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14 14. if thou wilt, ete.â€"*"Therse is a moral hinge on which every blessing of God swings. Divine favors and promises release no man from the obligations of rightcousness." _ Solomon never met 12. according to thy wordsâ€"Those are accepted of God who prefer spiritual blessings to temporal, and are more de sirous to be found in the way of dut3 than preferment. Solomon‘s prayer was a prevailing prayer. 13. have also given, etc.â€"God gave his riches and honor and long life without his asking, and thus he received a double blessing. But alâ€" though the Lord gave Solomon wisdom and understanding, yet he doubtless atudied and toiled much like other men for his acquirements. \ noble, unselfish. 2. "It rendered it posâ€" wible for God to give him large measâ€" ures of the best things in all the uniâ€" verse. 3. It furnished an opportunity to give many other things. God loves to give. He gives us all we can benefig¢ially receive. The more He can give us, the better He is pleased." 11. Hath not asked «â€"The greatness of Solomon‘s request is estimated by what he did not ask. He was unselfish, A weaker man would kave desired either (1) long life, or (2) viches; or (3) the life of his enemies; that is, that God would take the life of his enemies, or put it in his power to destroy them. wents, Solomon had pr before with great fervenc 9, Give thereforeâ€"Because of _ these considerations. An understanding heart His request according with the exhorâ€" tations David had given him. His petiâ€" tion was that the Lord would enlarge and strengthen his inteliectual powers; give him a ready discernment in spiriâ€" tual things, and a corresponding disposiâ€" tion, and furnish him with the peculiar talents and ability for government, that e might administer justice and judgâ€" ment rightly for the benefit of the neoâ€" in connection with undertaking to dirâ€" ®ct the affairs of such a nation. Canâ€" not be numberedâ€"A common expres sion signifying a number, but from the number of fighting men given in 2 Sam. 24. 0 and 1 Chron. 21. 5, 6, it has been estimated that the total population must kave been about six million. Solomon Chooses Wisdom.â€"I Kings 3: 4â€"15. Commentary.â€"I. The festival at Gibâ€" con (vs. 1â€"4.) 4. Went to Gibeonâ€"The first work of Solomon was to hold a naâ€" tional festival at Gibeon. This was the "great high place" till the temple was built. The chronmicler informs us that Solomon assembled a feot congregation with him, and that the _ brazen altar made in the days of Moses by Bezaleel ard the old "tabernacle of the congreâ€" gation" were still existing at that place. See 2 Chron. 1; 1â€"6. Great high placeâ€" The heathen worshipped on high hills and in groves, and during their earlior history the Jews did the same. A thouâ€" sand burnt offeringsâ€"Only a small part of the victim was burned, and a large portion of these offerings were used for food. The offering of the sacrifices was attended with religious services. The wbject of this great gathering was _ to hormonize and uznite the people under the new king and extend the influence of religion throughout the nation. _ _ ue siourea w mrmmmnipiend. 22 Te ng S paign of advertising the resources of Canada through moving picture exhibiâ€" tions. Mr. Cyr‘s appointment increases the number of Canadian immigration agents in Frauce to four. especially, the emigration of French agâ€" riculturists to the Prairie Provinces. The Immigration Department is also enâ€" couraging emigration from the rural disâ€" tricts of France and Belgium by a camâ€" the power of princes to grant. It could not be purchased for money, It could not be conferred by man in return for any favor. It could not be sought out in the works of the learned."â€"A,. C i. would yield him fame as a great soldier, or intellectual greatness that would enâ€" roll him in history as a noted scholar and philosopher. These and other earthly Llessings he might have chosen, but the desires of his youthful heart were wisely turned to things above. He knew that the one gift he most needed was not in â€"â€""I am but a little child" (v. 7). Soloâ€" mon was humble and said nothing of his greatness as the son of David and ‘the heir to the thronc, He felt himself only a mere child in a grea‘t, busy world. Soloâ€" mon was a great king because he humâ€" bled himself as a little child (Matt. 18, 3, 4). It pleases our Heavenly Father to have us childlike. "When Israel was a child T loved Nim" (HMos. 11, 1). "Beâ€" fore honor is humility" (Prov, 15, 33). When Rumble I am never sufficient in myself (I1. Cor. 3, 5), but always strong in the Lord (Eph,. 6, 10). 1 am nothing (1. Cor, 1. 28). I have nothing (Luke 7. 12). I know nothing (I. Cor. 4, 4). I can do nothing apart from Christ (I. John 15, 5). I am only a cipher. He is the numeral which, put at the head of my nothingness, makes it of value (Rom. 11, 36). "And thy servant is in the midst of thy people" (v. 8). Solomon recognized his duty. There are certain things that are due from a king to his subjects; from a man to his neighbor; from a friend to his friend. Duty has reference ‘to our relation to each other. We should pay our debts and never owe "anything" but love (Rom. 13, 8). The more we love the more we see what is due. Jesus rever shrank from duty. "Ought not this woman......be loosed?" (Luke 13, 16). "He must needs go through Samaâ€" ria" (John 4, 4). He worked a miracle to fulfil an apparent obligation (Matt. 17. 271. "Because thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked," ete. (v. 11.) "Man‘s destiny depends largely upon his power of personal choice,. Two young men of equal talent and training may enter active life with the same possibilities and opportunities before them, but a divergâ€" ence of aim and choice may develop in them characters startlingly in contrast, both as to their appreciation of this preâ€" sent life, and as to their expectations in the world to come. By deliberate choice one may form the strictest habits of inâ€" tegrity and honorable dealing, the other may resort to doubtful expedients to compass his purposes. . The first may avoid forming any objectionable personal habits, the second _ may aequire them with searcely a protest on his own part. The one may array himsclf on the side. of civic purity, and become an earnest _exponent of every reform movement, the other may join kamself to the corrupting forcees of society and be found among those to whom personal gain is more than purity or honor. The one may finâ€" ally inherit life eternal, the other may go away into everlasting punishment. God did not compel Solomon to choose as he did. He gave him the privilege of deciding for himself, and expressing his own preference. Rolomon was young and inexperienced. As he was searcely twenty years of age, it was hardly to be expected that he would make so perfect and excellent a choice. There were a thousand other things that most of men would have chosen before wisdom, Soloâ€" mon might have chosen the gift of an extensive empirc, greater wealth than man ever possessed, a life of luxurious ease, long extended beyond that of his ft'""'“‘f men, a career of conquest that IMMIGRATION FROM FRANCE "Thou hast made Thy servant king" (v. 7). No then Solomon owed his elevaâ€" tion not to David, nor to Nathan, nor to Bathâ€"sheba, nor to Zadok, nor to Benaâ€" iah (though they each took pronsinent part in events without which, humanly speaking, he cou!d never have been made king), but to God, who raiseth up one and putteth down another, The Seripâ€" ture text above m ydesk is, "Not I, but Christ" (Gal. 2, 20). Every good gift is from God (Jas. 1 17), so is every good thought or action (Rom, 11, 36). _ It pleasea (God to "acknowledge Him." PRACTICAL APPLICATION®. "Ask what I shall give thee" (v. 5). God is pleased when we pray. "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God" (Jas. 1:5). "Be careful for nothing; but in everything....let your requests be made known unto God" (Phil, 4:6). Somebody suggests that Solomon looked backward and saw what God had done; inward, and saw his own helplessness; outward, and saw his need; then upâ€" ward to him who is "able to do exceedâ€" ing abundantly above all that we ask or think" (Eph. 3:20, 21). Joseph Smith says: ‘Notice the conmnection between the revelation of God and the invitation to make requests of him. God revealed is always God inviting. God‘s revelaâ€" tions and invitations always call to prayer." To his disciples who loved him Jesus said, ‘Ask" (John 14:13,14). To his "chosen" ones Jesus promised, "Whatsoever ye shall ask.... he may give it you" (John 15:16). They who "abide" may ask what they will (John 15:7}. "Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, then have we confidence toward tGod. And whatsoever we ask, we reâ€" ceive of him, because we keep his comâ€" mandments, and do those things that are pleasing in his sight" (1 John 3:21, "Thou hast shewed ... . ..great merey‘ (v. 6), We please God when we maks the fact of His merey to others a plea for the same merey to us, thus recogniz ing His unchangeableness and faithful ness, these conditions fully. "He received much, but he would have received much more had he been faithful to the grace given." 15. came to Jerusalemâ€"He had made his prayer at Gibeon, and there God graciously met him; but he returnâ€" ed to the capital again where he might in holy adoration present himself before the sacred ark of covenant, which was there in the city of David. offered.... offeringsâ€"Solemnly to praise God for all his mercies, and es})ecially for giving him quiet possession of the kingdom, and for his glorious appearance to him in the dream, and for the promise made to him. IV. Solomon‘s wisdom (chap. 4:29â€"34). In chapter 4:25â€"28 we have an account of Solomon‘s wealth and worldly greatâ€" ness and in verses 20â€"34 of his wisdow. "His wisdom took many directions. He was wise as a judge, as an architect, as a statesman, in literature, in science. He had a comprehensive, powerful mind capable of grasping the knowledge of many and difficult subjects." The lumber _ trade is _ still _ quiet. Country business is moderate. Rain is still badly needed, the few showers which fell having been too light to have done any pronounced good. Iroduce comes BRADSTREET‘Ss TRADE REVIEW. Montrealâ€"General business conditions have shown little change during the past week. Weather has been hardly as fayâ€" orable for the retail trade, but the volâ€" ume of the wholesale business keeps up fairly well, and in some lines orders show improvement. A canvas of the wholesale trade generally _ here reveals a wideâ€" spread _ feeling _ of confidence _ reâ€" garding _ future _ trade conditions, Following are the closing quotations on Winnipeg grain futures: Wheatâ€"November $.02%% bid, Decemâ€" ber 97%%e bid. May $1.027% bid. Oatsâ€"November 28%c bid, December 365%e bid, | C Belleviliec.â€"At _ the meeting of the Cheeswe Board, held here this afternoon, there were offered 381 white, 45 colored boarded; 11 1â€"16¢ bid. No sales. Kingston.â€"At the final meeting toâ€" day of the Frontenac Cheese Board some 314 boxes were offered, and 120 were sold at le. £ M to 534c per Ib.; cake, No. 1 stock, 6 to 6Wc. Toronto dealers are paying for cured country hides laid down here, according to condition, 844 to 814c. The prices for stock being paid by Toronto dealers at country points, 8 to 8%4¢; calfskins, curâ€" er, 11 to 12¢; lambskins, present takeâ€"off 45 to 55¢e; horse hides, No. 1, $2.50. Tallowâ€"Solid, in barrels, No. 1 stock, Toronto butchers _ are receiving for stock as follows: No. 1 green inspected steer hides, 60 pounds in up, in separate consignments, 9e per Ib.; No, 2 grade 8e per Ib, No. 1 green inspected cow hides, 8%,¢ per Ib.; No, 2 grade, T1ge; No, 3 cows and bulls, 6Â¥%e. Calfskins, green, firsts and seconds, 12¢ per Ib,. Sheepsking, present kill, 55 to 65¢. Horse Hairâ€"Farmer or peddler stock, 28 to 30e. Lardâ€"â€" TFierces, 12%%¢; lubs, 1274¢; pails, 13¢. Smoked and Dry Salted Meatsâ€" Long clear bacon, 1114 to 11%¢, tons _ and cases; hame, large 12%, to 13¢; small 14 to 14%,e; backs, 17 to 17%¢; shoulders, 10 to 10%e; rolls, 11 to 11%%¢; breakâ€" fast bacon, 15 to 16e; green meats out of pickle, le less than smoked. Local quotations are: Montreal granuâ€" lated sugar, per ewt. in barrels, $4.00; yellow, $1.20; in bags prices are e less; ‘Acadian, in barrels or bags, $4.50; Onâ€" tario beet, in barrels or bags, $4.50. London, Nov. 26.â€"Raw sugar, Muscoâ€" vade, 10s 3d; centrifugal, 11s 3d; beet sugar, November, 10s 3d. PROVISION®. Porkâ€"Short eut, $22.50 to $23 per barâ€" rel; mess, $19 to $19.50. Lardâ€" Tierces, 12%¢; tubs, 12%e; cording Chickens, dressed, lb .... 0 10 0 11 Ducks, spring, .. ...... 0 10 0 12 Cleese. Ib.. .. â€">, +>>>>> 0 On 0 11 Turkeys. .. .. ...... O 12 0 15 Cabbage, per dozen .... 0 30 0 50 Celery, dozem .. .. .... 0 30 0 40 Onione,> bag.. ..~i...... (Oâ€"8 0 00 Potatoes, per bag .. .. 0 70 0 80 Apples. bbl........ . > 2 50 3 50 Beef, hindquarters ...... 8 00 9 00 Do., forequarters .. .. 4 50 6 00 1Do., choice, carcass .... 7 50 8 00 Do., medium, carcass .. 5 00 6 50 Mutton, per ewt.. .. ... 6 50 8 00 Veal, prime, por ewtb.. .. 8 50 10 00 Lamb, per ewt :.‘"...... T 50 9 00 BALED HAY AND STRAW. Prices in car lots on track, Toronto, are: Do., goose, bush Oats, bush .. .. Barley, bush .. Rye, bush .. .. Peas, bush .. .. Hay, per ton .. Do., No. 2.. .. Straw .per_ton Dressed hogs . Bukter.... ~.. Do., creamery KEags, dozen .. The offerings a little: larger with sales of 1 to 94c, and of Q1c. Barley, at 34 to 58¢. O 1,000 bushels at S.heep and Lambsâ€"Export ewes sold at $3.25 to $3.60 per ewt.; rams, $2 to $2.50 per ewi; lambs, $4.25 to $4.50, with 1 m © 2° 00 .__ LC #h An Receipts of live stock at the city marâ€" ket, as reported by the railways, for Wednesday and Thursday, were 132 car loads, consisting of 1,446 cattle, 5,509 bogs, 1,692 sheep and lambs, with 35 calves. 6 # Exportersâ€"None on sale; at least, there were no loads, and, what is more, we did not hear of any cattle selling at #5 per ewt. since Monday at the Union Stock Yards. 4 Feeders and Stockersâ€"Best feeders, 950 to 1,100 ibs, each, at $3.65 to $4 per ewt.; best feeders, 800 to 900 lbs. each, at $3.25 to $3.75; stockers, 600 to 700 Ibs. each, at $2.90 to $3.15; common to medium stockers, 500 to 600 Ibs, each, 81.75 to $2.30. * e Mpeestnt B Wes NHC SR Pn n e 2Ve k select lots of ewes and wethers at $4.60 to $4.65 per ewt. Hogsâ€"â€"Receipts for the two days were largeâ€"6,509 from all sources. Mr. Harâ€" ris reported sclects at $6.25 fed and waâ€" tered, and light $6 at the market, FARMERS‘ MARKET. The quality of cattle offered as fat was much the same all week, very few good to choice; in fact, the bulk were common and inferior. Milkers and Springersâ€"Prices ranged, as a rule, from $40 to $60, with two or three cows at $65; common cows, $25 to $35 each. k Ks fed Butchersâ€"The pick of the mar‘et sold at $4.40 and $4.50; the best loads, $4 to $4.25 per ewt., and there were few loads went over $4; medium, $3.60 to $3.90; common, $2.50 to $3.50; canâ€" ners and bologna bulls, $1 to $2. _ ET PIDUCY Veal â€" Calvesâ€"Receipts _ light, â€" with prices unchanged at $3 to #6 per ewt., with £6.25 to $6.50 for two or thre emilk WINNIPEG WHEAT MARKET PB ‘ll.uy â€"No. 1 timothy, $11 to $11.50. Strawâ€"â€"Range is from $6.50 to $8, ac TORONTO MARKETS. LIVE STOCK. OTHER MARKETS. . le less than smoked. HIDES, TALLOW, ETC CHEESE MARKETS to quality ings of grain toâ€"day were on ger scale. _ Wheat steady, of 100 bushels .of fall at 92 of 100 bushels of gooss at , steady, 800 bushels selling ‘ _ Oats, easier, with sales ‘of s at 44 to 45¢ per bushel. inchanged, with sales of 20 } to $14 for timothy, and at vr No. 2. â€" Straw steady, two GROCERIES 0 33 0 10 0 10 0 On 0 13 0 30 0 30 0 85 0 0 28 30 3% 10 10 ) 0 45 0 58 0 75 0 00 14 00 10 00 0 31 0 34 0 40 0 11 0 12 0 11 0 15 0 50 0 40 0 N0 0 80 31 34 40 11 12 1 15 The matter was considered to be one of minor importance.â€"Reuter.. Thus does even a great mind like Reuâ€" ter‘s unbend at Times.â€"London Punch. by tribesmen on the Spanish miners emâ€" ployed in a mine in the Melillia district. Reuter Unbends. Madridâ€"The Cabinet toâ€"day discussed the situation arising out of the attack United States under alleged unlawful arrangements with the Firth Carpet Company, located at Firth Cliff, N. Y., have been ordered to be returned to their homes in England and Scotland. The cases of many others are now under consideration. â€" Fiftyâ€"Three Persons to be Sent to Britain from U. S. Washington Nov. 30.â€"A sweeping deâ€" portation of violators of the contract labor laws has been ordered by the Deâ€" partment of Commerce and Labor, Fifâ€" tyâ€"three persons, either contract laborâ€" ers or dependents who came to the trips in the most inclement weather." The result of the report was an order by the Canadian Northern to its supâ€" erintendents to provide accommodaâ€" tion where required. Railway Commissioners Order Adeâ€" quate Shopping Places, Ottawa, Nov, 30.â€"The award of the Board of Conciliation in the case of Canadian Northern engineers passes upon an interesting pobat. It declared that a railway company must provide adequate stopping places for its engiâ€" neers at junction points where such do not now exist. In the case under disâ€" pite the board declared that "No sufâ€" ficient provision had been made at points where enginecers are frequently forced to remain over night after lonq trips in the most inclement weather.‘ Mrs. William â€" Bell, of Blenheim, Killed. Chatham despatch: At Blenheim this morning Mrs. William Bell, jJun., lost her life in a peculiar manner. She gave her baby to her husband while she went outdoors. _ After waiting about twenty minutes, the husband went to see what had become of his wife. Looking down a boxâ€"covered well, he was horrified to see a limp form lying at the bottom. e shouted, and help was soon at hand, willing neighbors bearing the form to a nearby spot, where every possible attempt at resuscitation was made hy the physician called. _ It is thought Mrs. Bell went to see if the water has risen in the well owing to yesterday‘s rain, and while looking in fell to the bottom, striking on her head. The water was only one and a half feet deep, and the well about five feet deep. Rhe was aged twentyâ€"two years, and leaves two children, one a babe in arms, besides her husband. Now he is so far restored that he can jump on a table. Chicago, Nov. 30.â€"A new and enthusâ€" iastic recruit is just enlisted in â€"the ranks of the mental scientists. _ His name is Pingle Colburn and he is a fayâ€" orite yearâ€"andâ€"aâ€"halfâ€"old grey cat owned by Mrs, W. E. Colburn of 7306 Bond ovenue. From his youngest kittenhood he was afflicted with the cruclest form of rheumatism. One day Mrs. Colburn said to her husband: That afternoon the treatment began â€"absent ones and without the customâ€" ary instructions to the patient. _ He proved himself the best kind of patient, thinking no evil and in no way resistâ€" ing. The Board of Trade, Stock Exchange, brokers‘ offices and skyscrapers were scenes of greatest activity. On street corners several girls took their stations and tagged every man who passed. Raiway stations and hotels and the City Hall yielded a good harvest. _ The tag read: "I am tagged for children‘s day," The women were surprised at the ease with which the work was acâ€" "All the doctors have failed on him. I am going to try a mental science healer," Chiâ€"ago, Nov. _ 8§.â€"One â€" thousand young and attractive women "tagged" over 30,000 Chicago men yesterday and collected & total of $35,000 for five chilâ€" dren‘s charities, _ Theh "taggees" ranged from newsboys to millionaires, and the amounts received from a penny to $50 bilis. eomplished Over Thirty Thousand People Caught For Charity Project. Tonontoâ€"There is a mteady tone to trade here with some further improveâ€" ment noted in both wholesale and retail lines. _ Money is combag forward more freely and the outlook: for trade is bright. Spring business in dry goods is ‘already good, and sonse sorting orders for henvy lines are coming in. Retailers‘ purchagses were not heavy and stocks should require reirforcing early in the scason. Grocers report a fair amount of orders for holiday goods. _ Seasonable hardware lines move ‘well, a good business having been done in, sporting goods. Metâ€" ads are stendy and in fair demand. Boot and shoe men report an improved enâ€" quiry for winter footsvear. The leather trade is quiet, with prices steady to firm, There is little demand for hides, and prices are unchanged. Country trade shows a fair volume and colections are generally satisfactory. Produce prices are steady to firm, with fair lots coming forward here. Cures Tom Cat of Bad Form Rheumatism. Hammiltonâ€"Busiriess _ here continues fairly active. Stocks of wholesale lines are moving mora freely, and indications point to continwed activity until well up to the holiday season. Retailers report forward fairly well and prices are steady. s a fair trage. Collections are generally satisfactory and produce is coming forâ€" ward freely, with prices holding up. The demand for haliday lines has been fairly Londonâ€"General business is now movâ€" ing fairly briskly, although the ordering is not as heg vy as might be expected. Winnipegâ€"â€"The one unpleasant feature of the situation is the shortage of cars in which to move the grain. _ General business is active. tonce. __Vancouver gnd Victoriaâ€"Business all along the coast holds a steady tone. PROVISIONS FOR ENGINEERS. CHICAGO TAG DAY. WHOLESALE DEPORTATION. Ottawaâ€"Business here is steady in MENTAL SCIENCE FELL INTO A WELL. of ding wet days of last year. On October 8. 1‘0001 there was one arrest for drunkâ€" enness; on the same.day of 1907 there Not even the stiffest advocate of liâ€" cense would deny that the outward orâ€" der of the town has improved under the dry system. In the first 161 dry days there were 724 arrests for drunkenness, as comparal with 1.971 in the corresponâ€" Since May last there has been a markâ€" ed increase in the sale of soft drinks One dealer has sold about 33 per cent. mere than in the wet days, One of the savings banks of Worcesâ€" ter furnishes an interesting comparison of deposits in the quarter ended October , 1908, under dry conditions, and that emled October 1, 1907, under wet condiâ€" tions. The deposits in the dry quarter were $20,522,264.50, in the wet about $5,â€" 100 more, but the fact that the hard times intervened between the two quarâ€" ters seems to show that the change from wet to dry is at least not unfavorable to eaving. _ & * It is notcrious that three or four wet towns within an hour‘s ride of Worcesâ€" ter are visited by thousands of Woreesâ€" ter people that never before found them attractive, and such towns have unâ€" deubtedly sold to many of these visiâ€" tors other things than strong drink. Retailers in Worcester have felt the to=s, thoug! it has probably not been great, because the men who are willing to spend 25 or 30 cents in trolley fares in order to have a few drinks of beer or whiskey, are not likely to do a large amount of domestic marketing. _ The most active drys are some of the faculty at Clark Univer®i#y, most of the local clergy, many zealous women and other reformers of vasiouns kinds. They look for support from voters who Lave found personal gain or moral acvantage in the change from wet to dry business men who have prospered or believe they have prospered for the same cause, employers of labor who find their employces more effective than they were in wet seasons, perhaps from the erpress ecmpanies which carry liquor into a dry town and the railway comâ€" panies which carry the thirsty to neighâ€" boring wet towns. As luck would have it, the hard times and the dry spell struck _ Worcester pretty near together, so that there is rcom for discussion as to the material e‘fect of the change, Fifteen hundred Italians have gone home to Italy since last December, Many factories _ have skortened sail since December last, and workingmen on the average have had I¢ss money to spend. Retailers, however, report bills easier to collect, and the tax gatherers toll the same tale. i dn‘ auinbitentP. driutcpaisicsd as found open saloons convenient places from which to influenee voters are hopeâ€" fu! that the town may swing back to the wet column in December. 4 io 4 1 AML ds ce of the town‘s going dry, believers in personal liberty, a good many of the foreign population, to whom prohibition is a doctrine running counter to all exâ€" perience, and the chronically thirsty, who are personally inconvenienced by present conditions, and such politicians In Woerecester, as in other towns, many saloons were owned in whole or in part by the brewers and run by their agents, Now the brewers are still in business as such, and ‘they have a continuing interâ€" ost in keeping the town wet. So have their agents, dependents, business friends ind the like, Al ot tnese retailers and such others as have suffered or believe that they have suffered loss of trade by reason Biggest Dry Town on Earth. After six months of trial of local proâ€" hibition Worcester is about to vote again upon the question of wet or dry for the nex‘t year, For several years the town has been pretty close to going dry at times. The wets had it three or four years ago by a majority of only about a hundred. Then they won by nearly a thousand, and so it fluetuated until the town finally went dry. The possibility that a narrow maâ€" jority vote may put the liquor dealers ut of business at any time has tended perhaps to throw the control of retail liquor selling in Massachusetis towns ‘nto the hands of the brewors, _ Few men of small capital could risk the posâ€" sibility of being driven out of business m a few months‘ notice. Worcester, Mass.â€"Worcester is considâ€" erably more than "nine miles from a lemon." In fact, the nearest lemon, not in the modern slang sense, but in that of Sydney Smith, is a dozen miles away at the first wet town reached by the electric cars. When the dry law woent into effect the sale of liquor was in theory disconâ€" tinued in Woreester, except â€" that the breweries wont on making beer to be sold to the outside world, and eight druggists were licensed ‘to sell strong drink for medicinal purposes. With the closing of these places about 1,000 perâ€" sons were thrown out of business. It is one Aistinction of Wercester to have been the home of Senator George Frisbie Hoar, of whom a â€" very new, bright bronze statue by French, repreâ€" senting the old gentleman comfortably seated in a huge armchair and wearing the proper clothes of a Senator (United States, not Roman), and his own familiar smile adorns the chief place of the city not far from the equestrian statue of that other local hero, Gen, Devens,. Anâ€" other and more periious distinction of Worcester is the possession of a richly endowed museum of art, wi‘th a collection consisting chicfly of one large and beauâ€" tiful canvas by an old Spanish master, a few good smaller pictures, old and new, among them a Copley in that paintâ€" er‘s unaccustomed genre style with the real breath of Jlife in it, some good «P gravings and porcelains, and probably the most hideous group of family portraits in any museum on earth, A town of 140,000 inhabitants can live without excellent art of any kind, as forty or fifty such in the United States demonstrates, but can guch a town live ind flourish without the sale of strong drink? This is the question that Worâ€" cester has been trying to solve in prasâ€" tice for the last six months, and the city‘s third distinction, and the one just now attracting most attention lies in the fact that she is the largest dry town m earth. Woreester is the second city of Massaâ€" ‘husetts, the third of New England. When it went dry by a majority of about 1,000 in a total vote of 22,000 in Decemâ€" ber last the town had 128 ordinary liâ€" censed drinking places. There were sevâ€" »nteen inn holders with first class liâ€" senses, for which they paid $2,000 a year; seventyâ€"five eommon victuallers licensed it $1,500 a year, two common viectuallers it $400 a year, thirtyâ€"two wholssalers licensed at $2,000 a year, two brewers it $3,000 a year, fortyâ€"four druggists at 81 a year, three alcohol dealers at 81 n year and fourteen special clubs at $100 i year. The 189 liconsed liquor sellers of ill classes paid $220,000 a year into the city‘s treasury. Six Menths of Prohibition at Wor» cester, Mass. J’ ley.â€"Denver Post low Little Charley Maloney, a sixâ€"yearâ€"old boy, heard a man practicing on the calliâ€" ope last Tuesday preparatory to playing it in front of the office of the Post that night. Rushing to his father he said : ‘"Listen, papa." ‘What is it?" asked his father. wBg+ vter wile m l l: :\_if_.‘_kfl,..“ singing," said Charâ€" Ottawa, Nov. 30.â€"As there does not seem to be any likelihood of _ the Hindus in British Columbia accept. ing the proposal to be trensferred to British Honduras, it is said that the Interior Department may take the ex. treme _step of deporting them to Inâ€" dia. The climate of British Columbia is held to be altogether unsuitable for Hindus. |_There is very pretty fighting ground | on the question of wet or dry in Woreesâ€" !ter because the issue may always be taken by two handles. Not even the | strongest of the wets can deny that I there is less public drunkenness and disâ€" | order than when 128 saloons were going | in town, and it would be absurd to deny | that the ordinary retail sale of strong : drink has been cut down to very small proportions. a | _ Some people profess to believe that | the liquor trade in packages is not largâ€" _ er than it was a year ago, but this is a _ sanguine view of the matter, ‘Those whose official business it is to enforce the law believe that the difficulty ot ’ their task would be much leasened at the _ end of two or three successive dry years. All the arguments for the drys are being forcefully set _ forth at Sunday meetings and as soon as the national and State campaign is disposed of the local option campaign will grow hotter. The wets, like Brer Fox, lie low, but they fight hard, as men with muterial interests _ at stake, or as enthusiasts with a theory of individuai liberty tol enforee. Government May Do:ort Hindus Now in British Columbia. Outside liquor dealers send in strong drink by express, but the police know just the extent of this trade, or think they do, and an unlicensed carrier of strong drink is soon detected and punâ€" ished. ‘There is a very Jarge trade in package liquor in Worcester. quantities of beer to depots at Woonâ€" socket, R. I., and Putnam, Conn., and to express it hence to customers in Worâ€" cester. It is currently believed that the local brewers have bought into an express company for the special purpose of using it, not exactly in the evasion of law, but in the promotion of local business. Under the law the local brewers cannot sell their own product in Worcester, They are believed, however, to send large In one suspected place the police, hayâ€" ing noticed a seuttle hole about 14 inches square over _ the bar, concealed themâ€" selves in the loft at 3 a. m. and astonishâ€" ed the unsuspecting barkeeper by dropâ€" ping almost on his head as he was in the act of quenching an early customer‘s thirst. One soft drink saloon kept beside the whiskey pitcher under the counter a large vessel containing a corrosive acid, and the two were poured together at the approach of the police, No officer, howâ€" ever zealous, would be tempted to make a simple mouth analysis of any such mixture. «Ave in the present wisely.â€"Longfel W s Another trick involves the keeping of a pitcher of whiskey and a large tank of water just beneath the counter and side by side, If you are known to the man on the door you can have a drink of very bad whiskey, poured from the pitâ€" cher, and if the police appear the conâ€" tents of the pitcher are poured into ten gallons of water, with the result that analysis would show a mixture with less than the tolerate percentage of alcohol. _ There are a few tavorite methods of evading the law, ‘Iwenty or thirty of the old saloons are still kept open, most of them for the sale ot soft drinks. In some of these places the "hip tavern" is the thing. A man is maintained upon the floor who is ready to take from his hip pocket a flask and sell a drink to any trusted custoimer. were ten M“‘O" were en @IIOBIE 201 ""C °0 3 The arrests for disorderly conduct, minâ€" or assaults and4 like offences attendant upon drunkepnes have fallen off about twoâ€"thirds 3 2e alte awoâ€"Lmrdas Few drunken men are seen in public ecnveyances, and those mostly are perâ€" sons returning from . neighboring wet towns, The town is Lmehr after 11 r. m. than it used to be, and by day it is certainly a well ordered community® The drys bave numberless stories to tell of individual cases in which homes have been made happier by the change. (ne of the arguments most persistentâ€" 1y urged against local prohibition in the campaign of last year was the supâ€" posed impessibility of enforcing such a law in a town of 140,000 inhabitants and the consequent injury to the generâ€" al respect for law, Toward the end of gix months that seems a debatable quesâ€" tion. UIUT Since May 1 there have been 150 arâ€" rests for violation of the local prohibiâ€" tion law and 125 convictions. The fine for the first offence is $50; for the secâ€" ond from $50 to $160 and from one to three months imprisonment; for subseâ€" quent offerces, as high as $500 fine and six months imprisonment. No man has been arrested for a third offence; there have been a few second arrests, and all sich cases have been appealed to the Superior Court. 4 0 d e gosaies® actpnkien t Gnf dnini Under the law the police have access to the local records _ of the sicensed carriers of etrong drink, that is _ the express companies, and they make freâ€" quent visits to all express offices and freight depots to learn just who is reâ€" cciving liquor in quantity, ‘They raid any house known to be receiving susâ€" piciously large quantities of liquor. DIIP’IIUI 2C You may argue that an average of one arrest a day for violation of a law is evidence that the enforcement of the law is successful or is not successful accordâ€" ing to your way of looking at it, but the fact that 125 out of 150 violators were punished looks as if the authorities were in earnest about it. A lieutenant and eight patrolmen out of a force aggregating 180 men give their whole time to the business of enforcing the liquor Jaw, The man of the liquor squad do not act as agents . provoca~ teurs, do not visit suspected places in plain clothes, buy eontraband liquor and arrest the seller. ‘They keep a pretty close watch on all places and try to get in just at the moment when a sale is made. The Song of tfie BACK TO INDIA. profess to believe that : in packages is not largâ€" a year ago, but this is a of the matter, "Those Elephant. & 9‘*? 5“!";;'*‘ Nh. offencs. session, and he pleaded ignorance of the law. He was fined $10 and $8 costs o1 a month in jail. As Karn handed ove: the money he said he called it obbery The Magistrate said sharply, * Don‘t you say anything of that kind here. I have power to finc you $50 for this offence, and if you make use of such language in this court I shall inflict a fine of #59 and send you for six months to jail." _ Mr. Jicking, game warden, said he had information that Karn had been repeatedly warned, and, in spite of all such wuiil'-. he kept on his illegal work. _ Mr. Jicking reported that the skins being taken during the close scaâ€" , ; _6 ‘"e Close season. George Fox had one skin, and he was fined _ %5 ond costs. Walter Appleton was found in possession of a carcass, and he alâ€" leged that his dog had killed the rat under the _ sidewalk. , There _ were, however, no marks upon the _ carcass to corroborate this story, and he was also fined $5 and costs, D'lvu Karn had eight skins in his posâ€" Woodstock despateh: Three Beach ville men were lined up before Mag istrate Ball at the Police Court this morning, charged with being in unâ€" lawful] possession _ of â€" muskrat â€" skins during the close season,. George Fox had one skin, and he was fined %5 maul soouks. MWathoe Aucdsr ol . ms gun was accidentally discharged the trigger eatching in some shrubbers The buckshot entered his right leg, as most severing it at the knee. There was no doctor nearer than thiâ€" city, and after a record drive in a car riage of six miles the wounded man reached | the â€" offica of Dr. George M Reese, only half a nlock from his own hotel, in (35 minutes, but he was so weak from loss of blood and shock that he died. Mahanoy City, Pa., Nov. 30.â€"Stoo ing down to pick up an apple in t orchard of a farmer in Locust \Vall this morning, while out hunting rabbit cost Frank Patrowski, 45 years old. wellâ€"toâ€"do hotelman of this city, h life, Khe suffers excruciatingly and ho covery is doubtful. _ Mer husband fighting the flames burned one oi hands so l'lufly that it will be crip; STOOPS FOR APPLE. Instantly there was an explosion the woman was enveloped in 1i Her husband made heroic efforts \ tinguish the flames, and succeeded after all her clothing was burned . permanent]y Wellâ€"Known Landlord Suffers Peâ€" iA culiar Fatal Mishap. Marrisburg, Pa., Nov. 30.â€"Mrs, Cha Kether, residing a mile northwest o here, met with a horrible and probab! fatal burning accident last evenin; While seated at a table upon wai stood a lighted lamp the table in som manner was tilted and the lamp throw into the woman‘s lap, Belimore said he paid $60 _ for th ring, but brought snit for $100, clain ing he was entitled to its present valw Miss Whitely said she "obtained mon« m the ring," the inference being th she viâ€"ited a pawnbroker, and this w not denied. Decision was reserved. The Georgic Collided W ith and Sinks Unknown Vessel In a Heavy Fog Off Sandy Hook A Windsor despatech: In the divisio court this afternoon Fred Bellmore, dru clerk, was plaintiff in an action againâ€" Miss Lmey Whitely, prominent in socis circles in Walkerville, for the return « a diamond ring or its value, which, 1 was alleged, he gave defendant in tok« of their engagement. Miss Whitely dos ied that there was any engagement. Woman Seated at the Table Terribly and Fatally Burned. ‘This Morning. Believed That All the Passengers Windsor Prug Clerk Asks Court For Sparkler or Present Value. New â€" York, Nov. 30.â€"An â€" unknown«» steamer, believed to be the Finance, of the Panama Railroad & Steamship Co., was sunk in a eollision with the White Star steamer Georgic, in the main ship channel off the end of Sandy Mook this morning. The Georgie was only slightly damaged. ‘The collision took place in a thick fog. The Georgic anchored near the sunken steamer, and it is believed that the passengers and crew of the un known vessel were taken on board the White Star boat. The Bandy Hook crew of life savers were ofi to the sunken steamer, and a tug used by the harbor supervisors . was also â€" seen about t wreck. NR 1 3 5 goh‘ ba y His â€"gun o was LAMP FEXPLODED. SUES FOR RING. Beachvilie Men W Woodstock. KILLED musKraAt RUN DOWN. 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