“Drop those spoons, you scoundrel, and leave the house; leave it instantly!” “But, madame----” “Leave the house, I say! Leave the house!” screamed the infuriated woman. “I go, madame,” said the tramp, “never to return; but before I do, I would like to say that I did not intend to take your house.” * * * * * THE NEWS OF ALL NATIONS. Sale of Letters is Stopped. The sale of more than eight hundred autograph letters, valued at twelve thousand dollars, advertised to take place at a Philadelphia auction room, was stopped by order of a common pleas court, following injunction proceedings by the State of New Hampshire on the ground that the letters are part of its official archives. The collection is said to be of great historic importance, and contain letters written by George Washington and other revolutionary statesmen and soldiers. The injunction petition declares that all the letters were originally in the custody of the first governor of New Hampshire. The papers disappeared many years ago, and their whereabouts was not disclosed until May, 1913. Ban on Alcohol in United States Soon, is His Prediction. “The greatest good thing that has happened in the world since the resurrection of Christ was the prohibition proclamation of Czar Nicholas, of Russia. One hundred and sixty million people went on the water wagon overnight, and to-day they are all glad of it.” This statement was only one of many pointed declarations made by Clinton N. Howard, of Rochester, N. Y., at one of the closing meetings of the big Christian Endeavor Convention in Chicago. He addressed delegates from every part of the country. The convention brought more than ten thousand to the Chicago Coliseum. “We have been applying a small plaster in an effort to cure a big sore,” said Howard, who is known as the “Little Giant.” Tiny of body, he flung down the gauntlet in vigorous terms and predicted a dry United States before long. “We have temporized with John Barleycorn,” he said, “when he has been convicted a million times. “For many months there has been a terrible war on the other side of the ocean. I venture to predict it will be won by those forces which have forsworn the use of alcoholic liquor. “Three years before the war began the kaiser, addressing a large body of young men just being graduated into active naval service, said: “‘I ask that you hereafter dispense wholly with strong drink. I want my men to be able to steer my ships straight, and to shoot straight, and that cannot be done unless a man is sober.’ “To-day there is sitting in the presidential chair of the United States the most princely man who has ever graced that position. He is a good man, a great man, and I would to God he had the same power right now that is vested in Czar Nicholas. “Alcohol is intrenched on a line which it has held for many years, but the allied forces of decency, honesty, humanity, economy are slowly but surely driving it back.”