THE FIREMAN’S PARADE.
How lit Waa Made a Ilia Sncceaa by
the Elimination of WHisky
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A thousand firemen paraded on a
hot July day without drinking beer or
whisky, and this is how it came about.
A charming village in western New
York, renowned for its life-giving
ozone, fine sanitarium, public library
and' its. freedom from saloons, begged
the privilege of entertainingtheCounty
Firemen’s association for its annual
meeting and parade. For weeks the
public spirited folk mam lively prep
arations for the coming of their guests
—1,000 firemen from 13 towns. It was
to be a grand) gala day.
“Barrels of beer have been stored
in a room in the engine house,” was
••luspered about shortly before the
eWntful date. The white ribboners
were astonished and grieved, but timid
because influential voters and town dig
nitaries had put money into that beer.
What was to be done?
The proprietor of the sanitarium,
the lady elect of the town, was a
woman with the sort of gospel which
is both love and law. The courageous,
fearless spirit that burned in her was
like that of her grandmother, who'rode
60 miles on horseback to urge John
Quincy- Adams to legislate against the
sale of alcoholic liquors. She and a
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women, young and old. and many
brotherly-hearted men gladly stood
by them. At a meeting of the union
committees were appointed and the
work systematically arranged.
It was a typical July day, of blazing
heat, when the thousand firemen in
costumes of blue, green, scarlet and
gray arrived, each company with its
band. How gay they looked, how stir
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"CUPS THAT CHEERED, BUT DID NOT
INEBRIATE.”
ring was the music and how they
marched with their hose carriages
loaded with flowers, from the station,
through Main street, past the hotel, to
the band, stand in the square!
Not 80 feet away from the hotel a
novel and cheering sight greeted the
eyes of those perspiring, thirsty men.
It w as a pretty rustic booth with white
draperies, festooned with evergreens
of hemlock and cedar. A conspicuous
sign across the front made the w-el
come announcement: “Lemonade,
strawberry lemonade, raspeberry
lemonade, currant lemonade, pine ap
ple lemonade, grape juice lemonade,
hot ginger tea, iced tea, and ice water,
All Free to Firemen.”
It was astonishing how soon the
front compartment of the little booth
was filled with firemen. They were
deftly served by pretty and womanly
girls in holiday attire who stood be
hind the counters that were in gor
geous array, with their shining glass
pitchers and crystal tumblers filled
k-4 with cool, delicious fruit juices and
' lemonade. In the rear compartment
on an oil stove a singing tea kettle
was alwas ready to provide hot ginger
tea or hot lemonade. Here the women
received from the basement of an ad
jacent church the supplies that had
been prepared the night before. There
were two great crocks containing ten
gallons of lemon juice and sugar and
the merry hearted young workers had
taken extra pains to strain out every
seed. Near the crockswere great milk
cans of ice water and glass cans of the
brightest and clearest grape and berry’
juices.
Relays of young women went to the
Weary musicians with trays full of
tempting drinks and the bands played
their liveliest airs with fresh vigor,
after draining the glasses brimming
with the unfermented juices of the
grape, currant and strawberry—
"cups that cheered bxit did not inebri
ate.” After each march young men
with pails of lemonade and baskets
of tumblers hurried about among the
firemen until their thirst was satis
fied. The little white ribbon bow was
everywhere in evidence; the mother
hearted women were praying' for the
boys as they worked.
Early in the day the ire of some of
the men was aroused when they saw
what the women were doing and this
so scared one prominent woman that
she went to the leader and said: “I’m
afraid we’ve made a mistake—the men
are angry and say we are taking the
entertainment of the firemen out of
their hands. One man swore a great
oath and said he wotild keep the fire
men away from us and our booth.”
Still the good work went on cheerily
and swimmingly throughout the long
hot day.
Where was the beer that had been
purchased by the local chief and his al
lies for the delectation of the guests?
Safely locked up in the room where it
was stored, and the key mysteriously
lost; at least, no one seemed to know*
where it was.
The firemen cheered the women and
their booth as they formed in line of
march for the station, and returned to
their homes sober and decent men.
The next week the village paper
contained letters from the different
companies thanking the ladies for
their delightful entertainment.
“How far a little candle throws its
beams.” In tlie weekly paper of an
other town in the same state this no
tice recently has been printed.
“No intoxicating liquors will be
served in the rooms of any of the fire
companies during the firemen’s conven
tion. in accordance with an agreement
with the ladies who assisted at the fire
men’s fair.”—Elizabeth P. Gordon, in
Union Signal.
TOBACCO AND DEAFNESS.
The Use of the Weed Often Affects tht
Sense of Hearing; and Is Related
to Catarrh.
Any relation between deafness and
the use or, rather, the abuse of to
bacco is generally due to the irritant
effect of the latter on the upper pas
sagfcs, whereby catarrhal conditions
are induced which may spread up
the eustaehian tubes to the middle
ear. Thus the best explanation for
the chronic hardness of hearing some
times observed by smokers is that* it
is due to a simple middle ear catarrh.
The possibility of a chronic neuritis
of the auditory nerve analogous to
tobacco amblyopia, which Moss as
sumed to be the cause of smokers'
deafness and tinnitus aurium, cannot
be denied; but, so far, no adequate
proof of its occurrence has been
placed before us. In the December
number of the Birmingham Medical
Review, however, Stanley published
the interesting case of a soldier, in
valided home from South Africa fo*
enteric, who, on the voyage home,
smoked largely of a coarse, strong
twist, the only merit of which ap
peared to lie in its cheapness. He de
veloped a tobacco heart from this in
dulgence, and with it complete deaf
ness. The condition was evidently
One of internal ear deafness. The pa
tient was told to give up smoking,
and when this order had been car
ried into effect for a month both
heart and hearing were greatly im
proved. It is unlikely that the deaf
ness can have been due to the enteric
fever, as the labyrinthine complica
tions following that disease are very
unfavorable, and are certainly most
unlikely to improve without treat
ment. As far as we can judge, the
case must have been one of auditory
neuritis due to tobacco poisoning, a
condition of such rarity as to make
the case referred to of gi*eat impor
tance.
TEMPERANCE POINTS.
A meeting of the Women’s union of
the Church of England Temperance
society deplored the lot of the 100,00(!
women employed in drinking bars, and
urged that barmaids be done away
with.
In order to prevent tueir employes
from entering the saloons at East
Pittsburg, Pa., the YVestinghouse
Electric & Manufacturing company
has established at a cost of $10,000 an
institution known as the Casino.
Dr. Lee, of Mississippi, declares that
if a man will eat raw onions and drink
whisky he will never have malaria.
Such a man certainly ought to be an
object of fear if not of respect even
to malaria.—Chicago Chronicle.
A new convalescent home has been
opened at Brighton. England, by the
Sons of Temperance. At the dedica
tory services Lady Henry Somerset
was represented by Mrs. Ward Poole,
who presented a portrait of her lady
ship to the home. It was received with
a vote of thanks.
The French Academy of Medicine has
advised the government to prohibit
by law the sale of absinthe, anisette,
vermouth and chartreuse, as well as
gin and all classes of “bitters.” Alco
hol has been the bugbear of previous
opponents of the drink habit, but the
academy finds more dangerous con
stituents than alcohol in the com
pounds named and in some others.
Menelek, emperor of Abyssina, has
forbidden the sale of intoxicants in
any part of bis dominions, and the
culprit who infringes this law is liable
to the heaviest penalty. It is said that
the emperor felt compelled to take
these stringent measures by reason of
the lamentable excesses to which many
of his nobles gave way. The emperor
is himself a total abstainer.
"Each room in my house has windows
That look on the earth abroad;
But none has panes* in its ceiling
Where sight can be had of God.
"Each room in my house has windows
Where the earth looks in on me;
But none has panes ir. its ceiling
Through which the Heavens can see.”
What 1s this thou sayest, neighbor?
Much mistaken must thou be;
Never yet has* God the Builder
Built such house for thee or me.
Each ceiling is ail window
Through whose crystal sight may go,
Upward to the highest Heaven,
Downward on the sou! below.
God Is gazing downward alway
On the soul that dwells within;
And* that soul by gazing upward
Blessed sight of God may win.
Sight of God and Rife Eternal,
Through the crystal dome of prayer,
Meets the smile of God descending
On the praying everywhere.
Windows toward the earth are many,
Oft may pleasing outlooks give;
But for grandest seek the crystal
In each ceiling—I.ook and Hive.
—Rev. E. F. Burr, D. D.. in N. T. Observer.
FATE OR FAITH.
The Determination of tlie Will Count*
for More Than Either Heredity
or Environment.
At the base of action on tlie part of
man is belief. This is a strong deter
mining factor in what he does or does
not dm. It is that which directs his
course. He carries with him on this
course all the wealth or poverty of
his talents and learning.
At present we are having- a revival
of belief in fatalism. Men are ac
cepting the doctrines of heredity and
environment and declaring that inen
are bound by them, that they shape
a man's character and determine the
conditions of his life. No man is to
be praised by any position to which he
may have attained or blamed for any
evil excesses lie has committed or any
depths of sin to which he may have
descended. The sense of personal re
sponsibility is eliminated. Man is de
clared to be an automaton manipu
lated by some unseen master force. Ife
is made up of certain elements; chem
ists are now searching for the proper
proportions that they may put them
together and make a man. This mat
ter is carried still further; the world
is declared to be bound inn rigid frame
work of law, with no place for the su
pernatural; Hod is equally bound. Tie
has no personality but is simply It, a
mighty energizing force. Acceptance
of this fatalistic belief, for which so
many strong arguments can be and are
brought forward, sooner or later leads
a man to give up any attempt to direct
the course of his own life. Why should
he try? He feels that he has no pow
er and would only be attempting tlie
impossible. The question is asked:
What chance has the boy or girl
brought up in the slums of a great
city or at the back side of the desert,
to amount to anything? The burden
of work so presses home upon the
working man with small pay and a
large family that he has no opportu
nity for anything approaching the cul
ture of his mind and soul. The use
lessness of the fight against fate is
realized and men say: “What’s the
use, let us enjoy ourselves the best
we can.” “The don’t care what we
do" and the pleasure loving spirit
comes in with a tendency to despair,
and men easily give up life, by ending it
at their own hands.
Tbit there Is another belief that puts
men on an entirely different footing
with God. the world and themselves.
That is, faith in their freedom of
thought and action; faith that they
have power to direct their own lives;
faith in a personal God, who takes ac
count of men's efforts. Heredity and
environment while Accounting for
much, do not account for everything.
There is the personal element, the de
termination of the will, that can and
does set them aside. Man may rise
superior to his circumstances and
make them his servants, rathei; than
his masters. The boy born nndter the
worst conditions in the slums or back
woods, by the use he makes of his
faith in his freedom, often rises above
the boy born and brought up under the
best conditions, but who makes no
use of them to grasp any better thing.
The workingman in the factory! by
this personal element, faith in his free
dom. has come to own the factory in
which he formerly worked, or to rise
superior to his conditions with a se
rene and triumphant spirit. Many a
man. steeped in sin and bound by the
chains of evil, has come to realize his
condition, and through this faith, has
turned to his Ravibur. Jesus Christ, and
has been transformed in life and char
acter. Fate is a stone wall high and
thick which stands directly across
man’s pathway; but by faith in his free
dom, man rises in his might, pulls down
that stone ■ wall and goes on*
his way. The wide sea inter
poses a barrier to a free means of
communication between the nations,
but man builds fast steamships and
makes the sea n help to a quicker way
of communication. The very ob
stacles put in the path of the man who
hasi this faith, prove the stepping
stones to a larger material or spirit uul
success. The battle is half won when
a man dares to take his fate in his
own hands. The descendant of a bad
lot of ancestors often makes up his
mind that, by the grace of God, his life
shall be the turning point for better
things. Hard circumstances, which
crush one man, only- prove an inspira
tion to another man; not because he
is better equipped to fight them, but
from the personal determining ele
ment in himself. Jesus could do no
mighty works in certain places be
cause of the lack of faith on the part
of the people. Jesus said: “According
to your faith.” The Mount of Trans
figuration always awaits. No man
ever can or ever will do anything that
amounts to much unless he believes he
can do it. But if he believes and be
lieves strongly enough there is prac
tically no limit to the possibilities of
his achievements. Nothing is more
needed in our day than a strong protest
against a belief in a scientific fatalism.
I There ought to be brought to the front
again the doctrine of the freedom of
our choices.—Chicago Advance.
PARTNERSHIP WITH GOD.
There I** mi lneMilire to I*«itlence In
the Thought of C.od’a For
l>en,ranee with VIen.
The example of God’s forbearance
and the incentive of His trust help to
prepare us for that self-control and
[KM ini i waning wiiu ii iur ptri uupa i in
most, difficult arts of living. Preach
ers of the strenuous life often forget
that for one who dares to act there
must be many who are compelled to
wait and to endure. It is not the charge
which commanders dread for their
commands, it. is the waiting before the
word to charge is given. Action re
lieves the tension of the nerves and oc
cupies the thought. The example of
God’s patience is not in itself a suffi
cient, incentive in our time of need.
God waits because He knows. He sees
the end from the beginning and is
never tempted to gather unripe fruit
as we so often are. He asks us to be
sharers of His patience and, by the
exercise of faith. We can wait be
cause we believe. He t.ursts us in the
partnership of work and waiting and
we renounce and have patience be
cause we trust Him for the end; He
promises.
So our patience becomes more than
a trial—it becomes an opportunity of
faith, if God is patient in whot seems
the baiting progress of His kingdom,
if He endures the slights and insults
of His children; we whom He has made
His fellow workers cannot be impa
tient without refusing Him the trust He
gives. It is a trial, the hardest trial for
all active souls, but to be called to
hard and special trial is a. proof of spe
cial confidence. God honors every
man to whom He gives this oppor
tunity of patient faith.
This incentive of our partnership
with God lightens the burden of oar
waiting and arms us to endure. It is
easier to be patient for another’s
'sake titan for our own. Where we
might yield, the thought of one who
loves and trusts us and will suffer for
our yielding makes us strong. It is
well to keep before our minds the
thought that God is with us and de
fends ns, but never to the exclusion of
the. other thought that God depends
upon us for His work and patience in
tne earth.
To the world God is the invisible and
we are the visible partners of the holy
and interesting life. God is-patient be
cause He desires repentance and re
turn. It is for us to lolc cm men as He
looks, wan recognition ot tneirliitimte
worth, (heir intinite possibilities. If
and so far as we ean gain His point of
view, it will be possible for ns to love
our enemies because lie loves them,
and to pray for those whodespitefully
use us because we see in them an ele
ment of possible and Christlike broth
erhood in tlie enduring life.—Boston
Congregationalist.
GEMS OF THOUGHT.
Sometimes melancholy is greater
than it would otherwise be through
selfishness — through not rejoicing
with them that do rejoice.- William
Mount ford.
A cluster of grapes does not as cer
tainly ripen to mellow perfection as
does the man who keeps himself un
der the clear shining and summer of
God.—William M. Baker.
1 have nouioine, until l am in the
realized presence of God. This holy
presence is my inward home, and,
until ! experience it. I am a homeless
waud*rt;r, a straying sheep in a
waste howling wilderness.—Auony
! mous.
When you feel ill and indisposed,
i and when in this condition your
prayer is cold, heavy, filled with de
spondency. and even despair, do not
he disheartened or despairing, for
the Lord knows your sick and pain
ful condition. Struggle against your
infirmity, pray as much as you have
strength to, and the Lord will not
despise, the infirmity of your flesh
and pint.—Father John.
DEFECTIVE ELIMINATION.
Impurities Retained tn the System
Because of Imperfect Action
of the Liver.
The health of the individual is di
rectly associated with the active elim
ination of waste products from the
body. These, in the processes of re
pair and regeneration, are thrown into
the circulating medium, the blood,
only to be seized upon by certain or
gans, which transform them or cast
them out from the body.
The accumulation of an amount of
waste matter slightly above normal
produces unpleasant symptoms, head
ache being a common result. The de
pendence of the various portions of the
body upon one another is thus actual
and intimate. Jt is found, for example,
that the loss of the spleen or the entire
thyroid gland, little known as their
real functions may be, is not endured
with impunity, says Youth’s Com
panion.
Many of the symptoms of gout,
rheumatism and other ills are the re
sult of defective elimination in marked
degree.
Waste products accumulate in the
blood and act upon the tissues much
like poisons, largely because the vari
ous changes which the nutritive prod
ucts circulating in the blood must un
dergo are incompletely accomplished
by various organs. One after another
the several organs seem to acquire the
habit of performing this function im
perfectly. The exact causes of defec
tive elimination are often obscure, but
the results make themselves manifest
in front v nnrl rhpiimat.if* eomnlaints.
Rright’s disease or various other con
ditions of a related kind.
Hygienic measures, rather than the
use of medicines, must usually come to
the aid of the sufferer in the early
stages of defective elimination. A
certain amount of physical activity is
productive of increased elimination,
it. is found, for example, that vigorous
exercise renders actually more soluble
certain substances in the blood, so that
they are more readily seized upon by
the excretory organs.
The liver is a most important organ
in the elimination of waste matter,
for it not only acts upon all nutritive
substances taken into the stomach be
fore they reach the blood, but in itself
is an eliminator of waste products, and
furthermore acts chemically in ren
dering other substances more soluble,
so that they may be excreted by other
>rgans.
The things which, in addition to a
proper amount of exercise, promote
elimination are pure water in sufficient
quantity, pure air and the stimulation
of the skin by daily baths and friction.
FRESH FEMININE FANCIES.
Vnrioa* Blit* of Finery That Will He
In Voarne Anions Follower*
of the Fashion*.
Red jackets with velvet turn-down
collars and small gold buttons are the
latest, wraps for evening driving.
Surplice corsages, French basquines,
kilted skirts, hip yokes, and peplum
styles and overdresses are to be worn
on fall and winter gowns.
Voile with a mesh so coarse as to
suggest canvas is in great demand,
and many handsome gowns are mode
up w ith insertions in ecru or black and
white.
A narrow black ribbon about the
neck seems t<> be a feature of many in
forma 1 toilets. It may hold a watch
or some necessary little toilet article
that is tucked into the belt.
“Venetian pink” is the name of. a
new, peculiar, and to some people wry
becoming, shade of rose that will ap
pear among velvets, chiffons, and rib
bons for collars, bows, choux, and mil
linery uses. /
1 lu* slot-seam effect will be very
prominent this autumn on both skirts,
jackets and bodices. It is a marked
characteristic of many of the French
and English models now being received
by American designers and importers.
Stitched bands of all varieties will be
as popular as ever. Buttons of all kinds
will be tlie preferred decoration on the
tailored gowns; gun-metal, dull silver
and enamel will be largely used on
heavy fabrics, while on the lighter fab
rics dainty designs are shown in good
imitation jewel effects.
Moire Francais, or the small-waved
moire, will gain in favor this fall as a
fabric for elegant foundation slips for
lace or net. and also for evening toilets
entire: and all the corded varieties in
silk, fine wool, and silk and wool mix
tures will be used in the making of
fashionable tailor costumes for the
autumn season through.
The new shirred skirts arc exceed
ingly smart, made both in dark and
light plain chiffons or muslins, and
there are rows of the shirring three
together at regular intervals from just
below the waist to the top of the gath
ered or plaited flounce. The waist to
go with these skirts has three rows
close together, just above the belt, anil
between these the material isarranged
in full, graceful folds. These “shirred”
gowns, however, can be worn to ad
vantage. only by a slight and graceful
figure. Deep-pointed yokes on the
waist and skirt, formed by shirrings,
are smart. *