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Hiap Hs JR ■ 1‘AsiW KS& The Beauty of the Dispensary. ■ ■ 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 ||ever known for coughs, colds and grip, y It’s invaluable to people with weak lungs. Haying this wonderful medicine, no one need dread pneu monia or consumption. Its relief is instant and cure certain.” Every 50c and $1 bottle guaranteed. Trial bot tles free at Holtzclaw’s Drugstore. 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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