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Adam Smith on Strong Drink.

Adam Smith, the author OF THE
Wealth of Nations" whose principles
are still regarded as the standard
basis of real political economy, lived
over a hundred years ago.
1t was Adam Smith who wrote:
"All labor expended in producing
strong drink is utterly unproductive:
it adds nothing to the wealth of the
community"
What the Liquor Men Really Mean.
THE liquor men are echoing the
old cry of Prohibition don't prohlb.
it, In their hearts they really don't
fear that at all. What they do fear
is that it will prohibit. "-KanSas
ProhibitioniSt.
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Parents and Children

The inficting of punishment Is q
serious and solemn thing. and al
though many recognize this, a large
number do not, but punish careless.
ly with a light heart. Punish.
ment" means literally pain" and
should not lightly be caused by maj
to his fellow-man.
To infict punishment Is undoubt-
eddy requisite. Those who have 10
be trained are certain at times to
fall into error, either ignorantly,
~carelessly or wilfully. The punish.
ment meted out should be less in
kind. as we'll as in degree for the
two former, than for the latter, and
we ought to think carefully, and
really ascertain before deciding
that a fault was committed wilfully.
We need a word Of training in
these matters ourselves before we
are competent to train others, and
we shall probably all be- ready to
admit that we are daily learning
with, and through, and from n
young ones whom God has put IN u
are g,
How many there are who feel
these difficulties intensely, and, from
being in q position Of compulsory
authority, how many become some
what naughty in manner or spirit,
even ~overbearing and tyrannical! II
this spirit grows upon US, we shall
not succeed in training, though we
may succeed in Furnishing those
under our care. A wrong spirit In
us will certainly produce a wrong
spirit in them. This is probably the
secret of much failure to induce
good results from punishments.
More especially does 1t happen IN
dealing with older girls or boys OF
adults. Then we must remember
that we are dealing with sinful ma
lures prone to evil, which fact we
know by our own bitter experience.
We are dealing with human beings,
with strong individual proclivities
which cannot be overcome in a day.
I believe that nothing will disarm
hostility and bring down a defiant
spirit in boy or girl. or even child,
like a frank confession OF our own
ANTIQUITIES or mistakes OF which we
NAV be feeling conscious-fcr this
very good reason, that the child
probably knows 1t as well as we d9!
I would suggest three rules by
which to guide your actions and de.
cisions. when called upon to punish:
/. Put yourself in the chlld's
place by careful thought.
@. Be without any animus-Very
naturally caused by previous 1nsuo-
ordination. annoyance, or insolence
on the chIld's part. A test of ones
sincerity in this matter Is to note
whether the punishment or reproof
gives you as much pain to admins
ter as it does the child to receive:
3. Lastly, there is the golden ad'
vice and command OF the Bible
considering thyself, lest thou also
be tempted" Let US remember that
training Is the work of. a father
that relationship made holy by. the
fact and pattern of the Fatherhood
of God, and therefore let us learn
from His training Of ourselves now
TO act towards Jul children.-A
Learner, in London Christian.
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THE TEMPERANCE PROPAGANDA
CONCERTED ATTACK ON DRINK
WINNING ALL ALONG LINE.
Spread Of Drink Habit-Women aid
Children Victims, Says DIR.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Legislation
to Combat the Worlds Evil.

to Combat the Worlds Evil.
1t is the opinion of DR.. John D.
Q%uackenbos that the spread of the
drink habit, particularly among wom-
en- and children, is a question that
|, should receive the early attention of
the legislators. The physician who
through his method Of treatment by
auto-suggestion has cured hundreds
of confirmed inebriates of the habit
says that most New Workers. even
those hardened from long experience.
have little realization of the extent
to which the habit is prevalent among
women. One woman whom he treat
ed for alcoholism, he says, according
to her own admission, spent S125
weekly for champagne for her own
consumption. ITO steady her nerves"
this woman always took with her a
bottle of the SPARKLING beverage
whenever she left the house. The
wine bill was going up when she came
to DR.. Quackenbos for treatment.
DR.. Quackenbos merely instanced
this case out Of many which have
come to him in the course Of his prac.
tice. He said that 500 a week was
no unusual figure for a woman to
spend on champagne. Champagne is
not the only beverage, however, that
is undermining the physical, mental
and moral health of New York won.
en-, ten or twelve of whom drink in.
toxicating liquors '7here only n in
dulged a decade ago.
DR.. Quackenbos asserted that the
worst feature about the spread OF al.
coholic drinking among all classes
was that most of the stuff consumed
was stuff" and nothing else. OF
every hundred drinks of whisky sold
in the United States to-day, he said,
only one was real whisky, and a like
proportion held in regard to beer and
wine. The c%ounterfeits were cleverly
enough concocted to deceive e
those who imagined themselves con-
n%oisseurs. The limitations were far
worse in their effects than the pure
liquids, the doctor said. II can prove
by statistics" said DR.. Quackenbos.
"that the effect of adulterated liquors
on the brain Is fifteen times worse
than the pure article" SD.
Loss of memory and loss Of identity
we're the special results Of immoder-
ate consumption of the adulterated
stuff, against the offer of which for
sale the physician thinks that some
radical and speedy measures should
be taken by the law-making bodies
New York Tribune.
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Code Care If the Humble.

A man must strive long and might.
fly within himself before ne can
learn to fully master himself, and
to draw his whole heart up to God,
Cod protecteth the humble and de-
Jiyereth him; the humble He loveth
and comforteth; unto the humble
man He inclineth Himself; unto the
humble He giveth great grace; and
after his humiliation He raiseth him
to glory.-Thomas a Kempis.
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And Sill the Wonder Grows.

Then, one by one. the counties be-
gan to turn out the liquor traffic.
Bourbon went partly dry" Now,
after twenty months Of local option,
ninety-three counties are wholly
dry" and only four-Meade, Je1er-
son., Kenton and Campbell-stlll re-
main wet" as before the passage OF
the law.-Harper's Weekly.
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Bow Fosesecs His Own Death.

Mother, I am going to die said
Arthur Pauling, eighteen years old,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. John Pauling, OF
Greenwich, Conn, as he en-
tered the house after a six-mile walk
which he had started two hours
before in the best of health. The
mother could not see anything the
matter with the boy, but in a few min
utes he was dead of acute dilation OF
the heart.
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A Warning.

There is a warning for metal work
ers in a recent report by DR.. Biondi,
of Italy, who has been investigating
the combined effects Of alcohol and
chronic metal poisoning. He f1nds
that workmen engaged in lead, quick
silver and anthony works in Sicily
have a notably reduced ability to
withstand alcohol.
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The Negative Beauty.

The avoidance of little evils, little
sins. little inconsistencies, little
weaknesses, little follies, little in
d~iscretions, little indulgences Of the
lesh-the avoidance of such little
h gs as these goes far to make up
at least the negative beauty Of a
holy life.-Andrew Bonar.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-10-07
A Bumper Crop.

"Ya-as," said the man from South
crn Kansas. Il reckon that year was
what you might call a banner year
with 4 bumper wheat crop. wy, do
you know that Silc acknowledgements
Eor o. mine, Sile was--had SIGH a
stand O. wheat on Il tcn-acre field o
hisn'n that he had + rent tn field
next t. i'm t. shock about half OF it
wasn't room fer tn shocks Oh tn
ground it growed Nudge.
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wants a Fleet OF Her Own.

A special dispatch to the London
Times from Sydney says: Aus
tralia's, first sight of modern battle
ships proved even more impressive
than expected, especially to federal
members, many of whom declared
that the spectacle was such as 20 in
spire the earnest hope that Australia
may ere long possess, If not a similar
fleet, at least a squadron worthy to be
counted as an integral factor in m
perial Defense" .
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The German Emperor has more
servants in his employ than any other
monarch. Altogether they number
over 5000, about two-thirds Of them
being women.
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On the Roll of Honor.

There are a hundred places in the
United States with a population OF
5000 or more which are now with
cuf HGN?r Ee:25?7.
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Ohio Nearly Won.

The liquor people fear that all Dut
Ive counties in Ohio will be prohlh-
itory within a year.
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The One Who is in Need.

He who has no passion to convert
needs Conversational. r. Person
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A Frcnchmah is said TO have dis
covered Il e of firing to"pcdoes
by wireless electric power.
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Life of Lii in a Hundred Volumes.
The life of the late Ii Hung Chang
has been published in the Chinese
language at Shanghai. 1t is an off,
cial compilation in 100 volumes.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-20
MIR. BowsER's WAY.
He Sets Out to Solve the Servant Girl
Problem.

When Mr.. Bowser came home tc dtn-
ner the other evening he found Mrs
-Bowser with an apron on and other evi.
dences that she had been af wor,r in
the kitchen, and after surveying her for
moment he asked:
wen, what does this mean?''
The cook has left and I had 70 get
the dinner" she replied.
Cook left. eh?"
Yes. She has had a pain in her side
for the last month, and the doctor told
her that she ought to have a rest.
"Humph! And we have no girl?"
But have put an ad in the pa
perS, and one may come this evening.
Both Mrs. Brown and Mrs. Cresn have
also sent word to girls they know to
come and see me. We won't he lonr
without one, and had Just as lief do
the work for couple of days as not.
You will find your dinner all right
During the dinner Mr.. BoWser was
almost silent. When it was over and
while Mrs. Bowser was doing up the
dishes, she heard him tramping around
the sitting room. She realized that he
was going to have something to say
about the cooks leaving, and when her
work was finished she drew a long
breath and went upstairs to meet the
crisis. She had scarcely seated herself
when he began:
Mrs. Bowser. the time has come for
plain speaking with you.'
Yes" she Queried.
You have added another crime to
the hundreds you have been guilty of.
and I am going to tell you right here
and now that you have to make q
change in your conduct or shall be
under the painful necessity Of apply
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-20
ing to the courts for a divorce"
Il didn't know that 1 had robbed,

ing to the courts for a divorce"
IT didn't know that 1 had robbed,
murdered or committed arson" she re-
piled.
mo levity, madam. I refer to the
servant girl problem, as you well know.
I have let you go your own way un-
restrained for years and years, but the
time has come to call halt. In Is
years your cruel and bloodthirsty atti-
tude towards servant girls has driven
over so of them out of this house.
Some have secured other places, but
many of them, discouraged and hope
less, have gone to the river to commit
suicide. For the deaths of such you are
directly responsible"
Mrs. RoWSer rose up and asked to be
excused for moment, and going up
stairs she returned with a memoran-
dunn book in her hand and placed it on
the table and said:
Here is the name of every girl that
has worked for us for the last twenty
years-her name, how long she remain
| ed and all about it. We have had
twenty-nine girls in the twenty years.
Shall I read you the list? One stayed
three years. one two. and several of
them over a year.
"Um! Um! Mrs. Bowser, this is a
| matter that cannot be- dismissed in
| this frivolous manner"
NO? Well, let us go into it a little
deeper, then. Let me read you few
! extracts:
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Then your wife is an invalid and
l don't care to come"
"But my wife is in first rate health" :"
''Then where is she?''
You see, my dear girl, my wife
holds rather radical opinions on the
servant girl question, and she and I
don't agree. believe that a girl who
works in the kitchen is every bit as
good as"
"I don't want the place!" inter
out and left him standing on one leg
and looking very foolish. He was
about to go upstairs when there came
second ring, and he answered to find
that three applicants had arrived to-
gether.
Walk in, young ladies-walk in," he
saluted, with flourish.
What about the placer" asked the
red-headed girl, naturally taking the
lead.
II want a cook. and will pay good
wages. You will find the place as good
But what have you got to do about
it?"
"Um! My wife has heretofore hired
all the girls, but we differ on how they
should be treated. She insists on keep
ing them down, while insist on"
"On soft-soaping around. have met
your kind before. I am going"
"Is your wife at home, sir?" asked
the blonde as she stepped forward.
Yes, but am to engage the girl. I
look upon you as a human being, while
my wife"
HAS a fool for husbandy" finished
the blonde, as she walked out.
Mr.. Rowser and the black haired girl
looked at each other for half a minute,
and then she asked:
do you expect that a girl Is going to
hire to an old hen-huzzy who will come
poking around the kitchen. I shall
either hire to your wife or not at al"
But. you see, my Wife"
Goodnight, sir!''
Mr. Bowser turned and went up
stairs. He stomped as he ascended. He
stomped down the hail. He put on his
hat with a bang, opened the door with
a jerk and closed it with jar, and
then sat down on the front steps to
mediate. Men passed. Tramps stop
ped and leaned on the fence and called
| to him for dime. The bats called out
| by the summer night whizzed about
| him, the 'skeeters sang in his ear and
| cats skulked and yeowed but he heed
| ed them not. He had started a row
and got the worst Of it, and he was
pondering on how he could get ever
| with the victor.-(Copyrighte 1908, by
T. C. McClure)
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l,,D1Fi'5uRegzmEs 4, "a

He can make you like.-Charles
Kingsley.
= y
Light other lamps while yet thy light
is beaming;
The time is short.-Hezekiah Butter
worth.
n X
The conversion of the world is
bound up with the national charac-
ter of professedly Christian lands
Herbert Anderson.
X X X
We must serve God even to the
point of suffering.-J. Hudson Taylor.
X X
Drinking water neither makes a
man sick nor in debt. nor his wife a
widow.-John Neal.
X X X
If good people would make their
goodness agreeable, and smile in
stead of frowning in their virtue, how
many would they win to the good
cause!-Archbishop Usher.
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your attitude that she could come to
you with her troubles? Answer me
that, woman"
will. You had . clerk over n
the Office at seven dollars a week. It
was starvation wages. and you knew
~ ana yet you refused to advance
MIN. You knew that he freQuented
pool rooms, but did you ever warn
nim against them? You knew that he
was falling into the drinking habit,
put did you ever sit down and give
MN e fatherly talk? He swore, but did
1t was? He finally became discouraged
and hanged himself. but have you
gone around feeling that his death
can be laid at your door?'. >
Mr.. Bowser grew weak in the knees
and sat down. Then he got so mad
stood up and motioned and gestured
and tried to explode. He might have
accomplished the feat in another
moment II the basement bell had not
rung and Mrs. Bowser said:
That's probably a girl in answer
go down and do the engaging. Tell
her that you run the house, and that
things have got to go as you say
Il didn't say
go right down. We'll settle the
servant problem right here and now.
II I go down I shall look at her dis
dainfully and tell her that she ought
to have been born coon or a wood
chuck. but you can welcome her as
Lady Audley and put the whole house
In her charge. There-she Is ringing
again."
Mr.. Bowser went down. It was a
girl who wanted to secure the place.
He worked up a smile and invited her
In, and was just about to ask her. a
question when she said:
didn't know that you were a wild
over or I shouldn't have come"
But am not"
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"Annie Daily-very competent girl.
Stayed four weeks and then quit be-
cause Mr. Bowser came from his club
one night and chucked her under the
chin.
"'Nellie Wheeler-Very good cook.
Remained three weeks and then quit
because Mr.. Bowser always had his
nose in the kitchen and was telling her
how sorry he was for her.
% Mary Scot-Never had a better girl,
and hoped to keep her for a year or
two, but Mr.. Bowser was fooling with
a gas-saver and blew up the kitchen
and she left"
stop! Stopr' shouted Mr.. Bowser,
as he turned red and white and pointed
finger at her. Woman, you can't
dodge the investigation in any such
manner as that. You have simply
made those entries to shield a guilty
Conscience
What was I guilty of?''
Listen to me. You are like thou
sands Of other wives in this country.
You have never regarded hired girl
as a human being. When they have
come here to apply for a situation you
have put yourself up on a pedestal a
hundred feet high. You have let them
know at once that you considered them
as dirt beneath your feet"
Woman, don't try to excuse yourself
| Have you ever in all these twenty
years given girl to understand that
| you had asked one for her confidence
Have you shown any one of them by
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Sharing in the Worlds Work.

Terse Comment on the Uniform Topic
for June q is, How to Get and Keep
a Situation" Gen. 80: 1-16; Al: 3S-44.
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SEVEN SENTENCE SERMONS.

Pleasure soon exhausts us and itself
also; but endeavor never does.-
Richter.
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If you wish your neighbors to see
what God is like, let them see what
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-20

There is plenty of room at the
top" but up to the present no airship
route thither has been invented. Only
steady climbers, who can keep the
power of vision, get there.
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life is entirely a matter of definition.
Character is success. Happiness is
success. Duty doing is success. And
the achievement of eternal life is the
highest and final success.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-20

Look out for the man who is for
ever looking out for number one..
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The problem of the unemployed is
acute today; it in turn complicates the
annual problem of how the great COM
pany of young people who have been
graduated from schools and colleges are
to make their entrance into the untried
world of paid workers. The getting ana
keeping of situation now looms on the
horizon of many young life as more
important matter than any OF the MS
tory making events about which the
student has been concerned. Every lie
is a microcosm, and this finding work
means more to the Individual than
Caesars crossing the Rubicon meant
to history.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-20

A knowledge of human nature, which
is both an intuitive insight and the re-
suit of experience, is more useful in
life than a knowledge of Latin and
Greek This is the indescribable quail
ity called common sense" which binds
together and makes marketable all
other qualifications.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-20

Whose great goal is the common
good will not lack for sustenance; or,
lacking it, will consider sef-sac-
rifice a trifling incident of great pur-
suit.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-20

Gospel Tent meetings Twenty-fourt
and Fillmore streets. Service Sunda
afternoon and every night except Sat
urday night All are invited to attend
C. E. Foster.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-20

The basis of business Is character
the next layer is efficiency. A life
founded upon sterling character, un-
pretending and incorruptible, and rein
forced by skill, can be prevented from
attaining success only by sloth or cow
ardice. The true man, who does wei
what he undertakes, cannot be KEPT
down by anybody except himself.
The Topeka state journal., 1908-06-20

Everybody owes his world, not only
his present powers, but also all that
ne NAV make of those powers.
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Lewiston Railway Time Card
NORTHERN PACIFIC

No. 1S--(Clearwater Passenger)
leaves Lewiston $50 a. m. Ar
rives in Sites, 1926 a. m.
No. 17-(Clearwater Passenger)
leaves Sites 1920 a. m. Ar
rives in Lewiston, 3:05 D. m.
No. 10-(Spokane Passenger) leaves
Lewiston 7:10 a. m. Arrives
in Spokane 1855 p. m.
No. 12-(Spokane Passenger) leaves
Lewiston $3.50 p. m. Arrives
at Spokane 1880 p. m.
No. 9-(Spokane Passenger) leaves
Spokane 700 a. m. Arrives In
Lewiston 400 p. m.
No. 11-(Spokane Passenger) leaves
Spokane AIS p. m. Arrives in
Lewiston 1885 p. m.
No. % - (Culdesac Passenger)
leaves Lewiston 100 p. m. Ar
rives at Culdesac 2:15 p. m.
No. .23 - (Culdesac .Passenger)
leaves Culdesac at 400 .. m.
Arrives at Lewiston $3.50 p. m.
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posToFFTcE TIME CARD

Windows open daily. except Sun
lay. at a. m. Money order win
dow closes at $3.50 p. m. and the
others at D. m. On Sunday the
general delivery, carrier and regis
try windows are open for delivery
only from to 10 a. m.
East and West Mails
Arrive s a. m. and 2:S0 p. m.
Close 6 a. m. and 2 p. m.
Clearwater Short Line
Arrive S:15 p. m.
Close 500 a. m.
Asotin and Charleston
Arrive Z a. m. and 1880 p. m.
Close TOO a. m. and 1880 p. m.
Cottonwood Stage Line
Arrive $50 p. m.
Close 4:3o a. m.
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WESTERN GOLF
ASSOCIATION

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 1S.-More
than one hundred clubs, a decided
gain over last year, will have repre-
sentatives at the annual meeting of
the Western Golf association to be
held at the Grand Pacific Hotel to-
night. Much important business is
to be transacted at the meeting. The
ticket of officers decided upon by
the nominating committee will go
through without opposition. Presi-
dent F. Smith of Nashville, presi-
dent of the Southern Golf associa-
ton, will be chosen vice-president,
land Edward A. Engler Of Glen View
will be elected secretary to succeed
Charles F. Thompson Of Homewood,
who is slated for treasurer.
The meeting will award the
championship tournaments for 1908.
Most interest centers in the se'ec-
ton of a course for the western
championship, for which the Rock
Island Arsenal Golf club, the Oak
mont Country club of Pittsburg
and the Kent Country club of Grand
Rapids will put in applications.
A proposition will come before the
meeting, made by the American
committee of the Olympic games, to
have the Western Golf association
send the Olympic team champion
ship cup to England for competition
over the Royal st. Georges Golf
club course at Sandwich, the first
week in June. The play for this
trophy has been made open to the
world by the Western Golf associa-
ton and it is believed by American
golfers that it would be appropriate
to have it played for at the Olympic
games.