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National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
NO ALCOHOL NEEDED.
"A Physicians Testimony on the Mona
cOholic Treatment of Disease.

A Physicians Testimony on the Non-AI.
coholic Treatment of Disease.
Referring again to the mortality in
the live hundred cases under review,
feel quite content to rest on the gener-
al results. BY comparison with other
hospitals, it would be easy to show
that mortality of ia per cent. out Of
so many examples of acute and serious
disease is as good return as could
have been obtained in any other hos.
pltal. Throughout there was no selec-
t1on of patients for the trial. On the
contrary, the instruction was for the
resident staff to receive every case,
however severe, and SO soon as con.
valescence would allow for the re.
moval of patients under recovery their
beds were vacated at once in order that
new and pressing occupants should
be admitted. The wards were al.
ways well charged, therefore, with per.
sons suffering from acute or very Sc.
rlous chronic disease. The general re.
suit is, consequently most satisfactory,
Nevertheless, do not rest on the gen
eral outcome. Having no prejudice
ing no desire to breathe word that
leans improperly on one side or the
other; having no object in view but to
collect facts derived from natural OBJ
servation, [ have questioned myself
seriously whether there was single
case ending fatally that could have
been benefted-shall l say saved-by
ha ict, ~Fo II
tatingly and conscientiously, believe
there was not. When I was accustomed
to prescribe alcohol l should have pre-
scribed it in every one of the fatal
cases, not, in all probability, with
the expectation that they would
have recovered under it's use as
matter of necessity, but from
habit, and from SO ingrained an idea
that its employment was such neces-
sity that if they had died in large num-
bers l should still have believed that
its administration was right. In like
.manner, and fsr - tt.s-s.ss.s.4 FessssonsE
should have administered alcohol
largely in the sixty per cent. Of cases
that recovered, and in the twenty-four
per cent. 'of cases that were relieved;
and if any of these had died / should
not for moment have assumed
that alcohol had anything to do with
the death. / should also have been
sure to have believed that in every in
stance where alcohol was given, it had
assisted the recovery; belief which
we now see had no actual foundation.
since recovery without alcohol was
stances better.-Sir Benjamin Ward
Richardson, M. D., in The Asclepiad.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02

These figures carry their own argu-
ment with them. They show an in
creasing tendency toward the use of
liquors. How far this is to be account
ed for by the heavy foreign immigra-
tion during that decade, it is impossi-
bic to say: probably that is a factor of
cOnsiderab BILE Importance in the result
But how are we to check this? What
are the remedial measures to be en-
ployed? To us, the state of the case
shows the crying neod of a moral up
lifting, of crusade of education in the
evils, individual and social, inheret in
the drink habit, among the masses of
our heterogeneous population. You
can not reform people until they desire
to be reformed. You can not reform
them by passing a law. We must edu-
cate them up to the point where they
will see the need of reform; and when
majority of them have reached this
point, they will be willing to join in
the effort to pulverize the rum powder.
Toledo Blade.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
NOTES BY THE WAY.

OF the 81 900 breweries estimated to
be in the world 26, 900 are in Germany.
In Zurich, Switzerland, 2, 700 of the
insane patients were aggravated cases
of alcoholic insanity.
JERUSALEM has 135 places where liq.
uor is sold, the license fee gong to
Constantinople.
THE number of hard drinkers living
to-day in the United States is est-
mated to be 100000.
THE Catholic Total Abstinence union
of the United States has 1850 mem
bers according to the latest statistics.
A LAW in Norway prohibits any per.
son from spending more than five cents
for liquor at one visit to public house,
and alcohol stimulants are supplied
only to sober persons.
THE Pueblo Indians have resisted all
attempts of traders to introduce whisky
and playing cards among them. They
are about the only tribe that have nor
taste for the ''frewater.
A CHICAGO paper says that there are
in Chicago at least 5000 places in the
manufacturing district where working
men are in the habit of going for liq
uor. These saloons are purposely
placed near the factories SO as the more
easily to absorb the mems wages. |,
each one of these saloons took in $40
day, the sum would amount to $50, 0og
a dav, or $500. 900 for week of six days
TOTAL abstinence in the British army
in India is on the advance, the number
of abstainers having nearly doubled in
four years. The present commander,
in-chief, Sir George White, is much in
terested in the subject, and has dis.
covered that nearly all the crime and
half the sickness in the army are trace
able to drink, that intemperance is the
main cause of failure in health and en-
durance on the part of the British sol
dier.
SOME little time since members of the
Salvation Army in Glasgow reported
that on a Saturday evening they
watched eight saloons and counted the
number of visitors. There were 2,30a
men and 365 women who entered in the
course of single hour. Furthermore,
they examined the records of the Grim
inal courts, and found that 81, 900 wom
en- had been brought before them oD
the charge of drunkenness, disorderlJ
conduct or personal assault, and more
than Is, 900 convicted. The result .
this report made quite a sensation in
the city, and the churches have beer
reused.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
What Goes with What.

Some cooks never know just what
to serve with different meats as
relish. Following is table of things
considered the proper caper: With
roast beef. grated horseradish; roast
mutton, currant jelly: boiled mutton,
caper sauce; roast po>&, apple sauces;
boiled chicken, bread sauce; roast lamb,
mint sauce; roast turkey, oyster sauce;
venison or wild duck, black currant
jelly; broiled fresh mackerel, sauce or
stewed gooseberries; boiled bluefsh,
white cream sauce; broiled shad,
boiled rice and salad; compete
of pigeons, mushroom sauce; fresh
salmon, green peas with cream sauce;
roast goose, apple sauce.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
STEAMING THE FACE.
How to Perform This Youth and Health
Inparting Operation.

1nparting Operation.
Have the teakettle boiling for you at
certain hour. Take newspaper,
fold down the middle, pin two of the
ends behind and put it over your head
like a big hood, letting it come well
over your face in front.
Rub your face thoroughly with any
good cold cream, sit down by the
kitchen range, your paper bag over
your head and your nose as close to the
spout of the boiling kettle as you dare
to- Don't tempt fate too far, or you
may burn your face. Keep turning
first one cheek and then the other, so
that all parts of the face may be
steamed equally. Keep this up for
fifteen or twenty minutes or until you
have perspired freely. Now don't rub
this grease and perspiration off with a
towel, but take a silverbladed knife
and gently scrape the debris away,
even as a man scrapes whiskers from,
his features.
After every bit is removed battle the
face with warm water in which few
drops of Sweet-scented benZOin have
been poured. If you are going out
doors dash the face with cold water to
prevent chapping, but if you are going
to remain at home rub little cold
cream under the eyes, over the eye
brows and behind the ears, for these
are the quarters in which the telltale
wrinkles first begin to come. Then go
lie down and take nap and waken re-
freshed and as glowing as sixteen
year-old girl.-Health.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
THE NATIONS BILL FOR DRINK,
Figures Which Show an Increase In the
Consumption of Intoxicants.

Figures Which Show an Increase In the
Consumption of Intoxicants.
1t is comparatively easy to obtain the
figures as to the number of gallons of
Intoxicating liquors of all kinds manu-
factured within and imported into the
United States, through the medium of
the official records of the treasury de-
partment; but it is very difficult to
ascertain what the people who consume
these liquors pay for them. We can
estimate the number of single drinks,
of average size, contained in a gallon,
and figure on the basis of the retail
price paid over the bar per drink. This
gives us at best only an estimate, but
this is the nearest it is possible to come
| to an ascertainment of the nation s
drink bill.
Let us take the official figures, and
make such an estimate for the fiscal
year ended June 80, 1898. Within that
twelvemonth there were consumed in
the United States, as a beverage and
in the arts, 90, 9,S9O,33 gallons Of dis
titled liquors. We will deduct II per
cent. of this sea of liquor for the guam
t1ty used in the arts, and add Is per
cent. for the water used to dilute it
| down to the average retail strength
This gives 101, ,0S9, ,015 gallons consumed
as a beverage. The average price of a
gallon of whisky, when sold at retail
over the counter, is $3.50. Hence the
people paid S454 900, ,957 for it,
Besides this there were consumed
1907, 1922 gallons of imported spirits,
which, at 50 per gallon, cost 6,459, 376:
| of domestic wines, 26, 391, ,235 gallons, at
50 per gallon, $:52, 1872, 40: of foreign
wines, 5,596, 5S4 gallons, at 81 per gal
Ion, $22, 1856, 1856; of domestic beer, 1,071,-
1882 gallons, at so cents a gallon;
$685., 591, ,9l4 of imported beer, 8, 1862, 500
gallons, at 81 per gallon, 1862 500
Adding these items, we obtain a grand
total of S1,079, ,4S3, 172 as the nations
drink bill for that year.
This is simply astounding-thatt the
people of the United States will thus
tax themselves for something which
is in no wise of the slightest benefit to
anyone, but rather an injury. DR..
Franklin, in his Poor Richard" say
ings, told a homely truth when he de-
clared that what maintains a vice
will bring up two children;' and it is
certain that what the vice of intemper-
ance costs many man in this country
would carry out the truth of the say
ing But this is not the worst of the
matter. The total volume of alcoholic
intoxicants consumed yearly is increas-
ing steadily and increasing at much
greater ratio than is the population.
The following figures show the in
crease in the cost of the liquors COM
sumed for the past ten years. The
same method of computing the
amount paid was used as in the
computation for 1898, given above:
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
PINEAPPLE RECIPES.
This Delicious Fruit Can I.e Prepared in
Variety of WAYS.


The most important thing to know
about pineapples is how to cut them,
and ignorance of the proper manner in
which this should be done is respon-
sible for much of the distaste awarded
to this tender and delicious fruit.
The pine should 4rst be peeled, tax
ing care to cut we'll inside the eyes to
remove the sharp spear which each eye
contains. Then stand the pine on end
and wiring off the crown or top, never
cut it off.
With sharp knife then cut the pine
in thin slices from top to bottom and
keep turning the pine around and slice
to the core. Put the slices in a dish
and let stand until ready to serve,
when sugar may be added if desired.
Under no circumstance add the sugar
until the last moment, as it draws out
the juices of the fruit and Injuries the
flavor. This is tender point and one
not generally known, but if you will
follow these directions fully the result
will be a dish incapable of harm to
anyone, both tender and delicious.
Pineapple shortcake is tempting
dessert and is made as follows:
Take half cupful of butter, one
cupful of sugar, half cupful of milk,
two cupfuls of -four and two teaspoon
fuls of baking powder. Bake in two
layers and spread chopped pineapple
between the layers after the cake is
cold. This recipe is very popular down
where the pines grow, but any recipe
for strawb berry shortcake will do as
well by substituting the pine for the
berries.
Another and still more delicious use
for this fruit is known as pineapple
biegnets:
Cut the pine into pieces the size of
silver quarter dollar and quarter of
an inch thick. Let these steep for an
hour in brandy, sweetened with pow
dered sugar, then dip in batter and fry
in boiling fat until they are quite
crisp and of golden yellow color.
Take them up in a strainer and put
them in hot baking tin, sprinkle with
confectioner's sugar and set in hot
oven to glaze. When they look bright
and glossy dish on white paper and
serve hOt.-N. Y. Herald.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
BEES ON A BOUT.
Disproval of the Story That Mankind Only
Becomes Inebriated.

DisprOval of the Story That Mankind Only
Becomes Inebriated.
Who ever heard of a drunken bum
blebee? The idea seems absurd in
itself; that an insect should prefer a
stick in it's honey; but such is a fact
as my personal observation has proved.
A few years ago l was spending my
vacation at Englewood, n. j., pretty
town just back of the Palisades On the
Hudson river, and where, by the way,
a good deal of wealth and style con-
centrate. My favorite corner of the
veranda was shaded by a fine old wis
taria vine, whose magnificent clusters
of lavender bloom hung like punches
of grapes, forming superb cornice
the whole length of the piazza.
One morning while lying in my ham
mock my attention was attracted to
the vine by an unusual commotion
among the insects. Dropping papers
and cigarette, / arose to investigate,
and found the vine alive with the larg-
est bumblebees | ever saw, big, shin
ing black fellows with yellow plush
trimmings, any one of them would have
been a fine specimen for an entomolo-
gist. They were humming and biz buzz
ing in the drollest manner, pushing
and fighting with one another greed
ily for the possession of certain flow
ers. until the one who had been at it
che longest would loose his head and
tumble through the leaves and
branches, buzzing in the most helpless
manner, to the ground, where he
would lie in a somnolent condition for
a few minutes Then the fun would
begin. He would raise his legs and
one wing little way; buzz
down they would go again:
then he would push himself down and
try to gather himself together; buzz
no go; another wait, then another trial
of legs and wings. still pretty dizzy, a
final effort like a drunken man when
he makes up his mind to walk straight,
and Mr.. Bee would sail off about two
feet from the ground, thinking, no
doubt, that he had been transformed
into a fiat-iron with wings. Whether
he went home sadder but wiser bee
] do not know, but I hope SO. found
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
MiSdireCted SYmnathY.

A New York clergyman, meeting one
Of his female parishioners dressed in
deep black, tried to console her by say
ing:
You have no idea how regret to
see you wearing those sad habiliments
of Woe"
''You can't be as sad about it as !
am" responded the widow; II look
worse in black than in any other color.
1t makes me look like fright. ALEX
Sweet, in Texas Siftings.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
WOMAN AND HOME.
BORDERS FOR DOILlES.
Some New Designs Which Are Artistic
and Easily Made.

oohIo new DtsiEHS w Ibcu Are ATIISLIc
and Easily Made.
The accompanying illustrations are
designed for borders to be worked
upon doilies, tray cloths, tides or any
of their near relatives, in outline stitch
with wash silk of any desirable shade.
Very little explanation is needed, as
the illustrations speak quite plainly
for themselves. The little pansies and
daisies are conventional in design, but
1t will add greatly to their artistic eff
feet If they are not all twins" but
are made to vary in some slight de-
tails. The pansy faces may nod toward
each other little in one case and turn
away from each other further on in the
border, thus relieving the ''setness" of
any absolutely conventional pattern.
1t takes but little taste and skill to
make this variation, and the effect
gained will more than repay ones
work. In the case Of the daisies,
petal or two twisted here and there
relieves the stiffness very greatly. The
INTERVIEWING stems form beautiful in
side finish to the border. The fancy
stitching ON the outside edge may vary
almost indefinitely, the illustrations
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
PRETTY TEA CLOTHS.
Considered an Essential Part of a Correct
Entertainments.


The fashion in five o'clock tea cloths
ordains that cloth of fine white linen
should have deep border of rich bro
cade, the seams where the two ma
terials join being covered by row Of
large single flowers embroidered IN
crewel stitch. The linen center is then
covered with tiny stars embroidered in
the color of the brocade. Thus cloth
with pale mauve brocade border has
a row of embroidered pansies covering
the seam and pale mauve stars in the
center.
Lace braids are more and more used
in embroidery, on the ground that they
furnish the appearance of fancy stitches
without the trouble of making them.
An afternoon tea cloth recently pre-
sentGd to bride was of white silk,
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
TEA CLOTH BORDER.

bordered with white and silver bro
cade, with an insertion of beautiful
lace between the silk and the brocade.
In each corner Of the silk center was
an exquisite group of the brides name
flower worked in raised white silk en-
broidery, outlined with silver thread.
In the center her monogram was
worked, and it was surrounded by a
garland of the same flowers tied with
a true-lOver's knot.-N. Y. Tribune.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
Science Right.

Husband-A great scientist says that
women are less sensitive to pain than
men.
Wife-l presume it is so. can suffer
torments, and go right along with a
smile on my face, while you swear and
tear around like mad if you bump your
head while hunting collar BUTTON
n. Y. Weekly.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
Poor Girl.

II have almost made up my mind to
break the engagement" said the young
woman with the copper-colored hair.
why SOP" emphatically asked the
woman who had been married twice.
I'm afraid we can never be happy
together. Fido and he are madly jeal-
Gus of each other'already."-I
oils Journal
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
How to Destroy Bedbugs.

Clean the paint of the room thor
oughly, and set in the center of the
room dish containing four ounces Of
birthstone. Light it and close the
room as tight as possible, stopping the
keyhole of the door with paper, to keep
the fumes of the birthstone in the room.
Let it remain for three Or four hours,
then open the windows and air thor
oughly. The birthstone will be found
to have also bleached the paint if it
was a vellOwish white
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02

suggesting two styles. Of course, if
one has not the gift" of making ones
pencil obey ones fancies the little va
riations in the border can be omitted,
and it can be made simply a repetition
throughout Of one little daisy blossom
or pansy face. The design is sketched
or stamped upon the linen with colored
crayon or a soft pencil.-American Ag-
ricu1turiSt
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
For Nervnus Headache.

A simple but often effective way OF
relieving nervous headache is to battle
the head freely in water as hot as can
be borne. This should be applied not
alone to the temples, but to the back
Of the ears and the back of the neck,
where the nerves are very numerous.
The effect is, in most cases, soothing
and beneficial.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
His Lucky Day.

Mrs. Tipton-I thought you were go
ing to the races this afternoon?
Tipton-Yes, | was, confound i'll
but | missed the train.
Mrs. Tipton-An! Wednesday was al-
ways your lucky day.-Puck.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
The Last Resource.

When lovely woman stoops to folly,
And finds too late, she's getting gray,
What charm can then her worst fears jollyr
What art can wash the sign away?
The only way her years to cover,
And hide her age from every eye,
And bring back to her feet her lover,
And ring her finger, is-to dye.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
None of His Business.

Miss Irene - The odious creaturel
She turned and looked at me after we
had passed each other.
Cousin Jack-How do you know she
did?-Chicago Tribune.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
Welcome.

Elder Berry-Did the natives of CEN
tral Africa give you warm reception?
Returned Missionary indeed!
They were so tickled to see me that
they wanted to eat me up.-N Y.
World.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
Not Without Honor. Except-

Pennyroyal-It's funny; have never
over Drivley's poetry
Critic-You have never met Drivley's
wife, then?-Judge.
National Baptist world., 1894-11-02
WHERE NEGROES THRIVE
The Interesting Colored Popula-
tion Of the Capital City.
Schools Maintained for the Education of
American Children of African Descent
Gorgeous Homes and Churches
Owned by Intelligent Negroes.
Especial Washington Letter

Every class and every grade Of the
Amer icanized African can be found
within the boundaries of the District
Of Columbia. We have them here not
only from the depths Of ignorance and
poverty to the heights Of intelligence
and wealth, but from the vileness and
villainy of the slums to the refinement
and morality Of the Sunday schools
and churches.
Some of these American citizens OF
African descent are owners not only of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-27
In Place Of white Miners.

TACOMA. Wash, July IA train load %
Coo negro coal miners bound for the Roslyn
mines Is expected to arrive here I'm week
or ten days. In May 6oo white miners st
the Roslyn mines. which are owned by the
Northern Pacific road refused 20 accept q
reduction of about - per cent in wages.
The company closed the mines and did
not make any attempt to reopen them unit.
two weeks ago. when IL gave the miners
untn last Saturday night TO sign The con-
tracts at the new schedule OF prices. The
white miners still refused. though thirty or
forty negro miners brought from the south
at the time were willing 20 work. Assist
ant Manager Lytle says that the negroes
would be brought out TO take the miners
places. but refuses to say from what point
they will come. He says they can he hired
in any one of half dozen states. The
old miners at Roslyn have orgautzed Q
branch of the National Miners Union.