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r Nicfce?like Eecorations of Walls, i ADOBE RUINED I iiilillNilliiliiiililili : Ruins of the : Ancient Inca Empire 1 By Walter L. Beasley 1111 ii 1111111111! 111 liTii; T is said that the Inca tribe ^ _. Jg did not commence to be D I 0 couquerors until they had < ^ ^ first shown themselves to be statesmen and wise and jflicient administrators. Having ob- ; tained a fairly advanced civilization, 1 they began gradually to overawe and Incorporate the territory of less cultured tribes of the coast and slopes )f the Andes, who slowly absorbed 30th the religion and superior hand!-, iraft of their conquerors. These congests extended over a period of several centuries. The permanent estabishment of lnca power is attributed :o their having secured the good graces >f their new subjects, and to their liberal treatment and palicy of conciliaion, than to force of arms. This coninued until the limits of Inca rule exended from the central plateau of Boivia to the western coast of Peru, lorth to Ecuador, and south to northern Chile. The inhabitants of this territory embrace many different tribes tfith local rulers, living in different itages of enlightenment. Under Inca sway and influence, both irchitecture and the various industrial irts reached their highest degree of fficiency. Few, if any, countries of nodern times have equaled the exreme and skillful utilization of land ' hat was practised during the time the nca Empire flourished. In many totalities they built their dwellings mong rough rocks, on arid slopes of illls, in order to use the limited area if soil for agriculture. They terraced ip every hill and mountainside until lot a single spare foot of surface was eft unimproved. They likewise conducted aqueducts for irrigation pur>oses, and also a series of magnificent oads, from twenty-five to fifty feet in ridth, paved with blocks of stone, which connected their royal capital at Juzco with the various provinces. ?art of the way these were cut out of orid stone, and often ascended preciptous heights by a series of stone stairways. Traces of these roads still exst in many localities. One of the most noteworthy of the oast ruins investigated by Mr. Bandelet, who was sent out under the ausiice3 of the American Museum of Natiral Historv wcrp those of Hlum-Chan ommonly called Chimu. near the pres- c nt city of Truxillo, typical views of i phich are here reproduced. The ru- i is extend for a distance of three miles. < nd are one and a half miles in ' ridth. .Nothing remains of the oris- i lal appearance and former grandeur < f the buildings, except well-laid foun- 5 aftat> in ucsjt ns APTTPTrrAi AUini\ iil ii A V4 ations, massive and peculiarly orna- 1 tented walls and groups of single- < jory, gable-roofed bouses and court- ' ards. Mr. Bandolier estimates that i >me 40,000 persons occupied the place. he architectural plan of Chan-Chan ] >mprised a series of about twenty t pen squares of courtyards intersect- | ig one another. On certain sides fac- 1 Fthese were erected a number of i :es or religious edifices. Each 1 re was surrounded by an exter vail of adobe blocks twenty-five in height. The larger buildings i dned innumerable chambers and : Chan-Chan. .800 fT .Wte, 150 ffi v -:Vs' "' m "V> ^IOUSES IN CQURTYA corridors, traversed by narrow pas- ? sageways. Many treasures of gold and o silver are said to have been found in l these chambers and apartments, e Ground one of the great public squares t were arranged some of the one-story a idobe dwellings of the inhabitants, i These are to-day grapmcauy ouuiucu, c and preserve their original appearance, o showing sharply-pitched gable roofs, i There are no traces of windows. Light a and ventilation seem to have been fur- v aished by the door alone. It is sup- 0 posed that some of the great squares e and inclosures were occupied by the o various craftsmen and industrial work- e ers in pottery, weavers and dyers of i fabrics, and fashioners of metal orna- e ments for the use of the ruler, his household and his priests. One of the curiosities discovered by Mr. Bandelier was an altar some fifty feet below a the surface, which formed the heart of a a great artificial mound, and which T evidently occupied the central place in c ,tT 0 Burial Tower, Sillustani, Peru. A i large building devoted to religious tTorship. One of the noteworthy phases of the ^ Ohan-Chan ruins were the ornamented u tvalls of two of its buildings, thought n to have been devoted to sacred purposes, or to have served as the abode 3f the ruler. In one instance a series >f designs had been sunk a half foot >r more in the adobe over the entire ivall, now seven feet high. Possibly :hese may have been apertures for aiding gold and other ceremonial offerings, and afterward sealed up by in additional adobe coating. Another facade, ten or more feet in height, is astefully decorated with a network of frescoes in a series of duplicated designs of a conventionalized bird. These walls are surrounded by a mass of 'alien debris, and nothing is left to hrow any light upon their ancient splendor. Probably the most monunental and puzzling of all of the Inca uins is the sreat pyramid on the banks >f the Moche River. Sphinx-like, this p najestic artificial mound rises upward d n the air 130 feet, crowned by a series a )f terraces. It is 800 feet in length, w riie massive and imposing mound, fr eared by ancient builders, has marvel- si >usly defi.nl time and vandalism, and fi still holds fast the secret of its crea- p; d ^ | MOUND, RUINS OF CHAN-CHAN. rv tion, for it remains to-day a veritable ^ enchanting riddle to the archeologist. a riie best preserved architectural ru- a ins, and those showing to striking ad- 11 vantage the extraordinary skill of the a [ncas in handling, polishing, and set:ing massive stone blocks, are the Chul[)as or burial towers. A celebrated and typical group is found at Sillistani. ? near Puna, built on a promontory 200 s feet bigb. These peculiar and sumptuous sepulchres are termed by The late E. G. Squier, an authority on Peruvian culture, "tbe most elaborate ti acd architecturally the most wonderful u : in.i ..MM ! ' II ' 8>/?;-fV>uilp of f^oc^ie HfOrt s . > *>. r>^Xv^V:? "* { - r.r-x .;-'^A\ ! i v- ">VT:;' " .. o .N *3 .jS . V : ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ' ^ r ' ^RD, CHAN-CHAN. : rorks of aboriginal Americans." The ne here pictured is twenty-five feel j ligh, twenty-seven feet in circumfer* | nee on the top. and twedty-two at the ase. The majority are round; others ' T tltAAA K/v/l ' .re d<|Uaic 111 9ua^c. xii rncoc iuc uvues were interred with great pomp and eremony. together with rich offerings f gold, silver and choice pottery. The nteriors of the Chulpas vary in size ad construction; some have a single aulted chamber, others two, arched ver by stone. A few have niches. The ntrance is gained through a small pening at the bottom, hardly large nough to admit the body of a mail rhis was closed by a stone slab.?Scintific American. A Remarkable Barometer. A cup of coffee, farmers claim, makes pretty accurate barometer. If farmers re watched at breakfast, they are al- j vays found studying their coffee cups ; losely. This they do for their crops ; ake. They are finding out what the ' lay's weather is to be. '"To make a barometer out of a cup I if coffee," a farmer said, "you musl I ise loaf sugar. You drop a lump of j his sugar into the exact middle 0' our cup of coffee, and then you watcl ; ue DuoDies tnat arise, it is by tiiesi | bubbles that your prognostication! | re made. ' If tlie bubbles rise straight up ii he middle, remaining there in a clus ! er till they disappear, the weather is : o be fair. If they rise at the siies ol | he cup. adhering to the china, the j reather will be rainy. If they rise all ! ver the cup's syrface. and move here ; nd there erratically, changeable condi- j ions are to be looked for." "How about the accuracy of this offee cup barometer?" '"It is about as accurate." said the armer, "as the Weather Bureau." DUMBBELL OR INDIAN CLUB. .n Excellent Feature in an Exercising j Apparatus. An entirely new design of dumbbell j as recently been patented which perlits of its use in much the same moveleuts iu which Iudian clubs are em? inpf\QVtp loyed. The original feature of the eviee is ip the addition of a supple- i lentary adjustable handle. Tho -eights are of the usual spherical )rui, and are joined by the usual baped handle.. Projecting radially oiii the ends of this handle are two arallel arms. Between those arms is isposed a second handle, pivoted in ach a manner as to extend the reach j : grasp of the fingers and thumb. The ! radical effect of this construction is J > give a firmer and more vigorous ' rasp, resulting in a better develop- 1 lent of the muscles of the hand and j >rearm. A minor detail in the design j i the provision for the adjustment of lis auxiliary handle so as to make j le span of the grasp longer or short : as desired. Sanctuary in Korea. In Korea the rooms of a wife or j lotber are the sanctuary of any man ' *bo breaks the law. Unless for ; eason or for one other crime, he can- j ot be forced to leave those rooms, and j 3 long as he remains under the protecon of his wife's apartments he is seure from the officers of the law. Liquefaction of Gelatin. The liquefaction of gelatin in old tinned meats has been found by Dr. ^rixoni to be due to bacteria. As anilals were poisoned both by injection nd feeding, he concludes that canned leats that splash on being shaken re dangerous unless boiled before use. Corruption in Swias Army. Bribery and corruption have been nearthed in the Swiss army and ofeers of bigb rank liave bad to reign. Month ot MarriageR. In all countries more marriages ike place in June tban in any otber lontli. Household r_ Mattersi Lamp Chimney*. To prevent lamp chimneys' from ; cracking, wrap each chimney . loosely ' but entirely in a cloth; place them to- 1 geiher in a kettle, and cover with cold,-; water. Bring the water to a boil, continue the heat ten to fifteen minutes j and then cool off. By this tempering I they are toughened against all ordinary ; lamp heat. Oiling the Wringer.' Do not fail to oil the wringer every i time you wash. If oiled often, there ; is less wear on the machinery, and j less strength is expended by the oper- i ator. To clean the rollers, rub them first with a cloth saturated with kcro- j sene oil, and follow with soap and 1 water. Always loosen the rollers before putting the wringer away. Tlie Cure of Dainty China. In Holland the good old custom still obtains among ladies of washing the china and silver after breakfast and ton with tlif>ir own fnir hands. This they do in the presence of the family \ and any guest who may be there, and j the fashion has lately been revived in some American households, partly 1 because it gives a touch of homely j simplicity and partly because a lady's i gentle handling is needed if the deli- j cate china and glass are to be preserved for any length of time. ' N cvr TV ay to Sweep. There is In the doing of little things, j" even in housework, a right way and a wrong way, and a good way and a bad way, says the Philadelphia Inquir- j er. Consider for a moment ^he item of sweeping with a broom. The next time you undertake it notice your broom. Do you And that you hold it or move it rather in front of you?the brush further forward than the handle?each stroke raising the brush and with it a cloud of dust into the air and the | space beyond? If so, try this way: ! Stand with the broom rather behind you, partly facing it, the brush further back than the tip of the handle. Used in this way, you will find that I the dust rises no higher than the J brush; that, in fact, little rises, but it ! gradually moved to one central point j where it may be easily gathered into the dustpan. Swept in this way, even J a dusty room may be perfectly tidied ' without discomfort to any person who | may be obliged to remain in it during j the process. Bananas Red and Yellow. In the tropics the banana is usually picked green and ripened in the dark like a pear. They should, however, li.ivo nH-ninoH thnir fnll frrrnvth OP else no matter how rich a color they | may take on, they will always be bit- j ter and puckery. The banana grows I fastest at first in length, then suddenly ! begins to swell, and in a few days will j double its girth. Then it is ready for | the ripening process. The best ones ; sent to this country start half or whol- j ly ripe and get their color en route. If they start hard and gummy, having been picked in an immature condition, they will never attain the rich, smooth j flavor of the perfect fruit, and are apt j to make people ill. Never, therefore, I purchase a long, thin banana. Bana- : nas are far better a little over ripe j than under, for a creamy softness is 1 essential to its full enjoyment. Ba* \ nanas are of two kinds, the yellow and I the red, but a vast quantity of plan- j tains are palmed off on us in place of the yellow banana. Tapioca Cream?Two tablespoonfuls of tapioca soaked over night, then stirred into one quart of boiling milk; add tlie beaten yolks of four eggs and four tablespoonfuls of sugar; boil four minutes. Stir the well beaten whites of two eggs into the-cream when cold; flavor with lemon. Use the remaining whites for a meringue. Indian Pudding?Scald one quart milk in a double boiler; then take onehalf cup Indian meal, one-half cup molasses, one-half cup sugar, pinch salt; mix with a little cold milk; stir into the scalded milk until it thickens; then turn into a buttered baking dish; j put bits of butter on top, about a teaspoonful in all, and bake two hours. I Dutch Dumplings?rut a saucepan J on the fire with one-half cup of water : and same amount of lard. To this add j a saltspoor.ful of salt and grate one- ' half nutmeg. When fairly boiling stir ! in as much flour as it will take up and ; set off to cool. When cool break in i four eggs and work it up thoroughly ; until there are no streaks in the mass. Cocoanut Pie?Mix two tablespoonfuls sugar, two teaspoonfuls flour, one sallspoonful salt; add the beaten yolks of two eggs and beat thoroughly; then add the whites beaten slightly; one cup grated cocoanut and two cups hot milk; .bake in a deep pie plate and border with a rich paste; as soon as it puffs up and a knife blade comes out clean, it is done. Cherry Pie?Get the best sour dried cherries, mash and cover with water to soak over night; in the morning add sufficient sugar to sweeten; cook till tender in the water in which they are soaked; line your pie dish with rich paste; fill with the stewed cherries; cover and bake; sprinkle with powdered sugar wlien first taken from tiie ovon. If carefully prepared this pie will quite equal one made of fresh cherries. Deviled Tomatoes?Slice tomatoes without peeling them, fry them in butter, take them out when tender and lay them on a hot plate, while to the bulter left in the pan or chafing dish you add a teaspoonful each of while sugar and of onion juice, a teaspoonfill of vinegar, a pinch of cayenne and a teaspoonl'ul of salt. When all are well mixed, add, a drop at a time, one well beaten egg, and as soon as the sauce has thickened lay the tomatoes back in it for a minute, or until they are hot. Serve at ouce. \ . ??? EXPLOSION OF FIREWORKS j Threa Victims of Fourth of July Pyrotechnics in Philadelphia. Entire Handing Wrecked?Many Injured by Flyinj Mlasiles ? Carelessness, h3 Usual, la tho Cause of tlis Disaster. 1 Philadelphia, Pa.--Assailed by a terrific bombardment of exploding fireworks, which overleaped the secoud ; story of No. 82(5 Arch street and swept 1 the third floor with terrific force, two men and a woman met their death and many were injured. ( The explosion which started the bom- | bardment took place on the first floor j of the building, occupied by the Dia- l mond Fireworks Company. Firemen in their work of rescue became targets for blast of powder, rockets impelled with the swiftness of fire-tipped ar- . rows and small pieces, which rained an < unceasing tempest of fiery brands upon them. In the brunt of these assaults tlto men fought their way to the thinl j tloor in the efforts to rescue the im- j periled occupants. i . The dead are: Oscar Barman, twenty-seven: Jacob Jancovitz, thirty-one, | and Lena Sanson, twenty-one. Tliree persons were seriously injured and about twenty others more or less hurt. The building in which the fireworks ?$20,000 wortn of theui. the owners say?were stored was a three-story brick structure. Thompson Conway, one of the proprietors of the rtore. was waiting on a woman customer whose name ho does' 1 not know. A girl clerk was wrapping i up $3 worth of miscellaneous fireworks ' a few feet away from where Conway 1 was working. Conway was drawing wrapping < paper about his package when a "snake in the grass" begau to sputter. He dashed it toward the door, whore Louis Strauss, another member of the firm. stamDed it out. But a spark had communicated with a Roman candle in the package, which shot blue stars in every direction. This started a fire of small pieces, which was shortly followed by the booming of fireworks of heavier calibre. , The occupants of thr? store fled for their lives, slapping out the flames of j their burning clothes as they ran. An explosion of powder blew out the front of the first floor a few seconds after ' they had escaped, and the building be- 1 came the centre of a deafening bom- 1 bardment. The entire square from Eighth to Xinth street was the scene of 1 a brilliant display. .Windows.of stores across the street were shattered by 1 hundreds of flying skyrockets. The tenants fled in panic, and the whole neighborhood was in r.n uproar. The second floor of the building was unoccupied. . but when the firemen arrived shouts j went up from the crowd that there were several persons in Jancovitz's hat factory on the third floor. Into the tempest of hurtling missiles the firemen plunged, protecting their eyes as best they could, and unheeding the tormenting brands which wounded 1 thom. Four firemen, led by Foreman ; Edward Diver, climbed the tortuous path to the third floor, where they first < found Miss Sanson. Diver started with ] h^r down the ladder, the brilliant i flames which enshrouded him making j the spoctacle a thrilling one. She was hurried to riannoman Hospital, but ( pired shortly. German and Jancovitz | were dead when the firemen got to them. ( SAILORS SCALDED TO DEATH. ! Penned in Boiler Room of French 1 Cruiser?Comrades Could Not Aid. j San Francisco. Cnl.?Steamer Mariposa from Tahiti brings news of t!ie ( scalding to death of fifteen men whe j were penned in the boiler room of the . French cruiser Durance, while the . warship was on her way from Papect; ! to Noumea recently. The captain fully realized their fate but was helpless.to save them. Ont ] of the boilers of the cruiser had ox ? ploded and had filled the boiler room * with superheated steaui. The shrieks of the men dying in i agony came up to them with clouds of i killing steam, but not a man could jrc ] below until many minutes had passed and then all of the fifteen who wen t in the boiler room at the time of tlx i explosion were dead, every man s?ald ed almost beyond recognition. J . GOES TO CHAIR SMILING. Burness, Who Confessed to Having 1 Murdered Four Men, is Electrocuted. 1 Ossining. N. Y.?With a smile on his face Frank Henry Burness. who killed Captain George B. Towusend on the < schooner Charles Buckley off Bay 1 Ridge last November, and who con- 1 fessed to having killed three other men. t went to his death in the electric chair ] in Sing Sing prison.' While the straps and electrodes were being adjusted { he looked smilingly at the officers and { witnesses in the death chamber, and < even assisted the men who strapped j him to the chair. Four electric shocks were given before he was pronounced , dead. ; T-iir rvnc fnrf-v-fnnr rears old and wa? I born in Cutler, Pa. I I 1 General Porter Honored. France has conferred the Grand Cross of the Lesion of Honor upon . General Horacp Porter, United Stales Embassador in Paris. Drowned in Water Main. Thirty-three persons were drowned 1 by an accident in a big water main ; near Kingston, Jamaica. Japs Accused of Barbarism. Regarding the battle of Wafangkou, several Russian correspondents, including the novelist Dantchenko. state that 1 tiie Japanese for the first time showed ' themselves barbarians, horribly mutilating wouuded Russians. ] ? ( Suicides' Favorite P?everage. Health Commissioner Darlington, of 1 New York, said he would take *t??ps to have the Ian- regarding the sale of 1 carbolic acid by druggists enforced I more stringently. 1 Canadians Warned Against U. S. < Canadians were startled by a niili- i lary officer's warning that they (ire not prepared to resist an attack lie fancies . impending from the United States. < ? 1 Wheat Scare Subsiding. 1 Alarm over the wheat <rop is gr.idually subsiding and favorable reports indicate that prices are likely to decline. Root Speaks to Tale Men. 1 Elihu Itoo; told Yale graduates of the danger of high officials usurping powers that go uot belong to them. ? f / asffip son WASHINGTON* ITEMS. President Roosevelt appointed a board, beaded by Rear-Admiral * Bob" : Evans, to consider the wireless te'.e- rh? ijraphy service of tha Government. s Seuor de Obaldia. the new Minister 1 froir Panama, was received by Presi* 1 dent Roosevelt at the White House. T1 Orders were given from Washington y0r that the Igorrote and Negrito tribesinen at the World's Fair must wear cu ' CiOtllinS. | Ran The President of the Cabinet meet- ore ing issued :'.n order extending the Ding- { ley customs iariL' to the isthmiau canal ,?r zone, to be made effective iiumedi- | itely. ! Tha August L. Shaffer, a former employe ; ing of the Government printing office, who ; en? killed his divorced wife iasi August. 1 , J was found guilty of murder in thA j ?j;0?l first degree. j ghe President Rocsovelt received Cardi- j dric nal Satolli in the Blue Room of the i who White House. The Cardinal was pre- *) sented by the Rev. Dr. D. J. Stafford. j ^ras rector of St. Patrick's Church. New j i'ork City. caus of $ OUR ADUPTED INLANDS. Fi Thousands of Japanese are emigrating from Hawaii to California, and the I V11 regular steamers have not sufficient ac- j commodations to carry all who wish i uas] to go. j telli The transport Kilpatrick. having on j jovi board 400 Porto Rican teachers, sailed j P?^: for Boston, and the Sumner, with 200 or,,j teachers, sailed for New York. The ! j teachers will spend two months in edu- | aai(j cauonai lusmuuons in me unuea who States. thej A school for English has been instituted for the Philippine sccuts. Chap- jow lain John C. Granville is in charge. jjev The school is providing much interest ty-fi to visitors. a be Filipinos and other Americans in the eastern islands expressed pleasure at the reception their Republican dele- wh| gates received here. ? cc no DOMESTIC. [h? Charles E. Mayoon, law officer of the and Bureau of Insular Affairs, has been ?eai appointed general counsel for the Isthmian Canal Commission. * .? The United States Steamboat In- was spectors at Boston ordered reduced the of d number of passengers which four *n(y boats could legally carry. <4j Thousands of dollars' damages was adv, done at Milwaukee in the business sec- tent tion by a heavy rain which caused a the flood. endi Returning to Tellurite. Col., after ti?u' being deported, Harry A. Floaten, a <<] merchant, was forced to leave again dra through a committee of citizens calling to t upon him. of s The wreck of the General Slocum Jf^ was towed to Robbin's Dock, Erie Ba mga sin. thousands of excursionists salute ??< tng it bareheaded as it passed down con) the river. had Pastor Haas preached for the first * time since the General Slocum disaster ^.e0cr to the remnants of his congregation. tjm, Central Kansas was flooded by heavy yeai rains, causing much damage to crops Pr?! md railroads. woi Directors of the Asphalt Company mea of America ignored the summons of had Receiver Tatnall to appear before him thei Ju Philadelphia, Pa., and testify re- new warding promotion of the trust. ^ The miners of the South Colorado ^ ?oal fields decided to fight their strike jo f< :o a finish. "j The centennial of the birth of Na- ^t'<! thaniel Hawthorne was celebrated at Salem, Mass. wu The Federal Grand Jury will consider the General Slocum disaster and en- md ieavor to place the criminal responsi- itat Jility. The police canvass for victims in the General Slocum disaster shows that In jetween 1800 and 1900 persons were on lead Doard, that between 1000 and 1100 ierished, that 300 were injured and ^j1?1 ?at 400 escaped unscathed. ;n ^ Speaker Cannon was taken ill to his fash lome at Danville, 111., from Chicago, the md his daughter planned an ocean trip and 'or him to restore him to health. A memorial from well-anown Amer- een( cans war sent to Admiral Cervera in 30m ippreciation ot ins sending uews 01 | care Hobson's rescue. j lunc A strike in the ready made clothing ' j"j? :rade in New York called out 30,000 | y workers. The theatre in Rodrick's Glen, one nile outside rf Elmira, N. Y.,one of the Ti inest summer 'playhouse; in the co;m- Prof :ry, was burned to the ground. The oss is estimated at $30,000. [jjJe FOREIGN. | g* Investigation into the assassination j |"re )f General Boorikoff, Governor of Fin- jjP* and. was ordered taken out of the j lands of the Finnish court and in- | rusted to the Prosecutor of the St. * Petersburg tribunal. France will send a warship to Port [nce ly Prince to demand redress for the the itouing of her Minister to Hayti. and "the Germany may also require an apology j peot 'or a similar offense. Telegraphic advices received at Mex- I b0jj? co City show that there is danger of Com .var between the republics of Salvador I wen ind Guatemala. There are also re- j )orts of a coming revolution in Honduras. "I The American cruiser squadron un- by I nnm ler Rear-Admiral cnauwict saneu | Tom Tangier for Gibraltar, j^0? The Ministry of Queensland Las re- whe signed. wiv< Lord Rosebory unveiled a bas relief portrait of Robert Louis Stevenson in 80ci. St. Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh, the jng' work of Augustus St. Gaudeus. Sut The German naval review at Kiel tvas abandoned at the request of Kiug Edward. B( Court Chamberlain von Specht. of : sa'?' Schaumberg-Lippe. Germany, was ! . killed in an automobile accident. I w"?c Party feeling in France is running , wid< ligli over the investigation of alleged j a jftieial bribery, aud the opposition ! sicia Deputies expect the fall of the Ca'oi* hoi net. w*ta The French Foreign Office was in- ,.T' formed that the Sultan has approved the Porte's decisiou to make re dies 3 jlilU( to the Armenians. i)ev-( A ferryboat at Rosotofu. Russia, ^ sank while crossing the Khoper River, Sixty bodies were recovered. ?7.( The contest betweeu General Reyes T1 and Dr. Velez for the Presidency cf tli-xi Colombia is close, and there are fears cent fnllnn- tli,? olitfk. VWII L11 1 I il LCtUlUUUU LUUJ iviiwil v. %. v. * i _ t- k loav Lion- * two The first train on the Cnpc-to-Caiiv. ^an Railroad left Cape Town fcr Victoria Df c Falls, 1G33 miles distant. In Albert Hall, London. General Peri Booth opened the third international srm congress of the -Salvation Army. "av 2|CO A Tibetan representative has been t^at instructed to confer with the head of sine the British expedition. his E GSEAT DESTROYER i 1 I IE STARTLING FACTS ABOUT HE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. Moderate Drinking Habit His Rnln-? iart Recital of a Former Bank Clerklow He and Hli Tfi!e Wont Over th? Jill to Hie Poor Hoase. le New York World thu3 tells the y of the downfall of a well-known New k bank clerk: irvin R. Dick, former clerk of the :k department of the Chase National k, sat on a bench in the room for visitat the work house on Biackwell's Isl, He wore prison trou3ers, prison ;s and a prison hat. rippling brought me here," he said, it a drink or two a day with a friend. t's what downed me. Moderate drinkis the most insidious form of indulge .'t was moderate drinking also that lght my wife hers. She had her circle riends, and they had their social glass. will agree with me that the nard iker has not as much to fear as those i take a social glass regularly." ick and his wife, whose maiden name Gertrude Bancker, popular in the Harset, were taken to the Island at the e time, sentenced for six months bele neither could give the required bond 300. riends of Dick who used to know him n he stood behind the grating of the se National Bank and counted up the .1 J -1 4,1 1J l :ks tinu uiaasiucti tucui, wuuiu uoo uavxj gnized in the tisin-faced, white-haired, lorn prisoner, feebly and penitently ng of his downfall, the same smiling, al and confident young man who was ited out aa a model to many ol the subnate clerks in the big bank. [ didn't bring my wife down with me. dn't cause her to t"ke up drinking," he . "It was her cle y friends with >m she used to ?> i^e a social glass when r came together that caused her to be : with me. [ had no idea that I would ever be as as this. I came to New York from 7 Brunswick, Canada, more than twen* ve years ago. I was barely more thaa >y then, ana I had hopes of accomplishsomething in the big city. It was the it oi an tne peopie in my uuuoukiii hborhood to take a glass of wkiaky in they wanted it. I thought, too, that >uld drink like a gentleman and suffer ill effects. I got a position twentyie years ago with the bank as one of clerks, at $15 a week. I worked hard, was shortly afterward advanced. Two :s later I married, and we were very py tegether. Whenever the boys would ask me out lave a drink I would not refuse, but I not what one might call in the habit Irinking. I knew that I could stop at time. , Mrs. Dick did not drink in those days. 3y hard work, in a ?ear or two I wa? meed again and we took a more pre;ious home. I had several friends at bank, but, of course, they would not inger their position now by trying to inything for me. You lyiow how parlar a bank is. [ suppose it must be the case with all akaras, but the first thing I knew I got le so depsndent upon my daily amount timulant that I would be nervous if I off. In the meantime I noticed that wife also would ask for a drink before Is and before retiring. She seemed tc take to it at first to be genial with me, but she told me she learned to drink at a friend's ho 130. id not try to stop her, because I ex;ed no ill effects. I always did my k regularly at the bank. The first inition that anvthing was wrong cane a r ago, when the surety company which ieeted mv nosition went off my bond. [lie bank, of course, notified me that I ild have to leave. I got out. In the nwhile I had saved up no money and to borrow from friends. I thought e would be no trouble in getting a place, but after a man gets to a cer- * t age in New York no business has any for him, and it was then that I oeal- v j* (hat I had cultivated the drink habit ir that I was permanently injured ty it. i't was impossible for me to get any porn. I got more discouraged and began Irink neavier. Mrs. Dick also began to ik more. From the tippler she soon changed into the confirmed inebriate. fVe are here both of us for six months, we can both attribute our present e to the moderate drinking habit." Drinking Among "the 400." t New York not long since a social er. together with the President of the 7 York State W. C. T. U., made a 'ough personal investigation of that to ascertain whether the use of Vquor public places was general among the ionable set. To this end they visited places where fashionable people lunch dine, at the hour3 when the greatest ibers were present. At a favorite 'hing place they noted that at fifty per of the tables women were drinking e kind of liquor. There were on!y e or four men in the room, but women hing alone ordered wine, champagne claret as freely and naturally as any; would order tea or coffee. ? - iWfi The Anti-Saloon Lcmgne. ie Wine and Spirit News, one of the ninent organs of the liquor traffic, rely published the following significant graph concerning the achievements cf Anfi CnlAAn Ttannic ifra nrnhflhlft re: "The Anti-Saloon League has acplished more than any 0th? organize formed in a similar time. It will capthe State; then God have mercy on rest of mankind if we are permitted to at all." Jreat Britnla's Powerfal Brewers. r. T. W. Russell, M. P., speaking at United Kingdom Alliance Jubilee tings in Manchester, asserted that if drink bill could be reduced one-half ! nearly dead bon93 of 12,000,000 of lie would vigorously live." He stated ber that in Parliament affair? are domed by the great brewers. "My blood i when I see them in the House of mons treating that assembly as if it ; a counting house of their breweries." Why Men Go to Saloons. Jvils of the saloon are made possible the wrong conditions existing in the es of working people. Men go to theon to escape the misery, noise, conruand ugliness of the small homea re incapable women hold sway, as ia and mothers." So said Mrs. W. S. vart, President of the International rd of Young Women's Christian As* itions, at_ the twelfth annual ineetof the Xcw York and New Jersey e Board. The Crusade In Brief. .f a. .1?:i u? fl,. ;IUIU tllC UCVII cau UC V^liaiuvu, kuv W- ? aa door must be bolted. le amount of alcoholic beverages swal;d by the American people last year Id fill a canal 100 miles long, 100 feet j and 100 feet deep. circular has been issued by Paris phyins taking the radical ground that alcois never and never can be of any use tever to the organism. ae Women's Temperance League o? :ina, with the object of keeping work* oat ot public houses, are sending out :1-carts laden with hot, non-alcoholic !iages. 'ith a population of on]y 5,000,000 i?itnnts Holland spends no less than )00,000 a year on spirits. ie .Searchlight makes the statement I ho man who gulps down twenty V worth oi' beer a day swallows in one five p.iirs ot' si?ej, four hundred es of broad, twelve sacks of potatoes, suits of clothes, two tons of coal, a ei of sugar and twenty-seven pounds offee. r. Arthm Sherwell, in '.lis "Drink 1 in Scotland," lias a chapter on the v'ch ot alcoholic insanity in Scotland. ins traced this growth of insanity to holism, he produces the terrific figures while the population has increased e 1858 but forty-nine per cent., insanity increased 180 uer cent. J J