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Mine Workers Reassemble.
The Question Is to Strike or Recede From the
Position Taken at Recent Meeting.
Indianapolis, Ind., March
National convention of the
16.—The*-
United
Mine Workers of America opened at
10 o’clock yesterday in the German
House with over one thousand dele-
gates present, representing 1,451 lo-
cals.
The convention had been called by
President Mitchell to consider action
which may result in an agreement with
the coal operators preventing a gener-
al strike April 1. At the convention
which assembled Jan. 16 the miners
demanded an increase in wages of
12 1-2 per cent, admission of the
Southwestern States 7 per cent dif-
ferential between machine and pick
mining, 12 1-2 per cent advance for
yardage and dead work, prohibition of
the employment of boys under 16 years
old, an eight-hour day, a one-year con-
tract and a run mine basis. The min-
ers also adopted resolutions offered
by Mr. Ryan of Illionis that no district
should sign a wage agreement until
all the districts had signed. This ac-
tion was known as the Ryan resolu-
tion and will come before this conven-
tion for action. Unless it is rescind-
ed the bituminous miners can not sign
a wage agreement until the anthracite
miners sign an agreement with the
operators.
The operators, on the other hand,
have demanded a reduction of from 10
to 15 per cent of protection against a
stampede of strikers and a better
system of adjudicating local troubles.
On Feb. 2 the joint conference adjourn-
ed after the defeat of the motion that
the present wage scale be continued.
This motion was offered by F. L. Rob-
bins, of Pittsburg, who was the prin-
cipal spokesman for the operators.
Texas Pension Bills.
Washington: Now and then a Texas
pension bill or two slips through un-
scathed, on regular pension bill days
in the House and Senate. During the.
last fiscal year the sum of $1,203,780.39
was distributed to 9069 pensioners liv-
ing in the State of Texas. The insig-
nificance of this handsome sum or over
one million dollars which goes to Tex-
as can be better guaged when it is
remembered that the State of Ohio
gobbles up the sum of $15,102,612. dis-
tributed among 100,355 pensioners,
and the State of Pennsylvania gets
$13,478,148 for its 100,920 pensioners.
In all of the wars of the United States
from the revolution to the insurrec-
tion in the Philippines, this country
has had 3,304,995 men in service, while,
with the work of the present congress
up to date, it carries on its pension
rolls an even million pensioners. The
Spanish-American war has cost to date
in the way of pensions, nearly $12,-
000,000.
They Want to Make it Easy.
Washington: Midshipmen at Anna-
polis have been conspiring to prevent
a high standard of scholarship accord-
ing to the statement of Secretary Bon-
aparte before the House committee on
naval affairs. Brilliancy has been dis-
couraged and a sort of trade union
agreement to hold all midshipmen on
the dead level so far as class records
are concerned has been in existence,
so the secretary told the committee.
L. M. Barkley, the newly appointed
postmaster at Fort Worth, assumed
charge of the office Friday morning.
If the strike comes it will be either
the greatest in history and more far-
reaching or else it will disintegrate
unionism in all lines.
State Wants Her Dues.
Austin: Since State Revenue Agent
Bell has submitted to the attorney gen-
eral’s department a list of the county
officials who are indebted to the State
for fees collected and not remitted,
quite a number of these officials have
sent the comptroller the amount due
by them. These fees are due princi-
pally in cases where the defendants
were charged with a felony and the
offense was reduced to a misdemeanor
and the defendant pleaded guilty to
this minor charge. On the records in
the comptroller’s department the dis-
position of such qasese shows that
they have been dismissed, while on
the county records they show that the
defendants were convicted of a minor
offense.
A young man was arrested at Nac-
ogdoches for pistol toting, confessed,
and was fined $100 for the infraction.
Robert Thornton, of Beckville, fell
on a saw at his mill, and suffered the
loss of one side of his face and one
ear.
During a rainstorm in Cooper a few
nights since, lightning struck a barn
killing a horse and a cat which were
in the building. A hog in the same
building at the time escaped unin-
jured.
The people around Pine Springs, five
miles north of Tyler, are greately ex-
cited over a mad dog which has bit-
ten several persons and domestic ani-
mals. Three of its victims have gone
to Austin to the Pasteur Institute.
Open Coal Mines at Grand Saline.
Grand Saline: It is stated that the
Texas Central Coal Company of Alba,
Texas, has bought and leased several
hundred acres of lignite coal lands
within a mile or so from Grand Sa-
line, and will begin work within
a week opening up these coal beds, and
put the product on the market. Grand
Saline is known as the “Salt City,”
on account of its vast salt industry,
having four large salt plants in oper-
ation, besides a rich and fertile coun-
try to back it up.
An explosion of hot metal in a con-
erting mill at the Edgar Thomson
Steel Works at Braddock, Pa., resulted
in the serious injury of eight work-
men. All were terribly burned by
the molten metal and a number may
die.
Fatal Fanaticism.
League City: Miss Maude Whitter,
a girl about 14 years old, died here
Wednesday night. She was a mem-
ber of the Apostolic Faith band, who
have been here for some time holding
meetings at League City. She was
taken seriously ill about one week ago
but, as these people are opposed to
the use of medicine and depend sole-
ly upon prayer for divine healing,
there was no physician called.
A Blaze at Temple.
Temple: A disastrous fire occurred
fate Wednesday night in the business
section of the city, the two-story rock
building on First Street and Avenue
B, owned by Mrs. M. B. Moore of Dal-
las, being the victim. Kyle & Son.
furniture dealers, occupied the build-
ing as a warehouse, and the place
place was full of crated furniture. The
value of the stock was about $7,000,
with insurance of $5,000. The building
was insured for $4,375.
Great Bear Again Busy.
Pekin: The Seoul authorities have
sent an official dispatch to the Pekin
Government that a large body of Rus-
sian troops has penetrated to Wusuli
and Helunklang, near the northern
frontier of Korea. This extraordinary
move is perhaps intended as a demon-
stration to influence the Russo-Chin-
ese negotiations, which show little
progress. The Pekin authorities have
wired instructions to the Tartar Gen-
eral st Helunklang.
A SCORE ARE KILLED
FIRE, WRECK AND DEATH.
A Man Slept at His Post and Horror
Follows.
Pueblo, Colo., March 17.—A wreck
accompanied with horrors exceeded
only by the Eden disaster, which oc-
curred August 7, 1904, on the line of
the same railroad, resulted from a
head-on collision of two passenger
trains on the Denver and Rio Grande,
four miles east of Florence, Colo., at
an early hour Friday morning. The
trains were the Utah-California Ex-
press No. 3, from Denver, and the Col-
orado and New Mexico Express No. 6,
from Leadville and Grand Junction.
They met on a sharp curve, when the
engineers discovered that a collision
was imminent. It is known that the
engineer of the westbound train put
forth every possible effort to avert the
collision, but his efforts were fruitless,
although he succeeded in stopping his
train, but the crash was beyond his
power. This much is vouched for by
his fireman, who, seeing the useless-
ness of remaining in the face of sure
death, jumped and saved his life. Of
the conduct of the engine crew of the
eastbound train it can only be said
that they died at their post.
The disaster was made more horri-
ble by the manner of the death of
many of the passengers. Fire swept
over the wreck, engulfing the victims
and leaving only charred and blacken-
ed bodies to tell the tale of the slaugh-
ter.
Fireman Smith was the only one of
the engine crews to escape. All three
big machines were mashed into a tan-
gled mass. The baggage car of No.
3 broke in two and the three coaches
squeezed together. The baggage and
mail car of No. 16 buckled, but none
of the cars were telescoped, as was
first reported.
Hardly had the trainmen and pas-
sengers reached a realization that all
was not right when the other horror,
a sheet of fire, ran through the cars
on both sides of the engines and in a
twinkling the crackling sounds of
breaking timbers started them to ac-
tion. In the forward coach of the
westbound train every seat was occu-
pied by passengers, most of whom
were homeseekers on their way to the
Northwest. A number of foreigners
were among them and in their terror
they gave up life without making any
attempt to reach safety outside the
burning car.
Although many were willing to un-
dertake the risk, efforts to rescue
those who remained in the burning
cars would have been suicidal, as the
heat was unbearable. The wrecked
cars were soon reduced to a mass of
smoldering ruins,
and timbers.
The first train out of Mexia for
Teague City on the Trinity and Bra-
zos Valley road went out Thursday at
12 o’clock. It consisted of fifteen cars
and accommodated a number of pas-
sengers.
The Lake Shore is having seventy-
five gasoline motors built at its Collin-
wood shops, and they will soon be in-
stalled for surburban traffic. It is In-
tended to enter into competition with
the electric roads on surburban traffic.
An agreement has been reached
whereby Memphis, Tenn., is to secure
a union depot, eight of the companies
centering there having entered into
the agreement.
John Kubacek, a workman in the
Katy rock quarry, was killed near
Georgetown by a derrick falling on
him. His head was bruised and both
legs broken. He was dead before his
companions could reach him.
New Orleans: Dr. C. H. Irion, pres-
ident of the Louisiana State Board of
Health Thursday night seat the fol-
lowing telegram to Dr. J. H. Flor-
ence, Acting Health Ofcer, Austin,
Texas.; Dr. W. S. SandArA, State
Health Officer of Alabama, and Dr. J.
F. Hunter, secretary of the Board of
Health of Mississippi: “Committee
appointed to (investigate , suspicious
case of fever at Charity Hospital dif-
fer as to diagnosis. Invite you to
come.”
Denver, Colo., March 17.—It is re-
ported here that one of the operators
in failing to deliver a train order was
the cause of the disastrous collision
of passenger trains on the Denver and
Rio Grande Railway yesterday, near
Adobe, Colo. The first orders given
the two trains were that they should
meet at Adobe. Later the dispatcher
wired the operator, S. F. Lively, at
Swallows, ten miles east of the scene
of the wreck, to hold the westbound
train there until the eastbound train
No. 16 had passed. When No. 16
reached Florence its crew was noti-
fied to run on to Swallows. Meantime
No. 3 failing to receive its new orders
at Swallow, pushed on westward. Op-
erator Lively was asleep, it is said,
when No. 3 passed Swallows. When
asked by the dispatcher at Pueblo if
No. 3 had passed he answered, “No.”
Killing Dogs.
Corsicana: In one or two commu-
nities of the county the people have
been more or less excited over mad
dogs for some time. At Eureka a cit-
izen who was bitten by a dog died
with rabies. Since then war has been
waged on dogs and many of them have
been killed. Some of the dogs are mad
and some are killed before they reach
that stage. In other communities hogs
and even horses are reported to nave
died with rabies.
Oil Wells Get “Rested Up.”
Waco: F. H. Selden of Corsicana, a
newspaper man states that many of
the oil wells in that place which had
been pumped dry are now yielding sev-
eral barrels of oil daily, having rested
up. New wells are being brought in,
also, and the field holds on well. The
plan of pumping a number of wells
with one outfit is followed extensively
there, thus minimizing the operating
expenses.
Beer Drinkers Must “Come Across.”
Chicago: After April 1 no can of
beer will cost less than 10 cents in
Chicago. The directors of the Liquor
Dealers’ Association at a meeting
voted unanimously for the increase
and notice of the action will be sent
to every one of the 5,000 members in
the city and county. The ordinance
introduced recently into the council
to limit the number of saloons in the
city for one for 500 people was in
dorsed.
University Boarding House Burned.
Waxahachie: The residence of Dr.
J. H. Herring at Trinity University
addition, was entirely destroyed by
fire Thursday morning. All furnish-
ings were burned, and the building, a
small barn and other outhouses, a bug-
gy, a quantity of feed, twenty cords
of wood were also destroyed. Seven-
teen university students boarded in
the house. They lost practically every-
thing.
Congressman Castor, of Pennsylvan-
ia, who died the other day, was a tailor.
When he was first elected a Philadel-
was dropped by the giving way of the phia correspondent wanted to write
truck wore through the oil tank and a sketch about him. He asked a Pail-
caused the gasoline to ignite and ex- adelphian who Castor was. Why,
An Unusual Sort Of Accident.
Denison: The friction of a pair of
car wheels upon which a gasoline tank
plode Thursday afternoon in a
freight train south of Holdenville, I. T.
The fire caused the explosion of the
second gasoline tank and before the
fire could be put out seven more cars
were burned. No one was injured by
the accident.
POSTAL DOINGS IN TEXAS.
Appointments Made and Offices Es-
tablished.
Washington: The Senate in execu-
tive session confirmed the following
nominations:
Lola Weand, Fort Sam Houston: C.
McCormick, Plainview; F. Leahy, Rod-
gers. Texas postmasters of fourth-
class appointed: Blunt, Freestone
County, James C. Richardson, vice R.
A. Lee, resigned; Brookland, Sabine
County, Virgil R. Havens, vice J. W.
Bell, resigned; Elmdale, Taylor Coun-
ty, Andrew Richardson, vice J. C.
Chamness, resigned; Eolian, Stephens
County, John A. Meaders, vice T. M.
Price, resigned; Estacado, Crosby
County, Mattie Dale, vice Wesley Gra-
ham, resigned; Geneva, Sabine Coun-
ty, Joseph Mason, vice P. C. Halbert,
resigned; Hetty, Hunt County, Marie
Bowden, vice B. D. Wilson, resigned;
Langtry, Val Verde County, Honora F.
Devine, vice C. S. Fielder, removed;
Lela, Wheeler County, John C. Camp,
vice R. E. Brown, removed; Luna,
Freestone County, Wm. A. Pritchard,
vice J. C. Hendrix, resigned; Minden,
Rusk County, Sue Tally, vice Ella Hol-
leman, resigned; Pizarro, Erath Coun-
ty, Arthur J. Evans, vice J. F. Ram-
sey, resigned; Volga, Houston County,
David S. Knox, vice S. D. Knox, de-
ceased; Wales, Lamar County, Saph-
ronio A. Calvin, vice T. B. Slate, re-
signed; Hetty, Hunt County, Mary
Bowden, vice B. D. Wilson, resigned;
Lubbock, Lubbock County, Albert L.
Reed, vice R. E. Brown, removed; Del
ma, Newton county, Aressord Damrel,
vice J.J. Snell resigned; Dowell, Fisher
County, Emmet George, vice J. W.
Ezell, resigned; Eula, Callahan Coun-
ty, Preston C. Steen, vice S. W. Steen,
removed; Field Creek, Llano County,
William McLeod, vice J. W. Brice, re-
signed; Fleming, Comanche County,
Andrew H. Drummond, vice J. K. Con-
nor, resigned; Halsell, Clay County,
Alfred A. Gibson, vice H. H. Halsell,
resigned; Peoria, Hill County, Rich-
ard D. Riley, vice T. J. Page, resigned;
Rule, Haskell County, Robert H. Pen-
ick, vice J. F. Pinkerton, resigned;
Woodson, Throckmorton County, John
T. Brockman, vice C. L. Wood, resign-
ed.
Texas postoffices established: Mus-
kegon, Orange County, Edmond M.
Bisland, postmaster; Fisk, Coleman
County, Thomas A. Stafford, postmast-
er; Wagram, Mason County, Cap Bel-
lows, postmaster; Glazier, Hemphill
County, John F. Patton, postmaster;
Loop, Gaines County, James A. West,
postmaster; Cheek, Jefferson County,,
Robert H. Hunter, postmaster; Lan-
ana, Nacogdoches County, Arthur B.
Webster, postmaster.
The postoffices at Java and Manila,
Cherokee County, Texas, have been or-
dered discontinued.
The name of the postoffice at Clines-
burg, Montgomery County, has been
changed to Fostoria with Ebbie C.
Smith as postmaster.
Gen. Grodokoff's order just issued,is
one excluding the Japanese from Rus-
sian Manchuria and at the same time
beginning the distribution of land
among the disbanded troops.
Dr. Ellison Dixon, a dentist of Fran-
fort, Ind., 32 years old, called up his
fiancee, Miss Bessie Buchanan, at In-
dianapolis. At the conclusion of the
conversation over the telephone, he
dropped the receiver and killed him-
self.
It is announced that Andrew Car-
negie has offered $75,000 toward the
construction of a geological and bio-
logical laboratory for Amherst College
providing an equal amount is raised
by the college authorities.
Hard on Calamity Howlers.
Chicago: Western railroads are fac-
ing a labor famine. Twenty-five thou-
sand are needed in the. Northwestern
and Southwestern states to build the
roads that are already under way, and
it is estimated that before the urs*
of June more than twice that number
will be required. There never has
been such great activity in railroad
building in the West and the visible
supply of labor has been exhausted.
Americans Released From Prison.
Boston, Mass.: William S. Albers, an
American, who was released from
prison in Nicaragua on Jan. 17 after
serving a sentence of several months, motion; and like a serpentit will bite.
“Adder.” “The second word, ‘adder.
on a charge of insulting President Ze-
laya, arrived in this city Thursday
and called upon his attorney. Today
Mr. Albers and his lawyer will hold
a conference to consider what steps
will be taken as a result of Alber’s
arrest.
Frisco said the Philadelphian, “Castor is a
‘britches’ builder.” Whereupon the
correspondent wrote a glowing article
about Representative Castor, “who,”
he said, “made his fortune and ac-
quired much reputation as a builder
of bridges”
LESSON TWELVE—MARCH TWENTY-FIVE.
GOLDEN TEXT.—At the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder.
—Prov. 23:32.
1. The Traveler’s on Life’s Way.—
Every child is a Traveler through life,
and he is likely to meet many and
many an adventure. There has never
been a drunkard who was not once an
innocent child; never one but was be-
guiled by her temptations to taste of
the intoxicating cup. From the story
before us let us learn the dangers, and
find the path of safety.
II. The Inscription Over the Magi-
cian’s Gate on the Inside.—Vs. 29, 30.
These inscriptions are not seen by the
casual observer. They are written in
invisible ink, seen clearly only when
placed near the fire; on the inside of
the gate where they are read only
by those who turn back after enter-
ing. 29. “Who hath woe? who hath
sorrow?” The woes are too great and
many to name separately. They are
woes of body and mind; woes in one’s
self, woes in his family; .pains, dis-
eases, poverty. A man sick on ac-
count of his sins suffers very differ-
ently from one sick in the providence
of God. A prison, a cross, may be a
glory, or it may be a shame. “Who
hath contentions?” may mean the
conflict between desire and con-
science; more probably, quarrels and
bickerings. “Quarrelsome when in his
cups” is an old saying. It excites
tongue and brain; and “when wine is
in, wit is out,” and every evil word
is spoken that stirs up bad feeling in
others. “Strong drink inflames the
passions, and, at the same time re-
moves the restraint of conscience and
will—it first maddens, and then un-
chains the tiger.”—R. R. Meredith.
“Who hath babbling?” Foolish talk-
ing, vile conversation, noisy demon-
strations, revelation of secrets. His
tongue is “set on fire of hell.” Noth-
ing goes right with the drinker. He
complains of God, he complains of so-
ciety, he complains of his family, of
his circumstances, of everything.
Nothing can be right to one who is
so wrong. “Who hath wounds with-
out cause?” “Wounds received in
causeless or wholly unprofitable dis-
putes, wounds and stripes such as
come of the brawls of drunken men.”
—Lange. The thought may go much
further than this. Drinking men are
especially exposed to accidents and
diseases which temperance would
have prevented. “Who hath redness
of eyes.” “The word does not refer
to the reddening, but the dimming
of the eyes, and the power of vision.’'
—Delitz'gh.
30. «Tmy that tarry long at thet very drinking habits dull the
science and harden the heart, The
wine.” The tendency of strong drink
is to continue drinking, to spend
hours, often the whole night, in car-
ousals. “They that go- to seek mixed
wine.” “Mixed wine undoubtedly
here signifies spiced, drugged, medi-
cated wine, the intoxicating power of
which is increased by the infusion of
drugs and spices.”—Muenscher. Such
men “drink the cup of a costly death.”
III. The Magician’s Fascinating At-
tractions.—V. 31. “Look not thou
upon the wine.” Do not put yourself
in the way of temptation. He who
goes freely into temptation is already
more than half fallen. “When it is
red.” Red wines were most esteemed
in the East. The wine of Lebanon
is said to be of a rich golden color,
like Malaga. "When it giveth his . ..
, 16 „ ". 51intoxicating drinks alone.
color.” “Literally, its eye, the clear
brightness, or the beaded bubbles on |
which the wine-drinker looks with
complacency.”—Plumptre. “In the
cup.” Sparkles or bubbles when pour-
ed out or shaken; “carries a bead,”
which is regarded to be an indication
of the strength and quality of the
liquor. Some wines are celebrated
for their brilliant appearance. “When
it moveth itself aright,” or “when it
goeth down smoothly,” not referring
to the sparkling of the wine; but
rather it “describes the pellucid
stream flowing pleasantly from the
wine-skin into the goblet or the
throat.”—Plumptre. This verse thus
pictures out the attractive side of
wine, when it seems perfectly harm-
less to sip a little, when it is bright
and inspiring, thrilling the nerves
with delight, promising all joy and
freedom. It is the shining side of
evil that is so dangerous, this em-
broidered veil that hides the death
beyond, this flowery entrance to the
path that leads to death.
stand now why the preachers rage
IV. The Marvelous Transformation, against drink. I have said, "There is
V. 32. “At the last it biteth like a no harm in it, taken moderately!”
and jet my own demand for beer help-
ed directly to send these two girls
reeling down the dark street to—God
serpent.” Like a serpent it will be
brilliant of color, and glide with easy
is the more specific, and is said to be
the Cerastes, or horned snake; the
first more generic.”—Cook. The Ce-
rastes is exceedingly venomous. It
lurks in the sand, coiled up perhaps
in a camel’s footprint, ready to dart
at any passing animal.
Illustration. Moths and insects are
attracted by the brilliance of the light,
but are singed in the flame. So we
have seen in summer time multitudes
of dead insects on the ground near an
electric light. Every drunkard is a
transformed child. The artist’s pic-
tures of Innocence and Crime, were
different stages in the same person.
Mr. Edward Carswell, in a lecture,
spoke of a magician who offered to
change any bright boy into an idiot.
A mother consented to have him try
his power on her son. The boy went
forward; the magician made his
1001s
passes; soon the bright look fades
away from the boy’s face, a vacant
stare takes its place, and the boy
becomes an idiotic fool. At length the
mother asks the magician to change
him back again. But, to her aston-
ishment, this he could not do. He
could turn bright boys into idiots, but
had no power to change idiots into
bright boys.
V.—The Warning from Seeing the
Effects.—Vs. 33-35. 33. “Thine eyes
shall behold strange women.” Ex-
pressing the fact that wine excites
lust, and defiles the imagination and
the character. The R. V., and the
margin of the A. V., have, “shall be-
hold strange things,” as the drunkard
does in delirium tremens. And all
the time on the way to this his vision
is perverted. Nothing appears to him
as it really is. “Thine heart shall
utter perverse things.” Because the
heart itself becomes “perverse.” Wild
ravings thy heart shall utter.
“The
primary sense of the verb being to
turn a thing upside down, as said so
often of Sodom and Gomorrah. Hence
the noun denoting topsy-turviness, ut-
ter contradictoriness, absurdity, and
wild confusion, the talk of a man in
the delirium tremens.”—Tayler Lewis.
“What ridiculous, incoherent non-
sense will men talk when drunk, who
at another time will speak admirably
and to the point!”—Henry.
34. “As he that lieth down in the
midst of the sea.” Asleep on a vessel
in the storm, and unconscious of his
danger. “Upon *
a mast.” An
unsteady place, whence he is almost
certain to fall. The drunkard is rep-
resented as surrounded by danger,
and yet insensible to his perilous situ-
ation. as a reckless mariner reposing
in a frail bark in the midst of a roll-
ing, tempestuous sea; or as a sea-boy,
sleeping soundly in unconscious
security at the mast-head, in immi-
nent peril of his life. The drinker
does not believe he is in danger even
when most in danger.
35. “They have stricken me * *
and I was not sick; they have beaten
me, and I felt it not.” This is the in-,
ebriate’s contemptuous answer to the
admonitions of those who warn him
of sickness and wounds. He has been
stricken, and not made sick; he has
been beaten, but he has felt no
bruises. It was but the temporary re-
suits of a frolic. There is no occa-
sion for being troubled. Advice and
warning are of little use then.
The
con-
fool will not learn even by experi-
ence.” "When shall I awake?" "Beta
ter, omitting the interrogation. When
I shall awake I will see it yet again.”
—Cok. “I will seek it yet again.”
“The picture ends with the words of
the drunkard on waking from his
sleep. He has been unconscious of
the excesses and outrages of the
night, and his first thought is to re-
turn to his old habit.”—Cook. This
is a true picture. One of the great-
est punishments of drunkenness is
this insatiable appetite, that, in spite
of all warnings, and in the face of all
consequences, the drunkard returns
again to his cups.
VI. The Flower of Safety.—-There
is one safety for the young.—Let all
There is
no other course that is safe. Do all
you can to promote temperance. Stand
openly and eternally on that side.
Sign the pledge.
How Kipling Became a Prohibition
ist. “Rudyard Kipling, whose stories
and poems are read by all the English-
speaking world, tells how, in a con-
cert hall in the city of Buffalo, he saw-
two young men get two girls drunk
and then lead them reeling down a
dark street. Mr. Kipling has not been
a total abstainer, nor have his writ-
ings commended temperance, but of
that scene he writes:
“‘Then recanting previous opinion,
I became a prohibitionist. Better it is
that a. man should go without his beer
in public places, and content himself
with swearing at the narrow-minded-
ness of the majority; better it is to
poison the inside with very vile tem-
perance drinks, and to buy lager fur-
tively at back doors, than to bring
temptation to the lips of young fools
such as the four I had seen. I under-
alone knows what end. If liquor is
worth drinking, it is worth taking a
little trouble to come at—such as a
man wil undergo to compass his own
desires. It is not good that we should
let it lie before the eyes of children,
and I have been a fool in writing to
the contrary.’”—Anon.
Get all to sign the pledge. This
is one of the most effective ways of
promoting temperance.
The Best Preparation.®
What God may hereafter require of
you you must not give the least trou-
ble about. Everything He gives you
to do, you must do as well as ever you
can, and that is the best possible
preparation for what He may want
you to do next. If people would but
do what they have to do, they would
always find themselves ready for
what came next.—George MacDonald.
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