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ANTI-ALCOHOL MOVE IN ITALY
Taking Strong Root in That Country,
According to Notes of Temper
ance Progress In Europe.
The movement against alcohol is
taking strong root in Italy, according
to some interesting and detailed notes
of temperance progn ss in Fiit ope
gathered by observers on the field for
the encouragement of temperance
■workers in America. The report states
that in various centers anti-alcoholic
leagues are being established. Of that
at Vincenza, which was started in a
meeting largely attended by civic as
sociations and presided over by Count
Valmanara, the eminent modernist and
author, Antonio Fogazzaro was elect
ed president. In Milan some of tin
most active social workers of the city
ha ve entered a new movement. Among
these are Cassina, the head of the
'Milanese labor party and former pres
ident of the labor exchange; Dr. Fer- j
rari, physician io the well-known re
lief society, “L'Umanitarla;’i Lazzari,
another noted labor leader and lcc- j
turer on social questions; Molteni, a
Catholic socialist, and one of t ho best
known publicists in North Italy; Pas
torc-lli, an engineer, editor of an eth-i
leal review published in Padua, favor-,
ably known by his brochure, "L’Alco
hol Diluito” (diluted alcohol), and
Professor Pasquali, director of schools 1
in Brescia and a writer on alcohol
whose works are known outside of
Italy.
Many tourists, it is further stated,
think (hat Italy has.no special need of
temperance reform. But those whose
knowledge of the Italian people is
more intimate are of a different opin- 1
Ion. Thus Giovanni Alloei, writing of
alcoholism in Milan, declares that ;
there are 4,200 places where drink is !
sold in that city (that is one to 120
of the population); that the consump-j
lion of wine is 98 liters per capita and
of liqueurs, 4 liters; that _ 1,390 ar
rests were made in the year for drunk
enness; that in two years, 907 Milan
ese died of the alcohol sickness—cirr-1
hosis of the liver; and that one-half of
the patients in the provincial asylum
came from this drink-sick city. An
tonini, the editor of the Fruili social
ist organ "11 Paese,” says;
"The alcohol insane in our asylum
have more than doubled since 1900.
The alcohol-interested industrials con
tinue to poison us because they have
their defenders in parliament. We
must begin the fight for abstinence.,
not from the top, but from the roof
(i. e., from the people)."
And in a recent number of "La
Luce,” the Waldetislan religious or
gan, a writer relates concerning the
rural communities of Italy:
"They drink wine at dinner, at sup
per, in the hay fields during the dog
-days, at breakfast, between meals.
They soak their bread in wine. The
father drinks, the mother drinks, tlie
children drink, down to th? little one
of a year old. I saw recently a poor
little creature of three who could not
walk, his whole body being so swollen.
He lay outside his home on an un
clean mattress in the shade. He was
suffering from chronic inflammation of
the intestines at three years. The
doctor said he was an “aleoholizato”
(drunkard) and was incurable, and
would never walk. Wine heredity and
the wine his parents had given him
from his first days were the cause.
"One rarely sees our peasantry
(Staggering. They have drunk so long
ithat they can support much with very
!little inconvenience. But what a sad
thing it is! The men seem steeped in
wine.
"Yes, in this Italy which has a rep
utation for sobriety, there is a press
ing need that we enter the lists as
they are doing elsewhere to fight
drink.”
MUCH CRIME DUE TO DRINK
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Marked Decrease in Convictions for j
Drunkenness in City of London
—Detailed Returns.
According to returns prepared for
the home oillce by assistant clerks at
the Mansion house and Guildhall Jus
tice rooms the number of persons pros
ecuted in the city of London (proper)
during the past year was for summary
offences, 4,690, as compared with 6,533
in 1908, and 6,959 in 1903. The num
ber of persons convicted of those
offences (including 906 in respect of
drunkenness) was 3,285, against 4,145
(1,108 for drunkenness) in 1908, and
6.063 (2,226 for drunkenness) in 1903.
Of indictable crimes 1.068 were report
ed, as against 1,017 in 1908, and 1,994
in 1903. The number of apprehensions
in connection with these was 570 lust
year. In 190S there were 664 arrests,
and 1903 773. The day population of
the city is over 300,000; the night
population 26,923. The principal fea
ture in these returns as noted" in press
comments is the very marked de
crease in convictions for drunkenness,
which were last year considerably less
than one-half of those recorded six
years a£°
Temperance Pays.
According to the United States cen
sus bureau, the workers who live in '
nonlicensQ cities earn more than those
in license cities. The figures are given I
for Massachusetts, and show that each
individual worker in the nonlicenso
cities earns 74.09 more a year ti:an a j
worker in license cities.
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DETERIORATION IN OLD FAITH
Priests of Buddha in China Unworthy
of the Great Traditions of
the Past.
Buddhism in modern China has
fallen into a shocking state of degra
dation and decay, according to the
correspondent'of the London Times,
who is traveling across the Celestial
empire. He writes: ‘‘At the first inn,
where hot cakes were being sold, my
men rested. There was a temple here
.and 1 went across to see it. The
Ipriest politely invited me into the
guest room. He probably did not ex
pect me to enter, but 1 did so, and
ll'ound in a small room some 20 men
'smoking opium or drowsing after the
(debauch. And it was the priest who
.hud supplied the opium and-the opium
pipes. Could the Buddhist faith as
exemplified in its degraded ministers
in China sink much lower?
“On the fourth day out we reached
the Kuan Yin Tang, the hull of the
goddess of mercy, a fine temple, which
is, however, in a filthy state, its two
hexagonal towers are used as a com
mon lodging house. In this degraded
temple the goddess herself and all her
(female attendants are represented
(with the smallest of small feet. Fres
coes of considerable force and even of
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'beauty adorn the walls of this decay
ing building, which the expenditure of
'a few hundred dollars would restore
(to its pristine glory. A few cents
W'ould make it clean, but the cents
are not spent. It is no one’s busi
Iness. Opium is smoked in the dirty
rooms.”
j Again: “Next day we reached Hu
|Yin Miao, one of the finest temples 1
have seen in China. It lies within
an enclosure comparable with that of
the Temple of Heaven in Peking and
has splendid halls and courts and pa
vilions. Yet what a ruin! The roofs
have decayed or fallen in, the tri
umphal archwayS are tottering. Ma
nure is dried in courtyards lit. for a
palace. I have seen no more striking
evidence of decay. Truly Buddhism
in China is sadly deteriorating.”
USED SNOW AS A LEDGER
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Unusual Business Methods of Mer
* chant in Western Canada Re
corded by Traveler.
Americans have made Winnipeg,
Regina, Moose Jaw, Saskatoon, Ed
monton, and the majority of Ameri
cans have cleaned up fortunes in the
last few years because of the Cana
dians themselves, i will give one in
stance of fortunemaking, which clear
ly rentes under the head of “unusual
business methods,” a writer in the
Bookkeeper says. In a thickly set
tled prairie district not far from
Moose Jaw a few Canadians had
opened tip a coal mine, the product of
which they sold to the surrounding
farmers. Settlers would come in
wagons and sleighs and lo;jd their
own winter's fuel, which cost them
jrom one to two dollars a ton, accord
ing to the run. It was early winter
when 1 first made the acquaintance
of this mine and its remarkable "su
perintendent," and my first reception
from this individual was a fierce yell
on his part and the frantic brandish
ing of a long stick and the words:
“What the devil are you doing? Can’t
you see? Are you stone blind?”
1 was literally walking through his
hooks! Since morning—and this was
three o’clock in the afternoon—hp had
been keeping a record of outgoing
sleighs attd wagons of coal in the
snow! About 20 farmers were draw
ing that day. With his stick he had
written the initials of each in a clean
spot in the snow and with that same
stick had registered the number of
tons they had taken away. I had
spoiled one-half of his "books” and 'it
was an hour before he became at all
affable. I was still more astonished
when I entered the "superintendent’s”
little board office. The walls were
black with pencil marks, figures and
names. A fire would have burned
down his "book” of two years past.
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Manufactured Rubies.
Rubies weighing 80 carats can be
built up. These rubies after they have
cooted are split lengthwise. They are
cut and polished, the final polishing
being done with tripoli and water.
The cut gems ready for the market
are worth about 40 cents a carat.
This price is Insignificant as com
pared with that of the natural Burma
ruby, whose market value is almost
fabulous. Chemically, optically and
physically the “scientific” rubies are
identically the same as the natural
stones. Even in both forms the micro
scopic air bubbles called "frogs” or
“inclusions’ are present.
Lacroix, the geologist and mineralo
gist, asserts that the artificial ruby
cannot be distinguished from the nat
ural, while Pinier, a leading gem ex
pert of Paris, claims that they can
readily be distinguished. At any rate
the pawnbrokers of Paris have placed
rubies under the ban, and it is almost
impossible to secure loans when
rubies of any description are offered
as security.—Popular Mechanics.
London’s Expensive Fogs.
It Is estimated that a genuine Lon
don fog costs the city *750,000 in loss
and interruption of business. In 1905
there were 44 fogs recorded. Since
that year there»has been a steady de
crease in the number until this year
there have been almost none and this
is directly attributed to the work
against the smoke nuisance. It is an
accepted fact now that the fogs over
London would be no more dense than
over adjoining counties if it were not
for the quantities of London smoke
which have mixed w:th the fogs.
DRINKING IS BANE OF NATION
Alarming Increase of Custom Among
Women of Leisure — American
People Should Take Warning.
Business bars drinking men. Com
petition lias become so keen that ev
ery line of business is beginning to
shut its doors absolutely to the drink
ing man, and only men of steadfast,
habits can find employment. Thus,
while business competition is pro
moting sobriety among men, among
women of leisure there has been with
in recent years an alarming Increase
of the drink habit. The frequency
with which even respectable women
drink cocktails, whisky straight, wines
and liquors of all kimls/ls a matter of
common observation, and scenes that
shocked ns ten years ago are now
passed by without comment, writes
Doctor Madison C, Peters in Chicago
Tribune. Indeed, so common is drink
ing that (he situation is often a source
of embarrassment to the woman who
does not drink.
if "history is philosophy teaching
by example," the Americnn people
should take warning, for there is no
plainer lesson I aught in tlie republics
of history than that luxury, extrava
gance, and immorality consequent up
on vast wealth In the hands of a few
are the certain forerunners of decay.
The plain lesson of history is that
the last symptom of national decline
is found in womanly folly; corruption
may spread far and wide and do much
harm in (lie community, but. there is
hope for both the church and the
state so long ns the wives and moth
ers, the daughters and the sisters re
tain their moral integrity. When that
is gone all Is gone. Purity ana worm
find their last, retreat in the homo;
if driven from thence they are doomed
to die, and with their death perish Ihe
prospects of the land.
Man’s ideal of what woman ought
to he is based upon his belief of what
she normally Is—better than himself.
Mis own selfish desire is the chief fac
tor in dragging her down from the
pedestal upon which ( lie himself
placed her, and yet with that strange
inconsistency which characterizes him
he will idolize her if she resists.
If sin seems blacker in woman than
in man it is simply because she is
by nature purer and has farther to
fall. If man seems to condemn sin
in the woman more than in the man
lie is fiaying to her, fur that reason,
his highest compliment.
Intoxicants are dangerous enough to
men, to women they are especially
so. Romulus sentenced women to
death for intoxication as the begin
ning of unfaithfulness to the mar
riage vow.
The lack of moral balance and de
fective will produced in the woman
by drink are more marked than in
the man. Woman’s emotional organ
ization is more susceptible than that
of man, lienee the special danger of
drink to the woman.
The disastrous results of tippling
among women are already loo well
known to physicians, and experience
shows that while men who drink oft
en reform women who become victims
to drink seldom do.
That women drink as freely and fre
quently as the men is a sight that you
can see for yourself in the fashionable
cafes in our great cities, where wealth
abounds and beauty smiles. I speak
from what 1 have seen myself. I dare
not trust myself to describe the things
I have seen among women young and
tender, upon whose more impression
able temperament and finer organiza
tion the destroyer bad taken firm
hold, and among women no longer
young, but whose soul and sense were
dead long before their eyes were
closed.
CHINA'S STRUGGLE ON OPIUM
World Now Convinced of Nation's
Determination to Wipe Out
Terrible Curse.
It took years of effort on China's
part to convince the world that she
was In earnest in her determination
to blot out the opium curse. Hut the
world knows it now. Cnder the im
perial edict, the acreage on which
poppies can be grown is to be de
creased each year until after ten
years have elapsed it will be illegal
to raise poppies anywhere in the
Chinese empire. Opium refuges are
being erected in the principal cities
for tne shelter and treatment of those
who art endeavoring to free them
selves from the habit. It Is a fre
quent occurrence for the smokers of
whole towns to bring their pipes and
pile them up in the market place and
burn them as a sacrifice on the altar
of their own freedom. In many ways
China’s war upon opium is tie most
sublime struggle which was ever
fought; it is a harder battle than ours
against the saloon. The whole fu
ture of file Chinese people is de
pendent upon their victory in it.
Beer Barred in Navy.
Vice-Admiral Sir George Neville,
commanding the third and fourth di
visions of the British home fleet, has
issued an order stating that the cus
tom which exists of issuing beer to
ship’s companies on completion of
coaling is not in accordance with the
spirit of the king's regulations, and
Is to be discontinued in ships under
his command.
HER SONG TO THE CONVICTS
Deserved Appreciation of Good Work
to the Credit of Miss Geraldine
Farrar.
Geraldine Farrar has sung to many
distinguished audiences in Europe and
in the rutted States, but site never
tang to ti more appreciative audience
or to greater and better and noblei
effect than when site appeared before
the convicts of the United States pen
itentiary in Atlanta. For them she
sang the old HongR—"Annie Laurie,"
"Suwance River," "My Old Kentucky
Home," "Hy die time site finished the
last song," says a dispatch front At
lanta. the audience, composed of near
ly 1,000 convicts, "seemed to be In one
great sob. and tents were streaming j
down tho clc eks of Miss Farrar." And
tlie warden of the penitentiary is
quoted as sating that "her singing
was worth more than a hundred ser
mons." The old. familiar heart songs
awakened memories of days when
many of these men now paying the
penalty of law breaking had an hon
orable purpose in life, when they
looked forward, before temptation
came, to careers of usefulness and
worthy achievement. There are men
in the Atlanta prison who once were
conspicuous in the field of finance and
business. In them the old songs must
have not only revived recollections of,
better days, blit served also as an in
spiration for better living when the
prison doors are opened and are free.
Miss Farrar did a nojjle and helpful
thing when she sang for the convicts.
Kite exemplified exquisitely the spirit
of pure and undefUed religion. Site
has had notable triumphs on the op
eratic stage. She lots stirred her au
diences with her dramatic force and
her thrilling voice. Hut never did
she move men's hearts so deeply, nev
er did she use her -art to grander and
more exalted purposes, than when site
sang to the convicts in the Atlanta
penitentiary. Site lias done a good
work.
NOT AFTER SPIRITUAL ADVICE
Pastor's Ministrations Unneeded in
This Case. Though Sickness
Might Be Desperate.
Just how naturally some inferences
may bo drawn was illustrated by a
story told by City Clerk Thomas C.
Mooney of Burlington. One evening
some time ago, Mr. Mooney said, a
man drove up to the residence of a,
preacher In a small town over In Jer
sey and after violently ringing the
doorbell told the parson that Bill
Bowker's Sally was awful sick with
colic or something of the kind and
wanted him to come right out.
The good dominie knew Bill Bow
leer, also his wife Sally, and, thinking
that spiritual advice was wanted, he
picked up a prayer hook and accom
panied the farmer to the wagon.
"! am sorry to hear that Sally is
sick,'' remarked the preacher in a
sympathetic tone as he was about to
step into the vehicle. "Do you think
that her condition is dangerous?"
"Can't tell," replied the farmer,
“she has been layln' down in thc^ sta
ble all ther afternoon."
"Dying down in the stuble!” ex
claimed the parson with a look of min
gled amazement and horror. ‘What in
the world is she doing in a place like
that?"
"Why, what do you expect?" was
the surprised rejoinder of the farmer.
"Where in ther thunderation elsa
would ye keep a mule?”
"O, 1 see," smilingly responded the
parson, as light suddenly dawned upon
him. "Vou have struck the wrong
house; what you are looking for is
the veterinary surgeon w.bo lives next
door."—Philadelphia Telegraph.
Queen Victoria and Politics.
For some years after Queen Vfctoi
ria succeeded the Whigs were the al
lies of the sovereign; the Tories were
her antagonists. In IS 10 the queen, In
a letter to Prince Albert, expressed
her party preference with the utmost
candor. "The Tories,” she wrote,
"are really very astonishing; as they
cannot and dare not attack us in par
liament, they do everything they can
to he personally rude to me.” "The
Whigs,” the letter ran, "are the only
safe and loyal people and the Radicals
will also rally round their queen to
protect her from the Tories; but it
is a curious sight to see those who,
as Tories, used to pique themselves
upon their excessive loyalty doing ev
erything to degrade their young sover
eign in the eyes of the people.” So
closely did the queen associate her
self with the Whigs that she regarded
a dissolution as an event directly af
fecting her credit and position.
Hybrid Indian Names.
Minnehaha—laughing water—what
prettier name, in sound and in sense,
could there he? But the saddest thing
about American nomenclature is the
way in which languages have been
cross-bred, with deplorable results.
All these Indian “Minnie” names are
delightful when left alone, and the
white man did well in naming the
state of Minnesota after the river,
which, being Interpreted, is "sky-tint
ed water.” But then he must go and
contrive “Minneapolis" for its chief
town a shocking mixture of Indian
and Greek. What lovely names they
must have missed when they imported
their Jackson ideas to dispossess the
red man's language.
Internal Telephony.
"Why didn't you"listen for that small
voice within called conscience?”
"I did," replied the discovered aud
therefore rep< ntant grafter; "but I
guess the line was busy." ,
VALUE OF TOTAL ABSTINENCE
Interesting and Able Address Deliv
ered by Sir Alexander Russell
Simpson, M. 0., D. Sc.
An iiitoitsUi’g and able address otv
tho valiu* nf total abstinence w as re
eently delivered by Sir Alexander
Russell Simpson, M. I)., I). Sc., dean of
the faculty of medicine, Kdinburgli
university, before an Immense assctti
blage gathered for the Scottish mi
tlonal Sunday school convention, held
in the great Scottish cent! r. Speaking
from the standpoint, of morality and
.•■'donee, Sir Alexander said in part:
"About a quarter of a century agoj
some friends in Kingston, Out., took,
me on nil excursion on the St. l.awj
reiico river. Tho speaker of the Ca
nadian parliament, who was of the,
company, made me take notice, as we
sailed out from the town, that the first
imposing building wo Were passing
was a distillery. Near by was an in|
Urinary, then a lunatic asylum, then nj
prison, and after these a cemetery. |
"1 take It lor granted that every
teacher before me lias so far eonsid
ered tho relation ol tho use of ulco
Indie liquors to disease, derangement,
degradation and death, as to have
seen the advisability of becoming a
personal abstainer. Supreme among
tiie dangers that beset all our lives is
the danger inherent lit the common
■ is© of alcohol. Whatever lie the form
in which it is taken wine, beer, sptr
its, or what else- It is a more com
,1.011 cause of loss of lienjiii, of loss
of reason, of loss of character, of loss
of life, than any oilier of the inliu
cnees that t«11 upon our complex
mechanism. An intoxicated man is
simply a ala'll Unit Is in the clutch of
a poison.
"Tills leads me more immediately In
the direction in which I suppose you
expect me, as a member of the med
ical profession, to offer some sugges
lions as to what instruction it might,
be desirable to impart to our young
charges if much of the result of all
your labor is not to lie blotted out of
their lives in later years through Ig
norance of tho influence of alcohol on
the body and even more on the mind
of the mam
"To btgin with, young people should
be taught that wine is not a necessity
of life. It is no more necessary for
man that for any of the creatures
around him. There are tribes and
communities who live and thrive with
out It. The want of it is never felt
by one who lias not begun to use it.
N'y household that excludes It from
its dietary suffers In anything front'
its absence. The child reared in ab
stinence lias missed nothing that could
have helped its growth and develop
ment, or, I will add, Its happiness.
"\\'e deny it a place among I lie nee
essltles of life. Hut there Is no deny
ing it a place among life's luxuries1
Wo must be quite1 honest with our
selves and with the young, and recog
' nize that those who habitually or oc-|
| easionally drink wine do so because
of some gratification It affords. Rut*
It Is a costly luxury. The temporary
gratification it yields puts a tax upon
the life. It is the most dangerous lux
ury In which a human being can in
dulge, because of the risk to life and
health attendant upon Its use, apart
altogether from Its contramoral and
antispiritual Influences.
"In a graduation address 18 years
ago, I took occasion to congratulate
the young doctors who during their
student curriculum had had tlie wis-;
doin and the courage to be members
of the Total Abstinence society, and
to say to all the graduates: 'You will
not be long In practice before you!
will prove these five things:
" T. Tliat alcohol, habitually used,
can of itself produce disease from
which the abstainer remains exempt
" '2. That it will aggravate diseases
to which all are liable.
" '3. Tliat it renders those who ha
bitually use it more open to attacks
of various forms*of illness.
“ '4. Tliat the alcohoiist has a worse
chance of recovery from a fever or an
injury than an abstainer.
“ ‘5. That in the crisis of disease the
alcohoiist gets less benefit from stim
ulants than the abstainer.’
"it may occur to some one to ask.
But w hat* of the people who take their
daily glass of wine and live to old
age? Well, with the splendid equip
ment of blood and blood vessels with
which they were endowed by nature,
how much longer might they not have
lived on had the deteriorating element
been kept out of their system? They
are likeliest to come near the natural/
limit of longevity who all their life-i
time keep their blood and tissues clear
of the effect of alcohol.
"It is sometimes claimed for wine as
a virtue that it stimulates the appe
tite. Here again experiment and ob
servation show tliat if it irritates the;
stomach to secrete more fluid, tiie se
cretion is of lowered digestive quality.
Instead of helping, it hinders diges
tion. It temps the drink* r to take in
what his stomach cannot property di;
gest."
Pertinent Questions.
What fools the citizen by talk of
revenue? The saloon,
What makes a maq a demon in
private? The saloon.
What would reduce our taxes and
replen isli pocket books and banks?
The abolishing of the ssloon.
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SURPRISE rUrt flit 3AR3ER
Wielder of Rgzor Had No Idea How
Many Strokes of Implement
Were Necessary.
The barber was Just about to lean
over and ask the customer In u low
whisper If he didn’t want a facial "mas
sodge." Hut the customer forestalled
him bj* looking up suddenly and ask
ing n question himself.
"How many strokes of the razor are
required lit shaving the average man
— or, rather, how many strokes do you
make In shaving mo, for instance?"
• "O, 1 dutfno," replied tile barber.
"Never thought of it."
"But you must have some rough
Idea. You’ve been in the business a
good many years, I take it.”
"Yes, about nine years."
"Well, how many strokes do you
think It takes?"
"O, mebby ir.tV—or 17a; not more’n
that.”
"You’re wrong," laughed the cus
tomer "Sntne time ago 1 fell Into tin*
lhabit of counting the razor strokes
when I’m being shaved, just as a
Imenns of resting m.v mind; you can’t
‘think about your business when you’re
.counting the short, quick strokes of a
razor. So I’ve got to be something
of an authority on the subject. Count
ing It ns a stroke every time the razor
is moved forward and drawn buck
again, it takes between 600 and 700
jstrokes as a rule- that is on my faco
it. does—my beard’s pretty tough. Of
course, when i shave mxself with a
safety razor it doesn’t take anything
like us many because you rati cover
more facial territory nt a single stroke.
1 have been shaved Jn n barber chair
with ns few as COO strokes hut as a
rule it Is nearer 700 Kind of sur
prises you, doesn’t it?"
"It sure does," snys the barber
REMOVED STAIN FROM NAMES
Titles Bestowed In Dorislon Made
Honorable Through Decd3 of
Distinction.
When In I.",00 the count of Barlnf
itmmt characterized the league of
Flemish nobles arrnyed against his
'Spanish sovereign as "a hand of beg
gars'’ the league, until then without a
name, enthusiastically adopted the
one t’ne haughty servant of Spain had
g'lven them and called themselves the
| "League dea Gncux." They made the
name a badge of honor for all time.
In a similar spirit the French and
American soldiers In Rhode Island
during the war of the Revolution
christened themselves the ‘‘sanscu
lottes” at fi feast they gave where po
tatoes and similar viands constituted
the menu, with .the distilled Juice of
the corn, and any man considered him
self disgraced If he appeared with a
whole pair of breeches. This name,
originating in huh country, was
transferred to France, where It was
applied as a term of reproach by the
aristocrats to the revolutionists of
1789 That the revolutionists iliil not
so regard it Is indicated by (lie fa<;t
that in the new calendar they adopt
ed, beginning with September 22.
1792, they applied the term '‘sans
culottes" to the five (or six) supple
mentary days placed at the end of
(he last month to complete the year,
1 each of the 12 months having 30 days.
These examples from history show
how names given in dishonor can he
redeemed in honor, a reflection In
which those who think they are tnlH
named may find consolation.—Army
and Navy Journal.
Helping Out the Gun.
Gadebusch, in the Grand Duchy nil
Mecklenburg-Schwerln, In celebration
of the birth of the grand ducal heir
decided to fire (he regulation salute
of 101 guns. An ancient cannon was
hauled out for the purpose, and the
firing began. Unfortunately the
powder ran short after the nlnety
Ithtrd shot and there was no means of
obtaining any more In the town. The
burgomaster was in despair, especial
ly as 93 shots indicated that the grand
ducal baby was a girl. At this mo
ment the municipal bandmaster came
forward with a luminous proposal,
which was eagerly accepted. He dis
patched ills big drum major to the
market place, where lie struck eight
powerful strokes on his instruments
to make up the 101 shots, and thus
the situation was saved
Winter Home of Deer.
The winter home of the American
red deer is very Interesting. When
the snow begins to fly the leader of
the herd guides them to some shel
tered spot where provender is plenti
ful.
Here as the snow falls they pack
It down, tramping out a considerable
space, while about them the snow
mounts higher and higher until they
cannot get out if they would. From the
main opening, or "yard,” *as It Is
called, tramped out paths lead to the
nearby trees and shrubbery which
supply them with food. In this way
they manage to pass the winter in
comparative peace and safety.—St.
Nicholas.
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An Experienced Waiter.
At the first meal on board the ocean
liner Smythe was beginning to feel
like casting his bread upon the wa
ters. His friends had told him that
when he began to feel that way he
should stuff himself. He tackled a
cutlet first, but it didn't taste right.
He observed to the waiter, “Waiter,
this cutlet isn't very good.”
The waiter looked at Smythes
whitening face, then replied: “Yes.
sir; but lor the length ,of time you'll
'ave b'it, sir, li t won’t matter sir.”— ,
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