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Thrilling Feats Sy GEORGE JE On the afternoon of July 19 of last |< year, in the second inning of a base- i hall game between the nines repre- j senting Cleveland and Boston, played on the grounds of the former team, ; Wagner, the first batter for the visit- s ing team, reached first base on an er- < ror. Stahl, the second batsman, Runted safely, advancing Wagner to ] A second base. With two strikes and i three balls listed against him and < with the 20,000 spectators tingling with excitement, the Boston captain gave the "hit and run" signal. The ] next ball pitched was met by McConnell's bat with tremendous force and Was driven over second base in a man- j ner that boded ill for the home team. Neal Ball, of the latter nine, was play- ; ing second. The moment the leather 1 sphere left McConnell's bat the for- , mer jumped back of the base, leaped < into the air. caught the drive with one ; hand, regained his feet and touched < second base, stepped quickly to one < side and touched Stahl with the ball, < and thus made the most thrilling and j spectacular unassisted triple play , chronicled in the annals of baseball. . Ball's feat was the second of its kind | ever recorded in the history of the < major leagues, the first having been to the credit of Paul Hines, oE the ] Providence (Rhode Island ) team, who < had performed a similar exploit, curi- | ously enough, against a Boston team ] thirty-one years before. i Each passing season testifies to the ; fact that the national game is a sport ( full of unexpected thrills. That these < thrills are as common to the amateur | ?s to the professional contests is to be ] appreciated from the record of Geo. | Bowen, of the Northside Club team, , of Noblesville. Ind., who. in a game j played last season with the Black Diamond nine of the same town, struck ] out twenty-four players and allowed t only one hit. In professional base- ( ball, on August 21. last year, William , Mitchell, pitching for the San Antonio team against Galveston in a Texas League championship game, established a world's record by striking out twenty batsmen in a nine inning game. In collegiate sport a record j Tvas established last season in the game between the nines of the Naval Academy of the University of Maryland when Anderson, of the latter team, struck out twenty Annapolis i players, and Meade, of the Naval 1 Academy, succeeded in eliminating : fifteen. Here was a total of thirty- 1 five strikeouts in a single game! 1 In the Tri-State League, on August i 19, last year, the Lancaster nine 1 made thirty-two runs and thirty-three 1 hits off pitchers Stillman and Gray, of < Johnstown, in a regulation game, no ] player on the Lancaster team making i less than three hits. One of the most i wonderful feats recorded in baseball 1 chronicles was accomplished last sea- ,< son by Harry Krause, the youthful t left-handed pitcher of the Athletics in the American League. Krause won i every one ot tne nrst ten games ue pitched upon his debut in the League. < This included three victories over the ' champion Detroit team, which team, < incidentally, succeeded in scoring but ] one run in the three contests. In the ] ten games Krause was scored on only j four, times, six of the games having ] iWn shutouts. His first defeat of the , ceason occurred in an eleven inning | game with St. Louis. 1 In the game between the Boston National League team and the Roanoke (Va.) nine last year outfielder Bates, of the New England team, brought the spectators to their feet by knocking out two home runs in one inning?the seventh. The most spec- [ tacular game in the matter of length 1 ever recorded in the minor combines was played last season between the Decatur and Bloomington nines in the so-called Three-I League, when tweuty-six innings were chronicled ? a game almost three limss as long as the game usually runs. The longest game in the history of the Northwest- ' ern League was played last year be- * tween the Portland and Vancouver teams. It lasted for twenty-two inn- 1 ings. 1 One of the most sensational afternoons in minor league baseball in ' many years occurred on August 28, 1909, in the New England League, 1 when the Lowell and Haverhill nines met in a double header. Duval ' pitched both games for the former team and won both. Each team was credited with a triple play. In the first game Lowell batted out seventeen hits and thirteen runs against two opposing pitchers. This is the first instance in baseball chronicles of two triple plays in one afternoon. A. week previously to Duval's notewor- i thy, effort "Jack" Taylor. well kifiwn veteran pitcher of tht Oayton tefm of the Central League, pitched and won a double header against the Terre Haute (Ind.) team. What was HINDU METHOD Said to Save Nutrimer America] In India it is literally a case of being a vegetarian or starving, for the Hindus of Hindustan, taking them alj most as a whole, are enjoined by their religion to abstain from eating meat. They are not allowed even to open the shell of an egg because by so doing they would destroy the life within it. Thus they are compelled to subsist on a vegetarian diet or so hungry. But if the cooks of India were to prepare their vegetables for the tabic as do the women of America, writes Saint Xiha! Singh, in the Nautilus, it is certain that the Hindus would be meat eaters?it would be imnos-sible for them to live on ;i vegetable diet. This for an essential reason. The American cook boils all the flavor as well as the vitality out of the vegetables and throws it iwry. The Occidental cook declares thU operation is neccssary, as the flavor of the vegetable is too strong and pronounced if the water is not drained away from it. Be that as it may the result is that the food has lost much of its nutriment and is useless to build up or sustain the body. Moreover, the 5 So Baseball .AN NATHAN. 3vcn more remarkable, he scored shutout in each game, and in tiia fir ;ame allowed only two hits. The most spectacular collef ichievement for 190!)?as well as fc several seasons preceding?was to tl credit of pitcher McClure.of Amhers He pitched a no-hit game against tl Naval Academy, winning by a scoi af 4 to 0; held Yale down to one hi winning by the same score; pitched no-hit game against Williams, wi: ciing by a tally of 2 to 0. and tht pitched another no-hit game again West Point, winning by a 3 to 0 scor [n the way of thrilling pitching fea it is to be chronicled that Samu* Weems, of the Macon (Ga.) nine, la year equalled the world's record he l>y "Addie" Joss and "Cy" Young, i i game with the Mercer team. Ween lid not give -a. nit or a Dase on uan ind did not hit a batter. He struc jut fourteen men and retired twent; seven successive batsmen. Anothc spectacular performance was that < pitcher Browning, of the San Frai :isco team, who won sixteen succe sive victories. He lost the sevei :eenth game to Portland by the cloi score of 1 to 0. A record-breaking day was Septen ber 26. 1909, as far as the Pacif Coast League was concerned. Tl lrst game of a double header was wc Ijy the Vernon team against Sacri uento in the fast time of one hoi md fourteen minutes, one minui luicker than the previous record. TT second game was won by the san team in the even faster time of or hour, twelve and one-half minute the Sacramento nine being unable 1 ijet a hit off pitcher Vance fonseve innings. In the way of a remarkable total < its made by teams in a single da 1 ?J ? c I""*- '1 " " r\ f + h /"? ,ne recura ui tut; ia&t uaj ui luc jrn Association is unique. In the la: sanies of the season of 1909 in th league Pittsburg made thirteen hi :o Muskogee'seleven; Guthrie, tweh :o Springfield's ten; Enid, fifteen I El Reno's ten, and Sapulpa, sixtee igaiast Bartlesville.?Harper's Wee) iy Rhubarb. While rhubarb has been cultivate in this country since 1573, it is on lately that it has been grown as substitute for fruit. The early cult nation of the plant was altogeth< for the sake of the root, which wi used to prepare the medicinal rhi t>arb. As regards the date of the ii iroduction of the rhubarb into th country we may note that E. 5 fioimes in the Encyclopedia Britai lica states that it "was Introduce into England through Sir Matthe Lister, physician to Charles I., wt ;ave seed obtained by him in Itai :o the botanist Parkinson." The rhubarb of o,ur gardens is lative of Siberia and the basin of tt Volga, and its name recalls its Ru ;ian origin. The ancient name of t! Volga was the Rha, and the nan :ame to be applied to the root of tl slant imported from thence. So tl Romans called it Rha barbarum, tl 'oreign root. From this came tl French rhubarbe and the Englis rhubarb. During its cultivation i ;his country many new varieties ha> ueen raised from seed.?The Field. Not a Hat. A teacner in one of the Newtc lower grade schools was entertainir two visitors to the classroom. Se sral days previously the teacher he ;urnished amusement and at the san time increased the children's store i Knowledge by a series of questions ( :he following nature: '"What do we sit on that rhymi with hair?" Some child would answer "Chair To-day the visitors would be please to observe how readily the pupi ;ould answer. "What do I wear 011 ray head thi rhymes with cat'.'" aslced the instru tress. Up went the hand of a boy with rc hair. "Well, Johnny." said she. "you m; tell us. Johnny arose and appeared frigh ened. "It's a rat." he blurted. And theu the tableau. ? Bostc Post. Distressing. "Bobby," said his mother, "sit i straight and don't tuck your napk under your chin. I've told you hu dreds of times?" "There!"exploded Tommy: "you'1 made me lose my count.! [ dor know whether it's 256 or nr?7 tim I've chewed this clam!"?Chicaj Inter Ocean. 'S OF COOKING. it in Vegetables Tha ns Lose. boiling process renders the dish mo or less insipid in flavor The East [ndian cook works on directly opposite principle. The w man of India is taught that the fo< must be cooked in its own steam, with just enough water to genera steam to cook it, and every drop moisture must be evaporated befo the food is served unless it is to 1 eaten with a gravy or sborbu, which case a small quantity of liqu is allowed to remain on it. But as a usual thing not a drop water is draiaed away. This won be looked upon as positively saci legions and wasteful by the East 1 dians. The American throws aw: as useless every day what would ke< an East Indian family from starv tion. This fart wan demonstrated wh< during a siege the Indian soldiers r quested that the water in which tl rice was cooked alone should be i sued to them, while the rice its might be served to the English sc diers. This was done, and the n tive sepoys apparently were as W( fed as their white brothers. . | SEW ENGLAND THE si SDMHE ? | a j st : The Statistics of the Amount ,e j Picturesque Yanke >r t East of the Mississippi, all roads ie : load toward New England in the gooc t. j old summer time, for New England is ie Hie nation's vacation playground. This re I surely must be what the G#eat Arch t, | itect intended it to be, for certainlj a j there is no other such made-to-ordei n- j area in existence in which the attrac m tions of scenery, climate and outdooi st , Die can be found in like degree, e. The outing season has made an au ts | spicious start, for not only did a larg el j er number of fishermen than usual gc st i into the Maine woods to lure the lurk Id j ing trout and salmon, but they hac m j splendid luck, and returned nome, ai ls most without exception, thoroughlj s. | satisfied with their experiences. Som< | notable catches were made at Range. y~ ' ley, Moosehead, Grand Lake and oth - WW ll'l ts ' HORSE ISLAND NARROW re ! to er favorite centres, furnishing topic! ;n j of pleasureable reminiscence for th< i- j next twelve months. | The facf that the President ha: j seen fit to make Beverly the "summe ; capital" of the nation has, naturally l(j made the entire beautiful North Short ly section the vacation season social cen a tre, and it would be a long story t< j_ ' outline what this means in the wa; 3r of social gayeties along the so-calle( "Gold Coast," yacht club rendezvoui a_ and races, outdoor carnivals and th< a_ 1 theatricals, special excursions, etc. js !' The fact that the country's first cit j izen has set the seal of his high ap proval on this section as a summe: !(j j resting place (and few people hav< w had better opportunities of comparing l0 the respective merits of American re jy sorts) naturally has given the Nev , England summer vacation idea a val a liable boost, and nothing proves tha hfttipr than the wav real estate nricei have boomed all along the Nortl ! Shore during the last two years. e Every reourringsummer finds somi ie new attraction for visitors. This yea Je . it will be mountain ponies at Brettoi Woods, on whose sturdy backs th< I guests at that delightful rendezvoui jk may negotiate the trails of the Presi j I dential range in comfort and safety j A battalion of burros will also b< i found at the Crawford House for tin j game purpose. The 1910 summer boom that i ! scheduled to strike the seashore an< ,u the lakes seem3 likely to be paral leled by another in the White Moun v" tains. A goodly portion of Ne^ 1(1 . Hampshire's 6,000,000 acres is com ie : posed of these wonderfui highlands? the Alps of New England. No part o 1 the great vacation playground ha had a more remarkable developmen 2S than this. j I . ? ' J j V FIRST DRIVE AT MT. WASHING re The Tafts themselves are plannin to enjoy a vacation of the non-stren a uous kind; nevertheless, North Shor o- society is likely to find "somethin 3d j doing" every minute of the day am or ! evening throughout July, August am te j a part of September. It will be of ! summer gathering of exceptional bril I frtf nt'nr'-i 1 /if tl\o PnJlinp he officials and a number of the diplo in marie corps from Washington will b id encamped there in the palatial leasei mansions and cottages for the heate< of term Id I The presence of the Tafts ani "i- Ruosevelts at Beverly will,.of course n- put another feather in Boston's ca] ly us the country's great summer vaca SP ! tiou metropolis. a- I But Boston, its historic neigh nor and its North Shore form, after all -n but a relatively small portion of thi e- New England summer playground 110 Tho N'orth Shore itself is but the be s" ginning of a diversified and alway interesting stretch of seacoast stretch >1" ing in serpentine line for hundreds o a" miles to the eastward until it finall; 'I* enters Canadian territory and is es weutially "foreign" soil. NATION'S R HUB PLAYGRODND of Vacation Business Done iit island Are Dazzling. } In order to properly accommodate 1 the public the transportation facilities will be materially increased this season, among the improvements be-# ing a new through night train between New York and Portland. There are also new through trains between ^ New York and Williamstown, Mass. and Keene, N. H. In a word the vacation season transportation service this summer will be better than any that has heretofore existed. Even New England agriculture la having a big boom these days, and the activities of the special bureau maintained at Concord, N. H., are helping to dispose, of many farms to persons Presiding outside of this section. So far has this agricultural propaganda -1 advanced, indeed, that there Is serious ' - .. : f : < >,. s.\\-\: *> .y: . :>.< S, LAKE WINNIPESAUKEE. s talk of having a corn exposition in 3 Boston next fall, just as if it were Omaha or some other Western mes tropolis. r A change in the ownership of the . noted Maplewood Hotel at Maplewood ^ presages an expansion of activities - there, and there are various other j 3 r r 1 V-."- * . 3 *.;* ' 5 jy Mm r I 99l>i^u AP H SptsS I ' I? +?#FvfiErSIItKXPwXH Bra . ' V , ,! e gg?~?~ ' ^ 4 Teunis Tournament at Crawfordg, N. s H., in the White Mountains, i - evidences of progress to be noted - throughout the White Mountains rev gion, including a further increase :.n - the mileage of improved highways. - Three great trunk lines of macadam f roadway are at present being cons structed through New Hampshire by t the State, and it will soon be even more like a New World Switzerland. i i " , * % / ; , * - ' : -?'w\ - fi - \ izdmtmMm&m. T OX HOTEL, BRETTON WOODS.N. H. S What a remarkable city of vacation .- { side trips Boston is, to be sure! Some e of the most noted places in which g American history was created lie rl within a few miles of the city, includ:1 ing Plymouth and its world renowned a Rock, Provincetovvn, Concord. Lexi ington. Medford and other places so t closely associated with the Revolu- j i- tion; Haverhill, the birthplace of j e Whittler, and Salem, Da livers and I i [1 Newburyport: not to mention Ports:l mouth. X. H., whore the memorable Peace Conference was held in 190 3. 1 Cape Ann, Old Orchard. Portland, j ( Rockland Breakwater :rnd Bar Harp hor are as great and brilliant way . stations along the marine vacation route, and sandwiched in between s them are a multitude of other attrac( tive places, like Hampton, Rye, New e> Castle, the Isles of Shoals, York, . Ogunquit, Kennebunkport. Cape E!iz abeth, Peak's Island. Harpswoll. s Boothbay, Bath, Camden and Biue . Hill. ? These are the places where the joys Y of boating, surf bathing, yachting, . fishing and driving are to be enjoyed as nowhere else on the continent ?? e??o?eo??????????0? I The Almshouse the County's 5 Convenient Dumping Ground. James Oppenheim writes an exposure of almost unbelievable conditions for the American Magazine. His subject is the Almshouses of the Counties of New York State. Says the editor in a foreword to the article: "You must go back to the old Bedlam to find anything so revolting in the case of suffering human beings." The' following is quoted from the article: "Possibly it may now be understood what an almshouse is. It is the last refuge of the old; it is the winter hotel Of the vagrant; it is the pest-house for the sick; the asylum for the feeble-minded?it is, in short, the county's convenient dumping ground. Here the Charities Commissioner, the Overseer of the Poor and the magistrate commit the dependent, the defective and tne delinquent. They are all cooped up together and allowed to work out their own destinies. One finds in the woman's living room a spectacle of horror and poignant sadness. Here is a woman of ninety, like a child of three, doubled up in a little rocking chair, singing wildty. Another woman sits by whose nose is half eaten away by syphilis. Next to her sits a degenerate who escapes from the institution for a carouse whenever she can. Another, three feet high, in a wheelchair, twitches and jerks with chorea. Another rocks to and fro, babbling incoherent fragments. Another has an ulcer wrapped in dirty bandages. And yet among such people some quiet old woman who is patiently waiting forf death must spend her days. At night she sleeps in the common dormitory with these deformed or degenerate human beings." OLDEST itNOWN POTTERY. Remarkable Work of a Prehistoric jrcepie m i-eru. At a meeting of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society recently Sir William Bailey read a paper giving further details of the remarkable discoveries of prehistoric pottery made by Hewitt Myring in Peru, a short description of which has already appeared in The Sun. Sir William explained that the discoveries, .which have attracted widespread attention, 'at least one American museum having tried to secure the pottery, were made during the exploration of the Chimcuna Valley in Peru. Mr. Myring was exploring the sand ridges( in the hope of finding something ih the Inca graves, but it appeared that the valley had been used as a cemetery by the Chimus, the race before the Incas, and as he went on he discovered hundreds of pieces of what is probably the most ancient pottery in the world. These pieces, which are in the best state of preservation, have been brought to England, and about a third of them have been secured for the British Museum. Sir William said that the Egyptian pottery of any dynasty was not equal to the best of the Peruvian specimens. The modeling of the human face was startling in its art. Both dignity and laughter were shown, and the muscles of the cheekf the wrinkles of the skin and the flexibility of the nostrils were depicted with great care and skill. No two specimens were alike. There was individuality in each figure. The serfdom of habit and custom and tradition did not govern the work, which showed that the workers must have had intellectual liberty and genius. The pots were buried with the dead. They varied in shape and size. Some represented animals, birds and fishes. Weapons were not much in evidence, and neither bows nor arrows had been discovered. No horses were to be found but there was a beast like a hornless antelope. Birds were somewhat abundant and a batlike beast, stags and frogs were imitated. The broad, intellectual human faces represented on some of the pieces were ciouotiess portraits. iucj might easily be taken for English or German faces. The workmanship was equal to any of the portrait jugs in vogue in this country in the eighteenth century and in some cases was better art. The age of the pottery might be anything between 5000 and 10,000 years. Many of the pots cantained silver pellets and necessaries for a journey, thus revealing that these early races shared in the belief in, another world and a state of transmigration possibly entailing hardship and the need of endurance. The absence of rain in Peru and the presence of silicates in the soil had helped to preserve the specimens practically intact. Fireworks to Protect Crops. The great grain fields of the Sandborn ranch in Shasta County, California, are ingeniously protected at night from the vast flocks of wild geese and other aquatic fowl that do immense Hnmaee to crops by means of a dis play of fireworks. Skyrockets and Roman candles were bought In large quantities by the management of the ranch, and men are stationed at various points. Whenever a flock is heard honking in the distance several skyrockets or a shower of colored balls from a Roman candle are sent upward, and as a result the bird3 give the ranch a wide berth.?Popular Mechanics. Good to His Constituents. "I ask for leave to print Lucille' as a part of my remarks," said the new Congressman. "What has that got to do with your speech on the hog industry?" inquired a floor leader. "Nothing. But the young people of my district want mo to send 'em 1 tn ro.ul ?Vf>nill?:3." auuie ?uuu . ?Washington Herald. Cheap Thinking. Model?"I think I shall spend a week in Paris." Artist?"How the dickens can you afford to do that?" Model?"I can't, but I can afford to think I will."?Illustrated Bits. THE CRUSADE AGAINST DRINK ~ PROGRESS MADE BY CHAMPIONS FIGHTING THE RUM DEMON. Slowly Decreasing in Numbers. In view of the statements of those Interested in keeping the saloon in existence that the agitation against the saloon does not seem to be effective, these fact3, taken from the New York Sun, are of more than passing importance: There was in 1907 a decrease of six per cent, in the number of saloons throughout the country, according to the United States Census Bureau's ^forthcoming report on the statistics of .the 158 largest cities, which had a population of over 30,000 each that year. The renort, prepared by Chief of Tiivisinn F, TT Maline. contains com plete statistics of the number of liquor licenses In force at the close of the license year of the cities and the number of inhabitants to each dealer selling liquor by the drink. More than one-fourth of such deal* ers in the 158 cities were reported from New York and Chicago; ths cities of over 300,000 population with the smallest number of saloons were Washington, 521, and Pittsburg, 181. In the cities of this class the largest , number of saloons in proportion to | the population were in Milwaukee and New Orleans, where in the former there was one dealer selling liquor by the drink to every 142 inhabitants, and in the latter to every 200 inhabitants. The number of inhabitants to every dealer in Philadelphia was 761, and in Boston 738. The other cities having less than 200,000 inhabitants to each dealer were: Galveston, 134; East St. Loui3, 143; Mobile, 153; Houston, 158; Hoboken, 183; Sacramento, Cal., 188; San Aiv- ( tonio, 179; La Crosse, Wis., 183; j springneia, in., iss, ana west *10' boken-, 191. ! The smallest number of saloons in j proportion to the population is shown I for the cities of Pennsylvania and ! Massachusetts, and the largest for , those of Texas, Ohio and Wisconsin. In comparing the number of retail liquor dealers in 141 cities reporting < for both 1907 and 1905 it is shown that there was a decrease of six per < cent, in the number of saloons in i 1907. The .dcrease was general in nearly every part of the country ex- y cept Rocky Mountain and Southwesteru States. A Sarcastic Editor. A township correspondent to the Pomeroy Leader tells of a man who was hustled to jail because he got i drunk, beat his wife and broke up the I furniture. The editor of the Leader i becomes somewhat sarcastic in com: menting on the question. He says: I "Folks must be getting very particular at Harrisonville. This is another blow at a man's personal liberty. It's got to a pretty pass In ; Meigs County if a man can't whip his ; wife and bust up the furniture without being bundled away to jail, i Pretty soon a bibulous husband won't j have any rights, any amusement at ! all. If a husband doesn't know when his wife ought to have a whipping, i rrrVir\ Hnno9 An/1 nrniil^n^ ho l/nnnr I better than anyone else in the world j whether the furniture should be bro| ken to pieces? If he did bust'up the I furniture and whip his wife, he prob| ably did not difeturb the God Bless ! Our Home plcturejon the wall. ArI rested, hustled Into jail, deprived of ' his personal liberty! And that, too, ! on a Christmas Day!" i i Ideal Patient. Some years ago Bishop Warren was 1 In South America, and it was found i j necessary for him to undergo an opI eration for appendicitis. The editor I I of the St. Louis Christian Advocate I i (Methodist Episcopal Church, South) j remarks: "The heroic bishop was as 11 ! serene and calm as a martyr when he j I was placed on the surgeon's table, I with a faith in God so implicit that ! j he was less agitated than anybody in i the room. The operation was a mon: umental success. The blood of the | patient was so pure that his wound , healed like the flesh ot a child. In ; a few weeks the bi3hop was again , ; hale and hearty, and when the great 1 surgeon met him on a street in ( : Buenos Aires he remarked with much . i enthusiasm: "You are a living, walk- | i inc. monumental temperance lecture and lesson; the greatest ever deliv- , ered, seen or heard In South America! Had you been a lifetime user of either tobacco or alcohol, at your age you could hardly have had even the fraction of one chance for recovery." | Expenditure For Drink Increased With Wages. Whether poverty is me cause uj. i drink or drink is the cause of poverty is a question over which social work- 1 ers have sometimes split hairs. Undoubtedly both views are right, as poverty and drink constitute a 1 vicious social circle. Dr. Fuchs, how- 1 ever, studying working men's expen- 1 i diture in Seventeen villages near 1 Carlsruhe found, according lo Der 1 Abstinent, that the greater the in- ' come, the greater the proportion of money spent for drink, indicating I that in this case, at any rate, poverty < was not the chief cause of drink. I I "Crime and Disease Sold Here." "The injury does not stop with J the drinker; i# goes on down to the | third and fourth generations. Across ^ the front of every saloon ought to be . written: 'Crime and disease sold here. . Our goods guaranteed to maim and ' destroy unto the third and fourth generations.'" ? Dr. T. A. Mac- ; Nicholl. Tempcrance Notes. Statutory State - wide prohibition will be the principal issue of the | f campaign in Arkansas. ^ Iceland was the firsi country in t the world to prohibit the nianuTac- ,i cure, importation and sale of alcoholic \< beverages. Eliminate drunkenness and its inseparable evils from the existing problems to be settled in those United States, and the larger part of the difficulties of the situation will van- , iah ?Bishop O. P. Fitzgerald. , As a result of the recent Parlia- ' mentary elections in Norway, a majority of their National Congress is now said to be friendly to the aulialcohol agitation. Lieutenant-Colonel McHardy, C. E. < ? f Ininit' /\f | t lMnnrnirgiu . i iw uwi. nuu.< | < anything which could be put in the place of strong drink which would approach it a:; a crime-producer " Art will be increased and distributed as we emerge more and more from the dog - stage. Society will have to stop this whisky business, which is like throwing sand in the bearings of a steam eugine.?Thoui?,s 'A, Edison, in the Independent. THE SWEET BY AND BY* / wJ nr L0UI3I LEDDLB. .When we reach the shining portal Just beyond the swelling tide, When we sit enthroned in glory At the dear Redeemer's side, Think how great will be the blessing \ There forever to abide. With the bright and shining angels, Chanting sones of sweetest praise. We shall soon forget our sorrows. And our songs of gladness raise To the Father, in whose mansions We shall dwell through endless days. ; <;:% Glory! Ah yes, 'twill be glory, When we reach the heavenly strand, ^ When the Saviour leads us upward By Hifl omnipotent hand; When we dwell with Him forever *n that bright and better land. The I/aw of Reciprocity. it is more blessed to give than receive.?Acta 20, 35. This text is the embodiment of one of the greatest of truths?the law of reciprocity. Similar passages in the Scriptures are: "Whatsoever a man Roweth,.that shall he also reap," 1 .ft "Give, and it shall be given unto you," "Bear ye one another's bur- { dens, and so fulfil the law of Christ." Giving is like an endless circle. Ifi ] is casting bread upon the waters, which returns in multiplied abund- > ance after many days. It is the seed . $ in the soil, bursting into the golden V?J harvest. It is the banker, giving out C to the borrower till the interest ex- A ceeds the nrinciDal. It is the Dhilan- ^ thropist, receiving the latitude ojt H mankind. It the martyr and mis* . sionary losing'is life to find it. It la {'3 the discoverer and inventor, like H?ndrlk Hudson and Robert Pulton, iglr* ing their genius for the welfare of tfier people, and receiving', generations at- ^ o terward the plaudits and thanksgiv-*. ing of the world, because of the glorjj' '?.ji of their achievements. Men who give get bills of exchange ' . Dn God's banking house, the interesf "; of which Is paid as needed along the jy: journey of life, while the principal '<k awaits their arrival in the Eternal,Giving is the philosopher's stones .'.'vj which, instead of turning everything V^; into gold, turns gold into everything ?into halls of learning, libraries of , v.'j information, missions for millions!. homes for the homeless, Christ foe. the Christless, and life, eternal life, for the dying. '< . j The returning compensation for all noble deeds comes in that which better than an equivalent; in a lova and gratitude unpurchasable, as it la J,?jl unfading dnd unspeakable in its glory and blessedness. It is the crown oC raptor nn fh<* hrnw nt thft Individ* IsV.sfl ual or nation, resplendent, immortal, Even though, your gift is unappre*. ! ciated or misapplied, it is irreverai* bly recorded in your being. Children'Hfl| may be undutiful, but the parents are blessed on account of their express i sions of kindness and care. Hus-< ! bands may be drunken or brutal, tfutthe wife who struggles patiently on | has her reward in her own soul, and it,may be the final redemption of he* '"l'| lost one. The divine Christ who gave l Himself upon the cross as a Saviour, as an example of infinite self-sacrflce, ' possesses a name above every name '-J and a throne universal and eternal.?< ?, Edwin Whittier Caswell, in the Sun* day HerAld. His Power Depends on Oar Love, i Everybody would be glad to fee! confident that God's resources were "Ji at his command, but not everybody) v may have this assurance. We cannot claim the promise until we are willing to put ourselves under His S control. Submission must come before endowment. No one can follow Ihe leadings of God's providence- un less he has accepted God's authority. ;t Many times we quote thoughtlessly, "All things work together for good;" but that is not true. All things work together for evil for some people. Their prosperity becomes a curse; the number and in- ' lensity of their friendships bring * ? them no lasting comfort; the whole J Jl'lier Ol UUU & uuiveias vri/iivo agaiuov c Lhem. His will is in process of conquest; he is at last to be triumphant uver all evil. No opposition to God's plans can prosper. And so, whoso will quote the promise, 'All things work together for c;ood," must add, "to them that lov* God." Need of Mutual Forbearance. In order to be satisfied even with the best people, we need to be content with little and to bear a great [leal. Even the most perfect people have many imperfections; we our- v selves have as great defects. Our Faults combined with theirs makes mutual toleration a difficult matter, l?ut we can only "fulfill the law of Christ" by "bearing one another's jurdens." There must be mutual lovng forbearance. : Frequent silence, habitual recollect ion, prayer, self-attachment, giving ip all critical tendencies, faithfulness u puttiog aside all the idle imaginaions of a jealous, fastidious self-love ?all these will go /ar to maintain >eace and union. How many trouDiea vould he avoided by this simplicity!! iappv is he who neither listens to limself nor to the idle taik of others. Be content to lead a simple life vherc God has placed you. Be obelieut; bear your little daily crosses? rou need them, and God gives them, o you only out o? pure mercy.? ^enelon n Turned Into Blessings. Those who can repress complaiuts, nurmurs and peevish bemoaning? letter still, the vexed feelings which. icset us when those around inflict ictty annoyancer and flights on ns? /ill really find that their lLttle daily; rorries are turning into blessings.?* [. L? Sidney Lear. The Logic of It. Unless .Tesus Christ is Lord of all, le is not Lord at all.?J. Hudsoa 'avlor. i f-mgar Trust $525,COO Suit En<ls.^ ' The American Sugar Refining Company's suit against the city of New York for a permanent, injunction was closed before Morgan J O'Brien, a Supreme Court referee The city; threatened to shut off the water from1 :he Williamsburg refinery unless tha ompan.v paid a bill of $525,000 for, ivater which, it is estimated, the ram^any got from J898 to 1903 by i'raululent means. Four years have passed ;ince the action was begun, and raorof ;han 10,000 pages of testimony have >een submitted. Referee O'Brien reserved decisiou. .. .;