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Discussions In France on Alcohol.

In France perhaps more than in any
other country have the discussions on alco-
hoGsm been participated in by noted ply
sicians and the results are very encourag.
ing. While it is true some physicians hold
that in certain cases and under certain cir
cumstances alcohol may be food, all agree
that as beverage it is very hurtful to the
human system and rmnous in its effects.
Professor Matchinkoff says fatty that al.
cohol is pothing but a poison, and DR..
Brouardel denounces it as source of ply.
sical decadence and moral ruin for the
greater part of the European nations. DR..
Richet thinks that alcohol when taken
pure, in small doses, is practically innocu.
Gus, but declares that from the economical
point of view it is a food without any ad!
vantages.
DR.. Faisans declares that alcohol is one
Of the most potent factors in the propaga-
ton of consumption, and mentions that
out of twenty-four alcoholic patients under
his care, fourteen are suffering from tuber-
culosis. Professor Joffroy thinks certain
quantity of alcohol may be taken with i'm
punity, but nevertheless he regards it as a
poison. DR.. Legrain holds that alcohol
may be a chemical food, but it is not q
physiological or hygienic food. + -
Getting the alcohol problem out of the
way is going to help much towards solving
the other social problems. 9 In solving the
labor problem nothing is of so much i'm.
portance as the health, strength and So
briefly of the workers themselves. No
matter what their situation, the labor
class is always going to gain powerful ad-
vantage in their struggle by means of total
abstinence. Take the event of strike. In
which case are the laborers more likely
to gain what.they demand, if they are abb
stainers, or if they are slaves to the drink
habit? Wage workers that abstain can
easily save up enough to hold out few
weeks, or months, without wages, and
they can get along on less during strike,
because they have one expensive require
nent less, without taking into account the
fact that they will act with greater intelh-
gence, can be organized more readily, the
discipline will be better, and the leaders
will have more assurance that the work
men will prevent unlawful action. Work.
ers addicted to the drink habit have to
give up much sooner.
Total abstinence will give the working
class more freedom. It will make it less
dependent on the possessing class. During
the winter of l860-6l the weather in Lon
don was intensely cold, and there was lack
of employment. so that an unusually large
number applied for support from the city,
lSo,37O persons were on the city funds.
Then it was noticed that among 7947 me-
chanics and laborers that were members
of temperance societies not one Of these
applied for public help.-National Advo-
cate. -.-
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The Evolution Of Russell.

Until short time ago F. W. Rus
sell, the apostle Of the new land move
ment il Ireland, was very unpopu-
lar person. He is man Of intense con-
viction, born fighter, giving no quar-
ter and asking none. When he re-
moved to Dublin from Cupar-Fife, in
Scotland, where he was born In ,1841,
he became an officer of one Of the tenn
perance associations of the city. For
twenty-eight strenuous years he w:s
the unrelenting foe Of the pubhcars OF
saloonkeepers.
At every licensing session there was
Russell. What he didn't know about
the liquor business wasn't worth know
ing. The best lawyers that the trade
could obtain might have as we'll butted
their heads against stone walls as
try to break him down when he ap-
peared as a witness against applicants
for new licenses or as an applicant
to have old ones revoked. AS he sat
on the witness chair, alert, always
ready with the right retort, always
ready with the facts and figures, he
went through a practical training that
stood him i'll good stead when he went
in;o politics later on.-Everybody's
Magazine
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The Crusade in Brief.

He who would regulate the saloon should
first try to regulate Mt. Sinai.
Why should Christians give aid and COM
fort to the rum enemy by helping him 10
extend his business?
The annual report of the Bureau OF Po-
lice for 1901 shows that of 81, ,lS9 ARRESTS in
Philadelphia during the same year eonsld'
erably more than one-half were due 70
strong drink.
We must never lose sight of the fact that
whatever encourages drinking helps to per
petuate drunkenness, that the two things
are inseparable so far as the gcnerai COM
munity is concerned.
The Hungarian Premier has issued de-,
cree prohibiting the employment IN all
Hungarian towns of women under the age
of forty in any restaurant or public house.
The decree will affect 10000 barmaids.
DR.. Barnardo, the founder and head OF
the Homes for Nobody's Children" in
London, England, says that, nlnety'nlne
per cent. of the suffering children. who ap
peal to him for shelter are the victims OF
drinking on the part of either or OF both
parents.
There are three islands in the South "a
cifc, namely: The Pitcairn Island. lnhabIt..
ed by the descendants of the mutineers 81
the Bounty" the Norfolk Island, 100
miles to the south of the Pitcairn, lnhebIt'
ed by the overflow population from Pit,
cairn, and the Cossus Keeling Islands, al
of which are run on teetota principles.
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Mrs. Lulu Larmer, Stoughton, Wis.,,
says:
For two years I suffered with ner-
vous trouble and stomach disorders un-
til 1t seemed that there was nothing to
me but bundle Of nerves.
Il was very irritable, could not sleep,
rest or compose myself, and was GER
tainly unfit to take care of household.
II took nerve tonics and pills without
benefit. When I began taking Peruna
I grew steadily better, my nerves grew
stronger, my rest was no longer f1tful,
and to-day I consider myself in perfect
health and strength.
my recovery was slow but sure, but
I persevered and was rewarded by per-
feet health."-Mrs. Lulu Larmer.
Mrs. Anna B. Fleharty, recent Super
intendent Of the W. c. T. U. he, ,dquar-
ters at Galesburg, ILL.,, was for ten
years one Of the leading women there.
Her husband, when living, was first
President Of the Nebraska Wesleyan
University at Lincoln, Neb.
In 8: letter written from 4O1 Sixty
seventh street, W.. Chicago, ILL.,, she
says:
II would not be without Peruna for
ten times its cost."-Ers. Anna B. Fle-
harty.
Health and Beauty" a book written
by DR.. Hartman, on the phases Of ca
tarrh peculiar to women, will be sent
free by The Peruna Medicine Co., Co
lumbus, Ohio. -.
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Two Death Certificates REQUIRED,

Before a body can be cremated In
ngland-and much the same pro-
cedure is observed on the Continent
certificates Of the cause Of death are
required from two medical men, one
of whom must have attended the de-
ceased. Besides giving general infor-
nation as to the nature CT the malady
to which his patient succumbed, the
first medical witness is requested to
state definitely in writing whether he
has any reason to believe that further
examinat ton Of the body might be de-
sirable or necessary. The second doc
tor must conduct an independent in
vestigation, and if the case seems at all
doubtful the crematory authorities de-
cline to deal with it. AS; moreover,
the presence of most mineral poisons
may be traced in the ashes, the prob
ability Of cremation assisting mur-
derer by removing all evidence Of his
crime is very slight.
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I'll at ease. and after due refreshments |

III at ease, and after due refreshments
he made some transparently feeble pre-.
text for seeing the daughter Anne.
"Your Majesty" was the reply, 1.-The
girl is i'll and cannot be disturbed. She
is now asleep in her room"
When the news came that her lover
had married another Anne Is said to
have thrown off her sorrow, so far as
II was visible, and attempted to enliven
the gloomy halls of Hever with French
songs and dances which she had
learned at the court at Paris. Later
when the word came from the King
that she should return to court she is
said to have expressed great dellght'
and on her return to have joined in the
gayety of the palace with an abandon
that was new to her. Her subsequent
career. the Vaccinations of the King,
his advances and his repeated apollo
gies. the divorce of Queen Catharine,
the disruption of church and state IN
the Kings attempt to obtain sanction
for his act, his marriage to Anne Bo-
leyn. the birth of the Princess Eliza
beth, the usurpation of Anne's favor
with the King by Jane Seymour. the
charges brought against Anne. her be-
heading and the mysterious disappear
ance of her body are succeeding chap
ters of English history which would
never have been enacted if Anne Bo-
leyn had never left Hever Castle for
throne.
On the death of Sir Henry Boleyn.
Hever Castle was seized by King
Henry on the ground that it belonged
to his former wife. even though he had
divorced her and had had her behead-
ed. The castle still retains most of its
medieval characteristics, and contains
much of the furniture which was used
there in the time of the Boleyns. The
room that has always been most pop
ular for visitors is the bedroom OF
Anne, which is beautifully panelled
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THE GREAT DESTROYER
SOME STARTLING FACTS ABOUT
THE VICE OF INTEMPERANcE.

Poem: And Afterwards, Whato-Al Scien-
IL Very Hurtful to tho Ruman System
and Ruinous in Its Effects.
Give US wine, ruby wine, when it sparkles
and glows,
And rivals in perfume the scent of the rose;
When it moveth itself in its smooth, gen.
tie way,
And adds to our pleasure, the joy of its
"And afterwards, what?"
Give US drink that is stronger by far than
red wine,
Its mildness and blandness with. scorn We
decline;
Give us brandy to stir all OUT blood to new
life,
And drive out all thoughts of the worlds
stir and strife.
"And afterwards, what?"
Give us headaches that drive all our senses
Give us woes without number through all
the long day;
Give US sadness and sorrow, and hot,
, burning tears;
Give us days full of anguish, and nights
full Of fears,
Give US angry contention and madness and
strife;
Give us poverty's darkness to blacken our
life;
Give US wives in the mad house to curse
US and die;
Give US sad, hun cry children with no place
"And afterwards, what"
Give US redness of eyes and sore weakness
of sight;
Give US noses that shine out ike beacons
at night;
Give US limbs full of weakness that reel as
we walk,
And tongues that with babblings and fool
ishness talk,
Give US visions of serpents and all creep
ing things,
Of adders and vipeFs, each one of which
stings;
Give US Us scorpions and nettles wherever we
And the darkness of death many years ere
=" "And afterwards, what!"
Give us,souls that in error and crime have
been dipped,
stripped,
And conscience that never shall stir us
again;
Give us torments of darkness, unending,
and then,
In eternity, what?
s., C., Bond.
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thought that single dollar Of the great

thought that single dollar of the great
SUMS handled by the society's officers
has been appropriated. What the
critics of the society object to is the
so-called autocratic rule Of Miss Clara
Barton, and the alleged lack Of sys-
tenn in the handling Of relief moneys.
They sent memorials to the President
and to Congress, early in the year.
setting forth these complaints, and
were conducting an aggressive cam
paign, when they suddenly found them.
selves suspended from membership by
the Executive Committee, on the
ground that they were attempting Ito
disrupt the organization Of the Amerl-
can National Red Cross" and that in
their memorial to Congress each Of
them assumed an attitude unbecoming
a member Of the American Red Cross
and hostile to the interests Of that Or
paniZatiOn."
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was sent to France to the court or
Louis XII, when she was q seven
year-old girl. 1t was venerable and
imposing structure, which was built
In the reign Of Edward III. by Nor
man baron, William de Hever, and en-
battled as to-day with moat, portcullis,
drawbridge and round towers, after
the fashion Of feudal fortress. The
banquet hall. which in recent years
has been used as kitchen, was huge.
for 1t had been built for baronial fes-
tivities, before the father and mother
Of Anne made it their home. with less
free purse for such eXtravagances.
The windows Of the long winding gal
leries bore the shields of many gen.
erations.
When Anne Boleyn came back to
Hever in exile some years later, the
Joy Of her early life had forever de-
parted. She was already within the
power Of the fickle-hearted English
sovereign, and was destined never to
escape from him until at last she
went to the scaffold in the Tower Of
London, at the age Of twenty-nine.
After spending eight years in France,
she had exchanged the gay life Of the
French capital for the court Of Henry,
where her beauty, as one Of the Queens
maids Of honor. soon surrounded her
with a group Of admirers. The King
smiled at her, but she did not realize
hic
long she had fallen in love with the
gallant and dashing Sir Henry Percy,
q Hotspur, son Of the Earl Of Northum-
berland.
Suddenly, the girl was banished from
court and sent to the secluded walls Of
Hever. The King told her father that
she could not marry Sir Percy, as he
had chosen another husband for her.
Even the Earl Of Northumberland was
summoned to court. and told be must
terminate his sons courtship of Anne
Boleyn. AT the Kings behest the ia.
ther soundly trounced his son. so far
as words could secure such chastise-
ment, and to clinch things the young
man was compelled to marry another.
The old gossips Of Kent still tell
stories of the exile Of the beautiful
Anne Boleyn, and how she was wont
to wander up and down the windy
gallery of Hever Castle moaning for
her lover.
There was little at Hever to over.
come the young girls distraction. The
dark nioats with their stagnant wa
ters, the foreboding shadows which
lurked around the round towers, all
tended to increase her melancholy.
The father is said to have misun-
derstood the motive Of the King in
sending his daughter home from court
until one night, when, according to a
popular legend, the seneschal Of the
house announced that the King was
without the moat. Hastily sending his
daughter to her room, with the COM
mand to "get to bed in trice," Sir
Thomas ordered the drawbridge low.
cred and the portcullis raised. TO the
wonderment Of its owner, the castle
did not resound with the bugles of a
cavalcade. The King had come almost
a1one. The royal visitor indeed seemed
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long struggle of the Latin and Anglican
races for the mastery of North Amer.

long struggle Of the Latin and Anglican
races for the mastery of North Amer
lea.
The importance Of "the Forks of the
Ohio" as a military basis was recog-
nized first by Washington, when, a
young man of twenty-one. he was sent
by Governor Dinwiddie, of Virginia, to
the commander Of the French forces
who had invaded the region Of the
Ohio River, "to know his reasons for
invading the British dominions while
solid peace subsisted." 1t took
Washington nine days to reach the
lonely spot where the rapid Allegheny
met, nearly at right angles, the deep,
silent Monongahela."
II spent some time" writes Wash
ington, in viewing both rivers. The
land in the fork has the absolute com.
mand of both. The fat, well timbered
land all around the point lies very con.
venient for building"
So in imagination Washington built
fort and city where the block house
and Pittsburg now stand. When the
French had declared their intention Of
taking possession of the Ohio, the first
thing Washington called to the notice
of Governor Dinwiddie was the neces.
sity of building a fort at the Forks"
securing this important position. Din
widdie at once despatched an officer
with small party Of men to start the
desired fortification, and gave Wash
ington his commission as lieutenant
colonel and a body Of $50 men in order
that he might take command at the
Forks" finish the fort already begun
there and hold the territory against
the enemy.
Before Washington could carry out.
these plans, however, the French, led
by Contrecoeur, came down from Ne-
mango and captured it from the little
band of English then in possession.
Contrecoeur completed the fortifcation
of the post, and for the Governor OF
New France named it Duquesne.
Throughout the remainder of the war
the efforts of the English were directed
above all to the recapture Of Fort Du-
quesne. It was in marching against 1t
that Braddock met with his defeat and
his death, and it was lis heroic behav-
ior during the terrible i:atreat from the
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and contains Anne Boleyns bed. Here
there are still a massive pair Of and
irons bearing the royal initials. H. A,
and surmounted with crowns.
Another room is said to have been
used by Henry VIII. for council
chamber. The room has a curious
stucco ceiling. Most Of the windows
bearing heraldic devices still exist. The
secret passages, dungeons and blind
closets of former days are also pre-
served as a reminder Of the more dan
gerous days Of King Edward III. and
the fourteenth century, when the castle
was built.-New York Tribune.
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FORT PITTS BLOCK HOUSE.

Point that first brought Washington
prominently before the notice OF the
colonies and won him his first laurels
as a commander. Three years later
Washington again led English troops
against the French at Fort Duquesne,
this time successfully. The French
set fire to the Notifications and escaped
down the river by the light of the
flames. The immortal William Pitt or
dered the rebuilding Of the fort imme
diately, and from him it received its
name. The recapture Of Fort Du-
quesne had given the English undis-
puted possession of the Ohio and
brought the French and Indian wars
to O close.-New York Herald.
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Best Way to Kill Wolves.

Old hunters say that trapping is the
most trustworthy way to kill wolves.
The remarkable sagacity of the animal
makes even trapping a tax on the
shrewdness and ingenuity of the trap
per. The first thing necessary is to
kill the odor of the iron, which is done
by smoking the traps with cedar, by
rubbing them with beeswax, or by dip
ping them in blood. Wolf lures, such
as asafoetida, aniseed oil or oil of Pc
troleum, are condemned, as their only
effect is to make the animals sus-
picious.
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Insects Killed by Frost.

Katydids, grasshoppers, locusts.
walking Sticks" crickets and beetles
are killed by the frost. The eggs
hidden in the ground or concealed in
the bark of trees furnish the supply
for the next year. The cold retards
the development of the egg, which
batches in the warm days Of spring.
Sometimes an unusually cold winter
plays havoc with the dormant insect
life, but the cunning of nature strength
ems the frail eggshell against the power
Of heat and cold alike, until the secret
alchemy of the sun stirs the budding
life and bids it come forth.
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can be rotated and the latch or bolt
released. In order that each step
may find the lever arm which it is in
tended to release a groove is cut in
the side of the barrel and guide at
tached to the rotating disk which
aligns the releasing levers entering
this longitudinal slot. In this manner
the steps on the end of the key are
brought into register with the cor
responding lever arm. This lock mech
anism, the invention of Cassius w.
Mari, is certainly novel, and apparent
ly is quite as secure from the possibil-
ity of being successfully picked as any
Of the high-class locks which are asso-
ciated with fat corrugated keys.
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Other Schemes.

Beware Of suggestions about the Govern:
ment control or any kind of control of
the liquor traffic. Every kind of control
has been tried-license, high and low-Goy:
crnment control-ccmpany system, and all
the other variations, and as each one was
hailed as a bud of promise we watched its
blossoming, only to discover that the came
old alcohol appeared to do its deadly work.
Every one Of these systems has been q
miserable failure as temperance measure.
-Lberator (Canada).
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meets its Waterloo, and is sometimes
pulled from the handle in the effort to
extricate the nail. The auxiliary claw
is designed to meet such emergencies.
1t is revolvably mounted on the handle
inside the head Of the hammer, and,
on account Of the increased leverage,
it will successfully pull an old nail.
no matter how strongly it may be in
trenched
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Clara Barton
and Her Critics.

Considerable hesitancy is shown by
the newspapers in their handling of the
dissension of the Red Cross Society,"
evidently in the fear that the airing OF
the recriminations may impair conf
dence in the society and mar its USE
fulness; and all concerned are careful
to explain that nobody has the slightest
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pied by Fort Duquesne. 1t is precious
for its associations, not only to the city
and State in which it rests, but to the
whole nation. 1t stands on the point
of land where the Allegheny and Mo-
nongahela rivers flow together to form
the Ohio.
This point, famous in history as "the
Forks Of the Ohio" was the spot for
the possession of which the first blood
was spilled in the French and Indian
wars, and remained strategic point Of
the greatst importance all through that