The Press., 1884-10-16
TEMPERANCE NOTES.
Prepared for the Stafford Springs Press.l :,

Ino VlSlt or MISS LanQfeaf 10 StaHOrd gave the w. O. T. U. of the place needed stimulus and encouragement, and it is now in excellent working order, with the fol lowing officers President, Mrs. A. N. Nichols list vice president, Mrs. B. O. Dennis : 2d, Mrs. Charles Hodgson ; sec- retary, Mrs. B. K. Taft; treasurer, Mrs. J. 0. Cleveland superintendent juvenile work, Miss Geneva McMaster superin- tendent s. s. work, Mrs. B. K. Taft su- perintendent literature, Mrs. Wm. Smith.
 Band of Hope meeting in vestry of M. B. church, Stafford Springs, at 8 p. m. Sunday, Oct. 18th.
 If reforms ought to commence with the grandmothers, as one has pithily said may 1t not be well to help some generations ahead by commencing with the children of this?
 There Is not single state of the Amer ican Union to-day in which the people do not as whole believe the liquor question to be the most important one which po- litically concerns the public veal. Prog ress is but the successive decision of issues ae they present themselves to the minds l of men; and this temperance issue which has stalked unbidden to the front, will not be stayed or turned back. The state of mind which gives 320, GOO votes to prohi- Massachusetts, Arkansas, Oregon, and Illi- nois-everywhere in the national domain. -Sesa0t0r Bl0ir.
 Nine hundred million of the human race given to the vileness of tobacco-using Is this not stupendous enough to call our att tention, and ask whither are we drifting The startling statement is made by Prof. William Stephens, of Philadelphia, s'that of the fifty thousand pupils in that city a large majority use tobacco, and that the habit has increased to an alarming extent since the cigarette was instituted" We rlble cyclone, that will sweep into the vor- tex of ruin many a dear child that now bids fair for life of usefulness, if these warnings go unheeded Fathers and mothers, act before it IS too late.
 Mrs. Mary c. Leavitt, who has been do- ing such effective and acceptable work in California for some months, goes to the Sandwich Islands in January. From there 1t would be possible for her to visit Japan, and make pioneer surpey of the ground AOA VAO Ol w. V. IL U. It is thought Ex-Gov. John Pope Henne- sey and wife, of Hong Kong, will render cordial assistance.
 At the N. w. o. T. U. convention two gentlemen were talking together one even- ing before the meeting had begun. One said, 'No political party can afford to lose the influence of such women as compose this convention" ''Then," said lady near, political parties must have princi- pies, the motherhood of the age demands it for her sons" 'sShe will not demand in vain, 7 replied the other, there is no with itstanding the powersof swoman with God and truth on her side"
 1 The suggestion in Miss Willard 'siannual address of Worlds w. c. T. U. 'sthat shall belt the globe and join the east and west in an organized attack upon the poi son habits of both hemispheres," created great enthusiasm among the workers on the Pacific coast. The place to fight Asi atic vices is in Asia, and European vices is in Europe, if we would keep them from spreading to America. We must go up as well as down the stream of westward drift ing people of the world. There is ''light in the window" in both Asia and Europe that beckons our jealous workers on. The leading pastors in Paris are anxious tc have W. c. T. U. organized in that me- tropolis of whole world, and in the cities of India, China and Japan, a great tenn perance work is going on among the En- glish- speaking population.