The Press., 1884-10-30
@TEMRERANCE MOTHS. f Edited for The Press in behalf of the Stafford Springs
 W. T.U.

an elderly farmer rose and said ''Tve heard that kind of tale for the last forty years, and I can't see that people are bit more sober than when it commenced. It reminds me of what once saw take place at retreat for imbeciles. It is the cus- tom there after the patients have been in residence for certain time to put them to kind of test to see whether they are fit to leave the asylum or not. They are taken to trough full of water with a small pipe continually running into it, and supplying 1t. They are given ladle, and told to empty it. Those who have not re- gained their sense keep ladling away, while the water flows in as fast as they la dle out; but them as 5sas't idiots stop the tap"
 Alcohol is used in the manufacture of cigars. The cigars that won the prize medal at the centennial exhibition at Phil delphia, are said to have been sprinkled with New England rum.
 -On one Sunday {, 7,663 children, under fourteen years, of age, entered the public houses of Edinburgh for intoxicating li- quors.
 A French writer says, ''that having fall en into the abyss of drunkenness, then we cry out to God, Why hast thou made us too weak to rise?' and, in spite of our selves, voice answers to our consciences, If l made thee too weak by thine own power to rise out of the gulf, at least I made thee strong enough never to have fallen into it. 7
 The Rhode Island legislature has passed the compulsory scientific temperance bill making the fifth state that recognizes the fright of all children to be taught the phys iological effects of alcohol.
 President Lincoln's favorite sermon : s.Don't drink, don't smoke, don't chew, don't swear, don't gamble, don't lie, don't cheat; love your fellOwmen, as well as God, love truth, love virtue and be happy. 2 The Chautauqua course of. study has 8 temperance branch, Miss Willard having made out the list of books, and been chosen secretary of the department Many ladies are pursuing the course in their homes.
 Some of the best artillery work done in the temperance warfare has been by Canon Farrar, of Westminster Abbey. He quotes the distinguished statesman, Golden, as saying that the temperance reform is at the foundation of all reforms. Margaret B. Parker: Time is so short. eternity so great, and the ravages of strong drink so fearful, that it behooves us to rise in the might and the power with which God has endowed us, and in the name oi the perishing, and the God who cares flo, them, demand that the traffic in strong drink shall cease.
 How PROHIBITION HAS RUINED KANSAS. ' It has closed every distillery, nearly all of the thirty-two breweries that thrived under the old license system, and is rapid. ly driving every saloon from the state. The state has gained nearly 200, 900 in population, and increased about $50, ,O0O,. GOO in taxable wealth. She has 7,OOO school houses, and the resources of her permanent school fund equal about $13,- 100000. The people of Kansas are in fa- vor of more bread and less whiskey more churches, school l-houses, and comfortable homes and no saloons. Bulletin.
 From Woman and Temperance "In front of a saloon that had refused them entrance, knelt crusading group. Their leader was the most prominent Methodist lady of the community. Her head was crowned with the glory of gray hairs her hands were clasped, her sweet and gentle voice was lifted up in prayer. Around her knelt the flower of all the churches of that city-Congregationalists, Baptists, Pres byterians-many of whom had never work ed outside their own denominations until now. At the close, an Episcopal lady of- fered the Lords prayer, in which joined Unitarians, Swedenborgians, and Univer- salists and when they had finished, dear old lady in the dove-colored garb of the Friends Society was moved to pray, while all the time below them on the aurb-stone's edge knelt Bridget with her beads and her Ave Marie" As the crusade began, so the W. 0. T. U. has continued. Denomi- national differences are forgotten in the larger claim of the Christ-like love that is ''not willing that any should perish" This is the real definition of ''no sect in rrh- zion" the national W. 0. T. U. Is said to '.stand for, "a realization of the prayer of Christ himself: ''That they all may be oae."
 PICTURE.
 q. t. Eno, in Youths Temperance Banner.) Long ago saw picture,
 And it still comes into view
 All so clear almost fancy
 I could sketch it out for you.
 It was in no famed collection, . .t
 Where soft rays 90 gently fall,
 Bringing out the lights and shadows,
 To be seen and praised of all.
 Twas no saint or fair Madonna . -.
 No great landscape stretching wide
 No bright sunlight-no soft moonlight
 No incoming ocean tide. t.r.
 It was in dingy alley,
 Underneath wintry sky, Lit up by the flarina gas fight, .-. Jeered at by the passers by
 Just title patient maiden, Shy and sweet, and pale and bright, Leading home a drunken father,
 Through the dreary winter night
 Such simple common picture
 Strange that it should haunt me so, Calling up thousand fancies
 Of great sin and want and wee.
 And try-yet eapN ferget it-