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THE CUliSE OF DRINK REV. DR. TALMAGE CALLS HALT ON DISSIPATION. Aa Bloqmeat aad PictareaqB Sroa the Topic Taa Bens of the Irkrd"-Th Power aad th Erila IateatperaBceio the Use of Liquor. Oar Washington Pulpit. This discourse of Dr. Tahnage is from most unusual standpoint, aa arousing rail to reformation from dissipated hab its, and must do wide good. The text was Psalms Jiix., 12, "I was the song of the drunkards." Who aaid that if Was it David or was it Christ? It was both. These Messianic Paainia are like a telescope. Pull the in trument to a certain range, and it show you an object near by. Pull it to another range, and it will show yon object far away. David and Christ were both, each in ir, own time, the song of the drunk ards. liolioeKs of doctrine and life al ways did excite wicked merriment. Al though Da rid had fully reformed and written a psalmody in which all subse luent ages have nobbed out their peni tence, hia enemies preferred to fetch up nia old career and put into metric meas ures gin long before forgiven. Christ, who committed no sin. was Mill more the subject of unholy song, because the better one is the more iniquity- hates him. Of the bent being whose voice ever tuned the air or whose foot ever touched the earth it might be said: The byword of the passing throng The ruler's scoff, the drunkard's song. For practical and saving and warning and Christian purposes 1 will announce to yon the characteristic of that well known cadence mentioned in my text, first 1 remark that the song of the drunkards is an old song. Mnch of the music of the world and of the church is old music. First came the music of per russion, the clapping cymbal, which was nggested by a hammer on an anvil, ami then the sighing of the wind across the reeds suggested the flute, and then the strained sinews of the tortoise across its c shell suggested the harp. But far back f that, and nearly b:ik aa far as the moral collapse of our first parentage is the song of the drunkards. That tune was sung at least 4,243 years ago, when, the deluge past, Noah came out of the ark, and, as if disgusted with too mnch preva lence of water, he took to strong drink and staggered forth, for all ages the first known drunkard. He sounded the first sote of the old music of inebriacy. An Arab author of A. D. 1310 wrote; "Noah, being come out of the ark, ordered each of bis sons to build a house. Afterward they were occupied in sowing and in planting trees, the pippins and fruits of which they had found in the ark. The vine alone was wanting, and they could ot discover it. Gabriel then informed them that the devil bad desired it, 'and indeed had some right to it. Hereupon Xoab snrnmoned him to appear in the field and said to him: Oh, accursed! Why hast thou carried away the vine from me?' 'Because.' replied the devil, it belonged to me.' 'Shall I part it for you?' said Gabriel. I consent,' said Noah, 'and will leave him a fourth.' That is not sufficient for him,' said Ga briel. 'Well, I will take half," replied Noah, 'and he shall fake the other.' 'That is not sufficient yet,' responded Gabriel. 'He must have two-thirds and tnou one. and when thy wine shall have boiled on the fire until two-thirds are gone the remainder shall he assigned for thy use.' A fable that illustrates how the vine has been misappropriated. Jt I sn'ot I Sonr. Benhadad and thirty-two allied kings, rioting in it pavilion, tok up the same bacchanal. Nabal was rendering that drunkards song when bis wife, beautiful Abigail, came hack from her expedition to gave her husband. Herod was singing that gong when the daughter of Herodias wheeled in the dance before him. Bel ahazzar and a thousand lords renewed that song the night the handwriting came out on the plastering of the wall an1 the tramp of the besieging host was heard on the palace stairs. AlutMiern sang that song when, after seven days of caroUMi!, He ordered Vashti to come into the pres ence of the ronriug guests without her veil ona January storm trying to com mand a June morning. Oh. yes. the song of the drunkards is an old song. Oh, this old song! All the centuries hare joined )B. Among the first songs ever sung ki the song of the drunkards. ' " It la Expensive. Again, this song of the drunkards is an expensive song. The costliest thing n earth is sin. The most expensive of all music is the song of (he drunkards. This evil whets the knives of the assassins, cuts the most of the wounds of the hospi tal, makes necessary most of the alms houses, causes the most of the ravings of the insane asylum, and puts up most of tile iron bars of the penitentiaries. It has its hand to-day on the throat of the Amer ican republic. It is the taskmaster of nations, aud the human race crouches under its anathema. The song of the drunkards has for its accompaniment th I clank of chains, the chattering teeth of poverty, the rattle of executioner's scaf fold, the creaking door of the deserted home, the crash of shipwrecks and the groans of empires. The two billion twen ty million dollars which mm costs this country in a year, in the destruction of grain and sugar, and the supporting of the paupers, and the Invalids and the crim- i inals which strong drink causes, is only a 1 mall part of what is paid for this ex pensive song of the drunkards. It Is a Song of the Vultitn.l . Again, this song of the drunkards is a multitudinous song Hot solo, not n duet, not a quartet, not a sextet, but millions on millions are this hour singing . it. ! nut think that akholism has this eld all to itself. It has powerful rivals in the intoxicant of other nations hash eesh and arrtck and pulque and opium and n,uvo and mastic and wedro. Every nation, barbaric a well as civilised, has it pet intoxicant. This song of the drunkards is rendered in Chinese, Hin doo, Arabian. Assyrian. Persian, Mexican yea, all the languages. All zones join If. No continent would be large enough lor the choir gallery if all those who liave thla libretto ta their hand should stand aide by aide In chant (he international Other throngs are just learning Dotes of this deathfnl music wklek la already Mastered by the orches tra to fall rotor nnder tile baton In full ef the draa karri a oaaaetr song Too hear a nursery r. frala. aad right away you think of your (.stMhoad home, and brothers and tatare with whom yon played, and mother, tons since gone to ret. You hear national air, and yoa think of the encampment of 1863, and the still night on the river bank, and the campfirea that shook their refle tions up and down the face of the regi ment l'ou hear an old church tune, and you are reminded of the revival scenes amid which you were brought to iod. Nothing so brings up association aa a song sung or played upon instrument, and the drunkards' song is full uf sugges tion. Aa you hear it on the street quite late some- nigtit yon begin to say to your self: "I wonder if he has a mother? Is his wife waiting fur him? Will his chil dren be frightened when he enters th front door and staggers, whooping, up the stairs? What chance is there for that young man. started so early on the dowu grade? Ia what business will he suc ceed? How long bef.re that man will run through his property? I wonder how he got so far astray? Can any influence be wielded to fetch him bai k? He must have got into bad company who led him off." So you soliloquize and gues aismt this man whose voice you hefir mi the Street under the starlight. There niut be two. and still better if four, and still l-tter if six, to give aest to the song of the drunkards. Those who have gone down could mention the name of at lest one mho helpwl them down. Generally it i some one who wa a little higher up in social life or in financial re source. Our friend felt flattered to have an invitation from one of superior name. Each one drank not only when he felt like it. but when the other felt like it. Neither wanted to seem U'king in sociality s hut he was invired. So lii.C men every year are fretted into hell. fcffect of a Kong, There looms up in my memory oue of the best and noblest friends I ever had. Hp hail been for thirty years a consistent member of the chun h. I knew not that at alsmt 21 years of age he had followed the sen aud habits of inebriacy had been fixed upon him. But converted to God he begun a new life. Yet it nas a thirty years' war anaitist the old appetite, hut about this struggle I knew nothing until he was d-ad. While absent during my summer vacation 1 received a telegram announcing bis death and ai-king me to come and officiate at his obsequies. I ar rived at the moment the service Has to begin, and had not much time to' make inquiries slsiiit his last hours. In my re marks, without any limitations, I ex tolled his virtues while living and spok of the heavenly raptures into which h had entered. Afterward I found that he had died of delirium tremens in the ho-pital,-hecaue be was so violent he could not be sufficiently restrained in bis beau tiful home. He had been scb-ed in the street with violent pains of body and went into an ajsnhecary store to get med ical relief. Something there given him set on fire his old appetite for strong drink, and, utterly irresponsible, he went from liquor store to liquor store, until, raving maniac, the othcers of the law bound him and took him to the hospital, where he died. Home time after I said to the doctor in the hospital: "Of what did he die?" And the answer was: "Conges tion of the brain." I said: "Doctor, I want to know the bottom facts, for I was his pastor, and he was one of the best friends I ever had. Was it delirium tremens?" And the doctor resjsjnded. "Yes." Did I regret that at his obse quies I had extolled his virtues and spok en of the heavenly joys upon which he had entered? No. I do not think that my friend was any more responsible for the mode of his taking off than a typhoid fever patient in delirium is responsible fof leaping out of the fourth story win dow. But while we were heartbroken about his going away, I think that in the saloons, to those who heard of his mem bership of tile church and the migedy of bis departure, he became, as did the David and the Christ of my text, the song of the drunkards, Ka ly learned. Agam. the song ot tne drunkard is i easily learned. Any!.''. can learn it. In a little while you can touch the highest note of convivalily or the lowest note of besottednes. Begin moderately, a sip here and a sip there. Begin with claret, go on with aic and wind up with cognac. First take the stimulant at a wedding, then take it at meals, then lake ft be tween meals, then all the time keep your pulse' under its stealthy touch. In six months the dullest scholar in this Apol lyontc music may beeomp an expert. First it will be sounded in a hiccough. After awhile if will be heard in a silly ha, ha! Further on it will become a wild whoop. Then it will enable you to run up and down the five lines of the musical scale infernal. Then you will have mastered it the song of the drunkards. The most skillful way is to adopt the modern theory and give the intoxicant to your children, saying to yourself, "They will in after life meet the intoxicants everywhere, and they must get used to seeing them and tasting them and con trolling their appetites." That is the best way of teaching them flic song of the drunkards. Keep up that mode of education, and if yon have four hoys at least three of them will learn the drunk ards' song and lie down in a drunkards' grave, and if I ever laid a wager I would lay a wager that the fourth will lie down with the other three. Or if the education of the children in this music should be neglected, it is not too late to begin at 21 year of age. The young man will find plenty of young men who drink. They are in every circle to be found. Surely, my boy, you nre not a coward and afraid of it? Surely you are uot going to be hindered by sumptuary law or the preju dice of your old father and mother? They are behind the times. Take some thing. Take it often. The earlier you begin to learn the song of the drunkards the easier it is, but none of yon are too old to learn. j'c-,t can begin at 50 or (10. under prescription of a doctor for aids to digestion or breaking up of infirmities, and close life by rendering the song of the drnnkards so well that all pandemonium will encore the performance and want it again anil again. Ftlthermore, the last 'cntowterlstic of the drunkards' song Is so tremendous that I can hardly bring myself to mention It. Once start that tune, and you keep it up. Yon have known a hundred men destroy ed of strong drink. Ton cannot mention fire who get fully started on that road and stopped. I hare been at concert which went on for two boar and a half, and many people got ap aad left because It was too long. Bat 90 per cent of thoae who are ringing the draaaard' ong will to the last breath of their lang and the last beat of their haarta beep on readerlaf K. aad the galleries at earh and baa raw ad bed wiO etay Iliad with the aetoaad ad spectator. A Ward Par FiutmI. Thi sermon ia net e Bach far rare aa for prerentioa. Stop before you start. If yon will forgive the solecism. The clock of St. Paul' Cathedral struck 13 one midnight, and so saved the life of a ea tinel. The soldier was arrested and tried for falling asleep at his post one mid night But he declared that he wa awake at midnight, and in proof that he was awake he said that e had heard the unusual occurrence of the lock striking 13 instead of 12. He wa laughed to corn and sentenced to death. But three or four persona, hearing of the case, came up in time to swear that they, too, beard the clock strike 13 that same midnight and so the man's life was spared. My hearer, if you go on and thoroughly learn the drunkards' song, perhaps in the deep midnight of your soul there may sound something that will yet effi-ct your moral and eternal rescue. But it is a risky "perhp." It is exceptional. Go ahead on that roug road, and the clock will more probably strike the 12 that closes your day of oportuuity than that it will strike .', the sound of your deliverance. Hhort Sfrnoiit. Womanhood. Iet, woman liave every advantage of the higher education and culture, but let all thene advantage lie employed to make ber moiv womanly. Anything that Is calciiUtc-d to dituluish the power of the delicate feminine qtml Hy which retinm and purilicw is not an advantage: it Is n iltlve detriment, not alone to woiumii hut to the race. Tim womanly elemem ha been a wiving influence- of tnaukliicl.-Kal.bi iHivid Phllipsou. Hebrew, Cincinnati, Ohio. Intensity. How intense is modern, civilization! How rapidly iloctc It eon aume the nerve and deplete the brain! In the city oicn go down ere the life coume Ik half run. Those alone i-uu boe for lctiderscbip who have erit their youth in the open air. Imrciening the uiuw-IiK. i-oinpBctitig the nerve, de veloping gf-at blood vcvels and a cler ic, through which the blood can run in rich, free currents, anil lie glorified In fine thiikluR.-Kev. N. D. Hillis, Inde liendent. Chicago, III. Hellglcm of the People.-In Europe and Asia, governments have Iwen irn pocceci uicm the people by the ruling classes. In our land, government has grown up from the will of the people, and is the product of popular thought, popular development of the people themselves. So the religion of the New World, when it rises, m.wt be a religion aa I,t llvaleut to that derived that has sprung from tin' hetirts of the . from- J-" km af armor." people: one that expresses American I I'hiladelphls manufactured Hi first thought. American civilixatlon and ""wl 1" "", American navy, Arnerlcnn p1rit.-Iiev. A. I,. Hudson. making it out of the hiisks of cocoanut, rnlutrian, Salt I-ake City, I tali. j im1 furnished an article superior to the The Almighty IMliir.-Tl.is is the ' French, but during the Inst year the de nge of money. The Idol is the almighty Pnnt directed its attention to the dollar. Get wealth, tio matter howj corn I'lt,J P"- hb D only so vou get it, is the crv. It Is pow- j found P pcrior qualltb. The er aud U conceals a multitude of faults, department tested the two products by Children are absorbing the evil esti- building Bring Into two steel cof rnate of greatness, and are preferring ! ferdnl rwpeoUvelj, one with It to education, and even character. Ki2 Puml "f " ,ul"'. The ric h are being stunted bv it, and Ponoin to a density of 7.7 pounds to the poor are ling made mad by ft. The i th foot. D1 nnp wi,h "()2 Puud world needs to see that life is more j of wn-ptta cellulose, corresponding to than wealth. Itev. Ie S. Mcf 'alleslor, t'nlversaliFf, Detroit. Mich. Moral Law. In ceasing to do evil men cannot Justify themselves by the deeds of the law. It is Christ alone that makes that possible. This doe not di vorce morality from religion, lielig lou is nec-eKsarily moral, but morality is not religion. The great tiiornl force in the Christian religion is faith In God and in his Christ, and love to wan Iw goften of that fslth. The great wrong for which man Is punished is forget ting Christ. It Is the rejection of his offer of solvation, W. H. H.t.vi Hsu. I'resbyterlnti. Oxford. Pa. l.lls ral Christians. A man can make no mistake in baring an honest rever ence for the word of tfod. that has done so much for humanity. He can make no mistake in entertniuing a deep and sincere reverence for the Chris tian church, that has done so much for the world. He can make no mistake when lie look back and reveres the prophets who have spoken down and through the past a word of Inspiration and of hope for the uplifting and the redemption of his soul. Bev. J. A. Mil bttnj, Presbyterian, Indianapolis, Ind. School Uteralnre. -Secularism I neg ative and dogmatic; theosophy is vague and so broad hs to have no convictions, and what It docs have are negative. This Is a free country. If a few people want to mystify themselves ttnd call it progress, and a few others want to indulge the Illusion thut they have abolished God, liolsidy will lie found to deny their privilege. But when they attempt to tell us what literature shall not In- rend or studied In our public schools, because, forsooth, they have put it on their new Index expurgate ritis. and to dictate a new basis for moral principles, and to say that Chris tian ethics shall no longer be recog niwd. they liavp undertaken a litrge task. But their arrogance find Into!-' erance becomes ridiculous. Hev. A. B. Storms. Methodist, Detroit, Mich. Knew Too Much. Justice Pratt often said that there were too many law lsok. MecMng a young taw student who had Just offer- ed himself for the admission examlnii- tion, Justice I'l-att asked him what he had read in preparation for the ordeal, The youthful limb of the law named alsjut all the elementary treati,es from Blaclurtone's "Commentaries" to dafcv Besides these, be had studied the codes, read Woolsey' "Political Science," Die ber" "Code of Political KrtrtoV and. he said, "all the leading enses cited." 'My heavens, boyl" exclaimed Justice Pratt, "you've read enough to rnln your chance aa a lawyer for life." Linnaeus and Cnvler were the f thera of ornithology, each classifying the birds, according to structure and pecnllarittaa, late ordera. Yon can mate tola of headway Moie tlmM by admitting yori ar wrons when yoa an Bat. Ufa. A OOOD BACKING CO AftMOU CallalcM Balsa Owe C ! Above TMf Claea aa Battleaaip. The rtoctoty a Naral Arcbitorta aa4 Marine Engineers bekl it fourth gen eral sheeting at New York. Tbera wa a good reprewatatton of the ux-oi ber ship of more than flOO prwtent, and ap plication from forty peraona who de sire to become meuilien were received. Henry W. Cramp's imper on Ameri can corn-pltb cellule', aside from the technical information, with which the atxbitwt and engineer were chiefly cotHf'tned. bad the popular interest that attache to any additional method for the protec-tion of human life at sea. He explained the origin and the man ufacture of the new product, an well as the invention of it application to warshi(s, and recited the rapid ad vancement made liy Americans In the lawt year over the French discoverer of the material aud it us, and show ed how the American product is Ismnd to mijiersede the foreign. "American corn-pith cellule. 1 an entirely new prisjiic-t." be eaid. manu factured from the pith of the cornstalk, or Indian maize. Into a granular form, and packed under prcMKiire into the cof ferdams of a vessel, where It u-t aj a perfec-t water excluder aod is non-combustible." When a idiot pierces the vee- wl's fide at or near the water line w here the rvllulose belt l laid the cel lulose expands an It Ik wet by the In flowing water and completely chokes the hole, (tur Navy Department was quick to take up the device. "ThiMi in the Columbia, the New York and the olympiu." Mr. Cramp atd, "there are protective decks of ample strength to keep out the hells of any rei-! they are likely to engage, while tU'ir stability is protected by bolt of cellul(ce tci'versl feet thick along the edges of thew decks. The Kngliwh ar mored cruieer Blnke. for example, ha no such protection to her Ktabilit.v. and would not have the tcame chatic as thp above-named v pane la of our ntivy in a sustained engagement. For pro tection In the comprehensive ene, the colluhsie Iwlt of three feet may tie tea Id to be alsmt a eftlcicut as a six-inch belt of steel, so that we can protect our stability, when we have a good protec tive deck back of it to defend the vitals of the ship, with W tons of cellulate to a density of e.5 pounds to the cubic j foot. The first drop of water appeared at the far end of the shot hole through the cocoa dam In ten minutes, and pret- , ty soon the water flowed through at the rate of half a gallon a minute. Through the hole in thp other dtun no water had come at the end of half an hour, nor , was the cellukise at the mouth of the hole in the rear damp. The tnsts led to i the provision In the contracts for the Kentucky and the Kearaarge, and Nos. 7. S and H. that their cofferdam be pscked with corn-pith cellulose. It Is about $100 a ton cheenper than the cocoa cellulose, and that fact, with the differ ence in density, make It cost about two-thirds the amount per cubic foot packed, Mr. Cramp said: "Our crniser of the Baltimore type, if they are provided with a cellulose belt, would be war ranted in engaging many of Uie second class Ironclads of other powers; with out it they are liable to lie sunk by a well-directed machine gun fire. This prod Oft of American farms affords n cheap and ready means of vastly In creased efficiency of our cruisers, and the unamxired sides of all our vessels should have these belts without delay. This discovery and application of cellu lose is of as vlttil importance to our navy as the development of the Harvey- fcised armor and smokeless powder. This follow from the fact that, without add ing very much to the cost of our ves sels, we can greatly Increase the etti rtency of them all by making their side automatically resist the Inflow of wat er; and as our cruisers carry heavier Imtteries than similar vessels of other nations, they would, when so protected, tie able to give battle to eliljw far heitv ter than themselves." Druggist I p to Date. Druggists keep a)Kut a close watch of the season aa any people in the world. When the spring days apiar and la dles are thinking of putting away their furs the drug store window suddenly fill with moth balls, powders and pre paration warranted to knock the spot (tg moth at forty rod. When the sun ?eta up a little higher the moth Imlls disappear and tan and freckle lotions and preventives for mosquito nd fly annoyance take the public eye. When the blaring heat uf summer Is with us. cool soda with pure fruit syrup signs nestle up against com remedies ancj root beer ackt:ges. The fall come on and then the cough lozenge I hatch ed. Alongside It are sure cures for la gTlppe. cold. Infltiensa and toothache, while hot soda steams snd sir.Kles st your asking. . Tarnlp or Philosophy. When the little company of New En- gland TranscendentaMst were at Brook Farm, enraged In their unauc- eeaaful expert mat of llrtnf ta a com mnnlty of rootaal hrtpfolaaeB, thT "tot heart. Tnwy bad, atpartad ta work all hoar a day aad aaand the ather atx ta aaody aaaf lataHartnal esa m t ton, aad the arneme proved lm posslbie. PraeOrally, they could not make botfe aada aoeat; aad they wera men of a unVteady delicate organtxa Uoo to require the refinements ratbei than the hard pa of Ufe. They had many visitors at the Hive, who reported the work era ae not J ways in a cheerful frame of mind. On looked sunburned and very thin, and owned that milking cows on a frosty morning was a chilling sort of busi ness. But the only persistently cheerful re mark came from George Ripley, one ol the finest scholars and best-equipped writer of the time, who. Just befort going there, had published certain es saiya on Descartes' philosophy. In the autumn of 1M1, a clergyman, went to make a csll at Brook farm, where be found only a few of the mem bers present. Mr. Ripley, however, was discovered In the turnip-field with two or three others, throwing vege tables Into the cart. As his friends approached, he went forward to meet them. "Doctor Franc-is," said he. "it la re ally kind of you to come suob a dis tance to see an old fellow. You per ceive 1 am occupied with the phlloe opliy of de c-art!" (Descartes.) A Ixiudon paper says the shilling edi tion of William Watson Armenlnn sonnets "has gone like wildfire." With in n week of publication, ten thousand copies were sulci. Stephen Crane's "Bed Badge of Cour age" has at last caught the attention of the American public, and during the first week In February the publlsliers werp tumble to supply the demand. Its English success Is still unabated. The young poets of Paris have elected a successor to Paul Verialne in poetical sovereignty Htephane Mallarme, trans lator of poems of I"oe and author of "L'Aprs-M1dl d'un Faune," whose por trait by Whistler la a masterpiece, Since Alfred Austin was appointed poet laureate several thousand copies of his works have been sold; but the curious fact la noted that many more copies of his prose works than of bta books of verse hava had purchasers. Mrs. Emily Crawford, the well-known Paris correspondent, contrilmtt to one of the March in a gar Iocs a biographical sketch of Alexandre Dumas the elder. Tbe article is a succession of anecdotes of the novelist, presenting him in a very picturesque light. An account of Hie Bohemians and "sponges" who took advantage of his prodigality Is In cluded. "Perhaps," says the Loudon Book man, "It Is not generally known cer tainly It cannot be known to the writer of an article In the January Blackwood - that Mr. Thomas Hordy eodsavored j to withdraw his novel of "Jude tbe Ob sctiree rrom Hariers Magazine, actu- ally requesting that firm of publisher to cancel the contract. But It was found to be Impracticable to do thla. Paul Metirlce has undertaken the ed iting of Victor Hugo's rorrewpondence. Victor Hugo was as punctual as Mr. Gladstone in answering communlca tions addressed to him N .nhwi ! frorn Paris drainage to the Romanic ! movement and French potttWa. came ' amiss to him. Hia letters will prov an I Invaluable memorial of blttme. Among , his manuscripts lias aW. been found an ' ttupttbllshed melodrama. j . nuw. ciepoiss nas announce i ner in- tenrlon to prepare a record of the life and work of her huslmnd. It has been arranged that Prince Krnpotklne shall edit and arrange the Russian section of the Memoir, and Prof. York Powell, Mr. Kdward Gsrnett snd Miilatesla, the Italian anarchist, will contribute chap- icrn, rcioc-iiveiy, on MepniaK as a Critic-," "Stepniak as a Political Writ, er" and "Stepniak in Italy." Joke by Holmes. At the time of thp Peace Jubilee, Dr. C. B. Porter, of Boston, returned to his office one day. and found the slate In the hall covered with Latin words and signed O. XV. Holmes. Hh Immediately got down his dictionary, and wllh much effort discovered that he had been to thp Peace Jubilee, had soiled his boot so thoroughly with dirt that he did not like to go down town In such a plight, and had stopped and asked Mr. Porter's servant for a foot- brush that 1 inlght. clean up his boots; anil he had dignified this rtitber menial performance by writing It nil out In Latin and leaving it on the slate, j Microbe Detour Sewngc. A novel disposition of sewngc is mad. at Exeter, Knghind. The melius! con sistM of four tituks. u fourth of the cw. age passing Into each. Light and air that may be almost entirely eliminated are excluded from the tanks; ptitrefac by the use of a properlv constructed lion and decomposition are rapidly set chimney. It seems likely that many tip: the microls-a multiply and the solid of the tllfflctiltje which are iinavold portlons of thp sewage are consumed able with flame standards may be and the outflow from the tanks Is noth- J overcome by the adoption of a stand ing but slightly colored water, which, j ard consisting of some stirfuce elec afier imssmg through filters, lew, Bu tri-ally heated to a standard tempera color and taste. No chemical Is used, j ture. With this object the results of and no attention to the tanks n any I the committee's experiments on incitu sort Is needed. Each filter IshI auto-' lecem carbon will be looked forward infltlcally cleanses Itself by being out of to, ne for a short time. India Ink. India Ink I made hy some secret pro ces which la closely guarded by Its In ventora, the Chinese. 1... - . . ran nas mane a pi sa sant autatioa to the day whsa be courted! n wire, taere laa't anythlag aba trill refaar to do far blm. ( HANDS TCLL A 6TORV. ralaatatrr Will Be! Maar f Character. "A person baa but to open hia aad be opena the history of hia Ufa ta a person well versed In palmistry," said a professor of the art. "The palm reveal more of a person's true char acter and disposition than could be learned In a life-long friendship. A person' peculiarities are written there as plainly a If In a book; each line la full of meaning. Chronic dltn-asea as well a acute ailments leave their marks upon the palm. I have known instances where dfiseases that bars nonplussed learned doctors have been correctly diagnosed by person know ing nothing of medicine or physiology, who formed their opinion from the ap pearance and condition of the band alone. The moisture, color and con: dltlon of Die cuticle aud nails are Just as Important to the palmist in deter mining disease and condition of tb system as the lines upon the band. "Malformations of tlie body are re flected In tbe hand. Bo far la this true that Bice, the promoter of so many spectacular productions, select his chorus girls who are to appear In tights by looking at their bands, and that hi system is not a faulty one Is evidenced by the appearance of the girls on the stage. I have never known a case where the hand of a criminal or thief has not shown Just what be wa. In examining the hands of people who come to me just for the sport of Ui thing I have frequently seen the line of the thief well developed in hand whose owners are away up In tbe so cial world. Naturally, I watch wiLb interest the careers of such people, but only In oue instance have I ever discovered a proof of what the palm revealed. 1 have no doubt the thief ex isted In the life of the otlters Just as In this man' life, but undiscovered. "Tbe case 1 refer to was a bright soc iety iimn of Gotham who moved In the Is-st circles. Atsiut three years after I examined his hand a theft of tens of thousands of dollars from a batik in which be was employed was hushed up, but not before rumor had given It to the winds among bis friends. "Ho firm la my faith In the psychoin etry of the band that I lielleve aus picious characters could be Judged by a well-informed palmist so that crime could be prevented by the detection of such parties. Banker selecting their clerks and business men their trusted men would have a test for honesty a sure as any acid In the requirement of chemistry. The life J. tV gAreet car ! '"potter would be at an end, for none r,ut est men would obtain positions. If tbe science of palmistry develops In coming years as It has In the past ten, the time may not lie very for distant when every well regulated business house will have a palmist In 1t em ploy as It now has a typewriter." Wash ojnin as Fireman. Honve Interesting tittle stories are told of Oorge Washington In connection with the "Friendship Fire Comnanv." ' organised In 1774, In hi home, Alex- anarta. At first the company consisted of till- sens who, out of "mutual friendship,' agreed to carry to every tire "two leatb- ern bucket and one great K"ig of oina burg or wider llnnen." Washington was made an honorary tnemlier, and when he went as a delegate to tbe Con gress of 1774 at Philadelphia, he exam ined tbe fire-engines in use there. Oa Dte "-turn to Philadelphia to the Oontl- wnt Conn 1775, he bougfcl 'ponl nm"l lbla a small fonnh"""" 'n"hl. 'of the sum of r"",0',H tM1 hllUnl?, mi Juss !"'fr b' "l m" ,or lhmton ",m" '"'"-'. hief. bs dls Pcbed this little engine to the Friend- hip Csimpany. Iuring his younger day lie alwayi attended fires In Alexandria and helped to extinguish them. In the last yeaj of his life a Are occurred nenr the mar ket. He was riding dowu Klnir street at the time, followed by hi servant, who was also on horsebac k. Washington snw that the Friendship engine wa Insufficiently manned, and riding up to a group of well-dressed gentlemen standing near the scene of action, he called out authoritatively : "Why are you Idle there, gentlemen 1 It Is your business to lead In these mat ters." After which he leaped off his horse, snd. seising the brakes, was followed by a crowd that gave the engine such a shaking up ns it had not had for many a day. NUimlnrd for Light Wanted. A sulHfiitimittee of the American In Btitnte of Klectrk'til Ktiglnecrs, ap- pointed In lMU'f to Investigate the sub- J't of suitable standard of light f,,r photometric purposes, has recent' ly issued a preliminary report Of ell I tur suiiKi.irus inus tar tiseit it rinds ths candle the least reliable. It is lo evident from the bolotnetrie curves , lhat naked lame are subject to sttd den Btid rapidly recurring fluctuation H squandered 10 for rose, y()n she lter Joy in the gift was Immense; Hot llttls she dreamed that his dinner would be I ares hiiewhete thst cost hill ten rent. f'h. t 1 Tl. It coat aa mmh to be ttooular aa awad a I l year-obi danchtor a war a heard lag ehos. 7 H. ''.I. , , ! it-