottom jrush, the user can readily equalize ;he distribution by reversing the derice, using the bottom oae on top. The i manufacturers state tiiat with this i jrush it is easy to paint seventy to eighty rods of fence a day, and do a j ;ood job, without spilling paint. The | crushes are referred to as also being ! suitable for painting light structural I ivork, and can be made for painting ieavy structural material. A LAST REJOKT. J "Gracious, little boy! Why don't you :ry kindness?" "Yes'm. lady! I will jest as soon as lis club wears out!"?New York Amer- ; can. Amazing Names Given Infants. Some amazing names have been giv- ; >n to foundlings and perpetuated by heir posterity. One infant found near Shepherd's Bush was named Thomas Shepherd's Bush: another, who was Uncovered tied up in a napkin by the j ;ide of a brook, became Martin Nap- j :in-Brooke; and an infant picked up i it Newark, who later on won fame as j Dr. Thomas Magnus, was christened : Com Amang Us. Never Mind Who Says "Rubber. ' A medical journal says that in the j ontinued use of the eyes in such work I is sewing, typewriting, bookkeeping, eading and studying, the saving point | s looking up from the work at short I ntervals and looking around the room, rhis practiced every tea or fifteen minites relieves the muscular tension and ests the eyes.?Hartford Post. j|Mji jjp J -J idelphia. ? ? - DESPEMM MPS Their Charge at Kin-Chow an Unprecedented Military Spectacle, NARRATIVE OF AN EYEWITNESS There WaB so Little Room to Deploy That Battalion* of Japancao Troops Stood lu the Sea Waiting the Moment of Attach?An Avalanche of Concentrated Fire. Chefoo.?The London Times stoamel Halmun returned to Chefoo from a cruise in Kin-Cliow Bay. The correspondent says: "Eyewitnesses of the battle of KinChow describe it as an unprecedented military spectacle. Forty thousand Japanese were massed behind the western spur of Mount Sampson, under such small cover as was afforded by the twin peaks. The troops were within two thousand yards of the Russian works. "There was so little room to deploy for attack tnat battalions of Japanese troops weTe obliged to stand in the sea waiting for tlie movement of attack, exposed to a veritable inferno of are from the Russian batteries. The shells plowed into their serried masses. "Meantime battery after battery of Japanese guns went into action upon the Chili-Chwang and the Kauchiayan flats and a sustained gunboat tre played upon the Russian works. Their iines were fringed with bursting projectiles. About midday the energy of the Russian defenders in the works in front nf ATa iifhinT-lncr rlllflrro aeemed exhausted, by the gunboat fire. "Two Japanese battalions appeared 3ver tbe saddle between the twin peaks and made a desperate effort to i-arry the nearest Russian works. At Qrst the straggling walls of MauchiayIng gave them some cover, and a moment's breathing space. Then the gallant little infantrymen crept on again up the slopes toward the Russian position. It was an impossible task. As ret the defenders had not been sufficiently shaken. "An avalanche of concentrated fire from infantry in the trenches, machine ijuus in the Russian works and quicktiring field artillery in the supporting defenses struck the Japanese. They melted away from the glacis like solder before the flame of a blowpipe. A few who seemed to have charmed lives struggled on until they reached the wire entanglements. "It was in vain. Heroic effort was wasted. Within fifteen minutes these two battalions ceased to exiut except as a train of mutilated bodies at the foot of the Russian glacis. "Seeing the failure of thio attack, ciio gunDoats ana supporting artmery concentrated the whole of their fire upon the point where General Oku had determined, to drive home his wedge, and by evening the works were practicable for an assault by a general who had such infantry as the Japanese and who was prepared to take the responsibility of such, fearful losses. "It would seem as if the actual carrying of the works had been another A.lma. The word was given for a bayonet attack. Then the whole Japanese front surged forward and the moral balance went over to the side Df the Japanese, the Russians retiring before them. "I learn that it was the mining ship Amur which Taid tiie mines which destroyed the Hatsuso. On the morning of the catastrophe a Japanese gunboat flotilla cut her and her escort off. I can learn nothing of their fate, but suspect they succeeded in slipping back into Port Arthur." A semi-official telegram from Mukden says the Russian losses at the battle at Kin-Chow were thirty officers md 800 men killed or wounded. One report places the Japanese loss at 20,>00. The guns abandoned by the Russians were rendered useless. MTT.TT A T? V PPTSnVTrT?!? One Killed In Fight, Other Failed to Stop at Word of Command. Minneapolis, Minn.?Two military prisoners in Fort Snelling made an attempt to escdfe, and one of them, Tony C. Wisch, was shot dead by Private Kennedy. Wisch, with Private Reiily, had crossed the bridge leading to St. Paul. On their return the prisoners tried to throw Kennedy over the rail into the river Columbus, Ohio.?John W. Manning, a prisoner in the United States barracks, was shot and killed here by Private Speck, a sentry. Manning was held awaiting trial for desertion, having enlisted fraudulently three times and deserted twice. Failing to stop at the command he was shot through the head. Travis World's Champion. The American golf champion, Walter J. Travis, acquired the title of amateur champion of Great Britain on the links at Sandwich, near London, where he defeated E. D. Blackwell, a representative of the Royal and Ancient Club, St. Andrew's, by four up and three to play in a thirty-six-hole match. This was the first time an American has won this honor. Cloudburst and Floods. A cloudburst and tornado at Dallas, Tex., caused considerable damage; heavy floods were reported in the Kaw Valley, and much loss was caused in Southwestern Missouri by flood aud wind. State of the Tobacco Crop. Tobacco transplanting bas progressed slowly in Kentucky, Virginia and North Carolina, and this work awaits rain in Maryland. Planting has made favorable progress in New England, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. Shot Won Ilis Lost Love. O G Sflnsf.nl prtitor of thf Tvonvon (Minn.) Signal, who shot himself because Miss Maymie Blandin broke her engagement to marry him, was married to Miss Blandin at Iliceville, Iowa. News From the Seat of War. Food in Port Arthur is reported to be growing scarce. Large reinforcements have reached the Russian army near the Yalu. Three hundred sick and wourded men from General Kuroki's a/my reached Tokio. It was reported that 2000 Cossacks of General Rennenkampf's ^uadron Lad been captured. The American nurses who offered their services to the Japanese army will be sent to the Heroshima receiving hospital. SIX KILLED IN A CRASH f Freight Cuts Through an Electrio * Car Near Norwaik, Ohio. All But One Passenger in Smoking Com- ' partment Killed ? 31 any More Injured ? Tragic Scenes at Wreck. Cleveland, Obio.?In the most ter* rible accident that the Lake Shore * Electric has known six persons lost 1 their lives and eighteen others were c injured, many, it is feared, fatally. ? Two trains came together head on, and { the high rate of speed at which they i were running made the collision a , scene of simple ruin. The accident occurred three miles 5 from Norwalk, but the spot is a lonely 1 one and it was some time before assistance arrived. A special car was \ hurried to the scene with doctors and 1 nurses, but more than one sufferer died * in the interval, while the few unin- 1 jured passengers strove in vain to ( rescue and relieve them. Those who viewed the wreck said it was a wonder j that any one escaped alive. , The dead are: Clarence Ketcham, New London; Neil Sullivan, Binghamton, N. Y., United States Inspec- J tor of Safety Appliances for the In- ' terstate Commerce Commission; ! Thomas Sweeney, W. W. Sherwooa, ( Garrettsville, Ohio; W. P. Stevenson, ' Ralph L. Williams, Toledo. The east-bound limited, which car- . ried most of the victims of the acci- J dent, left Norwalk at 4.45 p. m. As , far as can be learned there was noth- J ing to show that it had not a clear J right of way, but at Welis Corners, p while going at full speed, it suddenly ; crashed into an electric package car, 1 west-bound from Berlinville. . There was no time to apply the brakes?hardly enough to turn off the y electric currents?and the two came , together with terrific force. The ' freight car plowed clean through the limited, splintering the smoking compartment literally into fragments and . piling the rest of the car into a mass ! of driftwood. For a long half hour, : while word was being conveyed to 1 Norwalk, men and women lay under ! ' heavy beams and axles, groaning and ; . screaming with pain. Those who j 1 could be reached were soon dragged j . free by willing hands, but there were | \ few whriSA ininrioc nprmltteri th is indicated, especially in the central j f and western districts, wher^ rains have j ? oeen wen mamuaieu auu scui.-iuwjr j ample. ! i | i I No Jury Trial in. Philippines. In a decision saying that trial by j jury is lawfully withheld in the Phil ippines, the United States Supreme , r Court upheld the power of Congress i i to legislate for the islands. I The National Game. | McGinnity keeps on with his great ' pitching. Napoleon Lajoie is hitting thorn 1 harder than ever. Nichols continues to win bis garne9 j and handle the St. Louis team in tine style. Whether Barrett or Bay gets to first ' base the faster is a question hard to decide. Catcher Carisch, of Pittsburg, is ac- ' cuscd by Jack Warner as being a 1 batitipper, ' x.?-. - * > slO BULLFIGHT AT ST. LOUIS 3olicc Stop Exhibition and Angrj Spsctators Burn tho Arena. Ln Attempt to Give the World's Falx Visitors a Real Spanish Spectac'.o is Balked by tlie Governor. St. Louis, Mo.?Incensed over their 'ailure to see a "genuine Spanish jullfight," which the authorities bad irdered stopped, a riot was started in in arena near the World's Fair grounds by a crowd of 2500 men and joys. who werp unabie to get their noney back, and the building was >urned to the ground. Four men were irrested by tlie authorities of St. Louis bounty, charged with destruction of jroperty. The crowd, which numbered ibout 7000, thinking these men were connected with the show, made an at:empt to mob them, and in their en counter with the deupty sheriffs a lumber were roughly handled and some received scalp wounds. The lullding is said to have cost $23,000. it is a total loss. The initial performance by the company of Spanish bullfighters had been idvertised widely, but Governor Dock>ry. to whom numerous protests had ieen made by religious and humane societies, ordered that the fight should lot be allowed to take place. Despite :hese orders, a large crowd assembled n the arena at the advertised time of jpening. Before the regular performmce a number of cowboys drove in some bulls, which they i'an around :he arena in true Wild West style. The crowd soon became tired of this, ind called for the bullfight. The announcement was then made :hat the bullfight would proceeded ;vith. As the matadors came into the ing a county official stepped up to the innouncer and handed him a paper informing him that the proposed show :ould not take place. When this became known to Hie crowd they leaped nto the arena and demanded the re:urn of their money, $1 apiece. Failng to get this, the crowd went to the ifiice, which was in a small building >utside the arena and began to stone t. This was followed by attempts to iurn the main structure, which was m immense budding constructed of line. Bits of burning paper were :hrown at the woodwork, and finally jome one went inside and dropped a ighted match in a pile of hay under :he building. The whole structure iras soon on fire and before long was n ruins. A call was made for the fire departnent. but the single engine that responded stuck in the mud, and there Rras nothing to stop the progress of the James. The fire department of the World's Fair was called out to protect :he exposition buildings, but, as the tvind blew in another direction, there ivas no danger. Mysterious Death in Cab. William T. Young, better knowu by lis track name of "Caesar" Young, innl-motw hnrco (raimr nnrl nll-nrniinri ithlete, was shot and killed about 9 >'clock a. m., white driving in New fork City in a hansom cab with an ictress known as Nan Patterson, with ivhom he had been entangled for some time. The dead man was going to sreak off relations with the woman ivho sat by him, and who says he comaitted suicide. She was arrested and leld without bail. Young's wife was waiting for him at the time he was ihot on the American Line pier, with the tickets ready for their voyage ou the Germanic to Europe. - - '_ Baltimore's New Mayor. Mayor McLane's suicidc puts the-Rcpublicans in control of the Baltimore iity government under a provision for the centralization of power prorid 3d by the new city charter. The Republicans now also control the jurned district commission and all improvements from this time on. Presdent E. Clay Timanus, of the Second Branch of the City Council, took the >ath of office as Mayoi. Mayor Timmus will serve out the balauce of Mayor McLane's term of three years is a Republican. The President Benefits. The report of Charles F. Lewis, who vas appointed to appraise the per;onaI estate in New York of James King Gracie. who was an uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt and vho died in New York City on Novem>er 23, 1903, has been filed. The will Jenefits the President and his family 0 the extent of $30,000. Mr. Lewis i ippraised the estate at $440,072.15. Koch's Theory Disproved. The Royal British Commission, np)ointed in August. 1901, and meeting 1 n London, England, to inquire into j he relation between human and ani- ! nal tuberculosis, has arrived at a con- j lusion justifying the issuance of an nterim report, according to which the rommission finds that human and jovine tuberculosis are practically dentical. Oleomargarine Hard Hit. Chicago oleomargarine manufa tr.r* >rs admitted that the Supreme Court lecision sustaining the law imposing 1 tax of ten cents a pounds ou*artifi ially colored butterine was a crushing blow to the business. The producion has already fallen from 120,000,)IW) nnnnrls in 1002 to ."iO.OOO 000 las* ^ear. Gulf State Peaches Fine. In tlie east Gulf States a good crop ! >f peaches is promised, but else\vh:iv | he outlook is poor. Long Deadlock Broken. Charles S. Doneon was nominated for governor by the Republican Slatf con- ; rention at Springtie'd. 111., on the sev 'nty-ninth bailor, breaking tho most 1 spectacular deadlock in tL. history of I Illinois polities. Th* ballot sr.i.r.I: fates, 1: Lowden. o~*L>; Deneen. :>"V IVaruer, 21. New Pack of Peas l*'in?. Advices from Baltimore report th? piality of tli-? new pack of peas as | inc. Labor World. Tlio ennl strife? in the Southern Co!- ! >rado lield lias been settled. The lowest wages for granite cutters n Hist to City. Mantaun, is iSij a day. ! Four hundred f;-c> lit handlers of tlie ! Fall River Li::e were replaced by [tnlinns. Tliero is no change in tho> strike I situation in til*1 glove factories in! LJloversville, N. Y. Several postal clerks' unions have icon chartered by the A. l'\ of L., and | iow it is proposed to form a national . anion. .' CHE GKEAT DESTKOTEB ??? , ?} >OME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. foem: The Sons of the Dranlt?Painful Parting of a Man and Wife Whom Liquor Had separated ? The Paoket That the Drunkard Left. , fVith breath that smelled of rum, With eyelids heavy and red, i drunkard sat in unmanly plight, Glancing around him with dreadDrink! drink! drink! In drunkenness hopelessly sunk, &nd still with the voice of dolorous pitchL He sang the "Song of the Drunk." 'Drink! drink! drink! / While the cock is crowing aloof! AnH Hrinlrl Hrinlrl Hrinlf I Till the stars shine through the rooft It's, oh! to be unbound. And freed from the chains of drink, And never again to hear the sound When glass and bottle clink! ' "Drink! drink! drink! Till the brain begins to swim; Drink! drink! drink! Till the eyes are heavy and dim! Rum, and whisky, and gin, > , Gin, and whisky ,and rum, Till over the glass I fall asleep, And dream that Judgment has come! "Drink! drink! drink! My guzzling never flags;And what does it bring? A bed of straw, A crust of bread, and rags. That shattered roof, and tnis naked floor, A table, a broken chair, And a wall so blank, my shadow I thank For sometimes falling there! . ; "Drink! drink! drink! From weary chime to chime; Drink! drinlc! drink! It maddens every time! Sin, and whisky, and rum, Rum, and whisky, and gin, Till the heart is sick, and the head is thick, > And the wretch is steeped in sin!" 1 ft With breath that smelled of rum,. With eyelids heavy and red, A drunkard sat in unmanly plight, Glancing around him in dread? Drink! drink! drink! In drunkenness hopelessly sunk, And still v.th a voice that misery rung? Would that its tone would tcach the young! He sang thia "Song of the Drunk!" ?New York Weekly. A A Tragedy Through Rain. Two friends of mine, a couple who had been married for twenty years, came to the conclusion that marriage was a failure for them. Years before, the man had been well off? but he had lo3t everything through speculation. He took to drink and soon degenerated to a worthless burden upon the wife, who supported the family by taking boarders. For ten years these two had lived to* gether in the same house, the estrangement widening as the husband's folly increased. until she could endure it no loneer. The papers were made out, *nd the day came when he was to leave the home he had made so wretched. I happened to be a witness to their parting, writes J. C. Smiley, in The Oaks. There was no one in the house at thia time but we three. She packed up his shirts and collars, which she had that day ironed with her cwn hands, and Jbe stood on the threshold with the parcel under his arm, beside a trunk which contained his other nersonai belongings. Scarce a word was spoken. Both seemed to feel tjiat a crisis in their lives had. come. | / For "twenty years tnese two had been togetner, throught aght and suade, in , j good fortune and ill, and now they were , to part forever. Twenty years before, buoyant with youth and hope and confidence in each other, tnese two had linked their lives to-gether. They had come to look alike, so potent had been the force of association. What touching memories must have surged through both their hearts as they stood thus, she leaning against the stairway in the hall, and lie standing on the doorstep with the dusky twilight closing in about him as if to emphasize the darkness of the future years. The jiour seemed^ strangely in keeping with this strange paitihg. There are moments so tragic in life that speech ia dumbly inadequate. This was one of them. "Have?I?got everything?Annie?" he slowly said, in a dazed way, as he turnedtoward the dorr. "All but this, Frank?do you wank it?" and she handed him a packet of faded letters tied with a crumpled ribbon. He turned pale as a corpse, as if not until that instant realizing all the parting meant. He looked at the packet, slowly untied the ribbon and wound it aDout his band, hia whole frame trembling violently. "Keep them?Annie?forme!" he sobbed, made one convulsive step toward the woman, then turned and walked out into the night. And she? Well, an aour later I stepned softlv into the hallway, alarmed at the deathly silence. Still leaning against the stairway she stood, the letters clutched tightly in her frigid hands, her eyes strained out upon the night as if they saw the ghosts of bygone days when l.itn and happiness were hers! That look will haunt me forever.?Ram's Horn. Temperance in Tennessee. There are now 5500 towns and cities in Tennessee, and of this number the saloon lias been suppressed in 4450, or in more than four-fifths. The strong point of Tennessee's liquor law is the "four-mile Law," which is not commonly understood outside of the State. This law originated in the seventies, and has been strengthened and improved from time to time. Under ita provisions the saloon was prohibited with in four miles of incorporated institutions of learning, outside of municipalities. Then the people began incorporating country schools everywhere, making them prohibitory centres. They thus became the protectors as well as the educators of society. Xext the people amended the law so that saloons were prohibited within four miles of any school, whether incorporated or not. The result is seen above. A Teetotal Resort. Mr. F. N. Charrington, one of the Charringtons of brewery fame, but who some years ago renounced all connection with the firm, and devoted his life and money to work among the poor of East London, has purchased a small island on the coast of Essex, forty-five miles from London, which he purposes converting into a teetotal scasidj resort. The Crusade in Brief*. Beer, with a good head, makes a good head bad. Boer or whisky drinking never produces clear thinking. In the rural districts of Norway and Sweden there is b;i: little drunkenness and the people rank among the most sober nations of Christendom. In 1S2) .Sweden had one saloon to every 100 .inhabitants, and the consumption of pure wince spirit> ?a< *5.17 gaiions per ' ...... capttiv. 111 Site IKl-l nuwii I.V. fyJUi) inhabitants, ami the consumption had fallen to 1.3 gallons per capita. If vou don't wi -!i to go to ruin, you had hotter no: fco to the grog-shop. Statistics show that halt a hrsrrel of beer is produced annually tor every man, woman m l child in tins country. The c;n?)ia:i.)ft is in knowing that t:ie individual is not compelled to swallow liu or ha shire. Tiie papers tell of a so!d:er in the Philippines who discourses upon a now cure tor drunkenness among the soldiers. "We have," he says, "a iot of native soldiers enlisted here. When one the white b >y? ;ets drunk the captain puts a native soldier over him. and the native puts on lots of airs while marching him around. It grind* the boys so that tuey wouldn't gel druois. ii they could.". ?~ - i