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Continued.
He held her tightly in his arms.
VNow my dear, to-day. I have only
time to get things together. I start by
the 8 o'clock train, and travel day and
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the castle of our dream"?lie smiled
sadly?"and we must part at once.
Courage, Katharine; it is but for a few
months. And then?and then Kiss
me once more, dear. Oh! kiss me.
Good bye, dear?good bye."
*******
The solicitor, Tom's cousin, saw him
off at Charing Cross.
"Remember," said Tom, earnestly,
*if there should be anything left over
after paying that trust money to the
lieirs, and if anything should happen
to me, you will give it all to Katharine.
I have given l!?r your address, and she
will go to you if she wants anything.
Write to me about the lieirs of the
trust when you find them. I am curious
to know who they are. And?and?
don't forget?in case you know?that
letter is for Katharine, and everything
that belongs to me is to be hers as well.
I ought to have insured my life and
made my willt but there was no time.
Will you charge yourself with this,
Jem?"
?> . 4,Oh, you'll be all right, old man,"
said his cousin, with the cheerfulness?
nobody is so cheerful as the man who
. Ss not going?proper to the occasion.
"I wish I had your chance. Good-by.
I won't forget, and I won't lose the
; letter." j
"You promise then," said Tom. "I
trust my girl to you."
"I promise faithfully, Tom. You may
trust her to me."
"It is a solemn promise, Jem?"
, I "A sacred pledge."
Their hands met with the grasp of
two men who trust each other.
Then the guard waved his hand, and
the train rolted out of the station,
ifem Rolfe stood looking after it until |
it vanished across the river. Then he
r-?~ -went to the refreshment room, and had ,
* whisky and potash. He was one of
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thought, perplexity or forecast assist
the irain with a whisky and potash, or
its equivalent.
Katharine-remained in the empty library.
The beautiful inheritance had
I Tnnished like a dream. And Tom wns
gone to Egypt. She sat in the quiet
room until the day drew to its close.
*1 Then she got up and went softly into
the hall and out into the street. And
the caretaker, who was still making
tea in the basement, and heard the pat-'
ter of her feet and the gentle closing 1
; f of the door, thought she was one of the .
ghosts, who generally, however, do not ,
^ i>egin to walk about an empty house }
tintil after sunset. , (
CHAPTER III.
Habeey House, Cleveland Sqtta-re. ^
Two months later. At S o'clock on ^
ft cold spring evening the drawing room |
. of Harlcy House, Cleveland Square, is
generally as full as you may find it all .
the?year round. It is a salon of more (
* ' ' tlian common interest. To begin with, .
. there are no men in it. Male visitors <
are not allowed to penetrate into Hip ]
drawing room of Harley House. This <
removes it at once from the common j
drawing'room of society. Next, the la- i
dies who use this drawing room do not ]
appear in evening dress: most of them,
in fact, have only one dress, which <
eerves them for morning and evening, i
summer and winter, until it falls to ;
pieces, and how it is replaced no man |
knoweth. Again, in other drawing ]
xooms there is idleness; but here, l'or ]
the most part, there is work of some
kind generally going on. And in other
drawing rooms there is light and airy i
talk, all about nothing, with laughing, ]
singing, and little jokes such as girls j
love; but here the talk is subdued in i
tone, sometimes discontented, some- :
times angry, sometimes exasperated.
xi any uiujnis, 11 iuusi uu one <>i iue
younger ladies uewly joined, and then
"the rest all look tip with astonishment.
As for a joke, 110 one ever made one
in Harley House. If it was made, it 1
would fall flat.
Hnrley House is governed by a committee
of six matrons of proved virtue
and religion. It is a home for ladies
.who have to work for their living; in
other words, for Indies who have to
live cheaply. The founders recognized
the*fact that a pound a week, taking
one week with another, is rather more
tlinn most working ladies can ever expect
to earn. They have therefore ascertained
the very lowest charges for
lodging and meals on which the house
cnn be kept up, nnd they charge the
residents accordingly. Thus it has
been proved by experiment that a
young woman of tolerably robust appetite
can be fed, not luxuriously, with
jam, cake, chocolate cream, Ices and
cold chicken, but sufficiently, so as to
keep the machine in good working or
der, for fifteen pence halfpenny a dayit
is really fifteen ppnco, but the oild
halfpenny Is added for luxury and the
putting on of fat. The committee of
Harley House therefore give the young
ladies breakfast for threepence, and
tea for the same; diuner is sevenpenee
and supper is twopence halfpenny.
For three and sixpence a girl can have
a bed in a cubicle all to herself. In
other words, without counting dinner,
a meal which in hard times may be
neglected, a young lady can live in
Harley House for eight shillings and
twopence halfpenny a week; so that if
she is so lucky as to be making a whole
pound a week; there remain eleven
shillings and ninepence halfpenny to
spend. If you deduct sevenpenee a day
for dinner and eightpence for Sunday,
there still remains seven shillings and
sevenpenee halfpenny. The girl who_
cannot make seven shillings and sevenpence
halfpenny a week suffice for
.washing, dress, gloves, boots, amusements,
religion, charity, traveling, omnibuses.
literature, music and recrea
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tion generally, must, be a wicked and si
wasteful girl.
The drawing room at Harley House <j
is, of coursc, a large room, because it g
belongs to one of the large houses of }j
Cleveland Square, BJoomsbury. The jj
curtains, the wall paper and the carpet slook
as though they had done service n
enough, aud might now be dismissed. g
But everybody in the house knows very jr
well that there"is no money to buy new f,
things, and that, like the stair carpet, g
which is in holes, they will probably w
have to last a long time yet. Now, in n
the home without rules, the ladies will ^
unite to contrive new curtains and car- n]
pets and a better wall paper, and will j,,
be always trying to make the place tl
pretty with the little odds and ends
which cost nothing but a little taste e
and ingenuity. So that there will be
none of the shabbiness which does unrfmihtedlv
hanc over Harley House.
But what matters shabbiness, since jr
there are 110 men admitted? ^
The residents of Harley House are ,j,
not all girls. Some of them, who have
been here for a -long time, and occupy n;
chairs near the fire by prescriptive jj,
right, are middle-aged and even elderly, ^
Most of them, however, are quite a]
young; they are a floating and uncer- C(
tain class; they come because they are Vl
hard up, stay a few weeks or months S]
because they can not help themselves,
sniff at the regulations, speak con- j
temptuously of the committee, and
then, if prospects brighten, hasten to jj
some place where the presence of ti
young men is not forbidden, and where ^
one can be out after half-past 9 without gl
seeking permission beforehand and ex- e,
plaining the reasons for this wild burst sj
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To the former class undoubtedly belonged
two ladies sitting side by side, t,
bolt upright, with a certain primness jyj
of attitude which recalled, to those who w
could remember the early days of her w
Majesty's reign, memories of gover- a
nesses in the forties, in tact, tney nau f?
been daily governesses in the forties
when they were young. Now they 8(
were gray-haired, and each wore a y(
little prim curl at the side, and to
those who might remember the forties g
they looked as if they ought to have r<
a black velvet band across the fore- jj,
bead with a steel buckle. They were
Jressed in black, they were exactly n,
alike, and they were quite clearly sis- h,
ters. In their hands was some work, w
but it advanced slowly. Their thin sj
faces were beautiful, with the beauty p(
;iven by patience, resignation and snf- w
fering? they had now found rest and a h,
javen for the remainder of their days.
The- regulations caused no discomfort ^
to them, because they asked for no
tnale visitors, did not desire to be out ^
after half-past 0, and wanted nothing cj
saore than a place where they could sit
lown and meditate on the long rest ^
iwaiting them after their hard day's
work. They were Miss Augusta and ^
vncs Rentripp Anspv. In the distant T
time when they owned a living father
they lived in a Cathedral Close, and sc
their father was a Canon. y
On the other side of the fireplace sat ^
mother lady, who was also clearly one
)f the permanent residents. She was st
;uaut and hard of features, with dis- aj
content and restlessness marked in her ?j
face. She had a book in her lap, but
she read very little. For her, too. the
past was nearly done, and the only fu- m
ture before her was that which has to 0l
be reached by crossing a certain river.
At a table, a buudle in her lap, sat a a,
woman still young, not more than thirty,
at work diligently, even fiercely, m
never lifting her head from her work, ^
but sewing as if for life. Persons ex- p(
perienced in such matters would have
recognized that her work was of a ci
eery difficult and beautiful kind, em- ^
broidery of the highest art, which
should be worth largo sums of money. in
She was dark, of *egula-' complexion
find beautiful still, with a shapely head Sl
and regular, classical features, and had cj
she raised her eyes from her work you
would have perceived that they were tr
such as a painter loves to gaze upon w
find to draw, deep and darl> and limpid. d(
But they were full of sadness; there
was 110 light of laughter in them; and
o:; her lips there was no light of smiles.
It was the face of a woman no longer
happy. While she worked, her lips w
moved continually, as if reproaching a)
somebody?perhaps herself.
The table had a few magazines and s,
papers upon it. There were the Illus- ;
trated and the Queen, and* certain xj
harmless and godly periodicals such as ^
committees of institutions consider ^
adapted to the intellect' of lady resi- g.
dents. Nobody, however, though the a;
room was pretty full, was reading.
Perhaps this was due to the fact that fl
it was Thursday evening, so that jhe
weekly papers were stale. Perhaps,
however, it was because tbe people in s]
the room were all tired, and cared not
to do anything.
Tliey were nearly all girls between J
eighteen and four-and-twenty. It was
for them, and not for the elder ladies.
that the institution really was founded g|
and 1he regulations framed, so that ^
they ought to have shown in their faces
and their demeanor the liveliness of y
grauiuae. .>o uuuui mej naceuic- n
ful, "and all that," but tbey were ^
heavy-eyed.
There were about fifteen or twenty of
them; tbey were all young ladies who
work, not ladies of the ballet, or ladies p
of the bar, or ladies who pose upon the j(
stage in lovely costumes, or ladies who ^
stand behind counters; nor were they ^
young peiious or young girls; they c
were young ladies?that is, girls born E
and educated in some kind of refine- t]
ment, whose fathers and brothers fol- 0
lowed the pursuits allowed to gentlemen.
They had nearly all come home from
work by this time. In most assemblies a
of girls tilers will be heard a susurrus b
of universal chatter, with occasional tl
bursts of merry laughter and a snatch | a
of song; the most remarkable thing ti
about this room was the silence of the b
jrirls. A few talked. languidly in whis- >
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fw, hut most of them sat apart and
lone in silence; two or three, laid full
mgth upon their backs on the sofas.
?emed contented simply to be at rest?
liese were the cashiers of shops who
are to stand all day; others sat 'back
1 their chairs leaning their heads upon
aeir clasped hands?an attitude which
etokons complete physical exhaustion.
Nobody was reading, nobody was
lughing, nobody was singing. The
eneral depression was not due at all
> the regulations of the home; it had
othing to do with the committee; 4lie
iris were not in the least longing to be
lit after 9.30. nor were they pining for
le society of young men. They were
imply tired.
It was about a quarter to 9 when the
oor opened and another girl came in.
he was a tall and beautiful girl?you
live already seen her?with light curly
air and gray eyes and a face full of
ivpptnpss: made for love?if that
leans anything, because nearly every
irl's face shows the same benevolent
itention of nature. Now, alas! her
ice was full of trouble. The other
iris' faces showed the depression
hich comes ^f fatigue and monotonous
rork, but there was trouble of another
ind on Katharine's face. When sbe
ppeared, one or two of th*?m looked at
er inquiringly, and read the answer to
leir question in her eyes.
She sat down beside another girl,
vidently they were friends, these two.
"Is there news?" she whispered.
Katharine shook her head.
Lily, the other girl, pressed her hand
1 silent sympathy. She was a darkaired,'swarthy,
low-browed girl, with
eep-set eyes, black eyebrows which
let, and'Spanish features, though her
time was Lily, and she ought to have
een fair and dressed iu white. Lily
rouId have looked well in a mantilla
nd in black velvet and a diamond
jronet. She was born for black velet,
yet by one of nature's mistakes
le had to wear black stuff.
"Tliere never win ds any uews, ^u.?.
lou't speak to me just yet, dear."
At this moment the two old ladies
y the fire rose from their cbairs, and
ie elder, generally known as Miss
ugusta, went to the piano and bean
to play. She always played every
i-ening, because she thought that muc
is good for the soul and for the terner
and for the tired limbs, and tne
ritated brain. But the music must
e good, and therefore she played
[endelsohn's "Songs Without Words,"
'hicli go straight to the heart in a
ay hardly achieved by any other
uisic. She played in a quiet, oldishioned
way. with the emphasis
hich belonged to the time?it was a
mtiraental time?when she was
aung.
The other old lady, her sister, Miss
eatrice, began to walk aboot the
>om and talk to the residents. It was
er opinion that young persons can be
reatly helped by sympathy and kindess,
and that, being an old person
erself, she might perhaps administer
ords of comfort and peace while her
ster was moving their hearts by the
jwer of music. And, indeed, there
ere times when the atmosphere was
?avy with despondency.
First, she sat down beside the woman
ho was so fiercely working..
"My dear," she said, "you have been
orking at you business all day. Your
leeks are flushed and your hand is
jrning. Cannot you put away your
ork for a single evening?"
"No?no. I must work. I must work,
he others may rest, but I must work,
must work."
"Why must work, clear? You are
> much better off than'tbe rest of us.
ou have such a handsome salary,
fhy must you work?"
It was known tbat this person had a
ilary of three pounds a week?actuly
three pounds! As much as is
ven to a curate, and yet there was
) evening except Sunday when she
d not work fiercely, until the last
oment before the gas was turned
it.
"You are a Christian?" the worker
sked, in reply. *
"Surely," said Miss Beatrice. 'Oh,
y dear, .that is a strange question,
'hat other comfort is there for a
x>r woman, and what other hope?"
"For those who are His. He is crufied.
Those who are not His?must
j crucified by themselves."
It was a strange answer to be made
thfl
I a respecxauie uuuic >, ut. c .uv
arcer emotions, including despair, are
ipposed not to enter. They are exuded?^with
the young men.
"My dear; my dear"?-the poor lady
embled at the mere strength of the
ords?"you terrify me. I do not unjrstand
what you mean."'
(To be continued.)
Black Bristle Brushes the Best.
"There's a live-million-dollar fortune
aiting for the man who can invent
i effective substitute for boar's bris-'
es,*' observed W. M. Hyland, a brush
ilesman.
"Some one is always trying to win
jat fortune and always failing. All
le best brushes in the world are
lade from bristles that grow along the
)ine of the Russian wild boar. Hair
ud clothes brushes are made from
air nearest the pelt, shaving brushes
orn the hips and inferior qualities
om the middle sections.
"People who want good hair brushes
lould observe three things. First,
ny the black hair brush.' The white
aired variety is just black bleached
nd injured by the pleaching. Second,
sk the dealer for brushes with pene ation'
bristles; smoothed tops are infective.
And, last, avoid silver back
rushes; they are always tnade to look
retty and sell. There is rarely a siler
back brush on the market to-day
lade of first-class bristles."?Kansas
ity Star.
English-Dressed Bnbus.
The practice of some xiabus. the
roducts chiefly of missionary col?ges,
to dress in English fashion was
enounced at a recent Calcutta rneetlg.
The r.ijahs donned the dhoti and
hudder as a protest against young
(ensal doing himself up in coat and
rousers. double collars and loud-col
red neckties.?Allahabad Pioneer.
Gentle Nature In Jupan.
In Japan all animals seem to be tame
nd approach man without fear; the
ees don't sting, the snakes preserve
leir venom, the dogs bite not. It looks
s i? the spirit of kindness .and toleraion
which distinguishes the race has
een extended to the brute weatiou.?
;orth China Herald.
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Recently Placed in Statuary Hall at tin
State of II
. THE CAVITE DRYDOCK. J
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BY DAT ALLEK WILLE7. H
HE tests of the floating P
J|l__ Jf drydock designed by the ^
O I O United States Government "
for service in the Philip- n
pines have proved so sue- 01
cessful that the craft is now on its ^
way to Cavile. ti
Since lis ccn-pletion it has been
lying at Chesapeake off Solomon's
Island. Here a:i eppomnity bus been
given to thoroughly dfcicnstrate its a
capacity for docking not only vessels, v.
but to dock itself. In each trial the lc
drydock has performed service up to p
the requirements of the specifications, a
The vessel selected for. the test was ti
the new crulsef Colorado. It may be w
needless to sny that the Colorado is ri
considerably longer than any of the h
battleship class, being more than 500 t(
feet. tv
Consequently, the weight of the'Col- tl
orado, though much more, was distrib- II
uted over such a greater length of the tl
dock that the strain upon it as indi- c<
cated by the deflection was consider- oi
ably less than when the battleship a
was lifted from the water; but as al- p
ready stated, the deflection was no c<
more than the calculations of the engineers?in
fact, was not as great as that
for which allowance had been made, c
The most interesting of the tests by V
THE (JAVIT IS 1
Water Completely Pumped Out ot
far was the docking of tlie centre sec- ,
* tion of tbe structure by utilizing tbe
pontoons at either eud. The main C
psuteon is no loss than 31G feet over L
all, each end pontoon being 170 feet "
over all. The ends of tbe main pon- cj
toon overhang the smaller ones, each li
of tbe latter having an outside independent
side wall high enough to al- t(
low it to be sunk and hauled under the o:
centre structure, literally litting around fi
the centre on '.he sjiuib principal as the li
familiar collapse or telescopic box, S
In docking the cruiser the entire a:
structure was sunk to rhe maximum ei
depth in one liour ana tmrty-six mm- ei
utes, but pumped out in Jess than this
period, the exact time being one hour w
and two minutes. Considering the size ir
of the Colorado and the magnitude of ol
the work involved, the time required tl
was remarkably short, 'as only two tl
hours and sixteen minutes elapsed c<
from the time the ship was landed on b
the blocks until the keel was raised t<
completely out of water.
The decision of the board of super- ic
vising engineers was that the dock tc
i3 of sufficient strength and capacity el
to dock a ship of 120,000 tons displace- n
ment. ni
The arrangements for towing this tc
great structure are of no little interest,
on account of the length of the voyage
and the weight and dimensions of the
dock. While the framework, plating w
and machinery contained represent a a
.. sOrrl.t nf noot-lv 1 1 tlin? its hf?i?Tilt [ \\
above the water, its unwieldy propor- n
tions, as well as draft. :r.nke it far L
more diflicult to Sow in a s?a^ay than ci
an ordinary oraft. The towiny flee*t d
selected to take the drydoek to Manila 0
is composed of tnree United Siaies
colliers. The largest of these is the
Glacier, a ship of 7000 tons displace- c:
ment and having engines of uOOO horse- CX
VILLARD STATUE
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e Capitol, Washington,' D. C., by the
linois.
jwer. The Glacier Trill be assisted
y the Caesar, of 501C tons dlsplacelent,
having engines- of 1500 horseower,
and the Brutus, of 6000 tons
nd 1230 horse-power. Consequently,
ie entire towing power will aggregate
early 8000 horse-power. The smaller
raft, however, will be used not only
direct towing, but for steadying
le dock in rough weather.
Pleasnres of Caracas.
Caracas is a charming place to spend
vacation in. One never tires of
".itching the pack trains arriving witb
>ads of coffee, cocoa or marketing
roduce, or setting out with all man
er of queer merchandise for the coun
y estates. Then there is the market,
-here one is sure to find some new va
ety of fruit or vegetable, no mattci
ow often lie visits it. Even more in'resting
to me are the quaint houses,
hich seem so many centuries behind
le times, and yet present such deghtful
vistas as one glances through
jeir forbidding doorways. And, of
mrse, there are excursions to be made
a every side, tramps across the valley
mong the bauana and susar cane
lantations, or rp the iii!lside to see a
jffee estate.?St. Nicholas.
A steel chimney 2G0 feet high was reently
successfully completed in South
Vales. . '
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DUVDOCK.
' the Dock and the Vessel Raised.
Generations of Teotl).
Dr. Andrew Wilson, writing ii
lhanibers' Journal on tho "Repairs 01
.ife," states the little known fact thai
i llshes and .some reptiles suecesslrf
rops of teeth are produced as the auilal
requires them.
"One has only to look at the array oJ
;eth in the mouth of certain specie?
f sharks, or even in the jaw of a cod
sh, to note that as long as the anima!
ves its deutal wants are provided for
irnilarly. in the case of a reptile such
3 the crocodile wa find successive gen
*ations of teeth succeeding one nnoth
: from below upward.
"An examination of a crocodile's jaw
-ould not merely show a tooth belonglg
to the set in use, but below it an
ther tooth ready to take the place oi
le upper tooth, and below this iattoi
le germ of a third. These reptiles, Ic
jinrnon with many other forms, eac
oast of uninterrupted generations oi
:eth.
"Man, on the otlier hand, when h?
ises any member of his second set, ha*
> hand himself over to the tender mer
les of the dentist, which, howevci
ecessary they may be in modern life
re, like those of the wicked, entitled
> be termed cruel."
Country's History Forgotten,
It is said that two Boston young'
roraen recently went to Concord or
sightseeing expedition. When the}
ere show a Emerson's home it did
ot impress them much, as neitJie)
ad heard of him. The Alcott houst
rpatcd more interest, however, as thej
eoided it was the* home of Chauncej
iIcott, the actor.
Argentina's exports of wheat for (hi
llectlar year 11)03 exceeded 113,000,4
DO bushels.
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THE GEEAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLINC FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE Or INTEMPERANCE.
la Rotten Barley Jaice s Food? Beer
Moat Injurious of Alcoholic Drinks
Because No Other la &'o Seductive? \
Breeder of Dullards and Defectives.
A food is any substance whose nature
it is to nourish the body, and
repair its waste, or furnish it heat and
energy without injuring it. Hence, |
according to this standard definition, ;
if beer contains anything that injures ]
the body, it can not be a food. 4 ]
H. W. Wiley, Chief of Division of <
Chemistry, United States Department
of Agriculture, after examining sam- ]
pies of what are termed the best beers, i
'the chief varieties of which are lager 1
ibeer, ale, porter, aud 3tout, reports 1
them as containing from four to six ]
per cent, of ethyl alcohol. ? i
1 The reply to the question at the
head of this article will be found in ]
the answer of modern science to the i
question, is it the nature of alcohol to i
Injure the body? <
Sir Frederick Treves, Bart, LL.D., i
surgeon to King Edward of England, <
says: j
"Tf i'c on inci/^nnct nnlcnn 4n 1
that it produces effects which seem to
have only one antidote?alcohol again." ]
As a poison is any substance whose i
nature it is when absorbed into the ]
blood to injure health or destroy life,
a beverage which, like beer, contains
alcohol, can not be a food in any honest
use of that word, but on the con-, i
trary is a poisonous liquor. <
If, as some of tne brewers are now
claiming, their beer contains only three <
per cent, of alcohol, we need to remember
that the character of a substance
does not change with its quan- tity.
The most disastrous quality of
alcohol, its power in small quantities <
to create the uncontrollable appetite
for more, exists in any liquor containing
three per cent, of alcohol. Thus 1
beer is a poisonous, drunkard-making
drink. Professor Gruber. of Munich,
Bflvs: "No nnc oan foretell whether or
not he is susceptible to alcohol. He
.finds out only by playing a game of i
chance wit& his own life which is a
dangerous experiment."
Professor August Forel, the great
Swiss scientist, says: "The toxic agent;
the murderer of soul and body, is and
remains the ethyl alcohol itself, pure
or adulterated^ fin6 or coarse, concentrated
as in distilled liquors, or rela- \
tively diluted as in wine, beer and
cider."
Professor G. von Bunge, professor of
physiological chemistry, Basle, Swifz- '
erland, says: "Beer is the most in
jurious of alcoholic drinks, because no 1
other is so seductive. One can ac- !
custom himself more rapidly to the <
drinking of beer than of any other in- 1
toxicant, and no other so readily de- 1
Btroys the appetite for normal food and
nourishment."
To this testimony of science' as to |
the injury alcohol does to the body
which might be multiplied indefinitely, 1
should be added, its hereditary effects.
Dr.,T. A. MacNicholI, New York <
City, in a report of an examination of 1
the cause of mental deficiency in
school children, undertaken in 1901, j
for the New York Academy of Medi- :
cine, said: "In prosecuting this work, 1
I was forcibly impressed by the conspicuous
position occupied by alcohol
as a cause of mental deficiency of chii- '
dren." He says: "Alcohol by destroying
the integrity of the nerve structure,
lowering jthe standing of organic
relations, launches hereditary in- I
fiuences which by continuous transmission
gain momentum and leave
their impact upon gland and nerve until
mental faculties are demoralized,
physical energies hopelessly impaired, 1
and the moral nature becomes degenerate
and dies." >
Dr. MacNicholI found that of children
of drinking parents but abstain- '
.ing^ grandparents, seventy-five ?er *
cent, were dullards; of the children of
abstahiing parents and drinking grandparents,
seventy-eight per cent, were
dullards; of the children of abstaining
parents and grandparents, only four
per cent, were aunavas. Here is proor >
that the modern saloon with its beer
and other alcoholic drinks, is a breeder
of defectives.
Is beer a food? Modern science says '
emphatically, No, it is a poison. It ]
injures the body and the mind of the :
drinker and of his descendants to the
second and third generations.?Mary
H. Hunt, Director Bureau Scientific
Temperance Investigation of the National
Woman's Christian Temper- 1
ance Union. .
1 . 3
Testimony From the Bench. 1
Judge McAuley, of Kansas City, in '
committing a "plain drunk," gave utterance
to the following:
"If I only had my way, I would not ;
only close every saloon in the county
Sunday and week days, but I would [
stop the sale of intoxicating liquor in '
any shape or for any purpose whatever.
I would.make it a crime to manufacture
the stuff. This may be far- ,
. reaching, but the sentiment is justified
by the sights and experiences 4n this
court-room. Ninety-five per cent, of \
the cases tried here are the direct re- ,
suits of whisky; the other five per
cent, includes morphine and cocaine
fiends and a few petty grievances that
come before me for adjustment."
Frcm the Police Blotter.
Of 42,260 persons arrested in New ;
York in the second quarter of 1905, in
toxication was charged against 6918, ]
intoxication and disorderly conduct
were jointly alleged against 2024, while ;
T\]oin Ar?Tw1iir?t- was the com- I
plaint in 10,938 cases. Every trade, (
business and profession was represent- i
ed on the police station blotter. Of the i
women arrested nearly half were married,
but of the men only 9740 were 1
married, while 22,961 were single. ;
Cause of Idlenens..
There are 2,000,000 unemployed men
in the United States! Why? Because
the United States spends at least j
$1,000,000,000 per annum for intotfcht- (
ing drink. Cincinnati alone spends j
$13,000,000 per annum for that alco- j
hollzed water which the brewers call ,
"beer."
Source of ftlfinr DUenaeg. j
Attention of the National Pion::>- j
tion of Health Club is directed to ihe j
fRct that the liquor traffic is a prcv:;!- \
ent source of disease. t
Alcohol and tlie Herero*.
A' correspondent of the Frankfort
News (Germany) who describes himself
as a resident in German South- ),
West Africa for the past thirty years, .
.? <i,?t -in isa?; nlf>fihnl was hardly
anja "? , ?
known among the Hereros, of that "
region. At that date every inch of ar- *
able ground in their territory was *
either a wheat field or a garden, and
tliey were an industrious race. Now,
fiorae ninety drinking shops are established
in the Herero territory. The
ravages of alcohol among the people d
are terrible, and their habits of indus- I
try have given place to idleness and o
loafing. ' ^
si
BrcfUt&Jl ;
arc&j>xe j
Some Old-Time Tryttera*
bt 8. d. oobdoxj v ^
It is a striking fact that tbe men In ^
the Bible record to whom God revealed
Himself most, and whom He uaed
most, and through whom He gave the
larger part of the Bible, were men
who sacredly kept this morning tryst.
That Moses kept it by God's own ar?
rangement is plain from Exodus 34:2-4,
with many other statements regarding
this remarkable man to whom God
talked face to face, and who bore Id
bis person the indescribable charm of
God's presence.
It is probable that Joshua kept it, "j
for he was Moses' most intimate associate
for nearly forty years, as well
as his chosen successor, and likely,
caiueu UJC iiiiyie^a vi IUIVL ciuew t / *\
friendship in many habits of .life. Ex-.7. 4 .
Ddus 33:7-11 and numerous references
in the book of Joshua give color to
this supposition.
That Samuel kept It seems likely
from incidents in his life which reveal
that he was indeed a master hand at
prayer, an a habitual early riser.
David-reveals his habit in the matter
in as many as eight allusions in the
Psalms, some of which should have
more than mere mention in this special
connection. '
Fsalm 5:3, literally translated, reads:
"Oh, Lord, at the dawning shalt Thon hear
my voice;
At the dawning will I prepare lor Thee, i
And will keep watch." ' lj ' c.'
jt sauu
"Cause me to hear Thy loving kindness at
the dawning: . j
For in Thee do I trust; ?4gjl
Cause me to know the way wherein 1 ^
should walk." v
?plainly suggesting that he looked to
the morning hour of prayer for guidance
in daily matters. , If,-as is rsug-.. . |
gested by some scholars, some of these , M
Psalms were written by, qthers tbaa' ' "*]
David, it makes still plaltoer, the cofov . |
monness of this habit among godly,
men of that period.'
That Solomon's early life was
marked by this habit seems very probable,
not only from his remarkable
spiritual experiences during that time,
but particularly from references in. the
Song of Solomon, the book which
marks the high tide of hi& inner life.
See Chapter 5:2 and on, already quoted.
And one cannot read carefully the '
story of the beginning aud tbeu of the
after years of his career, set against v ;
sach other in such sharp contrast, with- ?
out the conviction p-owing and deepil.^1
iUU A ~ 1. ? 1. ~ ^
euiu? IUUL iiij? uuuu, bu ii&trjy iu mw
first part, could have had no place ilk
those later sadly dark years of apostacy
and shame. His downfall must
have dated from his inuec closet, like
many another's since. ..." r-&
Isaiah knew the sweetness nnd power
of the morning appointment with
God, as Chapter 50:4 eleayly, shows.
Jeremiah adds his experience in-Lamentations
3:22-2G amid the sorrows
following the destruction of the exiled
nation. ' \<iy
Daniel prized so highly his (rystlng
time that he spent a night with the
lions rather than miss speuding his
customary hour with God.; He preferred
the possibility of giving up bis
life for God to giving up bis. daily appointment
with God. .
The little known prophet Habakkuk
uses language in Chapter 2:1-2, revision,
which indicates his familiarity; f
with the morning watch hour of prayer
and that his nwn mpssncps mme frt him
at that time. A glance back over this
list brings to mind tbe fact that these
are the men to whom-God entrusted
tbe writing of by far the greater part
of the Old Testament.
But perhaps we might omit all of
these and find our greatest inspiration
in the fact that Jesus Himself, "when a
man down here, kept the . morning %
tryst. For Isaiah 5jO:4 Is plainly prophetic
of Him, as a reading of the connecting
verses makes clear. And Mark
1:35 gives a very strfing corroborating
insight into His inner life in tbe words:
"And in the morning, r. great while before
day. He rose up and went out into
a desert place and there prayed."?
liam's Horn.
That Th?y Mar nave Life. A
recent thoughtfuf writer, touching
upon allegations or misleading state- *
ments which are so frequently made in
regard to the influence of Christian v
faith and practice in dwarfing life and
cramping humanity, points out that all *
Christ's teaehine on self-denial meant
to Him srme larger good. With the
Divine Master self-repression was always
a. stage to new self-repression,
and "the giving of self was to result in
the true finding of self."' The end wan .. 1
not to be shrinkage or attenuation, but
more abundant development:
"He asks for obedience, and when i
we obey we discern .that in obeying - Jt
Him we are obeying the law of our V
awn life. He asks for service, and M
when we serve we learn that His serv- V
ice is perfect freedom. He asks us to
lose our life, and lo, in losing it we find
it."?London Christian. ;-j
New Jewel*.
Every new experience is like a new
jewel set into our life, on which God
shines and makes interpretations and
revelations of Himself. And the man
who finds himself going out of a dying W
Fear with these jewels of experience
which have burned forth from his life'
cluring its months, and knowing that
God in the new year will shine upon'
them and reveal Himself by them, may,
well go full of expectation saying,
'The Lord is at haud.". ? Phillips
Brooks. 1 '
The Dental of Self.
Christ's call to His disciples is this .
-"If any man will come after Me let
liim deny himself, and take up his
i?.aco on/4 fnllrtn* \fo Tlin T rtrH riftPQ
wiuoo UUU 1U11U *? jkaiv ' <vt x* vtvw
:iot invite us to a duty that He liimself
lias declineel. It is not a coming to a'
stationary example, but a following
ifter a fore-running example. This invitation
assumes a unique theory of
ife and one entirely contrary to the
Dopular theory of our own day, in that
t lays down the law of self-sacrifice /
'or the attainment of the highest an$
uost satisfying good.?Lutheran World,' J
17 Feet of Wire In HI* Midst. ^
Seventeen feet of silver wire was
lsed in an operation upon Louis
Thrymn, of Columbus, Ohio, who was
njured internally about the chest In
i street car accident, in an operation to
estore displaced organs in their prop r
positions, in Mount Carmel Hosplal.
The Deepest Hole.
The deepest hole in the earth ever.
ug is the coal fields of Paruschowitz,
Jpper Silesia. It extends to a depth
f G570 feet, or almost a mile and a
.uarter. -