Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1886-08-20
TEMPERANCE NOTES.

TEMPERANCE NOTES.
Compiled by Miss julia Ames, of the w. CT
o., Chicago.l
ONE Temperance meetings are
being held nightly in New Jersey.
OVER $50, 900 was expended last year in
Great Britain by the Scottish Temperance
League.
THROUGH the influence Of Father
Mathew 100000 Irishmen were induced
to sign the total abstinence pledge.
Gov. HILL, of New York, vetoed the bill
prohibiting the sale of intoxicating liquors
in the public buildings at Albany.
THREE HUNDRED young men in Newark,
N. j., vote for the first time next Novem-
Der. All are pledged to vote for Prohibi-
ton.
MISS SUSAN B. ANTHONY addressed q
large audience at the Lake Bluff, w. G. T.
U. training school, on her favorite subject,
woman suffrage.
In twelve States women vote on some
questions, generally on school questions,
and yet they have not ruined the govern
ment of those States.
FATHER MATHEW first came to this
country in 1849; he was rendered a banquet;
by Zachariah Taylor in which the toasts
were all drank in cold water.
Two YEARS ago the temperance people of
Russia petitioned the Emperor to allow
them to hold meetings. The answer has
just come granting permission.
The wife of Senator Leland Stanford
gave the kindergartens of San Francisco
$5, 1000 on her recent birthday. Many of
these k~indergartens are under the auspices
of the w. G. T. ". of that city.
Mrs. PETERS, of Manistee, Mich, has
presented q $50, 900 stone hall to the w.
G. T. U. Of that city. 1t was built espe-
cially for the use of the Union by her hus-
band, who is a wealthy lumber merchant.
The Jamaica ginger drunkard is becom-
ing quite common in prohibition States.
The effects of ginger on an habitual par
taker is much the same as the continual use
of morphine, and produces the same ghast-
ly complexion.
Sheldon JACKSON, General Agent of
Education in Alaska, has provided temper
once textbooks for use in their schools,
and, beginning with next September, every
teacher will be required to give regular
temperance instruction.
A BASEBALL player of note lately said
in the presence Of a white ribboner, eff I
COuCu u uIOP VI Wu1ohy, W1ues OE Do6T l.
break my contract and forfeit $500 on my
salary for the season." Athletes we'll know
that intemperance soon units them for the
practice of their profession.
MIR. AxE1 GUsTAFsoN, of London.
Eng, author of the foundations of
Death" is travelling in this country, accom-
panied by his wife, who is a special CORE
spondent of the Pail Mall Gazette. He
spent q week at Lake Bluff during the re-
cent temperance convention held at that
place.
SINCE his nomination as Governor of
New Jersey, Clinton B.. Fisk has received
1,700 letters from clergymen and 5000
from women in this country, congratulating
him on the firm stand he has taken for
temperance, and urging him to use every
means in his power to drive the saloon
from our land.
The liquor dealers of New York and
Philadelphia pay a lawyer $40, 900 a year
TO stay in Washington and crush all tenn
| perance measures presented to Congress.
In an interview he had with a prominent
temperance man he said: prohibition is
| right; but I work for money, and can kill
any bill that is brought up here with &c.
| OOO."
In reply to a most kindly expressed wish
by Miss Willard to the Commander-in-
Chief of the Grand Army of the Republic,
that there should be no wine used at the
banquet at the annual encampment in San
Francisco, has come the reply that per-
sonally Mr.. Burdett believes that wine is
q blessing, and it's everyday use by all
classes of people would be a good to their
health" And yet more die every two
years through the use of alcohol than
we're killed during four years of the war.
A GREAT gain to the temperance cause
over the sea has been made by Madame
Anderson Meyerhelm taking up the work.
She is on intimate terms with the Queen
of Sweden and the Empress of Russia,
and travels under their protection. In the
few months she has been laboring in the
cause she has gained 1900 signers to the
white ribbon pledge, and presented the
work and plans Of that organization to
several temperance conferences. Very rap
idly are the women in foreign lands COM
ing into line to battle for God and home
and native land.