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Entered as second-class matter, Jan uary 12, 1911, at the post office, St. Paul, Minn., under Act or March S, 1879. SATURDAY, MAY 24,1913. Mayor Keller has appointed Mr. Howard Wheeler a member of the Library Board in succession to the late John D. O'Brien. Mr. Wheeler and Mr. C. H. P. Smith are the only Catholics on the Board. The sum of ten thousand dol lars, in small amounts, has already been contributed by the Catholic women of America for the pro posed National Shrine of the Im maculate Conception on the grounds of the Catholic Univer sity, Washington. This modest turn will need to be increased a tlundred-fold before a church worthy of Our Lady can be erected—one which will compare favorably with the great shrines dedicated to her in many parts of the Old World. It is interesting to note that the facts brought out before the legis lative committee which is investi gating the charitable organiza tions of Chicago, prove that Cath olic charitable institutions are be ing conducted at a minimum of expense, while the United Chari ties expend fifty-three per cent of the money contributed by the public for charitable purposes in salaries and investigations. The charity of the 'Catholic Church is animated with the spirit of Christ. It is willing to share even a crust with God's poor. The so-called Guardians of Lib erty and Menace propagandists are busy in the Twin Cities and elsewhere throughout the State. Their official lecturer delivered a "patriotic lecture" in the Oliver Presbyterian Church, Minneapolis, last week. One would need a fcigh-power microscope to discover the germ of patriotism from which his tirade on "The Pope in Amer ican Politics" took its euphemistic name, if we are to judge from the quotation given on the leaflet an nouncing it. A few more lecturers of this "patriot" type will do more than anything else to discredit the movement in the eyes of intelli gent non-Catholics who are not frightened by the bugaboo of "Papal aggression." The United Charities of Chicago paid $299.00 to a poor woman with three children depending on Iter after $5,000.00 had been ex pended in investigating the case, ft required the services of 16 char itable organizations, 2 courts, 82 investigators, 11 physicians, 3 nurses, 41 women, 105 visits and interviews, 2 committee meetings, and the writing of 27 letters be fore the matter was finally ad justed. While this is, undoubtedly, an extreme case, it illustrates the red-tape methods employed by many so-called charitable organi zations with high-salaried officials, and the humiliations to which the poor are subjected before their misery is relieved. And all this in the name of Christian charity! The Feast of Corpus Christi, which is celebrated next Sunday, is a solemn profession of faith in the reality of our Lord's bodily presence in the Blessed Sacrament of the altar. His sacred humanity united to the divinity is really, truly and substantially present in the tabernacle as a perpetual me morial of his unquenchable love for souls. It is the object of adoration, the source of spiritual strength and the magnet which attracts devout souls to the higher life. On this feast the Church clothes her ministers in richest vestments her altars are ablaze With myriad lights her sanctu aries are perfumed with sweetest flowers and incense and all her wealth of ceremonial pomp is lav ished around the earthly home of the Saviour. In the procession, which is the central feature of the celebration, she makes public pro fession of faith in the divinity of Him Whose sacramental presence Hi mmm* is borne aloft for the adoration of the fathful. On such an occasion every Catholic heart should throb with greater love and yield itself more unreservedly to the influence of divine grace. There is no bet ter means of celebrating this feast in accordance with the mind of the church than to make the soul a living tabernacle of the Blessed Sacrament. HOW WILL IT WORK? One of the most drastic meas ures placed on the statute books of the state in years is the Wal lace-Fosseen bill enacted by the legislature during the past session. Its friends expect that it will serve to wipe out disorderly houses all over the state. The bill allows any citizen to make a com plaint against a disorderly house and prosecute through counsel. If the charges are proved, the court is to issue an order declaring the place a nuisance and closing it for one year, unless the owner of the property files a bond guaranteeing that the nuisance will be abated immediately. A fine of $300 is al so to be assessed against the keeper of the resort or the owner of the property. All the personal property found in the place is to be confiscated and sold to pay the costs, and the person filing the in formation is to receive ten per cent of the proceeds of the sale. This premium on "informing" was one of the chief objections to the bill, which passed the Senate early in the session but went through the House only after a bitter fight. This law goes into force on June first and already there are indications that it will be given a thorough trial. The Chief of Police of St. Paul has ordered the proprietors of sixty-two houses, known to the police as disorderly resorts, to dispose of their furnish ings and close their doors not later than May 26. Up to the present the policy has been to segregate the social evil as far as possible, by confining it to cer tain parts of the city where it is under the supervision of the authorities, and the effect of the present move is awaited with in terest by those who have at heart the welfare of the community. WOMEN'S RETREAT POSTPONED. The retreat for women which was to open at St. Joseph's Acad emy on June 17 has been post poned for one month. The Right Reverend Bishop Carroll of Hel ena, who was to preside at the exercises, is unable to be present on the date already announced. The retreat, as originally planned, will begin on Thursday evening, July 17. and will extend over the three following days. A large number of women have already signified their intention of making the retreat and, no doubt, the postponing of it for one month will enable many others to make arrangements to attend. The idea has found favor among our Catholic women, and there is every reason to believe that the forthcoming retreat will be re markably successful from the point of view of attendance, en thusiasm, and spiritual profit. CATHOLICS IN CANADA. The fifth census of the Domin ion of Canada was compiled in the year 1911. Since then a num ber of bulletins have been issued analyzing the results from dif ferent points of view. One of the most interesting, of these deals with the numerical strength of the different religious denomina tions in the Don*inion. Accord ing to it there are seventy-nine different religions represented among the people of Canada, an increase of twenty-two during the last decade. Many of these re ligions have very few followers, the smallest in point of numbers being the Exclusive Brethren, numbering fourteen, the Armen ians with a total membership of fifteen, the United Free Brethren which count nineteen adherents and the Christian Catholics num bering twenty-two. At the head of the list stand the Catholics with a total mem bership of 2,833,041, out of a population of 7,206,643. This represents an increase of 604,441 during the past decade, or 39.31 per cent of the population. In every Province of the Dominion, with the exception of Prince Ed ward Island and the Yukon, Catholics have shown a steady gain in numbers. The Province of Quebec stands at the head of the list with 1,724,683 then comes Ontario with 484,997: and New Brunswick and Nova Scotia with approximatey 145,000 each. The greatest proportionate gain is found in Western Canada. In ten years the Catholic population of Manitoba increased from 35,672 to 73,994 that of Alberta from 15, 464 to 62,193 that of Saskatche wan from 17,651 to 90.092 and that of the Northwest Territories from 2,085 to 4,962. Next to the Catholics in point of numbers come the Methodists with 1,079,892, and the Anglicans with 1,043.017. The Baptists num ber 382.663 the Lutherans 229, 864, and the Greek "Church 88,507. The total numerical strength of I all these is less than that of the Catholics alone. Although the Catholics show a gain of 603,441, they are not so numerous, in proportion to the population, as they were ten years ago. This is due to the fact that England contributed 30.63 per cent of the increase of popu lation during the decade, while Ireland contributed only 3.36 per cent, Scotland 10.77 per cent, France 22.09 per cent, Germany 4.51 per cent, and Austro-Hun gary 6.05 per cent. Notwith standing this, however, the Cath olic population shows a much greater proportionate increase than that of any of the sects. The growth of the Church in North western Canada is evidenced by the fact that a new Archiepiscopal See was established recently at Edmonton, and a new Diocese at Calgary, for the purpose of min istering more efficiently to the re ligious needs of the Catholic pop ulation which has increased so rapidly in that section during the decade of years prior to 1911. AN INSULT TO CATHOLICS. The Seventh District of the State Federation of Women's Clubs held a convention at Clin ton, Minn., last week which was attended by a large number of delegates, among whom were many Catholic women represent ing affiliated societies. There was an unfortunate inci dent connected with this conven tion to which we wish to call at tention. Among the papers read was one furnished by the Literary Club of Morris, Minn., which dealt with Religion in South America. From the brief refer ence to the contents of this paper which appeared in the public press we have no hesitation in characterizing it as an insult not only to the Catholic delegates, but to every intelligent and fair minded non-Catholic who heard it. The paper stated that Cathol icism was the peril of South Am erica, that all the evils existing in that country were due to the dishonesty and immorality of the Catholic priests and missionaries. The author of the paper accepted as true all the malicious calumnies of anti-Catholic writers and all the unfounded assertions of cer tain ministers of the gospel who have not scrupled to malign the Catholic priesthood of South America for selfish purposes. It is very evident that she took no pains to ascertain the truth in regard to the matter. Whatever would tend to discredit the Cath olic Church in South America was utilized in blissful ignorance, let us hope, of the fact that it had been refuted time and again by unprejudiced Protestant writers who have borne testimony to the piety, zeal and holiness of life as well as to eminently successful labors of the Catholic missionaries in South America. These Prot estant witnesses knew from actual observation that there was not a word of truth in the statements made by bigoted writers, who viewed the work of the Catholic missionaries in South America through the spectacles of the nar rowest sectarianism and they did not hesitate to speak out boldly in defence of the Church. In this connection we may cite the names of men like the Honorable John Barrett, Director of the In ternational Bureau of the Ameri can Republics General Sampson, former Minister to Ecuador and Winfield S. Bird, United States Consul in Venezuela, all of whom with a host of others equally com petent to judge of the conditions in South America, have borne tes timony to the splendid work done by the Catholic clergy of that country. During the reading of this paper protests were made by the Catholic delegates and by some of the more intelligent Protestant women, and, when no attention was paid to these protests, the Catholic delegations and others left the hall. Later on, they re turned to the meeting and an apology was offered by the Presi dent of the State Federation, who declared that no offence was in tended, as they met in conven tion, not as Catholics, nor as Protestants, but as women who are working for the good of all. It is a difficult matter to place the blame for this unpardonable breach of etiquette upon the shoulders of those who were re sponsible for it. But it would seem to be a very simple matter for the committee in charge of the program to have eliminated such an offensive paper. The Federa tion professes to be non-sectarian but thisi incident serves to throw discredit upon its state ment. That such an insult to Catholics, las that implied in the reading of this paper, was possi ble, notwithstanding their pro tests, seems to prove beyond a doubt that the Federation is not animated with so broad a spirit of non-sectarianism as it would have the public believe. One thing is certain, however. Since this paper was offered by the Lit erary Club of Morris as a sample of its work, it proves that the Lit erary Club of Morris is too avow edly anti-Catholic to be a consist ent member of a non-sectarian federation. We cannot agree with the Catholic delegate who,1 on her return to the convention after the reading of the paper, said, according to the press re ports, that "such a paper might be all right in a small club but it should not be allowed in a federa tion district meeting." The only club in which such a bigotedly anti-Catholic paper would be in order is a Menace Club. No club of intelligent women, however small in numbers, should tolerate the reading of such a paper, much less give it the approval which this one received by presenting it to a convention as a sample of the good work done during the year. There is another point involved in this incident. The Federation of Women's Clubs professes to be a non-sectarian organization. In fact, its President, at the Clinton convention last week, asserted that some of its strongest clubs and best workers were among the Catholics and the Jews. If this be so, is it not strange that there is no Catholic among the state officers of the Federation? We are reliably informed that no Catholic has ever held a state office. This goes to show that the Federation is not anxious to recog nize in an official way the work done by Catholic women through out the State. Is it not time for the members of the Catholic clubs and societies affiliated with the Federation to assert themselves and demand their rights? Why should they be members of the Federation without enjoying all the rights and privileges that go with affiliation in such cases? They should insist upon repre sentation among the officers of the Federation of Women's Clubs, and if this is not granted they should sever all connections with it. It is time for our Catholiq, women to show the non-Catholic members of this supposedly non sectarian organization that they do not propose to co-operate with them any longer except on equal terms, that they are not content to be a tail to a Protestant kite. If the Catholic women are not recognized in an official manner by the Federation of Women's Clubs, then they should withdraw and form a federation of their own to carry on the work which they are now doing, without being subjected to the possibility of a deliberate insult to their faith by those whose conception of a non sectarian society is one in which the Protestants exercise full con trol without regard to the rights of Catholics. LAYMEN'S RETREAT. To such an extent has the lay men's retreat movement taken hold of the Catholics of New York that the priest in charge has been obliged to refuse applica tions for the month of May, and the list for June is filling up so rapidly that many who planned on following the exercises next month will be disappointed. Mount Manresa on Staten Island, where the retreats are held, is taxed to its utmost capacity and two cottages on the grounds have been called into service to ac commodate the overflow. Com menting on this the Catholic News of New York says: "This gives evidence of two things—first, the splendid zeal of old retreatants, whose personal appeal has influenced friends to experience the same spiritual ex ercises which have been so helpful and inspiring to themselves sec ond, the healthy and earnest re sponse of faith and spiritual in stinct in our laymen to avail themselves of this marvelous dis cipline in the principles of Chris tian character and manhood." This is a very noteworthy indi cation of the religious spirit abroad among Catholic laymen. In these retreats they are afforded an opportunity to examine them selves in detail in regard to their duties towards the Church in view of the religious conditions that prevail in this country. They are stimulated to greater exertions in the spiritual life and taught to respond more generously to the inspirations of grace. The oppor tunities that lie before the Cath olic laymen in this country are placed before them in their most alluring aspects and they are taught how to realize the ideals that must govern their lives. The retreat movement is spread ing to all parts of the country, and wherever Catholics are alive to their responsibilities there is little difficulty in securing a large attendance. The retreat which opens at St. Paul Seminary on June 26 will afford the Catholic laymen of the Twin Cities an op portunity they cannot afford to miss. The future of the move ment in Minnesota rests with them and the indications are that, when the time comes, nothing will be wanting to insure its success. RECRUITING FOR THE CHRIS TIAN BROTHERS. The Bulletin of the Saint De La Salle Auxiliary, just issued from the press, has for object to interest laymen in the work of fostering an increase of membership in the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools who devote themselves so zealously to the Christian education of the young. •FP* The Institute, as our readers are aware, was founded by St. John Baptist de la Salle, who was can onized by His Holiness Leo XIII on May 24, 1900. Since the death of its founder in 1719, the Congre gation has grown and prospered. Its representatives are found in all parts of the world. One can gain some idea of its recent growth from the fact that, "since 1904 more than three hundred houses have been founded in Eng land, Belgium, the Islands of the Mediterranean Sea, the Levant, North and South America, the West Indies, Cape Colony and Australia." The demands made upon the Christian Brothers are so numer ous that they are unable to meet all of them, owing to the fact that the growth of the Community in numbers has not kept pace with the spread of its fame. To rem edy this, an association of pious laymen, known as the Saint De La Salle Auxiliary, was estab lished in Paris to aid in recruit ing subjects for their ranks. The Bulletin of the Society sets forth the many spiritual favors and in dulgences granted to those who assist in this good work. It gives a biographical sketch of the saint ly founder of the Christian Broth ers, and a brief history of the Or der during the past two hundred years. A STORY WITH A MORAL. It is a rare thing, says "Amer ica," to find a metropolitan news paper seize upon a story coming to it in the daily grist it grinds to use the incident the story tells in order to preach a sermon reminis cent of the Wise Man's "Vanitas vanitatum." The New York "Sun" of March 22 does this rare thing, and does it well. Record ing the death on that day of Frank S. Black, ex-Governor of New York, ex-member of the National House of Representatives, long a Republican power and a leader in the thick of the fight, successful in a most distinguished sense at the bar, the "Sun" reminds us that Mr. Black retired from active business life on March 8 last, when he had attained his sixtieth birthday. It adds: "Almost on that very day, after he had turned over his law practice, bade good bye to his associates, closed down his desk for the last time, he was stricken with the illness which has just ended his life." Then follows a paragraph full of the meat of Solomon rs message to men: "Fate has played few more ironical jests with any man. It knew all the time that the tall, slender, keen-eyed, strong-jawed man had but one ambition in his later years, and that was to retire to the little farm at Freedom, N. H., when he had acquired more than $500,000 by years of toil some days and nights in courts and over briefs. It allowed him to go through these years with hardly a threat of the lot in store for him. It stood by as the for tune had come in, retainer at a time. It had watched the pur chase of the farm at Freedom, and then it had listened as he had spun his dreams'to his friends of what was to be done there as mid dle age merged into old age, free from care and worry, out in the air, close to the land where he had spent his boyhood, far from the stress of the city—then it struck, and the dreams were over." "The dreams were over"— what a commentary upon the drudgery to which men give them selves here! What a warning to toil for the better things, since "the night cometh, when no man may work!" PIONEER LABOR UNIONS THE TRADE GUILD8 OP THE MIDDLE AGES WERE RELIG IOUS, CHARITABLE, PROFES SIONAL AND SOCIAL iN THEIR SCOPE. In a lecture recently in Liverpool on "Industrial Ideals" Father H. Lucas, S. J., spoke of the Trade Guilds of the Middle Ages. He said that with all allowance for innumerable varia tions in point of detail, it may be said in general that the mediaeval guilds were benefit societies with perhaps less hard-and-fast rules as to relief than have become necessary when membership is counted by the thou sand rather than by the score or the hundred. They were in some respects similar to modern trades unions, but differed from them in that they were not defensive associations of workers as against employers, but Included within their membership masters, journeymen and apprentices, and thus fulfilled also the functions of con ciliation boards. In this connection it is to be remembered that the differences which distinguished mas ters from men were not such as distin guish the modern capitalist from his employes. As every apprentice would in due course become a journeyman, so every journeyman might reason ably entertain the hope of becoming a master. The guilds differed also from trade unions in their deeply religious character, and likewise in the cir cumstance that the greater and richer guilds made a point of supporting hos pitals or exercising other works of charity outside the membership. All in a True 8ense Religiose. I have said that the purposes of the mediaeval guilds were religious, charitable, professional, and Jjsi social But in fact this division does not accurately reflect the mind of the originators and maintainers of these guilds for they plainly recognized that all the purposes of such organi zations were in a true sense religious. Justice and charity, mutual help and the relief of the sick and the poor, were obviously a matter of religious duty and counsel. It was a religious duty on the part of the master crafts man to pay a fair wage, to treat his apprentices well, and to charge no more than a fair price for his goods and on the other hand respect for his master, obedience, diligence, and good workmanship were religious duties on the part of the journeyman or appren tice. And even the social gatherings of the guild members, like our latter day Catholic reunions, were intended to foster true Christian brotherliness. It is perhaps not quite useless to insist that the mediaeval ideal, as roughly outlined presupposes a com mon faith, and a faith so strongly held that by common acknowledg ment it should govern all the affairs of life. In other words, the consti tution and smooth working of the guilds presupposed a public opinion, or rather an all but universal con viction, favorable to the maintenance of Christian principles* an all but universal recognition of religious mo tives and sanctions. For, as experi ence has abundantly shown, the most beneficent laws and regulations must needs be in great measure inoperative unless they have the support of pub lic opinion or of some common con viction. Human selfishness is clever enough to evade laws and rules, how ever skilfully devised unless the would-be evaders are so- small a mi nority that their efforts at evasion can be defeated by the united efforts of an overwhelming majority. By way of illustration of what has been said, a passage may be partly quoted and partly summarized from Janssen's "History of the German People" always bearing in mind that what this author says of Germany is equally true in its main features of other countries also. "With regard to all the relations of life and society, each city formed an independent and exclusive association, looking on its collective inhabitants as one large family, for whose welfare it was bound to provide. This paternal care was looked upon as a sacred duty, and included moral supervision no less than solicitude for material necessities." Wage* and Prices Regulated by Au thority. It may here be remarked that this highly religious conception of the pa ternal responsibilities of the civic au thorities was in large measure due to the fact that so many of the me diaeval towns had grown up around the great monasteries to which they owed their origin. For the due per formance of this quasi-paternal charge and to prevent or forestall the evil effects of unregulated trading or of what would nowadays be called free and unrestricted competition, it was deemed necessary that both wages and prices (or at least the prices of the prime necessaries of life) should be regulated by authority and that there by profits should be kept within rea sonable bounds. To get rich quickly at the expense of one's poorer neigh bors, and to acquire a capitalist's grip of an army of resourceless employes, was a kind of ambition that would have been by no means regarded with favor and so long as the trade-regula tions of the Middle Ages were ob served, the realization of such an aim was practically impossible. But It is not to be supposed that the settlement of wages and prices was made directly by the town council itself. The au thority of the council in all that con cerned handicrafts and trades was for the most part delegated to the guilds, of which, as has been said, masters and men were alike members, and which were free to settle their own affairs subject to the sanction and ap proval of the corporation. No one supposes that the ideal herein expressed was ever real ized in its full perfection. But that a very fair approach to full realiza tion was in fact achieved it would be absurd to doubt. Nor can it be doubt ed that if the same principles which on the whole dominated the mediaeval guilds, could once more gain universal acceptance, the whole of our industrial life would be gradually and peacefully revolutionized. And one step towards the universal acceptance of these prin ciples is the recognition of their effi cacy in the past i. e., of their efficacy in producing a well-distributed pros perity. THE CIS IDEI1L AN IDEAL OP SIMPLICITY AND POVERTY. While a few vile sheets are abus ing the Church and clergy it is pleas ant to read the following tribute to the Franciscan Monks In the Presby terian Examiner: "We have need in this century, more than ever before, of the Franciscan ideal an Ideal of simplicity and pov erty, a heart fixed on the realities of life. These are strange days, when men will fast for the good of their stomachs who would never do it for the good of their souls when men will lead the 'simple life' for a whim, and spend what they save thereby on fresh luxuries when the whim is over. We have need, now more than ever, of object-lessons in the true 'simple life,' led with the single burn ing aspiration for the true full life of eternity and sustained by an abound ing faith in the glorious abundant life after death. The nearer we come to bare necessaries, the nearer we come to true beauty for true beauty is Berviceableness. A cottage kitchen, with Its unpretentious furniture, Its pewter and plain crockery, is a far more beautiful place than a modern drawing room. In such surroundings life is life, to be faced willingly, with the knowledge that the day's work brings the day's wages and that moth and rust will find little to corrupt of all the treasure we leave behind ns when we go." DOMAIN OF TEMPERANCE. THE POLITICAL. ECONOMY OF ALCOHOL. Alocbol is- related closely to of three sets of activities, writes Frank O'Hara, in the Catholic World, to the production of wealth, to the distribu tion of wealth, and to the consumption of wealth. First, let us consider the part which alcohol plays in the production of wealth. The relation of alcohol to the production of wealth is a two-fold one. In the first place, alcohol—itself a product of industry—requires in its production the expenditure of labor power and capital power and land power and business management. Thus the production of alcohol represents effort that might be employed in other directions. Instead of employing land and labor and capital and business management to manufacture beer and whiskey and wine, an equivalent amount of land and labor and capital and enterprise might be employed in producing bread and beef and clothing and houses In the second place, it may be shown that the use of alcohol renders the workers less efficient producers than they would be without its use. There is a shortage, then, in the production of the necessaries of life because, on the one hand, the production" of the necessaries has had to give place to the production of the not-necessaries, and, on the other hand, because the producers have been made inefficient or entirely unproductive through the use of some of these not-necessaries. The non-drinker can be depended upon to do a higher class of work than the man who is in a semi-intoxicated condition during working hours, or than the man who drinks moderately, and confines his drinking to the time when he is off duty. A few years ago the*Federal Bureau of Labor undertook an investigation to find out the attitude of employers to wards the use of intoxicating liquors by employes. Employers were asked if, in employing new men, they were accustomed to give consideration to the use of intoxicating liquors. Out of nearly seven thousand employers answering this inquiry, more than one half reported that they required in certain occupations, and under certain circumstances, that employes should not use intoxicating liquors. Many different reasons were given by the employers for the requirement. Moreover, the effects of the drink habit upon the distribution of wealth are cumulative and permanent. Sins of the fathers are visited upon the children through many generations in the industrial world. The man who uses alcohol to excess, and who lowers his own economic position in society thereby, also places his children at a disadvantage in the struggle for a live lihood. As a general thing they do nQt inherit the property that they other wise would inherit. They must de pend to a greater extent than would otherwise be necessary on their labor power for their support. Then, too, as a rule they will not receive so good an education as they would receive if their father was not a drinker. They are thus doubly handicapped in the race of life. 1. The use of alcohol is prejudicial to the economical production of wealth. 2. Its use is inconsistent with a* wholesome and wise distribution of wealth. 3. It tends to promote an irrational consumption of wealth. Political economy, therefore, will have none of it. WATER 18 BEST. Water is best for the man ot health, 'Twill keep his strength secure Water is best for the man of wealth, 'Twill keep his riches sure. Water is best for the feeble man, 'Twill make his health improve Water is best for the poor, I ken, 'Twill make his wants remove. Water for those who are growing old, 'Twill keep them hale and strong Water is best for the young and bold, 'Twill make their moments long. Water is best for the man of toil, 'Twill make his labor light Water is best for ladies who toil Not a hand from morning till night. Water is best for the man of strife, 'Twill make his anger slow And for him who leads a peaceful life 'Tis the very best drink I know. Water is best for the man of state, 'Twill keep his judgment true Water is best for those who wait His high commands to do. Water, pure water's the drink for V maw, Its fountains are full and free! Others may drink "fire-water" who can, Pure water's the nectar for me! Water is best in cold or heat, At morn, or noon or night "Tis the only drink that "can't be beat," Clear, healthful, sparkling, bright! HELPED 8ELF AND OTHERS. It is my experience, says Professor Dr. Kraepelin of Heidelberg, and I could confirm it by innumerable proofs, which leave me without a shadow of doubt, that of all conceiva able methods of fighting the drink evil, the personal example of total abstin ence is by far the most efficacious. When, twelve years ago, this became clear to me, I did not hesitate to seize this weapon, and up to this day I have never for a moment had reason to re gret that I did so. I have to thank total abstinence not only for Its bene ficial results in regard to my own pow ers of continuous work, but also for the satisfaction that comes from being consistent, and from seeing the unmis takable effects of the Influence of my example in the struggle fgntifflt alco holism. Do not expect everyone to your own opinion. be of Sii*1