human seem all the arguments for the licensing of saloons! The pitiable victims of the saloon-keeper would gladly escape his snare, but usually they can not. The insidious liquid has robbed them of their will-*power. It has planted in their blood a horrible desire which nothing but more alcohol can satisfy.
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SAFETY FROM WATER-BROOKS
T. DeWitt Talmage notes some interesting facts about deer and water-brooks.
But there are two facts to which I want to
call your attention. The first is that water-brooks
not only saved the hunted deer by
throwing the dogs off the trail, but also by
making it possible for the deer to run in
a straight line away from the dogs. I was
very much surprized to find out that these
water-brooks are to the deer what the compass
is to a hunter in the woods—it keeps
the deer from traveling in a circle.
The pursued deer, unless drawn by the scent of water, always runs in a circle. No sooner has a deer been shot at and the dogs been turned loose, than at once the deer, unless he has the guiding scent of water, seems to lose his reasoning faculties. He will run like the wind. He will run on and on—five, ten, fifteen or even twenty miles; but unless he can scent the water-brooks from afar, he will always travel in a circle and come back to the very place where the hunter first shot at him—back to the place where he will be shot at again. This circling flight of the deer is universally recognized. Some of the different State Legislatures have enacted game laws, which make it a felony for any man to hunt the deer by the means of hounds. Why? If they did not make such a law, the deer of those States would soon be exterminated. The circling flight of the deer makes it a very simple matter for a few hunters to stand in one place and shoot at the running game again and again, until the deer have been entirely slaughtered. (Text.)
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SAFETY IN HIGH LEVEL
You are familiar with the sight of the
water-towers on the hills over many of our
towns. Some one might say, "What is the
use of the water-tower? Why should I be
taxed to keep the level of the water above
my own house? I have my private well and
my excellent cistern. These are good enough
for me." But no citizen to-day would dream
of saying this word. Every one knows that
as the level is high in the water-tower, the
safety, comfort, and health of the whole city
are secured. The height of the level in
the tower means that all alike can have the
pure water. The height of the level means,
when a conflagration arises, that the engines
can put out the fire. So with the true thought
of the Church. The true church is the
water-tower of the city. Its life is for all.
As the level is high, so the public safety, the
public morals, the political life of the city
is raised. When the level is high no real
danger can come to the city. All alike, rich
and poor, are fed and sustained, when the
level of genuine religion rises high in the
tower.—Charles F. Dale.
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Safety More Than Economy—See Affluence, The Principles of. Safety, So-called—See Death, Christian Attitude Toward. SAFETY VALVES It is difficult to realize that only the other day an effort was made in Paris to replace the old magneto signaling system, with its little crank at the right of the telephone which has not been seen in large cities in this country for many years, by the much more convenient automatic signaling system. But the Paris correspondent of the New York Times says that such was the case. And, more curious still, the effort to introduce this improvement met with disfavor! The correspondent explains: "Hitherto excitable Frenchmen whiled away the time while awaiting 'Central' to answer, by grinding furiously at the crank bell-call. The new system denied them this form of relief. The result was that their pent-up feelings found outlet in imprecations and wild gesticulations. In many cases the telephones were damaged by poundings and shakings and had to be removed. It is said that the French Minister of Telephones was forced to admit that the imported system was a complete failure. 'The new system may be good enough for the highly-trained Americans,' he is quoted as saying, 'but I am convinced that my excitable countrymen need the safety-valve of the old-fashioned bell.'"—The Western Electrician.
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Sagacity—See Retreat Discouraged.
Sagacity in Evil—See Impudence, Brazen.
