TEMPERANCE CORNER
NOTES OP INTEREST TO THE
ANTI-LIQUOR LEAGUES.
“CUaglAjr to ■torlh” —Alcohol ut Dir
Mt» —Tit a tr Kiwptr of >bt Op'tol
B*r Mty» That Oar UvIOKm Are
Mot Am WleJMd m Th«j An retateO.
>SbIP
'JEfiHr*
< things would dwell.
X' 00 not die! tbo flowers of earthly
loro
Shed their rich fragrance on * kin
dred heart;
Thera may bo purer, brighter flowers
* bov e, ~ .
Tot with these ones't would be too
hard to part.
1 dream of heaven. and well I love
these dreams,
They scatter eunllght on my varying
way;
But ’mid the cloud! of earth are price
less gleams
Os brightness, and on earth oh let
me stay.
It Is sot that my lot la void of gloom,
That sadness never circles round my
heart;
Nor that I fear the darkness of the
tomb,
That I would never from the earth
depart
Tie th«t I love the world —Us cares.
Its sorrows,
Its bounding hopes, Its feelings fresh
and warm.
Mtofh cloud it wear*, and every light
It borrow*—
Loves, wishes, fears, the sunehlne
and the storm.
I love them all; but closer still the
loving
Twine with my being’s cords and
make my Ufa;
Aad while within thla eunllght I am
moving,
I well can bide the storms of worldly
strife.
Then do not let me die! for earth la
bright,
Aad I am earthly, so I love it well;
Heaven Is a land of holiness and light,
But 1 am frail, and with the frail
would dwell.
Uttla Drinking In Cnngrsssi
From toe New, xork Sun: "Even
tTiffngii the Hone bill prohibiting the
•ale of liquor in tbo national capitol
become a law,” said Thomas J.
Hurray, formerly manager of the res
taurant in the house of representatives
In Washington, "very little hardship
would be experienced by the members
of Congress. As a matter of fact the
only sufferers would be a very few
' bibulous official®, the visitors, and the
loungers in or members of tbo -third
house. The perennial agitation of the
ronfressiwisl liquor question and the
many salsa reports about the dosing
scenes In Congress have caused a great
many people to Imagine that the aver
age national statesman la a hard,
djtnker. Hy four years in the capitol,
aa proprietor of the restaurant In the
house of representatives, gave me ex
cellent opportunities lor studying the
aortal and convivial aide of Congres
sional life, and I can truthfully state
that all the stories about congressman
H»t«g hard drinkers are absolutely
false. It stands to reason that among
n body of 858 men from all over tbo
Union then should be a few who drink
to excess. It Is likely to surprise most,
readers of dally papers to learn, how
ever, that the hard drinkers never
numbered mors than flva during my
four years’ observations. This to the
more remarkable when we take into
consideration the many Invitations
and the temptations to drink to which
congressmen era subjected. The num
ber of steady drinkers who indulged
In from two to four drinks a day and
never showed the effects of what they
drank numbered rarely more than
fifty. When there were night sessions,
or prolonged exciting debates, a much
larger number of members would on
such occasion* use stimulants, but
they did not make a daily practice of
doing ao. Notwithstanding' that the
Morae bill paswd tbe house by vot<|
of KM to 7,1 believe there wUi always
be liquor sold at the capitol, and the
care with which the average congress
man looks after hi* reputation will
always ha!d In ehsck any tippling pro
divides be may bring to Congren
with him. The dosing hours of the
Fifty-third Congress have been pic
tured hy a number of space writer* m
y~t*g a meet debaring scene— ln fact,
a saturnalia. Notwithstanding the in
tense excitement, and tbs long night
aad day session, there were only two
of Congress who oould be
elurad wader the head of drank, and
they did not g*t their liquor in the
raaUumat, but In ocmmiuee rooms.
H; DO not let ms
dlsl the earth
. to bright.
And I am earth
ly, so I love U
well;
Though heaven to
holler, and all
full of light.
Yet 1 am frail,
and with frail
Thinking (hat the restaurant world be
closed on that memorable Sunday.
March 8, 1895, parties Interested In
various pet measures stocked certain
committee rooms with liquor and food.
These being tree, the hangers-on pro
ceeded to load up qnlte extensively,
the result being that there were a
number of people seen at tbs capitol
under the Influence of liquor. These
people were not allowed in the restau
rant by (he police etatloned at the
doors, but they kicked up a great deal
of noise and one or two rows, esus-ng
strangers to Imagine they were of
some importance and might be con
gressmen. A lived-up-to rule prevent
ing strangers from the privileges of the
restaurant unless accompanied by
members woud quickly put an end to
all these stories about bibulous con
gressmen. Mr. Morae cannot be blamed
very much for intxwdulong the bill pro
hibiting the sals of liquor In the cap
itol. for he bos suffered personally
from the Baochanolian habits of one
member. Mr. Morse went to Speaker
Reed and bitterly complained that he
was unable to get bis cmomlttee to
meet or act owing to the condition of
the chairman. The speaker told kirn
that, should the committee be again
called together for a business meeting
and the chairman fal) to appear he
(Horse) ahould take the chair, call the
committee to order and continue as
chairman of the committee."
Alcohol sad Disease.
A man was recently brought into
one of the public hospitals of a largo
city suffering from a bruise. He had
fallen backward across u narrow ob
struction of soma kind, and upon ex
amination it was found that he had
fractured one of the bones of the spine.
The buck was not what to commonly
called broken, but one of the bones
was cracked in each away that unless
an operation was performed and the
pressure of the fragment upon the
spinal, cord relieved, paralysis and
probably collapse would follow. The
operation, though comparatively rare,
is not excessively difficult, and the
man’s chsncs for recovery would have
been at least an even one, hut when
the surgeons ordered him to bo pre
pared for the operation it was noticed
that bo bore marks of being addicted
to drink. The operation waa Immedi
ately abandoned, and the man died
within a week. To the casual reader
It might seem a case of professional
hemrtlessnsss. But the doctor knew
—from sufficient experience la Just
such cues—how powerless the man
would be, worn out aa be was by in
dulgence, to withstand the shock of an
operation. And since cases of a simi
tar sort are of frequent occurrence In
all our large public and private hospi
tals, it to worth while to Inquire into
the cauto of such a state of affairs and
to draw from It a teason and perhaps
a moral. The downward course of a
person who becomes enslaved to stim
ulants follows a natural law. Begin
ning with a sufficient quantity of alco
hol to produce a certain pleasurable
sensation, ho finds himself, quite as a
matter of course, gradually increasing
bta dally allowance. Alcohol stimulates
the various organa of the body to In
creased work. By this Increase of ex
ercise the organ grows, aad the larger
organ makes larger demands These
demands the tippler interprets as a call
for more alcohol, and so the round to
continued. Under excessive stimula
tion the substance of the body begins
to change Its character. Food which
cannot be used to stored up In the
form of fat Watery Instead of aolld
substances appear. Eventually the or
gans themselves change their appear
ance and begin to break down and de
cay. Then comes a crisis—through ac
cident or some acute disturbance—and
the unfortunate victim to unable to call
on nature to help him against the
shock—and death follow*.
Temperance Wet**.
Miss Francis is. Willard, president of
tbo World’s Women’s Christian Tem
perance union, baa announced that the
annual convention of the national and
dominion unions will be held on Oct
SI and Nov. 1, 1897, In the order of
mention, the national in. probably
either Buffalo or Detroit and the do
minion In Toronto.
Prohibition goes into effect in the
Transvaal thla month.
Judicial statistics of Scotland for
last year show that over 100,900 per
sons were arrested for drunkenness—
nearly one-flfth in Glasgow.
Miss Frances E./Willard, in.her an
nual address at the opening of the Na
tional Women's Christian Temperance
union convention, gave notice that the
National Woman’s Chrto.lan Temper
ance union would call upon all tem
perance and philanthropic societies
throughout the world to set apart
March SO, the birthday of Neal Bow,
as Prohibition day.
■■"■■■■■ II .m ■■■ : . iii u * *es
Otoh'i Kstaial Dae.
Another natural gas well hi* been
completed at Lake Shore, Utah, which
registers a pressure of 858 pounds, and
150.000 fast of gas from the new apout
er to now being tnrned Into the main*
of Salt Lake Pity daily.
Hm Dares fw*hr* Tran.
- A coal mine at New Etmltovllla, 0.,
waa aet afire by etriken twelve yean
ago, and was afterwards abandoned. It
I* stm burning. , ,
CHILDREN'S CORNER.
TIMELY TOPICS FOR OUR BOYS
AND OIRLS.
”My Lady* Ttpp**" —Ana far Child-
Imad—The Wrathful Says of J**»*
Ohrlat -A Ur|* Sqm of Moray Loot
Thro ugh ImpulltMiNi*
My Oidy TlppirbiF sTgrace ~
No queen could copy U ehe tried,
While eyas of gray ne’er looked from
faoe
So charming and so beautified.
Her laugh to tike a silver belt
That tinkles In the froety air;
Her smile Is like a fairy’s well,
Reflecting all the witchcraft there.
Her step to eoft, her touch is light—
As eoft and light as eiderdown—
And sweet her ways, which make me
knight,
And bid me for her win renown.
My Lady Tippet loves me true—
She toils m* so In tender wise
Whene'er she gives the kieses duo
To prove the love that underlies.
And ms? Ah me! no cloud I need,
Blnce she brings sunshine every day;
But life wonld be a blank Indeed
Without the child In tippet gray.
A nra for Childhood.
Yon do not know—you cannot tell
What magic lies In each caress
From baby’s hands; for childhood's
spell
r*nds not all men; and so, unless
You love a child, you cannot telL
You do not know—you do not dream
llow potent to that childish laugh;
For ears must understand the theme
The treble bears. It tells not half
To those whose hearts unconscious
Boom.
You do not know—yon do not think
How near to heaven these wee ones
are;
They stand upon a son-clad brink —
Bwest treasures sent us from afar
Bach little band a tender link.
The Boyhood of fan Cbrlot.
(By Rev. T. De Witt Tolmige. D. D.)
About Christ as a village lad in and
about Nazareth we have nothing in the
canonical boots, and yet it is as a boy
that we must consider him. There Is,
for the most part, a silence more than
eighteen centuries long about Christ
between Infancy and manhood. What
kind of a boy waa he? Was he a genu
ine boy at all, or did there settle upon
him from the very start all the Inten
sitlvos of martyrdom? We have on
this subject only a UUle guessing, a
few surmises, and here and there an
unimportant ’ perhaps.” Yet, by three
conjoined evidences, I think we can
coma to as seen rate aa idea of what
Christ was so a boy as wo can of
what Christ was as a man. First, we
have the brief Bible account, then we
have the prolonged account of what
Christ was at thirty-three years of age.
Now you have only to minify that ac
count somewhat, and you find what he
waa at ten years es age. Temperament
never change*. A sanguine tempera
ment never becomes a phlegmatic tem
perament. A nervous temperament,
never becomes a lymphatic tempera
ment Religion changes one’s affec
tions and ambWons, but it is the same
old temperament acting is a different
direction. As Christ bad no religions
change, he waa as a lad What he was
as a man. only on not so large a scale.
When all trad tlon and all art and all
history represent him as a blood with
golden hair, I know he was in boy
hood a blond. Hla boyhood waa passed
among grand scenery, aa most all the
gnat natures have passed early life,
among the mountains. They may live
now on the flats, but they passed the
receptive days of ladhood among the
hills. Our Lord’s boyhood waa passed
in a neighborhood twelve hundred feet
above the level of the sea, and sur
rounded by mountains five of six hun
dred feet still higher. Before it could
shine on the village where this boy
slept the sun had to climb for enough
up to look over the hills that held their
heads for aloft. From yonder height
bit eye at on* scope took In the mighty
sweep of the valleys, and with another
sweep took In the Mediterranean Sea,
and you hear the grandeur of the cliffs
and the eurge of the greet waters in
hie matchless semonology. One day I
sea that divine hoy, the wind flurrying
hla hair over hie sun-browned fore
head, standing on a hilltop, looking
off npon Lake Tiberias, on which at
•no time, according to profane history,
were tour thousand ships. Authors
have taken pains to say that Christ was
not attested by these surroundings, ana
Y LADY’S tippet to
of gray,
And gray her
eyes and
gray her
muff—
A mourie sprite
with winning
way*
She peeps from
o’er a.velvet
ruff.
9
that be from within lived outward
and independent of circumstance*. So
for from that being true, he was the
most sensitive being that ever walked
the earth, and If a pale Invalid’s linger
could not touch hie robe without
strength going out of him those moun
tains and soma could not have touched
his eye without Irradiating hla entire
nature with their magnificence. I war
rant that he had mounted and explored
all the fifteen hills around l.asaretb,
among them Hennon, with its crystal
coronet of perpetual snow, and Carmel
and Tabor, and Gilboa, and they all
had their sublime echo In after time
from the Olivette pulpit Many have
cried ost in admiration of Ohrl«t,
"Bcce homot" (“Behold the man’ ),
“Bees Deui!” ("Behold the aod!”), > :t
I does this paragraph hy writing "E..»
adoleecens!” ("Behold the boyt”).
Utility of • Maa-Bsilag Tlgos.
Os all the animate that walk tie
earth the man-eating tiger of the lar
east to the most terrible and ferocious.
Mr. Claes Ericsson, who went to Su
matra to collect orchids, tells some
stories of the daring of tigers.
"We hed taken possession of a small
hut,” he writes, “steading a couple of
Teet from the ground, on the Slope of n
mountain. As It would not hold all
my men, about half of them were
obliged to eleep outside. Shortly before
daybreak I waa aroused by shouts and
a loud knoebing at tie door.”
••Tuan—Tuan! Rlmau! (Sir—Sir!
Tiger!) Let us in!”
“Springing out of my clambo (mos
quito curtains), I reached and unbarred
the door before the Malays who
•hared the but were on their feet 1
was only just In time. As the last of
tbo terrified follows rushed past me the
tiger struck the door a violent blow.
Had a Malay been holding It tbe brute
would certainly have been among us.
but I pushed with all my might, shout
ing for my Winchester. Half a dozen
of the coolies to my assistance,
and between us we got the bamboo
which served as a bar Into position.
“Finding that he could not break In
there, the tiger walked around the hut,
sniffing at every crevice, and striking
the bamboos until they shook again.
Getting bold of my rifle I tried for a
shot, but the hovel was packed with
men. However, when they had recov
ered from their panic, I persuaded them
to follow, and we dashed out, yelling
at the top of our voices. The tiger
made off, hut a Malay caught sight Os
the brute la the tall Alang-Alang erase
below, and drew my attention. I fired,
but the light waa too had. Anyway, I
missed."
•S.OOO Don Through Bod Kibmn.
Alfred Louh Velpeau, the moat dis
tinguished French surgeon of his time,
waa a man of rough and disagreeable
manners. His had manners last him*
two thousand Irenes once upon n time.
A mother, whose daughter’s lifers bad
saved from a severe case of croup,
went to blm brimming over with grat
itude. “1 have come to thank you for
what you have done for us and to offer
you tbit ae a token of our obligation.**
she said, placing a beautifully embroi
dered puree an Velpeau’s table. Vel
peau scarcely took the trouble to look
at it *1 accept, modems,” ha re
marked. la his ungracious way. "but
of course, this is without prejudice to
my honorarium, which come* to three
thousand francs.” Thereupon the lady
took up her present “I am afraid I
made a mistake, then,” she laughed,
"there are flvo notes of a thousand
francs each In there. This makes us
right, then, monsieur.” And, pocket
ing two out of the five slips or bine
paper, ehe bowed. *1 have the honor
to wish you good morning.”
Be Mowed to the Xork.
Pat was now at the business, and
the first attempt was anything hat suc
cessful.
“Look here,’* said the farmer, "that
kind of thing won’t do. The corn will
be dlxxy that grows la a furrow ao
crooked as that Fix your eye on some
thing across the field and head straight
for it That oow there by the gate to
right opposite us. Aim at her and
you’ll do pretty weU.”
“All right, air,**,said Pat, and Just
then the former was called away to the
barn.
Ten minutes later he returned and
waa horriflad to ace that the plow bad
been wandering in a alg-zag course all
over tbe field.
"Hold tm there r he shouted. "Hold
on! What are you up toT”
"And sure, sir,” said Pat, “I did what
you tould nie. I worked straight for
the cow, but the crayture wouldn’t
k&pe still.”
«
AftreatsfM or WOmUds.
First Motorman—l believe I will boy
a bicycle and learn to ride it Second
Motoraan—Nonsense. You will not be
able to ran Into wagons on a bike:
First Motorman—l know that, bat peo
ple who are walking will not be able
to get out of my way by getting off the
track.—New York World.
Trench Authors nt Artist*
France has 2,160 female author* and
Journalists aad about 709 female art*
late.
BlttUM Rltovr Off ITd BACK*
The Glgontle fosUsk of tie Pacific
Oeeaa.
. Around tbe southern island* of tho
Santa Barbara group, where the tide*
come up aad down ia fitful moo sure,
to a famous feeding ground for the
JTAI
SUKIHB 0W nCB MOBIff
eunflsli of tbe Pacific, Mols mol*. Thla
extraordinary member of tbe ha%,
though steading high in the list of
fishes, is very unflablike in sppesrenee,
resembling some Japanese mouetrosity. i
The fish to more or lees oral, covered
with a bard akin that is enveloped wills
a thick mucus. The dorsal flu to lam
and high, and directly below tfe extends
the anal fin, which resembles it in
aiae aad shape. Tall the mol* boa
non*, tbe body apparently being
chopped off, o mere ridge, controlled
by powerful muscles, taking lie pises
and being entirely useless in the sense
of atoll.
Thus equipped the son fish would
naturally be a slow swimmer, aad ao
iolhtxgie to it that tbe writer bee often
approached it ia a boat, Oo on*
occasion • boat hook was booked iota
the gills of a large suufisb, which wot
caught with little or no resistance.
One of tbe largest specimens ob*
served hy tbe writer grounded on tbo
bar of tho 8k John’s Rivar and at
tracted ao tnueh attention that it
waa caught aod serried ashore where
it was provided with red eyes and ex
hibited as a “sea monster.” Uto Ash
waa ten feel high, or that meSaurf
meat between the tips of tbe upper
end lower flu* A orach larger epee*-
sser, eleven feet high, was observed in
Oalijornia waters.
Off the island* of the flento Barham
Channel the** fishes ara very common
in midsummer, lying at tbe rarfaeo in
the ehoppy sea and apparently expea
log their aidaeto the hot rami tropic
ana. When lying in this position, the
ae* washing over them, they resemble
a piece of wreckage, and are, without
doubt, ao considered by numbers of
birds, especially >h* ebage, whisk,
when weary from long flight and pre
ferring a dry rocat, align! on them
and retain their position without
alarming tho fish. Several birds have
been observed resting on o single
sunfieb, and some of the fishermen
assume that tbe fish, being infested
with psrsaitas, take thla position
either to allow tbe eon to destroy them
or thinking that tbo birds wilt devour
them. In all probability tho
matter of parasites does not enter into
tbe question es aa explanation. The
fish enjoy* floating at the antfaea where
t) e water is worm and the birds alight
upon it simply a* a rest, just aa they
would opm any floating object.
Snnfish could he caught ia numbers
off th* islands mentioned, but ao woe
having been discovered for them,
they have no market value, Their
musoloa are so herd and elastic that
when out into smell places and thrown
upon tho ground they rebound. In
one email seaport the writer found
that the elastic tissue was used by tho
flahermen’a boys is the manufacture of
baseballs.
The young of snnfish 1* a singular
looking little creature, hatching from
eggs deposited ou the high seas, float
ing at the surface. They wan sup
posed for many yeura to boa ditler
eat apeoiet. ao unlike were they in
general appearance to the adult eno
ugh. .
Project* es a queer Genius.
Colonel D. W, Hughe* to a queer
geniui who lives in Audrain County,
Missouri. He has invented many con
trivances of one sort or another in the
course ol hie wandering career, the
moat important of which ia a corn*
planting machine. Oat of this he
made considerable money, lmt bis
hopes of a fortune are now founded on
nn instrument which, by mean* of X
ray*, perbapr, will not only reveal tbs
culinary value of egg, but also the
gender of their eatbryonio occupants
Both these things, the colonel era
bis invention will do with speed and
certainty, and ho expects to sell on*
of tho new machines to every raiser of
poultry and every dealer in egg* ia
the country.
Omt es War.
According to the ’estimate* of Ger
man and French statisticians the ware
of the last forty J«* have eost the
Nations engaged to them, in money
alone, the almost ineoueeivuble sum
aa th* tost of her war with Rru*m»