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Liquor—See. LIQUOR-TRAFFIC The following chart shows the cost of intoxicating liquors consumed in the United States for twenty years, and the relative yearly increase. The chart is from the American Prohibition Year-*book: 1888                      $  818,087,725 ================== 1889                         840,880,849 ==================== 1890                         902,645,867 ====================== 1891                         979,582,803 ======================== 1892                       1,014,894,364 ========================= 1893                       1,079,483,172 =========================== 1894                       1,024,621,491 ========================= 1895                         970,947,333 ====================== 1896                         962,094,975 ====================== 1897                         993,203,557 ======================== 1898                       1,041,562,868 ========================= 1899                       1,070,689,978 =========================== 1900                       1,172,226,614 ============================= 1901                       1,219,997,990 =============================== 1902                       1,347,783,644 ================================= 1903                       1,410,610,218 ================================== 1904                       1,463,678,530 ==================================== 1905                       1,465,901,664 ==================================== 1906                       1,608,021,917 ===================================== 1907                       1,757,307,854 ======================================== 1908                       1,675,838,197 =======================================  (1858)   LIQUOR REVENUE REFUSED   What a rebuke to this nation receiving millions of dollars annually from its revenue on liquors, is conveyed by the Queen of Madagascar when she says, "I can not consent, as your queen, to take a single penny of revenue from that which destroys the souls and bodies of my subjects."—Congregationalist.

(1857)

LISTENING FOR SIGNALS

A news item, referring to the wreck of the Republic, and the hearing of the first wireless news of the disaster by the operator at the station on Nantucket Island, says:

Imagine a lonely island in the middle of winter, thereon a lonely Marconi station, therein a lonely Marconi operator, with his telephones glued to his head watching the break of day, thinking of his past and future, listening for any sign of life in his telephones. Imagine that man suddenly startled with a faint, very faint, call from a ship using the recognized distress signal, giving her position and calling for help. Slowly, all too slowly, came the cry for urgent aid, each call seemingly taking an hour's valuable time, yet in truth but a fraction of a second. Will he never sign? Who can it be? At last came the recognized code letters of the White Star Republic, and again the call for aid. With this information Operator Irwin, of the Marconi force at the station here, who was on duty at the time, immediately got the wires hot, knowing the revenue cutter Acushnet to be lying at Wood's Hole, and within one minute the captain was informed that his calls had been heard and aid was being rushed to him.

The soul attent to hear the world's signals that call for help should be ready to serve and save the lost and needy.

(1859)

LITERALISM

"One of the stories of the 'road' that Mr. Joseph Jefferson delighted to tell grew out of an experience in an Indiana town, where he was presenting 'Rip Van Winkle,' many years ago.

"In the hotel where he stopt was an Irishman who was employed as a porter, but from the serious interest he took in the house he might have been clerk and proprietor rolled into one.