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ITEMS.

The Anti-Saloon league, of Illinois
has arranged to establish a weekly
paper.
The town board of Fulton, Kalama.
zoo, Mich, is wrestling with an un.
usual problem, which involves their
right to grant a license for a saloon
within so rods of cemetery.
The British lunacy commission re.
ports that the cases. for which al.
cohol is assigned as the cause of in.
sanity average 21.s per cent. of the
whole number for males and 9.5 per
cent. in females in England.
The smuggling of liquor, on an ex.
tensive scale. has been discovered
by Collector Cruzen, of San Juan,
Porto Rico. Army and navy officers,
as well as several prominent citizens
of San Juan, are implicated.-Uni
Signal.
THE world has less and less USE"
remarks the Nebraska State Jour
nal, ''for the young man who drinks
whisky" and the Chicago Tribune
adds: while the young man, if he
drinks enough whisky, has no use
whatever for the world.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-24

oeen moderate or excessive users OF
alcohol before tuberculosis appeared;
SO of the 100 were descendants of in
ebriate ancestors, hence had inherited
a strong predisposition to exhaustion
with low resistant power; ten of the
100 had received alcoholic treatment
at the onset of the disease, which had
increased its activity rather than di-
minished it. From observa tions col
lected by two Italian authorities it
was found that occupation and pro-
fessional work, in which alcoholism
was common, had a very high mortal
ity from tuberculosis. In another
study made in Paris of As cases, 322
proved to be alcoholics, In this coun-
try it appears that the descendants of
alcoholic parents show an excessive
mortality in which tuberculosis and
meningitis is the most common form
of disease. These are only hints and
intimations of the intimate associa-
ton of alcohol in the production of
tuberculosis. Clinical studies of the
previous habits of tuberculous pa
Gents, particularly concerning the
use of spirits among their ancestors,
would throw much light on this most
interesting study.-Journal of In
cbriety.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-24
BABY'S BIT OF BLUE.

One night within our Temperance Hall.
men both of mark and mind,
Were teaching GospeI Temperance truths,
On words both wise and kind.
The people sat I'm breathless crowds, by
love of Gospel brought;
They listened with attentive ears TO truths
by Christians taught.
A 6runkard's wife amid that throng, had
donned bit of blue;
All! she from drink had suffered SO ali
its horrors knew.
She thought that her example might DER
John some hold obtain,
That when he saw her wear the blue. he
would from drink aba.ain.
Alas, alas! he- hopes were vain, and
doomed to ny distressed,
For when her husband saw the blue, he
tore II from her breast
To him II was a stern reppoach, and solemn
words It said:
He could not look upon that blue and hold
an upright head!
The badge of blue fell TO the ground, where.
On thin rags arrayed,
The drunkard's sick and only child with
broken playt'ings played
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-24
The F~a1xfY Of the Square
Of ST. Mc~k, Venice - 50
Around It CI8Iix Many Memories Dear o
Venetian Heart.

will grudge lie EXPENSES the man for
the emergency.
The day after the fall Minister Nagi
came from Rome and dismissed the
faithless guardians.
To Commentators Boni, the most
capa bic Italian engineer, is committed
the task of rebuilding. He is pecul-
iarly fitted for the task by his work of
excavating and reconstructing the
Roman forum. Withal he is an enthu-
siast in dealing with ruins. The re-
moval of the debris goes ON apace.
To the Venetians the Campanile
seemed something human. They I'M
derstood the language of its bells.
They speak of it as the "dead or dying
man." and the church as his widow.
''The honest man in dying" said one,
"left her beauty unimpaired, though
he struck an angle of the Ducal pal
ace." "To show his grief" said an
other, "the dying one left enough of
his bones to fill up the breach and sus-
tain the broken arch" Is it broken
Can it be saved? Only the removal of
these bones" can answer. They are
carried away in barrowS and the work.
men are paid by weight. Poor DEAR"
exclaimed one, snow they have killed
thee, they weigh thy bones"
To this generation the new can never
be as the old. The very bricks seem
hallowed by age. Signor Boni found
some of Roman make, dating back to
the days of Nero, Claudius and An
tonius Plus, all we'll preserved and
bearing the impress Of animals of
many kinds The artillery at the arse
nal is hushed-there is to be no jar by
the driving of piles, but they are to be
sunk by hydraulic pressure. A great
quantity of puzzalano, something
harder than cement, has been person
ally subscribed for the arena, for the
foundation is to be doubled. 'sThe log
getta" of sansovino will be built just
as it was and again serve as the chief
entrance.
The Campanile was begun in sss-
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A CAUSE OF TUBERCULOSIS.
DR.. Larsen, of Copenhagen, Declares
That Alcohol Is N Mo~t Active
Agent In PrOducing the Disease

In the recent discussions of the
causes of tuberculosis alcohol has not
been considered as either an active or
predisposing cause requiring special
mention. An exception to this was
noted in the London congress for the
study of tuberculosis, in which one of
the papers read emphasized the i'm
portance of alcohol as a cause. In
other similar gatherings little OF no
reference was made to alcohol as an
Geologic factor of this disease. Re
Gently DR.. Larsen, of Copenha gen, has
published pamphlet in which he de-
scrlbes alcohol as one of the most
prominent and active causes of tuber-
culosis. He shows from results of
modern research that alcohol is one
OF the most dangerous poisons in COM
mon use, not only by impairing oxida-
ton of The blood, but favoring and en-
couraging fibroid, sclerotic and fatty
changes of cell and tissue Also it di-
mlnlshes force, nerve energy, and is
special protoplasmic poison.
He asserts that its narcotic and
anaesthetic action diminishes meta
bolism and lowers vitality. In this
way, it favors the growth of the
bacillus of consumption. He also
proves that all persons who use alco-
hol have feeble powers of resistance
with increased susceptibility to the
formation of toxic states and the en-
couragement of bacterial growtbs
DR.. Little, of Paris, in paper read at
a medical congress in Vienna, de-
clared that the use of alcohol
was very intimately associated
with and very frequently pre-
coded tuberculosis. He declared an
axiom that ell chest diseases were
durable when they occurred in total
abstainers, but in alcoholics and mod
crate drinkers they were practically
fatal. He asserted that nearly ali
Partisan workmen were alcoholics be-
fore they became tuberculous. and
that alcohol always prepares the way
and makes the soil more fertile for
the growth of tuberculosis. He
showed from statistical studies that
deaths from alcoholism, both direct
~ and indirectly, far exceeded that of
tuberculosis, and urged that an anti
alcoholic movement was far more
practical than an anti-tuberculous
crusade. These and other papers less
prominent intimate a new field of
causation which deserves more active
study. In recent examination of the
histories of 100 fatal cases of tuber-
suiosis, the following significant facts
appeared: Forty-four of the 100 had
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TOBACCO LEGISLATION.
land Which Harassed the User
of the Weed.

It is one of the curiosities of old
time legislation in New England that
the use of tobacco was in early
colonial days regarded by the magis-
trates and elders as far more injuri-
Gus, degrading, and sinful than that
Of intoxicating liquors. Both the use
and the planting of the weed were for
hidden, the cultivation of it being per-
mitted only in small quantities for
meere necessitie, for phisick, for
preservation of the health, and that
the same be taken privately by aun-
cient men," But the Creature called
Tobacko" seemed to have an indie
structible life. Mrs. Alice M. Earle
writes of these early restrictions
about tobacco in "Stage-Coach and
Tavern Days"
Landlords were ordered not to
"suffer any tobacco to be taken into
their houses" on penalty of fine to
the "victualler," and another to 1.-THE
party that takes it." The laws were
constantly altered and enforced; and
still tobacco was grown, and was
smoked. No one could take il pub
liqueiy," nor in his own house or any
where else before strangers. Two
men were forbidden to smoke to-
gether.
No one could smoke within two
miles of the Westinghouse on the
Sabbath day. There were wicked
backsliders who were caught smoking
around the corner of the meeting
house, and others on the street, and
they were fined, and set in the stocks
and in cages.
Until within a few years there were
New England towns where tobacco
smoking in the streets was prohibited.
and innocent cigar-loving travellers
were astounded at being requested to
cease smoking.
Mr.. Drake wrote in 1886 that he
knew men then living who had had
to plead guilty or not guilty in Bos-
ton police court for smoking II the
streets of Boston.
In Connecticut, in early days, q
great indulgence was permitted to
travelers-a man could smoke once
during journey of ten miles.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-24
TO to Beach Park. Westpoint Excur.
sion and Picnic GrOunds.-OnIy
30 Miles. One Hours Ride From
Richmond, via Southern Ry.

A great many excursions have already
been booked for Beach Park" for June
and July. The various attractions and
improvements at this popular resort
gives it more prominence each season:
To close proximity to Richmond, and
the unlimited supply Of the most whole
some artesian water, together with
many other natural advantages, places
1t second to none as pleasure and
health resort for Richmond people.
King William Pier, a substantial
structure, extending $50 feet in length
and 20 feet wide over the York River,
with waterproof roofing as a protection
from sun and rain, adds considerably to
the beauty and convenience for picnic
and other outing parties.
In addition to the new Beach Park
Hotel, now being erected, you will find
other hotels and many nice boarding
houses, furnishing cheap rates and good
first-class accommodations.
The principal attractions are such as
fine fishing, boating, sailing, merry 60
round, shooting galleries, steam and
naptha launches, large dancing pavil-
ION with a band of music day and night,
several wells of fine ertesian water on
the grounds, and various other attrac-
lions to suit the older people as we'll as
the little ones.
For any other information apply at or
write to the Southern Ry. office, $50 E.
Main ST.. Richmond. w.
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even, resound with sweet music
Phillips Brooks.
The memory must be cultivated, or
the progress will be slow indeed. We
dare not forget all His benefits. We
cannot forget any of His benefits with
out being so much the poorer. The
more we forget, tAe more we lose in
power and enthusiasm. Every man
has in the yesterday of his life some
sacred spot at which he can rel<indle
his faith and gratitude, if only he re-
visits i'll. f. McFadyen.
This is the way to do a good days
work: Regin it with God; do all in the
name of the Lord Jesus and for the
glory of God; count nothing common
or unclean in itself-it can be so only
when the motive of your life is low.
Be not content with eye-service, but,
as servants of God, do everything
from the heart and for His ''Well
done" Ask Him to kindle and main
tain in your heart the loftiest n olives,
and be. as men which watch for the
coming of the master OF the house.
F. B. Meyer.
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not finished till 1911. Twice, before its
fall, had it been in danger-once in
the seventeenth century by lightning
(repairs were neglected., again in the
great upheaval of 1S4S which shook
every throne in Europe. The Vene-
tians bore the SCATTERING of their pal
aces, but when the artillery threat
ened the square of ST. Mark they ca
pitulated. Even the Austrian soldiery
were awed by the sight of so much
architectural beauty-to their credit
be II spoken-were very tender of it.
The palace of the Doges, carved as
with fantastic network, fretted with
pinnacles, whose number is past count
ing-begun in 1854 by the traitor Doge,
Faheri, is one olive may say the
most beautiful building in the world.
Dickens said of it: at is more ma iestic
in its old age than all the buildings of
the earth, in the high prime and full
ness of their youth"
The church of st. Mark is the most
glorious church in the world. Its ex-
terror looks more like the work of
fairies than that of man. On the por-
WV dlS IHC IOuT 1anO bronze
horses. Never were horses fashioned in
bronze so life-like as those of Lysip-
pus. If one stands beside them, they
look heavy, show age and repairs-be-
low they look so light and mettlesome.
so on the point of plunging down, one
almost fears to stand beneath them.
"A glorious team of horses" said
Goethe. They have been. great trav-
elers. Dandolo brought them from
Constantinople, as trophies, at the
time of the fourth crusade. Napoleon.
in the fullness of his arrogance, or
dered them to be sent to Paris. After
Waterloo they were restored. The in
terror of st. Mark dazzles the eve: no
words can describe its beauty. OF
these triple miracles of architecture
one has fallen. We are told the others
are in a state of collapse.
Even on solid English ground. St.
Paul'S, London, is in danger. Ruin
threatens the Sphinx, unless a night
cap be fitted to protect her from the
sands Of the desert, which have blown
upon her for thousands of years. In
the ages to come there may be nothing
OF the present day left, save the pre-
historic mounds of America.
LYDIA L. GORDON.
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custodian did move his bed; not that
there was any danger-oh, no. Alackl
He had a timid wife. Even then some
thing might have been moved--pr1ce-
less things saved.
The crash came. The golden angel,
16 feet high, which had stood for CEN
turtles on the pinnacle, lay a broken
mass at the central porch of st. Mark.
The bronze statues, Minerva, Mercury,
Apollo and Peace, were shattered, but,
save for the loss of two fingers, can be
restored.
1t seemed as if the patron saint how
cred over and guarded his own.
While two priceless pictures by the
old masters were ruined, Titian's
Transport of the Body of st. Mark
from Alexandria" and "St. Mark Saw
ing a Saracen from Drowning" were
saved. One bronze gate is twist
ed out of shape, the others are unin-
jured, also some marble tablets. Four
of the five bells were broken, but the
largest, the Marangona, was spared
The peals of the Marangona governed
the very life of the Venetians-even
the doves, which brave, blind old DAN
dolo established in the square, IN re-
turn for the services of carrier pigeons
in the taking of Constantinople, never
flew down for their two o'clock dinner
till the Marangona rang. After the
fall they could scarcely be coaxed
back.
cried for vengeance. Venice is ours
aud we made il" they cried. The faces
of the men grew grim-tears rolled
down their swarthy cheeks-the
women sobbed. Eve must have our bell
tower,"- all. "Our fathers made
for us Campanile; they minded not
labor or expense. Are we so poor and
mean-have we sunk so low as to cheat
our children and our children's chill
dren of their glorious inheritance? If
excavating will imperil ST. Mark and
the Ducal palace, use the vulcan pow
ers our fathers used and grid them
about" Now, no half measures would
appease them. The city council hastily
met, solemnly promised that the Cam
panile should rise again and voted a
large sum of money.
Venice was born and established a
republic in cert died at the fiat of
Napoleon in 1897. He stood before the
doge in the doge's palace and as if he
had the power of Him who said:
Hitherto shalt thou come and no
farther" Numbered out: 1.-THE repub-
lie of Venice no longer exists"
There is now a united Italy and the
restoration of the Campanile belongs
to the royal house. Victor Emanuel
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A POIiceman's Testimony.

Capt. Nott-Bower, commissioner of
police in Liverpool and who for 20
years had been chief constable of Liy-
erpool, while speaking of the appalling
amount of Saturday night drinking in
that city made statement to the eff
feet that if the money spent in the
public houses on that single evening
of the week were only spent on the
necessaries of life, the ordinary stocks
of the grocers and bakers and provi-
sion dealers in the city would not be
able to supply the demands that would
be made upon them. This indicates
something of the amount Of starvation
that is occasioned by the vice of in
temperance, according TO the expert
ence of man who, from the position
he has held, is well able to form an &C.
eurate opinion on the matter.
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-24
In the Minea

Jason Peckham-I always said, an
III say ag'in, tibet the government
should own the coal mines.
Hiram Close-Thet's exactly INV
idear, too, B'gosh! Them darn gov.
er'ment clerks should be made few
earn their wages by workin'l-Puck.
Cleaning Dairy Utensils.
To clean tin utensils properly rinse
them in lukewarm water. Never al
low the milk adhering to the vessel
to dry, as it is hard to remove it
then. Scrub the vessels in hot water
with some cleaning material, such as
soda or soap, added to it, rinse in
clean hot water, and finally expose
utensils to live steam, if possible. or
put into boiling water for a some
what longer time. If vessels are
treated to live steam, they will dry
quicker. After washing, remove to
place where the atmosphere is pure,
and which is exposed to sunshine
Robert Weidig, in Farm and Home.
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w Al ~ wires on the l4tn OF July
wy t.; The ,S lovers ;o,. Of the h esag sss
lovers of the historic past
those who had seen, those who had
hoped to see, felt for the moment as if
the world were bare-as if the proph-
! ecy of Byron were coming true:
when falls the Campanile, Venice rails I;
When Venice falls. the world"
If thunderbolt had riven it-had
laid it in shapeless mass upon the
| earth, men would have stilled their
beart-beats and said, God willed it.
Oh, the pity of it'll Ignorance and greed
| did it. For seven years a stone-mason,
| a man of sense, who knew,his business,
a man who loved the Campanile, as if
it were a living thing, implored his SUI
periors to strengthen it within and
| without; otherwise, it would surely
fall. At first they laughed at him
| they chaffed him, then grew angry at
| his persistency. To be rid of him they
would have transferred him to Sar-
| DINA. He would not go. They dis
| missed him. He could endure hunger
and poverty. "When Venetians don't
see the belfry tower of st. Mark, they
| die" was his pathetic answer.
The swinging Of the bells, the
crashing of the artillery at the
arsenal went on as if death were
| not in the air. The cracks wild
ened above, widened below-could
be seen by the naked. eye. Can one
| believe it? One custodian dwelt with
in the walls of the Campanile-
| dragged out stones to increase the
| size of his kitchenI His superiors
knew it-ignored it.
The fools laughed on. Saturday
afternoon the usual lottery was held
In the loggetta. Stones began to fall.
Some one, not of the guardians of the
Campanile, but of the people, forbade
the band playing in the square, as was
their wont, on Sunday evenings. The
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for life
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HELPFUL AND TRUE.

Feeling is like smoke, indicative not
of heat but of the fuel.-Ram's Horn.
The more humble we are, the more
kindly we shall talk; the more kindly
we talk, the more humble we shall
grow.-Faber.
We will find help in thanking God
for common things by thinking. We
will find help in thanking God for hard
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-24
things by frusting.-George Hodges.

things by rusting.-George Hodges.
Religion is the consciousness of the
fatherhood of God and the brother
hood of man, manifested in peace and
goodwill and all work for human well
fare.-Rev. George f. Littlefeld.
A man who lives right ard is right
has more power in his silence than an
other has by his words. Character is
like bells which ring out sweet music,
and which when touched, accidentally
Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1903-01-24

"To what do you attribute the Chi
cago woman's fondness for matri-
mony2"
at must be a combination of habit
and hereditary instinct" - N. Y.
Times
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Her Greed.

''Does Mrs. Strongmind believe in
the brotherhood of man|'
Eyes; but she doesn't think it's of
any Importance. She believes in the
sisterhood of women."-Puck.
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The Scarlet Fever se-uu.

In the last two years the scarlet
fever serum of DR.. Moser, of Vienna,
has been tried on 400 patients. It's
efficiency as a cure has been shown
by reduction of the mortality in
these cases to nine per cent.
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nxerxhodx Get Unde1

"That will of jenkins was Q shady
piece of business"
"Indeed?"
Eyes; he leaves only family tree"
Baltimore News.
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HE Campanile of ST. Mark
has fallen" flashed the
wires on the 14th of July.
The lovers of the beauti-
fui, the lovers of art, the