1. What inconvenience did the children of Israel suffer soon after they crossed the Red Sea?
“And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah, for they were bitter; therefore the name of it was called Marah.” Ex. 15: 23.
2. How did they act?
“And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?” Verse 24.
3. How did the Lord give them relief?
“And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord showed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet; there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them.” Verse 25.
4. What promise did the Lord then give the people?
“And said, If thou wilt diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, and wilt do that which is right in his sight, and wilt give ear to his commandments, and keep all his statutes, I will put none of these diseases upon thee, which I have brought upon the Egyptians; for I am the Lord that healeth thee.” Verse 26.
5. When they came to the wilderness of Sin, what wicked charge did they bring against Moses and Aaron?
“And they took their journey from Elim, and all the congregation of the children of Israel came unto the wilderness of Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on the fifteenth day of the second month after their departing out of the land of Egypt. And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness; and the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the hand of the Lord in the land of Egypt, when we sat by the flesh-pots, and when we did eat bread to the full; for ye have brought us forth into this wilderness, to kill this whole assembly with hunger.” Ex. 16:1-3.
6. What did the Lord say he would do to satisfy their hunger?
“Then said the Lord unto Moses, Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for you; and the people shall go out and gather a certain rate every day, that107I may prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.” Verse 4.
7. What test did he say this would be for them?—Ib.
8. When were they told that they should receive food?
“And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that the Lord hath brought you out from the land of Egypt; and in the morning, then ye shall see the glory of the Lord; for that he heareth your murmurings against the Lord; and what are we, that ye murmur against us? And Moses said, This shall be, when the Lord shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the Lord heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him; and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord.” “I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel; speak unto them, saying, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the morning ye shall be filled with bread; and ye shall know that I am the Lord your God.” Verses 6-8, 12.
9. What kind of flesh did they have at even?
“And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp; and in the morning the dew lay round about the host.” Verse 13.
10. In the morning when the dew was gone what did they find?
“And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small as the hoar frost on the ground. And when the children of Israel saw it, they said one to another, It is manna; for they wist not what it was. And Moses said unto them, This is the bread which the Lord hath given you to eat.” Verses 14, 15.
11. Describe the manna.
“And the manna was as coriander seed, and the color thereof as the color of bdellium.” Num. 11:7.
12. How did they prepare it, and how did it taste?
“And the people went about, and gathered it, and ground it in mills, or beat it in a mortar, and baked it in pans, and made cakes of it; and the taste of it was as the taste of fresh oil.” Verse 8.
13. How much were they to gather for each person?
“This is the thing which the Lord hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating, an omer for every man, according to the number of your persons; take ye every man for them which are in his tents.” Ex. 16:16.
14. How was it if some gathered too much, or not enough?
“And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. And when they did mete it with an omer, he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little had no lack; they gathered every man according to his eating.” Verses 17, 18.
15. What practical lesson does the apostle Paul draw from this?
“For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened; but by an equality, that now at this time your abundance may be a supply for their want, that their abundance also may be a supply for your want; that there may be equality; as it is written, He that had gathered much had nothing over; and he that had gathered little had no lack.” 2 Cor. 8:13-15.
16. What took place if they tried to keep the manna till the next day?
“And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning. Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank; and Moses was wroth with them.” Ex. 16:19, 20.
17. On the sixth day what did they do?
“And it came to pass, that on the sixth day they gathered twice as much bread, two omers for one man; and all the rulers of the congregation came and told Moses.” Verse 22.
18. What instruction had they received on this point?
“And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.” Verse 5.
19. What did Moses say to them on that day?
“And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, to-morrow is the rest of the holy Sabbath unto the Lord; bake that which ye will bake to-day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.” Verse 23.
20. Did any manna fall on the Sabbath?
“Six days ye shall gather it; but on the seventh day, which is the Sabbath, in it there shall be none.” Verse 26.
21. How were they provided with food on that day?
“And they laid it up till the morning, as Moses bade; and it did not stink, neither was there any worm therein.” “See, for that the Lord hath given you the Sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.” Verses 23, 24, 29.
22. What did some of the people do on the seventh day?
“And it came to pass, that there went out some of the people on the seventh day for to gather, and they found none.” Verse 27.
23. What reproof did the Lord give them?
“And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?” Verse 28.
24. How long did the children of Israel eat the manna?
“And the children of Israel did eat manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.” Verse 35.
25. Show how they could not by any possibility have made a mistake in regard to the Sabbath in that time.
26. In giving the manna, what purpose did God effect besides supplying the children of Israel with food?
27. What does the psalmist say this manna was?
“And had rained down manna upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn of heaven. Man did eat angels’ food; he sent them meat to the full.” Ps. 78:24, 25.
28. Of what was it a type?
“I am that bread of life. Your fathers did eat manna in the wilderness, and are dead. This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die. I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if any man eat of this bread, he shall live forever; and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.” “This is that bread which came down from heaven; not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead; he that eateth of this bread shall live forever.” John 6:48-51, 58.
Catholic Membership and Clergy in the United States, 1889
THE Roman Catholic Directory for 1889, reports 8,157,676 members in the United States; counting, as we understand it, men, women, and children—that is, the entire Catholic population. There are reported 8,118 priests and 7,353 churches.
THE REAL OBJECT.
Many parents bring up their children with the idea that they are in the world primarily for enjoyment. The prevailing question to the children of this generation is, “Did you have a nice time?” rather than, “Were you a good girl, or a good boy?” The desire of the parents, if formulated, would be, “I want them to have a good time,” rather than, “I want them to be able to choose the right, the true, the best.” As fathers and mothers grow older they learn, by slow and painful experience, that this life is not all a “nice time,” and it would be a saving in many ways to their children to teach them this from their earliest years. Let them understand that God loves them, and is working for a lasting rather than for a present happiness for them; that when he denies a thing it is to give something better in its place, or some other time; and that to love and obey him brings its most substantial happiness. Children love to obey, and they love the one whom they are taught to obey. Obedience brings love, and love brings happiness.—Congregationalist.
CHRISTMAS OFFERINGS IN CALIFORNIA.
By John Norton Loughborough
THERE has been more or less inquiry relative to the Christmas offerings in the California Conference. The sums received from each church are given below. The total, $3,774.00, does not greatly exceed that of 1887, but it should be borne in mind that a good many of our people had made pledges to the foreign and home missions, due about New Year's time. This with the decline in business will account for the difference, more than any lack of interest in the object:—
Place
Amount
Place
Amount
Arroyo Grande
$ 13 25
Oakland
$916 59
Burr Valley
41 76
Placerville
23 00
Calistoga
33 76
Petaluma
61 46
Dow's Prairie
7 05
Reno
103 60
El Monte
20 05
Rocklin
7 50
Eureka
125 00
San Francisco
127 52
Fresno
148 00
Stockton
25 00
Ferndale
110 00
St. Helena
265 25
Guerneville
83 00
San Diego
127 35
Grangeville
129 10
Sacramento
39 88
Gold Hill
13 00
Santa Barbara
24 50
Goleta
10 00
Santa Rosa
43 16
Healdsburg
351 15
St. Clair
13 90
Laytonville
20 35
San Jose
43 50
Little River
24 80
Santa Ana
39 55
Lemoore
54 75
Selma
42 30
Los Angeles
100 00
Turlock
6 00
Napa
50 50
Vacaville
74 70
Norwalk
32 00
Woodland
160 65
Jewelry sold
156 15
Received from scattered brethren
105 92
J. N. LOUGHBOROUGH.
SKAGIT COUNTY, W. T.
By Isaac Morrison
I closed a series of meetings in the Ridgeway school district, January 26. Six adults there covenanted to keep the commandments of God and the faith of Jesus; also one person who lives in LaConner. A Sabbath school of twelve members was organized in the Ridgeway district. I preached one sermon in the Edison school-house where I held meetings last spring, and two more there took their stand to keep God’s truth.
God never repairs. Christ never patches. The gospel is not here to mend people. Regeneration is not a scheme of moral tinkering and ethical cobbling. What God does, he does new; new heavens, new earth, new body, new heart—“Behold, I make all things new.” In the gospel thus we move into a new world and under a new scheme. The creative days are back again. We step out of a regime of jails, hospitals, and reform shops. We get live effects direct from God. This is the gospel. The gospel is a permanent miracle. God at first hand—that is a miracle. The gospel thus does not classify with other schemes of amelioration. They are good, but this is not simply better, but different, distinct, and better because distinct; it works in a new way, and works another work. Compare the wrought chains riveted on the demoniac, and the divine word working a new creation in the demoniac. It is all there. It is like the difference between the impotent Persian lashing the turbulent sea with chains, and the gracious Lord saying to the troubled sea, “Peace, be still.”—Selected.
Little Sunshine.
By Sydney Dayre
“Bring me the tray, Ruthie,” called Aunt Susan, in a sharp voice.
She did not mean to be sharp, but she was always very busy and in a great hurry. She thought, if she ever thought about it at all, that she had no time to speak softly.
Perhaps if she had tried she would have found that it takes no more time to speak softly than to speak sharply.
Ruthie got the little tray, put upon it the cup and saucer and plate and other things, and held it while Aunt Susan poured some coffee into the cup and put some of whatever there was for breakfast on the tray. Then the little girl started with slow and careful steps toward her mother’s door, which Aunt Susan held open for her.
With eyes fixed on the coffee, and lips pressed together in her fear of spilling it, Ruthie at length reached the stand at mamma’s side, and gave a merry little laugh as she set the tray upon it and held up her face for a kiss.
“See, mamma, a fresh egg on toast. I found the egg yesterday and didn’t tell, so it would be a surprise.”
“It looks nice, dearie. And—knife, fork, spoon, salt—you never forgot anything, and you’re such a little dot of a thing. Before you brought my breakfast something was sure to be forgotten.”
“I’m not so very little,” said Ruthie, drawing herself up. “Only a big girl could carry your whole breakfast, mamma. Now I must go out and find a flower for you.”
Flowers were scarce in the weedy, neglected yard, but she could almost always find buttercups or daisies or clover blossoms by going into the meadow beyond. They were all sweet to her, and there was happiness for the bright-faced, cheery-natured child in every breath of the soft air and every touch of the summer wind. Every bird-note brought its own delight, and the humble flowers smiled up at her, and the sunshine beamed over all, until there seemed no room for anything but joy. Holding up her little face to its rays, Ruthie danced over the clover blossoms, with a song as gay as that of any bird.
Suddenly she stopped and a shadow fell over her face.
“Mamma never has a speck of sunshine. The sun doesn’t shine into her room a minute all day, for I watched for it that day I hurt my foot and had to be still. I wonder why it doesn’t? It comes into the kitchen windows. It almost gets to mamma’s window and then it stops awhile on the porch floor, and then goes away again. I wish it would go in and shine on mamma.”
Ruthie held up her hands in the streaming sunlight.
“Oh, if I could only carry home a whole handful!” She closed her hands over the rays and walked into the shade of a tree, where she opened them again with a shake of her head.
“No, the shine all goes away.”
With very painstaking little fingers she arranged the prettiest flowers she could find into a bouquet, taking care that there should be plenty of the yellow buttercups and a stray dandelion or two which seemed to have forgotten that all their brothers had floated away on the wind. They were such a bright gold, so exactly the color of the sun, that she felt sure that they must hold his light. She held the bunch far above her head in the sunlight as she ran home.
“Now, you beautiful flowers,” she said, bringing them down for a look as she came nearer the door, “do hold on to the sunshine and carry just a little bit to mamma. I can’t—it slips right out of my hand. But you live in it all the time, and you might, I’m sure.”
With another bound or two she was by her mother’s side.
“Oh, what a beautiful bunch you have brought me to-day, dear,” said mamma.
“But you haven’t done what I told you, you naughty little flowers,” said Ruthie, half smiling, half pitifully.
“Done what?” asked mamma.
“I told them to bring in some sunshine for you. O mamma,” said Ruthie, throwing her arms around her with tears in her eyes, “you have to lie here all the time, and the sunshine never comes near you.”
“Why, my bird, I can look out and see the sunshine. And I can see the trees and the grass and I can hear the birds sing.”
“Yes, but the sun doesn’t shine on you. You can’t go out into it and laugh and dance in it as I can. I’ve been trying my best to bring you some, but”—she laughed at her odd little fancy—“I can’t hold it in my hands, and the flowers don’t hold it, either. So you can’t have any sunshine, poor mamma.”
Mamma took the little face between both her hands and looked into the sweet blue eyes.
“I can’t have any sunshine?” she said. “Why, my blessing, you are my sunshine. My room is full of it whenever you come near me. There is sunshine for me in every look of your bright eyes and in every wave of your shining hair. And you bring it to me in everything you do for me, in every sound of your voice. Why, your own little heart is full of sunshine, all running over in brightness and sweetness for mamma. Every time you come near me it is like the sun breaking out of a cloud.”
Ruthie looked into mamma’s face and knew she meant every word. And as she afterwards thought them over, how earnestly she resolved more and more to be sunshine for mamma.
Dear little children, are you sunshine for anyone? If anyone should ever say such loving words of you, would they be true?
God has given you a great many sweet and pleasant things to help you make yourselves a blessing to those about you. Your faces may bring bright smiles, your voices loving tones, and your active little hands may do kindly deeds without number.
If you have already been helpful to someone, try how much cheeriness and willingness you can put into the duties of this New Year. If you have not, look about you to see if there is not someone who might be happier for your tender cares. Try if you cannot make some shadowed life brighter, and be sure, even if no one says it in so many words, that you are very surely sunshine to somebody.—Sydney Dayre, in The Churchman.
FRIGHTENING CHILDREN.
By Kit Clover
THE first rule that the Clover family made regarding the government of children, was that a child should never be frightened unnecessarily, and once adopted, it has been easily kept. Birdie, the eldest baby, amused us when at about three years of age she would spread the fingers of one chubby hand before her closed eyes whenever she wished to go into a dark room. “Why do you do that, Birdie?” I asked her one night, and looking up shyly, she said: “So I can not see ’e’ dark.” But, although she did not like to “see” it, yet she had no fear of darkness.
If the little ones were restless and wide-awake, they were never told to “cover up and keep still, else the rats would catch them.”
We even speak gently of rats at our house, lest the smaller ones learn to fear them. Not that they do not hear the marauders roundly denounced for digging holes in the squashes or nibbling the apples, but lest the little ones may feel timid about going down cellar, they are never spoken of as a thing to fear.
Frightening children as a means to secure obedience is not the only evil ruled out of our code. Frightening them regarding anything, unless absolutely necessary, was prohibited. I was an agile, venturesome child myself, once on a time, and I remember vividly the pleasure it was to me to walk a narrow joist, “shin” a tall tree, or run along a high ridge-pole, and I always allowed my children all the liberty possible without endangering life or limb. It certainly gives a child confidence, makes him self-helping and self-entertaining; besides, in my own mind, I always pity the child who is “nagged” about with “Here, you must not climb up there, you’ll fall;” or “No, I will not allow you to skate, you might fall and get hurt;” or “You shall not have a sled; I read of a boy who had his leg broken while coasting.” It is these very children who after an unhappy, discontented childhood, grow up into the clumsy men, who fill the daily papers with accounts of accidents; and awkward, timid women. I may have been helped to my decision109that no child under my care should ever be frightened, by my own experience. An older sister, wishing to guard against any future possibility of my falling down the cellar stairs, took me part way down, and pointing to two small chinks in the wall, in a dark corner, cried: “See the big bear’s eyes glaring at you. Run, quick, before he eats you.” Well, I did run, and from that day to this I cannot walk out of a dark room, or come up out of a cellar if it is dark, without a feeling of senseless fright that is almost unbearable.
Of all the mistakes made in the care of children, there is to my mind nothing quite as bad as frightening them.—Kit Clover, in Home Journal.
'TIS BETTER.
By Lillie Sheldon
Better to con life's lessons all
Than to frown at the harder places,
Better to climb, tho' we sometimes fall
And move with indifferent paces,
Than to sit discouraged, and idly complain,
Counting life but a failure and fetter,—
For God has a plan for every man
That no wisdom of earth could better.
Better than wait for a cloudless day
Is to catch the light as it's given;
Better to seize the joys as they stray
Than wait for the bliss of Heaven.
Better a song tho' you sing it yourself
With a voice which no music discloses,
Than to fill the years with sighs and tears,
Waiting for “hot-house roses.”
Better to do a lowly deed
Than wait for a grand endeavor;
Small chances come where we may succeed,
But the great may slight us ever.
Better than wait to lead a crusade,
Drop daily our lump of leaven,—
If we do our best we may leave the rest
With the Ruler of Earth and Heaven.
—Lillie Sheldon, in Woman's Work.
PHOTOGRAPHING BULLETS.
THE interesting process of photographing rifle bullets in motion, by means of the electric light, presents some remarkable phenomena, judging from the experiments made by Mach, the Austrian chemist. In this operation his plan is to illume the bullet by letting it break an electric current formed; but the velocity of the bullet must exceed that of sound, in order that the condition of the air before and behind the projectile can be shown. After various experiments he succeeded in his efforts to photograph projectiles fired by Wernal and Jurde guns, having respectively an initial velocity of 438 and 520 meters per second. The photographs obtained in this manner showed the air formation in front of the bullet having the form of an hyperbola, while behind it almost a vacuum was formed, in which, when the initial velocity was very great, there were some curious spiral motions. From the description given, there appeared from these photographs to be a great similarity between the motion of a body through the water and that of a projectile through the air.—Pittsburg Dispatch.
Autostereotypic Printing: A New Swiss Reproduction Process
A New process of so-called autostereotypic printing, especially adapted for the reproduction of books and engravings, has lately been invented in Switzerland, and is already used with advantage in a large printing office at Zurich. The process will cheapen the reprinting of the works of foreign authors, since the typesetting and copying of engravings are saved, and an accurate stereotype plate is obtained directly from the original. It is a transfer process, in which a blank, composed of plaster of paris, silicate of potash or soda, and phosphate of lime is employed. The print to be copied is moistened in a solution of phosphate of soda in distilled water, alcohol and acetic ether, and then transferred in the usual way on the plaster of paris plate, previously coated with a film of gelatine containing citrate of iron and ammonia. After the transfer (all the process thus far having been conducted in a dark room), the plate is dried and exposed to direct sunlight for fifteen minutes. When taken out, the place acted upon by the light will be found to be quite hard, while at the other places the plaster will be soft, and will fall off as fine powder as deep as the solution shall have penetrated, if brushed with a hard brush. The plate will then be ready to be stereotyped.—Christian at Work.
Health and Temperance
“IT'S NOTHING TO ME.”
“It's nothing to me,” the mother said,
“I have no fears that my boy will tread
The downward path of sin and shame,
And crush my heart and darken his name.”
It was something to her when her only son
From the path of right was early won,
And madly cast in the flowing bowl
A ruined body and shipwrecked soul.
“It's nothing to me,” the young man cried;
In his eyes was a flash of scorn and pride—
“I heed not the dreadful things you tell;
I can rule myself, I know, full well.”
'Twas something to him, when in prison he lay
The victim of drink—life ebbing away—
As he thought of the wretched child and wife,
And the mournful wreck of his wasted life.
“It's nothing to me,” the voter said,
“The party's loss is my greatest dread.”
Then he gave his vote for the liquor trade,
Though hearts were crushed and drunkards made.
It was something to him in after life,
When his daughter became a drunkard's wife,
And her hungry children cried for bread,
And trembled to hear their father's tread.
—Selected.
OVER-EATING
It is a decree that while civilized man cannot live without dining, he might live a great deal longer without so much dining, or rather without dining so extensively. Sir Henry Thompson says that he has been compelled by facts to think that more mischief in the form of disease has accrued to civilized man from erroneous habits in eating, than from the use of alcoholic drink. He also declared himself in doubt whether improper and inordinate eating were not as great a moral evil as inordinate drinking. Many of our best physicians say that the habit of over-eating is at the bottom of most troublesome diseases. Doubtless this habit is most often laid in childhood. How many mothers feed their babies as often as they cry, taking it for granted in the most imbecile manner that the baby cries for food, when more often the helpless little victim cries because it already has had too much food. When the stomach once becomes accustomed to being crowded with food, if the supply is cut short there is at first a gnawing sensation that is frequently mistaken for hunger. Persevere a little longer in your abstinence, and you will find yourself benefited by it.—Hall's Journal of Health.
Home Remedies for Earache and Toothache
EARACHE is usually caused by a sudden cold. Steam the head over hot herbs, bathe the feet in hot water, and put into the ear cotton-wool dipped into camphor and sweet-oil. This treatment is often excellent for faceache and toothache. The latter is frequently entirely relieved by placing the cotton soaked with camphor in the ear on the side where the painful tooth is. It is a good plan also to tie a handkerchief over the ear, for earache, or toothache, or faceache.—Selected.
Loosening Stubborn Fruit Jar Lids
It is not always easy to start a fruit jar cover. Instead of wrenching your hands and bringing on blisters, simply invert the jar and place the top in hot water for a minute. Then try it and you will find it turns quite easily.
ELEANOR KIRK ON UNHEALTHFUL DRESS.
By Eleanor Kirk
“Madam, I cannot take your case,” said a distinguished medical practitioner, the other day, to a fashionable invalid, after a careful diagnosis.
“But why not take my case?” the lady asked in some surprise.
“Because I have had my attendant weigh your garments while I was making the examination,” was the frank and most unusual response, “and I find that your skirts weigh fifteen pounds. You have brought on the disease from which you suffer by this manner of dressing, and I do not care to risk my reputation as a physician by treating a patient who will, in all probability, continue to carry such loads.”
“This is the first time I ever knew a physician to tell a patient what she should wear,” said the visitor with heightened color. “How many pounds is it lawful to carry, if you please?”
“You cannot carry over three pounds with safety; and even such a weight should be suspended from the shoulders.”
“How long shall I be obliged to limit the weight of my clothes?”
“As long as you live, madam, for you have so outraged every delicate and sensitive internal organ, so stretched the ligaments which would have been faithful had you treated them well, that you can never exceed this weight with safety.”
“Do you think you can cure me if I obey you?” was the next question.
“I can prevent the development of a tumor, which is now imminent, but all the medical science in creation cannot make you strong. But I can help you to help yourself to more health and comfort than you have known for many a year.”
Now I heard this conversation, and it delighted my heart; and ever since I have been asking, Why do not physicians more generally tell the whole truth in such cases? They know the effect of tight lacing, and the drag of heavy skirts upon the hips and the spine. They know the cause of the frightful increase of ovarian tumors among American women. Why will they not all come to the rescue, like the grand gentleman above mentioned. There are some time-servers and fortune-hunters, who will not tell the truth, because of the fear of losing moneyed patients; and doubtless there are a few practitioners, in good standing, who delight in lapped ribs and protruding and diseased organs, because of filthy lucre. But the majority of our doctors are honest, humane men and women, who love the truth. Sons and daughters of Esculapius, please step to the front, and let us have “the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help you.”—Woman’s Work.
Drink Traffic Blamed for Most New York Arrests
THE official report of the New York Police Department for the year 1887 furnishes some interesting and suggestive statistics. Of the 81,176 arrests made during the year, 28,337 were for drunkenness, 4,708 for violation of the excise laws, and 25,638 for crimes attributable to the use of intoxicants. This makes a total of 58,673 arrests, or about two-thirds of the whole due to the drink traffic.—N. Y. Observer.