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^Conducted by the National Woman's Christian Temperance Union.) fro PROMOTE EFFICIENCY. The New York City Federation of ?Women's Clubs at a recent meeting, [adopted a resolution which we com mend to similar bodies the country ?over. It reads: Whereas, all railroads now require 'abstinence from alcoholic liquors of all conductors, engineers, firemen, ?train dispatchers and switchmen in ?the interest of public safety; and Whereas, the secretary of the navy has issued an order abolishing the of ficers' wine mess aboard warships in ithe interest of efficiency; and Whereas, the commissioner of In dian affairs has set the example of total abstinence and appealed to all employes in the Indian department to be r. personal object-lesson in the [enforcement . of the laws forbidding ?the sale of liquors to Indians; and Whereas, business firms are insist ing upon- abstinence from the use of liquors as a prevention against acci dents, and because of its relation to efficiency: therefore, Be it resolved, that we appeal to the bonni of education to require ab stinence from alcoholic liquors of all members of the supervising force of the public schools of the city of New York, including superintendents .and principals, of all teachers, clerks, janitors and their assistants, in the in terest of efficiency, and for the sake of the example set before the youth committed to their care. ?MR. DOOLEY ON TEMPERANCE. (From the New York Timos.) "King Alcohol no longer rules th' sea or th' land. Th' ladies have got (that binivolent ol' dishpot on his knees beggin' fr mercy an' they're 6ayin' to him, 'Did ye have mercy on us?' and ar-re gettin" ready to chop off his wicked ol' head. Take a dhrink, me boy, whether ye need it or not. Take it now. It may be ye'er last "I used to laugh at th' pro-hybi tionists; I used to laugh thim to scorn. But I laugh no more; they've got us on th' run. I wudden't be surprised at anny minyit if I had to turn this emporyum into an exchange fr wom en's wurrk. Whether ye like it or .not, in a few years there won't be anny saloons to lure the marri'd man frm his home, furnish guests fr our gr-reat asylums an' jails, an' brighten *up th' dark sthreets with their cheer ful clnw I don't carp I - ** man who dhrinks modbvateiy ougnt to be allowed to have what he wants." "What is his name?" asked Mr. Dooiey. '-'What novel is he in?" "THERE'S A REASON. Scientific investigation has demon strated that the drinking of a glass of wine or beer, lowers a man's muscu lar efficiency for. 24 hours about 8 per e??nt. Three glasses a day regu larly is cumulative in its effect. In 12 days ordinary muscular efficiency goes down 25 pc cent in the average, and mental activity Go per cent. This, observe, is the result of the use of the "milder drinks," beer and wine, not of wiiisky. There is good business reason, we sec, for the elimination of ?the drinking employe by railroad com panies and industrial corporations. Tht-re ls a common-sense reason for the order of the secretary of the navy banishing the officers' wine' muss. There is every reason-scien tific, economic, moral-for the aboli tiva of the liquor 'raffle throughout tnese United States and all territories rt?ject to the jurisdiction thereof. CiTY REPORTS LARGE BALANCE. That its no-license policy has in no "way proved detrimental to the finan cial condition of Aledo, UL, a city .whk'ft has been dry for thirty years, is anown by a balance of $43,067.45 in the treasury. "Aledo has no bonded Indebtedness," says the city treasurer. "About $12,000 was assessed against thr city as a public benefit for our live miles of pavement, which is all ?the city owes. We have a large part of our city sewered, also have a good water system and as good fire-fighting apparatus as any city in the state of three times our population." . NORWAY FOLLOWS SUIT. Word has reached Washington that tho Norwegian parliament has fol lowed the lead of Secretary DanielB of our navy department and adopted a resolution prohibiting the use of in toxicating liquors by officers of the ?Norwegian army and navy during their terms of service. Enlisted men r?rere already enforced abstainers. ALCOHOL IS UNNECESSARY. Alcohol is not necessary to any ?healthy individual. To some it is a luxury. To some a great temptation. Alcohol Is not essential; not only so, but it 1B absolutely deleterious to life. When It ls formed by living matter it 1B got rid of as soon as possible. Prof. Simms Woodhead, Sunderland. FIGHT AGAINST BEER. So grave are the evils caused by beer drinking that the fight against beer should now be conducted as strenuously as that Rgainst stronger liquors.-Dr. Legrain, Paris, France, [Noted Alienist WEARING ON NERVES DUTIES OF TRAIN DISPATCHER MOST ONEROUS. Man Directly Responsible for the Lives of Passengers and the Safe Transportation of Freight Must 3e Gifted. Since "safety first" became the slogan of railroads about five yeare ago, as opposed to "get there quick," there has been a most gratifying d9 crease in the. number of accidents. Railroads everywhere have been forced by public opinion to adopt the best mechanical appliances and to make the most stringent regulations for the protection of passengers. One road which had had a number of ac cidents attended by loss of life, was compelled to reorganize its entire signal system, as a result of public feeling after disclosures of a con gressional investigation. Pacific coast railroads have had few bad Wiecks in recent years, and one system operating on the Coa1-* boasts that it has carried S,OOO,OOO passen gers an average of one mile without a single fatality. j Tho m.""! directly refponsible for fte is always afraid he may issue the dread "Lap-order," which may cause a head-on collision. the movement of trains and the lives of persons carried by them is the train dispatcher-a telegraph operator chosen for this work because of his mathematical ability, his steady nerves, good habits, executive qualifi cations ano" Irnnarlo/*"- - " tty to "make time" of every engineer and conductor. He signs the superin- j tendent's inittalr to his orders, and la In direct charge of the oparatior of trains. Thus the dispatcher's responsibility is far more than to keep the trains apart, he must get them over the road nr. the maximum of speed consistent with safety, and see that every work train,- extra freight and every light locomotive is kept moving without accident. On a big train sheet he keeps tally of everything that travels between stations, and as each station operator reports trains arriving or de parting, the dispatcher marks the time on his sheet. Special trains, extra freights, help er, locomotives and work trains are some of the things that turn the dis patcher's hair gray, or make it fa/J out. He always is afraid he may for get one of them, and issue the dread ed "lap order" which may cause & head-on collision. Inventor of Steel Rails. The first modern steel rails of the type which made high speed railway operation possible were designed by Pliramon Henry Dudley, who was :born at Freedom, 0., seventy-one years ago. H*< became a civil and metallurgical engineer, and after four years as chief engineer of the city of Akron, 0.,?he turned his attention to railroading and transportation problems. Dudley's first invention, the dyna graph, was made in 1S74. He perfect ed ' the track indicator in 18S0 and three years later designed the first five-inch steel rails used in America. In 1892 he introduced the first six-inch 100-pour.c1 rails. Another of his inven tions which made the famous "flyer?" of today possible vas the stremmato graph. an instrument for obtaining and registering strains in rails under mov ing trains. Blackbird Starts Trains. The police and railroad authorities at the station of Basle, Switzerland, have been searching for the last two months for the criminal who has been giving the regulation whistle for the departure of trains from the depot at regular hours and thereby endanger ing the traffic. Several trains were sent off before their time by these whistles, and had to be called back, while in some cases collisions were narrowly avoided. The culprit was found in a blackbird, who had built a neat inside the depot and learned to imitate the guard's whistle. Gen darmes received orders to shoot it Chile Improving Railroad Linea. Chile will raise *10,2l9.Cr.O this year for improvements on state railroads and $U2,921,21.r> for betterments will be raised In the next five years. SALVAGE FflOM LOST SHIPS Specie in Quantity Has on Occasion? Been Recovered From the Victims of the Ocean's Fury. Although the chances of being able to do so are considered doubtful, since she lies in 17 fathoms of water, the Canadian Pacific railway has not abandoned all hope of refloating the Empress of Ireland. At any rate, every effort will be made to recover the ?200,000 worth of silver, in 1C3 bags, which is still in the specie room of the sunken liner. The most notable salvage of silver during recent years was made after the Oceana sank in the channel in March, 1912, through collision with the Pisegua. The work was hindered by strong currents and tides, but during the succeeding three months silver worth over ?500,000 was recovered at a very low cost. The Oceana was ly ing quite upright; the Empress of Ire land turned turtle-obviously a very much more difficult position for sal vage work. The ?200,000 worth of silver, how ever, rej.resents but a small portion of the money which went down with the ill-fated vessel; for thousands of pounds belonging to the passengers themselves must have been lost. Tho average passenger cn one of these liners usually carries a plentiful sup ply of loose cash and bank notes r.ilh him, and it is estimated, as in the case of the/Titanic, t'^.at the loss of paper money belonging to passengers them selves must have been enormous. The b..:.ks. it might be mentioned, are the gainers in such cases, ^he usual procedure when bank notes are lost is to at once inform the Bank of England, giving the numbers. Then it is necessary to wait 12 months. If by that time the notes have not been re turned to the bank, you may obtain the cash on again presenting the num bers and giving the bank a letter of indemnity, guaranteed by your bank ers, to refund the money should the notes ever be presented, in which case the bank is bound to pay again. If the numbers on the bank notes are unknown, and the notes are never found, the money goes to the un claimed bank balances, in which there are always huge amounts of other peo ple's money.-London Tit-Bits. Light Humor. . In the latter half of the eighteenth century one of the members of a little scientific society in Liverpool, Eng land, laid a curious wager. He bet a brother scientist that he would read a newspaper by the light of a farthing dip at a distance of 30 feet. The B. H fir./!*-- ?-* JJ?-?* -A the small print at the stipulated dis tance. The experiment was witnessed by a Liverpool dock-master. He was a thinking man, and saw great possibili ties in this learned jest. He straight way adapted the principle to light house requirements, and forthwith the modern reflected light, with its miles of reflected range and untold life-sav ing powers, sprang into being. Doil Too Much Like Baby. This is a true story: There is a little girl on tho East side of New York to whom a beautiful woman wanted to give a doll. The woman brought the little girl into her luxurious home one day and put into her arms a doll such a doll as is popularly supposed to be dear to the hearts of little girls who live on the East side. But tho little girl drew back with an ugly scowl. She didn't want the doll, and she ?aid so. The beautiful woman thought her a very ungrateful child. It was not until, some time after ward the little girl explained. She'd always had babies to take care of, she said. She'd had them to lug around with her almost as soon as she was able to walk. She loved them,, of course, but at play time-when there was such a thing m play time-she really didn't want a doll. It was too much like the rabies. Volcanoes Again In Action. Some of the volcanoes in the Sanglr islands are in eruption. The streams of lava have burned down woods and cocoa plantations, and a rain cf stone has caused damage throughout the whole surrounding country. Above a hundred houses have collapsed. Sev eral of the Sangir islands, which are almost midway between Mindanao, Philippines, and Celebes, have active volcanoes, the most Important being Gukong Abu, on Great ' Sangir, by eruption of which many thousands of lives have been lost. Its worst re corded outbursts were in 1711, 1812, 1856, 18P3 and 1892. In the last men tioned year the northwest portion of the island entirely disappeared, car rying 2,000 people with it. Worthy of Remembrance. Thc two hundredth anniversary of the birth of Ephraim Williams, founder of Williams college, will be celebrated by that institution on October 8 next Unlike most college founders, Wil liams was not a clergyman, but a sol dier. For his fignt against the French in Canada the commonwealth of Mas sachusetts gave him 200 acres, on which he erected Fort Massachusetts. Caught by an ambuscade of French and Indians, he was shot in the head in 17fC and died, leaving funds for the beginning of tho college on the site of the fort. IN A LITERARY BROTHtn.^??, - i Men of Great Literary Attainments Whose Friendship Has Been Made a Matter of History. It was Rcsetti, the great friend, who described Mr. Theodore Watts-Dun- ? ton, the famous poet, novelist and crit- j ic, as "A Hero of Friendship." Feel Inga of almost brotherly love existed i between Watts-Dunton and Tennyson, j Browning, James Russell Lowell, j George Borrow, Millais, Holman Hunt j and Swinburne, to mention but a few j of a famous literary brotherhood. In deed, the intimacy which existed be-1 tween Swinburne and Watts-Dunton, which might well be described as one j of the most beautiful friendships in the history of literature and art, led to their being referred to as "David and Jonathan." For many years they were never separated. They lived together at the Pines, Putney, took their summer holi days in company, and practically spent every working hour together, discuss ing literary matters and affairs. All Swinburne's papers were left to Mr. Watts-Dunton, and it was hoped that he would write the famous poet's bi ography. Like many other liters ry men, Mr. Watts-Dunton cared little for society, although occasionally he v".s lured ??tth to play the "lion" at big recep tions. It v. a j on ene such occasion that a guest came up to him and shook his hands in such an effusive manner as to embarrass the novel ist. "I see," soM the stranger, "ycu don't know me from Adam." "My dear sir," said Mr. Watts-Dun ton, "I never knew Adam." It ?3 said that this was the only occasion when Mr. Watts-Dunton per petrated a joke. At the same time he was one of the kindliest of men, and, unlike other recluses, took the greatest interest in the affairs of the world. Wireless telegraphy appealed to him very much, and the story of the rescue of the passengers and crew of the Volturno moved him to tears. "It was the grandest thing of my time," he once exclaimed, "the sum moning of all those ships to the res cue." The novelist, by the way, was a great believer in hard work. All his life he was accustomed to getting up at six o'clock or soon after, and go ing to bed at ll at night; and he could invariably be seen each after noon during the fine weather taking his two-mile walk across Putney Heath by the road he and Swinburne BO often trod together. tile against his skin the colored man dropped his truck and ran into the street, shouting lustily. Instead of aiding the terror-stricken man his dark-skinned companions laughed at him and assured him they could see nothing on his wrist, and declared that the liquid refreshments he took with his noonday meal had made him "see things." Beads of perspiration trickled down Thomas* face as he tried to rid him self of his live bracelet. Suddenly the reptile uncoiled it self,'dropped to the street, and wrig gled through a crevice in the wharf. Exclusive. A young man had decided to Join the Episcopal church, but his family were all Baptists, <-o he thought he should be immersed when baptized, and on goit % to the rector of the Epis copal church he made a request for such a baptism. The rector decided that it could be quite easily accom plished and said he'would speak to the Baptist minister about it The Baptist minister, on hearing this, was quite delighted and readily agreed to baptize and take the young man into the church the following Sunday morning, but said the rector: "He just wants you to baptize him and he wants to join my church." The good Baptist minister then re plied by saying: "We do all our own washing, but we don't take in other people's washing."-Exchange. Might Wed a Bachelor. A little girl of six sat looking thoughtfully out the window of her home the other day. Her motlier asked the cause of her seriousness. "Oh,1 she replied, "I was just think ing that when I grow up to be a big lady I'm a-goin' to get married and have three children." The parent waa surprised and amused. "Well, you will be very fortunate, indeed," she said. Then the little girl again lapsed into thought. Finally she said: "But you can never tell, mother. I might marry a bachelor." Hagar or Flight. Hagar, which in Hebrew meana "flight," was the handmaiden of Sa rah and mother of Abraham's eldest son Ishmael. She was of Egyptian origin. Her flight, as recorded in Genesis 16 and her expulsion, chapter 21, are from the Jahvlstlc and Elobis tic sources respectively, and present interesting points of comparison. She was regarded as the ancestress of the Hagarenes or Hagarites, described in ? Chronicles, 5:10, and Paul uses her ns a type of the old covenant (Sinai) and the earthly Jerusalem in Gala 3 Edgefield A and Rep Auto Repairing a S pei teed. Prices Reasonable. CARS FOR HIRE. OT Phone 7 J. ? GEO. W. ADA YOU WO! FOR YOU! 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