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Baseball Gradu Attain Pitcher John Tener Named For G Many Other Ex-Players Hav in Professional and John K. Tener. of Charleroi. Pa., hel who was graduated from the pitch- wh er's box to a banker's desk and after- am ward was elected to Congress to represent his home district, was nomin- bai N ated for Governor of Pennsylvania no i?y the Republican State Convention, bai The State of Pennsylvania has, howover, other men who attained promi- ma nence through baseball. Harold M. bis McClure, who caught John Montgom- pri ery Ward back in the seventies, was aff elevated to the bench and is now the bal presiding judge of a district court, his 'Addison Gumbert. who was a mem- hii ber of the Chicago team at the same time with John Tener. was elected Sheriff of Alleghany County, and is for slated for a higher position. Tener was a pitcher on the Chicago Club in ma 1888-89. In 1890 he joined the evJ Brotherhood and played with the mr Pittsburg Club, retiring that year to gtr follow the banking business. ga Many ex-baseball players and men of who were identified with the game mo have been, and are now. prominent in -nrofessional and business life. The kn( late Senator Pue Gorman was a mem- tio ber of the Olympics, of Washington, a in 1S67. Senator Morgan G. Bulk- ani ley, of Connecticut, was the first ma president of the National League in cei 1876. Justice Moody, of the Supreme vei Court, was formerly president of the New England League. Xo Albert G. Spalding and A! Reach. ye, Ijoth professional baseball players of note in the seventies, have become jns immensely wealthy as dealers in cjj( sporting goods. Spalding pitched for the Boston Club in 1872. 1873, 1874 and 1875. In 1875 he pitched sixty- Cll three games with a winning average tjn of .S99 per cent. This record never ces has been beaten. Reach played sec- in ond base for the Eckfords, of Brook- am lyn, and afterward for the Athletics, br( of Philadelphia. < Now A. G. Spalding is a prominent ^a, candidate for the United States Sen- 0j ate from California, where he has re- Do sided of late years. The candidate Br against him is Governor Gillett, whose popularity in California was not in- ^ creased through his action in forbid- Ha ding the Johnson-Jeffries fight in San Ba Francisco. Eu Ward a Prominent Lawyer. Ma Many baseball players, who were Ati favored with large salaries during re- Bn i -cent years, spent the better part of 1 their money in fitting themselves for ers professional careers after their use- be' fulness as players had ended. Of ma "these John Montgomery Ward is an bas example. Ward was for many years tt\c one of the stars of the New York he Giants. He retired from baseball in mu 1895 with years of profitable service ter j ahead of him. He took up the prac- the tice of law and has been very success- Th ful. Of late years Ward has been of prominent as a golfer. wh The late Michael J. Sullivan, at pio one time a pitcher for the Giants and six other National League teams, retired to become a member of the Boston bar. He was elected to the Massachusetts Legislature, and later to a ja^ judgeship shortly before his death. Sjx Judge Harry M. Taylor played first jro ba?e for the Louisville and Baltimore clubs while studying law at Cornell jjy< University. When he was graduated I Sj]j from college he also was graduated sar from baseball and took up the prac- taj tice of law in Buffalo. Two years ago he was appointed District Judge on gcr the Western Circuit of this State. He ser Ib also a trustee of Cornell University. jg Orator James O'Rourke. while he h0] vhas only recently retired from active bee 1 'baseball, has been a practicing attor- j3 , ney in Bridgeport for many years. poi Captain Adrian C. Anson, of the bai Chicago Club, was elected City Clerk hai of the Windy City through his con- mi: nection with baseball. Dick Cogan, sin who pitched for Chicago and other in clubs, was an Alderman in Paterson Up and afterward was elected City Clerk ste of the Jersey town. sta Fultz, Too, a Lawyer. yet David Fultz, who played good ball a 1 for the Baltimore, Philadelphia Athletics and New York Americans, is doing well at the practice of law In j this city. Fultz also shines as a leader of prayer meetings and is a very popular speaker. He never fails to say a good word for the national the game. In a recent lecture Fultz said: ap] "Baseball is usually undermined by Ge f those who know the least of the mer- livi its of the great game. It teaches a tro man among other things to be fair, ho! He acquires the habit of self-control liv anH fhe> vlrtup of iiprspveranppi Hp me muk not lose his temper; if he does att lie cannot be a good ball player. He Wi must learn to repress the temptation the which often confronts him of doing abi ! injury to his opponent; he must ac- ei? cept the discipline dealt out by um- da! pire and manager, and he must keep wil in mind the rules. If he fails in these Fr requirements he becomes mean and fai unmanly. Religion is an aid to good tin ball playing and* good ball playing cle CITY HORSES FR Mounted Squad Has 3001 I From That Breeders of the State of Missouri | cit seem, according to Bit and Spur, to I th< have a monopoly in the matter of fur- I Th nicliJnnr f h t\rT\o r% P hnrco rloum I flu I for use by the mounted squad of the an New York police force. all There is nothing so exacting about lig these horses that makes one section , sei of the country superior to any for th; their production, aad the fact that die up to this time this State has furnished them is more of a tribute to nic the enterprise of Missouri breeders Ne than it is to any special advantage th; possessed by that State for the pro- is duction of satisfactory horses for this gr< service. op These horses, which have acquired in im almost worldwide reputation, are th< required to be bays, with black vie manes and tails, and to be about six- ter teen hands high. The 300 now in the in [ates High Places overnor of Pennsylvania? e Risen to Prominence Business life, lps religion. The majority of those o play ball are good, clean men 3 gentlemen." William Goeckle. who played first se for the Philadelphia Club, is w a prosperous attorney in Wilkesrre. Hughey Jennings, the popular inager of the Detroit Tigers, has : shingle out in Scranton, where he ictices law. Hughey says he can't ord to retire altogether from base11 while he is making the money , job as manager of the Tigers pays Billy Sunday an Evangelist. Rev. William A. Sunday, known many years as Billy Sunday, one the stars of the Chicago team, has .de a remarkable record as an mgelist. That revival work pays ich better than baseball is demonofoH v?v tho fart that the Rev. Mr. nday recently received in the way contributions $3622.84 for one inth's preaching. Edward M. Lewis, for years well own as a pitcher of the Boston Nanal League team, is a graduate of divinity school in Massachusetts 3 is a regularly ordained clergy,n. He gave up the diamond to ac>t a professorship in Columbia Uni sity. Norwood R. Gibson, a graduate of tre Dame University, and for eight irs a pitcher for the Kansas City, ishington and Boston clubs, is an tructor in general and analytical jmistry in Wabash College. Danny Richardson, of the Giants, s late Mike Griffin, of the Brooklyn ab. are two ball players who re3d in their prime to become suesful business men. Richardson-is the dry goods business in Elmira i Griffin was the proprietor of a iwery in Utica when he died. Some of the players who used their jeball salaries to pursue the study medicine or dentistry are the late c. Bushong. of the St. Louis and ooklyn teams; Jimmy Casey, of icago and Brooklyn; G. Harris lite, of the Chicago White Sox; xry Gessler. of Washington; Mark ldwin, of Chicago and New York; stace Newton, of Toronto; the late .urice Powers, of the Philadelphia tiletics, and 3illy Scanlon, of the ooklyn Club. Children of professional ball playi have also become prominent [ped by the money their fathers de in the game. Sid Farrar, first seman of the Philadelphia Club in i eighties, spent all of his salary possibly could spare on the early isical educationof his gifted daugh. Geraldin Farrar, the soprano of i Metropolitan Opera Company, e learned Justice Frederick Crane, Brooklyn, is the son of Fred Crane, o played second base for the cham>n Atlantics, of Brooklyn, in the ties.?New York World. Iron Fishing. rhe bottoms of -many Swedish :es are covered to a thickness of or eight inches with fragments of n ore of the size of peas. This :e ore consists chiefly of ochre, or irated oxide of iron, mixed with cate and phosphate or iron, clay, id and other impurities, and is obned by very primitive methods, winter a hole is cut in the ice, a aper attached to a long pole is inted and all the ore within reach collected into a heap beneath the le. Some of the mud which has sn scraped together with the ore removed *jy stirring the mass with es and the ore is then scraped into ?s which have been sunk and is iled up. In summer this curious ning operation is conducted in a lilar manner from rafts anchored the lake. Two miners can bring about four tons of ore in a day. ;am dredges have recently been inlled in a few places. About thirty irs after the removal of the ore lew layer of the same thickness is ind to have been produced by natil chemical processes. ? London )be. The King's Right Hand Man. Lord Knollys, who, after serving s late King for forty years, has been pointed private secretary to King orge. comes of a singularly longed race. His father served as conller of the Prince of Wales' houseId until his eightieth year, and ed for six years after his retire int. and his grandfather likewise ained a great age. His ancestor, lliam Knollys, who also served in ? household of two monarchs, Ellzsth and James I., died at the age of :hty-flve, and. according to Dugle, "rode a hawking'and hunting thin half a year of his death." Sir anci6 Knollyo, who founded the nily fortune, was eighty-two at the le of his death.?Lundon ChroniOM MISSOURI. ' hatched Bays Mostly . State. y's service are practically nil of i same height, weight and color, ey are a higher class horse than i ones used in the cavalry service, d yet such horses may be found in iho liorse breeding stales lntetence and good looks are more esttial for tb?.' mounted police horse in speed ot high education as sad> liorses. When it is oonsidoreJ that thr> funis mounted police squadron of w York has been in existence less in teu years and that its efficiency recognized as toeing one of the fittest of modern municipal develments it is not difficult to see that the near future the demand for i proper type of horse for this ser:e will be such as to claim the atition of the breeders of every State the Union. ' GENERAL D. PORFIRIO DI.A I Calculating Rule and Pencil Holder. For the benefit of the engineer and draftsman who is required to : make hasty calculations, a combined j pencil holder and calculating rule has recently been devised. The calculat | Calculating Rule and Pencil Holder. | ing rule is of tubular form, and is fitted with a slide indicator, formed ' in the shape of a cuff. One part of ( the tube comprising the rule is pro; vided with a slide member, which is ' graduated and used in the manner ' of the ordinary slide of a calculating | rule. Within the tube a pencil may ; be fitted. By thus combining the rule , and pencil, the danger of mislaying ; the rule is avoided, and the coin' bined instrument is of convenient i form to carry in the vest pocket.? , Scientific American. i - A Plant Watering Scheme. Persons engaged in rearing house| hold plants are often in a quandary ; when it is desired to leave the house temporarily without neglecting the j planta. An arrangement can be readily j rigged up so that the necessary water j will be supplied to the soil automati! cally. Take a bowl of water and j raise it well above the level o>.' the [ plant, to be watered by means of a l>ox or a pue or dooks. iwisi several i .strands of common darning wool toI getlier to form a long thread and soak | them in the water. If one end be ! hung over the bowl and the other end : left iu the water a steady drip, drip j will commence and continue until the I I bowl i3 empty.?London Globe. ' ^HE^EVV^iaRT^AND^T] , the train if you keep on trying to run Pillow Made of Wire. ! At first thought the idea of a wire' j pillow does not give a pronounced impression of comfort. On mature consideration, however, it will be j Been that this pillow, the invention I ' I i A Sanitary Device. 4 . >* J ^B^jff^3|jRMHP|H^B'> \\)\^V^^ v':>vi Z, PRESIDENT OF MEXICO, I | Boilermaker Best Lawyer. In spite of the fact that Vincent J. Thompson, a young boilermaker, | arrested on a charge or moving mort- i gaeed property from Michigan City ! to Gary, was opposed at his trial by ; two of the ablest members of the bar j at Hammond, Ind., he pleaded his ! own case so well and baffled the pros, j ecution without the aid of a lawyer that a jury in Judge Ames' court i found him not guilty. Thompson j j compelled one witness to swear that j he did not know the difference between a kitchen table and a cabinet. ! All the oratory of the lawyers availed i nothing against Thompson's clever j cross-questioning. i Book-Marking System. Among the recent inventions is a very ingenious book-marking system designed for usje by teachers, students and others who have occasion to read from or consult different parts of a book. The scheme consists of a series of target-shaped cards of grad- | uating width and of sufficient length to rest across the page and protrude from the edges of the leaves. The extending end of this is marked with figure, letter or other note suiting the convenience of the one having occasion to consult the book. The other end of the slip is nttea wun a | rubber band, which is of sufficient I proportions to fit around the volume from top to bottom. The function of this is to hold the marker in place and to permit of an arrangement of markers in such a way that one will , not overlap another and hide it from| view. For a lecturer having occasion ! to refer frequently to the different < parts of??. book during the course of j his remarks the convenience of this scheme will be readily appreciated.? ' ' Washington Star. BfEPOETR^OFMOTION. I Hurry up, Mabel; you'll never catch i."?From Punch. i of an Illinois man, is both comfort| able and sanitary, particularly the I latter. The device consists of a metal | frame, the salient feature of which is two substantially parallel side bars, ! curved on the arc of a circle. These J bars are fastened ends up and on top , of them rests a fine wire screen, fast- , ened at the corners so that the body j of the screen yields to any pressure j i or weight laid upon it. Nuts at the | ; ends of the curved bars, enable one j to adjust the frame as to vary the j tension of the cover. The whole is covered with a sheet of thin pad ana the screen yields to the head as readily as a down pillow. The principal < advantage of this pillow is its sanitary i i merits, as it affords no home for j germs, and for that reason is of particular value for use in institutions. ?Boston Post. Brazil exported about 8S,OOO,OO0 pounds of rubber in 1909, calendar 1 year, half to Europe and half to the United States. It was the largest 1 year's export of Brazilian rubber on record. THE PULPIT. kN ELOQUENT SUNDAY SERMON BY OR. W. G. M'CREADY. Tlieme: Christ's Supremacy. Brooklyn, N. Y.?The new rector >f St. Peter's Church, the Rev. Dr. William George McCreddv. successor :o the Rev. Dr. Lindsay Parker, began lis pulpit duties Sunday morning. He ivas greeted by a large audience. Dr. VIcCready preached astraight. pimple, ret forceful gospel sermon and made i fine impression. His subject was "Christ's Supremacy." He took his Lext from I. Corinthian's 2:1-5: "And I. brethren, when I came to eou, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God. "For I determined not to know anything among you. save J6sus Christ, and Him crucified. "And I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling. "And My speech and My preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the spirit and of power; "That your faith should not stand In the wisdom of men, but in the power of God." Dr. McCready said: It was a custom among the Romans to go up once a year to Rome, and to renew the oath which they took as soldiers of the empire, to Caesar. So we come to-day to take our sacramentum. and to proclaim afresh our declaration of a purpose to believe, and to follow Jesus Christ. In correspondence with that idea, and also in correspondence with the practice which I have preserved through the years of my ministry, I always preach my first sermon from this text, because I feel that one of the things which the congregation desires is that the man who stands in the pulpit and who orrers tne spiritual sacrifice of God's table, shall, without any ambiguity, make declaration of his faith in Jesus Christ, that in this age, this disturbed age, this age of religious distraction, men want some harbor of safety, men want some anchor of hope, men want some security, that in the evening of life, when the body is weary, they may lay their heads on that hope. And so, as year succeeds year of my ministry I feel constrained to reiterate these statements of my faith, first of all, with the simplicity of the scheme of redemption. with the simnlicity of the great work of Jesus Christ. Men to-day care nothing about the technicalities of one's creed. Men's creed to-day Is Jesus Christ and Him cruicifled; that in Him?not in some theory or speculation about Him. but in Him?men may find their hope and security. What matters it to me that men in their speculation shall discover in the confines of this book of God the doctrine of election? That they find there that God fixed the number to be saved or to be lost? What matters it if men find that those that are of the elect of God can never fall away? What matters it if in these speculations men find that I have a warrant of Jesus Christ, who calls me personally to come unto Him, not in p ft rr a q or trro or o f 1 nn hllf i:axi3 uic IU cvuac? w(5?5* vfcjL.w?x/??, ?.?v calls me personally to come unto Him and be at rest. Here, friends, here is a warrant for my hope. I find warrant also in the conversation between Christ and Nicodemus, who comes to Him by night to ask Him certain question, and the answer is that "God so loved the world that He sent His only begotten Son. that whosoever believes in Him shall not perish, but shall have ever- 1 lasting life." Let men speculate in the cool, damp prison of Calvinism, and I shall put the sunshine of 'whosoever" opposite it, to say, it matters not how distracted men are, I shall point them to these placid words of Jesus Christ, and so take Him- and find peace in Him. I feel in coming here this morning that it is a great privilege to stand in this pulpit. It requires but little information vabout,this church to find how matters have gone in the parish, I how men and women have gone home to God so thoroughly equipped and provided for that blessed heritage which God has promised. It has been a privilege for you men and women to live in this blessed atmosphere, it is a great privilege to feel that mystic union, that spiritual relationship between those on earth and those in that Paradise where Christ shall set up His kingdom, and His children will be with Him. And I want to main-) tain the prestige of this pulpit. You say that is a difficult thing to do. it is not difficult, if I obtain the prayers and sympathy of those who worship . here. Christ's process is a heavenly 1 process, and so the process of reju- I venation is a heavenly process. IJ cannot explain to you the coming together of the people of a congregation. I cannot explain to you how in the taking of this blessed sacrament of the body and blood of Jesus Christ, God Savested the blessed recipient with heavenly grace. I cannot explain to you when you are asking a special blessing on the rector who is ministering to you day after day. That is a spirit?it may seem oldfashioned, but that is a spirit of abandon which I possess when it comes to the things pertaining to God. Nothing is paradoxical, nothing is incomprehensible to me in the scheme of God. I take the Bible from lid to lid. I take the miracles set forth in the Bible without question. I accept them in the fulness of my heart, because God is not God unless He puts into these works His own power. His own spirit, His own love. I have seen men sent from the transcendent heightsof splendid manhood down to the dismal depths of degradation. I have seen a face marred with the marks of sin, and the body heavy with the weight of sin. And I have seen this same individual rejuvenated with the spirit of God. It is transmutation of the elements of the individual. It is bringing the whole man into play, according to God's direction. I believe that to-day the church Etands forth more glorious than it has sver stood, because the Spirit has been operating in its own way in the hearts of men. The Spirit now is operating more than it has since the days of Pentecost, and raising up devout laymen to a sense of their responsibility in this matter of missions. This is the work of the church of God. You remember that after the Germans, in the war between France and Germany, had entered Versailles, they gathered in one of the great icorrff In the palace; and there on the plationm stood William, Emperor of Germany, his son, Frederick, and his grandson, the present Emperor of Germany; and that aggregation of men who assembled, men who there contemplated the picture of the three men who stood on the platform, the aeed William, his delicate son. and his grandson, found perhaps CffmTBfr to their minds something of the h!tt? tory of their country. They had reached the climax, perhaps, of the history of their Fatherland in that they had invaded the country of their enemy, and secured a great conquest, and those m*?n as one man raised their swords above the heads of these three men and renewed their fidelity, their service to their country. Mr. Gladstone went to church every morning of everv year at 7 o'clock, j because he realized how much he j needed the nower of God in the premiership. So it was with the Marquis of Salisbury and with Disraeli, the three greatest statesmen, perhaps, , that Great Britain has ever had. They sought for this solace and comfort and strength, so that they might un- . derstand their duty. So It is with us. We come this | morning Tuflt ca T am, without ore pW, But that Thv blood was shed for me. And that Thou bifid eat-me come to Thee, 0, Lamb of God, I come, I come. I hoDe that there is somebody com- i ing this morning, some man who for some reason has not been coming to this blessed table, who wants to come to sanctify his resolution to proclaim to God his purpose to take upon himself these responsibilities. I remember years ago a man entered St. James' Church. Chicago. His dress showed he was from the Far West. He said to one of the ushers, "T want to see the rector." The usher told him that it was too late then to see the rector, that he was putting U1I LI 13 VC9tUlCUI.9 1U1 LUC OCl v 4. *?v? 1 man said, "Perhaps you can help me. Twenty years ago I lived in the East. T went to church. Then I went West. There was no church where I was. T drifted away from God. And now, at the end of twenty years, I want to come back. T am hungry. I want to renew the vow that I made in my youth. I want to know if I can c^rae to holy communion and take it." The usher was a practical man. and he t.ook the hymnal and showed him that hymn and they went together. Now. my friends, we have talked about Socialism and the various isms that are to deal with various conditions, but I tell you, I have studied them, and I know that the only one to solve that is Jesus Christ and Him crucified. Every man is a brother. It is not philosophy, but the affection which we have for Jesus Christ which makes us love our brother. And the man who loves Jesus Christ and believes that He was crucified, that ia the man who ts willing to take his ' brother by the hand. I My friends, let us have, before the Lenten season closes, before the Whitsuntide, let us have the Holy Ghost upon this congregation; let us have the full power of His truth and our duty, and then we have the out- 1 pouring of the spirit here, and others will come. And therefore I begin my service and my mission as your rectot in this imperfect fashion, simply of /? IT/-.,, flia OVmiWttlV /if fl m?Tl I IC1 1U5 IAJ J \J U WMV o; v. M I love men. No man has too frequently fallen into temptation to prevent me from leading him back to God. In God's good time He puts upon him the stamp of His favor. In God's good time He plants upon him the sunshine of hoDe. and nuts out his ; hands for help and strength. We are reminded of what the Car-.! thagenians wrote upon Hannibal's monument: "We greatly desired him in the day of battle." And so we de- ! sire Jesus Christ in our day of battle, : and all the theories and isms shall be as wrecks along the road of time. The j efficacious work of His sacrament i shall be visible to men everywhere, | and they shall thank God for the glo- i rious opportunity of believing in Him. ! What Christ Wants. is there nothing that Christ. a? | your friend, your Lord, your Saviour, j wants you to do that you are leaving j undone to-day? Do you doubt one in- j stant that it is His will that you 1 chrmiri hnTinr and helo and bless all I the men about you who are His brethren? And are you doing anything like that? Do you doubt one instant that His will is that you should make life serious and lofty? Do you doubt one instant that He wants you to be pure in deed and word and thought? And are you pure? Do you doubt one instant that His command is for you openly to own Him, and declare that you are His servant before all the world? And have you done it? These are questions which make the whole j matter clear. Not in quiet lanes nor in bright ; temple court?, as once He spake, and not from blazing heavens as men , sometimes seem to expect ? not so ; does Christ speak to us. And yet He j speaks! I know what He?there in < all His glory?He here in my heart? I wants me to do to-day, and I know j that I am not mistaken in my knorrt- | edge. It is no guess of mine. It is j His voice that tells me. ? Phillips Brooks. The Way of Peace. Be it ours indeed to follow on to know and do! To give up all selfish- j ness and pettiness and sin?thrust i them far from us, and turn our hearts j and wills to good. May we not always i [ seek our own selfish pleasure only! | For, so, we can never come into real rejoicings of spirit or divine peace of mind. We shall be ever in turmoil. May we know, the rather, that there is jsl higher law than that of self-pleasing, and that this higher law is selfdenial ? willing, self-sacrificing for noble ends. Then, in our lives, instead of winds contrary, and wild seas, we shall find turmoil subsiding. The eternal comfort shall whisper. "Peace, be still!" And there shall be a great calm.?- J James H. West, in "Uplifts of Heart j nnrt Will " A Blood Poison. , Hesiod said: "Dishonest gains are as bad as losse3. Whatever a man shamelessly seizes, be it ever so little, poisons his blood." This is a bottom fact?theft, graft, extortion, porisons , the blood; it makes a bad character. We think that a little dishonesty is a i definite thing that goes no further I than the act itself; that a person is I guilty of a little theft, and that is all it amounts to; that the sin is located j like a scratch or a pimple. But no; j the dishonesty germ gets into the ' hinnri nnri noisons that, and makes the | fault constitutional, ready to produce j all kinds of fault?. There is tLie harm. If is not in I the isolated fact. It poisons the Mood. It weakens the whole man. ?Ohio State Journal. Unloving Speech a CJreat Evil. "The habit of unloving feeds on nothing, and grows unconsciously. 'If any man offend not in word, the same is a perfect man, and able alao to bridle tlie whole body'?so witnesses a New Testament authority. A little watchfulness and good sense put in at this point will bring blessings quick in corning and valuable beyond description."?Pittsburg Chrlatian Advocate I THE GREAT DESTROYER ' . SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT THE VICE OF INTEMPERANCE. j __ An Appeal From a i)nnKer. The following pathetic and tragic * letter is published in the American Magazine: .mm "About seven years ago I had a ) -) wife and one child and held a civil service position which would have insured me a good salary the rest of . my days if I had not gone to drinking. I lost my posLtion on account of drink, was suspended from my lodge for misconduct while intoxicated, and: finally got to where I could not even get work as a common laborer. I tried to reform, but found it impossible if I stayed in my home town; I ' [ tried to persuade my wife to move "J somewhere else or to let me go and then come to me after I had become established somewhere else. She refused to leave or to let me do so, and finally I ran away from them in order, to get away from the drink. "I have been spending the past three years in the extreme 'backwoods' section of this State (Florida), suarding prisoners on turpentine farms, and absolutely away from all liquor?yet when I had occasion . to make a snort trip to one 01 our larger .cities a few weeks ago it waff one tremendous and continuos struggle to keep out of the bar-rooms, and I hope never to be obliged to spend another twenty-four hours in a 'wet' ' town. "This is the situation after a three years' trial at overcoming the liquor habit: _ My wife secured a divorce as soon after I left home as possible, and > at thirty-five years of age I am obliged to stay away out in the ' # woods, cut off from everything I consider makes life worth living, following an uncongenial occupation and. afraid to go among the,.people I used: to for fear of again falling. If you can, through your magazine, create 4 sentiment that will make this counttry safe for those of us who. have c fallen, it will certainly be appreciated ; , >2 by me at any rate." Bar and Bottle Law. > The Boston Herald, after a thor- , ''$ ough investigation, has decided on the reason for the opposition of the brewers of Masachusetts to the new/ . .i. "bar and bottle" law in that State* which goes into effect next year. The! law takes from the saloon the rtgftfc ^ to sell bottled liquors. It leaves ta -p. the holder of the first class license the right only to sell liquors "to be drunk on the premises." Its,purpose is to prevent 'the workingman who has bought drinks in a saloon buying in the same place?frequently ?bottled liquor to be taken away. . with which to continue his drinking, oh the streets or in his home. "The ' }' brewers,*' says the Herald, "were the interests apparently most interested ^ in the defeat of the bill. Why should a bar and bottle bill, whose purposes are as above described, co concern gentlemen whose business is to brew beer? Here is the answer: More than eighty per cent, of the retail ,i:; liquor traffic i:i the city of Boston is controlled in whole or' in part by the ' local breweries and tlieir business ^ associates." N . f Our Nation's Million Drunkards. A startling statement, the truth of ' which there is no reason to dispute, was made a few days ago by Dr. Delancey Carter, of the New York Medical Society for the Study of Alcohol and Other Narcotics, before a session of the society in Philadelphia. He declared that one million persons in f cilia cuuuii7 iu"uajr ai c tuuui uicu inebriatea. Of t,hese one-third dio yearly as a result of drink, yet this number is annually made up by recruits %o the army of drunkards. Thus the total enrolment of 1,000,000 is kept up. This problem, he asserted, exceeds in sociological importance anything known to modern civilization. He ' urged institutions for their treatment, educational efforts and every legal method of restraint. The figures given by Dr. Carter are appalling. They are a tremendous argument against the drink habit. The wrecking of a third of a million bodies and souls by rum every year in our country shows the need of increased aggressiveness by every temperate man and woman against the saloon.?Christian Work and Evangelist. ? Time to Awake. In October, 1004, there were 3000 legal saloons in Iowa; in October, 1907, the number was 2000; July 1, 1908, the number had been reduced to 1757, and on February 1, 1910, the number was 1368. During the , month of January, 1910, twenty-three saloons were closed in the State, and * ' seventeen druggist permits were revoked. Des Moines, the capital city, with a population of 100,000, has ninety-five saloons, which is fewer than one to 1000 population, the legal limit. It is time for Iowa to wake up again and drive the saloon out! L<?t It Work Both Ways. If a saloonkeeper denies the right of the farmers living oxttside of town to vote on the licensing of saloons in the town, ask him what he would think of a law restricting the sale of liquor to people living in the town' Will the saloonkeeper insist that he has a right to fill a ra:.n with liquor and send him out intD the county to create a disturbance aud then deny that the people who are disturbed have a right to be heard? The farmers are beginning to see that they have rights as sacred as these claimed by the liquor dealer, ; Temperance Notes. Statistics show crime in Georgia lias decreased sixty per cent., and business has greatly improved under prohibition. Ireland has introduced the teaching of scientific temperance into the national schools. Temperance legislation for Ireland cannot Ions: be de layed.?Union Signal. A petition has been presented to the Servian Minister of ihe Interior for the appointment of a permanent commission to study the question ol Alcoholism.?National Prohibitionist. Officials in the International Harvester Company plant at Sterling, /II . so says the Chicago Tribune, have, placed a ban on liquor drinking employes Hereafter no man who confesses to taking even an occasional "nip" will be employed. The other day a man wearing the button emblem of the Personal Liberty League was brought before .Judge Fry, of Chicago. Containing himself as best he could the Judge finally broke out as follows: "Youi are about the tenth man wearing a button like that who has been before me within the last ten days to answer, to a charge of getting drunk and beating his wife.".