possibilities in the future from a better knowledge and control of these cases.

Some general idea of the details of treatment will be of interest.

In a hospital conducted on scientific, commonsense principles the patients are received for periods of not less than three or six months. He signs a commitment paper and is examined by the physician, and all the facts of his present and past condition noted. If intoxicated he is placed in charge of a nurse, and baths and remedies given for his special condition. If sober, he is given a pleasant room and placed upon a regular diet, exact conditions of living, and required to take such medicines, baths, exercise, and general treatment as may be needed in his case. Mental occupation, amusement, change of thought and life in every particular are sought for. He is treated as one who has a profound disease of the brain and nervous system requiring rest, care, and removal from every source of irritation and excitement. The question of responsibility to aid the efforts of the hospital in his behalf is urged as a symptom of his capacity or incapacity to recover.

The asylum is a quarantine where he can recover, and his liberty or restraint is governed by his condition. Wherever congenial work can be added to the amusement it is done as a medicinal aid. Every condition of life is controlled and regulated, and every surrounding arranged to aid recovery. Daily rides, walks, Turkish baths, and exact methodical living most natur

ally result in a degree of strength and vigor that is very promising for the future. The use of alcohol is abandoned from the start, and its danger is taught in every way. The return of the drink paroxysm is anticipated and prevented by medicines and special care, and the patient is thus enabled to outgrow the drink craze and recover a degree of health,which will give strength to abstain in the future.

A period of six or twelve months in an asylum will remove the states of delirium which have kept up the use of alcohol, and reveal an exhausted brain and nerve soil that will not tol erate alcohol in any form after. In other cases this drink-exhaustion dies out after long years of abstinence; and should the patient relapse late in life, death follows soon after.

The asylum treatment, like quarantine for contagious disease, isolates the victim from all exciting and predisposing causes and thus places him in the best possible condition for returning health.

Some general conclusions, supported by the latest teachings of science and experience, may be stated:

1. Inebriate hospitals must take the place of jails and station-houses. Such places are dangerous in their mental and physical surroundings by intensifying the degeneration and removing the patient beyond hope of recovery. They are in many cases literal training-stations for mustering in armies of chronic maniacs that never

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desert or leave the ranks until crushed out forever.

2. Inebriate hospitals should receive the incurable inebriates and make them self-supporting, and build them up physically and mentally. They would relieve the tax-payer and relieve soceity of untold burdens of sorrow and misery.

3. Inebriate hospitals should receive the recent cases and place them in the highest conditions of enforced health and vigor, and thus return a large number to health and sobriety.

4. Inebriate hospitals can and should be self-supporting when once established. They should be managed on scientific business principles, like military training-schools.

5. Inebriate hospitals should be built from money raised by taxes on the sale of spirits, on the principle that every buisness should be obliged to provide for the accidents which grow out of it.

6. These are the realities which every inebriate hospital is approaching and which all experience points out as practical and literal in the near future. Inebriate hospitals and their work are the great new lands which only a few settlers have reached. They are calling to us to come up and occupy, and thus help the race on in the great march from the lower to the higher.

MEASURES TAKEN TO SUPPRESS BOOTLEGGING AMONG THE INDIANS.

Since colonial days intoxicating liquors have been a curse to the Indian-so much of a curse that it renders him incapable of taking care of himself or his property. Never before has the government been quite as active in its efforts to break up bootlegging among the Indians as at the present time. In the last three years 508,880 pints of alcoholic liquor have been confiscated and destroyed; 5,511 arrests have been made and the amount of fines assessed against convicted offenders about equals the annual appropriation of congress made for the purpose of breaking up the traffic. In addition to enforcement of the criminal laws the Indian bureau made a personal appeal to all its employes and to prominent persons in local communities, resulting in a most successful pledge signing campaign. The evils of drink are also being vividly pictured in the schools. The Indian is by no means a stupid fellow and many of them, although not signing the pledge, are in their own way protecting themselves when under the influence of liquor. In Miami, Fla. (among other things a trading post for the Seminoles), the story is current that these Indians always paddle down the Miami river in pairs;

that they do their trading, deposit their surplus cash with a certain merchant of tried, honesty and then go off for a debauch, one on the first day and the other the next, the sober fellow refraining from even a drop of "fire-water" until his brother has finished his orgie. When both have had their day, under the guidance and protection of a sober mate, they reclaim their funds from their merchant depositary and paddle away to their homes in the Everglades.

DRINK IN WAR TIMES.

It may be true, as some people assert, that liquor will inspire courage and that great battles have been won on account of a stimulant. But it is also true that great disasters and loss of life have occurred because a little drink blinded the man at the helm to his danger.

If one could be sure that an intoxicating liquor would create a Napoleon or George Washington the world would probably approve of its use. Unfortunately it dulls the intellect of some men and aggravates the evil within them in the same proportion as it stimulates quick thought and action in others, so that the one safe course seems to be to prohibit its use entirely.

We do not like assertion that "Dutch courage," or courage supplied by intoxicating liquors, is an exploded superstition. An instance is that of a British, who made a wonderful escape through "no man's land," and says that one thing that