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The Beauty of the Dispensary.
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Tho Georgian,
A gentleman Baid to thie editor of
this paper some time ago, “The
beauty of the dispensary is, that it
shifts the burden of taxation to the
shoulders of the man that drinks.”
The statement may have been
true, or at least largely so.
But is such a transfer right or
just? Is it Christianity or humanity?
Is not the man who drinks bur
dened enough already, financially,
physically, morally?
Ought not the weak to have our
sympathy, our help, our protection,
instead of our burdens, when it is
manifest we are better able to be&r
our own burdens than he, in his
weakness, is to bear his heavier bur-
dent* and our burdens also?
Taxes are paid to support govern
ment. Government is maintained to
protect person and property. Is not
sound and sober manhood willing to
pay the price of its own protection
and of the protection of its own
rights,and of womanhood and ohild-
hood and their rights?
Would it prefer to evade this du
ty and place it upon a weak and
drunken manhood, that is stagger-
ing and tottering under a load it
cannot bear?
But iB the burden shifted to the
erring brother alone?
Is it not shifted in large part to
the despairing wife of the man who
drinks; the innocent child of the man
who drinks; the broken hearted
mother of the man who drinks?
Are not these innocent and helpless
ones oftentimes tho cnlef sufferers?
We repeat; the burden may be
shifted from the Btrong to the weak;
to the Buffering aud innocent; but is
it right or just, is it Christianity or
humanity?
When humanity cries.out against
greed, is there no brotherhood, no
' lovo, no pity?
If the dispensary promotes tem
perance, good order aud happiness;
diminishes drunkenness and Grime
and human misery; let dispenearists
advocate and defend it on these
grouuds.
If not, but the contrary, away
with this heartless, soulless and bru
tal talk about the tax paying and
the money there is in it!
Why Tears Are Salt.
Reoent announcements of soient
ists as to the wqnderfu! properties
of salt and saline solutions in bus-
, taining and renewing life haVe di
rected much attantion to this sub
stance.
“It is curious when you come to
think of it,” said a chemist in the
Smithsonian institution, “that salt
is the only mineral we use as au ar
ticle of diet. ,
“Indippeneablo as it no^jg. how
ever, it is an acquired tasIMPAbor-
iginees that lived by" the chase did
not salt their meat. Many nomadic
tribes still refuse to use salt.
“The tribes of Arotio Russia and
Siberia devour decayed fish with
great relish, The Russian govern
ment, seeking to improve their food
supply, issued a mandate that their
fish should be salted. The inhabit-
I'Tiuts obediently complied with the
order about eating the fish thus
salted, the tribes continued to live
on their unsalted and reeking diet.
“Tribes of Africa, however, and in
other lands depending on vegetable
diet, naturally take to salt. In Amer
ica agricultural or sedentary tribes
have gone to war for the possession
of saline springs.
“With the progress of civilization
and the use of a mixed diet salt, has
become so universal a condiment
that it has permeated the whole
human system. The blood is saline
in taste, human tears are salty, and
every tissue of the body is bathed
an t d cleansed in salt.
“In Burgioal operations where
death would otherwise occur from
loss of blood, life is now sustained
by the injeotion of saline solutions.”
Fiuds Way to Live Long.
The startling announcement of a
Discovery that will surely lengthen
life is made by Editor 0. H. Downey
qt Cjhurubusoo, Ind. “I wish to
state,” he writes, “that Dr. King’s
Discovery for consumption is the
most infallible remedy that I have
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medicine, no one need dread pneu
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The Monroe Doctrine.
“What is this Monroe Doctrine
the papers are all talking about, Mr.
Jimpson,” asked the man, according
to the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
“Tho Monroe Doctrine? Why, ev
erybody knows what this is—and
you bet it’s all right, too!”
! “What’s the nature of it?”
! “Eh? The nature of it? Youjll
see what the nature of it is if those
I fool foreigners and their warships
don’t look out. pretty careful. They
j understand it all right.”
| “It’s some kind of paper, isn’t it?”
I “You bet it’s a paper! It’s a great
! paper, thatfy.what it is! That man
Monroe hnew what he was about.
They couldn't get the start on him!
No, sir! Ho was right there every
time and all day.”
“Is he dead?”
“Eh? Dead? Lem mo see. Yob,
I think he’e dead. That’s often the
way, you know. Never appreciated
’till you're gone. Pity, ain’t it?”
“But what about the nature of
the doctrine? What’s it all about?”
“All about? I guess you ain’t up
in diplomatics. That’s what it’s
about. It’s—well it takes a diplo
mat to understand it. But don’t
worry for a moment—it’s all right.
You’ll see. JuBt keep your eye on
Venezuela. They know what it
means down there.”
According to a statement found
in the Philadelphia Becord, the beet
sugar faotories pay au a\ erage of 30
per cent profit on the investment
made by their owners. One factory
in Michigan has deolared a profit of
52 per cent. The proposed out of
20 per cent iu the tariff rates on su
gar imports from Cuba would still
give the beet sugar producers an ad
vantage of one and one-third oents
per pound. Their outcry against re
ciprocity is, therefore, an exhibition
of pure greed. They are snugly en
sconced in a position where they can
compel the home consumer to pay
ail inordinate price for their prod
uct, and they are making the best
fight they can to prevent any abate
ment of their plundering.
The amount of water within the
orust of the earth, says Prof. Chas.
S- Slichter, in a paper entitled “The
Motion of Underground Waters,”
recently published by the United
States Geologioal Survey, is enor-
mouB, amounting to 565,000 million
million cubic yards. This vast ac
cumulation, if placed upon the earth,
would cover its entire surface to, a
uniform depth of from 3,000 to 3,-
500 feet. Prof. Slichter’s estimate
is based upon the supposition that
the average depth which waters can
penetrate beneath the surface is six
miles below the land and five miles
below the ocean floor.
The building of roads and bridges
may be postponed with only incon
venience and temporary material
loss as a result; but to postpone the
building of good sohools brings
eternal loss in knowledge, intelli
gence, culture and the highest in
terests of life to the boys and girls
fast growing through the educable
years of ohildhood and youth to
manhood and womanhood. A peo
ple may sometimes be justified in
postponing the one, never in post
poning the other.—Southern Educa
tion Board.
California figs and grapes; at low
prioes, have been flooding the Lon
don market, and the dark plums of
the same state haye met with so
much favor that the English grow
ers have actually let their * fruit rot
on the trees because it would not
pay them to come in competition
with the imported. This California
fruit iB packed so well that it reach
es England in prime condition.
The worries of a weak and sick
mother are only begun with the
birth of her child. By day her work
is constantly interrupted and at
night her reBt is broken by the wail
ing of the peevish, puny infant. Dr.
Pierce’s Favorite Prescription makes
weak women strong and sick women
well. It lightens all the burdens
of maternity, giving to mothers
strength and vigor, which they im
part to their children. In over thir
ty years of practice Dr. Pierce and
kss associate staff of nearly a score
of physioians have treated and cured
more than half a million suffering
women. Sick women are invited to
consult Dr. Pierce by letter free of
oharge. All correspondence is strict
ly private. Address Dr. B. V. Pieroe,
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Insti
tute, Buffalo, N. Y,
A Curiosity of Heredity.
It is one of the curiosities of her
edity that while the children of
young parents are usually brighter
than the children of old parents, the
children of old parents develop into
the most intelligent men and wo
men. A good illustration of thiB is
to compare the savage races, which
marry at a very early age, with the
white race, which is the latest in
marrying of all races.
Teachers among the negroes of
the south, in the Philippines, in Pol
ynesia.and in Australia tell us that
the dark-skinned children in their
schools'are brighter than the white
children, yet we never look for great
men among these . races, and we
would not find them if we did look.
All of the great men of the world,
like Aristotle, Bacon, Culver and
Franklin, have been sons of very old
men. When eminent men like King
David, the Catos of Borne, the elder
William Pitt, and certain branches
of the Dana, Lee and Livingston
families of America have sons late in
life, the eminence is continued to
the next generation, but when emi
nent men like Arkwright, Bulwer-
Lytton, Coleridge, Cromwell, Peter
the Great and Solomon have sons in
early life, the eminence immediately
disappears.
Another good illustration may be
found in the British nobility. Each
noble family begins with an emi
nent man, and the noble branch is
continned down through the eldest
son. It has been a frequently ob
served fact that the eminence iB very
rarely continued to the third gener
ation, and usually disappears in the
second. It is true that eminent
men have been produced in these
noble families, but during the 800
years in whioh the law of primogen
iture has been in force every such
case has come about through some
accident which has eliminated the
eldest of the eldest and has brought
in some younger ■ branch to inherit
the title.
The conclusion to be drawn from
thiB is that young men should not
marry before they are 25. Neither
Bbould they remain old bachelors
beyond 30. Unmarried people do
not live as long as married people.-
Ukicago Evening Post.
Inventor Thomas A. Edison pre
dicts great things for 1903. He says
he has perfected his new storage
battery, which will be put on the
market this month, and which will
put the horse out of business. Med
icine, he says, is a failure and the
new year will push it further than
ever into the background. Surgery,
diet and antiseptics are the means
of curing and preventing diseases
which, to his mind, will be most
prominent hereafter. The investi
gation may even discover the germ
of old age and a specific for it. Mr.
Edison does not take much stock in
flying machines, because he can see
no commercial use for them. He
thinks there will be few, if any more
great wars. One of the tasks Mr.
Edison has set for himself this year
is to see if he cannot get eleotricity
directly from coal.—Exchange.
Members of the Denver Academy
of Natural Sciences, who have been
studying the construction of beaver
dams recently, and have seen the
animals at work, say that their tails
are used simply as signals, and not,
as has been commonly believed, as
trowels for beating down the mud
used in building their dams. The
signal is given by flapping the water
with the tail, and the beavers pay
instant attention to it.
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