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IA New Earth if Not New Heaven" /"

well we cannot blame him." say a
large body of sympathetic and serious
minded people. Sand SO, rather let us
blame those who put temptation IN his
way and who furnish him with the
means to drown, for a little, his reason
In the lethe of drink We have had.
and still have. as I pointed out not
long ago, q school of reformers who
had excogitated at this point a definite
philosophy of responsibility which. since
then, has found its echo in denuneia-
tions and n legislation equally impo-
tent and futile. Mr.. John B. Cough was
the father of this school of reformers
whose shibboleth IS that the drunkard Is
victim and not a transgressor. and
who. in consistent forgetfulsess of the
Apostolic maxim that every man shall
bear his own burden" have undertaken
to create for us a new earth, If not a
new heaven. by penalties which strike
at the man who sells an intoxicant
rather than at the man who buys and
drinks it. Let Us not seem TO underes-
innate the responsibility of him who,
whether for pleasure or for pront,
putteth a stumbling block or an occa-
Sion to fall in his brothers way
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dred souls We're in her, all toldy<When
we set sail from Falmouth.
The partitions between the cells of
the convicts. instead of being of thick
oak, as is usual in convict ships. were
quite thin and frail. The man next to
me. upon the aft side, was one whom I
had particularly noticed when We were
led down the quay. He carried his head
very Jauntily in the air. had Il swagger-
ing style of walking, and was, above all
else, remarkable for his extraordinary
height. [ don't think any of our heads
would have come up TO his shoulder. and
am sure that he could not have meas
uIed less than six and a half feet. 1t
was strange among so many sad and
weary faces to see one which was full
OF energy and resolution. The sight of il
was TO me like a fire in q, snowstorm. I
was glad, then. to find that he was ny
neighbor, and Sladder still when. in the
dead OF the night, 1 heard whisper
close TO my ear, and found that he had
managed to cut an opening in the board
which separated us.
~ "
Hello, Chummy!" said he, whats
your name, and what are you here for?t
I answered him, and asked in turn
who 1 was talking with
m Jack Prendergast," said he,
and by God! youll learn to bless my
name before you've done with me-"
! remembered hearing of his case,
Tor it was one which had made an
immense sensation throughout the coun-
try some time before my own arrest. He
was a man of good family and of great
ability, bat of incurably vicious habits,
who had by an ingenious system of
fraud obtained huge sums of money
from the leading London merchants.
liza, ha! You remember my case!'
said he, proudly.
Very well indeed"
Then maybe you remember some
thing queer about II
!, hat was that, then?"
had nearly 4 quarter of d
million, hadn't II"
SO ii was said
But none was recovered, eh? ?''
.. Well. where dye. suppose the bal
I have no idea" said l.
Right between my finger and
thumb, he cried. by God! I've got
more pounds 30 my name than you We
| hairs on your head. And if you've
money. my son. and know how to ham
die ii and spread it, you can do any
thing Now. you don't think it likely
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i Regard as Utterly Inhuman the Zeal
Which Seeks to Make Men Temperate
By a Law of Indiscriminate
Repression

~ ISHOP HENRY c. POTTER'S
- ideas on the solution of the drink
problem in the United States
abroad, too, for that matter
have not materially changed since he
helped 20 open the Subway Tavern. in
New York. In fact, Notwithstanding
the criticisms which have been fired at
his head by women and teetotalers, the
bishop stands pat and has just pub
lished a small book, entitled, the Drink
Problem published and copyrighted by
Thomas Y. Crowen & Coz in which he
has still further strengthened his posi-
tion on the subject.
While he admits thar the habit Of
drinking much and often which MAIN
tanned a hundred years ago among men
of means, has fallen eff. Bishop Potter
declares that intemperanee among the
laboring classes today is stronger than
ever before, in spite OF prohibitory leg
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CONTINUED from FIRST Page.)

and I saw that he had a stroke. DR..
Fordham came over at once We put
him to bed but the paralysis has spread.
he has shown no sign of returning con-
sciousness, and I think that we shall
hardly find him alive
".You horrify me, Trevori' I cried.
What then could have been in this iet-
ter to cause so dreadful a result?
=. Nothing. There lies the inexplicable
part of it. The message was absurd and
trivial. All. my God. it is as l feared
"As he spoke We came round the curve
OF the avenue. and saw in the fading
light that every blind IN the house had
been drawn down. AS we dashed up 10
the door. my friends face convulsed
with grief, gentleman in black emerg-
ed from ii.
q When did it happen, doetor?' asked
Trevor.
~ y
".AImost Immediately after you left.
:" Did he recover conseiousness%
" For an instant before the end
"'Any message for meg
"a Only that the papers were in the
back drawer of the Japanese cabinet.
My friend ascended with the doctor
TO the chamber of death. while 1 re-
matter over and over in my head, and
feeling as sonber as ever I had done in
my life. What was the past Of this
Trevor, pugilist, traveller. and gold
digger. and how had he placed himself
in the power OF this acid-faced seaman
Why, too, should he faint at an allusion
10 the half-efTaced initials upon his
arm, and die of fright when he had a
letter from Fordingham? Then L re-
.nembered that Fordngham was in
Hampshire, and that this Mr., Beddoes,
whom the seamen had gone 70 visit and
presumably to bIackmail. had also been
mentioned as living in Hampshire. The
letter, then, might either come from
Hudson, the seaman, saying that he had
betrayed the guilty secret which ap-
peared TO exist. or 1t might come from
Beddoes, warning an old confederate
that such a betrayal was imminent,
So far 1t seemed clear enough. But
then how could this letter be trivial and
grotesoue. as described by the son!
He must have misread it. If go. IT must
have been one OF those ingenious secre;
codes which mean one thing wi.tie they
seem to mean another. 1 must see this
letter. II there were a hidden meaning
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in it, I was confident that I could pluck
il forth, For an hour L sat pondering
over it in the gloom. until at last
weeping maid brought IN q lamp. and
close at her heels came my friend
Trevor, pale but composed, with these
very papers which lie upon my knee
held in his grasp. He sat down opposite
to me, drew the lamp to the edge Of the
table, and handed me Il sheet Of gray
paper, The supply of game for Lon
don is going steadily up it ran. Head
keeper Hudson, we believe, has been
now told to receive au orders for fly
paper and preservation of your hem
pheasant's life
- -
u dare say my face looked as be-
wiIdered as yours did just now when
first I read this message. Then I re-
read It very carefully. 1t was evidently
as / had thought. and some secret
meaning must lie buried in this strange
combination Of words. Or could it be
that there was a prearranged signifi-
eanee 10 such phrases as 'fy-paper' and
'hen-pheasant" Such a meaning would
be arbitrary and could not be deduced
in any case, and the presence of the
word Hudson seemed to show that the
subject Of the message was as l had
guessed, and that it was from Beddoes
rather than the sailor. tried it back
ward, but the combination life pheas-
ants hen was not encouraging Then 1
tried alternate words but neither the
of for nor supply game London prom
ised to throw any light upon it.
And then in an instant the key OF
the riddle was in my hands, and | saw
that every third word, beginning with
the first. would give a message which
might well drive Old Trevor to despair.
ut was short and terse. the warning,
as now read 1t to my companion:
The game is up. Hudson has told
all Fly for your life
Victor Trevor sank his face into his
shaking hands. II must be that, 1 sup
pose, said he This is worse than
death, for it means disgrace as well.
But what is the meaning OF these
"head-keepers' and ''hen-pheasants?
-" 1T means nothing to the message,
but 1t might mean a good deal to us II
we had no other means Of discovering
the sender. You see that he has begun
BY writing "The game
is.'' and so on. Afterward he had, to
fulfill the prearrGnged cipher, to fill ir
any two words in each space. He would
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Law of Indiscriminate Repression.

Law of Indiscriminate Repression.
The Iaborer's home and yours-have
you ever compared them? His leisure
and yours, his environment and yours.
his food and the conditions OF its
preparation, his resources and yours
do you know, not how like. but how
utterly unlike they are? And yet,
when you talk TO this brother man. you
are surprised, It may be. to find IN his
tastes and sympathies like your own.
You will gather from all this how
superficial, how utterly fnhumafl, IN
considerate, and unreasonable regard
a great deal OF that doubtless often
welI-intentioned zeal which seeks to
make men and women vfrtuous and
temperate by q law Of tndiscrimlnate
repression. I do! I dol and II / am
sent here Of God for nothing else, i
am sent here to tell you that and TO
entreat you to discern that most OF
our methods for dealing with the drink
evil IN our day and generation are
tainted witch falsehood, dtshonored Dy
essential unreaiity, and dfseredtted by
widespread and consistent faliure.
There is a drink-eyfl; and you and ]
must not ignore 1t.
The saloon or the gin palace, whether
Ii exists here, or in Liverpool. or Man
chester, has for it's most determined
enemies those VINO never use 1t, and. as
a rule. know nothing about 1t. doubt
whether their sssasslts upon II, ano
their pictures OF what It's influence has
been and is, have ever had the slightest
effect upon those whom tney aimed TO
reach.
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"a Friend of Her Son.

The next day passed without a sign
of him. and when the following day
arrived I was very much worried.
finally wrote a note to the woman in
Kentucky, saying that I was a friend
OF her son and had nisiaid his address.
I asked her to let me know the street
and number of the house at which
he was boarding. Her reply reached
me toward the end OF the week and
went Immediately to the address she
gave me. 1t was my intention TO let
the poor devil have his overcoat back
and TO assist him to secure some work.
The house was in a very squalid Sec
ton of the city and the woman who
answered the door informed me curtly
that the man fer whom l inquired had
been removed to q hospital three days
before, suffering with pneumonia. She
was not sure which institution had
received him and it was late at night
before l located him. He was past
help then. The resident physician told
ME that the attack had not been
very severe, but that the man was in
such weak condition, due 10 lack OF
proper nourishment. that he could not
combat the disease.
He died the following day without
recovering consciousness before death.
did what 1 could which was not much
The only thing left for anyone TO do
was TO save him from Potter's Field.
and l did that. 1t was very hard for
me to write TO his mother. as l had
come to take the keenest interest in
the affair. But 1 kept up his biun for
him. She thinks to this day. as far as
I know, that her boy died in the en-
ploy Of the United States Government
and that only his death stopped the
rernittances she had received during the
two months Of his life IN Washington
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in no wise responsible, and to which we
could bring no ameliuration; but, In
fact, no one who is reaoing the benefits
of any single one Of the achievements
of our twentieth century civilization has
a right to do without asking himself the
question. What are modern cheapness.
and invention. and machinery. and all
the multitude of inexpensive convent
ences which make my life so different
from the life of my forefathers-what
are these things costing-not the en-
ployer who produces them, nor the
tradesman who sells them. but the
mechanic who makes them? And how
can / judge nim whose task is so mar
row. so confining5 and so monotonous,
If. now and then. he 'evens up" as he
says. and introduces a little variety into
life by getting drunk?
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It viii be just a year next December
since he came IN and offered an old
fashioned gold wstehSas collateral for q
twenty-doIlar loan. Isadvanced the stlra
requested against Ely better Judgment,
The watch was worth but little more
than that amount. But there was
something attractive IN the mans APP
pearance. and he had such an honest
face that I took the chance and ac-
commodated him. He was very anx-
ious, apparently, 20 raise $40 at once
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islation. He attributes this largely to
the changed conditions of life, TO the
fierce struggle which man must wage
for existence. and which is one of the
evil fruits of advanced civilization. He
points to legislation against intemper-
ance as the lazy mans methods of cor
recting the evil Why not try I;ersua-
sion and common sense? The first is
too arduous for most reformers, and the
latter reformers rarely have worse luck.
Speaking OF the contrast which mod
ern conditions present TO those of the
days Of the early Christians, Bishop
Potter saws:
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undestroyed and should fall into your
hands. eonjure you by all you hold
sacred. by the memory of your dear
mother, and by the love which has been
between US, to huri it into the fire and
TO never give one thought to again.
y J.
g If then your eve goes on to read
this line, l know that l shall already
have been exposed and dragged from
my home, or, as Is more likely for you
know that my heart Is weak. be lying
with my tongue sealed forever in death
In either case the time for suppression
Is past. and every word which l tell
you Is the naked truth, and this | swear
as | hope for mercy.
My name. dear lad, is not Trevor
was James Armitage in my younger
days, and you can understand now the
shock that il was TO me few weeks ago
when your college friend addressed me
IN words which seemed to imply that
he had surprised my secret AS Armi-
tage it was that L entered a London
banking house, and as Armitage | was
convicted of breaking my couatrys
avs, and was sentenced 10 transporta-
tion. Do not think very harshly of me,
laddfe. It was a debt of honor, so
called, which 1 had TO pay, and 1 used
iHcAACS "4tASh was not my OWit ~ 10 1t,
in the certainty that l could replace 1t
before there could be any possibility OF
It's being missed. But the most dread
ful tll-luck pursued me. The money
which l had reckoned upon never came
to hand, and premature examination
or accounts exposed my deficit. The
case might have been dealt lenientiy
with, but the laws were more harshly
administered thirty years ago than now
and on my tWenty-third birthday L
found myself chained as q felon with
thirty-seVen other corvicts in the
| 'tween-decks of the bark Gloria Scott
bound for Australia.
" ~
" 1t was the year '55, when the Cri-
mean war was at its height. and the
old convict ships had been largely used
rs transports III the Black sea. The
government was compelled, therefore,
to use smaller and less suitable vessels
/, for sending out their prisoners. The
| Gloria Scott had been In the Chinese
| tea-trade, but she was old-fashtoned,
| heavy-bowed. broadbeamed craft, and
| the new clippers had cut her out, She
WITS a 5Gc-ton boat and Lasides her
| .nirty-eight jail-birds, she carried
/ twenty-six Of "a crew, eighteen soldiers.
| q captain. three mates. a doctor. a chap
LAIN and four warders. Nearly hun
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A Family of Perils.

With our conditions have arisen a
whole family OF perils of which men
and women of st. Paul's time could have
little or no knowledge. We resent, alas
as an intoIerable impertinence, 4 refer
ence to these conditions, as though they
were all of a nature for which We were
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Customer
Pays Regular Visits
to Broker.

vx YIIEN a man comes into your
y office at irregular intervals
v to pledge some security. you
pay very little att lion TO
him except in a business way. There
are hundreds of men in Washington
who are clients of pawnshops in a spas
modie fashion. And the majority OF
them redeem the articles they soak"
But when one man continues to pawn
a miscellaneous assortment OF valuebles
at stated periods it is only natural that
the man advancing :1im money win come
10 notice him and speculate on his
case. That is why the customer I have
in mind aroused my interest.
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Y\z11 J TIE SHADOWS OF
w WASHINGTON I21f

forms Of our civilization, are more ex-
acting and more monotonous than those
of their predecessors? For myself, /
have no slightest doubt of 1t. Society
rises. indeed, with marvellous swift
ness and efficacy. to respond to the cry
for help for those who cannot work at
all; but the case of those who can is
net, think. made easier, but more diff
ficult, as the days go by.
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FROM A GOOD
SERMON.

The following IS from rcpor,
of a sermon preached by Rev. T.
5. Russell. whose work in this
city is well known and highly app
preciatcd:
The spirit which Judges people
10y their bank accounts and the
clothes they wear and the street
.tfiey live on and the society in
(which they move. is a spirit
which still lives in the church. Il
here now. even as in the church of
ST James day. Let two new
members come TO almost any
sbu.ch. the one rich and moving
any fashionable society. the other
poor and obscure. and no prophet
IS needed TO foreteil which viii re
cc.vc the warmest welcome u
was said Of Jesus that the common
people heard Him gladly. I was
to the common people that He
brcllif HIS message. Co the poor
Che Gospel was preached. X is
The common people that He sends
us today The Church az God is
$50 social clique. no religious club 90
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MUSICALE AT
NORTON,

Those v.l,o wore nnfo-f,,,s,o
enough to miss attendiny the mu.
s;caic rivcn last week bv the ia-
dies az the BAPTIST Church for fho
benefit IT that o~gaui1,tion ,e.~c
derived of n GREAT treat Tho ,ra-
cram was fuii 90 rood thinrs from
n,.-rri-.- 81, end and tbc~e NON.
MANY number. which were a do
r.rt to rr~i. lovers The clio.
...--T,r.-. were three Of .her
,..re ~crrc-,i biz rho fifteen voices
Fl . manner which irlic1.I c,~c.
af ... .s-...t iru rrart-r. nh.
.r Mrs rrr- Sr-r.c. mi
r -rr... . on.
.. tf r
.....r ...- ..-. his -...r
..-. ,.r-.r N.r.- ,....r.
.lIr 1-- W IT,
..f.. ,r.h.r t.-.. .-
.---...t...
-.. L.. Sow rI 80
D ..r L-..- lr k,~r WAS ia
..rrl.-. ,,..... ari M. t.-o -.,...
,.hs,t d. ...., f, so finished ID
manner b, no means satisfied The
is~,-, srlic-c. 10. was .tc.tiac.i 5,
The vigorous anniause eivcn nm
There were TWO instrumental duets
los the Misses Chapman and Hun.
urctiv PLAYED and wei worth
hearing
Mr.. =. ~. Hickam. whom every
body in Southwest Virginia knows
gave evidence of ms wonderful
mastery 90 the piano IN the rcndi-
gon of two difficult and cherming
numbers. The awakening of the
Lion ' and The last rose OF Sum
mcv. s. the latter with many and
complicated variations Mr.. Hick-
san WAS obbgcdto return 20 the I'M
strumcnt after each number. and
even ,hcn the cncorcS which he
gave So effectively by no means
oontented ms enthusiastic listeners
The musical portion of the pro
gram was completed by a very
pretty duet between MtS. J Frank
Surface and Mr.. W y. Surface
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II having - .usgested N.

lr having been suggested that
SENATOR Martin was opposed to
rate legislation he comes out IN a
lcitcr TO the Times Dispatch and
puts il thus. I wish you would
stale IS strongly as YOU can that I
am uneqaivocany rn advocate Of
rate legislation inni only advo-
cate Siringt6 lic Interstate Com
nerve CoWmjsSiep- S'ec- raiemakmg
N"wcr. but also the. enwer L. sue
thai fair andiicssoiiablc service
Is given the peoplc fal. To- sec
why certain bceplc -srse papers
persist in declaring J am opposed
20 regulation 81 rai.w.y charges
by The Gotcrrmcnt Aftce 10y
repeated declaratnns on this sub
jet. no one but ny enemy would
S"nUnue to circulate srSh i state.
mcnt.-Timcs Disp.Aca.
CINCINNATI Is H'ovir. for an IN
dependent political parry and here
j. their platform:
The complete separation ri
National politics sT'fn municipal
government.
-Thc norIiraii'ai anil cleeTi"n
- city officers u rlen ~ tried ~.
aegriJy. and proved r.Va CT r. With
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out regard 10 national i,arty aHiii-
atoms
5-IIonest. efficient and pro
gressivc government
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presidents message 70 tell Us this
But what about duties to the liz.
:nxs
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THE South has mighty good
reasons Tor q Merry Christmas this
wear.
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Tnls questIon Of the nation

TINS question Of the nations
care Of the Confederate is deli
cate one. To pension the South.
ern soldier nigh, look ike a re-
ward to disloya'ty. There is one
thing that can be done and ought
10 be done which would not hum
bic the South and which woulc DO
the North and the whole nation
good. 1t is now granted every
where that the Southern soldier
had the spirit OF loyalty. He fought
for institutions dear to him and
none respect him more than the
Union soldiers who had good rca-
son to know of his bravery and dc
votion 20 duty as he saw il. Our
nation for reasons known
by those who have authorized it
has already paid ont millions that
have aided the government Of
Spain and we are paying othcr
millions to educate children in
the foreign lands. We grant that
this is an right But what about
our duties 60 our own, BY cmar-
cipatine the slaves. q Alright thing
we elbow. we took away the capital
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'--.Ns '''' ''' '''.o
show signs 81 Improvement. The
local is mirror .aat reflects thc
spirit and enterprise of 81 commu-
nifty There is rota weekly On this
whole session tha, does poo, &C.
SEW. 'r.. ...-t...r..c -f~.
"
-"
N"-
81
ID 'e i.".N I'D tN.fa'..f .r nNf
scuumcn, IN ), may be Judged
from tho remark made bv Nlr.
Long that hc felt thar he had
been i'm "a trance for q long time.
" '~'- ''''''H "''o o'''o MOUNDS
"'' ''Nn '''e N'''i'- 'h.'n. IN onc