The Press., 1888-05-03
TEMPERANCE COLLEEN.
tconducted by the W. c. T. U.,
THE TRAILING ARBUTus.

THE TRAILING ARBUTUs. The floral emblem of our honored band, Thro' all the unions of our native land, Is one small flower, that ne stiles like a child In northern woodlands, where the ways are
 wild
 The trailing pink and white arbutus bloom That bursts in beauty from its winter tomb, Whose sweet breath stealing on the frosty air, Opens the heart of summer, unaware. Iris said that fragrance is the voice of wers By which the flower heart penetrates to ours. Then lift the fragrant blossoms to your cheek, And listen to the single word they speak. That word is Welcome" welcome OCT and
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 To every heart, and home, and open door. Women who work to save and bless the Home, Give grace and glory where their footsteps
 come.
 Then welcome where our emblem blossc ms
 throw
 Their fairy garlands OCT the lingering snow. For they are proud to wither in hand That tolls "For God and Home and Native
 Land" -Mrs. L. c. McVean.
 One result of Dakotas local option law is the closing of 150 saloons in Fargo
 Count Leo Tolstol, the famous Russia an
 
 self at the head of a temperance associa- tion at Mockar. called the Society of the Temperate. The members are pledged not to drink Intoxicating liquors of any sort, nor to sell or offer them to any one, but to labor to convince others, especially children, of the dangers of intempeTance. The Misses Leitch, American mission. aries in Ceylon, are carrying on most eff. ftctive temperance work. A book of tenn. perance songs, and several of John B. Coughs lectures have been translat, d h.- to the Tamil language which is spoken by 1t, ,00O, 900 of people in Southern India 6 we'll as the people of Ceylon.
 Feb. 14 was a red-letter day for the t m perance workers in London in the opening of the new Scandinavian Sailors Temper. ance Home, close to the West India docks, by Prince Oscnr and his promised bride, Miss Munck. Prince Oscar in an eloquent address expressed his grateful appreciation of all that had been done for his country. men and brother sailors. This home was erected at a cost of S55, 900, and will ac commodate two hundred men.
 A grocery firm of Kirksville, Mo issuet the following advertisement "Any mar who drinks two drachms of whiskey pei day for year, and pays ten cents a drinh  for 1t, can have at our store 30 sacks oi four, 220 pounds of granulated sugar, and l 72 pounds of good green coffee for thS same money, and get $2 50 premium fol making the change in his expenditures.
 A company of young men, students 1T the University of Berlin, Germany, have formed themselves into an Internationa Total Abstinence Society. J. Warrer Forbes of New Mexico is president, T. F Gardner, soon to saIl for Bombay, vice president. The new society numbers al ready sixteen members, some of whom nr, English. some Scotch, some American Prof. Bunge's pamphlet, Die Alkoho Frage, is their handbook of temperance doctrine.
 Rev. Dr. Harcourt, of San Francisco Cal, recently delivered a sermon on in temperance. Upon the edge of the pulpi he placed seven bottles containing samples of liquor from seven different saloons The preacher then proceeded to give hi, hearers the result of chemical analysis O the samples which he had personally con ducted.