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The Universalist. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1884-1897, 1896-11-14
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ga NEW LOOK AT TEMPER
ANCE."
BY L. C. BANCROFT.

"HERE are some men who look
for trouble and some who make
it, while all, some way, have to bear
it.
There was not miner at Wilder
ness Camp who could say Burke Mat
on did not bear his trouble, which
was, perhaps, all the harder because
self-inficted. 1t was so real and live
a burden that itlived with every man
of his associates as we'll as himself.
Wilderness Camp was pyrites
mining plant of eastern Virginia, and
gave employment to three hundred
poor men of that section, of which
Matson was an old and experienced
miner.
Every morning, when the crowd
waited in the shaft house for the
seven-o'clock whistle, Burke came by
them to take his place on the day
shift in sturdy silence. They never
discussed him or his burden; but
every man felt its might.
Some of the Oldest miners, Welsh
men and Englishmen, who had mined
in Pennsylvania in an earlier period,
could remember different Burke
a handsome, CHEEKY fellow, with the
faults which glare and traits which
redeem them; and the present con-
trast sickened them.
Burke was always the same now;
there was nothing, absolutely moth
ing. in his face. He rarely spoke to
any one, but came and went in his
mining overalls and even his miners
oil cap, often not stopping to put out
the little lamp on his hat, nor join
the men in the change house to wash
the grease and ore from his skin.
He returned the same figure in the
morning, only cleaner and perhaps
more weary. He earned dollar and
thirty-fve cents day, never brought
a dinner pail, and cooked his break
fasts and suppers in his cabin.
Some of the miners women had Of
fered to wash for him or do his bak
ing; but he had long ago refused all
help. When one of them wanted to
wash out a shirt for him he thanked
her, but continued washing his gar
ments at night and drying them by
the fire.
The women all wondered how he
lived. They wondered how he could
live and think-for every day those
maddening thoughts must be with
him, and every night, when they
arose before him larger than ever;
for there was Comma. Had he but
known it, they were learning to I'M
derstand his way of suffering and
we're bearing his burden with him.
Owing to a change of management
at the Wilderness" there came a
new superintendent to the force.
Superintendent McCurb and Matson
did not "get on" we'll together. He
was a stranger in that section and a
stranger to Burke and his trouble;
a man of quick action and discipline
with his men, and generalizer with
labor rather than an individualizer.
One night Captain McCurb called |
TO Burke as he passed the Office go
Jag home. ~ want you on the Sec
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training which under the old system the
child was expected to get from the pa
rent. A person trained to endure chill
dren as now brought up can endure any
thing.
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IKE WALTON'S PRAYER.
BY JAMES wHITcoMB RILEY.

crave, dear Lord,
No boundless hoard
OF gold and gear,
Nor jewels fine,
Nor lands, nor kline,
Nor treasure heaps of anything
Let but little hut be mine,
Where at the hearthstone may hear
The cricket sing,
And have the shine
Ofone glad woman's eyes to make,
For my poor sake,
Our simple home place divine,
Just the wee cot the crickefs chlrr-
Love. and the smiling face of her.
pray not for
Great riches, nor
For vast estates, and castle halls
Give me to hear the bare footballs
Of children DER
An oaken floor,
New.rinsed with sunshine, or bespread
With but the tiny coverlet
And pillow for the baby's head;
And pray thou. may
The door stand open, ana the day
Send ever in gentle breeze
With fragrance from the locust Trees
And drowsy moan of doves and blur
OF robin chlrps and drone of bees,
With afterhushes of the stir
OF intermingling sounds, and then
The good wife and the smile of her
Filling the silence again
The crickeG's cali
And the weet cot,
Dear Lord of all,
Deny me no
pray notthat
Men tremble at
My power of place
And lordly sway
only pray for slmpls grace
To look my neighbor ia the face
Full honestly from day to day;
Yield me his horny palm to hold
And I'll not pray
For gold
The tanned face, garlanded with mirth,
1t hath the kingliest smile on earth
The swart brow. diamondei with sweat,
Hath never need of coronet.
And so l reach.
Dear Lord, to thee,
And do beseech
Thou givest me
The wee cot, and the cricket's chirr,
Love, a nd the glad sweet face of herl
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THE WAYS OF LIONS.

The keepers of the lions in the Eng
lish Zoo are probably as we'll acquainted
with the idiosyncrasies of their gigantic
pets as any men, for there are always
large numbers of lions there. some of
which live from ten to twenty years. A
peculiarly noticed by the keepers at
this zoo is that bad weather affects lions
just as it does human beings. A rainy
day will make them limp and listless
a I'D a glimpse of sunshine makes them
happy as crickets. Bad weather, how
ever, does not prevent them from re.
Numbering when meal time is at hand,
and they are as restless as young kit
teas till their food is forthcoming.
When lions fall sick their medicine is
hidden in their food and they are not
aware they are being doctored. Some
times they suffer from toothache, but
usually get better without any treatment,
which would rather Inconvenience the
rash dentist who tried treating the ach-
ing tooth Of king of the desert. Occa-
sionally the lions claws have to be cut.
In the corners of their cages are placed
big trunks of trees, which are usually
worn down to slivers. These are the
lions nail scissors, and il he is a we'll
conducted ilion he whites away his
claws on them every morning. If he
neglects this his claws grow round till
they again enter the flesh of his paw,
and then the keeper has to cut them.
This is managed by placing an inviting
bit of meat near the bars of the cage
and when.the lion approaches for it a
lassoo is slipped over his head and he is
dragged.close to the bars, with his paws
projecting. The paws are then tied to,
gether and the keeper can work easily.
with no fear of being chewed.
The chief tanner at the London Zoo,
as he rubbed the noses of his pets who
came to the bars, said he did not pin his
faithIto the gratitude Of lions, and no
matter now gentle one became 1t was
every bit as tricky as its snarly brother.
There is no security that the best-na-
tured one of the lot will not turn on it's
trainer any moment. They grow up in
captivity just as large and strong as in
the wild state. One lion in the Zoo has
an evil reputation. Last Christmas
time it killed man. When the lion
was sent to the Zoo it was skinny and
bony and cross. Now it is fat. sleek and
contenied and the keeper lays the credit
for the change to the powers of lion
ess that took the lion in hand on his ar
rival and made of him the most obedi
emit, henpecked husband to be found.
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and distilling as we Western barbarians. In
some respects they have gone further, and
utilized almost every vegetable from which
a profitable fluid could be procured par
allel would exist II we made whisky from
rice, buckwhqat and oats, or wine from can
taloupes, watermelons and pumpkins.
There is 50 great a variety OF these East
ern liquors that the government Classics
them roughly into wines, strong liquors cor
dials and medicines. OF these four classes the
representatives that are presented for sam
ping are all well made. None are bad In any
regard, but very few are extraordinarily at
tractive. They average about 20 per cent
higher in quality and palatability than the
average contents of first-class American
bar. The wines are mainly fruit iavors.
weak, thin, but very fragrant Those from
almonds, roses and tea are the best.
The strong liquors numberless. Arrack
saki sam, sui. iung-ka-peh, no-ma-dhado
and bak no-ma- hsoio are the more common.
These are distilled from wort from rice.
balm starch, yam starch, miflet and other
farinaceous substances, uncoored or colored
with caramel, and favored with simple or
compounded vegetable extracts They are
not SO strong as our hard liquors, nor. ac-
cording to people who have used them in
the East, so injurious to the system. The
cordals are similar to our own. but not so
sweet and heavy. The medicinal wines ard
"bitters,'' tones and the like with which
the shelves of our drug stores are crowded
This is especially true with preparatio Of
ginger, peppermint, opium, ginseng and gen
tian.
This long list OF intoxicants passes through
the custom house, leaving samples in the
appraisers office and in the laboratory of the
governments chemist, and then passes to
the people of the United States who come
from the lands in which they are manuflct-
ured The variety as we'll as the quantity OF
the fmportations increases every year. When
the ceaseless influx OF foreigners Is taken
into consideration, it may we'll be asked how
much and how many of these outlandish
drinks will be passing the customs a hun
dred years hence.
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HURRIED THROUGH HERMAN.
silver Discussed by Bryan for Three
Minutes.

HERMAN, Mimi, Oct ia three
minute stop was made here and Mr.
Bryan discussed the fifty-cent dollar
proposition as he had discussed it often
before; along the same lines, that the
opening of the minis would create a
demand for silver which would place
the silver dollar on an equal with the
gold dollar anywhere in the world.
Continuing, he said:
Il saw a sign in Kentucky while I
was there, sign of but few words,
which read: Our barns are full but
our pockets are empty" (Applause).
Now, you know 1t Is necessary that
you shall have not only crops, but you
shall be able to get something for your
crops after you raise them. and If
prices continue to fall and taxes do
not fall, debts do not fall, fixed charges
do not fall, then your living expenses
must be cut down. And when your
living expenses are cut down, 1t means
that the business of the merchants
must suffer because the merchants
make their profits out of the people to
whom they sell, not out of the people
from whom they borrow money, and if
the people can not sell the manufac-
turers can not manufacture. The Re
publican candidate talks about opening
the mills instead of the mints. There
is no use opening mills unless you5haye
some use for the productssof the mills,
and the way to dispose of those pro-
ducts is to create demand for what
mills produce, and the way to create
that demand is to increase the power
of the people to consume, and you can
only do that by giving them a better
price for what they sell. The mainte-
nance Of the gold standard means a
continuance Of hard times. If anybody
likes hard times he ought to vote the
Republican ticket. applause and
cheerS)
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is to be abandoned, and that whenever you
have gold, to pay you must go, around and
ind gold, no matter how hard Ii Is for you
to find 1t. (Applause.) More than that, the
only cohtefnpIatss. gold as the only legal
tender, but 1t contemplates bank notes the
only paper money. You put the control of
your legal tender In the hands OF few
fnancters, and your paper money in the
: hands OF an organization OF banks and then.
my friends, all the people will have to do
1s to bend their backs little lower to bear
the additional burdens which will be placed
upon them Great applause.)
Our opponents are trying to thrust various
issues into the campaign. Sons OF them
talk all the time about having a new tariff
law. Some Of them imagine that If you can
raise taxes, you can relieve the people, ZAP
plause.) It Is not more taxes that we need.
my friends, 1t is more money to pay the
taxes that we have. (Applause) And when
our opponents tell US that we ought to raise
the tariff ! reply to them that until they put
a prohibftory duty upon foreign financial
policies am not willing to talk about a
tariff or any other article tApplause.) With
out financial policy OF our own, it is i'm
possible to have any kind of a policy of our
own. They say we cannot maintain the par
ity because Mexico has failed to do so. ZAP
plause and cheers.) Is there anybody here
as the United States? Cries of "No!") If
there Is, he ought TO vote the Republican
ticket. He cannot find a eongenial home
anywhere else except among the gold bugs
has ten times the population of Mexico, and
In commercial strength the difference is far
greater. Even If you insist that this nation
is no greater than Mexico. might 1t not be
possible that the United States and Mexico
together can do what Mexico could not do
alone?
You tell us that we will approach the stand
ard of Mexico If we have free coinage. There
are other nations which have not free coin
age. Take Turkey. for instance Will we
approach the standard of Turkey If we main
tain the gold standard! Applause.} See what
the gold standard has done for Turkey. II
l had to choose between Mexico and Turkey,
as future home. I would far rather go to
Mexico and use silver than to go to Turkey
and enjoy gold. Great applause and cheers
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OVER 5000 Triples
THE NUMBER OF KINDS OF IN
TOxICANTs SOLD IN AMER
ICA.
BEATS THE WORLD IN DRINKS.
OUTLANDISH STIMULANTs FROM
REMOTE PARTS OF THE
WORLD.
J ORIENTALs' DIsTILLING.
THE
They Are Not, However, Good at
Making Effervescent Drinks
Foreign Compounds.

There are more kinds of Intoxicating
liquors used in the United States than
in any other country on the face of
the earth This is not because we are
such abnormally Incorporate people,
for, as a matter of fact, this nation is
quite as abstemious as any, and more
so than many others But our very
large population has brought with it
not only the general habit of Europe
an countries in the use of intoxicants
but also the thirst for the national
beverages of the old countries. Thus
comes about the picturesque variety of
intoxicants s
No other country in the world can
show such huge importation of all
sorts of queer and outlandish stimu-
lants from every part of the globe, as
well as the erection Of establishments
which turn out skillful limitations of
the imported articles In nearly every
American city today are places where
the brewing, fermenting and distilling
practiced in every part of the globe
can be witnessed by the sightseer and
the student. In every port of entry
from New York to San Francisco can
be found samples of not hundreds but
thousands of foreign alcoholic bever-
ages. Few Americans have any idea
of the variety and wealth of this field
The average wine card Of hotel res
turant and saloon alike seldom has
more than 100 entries. Yet in the lit
erature. upon the subject, and more
especially in the official records of the
custom house, there are more than 5000
different brands Of legally recognized
intoxicants.
Our next-door neighbor, Mexico, sends
US a limited quantity sof spulque and
meseal The former is ssveetish-sour
beer, resembling milk and water in ap-
pearance. which is made from a cac-
hothouses. There is .1ething pleasant
about it at the first taste. The Mexi-
cans say that one mist drink it twen-
ty times before he appreciates it, To
strangers both theetaste end the smell
of pulque are horrible, something in
smell like rotten eggs: hut people seem
to get accustome& to ats favor, and
like it, as the nativss do. Bayard Tay-
Tor thus speaks of T. = can only liken
the taste OF this average to a distil-
lation of sour miH 5H there can be
such a thing strdHgfyf1tinctured with
cayenne and hartsAor5iT And yet it
is national drfnka ana the taste for
It once acquired, 1t is a'ikind of nectar
In its way, a sort Of liquid Limburger
cheese From the pulque nescal Is dis
titled 1t is rank and corrosive liquor.
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FARMERS OUT AT wmMAR.
A Few Words ON the Mexican Dollar
by Mr.. Bryan

WILMAR, Mimi, Oct 10.-A short
stop was made at Benson and Mr..
Bryan spoke a few moments He told
the people that the dollar has been
getting larger and larger all the time.
and has been buying more and more
of their farm products 1t was crowd
of farmers that received Mr.. BRYAN
from one end of the trip to the other.
and at no place were they more en-
thusiastdc than at WiImar, where they
were huddled about the depot. near
which a stand had been erected. Mr..
Bryan told them that the America n
people had always been equal to any
emergency, and that g. crisis had been
reached in the financial history of the
country. He said that for wears the
Republicans had been working to main
tain gold standard under cover. OPEN
ly advocating bimetallism. He gave
his explanation Of the Mexican dollar
object lesson, and said that the bank
ers in good times had enough 10 do
in attending to their own business in
stead of putting in their thine posing
as schoolmasters. He then said:
There is a difference between the
Mexican dollar and the American dol
lar, and when they tell you that under
free coinage ours is going to be Ike
the Mexican dollar, you call their at
tention to this difference: You can't
pay taxes with q Mexican dollar. yo,,
can't pay debts with a Mexican dollar
You can pay taxes and debts with an
American dollar, and, my friends. a
dollar that is good enough to pay debts
and taxes with, is a good deal better
than a Mexican dollar, whose only use
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Muscovfte it may be good thing but in this
country its use is objectionable.
Besides the exquisite wines which have
made that land famous, Hungary sends us
slivoyitseh, or Magyar plum brandy. 1t is
made from peculiar variety of that fruit
which is found only in certain parts of the
fiery to the last degree is not so very dis
agreeable to the tongue. 1t is fayorite
tippie, not only with the Hungarians. but
also with the people of surrounding lands.
including the Bohemians, Austro-Germans,
Wallaks, Lithuaks and Servians In one
variety of slivovitsch the plum stones are
tains an appreciable flavor of prussie acid
similar to what obtains in Kirsch- wasser,
maraschino and creme de noyau
Asia Minor is steady customer at the
sent small army Of Greeks Armenians
Syrians, and half-breeds to these shores it
takes them into no account when it ships us
alcoholic goods. These are produced almost
exclusively for the use of the children of
Israel, and more especially for those who
once dwelt in the slavonic islands, but are
now true-blue citizens of the New World
For centuries this trade has endured one
year rising high in prosperity and another
falling into the abyss Of bankruptcy. The
orthodox Jew, no matter how poor wants
some of the wines and liquors of the HOW
Land, and Is willing to pay for them regard
less Of either quality or price.
At rare intervals wine is sent over in the
bottles" referred to in the Scriptures tough
skins which In turn are carefully boxed. The
Gentle cask and glass bottle, however. have
pretty nearly driven the sheepskin and goat
skin vessel out of the market The Tawet
goods" of Judea and its neighboring territory
are Jerusalem wine, Jerusalem brandy honey
VINE and Passover wine. Judging from the
supplies at the custom house the Oriental is
poor hand at vinticulture If things were no
better eighteen centuries ago, it Is hard to
understand how St. Paul could recommend
little wine for the stomach's sake" but II
Is very easy to realize how hideously drunk
Noah must have been II he used a similar in
toxicant. The wine is thick muddy, coarse
very much like the homemade vintages of
old New England housewives. 1t has a rich
bouquet and a flavor suggestive of Tokav
and Muscatel.
The brandy is no better than the wine IT Is
maze from plums or prunes and is distilled
and rectined in a way that seems to increase
the normal impurities of raw spirit. 1t Is
above proof. and seams the mouth and throat
as 1t Is swallowed The honey wine and the
Passover wine are apparently varieties of the
same kind of LIQUOR. The rabbis claim that
they are produced by fermentlng honey of one
flavor and sweetening the resulting wine with
honey Of a different flavor. II the claim is
truthful there is no fear of the bee ever be-
coming the rival Of the grape. or the many
honey wines and Passover wines which come
through the custom house every one is fat.
syrupy, to put it mildly. unpalatable
An immense array of curious stimulants
come from the far East-China Japan and
Java. The Orientals never have learned to
make enervescent beverages, but outside OF
this they know much about fermenting
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SHORT STOP AT MORRIS.
Money boarding Considered by the
Boy Orator.

NORRIS. Mimi, Oct 10-At Morris
the largest and most enthusiastic
crowd was found since Fargo was left
behind. Mr.. Bryan spoke to the people
few minutes from the rear platform
of the car. He denied the claim Of
the Republicans that commerce deter
mined the financial policy of this coun-
try rather than legislation. He then
continued: If you believe there ought
to be more money in the country you
can only secure that increased volume
of currency by supporting those who
believe in more money. Our opponents
tell US that it is not more money that
we need so much as it is to put what
we have at work. Money will not go
to work if we believe that what we
produce is going to fall in value. The
gold standard, which raises the value
of a dollar, invites boarding of money
because people can make more by
boarding their money than they can in
developing the resources of the coun-
try. (Applause). Woe to the nation
where the most profitable business is
money boarding and money-lending:
woe to the nation where loss is the pen
atty of enterprise, and that Is the rec
ord where there has been general fall
ing of prices.
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DELANO THE LAST.
Money Question Not Discussed RI
rectly by Mr.. Bryan.

DELANO. Mimi, Oct. 10.-The last
stop of the day, before reaching ST.
Paul, was made here by the Bryan
party. Mr.. Bryan spoke to a crowd
OF several hundred from the rear plat
form. He did not discuss the money
question directly, but told his hearers
that one Of the vital points In the
issue of the campaign was one Of SYM
pathy for the struggling masses When
they came to make up their mind
which way to vote their sympathies
would determine their decision If
they sympathized with the masses of
the people they would vote for bimetal-
ism, but If their sympathies were with
the capitalistic classes they would vote
for the gold standard.
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INTO MINNESOTA.
First Stop In This State Was at
Breckenridge.

ofcCAcnfl08e.
BRECKENRIDGE, Mimi, Oct 1o-At
Breckenridge Mr.. Bryan spoke from the rear
platform of his car to good-sized crowd. He
was introduced by F. c. Gibbs as the next
president Of the United States, and said
Whether my friend here will prove his
right 10 De known as a prophet will depend
somewhat upon the result of the election. /
am introduced as the next president of the
United States; but, nay friends that can only
be when the people have so declared at the
ballot box 1t is possible that the result may
be determined by the vote of one state and
1t is possible that this may be the state and
that the result in this state will be deter
mined by the vote of one citizen. These are
not probabilities. but 1 am speaking of posi-
bilities, and in such times, when such great
interests are at stake. and when the result
may turn upon one vote, 1t is important that
every citizen shall carefully weigh the matter
before casting his vote.
A Voice-Can't you give us word about
the plank in your platform that condemns
the president for enforcing the law?
Mr.. Bryan-Our platform does not complain
of any enforcement of the law, and no man
is afraid Of my election because he is afraid
I will not enforce the law. What they are
afraid of is that 1 will enforce the law against
the big violators of the law. Great applause
and cheering)